Thursday, April 25, 2019

SOCIAL SECURITY FACES BANKRUPTCY BUT WILL STAY PAY OUT TO ILLEGALS!

What Social Security’s $16.8T Shortfall Means for You


Rachel Greszler
By Rachel Greszler | April 24, 2019 | 12:10 PM EDT


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Workers and retirees have long been warned that Social Security’s trust fund will run out of funds sometime in the future, and that the program has many trillions of dollars in unfunded obligations.
But what does this year’s 2019 Trustees Report, revealing $16.8 trillion in unfunded obligations over the next 75 years and insolvency in 2035, mean for current workers and retirees? (The $16.8 trillion figure includes the $13.9 trillion 75-year unfunded obligation, plus $2.9 trillion in trust fund IOUs that represent additional debt.)
Well, for starters, 2035 is only 16 years away. That means that anyone below the age of 52 today is on track to receive only 75 percent to 80 percent of their scheduled benefits.
But it’s not just younger workers who will receive benefit cuts. Consider people who are retiring in 2019 at age 62: Benefit cuts will kick in for them at age 78.
Social Security’s insolvency is not some far-off event. It will affect virtually all current and future workers and many of today’s current retirees.
Now, let’s move on to the magnitude of Social Security’s $16.8 trillion shortfall.
That’s the equivalent of $107,000 for every worker in the U.S.—roughly two times the average earnings.
That’s also enough to turn young workers into millionaires. If Sara, who just started her first job out of college, put $107,000 into a retirement account and never added another penny, she would have $1,000,000 upon retirement (assuming a 5% real rate of return).
Unfortunately, though, today’s workers are starting out in the hole, instead of ahead of the game.
In addition to already paying 12.4 percent of their paychecks to Social Security, current workers will either have to pay drastically higher taxes—as much as 33 percent more—or receive lower benefits.
If Congress acted today to make Social Security solvent through a 22 percent tax increase, Terrence, another young worker who makes $50,000 per year, would pay an extra $1,400 in taxes each year (an increase from $6,200 to $7,600 per year).
If Congress fails to do anything until the trust funds run out of reserves in 2035, Terrence’s payroll taxes would have to rise by 29 percent, and he would pay $1,800 more per year ($8,000 total in Social Security taxes).
What if Congress cuts benefits instead? 
That would translate into about $57,600 less in benefits for Terrence (assuming he lives to age 82) if Congress were to cut all benefits by 17 percent immediately, and almost $78,000 less in benefits if Congress waits until 2035 and cuts benefits by 23 percent.
So, should workers hope that Congress increases taxes to preserve their scheduled benefits or reduce benefits to prevent tax hikes?
Analysis by my colleagues and me at The Heritage Foundation provides a resounding case for not raising taxes (and instead implementing gradual and targeted benefit reductions).
The reason for that lies predominantly in the fact that Social Security is an intergenerational transfer program, as opposed to a savings program. Every single dollar of the $1 trillion that workers paid in Social Security taxes in 2018 is already in retirees’ hands.
Talk about sapping workers out of opportunity and investment. These taxes—which many workers perceive as savings—never even have a chance to earn a positive return.
Our analysis showed that if Marc, a 23-year-old with $60,000 in annual earnings, were to invest his Social Security taxes on his own, he would accumulate a retirement account worth $1.56 million.
If Marc wanted the safety of a guaranteed annuity, he could use this account to purchase an annuity that would provide more than $6,000 per month—nearly three times the $2,200 benefit that Social Security would provide. 
Even low-income earners who receive higher returns from Social Security would be far better off with lower taxes and more personal savings. 
If Ashley, a 23-year-old with just under $20,000 in annual earnings, had the opportunity to invest her payroll taxes on her own, she would accumulate a $355,000 retirement. That account would be enough to purchase an annuity that would provide her with $1,260 per month, or 40 percent more than the $900 Social Security will provide.
The aim of this analysis isn’t to end Social Security entirely and let workers keep all of their payroll taxes, but is meant to make a compelling case that extracting ever-increasing portions of workers’ paychecks is both harmful to workers and beyond the intended scope of the program.
Congress should reorient Social Security in ways that protect and improve benefits for the most vulnerable while increasing incomes and opportunities for all workers by limiting Social Security’s drag on their paychecks.
The Heritage Foundation has a plan that will accomplish the latter—making the program solvent and reducing Social Security’s tax rate by 13 percent in the long run—by gradually shifting to a universal anti-poverty benefit, tying Social Security’s retirement age to increases in life expectancy, using a more accurateinflation index, and modernizing the program.
Stay tuned for the full analysis of our proposed reforms in this year’s Heritage Foundation “Blueprint for Balance,” set for publication on May 20.
Rachel Greszler is research fellow in economics, budget, and entitlements in the Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget, of the Institute for Economic Freedom, at The Heritage Foundation.


Trump: Americans 'Deserve to Know Who Is in This Country'




By Susan Jones | 


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(CNSNews.com) - President Trump is tweeting once again about immigration and "partisan Dems" intent on impeachment.
"The American people deserve to know who is in this Country. Yesterday, the Supreme Court took up the Census Citizenship question, a really big deal. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!" Trump said in his first Wednesday morning tweet.
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday on whether the 2020 Census may ask people for their citizenship status.
On Dec. 12, 2017 the Justice Department asked the Census Bureau to reinstate a citizenship question on the decennial census to provide data on the voting age population. The Justice Department said that having such data would permit more effective enforcement of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which protects minority populations.
But Democrat opponents strongly object. They say noncitizens will be less likely to fill out the Census form if they are in the country illegally -- as millions of them are -- and that could lead to inaccurate data.
The decennial census is mandated by the Constitution, and the results are used to apportion Congressional seats and allocate federal funds.
In two other tweets on Wednesday, Trump warned about continuing problems at the U.S. border:
A very big Caravan of over 20,000 people started up through Mexico. It has been reduced in size by Mexico but is still coming. Mexico must apprehend the remainder or we will be forced to close that section of the Border & call up the Military. The Coyotes & Cartels have weapons!
Mexico’s Soldiers recently pulled guns on our National Guard Soldiers, probably as a diversionary tactic for drug smugglers on the Border. Better not happen again! We are now sending ARMED SOLDIERS to the Border. Mexico is not doing nearly enough in apprehending & returning!
President Trump also indicated that impeachment is on his mind, and he outlined his thoughts on dealing with it, if it happens:
"The Mueller Report, despite being written by Angry Democrats and Trump Haters, and with unlimited money behind it ($35,000,000), didn’t lay a glove on me. I DID NOTHING WRONG. If the partisan Dems ever tried to Impeach, I would first head to the U.S. Supreme Court. Not only are there no “High Crimes and Misdemeanors,” there are no Crimes by me at all. All of the Crimes were committed by Crooked Hillary, the Dems, the DNC and Dirty Cops - and we caught them in the act! We waited for Mueller and WON, so now the Dems look to Congress as last hope!"
The Trump White House is refusing to allow former and current White House officials to testify before various House committees, something that is sure to lead to continuing legal battles. Trump told the Washington Post that the lawmakers issuing the subpoenas are “obviously very partisan.”
And in a letter dated Tuesday, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin told the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee that President Trump’s personal and business tax returns will not be produced “unless and until it is determined to be consistent with law.”
Mnuchin called the request for Trump’s tax returns “unprecedented,” and he said he expects to give the committee a final decision by May 6.


DHS Releases 7K Illegal Aliens into U.S. in Five Days; 1.4K Released Every Day




Central American migrants surrender to United States Border Patrol officers after crossing to El Paso, Texas from Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua state, Mexico on April 21, 2019. (Photo by Herika Martinez / AFP) (Photo credit should read HERIKA MARTINEZ/AFP/Getty Images)
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JOHN BINDER
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President Trump’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has released about 7,000 border crossers and illegal aliens into the interior of the United States in the last five days.

The latest catch and release totals obtained by Breitbart News revealed that, currently, DHS is releasing about 1,400 border crossers and illegal aliens into the interior of the U.S. every day. Between April 18 to April 22, DHS released about 7,000 border crossers and illegal aliens into the country.
The catch and release process often entails federal immigration officials busing border crossers into nearby border cities and dropping them off with the promise that they will show up for their immigration and asylum hearings, sometimes years later. The overwhelming majority of border crossers and illegal aliens are never deported from the country once they are released into the U.S.
Today, there are anywhere between 11 to 22 million illegal aliens living across the country — the majority of which are concentrated in states like California, New York, Florida, Texas, and Illinois.
Over the past five days, El Paso, Texas, has had to absorb 2,800 of the 7,000 border crossers and illegal aliens released into the country. Likewise, San Antonio, Texas, has had to take about 2,200, while about 1,200 were dropped off in Phoenix, Arizona, and 800 in San Diego, California.
Former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach has exclusively detailed at Breitbart News three executive actions that Trump administration and DHS officials could take to immediately end catch and release — including creating additional detention space where immigration court hearings can be quickly heard.
The expanded use of catch and release by the Trump administration has forced communities like Yuma, Arizona, to declare a local state of emergency as the city and county is unable to deal with soaring levels of illegal immigration.
Since December 21, 2018, about 153,000 border crossers and illegal aliens have been released into the interior of the U.S. This dictates that DHS is releasing about 38,250 border crossers and illegal aliens into the country every month with close to 10,000 released every week and about 1,400 released every day.
At this current trajectory, by the end of the year, DHS will have released nearly 460,000 border crossers and illegal aliens into American communities — in addition to the projected half a million illegal aliens who will successfully cross the U.S.-Mexico border this year, undetected by federal officials.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder

Nearly 4-in-5 GOP Women: Shut Down Border to Halt All Illegal Immigration







Central American migrants, part of the caravan hoping to reach the U.S. border, walk on the shoulder of a road in Frontera Hidalgo, Mexico, Friday, April 12, 2019. The group pushed past police guarding the bridge and joined a larger group of about 2,000 migrants who are walking toward Tapachula, …
Isabel Mateos/AP Photo
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Nearly 4-in-5 Republican women say shutting down the United States-Mexico border is a “good idea” to stop surging illegal immigration, while more than 4-in-9 Republican voters, overall, say President Trump is “not tough enough” on illegal immigration, a new poll finds.

The latest Fox News poll conducted by Braun Research, Inc. finds that about 46 percent, a plurality, of GOP voters want Trump to be tougher on illegal immigration and the United States-Mexico border.
When pollsters asked, “Do you think the Trump administration is too tough in its treatment of illegal immigrants to the U.S., not tough enough, or about right?” only eight percent of Republicans said Trump was “too tough” on the issue, while 46 percent said he was “not tough enough.” Roughly 41 percent of GOP voters said his handling of the issue has been “about right.”
Across the board, Republican men and women by a plurality say Trump is not tough enough on illegal immigration. About 47 percent of GOP men said Trump should be tougher on the issue, as well as 45 percent of GOP women.
Likewise, about 66 percent of white Americans living in rural communities said Trump needed to be tougher on illegal immigration or that he was handling the issue correctly. Among Trump voters, nearly 50 percent said the president needed to be tougher on illegal immigration.
While Trump has given Mexico a year to handle the soaring levels of illegal immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border, the vast majority of Republican voters want him to close the southern border.
About 75 percent of GOP voters, or 3-in-4, said they believe it is a “good idea” for Trump to shut down the southern border for the time being. More than 30 percent of swing voters said the same.
Republican women are the most supportive of shutting down the southern border to halt illegal immigration with about 79 percent calling the plan a “good idea.”
Shutting down the border is also supported by about 67 percent of white Evangelical Christians, 52 percent of white Americans in rural communities, and nearly 70 percent of self-identified conservatives.
By a wide plurality, nearly 40 percent of Republican voters and more than 20 percent of all voters told pollsters that illegal immigration, and immigration in general, is the biggest issue facing the nation. Immigration ranks as the top issue among all voters, outpacing hot-button issues like health care and the economy.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.








Trump’s DHS Releases 12,500 Illegal Aliens into U.S. in One Week


MCALLEN, TX - JULY 25: Central American immigrants just released from U.S. Border Patrol detention board a Greyhound bus for Houston and then other U.S. destinations on July 25, 2014 in McAllen, Texas. Federal agencies have been overwhelmed by tens of thousands of immigrant families and unaccompanied minors from Central …
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JOHN BINDER
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Over the last week, President Trump’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released a total of about 12,500 border crossers and illegal aliens into the interior of the United States, federal data confirms.

According to catch and release totals obtained by Breitbart News, DHS has released about 12,500 border crossers and illegal aliens into the U.S. over a nine-day period between April 9 and April 17. At this rate, DHS is releasing more than 1,300 border crossers and illegal aliens every day into the country.
The catch and release process often entails federal immigration officials busing border crossers into nearby border cities and dropping them off with the promise that they will show up for their immigration and asylum hearings, sometimes years later. The overwhelming majority of border crossers and illegal aliens are never deported from the country once they are released into the U.S.
In the last week, alone, nearly 6,000 border crossers and illegal aliens have been released into the El Paso, Texas, area, and about 3,500 have been released into the San Antonio, Texas, region.
The catch and release policy carried out by DHS, in recent months, has inundated and overwhelmed border regions of the country so much that in Yuma, Arizona, this week, Mayor Douglas Nicholls declared an emergency, citing a lack of public resources to deal with the release of thousands of migrants into the community.
Since December 21, 2018, a total of 146,000 border crossers and illegal aliens have been released into the interior of the U.S. At current illegal immigration levels, the country is on pace to admit between one to 1.5 million. Should the Trump administration continue to mass-release border crossers and illegal aliens into the country, there could potentially be nearly 490,000 released by the end of the year.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.

Poll: Plurality of Republicans Say Immigration Hurts the United States




TIJUANA, MEXICO - APRIL 29: People climb a section of border fence to look into the U.S. as members of a caravan of Central American asylum seekers arrive to a rally on April 29, 2018 in Tijuana, Baja California Norte, Mexico. More than 300 immigrants, the remnants of a caravan …
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JOHN BINDER
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A plurality of Republican voters, more than 3-in-7, say illegal and legal immigration hurt the United States and make the country a “worse place to live,” a new poll finds.

The latest Fox News poll finds that about 43 percent of GOP voters said overall immigration to the U.S. — where the country admits more than 1.5 million illegal and legal immigrants every year — hurts the country and makes it a “worse place to live.”
Meanwhile, less than 25 percent of Republicans said immigration helps the U.S., and 27 percent said whether immigration helps or hurts the country “depends.”
Similarly, 45 percent of voters who support President Trump said immigration, in general, is a detriment to the country and makes Americans worse off in the long run. Only about 22 percent of Trump voters said immigration is helpful to the U.S.
Working-class white Americans are largely split over whether immigration helps or hurts the country. While 35 percent of whites without a college degree said immigration helps the U.S., about 33 percent said immigration hurts the U.S., and 24 percent said it “depends” on whether immigration helps or hurts the nation.
Republican men and women, by a plurality, view overall immigration as a net negative for Americans. Roughly 4-in-10 male GOP voters said immigration hurts the U.S., and even more female GOP voters, 45 percent, said immigration makes America a worse place to live. Only 26 percent of GOP men and 22 percent of GOP women said immigration is a net positive for Americans.
Extensive research by economists like George Borjas and analyst Steven Camarota has found that the country’s current mass legal immigration system — where 1.2 million mostly low-skilled workers are admitted annually — burdens U.S. taxpayers and America’s working and middle class while redistributing about $500 billion in wealth every year to major employers.
Borjas has previously called the country’s legal immigration system the “largest anti-poverty program” in the world at the expense of blue-collar Americans and middle-class taxpayers.
Camarota, director of research for the Center for Immigration Studies, has found that every one-percent increase in the immigrant composition of American workers’ occupations reduces their weekly wages by about 0.5 percent. This means the average native-born American worker today has his weekly wages reduced by perhaps 8.5 percent because of current legal immigration levels.
In a state like Florida, where immigrants make up about 25.4 percent of the labor force, American workers have their weekly wages reduced by about 12.5 percent. In California, where immigrants make up 34 percent of the labor force, American workers’ weekly wages are reduced by potentially 17 percent.
Likewise, every one-percent increase in the immigrant composition of low-skilled U.S. occupations reduces wages by about 0.8 percent. Should 15 percent of low-skilled jobs be held by foreign-born workers, it would reduce the wages of native-born American workers by perhaps 12 percent.
Sens. Tom Cotton (R-AR), David Perdue (R-GA), and Josh Hawley (R-MO) have reintroduced the Reforming American Immigration for Strong Employment (RAISE) Act, which would reduce legal immigration levels to about 500,000 admissions a year and end the process known as “chain migration,” where newly naturalized citizens are able to bring an unlimited number of foreign relatives to the U.S.
Trump has previously endorsed the RAISE Act and has pushed to implement a plan that would prevent legal immigrants from permanently resettling in the country if they are deemed to be a burden to American taxpayers. The plan, Breitbart News has been told, is set to be fully enforced this year.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.


1600 Migrants Released in One New Mexico City over 10 Days



247 migrants apprehended by agents in New Mexico
File Photo: U.S. Border Patrol/El Paso Sector
BOB PRICE
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Officials in Las Cruces, New Mexico, reported on Monday that Border Patrol agents released nearly 1,600 migrants in their community over a 10-day period. The City was forced to spend about $75,000 for humanitarian assistance.

Officials said that Border Patrol agents dropped off 105 “asylum seekers” on Saturday to a local high school. Agents dropped off another 56 on Sunday morning, KVIA ABC7 reported Monday morning.
Border Patrol officials began releasing migrants apprehended in the El Paso Sector on April 12, the El Paso ABC affiliate reported. The releases come as the sector reached the breaking point with thousands of Central American migrant families crossing the border illegally in West Texas and the New Mexico boot heel.
The City of Las Cruces responded by setting up a network of temporary shelters to house the “asylum seekers” while they attempt to arrange travel to other parts of the U.S., the Las Cruces Sun News reported. Nearly 1,200 were dropped off by Border Patrol agents during the first week alone.
Mayor Ken Miyagishima told the local newspaper that most of the migrants move out quickly. He said, “75 percent are gone.” He explained the City is providing resources to about 250 people at any given time.
The mayor made arrangements with Santa Fe and Albuquerque to take the migrants on a rotating basis.
“It looks like they’ll be taking some. We just need to figure out transportation,” the mayor told the local newspaper.
We could easily handle 200, but not 200 a day,” the mayor explained. “That’s why I’m thinking if Sanda Fe can do 150 to 200 every three days, I think it is more manageable.”
New Mexico Homeland Security Department officials told the El Paso television station they expect more “asylum seekers” to continue being dropped off in Las Cruces “for several more weeks.”
In the meantime, county officials in neighboring Otero County declared a state of emergency and called on the New Mexico governor to re-deploy the National Guard to so that Border Patrol agents can re-open interior checkpoints, the El Paso Times reported. In March, Border Patrol officials temporarily shut down the interior checkpoints where agents routinely find drugs and “human cargo” being smuggled to the nation’s interior cities from the border region.
“If this demand is not met by the State of New Mexico in one week’s time, the County of Otero will take action itself to provide security and safety and well-being for the people in this county,” Otero County Commission Chairman Couy Griffin said in a statement. “Otero County will also consider litigation in regards to the State of New Mexico failing to follow its constitutional duties towards the people of Otero County.”
In February, New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham ordered the removal of most of her state’s National Guard troops from border security assistance missions, Breitbart News reported. This action, combined with the ever-increasing surge of Central American migrants in the region, forced Border Patrol executives to shut down the checkpoints in order to move resources to the border for processing, caring for, and transporting the migrants.
“I reject the federal contention that there exists an overwhelming national security crisis at the southern border, along which are some of the safest communities in the country. However, I recognize and appreciate the legitimate concerns of residents and officials in southwestern New Mexico, particularly Hidalgo County, who have asked for our assistance, as migrants and asylum-seekers continue to appear at their doorstep,” the governor said.
Otero County officials appear to disagree. The declaration of emergency passed the commissioners court with a unanimous vote.
Bob Price serves as associate editor and senior political news contributor for the Breitbart Border team. He is an original member of the Breitbart Texas team. Follow him on Twitter @BobPriceBBTX and Facebook.

The Border Disaster Goes from Bad to Worse

The hockey stick that keeps going up

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On April 9, 2019, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) released its latest numbers from the Southwest border. Last week, I estimated that 100,000 aliens would have been apprehended between the ports of entry and deemed inadmissible at the ports of entry, along that border in March 2019. I am man enough to admit when I was wrong: There were actually 103,492, up from 76,535 the month before, a 35 percent increase over an already unbelievable flood.
If only the bad news ended there. Of that 103,492, Border Patrol apprehended 53,077 aliens traveling in family units (that is at least one adult traveling with at least one child) last month, up from 36,531 family units the month before, a 45 percent increase. Border Patrol also apprehended 8,975 unaccompanied alien children (UAC), up from 6,828 in March, a 31 percent increase.
At the ports, CBP officers in the Office of Field Operations (OFO) deemed 4,194 family units inadmissible, which was actually down from 4,210 the month before. This likely reflects the fact that aliens did not want to wait at ports of entry for their opportunity to claim credible fear, but decided to enter illegally to do so instead. Three fewer UACs were deemed inadmissible of the ports of entry last month than in the month before, again probably for the same reason.
Interestingly, CBP has added a new category for inadmissibility, "accompanied minor child (AMC)", which is likely a minor traveling with an adult who is neither that minor's parent nor guardian. There were 100 AMCs in March 2019, up from 76 the month before, a 31.5 percent increase.
If only the bad news ended there. On March 29, 2019, the Washington Post reported:
Immigration and Customs Enforcement [ICE] is sharply curtailing the number of families it will hold at a detention center outside San Antonio, because the agency is unable to transport them there amid an influx of migrant families at the southern border.
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"The current volume of family units crossing the Southwest border has overwhelmed ICE's limited transportation resources to the point that ICE is currently only able to route a limited number of families apprehended at that border to the one other family residential center in Texas — the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Tex.," ICE spokeswoman Danielle Bennett said in a statement.
To be clear, this is not a situation where ICE lacked the detention space, as that article makes clear:
Beginning Monday, ICE will temporarily use part of the Karnes County Family Residential Center to detain about 700 adult women, with a smaller portion of the jail reserved for families. Earlier this month, the facility had 528 family members detained, but by Friday that had been reduced to 63 parents and children.
Officials expect the facility to return to exclusively detaining families after about three months.
Because of these issues, the Post reported, "more migrants, after crossing, will be released directly into the country, where they will await an immigration court hearing — a process that can take months or years." Direct releases will simply encourage more aliens to begin the trek from their home countries to the United States.
Again, this was not a question of detention space (which is also lacking), but logistics. Not that ICE could really be blamed that much for the "limited transportation resources"; again, this is an unprecedented influx of family units.
The talking point that there is no "crisis" at the border no longer seems to be getting much traction, as Fox News reported on April 11:
Months after repeatedly dismissing and mocking President Trump's claim of a national emergency at the Southern U.S. border, the mainstream media are grappling with reality, with no less than The New York Times declaring the border crisis at "breaking point."
Yet as recently as February, a New York Times fact-checker of Trump's State of the Union speech tweeted: "President Trump described illegal border crossings as a 'urgent national crisis.' This is false."
The Washington Post's editorial board said "there is no crisis" at the border and called Trump's national emergency declaration "untethered from truth and reality" and a "make-believe emergency."
"Mr. Trump's technique is to spin fiction as fact, secure in the knowledge that minds will reel as fact-checkers labor to deconstruct his ziggurat of falsehoods. So let's stick to one big, basic truth: There is no crisis at the southern border," the editorial said.
CNN's Anderson Cooper, meanwhile, echoed many other left-wing voices on social media and implied that the fact the president went to spend his weekend away from the White House after declaring the emergency was evidence that there was no urgent problem at the border.
Fast forward, the same media outlets are now scrambling to accurately portray the border crisis, no longer fearing to quote top officials and their data, and declare that the southern border is at a "breaking point" amid a surge in the number of illegal immigrant crossings.
And, if historical trends hold, the problem is just going to get worse. The CBP statistics show a six-year trend-line. In every year except for 2017 (directly following the president's inauguration), the number of aliens apprehended and deemed inadmissible along the Southwest border peaks in May. Most years, the increase is a gradual slope; in FY 2019, by contrast, it is a hockey stick that started its upward spike in January.
According to Wikipedia, hockey season will end in late May or early June. Let's hope the disaster at the border ends before that. I am not hopeful, though.

Heather Mac Donald of the Manhattan Institute has testified before a Congressional committee that in 2004, 95% of all outstanding warrants for murder in Los Angeles were for illegal aliens; in 2000, 23% of all Los Angeles County jail inmates were illegal aliens and that in 1995, 60% of Los Angeles’s largest street gang, the 18th Street gang, were illegal aliens. 

California became a Democratic stronghold not because 

Californians became socialists, but because millions of socialists

moved there.  Immigration turned California blue, 

and immigration is ultimately to blame for California's high 

poverty level.


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