proud republican Loc: RED CALIFORNIA

America 1 Loc: South Miami

That's one way to repair the border crisis.
Come one, come all.

lpnmajor Loc: Arkansas

Out of millions, it's just a drop in the bucket.

America 1 Loc: South Miami

$116 billion is a drop in the bucket?
This is 2017, has to be considerably more in 2021.
Report: I*****l i*********n costs taxpayers $116 billion annually; Californians, Texans, Floridians pay the most
Based on the most recent data reported in 2017, The Fiscal Burden of I*****l I*******ts examines the fiscal impact of i*****l i*********n on federal and state budgets.
It also highlights which U.S. citizens pay the most: Californians, Texans, and Floridians.
The estimated cost to California taxpayers for more than six million i*****l i*******ts and their children is more than $23 billion.
The estimated cost to Texans for the more than four million i*****l i*******ts and their children is nearly $11 billion.
The more than two million i*****l i*******ts and their children cost Florida taxpayers more than $6 billion.
The rest of the top 10 states reporting the highest cost to taxpayers are New York, New Jersey, Illinois, Georgia, North Carolina, Arizona, and Virginia.
“I*****l a***ns are net consumers of taxpayer-funded services and the limited taxes paid by some segments of the i*****l a***n population are, in no way, significant enough to offset the growing financial burdens [they] impose on U.S. taxpayers,” the report states.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/report-illegal-immigration-costs-taxpayers-116-billion-annually-californians-texans-floridians-pay-the-most/article_f942e522-c5b0-11e9-93e6-0ff213e44ae5.html

America 1 Loc: South Miami

All he had to do to succeed was broadly maintain the path that his predecessor had already set.
Unforced errors in immigration policy continue to leave a mark as v**ers across the political spectrum express increasing dissatisfaction with the border surge. President Biden's approval rating on the issue is abysmal - just 29% of the public approves of his handling of the border in recent Quinnipiac and CNBC polls.
(If you want to see more on the increasing concern among Democratic v**ers, our colleague Lisa Venus wrote a blog analyzing additional polling.)
In his National Review column "A Border Crisis of Biden's Own Making," Rich Lowry explains how this border crisis should have been avoided:
"[Biden] said that there's no way to solve the migrant crisis without addressing the violence, corruption, gangs, political instability, and destitution in Central America. Then, astonishingly enough, he claimed to have alleviated all these problems as vice president until Trump came along and ripped it all up.
It's not clear what Biden is even referring to, but if what he said were remotely true, there never would have been a migrant crisis under Trump in 2019 because conditions in Central America would have been too favorable for people to leave.
...It's completely obvious that what has driven the crisis at the border are expectations that Biden would be more welcoming than Trump and the exemption that Biden created for minors in Title 42, used to turn around migrants during the p******c.
Biden has also ended Remain in Mexico, the successful program to get migrants to wait in Mexico while their asylum claims are adjudicated in the U.S. (if they are allowed in the U.S. during this process, they will never leave, even if their claims ultimately fail)."


This is a border crisis of Biden’s own making
The administration is in full-blown denial over an entirely avoidable mess.
Instead, Biden blew holes in Trump’s border strategy and, as a surge of migrants predictably arrived at the border, his team set about denying reality and implausibly blaming Trump.
Why did Biden create this unnecessary crisis? It’s the outcome of ideology triumphing over common sense.
That is true of the Biden approach more broadly — otherwise, he wouldn’t be proposing $6 trillion in new spending.
The effects are most visible at the border, with rapid, real-world consequences, but that doesn’t mean that his domestic ambitions won’t ultimately lead to similar, if less immediately evident, failures.
https://www.avpress.com/opinion/this-is-a-border-crisis-of-biden-s-own-making/article_11965864-ac89-11eb-b483-2ba3a91c4308.html