Immigration Watch International (2): Harris May Pander on Illegal Immigration but Hispanics Want Trump’s Secure Border Policies

Thursday, August 15, 2024

Harris May Pander on Illegal Immigration but Hispanics Want Trump’s Secure Border Policies

Vice President Kamala Harris is attempting to edit her dismal record on immigration while currying favor with Latino voters, but the reality is she was Vice President – and placed in charge of the border by President Joe Biden himself – during the worst border crisis in modern history.

Hispanics do not appear to have missed this. As Harris has attempted to tout her border record over the past three weeks, the share of Hispanics saying they trust former President Donald Trump more on the border has skyrocketed, with the latest polling showing Hispanics trust Trump over Harris by nine points on immigration.

It isn’t difficult to see why. Under the Biden-Harris administration’s disastrous Open Borders agenda, approximately 10 million illegal alien encounters have been recorded by Customs and Border Protection, with a vast majority of those encounters (8 million) occurring directly at the U.S.-Mexico border. Then there are the 2 million or so “gotaways”, illegal aliens who have entered the U.S. but fled Border Patrol agents and are presumably inside the U.S. to this day. The porous border has served as a breeding ground for drug trafficking, human trafficking, and all number of criminal activities.

Let’s not forget that Harris was officially tasked by Biden in March, 2021, “to lead our efforts with Mexico and the Northern Triangle…in stemming the movement of…migration to our southern border”. At the time, the press went wild, with the Washington Post saying Harris was being given the lead on the border and Axios dubbing her the ‘border czar’, a moniker she has since attempted to shed.

Now, that record is coming back to haunt her as Hispanics throw their support behind Trump’s secure border plan. YouGov polling conducted July 19th-21st showed Hispanics trusted Trump over Harris on immigration by three percentage points, 34 percent to 31 percent. However, in the latest YouGov poll, Hispanics trust Trump over Harris by nine points, 43 percent to 34 percent. The share of Hispanics trusting Trump on immigration has risen nine points in around two weeks, according to the data.

Hispanics have been deeply unsatisfied with the Biden-Harris Administration’s reckless Open Borders agenda for months now and have signaled that distaste in poll after poll. Despite what beltway politicians would like to claim, a majority of Hispanics support stricter border security measures and believe the United States should be more tough on illegal immigrants, not less.

There is ample data to support this. A striking NPR/Marist poll from March showed a majority of Hispanics – 52 percent – said all immigrants who came to the U.S. illegally should be deported, a position that would have been considered extremist four years ago before the border became overrun.

A YouGov poll from April found Latinos strongly disapproved of the way the Biden Administration had been handling the border crisis. The poll found Latinos disapproved of Biden’s handling of the border at nearly the same level as whites, with 66 percent of Latinos and 67 percent of whites signaling their dismay over the Biden-Harris border crisis. Latinos disapproved of Biden’s handling of the border by an abysmal 43 percentage points – 66 percent to just 23 percent.

Now, one might wonder if Hispanics were angry with Biden because they wanted him to be more lenient on asylum seekers crossing into the U.S. illegally, but that would be incorrect. Hispanics in the poll said by a margin of 37 points, 58 percent to 21 percent, they wished the Biden Administration would be tougher on immigrants trying to cross the border.

Hispanics noted that the Biden-Harris Open Borders chaos presents a national security concern by a striking 54 percentage points, 77 percent to 23 percent. By the exact same margin – 54 percentage points – Hispanics expressed concern for the strain illegal immigrants are placing on U.S. resources.

While Harris may be attempting to rewrite her record and pander to Latinos, the border chaos created under the Biden-Harris Administration has placed a great strain on U.S. resources, introduced crime and illicit drugs into the country, and presents an ongoing national security threat. Latinos are aware of this, and largely favor Former President Trump’s efforts to secure the border. With the Latino vote up for grabs, Trump will have an opportunity to expose Harris’ record on the border in the September 10th ABC News debate.

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Postings from Brisbane, Australia by John Ray (M.A.; Ph.D.) -- former member of the Australia-Soviet Friendship Society, former anarcho-capitalist and former member of the British Conservative party.

Why is "La Raza" the one Spanish term that is NEVER translated in the American mass media? Because translating it would make it a lot less respectable. It means "THE RACE" -- The mixed Hispanic "race" of Mexico. Racism is fine South of the Rio Grande only, apparently.

The "line" of this blog is that immigration should be SELECTIVE. That means that:

1). A national government should be in control of it. The U.S. and U.K. governments are not but the Australian government has shown that the government of a prosperous Western country can be. Up until its loss of office in 2007, the conservative Howard government had all but eliminated illegal immigration. The present Leftist government has however restarted the flow of illegals by repealing many of the Howard government regulations.

2). Selectivity should be based on "the content of a man's character, not on the color of his skin", as MLK said. To expand that a little: Immigrants should only be accepted if they as individuals seem likely to make a positive net contribution to the country. Many "refugees" would fail that test: Muslims and Africans particularly. Educational level should usually be a pretty fair proxy for the individual's likely value to the receiving country. There will, of course, be exceptions but it is nonetheless unlikely that a person who has not successfully completed High School will make a net positive contribution to a modern Western society.

3). Immigrants should be neither barred NOR ACCEPTED solely because they are of some particular ethnic origin. Blacks are vastly more likely to be criminal than are whites or Chinese, for instance, but some whites and some Chinese are criminal. It is the criminality that should matter, not the race.

4). The above ideas are not particularly blue-sky. They roughly describe the policies of the country where I live -- Australia. I am critical of Australian policy only insofar as the "refugee" category for admission is concerned. All governments have tended to admit as refugees many undesirables. It seems to me that more should be required of them before refugees are admitted -- for instance a higher level of education or a business background.

5). Perhaps the most amusing assertion in the immigration debate is that high-income countries like the USA and Britain NEED illegal immigrants to do low-paid menial work. "Who will pick our crops?" (etc.) is the cry. How odd it is then that Australians get all the normal services of a modern economy WITHOUT illegal immigrants! Yes: Before the pandemic, you usually COULD buy a lettuce in Australia for a dollar or thereabouts. And Australia IS a major exporter of primary products.

6). I am a libertarian conservative so I reject the "open door" policy favoured by many libertarians and many Leftists. Both those groups tend to have a love of simplistic generalizations that fail to deal with the complexity of the real world. It seems to me that if a person has the right to say whom he/she will have living with him/her in his/her own house, so a nation has the right to admit to living among them only those individuals whom they choose.

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Immigration Watch International (2)

Thursday, August 15, 2024

Harris May Pander on Illegal Immigration but Hispanics Want Trump’s Secure Border Policies

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