Border security is a top issue in the 2024 election. Just last month in August, a gang of illegal immigrants from Venezuela took over an entire apartment complex in Aurora, Colorado, collected rent, and threatened residents. Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Western Hemisphere Affairs Sergio de la Peña broke down all the problems, like this one, coming out of Biden and Harris’ open border policies.
As the incident in Aurora, Colorado demonstrates, border security is increasingly becoming a serious safety issue for American citizens. As Biden and Harris and their colleagues at the state level throw more money at illegal immigrants, border security is also becoming a financial issue.
The Left is not just allowing illegal immigrants, many of whom are gang members and known terrorists, to walk across the border, but are inviting them in and supplying them with free money, health services, and housing.
“If you take the number of dollars that illegal immigrants pay in taxes and then you subtract from that the services that people receive through the U.S. government, the delta is every one of those individuals costs the U.S. government $68,000,” said Peña. “So, do the math. We’ve got about somewhere between 11-12 million illegal aliens just under the Biden administration.”
The Left’s coddling of illegal immigrants is especially outraging to legal immigrants like Peña who waited a year in Mexico to immigrate to the U.S. legally and upon arriving received nothing from the federal government but only through his own hard work and determination, achieved the American Dream.
“There was [no government assistance], and you were expected to pick up your own tab. You were expected to pick yourself up by your bootstraps,” Peña said.
As more incidents like the one in Colorado occur and as more states offer better, taxpayer-funded services to illegal aliens than to their own citizens, the American public is waking up to the reality of the open border and are demanding the southern border be secured.
Watch Peña’s full commentary from this episode of America Uncanceled on social media @CPAC.
