The Democrats made these the top issues of the election.
Polling from Gallup shows that U.S. adults have consistently ranked immigration as a top issue every month since at least November 2023. The polls come as the Biden administration has overseen record numbers of illegal immigrant encounters.
Recent high-profile examples of crimes committed by illegal immigrants has led former President Donald Trump to popularize a new phrase, "Biden migrant crime," when addressing the issue.
"Biden Migrant Crime is out of control and is ravaging America! Last night, two brave NYPD officers doing their job were shot by a Monster Illegal Immigrant who came here illegally from Venezuela last year and was living in a tax-payer funded migrant shelter," Trump wrote on Truth Social earlier this month. "Crooked Joe Biden has trafficked in the worst people from around the world, many with heinous criminal records, and unleashed them into our communities."
Trump called the mother of migrant crime victim Rachel Morin. Biden not only didn't call her, but has not seen fit to say her name.
Another poll from earlier this year shows voters rejecting the media's preferred euphemisms for illegal aliens.
Since 2013, The Associated Press Stylebook has directed writers to only use the terms illegal immigrant, illegal alien, illegal or undocumented in direct quotations. "Acceptable variations include living in or entering a country illegally or without legal permission," the Stylebook states.
However, a poll conducted by RMG Research, Inc. in February showed that 55% of voters said the "best way to describe people who cross the U.S. border without registering with immigration officials" is as "illegal immigrants." Meanwhile, 24% of respondents said the best term is "undocumented migrants."
Bill Maher says that Democrats' stance on immigration will get them "f*cked" on election day. Fun fact, I'm blocked by Bill Maher despite never having written to him or even written about him. (On Twitter, at least.)
Meanwhile, the illegal alien who murdered 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray simply cut his ankle monitor so he could leave his house and murder a child.
If he was so dangerous we put an ankle monitor on him, why was he in the country at all?
One of the illegal Venezuelan migrants accused of strangling and killing 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray in Texas cut the ankle monitor he was given at the border after the slaying, The Post can reveal.
Johan Jose Rangel Martinez, 21, and Franklin Jose Pena Ramos, 26, were both released into the US with GPS monitoring after illegally crossing the southern border into El Paso, Texas this year.
Rangel Martinez, who crossed the border on March 14, was released from the monitoring program on May 15 because he had no known criminal history and had complied with check-ins, sources said.
However, Pena Ramos, who crossed the border on May 28 -- less than a month before the shocking murder -- removed his ankle monitor two days after Nungaray's body was found in a swampy creek in Houston on Monday, according to sources.
The two migrants were arrested and charged Thursday with capital murder after they allegedly lured Nungaray away from home, then strangled her and callously dumped her body.
Remember, illegal aliens with criminal histories -- or connections to terrorism or human-smuggling gangs -- are simply "losing" their IDs as they approach the border, to prevent a bureaucrat from finding that history. Then they're allowed into the country with a "clean" record.
It gets worse: the two illegal aliens "likely" sexually assaulted her before strangling her to death.
The Texas district attorney whose office is prosecuting the murder of 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray in Houston tells Fox News that "the evidence is clear that a sexual assault likely happened."
Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg made the admission Tuesday on 'America's Newsroom' as one of the illegal immigrant suspects in the case, 22-year-old Johan Jose Martinez-Rangel, is set to appear in court this morning. His co-defendant Franklin Jose Peña Ramos, 26, had his bail set at $10 million on Monday.
"The evidence is clear that a sexual assault likely happened. But since neither defendant has actually admitted that, circumstantial evidence will have to prove it," Ogg said. "We are waiting on lab tests now to see if the capital murder charge can be upgraded to one where they are death penalty eligible."
As Trump asked at a rally: What about the American Dreamers? Do they count for nothing?
From Grateful Calvin at Twitchy, an NPR talking point robot pretending to be a journalist claimed that it's not "illegal" at all to illegally enter the country -- pro-tip, the giveaway is right there in "illegally" enter the country.
He then charged standout Fox News reporter Bill Melugin with spreading "racist propaganda," also known as "the true verified facts about migrant criminals."
Bill Melugin
@BillMelugin_
Narrator: Legal pathways to citizenship already exist - and the people who have been in those lines, trying to do it the right way, have been forced to watch millions skip ahead of them, walking across the river to be caught & released, enriching the cartels & overwhelming ICE.
Pablo De La Rosa
@pblodlr
The entire foundation of this man's anti-immigrant propaganda is keeping a straight face as he ignores every immigration law expert in the country and in the world--crossing and turning yourself in is LEGAL, though he and his viewers may have a palpable hatred for it.
Retired ICE Field Director John Fabbricatore corrected this "NPR reporter" -- illegal entry into the country is, get this, illegal.
John Fabbricatore
@JohnE_Fabb
It is not legal. If you cross illegally and then turn yourself in, you are charged with 212(a)(6)(A) Aliens Present without Admission or Parole. Entered without inspection (EWI).
It 100% is illegal entry even in your echo chamber.
It's also not anti-immigrant propaganda--@BillMelugin_
reports on ILLEGAL immigration. Most Americans approve of legal immigration. You like to conflate the issue with your leftist talking points. Its trash.
Illegal immigration is a chaotic drain on the United States. Every crime committed by an illegal alien should not have happened had the Biden administration not allowed it to.
This trash Pablo then claimed that because we don't prosecute illegal border crossers that means it's not a crime and therefore it's "legal."
He ended by attacking Melugin again:
On Melugin, his reporting is racist propaganda by any definition of those terms. It's a deeply editorialized version of reality that communicates negative stereotypes of a minority group, a vulnerable one in this case.
Melugin snapped back:
My reporting is racist propaganda? If that's the case why were you in my DMs this winter asking me for help because, you, as an immigration "reporter", didn't know how/where to find simple ICE deportation data and didn't even know the difference between ER processing & deportation?
Pablo, not once in my more than three years of nonstop coverage, in every sector along the southern border, have I ever seen you out in the field there. Literally not once. You sit in an office and parrot immigration attorney talking points - and have zero understating of what is actually happening on the ground. You get zero engagement on your inflammatory & inaccurate posts because literally nobody takes you seriously. You didn't even have the stones to tag me in this. I will put my reporting against yours any day and every day - and this is the last response I'm ever going to give you. Best of luck!