If Trump had not signed the disastrous budget bill several weeks ago and we were still operating on a short-term CR with immigration remaining the top issue, today’s news could have strengthened Trump’s leverage. According to CBP’s preliminary figures obtained by the Washington Post, 76,325 illegal aliens were apprehended at the border in February, more than any other month in over a decade since the decline of migration from Mexico. A record 40,325 family units arrived, blowing out the previous records by almost 10,000. Sadly, Trump already signed away his leverage to force a national dialogue over this issue.
As a nation, we are left debating presidential power from an obscure statute that enables the president to obtain a mere $2.5 billion for partial fencing to deal with a policy-driven invasion. The joke is that even if Trump had full unity behind this approach, it would do little to stop this invasion, which is strategically directed toward soft parts of our border. Unless we force a national discussion over the courts and the illegal immigration magnets that are bringing immigrants in, this entire debate is a non-sequitur. Unfortunately, without a budget deadline for another seven months, no matter how bad things get at our border, there is no mechanism through which to pressure Democrats into submission.
A record 76,325 apprehensions for one month is truly staggering, not only because it’s the single worst month at the border since fiscal year 2008, but because almost all of these people get to stay on our dime.
Here is a quick report from Todd Bensman of the Center for Immigration Studies on what he’s hearing about the state of play at our border:
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simply friggin amazing Bush should have done his job and closed the border after 911, but this marxist invasion is on purpose a con brought to you by the evil swamp creatures..luciferian scum
ReplyDeleteIt costs over $300 per day to house the children in the children centers. Many of these centers are run by entities such as the Catholic, Lutheran and Baptist churches. They get 10's of millions a year of tax payers money to run the centers. One I am familiar with was a vacant converted senior citizen complex. On staff for these children are doctors, nurses, social workers, teachers. It's sounds nice but what about low income American children? Parents are struggling to work and come up and pay for child care. Wouldn't it be nice if American children has such facilities? The problem is democrats don't want Americans to succeed. Democrats want Americans chained up and as many kept in poverty as possible so then they can be controlled.
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ReplyDeleteOf course it's worse than ever. There are caravans gathering at the border and our wonderful Congress is fighting the President at every step to do something about it.
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