By proposing the most radical open-border immigration policy ever, President Biden just paved the way for Republican victories in border states in 2022, according to former Trump adviser Stephen Miller.
“The midterms, I think, are going to be relatively catastrophic for Democrats,” he said, noting that those areas voted more for Trump in 2020 than in 2016 and after he instituted tough immigration measures.
Miller is not the only one with a warning. Some border Democrats are also growing worried about the effect of reversing immigration policies and stopping construction of the border wall.
“Our party should be concerned. If we go off the rails, it’s going to be bad for us,” Texas Democratic Rep. Vincente Gonzalez told Politico, adding, “Biden is going to be dealing with a minority in Congress if he continues down some of these paths.”
Just last week, the Biden administration started letting migrants held in Mexico cross into the United States. The Department of Homeland Security touted the reversal of their policy under former President Donald Trump, even posting a video of the illegal immigrants passing through processing and getting on a San Diego tours bus.
Miller, a former top aide to then-Sen. Jeff Sessions, long before the 2016 Trump election, said has experienced the impact of immigration policy on Congress and said how Democrats react to Biden’s radical ideas will be key to their and the president’s success.
“The most elemental question I think is going to be whether or not any of the Democrats who represent purple and red states or districts are going to demonstrate any independence. This is the first real significant legislative opportunity to do that,” he told Secrets.
“With [Sen.] Mark Kelly as an example in Arizona, his campaign platform wasn’t, ‘If you elect me, I promise you, our border won’t be there in two years.’ That was not what his campaign platform was,” said Miller. “He ran on, ‘I’m going to be bipartisan, I’m going to be a senator for all of Arizona. Okay. This is your chance to show it,” he said.
Hispanics, he added, could bail on Biden.
“They’re going to lose so many Hispanics. Those border counties in Texas that went for Trump are going to be the people paying the biggest price and burden for illegal immigration,” said Miller. “They’re going to be turning Hispanic American voters away in droves,” he added.
But it will shore up Biden’s support among rich liberals and progressives.
“These are policies that do appeal to one minority in the country and only one minority group in the country, and that is extraordinarily, extraordinarily wealthy liberals. That is the minority group that this appeals to, extraordinarily wealthy and disproportionately Caucasian liberals,” said Miller.
Unlike most of the nation, he said, they are “people who have the option, if an immigration policy causes significant societal harm, who has the option to buy their way out of the problem by retreating further into a wealthy enclave.”
