Other policies include a shift away from prioritizing the deportation of illegal immigrants. The Free Beacon last year reported on deportations plummeting by 90 percent under the Biden administration, meaning fewer illegal immigrants are now removed from the country than at any point in decades.
THE DEMOCRAT'S NAFTA OPEN BORDERS IS ALL ABOUT KEEPING WAGES DEPRESSED. IS IT WORKING???
There is also an impact on wages.
If impoverished migrants agree to work for less than minimum wages without benefits, the working-class citizens either suffers job redundancy or depression in wages. If they work under the table and send their untaxed remittances home, communities go underdeveloped and get a run-down look.
When some among the migrants commit violent crimes -- through car break-ins, burglaries, vandalism, fentanyl dealing, identity theft, strongarm robberies, rapes, and other violent crimes, it is the working class citizen who suffers. At times, they pay with their lives.
Holding the open-borders Democrats accountable.
The U.S. is currently in the midst of a serious border crisis since Joe Biden took over.
More than 1.7 million migrant encounters occurred in FY 2021, and more than 2 million in FY 2022. The actual number of individuals who managed to cross the border and are inside the U.S. has to be considerably higher.
So what usually occurs after these migrants are apprehended?
The Biden administration transports these migrants, including the underaged migrants, via night flights, from Texas to New York, late at night.
So what happens after they land?
The New York Post reported that the migrants are then bussed to various other states or cities such as New Jersey or Philadelphia. It isn’t beyond the realms of possibility that these migrants are dropped into swing states.
None of this is reported by the mainstream news media, obviously.
The migrants are resettled into working-class neighborhoods of these states.
Any locality has facilities and resources that are directly proportional to the number of residents, i.e., citizens, living there.
What happens when migrants inundate these localities?
They occupy parks, pavements, and other free spaces, and once again the citizens whose tax money funds the construction and maintenance of these places, suffers.
When the sanitation and waste management facilities are overwhelmed, it results in the surroundings becoming unhygienic, which will become a health hazard causing the spread of diseases.
If the migrants have highly contagious infections such as COVID-19, Monkeypox, tuberculosis, measles, leishmanosis, or any other infectious diseases, once again the citizen suffers, first in the risk of being infected, and second as health facilities meant for citizens are overwhelmed, causing them to have no option but to ignore citizens.
When some among the migrants commit violent crimes -- through car break-ins, burglaries, vandalism, fentanyl dealing, identity theft, strongarm robberies, rapes, and other violent crimes, it is the working class citizen who suffers. At times, they pay with their lives.
"Why just blame migrants, even citizens could be infected with diseases and be criminals?" is what the open border proponent will say in retaliation as they accuse you of bigotry.
Well, the problems that could emanate from citizens are the nation's problems, that doesn't mean we should import more problems.
There is also an impact on wages.
If impoverished migrants agree to work for less than minimum wages without benefits, the working-class citizens either suffers job redundancy or depression in wages. If they work under the table and send their untaxed remittances home, communities go underdeveloped and get a run-down look.
Beyond these issues, the impact of uncontrolled migration is cultural, which can hardly be gauged because the change is gradual.
The migrants may originate from cultures that have anachronistic values and practices from what is found in the U.S. Instead of adapting to their surroundings, quite a few expect everyone else to adapt to their values. Among other things, their refusal to conform results in ‘honor' killings, incestuous marriages, child marriages, foot baths, and 'press 1 for English.’
In addition to the violence and regressive practices, culture and values are the core identity of a nation and a locality that sees its erosion will soon be a lost community.
This uncontrolled influx is a long-term project of the Democrats – to inundate swing states with these migrants who, they think, will be Democrat voters. The hope is this new Democrat voter base will overwhelm the impact of existing Republican voters.
Soon elections are rendered meaningless.
The Democrats have successfully implemented this in states such as New York and California, where even a potted plant, or worse, the likes of AOC, with the letter ‘D’ after its name, is certain to win elections. In California, there are districts so packed with illegal aliens that voter turnout only amounts to about 10% of the number of people present to create the district. These are known as "dead" zones and Democrats know all about them. Large numbers of illegal immigrants also pad congressional seats for Democrats so that even if the illegals do not vote, their presence makes Democrat congressional seats possible that wouldn't otherwise be there. The contests in these states with these arrangements are not between left and right, but left, far left, and socialists.
This open border isn’t due to Biden’s misgovernance, this is an intentional and malicious act to ensure a permanence of power, both nationally, and in key states.
The Democratic leaders who support open borders never suffer the consequences of the policies they advocate.
They live in affluent localities. Their properties are surrounded by imposing walls. They also have armed bodyguards. The migrants will not be allowed even near these localities, except as maids and gardeners.
That changed in April, when Texas Gov. Greg Abbott led a unique practical experiment by transporting immigrants on a voluntary basis to "sanctuary" states run by open borders advocates. The goal was to make them accept the consequences of their words and actions.
These migrants were transported to cities such as New York, Chicago, and Washington. Some were even dropped outside the Washington D.C. home of Kamala Harris, Joe Biden's border czar who had just advised the country that the border was "secure."
The governor of Arizona also followed this move, as so did Florida's Gov. Ron DeSantis, who flew some 50 migrants in to tony Martha’s Vineyard.
As expected, the migrants haven’t been welcomed with open arms. The mayors of the cities have complained and attacked Republican governors while the wealthy liberals of Martha’s Vineyard haven’t actually opened their homes to the migrants they claim to love. Some authorities have called the National Guard.
In doing this, the governors have revealed the Democrats to be hypocrites and elitists.
But we already knew that.
So what happens next?
Doubtlessly, at least some of these migrants will be transported to detention centers away from the local mansions where they will then be re-released back to swing or Republican states.
If there has to be any long-term impact from this amusing exercise, all GOP governors much join in and keep dispatching migrants, to liberal states for as long as they can.
In time, the Democrats may block the busses at their city borders and prevent migrants from disembarking from planes.
It will be chaotic.
The only hope is that the chaos will cause local authorities compel the upper echelons of the Democrat party to fix the borders.
But the exercise in holding the open-border proponents accountable must not stop here.
When the GOP wins back the House and the Senate, they must author a bill that does the following:
- Mandates the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to resume construction of a border barrier wall along the U.S.-Mexico border that President Trump began.
- Mandates DHS to deploy tactical infrastructure and technology across all borders beginning with the southern border.
- Mandates U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to increase the number of border security agents and officers.
Now for the most crucial aspect of all this, the funding:
Yes, the taxpayers will be paying.
But the bill must have any or ideally both of the following clauses:
- Mandate the transportation of migrants to liberal states whose governors, senators, representatives, and mayors advocate open borders.
- All lawmakers who do not vote for the bill, i.e., who advocate open borders, must be compelled to pay an additional tax to fund infrastructure in these liberal cities that will accommodate the newly arrived migrants.
- In addition to accommodation, these lawmakers must also contribute to funds for law enforcement, hospitals, and schools for migrants.
- This tax must not be restricted to lawmakers, but also to governors, mayors, and presidents who are proponents of open borders.
This will be an ideal way for the Democrats to show they really care for the migrants.
The Democrats will have two choices, either vote for border security and pay nothing, or not vote for border security and fund the costs of migrants.
Let’s see how they vote.
Will a bill such as this ever be authored?
Very unlikely.
But one sincerely hopes some among the lawmakers at least try.
VISUALIZE IMPEACHMENT
AND DEPORTATION TO GITMO
Other policies include a shift away from prioritizing the deportation of illegal immigrants. The Free Beacon last year reported on deportations plummeting by 90 percent under the Biden administration, meaning fewer illegal immigrants are now removed from the country than at any point in decades.
Meet the Vulnerable Congressman Who Helped Spark an Immigration Crisis in Maine
Rep. Jared Golden championed legislation that provides free housing for asylum-seeking migrants
A vulnerable Maine Democrat spearheaded an effort to make migrants eligible for his state's welfare program, a policy that may hurt him at the ballot box in November given that it has resulted in a costly overflow of asylum seekers in the city of Portland.
As a state legislator, Rep. Jared Golden championed a bill in 2015 that declared asylum-seeking immigrants eligible for the state's General Assistance program, which provides free hotels, meals, and other essentials to elderly and homeless Mainers. As a result, an estimated 1,200 immigrants are now receiving emergency housing in Portland and are unable to work until they receive government approval, a process that can take several months. Portland officials in May informed federal immigration agencies that the city's hotels reached full capacity and are unable to shelter additional asylum seekers—just as federal funds for the program are set to expire.
"I am writing this email to alert you to the fact that as of the date of this email, there is no further shelter OR hotel capacity in Portland, Maine," wrote city Health and Human Services director Kristen Dow. "Additionally, because our staff are spread quite thin, it is not guaranteed that we will be in a position to aid individuals in their search for emergency housing."
Maine's migrant troubles could pose a problem for Golden, a member of the House's centrist Blue Dog Coalition, as he faces a tight reelection campaign against former Republican congressman Bruce Poliquin. Golden has tried to distance himself from the Biden administration's immigration policy—which is supported by just 33 percent of Americans—introducing legislation in May that would prevent the president from ending Title 42, a Trump-era policy that allows immigration authorities to turn away asylum seekers at the border. As a state legislator, however, Golden welcomed an unprecedented number of asylum-seeking immigrants to his state with some of the most expansive welfare benefits in the nation.
"Voting to deny a helping hand to people who are far less fortunate than I am, who came here hoping to find peace and freedom … flies in the face of everything that I stand for," Golden said in 2015.
In the years since its implementation, the asylum policy has strained Portland's budget: While the migrants make up 2 percent of Portland's population, their welfare costs consist of 20 percent of the city's budget. The policy, which provides two years of assistance for each asylum seeker, cost the city $40 million between January and June alone to house some 400 families.
Maine pays for 70 percent of General Assistance funds to cities, with the remaining costs covered by the federal government in recent years amid the pandemic. The federal support is set to expire next month, however, meaning Portland may be forced to make cuts to other programs. Portland's city manager in April postponed a presentation of the city's budget due to concerns about the rising costs of housing asylum seekers.
Golden helped lead the effort to pass the 2015 migrant welfare measure in the state House in an 81-63 vote, which largely fell along party lines. State Democrats moved to pass the measure after then-Maine governor Paul LePage (R.) in 2014 halted state relief to cities that allowed asylum seekers to receive welfare, which he claimed was illegal. In a 2015 op-ed, the Maine Democrat dismissed criticism from Republicans that welfare for asylum seekers would lead to a shortage of funds for other programs.
"At a time when our state is operating with a revenue surplus, Maine does not have to choose between housing our elderly or housing asylum seekers," Golden wrote.
Bobby Reynolds, a senior adviser to the Golden campaign, told the Washington Free Beacon that the measure had strong Republican support in the state's Senate, but would not comment on whether Golden regretted his vote.
Portland in 2019 took in 450 African asylum seekers, many of whom were held in the city's sports arena for two months. Residents fundraised $1 million to help provide essential care, and others volunteered to house families. African immigrants in the General Assistance program spread the news to their families still abroad through WhatsApp, according to a July report in the Christian Science Monitor. Most of these African immigrants do not speak English and are often unable to begin work for more than a year.
Portland's mayor and manager did not respond to requests for comment. The Maine Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees the General Assistance Program, did not respond to a request for comment.
Published under: 2022 Election, Immigration, Jared Golden, Maine, Portland, Welfare
Highest Number in US History: Border Patrol Logs 8,000 Migrants Entering US Each Day
Immigration authorities are reporting the highest-ever daily number of migrants entering the United States along the southwest border, according to internal Department of Homeland Security communications reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon.
Border Patrol officers are logging roughly 8,000 migrant encounters a day, the highest daily number in U.S. history, the communications show. Such a massive surge in migrants has left agencies such as Customs and Border Protection scrambling to implement new processing systems.
The record number of migrant encounters highlights the little progress the Biden administration has made in solving the border crisis. The news comes as the White House blamed former president Donald Trump for the crisis earlier this week, accusing the previous administration of leaving President Joe Biden with a "broken" immigration system. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre defended the president and claimed the Biden administration is taking "unprecedented action" at the southern border. Those actions, according to the White House, include new border technology and anti-smuggling task forces.
But the results of those actions are unclear. A spokeswoman for CBP did not dispute the migrant encounter numbers. In a statement to the Free Beacon, the spokeswoman said that "the traffic we are seeing this year is similar to the pattern we saw at this time last year." Border Patrol logged an average of roughly 7,700 migrant encounters a day nationwide last September, previously the highest number ever recorded.
Monthly migrant encounters, according to public CBP data, are already higher in the 2022 fiscal year than in any previous year. Border Patrol typically sees an uptick in migrant encounters during the fall and winter because of favorable weather conditions.
"Either the Biden administration is uninformed or they’re lying," a senior DHS official told the Free Beacon. "We cannot process the numbers flooding our borders and the administration’s solution is scrambling for ways to let people in faster."
Immigration authorities have already logged two million border encounters this fiscal year, a record high. The previous record holder was the 2021 fiscal year, which saw just under two million migrant encounters.
Vice President Kamala Harris claimed the "border is secure" earlier this month, prompting outrage from both Republicans and Democrats. Sen. Joe Manchin (D., W.Va.) called Harris "dead wrong."
"For … the vice president, or anybody [to] say our borders are secured, that is not accurate. I've been there," Manchin told Fox News. "It's wrong."
Texas governor Greg Abbott (R.) has for months been busing migrants to Democrat-run cities, such as Chicago, New York, and Washington, D.C. Mayors in those cities have attacked the move as "inhumane" and asked the federal government for aid.
Critics of the Biden administration point to policy changes that are responsible for the crisis. Among those include DHS termination of the Migrant Protection Protocols program, which forced asylum seekers to remain in Mexico until their asylum court date. That program, proponents argue, discouraged potential migrants from entering the United States.
Other policies include a shift away from prioritizing the deportation of illegal immigrants. The Free Beacon last year reported on deportations plummeting by 90 percent under the Biden administration, meaning fewer illegal immigrants are now removed from the country than at any point in decades.
Americans regularly rank the border crisis as a top issue of concern, polling shows. An August survey from NPR found a majority of Americans believe the United States is facing an "invasion" on the southern border.
Dem Candidate Says Biden Is Corrupt, Son Hunter a ‘Dope Fiend’
One Ohio Democrat is taking the idea of running away from the unpopular Joe Biden to a whole new level.
In a virtual town hall on Tuesday, Ohio Democrat David Esrati accused the president of corruption and called his son Hunter Biden a "dope fiend."
"I know I'm a Democrat and everything, but do you want to tell me what Joe Biden's done since he got elected when he was 27 years old?" said Esrati, the Democratic nominee for Ohio's 10th Congressional District. "How does he own all those houses? How is he worth what he's worth? I mean, yeah, a book deal here or there, but no, something isn't right about going in and serving your country and getting to be a multimillionaire."
Vulnerable Democratic House and Senate candidates across the country have distanced themselves from the president ahead of the midterm elections, portraying themselves to voters as independent and bipartisan politicians who aren't afraid to challenge Biden on policy. But of Democratic congressional candidates' criticism of Biden this cycle, Esrati's fiery rebuke is unprecedented in its hostility.
Esrati, who made the comments during a livestream in which he responded to chat messages, suggested that Biden became wealthy through inside knowledge he used to be successful in stock trading.
"We need to fix this," Esrati said, "and at least say, ‘No, you can't trade. You can't give advice to anybody on trades. And if you get caught, you're going to prison.'"
The candidate went after Biden's son after a viewer suggested the president got rich off "kickbacks from Hunter's dirty dealings."
"Hunter's not smart enough to do dealings to make that kind of money," Esrati said. "He had the houses before, when Hunter was still just a regular old dope fiend."
Esrati is a long shot for the southwestern Ohio district, which FiveThirtyEight rates "Solid Republican."
Ohio's Democratic Senate candidate, Tim Ryan, has also worked to distance his campaign from the Biden administration while taking a subtler tack. A spokeswoman for Ryan told the Washington Post the campaign has no plans to invite Biden or Vice President Kamala Harris to events.
Among swing-state Democrats who have criticized Biden, Sen. Maggie Hassan (D., N.H.) has been prolific in attacking the president's policies. The senator has promised to "stand up to the Biden administration" on border security, criticized Biden's student debt forgiveness plan, and slammed the president for his disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan.
A Majority of Americans Say the Border Crisis Is an ‘Invasion,’ Poll Says
Results come as news outlets attempt to sanitize border crisis language
More than half of all Americans believe the United States is facing an invasion at the southern border, according to a recent survey from NPR.
According to the poll, 54 percent of Americans, including 40 percent of Democrats, say it is "completely true" or "somewhat true" that the border crisis is an "invasion." Nearly three-quarters, 73 percent, of respondents said they believe the "large number of migrants apprehended at the southern border is a problem."
The results come as the United States sees the largest influx of illegal immigrants in history. More than 1.8 million migrants have been apprehended by Border Patrol on the southern border since October 2021, a new annual record. The previous record was held by the 2021 fiscal year.
Moreover, the results demonstrate a shift in how Americans view illegal immigration as an active threat to the nation’s sovereignty as news organizations such as NPR make a concerted effort to sanitize the border crisis. The Associated Press in its style guide bars news organizations from using the term "invasion" when reporting immigration-related stories. News organizations that follow the AP style guide, or base their guides on the AP's, include NPR and Politico.
The AP did not respond to a request for comment.
Americans are also significantly less likely to say that "immigrants are an important part of our American identity" than they were in 2018, according to the poll. In that year, 75 percent of Americans said they agree with the statement. Today, 56 percent of Americans agree.
Support for DACA, which gave legal status to illegal immigrants brought into the United States as minors, dropped to 51 percent. In 2018, support was at 65 percent.
NPR called the results of its poll evidence "that large numbers of Americans hold a variety of misconceptions about immigrants," such as their role in the opioid crisis and their use of welfare programs. Calling the border crisis an "invasion," NPR wrote, is evidence of "increasingly extreme rhetoric around immigration."
"There's also a theory that support for immigrants tends to fall when there is a perception of chaos at the southern border," NPR wrote.
The Atlantic published a piece in 2019 calling then-president Donald Trump’s use of "invasion" when describing high-levels of illegal immigration "racist." A year prior, a Washington Post reporter said using the word "invasion" to describe rampant illegal immigration on the southern border is identical to the hardships faced by Jewish Americans in the 20th century.
NPR itself ran a radio segment in May alleging that using the term "invasion" was largely limited to "some Republicans and immigration hard-liners." The segment also attempted to tie the use of "invasion" by those on the right to white-supremacist violence.
The AP updated its style guide as the border crisis began in 2021. The style guide's recommendations include no longer using words such as "surge" when describing high levels of illegal crossing on the southern border, even as Customs and Border Protection holds regular "surge meetings." The Washington Free Beacon has reported on how the AP's style guide changes were due to pressure from left-wing interest groups such as Futuro Media.
"Avoid imagery conjuring war or natural disaster, which could portray migrants as a negative, harmful influence," the AP's Stylebook reads. "Avoid emotive words like onslaught, tidal wave, flood, inundation, surge, invasion, army, march, sneak, and stealth."
Some Democratic lawmakers followed the AP's lead. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) said describing high levels of illegal immigration as a "surge" is "white supremacist."
Voters increasingly rank immigration as an issue they are most concerned about. Immigration is a more pressing issue facing the country than abortion, climate change, and gun control, according to an NBC News poll released earlier this month. That same poll found that a plurality of Republicans named immigration as their top issue, more than inflation or the economy.
Attempts from the AP to frame debates around immigration in favorable terms for Democrats go back nearly a decade. The outlet in 2013 ordered its reporters to stop using the term "illegal immigrant." Instead, the AP says, reporters should use "undocumented migrant" or simply "migrant."
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