Bill Maher issues stark warning to Joe Biden that the Democrats’ immigration policy is ‘going to get them ‘f***ed on Election Day’

Bill Maher predicts that the Democrats will lose the election badly if they continue on the path they are on with immigration.

The comedian is relentlessly downbeat about President Joe Biden’s re-election chances due to the perception of his age and the millions crossing the border.

Maher compared last week’s European Union elections, where far-right parties made huge gains, to the November 5 US elections.

Immigration was not the only reason for the swing to the right, especially in Germany, France, Spain, Poland and Italy, but it was a key campaign issue.

“The voters for the European Parliament said again that we don’t like so much immigration,” Maher said on his Real Time show on HBO.

Volunteers distribute food to migrants entering the U.S. from Mexico in Jacumba Hot Springs, California

Maher noted that Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni was often called a fascist due to some of her far-right views, but he argued that moderate parties enabled her to do so.

“If liberals insist that enforcing borders is a job only fascists can do, then voters will hire fascists to do what liberals won’t do,” he said, giving a 2019 article in The Atlantic.

“Voters keep saying over and over again that we are not comfortable with this level of immigration. I understand why. Saying that doesn’t make you a racist.’

Maher did not specify why voters were uncomfortable with immigration, other than to say it was not solely due to racism.

He argued that the problem Democrats had with the issue was summed up in Senator Alex Padilla’s response to Biden’s executive order restricting border crossings.

“By reviving Trump’s asylum ban, Biden has undermined American values,” he quoted the California lawmaker as saying.

“And then they all step back and say, ‘We don’t want to be called racist. So we won’t take action on immigration.’

Maher noted that Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni (pictured with Joe Biden at the G7 meeting on Thursday) was often called a fascist for some of her far-right positions, but he argued that moderate parties enabled her

Maher argued that this was precisely the wrong answer, because it misjudged the current mood of American voters.

“It’ll confuse them on Election Day. It’s happening in Europe right now. It’s proving that in Europe, and it’s going to happen here in America.” he said.

‘It happened with Brexit. It’s going to happen again.’

Brexit, in which Britain voted to leave the European Union, was fought on many fronts, but easier migration from Europe to Britain was a factor.

Maher’s guest, controversial columnist and author Joel Stein, pushed back by arguing that there was a “real moral reason” to admit asylum seekers.

“On any number?” Maher asked, to which Stein agreed that it couldn’t be infinite. But that’s their point!’ Maher exclaimed in response.

Maher then cited a poll in which 64 percent of Hispanics said they supported giving the president the authority to close the border.

Another 64 percent of all registered voters would immediately deport all immigrants “living in the U.S. illegally.”

“Yes, people hate immigrants,” Stein said of the survey results, but Maher insisted that wasn’t true — at least not as a sweeping generalization.

Migrants wait in line hoping to be processed by Customs and Border Patrol agents after groups arrive in Jacumba Hot Springs, California, after walking from Mexico to the U.S. in intense heat

Biden’s executive order would halt asylum applications when the average daily number of arrivals reached 2,500, and keep them closed until it fell to 1,500.

There are concerns that Biden’s order will not be legally valid because stopping asylum seekers would violate international treaties or exceed presidential authority, which is what the poll was about.

Seeking asylum at the border, as the vast majority of recent influxes of immigrants are doing, is not illegal, but sneaking in without seeking asylum is.

Maher made a similar warning on his show last week, when he called Biden’s last-minute executive order a “Hail Mary” that wouldn’t work.

“If Biden loses this election, it will be because of two things: he’s old… and immigration,” he said.

“I mean, just on a political level, I don’t think they could have done a worse job.”

Maher cited a figure that “more than nine million migrants have entered the US” since Biden took office in January 2021.

‘That is more than the number of people living in Nicaragua. He let all of Nicaragua in,” he joked.

“The question Democrats can’t seem to answer is: How many are too many? And infinity is the answer; if you don’t answer that, you’re a racist. That is their essential problem with this issue.

‘It is a bizarre plan that obviously nobody is happy with. It seems like a last minute thing, it looks like he did nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing.”

Maher noted that Biden tried to solve the problem through legislation that pumped enough money into immigration authorities so that asylum seekers could be processed in months or weeks, instead of years.

Migrants sit by a makeshift fire to warm up after entering the U.S. from Mexico in Jacumba Hot Springs, California

The central problem with the immigration issue is that for decades the system has been too burdened to function effectively.

Asylum seekers must genuinely fear for their lives to be granted refugee status, and those who arrive for purely economic reasons are turned away.

This is determined by an immigration judge, but it takes five to nine years to go to trial and by then many migrants will never be found.

Biden’s bill, brokered through bipartisan negotiations, would have potentially resolved this, but “Congress and Republicans deliberately tightened that football” to appease Donald Trump, as Maher put it.

“They didn’t want this bill because they wanted it to be a problem. So they could have fixed it themselves, but they didn’t,” he said.

“But now it looks like this is his last minute before the election for the Hail Mary pass, and it’s not going to work.”