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The reason people were flooding across the border is because MAGA was constantly SCREAMING "Biden has open borders!" despite the fact that Biden was following the same policies as any other president, including Republicans.
It was MAGAs that were INVITING people to come to America, and causing the problem they were blaming on Biden.
No, Trump has closed the border. Biden could have done it had he wanted to.
Brother, they haven't changed any immigration policies since Trump 1, with the exception of enforcement measures. You've been lied to, and badly. I'm sorry you had to find out this way. Publicly, on the internet, where everyone can see how much of an idiot you've been till now
Why didn't Biden implement these enforcement measures?
Foul! That's moving the goalposts. Sorry, brother, but you done committed a crime most egregious. You claimed that Biden open the borders, I refuted that stating that you were lied to and that immigration policy didn't change under Biden. You either need to prove that policy DID change under Biden, otherwise your foul will be permanent. And we all know what happens to individuals with permanent fouls (hint, it rhymes with pemical pastration)
To the contrary, you said that US immigration policy never changed but enforcement measures did. So, the question, is why didn't Biden implement enforcement measures to stop the flood of illegal migrants? Trump has been able to stop them; there is no reason Biden couldn't.
Mon frer, you made the extraordinary claim. You need to supply proof. I won't count that as strike two (which is good, that one rhymes with pobotomy, and you don't need any more help in that category)
Proof of what? That Biden allowed illegal migrants to flood across the border?
Open border policy. Show when it took effect and when Trump stopped it. Fox cannot be a source
Biden didn't officially have an open border policy, but he permitted illegal migrants to flood across the border. From https://www.texastribune.org/2024/02/21/texas-migrants-busing-cost-greg-abbott/
In April 2022, Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott announced his state was going to start transporting to other states migrants who had been released from federal custody. He said he was doing it to prevent the state from shouldering “the burdens imposed by open-border advocates in other parts of the country.”
Nearly two years later, Texas has transported more than 102,000 migrants to New York, Chicago, Denver, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C.
Yes, that isn't proof. Congrats! You're maybe starting to see. Abbott's stunt was a stunt meant to force the "immigrants are surging" narrative, not actual needed policy changes to address an issue. Find. Proof. That. Immigrants. Surged. As. A. Result. Of. Biden's. Policies. You have one chance left (reminder, pemical pastration)
If it was just a stunt, there would be few migrants to send. Don't you remember illegal migrants flooding El Paso? See https://www.texastribune.org/2022/12/14/el-paso-migrants-border/
That's an anecdote and not proof of your claim! DHS estimated 11.4 million undocumented migrants in the US in 2022. A 100,000 in Texas could've been there FOR YEARS. You need evidence (numbers, data, studies on policy impacts, fuck even a changed policy) that what you're saying is true. This is all "action" taken "in response" but that isn't PROOF that the thing itself was happening. I could go out to my yard and burn all of the grass because "grass killed my mother". My burning of the grass isn't evidence that grass killed my mother. Do you understand the disconnect?