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'Dems finally admit Biden botched border after 2024 election loss: ‘We destroyed ourselves’'

<https://nypost.com/2024/11/29/us-news/dems-finally-admit-biden-botched-border-after-2024-election-loss-we-destroyed-ourselves/>

'WASHINGTON — Democrats spent Thanksgiving eating crow — privately confessing that President Biden’s handling of the border crisis fueled
voter outrage and the Republican sweep of the White House and both
chambers of Congress.

Lawmakers, aides and sources close to powerful Dems finally admitted
after President-elect Donald Trump’s resounding victory over Biden’s successor, Vice President Kamala Harris, that the party’s permissive
lurch on the border helped doom them in 2024.

President Biden speaks with US Customs and Border Protection police at
the Bridge of the Americas in El Paso, Texas, on Jan. 8, 2023.
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President Biden speaks with US Customs and Border Protection police at
the Bridge of the Americas in El Paso, Texas, on Jan. 8, 2023.
AFP via Getty Images
“We destroyed ourselves on the immigration issue in ways that were
entirely predictable and entirely manageable,” a Democratic senator
confided to The Hill under the condition of anonymity.

“We utterly mismanaged that issue, including our Democratic caucus here. That’s political malpractice. That’s not someone else’s fault. That’s not the groups pushing us around.”

A source close to New York City Mayor Eric Adams also told The Post that
fellow Democrats should have listened to him after he “warned for two years” that a porous border “would overburden cities and alienate
working class people — and they did not listen.”

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A House Democratic source suggested to The Post that the only way
forward would be for party bosses “to get back to basics and simply
admit to the American people ‘crime and illegal immigration are bad.'”

Trump campaigned on launching a mass-deportation effort, though he
emphasized that his first targets would be those convicted of crimes —
an initiative that polling showed a majority of Hispanic voters support.

Harris, 60, touted herself as a “border-state prosecutor” and lashed out
at congressional Republicans for not cooperating to pass a sweeping
immigration package that five Senate Democrats also helped torpedo —
while resisting questions about her past support for decriminalizing
border crossings and providing taxpayer-funded sex-reassignment
surgeries to incarcerated migrants.

The Republican ultimately carried heavily Hispanic areas of South Texas
and South Florida and made massive gains in Democratic strongholds such
as New York.

Biden rescinded former President Donald Trump's border and asylum
policies, unleashing a wave of new illegal immigration, Democratic
senators admitted.
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Biden rescinded Trump’s border and asylum policies, unleashing a wave of
new illegal immigration, Democratic senators admitted.
REUTERS
The soon-to-be 47th president won a majority of Hispanic male voters,
according to exit polls, and made gains among black men in critical
swing states — including by proposing a slate of economic reforms such
as the elimination of taxes on overtime pay and tips and tax deductions
for domestic car loan interest.

Polls showed immigration near the top of voter concerns after
frustration about the economy, including high inflation and elevated
interest rates — aiding Trump’s comeback.

Before the election, some Senate Democrats had more gently opposed
Biden’s border policies, which helped doom Harris’ candidacy against
Trump, who frequently noted that the retiring president tapped Harris to
reduce illegal immigration in early 2021, only for it to explode to new
record highs.

Another unnamed Democratic senator vented to the Hill in particular
about Biden’s decision to end construction of the 45th president’s US-Mexico border wall, terminate his “Remain in Mexico” policy for
asylum seekers and impose a 100-day moratorium on deportations.

President-elect Donald Trump won the Nov. 5 election by pledging to end
illegal crossings and launch a mass deportation.
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President-elect Donald Trump won the Nov. 5 election by pledging to end
illegal crossings and launch a mass deportation.
AP
“Why would you do that? Who are you trying to play to? What’s the
benefit to that?” a second Senate Democrat told The Hill, saying that
the issue was Biden’s “Achilles’ heel.”

Two prominent internal party critics — Sens. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona
and Joe Manchin of West Virginia — dropped their Democratic Party
affiliation and are now independents, ruling them out as the outlet’s anonymous sources.

Democratic Sens. Sherrod Brown of Ohio, Bob Casey of Pennsylvania and
Jon Tester of Montana lost re-election on Nov. 5 as Trump carried their
states.

Key figures in Biden’s White House and re-election campaign, which was inherited by Harris when he dropped out in July, still brushed off
concerns about the border.

President Donald Trump smiles as he prepares to autograph a plaque commemorating the construction of the 200th mile of border wall while
visiting the wall on the U.S.-Mexico border in San Luis, Arizona, U.S.,
June 23, 2020.
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Trump, pictured with an Arizona plaque commemorating the 200th mile of
his border wall, was supported by a majority of Hispanic men, according
to exit polls.
REUTERS
In a heated January 2023 discussion, Adams had especially warned Biden’s future campaign manager, Julie Chavez Rodriguez, that working-class
black and Hispanic voters were simmering with outrage over the mass
influx of low-skill asylum seekers, who were given work permits,
temporary lodging and cellphones at taxpayer expense.

Chavez at the time abrasively rebuked Adams, who had cited his
familiarity with minority communities in the Big Apple. Sources say she
accused him of spouting Republican talking points in a dressing-down
that prompted the mayor to go public with his concerns.

“Now Democrats are paying the price and there is a clear mandate from Americans and New Yorkers to fix our broken immigration system as Adams proposed,” the source close to Adams added.

The House Democratic source further told The Post that frustration with
the party’s leadership is bicameral.

Migrants from the southern border being dropped of by a charter bus at
the Trenton Transit Center in Trenton, NJ on January 4, 2024.
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“The story of this election and Donald Trump ultimately winning isn’t complicated. It came down to three things: inflation, the border and
crime, and woke bullshit,” a House Democratic source said.
Christopher Sadowski
“The story of this election and Donald Trump ultimately winning isn’t complicated. It came down to three things: inflation, the border and
crime, and woke bullshit,” the source said.

“Biden wasn’t playing with a full deck during his term and was coopted
by the far left on all three of these issues,” the source added. “Sadly, the socialist left has taken over the party, so I wouldn’t hold my
breath.”

Border crossings hit an all-time record monthly high last December —
with roughly 302,000 that month — before dropping after the outgoing president in June adopted a policy throttling asylum processing after a
certain threshold, in a move widely seen as a tactic to improve his
party’s standing in the election.

Over time, an increasing share of those encountered at the border were
allowed into the US to press their claims within the badly backlogged
asylum system.

Texas National Guard troops âpush backâ migrants who have crossed into
the U.S. from Mexico and made it through the fences and concertina wire installed by the state.
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Over time, an increasing share of those encountered at the border were
allowed into the US to press their claims within the badly backlogged
asylum system.
James Breeden for NY Post
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said in January that more
than 85% of those detained for illegally crossing the border were being released into the US — up from 71% that October and 74% last November.

Republicans accused the Biden-Harris administration of cooking the books
by also allowing many asylum seekers into the country through legal
points of entry through the CBP One app — calling it an unlawful
expansion of “parole” authority for migrants'

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