The costly Biden border bungle
Breitbart:
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More than 4 million economic migrants crossed the southern border during the government’s October-to-September budget year, according to federal data released October 21.
In contrast, 3.67 million Americans were born during the matching 12-month period in 2022, according to the Census Bureau. That 2022 number includes at least 400,000 births to illegal migrants.
The inflow also creates vast economic competition for the 3 million American youths who graduated from schools in the 10 months up to October 2022, the bureau reported.
One predictable result is that the new migrants are pricing ordinary Americans out of housing.
The New York Times reported August 17 on the growing number of evicted, homeless Americans who are living in their autos.
Ms. Audet, 49, earns over $72,000 a year as a social worker for the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services. But a combination of bad luck, bad debt and a bad credit score priced her out of her apartment in Bellevue, another suburb of Seattle, one of the most expensive housing markets in the country. With an eviction looming, she put her furniture in storage this spring and began parking the sedan in a U-shaped parking lot outside a church in Kirkland.
The car, her biggest investment, became her home — the roof turned into a dining table, the trunk a closet. And a weathered stretch of blacktop provided by a Methodist church became her yard, her neighborhood and her safe place.
In other parking lots across the country, car dwellers shared the hardships that landed them there: A man who scraped by delivering pizzas in Santa Barbara ended up in his Nissan Frontier when the pizza parlor cut his hours. A 35-year-old who installed home security systems ended up in his Chevy Suburban when he lost control of the drill, snapping his radial tendon. And one woman said she had to choose between helping her mother or herself.
In contrast, many migrants are being fast-tracked into American housing by government-funded, business-backed, progressive groups who increasingly divorce themselves from the interests of ordinary Americans. For example, Governing.com reported on October 23 from Chicago....
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If you think the Biden open borders policy is crazy, you are right. And it is not just the Southern border. New records are being set of migrants coming through Canada.
See, also:
Abbott fences off border with New Mexico for 'immigration.' Maybe just do the whole state....
No, the supposed intent of this decidedly dangerous fencing is to keep migrants who cross the Mexican border into New Mexico from making their way to Texas. Of course the actual intent has nothing to do with seriously addressing the issue of illegal immigration, a problem no border-state governor or presidential administration has ever been able to solve.
It's a way for Abbott to pretend he's tough on immigration while pillorying President Joe Biden's border policies, which have focused more on addressing root causes than cruel stunts. It’s another thing Abbott can add to his “Nobody Is Crueler To Migrants Than Ol’ Greg!” vision board.
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Biden's supposed focus on "root causes" has been an abject failure. Illegal immigration is up sevenfold since he took office and imposed this failed scheme.
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