America Faces No Greater Threat Than Joe Biden and the Democrat Party. Their Assault to Our Borders Is As Great As Their Assault to Free Speech and Free Elections
Wednesday, February 14, 2024
KENNEDY COMES OUT AGAINST THE BIDEN, MAYORKAS, SCHUMER, BUCK AND GLOBALIST BILLIONAIRES FOR OPEN BORDERS
Immigration is the #1 concern among voters, according to a recent public opinion poll.
Voters also say that President Biden’s open border policy has been a complete disaster.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. couldn’t agree more.
Six months ago, RFK, Jr. visited the southern border in Yuma, Arizona. Last week, he returned to southern Arizona to find the situation has become much worse.
Fentanyl and methamphetamine flood our country, killing more and more Americans every day.
The worst kind of organized crime pours into our streets, towns, and cities.
Migrants are routinely robbed, raped, kidnapped, and sex trafficked.
Conscience demands we act immediately to stop the waves of illegal immigration so we can return to the orderly, lawful immigration policies our nation was founded upon.
Most Americans want Joe Biden to work with the Republicans to pass legislation that will immediately close the border.
So far, Biden has refused to act.
Donald Trump wants Republicans to kill this legislation so he can then blame Joe Biden while he’s campaigning this fall.
In other words: one presidential candidate doing nothing to close the border wants to criticize the other presidential candidate who is also doing nothing to close the border.
It’s politics as usual.
RFK, Jr. visited Cochise County, Arizona this week to see firsthand the humanitarian crisis and the current administration’s egregious mismanagement of the situation at our southern border.
The victims of our open border policy are the immigrants themselves. Compassion and decency demand that we do not allow the current situation to continue.
That’s why we must act today! We deserve a president who will respond to this unsustainable crisis in our country.
Your best gift today will help send a very powerful message that it’s time to put an end to politics as usual and roll up our sleeves and get to work.
Thank you for your commitment to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s campaign for presidency. We depend so heavily on your faithful, ongoing support and are so very grateful for your generosity.
The vote tally was 214 to 213. Three Republicans voted with Democrats against the measure.
This comes after House Republicans failed to impeach Mayorkas in a vote last week. The absence of House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, and the surprise attendance by Texas Democrat Al Green, who had just had surgery and was wheeled into the chamber to vote, denied Republicans the votes to pass when it came up previously.
The New Republic and other propaganda arms of the Democrats claimed that the matter was all political and Republicans didn't even know why they impeached him.
Just a few years after crying foul at the “witch hunt” impeachment of then-President Trump (and then crying foul again), Republicans are pursuing the nakedly partisan impeachment of Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas. The House is expected to vote again on Tuesday evening on whether to impeach the DHS secretary, the second such attempt in a week.
There’s only one problem: They still can’t explain how Mayorkas has failed to uphold his constitutional duty.
Biden, as usual, played Reaction Man, claiming it was "political":
Most of us know very well why this happened and needed to happen:
When you have a performance this bad as a private-sector CEO, it doesn't take long for the board of directors to boot your keister out of there.
Whatever it is you are doing with such an abysmal outcome, you're not doing your job, and voters can see that Mayorkas is not doing his job.
Voters all over the country, in red and blue states, are seeing their border towns and cities flooded with illegal immigrants with no valid cases for asylum. They have no education, no English, no capacity to seriously contribute to the economy. Many are spies, criminals, and terrorists, as well as indigents and through their own feckless sanctuary city policies, they are being forced to care and feed them at the expense of other city services.
Denver and New York are cutting back on services intended for local residents. Children are being thrown out of their recreational centers and schools. Police officers are being openly beaten by illegals and illegals are shooting into crowds in New York's Times Square. Housing is scarce, hotels are being trashed, food is being wasted by ungrateful migrants, fights are breaking out all over, some neighborhoods are turning into hooker zones, and now there are quarterings of illegals into private homes, voluntary for now. Child labor and child trafficking is through the roof, "family" units are being given special preferences and no longer DNA-tested for actual relationships. Worse still, Mayorkas is penalizing workers in his own department who try to prevent the trafficking.
A two-tier system of justice is emerging, too, with illegals filling commercial flights with no identification nor even photographs required, while citizens are forced to cough up that data and drag through an arduous process. The same two-tier system is seen in many areas, such as college admission, where foreign students must file extensive paperwork to get their student visas to study, while illegals just ... get in, no paperwork required.
Meanwhile, the cost of these illegals is running into the tens of billions and that's just the initial cost -- many of these illegals will require lifetime social service -- food, medical, housing, court -- assistance at the expense of taxpayers.
And there's no end in sight. Mayorkas' abuse of "parole" authority, which is catch-and-release abuses a tiny loophole intended for exceptional cases of migrants getting in illegally and has turned it into an actual entitlement for foreigners, so the migrant flow will continue with each year the numbers being let in getting larger. If they look large now, imagine what they will look like at the end of this year, given the exponential increases seen.
The only money requested for border control by Mayorkas and his pals is more money to "process" illegals into the country faster, incentivizing more of illegal immigration and turning the Border Patrol into Walmart greeters for any unvetted person the cartels can send through -- and as their true border guard duties go neglected with illegal drugs rolling in. Needless to say, Mexico's border cartels are being enriched beyond their wildest dreams by "crossing fees" and growing powerful and more violent as more money is there to be fought over. A grotesque network of far-left NGOs enabling and encouraging illegal immigration is growing rich as well.
None of that comes from the Constitution, which explicitly states that Congress, not the Department of Homeland Security, and not Joe Biden, has the sole right to regulate immigration in the U.S.
Congress sets the numbers and determines who gets in and who stays home. See the Constitutional readings on Article 1, Section 8, Clause 19 here and here, all of which has been upheld many times by the Supreme Court.
Mayorkas has claimed that power for himself, and worse still, is doing it for political reasons -- to fill voting districts that have seen blue-city flight with new warm bodies in order to keep congressional representation for Democrats. There's also a problem of actual voting by illegals which is a true destruction of democracy and ought to merit on-the-spot deportation which of course it doesn't.
Deportations, as may be imagined, is at record lows, and Mayorkas is not bothering much with those except when he has a public relations problem and then puts on a show.
Democrats call this act political, but it's not political. This is a guy who has refused to do his job and needs to be out of office for dereliction of duty. He's also lied to Congress multiple times, lied to the American people in claiming there has been no crisis at the border and that the border is "secure" and politicized his office against the actual law itself.
He's abused his Border Patrol publicly and prevented them from doing their job. He's sued to prevent states from attempting to do the job he won't do.
While I'm not a fan of easy impeachments over policy differences, this is clearly extraordinary circumstances that go well beyond policy, given the complete breakdown of law and order at the border and the irreponsible entry of millions of unauthorized, unvetted illegal aliens into this country. Extraordinary times require extraordinary actions.
The Democrats got the impeachment game rolling with their multiple Trump impeachments, so what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander and they're going to need to accept this.
But the larger issue is the crisis created through rank incompetence, contempt for the law, a power grab against congressional authority, and an illegal politicization of office.
Impeachment is a gentle solution to this guy's record of lies, incompetence and damage. We also don't know what will happen in the Senate when the vote comes up to remove him from office, but given public sentiment, it's not a foregone conclusion that the measure will fail.
The reality is, Mayorkas really ought to be in jail.
Anyone who can do this much damage to this country and its democracy with a sneer on is face needs to be held accountable. But removing him from office will be sufficient, that's what impeachment is for.
It's good that Republicans were able to pull this together, if they can't do anything else, this stands as a solid GOP achievement.
When I open my eyes in the morning, the first thing I lift my head to see is the clock sitting on the nightstand beside me. If it’s even a minute past six, I’m up and out of bed.
Yes, I’m aware that retirement offers me the luxury of keeping myself attached to the pillow, eyes closed, drifting in and out, without caring to which number of that clock the short hand is crawling. Problem is though, that over the course of fifty years I’ve developed the impossible-to-break habit of getting up early—despite the fact that I no longer have a proverbial timecard to punch. So, sun-up or not, when that hour comes I swing my feet over the side of the bed and onto the floor, stand as noiselessly as my creaking knees will allow, and very quietly—so as not to awaken my still-dreaming wife—navigate down the hall and into what we call the “back bedroom.” There I have access to the two drawers and three feet of closet space not being used for seasonal storage, and which hold a few pairs of well-worn old jeans and a small, folded stack of t-shirts and sweatshirts good for just hanging out.
Look around and you’ll see all the furniture you’d expect to find in what used to be teenage sleeping quarters, occupied at some time or another by one of our two boys, or our youngest, a girl. The headboard is flanked by a pair of bedside tables, each holding a small lamp. There’s a dresser, a juvenile desk with a cushioned stool for a chair, a mirror behind the door… and bookshelves, lots of bookshelves. These, however, were never filled with classical tomes; nope, no Cyrano de Bergerac here. Rather, they were stuffed with cheesy paperbacks, a long line of horrible horror movies on videotape, and rows and rows of grunge-rock CDs.
Unless it was during school hours, or when it was functioning as the bedroom it was intended to be, the space was rarely quiet. Instead, it morphed into an after-class or weekend clubhouse not only for our brood, but their friends from school and the block. They’d be chilling (I guess you’d call it) and playing games, listening to Kurt Cobain-esque music, talking about the kids in their class who were dopes… that kind of stuff. It was a room full of noise, full of life, and full of energy.
Until it wasn’t. Until they all, one at a time, went off to college, or moved to an apartment downtown, or left to take a job in another state. Although still crowded with memories, the room became barren of spirit, the bed went unslept in, the desk held no schoolwork, and the bookshelves? They were empty, too.
But not for long, because an empty shelf begs for attention, and is just too inviting to ignore.
And so it was that slowly at first, then with increasing purpose, the schoolkid inventory began to be replaced by framed photographs, dozens of them, and the room once again found itself filled with people. Some pictures were very new: our children and grandchildren, bright with colors. Others came from a dusty box at the bottom of a dusty basement closet and were a century or more old, no longer even black and white, but faded to light and dark grays—these were our grandparents. Mine, Italian immigrants born in the hills south of Naples, and my wife’s, whose ancestors arrived here generations earlier from Ireland, escaping the potato famine of the 1850s.
Having just finished dressing on a recent Friday morning, I found myself sitting at the foot of the bed and perusing those shelves. I was alternately marveling at the lifelike prints of our four granddaughters, appearing almost three-dimensional in clear-plastic displays, and the smaller, flat, colorless photos of our grandparents, some in hundred-year-old frames. Then, at some point and for no particular reason, my mind began to set aside the changes in camera technology, and drift into the changes between the country those kids may be destined to grow up in, and the one in which our parent’s parents already did. How eerie it seemed that the contemplation of cultural and economic differences on such a scale could be triggered by some ordinary pictures on an ordinary shelf in an ordinary bedroom.
But there it was. I was looking at two Americas. I was forced to face the frightening reality that the stiff-standing subjects in those dark, monochromatic portraits had something, a hundred years ago, that those smiling, twenty-first-century children may not. Freedom. Even though there was nothing to help them survive but their own muscles and their own brains, they were free.
If they failed to find steady work there would be no escaping the tenements. They were not bused-in border-crossers, provided with accommodations in a formerly fine hotel in Times Square, paid for by overburdened taxpayers. No, they lived in blocks and blocks of overpopulated flats; their life’s necessities self-funded, but, with their path upward unencumbered by a bloated bureaucracy, their ambitions were uninhibited.
If the immigrants of the Woodrow Wilson era did not work, they did not eat. Compare this with New York City Mayor Eric Adams’s announcement that illegals would be supplied with reloadable, prepaid credit cards for use in bodegas and supermarkets. It makes me shake my head, thinking about my grandparents consuming so many meatless meals not out of any dietary constraint, or an unrestrainable love of pasta, but because they simply couldn’t afford the meat. There was no government supply of housing, childcare, food, clothing, and cash. They were forced to suffer and struggle to earn those things for themselves and their offspring—and still would rather be nowhere else but in these United States, because here they were free.
There was a play, written by Israel Zangwill and first staged in 1908, called The Melting Pot. In it, a poor Jewish immigrant proclaims:
Understand that America is God’s Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming! Here you stand, good folk, think I, when I see them at Ellis Island, here you stand in your fifty groups, your fifty languages, and histories, and your fifty blood hatreds and rivalries.
But you won’t be long like that, brothers, for these are the fires of God you’ve come to—these are the fires of God. A fig for your feuds and vendettas! Germans and Frenchmen, Irishmen and Englishmen, Jews and Russians—into the Crucible with you all!
God is making the American!
And so he did. Emerging from that Crucible were the men and women I was looking at in those hundred-year-old photographs—the men and women that would protect their new country with their lives. Yes, out of that melting pot came new Americans, who continued to make the sacrifices, do the work, and fight the battles needed to keep this nation great.
As I stood up, I realized how afraid I was of the damage that can still be done by those who are running, and bent on ruining, this country from the White House. And who knows who they are? As we saw brutally confirmed the other evening, it is certainly not the man who was inaugurated three years ago. But we are not blind, and we see what they have done. They have opened the gates wide to those who rush in, but who are interested in that Crucible for one reason, and one reason only.
To pour water into it, and to extinguish those fires of God.
OPERATING IN THE DEFICIT, THE MEX-OCCUPIED STATE OF CA HANDS OUT NEARLY $50 BILLION IN SOCIAL SERVICES TO ILLEGALS. THIS SAME STATE HAS THE LARGEST AND MOST EXPENSIVE PRISON SYSTEM IN THE NATION. HALF THE INMATES WERE BORN IN NARCOMEX.
THE COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES HANDS ILLEGALS $1.5 BILLION IN WELFARE, PRIMAILY THE DEMOCRATS' ANCHOR BABY SYSTEM FOR GENERATIONS OF 'CHEAP' LABOR.
THIS SAME COUNTY HAS A TAX-FREE MEXICAN UNDERGROUND ECONOMY ESTIMATED TO EXCEED $2 BILLION YEARLY.
THERE'S A REASON ILLEGALS JUMP THE BORDER! THEIR SITUATION IS A HELL OF A LOT BETTER THAN IT IS FOR AMERICA'S MIDDLE CLASS, WHICH REALLY DOES NOT EXIST ANY LONGER!
Leftwing ‘experts’ tout the illegal invasion as a ‘$7 trillion gift’ to the economy
Here, the Congressional Budget Office says that the increase in “immigration” will increase the GDP by $7 trillion over ten years, and increase federal tax collections by $1 trillion, and Catherine Rampell of The Washington Post just parrots the talking point like it’s true:
The surge in immigration is a $7 trillion gift to the economy
Last week, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office released updated 10-year economic and budget forecasts. The numbers look significantly better than they did a year earlier, and immigration is a key reason.
The CBO has now factored in a previously unexpected surge in immigration that began in 2022, which the agency assumes will persist for several years. These immigrants are more likely to work than their native-born counterparts, largely because immigrants skew younger. This infusion of working-age immigrants will more than offset the expected retirement of the aging, native-born population.
This will in turn lead to better economic growth. As CBO Director Phill Swagel wrote in a note accompanying the forecasts: As a result of these immigration-driven revisions to the size of the labor force, ‘we estimate that, from 2023 to 2034, GDP will be greater by about $7 trillion and revenues will be greater by about $1 trillion than they would have been otherwise.’
In that case, every country in the world should just erase their borders too, and incentivize the entire third world population to flood in! What harm could it do? Somehow the CBO didn’t distinguish between illegal and legal immigration
First off, why would anyone trust numbers from the CBO, which appears to just pull numbers from a hat? The office also said Obamacare would pay for itself, but the cost skyrocketed; it also pretended that if the government took over student loans, it would make the government substantial amounts of money. Instead, the government is spending hundreds of billions.
The office said the Inflation Reduction Act would cost a fraction of what it’s actually costing; at this moment, it looks like we taxpayers will be another $800 billion in the hole, at a minimum.
Of course it also falsely repeated the Democrat talking points that the Trump tax rate cuts would cost trillions, when the reality yielded increased revenues by trillions.
So why would we trust a ten-year projection on immigration from CBO that looks like a Democrat campaign ad?
For years, Democrats in sanctuary cities and states have said how they would welcome all illegals and not enforce immigration laws, because of how great this would be for their economy.
Now Democrat cities far and wide like New York, Chicago, and Denver are endlessly bellyaching about the cost of illegals, and blaming Republicans instead of Joe Biden for letting them flood in for over the past three years. They are claiming Abbott is a racist for shipping the illegals that cross into Texas to the places that actually welcomed them. They are cutting services to citizens to cover the massive costs. Housing, schools, hospitals, and education are being overwhelmed. Did CBO factor that into their calculations? I doubt it. Did they factor in all the inflationary aspects of flooding the country will millions of additional people? Again, I doubt it.
We are constantly told that these illegals do work that Americans just won’t do. That is also a load of garbage. I believe most of us remember that we all worked jobs that citizens just won't do. I cut lawns, detasseled corn, shoveled out cow barns, washed dishes, and bussed tables while growing up, all for low wages. My parents taught us to work, just like they did. Teenagers should be taught to work, and a good place to start is the minimum wage jobs that Americans supposedly would not do—there is no excuse for only 30% of teens working.
We are also continuously told that illegals don’t get access to government benefits. That is also a joke. They use government welfare programs at a higher rate than U.S .citizens. My guess is that CBO forgot to factor in all these additional costs into their rosy estimates. From the Center for Immigration Studies:
This report is based on newly released data from the 2022 Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP). 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. The ability of immigrants, including illegal immigrants, to receive welfare benefits on behalf of U.S.-born citizen children is a key reason why restrictions on welfare use for new legal immigrants, and illegal immigrants, are relatively ineffective.
Among the findings:
The 2022 SIPP indicates that 54 percent of households headed by immigrants — naturalized citizens, legal residents, and illegal immigrants — used one or more major welfare program. This compares to 39 percent for U.S.-born households.
The rate is 59 percent for non-citizen households (e.g. green card holders and illegal immigrants).
Compared to households headed by the U.S.-born, immigrant-headed households have especially high use of food programs (36 percent vs. 25 percent for the U.S.-born), Medicaid (37 percent vs. 25 percent for the U.S.-born), and the Earned Income Tax Credit (16 percent vs. 12 percent for the U.S.-born).
Our best estimate is that 59 percent of households headed by illegal immigrants, also called the undocumented, use at least one major program.
It is worthless when most people posing as journalists just repeat what they are told (Democrat talking points) whether it is about immigration, COVID, or climate change. The media acts like predictions are facts, and facts are misinformation.
There are days when I wake up in an America I hardly recognize. Some of that is my age, but much of it is astonishment. A part of me is thankful that my grandparents are not alive to witness what we all are. They would not have tolerated what we now take for granted.
I never thought I’d see….
America in another Cold War with Russia.
Cities ignore the law under the label of "Sanctuary Cities," then complain when illegal immigrants are sent there.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson Hands ‘Black and Brown’ Businesses $18M to Feed Migrants
Chicago’s Democrat Mayor Brandon Johnson recently touted his efforts to bestow $18 million exclusively to “black and brown” businesses to feed the thousands of illegal border crossers the city is housing.
Johnson’s administration partnered with the Greater Chicago Food Depository, BJ’s Market, and other nonprofits by diverting the huge sum to minority-owned businesses, according to WFLD-TV.
During a press conference on the partnership, the “sanctuary city” mayor celebrated the program, applauding “black and brown businesses” as the “soul” of Chicago.
“The $17 million investment for these 18 black and brown small businesses, is really the, um… it really captures what I call the soul of Chicago. It’s who we are,” Johnson told the media.
“I actually think it’s quite fitting that we are in this wonderful small business because it has been black and brown small businesses that have stepped up in this moment, in this crisis, to respond to these families who are arriving here,” Johnson added.
The ongoing waves of illegals coming into Chicago has put much pressure on the mayor. And early this month the constant questions on his plans for the border crisis caused the mayor to unload on reporters.
During a presser on Feb. 5, Johnson blasted the media for asking when he planned to reschedule his canceled trip to Texas to visit the border and see the chaos first hand.
“You know, you all are asking me as if I am not a parent in this city,” he continued. “I get it, I’m mayor, I get it.”
But you’re asking me to give you a date and I have to court — do you understand that you have not had a mayor like me, I get that.”
He exploded. This alludes to the fact the last handful of mayors did not have young children while in office. Indeed, the recently deposed mayor, Lori Lightfoot was involved in a childless same-sex relationship.
“I have a wife, I have children, they have schedules,” he ranted on. “And plus, we still have public safety we have to address, we still have the unhoused that we have to address. I still have a budget that I have to address, and I’m doing all of that with a black wife raising three black children on the west side of the city of Chicago.”
Johnson has faced backlash from his own constituency over the billions of dollars he has diverted to give illegals free housing, free food, free clothing, free education, free healthcare, free legal advice, and any manner of freebies that have been denied the Windy City’s black population.
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