GOP telling lies about an ‘open’ border

As Ruben Navarette has repeatedly pointed out, Biden’s immigration policy is essentially the same as Trump’s, minus the sadistic part where children were separated from their parents. Far from an “open border,” there were over a million expulsions of undocumented immigrants each of the past two years. So why do so many people from other countries continue to trek thousands of miles in extremely hazardous conditions to flock to our southern border? Reporters have asked immigrants that very question, and their answers fall into two categories: (1) they are fleeing poverty, corruption, persecution, drugs, and crime in their home countries, and (2) they heard that the border was open.

Where would they hear such a thing? Certainly not from Biden and Harris, whose message to potential immigrants has been consistent: “Stay home.” “Don’t leave your town or city or community.” “Do not just show up at the border.” “The United States will continue to enforce our laws and secure our borders. If you come to our border you will be turned back.”

So who’s lying to these desperate people by assuring them that the border is open? Yep, you guessed it, Republicans and conservative news outlets. Trump, Ron DeSantis, Kevin McCarthy, Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, and countless others fulminate incessantly about the non-existent “open border,” but the truth is, if they really cared about the “border crisis,” they would discourage immigrants from coming to America by telling them the same truth Biden and Harris do: the border is NOT open.