CALIFORNIA: LARGEST NUMBER OF ILLEGALS, LARGEST NUMBERS OF JOBLESS, AND THER LARGEST NUMBER OF HOMELESS. CAN YOU DO THE MATH ON THAT?
EMPLOYED PEOPLE IN POVERTY, COMING ECONOMIC CRISIS WILL BE CATASTROPHIC, NEW WARNINGS FROM INVESTORS
"This is how they will destroy America from within. The leftist billionaires who orchestrate these plans are wealthy. Those tasked with representing us in Congress will never be exposed to the cost of the invasion of millions of migrants. They have nothing but contempt for those of us who must endure the consequences of our communities being intruded upon by gang members, drug dealers and human traffickers. These people have no intention of becoming Americans; like the Democrats who welcome them, they have contempt for us." PATRICIA McCARTHY
Third, the Biden administration’s irresponsible actions can be seen as a way of inviting more migrants to come to the southern border. Already we have migrants showing up not just from Mexico, not just from Central and South America, but also from Central Europe, Haiti, Iran, India, and all over the world. Basically it’s a free-for-all, and some of the caravans making their way toward Texas feature Biden signs. Essentially the migrants are saying they’re responding to Biden’s open invitation. And think of the galvanizing effect on the poor people who learn that some of their earlier counterparts are now going to get more money than they have ever seen in their lives, money that would enable them to retire in many parts of the world.
White House Says DOJ to Determine How Much Illegal Immigrants Will Be Paid as GOP Fights Proposal
Proposed payments to illegal immigrants will be determined by the Department of Justice, the White House says amid pushback from Republicans in Congress.
The Biden administration is engaged in negotiations to reach settlements in lawsuits brought by illegal aliens separated from family members during the Trump administration.
After initially appearing to deny payments to the foreign nationals were being considered, President Joe Biden on Saturday said they “deserve” compensation for what they went through.
Biden and a spokesperson for the president said his initial denials were centered on the reported number of $450,000 per person.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) will ultimately decide how much the illegal immigrants will receive, White House adviser Cedric Richmond, a former Democratic U.S. representative, said a day later.
“If the DOJ determines that it saves the taxpayers money and it rights a wrong, then they will make the determination that is necessary and I would assume if they make a determination, they’ll come up with what they think is an adequate dollar amount,” Richmond said on “Fox News Sunday.
Richmond alleged that some of the children separated from adult family members have yet to be reunited with their relatives. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for information backing up that claim.
Republicans have decried the proposal to pay illegal immigrants.
Sen. Steve Daines (R-Mont.) and 22 other GOP senators last week introduced an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022 that would block taxpayer-funded settlements for illegal immigrants. They also introduced the measure as a standalone bill.
“Biden’s open border policies have reached a new crazy level. Montana families are struggling with inflation and skyrocketing costs on everything from gas to groceries because of Biden’s wasteful spending policies, and now the President wants to give hundreds of thousands of dollars to illegal immigrants. Because of Biden, our southern border has been taken over by Mexican cartels and this effort will only continue to incentivize illegal immigration making it worse. This is a gut punch to the American taxpayer,” Daines said in a statement.
Rep. Tom McClintock (R-Calif.), with support from 146 Republican colleagues, including House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), around the same time introduced a measure that would bar Attorney General Merrick Garland from making settlement payments to illegal immigrants.
“Law-abiding, hardworking Americans
have seen their purchasing power
decimated by Biden’s economic policies
while he has surrendered our southern
border. Paying illegal immigrants
$450,000 apiece as an apology for
Trump’s decision to enforce our
immigration law adds insult to injury.
Congress has the power of the purse,
and that’s why we must act today to stop
this outrageous plan in its
tracks,” McClintock said in a statement.
Richmond challenged critics, saying Sunday that “we cannot with a straight face say that parents are willing to separate from a child for a dollar amount.”
“That’s just not true,” he added. “And we should not talk like that.”
Asked for more details on the proposal during Monday’s briefing in Washington, White House deputy press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre referred reporters to the DOJ.
The agency, which has confirmed talks on the payments are ongoing, declined to answer several questions about the negotiations.
Nick Ciolino contributed to this report.
IMPEACH THE FUCKER!
Ted Cruz Accuses Biden Of 'Outright Lying' On Senate Floor
Why Is the Biden Administration Paying Off the Illegal Immigrants?
Commentary
What possible rationale can the Biden administration have for paying out up to $450,000 to illegal immigrants? This is not the payment to families, but rather to single individuals. In some cases, the administration could end up forking over as much as $1 million—perhaps even $2 million—to illegal immigrant families who unlawfully attempted to cross the southern border.
Let’s pause to consider how bizarre and inexplicable this action seems to be. Illegals, by definition, are breaking the law. It might seem more appropriate to fine and deport them rather than to enrich them with gargantuan financial payments. I came legally to America and it took me more than a dozen years, and quite a bit of money, to secure legal status. I joked on social media that I should cut up my passport, change my name to Diego D’Souza, and show up at the southern border claiming my $450,000.
The families who lost loved ones at 9/11 got settlements that in some cases didn’t add up to what the illegals might get. Military families are typically compensated with $400,000 upon the death of a service member. Think of what $450,000 per head, and say $1 million per family, would do for poor and middle income households in this country. And let’s remember that President Joe Biden, in using taxpayer money to make these payments, is in effect taking those people’s money and handing it over to lawbreaking Mexicans.
The story about the payments broke in the Wall Street Journal about a week ago. The WSJ reported that the payments were being negotiated by Biden’s Department of Justice (DOJ) as a settlement of claims on behalf of illegals separated from their families under the Trump administration. The illegals are represented by various left-wing groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and the negotiations were ongoing between the DOJ and these legal organizations.
Shortly after the WSJ story, Peter Doocy of Fox News asked Biden about it. Biden described the report as “garbage” and insisted that the payments are “not going to happen.” Yet almost immediately, the ACLU put out a statement saying that “President Biden may not have been fully briefed about the actions of his very own Justice Department.”
This alone was revealing because it confirmed the impression of anyone who watched Biden’s press conference. Biden clearly seemed surprised by Doocy’s question, suggesting he had no knowledge of these payments in process. Since immigration is a controversial issue—indeed, it’s a driving force of Biden’s low approval ratings—one might expect Biden to at least be informed of decisions being carried out in his name.
Sure enough, in a couple of days Biden’s deputy press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre issued a “clarification,” stating that Biden was “perfectly comfortable” with his DOJ settling with the illegals through their attorneys. Biden himself weighed in to back up this backtracking. Now, Biden waxed lyrical about the horrors of people being separated from their families, as if the United States had somehow gravely violated their human rights.
So far I haven’t seen much discussion of why the Biden administration might want to pay these ransoms—because that’s what they are. I can think of three reasons why Biden and his team are doing so. First, they want to repudiate the Trump policy, and this lawsuit stems from 2018 when the Trump administration temporarily separated adults and children in order to more effectively process asylum and other claims.
Let’s note that then, as now, adults often show up at the border with children who are not their own, as a ruse to be able to stay in the United States while their claims are being processed. For Biden, this is a way to feign outrage at Trump’s policies, a continuation of the indignation he expressed on the presidential campaign. The mantra here is that if Trump did it, it must be awful.
Second, the lavish settlements are a way to funnel money to left-wing legal organizations that are supportive of Biden’s ideology and his administration. Normally, we think of settlement negotiations as conducted between rival parties, say a business on the one hand, and unions on the other. But these negotiations more closely resemble two mafia families, in league with each other, that are negotiating how to get money from one to the other—money taken from a third party that’s not directly involved in the negotiations.
Third, the Biden administration’s irresponsible actions can be seen as a way of inviting more migrants to come to the southern border. Already we have migrants showing up not just from Mexico, not just from Central and South America, but also from Central Europe, Haiti, Iran, India, and all over the world. Basically it’s a free-for-all, and some of the caravans making their way toward Texas feature Biden signs. Essentially the migrants are saying they’re responding to Biden’s open invitation. And think of the galvanizing effect on the poor people who learn that some of their earlier counterparts are now going to get more money than they have ever seen in their lives, money that would enable them to retire in many parts of the world.
Yes, it’s scandalous. Yes, it’s unconscionable. Yes, it’s theft from the American taxpayer. But none of that makes the conduct of Biden or his DOJ purely irrational. Rather, Biden is doing what makes sense, not for the United States, not even in terms of justice, but only in terms of what benefits his administration, his political party, and his left-wing allies.
Views expressed in this article are the opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.
Catholic League: ‘Joe Biden Style’ Justice Makes Illegals Millionaires
Catholic League president Bill Donohue has denounced the Biden administration’s neglect of American citizens in favor of illegal immigrants.
“In the name of helping families, President Biden wants to reward many of those who broke into our country illegally by making them millionaires,” Dr. Donohue noted this weekend.
American families, on the other hand, “that are living here legally and elect to place their children in religious child care centers have to wing it on their own,” Donohue added.
In his essay, Donohue observed Biden flatly denied a plan to give hundreds of thousands of dollars to border crossers who are separated, accusing Fox News of airing “garbage.”
Later, however, Karine Jean-Pierre, Deputy White House press secretary, declared the opposite, insisting that the president was “perfectly comfortable” with the decision to give $450,000 to illegal aliens.
Not only is Biden prepared to give huge sums of taxpayer money to illegal aliens, Donohue noted, but he is denying it to American families who want to send their children to faith-based institutions.
While Biden has asserted that every “American family deserves access to high quality, affordable child care,” Donohue called him out on this “lie.”
The Build Back Better Act explicitly denies childcare funding for religious entities, Donohue observed, citing the text of the legislation.
Under the Act, “Catholics, Protestants, Jews, Muslims and Mormons who place their children in a child care center of their faith are not entitled to any assistance,” he added.
“The bottom line is clear,” Donohue concluded. “Bust into our country illegally and you stand to become a millionaire. Put your kid in a religious child care center, and you’re on your own.”
“This is the face of social justice, Biden style,” he said.
Poll: Biden Approval Plummets to Under 38 Percent as Republicans Take Commanding 8-Point Lead in Generic Midterm Ballot
Democrat President Joe Biden’s approval rating keeps sinking, now down to 37.8 percent in the latest USA Today/Suffolk University poll. The sharp turn against the sitting president comes as Republicans take a commanding lead in the generic congressional ballot, and the public sours on Biden’s agenda.
A strong majority of 59 percent disapproves of Biden, with just 37.8 percent approving of his job performance and 3.2 percent undecided. Biden’s support crash, according to USA Today’s article accompanying the release of the polling, comes in large part because he “cratered among the independent voters who delivered his margin of victory over President Donald Trump one year ago.” Independents by a 7 to 1 margin believe Biden has done a worse job than they expected as president.
“Nearly half of those surveyed, 46%, say Biden has done a worse job as president than they expected, including 16% of those who voted for him,” USA Today’s Susan Page and Rick Rouan wrote. “Independents, by 7-1 (44%-6%), say he’s done worse, not better, than they expected.”
Republicans now have a dominant 8-point lead in the looming midterm elections as well, as 46 percent of survey respondents say they will vote for a Republican and just 38 percent say they will back a Democrat.
“If the election were today, those surveyed say, they would vote for their Republican congressional candidate over the Democratic one by 46%-38%, an advantage that would bode well for GOP hopes of gaining a majority in the House and the Senate,” Page and Rouan wrote. “In a president’s first midterm election, his party usually loses ground, and this time the GOP needs to flip just five seats in the House and one in the Senate to claim control.”
What’s more, former President Donald Trump—a Republican—now leads Biden in a hypothetical 2024 matchup.
“If the presidential election were today between Biden and Trump, 44% say, they would vote for Trump, 40% for Biden, 11% for an unnamed third-party candidate. In the election last year, Biden beat Trump 54%-47%,” Page and Rouan wrote.
This comes as a commanding majority of Americans, including a sizable number of Democrats, hope Biden does not run again in 2024.
“Nearly two-thirds of Americans, 64%, say they don’t want Biden to run for a second term in 2024. That includes 28% of Democrats,” Page and Rouan wrote.
Democrats do not have much of an out in Biden’s vice president, Kamala Harris, either, because she has an even lower approval rating—hitting just 27.8 percent.
“Vice President Kamala Harris’ approval rating is 28% – even worse than Biden’s,” Page and Rouan wrote. “The poll shows that 51% disapprove of the job she’s doing. One in five, 21%, are undecided.”
The survey of 1,000 registered voters, with a margin of error of 3.1 percent, was conducted November 3 to November 5. That means this poll was completed in the aftermath of GOP Virginia Governor-elect Glenn Youngkin’s shocking win over Democrat former Gov. Terry McAuliffe on Tuesday, a day where Republicans far outperformed expectations and history in elections from coast to coast.
The survey was also completed as House Democrats, with establishment Republican help, passed the $1.2 trillion Senate-passed “Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework” (BIF) plan, sending it to Biden’s desk for his signature. The plan had languished for 87 days since Senate passage, and barely made it through the House as Democrats could not even marshal a majority of 218 votes—getting just 215 Democrats to support it—and forcing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to rely on the 13 House Republicans who backed the bill to secure its passage.
While that bill that passed both chambers with bipartisan support does get some broad support from the public, the bigger Democrat agenda bill—called the “Build Back Better” act—fares much worse in the polling.
“Americans are closely divided on the ‘Build Back Better’ act pressed by congressional Democrats,” Page and Rouan wrote. “In the poll, 47% support the $1.85 trillion bill; 44% oppose it. The sweeping measure includes more than $500 billion in climate change and clean energy funding. It would establish pre-K for all 3- and 4-year-olds; extend the child tax credit for one year; expand Medicaid coverage in some states; add hearing coverage to Medicare; and finance affordable housing programs.”
Perhaps more importantly, though, a solid majority of 61 percent of Americans say Biden’s BBB bill will have either no impact or a negative impact on their families.
“Those surveyed are a bit more likely to say its provisions would hurt their families rather than help them, 30%-26%. Thirty-one percent say it would not have much effect,” Page and Rouan wrote of that bill that Democrats are still trying to pass.
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