Here wherein Jesse Watters and Stephen Miller play the “Great Replacement”, “Blood Poisoning” card claiming here that a crony of Joe Biden is making $Millions “building cages for kids” that come across the border. Because, of course, it’s not like Trump did anything like that at all.
Yeah. Guess what?
When U.S. Customs and Border Protection holds migrant children in custody, the child’s detention is supposed to be safe and short. That’s true whether the child is with a parent or without one.
But new data shows that over the last four years, detention times lengthened as the number of children held at the border soared to almost half a million. The detentions, which include both unaccompanied children and children with their families, peaked last year at over 300,000, with 40 percent held longer than the 72-hour limit set by a patchwork of legislation and a court settlement.
“The government regularly violated the 72-hour rule,” said Dr. Bill O. Hing, a University of San Francisco law professor and immigration lawyer who was part of an inspection group touring border stations in the summer of 2019 at the height of the crisis. Hing said he witnessed minors being held for increasingly long times in unsafe facilities designed to hold adults, not children and babies.
The rising numbers of children detained at the border with one or more family members have received relatively little attention. Yet at the same time that detentions of unaccompanied minors were skyrocketing, so were detentions of children who arrived with families, government data shows. The federal government carried out almost 40,000 detentions of children with families in 2014; last year, that shot up to almost 250,000.
Uh-huh.
People like Watters and Miller love to paint the mantra that the evil alien hordes are coming to dramatically change the nation away from its traditions. They act like their in the middle of Independence Day and the massive caravans are really super-giant motherships about the blow up the Empire State Building and the White House any second with their alien power beams.
“They want to change our nation!”
Into what Catholicism? I think we already have a lot of that. Do they think Latinos are a different species or something?
I mean, c’mon.
Generally, Latinos do tend to lean toward Democrats — but this ignores the fact that undocumented immigrants, legal visa holders and even Green Card holders Can’t. Vote.
Generally, the undocumented can’t get a legal visa.
You would have to have entered legally in order to gain a visa by marrying a U.S. citizen, someone undocumented can’t do that. An undocumented person married to a citizen would have to leave the country and essentially start over to obtain a green card from scratch, which can take 5-10 years, and that may only be granted if they can prove their absence presents a “significant hardship” for their spouse. If they achieve higher education and skills, they might be able to get an employer to sponsor a green card for them through the LIFE Act — but this also may require that they return to their home country first. They can apply for Asylum but there are limitations that require:
- You are present in the United States (by legal or illegally entry);
- You are unable or unwilling to return to your home country due to past persecution or have a well-founded fear of future persecution if you return;
- The reason for persecution is related to one of five things: race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion; and
- You are not involved with an activity that would bar you from asylum.
60,000 Asylum seekers were admitted to the US in 2023 and only about. 32% of those will ultimately be fully granted asylum status. The rest will have deportation proceedings initiated against them.
And then you can apply for a U Visa if you are the victim of a crime:
- The individual must have suffered substantial physical or mental abuse as a result of having been a victim of a qualifying criminal activity;
- The individual must have information concerning that criminal activity;
- The criminal activity violated U.S. laws; and
- The individual must have been helpful, is being helpful, or is likely to be helpful in the investigation or prosecution of the crime.
If you were a victim of a foreign crime by a foreign national — you have no chance at this option and only 10,000 primary recipients are granted U-Visa status each year, so its not like either of these options represents a “Flood” of migrants,
Accomplishing one of these options would get you to legal status — but it can take at least 5 years to go from there to get a Green Card as a permanent resident and another 5 years to qualify to apply for citizenship.
And you have to be a citizen to vote — so how exactly are they “changing the nation?” Is this about the kids that they have while in the U.S.? Is that why Trump wants to repeal birthright citizenship so that the children of the undocumented won’t be able to be able to vote in 18 years?
These guys think the Democrats are planning 18 years ahead to finally be able to truly “Take Over?” I’m not even sure the Democratic Party is planning five minutes ahead. Please.
The second complaint I hear constantly is how immigrants and “spending our tax dollars” — but as pointed out in the video — it’s not like undocumented immigrants can show up on our border and start immediately begging for services. They frankly really don’t get any services at all.
The major federal public benefits programs have long excluded some non–U.S. citizens from eligibility for assistance. Programs such as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as the Food Stamp Program), nonemergency Medicaid, Supplemental Security Income (SSI), and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and its precursor, Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), were largely unavailable to undocumented immigrants and people in the United States on temporary visas.
However, the 1996 federal welfare and immigration laws introduced an unprecedented era of restrictionism.[1] Prior to the enactment of these laws, lawful permanent residents of the U.S. generally were eligible for assistance in a manner similar to U.S. citizens. Once the laws were implemented, most lawfully residing immigrants were barred from receiving assistance under the major federal benefits programs for five years or longer.
Even where eligibility for immigrants was preserved by the 1996 laws or restored by subsequent legislation, many immigrant families hesitate to enroll in critical health care, job-training, nutrition, and cash assistance programs due to fear and confusion caused by the laws’ complexity and other intimidating factors. As a result, the participation of immigrants in public benefits programs decreased sharply after passage of the 1996 laws, causing severe hardship for many low-income immigrant families who lacked the support available to other low-income families.[2]
It's extra special stupid sauce to complain about “tax dollars going to immigrants” when you’re from a Red State that is generally a federal tax beneficiary. How much of our tax dollars are going to you?
Nothing they claim is true. Having to leave your home, travel thousands of miles across the Mexican desert is not a task that anyone takes lightly. It’s a difficult, dangerous and potentially deadly journey.
People mostly do this because they want the American dream, they want to live in a free country, they want to live without fear of violence from gangs and drug cartels.
And this is how we receive them? With suspicion, distrust, disdain and factless attacks of “poisoning our blood.”
This is shameful. These fucking bigot assholes deserve our scorn.