Opening Thoughts on Illegal Immigration

  • At least 10 million illegal immigrants have entered our country in the past 3 1/2 years. Of course, of COURSE, they are not all criminals. But of course, of course, some of them are (“roughly 15,000 individuals convicted of or charged with murder, more than 20,000 of sexual assault, and more than 105,000 of assault”)

  • Where do these 10 million people go? They are in our big cities, but they are also in our small towns.

  • Leave your doors unlocked & let anybody in without finding out who they are….and pay for their housing & food & healthcare & give them prepaid debit cards.

  • It’s incredibly, incredibly expensive. If the head of your household allowed foreign exchange students to stay with you, and paid for their clothes, food, cell phone, therapy, and medical bills…while your own family was struggling to pay bills (and also in an incredible amount of debt)…how would you feel?

  • Consider the unfairness of those who are trying to come here legally, who fill out applications, go through background checks, wait years and years and years…and pay their own way.

  • To me, this is the worst part: at least 300,000 migrant children are presumed to be missing in the United States and migrant children are often released to unvetted sponsors: “Caseworkers within ORR claim that HHS regularly ignored obvious signs of labor exploitation, such as single sponsors sponsoring multiple UAC, “hot spots” in the country where many UAC sponsors are not the children’s parents, UAC with significant debts, and direct reports of trafficking.”

Topics

By the Numbers

Policy Matters: Yes, it was specifically and purposely Biden/Harris that did the above: 

  • Biden’s 64 actions that undermines border security https://www.speaker.gov/2024/01/09/64-times-the-biden-administration-intentionally-undermined-border-security/  here are just a few: 

    • Jan 20, 2021: President Biden terminated the National Emergency at the Southwest border (Proclamation 9844), thereby halting emergency construction of a border wall.

    • Jan 20, 2021: President Biden issued an Executive Order (EO) further entrenching the unlawful Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. With his action, President Biden directed the Secretary of Homeland Security, in consultation with the Attorney General, “to preserve and fortify DACA”, signaling to illegal aliens that his Administration supports amnesty and that illegal aliens need not fear coming to the U.S. or worry about immigration enforcement.

    • Jan 20, 2021: President Biden unveiled the U.S. Citizenship Act, which would provide amnesty to millions of illegal aliens in the U.S., demonstrating intent to reward illegal border crossers with a path to citizenship

    • Jan 20, 2021: President Biden revoked Trump-era Executive Order that was designed to ensure there was meaningful enforcement of U.S. immigration laws.

    • Jan 20, 2021: The Administration issued an Executive action ending limitations and restrictions against immigration from certain countries associated with terrorism.

    • Jan 20, 2021: The Biden Administration announced a 100-day moratorium on deportations and immigration enforcement, effectively providing amnesty to criminal and other removable aliens and sending the signal the Biden Administration would not enforce the law. The Administration also announced interim immigration enforcement guidelines that signaled to illegal aliens that they do not have to worry about the possibility of deportation.

    •  Feb 1, 2021: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) implemented Acting Secretary Pekoske’s policy requiring a new “process [that] shall provide for assessments of alternatives to removal including, but not limited to, staying or reopening cases, alternative forms of detention, custodial detention, whether to grant temporary deferred action, or other appropriate action.”

    • Feb 2, 2021: President Biden issued Executive Order (EO) 14010 and began processing asylum claims at the border. In the EO, the President also signaled an end to the Migrant Protection Protocols (which is known as “Remain in Mexico” or “MPP”) while making other statements signaling an open border.

    • Feb 6, 2021: Secretary of State Antony Blinken suspended, and began termination procedures, for the Trump Administration’s Asylum Cooperative Agreements with El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. These agreements ensured aliens seeking asylum could do so in countries closer to their home country and in countries other than the United States.

    • Feb 2021: The Biden Administration voluntarily stopped applying Title 42 expulsions to children across the board, setting off a major wave of unaccompanied alien children, family units, and illegal aliens generally heading to the U.S. border.

    • Feb 17, 2021: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) exempted unaccompanied alien children (UAC) from Title 42 expulsion requirements, thereby encouraging UACs to come to the U.S. and parents to pay cartels to smuggle their children to the U.S. border.

    • Mar 2, 2021: According to news reports, the Biden Administration lost track of 20,000 unaccompanied alien children and President Biden was briefed on the need to expand detention to hold an additional 20,000 children who had illegally crossed the border.

    • Mar 10, 2021: Biden Administration announced reinstatement of the Central American Minors (CAM) program, an Obama-era parole program that allowed citizens and aliens—including illegal aliens—to bypass the family-based immigration laws adopted by Congress and sponsor family members El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras to come to the United States.

    •  Mar 16, 2021: DHS Secretary Mayorkas delivered remarks effectively explaining the border is open for illegal immigration by stating DHS’s focus would be on “processing” illegal aliens—in other words catch-and-release and the creation of new “lawful pathways.”

    • Mar 20, 2021: DHS began issuing illegal alien border crossers a Notice to Report (NTR) to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, as opposed to the standard Notice to Appear (NTA) in U.S. immigration court. The NTR policy allows illegal aliens to simply be released into the U.S. and relies on them to self-report to ICE at a later date.

    • Oct ‘21: Biden Moves to End 'Remain in Mexico' Policy Despite Raging Border Crisis https://www.westernjournal.com/biden-moves-end-remain-mexico-policy-despite-raging-border-crisis/

  • June 2024: There has not been a single month of Biden’s term where illegal entries were below even the worst month under Trump  https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/nationwide-encounters 

  • June ‘24: Biden signs exec order granting legal status and a path to U.S. residency and citizenship to over 500,000 illegal aliens who have married American citizens and have lived in the country for at least ten years. Plus 50,000 kids https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-immigration-program-offers-legal-status-immigrant-spouses-of-u-s-citizens/ (he does not have the power to do that) …incentivizing more illegal immigration and jeopardizes American security AND contradicts the Immigration and Naturalization Act

  • June ‘24: Biden’s Outrageous Use of a ‘Parole’ Loophole to Grant Amnesty to Illegal Aliens https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/06/18/parole-in-place-for-illegal-aliens-amounts-to-more-lawless-executive-arrogance

  • May ‘24: Biden Admin Makes Rule Change to Give Taxpayer-Funded Health Insurance to 100,000 Illegal Immigrants https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/biden-admin-makes-rule-change-to-give-taxpayer-funded-health-insurance-to-100-000-illegal-immigrants/ar-AA1o63Bb 

  • Aug ‘24: Harris Can’t Escape the Human Toll of Her Dismal Border Record  https://www.heritage.org/border-security/commentary/harris-cant-escape-the-human-toll-her-dismal-border-record  “More than 10 million inadmissible aliens, along with at least 2 million more known “gotaways,” have entered since she and Biden took office.”

The Children

  • nearly 300,000 migrant children are presumed to be missing in the US.

  • Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as of May 2024 failed to provide court dates to 291,000 unaccompanied children that had been released to domestic sponsors, according to the Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General.

  • Another 32,000 were released by ICE with notices to appear for immigration removal proceedings — but never showed up for their court dates

  • Just one of the eight ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations offices audited had even “attempted to locate” the missing immigrant kids — and the rate of serving them with notices to appear in immigration court at one location stood at only 16%.

  • A total of 448,820 unaccompanied children were shuttled from ICE to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and then to sponsors nationwide between fiscal years 2019 and 2023.

  • HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra, amid a surge of illegal entries in 2022, pushed his staff to release the children to sponsors so quickly that he wanted the turnover to resemble an “assembly line,” according to the New York Times. 

The Cost

The Corruption 

  • Nonprofits Are Making Billions off the Border Crisis - Federal funding has turned the business of resettling migrant children into a goldmine for a handful of NGOs—and their top executives. CEOs all make more than half a million to a million, and what do they do? Tax payer funds for things like...pet therapy for illegal immigrants https://www.thefp.com/p/nonprofits-make-billions-off-migrant-children 

    • “We’re going to find that the waste, fraud, and abuse of taxpayer money will rival what we saw with the Covid federal money.”

    • The Free Press examined three of the most prominent NGOs that have benefited: Global Refuge, Southwest Key Programs, and Endeavors, Inc. These organizations have seen their combined revenue grow from $597 million in 2019 to an astonishing $2 billion by 2022, the last year for which federal disclosure documents are available. And the CEOs of all three nonprofits reap more than $500,000 each in annual compensation, with one of them—the chief executive of Southwest Key—making more than $1 million.

  • The cartels are reaping unprecedented profits from human and drug smuggling and trafficking, to the tune of $30 million a day, or nearly $1 billion a month, according to a House Budget Committee report https://cis.org/Vaughan/Biden-Border-Policies-Are-Working-Fine-Cartels

  • Biden-Harris Slush Fund: DHS Showers Millions on Sanctuary Cities, NGOs for Resettling Migrants in U.S.  https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/08/28/biden-harris-slush-fund-dhs-showers-millions-on-sanctuary-cities-ngos-for-resettling-migrants-in-u-s/  Specifically, more than $380 million worth of Shelter and Services Program (SSP) grants will go to local and state governments, as well as NGOs, “that are providing critical support such as food, shelter, clothing, acute medical care, and transportation” to migrants “recently released from DHS custody and awaiting their immigration court proceedings.” Last year, alone, DHS provided sanctuary cities and NGOs with more than $780 million in funds via SSP and the Emergency Food and Shelter Program (EFSP), a program started in the late 1980s meant to help homeless Americans. 

  • July 2024: NYC hotels that converted into migrant shelters set to rake in over $1 billion in taxpayer funds: internal docs https://www.yahoo.com/news/nyc-hotels-converted-migrant-shelters-100955340.html

Are They Voting?

Blame the Republicans

  • The “border bill” that republicans refused to pass = work permits and taxpayer funded housing & lawyers & & medical services for illegal immigrants, 5,000 illegals allowed in per day ($1.8 million/year not including gotaways), billions for sanctuary cities & NGOs (corrupt perhaps?): https://www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/emergency_national_security_supplemental_bill_text.pdf  …the $118.28 BILLION package also includes…

    • $60.06 billion to support Ukraine 

    • $14.1 billion in security assistance for Israel

    • $2.44 billion to support operations in the U.S. Central Command and address combat expenditures related to conflict in the Red Sea.

    • $10 billion in humanitarian assistance to provide food, water, shelter, medical care, and other essential services to civilians in Gaza and the West Bank, Ukraine, and other populations caught in conflict zones across the globe.

    • $4.83 billion to support key regional partners in the Indo-Pacific and deter aggression by the Chinese government.

    • $2.33 billion to continue support for Ukrainians displaced by Putin’s war of aggression and other refugees fleeing persecution.

    • The bipartisan border policy changes negotiated by Senators Chris Murphy (D-CT), Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ), and James Lankford (R-OK).

    • $20.23 billion to address existing operational needs and expand capabilities at our nation’s borders, resource the new border policies included in the package, and help stop the flow of fentanyl and other narcotics.

    • The Fentanyl Eradication and Narcotics Deterrence (FEND) Off Fentanyl Act.

    • $400 million for the Nonprofit Security Grant Program to help nonprofits and places of worship make security enhancements.

  • “The White House has begun to spin its disastrous record on the southwest border by falsely claiming Republicans had an “anti-border security record” and “attempt[ed] to cut Customs and Border Protection personnel.” Specifically, they claimed the House voted “to eliminate over 2,000 Border Patrol agents and erode our capacity to seize fentanyl earlier in 2023.”  but “In fact, the Republican House-passed FY24 Homeland Security appropriations bill increased border security funding above the President’s Budget Request, including Border Patrol agents at the highest level ever funded, and ICE custody operations at a level more than ever previously appropriated. All but 2 House Democrats voted against that bill, and the President threatened to veto it https://www.speaker.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/wp-content-uploads-2024-01-memo-to-press-staff-final.pdf 

Crime: every crime comitted by an illegal alien is one that wouldn’t have occured if that alien wasn’t here in the 1st place

o  The first report from 2005 (GAO-05-337R) found that criminal aliens (both legal and illegal) make up 27% of all federal prisoners. (What is the % now?) 

Are they working?

  • May ‘24: according to the Center for Immigration Studies, over half of recent immigrants are unemployed, only 8% are looking for work, # of foreign born people living here grew by 5 million + in past 2 years, largest 2 year increase ever recorded, foreign born/natural born ratio is 16% (all conservative estimates because of getaways), 60% of those are illegal https://cis.org/Report/Employment-Situation-Immigrants-and-USborn-Fourth-Quarter-2023 

National Security

Drugs