The political left argues that the immigrants illegally crossing our borders are in search of better lives, and that those who want to stop the flood are hateful, heartless bigots and racists.
An average of more than 200,000 immigrants a month have illegally jumped America's southern border during Joe Biden's three years in the White House, almost four times the monthly rate of crossings under Donald Trump.
By any fair description, our southern border is open, and this has created a humanitarian crisis of emigres being processed in cities where there are not enough services to meet the surging demand.
To drive this point home, a number of Democrat-run municipalities declared themselves to be "Sanctuary cities," where the local government refuses to comply with federal immigration law and to cooperate with immigration officials.
Chicago's welcoming ordinance "Means that the city will not ask about your immigration status, disclose that information to authorities, or, most importantly, deny you city services based on your immigration status." Of course now that the humanitarian crisis has arrived in these cities, officials are moaning that they can't handle the swelling flood.
"All of our cities have reached a point where we are either close to capacity, or nearly out of room," Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson recently said, while blaming Texas, where conditions in its border towns have become desperate, for busing immigrants to sanctuary cities.
In Denver, where hundreds had been camping in a tent city, Mayor Mike Johnston says his city "Is very close to its breaking point." In April of last year, Mayor Eric Adams complained that New York City "Is being destroyed by the migrant crisis." So much for these sanctuary cities lifting their "Lamp beside the golden door" to welcome "The wretched refuse" from a foreign "Teeming shore." It might seem that the most ethical and decent path we can take is to fully open our country to economic refugees who simply want to live better lives and are willing to work for them.
https://issuesinsights.com/2024/02/06/the-moral-hazard-of-an-open-border/
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