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Originally Posted by Lanny_McDonald
This is a media driven narrative that doesn't hold much water IMO. Biden has actually followed much of the Trump doctrine when it comes to the border with the exception of the methods to "build the wall". There is still plenty of wall building going on - one of the companies that builds the partitions is down the road from where I live - but the real big investments in the wall are in the virtual wall building. The investments in sensors and observation technology are through the roof. He's also encouraging the use of the national guard to fortify the efforts at the border. The same policies exist, the Biden admin just does it with a lot more finese.
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I agree with almost everything you're saying, but if I'm interpreting this correctly and you're saying that Biden's failed border policies are just a media driven narrative, that is just objectively false.
There was a tangible change in policy when Biden took over that caused an almost immediate surge of migrants (both "legal" and illegal) into the country. The cause and effect in the data is extremely clear.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/23/b...migration.html
To quote the article and provide one of the charts, which shows "Monthly apprehensions at the southwestern border by US Border Patrol" (the dark orange is Biden):
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He campaigned in 2020 promising not only to undo Trump’s cruel policies — such as family separation — but also to welcome more migrants. After taking office, he signed executive orders to do both.
Biden tried to pause deportations. He changed the definition of asylum to include fear of gang violence. He used immigration parole — which the law says should be used “on a case-by-case basis for urgent humanitarian reasons” — to admit hundreds of thousands of people. The parole programs alone amounted to “the largest expansion of legal immigration in modern U.S. history,” Camilo Montoya-Galvez of CBS News wrote.
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Again, there were tangible changes to the immigration policy under Biden, which inarguably caused a flood of migrants - that's not a media driven narrative.