We Have No Choice but to Mass Deport

Three days before Christmas, in perhaps the most ghastly attack I've ever seen, a woman was incinerated on the New York subway by Sebastian Zapeta-Calil, a Guatemalan illegal alien who was deported by the Trump administration, but returned under Biden's watch. The chilling video, which virally circulated on social media, shows a woman helplessly engulfed in flames as the attacker sits and watches impassively.  

In this article I explain how this tragic event was not an isolated incident, but a grim reflection of the consequences of the immigration policies of the current Biden-Harris admin.

The Biden administration has had its share of legacy-defining events - from 40-year-high inflation, a record-setting national debt, the worst recruitment crisis since the end of Vietnam, to the shambolic withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021. Yet, no issue has impressed a more profound imprint upon the legacy of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris than their record on immigration. 

Few administrations have had as seismic an impact on the American immigration system as Biden and Harris. In just a few years, they have wrought unprecedented havoc, damaging the system beyond repair. The statistics are staggering: according to CBP data, the Biden-Harris admin has overseen at least 10 million illegal alien crossings into the US, the highest recorded number of any president in American history. 

This unprecedented surge is the direct outcome of a slew of criminally reckless executive actions undertaken by the Biden administration. On his first day in office, Biden halted construction of the border wall despite Trump having already completed nearly 500 miles. He then imposed a 100-day moratorium, halting deportations of illegal aliens in the country. These first-day actions sent a resounding message to the American public: the Biden-Harris admin was determined to undo every immigration policy Trump had implemented. 

These aforementioned executive actions were only a prelude to the barrage of changes that would ensue. The President further scaled back domestic deportation enforcement to focus on so-called "serious criminals," dramatically reducing the number of deportations. He then axed the hugely successful Remain-in-Mexico policy that had drastically reduced the number of encounters at the border. Perhaps the most reckless of all was the erection of the CHNV program, an illegal mass parole scheme under which over 500,000 illegal aliens from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela were flown into the US and scattered across American cities and communities with no oversight. 

As one might expect, these acts, coupled with a myriad of other executive fiats, opened the floodgates of illegal aliens, ushering in the most colossal immigration disaster in American history. 

Among the ten million illegal aliens who have crossed the border, an estimated 3 to 5 million are currently in the country - that is in addition to the estimated 15 million illegal aliens who were already residing here before Biden took office.

What is more, not only has this Biden-Harris administration foisted this mass influx of foreigners onto the American people - which is damning enough - they have generously rewarded them with Green cards and a so-called "pathway to citizenship," radically perverting the incentive structure of our immigration system. 

It is hard to imagine a more malicious and treacherous act by an American president than what Biden has done. 

Naturally, the question, then, is where do we go from here? How do we correct this mess? 

Completing the construction of the border wall is a great first step in alleviating this crisis, but it is woefully inadequate. The sheer magnitude of the problem renders the next administration with only one practical choice: mass deportations. 

To illustrate for those who may not fully apprehend the reality of the current situation, consider this analogy. Imagine that America is a grand and sturdy ship, built to carry a set number of passengers safely across the seas. For years, this ship has operated with a delicate balance, ensuring every passenger had space, food, and safety. Then, suddenly, the captain, Joe Biden, allowed an unchecked flood of people to board, disregarding the ship’s capacity limits and emergency protocols. At first, the ship strained but stayed afloat. Yet as more and more boarded, its hull weakened, supplies dwindled, and chaos erupted among the passengers. Fights broke out, safety systems failed, and lifeboats were overwhelmed, bringing the ship closer to sinking.

This is precisely where we are as a nation - a ship teetering on the edge of catastrophe. Our resources, public services, and communities are stretched to the breaking point. The only remedy is to restore order.

The necessity of mass deportations is two-fold: there is a legal and a moral dimension. On the one hand, we have a legal duty to deport every illegal alien in the country. Federal immigration law mandates that aliens who have entered our country illegally be repatriated, leaving us with no choice on this front. Refusing to mass-deport illegal aliens would be a clear dereliction of duty.

On the other hand, the impact of the crisis on our nation has rendered mass deportations a moral imperative. The costs of having millions of unvetted foreigners in our country have become way too many to bear. Financially, it has bankrupted the public coffers of our cities. A report by the Federation for American Immigration Reform found that in 2023 alone, at least $150.7 billion of taxpayer funds was spent on illegal aliens in the country. American cities including New York, Chicago, and Denver, are buckling under the weight of this mass influx of people. Immigration detention centers and courts, public shelters, and hospitals are suffocating under this tremendous strain. 

The human costs are infinitely greater. Communities across the country have fallen prey to foreign gangs, with corroborated reports of Venezuelan gangs taking over apartment complexes in places like Aurora, Colorado and San Antonio, Texas. Laken Riley, a 22-year-old nursing student, Rachel Morin, a mother of five children, 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray, David Lee, a veteran officer of the St Louis Police Department, Officer Colton Pulsipher of the Las Vegas Police Department, Lizbeth Medina, a 16-year-old, and 7-year-old Ivory Smith are few of the countless Americans whose lives have been shattered by the scourge of murders committed by illegal aliens. 

What is tragic is that none of this was inevitable: this was deliberately inflicted upon us by Joe Biden and Kamala Harris under the guise of "compassion." Had Harris won this election, one could only imagine a scenario infinitely more dystopian than what we are currently witnessing. But there is hope on the horizon. With a new Trump administration underway, we have a prime opportunity to remedy the damage done by carrying out the largest mass deportation this country has ever seen. 

I have listened to the naysayers who oppose mass deportations, and I am not convinced. The tired old question, "Who is going to pick our strawberries?" is not and will never be enough to compensate for the immeasurable harm wreaked on our nation by the reckless open-border policies of the Biden-Harris administration.

Author: Alvin Wright

The views expressed are the author's alone and do not represent the official position of the GWCRs.