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Democrat Georgia Representative Hank Johnson: "Migrants are not crossing into the U.S. illegally"
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| September 27, 2023
| Gregory Werner, Hillary Vaughn
Posted on 09/27/2023 5:26:39 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
are not crossing into the U.S. illegally, but instead are sitting at the border and seeking asylum, despite record numbers of illegal entries into the country being reported along the southern border.
Johnson was asked about the immigration crisis while passing through the halls of the Capitol building, particularly about the nearly 10,000 migrants who cross the border into the U.S. illegally each day.
"Well, they’re not crossing into the U.S. illegally," Johnson responded when asked at what point the crossings would become an invasion. "They’re sitting at the border seeking asylum."
People seeking asylum, though, must prove they suffered persecution, or fear future persecution in their country of origin, according to the American Immigration Council’s website.
Many of the migrants coming to the U.S. are seeking economic opportunity, which is not a basis of asylum.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: absurdbs; guam; hankjohnson; illegalimmigrants; joebiden
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Hank 'Guam' Johnson has spoken.
To: Macho MAGA Man
"Migrants are not crossing into the U.S. illegally" They're walking in backwards.
To: Macho MAGA Man
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posted on
09/27/2023 5:29:53 PM PDT
by
laconic
To: Macho MAGA Man
He's factually correvt.
There's no federal stay to keep illegals out and they can be called migrants or invaders or whatever.
We patriots have not set up machine gun nests on the border . . . . . . . . yet.
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posted on
09/27/2023 5:31:14 PM PDT
by
knarf
(I say things that are true . . . . . I have no proof, but they're true !)
To: Macho MAGA Man
Don’t forget the ‘M’ people and helium for the clowns.
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posted on
09/27/2023 5:33:12 PM PDT
by
qaz123
To: Macho MAGA Man
He’s the Baghdad Bob of our times “There are no US forces in Baghdad”
To: laconic
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posted on
09/27/2023 5:37:34 PM PDT
by
No name given
(Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
To: Macho MAGA Man
They are crawling through razor wire.
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posted on
09/27/2023 5:38:59 PM PDT
by
TornadoAlley3
( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
To: Macho MAGA Man
Of course they’re not crossing into the US illegally. They’re crossing the Pacific to Guam, in order to tip the island over.
To: Macho MAGA Man
In 2010, during a House Armed Services Committee hearing about the US military installation in Guam, Rep. Hank Johnson expressed concerns about the potential negative impact of adding 8,000 Marines and dependents to an island of 180,000 people. He said, "My fear is that the whole island will become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize," to which Admiral Robert F. Willard responded, "We don't anticipate that." Johnson's office claimed that he was deadpan and had used a facetious metaphor to draw attention to the potential negative impact of adding 8,000 Marines and dependents to an island of 180,000 people. In 2017, Johnson issued a written statement stating that he was not suggesting that the island of Guam would literally tip over. If only we had known just how low the requirements were for the House position of Representative.
To: Macho MAGA Man
Hank Johnson is an embarrassment to an entire race of people.
Aren’t the voters smart enough to see that and get rid of him?
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posted on
09/27/2023 5:40:46 PM PDT
by
Bullish
(...And just like that, I was dropped from the ping-list)
To: knarf
Unfortunately you are correct.
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posted on
09/27/2023 5:44:05 PM PDT
by
griswold3
(Truth, Beauty and Goodness )
To: Robert DeLong
Someone probably told Hank that the population of Guam was near a tipping point, and that’s what he thought it meant.
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posted on
09/27/2023 5:44:31 PM PDT
by
gundog
(It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
To: Bullish
No. He’s likely a pretty bright guy relative to many he represents.
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posted on
09/27/2023 5:45:44 PM PDT
by
gundog
(It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
To: Macho MAGA Man
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posted on
09/27/2023 5:46:25 PM PDT
by
vpintheak
(There is no Trans. There is only mentally ill)
To: Macho MAGA Man
wonder what his take would be in those same “migrants” broke into his house??
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posted on
09/27/2023 5:47:20 PM PDT
by
ealgeone
To: Macho MAGA Man
ThEyRe NoT iLlEgAlS - ThEyRe JuSt SeEkInG a BeTtEr lIFe.
Dude, you’re a bald faced liar.
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posted on
09/27/2023 5:49:08 PM PDT
by
Skywise
To: laconic
Our country is being ruined by truly incompetent, truly stupid people. Everyone is supposed to shuffle their feet in place, look upward and then downward and clear their throat and say “sounds great.” It doesn’t.
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posted on
09/27/2023 5:52:25 PM PDT
by
frank ballenger
(You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
To: gundog
To: Macho MAGA Man
Hank is correct on this.
US Code Art 8 asylum is current law that allows these people to be here.
The Republicans and the Rats don’t want you to know this.
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posted on
09/27/2023 5:53:30 PM PDT
by
Colo9250
( All Republican moderates need to go in 24)
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