America cannot afford the daily influx of 10,000 new migrants
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Discussing the border crisis in 2019, former DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson said that under the Obama administration, 1,000 migrant apprehensions in a single day was considered a crisis. Ten thousand in a single day is a catastrophe. It's unsustainable and it is killing America.
Decades ago, Nobel prize-winning economist Milton Friedman issued a warning. He said, "It's just obvious you can't have free immigration and a welfare state." He reasoned that "the supply of immigrants will become infinite.
His admonition rings even truer today than it did 30 years ago.
Last Wednesday, it was reported that more than 10,000 migrants had crossed our southern border in a single day. Asked for a comment, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) told a Fox News reporter, "What you see is different than what's happening in actuality."
In a Friday night news dump, we learned that "what's happening in actuality" is infinitely worse. Noticeably absent from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection news release was the total number of migrant encounters in August: 304,162. That's yet another record.
Also conspicuously missing from the report was any historical data. With one month left to go in fiscal 2023, the number of migrant encounters this year stands at 2,860,127, already eclipsing the prior year's total of 2,766,582. The figures for fiscal 2021 and fiscal 2020 are 1,956,519 and 646,822, respectively.
Long before the statement provides even the link to this data, readers are assured that "CBP remains vigilant and expects to see fluctuations in migration, knowing that smugglers continue to mislead and exploit vulnerable individuals."
One explanation for the higher numbers is that encounters along our northern border have picked up at a fairly robust pace over the past year. Another reason is a little-known "parole" program introduced last year by the Department of Homeland Security and implemented in January: the CBP One mobile application.
Included in this year's tally are 221,456 "noncitizens" from Nicaragua, Venezuela, Cuba, and Haiti who have bypassed the border altogether and flown directly into one of 43 designated U.S. airports by scheduling appointments on the CBP One app. This data was obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request filed by Todd Bensman, a senior fellow at the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Immigration Studies.
Who knows what took him so long, but last Wednesday, Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) declared the border crisis to be "an invasion" by the Mexican cartels. He attached a November 2022 letter he had written to President Joe Biden, Attorney General Merrick Garland, and DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas that highlights the effects of the administration's failure to enforce U.S. immigration laws.
Abbott wrote, "The federal government's failure has forced me to invoke Article I, § 10, Clause 3 of the U.S. Constitution, thereby enabling the State of Texas to protect its own territory against invasion by the Mexican drug cartels."
"Ranches are being ripped apart, and homes are vulnerable to intrusion. Our border communities are regularly disrupted by human traffickers and bailouts. Deadly fentanyl is crossing the porous border to such a degree that it is now the leading cause of death for citizens between the ages of 18 and 45."
Abbott wasn't exaggerating. The Biden administration has ceded control over our southwest border to the Mexican cartels, which have become billion-dollar enterprises over the past few years.
Several weeks ago, Bensman spoke to a Border Patrol agent in Fronton, Texas, who told him the cartels have prepared the migrants well for encounters with U.S. immigration authorities. Their paperwork is in order. They have newly printed birth certificates. He said, "These guys know everything that we do. … They know what to say when it comes to asylum." When asked why they are claiming asylum, "a thousand of them will say someone wants to kill me," he added.
In addition to the grave implications for U.S. national security, the border crisis is putting an enormous strain on our economy. According to the agent, migrant families, which are considered to be one parent and one child, receive $2,200 per month from the U.S. government for cost-of-living expenses. And some families "double-dip." The agent explained that a family of four can claim they are two families and thus receive $4,400. Considering the average Social Security recipient receives $1,900 per month, this truly is putting Americans last.
You can't fault migrants for wanting a better life. But unlike the millions of immigrants who have flocked to our shores throughout our nation's history in search of opportunity, modern-day migrants expect to be taken care of. And those expectations aren't misplaced.
In most cases, all they have to do is set foot on American soil and, courtesy of the U.S. taxpayer, they are immediately supplied with food, shelter, healthcare, and even education. They automatically become economic drains on the state.
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It's America's own fault for its self-promotion that America is the land of opportunity where the streets are paved with gold, the greatest nation in the world. Turn the Statue of Liberty around to face downtown New York City. Maybe a little humility might make the migrants think twice. Admit to some of the warts.
If all else fails, send them all to Greenland. With global warming having its effects, there will be lots of space for them to become pioneers.
Ahhh, are you jellyy?....
No. Means nothing to me. I'm not childish.
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I like that idea and a big red neon NO VANCEY sign like hotels light up when they are full.
Exactly, you nailed it Buzz. While the misinformation, condescending elites will point to:
They don’t want to admit that the real problem is public relations self-promotion disaster.
Greenland is too far away and hard to get to. I think we should just send them to Canada. They did, after all, claimed they would be more then happy to take in and assist asylum seekers.
What do you think China's response be to people crossing their borders illegally and in the numbers that are crossing our southern border.
They return NK men to be dealt with by Lil’ Kim but they happily receive the trafficked girls and young women for the sex service industry.
Canada has certainly been more welcoming of migrants and asylum seekers than the USA. As for China, I have no idea what either the policy or the proceedings are. I was certainly welcomed and appreciated when I first came here to teach English 17 years ago, but then I did so legally. Back then people would stop me on the street wanting to take a photo with me. At a primary school I visited in the Sichuan mountains, where the massive 2008 earthquake destroyed whole villages and killed thousands, the students, most of whom never having seen a foreigner before, lined up to get my autograph.
You're just as capable as I am to research that information.
Okay, you win, congratulations. You're the hostess with the mostess and you're welcome to it. Case closed. End of story.
America can no longer afford the idiocy, fear, hate and useless expense of the MAGA.
America can no longer afford the idiocy, fear, hate and useless expense of the Biden administration.
So you support this illegal invasion?
It's going to come back to bite the Democrats in the ass
No. The so called invaders will work, pay taxes and do the best for themselves. While the MAGA will whine, bitch, think they're owed something and won't get off their fat asses and get a job.
Amazingly the mayor’s of Blue cities see it differently than you.
Yes, they will work, everyone loves cheap labor. Haven't you heard? They will pay sales tax... and they most definitely will do what they consider best for themselves
Of course. They're being sent and paid for with taxpayer dollars by governors of red states. It is cruel. Then again, cruelty is the point, right?
Quit bitching then. Cheap is the word, right?
The word for what?.... perhaps to you it's a benefit but to working citizens it's not.
They've gotten such a small taste....
Quit bitching..... also you should probably buckle up, it's gonna get way worse
Exactly, they should just keep piling up in red border states, no cruelty there. Only red state tax dollars should be spent on them to shield blue states from any financial burden.
So you have proof about all of that? Seems to me it is the liberal, progressives and Democrats that are always looking for things for free and did not earn and won't get off their "fat asses" and get a job. You know things like paying off student loans debt or free health care.
Exactly, while some will point at Entitlement Promgrams and the Military-Industrial Complex at the cost drivers increasing annual deficits and total, federal debt, but you spotlighted the cost driver as MAGA.