The Biden Administration has done more than opened up the border to illegal immigration. It has done more than allowing potential criminals, terrorists, and carriers of disease to enter the nation. It has virtually made illegal aliens an elite class with privileges exceeding those of American citizens.
In December, total nationwide encounters of illegal immigrants reached a record 371,036, eclipsing the previous monthly record set in September by 30,000. In just the first three months of fiscal year 2024, nearly one million illegal aliens were encountered at our borders, and these figures do not include thousands of ‘gotaways’ who are known to have entered but evaded law enforcement, according to FAIRUS.
In New York City, four illegal immigrants viciously assaulted two New York City Police Officers. The criminal aliens were released from custody within a few hours.
Crimes which, if U.S. citizens were involved, would be referred to federal authorities if appropriate, are not being reported if illegal aliens are involved.
One analysis that 64% of federal arrests in 2018 involved noncitizens, despite them comprising only 7% of the population at that time, and that was before the massive influx under Biden.
A 2023 House report found that: “Based on cost data provided by the National Institute of Corrections, and an analysis of Justice Department statistics of each state’s illegal and deportable alien population, one study estimates police expenditures associated with illegal aliens cost states around $8.95 billion in 2022, with judicial costs around $3.72 billion and prison costs about $6.2 billion. 24,954 criminal aliens were in federal incarceration, and according to a 2020 Department of Justice (DOJ) report, 94% of criminal aliens in Bureau of Prisons custody in FY19 were unlawfully present. Data from the bureau also indicates the average annual cost per individual incarcerated in federal prison in FY20 was $39,158. Assuming these figures, that’s nearly $1 billion to incarcerate criminal illegal aliens in federal prisons.”
The costs are more than just dealing with increased crime. Throughout the nation, local governments are dealing with increased crime, drug use, human trafficking and other crimes committed by illegals.
At various times and places, Throughout the United States, American school children have been dismissed from class in order to use their rooms to house illegals. They have been deprived of recreational and sports facilities for the same reason. Homeless veterans have been ejected from shelters to make room for illegals.
State and local budgets have been severely strained due to the heavy costs imposed by housing, feeding, educating, and medicating illegals. According to the House GOP Homeland Security Committee, “housing and other services just to those who have been released into the United States on Mayorkas’ watch, or entered as known gotaways, could exceed $451 billion.”
A New York Post article reports that “American travelers are outraged by signs appearing at US airports appearing to allow migrants onto flights without showing proper identification. US citizens traveling domestically have to show a valid identification card or a passport to board a plane, but signs at certain airports say there are different rules for some newly arrived migrants.”
The statistics are blatant and disturbing. The salient question is why has the Biden White House followed this path?
To a growing number of Americans, the excess spending, soft on crime, and other progressive policies endorsed by Democrat leaders are deeply unpopular. However, the election fortunes of both the President and Democrats in general could improve if a grateful population of illegal aliens attain the opportunity to vote.
The attitude is best expressed by Rep, Hal Colson, (D-Vermont) who expressed, in a Stateline article, the sentiment of a growing number of Democrats “People always glom onto the idea that you have to earn our right to vote by becoming a citizen…I just don’t buy that. We’re talking about a large chunk of the community that’s closed off.”
As Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-SC) notes, “Over the past few years, an alarming trend has popped up in cities nationwide where non-citizens (foreign nationals), and in some cases illegal immigrants, are allowed to vote in local elections. As I write this, non-citizens can vote in certain elections in New York City, San Francisco, Chicago, and some jurisdictions in Vermont and Maryland, as non-citizen voting becomes increasingly popular across the country.”
Whether legally in some jurisdictions or illegally elsewhere, illegal aliens will go to the polls. In record numbers. Although no statutes currently exist allowing illegals to vote in a presidential election, it is inevitable that some election officials will look the other way as they do. This is facilitated by cynical measures such as providing illegals with drivers’ licenses, which can be used to register to vote.
Illegal voting may well change the outcome of the 2024 election, and President Biden and his party will benefit.
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