In light of the Los Angeles riots, certain corporate propagandists are pushing a sympathetic fiction that it was the Biden administration making mistakes and bungling its way through border and immigration policy that got us to this stage. Theyre painting a picture of well-meaning Democrats caught in a political riptide – clumsy, unprepared, overwhelmed, a bit naïve but well-meaning.
Of course, this narrative is nothing more than a Big Lie, an effort to use corporate medias reach to rewrite history in real time in hopes that the American electorate will forget the facts and history. Because what we are witnessing in Los Angeles, and what we saw at our southern border for the last four years before Trump won reelection, is not a mistake. It was a deliberate act of malicious political engineering intended to dramatically reset our nations political and social agenda. We need to stop pretending otherwise.
Here are the facts. In just his first year in office, President Biden issued nearly 300 executive orders aimed at reversing, dismantling, or outright eliminating the border security framework established under the first Trump administration. These actions included halting construction of the border wall and shielding a greater number of illegal immigrants from arrest, detention, or deportation. The administration also loosened restrictions on entry into the U.S. and made it easier to access immigration benefits. Biden also expanded temporary protection eligibility to an additional 430,000 individuals, raised the refugee resettlement cap to 125,000, and introduced a sweeping overhaul of the asylum process at the southern border that enabled the hordes of illegal immigrants to pour into our country virtually unchecked.
Those actions were not mistakes or policy miscalculations. They were deliberate, systemic, swift, and aggressive.
At the same time, while the Biden administration was lowering the figurative barrier to entry on our southern border, it was funneling billions of dollars into non-governmental organizations, particularly religious charities, whose work increasingly resembles a taxpayer-funded shadow immigration apparatus meant to enact real-world policy in a non-legislative way.
For example, Catholic Charities USA received $1.4 billion in 2021 alone, primarily for “refugee resettlement” and services for newly arrived illegal immigrants. They werent alone. The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) received over $638 million in federal grants during the Biden years – up from around $218 million in FY 2018 – mainly through Health & Human Services and State Department funds to assist unaccompanied minors and refugees. Additionally, Jesuit Refugee Services was the recipient of U.S. taxpayer funding to support Latin American migrants with “cash-based interventions,” legal aid, housing, and logistical support. Collectively, these and other grants incentivized and enabled a sprawling mass migration system with little to no oversight and even less transparency. Billions of American taxpayer dollars were intentionally and strategically deployed to fuel programs that enabled more illegal aliens, not fewer.
None of this was an accident. It was all part of a plan. To be more specific, this was not simply an “Obama/Biden” plan. Governors like Gavin Newsom (CA), Kathy Hochul (NY), J.B. Pritzker (IL), and Tim Walz (MN) supported and enabled this plan by adding to these federal efforts with state taxpayer dollars. It was a Democratic plan from top to bottom.
Many Americans are beginning to recognize this destructive strategy for what it is – one that mirrors the Cloward-Piven strategy, proposed in the 1960s to deliberately overwhelm government systems in order to transform society through crisis. By inviting chaos to the border and overloading our social infrastructure – schools, hospitals, housing, law enforcement – the Biden administration and his Democratic gubernatorial acolytes are actively undermining the cohesion and sovereignty of the United States. Open borders with healthcare and welfare for all is obviously unsustainable. But what it will do, as Barack Obama famously said a week before his election in 2008, is “fundamentally transform the United States of America.”
The end goal of the Obama-Biden-Democratic strategy is perpetual power. Mass illegal migration reshapes the electorate, dilutes citizenship, and shifts the cultural fabric of the nation. If there is no enforceable border, there is no sovereignty. If no sovereignty, no nation. If no nation, there is no true citizenship, just a mass of humanity with no common beliefs or principles living in an economic zone. Dont believe me? Just look at Western Europe and what allowing millions of Muslim refugees has done to the economic zone of the European Union.
Undercutting Americas sovereignty benefits a political class invested in globalization over national identity, and dependency over independence. A strong, self-governing America that prioritizes its own citizens is a threat to the international order these ideologues dream of “managing.” In their perverted worldview, our traditions, borders, and constitutional structure are relics of a past that must be erased because, in their thinking, the unique culture and Constitution of America and the belief in American exceptionalism are an obstacle to progress. They are not interested in preserving the country as a free and sovereign nation. Their vision is post-national, post-constitutional, and in many ways, post-American.
None of this is blundering or political miscalculations or a partisan squabble over policy details. This is a fundamental clash between two visions of the nation: one that believes in America First, and one that sees America as a real problem to be managed into decline, rather than a republic to be protected.
Ned Ryun is the founder and CEO of American Majority.
