The current political environment is terrible for Democrats — and that is putting it mildly. Poll after poll shows that Americans disapprove of President Biden’s performance. On two key issues, Mr. Biden is so far underwater that he needs scuba gear. His handling of the economy has an approval rating of just 29%, with 69% disapproving. Likewise on immigration, only 37% of Americans think he is doing a good job, compared with 60% who disapprove.
Not surprisingly, polls show that the GOP has a 3.5-point advantage in the 2022 generic congressional ballot. With the border crisis raging and prices rising, and little being done to address either, it is all but certain that Republicans will take control of one or both chambers in November.
The Biden administration has created an unprecedented border crisis affecting our entire nation. This has galvanized public opposition, creating a united front of state and local governments, former immigration officials, and public interest groups demanding that the administration stop its sabotage of border and interior immigration enforcement.
Amid a full-blown border crisis that threatens national security and public health — for which the Biden administration is wholly responsible — a bipartisan group of lawmakers has decided this might be a good time to fast-track citizenship for around 76,000 Afghan nationals who were lucky enough to force their way onto the last planes out of Kabul a year ago.
With the turn of the calendar and the unofficial start of the 2024 campaign cycle, President Biden took two steps designed to quell the growing furor over his handling of the raging, self-inflicted border crisis.
President Biden, who came to office two years ago with some of the lowest levels of illegal immigration in modern history, largely ignored the historic border crisis he created by devoting only a few lines to it in his State of the Union address on Tuesday.
Border security and immigration reform are hanging in the balance while a new “gang” of Senate members is working behind closed doors to devise a solution. Senate Republicans have vowed that there would be no foreign aid package approved unless meaningful border and immigration policy changes were included. The next few weeks will test their resolve.
Read FAIR President Dan Stein’s op-ed with Congressman Clay Higgins (R-La.) in the Daily Caller
Recently, the House of Representatives formally initiated impeachment proceedings against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. This effort is not a political witch hunt or an election year stunt.
Read Senator Ted Cruz and Dan Stein’s op-ed in the National Review:
By all indications, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is planning to bury the articles of impeachment against Homeland Security secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, and attempting to do so without ever holding a trial.