A battle between sanctuary cities and states and the incoming border czar will soon be underway. Homan will win.
The most qualified person of all Trump’s picks is border Czar Tom Homan.
Homan started out as an ICE agent who worked his way up the ranks to become an ICE director. He understands the mission and the bureaucracy.
Wikipedia notes “In 2015, President Obama gave him a Presidential Rank Award as a Distinguished Executive. A Washington Post article at the time stated, Thomas Homan deports people. And he’s really good at it.”
His qualifications are impeccable, both as an ICE agent and a manager overseeing ICE. You might disagree with the mission, but no one can honestly suggest he is unqualified.
Charlie Kirk has an excellent interview of Homan.
Charlie Kirk Interview
Homan: We need to be transparent. We need to have a briefing and tell the American people exactly what we are doing. We said we are going to concentrate on public safety and national security threats. We need to have constant communication. That’s how we keep the support of the American people. The Left, the far Left, the woke, I don’t care what they think about me. They can’t cancel if you don’t care.
Kirk: I want your reaction to this clip [of Illinois governor JB Pritzker].
Pritzker: Anyone wo intends to come take away the freedom and opportunity and dignity of Illinoisians, I would remind you that a happy warrior is still a warrior. If you come for my people, you come through me.
Homan: Game on. We’ve got no problem going through him. I’ve got 20,000 men and women at ICE who are going to do their job with no apology. … The day Donald Trump takes office, we are in a go mode. If any governor wants to stand in the way, go ahead and do it, and we’ll see what happens. I am not going to be intimidated and ICE will not be intimidated. We are going to do our job.
Kirk: [Asks a question about day one]
Homan: We are going to end catch and release. We are going to file lawsuits against sanctuary cities. We are going to reprioritize ICE priorities.
Mish Comments
Homan understands the mission and honestly believes in it. Importantly, he has the bureaucratic experience to pull it off.
Homan discussed priorities and a way to get ICE officials out of administrative rolls and on to the streets.
It’s a 19 minute interview and I transcribed only a tiny piece of it. I recommend playing it all.
I seriously do not understand governors and mayors willing to aid rapists, drug dealers, and gang leaders, etc.
Denver Mayor Mike Johnston Backtracks
9News reports Denver Mayor Mike Johnston backtracks comments about sending Denver Police officers to block Trump deportation efforts
Denver Mayor Mike Johnston said he will encourage people to protest President-elect Trump’s planned deportations in Colorado and is willing to go to jail to stop efforts made by the future president that he believes are illegal or wrong.
Johnston is also walking back his comments this week made to Denverite about sending Denver Police officers to the county line to stop federal forces from coming in.
“More than us having DPD stationed at the county line to keep them out, you would have 50,000 Denverites there,” Johnston told Denverite. “It’s like the Tiananmen Square moment with the rose and the gun, right? You’d have every one of those Highland moms who came out for the migrants. And you do not want to mess with them.”
In an interview with 9NEWS on Friday, Johnston walked those claims back.
“Would I have taken it back if I could? Yes, I probably wouldn’t have used that image,” Johnston said. “That’s the image I hope we can avoid. What I was trying to say is this is an outcome I hope we can avoid in this country. I think none of us want that.”
In cases where Johnston believes the future commander-in-chief is wrong or performing something that is illegal, the mayor says he is willing to go to jail to stand up against it.
“Trump’s new border czar, Tom Homan, has said that he is willing to arrest leaders like yourself for standing in the way of these policies that they want to enact. Would you be willing to go to jail for these things?” Sallinger asked.
“Yeah, I’m not afraid of that, and I’m also not seeking that,” Johnston said. “I think the goal is we want to be able to negotiate with reasonable people how to solve hard problems.“
Reasonable People
For starters, how about handing over all the Venezuelan thugs, drug dealers, and gang members as well as anyone with a criminal warrant or arrested in jail.
Every sensible person in Denver would cheer.
Trump’s Mass Deportation Promise
Let’s discuss the WSJ article Trump’s Mass Deportation Promise. My comments are in square brackets. Emphasis also mine.
Donald Trump won a second term in the White House by pledging to secure the U.S.-Mexico border, and that includes sending a clear deterrent message to migrants before he’s sworn in again on Jan. 20. Last week a caravan of about 3,000 people set out toward the U.S. from near the Guatemala border, according to Reuters, but many of them dispersed after Mr. Trump’s victory. [And that’s a major victory for Trump right off the bat]
Mr. Trump announced late Sunday that Tom Homan, his former acting head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, has agreed to be his new border czar. Mr. Homan will be “in charge of our Nation’s Borders,” plus “all Deportation of Illegal Aliens back to their Country of Origin,” Mr. Trump wrote on Truth Social. Media leaks Monday said Stephen Miller, who advised Mr. Trump on immigration policy in the first term, is likely to be White House deputy chief of staff for policy.
In short order, Mr. Trump will move to reinstate the border policies of his first term, such as Remain in Mexico, which seemed to work. Under that deal, migrants claiming asylum in the U.S. were sent back to Mexico while their cases were pending, which might take months or more. The idea was to break the incentives to game the system. Given the backlog of asylum cases, letting migrants into the U.S. while they wait is an enticement to come. [Another victory]
The political rub may be Mr. Trump’s campaign promise to conduct “the largest deportation operation in the history of our country.” How it goes depends on what Mr. Trump means. Speaking Monday on Fox News, Mr. Homan said the priority will be “public-safety threats and national-security threats,” as well as migrants who “had due process” and “their federal judge said ‘you must go home,’ and they didn’t.” [Again no disagreement]
And add what Mr. Homan told “60 Minutes” last month. “It’s not going to be a mass sweep of neighborhoods,” he said. “It’s not going to be building concentration camps. I’ve read it all. It’s ridiculous.” [Bingo! a mass sweep is not the right idea]
Instead he said Mr. Trump’s plan would involve “targeted arrests,” and eventually “worksite enforcement operations.” If officers making an arrest also find an undocumented grandma in the house, will they detain her? “It depends,” Mr. Homan said. “Let the judge decide.” [I 100% endorse targeted arrests. As for workforce arrests, I think we need to discuss. If someone has been here a while, with a job, and are productive members of society, it would be idiotic to send them home unless the goal is more inflation and workforce shortages]
When he visited the Journal recently, we asked about aliens who have been here for years, who might have U.S. citizen spouses and children. His response was that he wanted to help them.
“We have a lot of good people in this country, and we have to do something about it,” Mr. Trump said. “This has been going on for a long time. It’s a complicated subject.” He declined to specify whom he’d deport: “I don’t want to go too much into clarification, because the nicer I become, the more people that come over illegally.” Yet after stringent talk about deterrence, he ended with nuance: “There are some human questions that get in the way of being perfect, and we have to have the heart, too.” [This is a more pragmatic, rational Trump, and I hope we see more of this.]
Even as Mr. Biden’s failures turned the public against immigration, Gallup this summer said 81% of Americans want a path to citizenship for those “brought to the U.S. illegally as children.” That included 64% of Republicans. [I side with the majority]
[The WSJ concludes, and I agree] Mr. Trump can do much on immigration by executive action, but a durable solution needs legislation. Maybe Democrats, after the electoral haymaker they got last week, will be willing to compromise more than they have in the past. Mr. Trump missed a chance for a bipartisan deal in 2018 to permanently change the border incentives on asylum and more. He’ll have a narrow window again next year, if he’s willing and has the heart.
The New Home for Hispanics is the Republican Party
On November 7, I reported The New Home for Hispanics is the Republican Party
Please click on the above link and play the PBS video interview of Republican Florida rep. Maria Salazar on Hispanics, Trump, and deportations.
She is author of the The Dignity Act
Here’s The Dignity Act Bill Summary
Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar (R-Florida) introduced the Dignity Act (H.R. 3599) in the U.S. House of Representatives on May 23, 2023, a bipartisan effort to strengthen border security in the United States, provide undocumented individuals with an opportunity to obtain legal status if they meet certain requirements, and update aspects of the U.S. legal immigration system. Additional co-sponsors include Reps. Veronica Escobar (D-Texas), Lori Chavez-DeRemer (R-Oregon), Mike Lawler (R-New York), and Jennifer Gonzalez-Colon (R-Puerto Rico).
This bipartisan effort comes as new polling indicates that more than 4 in 5 Americans – including 80 percent of Republican registered voters – support Republicans and Democrats working together on immigration reforms that address labor shortages and inflation, and protect people already in the U.S. and contributing to their communities. During the rollout of the legislation, Rep. Salazar indicated that the bill is intended to follow the biblical principles of Dignity and Redemption. The bill also aims to focus on modernizing America’s immigration system to meet the country’s economic needs and to do so in a manner that supports American workers. The bill’s title stands for ‘‘Dignity for Immigrants while Guarding our Nation to Ignite and Deliver the American Dream Act of 2023’’ or the ‘‘DIGNIDAD (Dignity) Act of 2023.’’
The bill requires the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to deploy physical barriers, tactical infrastructure, technology, and personnel along the border where it is most effective. Specifically, it authorizes at least $35 billion in funding to enhance and improve infrastructure and technology between and at ports of entry. It also reforms the U.S. asylum system to make a final determination of asylum eligibility for most asylum seekers at the border within 60 days.
- Initial Screening (First 15 Days). Under the bill, migrants would receive a 72-hour rest period. After that, HC staff would provide an initial screening within 15 days. Staff will conduct criminal background checks, analyze biometric data, verify identification, conduct medical assessments, screen for human trafficking victims, and perform an initial credible fear interview.
- Migrants unable to establish a credible fear during an initial screening are subject to expedited removal from the U.S.
The bill incorporates a version of the Dream Act, which allows young undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children and have lived in the U.S. for most of their lives to obtain legal status. This section could allow up to 1.9 million Dreamers, including the roughly 600,000 DACA recipients, to live and work in the U.S.
I endorse the Dignity Act. It is exceptionally balanced, well thought out, and bipartisan. But it’s not what Trump promised.
Fortunately, it’s how Trump sounded in the WSJ interview.
CBS News Poll Show 57 Percent Approval to Deport All Illegal Immigrants
Yesterday, I noted CBS News Poll Show 57 Percent Approval to Deport All Illegal Immigrants
I suggest we shut down the border, return to stay in Mexico, arrest and deport the criminals, institute a reasonable immigration policy, and give amnesty to hard-working immigrants who have been here a long time.
It would be very costly and damaging economically to try to deport 15 million people, even 7 million people.
Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar (R-Florida) has the right idea with the Dignity Act.
Addendum – Defining Win
At the outset I never defined “win”. I meant seal the border, remain in Mexico, and deport high priority targets.
I expect Homan to go after high priority targets first and if he succeeds at that, we have a win. Then Trump will brag about winning and then the vast majority of his supporters will believe it.
By win, I did not mean deporting 15 million or even 7 million illegal immigrants. If that’s your definition, there won’t be a win.
Addendum – Defining Win
At the outset I never defined “win”. I meant seal the border, remain in Mexico, and deport high priority targets.
I expect Homan to go after high priority targets first and if he succeeds at that, we have a win. Then Trump will brag about winning and then the vast majority of his supporters will believe it.
By win, I did not mean deporting 15 million or even 7 million illegal immigrants. If that’s your definition, there won’t be a win.
New York To Close 12 Migrant Shelters Ahead Of Trump Deportation Agenda
Start with the Red States. And, ahem, encourage the illegals to move to the Blue States, though not blatantly. When they ask for money, say no.
We can get illegals to self deport by making E-Verify a law AND fine companies $100,000 for every illegal they hire.
Who are the biggest fools, most susceptible to bed wetting propaganda, on the planet (especially the US)? Middle-aged Liberal White Women.
They are the 50,000 that the Denver mayor says will be blocking the Feds from deporting criminal gangs of illegal aliens. He called them the “Highland Moms” or some such.
How to know it’s 15 million? It’s been 11 million for more than two decades, and even then some were saying it was at least double that.
As for economic damages, illegal migrants are like inflation or armaments … it benefits the few [reason it even exists] but harms the many. Illegals in society contradicts everything that banners such as liberty, dignity, and prosperity stand for.
Any economic problems that should arise with the deportation of 30 million immigrants, can be resolved with legal immigrants (with education), oh wait, save for the ability to exploit them because they have no recourse to the law or justice.
If they can’t be exploited, what good are they?
“Last week a caravan of about 3,000 people set out toward the U.S. from near the Guatemala border, according to Reuters, but many of them dispersed after Mr. Trump’s victory. [And that’s a major victory for Trump right off the bat]”
It is about 1,234 miles from “near the Guatemala border to Laredo and takes 18 days, 17 hours to walk that distance. That is without stops. So probably double that or more. And you have to figure that after a few days of 12 hour walks, some of these people would need longer rest periods as they are probably not in shape not have the proper footwear to just walk for 12 hours per day on end.
You have to ask yourself who is helping provide these people food, shelter, healthcare, etc., who organized these “caravans,” and what their motivations are.
“Homan will win.” Oh, will he? The left will fight every step, and–abetted by assorted internet twits who’ve no grasp of the stakes–they’ve already racked up a major win on AG. Now Gabbard and Hegseth are targeted. And this website’s host is yapping along with the left (albeit on different grounds) against deporting trespassers. If anyone hoped for revolutionary change, you have a front-seat demonstration of why, day by day, it’s less likely to occur.
It’s not the left. It’s Senate Republicans.
There you go,, bringing reality into it again…
I agree it’s the Republicans’ to lose. The screeching comes from the left, the equivocation (and worse) from the GOP, who are encouraged in betrayal by wish-they-mattereds like Mish. If you want a revolution, you don’t accede to the other side, not 1%. Trump tried to cut deals in 2016, and somewhere around the assassination of Flynn it was all over.
Long-time Federal employee; refers to the military as “DOD”.
Kept the discussion general, and kept away from any third rails like agriculture.
Chicago mayor Johnson got a negative reaction out of residents, when he wanted to increase property taxes some 300 million, to pay the costs of illegal immigration into the city. Looks like residents may have finally reached their over taxation limit.
Trump and Jackson’s Presidential Campaigns overturned existing parties and brought about a new alignment of voters.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/11/25/the-return-of-a-demagogic-populist-president-after-200-years/
They should show up on Thursday at houses on Chicago suburban north shore like Steve Martin inviting John Candy.
To be fair all criminal border crossers should be imprisoned for a year. All their possessions should confiscated. They should then be dumped across the border with a bag lunch and a bottle of water.
41k a year * 15 million is a nice payout for the private prison industry. When they’re released, the industry will be hungry for new inmates, and lobbying congress to provide them.
Land of the free?
I guess we’re not doing state’s rights anymore…
States rights don’t include the right to violate federal law. Federal law is supreme. Have a look at the US Constitution.
To be precise, federal law prevails within its jurisdiction, which is an interesting topic.
Agreed. Policing is historically the province of the states. And I’ll keep saying this: Trump voters are not conservatives. They’re populists, a wildly different animal with little regard for tradition. They want the government to work for them regardless of future consequences.
They’re morons. Nothing more.
I didn’t even realize that they came up with a stupid acronym to spell the Spanish word ‘dignidad’ which is the actual name of the act. That right there is part of the problem – catering to third worlders. My parents came from Southern Europe the right way, never took one dime of welfare and were eztremely hard working. Now we are going to reward these people because there are too many lawns depending on it? Fair and balanced? Not from my point of view.
In order to qualify for most federal “welfare” benefits, one must be a citizen or a permanent resident. The rub is if someone is here illegally and has citizen children. Those families can get federally subsidized housing (something Project 2025 wants to change), food stamps, and Medicaid. Also, I’m pretty sure there are many NGOs with money to spend on illegal immigrants for housing, food etc. Where do they get the money? Grants from FEMA, is one place. So, there are lots of policies that need reform.
Kalifornia is happy to help all comers … the Fed’s chip in ~50% unless Trump/RFK stops the Medicaid reimbursements.
Both lawfully present and not lawfully present individuals can apply through Covered California to see if they are eligible for a health plan through Covered California or Medi-Cal. There is no “waiting period” or “five-year bar.”
https://www.coveredca.com/learning-center/information-for-immigrants/
Under section 1903(a)(7) of the Act, federal payment is available at a rate of 50 percent for amounts expended by a state “as found necessary by the Secretary for the proper and efficient administration of the state plan,” per 42 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) 433.15(b)(7).
So we’re out of the closet with project 2025 now. More lies revealed…
They also get SSI. Which confuses many. That is Supplemenal Security Income. NOT social security. All they have to say is they are asylum seekers and they get that too
Do other countries allow illegal aliens to stay?
The more awake countries in Europe are welcoming to “immigrants”; remember, all are innocent until proven guilty (which is why you should never show up in court!).
Only the woke peoples bent on national suicide because they have been taught that neighborly love applies to people on the other side of the planet, but not people in your own street. Favoritism towards your own children, family, clan, tribe … is considered the root of all evil, especially nationality.
Try immigrating or getting status in Zimbabwe or Mozambique or Cameroon.
Next to impossible, even by marriage.
And it’s obviously not that they fear being deluged by white men coming for the jobs.
In fairness, the ultra-left, and the liberal sisterhood in particular, had brainwashed generations of Europeans into thinking that not accepting anybody who shows up is racism and far-right. Stupidity is a universal condition.
All Western countries and most of the other countries of the world have signed on to treaties that allow any immigrant to stay who declares a need for political asylum. In Western Europe, many of those immigrants were refugees from the wars in Iraq and Syria. In the US, many are refugees from communist regimes in Cuba and Venezuela. If I were a Honduran, I would simply say that I was on the run from Venezuelan police for supporting the democratic opposition. Who would know the difference?
What would the RCMP do with anyone sneaking into New Brunswick from that bordering golf course in Maine?.
I say what is wrong with deporting them all. They broke the law when they jumped the fence. That goes to show their lack of honesty and morals. They arrogantly ignored all the millions of honest would be migrants by queue jumping and now expect to have special privileges to remain while those who didn’t queue jump now have to compete for the fewer legal entry permits.
There are far more deserving, honest and hard working people in the world who would like to go to live in the US than the typical border hopper. Let’s face it, people don’t illegally enter the US is they have the qualifications to come in legally. Most of those applying to come in legally have degrees, skills, work experience and the ability to speak English. That doesn’t apply to most of the illegals.
Honestly, it’s impractical to “deport them all”. Juice ain’t worth the squeeze.
Self-deportation is well underway thanks to Don/Tom.
They have to start someplace so they are going to start with the criminals, gang members, terrorist threats, and people who already have an order of removal. Then they can work on the rest. Certainly, welfare policies must guarantee that no migrants receive any welfare, whether directly from the government or from NGOs. Cut off the free stuff and many of them will leave on their own.
I think part of the problem is that the hordes coming over the border are being misled about the conditions here, and the qualifications to be granted asylum. Fleeing poverty or crime in their home country doesn’t qualify. Even if they know they don’t qualify, they’re willing to take their chances, come over the border, claim asylum, and bank on disappearing into the country. Their asylum hearing might be several years down the road. Meanwhile, they can work under the table if necessary and send money home. Providing a full asylum hearing in only 60 days (as some proposed legislation provides) would remove that incentive for them to try to game the system.
Democrats say no one is above the law, then promote favored law breakers to be held above the law. Irony is that the Democrats political fraud helped get Trump elected.
When the president is convicted of literally dozens of felonies, rule of law is dead.
“I seriously do not understand governors and mayors willing to aid rapists, drug dealers, and gang leaders, etc.”
You’re not Machiavellian enough. Letting the criminals run free keeps the populace afraid. A fearful population can be persuaded to surrender certain rights in return for safety. The result is more power for the government.
I’ve been watching this play out in Washington state. The Democratic solution to high crime is to harass the innocent.
Also, people here illegally are counted in the census and provide the basis for apportioning seats in congress and probably a good bit of federal money. That should stop. Trumps tried to make the census only count citizens but I think he was overruled in court.
Come on! We have USA-BORN AMERICANS who are HOMELESS and many of them served in our Military and worked hard and yet came upon hard times.
DO NOT THINK IT CANNOT HAPPEN TO YOU! My Wife’s Maternal Grandpa lost his job in the 1920’s. He was the Father to my Wife’s Dad. He hit the road and picked fruit, living on Boxcars in the dead of winter and lost two fingers to Frost Bite in Illinois. THAT MAN WAS TOUGH!
There are now later Generations who simply want HAND-OUTS and are not able or even WILLING to work our fields, so immigrants, who are brought up on REAL WORK (meet some real Mexicans laborers if you do not believe my words) and they put in LONG hours in the HOT MID-STATE CALIFORNIA AG AREAS. WATCH THEM WORK.
Yep, we have to stop giving free stuff to migrants whether they are here legally or illegally.
In a fat and lazy society who has the money to pay “immigrants” to clean houses, do landscaping, bus tables and cut the meat, once again, be careful what you wish for, cause you just might get it. Immigrants of all types are of no real danger to anyone except for the occasional loose screw. And when your water isnt refilled fast enough or your wife is screaming that these kids arent ready for school. a whole lot of people will change their minds. There is no threat here.
Loose screw? Tell that to Laken Rileys family. You make me sick.
Go eat a dog.
How many illegals did you take in so far?
By your logic, One guy named “Midnight” could become a career criminal and we should spend endless amounts of money we dont have to process you thru the system, keeping you in jail til you die. Meanwhile, thousands of non-Midnights are going thru life not hurting anyone.
So how many have you taken in? And why don’t we let in 500 million if 10 million is ok? Where does it end? And for you to minimize the deaths of countless victims who would be here without our broken border is beyond the pale.
You’re right, we don’t have endless amounts of money to support illegals. Do you have any idea how much money has been spent putting illegals in hotels with benefits while our homeless stay on the streets? Where do you think that money is coming from….now you are worried about the money to deport? Make it make sense.
I think NYC said it is $10,000 a month. And they get daily maid service too. It’s despicable that this should happen while veterans are homeless and people in Western NC affected by the hurricane are still sleeping in tents with winter coming on.
*Both the Republicans and Democrats, including Trump, are ok with the citizens paying to support immigrants because their corporate and business campaign contributors want low cost labor.
Sure, whatever, but they’re still here ILLEGALLY.
Scott, I agree with you to an extent and my sincere wish if that you never live to see the day that ANYONE, including Immigrant criminals, stabs your Wife or Sister or DAUGHTER in the neck and to leave them dying on a street corner (my older Brother just had that happen in Chicago where he lives with his older kids.
His first-born Daughter was injured last year by a Venezuelan Immigrant Thug, trying to steal her backpack while she was walking to her Apartment from a trade school.
She made it but now a Neck muscle no longer works right and more surgeries are required. She does not want to go to that trade school any longer (HVAC SCHOOL).
Life is a risk, David. The smartest & safest choice for you is to stay in your house and sit in the corner crying and worrying about life 24/7. That way youll never be hurt.
Right, its Laken’s fault for going for a run. If only we had an actual border she’s alive. But its her fault for not “staying inside.”
Their pronoun is ‘victim’
Your loved ones are far more likely to be killed by cars than immigrants. Gonna go on an anti car crusade?
Joke post of the day.
I’m fine with LEGAL immigrants doing all sorts menial types of jobs. In do time, a lot of that work is going to get automated.
What’s needed, to start, is to cut deeply into the residential construction & repair industry.
These are well-paying jobs that a lot of able-bodied young men and some women could do. We can also stop acting like so many people need to go to college. We can provide retraining & job relocation services, among other things.
Government is turning a blind eye to allowing builders & contractors favor & hire primarily illegal immigrants. This needs to stop ASAP! Again, it’s not a lack of labor issue or even a pay issue, it’s a policy issue that’s allowing illegals to be hired in preference over American citizens. This won’t happen over night, but it needs to happen.
There’s hundreds of billions in taxes being lost just in residential construction & related services.
You want to stop it ASAP all the voters need to stop voting for the Republicans and Democrats because they allow those workers because their business campaign donors tell them to so they can get low cost labor.
So it always gets down to who will pick the cotton on the cheap?
Trump’s deportation vow alarms Texas construction industryhttps://www.npr.org/2024/11/23/g-s1-35465/trump-deportation-migrants-immigrants-texas-construction-industry-border-security
LOL NPR
thus deporting will have no determinantal impact at all
There is a benefit and detriment in everything. For each action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
I used to listen to NPR when it was a little more balanced. It’s a leftists propaganda mouthpiece now, so even if there were a newsworthy piece on it, I’m dubious of it.
Cry me a river for all those poor developers who have to pay more in labor to attract legal workers…
Coming from a roofer when I was working through college.
Probably wont happen because the Republican and Democrat politicians tell the home builders if you give me money to get elected, I wont stand in the way of your low cost immigrant labor.
To stay on the farm, more and more farmers are working second and even third jobs
https://www.kcur.org/news/2024-11-11/farmers-second-jobs
Seems like anti-free market mega farms are the problem, not the 10% labor costs on farms with illegals:
The 10,000,000 PLUS illegal invaders that have criminally entered our country since Biden told them to “SURGE THE BORDER” can all be deported and the businesses of this country won’t miss a beat.
Except of course for the NGO’s & Cartels that profit from their being here.
The vast majority of those 10 million are a huge drain on this country’s federal, state and local welfare safety nets.
Approx. 10 million illegals have come in under the Biden/Harris administration. Think back to 5 years ago. Was the economy in peril because we didn’t have an extra 10 million people? Of course not. So obviously we can deport 5-10 million illegals. After a month or two most wouldn’t be missed.
Nope, and everything including housing was cheaper. Supply and demand.
Language matters. Calling illegal immigrants, many flown there on taxpayer dollars, Illinoisans is an insult to Illinoisans an no more accurate than any more than a random passenger flying through O’Hare being an Illinoisan.
Otherwise the article continues to be the desire of the poster to find some way to retain the status quo. I get it, it sounds reasonable. But it’s not what those 57% want and that poll number is low. People BECOME unreasonable AFTER other people WERE ALREADY unreasonable over the last 4 years of a sponsored invasion.
This will be messy because the Democrats intentionally made it so. To think it will be neat, tidy, humane, compassionate, orderly despite it’s deliberately chaotic introduction to the American public withouth their foreknowledge is as silly as the act itself.
Frankly, other than the notion of 83 genders vs 2, the intentional willful sponsorship of an all-out invasion at the Southern border was the issue that will never have me return to my former political party. They cannot be trusted for I’ve seen what happens when they are in charge. And lest someone point out the Republicans are no better, the Trump Administration is not the George W Bush Republican party–just look who they endorse. I hope we get through these actions in a measured, transparent way.
Things gonna get more interesting. Markets sanguine about it all–this, the change in Administration, inflation, interest rates, Ukraine, Israel, unemployment, China, tariffs, the lot. The markets no longer price in negative outcomes or risk. Sure you see a few individual issues get hit after bad news but it’s rare and pales in comparison to the runup in their shares in advance of the moment of bad news. The inequality perniciously persists and entrenched and enriched policy makers had better start paying attention to the unrest and angst boiling under the surface. November 5th was just their first way of saying “no mas”. Remember, bubbles are nice to/for those in the bubble. We’ll see how this plays out. We’re gonna see a lot of crazy things with DOGE exposing more nonsense daily.
Democrats own this. Their fault. Deliberate. Mayorkas and Biden belong in jail for this.
save a jail room for Bush for he is responsible for 9/11
Nowhere in any discussion of this topic are enhanced penalties for the employers who hire illegals? Why?
yep I see them stand at certain corners here in Dallas and who offers them work… ?you guessed it
Arrest those hiring the illegals on the street corners in Dallas just as you would arrest John’s cruising the street corners for pros. Heavy fines, felony convictions, prison time as permitted under existing laws for hiring illegals. If places like Tysons are raided and their managers indicted and the average Joe hiring an illegal to do yard work both become scared of hiring illegals then 90% of illegals will have no job/income and will self deport.
Because that would be a real solution instead of a salon discussion topic.
For fifty years enforcing existing law has remained elusive?
Illegals do not come to starve.
Any employer who does not vet with E-Verify, or anybody who in any way helps & abets illegals, jail time, more if they have made themselves accessories to crimes. Don’t need to change anything — just enforce existing law.
Because these are the people that pay the bot farms.
The Dignity Act Bill sounds reasonable; however, $35B isn’t going to be enough to upgrade the border security and deport the close to 3M criminals & illegals who have deportation notices. And to be clear, it’s not a manpower issue. It’s policy, technology, quick reaction and the immediate deportation of anyone captured.
“It also reforms the U.S. asylum system to make a final determination of asylum eligibility for most asylum seekers at the border within 60 days.”
I would want to see the language that talks about what qualifies as asylum. Narrowing this down from what’s allowed today would be a critical part of any immigration reform. In addition, I’m all for speeding up the asylum process, but the widespread abuse of it needs to be ended. The only way a person should be granted asylum is to register at a legal port of entry or foreign embassy & then wait in your home country for the decision. 60 days for real asylum claims is reasonable.
The whole point of immigration reform is to get to the point where nearly 100% of the people who immigrate to the US do it legally and there’s a formula that determines the number each year. Tackling the abuse in H1-B visas and the like should be a priority as well.
Finally, I would imagine some sort of final agreement on DACA would need to be included.
I think the standard for a successful asylum claim is proof by “clear and convincing evidence” that you would be persecuted by your government in your home country. Not fleeing poverty, not crime. Not wanting a better life or a piece of the American Dream. Persecution by your government. That is why over 90% of people lose their asylum hearing when they finally go to one. But at the border, the first screening standard is very loose. It is “credible fear.” So these people are coached by NGOs about what they have to say to border patrol, and they get released into the country with a full hearing date a few years into the future. Having their full hearing within 60 days would prevent a lot of abuse. Also, we should also require that they apply for asylum in the “first safe country” that they cross to, and prove that they were denied.
I forgot torture. A reasonable fear of torture qualifies you for asylum.
Legal immigrants are from Asia (India, China, Vietnam, Phillipines, South Korea) and Latin America, in terms of numbers. Nowhere in the top 10 countries is any European country to be found. That’s racist!
And those legal migrants on average have far more skills and pay far more taxes than the typical illegal. Better yet also commit fewer crimes than the typical US citizen in part because they have far more to lose than the typical US citizen. The illegals however can’t lose their green card as they have none and they don’t care if they are banned from the US if they commit crimes as it is easy for them to repeatedly just hop the border as has been shown by the number of serious violent /sexual crimes committed by illegals deported multiple times.
No. They’re full of Turks and Maghrebi.
Many urban areas are already >50% immigrant stock.