The numbers are DOWN Lisa. The only increase is the lying and screaming from the Trumpers, Repubs and the ones (like you, Lisa) that promote their agenda.
The Biden administration laid out the welcome mat and let 6 + million migrants in intentionally. Hopefully they will pay for this mess in November 2024.
Yah. We should have turned them away in the 1500s and 1600s instead welcoming them, making friends, providing food to Plymouth colony for the first 3 winters so they would not starve out or teach the shopkeepers (no farmers came over) how to grow corn. As it is, they committed, and continue to commit, genocide and have just about destroyed Paradise. Face it, if you live in this hemisphere you are either descended from immigrants, slaves or refugees. Any bias or discrimination against people because they might fit any of those categories is at best stupid and is illegal in the country.
Yep, only to Lisa and Abbot and DeSantis. Other people are worried about losing their freedoms to Republican Terrorists like the guy in Provo who tried to stage a one man insurrection. People in Ohio seem to think losing the right to an abortion is more important too. Of course the Pro Lifers like LISA don’t give a darn about the woman who miscarried due to razor wire. Pro Life or Foul Evil No Good Bas…..
Leaders of Sanctuary Cities Express Regrets after Welcoming Illegals‘The plain truth is that sanctuary city policies hobble law enforcement’s ability to protect the public from dangerous criminals…’
“The policies of the Biden administration have certainly upped the ante on this sort of virtue signaling in recent years,” Ira Mehlman from the Federation for American Immigration Reform told The Center Square, referring to sanctuary cities. “Some 2.3 million new illegal aliens have entered the country since Biden took office, and a lot of them have wound up in these sanctuary jurisdictions, either on their own, transported by the federal government, or transported by other jurisdictions that simply cannot handle the influx.”
Cities like New York and Chicago have dismissed concerns from border states in recent years, but now they are raising the alarm that they cannot handle the flood of migrants.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams publicly said last week the city cannot handle any more migrants. He told reporters that the city plans to pass out flyers at the southern border to discourage illegal immigrants from traveling to NYC.
As The Center Square previously reported, the Chicago City Council and Mayor Brandon Johnson heard from Chicago residents who voiced concerns about the increase in migrants and the taxpayer funds being spent to support them.
“What people are feeling is that the people who have been in these neighborhoods for generations, they have been treated inhumanely by the same government that is making efforts to provide good care to the asylum seekers,” state Rep. La Shawn Ford, D-Chicago, told The Center Square.
In 2020, Illinois taxpayers began to subsidize the cost of undocumented immigrant health care for those over the age of 65. In 2022, the state budget included subsidizing coverage for those over the age of 42. As part of the state’s fiscal year 2024 budget that began July 1, Gov. J.B. Pritzker modified the program to cover those only over 65 for a total budgeted amount of $550 million. The program was scaled way back because costs were ballooning to more than $1 billion.
Nearly 100,000 migrants have come to New York City this year, but that figure doesn’t compare to the total coming through at the southern border every month.
Recent U.S. Customs and Border Protection data shows that over 175,000 illegal immigrants came into the U.S. last month alone, and that figure is much lower than the monthly numbers from earlier this year. Experts say the figure is probably much higher, but fewer agents are available to track how many migrants are entering the U.S. between ports of entry.
In the first five months of this year, the total number of illegal immigrants coming into the U.S. via the southern border was more than the population of eight U.S. states.
Democratic mayors also pushed back when Texas Gov. Greg Abbot and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, whose states bear the brunt of illegal migration more than most others, started transporting migrants to other cities around the country.
Texas sees hundreds of thousands of illegal border crossers regularly but faced backlash for busing a few thousand migrants to self-proclaimed sanctuary cities like Denver, Chicago, New York City and Washington, D.C. over several months.
Abbott sent a few thousand migrants to Washington, D.C., also a sanctuary city, last year, prompting Mayor Muriel Bowser to declare a public health emergency.
“Our ability to assist people in need at this scale is very limited,” Bowser said at the time.
Bowser lamented that the city’s homeless shelters were filling up with illegal immigrants and pushed to have the migrants end up at other final destinations.
Abbott shot back:
“D.C. is experiencing a fraction of the disastrous impact the border crisis has caused Texas,” Abbot said. “Mayor Bowser should stop attacking Texas for securing the border [and] demand Joe Biden do his job.”
Local law enforcement have felt the burden of the surge of migrants, some of whom have prior criminal records.
“The plain truth is that sanctuary city policies hobble law enforcement’s ability to protect the public from dangerous criminals,” Jason Johnson, president of the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund, told The Center Square. “Unlike American-born offenders, authorities almost never know the true criminal histories of illegal alien offenders who previously committed crimes abroad because their home countries don’t have or don’t provide their records to American law enforcement.”
Johnson argued crime from some illegal immigrants has pushed local leaders to regret inviting the influx.
“Now, these politicians are abandoning the virtues they were so proud to signal before they realized the disaster these policies wrought,” Johnson said.
Ken Oliver, an immigration expert at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, echoed that sentiment, pointing to the financial burden on local cities that the influx of migrants creates.
“As the taxpaying citizens of sanctuary cities become increasingly aware of the costs of sanctuary policies, including the benefits of housing, food and protection from the consequences of lawbreaking that are extended to inadmissible aliens but not to them, what we’re seeing is a backlash that is growing and well justified,” Oliver told The Center Square. “That backlash and the budgetary realities facing cities and states at the receiving end of the Biden border crisis are driving a new and welcome trend. It is fitting that the unwinding of unsustainable sanctuary policies is beginning in America’s leading sanctuary enclave of New York City.”
Oliver argued the trend will continue to grow.
“That pressure to unwind sanctuary policies is not only going to continue to build throughout the country, but should also trickle up in the months and years ahead to spur the reversal of the federal policies that created the crisis in the first place,” he said.
“An dark money old right-wing mouthpiece rebranded itself as a news wire service in an attempt to hijack local media and politics, passing off conservative propaganda as “news.”
The Republican Party, thy name is Desperation. If they did not actively cheat in during elections, they would never win another election. They would find themselves relegated to Trotsky’s Proverbial dustbin of history. (Personally, that is where they belong and it should have happened after the death of Thaddeus Stevens.) The party and its supporters are nothing more than one collective leech on society. Their supporters, including the alleged editorial cartoonist, are cognitively lazy and only parrot what they have been told by others. They don’t like anything that challenges them because it takes them out of their echo chamber and also calls into question their ability think. Their brain is so lazy and atrophied from lack of use that they cannot do it. They can no longer function cognitively. My evidence of this? Just the incoherent and false ramblings of many of the people who support fascism, racism, Trump and the Republican Party.
A peek inside that bag finds millions of people who came here illegally. Those millions are responsible for a host of problems like increase in homelessness. Strained local and state safety net programs. Pressure on the rental markets as they seek housing. Increased deficit spending at the fed level. Increase drug flows. Increased cartel crime operations in the US. Increased instances of dangerous diseases. Pressure on local school systems. Increased slavery. Increased human trafficking. And on and on.
So just what is the Biden strategy here? He even campaigned on the claim that another 2 million refugees would easily be handled by our country of 320 million… except we’re long past 2 million.
It’s only a crisis for those who want to deflect attention away from Trump. And of course it’s slow down is hurting farmers who can’t harvest their crops. Tyson is even shutting down 4 plants for processing chickens. They say it’s from low demand, but the real reason is not enough new immigrants to do the work!
That is not baggage for Democrats that is a lot of people who will vote Democrat. Birds of a feather flock together and criminals support other criminals, which is why Democrats prefer to do nothing to make it easier for people to come here legally.
The Biden administration has utterly destroyed the southern border — and immigration law with it.Biden green lighted 7 million illegal aliens swarming into the U.S. without legal sanction or rudimentary audit.China spies inside and over the U.S. with impunity. Beijing has never admitted to its responsibility for the gain-of-function COVID virus that killed a million Americans.President Joe Biden printed $4 trillion at exactly the wrong time of soaring post-COVID consumer demand and supply shortages. No wonder he birthed the worst inflation in 40 years.In response, interest rates tripled, gas prices doubled.Our military is thousands of recruits short. It lacks sufficient munitions.Following Biden’s humiliating pullout from Afghanistan, vast troves of arms were abandoned in Kabul. Billions more in scarce weapons were sent to Ukraine.The Pentagon’s woke agenda trumps meritocracy in promotions and advancement.Our enemies — Russia, China, Iran, North Korea — are on the move, while the U.S. seems listless.The Biden renegade Department of Justice, CIA and FBI have become weaponized. Ideology, politics, and race — not the law — more often guide their investigations, intelligence operations and enforcement.The downtowns of our once majestic major cities are becoming unlivable.They are mired in refuse and trash, violent crime and homelessness. Stores and businesses leave. Millions each year flee the blue urban coasts to the red west and south.To even say there are still two biological genders, that global warming may not be entirely manmade or necessarily destroying the planet, or that class, not race, is the proper barometer of inequality is to face ostracism and career cancellation.The public assumes that Biden is severely cognitively challenged, likely corrupt, and a serial fabricator.In other words, restore what until recently made America the strongest, most prosperous, and freest nation in the world.
And Alberta needs hundreds of oil field workers. Any of you ‘Mericans need a job? Earn $140,000 a year but you’d have to put up with free health care and low taxes.
I was reading today about a 3 year old girl who died on the bus used by the Governor of Texas to transport immigrants from Texas to democratic cities, in this case Chicago. Hopefully the bus driver is charged with murder and something comes out if it against the Texass Governor.
Those who would Open our doors to anyone and everyone should start in their own homes. Yes, invite those of whom you know nothing about, feed them, clothe them, and pay for their schooling from your own hard-earned wages! Tell me how long that lasts!
Dwight Schmiddlapp 10 months ago
Good one, Ms. Benson.
Masterskrain Premium Member 10 months ago
Gov. Abattoir is MURDERING people in Texass…never forget that.
Nantucket Premium Member 10 months ago
The numbers are DOWN Lisa. The only increase is the lying and screaming from the Trumpers, Repubs and the ones (like you, Lisa) that promote their agenda.
Stephen Runnels Premium Member 10 months ago
It is kind of funny/sad watching Republicans try so hard to constantly convince each other Democrats are the bad guys.
DC Swamp 10 months ago
The Biden administration laid out the welcome mat and let 6 + million migrants in intentionally. Hopefully they will pay for this mess in November 2024.
Radish the wordsmith 10 months ago
Vote Blue, Republicans have run Texas for 27 years and still don’t have control of their border. Now they are killing migrants.
Al Fresco 10 months ago
Arizona must deal with 2,000 border crossers a day while blue states and sanctuary cities whine. Do your share.
1BlackLivesMatter Premium Member 10 months ago
“Nothing to see here, folks”! – MSM
Teto85 Premium Member 10 months ago
Yah. We should have turned them away in the 1500s and 1600s instead welcoming them, making friends, providing food to Plymouth colony for the first 3 winters so they would not starve out or teach the shopkeepers (no farmers came over) how to grow corn. As it is, they committed, and continue to commit, genocide and have just about destroyed Paradise. Face it, if you live in this hemisphere you are either descended from immigrants, slaves or refugees. Any bias or discrimination against people because they might fit any of those categories is at best stupid and is illegal in the country.
ImDaRealAni 10 months ago
Lisa lies as always.
NeedaChuckle Premium Member 10 months ago
Yep, only to Lisa and Abbot and DeSantis. Other people are worried about losing their freedoms to Republican Terrorists like the guy in Provo who tried to stage a one man insurrection. People in Ohio seem to think losing the right to an abortion is more important too. Of course the Pro Lifers like LISA don’t give a darn about the woman who miscarried due to razor wire. Pro Life or Foul Evil No Good Bas…..
ncorgbl 10 months ago
Lisa, your readers are making you look less than honest.
cdbro 10 months ago
Leaders of Sanctuary Cities Express Regrets after Welcoming Illegals‘The plain truth is that sanctuary city policies hobble law enforcement’s ability to protect the public from dangerous criminals…’
“The policies of the Biden administration have certainly upped the ante on this sort of virtue signaling in recent years,” Ira Mehlman from the Federation for American Immigration Reform told The Center Square, referring to sanctuary cities. “Some 2.3 million new illegal aliens have entered the country since Biden took office, and a lot of them have wound up in these sanctuary jurisdictions, either on their own, transported by the federal government, or transported by other jurisdictions that simply cannot handle the influx.”
Cities like New York and Chicago have dismissed concerns from border states in recent years, but now they are raising the alarm that they cannot handle the flood of migrants.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams publicly said last week the city cannot handle any more migrants. He told reporters that the city plans to pass out flyers at the southern border to discourage illegal immigrants from traveling to NYC.
As The Center Square previously reported, the Chicago City Council and Mayor Brandon Johnson heard from Chicago residents who voiced concerns about the increase in migrants and the taxpayer funds being spent to support them.
“What people are feeling is that the people who have been in these neighborhoods for generations, they have been treated inhumanely by the same government that is making efforts to provide good care to the asylum seekers,” state Rep. La Shawn Ford, D-Chicago, told The Center Square.
cdbro 10 months ago
In 2020, Illinois taxpayers began to subsidize the cost of undocumented immigrant health care for those over the age of 65. In 2022, the state budget included subsidizing coverage for those over the age of 42. As part of the state’s fiscal year 2024 budget that began July 1, Gov. J.B. Pritzker modified the program to cover those only over 65 for a total budgeted amount of $550 million. The program was scaled way back because costs were ballooning to more than $1 billion.
Nearly 100,000 migrants have come to New York City this year, but that figure doesn’t compare to the total coming through at the southern border every month.
Recent U.S. Customs and Border Protection data shows that over 175,000 illegal immigrants came into the U.S. last month alone, and that figure is much lower than the monthly numbers from earlier this year. Experts say the figure is probably much higher, but fewer agents are available to track how many migrants are entering the U.S. between ports of entry.
In the first five months of this year, the total number of illegal immigrants coming into the U.S. via the southern border was more than the population of eight U.S. states.
Democratic mayors also pushed back when Texas Gov. Greg Abbot and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, whose states bear the brunt of illegal migration more than most others, started transporting migrants to other cities around the country.
Texas sees hundreds of thousands of illegal border crossers regularly but faced backlash for busing a few thousand migrants to self-proclaimed sanctuary cities like Denver, Chicago, New York City and Washington, D.C. over several months.
cdbro 10 months ago
Abbott sent a few thousand migrants to Washington, D.C., also a sanctuary city, last year, prompting Mayor Muriel Bowser to declare a public health emergency.
“Our ability to assist people in need at this scale is very limited,” Bowser said at the time.
Bowser lamented that the city’s homeless shelters were filling up with illegal immigrants and pushed to have the migrants end up at other final destinations.
Abbott shot back:
“D.C. is experiencing a fraction of the disastrous impact the border crisis has caused Texas,” Abbot said. “Mayor Bowser should stop attacking Texas for securing the border [and] demand Joe Biden do his job.”
Local law enforcement have felt the burden of the surge of migrants, some of whom have prior criminal records.
“The plain truth is that sanctuary city policies hobble law enforcement’s ability to protect the public from dangerous criminals,” Jason Johnson, president of the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund, told The Center Square. “Unlike American-born offenders, authorities almost never know the true criminal histories of illegal alien offenders who previously committed crimes abroad because their home countries don’t have or don’t provide their records to American law enforcement.”
Johnson argued crime from some illegal immigrants has pushed local leaders to regret inviting the influx.
“Now, these politicians are abandoning the virtues they were so proud to signal before they realized the disaster these policies wrought,” Johnson said.
cdbro 10 months ago
Ken Oliver, an immigration expert at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, echoed that sentiment, pointing to the financial burden on local cities that the influx of migrants creates.
“As the taxpaying citizens of sanctuary cities become increasingly aware of the costs of sanctuary policies, including the benefits of housing, food and protection from the consequences of lawbreaking that are extended to inadmissible aliens but not to them, what we’re seeing is a backlash that is growing and well justified,” Oliver told The Center Square. “That backlash and the budgetary realities facing cities and states at the receiving end of the Biden border crisis are driving a new and welcome trend. It is fitting that the unwinding of unsustainable sanctuary policies is beginning in America’s leading sanctuary enclave of New York City.”
Oliver argued the trend will continue to grow.
“That pressure to unwind sanctuary policies is not only going to continue to build throughout the country, but should also trickle up in the months and years ahead to spur the reversal of the federal policies that created the crisis in the first place,” he said.
-Headlineusa.com
Gnork 10 months ago
Re cdbro’s source, The Center Square:
“An dark money old right-wing mouthpiece rebranded itself as a news wire service in an attempt to hijack local media and politics, passing off conservative propaganda as “news.”
https://www.mediamatters.org/local-news/dark-money-fueled-conservative-group-rebranded-its-effort-infiltrate-local-politics-and
lawguy05 10 months ago
A bigger bag than that is the Biden Crime Syndicate.
thelordthygod666 10 months ago
The cartoon is accurate. The GOP has been very effective in their “open border” propaganda.
Civitas Libertas 10 months ago
The Republican Party, thy name is Desperation. If they did not actively cheat in during elections, they would never win another election. They would find themselves relegated to Trotsky’s Proverbial dustbin of history. (Personally, that is where they belong and it should have happened after the death of Thaddeus Stevens.) The party and its supporters are nothing more than one collective leech on society. Their supporters, including the alleged editorial cartoonist, are cognitively lazy and only parrot what they have been told by others. They don’t like anything that challenges them because it takes them out of their echo chamber and also calls into question their ability think. Their brain is so lazy and atrophied from lack of use that they cannot do it. They can no longer function cognitively. My evidence of this? Just the incoherent and false ramblings of many of the people who support fascism, racism, Trump and the Republican Party.
dickanders Premium Member 10 months ago
Have you heard anything about the R dominated House even thinking about a legislative problem-solving approach? Neither have I.
aristoclesplato9 10 months ago
A peek inside that bag finds millions of people who came here illegally. Those millions are responsible for a host of problems like increase in homelessness. Strained local and state safety net programs. Pressure on the rental markets as they seek housing. Increased deficit spending at the fed level. Increase drug flows. Increased cartel crime operations in the US. Increased instances of dangerous diseases. Pressure on local school systems. Increased slavery. Increased human trafficking. And on and on.
So just what is the Biden strategy here? He even campaigned on the claim that another 2 million refugees would easily be handled by our country of 320 million… except we’re long past 2 million.
davidthoms1 10 months ago
It’s only a crisis for those who want to deflect attention away from Trump. And of course it’s slow down is hurting farmers who can’t harvest their crops. Tyson is even shutting down 4 plants for processing chickens. They say it’s from low demand, but the real reason is not enough new immigrants to do the work!
wildthing 10 months ago
I’m picturing MTG and her balloon full of insurrectionists tethered to Trump’s prison cell.
Sun 10 months ago
Joe Biden visits the Grand Canyon, then fails to visit the border to avoid his border crisis.
s49nav 10 months ago
“Open Borders”, with a nod and a wink from Mayorkis and his sycophants who chorus “Crises? What crisis?” Don’t worry, we haven’t forgotten.
Bill.Franklin 10 months ago
That is not baggage for Democrats that is a lot of people who will vote Democrat. Birds of a feather flock together and criminals support other criminals, which is why Democrats prefer to do nothing to make it easier for people to come here legally.
FJB Premium Member 10 months ago
Besides dinners, phone calls, golf outings and meetings with Hunters Business Partners, Joe had nothing to do with it!
FJB Premium Member 10 months ago
Thank you VDH.
The Biden administration has utterly destroyed the southern border — and immigration law with it.Biden green lighted 7 million illegal aliens swarming into the U.S. without legal sanction or rudimentary audit.China spies inside and over the U.S. with impunity. Beijing has never admitted to its responsibility for the gain-of-function COVID virus that killed a million Americans.President Joe Biden printed $4 trillion at exactly the wrong time of soaring post-COVID consumer demand and supply shortages. No wonder he birthed the worst inflation in 40 years.In response, interest rates tripled, gas prices doubled.Our military is thousands of recruits short. It lacks sufficient munitions.Following Biden’s humiliating pullout from Afghanistan, vast troves of arms were abandoned in Kabul. Billions more in scarce weapons were sent to Ukraine.The Pentagon’s woke agenda trumps meritocracy in promotions and advancement.Our enemies — Russia, China, Iran, North Korea — are on the move, while the U.S. seems listless.The Biden renegade Department of Justice, CIA and FBI have become weaponized. Ideology, politics, and race — not the law — more often guide their investigations, intelligence operations and enforcement.The downtowns of our once majestic major cities are becoming unlivable.They are mired in refuse and trash, violent crime and homelessness. Stores and businesses leave. Millions each year flee the blue urban coasts to the red west and south.To even say there are still two biological genders, that global warming may not be entirely manmade or necessarily destroying the planet, or that class, not race, is the proper barometer of inequality is to face ostracism and career cancellation.The public assumes that Biden is severely cognitively challenged, likely corrupt, and a serial fabricator.In other words, restore what until recently made America the strongest, most prosperous, and freest nation in the world.
Mongo 10 months ago
When you virtue signal being a ‘sanctuary’, you get to participate as a border state.
NeoconMan 10 months ago
Send them our way: Ontario needs 100,000 new skilled trade workers to meet housing demand right now.
NeoconMan 10 months ago
And Alberta needs hundreds of oil field workers. Any of you ‘Mericans need a job? Earn $140,000 a year but you’d have to put up with free health care and low taxes.
cdbro 10 months ago
Quick somebody tell Bezos that there is a climate crisis and his waterfront mansion is going to be swept away from melting polar caps..
Didn’t he learn from Obama, Oprah, Biden, Kerry and Gore???
Oh wait, I forgot they all own beachfront properties too. Don’t they believe science?
Jeff Bezos has added a $68 million waterfront mansion on Florida’s ‘billionaire bunker’ to his real-estate collection: report
zerorest 10 months ago
A crisis of your mind.
macmantoo 10 months ago
I was reading today about a 3 year old girl who died on the bus used by the Governor of Texas to transport immigrants from Texas to democratic cities, in this case Chicago. Hopefully the bus driver is charged with murder and something comes out if it against the Texass Governor.
da_villa 10 months ago
Those who would Open our doors to anyone and everyone should start in their own homes. Yes, invite those of whom you know nothing about, feed them, clothe them, and pay for their schooling from your own hard-earned wages! Tell me how long that lasts!