Despite democratic protestations, illegal aliens are costing the US taxpayer enormous sums of money, billions of bucks. In just one year we could afford to build a bulky, beautiful barrier with the big bucks that are being blown because of banned bustle across our borders. In fact, the funds spent to support these criminals by just two states alone, California and New York, would provide enough funding ($30+ billion) to build TWO walls across our southern border.
The approximately $46 billion in federal expenditures attributable to illegal aliens is staggering. Assuming an illegal alien population of approximately 12.5 million illegal aliens and 4.2 million U.S.-born children of illegal aliens, that amounts to roughly $2,746 per illegal alien, per year. For the sake of comparison, the average American college student receives only $4,800 in federal student loans each year.
Total ...................................... $45,870,474,332
The DHS compiled a report on on the use of public services by immigrants and they found that more than 25% of immigrants use extensive public benefits, which is a higher rate than native-born U.S. population. Source
Welfare fraud for aliens is rampant at the state level.
Federal USDA audits of just five states (Georgia, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Washington and Nebraska) found that states ignore mandated application safeguards. Imprisoned and dead aliens are still being given benefits. The safeguards are:
Prisoner Verification System (7 CFR §272.13)
Deceased Matching System (7 CFR §272.14)
Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (7 CFR §272.11)
Today John Dickerson,
host of Face The Nation, conducted an interview with Sen. Cory Gardner (R-CO).Dickerson wanted to discuss with Gardner
potential solutions and hurdles Congress faces over spending to prevent a government
shutdown and immigration reform.Dickerson
distinctly led into the interview with: “We now turn to Republican Senator Cory
Gardner, who joins us from his
family’s tractor dealership in Yuma, Colorado.”
The mainstream media’s
unquenchable thirst for stupid was on full display when a young woman who
describes herself in her Twitter profile as a digital journalist at ABC News
covering Capitol Hill, amateur accordionist and pug enthusiast chimed in.Accordionist?Really?Isn’t Lawrence Welk
dead?When’s the last time you saw a
liberal dancing the polka?
In any event, our
quisling was flummoxed by what was in the background as Sen. Gardner spoke
on-air.
Ms. Rogan, seemingly
embarrassed by her unfamiliarity with farm implements, quickly fired off a
tweet in response.
On @FaceTheNation, @SenTomCotton says he "didn't hear" Trump using reported slur. He said previously that he did not recall. I am learning so much about the human brain and ears this morning!
Our genius apparently
has never given any thought to how food finds its way to the grocery store or
to the table of her hoity-toity restaurants.Ali honey, shut up and eat your arugula.
CNN
anchor Wolf Blitzer heaped praise on President Trump and his administration for
opening an immigration reform meeting to the press on yesterday.Blitzer spoke with Marc Short, White House
Director of Legislative Affairs saying, “Thank you for allowing that meeting
today to be open to our TV cameras.I
think it was very important, very productive.Glad that we got to see the President and the Republicans and Democrats
in action.Keep doing it.”Short affirmed, “We’ll keep doing it, Wolf.”
What was supposed to be
a pool spray at the beginning of the meeting turned into a 55-minute discussion
between Democrat and Republican lawmakers as the press watched.
Some journalists remarked
they couldn’t remember a president ever inviting members of the press to watch
negotiations before.Steve Peoples who
covers politics for The Associated Press
and Paul Singer, an editor/reporter for USA
Today tweeted:
Trump smart for opening immigration discussion to press. Public gets to see deal making POTUS at his best.
Former toadie and Senior
Advisor for Strategy and Communications for The World’s Most Dangerous
Community Organizer, Dan Pfeiffer, became super pissed and fired off a tweet at
the suggestion his “master” had not been adequately credited with the same
transparency.
Obama did this with the House GOP conference in 2010 on health care on live TV. He would have done it every year, but the GOP refused to let cameras back in ever again https://t.co/eGP5y76WoT
Pfeiffer conveniently
forgot during the 2008 campaign Obama often promised to put health care reform
negotiations on C-SPAN so the public could see and comment on the demands made
by various players.
Perhaps what Pfeiffer
is directing our attention to is the so-called 2010 Health Care Summit at the
Blair House located across from the White House.It was there he indignantly squabbled with
John McCain.
McCain complained of
"unsavory" deal making to get Obamacare passed in the Senate,
including promises to give special deals to residents of Louisiana, Nebraska
and Florida.
He pointed to several
issues, including the PhRMA deal and a provision mandating $100 million for a
Connecticut hospital, asking "why should that happen?"
"People are angry.
We promised them change in Washington and what we got was a process that you
and I both said we would change," McCain said.
A visibly annoyed Obama
immediately responded saying, "We can spend the remainder of the time with
our respective talking points going back and forth. We were supposed to be
talking about insurance. We're not campaigning anymore," he told McCain.
"The election's over."
After weeks of denials
from the White House that the health care reform effort failed to exhibit the
transparency Obama promised on the campaign trail, he conceded locking the
public out of key discussions was a “mistake.”
“We had to make so many
decisions quickly in a very difficult set of circumstances that after a while,
we started worrying more about getting the policy right than getting the
process right. But I had campaigned on process—part of what I had campaigned on
was changing how Washington works, opening up, transparency. ...The health care
debate as it unfolded legitimately raised concerns not just among my opponents,
but also amongst supporters that we just don't know what's going on. And it's
an ugly process and it looks like there are a bunch of back room deals.”
House Minority Whip
Steny Hoyer in a statement yesterday on the immigration meeting:
“Today’s meeting at the
White House was a positive step forward in that everyone in the room agreed
that we must take action on DACA immediately; however, the statement issued by
the White House is inaccurate. Republicans put forward their four priority
areas, but our priority remains the same: ensuring that DREAMers can remain in the only
country they’ve ever called home. I was pleased that the President agreed that
we need to address DACA now, and I hope that we can come together to quickly
reach an agreement on legislation that will pass the House and Senate and be
signed into law."
A Bill
Clinton-appointed federal judge, William Alsup, issued a preliminary
injunction Tuesday night following the meeting President Trump held earlier
in the day ordering DHS to resume accepting renewal applications from people
already protected under DACA (Obama’s name for amnesty).
"I'm appealing to everyone in the room to put the country
before Party, and to sit down and negotiate and to compromise, and let's see if
we can get something done."─President
Trump January 9, 2018
