Published January 20, 2024
Speaking to a bipartisan group at the U.S. Conference of Mayors meeting at the White House, President Joe Biden said the U.S. needs “significant policy changes at the border” and pressed House Republicans to join him.
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RELATED: Biden finally admits border isn’t secure, believes ‘massive changes’ needed: ‘I’m ready to act’
Published January 19, 2024
WASHINGTON — Tell us something we don’t know, Joe.
President Biden told reporters Friday that the US-Mexico border is not secure — contradicting Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas — after endorsing “massive changes” in immigration policy.
“No, it’s not,” Biden said when asked whether the frontier was secure following remarks to a bipartisan group of mayors in the White House East Room.
During his speech, the 81-year-old Biden said he hoped for Senate negotiators to announce a compromise next week on border policy as part of a broader $106 billion supplemental spending request that would also finance military aid for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan.
“I believe we need significant policy changes at the border, including changes in our asylum system to ensure that we have the authorities we need to control the border. I’m ready to act,” the president said.
“Now the question is for the [House] Speaker [Mike Johnson] and the House Republicans: Are they ready to act as well?” Biden added.
“They have to choose whether they want to solve a problem or keep weaponizing the issue to score political points against the president. I’m ready to solve the problem. I really am,” he added. “Massive changes, and I mean it sincerely.”
It’s unclear what asylum policy changes could be palatable to all three of the White House, Senate Democrats and House Republicans.
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SOURCE: www.nypost.com
RELATED: Millions of Illegal Aliens Are Costing Taxpayers Hundreds of Billions. Biden Couldn’t Care Less
Published January 19, 2024
President Joe Biden has transformed America’s southern border into a humanitarian catastrophe and a national security nightmare. This bloody, deadly mess is a clear and present danger to this republic.
But this also is a massive fiscal threat. Biden’s obliteration of the border is evaporating federal, state, and local coffers.
Precise figures on anything illegal are, by definition, elusive. Nonetheless, the Federation for American Immigration Reform’s report, “The Fiscal Burden of Illegal Immigration on United States Taxpayers 2023,” estimates that taxpayers bleed $182.1 billion in annual benefits to illegal aliens. That includes $66.4 billion in federal spending and an additional $115.7 billion in state and local outlays to those who have broken into America.
“No sweat!” illegal-alien apologists argue. “They work hard, pay taxes, and pull their own weight.”
If only.
“Taxes paid by illegal aliens only cover around 17.2% of the costs they create for American citizens,” FAIR calculates. That includes $16.2 billion in federal taxes and $15.2 billion in state and local levies. These $31.4 billion still stick U.S. citizens with 82.8% of the illegal immigrants’ $150.7 billion annual tab.
Extrapolating that figure suggests that—since Biden took control three years ago Saturday—these foreign invaders have siphoned some $452 billion from the U.S. Treasury, statehouses, and city halls across America.
Specifically:
Federal
- Welfare: $11.6 billion
- Medical: $23.1 billion
- Law enforcement/justice: $25.1 billion
- Education: $6.6 billion
State and local
- Welfare: $2 billion
- Medical: $18.6 billion
- Law enforcement/justice: $21.8 billion
- Education: $73.3 billion
Every penny of this largesse is avoidable. Sealing the southern frontier and requiring that immigrants present visas would halt this relentless onslaught. The fact that illegal-alien encounters have soared 336% under Biden vs. President Donald Trump pins this evil on No-Borders Biden and the DEI Democrats.
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SOURCE: www.dailysignal.com
