TRUMP ON IMMIGRATION, aka JOE'S MASS INVASION:
Immigration. Present levels of immigration will destroy our country. And that's no longer a thinly shared belief, as polling demonstrates. Is there anyone left who does not think that the border is wide open and a significant threat to our security, economy, and even America's prospects? This was deliberate. The only question remaining is why? Was it to help Democrats or to help our enemies? With an embattled and befuddled Biden, we honestly don't know the answer.
Trump would have continued his policies, which were entirely effective and cost taxpayers much less. What more can be said?
The Binary Choice: If Trump Were Our President Today
Whatever your news source, there is a consensus among most that the world is a tinderbox with more chaos and danger than many can recall within their lifetime. Sixty years ago, I grew up during the Cuban Missile Crisis. People were scared, but the fear was binary, with almost everyone equally frightened about what Khrushchev might do. But now, there is a sense of what you might call "Fear de Jour." You no sooner begin to relax from one monumental crisis before something worse occurs. Perhaps never in my life have so many balls been in the air simultaneously. All are overlayed by an apparent lack of cohesive and reassuring leadership that suggests to many that there is no light at the end of the tunnel, except perhaps an oncoming speeding train. I've never experienced such general hopelessness about our future from so many.
Compare and contrast the two very different leadership styles of Biden and Trump and their likely effect on world events. We'll imagine how each man faces the same crises Biden is currently dealing with.
Israel vs. Hamas. Most Americans over 35 likely side with Israel with zero compromise. But under 35, a ruined generation is less sure. Biden looks at the problem (or his brain trust does) as a political issue to be solved… politically, i.e., it doesn't matter who is right, only the effect it has on the administration's prospects in the next election.
Trump famously sees things through his own lens. His only interest is what's best for our country and her friends. Israel is a friend; Iran and the minions it controls are not. Therefore, siding with Israel is a choice that is easy to make. In today's "I'm OK, You're OK" world, binary choices are rejected on principle because you exclude other opinions, making each issue one of equivalence. Dems can't seem to make the required black-or-white choice because they hold a coalition of different views and interests. Many Democrats no longer believe in their former moderate positions. This confines them into a box of their own making.
Global Warming. The rhetoric surrounding global warming is as sharp as ever, and the direction we are moving towards is decidedly Alt-Left. Discretionary spending by Biden and bills like the so-called Inflation Reduction Act and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law have placed the country on an unsustainable financial path. The government has committed trillions of inflationary dollars to the Green New Deal. Trillions more will be spent through coercive government rules and mandates ranging from Zero Emission air travel requirements to the cars you can buy, the houses you live in, how you cook, what you eat, and much more. You will have little choice but to obey your leaders tomorrow because consumer choice will be limited or nonexistent. We will have hobbled ourselves with a tremendous economic disadvantage compared to the rest of the world.
President Trump does not believe that global warming is an existential crisis. Instead, he thinks it is an opportunity and challenge to be met not with fear but with an American "Can Do" attitude. Instead of fear, we would see the U.S., already among the world's cleanest industrial countries, realize our competitors in China and elsewhere never intended to follow our lead and burden ourselves with our positions' economic disadvantages.
Inflation. The higher your income, the more you rely on your savings and retirement money to get by. Inflation results from too many dollars chasing too few products and services.
Inflation is pernicious, particularly ruthless in its effect on middle and low-income Americans. Most of these groups are starting to rely more on the government to get by through various programs designed to ameliorate some of the effects, such as food or housing. Inflation continues to ravage us despite the Biden Administration's assurances to the contrary. Ever more people are tapping their credit cards for monthly subsistence even as credit card rates hover around the 28% mark.
When Trump left office, inflation was at less than 1.5%. Inflation can be directly tied to the spending programs that Biden initiated and pushed through -- Basic Economics 101.
Ukraine. You've heard crickets about Ukraine since the October 7th massacre in Israel. Yet, in terms of geopolitical importance, Ukraine is the lynchpin that connects Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, Taiwan, and the South China Sea. We dare not take our eyes off the ball. We must think strategically. Unfortunately, with a weak President, we engage in focus-group tested and consensus politics, unable or unwilling to grasp the ramifications of a world being carved up by a bunch of hungry bullies.
Trump remains a huge unknown for Putin -- a wild card he can't anticipate. Biden, on the other hand, is as transparent as glass. Putin miscalculated America's and NATO's will. But he's probably not wrong about our staying power. He expects Biden to fold eventually. This would commence an entirely new domino effect; where it ends, no one knows.
Immigration. Present levels of immigration will destroy our country. And that's no longer a thinly shared belief, as polling demonstrates. Is there anyone left who does not think that the border is wide open and a significant threat to our security, economy, and even America's prospects? This was deliberate. The only question remaining is why? Was it to help Democrats or to help our enemies? With an embattled and befuddled Biden, we honestly don't know the answer.
Trump would have continued his policies, which were entirely effective and cost taxpayers much less. What more can be said?
Big Government. Look at all the monthly hiring numbers. Government frequently leads the categories of hiring each month. Democrats fight against smaller government. Government workers are always a cost, never producing anything of economic value. If this were not true, then everyone should work for the government. We now live in a time with the highest percentage of people working for the government in history. (Federal, State, and Local outside of world war times.) This must not continue.
Trump's fight against the swamp and regulatory dysfunction would have continued unabated. Gradually, the cost of government (as well as the headcount) would have decreased. We were on a path to fiscal sanity. In contrast, Democrats fight against small government.
Our choice is a binary one of policies, personalities, worldviews, and more. What direction will we take, that of traditional America or Brave New World?
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Joe Biden's open borders now driving Mexicans from their homes
How does a little destabilization in Mexico sound for the U.S.?
InSightCrime reports that Mexicans in northern Sonora state are so under siege from cartel infighting over the migrant smuggling trade they are now fleeing their homes -- and into the U.S.
According to InSightCrime:
On a recent November evening, residents of Sásabe, a small outpost on the US-Mexico border, received threatening messages warning of an impending attack. The next morning, they awoke to several houses engulfed in flames and dozens of men with high-powered weapons shooting at each other around the main plaza.
Hours later, nearly 100 locals, among them elderly men and women and young children, took off for the US-Mexico border. They found a hole in the border fence, crossed into the United States, and pleaded with Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials to protect them.
“People got tired of waiting [for help],” said Dora Rodríguez, co-founder of Casa de la Esperanza, a migrant and community resource center in Sásabe. “It was extraordinary, they had to save their own lives.”
Hundreds more are still trapped. Surrounded by barren desert and mountains in northern Sonora, Sásabe is a small town of less than 1,000 people where the Sinaloa Cartel has long been the dominant criminal actor.
For the last 12 years, the boss of the local Sinaloa Cartel affiliate managing Sásabe left the townspeople alone and allowed them to work, local residents told InSight Crime. That all changed in October, when internal divisions over synthetic drug trafficking came to a head and another cell moved in with backing from the Chapitos, a faction led led by several sons of the now-jailed former leader, Joaquín Guzmán Loera, alias “El Chapo.”
That happened this month.
No, these aren't people who should be sent back. They are authentic, bona fide refugees, people who didn't want to come here but had to come here because their homes were being set on fire by human smugglers profiting from the open-borders migrant trade. They didn't have time to sell their properties to pay smugglers' "crossing fees." They ran for their lives -- women, children, old people, not military-aged young men. They would probably like to go back to the peaceful country they once knew. The U.S. is their first country of refuge by happenstance, not the country-shopping expedition that we see in today's illegal migrants.
Thanxalot, Joe.
That's the open-borders crisis driving a new refugee wave that never would have existed had there not been open borders, and vast profits to be fought over by Mexico's heinous cartels.
Biden's open border is now driving people in who don't even want to come here, and it's not likely to be the last town forced to clear out because of cartel might and profits. Destabilized Mexico? It's imaginable.
Thanks, Joe. A destabilized Mexico. A fresh refugee crisis for us to pay for. That's quite a legacy.
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Lower wages
Because of inflation, most people are experiencing lower wages. Even if you received a raise, inflation means that you will be able to buy less with your paycheck. Today, everyone in America got a 3.16% pay cut. So it’s no surprise that Americans are having a hard time paying bills each month.
Homelessness
The U.S. is experiencing a growing homeless problem as well. The amount of chronic homelessness is climbing fast. Again, this is not because of the pandemic. They are homeless because they can’t pay their rent.
When people can’t pay rent and mortgages, they resort to living in tents on a street. During the Great Depression, a similar thing happened—people lived in massive homeless encampments called Hoovervilles, named after President Herbert Hoover. This is the very same thing. Joe Biden's policy creates homeless encampments. That’s Bidenomics!
So, think twice before voting for Biden in 2024. If you hope the situation will change for the better, it won’t. If Biden wins, the rich will continue to get richer, the poor will continue to get poorer.
Read this to your Democrat friends and family before you vote for Biden in 2024
The economy in the U.S. right now is dominated by three main things: slow growth, high inflation, and low unemployment—an unusual mix that confuses a lot of economists. (Typically, a period of slow growth comes with high unemployment.) Because of this, the best ways to tackle the economic problems are hotly debated.
The Biden administration has responded to this crisis with an approach they call “Bidenomics.” In June 2023, the White house released a memo where they’d tried to explain why it “works.” Let's summarize their approach.
Briefly speaking, Biden’s administration is promoting typical heavy tax and spending policies with a twist—it looks like “tax, spend, and borrow.” They raise people’s taxes, spend large amounts of government money, and borrow large amounts of money to pay for everything; this approach is to blame for a number of the economic problems with which we’re dealing.
Some people suggest the financial pain lingers because of the pandemic. But this is not true—Biden has been president for almost three years. The vast majority of us feel the negative impact of Bidenomics, with its key tenets listed below:
High Gas Prices
No, this is not the fault of the pandemic. In 2020, during the presidential debate, Biden stated his intentions to “transition away from the oil industry.” Promises made, promises kept, and now we are paying enormous amounts of money for gas. Supply and demand seems simple enough—limit a crucial product and the price goes up—but apparently it was too much for this woman to grasp, who blamed costs on the “religious right” Republicans:
Inflation
Gas is not the only thing going up in price. Food, housing, and everything else is becoming more expensive. Life itself is becoming unaffordable, and that comes down to the people in charge of monetary policy through a central bank. The late, great Milton Friedman explained it as such:
All that “emergency” spending for the pandemic never returned to normal—but it continues to climb higher. Biden's administration is borrowing money, causing inflation, and there’s absolutely no plan to pay it back.
Lower wages
Because of inflation, most people are experiencing lower wages. Even if you received a raise, inflation means that you will be able to buy less with your paycheck. Today, everyone in America got a 3.16% pay cut. So it’s no surprise that Americans are having a hard time paying bills each month.
Homelessness
The U.S. is experiencing a growing homeless problem as well. The amount of chronic homelessness is climbing fast. Again, this is not because of the pandemic. They are homeless because they can’t pay their rent.
When people can’t pay rent and mortgages, they resort to living in tents on a street. During the Great Depression, a similar thing happened—people lived in massive homeless encampments called Hoovervilles, named after President Herbert Hoover. This is the very same thing. Joe Biden's policy creates homeless encampments. That’s Bidenomics!
So, think twice before voting for Biden in 2024. If you hope the situation will change for the better, it won’t. If Biden wins, the rich will continue to get richer, the poor will continue to get poorer.
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Senate ‘Gang of Six’ Negotiates Republican Giveaway on Migration
Roughly 30 Republican senators are backing the House’s H.R.2 migration stabilization bill — but a gang of six senators, including three Republicans, are drafting a giveaway “compromise” bill.
“H.R.2 should be the focus,” said a policy analyst who favors pro-American migration laws, adding:
There’s no reason to preemptively surrender good border security legislation before we’re forced to negotiate [with the House]. What the Senators who are supporting that [compromise] package are doing essentially is preemptively surrendering, preemptively giving away very important pieces of H.R. 2 before they’re even being forced to do so.
“They’re negotiating with themselves” instead of with Democrats, he added.
Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Thom Tillis (R-NC), and James Lankford (R-OK), are working with three Democrats to write a pretend compromise in the end-of-year budget battles over funding for Israel, Ukraine, and President Joe Biden’s border security agency, he said, adding that their plan is “not going do anything of any substance.”
The compromise legislation will likely be touted by Democrats and their media allies in January as they try to create a political stampede that will overpower Republicans’ popular demands for substantial policy change to migration laws, he said.
“Lankford is now working to turn a one-page summary of the party’s border plan into legislation,” Politico reported.
Behind closed doors, additional Republican senators are likely cooperating with the group of three.
The three Democrat-aligned senators in the group are Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ), Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT), and Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO).
In 2013, Bennet joined with Graham to push the failed 2013 “Gang of Eight” amnesty that would have cut Americans’ wages for a decade or more.
The evidence so far is that the Gang of Six compromise includes few substantial changes in current laws, the immigration analyst said. It also appears to leave intact many of the alternative loopholes that Biden’s border deputies will use to keep importing millions of poor, desperate, indebted, and compliant migrants, he said.
But the 3o-plus cosponsors on the Senate’s version of the House bill H.R. 2 may block the stampede planned by the “Gang of Six.”
The Senate version of H.R.2 is S.2824, titled “Secure the Border Act of 2023.” It was introduced by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX). It includes most major stabilization measures sought by Republican-aligned experts and the public.
The H.R.2 bill is being pushed by nearly all of the GOP House caucus, led by House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA). “We’re going to force the issue — and people want us to,” Johnson said.
Johnson is in a good position to get immigration concessions from Democrats because President Joe Biden needs Republican approval for the funding that he wants to give to Israel and Ukraine.
Biden also needs a funding deal to help patch over the growing and unpopular cost of moving southern migrants into the jobs and homes needed by voters in blue cities, including New York and Chicago.
Also, Democrats are realizing that Biden’s reckless migration policy is deeply unpopular nationwide.
The 32 senators backing the stabilization bill include the Republicans’ mainstream wing, such as Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR), Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Sen. Josh Hawley (S-MO), Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN) and Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN).
The bill is also backed by Republican establishment-linked leadership, including Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Sen. John Thune (R-SD), and even Graham, who was a leader of the 2013 “Gang of Eight” amnesty.
The bill is also backed by Sen. John Hoeven (R-ND), who drafted a last-minute, fake border-security compromise in 2013 that allowed the Gang of Eight’s amnesty bill to pass through the Senate.
The Republican bill is also backed by Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-ND). He is also pushing two other bills — including the Eagle Act — to allow a massive inflow of foreign workers for white-collar jobs and healthcare jobs that would otherwise go to North Dakota’s college graduates. One of his bills is backed by seven other Republican senators.
It is not clear how many of the 32 senators who support the stabilization bill have signed on for PR purposes. But at least two — Graham and Tillis — are working with Lankford and the Democrats on the compromise giveaway.
Meanwhile, multiple Democrat senators are denouncing any compromise related to asylum and other doorways, and various Latino groups claim to be boycotting the negotiations.
“We are alarmed and deeply concerned that key talks in Congress about border policies and the treatment of humanitarian migrants are happening without a single Hispanic lawmaker or ally in the room,” said Janet Murguía, president of UnidosUS told the Hill.
Biden’s economic policy of mass migration destabilizes the middle class and the economy by cutting wages, raising inflation, and spiking rents. It also crowds government aid programs, shrinks corporate investment in productivity, and diverts wages and jobs from Heartland states to coastal states and cities, such as New York.
The inflow is also spiking civic chaos, such as pro-Hamas marches and left-wing antisemitism.
But Biden’s policy is good for investors, banks, and CEOs who prefer low-cost, low-wage immigration because it helps them profit from low-productivity companies and their associated workforce of apartment-sharing, rent-spiking renters, and welfare-aided consumers.
The economic and civic damage is persuading more ordinary Americans to view migration as more of a burden than a benefit.
NYC Mayor Eric Adams Calls Biden’s Illegal Immigration Inflow ‘Unfair’ to Taxpayers amid More Budget Cuts
New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) says President Joe Biden’s inflow of border crossers and illegal aliens, by the tens of thousands every month, is “unfair” to American taxpayers.
Since the spring of 2022, about 140,000 border crossers and illegal aliens have arrived in the sanctuary city of New York City — most after having been directly released into the United States interior by Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
As a result of illegal immigration, Adams has already announced that New York City services will be cut by five percent across-the-board to deal with the rising cost of caring for and housing border crossers and illegal aliens which is expected to total $12 billion by the end of next year.
During a town hall in Coney Island, Brooklyn this week, Adams called illegal immigration “unfair” to “everyday taxpayers.”
“I want to pass a budget that adds cops, I want to pass a budget that allows us to have more after-school programs, senior care, and infrastructure building, that’s the budget I want. And so when people look at what’s happening in this city, we all are angry,” Adams said.
“And I tell people all the time when they stop me on the subway system, ‘Don’t yell at me, yell at DC, yell at DC.’ We deserve better as a city,” he continued.
On Tuesday, Adams announced more budget cuts, asking city officials to find $2.1 billion that they can cut but said he will spare police, fire, and sanitation services.
According to Adams, New York City has a whopping $7.1 billion budget shortfall because of illegal immigration over the last nearly two years. Adams, as well as other sanctuary city mayors, have pleaded with Biden for a $5 billion bailout but the White House has yet to make any such move.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
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