
President Joe Biden visited Brownsville, Texas, on the U.S.-Mexico border Thursday to take control of the immigration and border policy narrative using a new, more “politically correct” euphemism: “newcomers,” but the Democrat president’s window-dressing of a border crisis that began after he took office in 2021 did not fool any Republicans.
“Joe Biden is now calling illegal aliens ‘newcomers.’ This is ABSURD,” Rep. Tom Tiffany (R-WI) wrote on X, formerly Twitter. “He has no interest in putting an end to this invasion. He just wants to use more of your tax dollars to aid and abet it.”
Biotech entrepreneur and former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy said Democrats treat George Orwell’s books like “a how-to guide” by calling white rural voters a “threat to American democracy” while calling illegal immigrants “newcomers.”
The latest from Biden & MSM:
White rural voters = “threat to American democracy”
Illegal immigrants = “newcomers”Orwell offered a warning, these people treat it as a how-to guide. pic.twitter.com/ghZp5dfXam
— Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) March 1, 2024
When discussing immigration and border policy, Democrats have long refused to acknowledge that crossing the border without authorization is against the law — and therefore “illegal.” Rather than call people who emigrate to the U.S. illegally “illegal immigrants,” Democrats and mainstream media outlets have defaulted to calling them “undocumented immigrants.”
Brownsville has had a relatively small number of encounters with illegal border-crossers, with Customs and Border Protection reporting 46 encounters there over a recent five-day period, compared to 2,106 in Eagle Pass over the same time. The president noticeably did not choose one of the cities racked by the border crisis to try out calling illegal migrants “newcomers.”
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem asked the day after Biden’s Brownsville visit, “How many more ‘newcomers’ will Joe Biden and Kamala Harris welcome with open arms?”
Call them what they are… ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS.
How many more “newcomers” will Joe Biden and Kamala Harris welcome with open arms?
How many more murders, rapes, and robberies need to be committed by illegal immigrants before Biden takes this crisis seriously?…
— Kristi Noem (@KristiNoem) March 1, 2024
Brownsville residents Deborah Bell and Justin De Los Santos joined “America’s Newsroom” on Fox News Thursday to mock Biden for visiting a border town where “nothing is happening.”
In addition to using the term “newcomer” to refer to thousands of illegal aliens pouring over the southern border with Mexico daily, Biden made the case that he and Democrats were going to fix the border problem with a compromise bill attached to U.S. aid to Israel and Ukraine, but that Republicans loyal to former President Donald Trump blocked the bill from passing.