Larry Kudlow: No Matter Biden's Election Year Rhetoric, The Border Is Wide Open

LARRY KUDLOW: Folks, Biden's open border is killing innocent Americans and must be stopped.

Illegal immigrant got-aways are running close to two million during the Biden years, according to Congressional sources. Plus 7.4 million recorded illegals crossing the border, according to ICE. That is a total of over nine million, combined. On top of that, Joe Biden now wants to add a new parole in place for illegal aliens' spouses, that would be one of the most extensive amnesty actions in over 30 years, according to our next guest, former DHS Secretary Chad Wolf.

This is another example of Biden using parole authority extensively and unlawfully. It would put who knows how many illegals on an expedited path of three years to U.S. citizenship, so they could vote in the 2028 elections. All this even though there already exists a long-standing process for illegal alien spouses of U.S. citizens to qualify for legal status. Already they have that.

Some estimates of Biden's new actions are about 500,000. But frankly, there is no telling why it won't be an even larger number. Underneath this illegal spousal problem is an incentive for fraudulent marriages, which is really one of the key problems in the first place.

All of this is happening while Mr. Biden claims a pause in the number of migrants crossing the southern border to an average of 2,500 a day over a week. But in fact, that number has already been completely breached. Frankly, no matter what Biden's election year rhetoric, the reality is the southern border is still wide open.

In fact, recent reports suggest that the northern border may be wide open, with as many as 3,000 illegals crossing there, just in the month of May alone. The country is in an uproar over Biden's illegal immigration. To some extent, it is an economic issue. Employment data suggests that cheap labor illegals -- who actually work -- are displacing native-born job opportunities and depressing real wages. But of course, many of the illegals do not work, and Democratic blue states in particular are forced to pay generously for free food, housing, health care, and other public services, which may ultimately crowd out America's long-standing entitlement system.

But the greatest tragedies are bound up in this immigration nightmare. An El Salvador criminal, caught and deported four times for crimes in the U.S., murdered a young woman in El Salvador and just days ago was alleged to have murdered a young mother of five in suburban Maryland. Just this morning, an Ecuadorian migrant was arrested after the rape of a 13-year-old girl in broad daylight at a park in Queens.

The brutality and savagery of these crimes are beyond comprehension. Brutal gang warfare has come across the southern border into our sanctuary cities, where blue state mayors and governors will not, in most cases, cooperate with border authorities to deport them. As these human atrocities occur, Joe Biden has the incredible gall to say to the American people he is actually going to expand his crime-ridden web of illegality and amnesty, and his assault on middle-class values and the lives of innocent people. It is no wonder that a recent poll shows 53% of Hispanics favor deportation of illegals. You can just feel the intensity of Americans of all stripes screaming out, for heaven's sake.