The Border Problem Is Also a Business Problem

The huge illegal immigrant crime wave is also a business and economic problem. New numbers from Immigration and Customs Enforcement show a staggering number of convicted criminals — convicted of homicides, assault, burglary, kidnapping, sexual assault — walking free inside the country. It’s an incredible story. And, right at the top, it must be said that sanctuary cities and states play such a large role in preventing these criminals from being deported. And then it has to be said that the combination of open borders and sanctuary cities has so damaged public safety around the country, and has been so costly, in terms of government spending and benefits. And the combination of criminality, costs, and busted budgets has been hugely damaging to the economies of these sanctuary cities, and a real killer for small businesses. Virtually every day, there’s another story about big box retailers and small mom and pop grocery stores going out of business because illegal immigrants have been stealing from them, or have been involved in homicides inside them, or shootings inside the stores, or stabbings, or violently attacking cops.Illegals and their crime wave have gone way up, while law and order has gone way down. And it’s bankrupting localities.Early estimates of hundreds of billions of dollars lost to welfare, free food, free healthcare, free housing. In many cases, displacing people from their homes, displacing kids from their schools and classrooms, making streets almost unwalkable because of the explosion of homelessness — which has so much to do with the criminal wave of illegal immigrants. In other words, this is a sovereignty collapse at the border. It’s a public safety collapse in the interior of the country. And it’s a fiscal collapse. Or, to be even more blunt, the economics of illegal immigration are becoming just as bad as the criminality. Make no mistake about it, this border problem is a business problem. And Vice President Harris wants to raise taxes on businesses, both large and small, in order to punish them even more. As though her missing in action as border tsar, and her attacks on ICE (remember “reimagining ICE”?) weren’t enough, she said at Pittsburgh a couple days ago that the American dream is no longer attainable. Well, one reason for that is that closing the border and ending the crime wave in sanctuary cities is unattainable, at least under her policies. Some of these ICE numbers are hard to believe: 425,000 convicted criminals, 62,000 convicted of assault, 56,000 with drug convictions, 13,000 convicted of homicide, 16,000 sexual assault convictions. The number of illegals who are not detained, but should be deported, according to ICE, has soared to nearly 4.8 million in fiscal year 2022, to more than 7 million in 2023, from 3.7 million in fiscal year 2021. And that doesn’t include at least a couple million got-a-ways, or those coming in on undisclosed flights, or through the CBP One phone app. One of the amazing things about these horrible numbers is that the administration has had them for quite some time, but never released them — that is until ICE sent a letter to House member Tony Gonzales. And then the word got out.In other words, Biden-Harris was in on a big illegal immigration cover-up. weren’t they?So, the border tsar, Ms. Harris, is heading back to the Arizona border today for the first time in three years, in a trip that just might remind voters of just how disastrous the border crisis is, especially with these new ICE numbers released today. She and President Biden could have ended this disaster four years ago, but they didn’t.Now, they’re blaming President Trump for opposing the Senate border bill, which by the way wouldn’t have passed in the first place, and would have allowed just under 2 million illegals per year, topping 5,000 per week. No bargain there. So that argument is balderdash. How about Trump’s ideas: catch and deport, remain in Mexico, finish building the wall, end all the sanctuary cities, shut down all entries through the migrant phone app, and even liberate places like Aurora, Colorado — which has been taken over by Venezuelan criminal gangs. Sounds like a pretty good plan to me.From Mr. Kudlow’s broadcast on Fox Business Network.

The Border Problem Is Also a Business Problem

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