Biden launches free taxi to destination of choice for illegal migrants
Illegal aliens are in for some gravy.
Unlike legal immigrants who must pay their own way to their final destinations in this 5,077-mile span country, the Biden administration has introduced free flights for illegals to their destination of choice. Want a free trip to Hawaii? Off you go, courtesy of U.S. taxpayers but only if you arrive in the U.S. illegally and can name someone (legal or not) there who will take you in.
According to this report from Hot Air:
Since January, according to the Washington Post, “the number of [illegal immigrant] minors in federal custody has more than tripled to 7,000” and that Health and Human Services has instructed ICE to “purchase airplane tickets and cover other transportation costs for minors whose relatives are already living in the United States.”
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is “getting ICE to help transport migrants northward so they can be processed and released.”
I hope Mayorkas is at least negotiating a discount price on those airline tickets. The Trump administration purchased discounted tickets when it deported illegal migrants back to Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador. The idea is to move them away from the border and further north, into other states for processing and release. Biden is moving a catch and release mandate outside of Texas as border towns are complaining of increased burdens of accomodating increasing numbers of illegal migrants, often just released into towns and cities without the ability to take care of themselves
It all may sound humane, it may temporarily relieve pressure on Texas border towns (who surprised all by voting for Trump), but it's loaded with unintended consequences.
As Hot Air noted, this whole free-flights bennie for foreigners who break U.S. immigration law is a public relations move. Not to serve illegals exactly, but to cover up news of a failed policy and humanitarian disaster from ever reaching the public.
Biden, recall, has already abolished President Trump's Remain in Mexico policy and promised amnesty to 30 million illegal immigrants currently in the country. He claimed it was only for those here up to Jan. 1, but the foreigners know better. The ones entering illegally will be in on this coming amnesty through easily created trails of fraud, or else wait on the platform for the next one. This Biden stuff for them is like the subway.
And for Biden, that means news pictures, stories of "kids in cages," expressions of public opposition (among conservatives, illegal immigration has risen to a top public concern and don't think it's not bleeding into independents as news of this gets out).
Yet all his administration can do is the exact thing that makes such pictures much more likely. Instead of stop illegal immigration surges, they incentivize them further in the name of this cover-up. That's because in so doing, they create a public relations message of a very different kind: Effectively an ad, to entice in more illegals.
Free flights for illegals without so much as even a faint effort at means-testing is essentially a taxi-service for the human-smuggling syndicates and Mexican drug cartels to cut their cost structures further.
Biden's free flights to illegals to any place in the U.S. takes considerable cost pressure off the cartels who must otherwise provide it themselves. It's an offer so good it will likely drive smuggling fees down, particularly as Central America empties out and new markets are sought. These criminal rackets, whose love for humanity is known (/s), in turn, are bound to grow fat from the vast incentives offered and eventually threaten Mexico's and Central America's governments, and quite possibly ours.
As for migrants themselves, well, who wouldn't take advantage? The Central American countries supplying the illegals are likely to be left empty of their workforces in their prime working years with all the free stuff up north, available only to those who enter illegally. People are sane and go where their best prospects are. Legal entry to America is now for suckers.
Worse still, Biden's taxi service for cartels is only a part of the vast illegal alien support structure that keeps expanding, yet benefits only the cartels. Breitbart reports that the United Nations has set up a migrant registry for illegals to put their names on, including those who've already been thrown out. (Funny how these supposed poor all seem to have cell phones and computers when they need them). The UN bureaucrats are also identifying places in the U.S. in which to place these unvetted foreigners and preparing to arrange their transport:
“Hundreds of migrants signed up on Friday within hours of the launch of a U.N. website that allows migrants with active cases to register remotely to be processed at the U.S.-Mexico border,” Reuters reported. “The United States and the United Nations are evaluating the locations of migrants and costs associated with possible flights and land transportation within Mexico.”
All of this infrastructure, created to keep the matter from dominating the news, is going to fail, because news of free flights, free hotels, free meals, free vaccinations, free medical care, is only going to incentivize more people to illegally come to the U.S.
And who wouldn't take advantage? U.S. citizenship is being handed out cheaply now. Children brought with their parents get automatic green cards. Amnesty for all is in the offing. Smuggling networks are developed and illegals even post Yelp-like ratings for which rackets offer the best customer service. Kid you not.
The free flights are expected to go out, but as murders and mayhem spread with the admission of all comers, including the cartels and gangs who benefit, any coverup is going to fail. Like the Hamburg bombing described here, too many people will know.
As Bob Gates famously said about Biden: He's been wrong on every foreign policy front.
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Study: Amnesty Will Cost ‘Hundreds of Billions’
President Joe Biden’s amnesty plan will spike Social Security spending by “hundreds of billions” over the next few decades, according to a forecast by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS).
The February 22 report, titled “Amnesty Would Cost the Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds Hundreds of Billions of Dollars,” says:
The new taxes paid by the average amnesty recipient amount to only half of the $94,500 noted above. The net effect of amnesty is therefore $140,330 [in Social Security benefits] minus $47,250 [in paid taxes], which is about $93,000 per recipient. In any large-scale amnesty, in which millions of illegal immigrants gain legal status, it is easy to see how the net cost could reach into the hundreds of billions of dollars.
The predicted $93,000 per person cost would be a financial burden for taxpayers — but would be a giveaway to business groups because the Social Security payments will be converted into purchases of consumer products, healthcare services, medical drugs, apartments, and food.
At least 11 million people — perhaps 20 million — are living illegally in the United States. The number rises as people overstay their visas, evade deportation orders, or sneak over the border — but it also falls as some migrants get deported, leave, or find ways to get green cards via the rolling “Adjustment of Status” process.
But taxpayers’ expenses are also economic gains for business groups and investors. In January 2020, a coalition of business groups sued deputies for President Donald Trump after he reduced the inflow of poor migrants into the U.S. consumer market, saying:
Because [green-card applicants] will receive fewer public benefits under the Rule, they will cut back their consumption of goods and services, depressing demand throughout the economy …
The New American Economy Research Fund calculates that, on top of the $48 billion in income that is earned by individuals who will be affected by the Rule—and that will likely be removed from the U.S. economy—the Rule will cause an indirect economic loss of more than $33.9 billion … Indeed, the Fiscal Policy Institute has estimated that the decrease in SNAP and Medicaid enrollment under the Rule could, by itself, lead to economic ripple effects of anywhere between $14.5 and $33.8 billion, with between approximately 100,000 and 230,000 jobs lost … Health centers alone would be forced to drop as many as 6,100 full-time medical staff.
CIS promised a more detailed report:
This is just a rough estimate. We are currently working on a detailed model that will provide more precise costs for both Social Security and Medicare. Again, however, any reasonable calculation will produce a large cost, simply because amnesty will convert so many outside contributors into actual beneficiaries.
For years, a wide variety of pollsters have shown deep and broad opposition to labor migration and to the inflow of temporary contract workers into jobs sought by young U.S. graduates.
The multiracial, cross-sex, non-racist, class-based, intra-Democratic, and solidarity-themed opposition to labor migration coexists with generally favorable personal feelings toward legal immigrants and toward immigration in theory — despite the media magnification of many skewed polls and articles that still push the 1950’s corporate “Nation of Immigrants” claim.
The deep public opposition is built on the widespread recognition that migration moves money from employees to employers, from families to investors, from young to old, from children to their parents, from homebuyers to real estate investors, and from the central states to the coastal states.
However, Biden’s officials have been broadcasting their desire to change border policies to help extract more migrants from Central America for the U.S. economy. On February 19, for example, deputies of DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas posted a tweet offering support to migrants illegally working in the United States and to migrants who may wish to live in the United States.
We'll get 1 million-plus Biden migrants this year, warns ex-Obama/DHS official now at Harvard.
The warning includes a weak criticism of the ethnic lobbies & open-borders progressives who are undermining an Ivy League giveaway in the amnesty bill.#H1B https://t.co/RqZBEGcxKO— Neil Munro (@NeilMunroDC) February 22, 2021
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