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 .
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So handing Joe $14 billion to secure the border, is in fact handing him $14 billion to open the border. That's seven times what President Trump asked for for the construction of a border wall, which actually would have secured the border
Abbott Blasts Mayorkas’ Claim: ‘The Only Climate That's Changed Is the Refusal to Enforce the Immigration Laws’ Pres. Biden’s open-border policies – not climate change – are to blame for the record illegal immigration into the U.S., Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said Wednesday, responding to DHS Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas’ claim that climate change is a “root cause” of illegal immigration.
Sec. Mayorkas made the claim earlier in the day during an appearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” while attacking Gov. Abbott for sending some of the illegal aliens who’ve broken into his state to Democrat-run, self-proclaimed “sanctuary cities” that claim to want them.
"The only climate that's changed is the refusal to enforce the immigration laws of the United States,” Gov. Abbott told Fox News Channel Host Sean Hannity. “You saw what happened four years ago when we had the lowest illegal immigration in 40 years,” Abbott added, citing border security policies instituted by former Pres. Donald Trump - which Pres. Biden immediately began reversing on his first day in office.
Biden should focus on securing the border and stop taking legal action against Texas’ efforts to secure its border, the governor wrote in a social media post:
“Mayorkas blames climate change for illegal immigration, not Joe Biden's open border policies. Biden is now suing Texas AGAIN for stepping up to stop illegal immigration. Time for the Biden Administration to stop the lawsuits and start to enforce federal immigration laws.”
“Climate change? Mayorkas is pathetic. The REAL reason illegal immigration records are being set is because Biden refuses to enforce immigration laws,” wrote in another post , vowing that Biden won't stop him from keeping Texans safe:
“We will send more buses and planes. We will continue building the razor wire walls that Biden wants to tear down.”
Sen. John Kennedy: Two Reasons Pres. Biden Is ‘As Popular as Herpes’ in Louisiana
There are two reasons that “Pres. Biden is about as popular as herpes” in his state, Republican Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy said in a Fox News Channel interview this week.
Sen. Kennedy was commenting on the Biden Administration’s discussions with Mexico about how to grant amnesty to the illegal aliens flooding into the U.S.:
“In Louisiana, Pres. Biden is about as popular as herpes. Why is that? 2 reasons:
“Number One: the people of Louisiana are not stupid.
“Number Two: They think the Biden admin is. They think that its stupidity runs from the river to the sea.”
“Exhibit A is the open border: Pres. Biden has dissolved the southern border,” Kennedy explained:
Our problems at the southern border are man-made – and that man’s name is Joe Biden. And, the people of Louisiana and the American people know it. Yet, he blames the media for his unpopularity. It’s hard to believe that the president could be that obtuse.
“There will not be a supplemental appropriations bill passed unless we take steps to secure the border,” the senator promised.
Kennedy then listed how “We could secure the border in six weeks, if we just did five things.”
Mayorkas’ DHS Claims 2.3 Million Illegal Migrants, but Hides Millions More Graeme Jennings, Guillermo Arias/Getty Images 8:30
A report by the Department of Homeland Security says the agency has released 2.3 million migrants into the United States up to September 2023.
However, the report hides the entry or stay of at least three million additional illegal migrants via various other routes during President Joe Biden’s three years.
Overall, the multiple routes delivered an increase of at least five million illegal migrants — or roughly one migrant for every two American infants born during Biden’s presidency.
The report was leaked and then posted late Saturday by the Washington Post , whose editors picked a stark headline, “U.S. released more than 2.3 million migrants at border since 2021, data show.”
That headline — although understated — is an extraordinarily dramatic description of the huge migrant numbers admitted by Biden’s pro-migration border chief, Alejandro Mayorkas.
It is also shocking because the true numbers have been successfully hidden by the established media from ordinary Americans for many years.
The report says the 2023 inflow includes 370,191 people allowed in via the “parole” loophole, 909,450 people allowed while officials begin multi-year deportation proceedings, and 118,100 child migrants who are sheltered by the Department of Health and Human Services.
The Post ‘s article about the DHS report — “Immigration Enforcement and Legal Processes Monthly Tables ” — revealed long-secret deportation numbers: “The DHS data … show more than 4 million border-crossers have been expelled to Mexico, returned to home countries or otherwise removed from the United States over the past three years.”
But the Post ‘s reporters also showed the headline claim of 2.3 million admitted migrants is understated because millions of additional migrants sneaked in via other routes and times.
For example, in the 17th paragraph of their article, they noted:
The 2.3 million releases by CBP do not include the roughly 365,000 unaccompanied minors encountered by the agency since 2021 who were transferred to the Department of Health and Human Services.
The vast majority of the “unaccompanied minors ” are older teenagers seeking jobs in the United States, often in labor-trafficking networks that pay for their migration through Mayorkas’ border.
In the 27th and last paragraph, the Pos t’s reporters noted:
The report does not include estimates for the number of border-crossers who were detected by CBP but not taken into custody, a category the agency refers to as “gotaways.” CBP detected about 600,000 gotaways in 2022 and 389,000 in 2021, according to a May 2023 report by DHS’s Office of Inspector General.
Those two inflows — teenage workers and 2021-2023 “gotaways ” — added roughly 2 million migrants to the official count of 2.3 million, yielding a total of roughly 4.3 million.
The DHS report only includes data up to September 2023. Since then, roughly 900,000 additional migrants have crossed the U.S. border in October, November, and December. If half were deported, then an additional 450,000 migrants should be added to the inflow numbers.
However, the official report — and the Washington Post article — also ignored Mayorkas’ decision to minimize deportations from the country’s interior, and his massive increase in “overstay” legal visitors who stay in the United States when their visas expire.
For example, under Trump, DHS deported roughly 500,000 illegals in 2018 and 2019, according to federal data. But Mayorkas has only deported about 250,000 people in three years — leaving roughly 500,000 additional migrants in the United States.
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Government officials do not closely track the number of illegals who overstay their visas to take U.S. jobs. But there is much evidence that many foreigners — especially Indians — arrive legally carrying B-1/B-2 visitor visas or F-1 student visas while intending to illegally work in jobs that would otherwise go to better-paid Americans.
In June 2023, Mayorkas’ DHS released its annual visa overstay report for Fiscal Year 2022, revealing that an estimated 795,000 visitors remained long after their visas expired. The number is up by 313,000 from the 482,000 overstays in 2015 .
The overstay number does not include the B-1/B-2 visitors who illegally work but return home before their visa expires.
Mayorkas’ s 500,000 not-deported migrants and his additional 313,000 overstays were not mentioned in the new report. But if those numbers are added, then Mayorkas’s stock of new illegal migrants jumps from 4.3 million to 5 million.
Moreover, Mayorkas and the Department of State have tried to raise the legal inflow of foreign contract workers via the H-1B, L-1, J-1, TN, H4EAD, F-1/OPT, H-2A , and H-2B programs. Those visa worker programs keep a population of roughly 500,000 migrants in agricultural and blue-collar jobs — and keep roughly 1.5 million foreign graduates in U.S. white-collar jobs that would otherwise go to better-paid American professionals.
Legal immigration inflows add another 1 million migrants each year.
The administration’s deliberate decision to sneak mass illegal migration into Americans’ society has smashed public support for migration — and is giving former President Donald Trump a huge boost in his 2024 race.
A YouGov poll conducted from December 31 to January 2, for example, showed that 54 percent of U.S. adults believe the migration issue is “very important.”
The DHS report is difficult to read, partly because the data is hidden in database tabs rather than in conventional charts or columns.
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But the report includes many additional revelations. In 2019, for example, Trump’s border officers accepted 12,000 irregular arrivals of illegals at airports. But Biden’s airport inflow spiked to 350,000 in 2023.
Many Mexicans are trying to migrate into the United States, despite Mexico’s elections and economic growth. The report cites the arrival of 2.1 million Mexican migrants at U.S. borders in 2021, 2022, and 2023.
The vast majority were sent home in 2021 and 2022. But more than 130,000 Mexicans were allowed to enter the United States in 2023 as Mayorkas negotiated migration-management deals with Mexico.
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.
So handing Joe $14 billion to secure the border, is in fact handing him $14 billion to open the border. That's seven times what President Trump asked for for the construction of a border wall, which actually would have secured the border
Americans Donate $55 Million to Fund Texas Gov. Abbott’s Border Wall, Half-Million to Transport Migrants to Other States Americans have donated more than $55 million dollars to Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s “Operation Lone Star” to help fund construction of a border wall in his state, which is being overwhelmed by illegal immigration.
“Join our historic efforts to secure the border,” the governor’s Operation Lone Star website requests, providing links to donation pages for border wall funding , funding to transport illegal aliens to so-called “sanctuary cities” outside the state who claim to welcome them, and border security funding .
A total of $56 million has been donated, as of December 8, 2023:
$55,427,025 to help fund the border wall, $460,196 to help fund transportation of migrants, $102,689 to help fund Texas border security
To-date, about 12 miles of border wall have been built by the state, at an estimated cost of more than $20 million per mile .
In April 2022, Governor Abbott directed the Texas Division of Emergency Management to begin the voluntary transportation of migrants to sanctuary cities.
Since that time, Texas has bused :
Over 12,500 migrants to Washington, D.C. since April 2022 Over 31,200 migrants to New York City since August 2022 Over 25,300 migrants to Chicago since August 2022 Over 3,400 migrants to Philadelphia since November 2022 Over 11,800 migrants to Denver since May 18 Over 1,200 migrants to Los Angeles since June 14
But, now that self-proclaimed sanctuary cities like Chicago have started passing measures to keep out the buses of illegal migrants they claim to welcome, Texas has turned to air transportation, Gov. Abbott reported earlier this month:
“Sanctuary city Chicago started obstructing and targeting our busing mission. Texas will now expand our operation to include flights to Chicago. Until Biden steps up to secure the border, we will continue to provide overwhelmed Texas border towns with much-needed relief.”
Texas' first migrant flight departed El Paso on Tuesday, December 19 and arrived in Chicago that evening with over 120 migrants.
Democrat mayors of sanctuary cities - such as Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson , New York City Mayor Eric Adams, and Denver Mayor Mike Johnston – have begun complaining about being forced to make good on their promise of sanctuary and are calling on the Biden Administration to provide help.
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Abbott Blasts Mayorkas’ Claim: ‘The Only Climate That's Changed Is the Refusal to Enforce the Immigration Laws’
Pres. Biden’s open-border policies – not climate change – are to blame for the record illegal immigration into the U.S., Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said Wednesday, responding to DHS Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas’ claim that climate change is a “root cause” of illegal immigration.
Sec. Mayorkas made the claim earlier in the day during an appearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” while attacking Gov. Abbott for sending some of the illegal aliens who’ve broken into his state to Democrat-run, self-proclaimed “sanctuary cities” that claim to want them.
"The only climate that's changed is the refusal to enforce the immigration laws of the United States,” Gov. Abbott told Fox News Channel Host Sean Hannity. “You saw what happened four years ago when we had the lowest illegal immigration in 40 years,” Abbott added, citing border security policies instituted by former Pres. Donald Trump - which Pres. Biden immediately began reversing on his first day in office.
Biden should focus on securing the border and stop taking legal action against Texas’ efforts to secure its border, the governor wrote in a social media post:
“Mayorkas blames climate change for illegal immigration, not Joe Biden's open border policies. Biden is now suing Texas AGAIN for stepping up to stop illegal immigration. Time for the Biden Administration to stop the lawsuits and start to enforce federal immigration laws.”
“Climate change? Mayorkas is pathetic. The REAL reason illegal immigration records are being set is because Biden refuses to enforce immigration laws,” wrote in another post , vowing that Biden won't stop him from keeping Texans safe:
“We will send more buses and planes. We will continue building the razor wire walls that Biden wants to tear down.”
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