"Since the summer he has explicitly—and repeatedly—endorsed the idea that the Democrats are engaged in a wide-ranging plan to actively import millions of immigrants into the United States for their own electoral benefit...."
Biden revoked executive orders limiting illegal immigration on his very first day in office, spurring an unpreceden…
"Since the summer he has explicitly—and repeatedly—endorsed the idea that the Democrats are engaged in a wide-ranging plan to actively import millions of immigrants into the United States for their own electoral benefit...."
Biden revoked executive orders limiting illegal immigration on his very first day in office, spurring an unprecedented flow of illegals, with massive caravans launched that very day. Then, he used CBP to expedite the flow of illegals rather than stem it, putting call buttons at the border so that illegals could call CPB and be ushered into the country.
Nobody even knows who they are or how many have crossed: 10 Million? 20 Million? We do know they're mostly young men.
We also know that the Biden administration could have stemmed the flow at any time, because they finally did it when it became a political liability before this election.
This was such a massive betrayal of our country, that it virtually defies explanation -- or it requires a really wild explanation (i.e. "conspiracy theory"). I'd say the administration and its enablers were either spectacularly stupid or malevolently self-seeking. Those are the only possibilities. Neither is a conspiracy theory.
Yes, Biden reversed the Trump travel ban and attempted (and failed) to offer a path to citizenship for the 12 million or so undocumented noncitizens in the U.S. with the U.S. Citizenship Act (which didn't pass) and made various other reforms. But none of this constitutes "importing millions of immigrants." That's just absurd wording. And that 12 million figure is the most authoritative estimate of the total number of undocumented noncitizens currently in the U.S. (equal to the number at the end of the Bush administration) so it's also not true to say that 10 or 20 million illegals have somehow crossed the border in the last four years alone. Also, I'm assuming your reference to "call buttons at the border" means the CBP One app that allows migrants to make appointments with border control. Lots of organizations complain that the app has done nothing but make it *harder* to get an appointment, let alone to enter the country.
More importantly, there is just no proof of any conspiracy run by Democrats or the government to first get tens of million illegals into the country, then to somehow authorize them all to vote (even lawful permanent residence doesn't give you the right to vote) and then to somehow use their hypothetical electoral support to ban future elections or turn the U.S. into a one-party state. It simply has zero basis in fact. So yes, I think it amounts to a conspiracy theory.
All of this is made more absurd by the fact that there are obviously real debates to be had about immigration policy – including the merits of Trump's Remain in Mexico policy or Biden's recent tightening of asylum limits. Because yes the number of illegal crossings has skyrocketed under Biden at least in part due to the fact that his administration was clearly more migrant friendly than Trump's (but also due to other factors including the end of the pandemic). But Musk and people who support his framing of the immigration situation just don't seem to want to have that debate and instead they both exaggerate the facts and attribute immigration flows to an all-powerful conspiracy.
That's just LAND encounters and that's just the ones that the CPB actually recorded. Most reasonable folks would concur that another 20-50% undectected entries is entirely plausible.
Hi Jens: an encounter is just an encounter, it doesn't mean the person actually crossed the border. And the same person can (and often does) have multiple encounters with border patrol. The definition of an encounter is
"CBP encounter: Any encounter of a removable noncitizen by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Office of Field Operations (OFO) or U.S. Border Patrol (USBP), including the arrest of a removable noncitizen by USBP under Title 8 authority, a determination of inadmissibility for a person requesting admission at a port of entry (land, sea, or air) under Title 8 authority, or an expulsion from the United States to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 disease pursuant to Title 42 authority."
So, these figures include all the people who were arrested, turned away, who didn't even attempt to cross, and who had their applications denied - and many of them are duplicates from individuals who had multiple encounters. It is not the same as a successful crossing.
So there might have been some repeats and there are certainly a whole lot more that never got detected at all -- or came by sea. So we're still left with a really big number.
However you define or measure "encounters," we do know that they increased by 300% under the Biden-Harris administration (and that's not even counting the full year for 2024). Why would they do something that disruptive and destructive to our country? Hard to think of a reasonable reason. So we're left with unreasonable reasons (conspiracy theories).
That "authoritative" government figure number has seemed impossible for a long time. How could border crossing continue at their current pace with the number of illegal immigrants not increasing in almost 16 years? That extraordinary claim should require extraordinary proof. A study at Yale/MIT found the number to be at least twice that, and that was in 2018 before the recent influx. I don't think 30 million is an unrealistic figure.
"Since the summer he has explicitly—and repeatedly—endorsed the idea that the Democrats are engaged in a wide-ranging plan to actively import millions of immigrants into the United States for their own electoral benefit...."
Biden revoked executive orders limiting illegal immigration on his very first day in office, spurring an unprecedented flow of illegals, with massive caravans launched that very day. Then, he used CBP to expedite the flow of illegals rather than stem it, putting call buttons at the border so that illegals could call CPB and be ushered into the country.
Nobody even knows who they are or how many have crossed: 10 Million? 20 Million? We do know they're mostly young men.
We also know that the Biden administration could have stemmed the flow at any time, because they finally did it when it became a political liability before this election.
This was such a massive betrayal of our country, that it virtually defies explanation -- or it requires a really wild explanation (i.e. "conspiracy theory"). I'd say the administration and its enablers were either spectacularly stupid or malevolently self-seeking. Those are the only possibilities. Neither is a conspiracy theory.
Yes, Biden reversed the Trump travel ban and attempted (and failed) to offer a path to citizenship for the 12 million or so undocumented noncitizens in the U.S. with the U.S. Citizenship Act (which didn't pass) and made various other reforms. But none of this constitutes "importing millions of immigrants." That's just absurd wording. And that 12 million figure is the most authoritative estimate of the total number of undocumented noncitizens currently in the U.S. (equal to the number at the end of the Bush administration) so it's also not true to say that 10 or 20 million illegals have somehow crossed the border in the last four years alone. Also, I'm assuming your reference to "call buttons at the border" means the CBP One app that allows migrants to make appointments with border control. Lots of organizations complain that the app has done nothing but make it *harder* to get an appointment, let alone to enter the country.
More importantly, there is just no proof of any conspiracy run by Democrats or the government to first get tens of million illegals into the country, then to somehow authorize them all to vote (even lawful permanent residence doesn't give you the right to vote) and then to somehow use their hypothetical electoral support to ban future elections or turn the U.S. into a one-party state. It simply has zero basis in fact. So yes, I think it amounts to a conspiracy theory.
All of this is made more absurd by the fact that there are obviously real debates to be had about immigration policy – including the merits of Trump's Remain in Mexico policy or Biden's recent tightening of asylum limits. Because yes the number of illegal crossings has skyrocketed under Biden at least in part due to the fact that his administration was clearly more migrant friendly than Trump's (but also due to other factors including the end of the pandemic). But Musk and people who support his framing of the immigration situation just don't seem to want to have that debate and instead they both exaggerate the facts and attribute immigration flows to an all-powerful conspiracy.
Sorry Luke, but actual data disagree with you
Land border encounters
2021 1,734,686
2022 2,378,944
2023 2,766,582
2024 2,060,000
Total: 8,940,212
(https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/southwest-land-border-encounters-fy22)
That's just LAND encounters and that's just the ones that the CPB actually recorded. Most reasonable folks would concur that another 20-50% undectected entries is entirely plausible.
Hi Jens: an encounter is just an encounter, it doesn't mean the person actually crossed the border. And the same person can (and often does) have multiple encounters with border patrol. The definition of an encounter is
"CBP encounter: Any encounter of a removable noncitizen by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Office of Field Operations (OFO) or U.S. Border Patrol (USBP), including the arrest of a removable noncitizen by USBP under Title 8 authority, a determination of inadmissibility for a person requesting admission at a port of entry (land, sea, or air) under Title 8 authority, or an expulsion from the United States to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 disease pursuant to Title 42 authority."
Source: https://ohss.dhs.gov/glossary#:~:text=CBP%20encounter%3A%20Any%20encounter%20of,admission%20at%20a%20port%20of
So, these figures include all the people who were arrested, turned away, who didn't even attempt to cross, and who had their applications denied - and many of them are duplicates from individuals who had multiple encounters. It is not the same as a successful crossing.
So there might have been some repeats and there are certainly a whole lot more that never got detected at all -- or came by sea. So we're still left with a really big number.
However you define or measure "encounters," we do know that they increased by 300% under the Biden-Harris administration (and that's not even counting the full year for 2024). Why would they do something that disruptive and destructive to our country? Hard to think of a reasonable reason. So we're left with unreasonable reasons (conspiracy theories).
"12 million or so undocumented noncitizens"
That "authoritative" government figure number has seemed impossible for a long time. How could border crossing continue at their current pace with the number of illegal immigrants not increasing in almost 16 years? That extraordinary claim should require extraordinary proof. A study at Yale/MIT found the number to be at least twice that, and that was in 2018 before the recent influx. I don't think 30 million is an unrealistic figure.
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0201193
Don't forget that they're eating DAWGS in Ohio.
Non sequitur much?