We examine Joe Biden's history on illegal immigration and how he morphed from a border hawk to an open border president.

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Well, the Secretary of Homeland Security continues to maintain that our southern border is secure. This is obviously not true. Hundreds of thousands of people are crossing our southern border every single month. The vast majority of them will end up basically being released into the United States after a certain period of time because when they come to the border, then we give them a piece of paper that says that you have to have your asylum claim adjudicated, at which point they

are released into the interior, some come back for their first appointment, many never come

back for their second appointment, hundreds of thousands of people every month, and that's not

including the people who just entered the border and were caught by Border Patrol in the first

place. The Biden administration continues to

claim through gridded teeth that everything is fine at the border. Everyone knows things are not

fine at the border. And this has very serious consequences for the United States, not only in terms

of our fiscal future, in terms of crime, in terms of electoral demographics, because eventually

you imagine Democrats will attempt to amnesty a lot of these people

who have violated the law. Now, as I've always said, I don't blame people for attempting to get

into the United States. This is the greatest country on the face of the planet. Why wouldn't

you try to get in if you could? The real question is whether the United States is a sovereign

country that controls its own border. The Democrats apparently have decided they no longer

wish for the United States to be a sovereign country that controls its own border. Because to understand where Joe Biden is on this issue, you have to understand where Joe Biden has been. Joe Biden, as always, is a bellwether inside the Democratic Party. He's just a weather vein. He does not have opinions of his own. The opinions he does have his own tend to be very, very wrong, but he just follows

the base of the Democratic Party wherever it leads, which is why during the Democratic primaries

in 2020, he was slightly more moderate than Bernie Sanders, but then he immediately swiveled

and became more left-wing the minute that he gained power because the Democratic base

wanted him to be more left-wing. Joe Biden is not a sentient being on his own. He is animated by the

desires of the median voter inside the Democratic Party. And this is why, if you look at his

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