The Immigration Industrial Complex: Influencing Elections?

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Influencing Elections?

The influx of at least 9 million illegal immigrants may impact America’s elections. Even if a very small amount of these illegals register to vote and successfully cast ballots, they may have the potential to swing an election.

A peer-reviewed study from Just Facts estimates that 10–17 percent of non-citizens are registered to vote, and based on previous elections and federal data, at least 1–2.7 million non-citizens will vote in the 2024 presidential election.

In April 2024, a journalist discovered flyers at a resource center for migrants heading to the United States. The flyers urged migrants to vote for Biden after they crossed the U.S.-Mexico border, in order to keep the border open.

“Reminder to vote for President Biden when you are in the United States,” the flyers read. “We need another four years of his term to stay open.”

The flyers, first reported by The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project, appeared in porta-potties at the center, which is just south of the U.S. border. The city of Matamoros, located in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, borders Brownsville, Texas, where President Biden spoke in February.

Resource Center Matamoros describes itself as “the home for HIAS, which is providing legal assistance and assistance with obtaining formal documents for job search and integration into the city of Matamoros as they wait to access the asylum process in the U.S.” HIAS told The Associated Press that is has not rented space from the center or had any ties to it since 2022.

Gaby Zavala, founder and executive director of Resource Center Matamoros, told The Associated Press that her organization did not know who made the flyers. She insisted that her group “does not encourage immigrants to register to vote or cast ballots in the U.S.”

Yet Zavala has publicly admitted that she founded her organization in part to fight U.S. policy.

“I founded the Asylum Seeker Network of Support as an effort to fight policy, U.S. policy,” Zavala said in a video posted online. In other videos, she attributed the immigration crisis to climate change.

Republicans condemned the flyers and claimed that Democrats are trying to “import a new electorate.”

“Democrats want permanent power and they are willing to import a new electorate to get it,” Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN), told The Daily Signal after news of the flyers broke. “The endgame of the Biden border crisis is to disenfranchise American citizens by diluting their votes.”

Democrats disavow this political strategy, and left-wing groups claim that it is a conspiracy theory. Yet the very plausibility of this narrative shows just how dangerous it is to allow millions of illegal aliens to cross America’s borders and settle in the country.

Conclusion

Contrary to the Left’s rhetoric, many Americans loathe the idea of settling 9 million illegal aliens in the U.S. not because these Americans are racist and fear race-based “replacement” but because these aliens showed a fundamental disrespect for America’s laws and its self-determination as a country. The U.S. welcomes legal immigrants, and Americans are anxious to help refugees who really have no other choice. But abetting the flow of illegal aliens and the lax enforcement of drugs like fentanyl crossing the U.S.-Mexico border is a recipe for destruction.

This article is adapted from a chapter in Tyler O’Neil’s new book THE WOKETOPUS: The Dark Money Cabal Manipulating the Federal Government, forthcoming in January 2025 from Bombardier Books.