Republicans to Press Immigration as Top Issue for 2024 Elections
The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit against Biden and claimed his policies largely mimic his predecessor’s
Republicans see immigration as a clear vulnerability for President Joe Biden in the 2024 election and will attempt to use the border crisis as an example of a failure by the White House to secure the U.S. from an invasion of migrants.
Biden tapped Vice President Kamala Harris in 2021 to lead his administration’s effort to take control of the issue. But Harris no longer talks about that task after receiving tough criticism from Republicans, including presidential candidate Nikki Haley who called for Harris to be fired.
“She has failed to secure the border and has emboldened cartels. We need real leadership,” Haley tweeted earlier.
Donald Trump, the former president, announced during a CNN town hall that last Friday would be a day that lives in “infamy” after Title 42 came to an end.
Title 42 was put in place by the Centers for Disease Control during the COVID-19 outbreak and empowers federal health authorities to prohibit migrants from entering the country if these agencies determined that these migrants could be infected with a contagious disease. The Biden administration has worked to overturn the policy.
Blas Nunez-Neto, assistant secretary at the Department of Homeland Security, announced Monday that 2,400 people had been returned to Mexico since the bill expired. Thus far there has not been a major uptick in border crossings since the bill’s expirations.
The New York Times noted that Biden took office vowing to offer a path to 11 million so-called Dreamers, but said the bill faced “solid Republican opposition and went nowhere.” The paper noted that Biden’s lackluster record on immigration drew criticism from Democrats.
Lanae Erickson, who runs the public opinion and social policy division at Third Way, a think tank, said, “All of us who work in Democratic politics have been dreading this moment for two years.”
“It is very evident that Republicans still have an upper hand on immigration and people don’t think that Democrats particularly care about securing the border,” she said.
TREND FORECAST: As economic conditions continue to deteriorate, the border crisis in the United States and across the globe will escalate. We maintain our forecast for the growth of nationalistic anti-immigration, anti-tax, and anti-establishment political parties.
These border crossings will continue to worsen as these underdeveloped countries face more economic hardships due to soaring inflation.