Second, despite the straw man arguments in the media that bind the Latino vote to immigration and equate border security with racism, polls don’t back them up. A September 2020 Pew Research poll on top election issues among Hispanics ranked immigration eighth in importance. Even more conflicting, most U.S. Hispanics’ views on immigration are opposite of what we often hear on TV. As this month’s Quinnipiac Poll shows, Hispanics gave Biden just a 23 percent approval rating on immigration, down from 49 percent last May.

It’s not surprising. Roughly 2 million people from around the world illegally crossed our southern border in 2021 alone. Authorities stopped most of them, but hundreds of thousands were not stopped. Many underage migrants reportedly were put on “midnight runs” on airplanes to stealthily resettle them around the country, which the Biden White House has downplayed.

Of the roughly 15,000 Haitians who illegally crossed the Rio Grande and swarmed Del Rio, Texas, last year, many trekking from Chile about 5,000 miles away as immigration restrictions tightened, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas acknowledged that some 12,000 would be admitted into the U.S. to process their claims. Most probably will never leave.

Who gets hurt by open borders? U.S. Latinos, Black, brown and white.