Robert Rector, a Heritage Foundation senior fellow who studies poverty and illegal immigration, told Fox the costs represent “the tip of the iceberg.”
“They get $3 in benefits for every $1 they spend,” Rector said. It can cost the government a total of $24,000 per year per family to pay for things like education, police, fire, medical, and subsidized housing.
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Finally! A Republican said what needed to be said about Biden's border
In just six months, Biden's destroyed jobs, presided over a 30% increase in gas prices, made America energy-dependent again, unleashed transgender madness, and aimed aggressive racial attacks against Whites. The worst thing he's done, however, was to open the southern border, destroying American sovereignty and violating federal immigration law. Finally, Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) had the courage to say, albeit delicately, that Biden and his Homeland Security secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas, need to be impeached.
When Biden took the oath of office, he swore that he would "faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." Under Art. I of the Constitution, Congress has the sole authority to enact the laws of the United States and, if it decides to do so, to rescind them.
The president's responsibility is limited to enforcing the laws to the best of his ability. Depending on available resources and the political temperature of the time, he may put more energy into enforcing one law than another. What the president cannot do is blatantly violate a law. By doing so, he exceeds his power under the Constitution, and, rather than protecting and defending it, he tramples it and puts American citizens at great risk.
In this case, Biden has blatantly overthrown America's immigration laws. There's not even a pretense now that the people streaming in from all over Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East are "refugees." The administration deliberately dumps these alien invaders in communities across America regardless of whether they're infected with dangerous diseases, or are cartel members, sex-traffickers, people being trafficked, rapists, or terrorists.
The Constitution, in Art. II, Section 4, states that "[t]he President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors." Allowing a foreign invasion of one's country easily comes within the category of Treason, and violating the entire immigration code slots right into the category of "high Crimes."
Finally, six months into a crime spree that would make any convicted felon jealous, Chip Roy took a small step toward impeachment. It began with a Twitter thread:
A thread by Chip Roy
THREAD: PRELIMINARY JULY BORDER NUMBERS
(USBP only, subject to increase)Total encounters: 205,029
Total known gotaways: 37,400
1.3 million for FY 21 so far
Largest monthly encounter number since 2000. Total is bigger than every full-year total since FY21
Breakdown below:
RGV Sector
Encounters - 81,034
Got Aways (known/recorded)- 5,219Del Rio Sector
Encounters- 34,553
Got Aways (known/recorded)- 9,737El Paso Sector
Encounters- 20,736
Got Aways (known/recorded)- 4,203Tucson Sector
Encounters- 18,960
Got Aways (known/recorded)- 9,792San Diego Sector
Encounters- 16,094
Got Aways (known/recorded)- 4,053Yuma Sector
Encounters- 15,095
Got Aways (known/recorded)- 682Laredo Sector
Encounters- 9,177
Got Aways (known/recorded)- 1,383El Centro Sector
Encounters- 5,565
Got Aways (known/recorded)- 942Big Bend Sector
Encounters- 3,815
Got Aways (known/recorded)- 1,389Now, take that and factor this in:
CBP agents and officers have seized more than 8,500lbs of fentanyl during the first 9 months of FY21
That's not only an increase of 234% year over year
It's enough to kill everyone in America five times over, (since 2mg can be fatal)
Add in the fact that we know that cartels and coyotes use and "recycle" children to abuse our asylum system
Add in the fact that we know that cartels are making millions per day in human and sex trafficking off this administration
It's only going to get worse with this crisis
Add in that vaccinated Americans are being forced to mask up while people with COVID are being dumped in places like La Joya, TX
Add in that thousands of CBP employees have tested positive & at least 33 have died from COVID because @POTUS & @VP aren't enforcing Title 42
And while House Dems are obviously complicit in this monstrosity, remember that @RepHerrell and I introduced a discharge petition to force a vote on this OVER THREE MONTHS AGO.
Yet only 149 House Republicans have signed it – where are the other 60+? (clerk.house.gov/DischargePetit…) It's time to draw a line in the sand, for the sake of our country, our communities, our kids, and those who seek to come here.
It’s time to impeach @SecMayorkas for failing to uphold immigration law, enforce Title 42, and secure our border. We demand a secure border and safe neighborhoods.
It's our country. These are our terms.
While Roy spoke of impeaching Mayorkas, it was Jesse Kelly who responded to the thread by saying that Biden too deserves to be impeached:
Roy agreed:
A hashtag is not a ringing endorsement or loud cry for impeachment. However, considering how cowed Republicans are (I assume it's because of the way Democrats have spun January 6 as an "insurrection" rather than the same type of scuffle in which Democrats routinely engage), this is a start. I would add that Kamala Harris, as border czar, needs to be impeached, too. The fact that she did nothing to stem the flow makes her equally culpable.
Image: Drone reveals thousands of illegal aliens under a bridge in Texas. Twitter screen grab.
Poll: Joe Biden’s Approval Rating Drops Ten Points in 60 Days
A Monday poll revealed President Joe Biden’s approval rating dropped ten points in 60 days, according to a Harvard CAPS-Harris survey.
Biden’s approval is currently at 52 percent. “He may still be above water — only 43 percent of respondents disapprove of the job he’s doing in the Oval Office — but he’s down 10 points from where he was in June, when his approval was at 62 percent,” the poll suggested.
Other polling has indicated Biden has a lower approval rating than 52 percent.
A Gallup poll from July 6-21 marked Biden at a 50 percent approval rating, down six points from a 56 percent rating in June. But according to a Monmouth University Polling Institute on June 18, Biden’s approval rating stood at 48 percent with 43 percent disapproving of his job performance.
Monday’s Harvard CAPS-Harris survey also showed some 47 percent of Americans believe the nation is on the wrong track, compared to 39 percent who believed so in June.
Even worse, the poll suggested 49 percent believe the Biden inflation ridden economy is on the wrong track, increasing from 42 percent in June.
Inflation may be the lead driver in Biden’s dropping approval rating.
A Morning Consult poll released July 28 indicated 59 percent of “registered voters hold Biden’s economic policies responsible for rise in inflation in the United States, compared with 53% who point to Americans’ return to pre-pandemic behaviors.”
DHS Mayorkas Dangles TPS Amnesty for 6 Million Migrant Venezuelans
President Joe Biden’s border chief is encouraging many Venezuelans to migrate illegally into the United States by dangling a partial amnesty with a September 2022 deadline.
Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas included the encouragement in a supposedly routine August 3 extension of the deadline for Venezuelans who are in the United States to apply for Temporary Protected Status (TPS), which allows migrants to stay and work in the United States. The invite said:
The Department of Homeland Security today published a Federal Register notice (FRN) announcing extensions of the registration periods from 180 days to 18 months for initial (new) applicants for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) under the designations of Venezuela … The 18-month registration period for initial applications under the TPS designation of Venezuela now runs through Sept. 9, 2022.
But “the only reason that you do this is to reward as many people as possible with work permits and, basically, all but a guarantee that you’ll never be returned home,” responded Rob Law, a former top official at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services agency.
WASHINGTON, DC – MAY 26: Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas prepares to testify before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on May 26, 2021 in Washington, DC. Although the Biden Administration has yet to release its FY2022 budget for the Department of Homeland Security, Mayorkas testified about the immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border, Coast Guard mission priorities and other topics. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Since 2009, the migration flow has expanded as rational migrants have used coyotes — and U.S. immigration advocates — to zig-zag through a series of loopholes dubbed catch-and-release, Flores, and the 2008 TVPRA law.
Formally, the announcement extends the TPS-application deadline for Venezuelans who are now in the United States, said Law, who now works for the Center for Immigration Studies. In reality, the 13-month delay gives roughly six million Venezuala who are now living in South American countries the incentive and the time to walk across the Mexican border using fake identities, knowing they can file for the TPS asylum with their true name and valid documents by September 2022, he said.
Most of those migrants who arrive after this week will get TPS because Mayorkas and his deputies will pressure agency officials to approve the applications, said Law.
The decision comes a week after Mayorkas awarded TPS status to 100,000 additional Haitian migrants, including many thousands who recently walked through the southern border.
Mayorkas — a Cuban-born, pro-migration zealot — and his deputies are turning the TPS program into a political weapon, Law said. “They are exploiting the TPS statute to do what Congress is unable or unwilling to do, which is to provide fully loaded amnesty [to migrants], so they’re providing amnesty-lite in the form of TPS work permits,” he said.
Since Biden’s inauguration, the eligible population of TPS recipients has exploded from roughly 320,000 to 746,000, not counting the Venezuelans who will arrive by September 2022.
The Associated Press reported June 28:
7,484 Venezuelans were encountered by Border Patrol agents along the U.S.-Mexico border [in May]— more than all 14 years for which records exist.
The surprise increase has drawn comparisons to the midcentury influx of Cubans fleeing Fidel Castro’s communist rule. It’s also a harbinger of a new type of migration that has caught the Biden administration off guard: pandemic refugees.
Many of the nearly 17,306 Venezuelans who have crossed the southern border illegally since January had been living for years in other South American countries, part of an exodus of nearly 6 million Venezuelans since President Nicolás Maduro took power in 2013.
The Mayorkas announcement also extends the same encouragement to people from Myanmar and Syria. Young men in those two distant populations can get to the United States by flying to South America and then taking the arduous route through the dangerous Darien Gap to get their TPS application on Mayorkas’s desk 13 months from now.
The TPS program was created to shelter foreigners who were temporarily in the United States and who are unable to return home safely because their home country suffered a catastrophe, such as a war or a natural disaster.
But the program has gradually been widened by deputies for GOP and Democratic presidents. For example, it was used to aid illegal migrants working in the United States, and many grants to people from El Salvador, Honduras, and other counties have been “redesignated” long after their home country has recovered from disasters.
Immigrants and activists protest near the White House to demand that the Department of Homeland Security extend Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for more than 195,000 Salvadorans on January 8, 2018 in Washington, DC. The US government announced Monday the end of a special protected status for about 200,000 Salvadoran immigrants, a move that threatens with deportation tens of thousands of well-established families with children born in the United States. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP/Getty Images)
“This whole notion of rededication is a legal fallacy which just rewards the legal aliens who came to the United States after the original event, which is not at all how GPS statute is supposed to be constructed,” Law said.
Mayorkas and his aides are “are simply not adhering to the statute at all,” said Law:
The statute requires not only that the conditions exist — whether they’re extraordinary and temporary, or armed conflict — but also that those specific conditions prevent that alien from being returned to the home country in safety … They ignore the second part of the statute which requires that these conditions prevent a return in safety … What they do is they find any excuse — any bad news that exists in one of these countries is good enough for them to designate or to continue on the [re]designation.
“One of these state attorneys general needs to step up and just take a shot at it,” Law said, adding:
The more opportunities they get to violate our immigration laws, they will continue to push the bounds further, further, and further to the point where there is no longer immigration laws, there is no longer a border, and there’s certainly is no longer national sovereignty.
So far, Mayorkas has helped to bring 700,000 migrants over the Mexican border into the United States. That huge inflow is boosted by the TPS expansion and is lowering nationwide pressure on employers to raise Americans’ wages. Yahoo News reported July 30:
Job switchers saw their wages grow 5.8% year over year in June, while job holders experienced a 3.1% gain, according to a report by ADP derived from payroll data of 18 million workers. Overall, wage growth decelerated from the first quarter, while still growing 2.3% in June compared with a year earlier.
In contrast, wages grew much faster in Trump’s low-migration economy. In September 2020, the U.S. Census Bureau reported:
Median household income was $68,703 in 2019, an increase of 6.8 percent from the 2018 median of $64,324 … Real median household incomes increased for all regions in 2019; 6.8 percent in the Northeast, 4.8 percent in the Midwest, 6.1 percent in the South, and 7.0 percent in the West.
Overall, businesses want to import more migrants — even destitute migrants — because they spike consumer sales, boost rental rates, cut wages, minimize concessions to labor, and so raise profits and stock values. They also serve as clients for welfare agencies, and eventually, as voters for Democrat activists.
But migration damages ordinary Americans’ career opportunities, cuts their wages, raises their rents, curbs their productivity, shrinks their political clout, and fractures their open-minded, equality-promoting civic culture.
In general, legal and illegal migration moves wealth from employees to employers, from families to investors, from young to old, from children to their parents, from homebuyers to investors, from technology to stoop labor.
Biden’s decision to restart the economic extraction of valuable consumers, renters, and workers from poor countries also helps move wealth — and social status — from heartland red states to the coastal blue states. Within each state, the extraction policy also helps to move wealth and status from GOP rural districts to Democrat cities.
