Good question
Jan 6, 2024 12:03:57 #
American Vet wrote:
Ignorant rant from the OPP psycho - take your meds.
You either have no imagination or you are overdosing on your bless meds again.
Jan 6, 2024 12:09:55 #
RascalRiley wrote:
Maybe it is the republicans who are luring migrants. As well as making Biden look bad it is also a way to punish Dem cities. Republicans are cunning.
https://www.businessinsider.com/troy-nehls-senate-border-security-deal-biden-2024-1?op=1
This is how Republicans roll, trash the country for personal gain.
https://www.businessinsider.com/troy-nehls-senate-border-security-deal-biden-2024-1?op=1
This is how Republicans roll, trash the country for personal gain.
It's not Republicans that are offering them sanctuary DA!
They are the invited guests of sanctuary jurisdictions alone.
Jan 6, 2024 12:16:11 #
Kevyn wrote:
Of course we have laws. Due process is an integral part of our law and people who arrive here and request asylum are entitled to due process.
People who are brought here illegally are entitled to nothing.
Jan 6, 2024 12:25:17 #
bggamers
Loc: georgia
Kevyn wrote:
Of course we have laws. Due process is an integral part of our law and people who arrive here and request asylum are entitled to due process.
But border security is also part and parcal and I dont care if he says its secure their lying.You dont have 6 million or more illegals coming into a country if your border is secure that and he flys them all over the country no vaxccinations no one to keep track of where they are
Jan 6, 2024 12:31:15 #
bggamers
Loc: georgia
AuntiE wrote:
Except they are using asylum as an excuse when in fact, they are here for financial gain.
Maybe if they made an effort to fix their own country we would not have a massive rise in welfare because of their presence.
More significant, we would not see Veterans put on the streets so these illegal aliens could have their spaces.
Maybe if they made an effort to fix their own country we would not have a massive rise in welfare because of their presence.
More significant, we would not see Veterans put on the streets so these illegal aliens could have their spaces.
I read an article where they said some of these people are paying 4-5 thousand dollars to get a plane from pretty much anywhere to Nicaragua so they can get into our country with help from Venezuela government and Mexico's government. I would seem we are surrounded by ill wishers
Jan 6, 2024 13:29:47 #
America 1
Loc: South Miami
bggamers wrote:
But border security is also part and parcel, and I don't care if he says it's secure they're lying. You don't have 6 million or more illegals coming into a country if your border is secure, and he flys them all over the country with no vaccinations and no one to keep track of where they are
Send all six million to Delaware and let them jump Biden's fences.
Jan 6, 2024 15:05:26 #
Kevyn wrote:
Of course we have laws. Due process is an integral part of our law and people who arrive here and request asylum are entitled to due process.
Tell us all about the due process of those who illegally cross the Rio Grand!! Tell us all about the due process of the 1000s of got aways!! Tell us all about the due process of those who never show up for their court dates!!
Jan 6, 2024 15:13:58 #
RascalRiley wrote:
Republicans, who control the House are refusing to take action simply to make Dems look bad.
And it is possible that some see the uptick in Latino and Hispanic support for Trump as well as possibly personal financial gains as a wins.
And it is possible that some see the uptick in Latino and Hispanic support for Trump as well as possibly personal financial gains as a wins.
They HAVE taken action!! Why do you lie when it`s been pointed out to you before?? Secure the Border Act and Abbot`s barriers to name the 2 main ones!! Financial gains? You mean like the ones Biden wants for letting these people in the country??
Jan 6, 2024 15:35:54 #
RascalRiley wrote:
Republicans, who control the House are refusing to take action simply to make Dems look bad.
And it is possible that some see the uptick in Latino and Hispanic support for Trump as well as possibly personal financial gains as a wins.
And it is possible that some see the uptick in Latino and Hispanic support for Trump as well as possibly personal financial gains as a wins.
What actions are you referring too?
Jan 6, 2024 15:45:19 #
America 1
Loc: South Miami
RascalRiley wrote:
Maybe it is the Republicans who are luring migrants. As well as making Biden look bad it is also a way to punish Dem cities. Republicans are cunning.
https://www.businessinsider.com/troy-nehls-senate-border-security-deal-biden-2024-1?op=1
This is how Republicans roll, and trash the country for personal gain.
https://www.businessinsider.com/troy-nehls-senate-border-security-deal-biden-2024-1?op=1
This is how Republicans roll, and trash the country for personal gain.
You're likely able to give Biden some pointers on how to look bad.
It is doubtful he needs help.
Biden has shown his ability to look bad for 50 years.
A stumbling, stuttering, idiot.
Jan 6, 2024 15:49:32 #
American Vet wrote:
Not by crossing the border illegally.
Under Trump the “stay in Mexico” regulation slowed the flow of illegals to a trickle. I have seen figures that 85% of asylum seekers are sent home. If they had to stay in Mexico and they knew the odds were they would be deported, then they quit coming. Of course the Democrats didn’t like that at all and Biden lifted that and not see what we have down there. The men coming over the border are looking to get a job so they can send money back home. That stimulates the economy in there old country. I believe that any money wired out of the country should have at least a 50% tax on the amount. Collected by the wiring company ie Western Union. Also any envelope being sent out of the company with cash in it should be impounded by USPS. Do those things would take away the idea they can support their families back home. They would not come in illegally.
Jan 6, 2024 17:01:25 #
LogicallyRight
Loc: Chicago
Kevyn wrote:
Of course we have laws. Due process is an integral part of our law and people who arrive here and request asylum are entitled to due process.
But where does due process include 100% access to all of America that all Americans have, that we have to pay for, along with food, education, health care, housing, etc, that Americans have to work for and pay for on their own, and an unlimited stay until you are found and deported for cause after losing all appeals.
Jan 6, 2024 20:23:31 #
Kevyn wrote:
Of course we have laws. Due process is an integral part of our law and people who arrive here and request asylum are entitled to due process.
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15 or 25 million?
You still haven't come to the realization that Obama, the 'community organizer' , has arranged a " Race War'.
Did you ever wonder why the Vice President of our nation had to be a 'colored female'?
Are these proper or intelligent criteria for someone who may control our life or death?
A WWIII. - A COLORED FEMALE??????
Think about how many "colored" aliens are invading our border. How many millions?
You realize the white person will soon be a minority race here in America?
Hope your happy Kev.
Jan 6, 2024 21:00:25 #
RascalRiley wrote:
Opening Statement of Subcommittee Chairman Tom McClintockMaybe it is the republicans who are luring migrants. As well as making Biden look bad it is also a way to punish Dem cities. Republicans are cunning.
https://www.businessinsider.com/troy-nehls-senate-border-security-deal-biden-2024-1?op=1
This is how Republicans roll, trash the country for personal gain.
https://www.businessinsider.com/troy-nehls-senate-border-security-deal-biden-2024-1?op=1
This is how Republicans roll, trash the country for personal gain.
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 illegal immigration 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 illegal aliens 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 fake identity documents. Earlier this year, a sanitation company employing over 100 illegal alien 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.
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Congressman Tom McClintock Ranking Member, House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration
April 28, 2021
Madam Chairman:
On March 4th, the Ranking Member of the Full Committee along with all six Republican members of this subcommittee wrote to you requesting a hearing on the border crisis caused by President Biden's decision to stop the MPP program, abandon the border wall and instruct ICE not to faithfully execute the laws of the United States. We received no response. On March 12th, I reiterated that request to you in a subsequent letter.
I received no response.
I wish to make that request to you once again. The situation is deteriorating rapidly and the implications for every American community that will soon see its schools heavily impacted by non-English speaking students, its hospital emergency rooms filled with illegal aliens demanding basic health services and its safety compromised as gangs proliferate and as criminal illegal aliens are released into our neighborhoods rather than to be deported.
Worse than ignoring this crisis, the majority seems to be working overtime to make it worse. In the last few weeks, the House has moved legislation to make it harder to keep terrorists out of the country and harder to stop illegal drugs, weapons and other contraband from breaching our ports of entry. And now we are holding this hearing aimed at flooding the labor market with low-wage labor just at the time that working Americans are trying to regain the prosperity they were enjoying under the Trump policies.
Those polices secured our border and for the first time in decades, the income gap between rich and poor began to narrow as blue-collar wages surged. Unemployment reached its lowest rate in 50 years, the poverty rate plunged to its lowest rate in 60 years and wages recorded their strongest growth in 40 years. The labor participation rate began to increase after years of decline as workers who had given up hope of work began seizing opportunities.
I hope the majority will listen closely to Mr. Law's testimony. He will tell us how flooding the market with low-wage labor does enormous economic harm to working Americans. He destroys the myth that programs like the H1B and H2B visas fill gaps in the American labor market. What they actually do is to allow employers to fill positions at wages substantially less than the domestic labor market would otherwise command. Wealthy corporate interests get richer by paying less than the Americans require to do those jobs, immigrant labor gets paid more than they could get in their own countries – and all this at the expense of working Americans whose wages stagnated for decades as the immigrant share of the population TRIPLED.
As he points out, it is the blue-collar American workers who lose and lose big. I particularly want to note this passage: "There are no jobs Americans won't do. There are only wages and working conditions they are not willing to accept for the work. Nor should they. By refusing to offer higher wages or conditions to entice Americans to come to work for them, employers create a mirage of a labor "shortage" and point to importing foreign workers as the only solution. Circling back to supply and demand, employers want to flood the market with labor supply to drive down wages." That's the game they're playing.
Of particular note is the Optional Practical Training program that allows foreign students to work here for three years after graduation. Unlike their American classmates, they are exempt from payroll taxes, making them much cheaper than American graduates to hire. If your family's recent college graduate can't find work, there's a simple reason.
It's not that these policies put foreign workers at parity with American workers. They put American workers at considerable disadvantage competing for jobs and market wages in their own country – and it is their own representatives that are doing this to them.
The crisis at the border is beginning to awaken Americans that their futures are very much at stake – their simple ability to make it in their own country is now being jeopardized by officials they trusted. I think that's why some of my colleagues would rather virtue signal to each other about their charity for strangers in a strange land than to fix our open border and lax immigration laws to restore the American dream for American families.
I yield back.
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Opening Statement of Rep. Tom McClintock
Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement
The Consequences of Criminal Aliens on U.S. Communities
Thursday, July 13, 2023
Yesterday, FBI Director Christopher Wray testified before the House Judiciary Committee that the open Southern border poses a huge security risk to our nation – his words – and that they have tracked a significant increase in crime, criminal cartel activity and gang-related cartels because of this crisis.
More than 5.5 million illegal aliens have been encountered at the southwest border since Joe Biden became President. Over 2.1 million illegal aliens at the border have been released into the U.S. in that same period of time. And more than 1.5 million known gotaways have evaded law enforcement and entered the country since January 2021.
Among the 1.5 million known gotaways, there is no way to estimate the number of terrorists and criminals entering the country. But we do know this: by surrendering to border patrol you are virtually assured of being released into the country. The 1.5 million who have evaded border patrol have done so for a reason: they are either conducting criminal activity or are hiding criminal records.
Adding to this threat is the fact that the administration has essentially adopted the sanctuary policies that prevent many dangerous illegal aliens from being deported after they have been convicted and incarcerated for committing crimes while in the United States. According to Mr. Mayorkas’ enforcement priorities : “Whether a noncitizen poses a current threat to public safety is not to be determined according to bright lines or categories.” The result of such “prioritization” is that few criminal aliens are arrested and removed.
The numbers speak for themselves:
• In fiscal year 2020 – the last year of the Trump administration -- ICE removed 186,000 aliens from the United States. Two years into the Biden Administration, deportations have plunged to only 72,000 – a decline of more than 60 percent.
• The Trump Administration removed 104,000 convicted criminals from the country in fiscal year 2020, yet the Biden Administration only removed 38,000 in fiscal year 2022. That requires repeating. The number of convicted criminal aliens removed from our country has declined by nearly two-thirds under this administration.
• Similarly, in 2022, the Biden Administration removed just 60 percent of the number of known or suspected gang members as the Trump Administration did just two years earlier.
Explain to me how this make our communities safer? Does anyone seriously believe that making it harder to remove criminal illegal aliens from our communities makes those communities safer? Many of these aliens arrive deeply indebted to the cartels whose affiliated gangs follow them into our communities to enforce those debts – often by pressing them into drug trafficking and human trafficking. A cartel massacre of an entire family just hit Tulare, California, a rural community not far from my district.
The cartels are here because we have let them in. And as Director Wray testified yesterday, we have no idea how many terrorists have now entered the country as well.
But these aren’t just statistics. Every crime devastates the victims of it, as we will hear today.
• The sexual assault of a three-year-old at a Chicago McDonald’s;
• The sexual assault and murder of a 92-year-old woman in Queens, New York;
• The murder of a college student in Iowa;
• The sexual assault and murder of a 20-year-old girl in Maryland;
• The assault of a teenage girl in Alabama;
• The assault and robbery of two friends at a Maryland park;
• The attempted abduction of a 4-year-old girl in Virginia;
• The murder of a 15-year-old boy in Maryland.
These Democratic policies might create sanctuaries for criminal illegal aliens, but they are creating a dystopian nightmare for law-abiding citizens and non-citizens alike who must live in them.
And we now have a new phenomenon: crime tourism. In the past several years, criminal gangs, largely from Chile, have exploited the Visa Waiver Program to shake once-quiet communities across the United States. With multimillion-dollar heists from southern California to Florida and burglaries of family homes from New York to Virginia, these criminal aliens continue their crime sprees across the country. And in sanctuary jurisdictions, they largely escape accountability.
Today, our witnesses will describe these real-life, everyday consequences of crimes that would not occur at all save for the fact that we are not enforcing our immigration laws. If we simply enforced those laws, there would be fewer criminal aliens in the country, and fewer crimes committed by them. It is that simple.
Jan 6, 2024 21:29:06 #
Kevyn wrote:
Of course we have laws. Due process is an integral part of our law and people who arrive here and request asylum are entitled to due process.
"Due process is an integral part of our law" unless you're a Republ-I-CAN...and then the democRATS think you have NONE!!!!
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