by Samantha Renck
Todd Bensman, a senior national security fellow at the immigration-skeptical Center for Immigration Studies, spoke with the Daily Caller News Foundation’s Samantha Renck about the implications of the Biden administration’s immigration policies, a possible influx of migrants at the southern border and more.
President-elect Joe Biden recently said he and his administration will “clean up the humanitarian disaster that the Trump administration has systematically created on our southern border.”
“Well, his characterization of a humanitarian crisis at the border created by Trump is just flat wrong,” Bensman said. “There is no such humanitarian crisis. Not now.”
“There was in 2018, 2019,” he said. “But as a result of a series of policy innovations that Trump put into place right around the summer of 2019, we were able to as a nation, the Homeland Security enterprise, reduced the number of Central Americans coming in over the border from about 120,000-140,000 a month to about 20,000 a month, 30,000 a month.”
Bensman also discussed a recent promise by Biden “to put a bill forward within his first 100 days that would provide a type of amnesty to everybody who is in the United States without documents.”
“That’s anywhere from 15 to 20 million people,” he said. “It could be as high as 30 million.”
Bensman also discussed a possible influx of migrants at the southern border, his predictions for Biden’s first year in office and more.
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Samantha Renck is a reporter for the Daily Caller News Foundation.
All the Harris / Biden administration wants to do is put more people into the welfare system . They may have deep pockets but the average American is barely able to survive under current conditions. Now they want to oppress the taxpayers even more.
I guess Biden and others didn’t payed much attention to the failed amnesty policies of Reagan.
Amnesty in any form of a reward for breaking the law as well as slapping others in the face who came here through legal means.
Amnesty doesn’t solve a damn thing because there will be more continue to enter this country illegally. So how long will it be before more are rewarded?
The left won’t have to cheat in elections if they can make all of the illegals citizens. They will have their mostly uneducated permanent underclass who will vote for the free stuff they are selling.