Don’t laugh: Biden thinks he’s been tough on the border
By
Zachary Faria
May 24, 2024 2:08 pm
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President Joe Biden is now trying to sell to voters the idea that he is actually tough on illegal immigration. Don’t laugh, he really means it.
Biden aides and officials leaked to Politico that Biden is doing an ‘I told you so’ routine behind closed doors addressed to his left wing on border security and crime. According to Politico, “The White House is banking on the idea that voters will reward them for public efforts to crack down on immigration and boost spending on law enforcement” and Biden “sought to stake out a middle ground” on immigration.
Seriously, don’t laugh.
Voters see through this political spin. Put aside crime for a second, given that it is an issue Biden has little to do with other than being the leader of the party that keeps electing soft-on-crime district attorneys that run cities into the ground before being replaced, as the one in Portland, Oregon, was. We have seen what Biden’s idea of a “middle ground” on immigration has been, which is Biden immediately ceasing effective border policies upon taking office, leading to a surge in illegal immigration, and then trying to pawn the matter off to Congress claiming he can’t do anything about it, only to turn around and start pushing executive orders when the political pressure gets too great.
That is why Biden’s approval rating on immigration has dropped from an already weak 41% in August 2021 to a measly 28% in February of this year. His disapproval rating on immigration is 67%. Border encounters under Biden hit a record high in December 2023, and there have been 10 different months with over 200,000 border encounters, a mark that the U.S. hadn’t hit once since March 2000.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3016793/biden-thinks-hes-been-tough-on-border/