All the anti-immigration talk legal or otherwise reminds me of the USA’s history of anti Irish, Italian, Chinese, Jew and Catholic hate and lies. WELCOME ABOARD MAGA.
Thank you Mr President for bringing back the hate, prejudice, racism, bigotry and xenophobia that once plagued America.
You have done a great job. You are following the Project 2025 to the letter. Millions of insecure American nativists are lapping up your propaganda, well done. Is this the road to greatness?
A hundred plus years ago my ancestors in NJ held Mass secretly in their home because they were afraid of the anti-Catholic movement.
Today some Americans focus on Muslims encouraged by their president who openly attacks Muslim members of Congress.
Irish, Italian, Jewish (mostly 19th–early 20th century European waves): Faced intense nativism based on religion (Catholicism for Irish/Italians), perceived racial inferiority (especially Southern/Eastern Europeans), economic competition, and cultural/linguistic differences. This included violence (e.g., anti-Irish riots, 1891 Italian lynching), job discrimination (“No Irish Need Apply”), and quotas via the 1924 Immigration Act. However, they were ultimately classified as “white” under U.S. law, enabling pathways to citizenship, intermarriage, and assimilation over 2–4 generations.
• Asian (primarily Chinese/Japanese, 19th–early 20th century): Encountered the harshest, explicitly racial exclusion—violence (e.g., Chinese massacres), the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act (first ethnic/national ban), naturalization denial, and 1924 quotas barring most Asians. Acceptance was delayed until mid-20th century reforms (e.g., 1943 repeal for Chinese, 1965 Act).
You know what’s different between undocumented immigrants today, the so-called “illegals,” and the millions of immigrants from Russia, Poland, Lithuania, Bohemia, Hungary, and other outposts of eastern and central Europe, from Italy and Ireland, Germany, Spain, etc., that came here during the great immigration (1880-1920s)?
Nothing.
With the exception of the Chinese Exclusion Act (1882), there were no restrictive immigration laws that prevented our great-grandparents and grandparents from coming here. The oft-repeated claim that they came here legally is rather meaningless.
They didn’t need documents, passports, visas; America wanted their labor, energy, ingenuity, which they contributed despite the racism, bigotry, antisemitism, anti-Catholic hate hurled at them. America wants and needs the same kinds of contributions from immigrants now.
It is pathetic to witness the descendants of immigrants who contributed so much to this country joining the “blood and soil,” white nationlist rabble.
Neil Brown – Facebook comment
The Constitution protects “persons,” not just citizens — and the Supreme Court has repeatedly said undocumented immigrants are persons under the law.
Rights undocumented immigrants do have
While in the U.S., they are protected by:
- Due process — government can’t jail, deport, or punish them arbitrarily
- Equal protection — laws must apply fairly
- Freedom of speech & religion
- Protection from unreasonable searches
- Right to a lawyer and a fair trial in criminal cases
- Labor protections (minimum wage, safety laws, etc.)
A famous case is Plyler v. Doe (1982), where the Supreme Court ruled Texas could not deny public K-12 education to undocumented children because they are protected by the 14th Amendment.
Rights they don’t have
They don’t have rights tied specifically to citizenship, like:
- Voting in federal elections
- Holding federal office
- Protection from deportation
- Some public benefits tied to legal status
Having constitutional rights does not mean they have a right to stay in the country. Immigration law allows removal, but the government must follow legal procedures when doing it.
QUINNSCOMMENTARY 
Once more, with VIGOR: BACKLASH
What we are seeing today is BACKLASH.
Biden idiotically opened the borders and facilitated widespread illegal immigration. Backlash against immigration has become vastly stronger in response to Biden’s stupidity. Simply, there is a case to be made for radical liberalization for LEGAL immigration. The case is intellectually and financially SOLID – if Americans can decide who to admit and what is required for admission. That would enable immigrants who are contributors, and those who are sponsored – which would dramatically improve America in the 21st Century.
The idiot fool Biden did much more harm than good, in that the idiot ass Trump has now curtailed not only illegal, but also legal immigration.
Ever hear of USCIS – US Citizenship and Immigration Services. It the country’s LEGAL immigrant system – applicatoins for citizenship, green cards, visa’s and work permits … the “right way of immigration.”
In the last year, the Administration has transformed the agency’s mission into just another crackdown agency. Permanent-residency applications from more than seventy countries have been frozen, naturalization ceremonies cancelled. When spouses of U.S. citizens have shown up for routine green-card interviews, they’ve been arrested; others in the middle of applying for their legal status are getting detained and, in some cases, deported outright. The agency is beginning a sweeping campaign to denaturalize large numbers of citizens, aiming to strip them of their legal status; officials have monthly quotas for how many cases they must flag for review.
For years, the staunchest border hawks and hard-liners justified their positions in terms of stopping unlawful immigration. That pretense has fallen away. Blocking immigration in all forms is the new order of the day.
A big THANK YOU to our idiot President BIDEN! You made it all possible for the idiot ass Trump to engage in BACKLASH against LEGAL immigrants.
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From the NY Times, YESTERDAY, 2/16/26:
“Teacher Killed in Crash After Man Fled in Car From ICE, Police Say
The man, who federal officials said had entered the United States illegally, was arrested and charged with first-degree homicide after the crash in Savannah, Ga., according to the county police.
A public-school teacher was killed on Monday when a man fleeing immigration agents in Savannah, Ga., crashed a car into the teacher’s vehicle, according to the local police.
Shortly before 7:45 a.m., agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement were trying to pull over the man, Oscar Vasquez Lopez, 38, according to the Chatham County Police Department.
Originally from Guatemala, Mr. Lopez was issued a final order of removal by a federal judge in 2024, according to the Department of Homeland Security. Officers were trying to apprehend him in Savannah when he “fled the scene, making a reckless U-turn and running a red light, colliding into a civilian vehicle,” according to a statement by the agency.
The crash occurred outside a public school, Herman W. Hesse K-8 School, which serves about 1,000 students, the police said. There were no classes on Monday because of the Presidents’ Day holiday, but it was a planning day for teachers, according to the school’s website.
The police said the teacher in the other vehicle was the only occupant. She was Linda Davis, a special-education teacher at the school, according to local education officials. Ms. Davis was transported to a hospital, where she was pronounced dead, the police said.
In a statement posted to Facebook, the school principal, Alonna McMullen, said that Ms. Davis “was a beloved member of our school family and her loss has affected us deeply.” Ms. Davis had worked as a teacher in the district since 2022. …”
BenefitJack note: Newsweek reported this as: In a Facebook message to families, Hesse K-8 Principal Alonna McMullen wrote, “Dr. Linda Davis was a beloved member of our school family and her loss has affected us deeply.” She had been serving students in the district since at least the 2022–2023 school year and taught special education.
Back to the NY Times: “… The episode is not the first in which an ICE pursuit has resulted in a crash or death. Last year, a man was killed in Southern California while fleeing an immigration raid at a Home Depot. Another died in Virginia after running onto a highway to try to escape ICE agents. …
The Chatham County Police Department said it was not involved with the ICE operation, nor had it been aware of it beforehand. The police arrested Mr. Lopez and charged him with first degree homicide, reckless driving, driving without a valid license and failure to obey a traffic control device, according to Betsy Nolen, a spokeswoman for the police department. …”
BenefitJack Note: However, Dr. Davis is DEAD!
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Here is a perfect example of BACKLASH.
While I have some sympathy for U.G. (Mexican native) and Vilma Palacios (Honduran native), who apparently didn’t meet asylum requirements, I am confident that a significant percentage of the 73,000+ in detention today would qualify for asylum … had the illegal aliens who are economic migrants not clogged the system.
Both U.G. and Palacios apparently failed to take advantage of the CBP Home Mobile App which enabled non-citizens to voluntarily return to their home countries in an orderly fashion, avoiding arrest or detention, with assistance in travel expenses and exit bonuses, including forgiveness of civil fines. Both failed to take advantage of the option to return to their native country and took the risk that they could continue to avoid ICE – failed, and were detained.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/immigration-detention-voluntary-departures-record-high/
That is the true abuse of the Biden Administration’s stupidity – inhibiting those who we should be allowing entry. Worse, the idiot ass Trump has now curtailed legal immigration.
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When I look at the issues involving illegal administration today, I’m reminded of the questions posed in recent blogs, questions that need an answer from Democrats, especially the members of the idiot Biden Administration and Democrats who endorse sanctuary states and/or cities:
How Did Democrats/Biden Administration Think Their Open Borders Policies Would End?
Why do the Democrats want to let people from other countries decide who gets to come to America?
What was the plan for the 10 million illegal immigrants (undocumented persons, if you prefer) permitted entry over the four year Biden Administration?
The border security and immigration policies established by the Biden Administration have caused a dramatic and precipitate rise in the flow of illegal aliens into the U.S. 10+ million new illegal migrants attempted to enter the U.S. during the Biden Administration, and, as of January 2025, nearly 7 million remained.
The app created by the Biden Administration actually allowed illegal aliens to schedule their illegal border crossing, where they were transported to a receiving station and their travels were then facilitate (food, shelter, child care, driver’s licenses, even mental health counseling, etc.) with free transportation into America to the city of their choice.
You paid for all of that. Well, actually, none of us paid for that. Instead, the idiot Biden Administration added another ~$5 Trillion to our national debt during his four years even though he took office after the COVID pandemic was successfully addressed with vaccines, treatment, etc.
I say, stop federal funding (both direct and indirect) to illegal aliens and those U.S. citizens who want them to remain. Let those who think illegal aliens should remain finance, sponsor them … not me, and certainly, not my children (who will be called upon to shoulder a disproportionate amount of federal debt).
Today’s chaos (Democratic/sanctuary resistance to facilitating deportation of anyone) is to be expected now that America has started to get serious about enforcing federal laws and deporting every illegal ICE encounters – effectively for the first time in 40 years since passage of the BIPARTISAN Immigration Reform and Control Act, signed into law in November 1986, by President Reagan.
Yes, Virginia, President Trump and his Administration are trying to enforce laws that are over 40 years old!
If, say, 25 million right wing/conservative Germans, Hungarians, and Poles decided to come to America illegally tomorrow, would the Democrats receive them with open arms into their Sanctuary states and cities – knowing they might just vote Republican once they earned citizenship?
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How many more dead American citizens at the hands of illegal immigrants does it take for you to change your position on illegal immigration? Give us a number.
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ICE Arrests Illegal Alien Semi-Truck Driver who Killed 4, Injured Others in Indiana
Release Date: February 5, 2026
He entered the U.S. illegally using the disastrous CBP One app under the Biden administration and was issued a CDL by Governor Josh Shapiro’s Pennsylvania
WASHINGTON — On Feb. 5, ICE arrested an illegal alien semi-truck driver issued a commercial driver’s license by Pennsylvania who killed four innocent people on Feb. 3, when he swerved into oncoming traffic and struck a van in head-on collision.
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Bekzhan Beishekeev, a 30-year-old national of Kyrgyzstan, illegally came to the United States using the Biden administration’s disastrous CBP One app and was released into the United States. Even worse, Pennsylvania, under Democratic Governor Josh Shapiro’s leadership, issued him a commercial driver’s license.
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On Feb. 3, at approximately 4 p.m., Beishekeev was traveling eastbound on Indiana’s State Route 67 when he allegedly failed to brake for a slowed semi-truck in front of him. Police say he swerved into the westbound lane and slammed into a van carrying up to 15 passengers. Four people were killed in the crash. This fatal crash is being investigated by the Indiana State Police, the Jay County Sheriff’s Department and the Jay County Coroner’s Office.
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ICE issued an immigration detainer against Beishekeev with the Jay County Jail on Feb. 4. And, because the state of Indiana cooperates with ICE, we were able to take him into custody on the morning of February 5. He will remain in ICE custody pending immigration proceedings.
“Not only was Bekzhan Beishekeev released into our country by the Biden administration using the CBP One app, but he was also given a commercial driver’s license by Governor Shapiro’s Pennsylvania. These decisions have had deadly consequences and led to the death of four innocent people in Indiana on Tuesday,” said Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin. “It is incredibly dangerous for illegal aliens, who often don’t know our traffic laws or even English, to be operating semi-trucks on America’s roads. These sanctuary governor’s must stop giving illegal aliens commercial driver’s licenses before another American gets killed.
In recent months, we’ve seen a disturbing pattern of criminal illegal aliens driving commercial vehicles on American roads, directly threatening public safety and resulting in senseless loss of life.
ICE also arrested Akhror Bozorov, a criminal illegal alien from Uzbekistan wanted in his origin country for belonging to a terrorist organization, in November who was also issued a CDL by Pennsylvania.
In October Secretary Noem highlighted the arrests of more than 140 illegal alien truck drivers arrested in Indiana during Operation Midway Blitz.
Additionally, in October ICE arrested illegal alien, Anmol Anmol, who was issued a commercial driver’s license (CDL) by the state of New York to “No Name Given Anmol.”
In August, ICE lodged an arrest detainer for a criminal illegal alien—Harjinder Singh— following his arrest for three counts of vehicular homicide while driving a semi-truck in Florida.
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So, just in case you were wondering, the names of the dead from multiple blunt force tauma injuries are:
Henry Eicher, 50, his son
Menno Eicher, 25, and son
Paul Eicher, 19
were pronounced dead at the scene.
Simon Girod, 23, died later at the hospital.
The driver of the van, Donald Stipp underwent surgery overnight and is now listed as stable but in critical condition. Other passengers are also being treated.
One more time, why shouldn’t we deport all illegal aliens? Do we have to wait until they commit another crime, one more than violating our laws as illegal aliens? How many more Americans have to die or be critically injured? Don’t we have enough of that with respect to our own citizens, so that we shouldn’t be importing it as well?
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How do you equate this horrible accident to immigration status? Did immigration status cause the accident? I would say that the issue would be was he not qualified as a driver to be granted a CDL.
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You would be wrong. He should have never been here, let alone be issued a CDL.
It is simple.
Had he not been admitted to America, via the absolutely stupid Biden Administration CBP process, those people would more likely than not still be alive today.
How many American citizens have to die at the hands of illegal aliens?
How many more?
How many more?
How many more!
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Sorry, your logic escapes me. Now if he was illegally given a CDL for which he was not qualified that’s a valid argument.
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he should never have been here. No one should have issued him a license. The first makes the second irrelevant.
yes, people should be allowed to become legal immigrants. That doesn’t include violating our laws by overstaying their visa (not the case here) nor by crossing the border illegally. You apply before you come. You need to show why you should be legally admitted.
it is the idiot Biden Administration’s CBP policy that got these people killed. So, when you criticize the idiot ass Trump, remember who made the idiot ass Trump policies possible – idiots like Biden, and his decision to open up the borders by implementing policies that let anyone (including criminals and folks on the terror watch list come in).
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Are you arguing that there should not be any process to reach legal residence status for anyone who overstayed a visa or crossed illegally?
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See: The High Cost of Immigrant Welfare by Steven A. Camarota, Ph.D.
“… The unfolding Minnesota scandal in which Somali immigrants defrauded social services of billions of dollars has received a lot of attention, but it points to an even larger issue surrounding immigrants and the social safety net: the high percentage who use our welfare system legally.
Analysis of the U.S. government’s Survey of Income and Program Participation shows that more than half of immigrant-headed households use at least one welfare program today. The reason is simply that a large share of immigrants have modest levels of education, and their resulting low incomes allow them to qualify for aid.
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By their consumption of scarce public resources, immigrants make it more difficult to assist the poor who were born here, which raises key questions about immigration’s impact on the U.S. labor market and especially on blue collar workers.
There is a common misconception that welfare mainly consists of cash payments to those who do not work. But in fact, most welfare programs are in-kind transfers such as Medicaid, food assistance, or public housing. Working does not prevent someone or their dependents from accessing most of those programs, including some of the cash programs. What matters is income, their number of dependents, and sometimes assets, not employment itself.
(includes SSI, TANF, SNAP, and WIC, plus public or subsidized housing, free- and reduced-price school meals, and Medicaid, add in the “refundable” portion of EITC.
The 2024 SIPP shows that 53% of all immigrant households use one or more welfare programs, compared to 37% of U.S.-born households. Based on this data, my best estimate is that 51% of households headed by legal immigrants and 61% of households headed by illegal immigrants use at least one major welfare program.
High welfare use makes it likely that immigrants are a net fiscal drain, both because of direct costs and because those accessing means-tested programs typically pay little to no federal or state income tax.
53% of immigrant households with at least one worker access the welfare system, compared to 38% of working native households.
Another argument is that low-income immigrants are no more likely to use welfare than low-income natives. This is true for some programs, but not others. But more importantly, immigrants are significantly more likely to be low-income than natives. The poverty rate for immigrant households in the 2024 SIPP was 41% higher than for U.S.-born households.
Some immigration boosters further assert that if the U.S.-born dependent children of immigrant Of households headed by an immigrant without a bachelor’s degree, 68% access the welfare system, compared to 34% for those headed by an immigrant with a college education. Education makes a huge difference, but only about one-fifth of legal permanent immigrants were admitted because of their education or skills. Illegal immigrants of course are not selected for their education at all.
Many Americans are fond of pointing out that their immigrant ancestors did not use welfare. But the truth is that these programs didn’t even exist 100 years ago.
If we want immigration to avoid burdening the public fisc in the future, then moving to a system that selects legal immigrants for their education and likely earning power, coupled with robust immigration enforcement, would significantly reduce the size and scale of this problem in the future. …”
Says it all. America should be able to select who is allowed to immigrate to our country, and no one should be admitted who will become a burden on taxpayers – each individual should be a contributor to American growth, or sponsored (in every eay) by a US Citizen.
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In every way…
And, one more thing, no one should be allowed to come to America and stay indefinitely, unless they are willing to become American citizens. That is, we don’t need people who are here solely to take advantage of the American economy – even if they are net contributors.
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Here’s a good example of BACKLASH.
The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals just backed Trump’s mass detention policy involving detaining illegal immigrants in facilities when it seeks to deport individuals, detaining them without bond, including those who have no other criminal record but crossing the border illegally, regardless of the duration of time they have lived in America. The court allowed the Trump Administration to adopt a much more aggressive process: “That prior Administrations decided to use less than their full enforcement authority … does not mean they lacked the authority to do more.”
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FYI.
The U.S. Department of Justice charged 11 (six Chinese nationals and five U.S. citizens) in a “marriage fraud” scheme for allegedly paying U.S. service members to wed Chinese nationals in sham marriages for green cards and military base access. The sham weddings were in Florida, New York, Connecticut and Nevada. Four former Navy personnel have pleaded guilty and await sentencing. NCIS, Homeland Security Investigations and the FBI are jointly investigating whether the scheme had ties to the Chinese government.
Just another example of the abuse of our immigration laws – this time in conspiracy with lawfully present individuals and citizens – some of whom took an oath to “preserve protect and defend the United States”.
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“… You know what’s different between undocumented immigrants today, the so-called “illegals,” and the millions of immigrants from Russia, Poland, Lithuania, Bohemia, Hungary, and other outposts of eastern and central Europe, from Italy and Ireland, Germany, Spain, etc., that came here during the great immigration (1880-1920s)?
Nothing.
With the exception of the Chinese Exclusion Act (1882), there were no restrictive immigration laws that prevented our great-grandparents and grandparents from coming here. The oft-repeated claim that they came here legally is rather meaningless. They didn’t need documents, passports, visas; …”
Makes no sense to compare today’s illegal immigrants to those from 1880 to 1924. Why? Because we have had broad intentional laws that restrict immigration since 1924.
You highlight that when you mention the Chinese Exclusion Act. Why didn’t you compare today’s illegal aliens with those who were impacted by the Chinese Exclusion Act? That is the more appropriate comparison.
Here’s what AI has to say about the impact of the Chinese Exclusion Act, which obviously was enforced:
The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 significantly impacted the U.S. by banning Chinese laborer immigration for 10 years, creating the first major federal restriction based on race and class. The Act set a precedent for future, broader immigration restrictions based on nationality and race. Although initially temporary, the law was extended in 1892, made permanent in 1902, and not repealed until 1943. It sharply reduced the Chinese population, slowed economic growth in the West, and established a precedent for discriminatory immigration policies, severely limiting citizenship rights for Chinese residents. It required specialized certification for the few Chinese allowed to enter (merchants, teachers), forcing many to endure intense scrutiny.
The Chinese population DECLINED from 105,465 in 1880 to 61,639 by 1920.
Unintended Consequences:
What we are seeing today is BACKLASH.
Biden idiotically opened the borders and facilitated widespread illegal immigration.
Backlash against immigration has become vastly stronger in response to Biden’s stupidity.
Simply, there is a case to be made for radical liberalization for LEGAL immigration. The case is intellectually and financially SOLID – if Americans can decide who to admit and what is required for admission. That would enable immigrants who are contributors, and those who are sponsored – which would dramatically improve America in the 21st Century.
The idiot fool Biden did much more harm than good, in that the idiot ass Trump has now curtailed not only illegal, but also legal immigration.
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I still haven’t heard addressed the idea that immigrants, even ‘illegal’ ones, are a net benefit to the U.S., and removing ALL of them (because ‘the law is the law’ and we can’t pick and choose) will be detrimental.Especially if it is done rapidly,* with no time for business and the economy to adjust. Again, DJT proposed leniency for agriculture and hospitality workers (and ‘certain others’??) even if for venal Trump reasons.
Who changed his mind? Who is really in charge?
*and at great cost, financially and societally. How many have to die? Can we get the militia off our streets?
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Al Lindquist:
expedited removal is allowed and is widely used–crossing illegally does not guarantee “due process” before you are booted out–if you rob the Piggly Wiggly well then you get due process–do you think we are going to provide 7 to 8 million lawyers to adjudicate Carlos and his neighbors at the local NJ courthouse?
your family and mine came legally? times were different–laws were different–women could not vote–black men were hung from trees –gay and lesbian were unheard of–divorce was a “no no”.
yes, your family said Mass in private so they would not be doxed–same reason our neighbors , relatives, and friends who work for ICE wear masks–they need protection from the crazies who would look for their homes and families to commit mayhem–you see things have not really changed–
if millions of unvetted folks were not allowed to invade the country this issue would be substantially different.
“equal protection of the law”–to me it means we all follow the law–if you are here ILLEGALLY–or carrying a machine gun–or not filing with the IRS–or driving without auto insurance then you are subject to arrest and proper (legal) penalty.
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“…if millions of unvetted folks were not allowed to invade the country this issue would be substantially different.”
Alternative facts, at best.
Biden:
“So, today, I’m moving past Republican obstruction and using the executive authorities available to me as president to do what I can on my own to address the border.
Frankly, I would have preferred to address this issue through bipartisan legislation, because that’s the only way to actually get the kind of system we have now — that’s broken — fixed, to hire more Border Patrol agents, more asylum officers, more judges. But Republicans have left me with no choice.”…..
“The Statue of Liberty is not some relic of American history. It stands for who we are as the United States.
So, I will never demonize immigrants. I will never refer to immigrants as “poisoning the blood” of a country. And further, I’ll never separate children from their families at the border.
I will not ban people from this country because of their religious beliefs. I will not use the U.S. military to go into neighborhoods all across the country to pull millions of people out of their homes and away from their families to put detention camps and awai- — while awaiting deportation, as my predecessor says he will do if he to- — occupies this office again.”
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Al Lindquist
good Biden quote—what’s the date?? could have been done in January of ’21,before letting in millions–once the election was in peril he acted which was 10 million invaders too late.
who says they are a net benefit? –and even so we don’t make decisions based on economic benefit of illegal activity–prohibition was not good for business but we adopted it only to repeal (21st Amendment) when the Depression hit.
alternative fact?? what’s that?? 2 people would be alive today if riots and mayhem was not occurring in MN–all because of an invasion carried out by the loons on the left.
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Al Lindquist
good Biden quote—what’s the date?? could have been done in January of ’21,before letting in millions–once the election was in peril he acted which was 10 million invaders too late.
who says they are a net benefit? –and even so we don’t make decisions based on economic benefit of illegal activity–prohibition was not good for business but we adopted it only to repeal (21st Amendment) when the Depression hit.
alternative fact?? what’s that?? 2 people would be alive today if riots and mayhem was not occurring in MN–all because of an invasion carried out by the loons on the left.
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June 04, 2024
https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/06/04/remarks-by-president-biden-on-securing-our-border/
…who says they are a net benefit?
Trump, for one…
July 4, 2025
“We’re working on legislation right now where – farmers, look, they know better. They work with them for years. You had cases where…people have worked for a farm, on a farm for 14, 15 years and they get thrown out pretty viciously and we can’t do it. We gotta work with the farmers, and people that have hotels and leisure properties too,” he said at the Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des Moines on Thursday.
“We’re gonna work with them and we’re gonna work very strong and smart, and we’re gonna put you in charge. We’re gonna make you responsible and I think that that’s going to make a lot of people happy. Now, serious radical right people, who I also happen to like a lot, they may not be quite as happy but they’ll understand. Won’t they? Do you think so?”
Also the CBO and various other reputable observers. Including Mr. Quinn, I believe.
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