Trump has a mandate in two areas, inflation and the border. This post deals with the latter. 
Five Big Immigration Reform Roadblocks
The Wall Street Journal discusses The Five Biggest Roadblocks to Trump’s Immigration Agenda
1: Immigration-court backlog
Most immigrants in the U.S. illegally can’t be deported without a hearing in immigration court, where they have a chance to ask for asylum or another avenue to stay in the country. But immigration courts are so backlogged that hearings are being scheduled as far into the future as 2029.Outside experts estimate that Congress would have to hire about 5,000 immigration judges—the system now has roughly 500—to efficiently sort through all existing cases as well as new ones.
2: Lack of ICE agents
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency is responsible for arresting immigrants in the country illegally, detaining them and deporting them. It has roughly 6,000 agents on staff and funding to jail about 40,000 immigrants at any given time. It doesn’t have nearly the fleet of planes needed to deport millions of migrants back to their home countries.
Republicans are hoping to use a budget process known as reconciliation to pass billions of dollars in spending for ICE as well as Trump’s border wall without needing Democratic votes. Even if the money comes, it will take the government time to recruit and train new ICE officers and make new detention space available.
Trump plans to declare a national emergency soon after taking office, which could unlock additional money taken out of the Pentagon’s budget for projects such as border-wall construction. Members of the National Guard or other troops won’t be allowed to perform immigration arrests, however; at best, they could be used for ancillary tasks, such as transporting immigrants. Trump’s designated border czar, Tom Homan, told The Wall Street Journal that military bases and planes could aid a deportation campaign.
3: Blue-state resistance
Immigrants living in the country illegally are often concentrated in big, Democratic-led cities such as New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and Denver.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson said in a CNN interview recently that he wouldn’t be cooperating with federal immigration authorities. “The law is very clear,” he said. “Local police officers are not federal agents.”
Denver Mayor Mike Johnston has expressed support for limited deportations for migrants who crossed illegally and have committed violent crimes, but he is strongly opposed to mass deportations. Johnston has said he was prepared to go to jail to resist Trump’s plan and encouraged others to protest.
While it is still possible to arrest people living illegally in blue-led cities, it is far more challenging without local cooperation. Trump’s immigration advisers, including Homan, have publicly discussed cutting off federal grants and even pursuing criminal prosecutions of the officials enforcing sanctuary policies.
4: Lack of cooperation from foreign countries
Among the reasons President Dwight Eisenhower was able to pull off a broad deportation program in the 1950s, which Trump cites as a model, was that everyone he sought to send out of the country was from Mexico. But over the past few years, immigrants crossing into the U.S. illegally have come from record numbers of countries, such as China, India, Mauritania and Uzbekistan.
Many of the newly arrived migrants in the U.S. come from countries where diplomatic relations are frayed or even nonexistent, such as Venezuela.
U.S. immigration law allows immigrants to be deported to third countries if their home countries won’t take them back, but getting a third country to agree is rare. Trump has pledged to strike safe-country agreements with countries in Latin America and even Africa. He managed to reach an agreement with Guatemala during his first term to send asylum seekers from elsewhere in Central America there, but the agreement was short-lived. Only about a thousand people actually were sent.
5: Legal challenges
Many of the changes proposed by Trump and Stephen Miller, his incoming deputy chief of staff and longtime immigration adviser, can only be done through Congress—or perhaps even through a constitutional amendment.
A core issue they have attempted to surmount is that under existing law, migrants can legally ask for asylum even if they have entered the country unlawfully. Trump, and even Biden, sought to get around this by making asylum seekers live in Mexico while their claims were being weighed, jailing them, or coming up with new rules to make asylum seekers otherwise ineligible. As long as the law remains on the books, however, the government will struggle to find legal ways to narrow that right.
Trump’s pledge to end birthright citizenship, the practice of designating any baby born in the U.S. as a citizen no matter their parents’ immigration status, likely can’t be changed by Congress—let alone the executive order Trump has proposed. Most legal scholars say it would require amending the Constitution, a rare and difficult process.
Economic Insanity of Deport them All
There is no national mandate to deport 15 million people. Besides, the cost of doing so would be enormous.
There would be an immediate labor shortage on construction jobs, hotel cleaning, agriculture, and restaurants.
Only One Sensible Approach
The only sensible approach will require cooperation from Democrats.
Republicans might be able to get funding issues passed with perfect cooperation from Republicans, but that would not fix legal challenges to “Remain in Mexico”. Nor does it fix Blue State Resistance.
Ending birthright citizenship is not going to happen so it would be stupid to waste any political energy on the idea.
Path to a Deal
The way to a deal involves giving legal status for dreamers and mixed families in return for more funding for a wall, more judges, and ICE agents.
Throw in some additional funds for cooperation for cooperation from cities and states and you will have a solid deal.
Republicans could ram through some funding issues, but not remain in Mexico because it is a non-budget item subject to filibuster.
Deport them all would lead to legal challenges and blue state resistance. It would also increase the costs.
Also, Trump could easily lose four Senators if he were to opt for the economically foolish deport them all scheme.
Finally, there is overwhelming public support for getting rid of the criminals.
What’s a Good Deal?
I discussed the essentials of a good deal in The New Home for Hispanics is the Republican Party
Florida Congresswoman Maria Salazar, a Republican, has some great ideas.
Her “Dignity Act” would allocate $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.
Start there, seal the border, reinstitute remain in Mexico, and move on.
As long as the sanctuary cities and states understand the only agenda is deportation of criminals, most of the mayors and governors will go along.
For more details and an excellent interview of Salazar, please click on the above link.
Why is everyone calling them illegals? They were let in and released with an asylum hearing date many years in the future. They were givin permission to work, free housing, medical care, cash assistance, etc.
Many are here on TPS and are not leaving. Ever. They are dropping anchor babies as fast as they can.
A few hundred thousand who have orders to leave after failing their asylum hearing and those who have committed violent crimes may be caught and deported. But, it will be expensive, time consuming, and difficult to track them down.
In reality little will be done. The wall doesn’t matter anymore. The tipping point for demographic replacement was reached years ago. Few Americans have been paying attention and now it’s game over.
In about a decade, legacy Americans of European background will be a distinct minority. Their fertility rate has been abysmal for decades. Really, only the criminal underclass has an above replacement fertility rate.
The USA will slowly morph into zones of conflicted ethnic groups. Like Tudor England or Yugoslavia. Once people realize the USA is a one party state run by the leftists, the break up will endsue.
As an insolvent, majority Hispanic nation, the future is bleak.
These people are here to stay and the USA is finished. They are non-western and will vote in socialism. They do not have the habits, culture and Anglo stamp that created the success this country has known. Americans innovate, China and India copy us. The Europeans regulate. But if you replace the majority of the population with non-western people you wind up in a hellhole nation.
My answer is to move to Europe within 2 years. All of the continent is turning right. Hard right. They will not hesitate to stop the replacement underway there. They have experience with beating back the barbarian invaders. They will do it one more time.
Here, the future is a combo of Brazil and Mexico. Few can even grasp the reality of the violent, corrupt third world shithole this place will become within 20 or 30 years.
Seriously?
Actually, yes we (the U.S.) can certainly survive w/o the 10 million known invaders and the 2-3 million “gottaways” that have rushed our borders since FJBiden came in like an F-ing plague in January of 2021.
Those new “folks” contribute nothing and cost 10’s of billions.
They also drove up housing costs for low-income folks and added to the crime and drug problems.
And, here in Denver, bankrupted the Denver Health System by overwhelming the emergency rooms with 20,000 visits,
Yes, that’s 20,000. Not 2,000.
Get real dude..
I’m not a lawyer, but you are certainly not being creative at all when it comes to disincentivizing these drifters. For example, most would deport themselves if:
Just off the top, no EBT cards. Instead require them to show up at soup kitchens for their food. Cheaper for us, very inconvenient for them.
Second, only provide mass shelters for housing. No hotel rooms or private housing.
If you make living conditions here worse than where they came from, they will self deport.
Well said, BL. To me, your premise is “common sense,” but that thesis seems to have disappeared.
Auto loan delinquency rates are at their highest in more than a decade, per WSJ
Try selling those long idled, old and used battery powered cars, for anywhere close to what you paid, and you will get Zero Bids!
Also the Cost on new ones is coming way down, due to “Much Newer” Technology, “Much Less Costly” Manufacturing Labor, and a massive “Decline” in interest. Forget all the rest, like “Infrastructure” …
News flash: Cars depreciate rapidly! Why are you attacking your president?
Trump doesn’t see obstacles. That’s why he got elected two times. Buh bye criminal aliens.
… and helllooooo Indian tech workers!
The demorats don’t care for giving dreamers legal status. For demorats it’s the loss of a carrot and likely a loss of a vote.
Cattle prices all time high today. Inflation ending on a high note as the Biden Depression continues
If you love this, you’ll go wild when the tariffs hit!
What is your level of confidence this isn’t an “Art of the Deal” maneuver?
Let’s see trump’s the great unifier going to fix everything the great disrupter Ukraine war peace in 24 hours Israel to win in the Arab world.China to brought to heel Canada annexed first thing in the morning Mexico soft invasion Europe the list goes on and on, the shitshow is unstoppable. Wait migrants.
Well can we start somewhere? Just who was going to put us in the right direction???????
This blog needs a rule that you need to be older than 12 to post here
George, enjoyed reading through/interpreting your note. I can derive several very different meanings, depending on punctuational placement. Appreciate the “wit challenge.”
How long do you think we going to continue funding this?
Ukrainian Army Desertion Rates Surge Amid Catastrophic Personnel Losses: Most Conscripts Just Trying to Escape
Highlighting the extent of the issue, officers informed CNN that the majority of conscripted personnel were trying to escape. “They go to their positions once, and if they survive, they never come back. They either abandon their positions, or refuse to go into battle, or try to find a way to leave the army,” one officer stated. Ukrainian commanders previously informed the Financial Times that conscripts on some areas of the front suffered 50 to 70 percent casualty rates within days of their first rotations. “When the new guys get to the position, a lot of them run away at the first shell explosion,” one deputy commander fighting near Ugledar in the disputed Donetsk region stated.
https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/ukrainian-army-desertion-surge-catastrophic-losses
Point 1- This was democrats plan all along
Point 2- Hire more ICE agents
Point 3- This is where Trump Admin needs to just go after convicted criminals first, along with those pending a court appearance that have skipped it
Point 4- what else is new. At least points 2 & 3 should at least so down from convicted criminals in another country to try to test our border patrols now
Point 5- True. But Trump is not going to try to deport them all even he knows that is impossible…..Start with the criminals and gang members. I want to see the Democrat governor that stands in the way of a rapist, murderer and or gang member who is here illegally and sucking up welfare. I want to see that. I dare you.
I nominate Mish for Border Czar and Budget Caesar.
Distraction the plate of the day, and this group enjoys it The dollar going up like foam does anybody care or understand?
So nothing changes , and Israel owns Trump. Why even have “elections” anymore ?
Why bother ?
Who owns Biden? Asking for a friend. A close friend.
Lol, everyone else owns Trump hey?
Gee, a politician who’s pulling back from campaign promises even before taking office? Shocking. On a 1 – 10, I rated Trump a “3.” If it ain’t what’s good for Donny, he’s not supporting it (name your issue). He’s since sunk to a “2.” I’ve never thought well of that man. Vivek: “7,” Vance “8,” RFK, Jr “9.” Musk? The jury’s still out. “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
I wish I could say I’m optimistic about the future of this formerly great nation.
Sounds like TDS. Don’t worry, I’m sure pharma will have a RNA vaccine for it soon.
The A.C.A.B concert at Zepp Kuala Lumpur was temporarily paused last night after the drummer collapsed, reportedly due to a suspected heart attack, Berita Harian reported.
Watch https://www.nst.com.my/lifestyle/groove/2024/12/1151493/showbiz-acab-drummer-collapses-stage-watch#google_vignette
The issue is: LAWS cannot be enforced without more MONEY PRINTING. MORE DEBT. MORE MORE MORE.
Changing things and doing projects has costs, yeah. Rights are costly and complex, always were. One could go a “cheaper” Stalin route, but that is a different set of costs. Costs-benefits for all were very different mid 20th-century: lots of opportunities and gaps open, mass fatalities too. Leadership is setting a path and getting people onboard to share and eat costs. “Make it all simpler” in a way is something leadership does, but most often it is a fantasy, IMO. But bumper sticker simplicity sure does sell, to certain populations.
Trump Has Promised to Build More Ships. He May Deport the Workers Who Help Make Themhttps://www.propublica.org/article/us-navy-shipbuilding-donald-trump
Was reading the other day that China has 250% the ship building capacity of the U.S. Though not in tonnage, China’s navy has more ships than the U.S.
Yes, not to mention the illegal immigrants building our new nuclear power plants.
Trump and all presidents already have the power to enforce the laws to fine and imprison anyone employing or harbouring illegals. 10 years in the slammer. That will make many of them self deport when they can’t find work or housing.
The US already has the worlds highest prison population at 1.9 million. So detaining a few hundred thousand illegals at a time in minimum security tent camps isn’t expensive as they await deportation isn’t hard. Also give free one way tickets and a cash subsidy to those who voluntarily agree to leave as a carrot to leave and for those who want to clog up the immigration court system make the stick a permanent black mark against them when they are deported so that the US and other western nations will never permit them entry for life.
Get a better vetting system to permit a few million guest workers to enter each year on 6 month or 12 month visas to meet any labour shortages and have the requirement that their employers must pay a hefty fee to the government for each worker. That way they can’t undercut US workers with cheap labour and will only employ such guest workers for genuine labour shortages.
As for anchor babies has that been ruled on by the Supremes?
And let blue zoos keep playing stupid games with sanctuary and let them pay for it with their own money and borrowings. Then don’t bail them out when they go broke or help them when they have race riots of poor locals against subsidised illegals.
Your making way too much sense!!!
The only way to stop massive immigration (legal or illegal) is by implementing a depression with high levels of unemployment (in excess of 10%). Given the ramshackle structure of USA’s government and private financing, that’s certainly possible. You tell me if the cure if worse than the disease.
The far majority of these people don’t work. They immediately go on welfare. If they do manage to get an illegal job, the net cost to society is still largely positive.
Therefore a depression wouldn’t stop them. Most lived in far worse conditions under economic depressions where they came from. Here at least they will be fed by you and me, depression or not.
What happens if there is a depression then all this legal BS goes out the window.
If there is a depression, why are you assuming we will have funding for mass deportations?
A depression changes nothing, and why would it? This is a “Federal Issue” last I checked, we are not asking to hire anybody or increase expenses in any way. In fact the result will be an actual “Decrease in Expenses”Don’t we still pay Our Military? I don’t see a point of logic here?
Print.. 24/7/365.
Most Americans would not object.
Then we are all f*cked with 10,000,000 extra mouths to feed. Then again, the deportation process will create tons of jobs.
Stop all social services and housing for illegals and most of them will self deport.
should your benefits be also stopped?
Not if he earned them as part of his employment contract, troll.
You people always side with a logical assumption and most likely you are on the dole. Another assumption, did your work accrued benefits ? fact I don’t know, and somehow you all know about what benefits emigrated folks received. Stop regurgitating gossip! they’re used as a political tool and that is a fact.
illogical
We’ll take care of these fat old people on welfare… there’s this new miracle food called Soylent Green….
IF he is illegal, then yes.
Yes, I’m good with leaving the snow unplowed.
Add a new plan possibly being discussed, where if you are “caught illegally in Our Country” then you are deported immediately and printed and photographed. You will then be banned for 10 Years. If found doing it again, you’re banned for life.
I would add on:If found doing it again, a life sentence of hard labor, and ALL Family Found will also be considered for deportation!! Anyone found helping, gets the same sentence!
It will stop!
– So Trump has a mandate, from the large majority of the Country, to address the issues at the border.
> Correct
– The Wall Street Journal discusses what “They State” is “Roadblock” #1: “That Most” immigrants in the U.S. illegally can’t be deported without a hearing in immigration court, where they have a chance to ask for asylum or another avenue to stay in the country. But immigration courts are so backlogged that hearings are being scheduled as far into the future as 2029.
> Seriously? No Way through that? Not 1,2, or… Oh NOT ANY? Not UNTIL 2029? Your Delusional!
– The Wall Street Journal discusses what “They State” is “Roadblock” #2: The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency is responsible for arresting immigrants in the country illegally, detaining them and deporting them. It has roughly 6,000 agents on staff and funding to jail about 40,000 immigrants at any given time. It doesn’t have nearly the fleet of planes needed to deport millions of migrants back to their home countries.
> We can’t use Planes, Trains, and Automobiles? We can’t use OUR MILITARY? That’s Odd? Nothing huh? Just stuck until 2029;@ the earliest… Hmm… Odd?
– The Wall Street Journal discusses what “They State” is Roadblock” #3: Immigrants living in the country illegally are often concentrated in big, Democratic-led cities such as New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and Denver.
> Yes, and Illegally according to Our Country’s Laws. The Point???
– The Wall Street Journal discusses what “They State” is Roadblock” #4: No Cooperation, Among the reasons President Dwight Eisenhower was able to pull off a broad deportation program in the 1950s, which Trump cites as a model, was that everyone he sought to send out of the country was from Mexico. But over the past few years, immigrants crossing into the U.S. illegally have come from record numbers of countries, such as China, India, Mauritania and Uzbekistan.
> Seriously? We shall see about that, but why do I have a feeling that’s 100% Incorrect? Hmm… Odd?
– The Wall Street Journal discusses what “They State” is Roadblock” #5: Legal Challenges say Many of the changes proposed by Trump and Stephen Miller, his incoming deputy chief of staff and longtime immigration adviser, can only be done through Congress—or perhaps even through a constitutional amendment.
> Seriously? We shall see about that, but why do I have a feeling that’s 100% Incorrect? Hmm… Odd?
– Economic Insanity of Deport them All
> I have not seen that yet, written down on Federal Paper, and signed off on, and also Approved? Has Anybody? Imaginations and emotions can often control thoughts to a small degree…
– There is no national mandate to deport 15 million people. Besides, the cost of doing so would be enormous.
> No, but there is a “National Mandate” to resolve “Illegal Immigration” & “The Open Borders” Cost aside, as unknown.
– There would be an immediate labor shortage on construction jobs, hotel cleaning, agriculture, and restaurants.
> Why? Literally Millions are looking for and seeking “Work” and Immediately would be best.
– Only One Sensible Approach, and The only sensible approach will require cooperation from Democrats.
> Wow! Only 1!! NOT 2 or 3, and NOT EVEN 4, 5, 6, or 7 either. In fact, it appears that would be “Impossible” if you can possibly agree.
– Republicans might be able to get funding issues passed with perfect cooperation from Republicans, but that would not fix legal challenges to “Remain in Mexico”. Nor does it fix Blue State Resistance.
> The Country & The Mandate by said Country, “Might Be Able To” get Funding. BUT that won’t solve “Democrat States Resistance” SEEMS ODD as they are the reason we are here in the first place? They obviously totally misunderstand “Country Vs. State” but this will be well explained to them as they are perp walked. Unless of course, if Harris/Biden decide to “Pardon The Entire Democrat Party”
– Ending birthright citizenship is not going to happen so it would be stupid to waste any political energy on the idea.
> That doesn’t mean that it shouldn’t either, so who knows? Toss it in the ring and we shall see I suppose?
– Path to a Deal?
> sure! Just Like the Republicans have received the past “4 Years” from a broken Party, and broken Man?
– What’s a Good Deal?
> The Country will soon see, and it better be enough to fulfill there overwhelming mandate, or it will still occur, but take a bit longer, and be a lot more painful for “Our Country” and we shall see who gets the blame for THAT!!!
Our government has violated the contract with the citizens. Known as the Constitution.
Well 90% of the citizens have had their contract revoked.
The rich will, and must be served at the lowest possible cost.
Chant U.S.A. all you want at sporting events. Talk is cheap and the rich will be served. So serve your master and embrace the new slavery known as debt.
Debt is how you all tell me how much you love me.
Or you could simply shoot them on the spot.
It’s unfortunate that legal technicalities are extended to non-legal aliens who have chosen to take the risks of entering the United States. They come knowing the defenses against them are lax. They come knowing that employers will illegally hire them.
How’s this for an idea? Anyone caught hiring a person without proper documentation faces the death penalty. Without jobs, there is no way they’re going to be coming here. Cut them off at the source.
You can read more of my writings by going to: dark. sport . blog — on the net!
Not sure I would go as high as death penalty, but it’s time we had real consequences that hurt far worse than a mere slap on the wrist.
Performers Collapsing on Camera or Stage in 2022-2023
https://www.bitchute.com/video/J198HBz0PDdg/
Anyone still believe the Covid Vaccines are Safe?
hahahahaha
Trump and I took them, and we’re fine….
Hahahaha… I betcha all those who have dropped or been maimed… thought exactly the same thing….
Till they dropped.
Tick Tock….
“Suddenly, those trusted institutions seemed to be acting in concert to generate fear, promote obedience, discourage critical thinking, and herd seven billion people to march to a single tune, culminating in mass public health experiments with a novel, shoddily tested and improperly licensed technology so risky that manufacturers refused to produce it unless every government on Earth shielded them from liability”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health
Only the “Injected” Citizens have to deal with the fallout. All the “Medical Industry” and “Anyone Associated” with them, have been given “Pardons” for the most part?
Harris / Biden, told them ALL, to try their best to do a better job next time, but we will give you a pass “This Time” and maybe even the next few, but at some point we may not be here to “Help You Out” (wink,wink…), so be careful out there and CYA like we do, but we have pardons for this crap, and you don’t! Good Luck!
Are you seriously cheering the death of your president and First Lady?
FDA lab uncovers excess DNA contamination in COVID-19 vaccines
Study conducted at FDA lab found residual DNA levels exceeded safety limits by 6 to 470 times.
Now that DNA contamination of the mRNA vaccines has been verified in the laboratory of the FDA and published in a peer-reviewed journal, it becomes difficult to ignore.
Addressing the contamination issue would likely require revising manufacturing processes to remove residual DNA, which Prof Petrovsky explained would be impractical.
“The only practical solution is for regulators to require manufacturers to demonstrate that the plasmid DNA levels in the vaccines are safe,” Prof Petrovsky stated.
“Otherwise, efforts to remove the residual DNA would result in an entirely new vaccine, requiring new trials and effectively restarting the process with an untested product.”
Now the onus is on regulators to provide clarity and take action to restore confidence in their oversight. Anything less risks deepening the scepticism of the public.
https://blog.maryannedemasi.com/p/exclusive-fda-lab-uncovers-excess?
“Otherwise, efforts to remove the residual DNA would result in an entirely new vaccine, requiring new trials and effectively restarting the process with an untested product.”
Well obviously this is exactly what they are hoping and wishing for! NO Penalties, and Boatloads of Money!
They are not thinking “Safe & Secure” but rather “Money$, Money$, Money$”
So did Biden and Kamala, so what’s there excuse?
Musk was knocked down hard by his third shot. Wall Street analyst Ed Dowd says there are some 4.8 million people on disability because of the shots.
I am immortal and untouchable… an Ubermensch of the highest order. How dare you suggest I have any weakness!
And they want to jab the Children with this crap!
Success comes in cans.
Move the border to the Panama Canal, very easy to control. Begin negociations with the governors of the Mexican states to become US states. Negotiate with the Cental American countries to become US states.
Just cut off all funding of any support for rent phones food EBT cards
until they show up at the train stations
And how do you propose getting that through Congress?
Was that ever even specifically legislated or was it just directed by he Biden Administration using some broad brush authority? Because if it’s the latter, I would think it could be ended by EO.
people have been screaming about “obama phones” for decades now. same old slogans focused on statistically irrelevant spending programs. If you want people to stop coming to the us looking for opportunity the solution is simple: crash the economy. Immigration cratered during the great recession.
Executive order just like Biden did.
Hell, FJ Biden ignored the Supreme Court and wiped away Ten$ of Billion$ of Student Loan debt and loaded it onto the taxpayers!
Did anyone in power do anything to protect Americans from the consequences of that?
DJT should do the same damn thing.
Whenever it serves our purpose..
I’m tired of this “pamper the illegals because the law says this or that.”
At this stage of the game, I’ve seen too many friends hurt physically (hit and run car accidents, robberies, drugs) to give a damn about the letter of the law.
Most Americans would cheer..
What are you and the commenters here talking about? Federal benefits for illegal immigrants have been debunked so many times: https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R47318
While I agree that they ALL need to go, we can’t exactly allow 30 million illegals in our country to be begging for food along our highways. But there are other ways to accomplish the same thing.
For starters, instead of EBT cards, require them to show up at soup kitchens for their food. Cheaper for us, much more inconvenient for them.
Second, no free housing other than mass shelters. Again, cheaper than housing them in public housing or hotel rooms. A huge disincentive for them.
How many illegals have committed a crime in the US other than being undocumented? Are there any informed sources?
Every one who entered illegally.
Now in their defense the useless husk occupying the White House has aided and abetted them but all the laws remain on the books!
Texas is the only state that keeps records of immigration status when someone interacts with the justice system (ie, gets arrested). CATO studied that (you can read it here: https://www.cato.org/policy-analysis/illegal-immigrant-murderers-texas-2013-2022) and found:
“Although immigrants do occasionally commit heinous crimes, they are less likely to do so than native-born Americans. This is no comfort to the victims and their loved ones, but it is information that policymakers can use to craft better immigration and anti-crime policies.”
Thanks for the comment and link; real research and facts are important. But you’ve been here long enough to know the cult doesn’t care
You must be one of those people living in lah-lah land divorced from reality.
The fact that some illegal aliens committ crimes up to including murder is a fact.
The other fact that people like you can’t get through your fat heads is that none of those crimes would have been committed if those people hadn’t been in the US illegally on the first place.
illegals are statistically far less likely to commit a violent crime in the us per capita vs natives. this is beyond dispute. Hating illegals is not really rational.
According to the US gov, over 660,000 of the Precious Newcomers since Jan 21, 2021 are CRIMINALS IN THEIR HOME COUNTRIES.
CRIMINALS INCLUDE OVER 13,000 MURDERERS..
Raise interest rates, the economy goes into recession/depression, and most Will leave. That May happen anyway, unitended consequences.
Everyone should stay mad at the Central Americans, so they don’t notice when we sneak in a bunch of Indians to take the jobs Americans want.
Weak, dude, very weak.
Don’t quit your day job for a career in comedy.
You quit your day job.
Best and brightest no matter where they are from.
So long as they aren’t retarded Americans. Too expensive.
You had me at “sensible approach”…
crack a smile and shake my head in disbelief.
Purely a simple election strategy: blame it all on immigrants…
it does not matter what is actually true.
Case in point:
“Trump falsely links New Orleans terror attack to migrants after erroneous Fox News report”
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/02/media/trump-new-orleans-attack-migrants-fox-news/index.html
The narrative appears to be more important than the facts.
They’re eating the cats and dogs.
Kind of like how the Legacy Media always rushes to blame the white guy after a mass shooting!
And yet there are an estimated 1000 Al Qaeda members in the US. Not all are sleeper cell suicide bombers but most of them will provide safe houses, trucks, money, explosives to those who will do the killing. That 1000 is a government estimate but ex CIA operatives believe that number is likely too low as they can only guess how many of the processed illegals are terrorists or how many of those who were never detected are terrorists. Easy to cross a border when there is no wall, not enough border patrol guards and those guards are busy trying to process thousands of detainees every day.
The videos from 2021 until now show vast hordes of grown men crossing the border into the United States. Swarms and swarms and swarms of men, endless waves of men crossing roads and railways, long tails of men weaving through the underbrush and between trees. Not families. Not children. Not women. Fully grown men, many tattooed with gang signs.
Are we to understand hotels and restaurants and farms cannot make due if these idle hordes of men lolling around NYC streets are no longer there?
Are we to understand that America was somehow crippled before 2021, that nothing was being done because colossal armies of men were absent, and SUDDENLY everything is swell ever since 2021?
We’ve seen every kind of chart showing the gigantic explosion of illegal immigration into the United States from 2021 compared to twenty years before. Nowhere on those charts does it say America was dying from acute labor shortages all those years, thus DEMANDING whole armies of invaders into the country.
Prove otherwise.
Excellent points. Great post.
And it was hilarious for the first 3 years, NOBODY wanted to point the finger at illegals for causing some of the increase in inflation. Fortunately, that seems to have changed about six months ago, when various SMEs started talking about how this was a real issue within inflation, especially in terms of housing / rent.
This is F-ing ridiculous. People can enter illegally, but then you can’t get rid of them? Meanwhile people who want to immigrate legally have to wait years to enter? The legal system is fundamentally broken; Burn it to the ground and restart with The Constitution as the only law of the land.
When the constitution was written, anyone could show up in the United States and stay forever anytime they wanted.
So, current law is actually a lot more restrictive. Might want to consider that before getting rid of all immigration law.
OK. Constitution plus one new amendment concerning the concept of borders and legal entry.
Thanks again for another cogent response.
Unfortunately, on the Internet, everyone thinks they are a constitutional attorney, immigration legislator, trained economist, etc.
Most of these ‘stances’ can easily be debunked with a simple Google search, but a lot of people don’t want to do that because they are lazy or the actual results don’t match their political POV.
Case in point here, where the solution to your response is just to add a new amendment to the Constitution. Easy, peasy!
Illegal immigrants are not here legally, therefore they have no rights, period! They are invaders, not guests! The second an immigration court determines they are illegal, they should be deported on the spot! That’s not what happens now!
This makes sense. Once everyone gets their court date and is found to be in violation of the immigration laws, they should leave or be forced to leave.
But the cost of this is what Mish has been writing about. You do realize federal immigration courts are located throughout the US? So at every such hearing, ICE agents with vans/planes will have to be at the ready in case that person is found to be deportable. Then load them up, arrange crossing/landing permission at the origin of country on the fly, and send them packing home.
It is theoretically possible and certainly what many people want. But please do not complain later about your purchase costs (due to labor shortages) or taxes (due to massive ICE spending increases) when they go up. You gotta pay to play (or to have a legitimate opinion). Otherwise, stew in your own basement quietly
“But please do not complain later about your purchase costs”
Don’t worry, I won’t. The cost of shelter and food would immediately drop, and inflation would likely fall. Throwing out 2 to 3 million *illegal* immigrants who are consuming more government fiscal resources and services than they contribute is just what the doctor ordered. A return to fairer elections is just a bonus.
From what I’ve read, there are at least 2.5M illegals who’ve committed crimes or have deportation orders. That’s a lot of illegals to go after year one.
#1 – At least for a year or more, this isn’t an issue given the number mentioned above.
#2 – On day-one, Brandon ice’d ICE into desk jobs. Well, on Trump’s day-one this will be reversed. Like I said the other day, securing the border went from $30-40B in 2017 to at least $200-300B today. I would expect Trump to ask for at least $100B in this FY. Some of that will go to hire more ICE agents.
I fully expect Trump under his national emergency to enlist NG troops to perform logistics like fly planes, provide security on guard bases, etc. It’s called a national emergency for a reason and under those circumstances the use of NG troops inside the US becomes very expansive.
#3 – I fully expect Homan to ask the DOJ to bring charges against Dem mayors who break federal immigration law. How quickly this happens and how it plays out is hard to say, but this much is for sure. Today, in terms of the sheer numbers of illegals and the extent to which Brandon / Mayorkas have abdicated their constitutional duties is unlike any time in US history. This is a major part of this “mandate” everyone believes Trump was given in terms of immigration.
#4 – I’m not an expert in this area, but I’m sure Trump’s people will find work arounds.
#5 – Deporting anyone here illegally isn’t against the constitution. I’m sure Trump’s DOJ will seek some sort of setting aside of the asylum claim / requirement based on how egregiously easy the Brandon administration has made seeking asylum in the US. Now doubt however, the legal challenges will be many and a difficult hill to climb.
#3 is only one I’d say is likely to happen based on 1st 4 years.
With regard to #5, it’s true that it’s not illegal to deport people who did not legally enter the US.
The catch is that you can’t do that until you follow immigration law and give them their day in court to prove (or not) that they have legitimate refugee status under various laws granting such status to various groups.
So you could try to change the law, which takes quite a bit of time, or you can hire/train a LOT more ICE officers and judges, like Mish points out. That also takes a lot of time (my guess would be at least half of Trump’s 4 year term if not all of it) and would be really, really expensive – assuming you could find people to hire in the first place. There are an awful lot of unfilled police officer jobs out there already, I’m not sure the pool of law enforcement talent is deep enough.
The quickest and most effective way to get people to leave would be to enforce e-verify really strictly. But the business peeps would throw a fit, which is why we’ve never done it.
Bernie from downtown!
Elon Musk is wrong.
The main function of the H-1B visa program is not to hire “the best and the brightest,” but rather to replace good-paying American jobs with low-wage indentured servants from abroad.
The cheaper the labor they hire, the more money the billionaires make.
Yep! Tru dat!
You betray your President! Shame! SHAAAAAAME!
Getting weaker, dude!
Not a good look.
Thanks Mike for the tacit admission that my citizenship (and that of my children and grandchildren) is of no value and should be subordinate to the needs of a Democrat Party fading into irrelevancy and to the cheap labor and captive market lobbies!
15 million allowed to waltz in illegally and now all of a sudden I have to follow the rules!
They are not here for the cheap labor. They are here for the Democrat voting block. That is crystal clear at this point. Look at where they have been bussed to.
Embrace the healing power of “and”.
Precisely. The Democrats imported a foreign army to seize power at the ballots and have a permanent super-majority.
You are delusional if you believe that. Go talk to an immigrant dude at Home Depot about how he feels about trannies or socialism (hint: a lot of them are from Venezuela) or how often he goes to church.
They are not a liberal voting group overall, so if they were all granted citizenship tomorrow, I would actually expect a slight tilt to the right in terms of US politics.
Haha
With busses, you need to know where they start. If the governors of TX and FL are paying for the busses, where do you think they will be sent? To TN and OK? LOL
Trump’s only mandate is to do a mass deportation. The country is more or less divided on everything else.
Most American’s want Trump to stop funding the Ukraine war, keep us out of future conflicts, support Israel, and continue the Abraham Accords to bring more Arab nations into peaceful, normalized relations with Israel.
Most American’s want Trump to push back on China, even if that means using smart / targeted tariffs. This also includes onshoring manufacturing back to the US, especially in strategic goods.
Most American’s want Trump to find ways to reduce inflation which means cutting government spending, again in smart ways.
Sorry, most Americans aren’t smart enough to even know about most of the items you listed. I wish it was not that way.
Everyone knows about the Ukraine war.
Everyone knows about the Israeli Palestinian conflict (Oct 7) and most support Israel with the exception of giving them tons of foreign aid which is understandable for the average Joe.
Everyone knows that China is taking advantage of the US economically.
Everyone understands inflation.
Wow, you must have a direct connection to God if you know so exactly what most Americans want.
You should apply to sit beside Musk as Trump’s new chair of DEBS (Department of Evangelical Bull S**t)
LOL
Nope… that’s going to Billy Graham’s kid.
Boy you’re a carp a minute.
Yes, everything I said is true based on polling data.
How many times did the Democratic politicians propose a bill or amendment to prosecute business owners with fines and jail time over last 30years? Each time it was blocked by the people who want the cheap labor. Guess who?
Forget the cost to deport these people. Pass a law with $100,000 fine, 10 years in jail, no parole and the vast majority will have to leave on their on when the jobs go away.
Then a compromise for dreamers and MAYBE mixed families could pass Congress.
I think I could live with this….unfortunately Team D is every bit as captive to the cheap labor lobby as Team Stupid!
I don’t like either side but Team D did attempt to increase sanctions on employers. Team R blocked it. Common sense to get rid of jobs.
The law is already on the books, All they need to do is enforce it.
And this is where the real crux of the matter lies….there are already labor shortages for police officers, fire fighters, etc. Why? Because 10k boomers retire every day and they continue to do so until 2030. There aren’t enough young people and wages in government jobs aren’t exactly great.
“Entry-level ICE agents typically start at a pay grade of GS-5, with salaries between $27,431 and $35,657.” https://www.federallawenforcement.org/ice/ice-salary/
Who here wants the job? Heck, maids at hotels get paid better than this now and the labor squeeze will only get worse not better unless of course, you get immigrants to do the job – LOL!
Like I said, we’ll get a clown show of sound bites and news clips of raids and kids and cages for a few news cycles then it’s business as usual.
We’ll bring in Indians to take the jobs that pay better than that. Our young people will have to take those low paying jobs.
Your puppet Trump will implement the plan. He’s already signed off on it but what about these other clowns.
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When Dr, Engineers, Scientists start invading our Borders then we can talk. These people will only work Min wage jobs few will be Educated in a Trade or College. Grandaughter teaches 4th Gr, yes Covid killed the Education but these kids cannot read or write by 3rd gr. No help in Classrooms, how will they be proficient when they end 12th Gr? They wont.
My grandkids read very well in first grade. Don’t their parents follow their homework?
They aren’t allowed to any more, with the Biden Department of Education.
Mish are you even upset with what Biden did to our border? Put the blame where it belongs. Of course fixing it will be messy.
He’s completely out of touch with middle America. Mish would make a good RINO Senator.
Yes, I believe Mish is on record stating deportations up to a point are needed. Like some, he’s overly concerned about what will happen if we deport too may illegals in industries like residential construction. Like Wolf Richter, he’s great about pointing out problems and why we should expect failure. They’re both extremely short on details about how to get really big problems solved.
To his credit, I know Mish realizes Biden & Congress, in general, are responsible for the mess we find ourselves in.
But, you make a great point which begs the issue: solutions vs problems
Wolf is a blow hard who censors the shit out of everything. His blog has become worthless bc of it.
I agree 100%. He’s a massive censor prick, but he knows his stuff.
He just doesn’t EVER make predictions or suggest solutions.
Ha ha
He does censor utter and complete lies and political BS. I can see why that might bother you. Luckily you have found a libertarian website where everyone gets a voice, ever if they are lying from their Mom’s basement. Thank God for America
I’m not in mom’s basement, I’m in a cottage at Mar a Lago.
You can choose to hide comments from anyone you like here.
Didn’t you know that Wolf is right 100% of the time all of the time even when he is wrong?
And you’ll never know of he is wrong because he will delete the post.
He is also a person with TDS anf and loves Kamala.
And yet you don’t know who might be a criminal till they light you on fire in the subway. They all go back. Legally reapply. Big 🎪
thats not a real solution, thats a slogan. unfortunately a slogan is all most commenters on this website can comprehend. because when you have a baby brain working through and fixing problems is very hard