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Biden’s Border Catastrophe Is About Much More Than Illegal Immigration
Townhall.com ^ | 2 February A.D. 2024 | Katie Pavlich

Posted on 02/02/2024 12:29:34 PM PST by lightman

As President Joe Biden throws up his hands and claims the ongoing catastrophe at the border is the work of Republicans, polling continues to show the issue of illegal immigration could sink his re-election chances. This is particularly true in the 2024 race against former President Donald Trump, who has been telling the truth about the issue since 2015 and implemented a number of executive orders to blunt the problem.

But what Biden doesn't want to acknowledge is the true cost of illegal immigration, and currently, Democratic mayors are telling him all about it — while also bizarrely blaming border state governors, who oppose sanctuary cities.

"New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced major cuts to the city's budget for the next year and a half, saying that cuts across all agencies were necessary with the city having spent $1.45 billion on the migrant crisis this year," Fox 5 reported in November 2023.

"All of our cities have reached a point where we are either close to capacity, or nearly out of room. Without significant intervention from the federal government, this mission will not be sustained," Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson said in December. "The City is making additional requests of the State of Illinois and Cook County governments to assist with resources and beds to prevent new arrivals from sleeping outdoors in inclement winter weather."

American kids in both sanctuary cities have been kicked out of their schools and off of their sports fields in favor of housing illegal immigrants. What kinds of people are local jurisdictions bending over backward to accommodate? This week in New York City, we found out. Recommended We're Learning More About That Viral Parental Custody Case in Montana Spencer Brown

"A group of eight migrants accused of pummeling a pair of cops in a caught-on-camera Midtown attack are 'cowards' who 'should be sitting on Rikers Island,' a top NYPD official says," the New York Daily News reports. "One of the suspects took a defiant posture Wednesday, flashing two middle fingers after being arraigned in court. All five young men taken into custody so far for the Saturday night brawl outside a migrant shelter on W. 42nd St. near Seventh Ave. have been released without bail — enflaming the already heated debate surrounding the city's migrant crisis."

Illegal immigration isn't simply an issue of letting people into the country without paperwork. Cold hard reality proves it's about resources. The current influx is overwhelming taxpayer-funded homeless shelters, schools, healthcare systems, law enforcement, local facilities and much more. The costs are unsustainable and will destroy entire sectors of service and the economy.

"A Denver hospital system told the city Monday it faces unprecedented challenges due to the ongoing migrant crisis. Denver Health CEO Donna Lynne warned the center is in a crucial moment due to unexpected costs associated with immigrant visits," ABC15 News in Denver reports, warning the healthcare system is on the brink of collapse. "Eight thousand migrants from Central America accounted for approximately 20,000 visits in 2023. Denver Health asked the Federal Emergency Management Agency to provide funds for immigrants' medical costs. The state and federal governments aren't reimbursing the hospital, which spent $136 million for patients who didn't pay."

These are the reasons why "illegal immigration" is now a top issue for 2024 voters. The onslaught negatively affects significant sectors of American life, and they're being completely overrun. Biden either remains in denial about this fact, or he's fine with foisting these hardships onto American communities across the country. He has the power to make it stop through executive action, interior enforcement of current immigration laws and deportation. He's chosen to do nothing and allow the onslaught to continue.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: border; crime; drugs; fjb; housing; illegalimmigration; invasion; migrant; openborder; sanctuarycities; smuggling
Biden’s Border Catastrophe Is About Much More Than Illegal Immigration....

it is about
FOREIGN INVASION.

1 posted on 02/02/2024 12:29:34 PM PST by lightman
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To: Honorary Serb
Today is the Feast of the Presentation of Christ so a few lines from T.S. Elliot's A Song for Simeon seem very fitting:

Who shall remember my house, where shall live my children's children
When time of sorrow is come?
They will take to the goat's path, and the fox's home,
Fleeing from the foreign faces and the foreign swords.

2 posted on 02/02/2024 12:32:58 PM PST by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: lightman

Wait until people realize that the foreigners were going to vote in November.


3 posted on 02/02/2024 12:33:43 PM PST by ClearCase_guy
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To: lightman

The illegals are needed to steal the 2024 election. The Rats are registering them to vote, not so the illegals can actually vote, but so the Rats can vote for them with drop boxes, and mail-in ballots. The plot is plainly obvious.


4 posted on 02/02/2024 12:33:46 PM PST by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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To: Dr. Franklin

This is an act of war and the Capitulator in Chief....


5 posted on 02/02/2024 12:35:28 PM PST by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: lightman

It’s time to name names! Exactly who are Biden’s advisors that are strongly advocating this policy? Names, we want names!!!


6 posted on 02/02/2024 12:42:38 PM PST by Highest Authority (DemonRats are pure EVIL)
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To: ClearCase_guy
Illegals will vote in November AND add to the body count for increasing Democrat numbers in the House of Representatives.
7 posted on 02/02/2024 12:42:44 PM PST by airborne (Thank you Rush for helping me find FreeRepublic! )
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To: lightman

This is part of the Fundamental Transformation zer0 talked about.


8 posted on 02/02/2024 12:58:12 PM PST by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: lightman

Not to worry.

FJB will get as many mail-in votes of unknown provenance as required.


9 posted on 02/02/2024 12:58:16 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████████ b █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Let the sanctuary-city nitwits and their residents pay for their ongoing nitwittery! Not taxpayers who are not residents of these loser cities.


10 posted on 02/02/2024 1:00:18 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp??)
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To: lightman
"What kinds of people are local jurisdictions bending over backward to accommodate?"


11 posted on 02/02/2024 1:05:33 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Here comes the cultural enrichment!


12 posted on 02/02/2024 1:13:30 PM PST by sauropod (The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous rather than cowardly.)
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To: lightman

There is weird dichotomy in treatment of migrants.
The Federal Government has monopoly in charge of Border and refuses to do anything about it, but also refuses help from states and others who are volunteering to help.

On the other hand, these migrants are dumped onto states and local governments, without any federal help.
So it does not cost a penny for Biden to let them in, but those who pay for them have no say in letting them in!


13 posted on 02/02/2024 1:16:33 PM PST by AZJeep
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To: lightman

Biden’s Border Catastrophe Is About Much More Than Illegal Immigration.

One party government and globalism if a democrat wins it’s a done deal no returning back to liberty.


14 posted on 02/02/2024 1:34:12 PM PST by Vaduz
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To: lightman

Tucker’s interview

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/02/01/brett-weinstein-discusses-the-possibilities-behind-the-invasion-at-our-southern-border/


15 posted on 02/02/2024 1:37:59 PM PST by combat_boots
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To: AZJeep

Even though Biden is letting them in these governors don’t have to pay for them. The whole thing is absurd.


16 posted on 02/02/2024 2:51:39 PM PST by sheana
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To: lightman

This is a tandem operation. Americans are being exterminated and replaced. Exterminated through the mandatory vaccine and being replaced by the invaders. You understand now why the Biden Administration is furious with Texas. Texas stands in the breach to replace us.


17 posted on 02/02/2024 2:58:43 PM PST by Enterprise ( )
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

I say...send them to Martha’s Vineyard!


18 posted on 02/04/2024 3:25:53 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Proudly Clinging To My Guns And My Religion)
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