Biden is breaking the border on purpose — he wants mass amnesty
By Andrew R. Arthur
New York Post
Excerpt: The backlog of pending cases in the nation’s immigration courts has hit 3 million, as millions of border migrants have been released into the United States to seek asylum in the past three years. It’s a shocking figure, but just the latest example of President Biden’s efforts to break the immigration enforcement system, likely to force a massive amnesty he has long sought.
Biden’s easy-migration policies are deliberately adding the foreigners’ problems to the lengthening list of Americans’ problems — homelessness, low wages, a shrinking middle class, slowing innovation, declining blue-collar life expectancy, spreading poverty, the rising death toll from drugs, and the spreading alienation among young people.
Welfare Use by Immigrants and the U.S.-Born
Comparing program use by foreign- and U.S.-born-headed households
By Steven Camarota and Karen Zeigler, December 19, 2023
Excerpt: Analysis of this data shows both immigrants and the U.S.-born make extensive use of means-tested anti-poverty programs, with immigrant households significantly more likely to receive benefits. This is primarily because the American welfare system is designed in large part to help low-income families with children, which describes a large share of immigrants.
Extraction Migration
Biden has imported or accepted roughly 5 million illegal migrants for economic purposes in less than three years.
That Extraction Migration economic strategy has helped investors by inflating real estate prices and reducing Americans’ wages.
That flood is urged and welcomed by business groups because it cuts Americans’ blue-collar wages and white-collar salaries. It also reduces marketplace pressure to invest in productivity-boosting technology, heartland states, and overseas markets. and it reduces economic pressure on the federal government to deal with the drug and “Deaths of Despair” crises.
Study: More than 7-in-10 California Immigrant Welfare
More than 7-in-10 households headed by immigrants in the state of California are on taxpayer-funded welfare, a new study reveals.
The latest Census Bureau data analyzed by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) finds that about 72 percent of households headed by noncitizens and immigrants use one or more forms of taxpayer-funded welfare programs in California — the number one immigrant-receiving state in the U.S.
‘Over 85%’ of Illegal Aliens Are Released Into U.S., DHS Sec. Tells Border Agents
Nearly nine of ten illegal aliens encounter are released into the U.S., DHS Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas told Border Patrol agents in a private meeting in Eagle Pass, Texas on Monday.
“Your sources are correct,” the Border Patrol Union confirmed in a social media post replying to a breaking report by Fox News Correspondent Bill Melugin:
Melugin: “BREAKING: Per three Border Patrol sources who were in the room, while meeting privately with agents in Eagle Pass, TX today, DHS Sec. Mayorkas admitted that the current release rate for migrants caught crossing the border illegally is “above 85%”. I’m awaiting comment from DHS.”
Border Patrol Union: “Your sources are correct. During this meeting, Brandon Judd told Mayorkas that Americans have the right to know the facts about what's going on at the border. It was at that point Mayorkas admitted that "over 85%" of the people illegally crossing our border are being released.”
When Mayorkas was pressed by agents about his recent claim that more than seventy percent of illegal aliens are released into the U.S., he confessed that the number is even higher, Fox News reports.
Mayorkas credited “alternatives to detention” for the high percentage:
“‘It would not surprise me at all. I know the data,’ Mayorkas said. ‘And I will tell you that when individuals are released, they are released into immigration enforcement proceedings. They are on alternatives to detention. And we have returned or removed a record number of individuals. We are enforcing the laws that Congress has passed.’
“Fox is told that on Monday agents pushed him on those remarks, saying that the number is even higher than 70%, and then Mayorkas acknowledged a release rate of ‘above 85%.’”
The DHS encountered more than 300,000 border-crossers in December – a record high for any single month.
NYC blames illegal immigrants for its crime problem
It’s interesting how much Democrat New York City Mayor Eric Adams sounds like a Republican when he talks about the effects of illegal immigration on his city.
Unfortunately, he still sounds like a leftist when talking about how to deal with the problem.
Recently, he did it in such a way that if he had been a white Republican, he would have been publicly crucified.
During a news conference where he was asked about rising crime in the Big Apple, he blamed the illegal immigrants who are coming into the city and are unable to work here legally.
“When I talk about the devastation impact that the migrant and asylum seekers, people only think about the volume of people that are coming in. There are byproducts to this, cuts to services, like we had to postpone a police class, looking at some of the budgetary cuts, having a body of people, many young, who can’t work,” Adams said.
This is all correct, although it ignores why so many illegals are coming to the city. It is a lack of border enforcement by the politicians Adams and his administration support. He is part of the reason there is a problem.
He then said, “I mean you don’t even need an imagination to figure out that if you have someone four, five months, and say ‘you cannot work, you cannot feed your family, you cannot provide for yourself,’ what happens? You know, lack of opportunities, an idle mind is the devil’s workshop, as they say.”
This is where he takes it a step too far, at least if he had been a Republican. He blames illegals for rising crime.
The media excoriated President Trump for saying something like this when he was only blaming the worst of the illegals as being criminals, rapists, and drug traffickers. However, when Adams uses a broad brush to paint all illegals as contributing to the rising crime, little is said.
The Washington Post went so far as to run an article in 2018 saying that illegals are less likely to commit violent crime than the population as a whole. Where’s a similar article now from the New York Times?
The illegals are definitely a problem in the big cities because they can’t work legally. Anne Williams-Isom, the city’s deputy mayor for health and human services, said only 2,200 out of the more than 100,000 illegals who have arrived in the city have been approved for work permits.
It is a statistic touted as a reason we should feel sorry these illegals, but the truth is, they are facing just the barest consequences for their actions. They shouldn’t be in this country, to start with. They broke the law to be here. They should not benefit when their first act in entering this country is to show that they don’t believe the law applies to them.
Also, in doing so, the illegals have made themselves the scapegoats for Democrat-controlled big cities. Because they do add to the problems already existing in the cities before their arrival, they have become an easy target to blame for all the city’s problems.
Even if all the illegal immigrants were deported from the U.S. (and they should be), the problems in the big cities would remain because the politicians who run them are can’t govern. They can only blame.
Michael A. Letts is the CEO and Founder of In-VestUSA, a national grassroots non-profit organization helping hundreds of communities provide thousands of bulletproof vests for their police forces through educational, public relations, sponsorship, and fundraising programs.
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No Border – Say Goodbye to America
Nobel prize-winning economist Milton Friedman scolded the Wall Street Journal for cheerleading an open-border immigration policy. "It's just obvious you can't have free immigration and a welfare state," he warned.
This leads to a “transfer state,” as the Heritage Foundation describes, the government taxing the upper and middle classes, transferring money to lower economic classes via subsidies and benefits.
In other words, “The transfer state redistributes funds from those with high-skill and high-income levels to those with lower skill levels.”
Heritage makes the assumption, “It takes the entire net tax payments (taxes paid minus benefits received) of one college-educated family to pay for the net benefits received by one low-skill immigrant family.”
What happens when that ratio changes to one financially sound family supporting not one, but two, three, or more families through ever-increasing taxes and families to support?
Which is why a welfare state in an open-borders country will eventually reaching a tipping point. Are we already there?
As reported by Fox News’s Griff Jenkins, “Encounters with illegal immigrants at the southern border have topped over 300,000 in December.” Do the math. That’s 3.6 million per year, more than the population of every U.S. city except Los Angeles and New York.
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How many migrants are not encountered? Those are called “gotaways” and Border Patrol estimates 1,000 per day, or 365,000 per year. DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas acknowledges, “600,000 illegal ‘gotaways’ crossed border in 2023, calls immigration system broken.”
These are estimates. But the real number is unknowable. Let’s say a million gotaways a year, making the total 4.6 million migrants a year, more than the population of L.A. added to America each and every year.
As most migrants are unskilled, unable to speak English, many illiterate and unemployable, they are by necessity, supported by American taxpayers for food, shelter, education, travel, health care, and clothing.
What does that cost? “NYC’s daily per-person cost to house migrants climbs to nearly $400.” What about health care? California plans to provide free health care insurance to all illegal migrants, at an annual cost of about $4,000 for each adult.
According to Judicial Watch the “Net cost of illegal immigration is greater than the annual gross domestic product (GDP) of 15 different states.”
Clearly this is not sustainable. U.S. national debt recently topped $34 trillion. With the current interest rate on the debt at about 3 percent, interest on the debt is more than $1 trillion per year. Interest alone consumes about a quarter of the $4.4 trillion in annual federal receipts, more than defense spending.
We will be borrowing money to pay the interest on previously borrowed money. Economist Herbert Stein observed, “If something cannot go on forever, it will stop“.
The something is America as we know it.
There is no interest in securing our national border. In a hyper-partisan Washington, D.C., this is one of few examples where Republicans and Democrats actually agree.
Democrats want new voters. Their policies and leaders are not so popular these days. Some 63 percent of likely U.S. voters think the U.S. is heading in the wrong direction, according to Rasmussen Reports. Only 24 percent of voters strongly approve of the job President Biden is doing.
Creating a new dependency class of tens of millions of potential voters serves Democrat electoral interests. Republicans don’t mind ceding power to the Democrats as long as their wallets are thick with cash.
Open borders provide cheap labor for the Chamber of Commerce Republican establishment. GOP lawmakers are rewarded with generous campaign contributions and other financial perks in exchange for looking the other way from an open border.
U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson visited the U.S.-Mexican border with a gaggle of Republicans, huffing and puffing about what a “catastrophe” exists at the border. So what? Lots of talk but no action.
Going back to his predecessor Paul Ryan, Republicans have fought Trump on building a border wall and applied no pressure on Biden to secure the border. They could defund any responsible agencies including Homeland Security and Customs and Border Enforcement until the border was secure,
They will probably vote to reward DHS with a new building, rather than holding them accountable, as they did with the weaponized and corrupt FBI. The DHS secretary, rather than securing the homeland per his job description, blames climate change rather than his inaction and incompetence.
The power of the purse and impeachment are unknown or enigmatic concepts to Congressional Republicans. Instead, the Republican Speaker is “advocating” for solutions. What a tough guy he is.
Financial ramifications are a fraction of the problem. What about the fact that there are millions of young, military aged men, from all over the world, including countries not friendly to U.S. interests, unvetted, with unknown backgrounds or intentions, now in this country?
How many are, as Trump would describe, “bad hombres”? Intent on crime or terrorism? The number of Chinese migrants crossing into America has risen dramatically.
If 4 million to 5 million migrants come to America each year, and 10 percent are troublemakers, that’s 450,000, the same size as the active duty U.S. Army.
Our enemies would not need to attack us from the outside, their militaries may already be embedded in America.
Is this migration? Or an invasion? And why is it being allowed, facilitated, and encouraged?
Rasmussen Reports ran a poll on X where 93 percent of respondents agreed that, “The current situation with migrants at the border with Mexico is an ‘invasion’ of the United States.”
KanekoaTheGreat on X summed it up well:
On President Biden's inaugural day, he introduced policies that incentivize illegal immigration:
• Paused Deportations
• Suspended "Remain in Mexico"
• Stopped Border Wall Construction
This surge in illegal immigration is a national security crisis, costing American taxpayers hundreds of billions per year. Major U.S. cities, grappling with the escalating financial burden, are slashing budgets for essential services such as fire, police, sanitation, and education. President Biden holds the power to halt this crisis that is draining America's resources.
This was no accident. Elon Musk correctly observed, “At this point, there is no question that this administration is actively facilitating illegal immigration.”
There’s more trouble besides an open border. Energy costs are up, and we are no longer energy-independent. America is fighting two proxy wars, in Ukraine against Russia, and in Israel against Iran. North Korea, China, and Taiwan are on deck.
Inflation has devastated middle class families. Homes are unaffordable. Personal and national debts are unsustainable. And finally, the cultural wars have destroyed Americans’ minds and sensibilities.
This deliberate effort to destroy America has a name. It’s the Cloward-Piven strategy, named after two communist sociology professors at Columbia University,
The four steps of the Cloward-Piven Strategy:
1. Overload and Break the Welfare System
2. Have Chaos Ensue
3. Take Control in the Chaos
4. Implement Socialism and Communism through Government Force
Number 1 is currently ushering in number 2. Number 3 will be determined next November. Donald Trump is the only hope to break the sequence. Another term of the architect Barack Obama, via Joe Biden, Gavin Newsom, or Michelle Obama, will guarantee number 3 and 4, and then it’s lights out for the America of the past 250 years.
Closing our border and enforcing existing immigration law would be a good place to start. Continuing on our current path is the “fundamental change” that Obama promised, and goodbye to America as we know it.
Brian C. Joondeph, M.D., is a physician and writer. Follow me on Twitter @retinaldoctor, Substack Dr. Brian’s Substack, Truth Social @BrianJoondeph, and LinkedIn @Brian Joondeph.
Biden’s easy-migration policies are deliberately adding the foreigners’ problems to the lengthening list of Americans’ problems — homelessness, low wages, a shrinking middle class, slowing innovation, declining blue-collar life expectancy, spreading poverty, the rising death toll from drugs, and the spreading alienation among young people.
Extraction Migration
Biden has imported or accepted roughly 5 million illegal migrants for economic purposes in less than three years.
That Extraction Migration economic strategy has helped investors by inflating real estate prices and reducing Americans’ wages.
Polls: Biden’s Migration Wrecks ‘Nation of Immigrants’ Narrative
President Joe Biden’s easy-migration policies have slashed Americans’ acceptance of the elite-imposed “Nation of Immigrants” narrative.
Forty-eight percent of Americans believe that Biden’s 5 million southern migrants will make American society “worse in the long run,” according to a CBS poll conducted January 3-5.
Just 22 percent of Americans — but 44 percent of liberals — believe the migration will make American society better.
Those numbers are echoed in prior polls by YouGov.
“I think a lot of the [pro-]immigration people figure, ‘Well, this [public mood] will pass,'” Mark Krikorian, director of the Center for Immigration Studies, told Breitbart News, adding:
But this [migration] is so bad, this is so unprecedented, that I think it’s entirely possible it will change the way a lot of people think about immigration for many years in the future.
The CBS report shows that a majority of Americans also believe that Biden’s choice to maximize immigration is threatening to Americans and their culture.
Fifty-two percent say Biden’s border is a crisis because it imposes “changes to U.S. culture and people.”
The mainstream 52 percent total includes 64 percent of conservatives, 49 percent of independents, 57 percent of blacks, and 47 percent of Hispanics.
Other polls show that more Americans are willing to openly describe Biden’s mass illegal migration as a government-sponsored “invasion.”
Biden’s migration has imported one migrant for every two Americans born during the last three years.
Fifty-four percent of respondents told an NPR poll in August 2022 that the migration is an “invasion.”
A January 2023 poll by Rasmussen showed that 65 percent of respondents endorsed the ‘invasion” term. The 65 percent includes 43 percent who describe the term as “very accurate.”
The “very accurate” description is endorsed by 43 percent of women, 33 percent of blacks, 28 percent of Democrats, 15 percent of liberals, and 36 percent of people with post-graduate degrees.
The polls show a growing rejection of the “Nation of Immigrants” narrative that was created and pushed by pro-migration groups in the early 1960s. The narrative says the United States needs migration to be prosperous.
But the elite-funded, K-12-enforced narrative was invented to help the 1925 law that had minimized migration — much to the benefit of the new American middle class in the years after World War 2.
The narrative was marketed by elites as both a moral cause and a Cold War strategy.
So the federal government restarted immigration in 1965, doubled it in 1990, and lifted border curbs in 2021. One result is that the American middle class has lost enormous wealth, status, and power to investors on Wall Street.
Under Biden, the current wave of migration is being engineered by his pro-migration border security chief, Alejandro Mayorkas. He is strongly backed by investor groups, including FWD.us, which is Mark Zuckerberg’s advocacy group for investors.
The Biden shift in public opinion is especially noteworthy because establishment media, investors, and Democrats are eager to impose a “conspiracy theory” stigma on Americans who worry that migrants will sideline them, their children, and their culture. For example, a Washington Post columnist wrote on October 27:
Rep. Mike Johnson, the newly elected House speaker, has repeatedly flirted with what’s known as the “great replacement theory,” the idea that Democrats are scheming to supplant American voters with immigrants. The Louisiana Republican’s views show how fringe conspiracy theories have gone mainstream in the Republican Party at the highest levels of power.
The growing opposition to the narrative has been boosted by the shocking display of antisemitism among immigrants that has spread to U.S. progressives. In an October poll, 52 percent of Jewish people in New York described immigration as a burden.
But there is vast evidence that Democrats and business groups are using the federal government’s migration policy to displace and replace Americans in high-0pportunity coastal cities and Fortune 500 jobs.
For example, “Massachusetts experienced a net outflow of 39,149 people to other states and a net inflow of 50,647 people from other countries,” in the year up to July 2023, LowellSun.com reported on January 8.
The replacement of Americans in Massachusetts is accelerated by the rising cost of housing because migrants will accept worse housing conditions. The LowellSun posted:
Many younger professionals and other workers have opted to transfer their skills elsewhere due to unaffordable housing costs. The state’s high cost of living would also likely factor into moving for family considerations, lifestyle and especially retirement.
Unsurprisingly, Mayorkas’s actions are also smashing Biden’s poll ratings. The CBS survey showed that Biden’s policy has the support of 30 percent of Americans — and opposition from 70 percent.
The 70 percent opposition includes 74 percent of whites, 58 percent of blacks, 68 percent of Hispanics, 40 percent of Democrats, and 56 percent of under-39s.
But 58 percent of liberals favor the policy, which has imported more than 5 million illegals in three years, so spiking housing costs and inflation while shrinking wages and high-tech investment.
Sixty-three percent say Biden should be “tougher on immigrants trying to cross the border.” Just 16 percent said he should be “easier on immigrants trying to cross the border.”
“Joe Biden is … now moving the public in a way that immigration hawks have never really been able to do,” said Krikorian. He continued:
Not because the border control wasn’t broadly popular — It was. But it wasn’t all that important and the problem didn’t look all that bad. One of the reasons Trump didn’t run on immigration [in 2020] was because most people figured he took care of it so there’s no problem anymore. Well, that’s not the case now.
“I think it definitely will mark a long-term rethinking of mass immigration on the part of a lot of people,” he added.
Extraction Migration
Biden has imported or accepted roughly 5 million illegal migrants for economic purposes in less than three years.
That Extraction Migration economic strategy has helped investors by inflating real estate prices and reducing Americans’ wages.
That flood is urged and welcomed by business groups because it cuts Americans’ blue-collar wages and white-collar salaries. It also reduces marketplace pressure to invest in productivity-boosting technology, heartland states, and overseas markets. and it reduces economic pressure on the federal government to deal with the drug and “Deaths of Despair” crises.
Biden’s easy-migration policies are deliberately adding the foreigners’ problems to the lengthening list of Americans’ problems — homelessness, low wages, a shrinking middle class, slowing innovation, declining blue-collar life expectancy, spreading poverty, the rising death toll from drugs, and the spreading alienation among young people.
Reporter: '75% of American People’ Just ‘Aren't Getting It' When Mayorkas Explains Border Security
Throwing a softball question to the DHS secretary on Monday, a reporter asked Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas how he can get through to the “75% of the American people” who just don’t understand how well he’s handling the illegal immigration crisis at the U.S. southern border.
Citing an unnamed poll, the reporter told Mayorkas that better “messaging” is the key to making the ignorant three-fourths of America understand that the Biden Administration knows what’s best for them regarding the situation at the border:
“Mr. Secretary, you mentioned a bunch of things the administration is trying to do, but a poll shows 75% of the American people aren't getting it.
“What can you do, message-wise, to convince the American people that what’s going with immigration, as far as the administration is concerned, is in America's best interest?”
“So, it is opportunities like this that I will use to communicate the facts to the American people,” Mayorkas replied, declaring that “it is very important that the American public understand the facts,” about “all this administration has done.”
The reporter was apparently citing results of a Rasmussen/National Pulse survey of likely voters released Monday showing that Americans are, indeed, extremely concerned about the flood of migrants into the U.S.:
- Nearly three-fourths (72%) believe the current situation at the U.S.-Mexico border is “a crisis,” including majorities of all racial and political categories.
- Two-thirds (65%) describe the current situation with migrants at the border with Mexico as “an invasion” of the U.S., including majorities of every racial and political category.
- 43% believe it’s “very accurate” to say there’s an invasion of migrants taking place,
- 70% of voters consider border security to be “a vital national security interest,” including majorities of all racial and political categories.
- 82% of those who believe there’s a border crisis consider it to be an invasion.
- 87% of those who consider border security a vital national security interest say there’s an invasion taking place at the border.
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