What Is the Big Lie That Biden and the Media Told Americans?

Four years ago, when former President Donald Trump left the office of President of the United States, the border of the United States was the most secure in history, and illegal immigration numbers were the lowest in decades. Then Joe Biden was inaugurated as POTUS and decided to conduct an experiment.

Biden’s thesis question was: “What happens if you open the U.S. border to nearly all who seek entry? Simon Hankinson posted an article discussing this thesis question and the experiment at The Daily Signal. 

Hankinson explained the experiment: Biden “released millions of illegal aliens at the border, paroled over a million more using programs Congress never authorized, and allowed at least 2 million more to evade the Border Patrol.” The result was “the fastest illegal influx in U.S. history.”

Biden did not conduct the experiment by himself. He had the assistance of the legacy media that “did its best to hide all this, habitually ‘gaslighting’ their audience – telling many smaller lies in the hopes that eventually people will believe one big lie.” What was that lie?

According to Hankinson, the lie is that “open borders bring unmitigated good.” The media “told many little lies” to get Americans to swallow the big lie. Hankinson discussed the following lies told by the American media.

1. They Pretended Legal and Illegal Immigration Are the Same.

They aren’t. Congress authorized around 850,000 legal immigrants a year, based on family relationships and labor needs. The millions Biden has paroled, released, or given “temporary” protection to under dubious programs are outside what Congress intended. And unless Congress changes it, the law should be upheld.

2. They Said Illegal Aliens Commit Fewer Crimes Than Americans.

The methodology of studies claiming this is suspect, but we know some illegal aliens do commit additional crimes, every one of which is preventable if laws are enforced. One report estimates that “crime by illegal aliens … cost the country some $166.5 billion.” But the cost in victims assaulted or murdered, and a declining sense of public safety, is incalculable.

3. They Told You That All Immigrants Boost the Economy.                                                 Which ones? Those under 30 with doctorates in rocket science do. But those without a high school degree, skills, or English don’t. Almost 60% of families headed by an illegal immigrant are on a federal welfare program. Illegal aliens are less educated than U.S. citizens. Over their lifetimes, most of those let in under Biden’s border boom will be a fiscal burden to the country, not a benefit.

4. They Told You Illegal Immigrants Cost Nothing.                                                       According to one congressional estimate, illegal immigrants cost over $150 billion a year. To take but one example, the Biden administration wrote a rule forcing Americans to pay for health insurance for people here illegally. “Congress never intended that illegal aliens should receive Obamacare benefits,” said Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach, after a federal court overturned Biden’s rule this week.

5. They Told You It Was Inevitable.                                                                                      While the Biden administration undid every effective policy of previous eras, it asked you to believe that mass illegal migration wasn’t its fault. But it was not earthquakes, wars, or feckless governments that attracted the world’s economic migrants to our borders. This week, even The New York Times admitted: “The Biden administration’s policy appears to have been the biggest factor.”

Americas with wide-open eyes and common sense have been saying the same thing for many years. However, the legacy media is just admitting it now that Trump is preparing to return to the Oval Office. Overwhelmingly, Americans voted for Trump to fix the terrible mistake made by Biden. According to Hankinson, “The recipe is clear, and with Tom Homan as border czar, the cook is in the kitchen.”

1. Reinstate the Migrant Protection Protocols.                                                                      Also known as “Remain in Mexico,” this policy discourages fraudulent asylum claims by keeping applicants outside the U.S. until their claims are decided. We also need to conclude Asylum Cooperative Agreements with every possible country, to deal with refugee claimants closest to their homes.

2. Turn Off the Cash Spigot.                                                                                                   Mass movement of people from the Third World to the First is facilitated by the U.N. and globalist elites – elected and unelected. Billions of taxpayer dollars have been spent to bring inadmissible aliens to and into the U.S. We can reverse the polarity of this flow by defunding nongovernmental organizations that facilitate the process and by funding law enforcement.

3. Seal the Border.                                                                                                            Authorize Border Patrol to remove or detain illegal entrants, not process and release them. Reactivate lights, sensors, and other measures Biden’s Department of Homeland Security sidelined. Close gaps in the border wall. Barriers don’t stop everyone, but they channel illegal crossing to ports of entry. And, given that both sides of the wall are generally in the United States, we can prosecute anyone cutting or climbing it.

4. Enforce Laws in the US Interior.                                                                                          The Biden administration hamstrung Immigration and Customs Enforcement with prohibitions, arbitrary limits, and paperwork. Biden’s dereliction of duty has created a huge backlog in enforcement, including deportations, that needs a major effort to reduce.

5. Get States on Board.                                                                                                           States and cities need to hand over illegal aliens in their custody to federal authorities when asked. They need to stop giving out jobs, driver’s licenses, in-state tuition, welfare, and other benefits to people here illegally.

The Biden administration broke the secure border. Even with all the lies of the administration and their friends in the legacy media, Americans saw the results and voted Democrats out of power. Americans want the rule of law to be restored. They want the value of American citizenship to be given only to Americans, and they want a government that puts Americans first and welcomes only legal immigrants.