When the history is written, and Donald Trump and the populist right are discussed winning the 2024 Election. . .

the complete failure of the Government to do anything about out of control illegal immigration or what causes it will be part of the reason why.

For decades, the Government not only hasn't addressed this, both political parties have conspired not to. Now the Democratic Party is at the point where it simply can't, and won't.  President Biden has acted to provide 500,000 "temporary" work visas for Venezuelans.  

Those will not be temporary.

Americans in favor of massive immigration like to point out how the nation benefits from getting the best and brightest of other nations through immigration, something that may have made sense before the country became overpopulated, which it now is. But that's not what we're doing with Central and South Americans.  We're taking in a population that's essentially at a modern peasantry level.  Surely, they're not stupid by any means, but they're not well-educated as a rule, and there's been no control of any kind. So, while we take in thousands of innocent hardworking people, who will depress American wages in the blue collar fields they enter, we also take in criminals, which we are well aware of.

These populations are fleeing their messed up countries. They deserve sympathy, and assistance.  But they may deserve the sort of sympathy that in 2023 we can't really bring ourselves to provide. The massive numbers of Venezuelans that are entering the country would have resulted, in 1913, for example, in a forced removal of the Venezuelan government and its replacement with a competent one.  We don't do that anymore, although we did in Central America as late as the 1960s.

I'm not suggesting that we invade Venezuela, or Guatemala, but I am suggesting we take some sort of action other than simply taking in their entire population.  These countries should, and could, do well. Being too much of a wimp to take action while you watch, in essence, your neighbor beat up his wife isn't being a good neighbor.

And there's a point at which this cannot be endured, and we've passed it.

But this Administration isn't addressing it, and Donald Trump's campaign will.  Thousands of voters who would otherwise have nothing else to do with him, will start to consider him, particularly if they live in areas that are impacted by the human wave, which will soon be everywhere.

These people are people. They deserve our help and sympathy. But simply inviting the entire population in doesn't make things better there, or here.