Republican Attempts to Manufacture a Border Crisis Could Be About to Badly Backfire
Republican Attempts to Manufacture a Border Crisis Could Be About to Badly Backfire
The Democrats have a major opportunity to show leadership on a key issue for American voters, argues Matt Bernardini
Unsatisfied with the lack of results from their sham impeachment investigation of President Joe Biden, Republicans have decided to use border security and aid to Ukraine as weapons in Donald Trump’s fight to get back to the White House.
GOP efforts to portray Joe Biden as corrupt and a beneficiary of his son’s business dealings in Ukraine have failed to convince anyone except the MAGA cultists who will believe anything the former president says. Therefore, they’ve instead become determined to create a border crisis while simultaneously yelling about a border invasion.
While ‘invasion’ is a blatantly racist term designed to throw red meat to the base, there has been a surge in asylum claims at the southern border. In the fiscal year of 2022 alone, there were 239,000 applications for affirmative asylum, which is a new record. Part of this is America’s fault. After all, when you spend decades overthrowing governments in Latin America, there shouldn’t be any surprise when people want to escape from a destabilized country.,
“One primary reason for the massive asylum backlogs is the sheer number of people escaping violence and political instability around the globe. Conflicts throughout various regions in the world — many of them within the Western Hemisphere — have contributed,” the National Immigration Forum concluded.
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