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An Immigration Crisis Beyond Imagining
Hillsdale ^ | January 2024 | Todd Bensman

Posted on 02/07/2024 5:17:50 PM PST by Twotone

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1 posted on 02/07/2024 5:17:50 PM PST by Twotone
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To: Twotone

We already know it’s really bad and why they’re allowing it. Where are the articles explaining how we stop it?


2 posted on 02/07/2024 5:22:03 PM PST by JZelle
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To: Twotone
The current immigration crisis is the equivalent of the Big Lie.

It's just so huge and destructive that the American public can't get their arms around just how bad the problem is and all of the bad things that are happening because of it.

It is literally big enough and bad enough to bring the entire country down

3 posted on 02/07/2024 5:24:47 PM PST by rdcbn1
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To: Twotone
Beyond Imagining

It wasn't beyond imagining. They imagined it and did it. What they didn't imgagine was the political blowback from the citizens. They imagined creating a national crisis and adding to their voting stock, not depleting their voting stock by creating a national crisis driving everyone to the other side. Sometimes you don't get what you want but what you deserve.

4 posted on 02/07/2024 5:26:41 PM PST by AndyJackson
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To: GOPJ; poconopundit; Jane Long; Diana in Wisconsin; Grampa Dave; Godzilla; Vaduz; null and void; ...

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5 posted on 02/07/2024 5:29:06 PM PST by Liz (Matthew 11.28-30: Come to me, all you who are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you strength.)
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To: Twotone
If the next president was serious about deporting illegals, as many as 60 million, it will take a combination of incentives like E-Verify to remove the jobs, rescinding work permits, cutting financial assistance, and maybe offering money to deport with. Then those still remaining, hunt them down. Over 40,000 PER DAY to get ride of them in four years.
6 posted on 02/07/2024 5:34:39 PM PST by Reno89519 (Biden, Democrats, and Some Republicans may have surrendered, but I have not. Defend America!)
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To: JZelle

“Where are the articles explaining how we stop it?”

With a sheet of paper with ink on it:

Article 44 - Denunciation [getting out from under the Refugee Convention]
1. Any Contracting State may denounce this Convention at any time by a notification addressed to the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
2. Such denunciation shall take effect for the Contracting State concerned one year from the date upon which it is received by the Secretary-General of the United Nations....

https://www.ohchr.org/en/instruments-mechanisms/instruments/convention-relating-status-refugees

NOTE: I do not trust any politician who has not called for invoking Article 44 to get the US out from under the Refugee Convention.

And my distrust extends to Trump and DeSantis.

The Refugee Convention must be removed from the Democratic Party toolbox by invoking Article 44.

I’ve probably posted that over 100 times here over the years.


7 posted on 02/07/2024 5:41:03 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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An Immigration Crisis Beyond Imagining

Well, someone imagined it, and implemented the plan.

8 posted on 02/07/2024 5:42:10 PM PST by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the USofA & to the Constitutional REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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To: Twotone

“Building a wall is a red herring”

“The fundamental problem is that anyone can claim asylum with zero proof, which means all of Earth can come to America.”

Elon Musk


9 posted on 02/07/2024 5:42:53 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: rdcbn1

“It is literally big enough and bad enough to bring the entire country down”

We have all but crumbled as a country and society anyway and add to that $40,000,000,000,000 in debt by the end of the decade and all the illegals that are being dumped on us just speed up the process. It would appear that the Cold Civil War II has already started by years.


10 posted on 02/07/2024 5:45:40 PM PST by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute. )
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To: rdcbn1

so, it’s not quite enough to make those allowing it (from president’s admin to governors of every state and everyone else enabling) happy?


11 posted on 02/07/2024 5:46:41 PM PST by b4me
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To: Twotone

In early November, France’s national assembly passed an immigration law proposed by its president, Emmanuel Macron. The law is meant to address the main problem with immigration enforcement in Europe—the category of migrants who in France are called OQTFs. To explain: Angry voters have compelled governments across Europe to tighten laws on labor migration. But governments supposedly cannot tighten laws on political asylum, because those are regulated by the 1951 United Nations Convention on Refugees. This means that virtually every economic migrant picked up in a smuggler boat off the Italian coast (or in one of the rescue boats sent by progressive foundations to ply the waters nearby) claims to be a victim of political persecution seeking asylum. This gives newcomers the right to a lengthy sojourn in Europe while awaiting an asylum hearing. Nowadays most such claims are rejected, but it is expensive and bureaucratically difficult to ship the applicants back to where they came from. The denied applicant is simply dismissed with a written notice that he is required to leave French territory (obligé de quitter le territoire français, or OQTF). He almost never does. Macron’s bill would, among other things, end this charade by restoring the criminal offense of illegally staying in the country, a measure that 82% of French citizens back.

The Macron bill is not particularly robust. It contains a giant loophole inserted at the behest of corporations—permitting the hiring of undocumented migrants for “occupations under pressure.” This may wind up undoing everything the bill achieves, much as the anti-discrimination provisions in the U.S. immigration reform of 1986 ended up promoting rather than controlling migration.

Today Denmark, where financial support for asylum seekers is negligible and where it takes an average of 19 years for a migrant to become a citizen, gets about 2,000 asylum applications in an average year. Germany is expected to get 400,000 by the end of 2023. Denmark is the country on which virtually all European governments have announced they wish to pattern their policies.

https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/germany-growing-desperate/


12 posted on 02/07/2024 5:47:09 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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An excellent reason to end the UN. The UN was supposed to be a place to “discuss” problems between nations so that they would not go to war. The UN is definitely not that!


13 posted on 02/07/2024 5:51:09 PM PST by Twotone (We have to stop punishing ourselves for considering things that once seemed crazy. - B. Weinstein)
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To: rdcbn1

Yet it can be controlled and contained and reversed. All we need is the right people in power with the will to do so. And it can be done humanely as well.


14 posted on 02/07/2024 5:52:21 PM PST by firebrand
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It may be possible to control the flow faster with state sales taxes based on motor vehicle content that came from countries adjudicated by a federal court in the past 365 days to be unsafe to place asylum applicants in - sort of like Mexico.

GM, Ford and Stellantis will get the message.

The Mexican government will get the message.

Mexico will soon effectively bar migrant transport.

The tax rate will get cut.


15 posted on 02/07/2024 5:58:39 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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Government can also put the squeeze on homebuilders, who provide, indirectly or directly, most of the attractive invader employment, with:
1. new home size limitations (up 1600 sq. ft. generally, with up to 2400 sq. ft. on lots of at least two acres)
2. mandatory home buyer education so home buyers don’t overpay or make absurdly large purchase offers

When the remittances drop, so will the invader influx.


16 posted on 02/07/2024 6:08:02 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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India has a blocked currency.

The US can block electronic money flow to Mexico and other countries.

If Jose wants to send money home, he can carry it there personally.


17 posted on 02/07/2024 6:11:03 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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Asylum applicants can be asked to repay their NYC and Massachusetts hotel costs + 18% interest + collection costs.


18 posted on 02/07/2024 6:13:15 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: Brian Griffin

asked -> required by contract


19 posted on 02/07/2024 6:16:36 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: Twotone

“ then institute an asylum law that ends the current catch-and-release system”

Catch and release is already illegal.


20 posted on 02/07/2024 6:19:18 PM PST by Jim Noble (Assez de mensonges et de phrases)
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