Illegal Immigrants And The Wannabe

President Trump promised to remove illegal immigrants from the USA. To date, his administration has removed about 605,000 people, and the administration claims that another 1.9 million people left voluntarily rather than be removed by ICE. It is therefore likely that there are up to 2.5 million fewer illegal immigrants in the USA now than there were when President Trump took over at the start of 2025. There are about 11 million to 14 million illegal immigrants in the country now.

During the years of the Biden administration, approximately 5.5 million people came to the USA illegally. Between 2 million and 2.2 million people arrived in 2023 alone. By the end of his term, there were between 14 million and 16 million illegal immigrants in the USA, representing an increase of at least 40% in four years.  

Vice President Kamala Harris was asked by President Biden to work with Central American countries to address the root causes of illegal immigration to the USA in 2021. She was never the “border czar” in charge of stopping such migration. Throughout President Biden’s time in office various proposals were made by the administration to address the issue, although these mostly did not go forward.

The reality is that President Biden and Vice President Harris took no substantive steps to stem the massive human wave of migrants cross the US border before very near to the end of their term. It was only in June of 2024 that Biden issued a proclamation that had the effect of slowing entries and increasing deportations. That was three and a half years into his term in office.  

In contrast, while many people do not like how ICE operates - including the board of mewetree.blogspot.com - President Trump has shown that the US border could have been controlled. Illegal crossings are down over 90% since he took office. 

It is suggested here that the Democrats who occupied the White House from 2021 to 2025 were not really interested in controlling the border until the political winds were blowing very heavily against them by mid-2024. This is likely because they imagined that all those illegal immigrants, or at least their American children, would vote for the Democrats someday. This was 100% about politics, not the sovereignty of the nation. 

This matters because Kamala Harris is the front-runner to be the Democratic presidential nominee in 2028. If she had become president instead of Donald Trump, the US would have millions more illegal immigrants than it has now, with the total possibly approaching 20 million people by the end of her first term in office.

Every state controls its border and manages its population. The Biden/Harris immigration catastrophe put partisan politics ahead of this basic state function and necessity. 

She does not deserve a second chance.