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March 22, 2021

Biden’s border crisis – here’s who this disaster hurts most and who might benefit

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Congratulations to President Joe Biden, who is finally bringing the country together.

According to a recent Rasmussen poll, fully 73% of the nation is concerned about the government’s ability to manage the flood of people illegally crossing our southern border while meeting “COVID-19 protocols.” They are right to be worried.

Joe Biden has created a disaster at the border – both humanitarian and political. Nearly 5,000 children are now penned up, apart from their families, in what even the liberal media, roused to hysteria by President Trump putting “children in cages,” describes as “jail-like detention centers.”

Meanwhile, his border mess is breathing new life into the struggling Republican Party and sowing more dissension among Democrats. And, even as his $1,400 checks arrive in people’s mailboxes, Biden’s approval ratings are only holding their own.

Most important, Biden’s childish eagerness to get rid of every Trump policy, including those that had staunched the flow of caravans from Central America, has torpedoed any chance of uniting the nation around meaningful immigration reform, even as his colleagues in the House are feverishly passing bills promising citizenship to millions. That does not happen when our border collapses.

Such is the mayhem at the border that the White House is reportedly considering releasing asylum seekers into the country without giving them a Notice to Appear – effectively a court date for their hearing. That means people will enter the U.S, with no oversight whatsoever, leaving it up to them to secure legal processing at some future date.

Such a move would be unprecedented; critics will rightly claim it amounts to “open borders.”

This latest brainstorm was in response to an accelerating crisis that saw 1,000 people attempt to cross into the US over just a couple of hours a few days ago, overwhelming facilities that are already maxed out and local agents struggling to deal with another 1,000 people already waiting to be processed. Border Patrol cannot handle the people, or the paperwork.

Talk about an unforced error! Joe Biden is reaping exactly what he has sown at the southern border: absolute chaos and well-deserved political humiliation.

Biden has no one to blame but himself. That hasn’t kept his team, of course, from saying it’s all Trump’s fault; White House spokesperson Jen Psaki, among others, has claimed that Trump left behind a “dismantled and unworkable system.”

Biden cannot credibly accuse his predecessor of creating what House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., calls a “humanitarian crisis”. He knew what loosening Trump’s immigration policies might mean; he even argued he had to take it slow, so as not to end up with “two million people at the border.”

He did it anyway, notwithstanding real health and security risks.

One Homeland Security source estimated that 15% to 25% of the people crossing the border illegally were COVID-positive and there are reports that some asylum seekers being released into our communities have tested positive for the virus. This is an outrage.

The political damage done to the Biden presidency by the border crisis cannot be overstated. For starters, it has exposed the president as utterly careless of the welfare of working-class Americans. Hundreds of thousands of undocumented people will likely enter the country over the next several months. They will melt into our cities and towns, picking up such work as they can, pressuring wages for low-income workers.

This, as the pandemic has led to staggering job losses amongst Black and Hispanic Americans who, in particular, will feel the brunt of this new competition.

Biden’s border mess has also undermined the new administration’s promises to be the “most transparent in history.” The White House is denying reporters access to the detention centers holding thousands of young people and imposed a “gag order” on local Border Patrol agents.

Even the Biden-hugging liberal media is not pleased. As NBC noted, in a rare nod to the prior administration, “At the height of the Trump administration’s child separation policy in June 2018, it allowed media to tour facilities where separated children were held.”

One agent told NBC that while the Trump administration had permitted some border ride-alongs for reporters during the pandemic, there has been “not a single one since Jan. 20,” the day of Biden’s inauguration.

The real cost to Biden, however, is that his border blunder has torpedoed any hope of achieving meaningful immigration reform.

History has shown that Americans dislike seeing our border overwhelmed. During the Obama administration, for instance, Gallup polling showed resistance to immigration hardened when the border was overrun in 2014. As Trump’s measures cut down on illegal entrants, people became more tolerant of new arrivals. Sentiment against immigration is already increasing.

The border disaster has breathed new life into a Republican Party divided over Trump’s ongoing influence and struggling to explain why they uniformly opposed Biden’s popular $1.9 trillion “American Rescue Plan.” People like being given free money; the GOP was right to resist the unnecessary budget-buster, but common sense has been drowned out by self-congratulating Democrat messaging.

Now, though, the GOP is unified around protecting our border, a position that until recently most Democrats championed as well. Republicans know this could be the issue that allows them to take back Congress.

Meanwhile, the chaos has widened existing fissures among Democrats. The progressive wing of the party, which exerts astonishing power over the supposedly “moderate” Biden, wants to simply throw the doors wide open, welcoming any and all who want to come to this country.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortes, D-N.Y., who famously was reduced to tears by Trump’s “inhumane” treatment of migrants, wants to deal with the crisis by getting rid of Homeland Security, disbanding ICE, and creating a “climate refugee status.” We presume the latter could allow nearly anyone to claim asylum, since she has warned that in only 12 years, climate change will bring the world to an end.

At least that gives us time to elect a new president.

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/biden-border-crisis-disaster-hurts-benefit-liz-peek

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9 months ago

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Are you better off than you were 2 years ago?
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Inflation already hurting Americans, and Biden's Build Back Better will make things even worse

Are you better off than you were two years ago? That’s what Republicans will ask voters a year from now.

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Inflation is worldwide and COVID induced.

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Swamp Think

Peek's article posted today on the Fox News website did not mention one word about President Trump's accomplishment of not only leading the way to American Energy Independence but for the country to become net exporters of the energy we and our allies could really use now.

Under President Trump, oil was in the low 40s (while on the same page, oil traders are now predicting as high as $200/barrel this month!), gas in our tanks cost below two bucks, inflation was under two percent and gas station attendant Putin with an economy about the size of Italy's and who is totally dependent on the price of energy was placed in an economic cage… by President Trump.

Instead Peek gives credit to media Saint Obama for his "all the above" strategy which consistent with how he operated was all campaign talk with ZERO follow through.

Does Peek not remember that Saint Obama's response to Putin invading Crimea was to send blankets.

If you want a quick read on Swamp Think, check in with Fox News.

From the Murdoch boys and Paul Ryan on down, no one is pushing the self-serving, elite globalists agenda of running the world as their personal piggy bank harder than Fox News.

And how are the globalists doing at managing world affairs?

No Trump, No Trump Doctrine

There's a growing rumble, by the minute, from people all over the planet who are suddenly missing Trump's policies, not necessarily Trump.

First, Trump's policies, domestic and foreign, were clear and common-sense driven which is anathema to the Swamp control freaks who thrive on complication and confusion to mask their real agendas and who they're really working for.

Second, the hypocrites who are now lamenting Trump's policies are the same, domestic and foreign, who fought Trump every inch of the way to prevent the implementation of policies that clearly worked.

Third, without Trump the fighter, no Trump policies would have ever seen the light of day.

And without what is now collectively the Trump Doctrine, what clear metric would we have to truly understand the depth and devastation of the Biden/Swamp debacle?

Don't you know that the global supply chain story is done on purpose for there to be empty shelves at the grocery stores and what not to screw with the public. This is done by the world economic Forum with the likes of Klaus Schwab Bill Gates and George Soros and their ilk

YOU are the delusional personality, dear. Sticking it against the US to please 🖕trump and putin. Disgusting anti American.

Maybe Liz you would support some immigration reform , you bitch about not having enough servers in your entitled selfish world , oh and you are against mask wearing too , how trumpian of you, the pandemic is all a hoax to you , just dont get sick out there might not be any hospital beds for you . The drs and nurses are sick and tired of taking care of anti mask anti vax selfish repubs Go claim your Darwin Award .

President Trump lost the election you are such a dummy he got over 95 million the other yo-yo got about 45 million the rest was fake you're a disgrace. Www.magapill.com

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9 months ago

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Progressives got hammered on Election Day- but that was only the latest big defeat. What does this mean for Dems? Can Joe pivot? (spoiler-probably not)
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They may not know it yet, but the ultra-liberal cabal that has choked Democrat politics and humiliated spineless party leaders like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has lost its mojo.

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Liz have you not heard latest on the “russia collusion” “steele dossier” Fiona Hill???
Or are you a typical msm reporter?

President Trump lost the election you are such a dummy he got over 95 million the other yo-yo got about 45 million the rest was fake you're a disgrace. Www.magapill.com

Liz Peek

9 months ago

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Joe Biden wanted to be an historic president- and he has done that. Worst ratings slide of any president since WWII.
He (or whoever is running WH) doesn’t care about voters’ top issues – instead Team Biden obsessing about climate change, gender and race.
No wonder he’s in trouble!
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Liz Peek: Biden vs. Americans – his priorities, like climate change, ignore top worries of most voters

Voters are worried about inflation, jobs, crime, education and our open border, while the Biden White House is laser-focused on climate change, transgender rights, racism and reducing inequality.

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The great days turned to very bad days in less than a year.
Congress needs a flip to GOP next year to stop the craziness

Climate change is important.
The GOP may not care about it now, but their children will.
He is trying to get an infrastructure bill through.
He has had issues with Afghanistan, but what else could he do
The people who are taking over Afghanistan were released by the previous administration.
I am sure that Biden is not perfect but he is better than Trump.

Your bias is ridiculous. Makes you a bad writer. Btw avg teacher pay is way above 31000. Sensationalize much?

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Duuuuuh President Trump lost the election you are such a dummy he got over 95 million the other yo-yo got about 45 million the rest was fake you're a disgrace. Www.magapill.com

worst ratings only from a side thats ignorant to the truth. the effects of coming off a pandemic with oil companies profitting off the pumps in order to pay their shareholders back from profits lost. inflation effects the entire world but of course your base doesnt pull their heads out their asses for one second to look around and use common sense. keep spreading bullshit and weakening our country til it no longer functions as a democracy….bc i see through your fake Christian patriotic pow wows. you are the opposite of ehat you claim and you are the definition of what you claim your rivals are. deflection, projection, hypocrisy. 3 words that sum you up

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