woodguru

What exactly is open borders supposed to mean? Magadonians would not have a clue.

Never wanting to acknowledge facts and reality, seizures of drugs at the border have been up...

"Open" means re establishing a procedure for processing immigrants to where they are allowed a legal entry...

LogicallyRight Loc: Chicago

I***t!!!!
Open borders is one of the most damaging things happening to America for the last 30 months. Only F*GAs would continually support the damaging and tearing down of a nation through illegal invasion.

Troll Alert

Milosia2 Loc: Cleveland Ohio

No presidents since Reagan have allowed Open Borders .
Open borders is a problem created by the right anytime a democrat is in office .
The right spreads the word through
Central and South American countries
That the borders are now open .
The Dems have opened the borders again.!
Come one come All .
This of course, is not true, this creates a major clog at the border .
All because a democrat has “opened” the borders !
Now when and if a Republican should take office of president , the border problem , instantly is “solved” by the right no longer broadcasting the democrats have opened the borders .
So the right can then say , they’ve solved he border problems.
Where , of course , there were no border problems .
Just more lies and misinformation from the right.

Liberty Tree

It is pointless to point out facts to Woodhead. I have written him off.

Blade_Runner Loc: DARK SIDE OF THE MOON

LostAggie66 Loc: Corpus Christi, TX (Shire of Seawinds)

Since Title42 expired or was lifted Drug seizures, arrests of known gang members, and expelling of others have increased across the board. (USCBP.gov Enforcement Stats. FY 2023).

Liberty Tree

1. How do you know that? 2. Can you trust the info. 3. How many have gotten away?

jimpack123 Loc: wisconsin

Amen

woodguru

You don't even know what open borders is supposed to mean, you said nothing there except babble rhetorical nonsense.

As I said, we are processing immigrants for a political asylum that means they can be here legally.

The right ignorantly believes that Biden just started opening up the borders and letting anyone in, that isn't so.

woodguru

What do you mean by this incessant babbling about open borders...we are simply processing a set number of people at a time.

woodguru

No, what you've done is refuse to answer questions you can't

Again, there is no such thing as open borders the way the Magadonian right thinks of it

woodguru

How do you know it's not? What do you "trust", FOX...Tucker?

woodguru

Probably best if god were left out, he would not turn his back on the needy.

Blade_Runner Loc: DARK SIDE OF THE MOON

Opening Statement
Congressman Tom McClintock
Ranking Member, House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration
June 24, 2021

Madam Chairman:

The crisis on our Southern Border, precipitated by President Biden's executive orders, continues unabated and unaddressed. The Border Patrol reports well over 1 million encounters with i*****l m*****ts just since the beginning of this fiscal year. The number of unaccompanied children in Border Patrol custody has grown ten-fold since last year. The Mexican crime cartels are reportedly making more money in human trafficking than they are in drug trafficking. FBI director Wray confirmed last month that this unprecedented influx includes criminal elements that enforce staggering debts owed by migrants to the cartels, including through indentured servitude – that is, s***ery.

Meanwhile, the immigration sub-committee continues to ignore this crisis. Committee Republicans have begged the majority to have hearings on this unfolding catastrophe and I make that request again today. Meanwhile Americans pay the price both as taxpayers and as employees.

The continuing theme we hear from the left is that despite these jaw-dropping numbers and despite the impact on American families as the labor market is flooded with low-wage i*****l i*******t workers, we need to encourage still more mass immigration.

At our first hearing, the Republican witness documented the tremendous negative impact that i*****l i*********n has had on African-American communities. As Peter Kirsanow stated, "Not only do i*****l i*******ts compete for jobs with African-Americans, but that competition drives down wages for the jobs that are available."

At our second hearing, we learned how flooding the market with low-wage labor does enormous economic harm to working Americans. We also heard how many guestworker programs allow employers to fill positions at wages substantially less than the domestic labor market would otherwise command. As I noted then, this is at the expense of working Americans whose wages stagnated for decades as the immigrant share of the population tripled.

Today we will hear from Dr. Ronil Hira of the damage done to American workers – and to the foreign workers themselves -- through abuses in guestworker programs like H-1B, L-1 and the Optional Practical Training program, and how despite assurances of the left, pay far below the market rates for labor and displace sk**led American workers.

This has resulted in continuing scandals as sk**led American workers have been ordered to train their foreign replacements as a condition of receiving severance pay, including major corporations like Southern California Edison, Siemens, Disney, AT&T and the University of California. Under the OPT program, employers don't have to pay payroll taxes if they hire foreign nationals here on student visas for 29 months after graduation. If you know a college graduate who has a science, technical, engineering or mathematics degree who can't find an entry level job, you need look no farther than this discriminatory program.

Let me make very clear what the Democrats are advocating. It comes from Senate testimony of Leo Perrero, who lost his job at Disney because of these abuses. Listen carefully, because his experience could well be yours if the Democrats prevail. He said:

I walked into a small conference room with about two dozen highly respected fellow IT workers. The Disney Executive made a harsh announcement to us all. All of you in this room will be losing your jobs in the next 90 days. Your jobs have been given over to a foreign workforce. In the meantime, you will be training your replacements until your jobs are 100% t***sferred over to them and if you don't cooperate you will not receive any severance pay.

American citizens trust this Congress to look out for them when they cast their v**es every two years. Yet this Congress has made very clear through both its actions and inactions that it places Americans last and foreign labor and the big corporations that shamelessly exploit it first.

The Trump Administration issued regulations aimed at reforming programs like H-1B to stop these abuses and protect jobs and wages for Americans. It is no accident that these policies accompanied the strongest wage growth for American workers in 40 years, the lowest unemployment rate in 50 years and the lowest poverty rate in 60 years. The Biden Administration and the Democrats in Congress are busy reversing these policies and not co-incidentally, reversing the gains that Americans had won.

I look forward to the testimony today and hope that my colleagues and I can come to an agreement to do what is best for American workers, by reforming the guestworker programs we have allowed to run amuck for years.

I yield back.

Opening Statement
Congressman Tom McClintock
Ranking Member, House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration

Markup of H.R. 2920, the American Families United Act
July 27, 2022

Mr. Chairman,

Eighteen months ago, we had achieved operational control of our Southern Border. The border wall was nearing completion. The remain in Mexico policy and enforcement of court-ordered deportations had slowed i*****l i*********n to a trickle. American workers were finally seeing major wage gains and the gap between rich and poor in this country was finally narrowing.

All that ended on January 20, 2021, when Joe Biden cancelled the Remain in Mexico policy, ordered ICE to stop enforcing court-ordered deportations and cancelled the border wall, leaving construction gaps through which thousands of i*****l i*******ts pass every day.

Since this administration took office, more than three million foreign nationals have illegally entered the country, with roughly half being trafficked across the country by this administration. While the Border Patrol has been overwhelmed, an additional 900,000 illegal entries evaded authorities – that we know of – and are now in the United States. In other words, in 18 months, this administration has allowed into our country an illegal population larger than the size of Alaska, Vermont and Wyoming combined.

F******l crossing the southern border has exploded. The death rate from f******l overdoses more than doubled in a single year. The effect on school and hospital overcrowding, homelessness, depressed wages and opportunities for working families and crime will mean a much more dangerous and impoverished country as a direct result of these policies. Deaths at the border have skyrocketed as more and more i*****l m*****ts are encouraged to make the dangerous journey.

On every trip I've made to the Southern Border, Border agents have told me to warn my constituents that the tragedies encountered every day in border communities are being exported across the country and that every town will soon become a border town. And now, I'm hearing this from my constituents.

This committee has blocked every Republican effort to address this national crisis. Every hearing the Democrats have had about this crisis is how to increase it.

The bill now before this committee, H.R. 2920 gives the Attorney General and the Secretary of Homeland Security discretion not to enforce U.S. i*********n l*w regarding removal, inadmissibility, or provision of an immigration benefit, if enforcing such law would be a "hardship" for the alien's U.S. citizen spouse, parent, or child.

Why not just repeal the law in its entirety? That would have the same effect as this bill. The Democrats have already applied existing grants of discretion that are explicitly limited to review on a case-by-case basis to afford sweeping waivers for entire classes of people.

Under this bill, separation of a family member is presumptively considered to constitute hardship and therefore grounds not to enforce the law. Relatives already deported under our loose i*********n l*ws would be admitted under this bill. Who needs immigration courts if their orders are to be invalidated?

So why not just repeal our i*********n l*w and require the admission of all family members regardless of previous deportation orders or determinations of inadmissibility. With very few exceptions, that's what this bill does anyway. Why not just admit it?

The unprecedented illegal mass migration that is aided, abetted, encouraged and applauded by congressional Democrats and their President has reached historic proportions, and its impact is now being felt by every American. Democratic mayors of Northern cities are even sounding the alarm. But congressional Democrats are deaf to their pleas.

Americans are increasingly aware of the staggering cost of these policies to their safety, their prosperity, and their futures. But beware: these policies will not change until the people responsible for them are turned out of office. The only question is, "Is there still time?"

Strycker Loc: The middle of somewhere else.

Legal entry is what politicians say legal entry is. Democrats want all entry to be legal entry thus reducing i******s immigrants to zero. Much like their crime policy making many criminal activities legal so there are less criminals. All it is is a double speak shell game.