Op-Ed – The Mess on America’s Open Borders

 By: Kenneth Abramowitz

Since taking power in January 2021, the Biden Administration opened the borders to anyone who couldn’t or wouldn’t enter the country legally. By now, more than several million immigrants from some 160 countries have been listed by the border authorities. Three to five million illegal immigrants have entered each year from the south and more than 100,000 from have died close to the border. During the first 6 months of 2023, 442 illegal migrants listed on the terror watchlist were caught by ICE: 372 crossed the Canadian border and 70 entered the U.S. from Mexico. How many other terrorists and criminals were among the officially guesstimated one million “gotaways”? In addition, some 85,000 unaccompanied immigrant children have gone missing.

Many illegal immigrants are unaccompanied minors, aged 13-17, of near military age. Many are victims of sex trafficking. Close to 30% of the women are victims of sex crimes. The federal government transports thousands of these migrants to large and small cities nationwide, generally without the local authorities’ permission and knowledge. Many are used as “mules” by Mexican human and drug traffickers, smuggling in illicit drugs such as cocaine, heroin, and the Chinese-sourced fentanyl that kills more than 100,000 Americans yearly and harms many others. Over the past two years, enough fentanyl has been confiscated by the Border Patrol to have killed everyone in America twice.

Why does the Biden Administration keep the U.S. borders open? Why does it allow this appalling human and drug trafficking into the country?

We can only guess:

1) The Biden Administration and the Democrat Party apparently decided to open the borders to millions of illegal immigrants and furnish them with IDs so that they will be able to vote for Democrat candidates in future elections.

2) The huge upsurge of homeless immigrants has already caused chaos and will make mail-in voting and vote harvesting more acceptable to the public.

3) Certain Border police personnel who are corrupted by the very rich and powerful drug and human trafficking cartels allow the entry of unknown numbers of illegal immigrants, huge quantities of illicit drugs, and weapons.

4) The resulting uptick in crime and chaos scares the public into accepting the government’s arbitrary and often illegal policies that have caused radical legal and social changes.

Is there a solution to this mess?

Yes. Americans should use their votes to bring in an Administration that would immediately close the Southern and Northern borders.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers must be empowered to deport as many illegals (15 million projected by 2025) as is feasible. Future illegal immigrants should not be promised welfare or other benefits, in order to keep them from even trying to come.

Those U.S. officials who have been responsible for the open borders must be impeached, fired, and indicted. Unless these steps are taken, Americans could find themselves in a civil war with the increasingly-armed illegal immigrants, who will resist arrest and deportation.

All candidates running for President must present their detailed policies, as well as a comprehensive plan to reform the U.S. immigration process to secure the borders, without amnesty for those who broke the law.  The voters who will put them in office should decide. They have the right to know and to approve.