President Joe Biden’s border crisis is so bad that illegal aliens are even dying at the United States’ northern border.

On Friday, The New York Times reported that eight individuals, including one small child, were found dead in the St. Lawrence River. Officials are saying that it was a group of two families from Romania, as well as Indian nationals, attempting to cross into the U.S. from Canada.

“This shows that people are desperate and that Canada and the United States need to do more to review the immigration processes in place,” Abram Benedict, the Grand Chief for the Mohawk Council of Akwesasne, said. “It is sad that people want to find a better life and this is the tragedy that results.”

The news comes just weeks after The Daily Wire reported that illegal immigration is skyrocketing at the northern border.

Between October 1, 2022, and February 28 of this year, around 2,000 Mexican migrants illegally crossed the Swanton Sector, a 24,000-square-mile stretch of border between Canada, New York, New Hampshire, and Vermont, The Daily Wire noted. Authorities recorded only 200 such crossings during the same period the previous year.

Meanwhile, the southern border continues to be a gigantic sieve. In fiscal year 2022, border crossings cracked a record 2.7 million, per NBC News. That trend has continued into fiscal year 2023.

Of course, as Benedict said, reform is needed to solve this problem. Unfortunately, though, those policies will never happen under Biden. The sort of “reform” needed to stop this madness is a definitive declaration to the world that if you come here illegally, you will be deported. Talks of amnesty need to be taken off the table — as that only incentivizes more illegal aliens to come in hopes of being granted citizenship. Furthermore, those who do request asylum should be forced to wait in either Canada or Mexico as their asylum cases are heard.

Instead, illegal aliens who declare asylum are often released into the U.S. interior. They likely know that if they can make it through U.S. borders, they have a very decent chance under Biden that they will be allowed into the U.S. So long as that system is in place, it’s safe to say that the border crisis will only get worse — at both ends of the border. That means there will very likely be more of the sort of fatal tragedies that unfolded at the St. Lawrence River in the future.

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This topic doesn’t get discussed as much as it used to, but some folks like Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH) and Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) believe that as a country, America should adopt English as its official language. This week, the two senators introduced legislation to do just that.

“This commonsense legislation recognizes an inherent truth: English is the language of this country. That is why the overwhelming majority of the American people support this proposal,” Vance said in a press release.

It should be noted that the majority of states — 31 and all U.S. territories — already recognize English as their language.

“The English language has been a cornerstone of American culture for over 250 years,” Vance added. “It is far past time for Congress to codify its place into law, which is exactly what this bill does.”

Fittingly named “The English Unity Act,” all laws, public proceedings, regulations, publications, orders, actions, programs, and policies would be in English under this bill. This is actually the latest version of the bill, as the “The English Language Unity Act” has previously been introduced, though never signed into law.

The bill also states that “Representatives of the Federal Government shall have an affirmative obligation to preserve and enhance the role of English as the official language of the Federal Government. Such obligation shall include encouraging greater opportunities for individuals to learn the English language.”

Radio host Michael Savage has often said that a nation can be defined by its “Borders, Language, Culture.”

In 2005, a similar bill earned 64 votes in the Senate. It effectively died thereafter, but that doesn’t mean that it’s officially settled business.

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While our borders are wide open and it’s unclear what our culture still values (equality or equity?), Vance and Cramer’s bill would at least get the U.S. one step closer to having a recognized, unified language — which can go a long way in restoring America’s motto “E Pluribus Unum” that seems to be slipping away more and more each year.

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