Editorial: Dems ‘resist’ Americans with Trump-policy roadblocks

In a parting shot to President-elect Donald Trump, President Joe Biden is making the immigration crisis worse before he leaves office.

As sources told the New York Post, Biden’s administration intends to launch an ICE Portal app starting in early December in New York City that will allow migrants to bypass in-person check-ins to their local ICE office.

Homeland Security sources said the app will make it easier for migrants to flee authorities in part because the software has proven to be glitchy and unreliable.

Thanks, Joe.

This is just another piece of the “resistance” Democrats are waging against Trump and his impending policies, especially his crackdown on immigration and mass deportations. What they fail to realize is that they are also “resisting” the American people who voted for Trump and/or want a stronger border. In a June Gallup poll, 47% of Americans said they favored “deporting all immigrants who are living in the United States illegally back to their home country.” An October Marquette Law School poll found 58% of registered voters in support of “deporting immigrants who are living in the United States illegally back to their home countries.”

As CNN noted, respondents in a number of polls did also support legal pathways to citizenship. But that is a far cry from letting illegal immigrants fly under the radar by skipping ICE office check-ins. The Post’s sources added that even when it’s working correctly, the new app doesn’t check for past arrests or outstanding warrants — something the current system tied to in-person appointments does.

Former acting Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Mark Morgan slammed the Biden administration’s last-minute moves as “the opposite of a peaceful transition of power.”

“What they’re trying to do in the last final day, they’re going to try to put up as many roadblocks and obstacles and throw as many grenades as they can on their way out.”

Biden’s move pairs with sanctuary cities doubling down on their obstructionist efforts to “protect” migrants from ICE deportation. That this posturing coincided with the sentencing of Jose Ibarra, the 26-year-old illegal immigrant who stalked, raped and murdered nursing student Laken Riley earlier this year reflects the ideological bubble in which progressives reside.

Sanctuary communities that only recently were crying uncle over the exorbitant costs of sheltering and caring for migrants and the lack of available space now seemingly put those concerns on the back burner.

Trump wants our porous border shored up and immigration policies strengthened? Resist, resist, resist.

There is a heady fervor to the post-election anti-Trump sentiment among Democrats, from women shaving their heads in protest, to celebrities leaving the “dystopian” country and certain leaders vowing to provide safe havens to people who flouted immigration laws to be here.

Trump will move back in to the White House and start to enact his policies. The roadblocks thrown up by Democrats may slow him down, even stall significant action through legal wrangling. Sanctuary cities will proudly fly the flag of resistance as illegal migrants pour in.

And then will inevitably come the question: “Now what do we do?”

Editorial cartoon by Steve Kelley (Creators Syndicate)

 

 

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