Joe Biden’s open-border policies have caused so much damage to the country that Congressional Democrats are very worried about the political ramifications and are running for cover. In the House, some of the most vulnerable Democrats just voted with Republicans for legislation that would overturn the Biden policies and return to Trump-era toughness; in the Senate, Democrats just voted to establish outrageous new precedents simply to cover themselves. Yet, despite their best efforts, the issue just won’t go away – in poll after poll, the issue is at the top of voters’ priority lists, and it cuts 2-to-1 against Biden and his ticket-mates.

Over the last six months, according to the federal government’s own figures, there have been 1,340,801 encounters at our southwest border. We would otherwise call these encounters “arrests,” except that “arrest” connotes detention after apprehension, and under Biden and his Homeland Security Secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas, the order has been given not to detain them, but instead to release them into the interior of our country. At the current rate, we’ll “encounter” almost 2.7 million illegal aliens this fiscal year. That'll be the highest yearly total ever recorded, and with the millions that have already been allowed to enter the country since Biden took over, it will amount to 9.3 million illegal aliens entering in just four years – and that’s not counting the known gotaways, or the unknown gotaways. Is it any wonder the crisis at our southern border is the issue that simply won’t go away?

A recent Harvard/Harris survey shows that immigration is the top issue for voters. When asked, “What would you say are the most important issues facing the country today,” fully........

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