Since it went completely over your head...
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore
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Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore
Biden sure did open it though.
I am not in charge of writing border policy. You are nit picking my ideas but refusing to see my point.
Biden undid Trump's border policies that were working. Biden invited illegals to cross our border. The united nations documents call for open borders.
Trump ran on closing the border and he built the wall. Trump enacted policy to stop illegals.
No matter how you want to spin it, Trump is stronger for border security than harris/biden/dems.
Who cares. That's a comeback when you support a losing argument.
I see you're still talking about something we were never discussing with the little gullible moron liking your post. I truly hope it makes you feel like you were right and made some crazy good points! You need that positivity in your life after this week.
Enough to support a growing economy.
Estimating Population Increase for 2% GDP Growth:
To achieve 2% GDP growth:- Population growth alone would need to significantly increase, especially if productivity growth remains low. A 1% annual increase in population, coupled with modest productivity growth, would typically be sufficient for 2% GDP growth.
- Given current population growth of 0.35%, increasing population growth by approximately 0.65% annually (adding about 2.15 million people) could help achieve this, assuming productivity growth around 1%.
You should be laughed at. That's idiotic. Maybe your side should stop with the xenophobia and start taking responsibility for stupid comments.
I always wondered if stupid people knew they were ignorant. Yikes. They are overly confidant with little back to back it up.
No, weirdly, why would anyone would vote for a felon and a rapist.
Weaponization of the justice system. Even a dem admin has admitted it now.
Ironically, this looks worse for dems than it does for Trump. Dems are corrupt, trump is the victim.
The current dems will go down in history as the ones who tried to Weaponize the justice system against Trump but failed. That's got to really piss you off. 😬
Reagan was up to more in retirement than I realized.
No, I asked you:
How many million a year do you want to admit? What is your limit?
I didn’t say what the limit is, or that a limit is being observed. That’s your deflection attempt.
I suspect you'll keep ducking the question I posed to you.
Hilarious when you try to call out anyone else for not answering questions.
What is your limit?
LMFAO. No, you build a straw man suggesting we have open borders and a welfare state.
When did you stop beating your wife?
Trump literally admitted to sexual assault on tape. You're swinging and missing EVERYWHERE in this thread, my man.
Every politician in DC should be in prison for what they’ve done.
A criminal illegal immigrant has been charged in connection with the brutal slaughter of an entire family residing in a town near Rochester, New York.
The illegal alien, identified as Julio Cesar Pimentel Soriano, 34, is reportedly wanted for a 2019 murder in his home country of the Dominican Republic. Pimentel Soriano illegally entered the U.S. through Puerto Rico and used a fraudulent New York ID before entering the mainland.
On August 31, the family was killed inside their own home in Irondequoit before the house was set ablaze, according to authorities. Fraime Ubaldo, 30, Marangely Moreno-Santiago, 26, Evangeline Ubaldo-Moreno, 4, and Sebastian Ubaldo-Moreno, 2, all perished. The Irondequoit Police Department said in a press release that the four deceased had been “horrifically murdered in their home” but did not provide specific details about the killings.
www.dailywire.com
A criminal illegal immigrant has been charged in connection with the brutal slaughter of an entire family residing in a town near Rochester, New York.
The illegal alien, identified as Julio Cesar Pimentel Soriano, 34, is reportedly wanted for a 2019 murder in his home country of the Dominican Republic. Pimentel Soriano illegally entered the U.S. through Puerto Rico and used a fraudulent New York ID before entering the mainland.
On August 31, the family was killed inside their own home in Irondequoit before the house was set ablaze, according to authorities. Fraime Ubaldo, 30, Marangely Moreno-Santiago, 26, Evangeline Ubaldo-Moreno, 4, and Sebastian Ubaldo-Moreno, 2, all perished. The Irondequoit Police Department said in a press release that the four deceased had been “horrifically murdered in their home” but did not provide specific details about the killings.
Criminal Illegal Charged In Brutal Murder Of Family, Including 2- And 4-Year-Old
A criminal illegal immigrant has been charged in connection with the brutal slaughter of an entire family residing in a town near Rochester, New York. The illegal alien, identified as Julio Cesar Pimentel Soriano, 34, is reportedly wanted for a 2019 murder in his home country of the Dominican...
No. Yours is the comeback when you belong to the party that has sold their souls to the devil in an attempt to win an election.
Holeeey Fvck! Why the HELL do you think anyone goes into politics??? Political power is what allows them to set a course for their country. EVERYBODY runs for political power. The problem is the GOP WANTS the power but they have no f’n idea what they want to do with it.
Provide some aritcle, Biden Harris facilitated bringing 15-2000 Haitians to Springfield, Ohio. I can't find anything mentioning that, and I doubt you could either. I have a feeling you just lied again, right? Proof or SSTFU.
Sorry, Trump killed the bill, so stating he’s better on border policy is a lie. He did virtually nothing about immigration the last time around. Nothing will change with him in charge. The border only closed under Trump temporarily because of Covid. Nothing more.
He can blow sunshine up your ass all that you like but he’s not going to do much of anything except funnel money to cronies to build walls that stop nothing.
Well, he does his own research after all. Should be easily available to him.
I'm asking you:
How many million a year do you want to admit? What is your limit?
You've dodged twice. I'm not sure if that will have a limit either.
Here's another one.
Nonprofits Are Making Billions off the Border Crisis
Federal funding has turned the business of resettling migrant children into a goldmine for a handful of NGOs—and their top executives.
www.thefp.com
Your linked article does not support your position.
Haitians first started arriving around 2018 and chose Springfield because of job opportunities and affordable housing, Lucken Merzius, a Haitian immigrant living in the area, told PBS News.
He asked for a link and I provided one followed by him never acknowledging it.
There was no gaslighting. There was me stating a fact that destroyed his narrative. With that said, it’s not surprising you don’t understand what happened.
Oh weird. Someone else said that in this thread too.
So you think this absolves Biden and Kamala for the way they have handled the border? Trump has been open about supporting legal immigration. I can tell you that 15k did not move into Springfield in 2018 though. This proves nothing. So now address all the other illegal immigration that has gone on since Biden Harris have taken office.
You’re the type that villainizes refugees, then brags to others about your food prices being low.
Heres a good article about Aurora and how Biden harris helped get the migrants to Colorado.
Aurora, Colorado, is normally a quiet, nondescript suburb 30 minutes outside Denver. In recent months, however, the city has been at the center of a national scandal.
Beginning last year, a large influx of Venezuelan migrants, some of them members of the notorious Tren de Aragua street gang, reportedly had “taken over” a series of apartment buildings in Aurora—and unleashed terror. Last month, Venezuelan migrants were allegedly implicated in an attempted homicide, an arrest of purported gang members, and shocking security footage that showed heavily armed men forcibly entering one of the apartments. In response to the chaos, police mobilized en masse and vacated one of the complexes after the city, alleging code violations, deemed it uninhabitable.
An obvious question: How did members of Venezuelan gangs suddenly find themselves in suburban Colorado? To answer this, we have conducted an exclusive investigation, which leads to a troubling conclusion: the Biden administration, in partnership with Denver authorities and publicly subsidized NGOs, provided the funding and logistics to place a large number of Venezuelan migrants in Aurora, creating a magnet for crime and gangs. And, worse, some of the nonprofits involved appear to be profiting handsomely from the situation.
The story begins in 2021, when the Biden administration signed the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) into law, allocating $3.8 billion in federal funds to Colorado. The City of Denver, which had declared itself a “welcoming city” to migrants, drew on this reservoir of money to launch its Emergency Migrant Response resettlement program, with the goal of housing and providing services to a massive flow of migrants.
Denver, in turn, signed multimillion-dollar contracts with two local NGOs, ViVe Wellness and Papagayo, to provide housing and services to more than 8,000 predominantly Venezuelan migrants. These NGOs are run, respectively, by Yoli Casas and Marielena Suarez, who, according to professional biographies, do not appear to have previous experience in large-scale migrant resettlement.
Nevertheless, the city flooded them with cash. According to public records, between 2023 and 2024, ViVe Wellness and Papagayo received $4.8 million and $774,000, respectively; much of this funding came from the Migrant Support Grant, which was funded by ARPA. Then, in 2024, ViVe secured an extra $10.4 million across three contracts, while Papagayo received $2.9 million from a single contract to serve migrants; two of those five contracts were awarded to implement the Denver Asylum Seekers Program, which promised six months of rental assistance to nearly 1,000 migrants.
With this funding in hand, the two NGOs began working with landlords to place migrants in housing units and to subsidize their rent. One of these organizations, Papagayo, worked with a landlord called CBZ Management, a property company that operates the three apartment buildings at the center of the current controversy: Edge of Lowry, Whispering Pines, and Fitzsimons Place, also known as Aspen Grove.
We spoke with a former CBZ Management employee, who, on condition of anonymity, explained how the process worked. Last summer, the employee said, representatives from Papagayo began working with CBZ Management to place Venezuelan migrants in the company’s Aurora apartment complexes. When a Venezuelan individual or family needed housing, the NGO would contact the regional property manager, who then matched them with available apartments.
It was a booming business. According to the employee, Papagayo arranged hundreds of contracts with the property manager. The NGO provided up to two months of rental assistance, as many migrants did not have, or were unable to open, bank accounts. Within six months, according to the employee, approximately 80 percent of the residents of these buildings were Venezuelan migrants. The employee also noted that the buildings saw gang activity and violence.
The employee, however, alleges that these agreements were made on false pretenses. To convince the hesitant employee to accept the migrants, Papagayo made assurances that the tenants had stable jobs and income. With limited English and facing a minimum six-month wait for work permits, though, many migrants were ineligible for legal employment, struggled to find stable jobs, and ultimately fell behind on rent.
This was only the beginning. As the Venezuelan migrants settled in the apartments, they caused lots of trouble. According to a confidential legal report we have obtained, based on witness reports, the apartments saw a string of crimes, including trespassing, assault, extortion, drug use, illegal firearm possession, human trafficking, and sexual abuse of minors. Each of the three apartment complexes has since shown a localized spike in crime.
Volunteers who spoke with us on condition of anonymity said they were initially eager to assist with migrant resettlement but grew disillusioned with the NGOs running it. “I am passionate about helping migrants and I have been honestly shocked at the way the city is sending funds to an organization that clearly is not equipped to handle it,” one volunteer said.
The City of Denver, for its part, appears to be charging ahead. It recently voted to provide additional funding for migrant programs and, according to the right-leaning Common Sense Institute, the total cost to Denver could be up to $340 million, factoring in new burdens on schools and the health-care system. And the city also appears to have no qualms about exporting the crisis to the surrounding suburbs, including Aurora, which, in 2017, had declared itself a non-sanctuary city.
The truth is that there is no sanctuary for a city, a county, or a country that welcomes—and, in fact, attracts—violent gang members from Venezuela. This is cruelty, not compassion. Unfortunately, it might take more than the seizure of an apartment building, a dramatic rise in crime, and a grisly murder for cities like Denver to change course.
www.city-journal.org
Aurora, Colorado, is normally a quiet, nondescript suburb 30 minutes outside Denver. In recent months, however, the city has been at the center of a national scandal.
Beginning last year, a large influx of Venezuelan migrants, some of them members of the notorious Tren de Aragua street gang, reportedly had “taken over” a series of apartment buildings in Aurora—and unleashed terror. Last month, Venezuelan migrants were allegedly implicated in an attempted homicide, an arrest of purported gang members, and shocking security footage that showed heavily armed men forcibly entering one of the apartments. In response to the chaos, police mobilized en masse and vacated one of the complexes after the city, alleging code violations, deemed it uninhabitable.
An obvious question: How did members of Venezuelan gangs suddenly find themselves in suburban Colorado? To answer this, we have conducted an exclusive investigation, which leads to a troubling conclusion: the Biden administration, in partnership with Denver authorities and publicly subsidized NGOs, provided the funding and logistics to place a large number of Venezuelan migrants in Aurora, creating a magnet for crime and gangs. And, worse, some of the nonprofits involved appear to be profiting handsomely from the situation.
The story begins in 2021, when the Biden administration signed the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) into law, allocating $3.8 billion in federal funds to Colorado. The City of Denver, which had declared itself a “welcoming city” to migrants, drew on this reservoir of money to launch its Emergency Migrant Response resettlement program, with the goal of housing and providing services to a massive flow of migrants.
Denver, in turn, signed multimillion-dollar contracts with two local NGOs, ViVe Wellness and Papagayo, to provide housing and services to more than 8,000 predominantly Venezuelan migrants. These NGOs are run, respectively, by Yoli Casas and Marielena Suarez, who, according to professional biographies, do not appear to have previous experience in large-scale migrant resettlement.
Nevertheless, the city flooded them with cash. According to public records, between 2023 and 2024, ViVe Wellness and Papagayo received $4.8 million and $774,000, respectively; much of this funding came from the Migrant Support Grant, which was funded by ARPA. Then, in 2024, ViVe secured an extra $10.4 million across three contracts, while Papagayo received $2.9 million from a single contract to serve migrants; two of those five contracts were awarded to implement the Denver Asylum Seekers Program, which promised six months of rental assistance to nearly 1,000 migrants.
With this funding in hand, the two NGOs began working with landlords to place migrants in housing units and to subsidize their rent. One of these organizations, Papagayo, worked with a landlord called CBZ Management, a property company that operates the three apartment buildings at the center of the current controversy: Edge of Lowry, Whispering Pines, and Fitzsimons Place, also known as Aspen Grove.
We spoke with a former CBZ Management employee, who, on condition of anonymity, explained how the process worked. Last summer, the employee said, representatives from Papagayo began working with CBZ Management to place Venezuelan migrants in the company’s Aurora apartment complexes. When a Venezuelan individual or family needed housing, the NGO would contact the regional property manager, who then matched them with available apartments.
It was a booming business. According to the employee, Papagayo arranged hundreds of contracts with the property manager. The NGO provided up to two months of rental assistance, as many migrants did not have, or were unable to open, bank accounts. Within six months, according to the employee, approximately 80 percent of the residents of these buildings were Venezuelan migrants. The employee also noted that the buildings saw gang activity and violence.
The employee, however, alleges that these agreements were made on false pretenses. To convince the hesitant employee to accept the migrants, Papagayo made assurances that the tenants had stable jobs and income. With limited English and facing a minimum six-month wait for work permits, though, many migrants were ineligible for legal employment, struggled to find stable jobs, and ultimately fell behind on rent.
This was only the beginning. As the Venezuelan migrants settled in the apartments, they caused lots of trouble. According to a confidential legal report we have obtained, based on witness reports, the apartments saw a string of crimes, including trespassing, assault, extortion, drug use, illegal firearm possession, human trafficking, and sexual abuse of minors. Each of the three apartment complexes has since shown a localized spike in crime.
Volunteers who spoke with us on condition of anonymity said they were initially eager to assist with migrant resettlement but grew disillusioned with the NGOs running it. “I am passionate about helping migrants and I have been honestly shocked at the way the city is sending funds to an organization that clearly is not equipped to handle it,” one volunteer said.
The City of Denver, for its part, appears to be charging ahead. It recently voted to provide additional funding for migrant programs and, according to the right-leaning Common Sense Institute, the total cost to Denver could be up to $340 million, factoring in new burdens on schools and the health-care system. And the city also appears to have no qualms about exporting the crisis to the surrounding suburbs, including Aurora, which, in 2017, had declared itself a non-sanctuary city.
The truth is that there is no sanctuary for a city, a county, or a country that welcomes—and, in fact, attracts—violent gang members from Venezuela. This is cruelty, not compassion. Unfortunately, it might take more than the seizure of an apartment building, a dramatic rise in crime, and a grisly murder for cities like Denver to change course.
Chaos in Aurora
How the federal government subsidized the migrant madness in suburban Colorado.
www.city-journal.org
