Border invasion is our new immigration system.
The Obiden Regime refuses to secure the border, instead it promises to fight the “root cause” of millions of people invading America. All it has to do is find that root cause.
This is another Leftist problem-solving fiasco in which the problem is misidentified thus, corrective measures create further, more complex problems.
This from frontpagemag.com.
DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas:
[Blamed] the effects of climate change, poverty, [and] increasing levels of authoritarianism.
In its joint communique with Mexico, the Obiden Regime promised:
[To] address the root causes of migration, such as poverty, inequality, democratic decline, and violence.
The Mexican version left out “democratic decline” and then The Regime—to avoid embarrassing its undemocratic ally—pulled the phrase entirely.
The head of the North America bureau at the Mexican Foreign Ministry argued that the U.S. needs to spend more on “foreign investments to help alleviate poverty, the root cause of migration that leads to desperation and problems like violence and insecurity.”
American companies already outsourced huge chunks of our manufacturing to Mexico.
And U.S. companies are set to invest $40 billion in Mexico through this year, however, there were over 1.5 million border encounters with Mexican nationals in the last two fiscal years making it the top nation for illegal alien invaders.
All the talk of root causes proposes we solve all the social and economic problems of the rest of the world. That we are to believe is easier than building a wall to get them to stop coming.
The premise of the ‘root causes of migration’ is that the migrants, who are generally young men, armed with cell phones and have thousands of dollars to spend on the trip, are the ‘tired, poor, huddled masses’ and ‘wretched refuse’ from the poem semi-accidentally engraved on the Statue of Liberty.
The reality is undermined by the Chinese Communist bourgeoisie who are showing up at the border and looking for jobs as software engineers.
Bloomberg (the magazine, not the former presidential candidate) profiled the wretched huddled masses of Chinese border migrants combining their illegal invasion with a vacation in Cancun.
Among them are:
[E]ntrepreneurs who saw business evaporate in the downturn, middle-aged fathers laid-off from China’s collapsing real-estate sector, and young software engineers eager to make it in Silicon Valley.
What is more obvious is that the root cause of the border invasion is an open border.
China’s expat middle class isn’t satisfied with 24,000 visas and so 66,000 of them showed up. And it’s not just China. Much of the world has been bombarded with videos of everyone from around the world, including Russia and Ukraine, who just showed up and got in.
Most of them have reasons for coming. Like their factory got shut down (are we supposed to build them another one in China?) or they want to work in Silicon Valley (should we export even more tech jobs to China?), and they’re coming here to make money and change their lives.
We’re not going to fix those “root causes” except by making everyone in the world wealthier than us. And that is really the only way to address the root causes of mass migration. Only when we have nothing left, then the rest of the world may finally stop lining up to come here. Maybe.
That’s not much of a plan, but it’s the only plan The Regime seems to have.
The legal immigration system has been replaced by a lawless mass invasion by millions of people who have figured out that there’s no point in bothering with a long and expensive process when they can just walk up and apply for asylum and be allowed in till their court dates kick in somewhere around 2035. That is the one and only “root cause” of the border crisis.
Obama and Biden decided to unilaterally implement “immigration reform” through a combination of amnesties for some illegals and replacing immigration with mass migration. Faced with a few Republicans resistant to the idea of amnesty and unlimited mass immigration, they implemented it anyway through a backdoor the size of the US-Mexico border. All the talk about root causes is a distraction from the simple fact that this is not an accident or incompetence: it’s policy.
Final thoughts: The root cause of the border crisis is not south of the border; it is up north in Washington D.C.—to paraphrase a song by Oliver Anthony: It is Rich Men North of Richmond.
