The Oswegonian

The Independent Student Newspaper of Oswego State

DATE

Dec. 23, 2024

National Issues Opinion

Biden allows illegal immigration

President Joe Biden has failed when it comes to his presidency so far.  It has been marked with many policy failures.  With that in mind, is he as bad as former President Donald Trump, no, but at the same time, he failed to do his job as the president of the United States.  One of these policy failures is the southern border crisis.  

Biden’s administration has yet to address the crisis at the border where there are thousands upon thousands of potential illegal immigrants coming to the southern border.  Travel records have indicated Biden has never visited the border.  Seriously, that is good presidential leadership?  That right there is an example of awful presidential leadership that is failing so badly to fix issues in the U.S.  It is completely inexcusable that Biden has never even visited the border.  Even as president, Trump visited the border.  Whether you like him or not, at least you can acknowledge he visited the border a couple of times rather than no times.  It is also inexcusable that Vice President Kamala Harris has barely visited the border.  

Biden’s border crisis has been so bad that every Republican governor has written a letter to Biden except for Vermont’s GOP Governor Phil Scott.  In the letter it had said, “A crisis that began at our southern border now extends beyond to every state and requires immediate action, before the situation worsens.”  

It says a lot about Democrat leadership across the country when almost every Republican governor has called for Biden to take care of the crisis immediately and not one Democrat governor has told Biden to fix the issue.  More Democrats have recently spoken out against how the Biden administration has handled the border crisis.  The question is though, why did more Democrats at the time not call out Biden for not visiting the border and taking care of the border crisis.  If the Biden administration wants to tell their voters that they will solve the border crisis then they need to show it with policy and not talk.  

How can the border crisis be solved?  By deporting anyone who comes into this country illegally and no excuses.  These immigrants need to come in legally, not illegally.  Immigration has been a stable part of how America has grown as a nation, but at the same time we should not be allowing anyone to come into this country illegally.  

If the Biden administration can fix the crisis that is going on at the southern border, then maybe they would have a better approval rating.  Biden’s approval rating has dropped significantly since he took office back in January.  If the Biden administration is unable in the next few years to fix the crisis at the U.S. southern border along with other issues facing America that they need to solve, then voters in 2024 will go to the polls and vote for someone better to replace the Biden administration.  Biden needs to go to the southern border and try to resolve the issue there.  


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