Opening the Floodgates to Illegal Immigration

An analysis from the distinguished jurist Judge John H. Wilson, (ret.)

The Biden Administration has wasted no time in declaring our borders open to illegal aliens. One of the 46^th president’s first acts was an Executive Order “on the Revision of Civil Immigration Enforcement Policies and Priorities.” This Order specifically revokes President Trump’s 2017 Executive Order 13768, which states that “Sanctuary jurisdictions across the United States willfully violate Federal law in an attempt to shield aliens from removal from the United States. These jurisdictions have caused immeasurable harm to the American people and to the very fabric of our Republic.” Gone now is Executive Order 13768’s directive to “(e)nsure(d) that jurisdictions that fail to comply with applicable Federal law do not receive Federal funds.”

As reported in the Texas Tribune, based upon this “Revision of Priorities” Order, “(t)he Department of Homeland Security announced two significant immigration policy changes…a 100-day pause on deportations for some undocumented immigrants (and) asylum seekers who attempt to enter the United States will no longer be part of a controversial policy enacted under former President Donald Trump that has forced tens of thousands to wait in Mexico for American court hearings.”

Further, by Proclamation, Biden has declared “the Termination of Emergency with Respect to the Southern Border of the United States and Redirection of Funds Diverted to Border Wall Construction.” In the words of this Proclamation, “building a massive wall that spans the entire southern border is not a serious policy solution. It is a waste of money that diverts attention from genuine threats to our homeland security…I have determined that the declaration of a national emergency at our southern border in Proclamation 9844 of February 15, 2019…was unwarranted. It shall be the policy of my Administration that no more American taxpayer dollars be diverted to construct a border wall.”

In response to these changes, a large caravan of Hondurans attempted to push their way through Guatemala on their way to Mexico, and eventually, the Southern US border. As one member of the caravan stated, “Now that the new president (Biden) is here we are waiting for the answer, all of us immigrants who are here from Honduras…We are looking to see what the new president says to move forward.” However, as reported by AP, the “once large caravan of Honduran migrants that pushed its way into Guatemala last week had dissipated by Tuesday in the face of Guatemalan security forces. Small groups pressed on toward the Mexican border, while others accepted rides from authorities back to Honduras.”

Nevertheless, how long will the Mexicans and Guatemalans hold back Hondurans from traveling through their countries? Those applying for asylum no longer need to wait in Mexico for their application to be heard, those in the United States illegally won’t be deported, and sanctuary cities will not lose federal funding for harboring illegal aliens. Sounds like the “coyotes” and other people smugglers are back in business.

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Maybe you think these changes are the worst we can expect from the Biden Administration on the issue of illegal immigration. If so, you’d be wrong. A more significant change, with far-reaching effects has also been instituted by President Biden.

As described by James DeLong in the Federalist, “(t)he Enumeration Clause, as modified by the 14th Amendment, says representatives are apportioned among the states ‘according to their respective numbers,’ as determined by ‘counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed.’ The clause goes on to require a decennial enumeration—we know this as the census.”

Zachary Mueller of America’s Voice describes the importance of the census; “The number of U.S. House seats was capped at 435 total seats in 1929, and each House district contains roughly the same number of people, which means that states can lose or gain House seats depending on how their population has changed since the last census. Currently, each House member represents about 747,000 people as there (are) about 327 million people in the U.S. The upcoming 2020 census will determine which states will lose seats and which will gain seats.”

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Putin’s Saber Rattling

Earlier this week, President Biden reversed his 2022 decision, authorizing the provision of antipersonnel land mines to the Ukrainian government. It follows an earlier Administration authorization to allow the use of an advanced American missile system capable of striking as deep as 100 miles inside Russian territory. The US election season may be ending, but both Russia and the West show no indication of stepping down the conflict. Russian propaganda continues to swell as the Kremlin increases its threats to use nuclear weapons against the West. Last week Andrey Sushentsov, program director of the pro-Kremlin think tank Valdai Discussion Club (VDC), published an article on growing nuclear tensions in the region. Official Russian language in the last few years has been threatening. Since the US election, rhetoric like that in the Sushentsov article, has approached the level of nuclear blackmail. The VDC article’s main theme centers on Russia’s intent to directly confront the West militarily if the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) becomes involved in Russia’s conflict with Ukraine. “On the one hand, these threats are intended to frighten the West, but on the other, Russian propagandists themselves are starting to believe in the inevitability of escalation,” according to Ksenia Kirillova of the Jamestown Foundation. On November 11, Sushentsov wrote that “The conflict will reach a completely new level, with unpredictable consequences for Europe and the entire world.” Kirillova points out that Putin’s distorted image of the world is divorced from reality and is causing the Kremlin to issue demands that are impossible to fulfill. Financial and other Russian resources needed to support Putin’s war are growing scarcer at the same time. This week the Kremlin announced a reduction of payments to its soldiers. Recently North Korea acknowledged it was sending soldiers to fight in Ukraine as Putin is running out of bodies to use as cannon fire. The war is not going well for Russia. One question floating around the Washington intelligence community is whether Putin will act out of desperation before President-elect Trump assumes office. In recent months the Russian propaganda machine is spewing out materials from fairly reputable analytical platforms inside the country. Kirillova says that “Kremlin ‘experts’ do not conceal that such threats are only intended to break the West psychologically, as they themselves are not prepared for full-scale nuclear war.” Despite Russia’s lack of preparation for an all-out war with the West, the expanding nuclear rhetoric carries with it an increase in the threat of a full-scale war in multiple theaters of operation. In June 2023 a founder of the Russian Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, Sergey Karaganov, called for “delivering a pre-emptive strike of retaliation” on Poland to force the West to surrender. In the previous month, Dmitry Suslov, a direct of research programs at the policy center proposed organizing “a demonstration nuclear explosion” aimed at intimidating the West. In September, President Putin announced a reappraisal of Russian nuclear doctrine after speaking earlier in the year at the plenary session of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum and jokingly calling Suslov a “scary person.” Pavel Baev, writing in the European Daily Monitor, says “Putin intends his announcement to mark an escalation of nuclear brinkmanship and influence the proceedings of future Ukrainian peace efforts.” Putin is expanding the list of environmental conditions that are acceptable for using a nuclear weapon and incorporating it into Russian military doctrine. Baev adds that “The ups and downs of Russian brinkmanship are disconnected from the kinetic battles of the war, correlating instead with Ukrainian peace offensives, such as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s first peace summit in Bürgenstock, Switzerland.” Despite the increase in vitriolic language, in a You Tube video published a week before the US presidential election, Karaganov openly assured the West the primary goal of the escalation is to break the American spirit and that of the West, not outright nuclear war. By Election Day in the US, with political prognosticators predicting a win for former president Trump, Karaganov changed his tune and called for an increased role in nuclear deterrence. Kirillova points out that Western concessions to Russia are unlikely to reduce the risk of nuclear escalation. The distorted reality inside the Kremlin continues to push that President-elect Trump is an adherent of “world government,” that Ukraine will create a nuclear weapon, and Russia must prepare for a nuclear conflagration to achieve its ambitions for a new world order. President-elect Trump has indicated he will not agree to concessions that destabilize Europe, the Middle East or other regions. Going forward a strong US foreign policy may be the most stabilizing course the West can count on to restrain Putin and his intent to rebuild the Russian empire. Daria Novak served in the U.S. State Dept. Illustration: Pixabay

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