Our tragically foolish border policy

 

We know exactly the cause of our disastrous immigration crisis. It was us. We voters have only ourselves to blame.

Biden didn’t even try to deceive us on this one. In the 2020 presidential debates, he vowed “on day one” to reverse Trump’s immigration policies. He promised to provide free healthcare to illegal aliens.

Unlike many other campaign promises, he faithfully kept these. He also terminated the Remain in Mexico policy and ended the ban on travel from centers of terrorism. He loosened the rules for seeking asylum so that millions of healthy-appearing military-aged males were able to insist on their fearfulness and be admitted to the land of the free.

Most Americans didn’t think through the consequences of an open immigration policy. Now the associated problems are beyond obvious. Yet many, particularly religious NGOs, see welcoming all immigrants as an act of decency and compassion which all people of goodwill should applaud.

Is importing tens of millions of persons without qualifications into America, with only the hope they will somehow engage and become productive and independent, really the way to build a better world? There are 8 billion humans on this planet. They obviously can’t all be brought here.

Immigration does not increase the world’s net wealth, it merely redistributes it. The winners are those who are willing and able to make the arduous trek here and defy our laws. The losers are those still in their country of origin and the rest of us.

But the real force driving the illegal immigration surge came from Democrats and the political left. There is no other way to interpret the events over the last three years other than as a brazen attempt to attract millions of future Democrat voters and permanently alter the character of the American polity. Long after the political winds began to blow against the administration’s policies, the Biden gang was willing to take one for the team and keep on going.

The question now is: will the grand scheme work? Signs are appearing that racial minorities might not be Democrat wards forever, like the perhaps apocryphal one who told Democrats, “We’ve been voting for you for 60 years and we’re still poor.” Democrat-led big cities, which are virtually all big cities, are getting fed up with the squalor and budget pressures that have come with thousands of demanding “newcomers” appearing in the night. The immigration disaster is looming as a major — possibly the decisive — factor in the upcoming election.

Immigration advocates claim that immigrants are actually valuable additions to our society. They are correct that modern America was created by immigrants, without whose efforts we wouldn’t exist.

Yet there’s a world of difference between the Ellis Island immigrants who loved America and were eager to fulfill the requirements of citizenship, and the millions streaming in today. To paraphrase JFK, they seem to care little about what they can do for their new country, but only what it will do for them.

Even if unlimited immigration was a great policy that benefited both immigrants and their hosts, the timing is terrible for two reasons. First is the rapid advance of AI and other labor-saving technologies that will replace many of the low-scale jobs that, in the brightest scenario, the uneducated masses would fill. The question for labor economists has changed from who will pick the lettuce and staff the fast food chains to how we find employment for the laborers — now including the “newcomers” — whose jobs are disappearing.

The other, more serious, problem is that we live in an increasingly dangerous world. With the rise of Islamist jihadists and the growing belligerence of international communism and other mortal enemies, it is lunacy for America to maintain an essentially unmanned border.

The solutions at this point have narrowed. First, we need an administration that will turn off the spigot. But now we have 20 million non-Americans who, as they age, will increasingly demand their share of benefits, which are already imperiled due to lack of future funding.

Repatriation, the ultimate solution, is logistically and politically fraught. We will be a long time regretting this massive foolishness.

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  1. Miffed White Male Member
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    Tom Patterson: Immigration does not increase the world’s net wealth, it merely redistributes it.

    This is simply wrong.

    Take a person from a non-productive country and move them to a productive country and they will be more productive.

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  2. CarolJoy, Not So Easy To Kill Coolidge
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    Miffed White Male (View Comment):

    Tom Patterson: Immigration does not increase the world’s net wealth, it merely redistributes it.

    This is simply wrong.

    Take a person from a non-productive country and move them to a productive country and they will be more productive.

    Yes this is especially true in California where the newly arrived secure jobs within days of arriving, with a diploma mill offering a fully honored certificate allowing the individual to go on to have a job they should not be doing.

    For me to secure a private duty job as a nursing assistant, I went through a ten week training program and then had to take a state test.

    One of the first jobs I worked at, a woman from China was hired by the same nursing agency I worked for and she had been in the USA three days before arriving to work.

    Her English was passable but her health skills were an abomination. Proof of that is how one time when I came in with the weekly delivery of groceries, she was making a salad. The client’s dog poohed all over the kitchen floor. She stopped briefly to pick up the pooh with her bare hands, brushed them off on her apron and went back to making the salad.

    The same situation is now apparent inside our hospitals, where poorly trained people occupy positions from nursing aides to doctors. Adventist Health had to fire a “neurologist” whom  they  had hired from Vietnam, after the administration discovered that  she had no medical degree. (Too bad for those of us who had to experience her lack of skills during the 18 months that she was employed.)

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  3. CarolJoy, Not So Easy To Kill Coolidge
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    I don’t think you can blame the voters now that there is a mountain of evidence that the 2020 election was rigged.

    All it takes to understand the situation is that in some 4 separate states there were numerous counties whose voter participation was recorded at being over 100%. (No American elections have 100% of voters participating.)

    Also there were fewer than 144 million registered voters, but if you add up the number of ballots that Biden secured along with those that Trump secured you end up with close to 154 million ballots.

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  4. Miffed White Male Member
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    CarolJoy, Not So Easy To Kill (View Comment):
    All it takes to understand the situation is that in some 4 separate states there were numerous counties whose voter participation was recorded at being over 100%. (No American elections have 100% of voters participating.)

    Name the counties.

     

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  5. Eugene Kriegsmann Member
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    All in all, it is a grim scenario. Trump is fairly inarticulate when it comes to articulating what is really at stake here. He is also not particularly well loved by those in the middle. I wish we had someone more able and better versed in what needs to be said. However, as someone said, you go to war with the army you have. I am not sanguine. I try to be optimistic, but there is just too much uncertainty. Four more years of Biden will be total disaster. It is commonly said among some on our side that we have survived other difficult times, but never before, other than the Civil War, did our country face such danger as it does now on so many fronts, and Trump is no Lincoln, if he manages to get elected. 

    I am 79 years old. My doc tells me I have many more years left due to good genetics and a long history of fitness and training. I do fear that I will witness the end of this great experiment, and it saddens me beyond expression.

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  6. genferei Member
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    Tom Patterson:

    We voters have only ourselves to blame.

    This is an interesting theory of collective guilt.

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  7. CarolJoy, Not So Easy To Kill Coolidge
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    Eugene Kriegsmann (View Comment):

    All in all, it is a grim scenario. Trump is fairly inarticulate when it comes to articulating what is really at stake here. He is also not particularly well loved by those in the middle. I wish we had someone more able and better versed in what needs to be said. However, as someone said, you go to war with the army you have. I am not sanguine. I try to be optimistic, but there is just too much uncertainty. Four more years of Biden will be total disaster. It is commonly said among some on our side that we have survived other difficult times, but never before, other than the Civil War, did our country face such danger as it does now on so many fronts, and Trump is no Lincoln, if he manages to get elected.

    I am 79 years old. My doc tells me I have many more years left due to good genetics and a long history of fitness and training. I do fear that I will witness the end of this great experiment, and it saddens me beyond expression.

    Some of the better informed people out there are saying we are already in the beginning stages of WWIII.

    The only way we can avoid the progression into a full on, hot nuclear war is to have someone in our government begin talking about ending the situation in Ukraine and in Israel. Yet as often as Russia has asked for peace talks and negotiation, nothing has occurred along these lines, and that is part of why they attacked the nation of Ukraine. (The other part of course is our CIA’s involvement in the Maidan Revolution including the black flag event for which the fourth president of the Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych was ousted. Once ousted, the people of Eastern Ukraine were victims of sniper attacks, mortar attacks and neighborhoods being bulldozed. by the Azov regiments of skin headed nazis. So by Feb of 2022 when Russia entered the fray, such ethnic-related activities had been on going for almost 8 years.)

    Another wrench in any struggle for world peace, consider this: Netanyahu has been recorded in videos going all the way back to the mid-1980’s saying that his desire is to have the USA wage war against Iran. One reason that Julian Assange now sits in the UK prison in Belmarsh despite no British charges being posted against him is on account of his truth-telling org Wikileaks. Wikileaks published emails published that originated from Hillary Clinton and released in Summer of 2016.

    The Deep State, which Clinton is totally a part of, was not pleased with the revelations that brought those emails brought to light.

    In one of those emails, dating to a time period when she was still the Secretary of State, she brags that she holds the ability to accomplish what her friends in Israel have been asking her for: the de-stabilization of Syria. Note that the war activities in Syria started after she bragged abut her abilities to influence Obama.

    It is hard to say what would happen if Trump did get a win in the Nov election. He tries to present himself as someone who would get the Ukraine to a negotiated peace, but it is important to remember how he doesn’t keep all of his campaign pledges.

    Our MIC/Surveillance people have had a hard-on for a “limited” nuke war going back to 2014 or so, when Cspan and CspanII videos showed military analysts saying that such a war would basically be safe and effective. (Hmm, where have we heard that term before? I’m sure the numbers of families who are burying their vaxxed up relatives or suffering with vax injuries are totally assured by that expression.)

    If the Deep State thinks that Trump is now on their side, and his alliance with Pompeo certainly suggests he is often in the loop, then he could be selected in November. If he is known to remain out of the loop, and still is offered favorable, victorious results in the Nov election, he might be heart attacked or Dallased should the Deep State be worried about his intentions with regards to fomenting peace rather than war.

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  8. CarolJoy, Not So Easy To Kill Coolidge
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    As far as immigration, although it is obvious something needs to be done, there is little possibility of un-doing what has occurred.

    Even according to the article which the notoriously liberal “MSN network” brought to light, some 10 million immigrants have crossed the border since the day of Joe Biden’s inauguration, Jan 20 2021. Of course the article goes on to state how many, and the figure is in the millions were then apprehended.

    But under Biden the  “apprehension of an immigrant” is few activities occur other  than “catch and release.” The caught in the trap immigrant who is released usually   is then told that it is imperative they show up for the in-the-future- hearing that our government sets up.

    Most never show up. Those that do often have an asylum-plea already worked out so that they can stay.

    Here is the link tp the article promoted by MSN: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/illegal-border-crossers-total-over-10-million-since-biden-inauguration/ar-AA1j5gwR#:~:text=%28T%20he%20Center%20Square%29%20%E2%80%93%20More%20than%2010,more%20than%20the%20individual%20populations%20of%2041%20states.

    There is an interesting video if you scroll down, that begins by discussing the effect of the open border policy when unvetted arrivals go on to rape and kill American women. (Under Trump, there was a great deal of success in vetting those who arrived at the borders, with the criminals being extradicted to nations whose justice systems and court rulings that they were fleeing. Now anyone can enter.)

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  9. CarolJoy, Not So Easy To Kill Coolidge
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    Miffed White Male (View Comment):

    CarolJoy, Not So Easy To Kill (View Comment):
    All it takes to understand the situation is that in some 4 separate states there were numerous counties whose voter participation was recorded at being over 100%. (No American elections have 100% of voters participating.)

    Name the counties.

    @saintaugustine

    They are named inside the huge compendium of material that Saint Augustine spent several years putting together. (I feel no obligation to educate people who avoided the three years plus of discussion that went on here at ricochet.) You can use the https://ricochet/members command to get yourself to his articles and get some schooling.

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  10. kedavis Coolidge
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    Tom Patterson: We know exactly the cause of our disastrous immigration crisis. It was us. We voters have only ourselves to blame.

    That’s only true if you believe the election was fair.

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  11. Miffed White Male Member
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    CarolJoy, Not So Easy To Kill (View Comment):

    Miffed White Male (View Comment):

    CarolJoy, Not So Easy To Kill (View Comment):
    All it takes to understand the situation is that in some 4 separate states there were numerous counties whose voter participation was recorded at being over 100%. (No American elections have 100% of voters participating.)

    Name the counties.

    @ saintaugustine

    They are named inside the huge compendium of material that Saint Augustine spent several years putting together. (I feel no obligation to educate people who avoided the three years plus of discussion that went on here at ricochet.) You can use the https://ricochet/members command to get yourself to his articles and get some schooling.

    Just say you can’t do it.

    You made the claim.  Back it up.

     

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  12. Miffed White Male Member
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    CarolJoy, Not So Easy To Kill (View Comment):
    The only way we can avoid the progression into a full on, hot nuclear war is to have someone in our government begin talking about ending the situation in Ukraine and in Israel.

    The “only” way?  Really?

      

     

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  13. Saint Augustine Member
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    CarolJoy, Not So Easy To Kill (View Comment):

    Miffed White Male (View Comment):

    CarolJoy, Not So Easy To Kill (View Comment):
    All it takes to understand the situation is that in some 4 separate states there were numerous counties whose voter participation was recorded at being over 100%. (No American elections have 100% of voters participating.)

    Name the counties.

    @ saintaugustine

    They are named inside the huge compendium of material that Saint Augustine spent several years putting together. (I feel no obligation to educate people who avoided the three years plus of discussion that went on here at ricochet.) You can use the https://ricochet/members command to get yourself to his articles and get some schooling.

    They may not be named. I can’t remember! There’s so much to keep track of.

    But I know that enough things are named to indicate that votes illegally cast or counted were more than double the Biden margin of victory in 5 swing states.

    From my profile, click on the list of Ricochet conversations I’ve started. Then Ctr-F for “more likely than not.” Click. Scroll down to the first comment and see if I don’t have a nice summary there of my posts on the topic.

    Plenty of stuff named. And there is so much stuff.

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  14. kedavis Coolidge
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    Saint Augustine (View Comment):

    CarolJoy, Not So Easy To Kill (View Comment):

    Miffed White Male (View Comment):

    CarolJoy, Not So Easy To Kill (View Comment):
    All it takes to understand the situation is that in some 4 separate states there were numerous counties whose voter participation was recorded at being over 100%. (No American elections have 100% of voters participating.)

    Name the counties.

    @ saintaugustine

    They are named inside the huge compendium of material that Saint Augustine spent several years putting together. (I feel no obligation to educate people who avoided the three years plus of discussion that went on here at ricochet.) You can use the https://ricochet/members command to get yourself to his articles and get some schooling.

    They may not be named. I can’t remember! There’s so much to keep track of.

    But I know that enough things are named to indicate that votes illegally cast or counted were more than double the Biden margin of victory in 5 swing states.

    From my profile, click on the list of Ricochet conversations I’ve started. Then Ctr-F for “more likely than not.” Click. Scroll down to the first comment and see if I don’t have a nice summary there of my posts on the topic.

    Plenty of stuff named. And there is so much stuff.

    And a list of counties could get quite long.  Texas, I remember reading, has 254 of them.

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  15. Miffed White Male Member
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    Saint Augustine (View Comment):

    All it takes to understand the situation is that in some 4 separate states there were numerous counties whose voter participation was recorded at being over 100%. (No American elections have 100% of voters participating.)

    Name the counties.

    @ saintaugustine

    They are named inside the huge compendium of material that Saint Augustine spent several years putting together. (I feel no obligation to educate people who avoided the three years plus of discussion that went on here at ricochet.) You can use the https://ricochet/members command to get yourself to his articles and get some schooling.

    They may not be named. I can’t remember! There’s so much to keep track of.

    But I know that enough things are named to indicate that votes illegally cast or counted were more than double the Biden margin of victory in 5 swing states.

    That statement is completely different from and unrelated to “there were numerous counties whose voter participation was recorded at being over 100%.”

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  16. Saint Augustine Member
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    Miffed White Male (View Comment):

    Saint Augustine (View Comment):

    All it takes to understand the situation is that in some 4 separate states there were numerous counties whose voter participation was recorded at being over 100%. (No American elections have 100% of voters participating.)

    Name the counties.

    @ saintaugustine

    They are named inside the huge compendium of material that Saint Augustine spent several years putting together. (I feel no obligation to educate people who avoided the three years plus of discussion that went on here at ricochet.) You can use the https://ricochet/members command to get yourself to his articles and get some schooling.

    They may not be named. I can’t remember! There’s so much to keep track of.

    But I know that enough things are named to indicate that votes illegally cast or counted were more than double the Biden margin of victory in 5 swing states.

    That statement is completely different from and unrelated to “there were numerous counties whose voter participation was recorded at being over 100%.”

    And there probably were. I just can’t remember much.

    And they are different. But they’re part of the same category–things useful for understanding the situation CJNSETK mentioned.

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  17. kedavis Coolidge
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    Saint Augustine (View Comment):

    Miffed White Male (View Comment):

    Saint Augustine (View Comment):

    All it takes to understand the situation is that in some 4 separate states there were numerous counties whose voter participation was recorded at being over 100%. (No American elections have 100% of voters participating.)

    Name the counties.

    @ saintaugustine

    They are named inside the huge compendium of material that Saint Augustine spent several years putting together. (I feel no obligation to educate people who avoided the three years plus of discussion that went on here at ricochet.) You can use the https://ricochet/members command to get yourself to his articles and get some schooling.

    They may not be named. I can’t remember! There’s so much to keep track of.

    But I know that enough things are named to indicate that votes illegally cast or counted were more than double the Biden margin of victory in 5 swing states.

    That statement is completely different from and unrelated to “there were numerous counties whose voter participation was recorded at being over 100%.”

    And there probably were. I just can’t remember much.

    And they are different. But they’re part of the same category–things useful for understanding the situation CJNSETK mentioned.

    Right, because you’d expect things like supposedly-over-100% turnout when there are a lot of illegally cast/counted ballots.

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