Right-Wingers Can’t Accept Reality on Immigration
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American right-wing supporters of America’s system of immigration controls love to exclaim that President Biden has adopted a policy of “open borders,” by which Biden, they say, has knowingly, intentionally, and deliberately “let in” millions of illegal immigrants.
An October 3, 2024, article entitled “The Expanding Immigrant Detention Nexus published by the Border Chronicle states:
Since Joe Biden’s inauguration in January 2021, there have been alarming trends in detentions and deportations undertaken by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), according to the National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC). For instance, the daily number of people detained has gone up 140 percent. Now there are 37,000 people locked up every day, up from 15,000 in 2021.
A June 27, 2024, article entitled “The Biden Administration Is on Pace to Match Trump Deportation Numbers” published by the Migration Policy Institute stated:
The Biden administration took office amid heightened debate in some circles over the merits and tactics of deportations, yet it is on track to carry out as many removals and returns as the Trump administration did. The 1.1 million deportations since the beginning of fiscal year (FY) 2021 through February 2024 (the most recent data available) are on pace to match the 1.5 million deportations carried out during the four years President Donald Trump was in office. These deportations are in addition to the 3 million expulsions of migrants crossing the border irregularly that occurred under the pandemic-era Title 42 order between March 2020 and May 2023—the vast majority of which occurred under the Biden administration. Combining deportations with expulsions and other actions to block migrants without permission to enter the United States, the Biden administration’s nearly 4.4 million repatriations are already more than any single presidential term since the George W. Bush administration (5 million in its second term).
Additionally, the Biden administration has left intact longtime immigration police-state measures, such as warrantless searches of ranches and farms along and near the bo
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