Two million illegal aliens have been apprehended at the border in 2022. ABC News. The number includes people entering the country illegally as well as people stopped at the border that apply for asylum. The numbers have increased quite a bit from the last fiscal year where 1.66 million people were detained at the border. Many of those people stay in the United States for months or years as their asylum claims are processed. About 1 million people were deported in the last fiscal year. Some states with large amount of illegal immigrants have begun shipping them to other states, most notably sanctuary cities and states.
My Comment:
It's fairly shocking how effective Ron DeSantis Martha's Vineyard stunt was. Before that happened, immigration was hardly being covered by the media. But now? Even ABC News is covering illegal immigration and the invasion of our borders.
Though DeSantis and his stunt was highly effective at exposing hypocrisy, after all the migrants were deported from Martha's Vineyard almost immediately, it has not really done anything to actually fix the problem. Of course, Governors like Florida's Ron DeSantis and Texas' Greg Abbott are limited in what they can do as only the Federal Government can deal with immigration policy.
And the Federal Government? They are out to lunch. If Biden is taking any action to stop immigration it has largely flown under the radar. I know there have been some efforts to try and have some other countries take some of these people, most notably Mexico, but it hasn't been working. Plus, Biden assigned Kamala Harris to handle immigration and she has notably accomplished absolutely nothing.
There have been a lot of deaths because of our porous borders. Notably some of them have died in tractor trailers. Others have died trying to cross the rough conditions on the border, after all, it's the desert. Even more die in the Darien Gap in Panama as that is another rough crossing in the middle of the jungle. All of these deaths would be preventable if migrants understood that they would be deported if they entered the country illegally. But they don't so they are taking the risk and many of them are dying because of it.
Most of these people are economic migrants, not real refugees. Though nobody can deny countries like Guatemala, Venezuela and Cuba are terrible countries but most of the people that are there are not facing political prosecution. Those places are indeed terrible but that doesn't mean that they have any right to come here. Especially if those are the people that are needed to not make those countries so terrible.
The political implication of this problem finally getting some coverage cannot be ignored. Donald Trump was elected in 2016 largely because of anger over immigration and despite how crooked the 2020 election was, Trump made a huge mistake in not making immigration a huge part of his reelection campaign. Bringing back the issue is a great way to motivate both core Republican voters and moderates who are concerned about the issue instead.
Like I have been saying, the 2022 midterms should not be about the economy, as bad as it is. Even though the Democrats have made a mess of it, the economy isn't really going to crash until this winter. And it's not like the Republicans have much of a plan on the economy either. But they can make hay on this issue and other major social issues like education and backlash against transgender policies. People are furious about the invasion on our border and hate liberal hypocrisy on this issue.
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