“On the Holmes Front,” with Frank Holmes
There’s an old saying in politics: “Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.” New data show that the Biden administration did just that…and it left them with egg all over their face.
For years, Joe Biden and the Democratic Party have bet that open borders were the key to their success.
Democratic Party strategists have said for decades that America’s “changing demographics” meant that, soon, the Left would have a permanent governing majority in the United States.
It looks like Biden bet wrong.
A new poll has very bad news for the Biden-Harris 2024 reelection campaign.
It’s not just that voters do not want open borders. It’s not just that voters in 2024 consider the border, along with the economy, the top issue in this election cycle so far.
It’s that a majority of voters back the exact opposite: They want millions—possibly tens of millions—of illegal immigrants in the U.S. deported.
A new Axios survey by The Harris Poll released on Thursday shows 51 percent of Americans say they back—or, at least, wouldn’t mind seeing—mass deportations of America’s entire illegal alien population.
Admitted, that number is skewed a little bit by just how many Republicans support the measure.
A huge 68 percent of Republicans say they back Trump’s deportation policy…but it’s not just the GOP who’s on board.
The Axios poll shows Trump’s policy has the support of 46 percent of independents and four out of 10 (42 percent of) Democrats.
Another surprising statistic is that the support cuts deep into what Democratic strategists told us would be the Left’s “coalition of the ascendant”—basically, made up of Jesse Jackson’s old Rainbow Coalition.
A shocking 45 percent of Latinos (that’s Latinx to most Axios readers) and 40 percent of black Americans wouldn’t mind Trump’s most aggressive border security proposals, as opposed to Biden’s de facto open border policy.
Rest assured, no one at the DNC saw that number coming.
Worse yet for the Left, immigration is gearing up to be the major issue of 2024. (If it’s not immigration, it’s inflation…which is also bad news for Biden.)
Inflation ranks number one, at 24 percent, followed by immigration at 13 percent; abortion falls to third at 11 percent…despite all Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’ pleas for women to obsess over it as much as Democrats (and their donors) do.
While Biden has turned every state into a border state, President Trump has consistently said mass deportations have to begin as soon as he takes office.
“We have to deport a lot of people, and they have to start immediately,” Trump told Fox News host Sean Hannity in late February during an interview at the major illegal immigrant dumping ground of Eagle Pass, Texas.
A few days later, he held nothing back when Newsmax TV host Chris Salcedo asked him, “Will you order mass deportations if you win the White House?”
“Oh, day one. We have no choice,” Trump replied, promising, “We’ll start with the bad ones.”
He spelled out how he plans to deport so many illegals—a population that definitely numbers in the tens of millions.
The answer: The feds won’t do it all themselves.
“Local police have to be given back their authority, and they have to be given back their respect and immunity” to report—and if necessary, deport—illegal aliens from their communities.
Joe Biden stopped that, as well. He thought it was a surefire electoral winner. He thought wrong.
The only group totally removed from the American majority is Gen Z: Only 35 percent of Zoomers support deportations of illegal aliens, showing another way that generation has sealed itself off from the mainstream.
But Democrats can’t count on the youngest, and least reliable, voters to carry them to victory…especially since Gen Z does not like Biden (or Harris) and hates their policy in the Middle East.
EXCLUSIVE POLL: Americans are open to Trump's harshest immigration plans.
Half — including 42% of Democrats — say they'd support mass deportations of undocumented immigrants, per a new Axios Vibes survey by The Harris Poll. https://t.co/fXPKxpGlQj pic.twitter.com/UIWn2SRKn7
— Axios (@axios) April 25, 2024
To make matters worse for the Democrats, a shocking number of voters back a policy Trump has said almost nothing about: birthright citizenship.
Under some interpretations of the Fourteenth Amendment, anyone born on U.S. soil automatically becomes a U.S. citizen…but the authors of the amendment didn’t intend it that way, and it’s open to interpretation.
Trump says he will issue an executive order that he will no longer observe this interpretation, opening up tens of millions more parents of “anchor babies” to deportation.
Trump mentioned the policy in passing last month but has said little about it…and it’s still pretty popular.
As it turns out, 30 percent of Democrats — as well as 46 percent of voters in the GOP — say they would end so-called “birthright citizenship.”
The Democratic Party brass may hate it, but the Axios poll shows they have no one to blame but themselves.
“Americans are open to former President Trump’s harshest immigration plans,” reports the reliably liberal Axios. Why is that? They’re “spurred on by a record surge of illegal border crossings and a relentless messaging war waged by Republicans,” the website says.
They have seen Joe Biden admit perhaps 10 million illegal immigrants during less than one term. They have seen the Biden administration cut razor wire, take down barriers to let cartels enter the U.S., stop the Wall to open the flood gates—even sue Texas Governor Greg Abbott all the way to the Supreme Court to stop him from securing the border.
And Americans have seen the effects Biden’s open border has had in their cities and hometowns. They have seen murders surge, fentanyl flood their communities, and jobs (and possibly, voter ballots) illegally go to the “undocumented” population.
This could be electoral poison for Biden come November—just as his policies have brought poison, death, and destruction to native-born Americans throughout the country.
Turnabout is fair play…and Biden brought it all on himself.
Frank Holmes is a veteran journalist and an outspoken conservative that talks about the news that was in his weekly article, “On The Holmes Front.”