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September 27, 2024 - 10:11pm
There’s not much Kamala Harris can do to negate the electoral consequences of this administration’s border policy except to keep quiet about it. Her campaign, though, appears to be doing the opposite. She’s leaning in.
As if to illustrate the point, the VP got doused with a metaphorical bucket of cold water on Friday afternoon just hours before she planned to deliver remarks from the border town of Douglas, Arizona. Republican Rep. Tony Gonzalez posted a letter he received this week from Immigration and Customs Enforcement revealing nearly half a million noncitizen convicted criminals are in the country, some of them outside of detention.
“As of July 21, 2024, there were 662,566 noncitizens with criminal histories on ICE’s national docket, which includes those detained by ICE, and on the agency’s non-detained docket,” an agency official wrote. “Of those, 435,719 are convicted criminals, and 226,847 have pending criminal charges.”
Fox News broke down the data by category, noting: “Those include 62,231 convicted of assault, 14,301 convicted of burglary, 56,533 with drug convictions and 13,099 convicted of homicide. An additional 2,521 have kidnapping convictions and 15,811 have sexual assault convictions. There are an additional 1,845 with pending homicide charges, 42,915 with assault charges, 3,266 with burglary charges and 4,250 with assault charges.”
These are eye-watering numbers. While they’re not broken down by year, consider this summary of the border numbers under the current administration from Left-leaning Vox: “For most of the decade before [Biden] took office, US Customs and Border Protection had in the range of 300,000 to 500,000 ‘encounters’ with migrants at the southern border each year. Under Biden, the average number has been about 2 million a year, with last year being the highest yet.”
Those numbers do not include “known gotaways,” let along unknown gotaways who are not even noticed by law enforcement. It’s hardly surprising that even amid the pet-eating frenzy of the last few weeks, a new swing-state poll found Trump leads Harris by double digits on immigration: 56% to 44%.
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SubscribeFrom 2010-2020 there were less than 500,000 illegal border encounters per year, except for 2019, when there was 800,000. The Biden bill would allow a minimum of 900,000, but more likely closer to 2 million. Harris gets a free pass on all of this.
I’m not sure the Harris campaign strategy on immigration is poorly conceived.
First, the msm will simply ignore her record on immigration or flatly deny it. They have adopted that strategy with every negative aspect of Harris’s past career, and it seems to work.
The Harris campaign also likes to pin her weaknesses on the other side. Consider how they handled her obviously weird mannerisms. They accused the Republicans of being weird. So this time around they’re accusing the Republicans of causing the border crisis, they’re whitewashing her record and will behave as if time started the moment she set foot in Douglas, Texas.
This election will come down to a fairly small number of swing voters. We must rely on them to see through the immense media bias and fairly judge both candidates on their records.
It’s a risky strategy of revisionism of the current administration’s appalling record on the border, economy, inflation, housing crisis, etc., aided and abetted by the compliant and cooperative media, who will parrot the Democrat talking points.
If it works, it may be the biggest gaslighting of the American public, ever.
Yes, but the electorate has agency as well. In the end, isn’t the American public responsible for the outcome as well?
“A well-informed electorate is a prerequisite to a democracy.” – Thomas Jefferson.
When extreme political propaganda is continually parroted in lockstep across supposedly independent media, while sources exposing their fallacies and untruths are ridiculed as “disinformation” – then democracy is already in jeopardy.
What is truth, anyway?
When Pontius Pilate asked Jesus Christ “What is truth?” , he meant – “I have your life in my hands, so what does truth matter?”
Yet America was built on the life of the latter, not of the former. The cabal running the far-Left Biden-Harris regime have Pilate’s attitude. Americans are in danger of forgetting which philosophy – Pilate’s or Christ’s – made their country great.
Second to covid…
Biggest gaslighting ever? There’s some serious competition for that, given that a cognitively impaired president was sustained for years by a media complicit in portraying him as just fine, and that same media then dropped him like a hot potato (and carried on as if they, the media, had nothing to do with the previous pretense) and anointed a woman who has won no primary votes whatsoever, is the actual current vice-president, and is somehow campaigning as a candidate for ‘change’.
One of the journalists who has been permitted to interview Harris effectively said on the Bill Maher show – and without a trace of self-awareness or irony – that it doesn’t matter how much the media lies about her and her record because Trump is a ‘threat to democracy’. She might as well have said “Lets destroy democracy ourselves. That’ll stop him”.
They’re happy to destroy democracy if it means Trump doesn’t win. This is the same party that rigged two primaries, then selected a candidate with no primary whatsoever. The same party that does everything it can to prevent voter ID and other common sense measures to protect the integrity of elections. The same party that wants people to vote by mail before they even get to see the candidates debate, harvests ballots, and deplatforms individuals and entire news organizations simply for reporting facts that could harm their candidates.
The Democrats abandoned democracy a long time ago in favor of having elites tell people what to do.
For sure, the Democrats are counting on an uninformed and detached electorate to take them to victory. As it’s said, ‘ya get what ya vote for’.
This election will come down to the skill and stealth of the Democrats’ ballot box stuffing operations in Philadelphia, Detroit, Milwaukee, Atlanta, and Phoenix.
[satire] What?! No live broadcast of Harris at the Border?! How long does it take to piece together a few sentences of explanation from her? Maybe it’s all on the cutting room floor, and there’s not enough left for a contiguous, cogent policy thought.
Her actual border efforts or lack thereof are irrelevant. The legacy media is engaged in a daily flack campaign that will tell any lie, ignore any fact it takes to rid itself of the man who knows and says out loud how utterly corrupt and dishonest it is – Trump.
The legacy media completely ignored the new report about the numbers of illegals with homicide, assault and sexual assault convictions. Apparently that’s not newsworthy to them, but the 8th consecutive week of discussing Vance’s comments from 2021 are.
Kamala’s Border
(To the tune of Tom Jones’ “Delilah”)
I heard a noise in the night as I turned on my light,
I saw the faces of strangers who’d snuck in while I was asleep,
They crossed the border,
And now they’re here in my house, taking everything that I tried to keep.
Chorus
Ka, ka, ka Kamala,
Why, why, why Kamala?
I believed your promise that we’d be secure,
But you left the gates wide open, now my home’s not safe anymore.
They took my car and my cash, then they trashed everything else,
I ran outside, but the police said, “Sorry, there’s nothing we’ll do,”
They’re too busy waving,
While new crowds pour in from every border town, there’s no end in view.
Chorus
Ka, ka, ka Kamala,
Why, why, why Kamala?
You swore you’d care, but the flood never ends,
And now I’m left picking up the pieces while you cackle with your Dems.
Ka, ka, ka Kamala,
Why, why, why Kamala?
So before the next wave comes breaking down the door,
I’m voting you out, I just can’t take anymore,
Yes, I’m voting you out, I just can’t take anymore!
She can’t repair anything and if Trump was any good he would use these figures to set her polling figures back but I don’t suppose he will so she can afford to lean into immigration.