The State of the Union address is scheduled for tomorrow night (March 7).
Will we see Joe Biden pivot on illegal immigration?
Will he announce some type of executive order that would reduce the flood of illegals at the border and restrict the number of illegals being released into the country?
I don't know who is calling the shots for Joe but if you look at the polling numbers Biden is in deep, deep trouble on the issue of immigration.
Of course, it is all of his own making.
Biden entered office intent on opening up the border.
In the Democrat debates he stated he wanted all those from other countries that wanted asylum in the United States to surge to the border.
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| https://twitter.com/hodgetwins/status/1764255675582914734 |
What followed was predictable.
Even someone from Mars could look at this chart of illegals released into the country on their own recognizance and think that the immigration laws must have changed.
Did the law change"
No. Just the guy charged with enforcing the law changed.
On top of this we found out this week that the numbers above do not include 320,000 additional illegal immigrants that the Biden administration flew directly into the United States last year from their home countries without even having to show up at the southern border to claim asylum.
When asked where these illegal immigrants were flown to the Biden administration claimed that could not be revealed because it could create national security "vulnerabilities".
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| Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13155765/amp/biden-illegal-migrant-flying-program-national-security-vulnerability.html |
Through all of this the Biden administration has been claiming the border is secure and there is no problem with illegal immigration.
Biden has been arguing that he cannot do anything without Congressional action.
He seems to have forgotten the executive orders he signed to create this mess.
Biden is also ignoring a law that is already on the books that gives the President all the authority necessary to deal with illegal immigration.
The American people appear to be totally fed up with the mess created by illegal immigration and are not buying any of Biden's excuses.
A Wall Street Journal poll released this past weekend has Trump leading Biden by 5 points (40%-35%). Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is polling at 9%.
Biden was viewed favorably by only 37% of voters. 50% had a very unfavorable view of Biden.
Immigration (Fixing immigration system/U.S.Mexico border/migrants) has become the most important issue for voters in this election right now. It was mentioned by 20% of voters as the most critical issue in determining who they will vote for.
The economy was next at 14%.
A year ago only 6% mentioned immigration as the most important issue to them.
The chaos that Biden has created with illegal immigration is a big problem for him if he expects to be re-elected.
Worse for Biden is that immigration is Trump's signature issue.
Trump would have never received the Republican nomination in 2016 and defeated Hillary Clinton but for the bold manner he addressed the immigration issue back then.
To understand the depth of frustration that voters have with illegal immigration I found another recent poll (YouGov) to be particularly interesting.
It found that by a 56%-31% margin voters approve of using the U.S. military to arrest and deport people who are in the U.S. illegally.
That strong-armed measure even gets majority support from Hispanics.
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| Source: https://twitter.com/IAPolls2022/status/1762913145524294076 |
In a recent Rasmussen poll of Arizona voters, 67% of Hispanic voters supported deportation of illegal crossers and 66% wanted to temporarily militarize the border.
The New York Times/Siena poll from this past weekend has Biden down 6 points to Trump with Hispanics. Biden's immigration policy is a big reason. Biden won this demographic by 34 points in 2020.
Could there be a bigger disconnect between what Joe Biden is doing and what the voters want?
Biden is flying illegal immigrants into the country in the dark of night and the voters by almost a 2:1 margin favor using the U.S. military to arrest and deport the same people.
I don't see how Biden cannot pivot in some way on illegal immigration and expect to have any chance in November.
However, even if Biden pivots with some modest measure to staunch the flow of illegals into the country, an additional 8+ million are already here due to his policies.
And those policies have consequences as we saw last week with the murder of a University of Georgia nursing student (Laken Riley was her name) at the hands of a suspect who was an illegal immigrant from Venezuela.
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| Source: https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/ice-confirms-georgia-student-murder-suspect-entered-us-illegally-was-previously-arrested-in-nyc |
How many more murders, rapes and other violent crimes will be perpetrated by illegals that Biden let in during the months ahead?
This promises to be a continuing problem for Biden each time it occurs whatever he does short of rounding up the illegals himself and shipping them home.
In the meantime, the news out of Venezuela is that the murder rate in that country just dropped to its lowest level in 22 years.
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| Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-12-28/venezuela-s-violent-deaths-fall-to-22-year-low-on-migration |
The reason given---migration---many of the bad actors have left the country.
I wonder where they went?
It also recently got a lot more interesting last month when Venezuela stopped accepting any deportation flights from the United States and Mexico.
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| Source: https://nypost.com/2024/02/23/world-news/venezuela-stops-taking-flights-of-migrants-deported-from-us/ |
I guess Venezuela does not see those who left to be their best and brightest.
Who knows how many of those who have crossed the border were released from jail and given money on the condition they head to the United States?
Joe Biden has given out a lot of "get out of jail cards" with his open borders policy that is a gift to Venezuela and other countries.to clear out their jails and gang members and send them to the U.S.
Will Joe Biden pivot on immigration?
Looking at the facts you would have to be incompetent, a fool or totally detached from reality to not do something to show you are serious about protecting the borders of the United States.
What is it with Joe Biden?
I am betting on some type of small pivot that is more form than substance that the Democrats can build a narrative around to stop the bleeding in the polls.
However, I am basing that opinion on the facts in front of us.
That can be a bad assumption when Democrat politics are involved.
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