America 1 Loc: South Miami

Great job, particularly in the area of immigration.

Radiance3

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America 1, Joe Biden could not make the laws. His job is to execute the laws approved by Congress. Then the Supreme Court is the interpreter of the laws. If the laws created by Congress is applied wrongly, the SC interprets that law and nullifies the wrong actions of the president or other judges. That is the three balances of power. Biden could not violate any of those. But Biden has been doing it.

What Biden has been doing are all in violations of both the laws of Congress and also violates the SC decisions. Biden acts like a Totalitarian Dictator, and he has NO shame.

He is now an imbecile creating so much problems to our country, putting our country in danger to the whole world. Biden stumbles, and mumbles, and crumbles every time he moves and talks.

I am ashamed to have him as president of the United States. In addition, I am scared to have him president because he does not know how to make decisions as president, and the Commander in-Chief of the Armed Forces. He has done so many errors and problems already. Not only that. He is also a crook, dumb, and a t*****r. check Congress of his records.

One example: He violates Congress and brings 12 million criminals and illegal invaders to our country who are now k*****g our own people and our law enforcement officers. Still Biden provides them all essentials to live comfortably as the i******s are feed with all essentials out of my taxes and those who pay taxes. Biden calls the i******s NEWCOMERS!

These will be the Democrat v**ers as soon as they make them citizens to v**e.

Most of our families, and some here at OPP, have fought suffered and died, defended freedom of our country, and now Biden and his team are k*****g us, replacing us with illegal invaders who calls i******s the NEWCOMERS!

Why do you support Joe Biden, the dumb and the crook, and his millions of illegal invaders who are k*****g us?

LogicallyRight Loc: Chicago

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Blade_Runner Loc: DARK SIDE OF THE MOON

During the Trump administration, i*****l i*********n was the lowest in 45 years. In just three and a half years, Creepy Joe's clown show has elevated i*****l i*********n ten times higher, and it is no longer just a crisis at the border,

An Immigration Crisis Beyond Imagining
Even with a surge in illegal crossings in 2019—this was due to a legal loophole that encouraged i******s to cross with minors—the Trump administration had brought apprehensions down to between 800 and 1,500 a day in his final year in office, the lowest numbers in 45 years. Four months into the Biden administration, apprehensions spiked to about 6,000 per day. There were 2.4 million apprehensions in 2022, a daily average of 6,575. In 2023 there were three million apprehensions, a daily average of 8,219.

Entering 2024, apprehensions were up to 12,000 to 15,000 per day.

Overdose deaths continue to rise in the US, reaching another record level

'Fourth wave' of opioid epidemic crashes ashore, propelled by f******l and meth

Subcommittee Chairman McClintock Opening Remarks:
Hearing on the Biden Border Crisis: Exploitation of Unaccompanied Alien Children
On Inauguration Day, our Border was secure. The Remain in Mexico policy had slowed i*****l i*********n to a trickle, court-ordered deportations were being enforced and the Border Wall was nearing completion. By the afternoon of that day, Joe Biden had reversed these policies, producing the largest illegal mass migration in history.

In the last 27 months, they have deliberately admitted two million i*****l a***ns into our country, a population larger than the state of Nebraska. And while the Border Patrol was overwhelmed, another 1.5 million known gotaways have entered as well. That is an additional illegal population larger than the entire state of Hawaii.

The Trump policies slowed encounters of unaccompanied children to 33,000 – the lowest level in eight years. In the last fiscal year, a record 152,000 came across. That’s almost a five fold increase.

Biden had exactly the same tools available to him as Trump. It should be obvious that this is a deliberate policy that ignores not only the welfare of Americans but that of the migrant children as well.

On a border trip last year, I asked a CBP officer how to stop the trafficking of children into this country. His answer was immediate: get them safely home. He said, the cartels charge thousands of dollars to traffic these children and they don’t give refunds. The moment children are returned home, their business will dry up. In another border trip, I was shocked to learn that no effort is made to get these children back to their homes, and very little effort is made vetting the so-called sponsors of these children and very little interest in following up on their welfare once they are abandoned to these so-called sponsors.

What happens to them? The administration’s response is basically, “don’t-know-don’t care.” But a recent New York Times investigation sheds some light on this question. After they get to the U.S., many are forced by their so-called sponsors into dangerous jobs with f**e identity documents. Earlier this year, a sanitation company employing over 100 i*****l a***n children in jobs in slaughterhouses and meatpacking plants in the Midwest, paid 1.5 million in civil penalties after a federal court found that these children were using “caustic chemicals to clean razor-sharp saws” and “working overnight shifts.”

In one of the great ironies of bill-titles, the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 makes this possible. While Children from Mexico and Canada are immediately sent safely home, all others are admitted. That’s a tremendous incentive to send unaccompanied children to the border.

In 2014, even the Obama Administration recognized the danger and asked Congress to provide it with “additional authority to exercise discretion in processing the return and removal of unaccompanied minor children from non-contiguous countries like Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador.” The House passed a bill to do just that, but Senate Democrats blocked it.

The Trump Administration was able to staunch the flow with new and strict requirements to ensure the safety of these children once placed with a sponsor, as well as Title 42 expulsion authority.

However, in 2021, the Biden Administration dismantled Trump-era requirements to vet sponsors and perform background checks for individuals in the sponsor household, many of whom are involved in smuggling the children in the first place. And the Biden Administration stopped subjecting them to Title 42.

We now know that the administration has simply lost track of over 85,000 of these children. In September 2022, Axios reported that “roughly one-in-three follow-up calls made to released migrant kids or their sponsors between January and May went unanswered.”

Don’t-know-don’t-care. According to the New York Times, the cabinet secretary responsible for these children, Xavier Becerra, likened the sponsor placement process to an assembly line that wasn’t moving fast enough. He complained “if Henry Ford had seen this in his plant, he would have never become famous and rich. This is not the way you do an assembly line.”

Last week this Committee approved a bill that would help stop this tragedy by returning these children safely home – as we already do for children coming from Mexico or Canada. No Democrats supported our bill. I am hopeful that after hearing the testimony of our witnesses, our colleagues will rethink their opposition to the long-overdue reform.

And although we are focusing today on young and vulnerable children, we should note that a large portion of so-called unaccompanied children are late teenagers, or young men claiming to be minors. That’s a subject for another day.

DASHY

Apparently you are one of the lucky ones. So far you have survived being k**led by these so-called illegal invaders. How many of your friends have escaped being murdered by these newcomers? Immigrants are performing essential services. Most of the manually intensive, risky jobs in agriculture are performed by Mexican and Central American immigrants, who are often undocumented. I can hear the MAGA complainers now crabbing about the outrageously high prices they must pay for food if immigration laborers are sent back home.

DASHY

Most OPP posters are MAGA trolls.

son of witless

You poor Soul. Your logic, I am sure when you think it up, sounds amazing to yourself. The however, is this. Food prices under your boy Joe Biden have risen greatly. Even more, I believe, than the general rate of inflation.

At the same time, the numbers of i******s has risen to astronomical levels. By your amazing logic, these millions and millions and millions of i******s should have prevented the great rise in food prices. Obviously the twin situations of high food prices and high numbers of illegal future Biden v**ers, prove that your last statement is horse manure.

DASHY

Can you point to the specific Biden administration policy that caused food prices to rise? Shoveling horse manure is a typical MAGA passtime.

archie bunker Loc: Texas

You, and yours are so dumb. Can you point to the thing that Donald Trump did to you that caused you personal injury?

Radiance3

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The immigrants you were talking about were those who came legally and vetted. Most of them are educated, very smart people, selected for our country.

The fact that our country has been declining of smart graduates due to DEI, CRT, and WOKE, these people who graduated in the DEI colleges are not productive.

Fact is many of them are liabilities. E.G. The most plagiarist of all, Claudien Gay chosen as president of Harward. Could you believe that?

President Trump invited so many brilliant people from out of the country. They were the engineers, medical doctors, and nurses, IT technology experts.

The 12 million that Biden invited were illegal invaders, consist of terrorists from the Muslim countries, drug dealers, drug addicts, convicts from central America, rapists, and human traffickers. Now they are k*****g us and the Law Enforcement Officers. President Trump will send them back to their own country.

These are all the people of Joie Biden hoping to make them citizens to v**e for the dumb corrupt democrats so they could finalize to be Marxist tyrants.

Don't talk to me because I don't like you! You are a liar and therefore a t*****r to this country.

DASHY

Right Wingers have a warped mindset caused by constant exposure to MAGA propaganda and disinformation. You give us a good example of this. "Trump invited so many (illegal invaders) brilliant people from out of the country." When you describe President Biden's so-called invitation your language changes to "The 12 million that Biden invited were illegal invaders (brilliant people) from the Muslim countries."

America 1 Loc: South Miami

Families Crushed as Biden’s Total Inflation Breaks 17%
https://budget.house.gov/press-release/families-crushed-as-bidens-total-inflation-breaks-17

Is inflation up 17% since President Joe Biden took office?
Yes.
The Consumer Price Index was 307.051 in November 2023, 17% higher than the 261.582 it was in January 2021, figures from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics show.
Put another way, $100 in January 2021 has the same buying power as $117 in November 2023.
CPI is the government’s most widely used inflation measure. It includes food, clothing, shelter, t***sportation, energy, and medical care.
https://wisconsinwatch.org/2024/01/inflation-biden-consumer-price-index-labor-statistics-fact-brief/

Has the price of groceries increased 20% since Joe Biden became president?
Yes.
The price of groceries increased more than 20% during President Joe Biden’s first three years in office and exceeded wage growth.
The Consumer Price Index for “food at home” rose from 252.7 on Jan. 1, 2021, to 305 in December 2023 — an increase of 20.7%. The index for average hourly wages increased 14.7% — from 29.9 to 34.3.
During the first three years of President Donald Trump’s administration, the grocery index rose from 237 in January 2017 to 243 in December 2019 — an increase of 2.5%.
https://wisconsinwatch.org/2024/01/biden-groceries-food-president-prices-costs-wage-fact-brief/

The Biden administration likes to tout its success in getting inflation down to under 4 percent for seven consecutive months. But when he came into office, inflation was at 1.4 percent in January 2021, and had been under 3 percent for 109 consecutive months.

So even at the current levels, down from the highs of summer 2022, the Biden administration has not yet matched prior presidents’ inflation levels going back almost a decade, spanning Donald Trump’s entire presidency and the majority of President Barack Obama’s tenure.

In March 2021, when the American Rescue Plan was signed, the inflation rate was 2.6 percent. By May 2021, it was at 5 percent, starting a 23-month run at that rate or higher. The peak inflation run was a 12-month period from December 2021 through November 2022 of 7 percent or higher.

While the monthly, year-over-year rate has certainly dropped, the e*****rate sees this from a different perspective — by how much prices have gone up since Biden was inaugurated.
That is more important to the e*****rate, as prices have increased by 17.3 percent, what The Winston Group has termed the P**********l Inflation Rate (PIR).
In looking at the performance of the previous seven presidents at the same point in their terms, only President Jimmy Carter had a larger increase.
The rise in gas prices is a good example of why v**ers remain skeptical of Biden’s claims.
There is no question that gas prices have come down significantly since the summer of 2022, when cumulative gas prices had increased by a staggering 107.4 percent, measuring from Biden’s inauguration month.
But gas prices are still 35.1 percent higher than what they were in January 2021. That’s a tough sell.
So is telling consumers that food price inflation has dropped to below 3 percent when overall food prices have gone up 20.1 percent since Biden took office.
As with gas prices, only Carter had a higher increase in food prices at this point in his term.
Electricity costs have also risen significantly, increasing cumulatively by 25.1 percent. This is the largest price increase of any of the last seven presidents — and yet Biden decides this week to clamp down on natural gas.
Part of Biden’s economic message has centered on wage growth by focusing on short-term data rather than the longer-term impact. If you only look at the increases in hourly wages over the last eight months, wages have come in slightly ahead of inflation; but for the prior 25 months, wages trailed inflation.
Overall, since Biden’s inaugural, hourly wages have cumulatively increased 14.5 percent, while inflation has gone up 17.3 percent.
This means inflation has outpaced hourly wages by 2.8 percent so far in Biden’s term.
Looking at weekly wages, however, the picture gets worse.
Weekly wages have cumulatively increased 12.2 percent, leaving a 5.1 percent shortfall due to inflation.
A 5.1 percent reduction in purchasing power is a significant number.
So how do Biden’s P**********l Inflation Rate and his record on cumulative wages compare to former President Trump’s at the same point in their respective terms? As stated earlier, Biden’s PIR is at 17.3 percent, while Trump’s was at 5.8 percent in December 2019. Of the last seven presidents, only George W. Bush had a lower rate than Trump at 5.3 percent.

In terms of gas price inflation, Biden is at 35.1 percent and Trump is at 10.9 percent. Food inflation — Biden 20.1 percent and Trump 4.7 percent; and, finally, electricity — Biden 25.1 percent and Trump 2.2 percent.

Looking at Biden’s record on hourly wages, cumulative hourly wage increases trail his PIR by 2.8 percent. For Trump, hourly wages exceeded his P**********l Inflation Rate by 3.3 percent. So, in terms of hourly wages versus inflation, Trump did better by 6.1 percent.

In terms of weekly wages, Biden is at minus 5.1 percent versus inflation, while Trump was at plus 3 percent at the same point in his presidency. So, Trump did 8.1 percent better than Biden in keeping wages ahead of inflation.

Even a cursory look at these economic comparisons explains why the e*****rate disapproves of Biden’s handling of the economy and inflation by as much as 20-point margins.
Contrasting Biden’s record with virtually any other president, except Carter, only makes his economic record look worse.
Biden seems to have forgotten that v**ers have long memories.
https://rollcall.com/2024/01/31/bad-news-for-biden-on-inflation-v**ers-have-long-memories/

DASHY

You are correct to point out that v**ers are aware of the increase in the price of food, clothing, housing, t***sportation, energy and medical care. It's easy to blame the current president. The price of gas has come down significantly since the summer of 2022. Hourly wages have increased since Joe Biden took office. Should we thank the president? Does a president really have much control over the day-to-day rise and fall of prices? Here are some of the policies of our current administration that are intended to influence inflation.

Investing in America
The first focal point of Bidenomics is on investment in American business and infrastructure. Specifically, it includes investments in clean energy and related industries, a push to increase semiconductor manufacturing in the United States, and funds to update, improve, and build out additional infrastructure across the country.

Three key pieces of legislation have primarily contributed to these efforts. Besides the Inflation Reduction Act, mentioned above, the others are the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS) and Science Act.

The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Biden in November 2021. It designates $1.2 trillion for investment in repairing and building roads, bridges, and rail lines, providing clean drinking water and access to high-speed internet, aiming to reduce the impact of the climate crisis, creating a national network of electric vehicle charging stations, and more. The White House said the law would contribute to the creation of 1.5 million jobs per year for a decade.

The CHIPS and Science Act was signed into law in August 2022 after receiving bipartisan approval. It provides $280 billion in funding for the nanotechnology, clean energy, quantum computing, and artificial intelligence (AI) industries. The bill aims to strengthen U.S. semiconductor research and manufacturing, boost U.S. wireless technology development, and support regional and local technology and research hubs.

son of witless

The only horse manure I shovel is the crap I am refuting and rebutting from those on the Left. I just had a little one on one with a friend of yours, TJKMO. I basically called him out for not answering my questions and rebuttals of his posts. His excuses are typical Liberal horse manure. I basically said that unlike him, I welcome people questioning what ever I choose to post. Unlike you folks on the Left I see it as an opportunity to further explain my arguments.

Sorry for rambling. As to your question of the specific Biden Administration policies causing high food prices to American consumers. Lets us begin at the beginning. The Biden American Rescue Plan. Only a brain dead moron with no knowledge of how economies work would have done a $1.9 trillion stimulus bill. Joe Biden did this is in March 2021. The economy already had too much cash sloshing around because of the Trump C***d stimulus actions.

The economy was coming back when Joe Biden took office. Demand was returning faster than supply chains could accommodate. Cash needed to be siphoned out of the economy, but your i***t threw almost $ 2 Trillion more into it. Talk about putting out a fire with a gasoline can. Joe and his experts were ' surprised ' how high and how sticky inflation became.

Okay that was inflation in general. Food inflation in particular. I can argue that not preventing the Russo-Ukraine War by showing how weak and incompetent he was in Afghanistan, olde Joe took a lot of grain off of the world market. Disruptions of Ukrainian and also Russian grain from the global markets sent over all world food prices up. You might argue that Putin, not Biden caused that. I disagree.

Now lets us talk of American food production. What Biden policies affected that ? Lets us start with Joe's attack on f****l f**ls. They are essential for American agriculture in two main ways. First fertilizer. Fertilizers have gone up a lot in price. Nitrogen fertilizer is made mostly from natural gas. So the increase in price of fertilizer under Joe has increased the price of food.

Now lets us speak of oil, gasoline, and diesel fuel. Modern farms need a lot of fuel to run farm machinery. So along with the increase in the price of fertilizer, farmers must deal with increased fuel costs. Then the increase in fuel prices increases the cost of moving the food to market. Then you have increases of fuel at the food processing plants.

Lastly there is the increased cost of labor along the entire food supply chain. With your boy Joe giving out so much free money, for people to stay home, farmers and companies had to pay more to get people to show up for work.

Radiance3

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All I've written were facts. Yours were ALL LIES. Those 12 million i******s Biden invited were from various countries. From the Muslim countries are terrorists, from Hispanics countries are all kinds of mayhem. Fact is the k**ler of the nursing student was from Venezuela, The rapists, and other k**lers all from the Hispanic countries. The 12 i******s who beat and k**led 2 Police Officers were all from the Hispanic countries. Why do you protect them. Are you from there?

Please don't talk to me! I don't like dummy LIARS! [i]