The one thing Repubs are good at it being really agressive with a politcal talking point and driving it home whether its true or not, they have a high success rate because their audience are extremely gullible and fail in their due dilligence to find out if in fact the message is actually true or not. Case in point being the “open borders” rhetoric used recently. Again, a total lie which can be proved through actual statistics and objective facts, not alternate facts.
Here’s a good article on just how it all works.
https://www.factcheck.org/2024/02/breaking-down-the-immigration-figures/
It points out how border crossings and border attempts have indeed grown under the Biden admin post pandemic. Here’s an interesting point which shows the borders are the same as they ever were and were never in fact “open”,
"While the raw numbers are much higher under Biden — 5 million encounters compared with 1.4 million under Trump in those time frames — the percentages for the two administrations were similar: 47% removed under Trump and 51% under Biden. Bier’s estimates are for illegal immigration between ports of entry. (As our bar graph above shows, both administrations had removal rates above 50% when Title 42 was being used to expel people.)
“These numbers highlight how difficult it was even for the most determined administration in US history to expel everyone who enters illegally,” Bier wrote. (David Bier - associate director of immigration studies at the Libertarian Cato Institute)
another good point he makes that will make MAGA heads spin, "Bier wrote in November that his work showed the Biden administration “has removed a higher percentage of arrested border crossers in its first two years than the Trump DHS did over its last two years. Moreover, migrants were more likely to be released after a border arrest under President Trump than under President Biden.”
Here’s a great graph for those who are more comfortable with pictures. It shows the numbers post-pandemic are up around the same as the Bush era, lowest in general during the Obama years, began to spike again during the Trump admin and then jumped up during covid before dropping again last year. Trump won’t make the borders “more secure”, its the sam for every President, the US border still remains one of the tightest on the planet. The idea that they can stop fentanyl or any other substances coming through is nonsense, they said the same for cocaine back in the 80s. It does make for a cool soundbite though and maybe it cons a new generation of people unfamiliar with the past.
