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On 15 Mar 2022, Rudy Canoza <[email protected]> posted some news:QI4YJ.107093$[email protected]:

Mayorkas, Biden and Harris should all be publicly tarred and feathered
on the whitehouse lawn.

This isn't great news for Joe Biden. Democrats are almost as unhappy
with Biden's border policies as the general public at large, according
to the Pew Research Center.

More Republicans are inclined to call the situation at the border a
"crisis," but even Democrats call it a major problem.

The survey is brutal for Biden, although we should remember that
disapproval of and refusing to vote for somebody are two different
things.

Democrats disapprove of the U.S. government�s handling of migrant
crossings at the southern border more now than at any other recorded
point during Joe Biden�s presidency, according to a new report from the
Pew Research Center.

Seventy-three percent of surveyed Democrats rate the government�s
handling of the influx of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border as
�somewhat bad� or �very bad,� according to the report � only 11
percentage points lower than Democrats� disapproval ratings in 2019
during Donald Trump�s presidency.

The numbers from the report released Thursday mark a grim trend for
Biden. Last year, Pew recorded that 62 percent of Democrats disapproved
of the government�s handling of the border, up from 56 percent of
Democrats disapproving in 2021. Pew does not track immigration attitudes
every year.

We all know the tendency of partisans to be reluctant to critique
presidents of their own party, regardless of which party you belong to.
People want to appear to support "their guy" whether they privately
approve of their actions or not.

So when disapproval crosses the threshold of willingness to say out loud
to a stranger that a person is unhappy with a president of his own
party, that is a huge red flag.

Politico bent over backwards to put the onus on Republicans for the
continuing border crisis, signaling that they consider the criticism of
the president unfair.

But Americans aren't buying what they are selling.

Before Senate Republicans tanked the border security deal last week,
Biden said in a statement that he was �ready to solve the problem� and
�secure the border.�

�Do they want to solve the problem?� Biden said. �Or do they want to
keep playing politics with the border? I�ve made my decision.�

As the bill looked doomed to advance earlier this month, Biden said,
�Every day between now and November, the American people are going to
know that the only reason the border is not secure is Donald Trump and
his MAGA Republican friends.�

And why would Americans buy it? Biden has spent 3 years ginning up the
crisis, and his proposed "solution" was little more than a bid to
normalize mass illegal immigration by pouring billions into processing
border crossers, not preventing them from doing the crossing.

It is the latter that is so awful, not the pace at which they get
processed. Everybody knows that.

Still, Democrats are much friendlier to the president's desire to
normalize and essentially legalize border crossings than Republicans, indicating that most of them will at least reluctantly back the
president in his political fight with Republicans over how to deal with
the border crisis. No surprise there.

In general Americans want quicker decisions on asylum claims, more legal immigration opportunities, and more deportations. Americans remain pro-immigration and anti-illegal immigration.

You can read Pew's entire survey here and read the tea leaves regarding
the political impact this will have in November.

None of this is good news for Biden, but just how damaging it will be is unclear and likely depends on whether he can spread the blame around.

On that, I am skeptical. Biden has to convince people that the past
three years of open borders didn't happen. That seems unlikely.

https://hotair.com/david-strom/2024/02/16/democrats-very-unhappy-with-bid en-border-crisis-n3783061

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