Critics are calling on President Joe Biden to tighten up his border policies as the U.S. Customs and Border Protection continues to see an influx of migrants.
Batya Ungar-Sargon, deputy opinion editor of Newsweek, recently wrote an opinion piece that emphasizes how blue-collar workers who are economically impacted by waves of undocumented immigrants.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection apprehend roughly 200,000 migrants at the southern border in July, according to Ungar-Sargon.
“Among Americans, it is the elites who benefit from open borders, people whose professional-class jobs would never be threatened by someone who doesn’t speak English. For the American working classes, good jobs are sacrificed on the altar of helping those from other countries,” Ungar-Sargon said.
She backed up this claim with an argument from economist George Borjas: “Immigration primarily boosts the incomes of the immigrants themselves, while redistributing wealth from the native poor to the native rich.”
According to the Review Journal, Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) is among lawmakers who have been inconsistent with their border policy views. Cortez Masto was also a part of the Democrats who asked President Biden to reconsider ending the Title 42 border immigration policy. However, when given the chance to join Republicans in calling for a vote to extend Title 42, she refused.
A 2021 study on immigration found that there was a link between a decline in the Black employment rate and immigration.
“Black Americans are more supportive of limiting immigration than any other bloc of the Democratic coalition,” the sociologist Musa al Gharbi reported. “And Hispanics actually tend to be more concerned about illegal immigration than are whites or Blacks.”
The numbers back up that statement as Hispanic and Black Americans were found in 2019 more likely to vote in favor of a presidential candidate who had a strong border policy.
Ultimately, President Joe Biden did win the 2020 election and Pew Research reported that minorities accounted for four in 10 of his votes in his electoral coalition.
The immigration issue is expected to be a point of contention in the next election as the Border Patrol reports over 1.8 million arrests at the southern border during the fiscal year 2022, which runs Oct. 01, 2021, until Sept. 30.
