CNN Woefully Notes That GOP Govs Busing Illegal Immigrants to Democrat-Run Cities ‘Has Worked From a Political Perspective’
“And, frankly, the strategy that these red state governors have had of sending a lot of these migrants up to blue states has worked from a political perspective.”
Joe Biden’s approval ratings remain historically low, and one issue that has become a big factor in those numbers is his handling of illegal immigration over the three years he’s been president.
For instance, in a Monmouth poll taken in late November, Biden’s approval rating on immigration was at 26 percent:
NATIONAL POLL: Most Americans DISAPPROVE of how @POTUS Biden has handled –
Immigration – 69%
Inflation – 68%
Climate change – 54%
Jobs – 53%
Infrastructure – 52%https://t.co/vx5I5jyeRR pic.twitter.com/BcGt2kTCIv— MonmouthPoll (@MonmouthPoll) December 18, 2023
An NBC News poll from September also had bad news for Biden on the illegal immigration front, with voters including those from key Democrat voting blocs overwhelmingly saying they trust Republicans more than Democrats to handle the border crisis:
A recent @NBCNews poll found that on “dealing with border security,” Republicans are more trusted than Democrats by a 30-point margin among voters overall. Even Black voters (42-22%) and Latino voters (43-28%) said they trust the GOP more on this issue. https://t.co/7xaXezLwKH
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) December 22, 2023
What’s one key reason why Biden is in trouble with voters on this issue? As CNN conceded during a Thursday segment, Republican governors busing illegal immigrants to Democrat-run cities. The mayors in those cities are now pleading with the Biden administration for help, so the GOP policy “has worked from a political perspective.”
In an exchange that featured “Inside Politics” anchor Dana Bash, fellow anchor Kasie Hunt, the Atlanta Journal Constitution‘s Tia Mitchell, and Seung Min Kim from the Associated Press, Bash point-blank admitted that Biden’s numbers on illegal immigration were “not good.” The other panelists helpfully explained why:
BASH: Look let’s just sort of put in context, the politics of this for President Biden, and how important it is. Just one example from a Monmouth approval rating poll – question. You look at the – the issues, and how he fares. Infrastructure, jobs, climate change, inflation, immigration, he is now 26 percent. That is not good.
MIN KIM: It’s not good at all. And I think that part of the trip yesterday to Mexico, by senior Biden Administration officials, was obviously to have these diplomatic conversations, but also to make the broader administration’s point that this is a regional issue that requires regional cooperation, and sort of trying to blunt the criticism from Republicans that you’re hearing over and over saying that these were Biden’s border policy that’s causing these numbers at the border.
But that certainly doesn’t change the fact that he’s under considerable political pressure over immigration, and that his administration is probably preparing to make some significant compromises on immigration next month.
BASH: Pressure because of the situation at the border, pressure because Republicans are trying as much as they can to – to blame Biden and his policies. But it’s also big city mayors. Democratic mayors in big cities.
[…]
HUNT: Yeah, I mean, that right, there is the problem that Joe Biden has right, in a nutshell, because it is no longer – you know, for a long time this conversation was these, you know, red state mayors and governors are being alarmist. And, you know, we have to be – that we have to focus on the humanitarian issue here.
Obviously, the U.S. has a humanitarian responsibility to you know, it’s written into the law into our asylum laws. But this crisis has gotten worse, not better. And, frankly, the strategy that these red state governors have had of sending a lot of these migrants up to blue states has worked from a political perspective. And it is very, very hard for these cities to absorb them.
And you know, the Biden team, I think, knows that or they wouldn’t be willing to make these concessions in these policy negotiations that they’re having with Capitol Hill. I mean, the cynical, political way of looking at it might be to say, well, maybe Republicans don’t want to let them do it, because they prefer this continue to be a problem for them in the 2024 election.
Watch:
WATCH: “This crisis has gotten worse, not better” — CNN panel stunned by Biden’s abysmal approval ratings on immigration amid backlash from Democrat mayors over border influx pic.twitter.com/PqW4ku9ZU2
— TV News Now (@TVNewsNow) December 29, 2023
To put an even finer point on it, Biden has consistently polled poorly on the issue of illegal immigration, with voters routinely ranking it as a top issue they will take into consideration before heading to the ballot box. Considering how badly he and his “border czar” Kamala Harris (who interestingly enough was not mentioned in the above back and forth) have handled it to date, it’s not hard to understand why.
As much as he would like it to, the border crisis is not going to go away for Biden in 2024, and there are two primary reasons for that:
- Joe Biden’s open border policies simply won’t let it.
- Fed-up red state governors like Greg Abbott in Texas and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis took the lead in drawing national attention to the issue by forcing Democrat mayors who used to brag about their cities being “sanctuary cities” to get a little taste of what it’s like.
The number of concessions Biden will make in negotiations with Congressional Republicans on border security remains to be seen, but rest assured that he likely wouldn’t be contemplating them at all had Abbott and DeSantis not decided enough was enough and started playing hardball.
— Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym “Sister Toldjah” and can be reached via Twitter. —
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Illegals in Texas — OK.
Illegals in Boston, NYC, Chicago and LA — EVIL.
Illegals on Martha’s Vineyard:
Heads explode (but with flawless etiquette).
Yep. The actions of Abbott and DeSantis in moving these aliens to sanctuary cities have forged an entirely new dynamic. No longer was it easy and painless virtue signaling by blue enclaves with the costs borne by border and rural communities.
So long as there was no direct consequences for these holier than thou blue enclaves they were all in. Today the burden is finally starting to be shared and suddenly these sanctuary cities full of ‘progressives’ who demanded open borders are singing a different tune. Much of this is attributable to the leadership of Abbott and DeSantis in funding the transportation of illegal aliens to the backyard of the blue bastions.
But whimpy DeSantis never sent any more to Martha’s Vineyard after NYT yelled at him, makes me wonder how he’d do against Putin and Xi?
DeSantis sent “1 “
Bus
“1”
In point of fact it was two flights of illegals sent to Martha’s Vineyard which garnered National Media attention for a few days of news cycles. Nothing like d/prog hypocrisy out in the open where a wealthy, exclusive community is crying about lack of resources and the d/prog Gov of a blue State sending the aliens to a military camp to put the issue in perspective; NIMBY.
DeSantis also succeeded in a lawsuit stopping the Biden Admin plan to simply release illegals without ANY future court date following the end of using Title 42.
DeSantis pushed through legislation that outlaws ‘sanctuary cities’ in Florida. He got the legislature to appropriate $12 million to fund additional transportation of illegal aliens to sanctuary cities in blue States.
It’s way bigger than ‘1 bus’. The impact of DeSantis and Abbott making a high profile issue of sending illegal aliens to blue State and blue city ‘sanctuaries’ has far more success in keeping the catastrophe of Biden’s open borders policy in the news. That is reflected in polling data on the issue and Biden +d/prog cratering approval numbers.
These cities do not yet have their fair share of illegals, keep packing them in 🙂
Not just evil. Raaaaccciiiiiiiissssstly evil.
You bet the busing of illegals has worked. If it wasn’t for the midnight flights from Biden and busing from Florida, Texas and Arizona, northern states wouldn’t care how many illegals come into this country.
It must really frost Democrats to see proof that a significant portion of even the stupidest half of America is beginning to realize how bad their party sucks.
they’re waking up to the fact that they cheated to install a grifting mental retard as POTUS. whoops.
No they’re not. I hear this every election cycle. “There’s not way they can deny it now!”
And yet…
None of the ‘concessions’ that he makes are relevant as long as the Border Patrol serves as glorified shuttle service to pick up illegals, feed them, give them a free phone, and release them into the US with a ‘hearing’ date 5 years in the future that they won’t show up for anyway.
They ACTIVELY SEEK OUT the Border Patrol.
Until that simple fact changes, all ‘concessions’ are irrelevant.
One of these days we will wish we had bused them back to where they came from.
Black americans forced to the back of the waiting line behind illegal aliens in Dem sanctuary cities??
They voted for it! and they need to get it good and hard. MORE
True, but I doubt that even more punishment would convince them to vote Republican
Exactly correct. This is something else we hear every election cycle. “Blacks are finally dissatisfied with the Democrats! They finally understand they’ve been held on the Democrat plantation. I’ve got polls saying that a significant minority of blacks are going to vote GOP this time, and the Democrats have no way of making up that loss!”
And yet…
With no funding from the Federal government, busing North as many of the 3+M illegals crossing our open border per year is not just a “political perspective”, but an existential perspective for states like Texas. Furthermore, these Northern “sanctuary” cities do not even have their budget-busting, population-based shares of these illegals, nor do Northern suburbs. However, with surely a billion people wanting to come here, just as the transit through Mexico is becoming more efficient, so will the transit North in the USA. This could be a “top 3” election issue next year.
I disagree, because they can’t possibly ship enough illegal immigrants to make a difference in their own burden. The percentage that they ship north is a drop in the bucket, so the motive is entirely political — and it’s working. “Political” is not a bad word.
Q: What should Texas do now that places like Chicago and NYC are placing restrictions on bus arrivals? A: Tell’em FU and double up on the busloads.
A: Stack ’em in semitrailers like cordwood.
Don’t worry, they’re used to it!
From what I hear they are dropping off immigrants outside Chicago at commuter train stations with tickets.
These train stations are meant to move workers from Chicago suburbs to Chicago proper.
They can’t put restrictions on these trains because they then hamper businesses from getting workers to offices.
How can any city put restrictions on travel, particularly restrictions based on national origin ?
Kinda hard to just ignore a problem when you have to deal with it too. So yeah, bussing the illegals to Dem strongholds has been effective.
Where’s the outrage over pedo joe flying illegals all over the country? Effin’ liberals, they should be made to house the illegals.
How do I go about funding a program that gives vagrants $200 and a free ride in an old bus from Columbia, SC to Democrat enclaves like Asheville, NC and Charlotte, NC?
You could start a GoFundMe.
Ship the illegals right the Hell back to Mexico. It’s only a matter of time before the Leftists find a way to send money to the cities and states that have been receiving them, and only a matter of time before those illegals disappear into the country.
We need more than a political stunt. Deport them.
On whom exactly are you calling to deport them? Desantis and Abbott can’t do that. They can’t even make them go north, let alone south. Their busing program depends entirely on the immigrants being willing and happy to get on those buses; if the buses start going south instead of north, even if they were to manage to get over the border the immigrants would refuse to go.
I doubt that even a President DeSantis would dare deport them
We live in Central Texas. Our 1966 high school class was 2% Hispanic. This year it is 60%. Anytime someone has questioned how this has happened or its wisdom, the response uniformly has been, “Shut up, you racist”,
White Replacement Theory?
Exactly
Of course. The right simply needs to get to the place at which they’re no longer afraid of the word. Call me a racist all you want. I know better, and I won’t shut up.
So what the hell is the Biden Admin border policy? To just open it and let everyone in? That is what is happening, so the policy is working. For him.
And since it is working policy (or he would change it) they maybe he could tell us, the US citizenry, just what is the upside of this policy? What benefit is it to us?
Round them up as they cross, put them on a bus, and run them back a couple hundred miles and turn them loose. When Mexico gets tired of the rejects, they can secure their southern border. If too many for busses to be effective, use ANG transports… but just send them back.
Since it is entirely a political strategy, that’s the same as saying simply “has worked”. I mean what other perspective is there, from which it could be said not to have worked? Good for them. Keep it up, more and harder.
Three simple words would have put a complete stop to all this nonsense with illegal border crossers: Shoot To Kill. A modified Castle Doctrine.
I can hear the wailing ” but that’s not who we are…” So? We won’t be ‘who we are’ soon enough as it is. The invasion is ethnic cleansing and genocide, except nobody calls it that if ‘white’ people are the target.
None of this would be happening. People would know better. “But that’s not who we aaaaarre….” K then quitcherbitchin
Tried w,o the desired results
https://www.texastribune.org/2022/09/29/texas-migrant-shooting-arrests/
Well, until Gov Abbott tells the unorganized militia in TX that Shoot Shovel and Shut Up is now in effect. Self-deportation can be made to happen, and here’s the stack of pardons to do it.
Which is why you can’t claim it’s been tried.
Nonsense. What the article describes is murder. Two private individuals opened up on two illegals. I don’t know what the OP has in mind, but I guarantee that if the U.S. gov’t made it know that it had issued shoot to kill orders to federal agents at the border, this would stop immediately, and if it didn’t stop, it would be decreased to an insignificant amount.
Also, in the long run you’d have far less deaths because people would stop trying, and dying along the way.
Born in a hell hole? I feel for you. But you’re not turning this country into that from which you came. Fix the problems where you are.
“…regional issue that requires regional cooperation.” The administration has rejected any regional cooperation and is suing Texas for doing the job themselves.
“In an exchange that featured “Inside Politics” anchor Dana Bash, fellow anchor Kasie Hunt, the Atlanta Journal Constitution‘s Tia Mitchell, and Seung Min Kim from the Associated Press…”
It’s nice to see the inclusiveness. The panel included everyone from the Left to the Far Left. And oh, the range of opinions! They really give you food for thought.
Many previous immigrants, especially those who came legally, may not mind a relative or two coming, but don’t want to compete for jobs with 100,000’s of new immigrants.