Illegal immigration has been a major issue for decades. The Trump Administration was taking measures to stem the flow, and now President Joe Biden is opening back up the spigot. The Biden Administration’s actions are simply not good for our country.
The truth is that America’s policies toward immigration have been problematic for well over a century.
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At the turn of the 20th century, the United States had very few restrictions on immigration. Indeed, during that era, giant steel ships were constructed to bring immigrants from the Old World to the New. People remember the ill-fated Titanic sinking. Unlike the blockbuster movie portrayal that focused on the opulence of the first-class passengers, the majority of those who died in the sinking held third-class one-way tickets.
World War I began the policy of shutting the door on mass migration, and the Johnson-Reed act of 1924 slammed the door closed with racist quotas based on nationality. For example, Asians were completely barred from entering the country.
This policy would become a disaster in the 1930s as Jewish refugees attempted to flee Nazi Germany and the ships carrying them were turned away in New York harbor and sent back to their home ports. Many of those refugees sent back to Germany would die in the Holocaust.
In modern times, every U.S. president from Reagan to Biden has promised to tackle the issue, but really the Trump administration was the only one to take any meaningful action.
Now, in an attempt to erase Trump policies across the board, Biden has opened the floodgates and allowed the illegal immigrant invasion to continue.
The policy of catch and release means that anyone caught entering the country illegally will be given a citation and sent on their way with a court date they have no intention of attending.
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Not only do illegals pay virtually no taxes, but they are a burden on the taxpayers in a multitude of ways. Hospitals have to treat them, and they send the bill to the taxpayers; schools have to accept them and create new programs because many of the kids don’t speak English and shortly after crossing the border, they apply for and receive welfare meant for legal citizens.
The Biden Administration’s decision to reverse policy is transparent: illegal aliens vote for the Democrat Party. Sometimes what is good for the Democrat Party is not good for the country. They know it, and they don’t care.
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