5.7% Growth, Fastest Since 1984

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Estimated by whom? I estimate 13 illegal aliens have crossed our border. How’s that? They’re all named Julio Franco.

Zero truth. Again.

Biden sends in his taxes yearly, unlike the criminals you support (i.e. Trump). Biden’s wealth is easily documented and public record

That’s not accurate. Eisenhower enacted Operation Wetback and deported 1.3 million. In 1933, nearly 1 million were deported. Also, undocumented immigrants, including DACA holders, are ineligible to recieve most federal public benefits, including means-tested benefits like SNAP, regular Medicaid, SSI and TANF along with health care subsidies from ACA. Nationally, they are elilgible for some benefits that are “deemed neccesary to protect life or guarantee safety in dire situations” like emergency Medicaid, emergency room treatment, and health care programs under the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program fro Woman, Infants, and Children. Now, some states offer benefits to undocumented immigrants, most of which are funded by the state. Data shows they contribute more tax dollars than they receive, around $11.6 billion per year in state and local taxes, for benefits they are not likely to receive, according to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. According to the Social Security Administration, they contribute $13 billion in payroll taxes event though they only receive about $1 billion in benefits.

Class C Misdemeanor, like a traffic ticket

From a person who supported the attempted coup’ against the United States

Markets don’t move upwards due to inflation. “Inflation increases borrowing costs, increase material and labor costs and reduces standards of living. Most importantly, it reduces expectations of earnings growth, putting downward pressure on stock prices.”

You want to fight inflation but you don’t want to do the things that fight inflation? You want a magic wand instead?

Well, now you qualified it. Yes, value stocks do go up during inflationary periods.

No, we aren’t. We grew at 6.7% last year.

Crypto currencies are a ponzi scheme and not a real market. See Dutch tulips

Cars are at historical levels in pricing and Netflix is shrinking due to streaming competition. Simple as that. (As competition mounts, Netflix faces shrinking market share, report says)

Due to GOP policies since Reagan, I believe we are down to 26th on the global list

I have a worthless History BA. Good at Trivial Pursuit though

True, but most people don’t have money to start their own business. You might have forgotten that part.

How Bikki views brown people

Then, why did you want to overthrow it and dismantle the Constitution?

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Yeah, that’s just not an honest statement.

Then, how do you know? Do you have their email addresses?

Not an honest statement

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Don’t we have a labor shortage?

Data?

You’re right. We quit kidnapping children, locking them in cages with no plan to reunite them with their families.

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This was from our DHS secretary saying the crisis at the Southern border is the worst it’s been in 20 years.

From March 2021. The data I’ve seen shows that it has only gotten worse since then.

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Copy that. It does clearly say they are expelling singles and families. Unaccompanied minors are surging.
So, clearly not an open border. But, it has been for years the majority of illegals don’t jump the border but overstay their visas. So, lots still, yes. Thanks for the link

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It’s not semantics at all.

We have a record number of people marching on our border. That’s no Biden’s fault. The numbers were concerning under Trump too. Remember the caravans?

Okay, I’ll bite. What are the pull factors that Biden caused?

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In short, his rhetoric and the fact that he canceled some Trump policies like remain in Mexico. The excerpt from this article talks about it a bit. It’s indisputable that when Biden signaled that he was canceling remain in Mexico that illegal border crossing skyrocketed.

The big change that Biden did make was his reversalof Trump border initiatives, which did have a large effect on illegal entries.

The most significant of these was the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP, or Remain in Mexico), under which aliens who were apprehended entering illegally or without proper documents and who made asylum claims were sent back across the border to await their hearings.

Note that MPP did not “disrupt the U.S. asylum system”, it simply prevented migrants from living in the United States until a decision was made on their asylum claim.

Those initiatives did “reduce cross-border migrant flows”, though, as Border Patrol apprehensions at the Southwest border fell from almost 133,000 in May 2019 to just over 40,500 three months later.

Apprehensions were just under 30,100 in February 2020 (before the Title 42 restrictions took effect), and while they reached 69,162 in November, they did not really start to boom until Biden took over and reversed the Trump initiatives.

This was especially true in some key demographic groups. Border Patrol apprehended 4,248 migrants in “family units” (FMUs, adults travelling with children) in December, a number that increased threefold (to 19,286) in February before increasing an additional 174 percent in March (52,904).

Similarly, Border Patrol apprehended 4,853 unaccompanied alien children (UACs) in December (UAC apprehensions had remained below 5,000 a month since August 2019 before increasing slightly to 5,689 in January), a number that almost doubled to 9,271 in February, before doubling month-to-month in March (18,663).

Families and unaccompanied children are more difficult to detain, and more difficult to remove, than single adults. They are at the heart of the crisis at the Southwest border, and yet CFR’s expert treats their illegal entry and all others’ as inevitable by focusing solely on push factors (“pressures to migrate”).

I do not want to single him out, because the Biden administration is doing the same thing. On March 16, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas asserted:

Poverty, high levels of violence, and corruption in Mexico and the Northern Triangle countries have propelled migration to our southwest border for years. The adverse conditions have continued to deteriorate. Two damaging hurricanes that hit Honduras and swept through the region made the living conditions there even worse, causing more children and families to flee.

That is a cop-out, because it allows the administration to avoid responsibility for the effect that its own actions have had in creating the border crisis.

Eliminating those Trump border policies made it easier for migrants to enter illegally, because they made it more likely that once they got here, they could be released to live here indefinitely. Biden’s own rhetoricon the campaign trail denouncing border enforcement under Trump played a role as well.

For example, the then-candidate stated on his campaign website that he would “End Trump’s detrimental asylum policies”, including MPP. That promise was a huge pull factor in and of itself, and once he started to do it, the pull just got stronger.

That Biden has been hoist on his own petard by these steps (he decried “Trump Administration’s policies”, which he claimed “have created a humanitarian disaster at our border and grossly mismanaged the unprecedented resources Congress has allocated for it”, for example) have been largely overlooked.

That said, I will cut the president a break — for now. Like the “CFR expert”, his administration appears to believe that illegal migration (particularly by unaccompanied children and families) is inevitable, and because both focus on rather intractable institutional “push factors” (poverty, crime, and corruption), they each conclude that the number of migrants is more or less set.

As noted, however, there is empirical evidence that two pull factors — Biden’s campaign rhetoric and reversal of Trump-era policies — are much more significant than those push factors in driving illegal migration.

Simply put, Biden said he would do things as president, and then did them — and the numbers skyrocketed.

In my next post, I will describe the “pull factors” that have driven migrants — and in particular unaccompanied children and families — to enter illegally in the past, and how those pull factors can be addressed.

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Bud, it goes so much farther back and its not a cop-out. Spend a bit of time learning the history of those countries and our involvement at the behest of corporations. Some wild stuff in there. Goes way, way back.
Bikki should know a bit with his plantations in Nicaragua. Some nasty business historically.

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Lololololololol

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You are correct that Biden canceled Remain in Mexico, and I will grant you that had a negative effect.

The rhetoric part… maybe. By that notion conservative media is doing a lot of damage by claiming Biden has an open border policy. They should STFU about that.

So you’re right about Remian in Mexico, though I will say Biden has been immediately deporting more than Trump as a consequence. And Biden is re-instituting Remain in Mexico, so hopefully that will mitigate things from here on out?

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Illegal entry into the United States is a misdemeanor, however, it is a CRIMINAL misdemeanor and the illegal entrant can be sentenced to prison or face additional civil penalties. A person who re-enters the U.S. which, has been the case with numerous undesirables, it is a felony. Since Biden threw open the borders, the fentanyl problem has become considerably worse and is responsible for the overdose deaths of 100,000 Americans. Interviews with illegals reveals they believe they were invited by Biden to trespass, and many of them wear Biden T-shirts. Taxpayers should be outraged that monies that could be used to help our poorest citizens are now being channeled to illegals. Biden has even gone so far as to offering illegals payment if their family has been separated which is wholly ridiculous. Two thirds of Americans, according to recent polls, want the border controls strengthened while the Border Patrols lament about the good times under the Great President Trump.

Open borders is a strategy to increase Democrat Party voting rolls. Illegals have more rights with regard to vaccination that do citizens. In addition, they are transported, usually late at night to avoid detection, all over the United States, all at taxpayer expense. Numerous illegals are criminals but we have no vetting procedure. Worst of all, illegals are permitted by this insane administration to step to the front of the line and given priority over those who are trying to secure entry legally. Most of them (illegals) should be rounded up and be deported in accordance with present law.

Yes, Biden will be impeached. Have no doubt about that transpiring unless of course he should resign which would turn the reins over to our laughing hyena VP. Yes, also the commencement of a thorough House investigation of Biden riches WILL happen. The entire family has been enriched and the source of their income is in need of scrutiny. Last night I watched Biden talking about a Corvette car. What he said was completely unintelligible. Even Democrats are beginning to take notice that Biden is suffering from a lack of coherence.

This rising stock market is most certainly a result of inflation. Share price is based on performance but also on perception. To say higher interest rates have no effect on share price is wholly naive. I’ve been doing this a long time, and I have lived through several episodes of inflation. When prices rise sharply, consumers simply do not have the discretionary income to buy inasmuch as the cost of their very existence is dramatically increased. Decreased sales and revenue I assure will depress share prices.

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It should be a felony.

Misdemeanor derives it’s meaning from the words

“Mis” - badly or unsuitably and “Demeanor” - to conduct oneself appropriately.

Felony means to deceive or betray as to commit a crime.

Crossing the border illegally fits felony much more than it does misdemeanor. They should change it. The reason they don’t want to is that they don’t want to pay for these people in prison for the next 10 years. Better to just release them into the public and hope they become productive and honest citizens.

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Well I guess it’s a more productive post than “wut”

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@IndianaCane

The men are with YOU.

https://vm.tiktok.com/TTPdhq2XoF/

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Lie about open borders. Fentanyl on the same trajectory it was before.

False

More lies. (https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-haitian-biden/fact-check-photo-does-not-show-haitian-migrants-wearing-biden-let-us-in-t-shirts-idUSL1N2QP20L)

GOPers never care about the poorest citizens, only pretend to as a political talking point

You mean when Trump kidnapped children with no plan to reunite them

You can’t go one sentence without lying

Illegals can’t vote, another lie

Not much else worth even reading. You’re pathological

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I assume you mean the etymology of the word and not the definition.

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That’s correct. We derive definitions from etymologies.

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Why didn’t you mention the rest, then?

c. 1300, “treachery, betrayal; deceit; villainy, wickedness, sin, crime; violent temper, wrath; ruthlessness; evil intention,” from Old French felonie (12c.) “wickedness, evil, treachery, perfidy, crime, cruelty, sin,” from Gallo-Roman *fellonia, from fellonem “evil-doer” (see felon).

felon (n.)

c. 1300, “one who deceives or commits treason; one who is wicked or evil; evil-doer,” used of Lucifer and Herod, from Old French felon “evil-doer, scoundrel, traitor, rebel, oath-breaker, the Devil” (9c.), from Medieval Latin fellonem (nominative fello) “evil-doer,” which is of uncertain origin, perhaps from Frankish *fillo, *filljo “person who whips or beats, scourger” (source of Old High German fillen “to whip”); or from Latin fel “gall, poison,” on the notion of “one full of bitterness.” Celtic origins also have been proposed.

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I’m ok with all of that. What’s your point?

Mine is that a felony rises to a particular level a misdemeanor doesn’t.

Illegal Border crossers for it for me.

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Then, Warden whom are we seeing in this photo? Norwegians?

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