Donald Trump DID use Biden’s Immigration Policy, with help from Texas Government Abbott, and the media and other things to gain a second term as the American President….
Biden had followed other President’s in looking at immigration as a Good Thing for America, as it HAS been since the place began…
But?
Immigration has NEVER been SERIOUSLY dealt with by Congress…
The overall policy actually varies form President to President….
Trump turned migrants into people to be ‘FEARED’….
Texas exports of migrants gave those even in Blue states a ‘negative tag’ …..
It does appear that Trump’s effort to ship migrants out under the control one Stephen Miller IS OVERREACHING and actually HURTING the American economy….
And beginning to be a political problem for Trump and Republicans…
Trump and Miller are NEVER going to be able to find the 12 to 14 million undocumented…
Someone needs to deal with those here for decades reasonably
The New York Times piece WILL make Trump & Co. Happy and endear them to the President…
But?
The piece WILL be a warning to Democrats and the next President , which very well could be a Democrat….
Will it push Congress to step up and codify an United States Immigration Policy?
If you read down in the NY Times piece you WILL find that Biden DID clamp down on immigration..
But?
Then Covid dropped in and attention moved from immigration…
(It also escapes mentioning in the media that Obama deported MORE people then Trump, even as he angered latino’s and hispanics along with progressive ‘s….Trump has now lost support from latinos and hispanics)
One doubts THAT….
Trump has over 150 Billion dollars to build up and go after more undocumented migrants…
That won’t last once Democrats gain majorities in Congress or the Presidency and move some that money to other places…
But?
Again?
Democrats should take Biden’s Policy failures to heart and make policy correction’s against the overbearing Miller action’s and doing largely nothing….
America IS a country OF Immigrants…
THAT HAS been its Strength….
It WILL ALWAYS Be…..
But there does have be something people embrace…
NOT something to FEAR….
Anger over illegal migration helped return Mr. Trump to the presidency, and he has enacted even more aggressive policies than those Mr. Biden first campaigned against. Mr. Trump has drawn outrage from Democrats by sending masked agents to target immigrants, often aided by National Guard soldiers.
But a New York Times examination of Mr. Biden’s record found that he and his closest advisers repeatedly rebuffed recommendations that could have addressed the border crisis faster, and eased what became a potent issue for Mr. Trump as he sought to return to the White House and justify the aggressive tactics roiling American cities today.
Former Biden administration officials told The Times that Mr. Biden and his circle of close confidants — including Ron Klain, who was chief of staff during the president’s first two years, Mike Donilon, Jennifer O’Malley Dillon and Anita Dunn — made two crucial errors.
First, they underestimated the scale of migration that was coming. Second, they failed to appreciate the political reaction to that migration — believing that stronger enforcement would alienate Latino and progressive voters, and also that a border surge would not be an important issue to most voters. Those calculations would later prove to be mistaken, with many voters, including Latinos, citing immigration as a reason for supporting Mr. Trump in 2024.
“Everybody was reacting to the excesses of the Trump administration,” said Cecilia Muñoz, who helped shape immigration policy in the Obama administration and oversaw domestic and economic policy for the Biden transition team.
Yet as public concern over border security grew, partly in response to Mr. Biden’s own actions, his administration proved catastrophically slow to change course, former aides said. The president and his closest aides treated immigration as a distraction from other issues, such as the coronavirus pandemic and the economy.
Aides stressed that the Biden administration faced a steep challenge addressing a border crisis while adhering to outdated immigration laws. But they lamented that Mr. Biden never articulated a clear vision or pushed his cabinet secretaries to coordinate their efforts on immigration in the way that Mr. Trump has.
Mr. Biden created new legal pathways for migration to ease pressure at the border, under which more than one million people were allowed into the United States, fueling public resistance. And he failed to convince Congress to change immigration laws, dragging his feet on a crucial Senate border deal, according to the lead Republican negotiator, who said the effort might have otherwise succeeded
The shooting in Washington last month that killed one National Guard soldier and left another critically injured has renewed scrutiny of Mr. Biden’s immigration programs. The suspect arrived through Operation Allies Welcome, which offered entry to Afghans fleeing the Taliban in 2021….
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“We came in during an economic collapse and 3,000 Americans dying each day from Covid. We focused on those first and got both turned around quickly,” he said. “We ended the cruelty of Trump’s immigration policies but hit a wall on building a sensible asylum system when Republicans blocked action on needed legislation.”
But former advisers said the problem ran deeper than Republican obstruction.
The Biden White House “had no strategy, because they had no goal,” said Scott Shuchart, who joined the administration in 2022 as a senior adviser at Immigration and Customs Enforcement. “All they had was wishing the problem would go away so that they could focus on the things they cared about.”…
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In August of 2020, several aides wrote a memo cautioning Mr. Biden’s inner circle that his promises — coupled with pent-up demand from the Trump years and economic hardship from Covid — could provoke a spike in border crossings.
“A potential surge could create chaos and a humanitarian crisis, overwhelm processing capacities, and imperil the agenda of the new administration,” the advisers wrote, according to a copy of the memo viewed by The Times.
Mr. Biden was confronting challenges that had been years in the making. Migrants had increasingly turned to claiming asylum. By saying they were fleeing persecution, many had been permitted to live and work in the United States …
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Soon after being sworn in, Mr. Biden issued a 100-day pause on deportations. He drastically narrowed the categories of unauthorized immigrants targeted for arrest. He directed his government to stop building the border wall, a centerpiece of Mr. Trump’s agenda. He suspended Remain in Mexico. He sent draft legislation to Congress to create a citizenship pathway for people in the country illegally. He kept Title 42 in place, but stopped using it to turn back children who crossed the border alone….
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Some advisers warned that he was moving too quickly. Others worried that Latino voters would object if the new president softened support for migrants.
“The president and others made a decision that he wasn’t going to lose that community,” said Roberta Jacobson, the border czar for the first three months of the administration.
Mr. Biden’s policy changes, some of which were halted by the courts, were not the only causes of that early surge. The draw of the U.S. economy, which bounced back quickly from Covid, mattered too. But the changes signaled to migrants that the border was opening again, former aides said…
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The perception of chaos began to erode the pro-immigrant sentiment that had shaped Mr. Biden’s campaign promises. In March, 40 percent of Americans said they worried about illegal immigration “a great deal” — the highest number Gallup had registered in a decade…
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By the halfway mark of Mr. Biden’s term, the failure of his approach was impossible to ignore.
The Border Patrol reported 2.2 million apprehensions along the Mexican border the previous year, up from 400,000 the year Mr. Biden was elected. In 2023, the number of unauthorized migrants in the country who were not detained and were waiting for their cases to be resolved surpassed 6 million, almost doubling since 2020….
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On Mr. Trump’s first day back in the White House, he effectively blocked asylum claims entirely. He also shut down Mr. Biden’s border entry app, ordered the military to the border and directed ICE to drastically expand its scope of arrests and deportations.
“The American people deserve a federal government that puts their interests first,” read Mr. Trump’s executive order.
The Biden experiment was over. A very different kind of experiment was just beginning…..
Note….
Joe Biden tried to do the ‘right thing’ on a problem that has perplexed every modern day President…
In doing so?
He created a BIGGER problem…
In the end?
That problem enabled Trump capitalise on it….
Trump’s actions ARE ALSO causing problems for Trump, who IS like Biden ?
Suffering politically and economically …
image…The Week
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