Remember when we watched Joe Biden and Border Czar Kamala Harris turned our southern border into a free-for-all during their four years in office? From 2021 to early 2025, Customs and Border Protection recorded over 10 million encounters with illegal migrants nationwide, most at the southwest border. That number alone is huge, but it does not even include the gotaways, those who slipped through undetected. Estimates put gotaways at around two million or more during those years. Low estimates are that 12 million or more unvetted people flooded in, many from countries with weak health systems and low vaccination rates.
Why invite this chaos during a global health crisis? It made no sense to throw open the doors to untested and likely unvaccinated masses while forcing strict rules on American citizens.
In 2025, we now face the worst measles outbreak in decades. The CDC reports 2,012 confirmed cases by late December, with 50 outbreaks across 44 states. Ninety-three percent of those sick were unvaccinated or status unknown. Many cases that have ties to imported strains and other diseases like tuberculosis and whooping cough have risen too.
Most migrants came from places where these illnesses run rampant, and they faced no upfront vaccine mandates as legal immigrants did. Illegal crossers got basic checks later, if ever. How can anyone deny the link when the timing lines up perfectly with the massive inflows under Biden?
Democrats are pointing fingers at Robert F. Kennedy Jr., our new Health and Human Services Secretary under President Trump, and are blaming him for the surges. They ignore that he just started the job in 2025 and major changes to vaccine policy have not even been implemented yet. Outbreaks were already taking place before Trump took office. Why ignore the real cause, the open-border mess Biden/Harris created, and try to blame someone who has barely had time to act? They are deflecting from the failures of their own policies, as always.
American children must follow the CDC schedule, getting over 70 doses by age 18 to attend school or play sports. Shots for measles, polio, whooping cough, and more, are mandatory in most states. Parents lose choices if they want their kids in normal activities. But for the millions crossing illegally? No such requirements. Legal immigrants prove vaccinations eventually, but asylum seekers and border jumpers often skip them altogether.
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Why force this on our own families while waving through illegal immigrants? Most illegals I’ve met steal Social Security numbers and identification; how will we ever know what their medical history is?
Big Pharma loves this setup. The 1986 law shields them from lawsuits over vaccine injuries, letting them rake in billions from mandates. The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) reports thousands of adverse events yearly, including serious ones. Officials brush them off as rare, but real families suffer myocarditis, Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS), and worse. I personally became a vaccine sceptic when my own healthy children had severe reactions to vaccines.
Why push injections on healthy kids without full accountability? Alternatives exist too. Vitamin A cuts measles complications in deficient children. Better nutrition, hygiene, and natural approaches, build real immunity without risks.
Forced shots ignore these options in order to keep profits flowing. If you are running a for-profit pharmaceutical company you have to think up new ways to make profit; finding ways to mandate or convince healthy people to take drugs is one way, and they have had success with that. Vaccine mandates and sex hormones for confused children are also big money for them.
Biden/Harris policies endangered us all by letting in unvetted, unchecked, masses. Now diseases return, and the left deflects blame. Under Trump/Vance, the border is secure again, encounters near zero.
We must demand fairness: same rules for everyone, transparency on harms, and freedom from pharma-driven mandates. American Populism means protecting our health and sovereignty, not bowing to globalist open borders or corporate greed.
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The reason Americans get vaccinated before traveling to certain parts of the world is that there are serious risks anytime anyone is exposed to diseases for which they have no immunity. The Biden-Harris team reversed the process by bringing the threats into the U.S. much as the Chinese did with COVID.