Is mass migration what kills great nations? pic.twitter.com/ugTDATkMqi
— Fight Back Podcast (@ShieldsClips) April 6, 2025
Elon Musk: “Mass immigration is insane and will lead to the destruction of any country that allows it... It only takes a few percent of the world to move to a country, where it is no longer that country… A country is its people, not its geography.”
— AF Post (@AFpost) April 5, 2025
Follow: @AFpost pic.twitter.com/0IYwNbWBBZ
Newsom is right that California "leads the nation." He's just hoping no one asks what we lead the nation in.
— Kevin Kiley (@KevinKileyCA) March 28, 2025
We "lead" in homelessness, poverty, unemployment, gas prices, taxes, regulations, illiteracy, inequality, electricity & water bills, fraud & crime, illegal immigration. pic.twitter.com/iweM6tzeVX
Revoking free housing, shelter, food stamps, debit cards, phones, and whatever else the Democrats threw in the care package should discourage newcomers. --Martin Armstrong
Awake yet? https://t.co/oSU667wyek
— ☣️ Pleb Kruse = BTC foundationalist in exile 🟩🔆 (@DrJackKruse) February 15, 2025
The speaker who opens the video is Barbara Lerner Spectre,
We have to adjust for them as they invade our country.
They don't have to adjust to our society. In fact, we provide every service for them and their families. Free education for their children. No citizenship required. Not for foreigners.
I think there's a surge in anti-Semitism because at this point in time, Europe has not yet learned how to be multicultural, and, I think we are going to be part of the throes of that transformation which must take place. Europe is not going to be the monolithic society that they once were in the last century. Jews are going to be at the center of that. It's a huge transformation for Europe to make. They are now going into a multicultural mode, and Jews will be resented because of our leading role. But without that leading role, and without that transformation, Europe will not survive.
00:36. They have a shared fear in conspiracy theory something called the white genocide or the great replacements that says that Jews are at the head of this cabal . . .
00:45. Ensure that we can get this kind of material before to the internet . . .
00:51, YAN ST-PIERRE, Security Expert. A conspiracy theory . . .
00:57. V.P. BIDEN. An unrelenting string of immigration, non-stop, non-stop.
01:03. We will come here. We have been coming here, and we will continue to come here in hundreds of millions until, indeed, Gaddafi said, "A Europe will turn black."
01:12. BARI WEISS. Brown people and black people and Muslims and immigrants are coming to replace our white civilization, and the Jew's job is basically to pass as a white person but in fact, do the bidding of these people. And so when you have someone like Congressman, Steve King, saying, "We can't replace our civilization with someone else's babies," like, what does that mean? What is that idea? The Jewish connection to the refugee is not a conspiracy. That's something that we are very, very proud of an organization called HIAS, which brought people into this country. It participated in something called Refugee Shabbat, the value of באַגריסונג דעם פרעמדער "Welcoming the Stranger," and especially of welcoming the refugee.
1,500 RABBIS SUPPORT WELCOMING REFUGEES
01:55. So literally, we opened the center in Silicon Valley back in 2017, and the woman who runs it is an ex-Facebook executive. I have software engineers working at ADL. We're monitoring all this stuff, and we are working with all the platforms by the way, Google and YouTube, Meta and Twitter, Reddit, all these companies. I'm like [from] Apple to Zoom, we work with all of them right. It's relevant because we've been working with that's relevant cuz we've been working with Twitter now since it was founded; we worked with the old regime, we're working with the new regime.
Tell me again how immigration is NOT a political weapon.
We paid for our own invasion. https://t.co/h5w0tEgfed
— Law of Self Defense (@LawSelfDefense) February 13, 2025
It just doesn't stop.
BREAKING: I just forced Gavin Newsom’s budget director to admit they are spending $9.5 BILLION a year on illegal immigrant healthcare costs – and are giving 23% of every Medi-Cal general fund dollar in the state budget to illegals! WATCH: https://t.co/rDScbniIgA
— Carl DeMaio (@carldemaio) February 13, 2025
Where is the moral consistency of Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-FL?This is pretty crazy, but at this point just standard operating procedure.
Anna Paulina Mayerhofer is her birth name. Do you trust her to lead the investigations into 9/11, JFK, and all the other Mossad false flags we have been through?? 🤔 https://t.co/rIL1PVcx8K pic.twitter.com/kdt9PY0VGT
— Uncommon Sense (@Uncommonsince76) February 12, 2025
ONE DOES WONDER WHAT KIND OF SUPERPOWERS THIS CONGRESSWOMAN DOES HAVE. Is she a stripper? Now? I don't know, but she was an actual stripper in 2014.
Anna Paulina Luna is running for congress. Some people are unhappy that she’s made this video. What do you think? Do you like it? Yes or no. :-) https://t.co/3UQksrR54N
— Erin Elizabeth Health Nut News🥜 (@unhealthytruth) August 15,
She indicts illegal immigrants, "crisis at our southern borders," and companies that hire illegal migrants. But so what? Who is she serving? Her jeremiads are so vague.
Where is the moral consistency of Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-FL?
See here.
On February 7, 2023, she argued,
I would like to correct the record. It was Obama-Biden who built the cages, aka, "chain link partitions" used by border patrol stations as a safety measure to guard against things like sexual assault. I know that we heard earlier that Trump built cages. That is simply not true. And as is also as seen behind me, it was Biden who put kids in shipping containers, something that the media wanted to fact check, but as you can see, these are shipping containers. Now it's no secret that there's a crisis at our Southern border. Mayorkis was actually caught on a hot mic a couple of years ago saying that these numbers were unsustainable. We have approximately 325,000 children enter the US under the Biden Administration and these are unaccompanied minors a majority of the time and it's vastly between these ports of Entry Mr chairman I would ask for unanimous consent to enter these two Graphics into the record the Biden Administration does not want to acknowledge these facts and they certainly don't want to know who is coming into our country it has been estimated that a shocking 60% of Latin American children who crossed the border are caught by cartels and exploited for child pornography and drug trafficking which would be roughly about 200,000 kids under this Administration. As representative Andy Biggs had stated because of a letter that he received, 42,577 children have been lost.
01:26. Before I go on to my next point, Chief Chavez, can you tell me the youngest age of a known rape victim that you've come across, or that you've heard of?
01:33. CHAVEZ. I don't have the age ma'am. I know that when we go to the Central Processing Center in El Paso, my intelligence agents, as well as Homeland Security investigations agents, they do the debriefs at the Center.
01:46. Do you have minors that are raped when crossing the border? Has it been an occurrence that has happened to either Chief Chavez or Chief Maudlin?
02:00. President Trump has expanded . . . President Trump did expand biometrics collection to include a DNA testing pilot program, and fingerprinted children under the age of 14 to crack down on child smuggling and migrants posing as fake families. And I hear a lot of rhetoric saying that was wrong for people to separate children. But I, as a Hispanic woman and a veteran, think that it is the right thing to do to separate children until you can biologically confirm that they are not being handed over into the hands of traffickers and it is grossly irresponsible to hand those children that we might not have any idea if they're actually biologically related. Chief Maudlin, would you agree that you would rather have a child be confirmed to be a known family member than release them into the hands of a trafficker?
02:43. MAUDLIN. I would agree. Anything that helps us determine the actual familial bond is positive.
02:50. So with my follow-up question on this one. Are children currently having their biometric data being collected under this Administration?
02:58. MAUDLIN. It depends on the age of the children, but 14 and above they are . . . as I testified to earlier, in the Tucson sector, the vast majority are 17-year-old Guatemalan males. It's fairly rare to see unaccompanied females in Tucson.
03:12. Are you able to collect at every sector in every section of the border?
03:17. MAUDLIN. I can't speak for the other sectors, ma'am . . .
03:21. CHAVEZ. We do the same thing in RGV.
03:23. I would just like to also to ask one more thing. A large part of your job is engaging . . . catching those that are engaging in human smuggling and trafficking. Do you believe that with more funding that you could do your job better?
03:37. MAUDLIN. Ma'am, I absolutely believe with more funding that we can do our own job, we can do our job better. Absolutely.
03:45. I want to close with this because I know that we are limited on time here. For any member of this House of Representatives advocating to defund border patrol and I.C.E., not only are you complicit and engaging in aiding and abetting traffickers, but you are hurting minority children. At that and with my final question, can you please tell me are a majority of border patrol agents white or Hispanic?
04:07. MAUDLIN. Ma'am my understanding is that the majority of border patrol agents are Hispanic, and as I've stated earlier, most of them are either first-generation migrants or migrants themselves.
04:19. I will close with this. Clearly, we don't have a white supremacy history in this country. Clearly, it's an illegal immigration one. Thank you for your service, and please tell your counterparts. God bless them.
You literally can’t make this up
— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) February 8, 2025
This Mexican woman is a hardcore advocate of illegal immigrants, even joining in sharing the “Winter Boots” tag that threatens physical harm against ICE officers
She just woke up to find ICE protestors have broken her vans windows
Amazing pic.twitter.com/Qr6Tu3JcBz
I have to say that when Trump calls illegals criminals and murderers, they may be. His audience is not primarily police officers, detectives, lawyers, or judges who may actually be able to verify such a claim. And there's the other side to it, meaning that if you call someone something it can plant the seed and actually conjure those aspects of the claim into being
In other sords, if you call someone a criminal, they could actually start thinking like one and maybe even, out of resentment or to prove that they're capable of being one, feel justified and vindicated by criminal acts. So it's not so much that Trump even needs to be citing some official record to be correct. But to those who've come to the US illegally, secretively, without official documentation at a time when no one cared because of of political and legal indifference, and then have the new president of the US change a multi-decades long policy of indifference, call them out, he is inciting the illegals and their associates who can turn vindictive and belligerent. All American cities are inundated with the swelling of unchecked immigration, which means that we're all neighbors to these folks. Some come to make good. Some come to take advantage of a corrupt and failed system, viewing the US and its suckers, the US taxpayers, as easy pickings. So it's not a good environment. Trump knows the chaos he's creating.
Meatpacking used to be a stable, middle-class union job, with multiple generations of families working at the same plant. In 1960, the industry was 95% unionized, paying wages that were comparable to those in the auto and steel industries. Meatpacking was skilled labor. A… pic.twitter.com/dioF8Pc7It
— Jay Fivekiller (@JayFivekiller) February 2, 2025
Meatpacking used to be a stable, middle-class union job, with multiple generations of families working at the same plant. In 1960, the industry was 95% unionized, paying wages that were comparable to those in the auto and steel industries. Meatpacking was skilled labor. A meatpacker was trained like an old-fashioned butcher to take an animal from slaughter to final cuts.
In the 1960s, a company called IBP (Iowa Beef Packers) figured out that you didn't need skilled labor if you didn't care about your workers. Instead of workers doing a variety of jobs, IBP had workers do one cut all day long, maybe separate the hind quarter from the carcass, or slice a single cut of steak. Meatpacking wages across the industry stayed high through the early 1980s but then started to fall, as more companies adopted the IBP method. After all, anyone could be trained to do a single cut. By the mid-80s, wages had plunged and unions were disappearing. It was a race to the bottom and meatpacking was quickly becoming the worst job in America. One reason it was now so awful, was that the IBP method resulted in a huge rise in repetitive stress injuries and debilitating knife cuts caused by inattention and fatigue. Doing one cut all day long on a speeding factory line was good for corporate profits but disastrously bad for actual humans. Today, Places like Tyson Chicken and Smithfield Ham need an endless supply of 3rd world immigrants to keep wages low and unions busted, but also because it's a job that destroys the human body and spirit. Even if you're not injured, the work is so grueling that most immigrants can only do it for a couple of years before they move on. That's why you'll see that the ethnic composition of rural meatpacking towns goes through successive waves of foreigners-- Mexicans, Somalis, Sudanese, Guatemalans, Haitians-- as each group gets brought in and burned out, while management goes looking for another group of suckers. Shutting down the immigration pipeline and deporting the illegals will go a long way to restoring the balance between workers and corporations. Likewise, we need to go back to a system with lots of small-scale regional meat processors staffed by skilled workers, something that will require breaking up these abusive corporations and overhauling the USDA inspection program. Yes, prices of meat will certainly rise, but you already shouldn't be eating factory-farmed meat and you shouldn't be patronizing corporations that are actively wrecking America. (The image is of union meatpackers preparing bacon in Chicago, 1955.)
SCOTUS ruled in 1982 that cities and states couldn't deny access to public schools based on immigration status, forcing schools into having to accept illegal aliens ever since.
— ButlerofThanos (@ButlerofThanos) January 27, 2025
Citizens are scratching their heads trying to find out what so many undocumented Mexicans have been living in the United States for two to three decades unchecked and unenforced. One, there is nothing to enforce because the Supreme Court provides for or guarantees illegal aliens to an education.
This is why I prefer to spend time with combat vets. Just gets to the point. The very clear point! https://t.co/vJenOQ6UJi
— Michael Yon: Callsign BIG HONEY 6 (@Michael_Yon) January 22, 2025
Undocumented labor is a little like slave labor for the nation - payroll taxes are removed as the 'employee' is posing as legitimate, but as an undocumented person they aren't officially accruing the years of Social Security history that a documented worker would be adding to… https://t.co/4DipbmqvOY
— Jennifer Depew, RD (@deNutrients) December 18, 2024
New York State Society of CPAs, NYSSCPA, has part of the story.
Undocumented immigrants paid taxes amounting to $96.7 billion in 2022, including funding for government programs that they cannot access, according to a report by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP), a left-leaning think tank. Roughly one-third of their tax payments included $ 25.7 billion to fund Social Security and $6.4 billion to fund Medicare.
Although one of the most common arguments for limiting immigration is the cost borne by the U.S. government, the study showed that undocumented immigrants pay about 26 percent of their income in taxes, Bloomberg News reported.
In total, undocumented immigrants paid $8,889 per person, in federal, state and local taxes in 2022. That translates to public services receiving $8.9 billion in additional tax revenue for every one million undocumented immigrants who reside in the country.
Six states raised more than $1 billion each in tax revenue from undocumented immigrants living within their borders, the report found. Those states are California ($8.5 billion), Texas ($4.9 billion), New York ($3.1 billion), Florida ($1.8 billion), Illinois ($1.5 billion), and New Jersey ($1.3 billion).
In 40 states, undocumented immigrants pay higher state and local tax rates than the top 1 percent of households living within their borders, the report found.
The ITEP estimated the tax payments of undocumented immigrants in several categories, including sales and excise taxes; property taxes paid directly or on taxes folded into rent payments; and payroll taxes, which are paid either through paycheck withholding or filing income tax returns.
Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, ITEP, corroborates this story, or fact. This is kind of important to know since many U.S. taxpayers are besieged with demoralizing stories about how undocumented are getting freebie after freebie, right after right handed to them. Many U.S. workers had become so demoralized that they couldn't see themselves working alongside undocumented workers who are unfairly receiving a score of benefits at the U.S. taxpayers' expense. Turns out that the undocumented are paying into Social Security and into Medicare.
WOAH 🚨 We just figured out how Democrats got all the illegal Haitian and Venezuelan migrants into America, MASSIVE FRAUD
— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) December 11, 2024
Rep Andy Biggs confronts Immigration Official about fraud taking place and she admits SHE KNEW about this:
- The same social security number was used on at… pic.twitter.com/cxoHmSc713
Arizona Rep, Andy Biggs grills Ur M. Jaddou, Director, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
I asked questions that you couldn't answer, so that's why I gave a statement. Do you agree that the same social security number was used on at least 20 different CHNV supporter applications?
So first let me start by saying . . .
So these are yes or no questions. So yes or no?
I just want to make clear that that the role that USCIS plays is on the supporters . . .
And I'm asking you about supporter applications.
Okay, I'm sorry. Can you repeat that question then? I heard it as a parole, the parolee.
No, the same social security number was used on at least 20 different CHNV supporter applications. That's the question I asked.
Okay, sorry.
You're aware of that?
So yes I am very aware . . .
It happened at least 3,200 times.
I don't have the exact number in front of me.
That's according to DHS's report.
Okay, . . .
I don't have . . .
You don't dispute DHS's report, do you?
No I absolutely will not . . .
Also, the same phone number was used on at least 20 different supporter applications. At least 3300 times. That's according to the report. Do you agree that that report is, accurate?
I don't have that report in front of me, but, uh, um . . .
I'm reading from it.
Yes, but I don't have it in front of me and I would prefer . . .
So you would dispute it?
No, I'm not disputing. What I am saying
So, you would deflect and ramble around. You don't disagree with that number you don't think I'm deliberately cherry picking numbers and just saying oh I'm just throwing the stuff out I'm giving you the numbers from the report do you trust me on that do you at least trust me that far?
Yes, I, I, I . . .
Okay so then you agree with that number same email address was used on at least 20 different supporter applications nearly 2,000 times do you agree with that?
Sir if if there is a situation where we have concerns of fraud and integrity, we take action at CIS and that exactly what we have done with regard to CHNB. Where we . . .
Let's clarify here. So I am laying foundation, and you don't really want to admit that there's this much rampant fraud here.
You're trying to tell me that when you find fraud, we cure it, and yet nearly 2,000 times you had the same email address used on 20 different supporter applications. The same exact 184-word text response to a question on the supporter application was used on more than 1,800 such applications by nearly 190 different CHNV supporters.
More than 460 non-existent zip codes were used on supporter applications on behalf of more than 2800 CHNV aliens. So you see, you can dance around and say you don't have the report in front of you and what not, but these are the facts. This program is rife with fraud.
As of August 6th, 2024, DHS had approved more than 80,000 CHNV supporters who were in the US on a temporary basis. Temporary basis. I'm going to give you some numbers.
224 CHNV parolees approved as CHNV supporters. That seems awkward.
170 additional parolees CHNV approved as CHNV supporters.
28,322 temporary protected status holders approved as CHNV supporters.
19,865 SLEs approved as CHNV supporters.
311 DACA recipients approved as CHNV supporters.
1300 + aliens in the US on temporary visas approved as CHNV supporters.
64 refugees approved as CHNV supporters.
1912 Conditional Permanent residents approved as CHNV supporters.
That is the program that you are administering. That's the section that you're administering.
That's the supporters. I'm not talking to aliens. I'm not getting into the violation of law, of the US code 1182, when the use of parole is supposed to be on a case-by-case basis, where Secretary Mayorkas himself has sat here under oath said it's supposed to be on a case-by-case basis. I'm not getting into that.
What I'm getting into is a program, the side that USCIS is supposed to actually administer, and that is the supporter applications. And the fraud was so rapid, you closed down the program. But you didn't fix it. It's still ongoing. We're waiting for the next report to confirm that these things are still going on because it wasn't fixed. Mr. Chairman, my time's up. I'll yield back.
Mr. Chairman, can I respond to the question?
There was no question because I asked questions you couldn't answer, so that's why I gave a statement. There was no question for you, ma'am.
Here one of the world's foremost experts describes how to settle on your Plan B. https://t.co/63B84dF7JU
— Tom Woods (@ThomasEWoods) December 4, 2024
Here is Mikkel's proesentation.
Well you're going to need a safe place to stay. This would be a second home. And we're going to get into this in a minute. You need it structured securely so that no one's going to be able to take it away from you. You want to have it private, so that it protects your privacy, your anonymity.
We need a free flow of capital. Maybe you need to be able to put money into a country and take money out of a country. We don't want put the money in, and you can't get it out. That's not going to be good. It needs to be tax optimized. Now, as we discussed, a lot of the people on today's call are Americans who we're going to get into US tax situation but we need tax compliant from the country that you're going into, and maybe your home country, and any other residency or citizenships that you have.
Then we need a secure, we need to secure your freedom of movement. So this is the immigration. This is the Residency, the passport, the permanent residency. These types of things and someone that's going to fit your lifestyle, who you are as a person, you are a value of your philosophy, all right, all the things that we need to keep in mind.
If we're going to develop a plan B for you, why do you need a plan B? Well there's political instability all over the world, including North America, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand, in the Western World in general it's politically unstable. Unrest, the social unrest, with all the elections happening in the world.
Major financial collapse on the horizon.
Strangulation of businesses during COVID.
You want to be in a place where you can build and create without compliance officers everywhere.
War in Ukraine Iran.
Forced Health mandates like vaccinations.
Your plan B is political insurance.
12:35. 4 PLUS 1
#1 IMMIGRATION
PERMANENT RESIDENCY is
* A permanent Visa to live work and do business in a foreign country.
* Gives you the majority of the rights of someone who was born in the country.
* A solid foundation for building your life in a new country.
* If you abide by the stipulations of the Visa you can live in the country forever.
* Most countries have a PR Visa. To keep the Permanent Residency VISA active, he has to visit at least 1 day every 2 years. As long as he does that then his Visa is valid forever. He has residencies in other countries so he visits those countries regularly.
* Permanent Residency can eventually lead to citizenship or naturalization. A Temporary Residency will not lead to Naturalization. A tourist VISA will not lead to naturalization. So you will not get that covered passport if you are a Temporary Resident.
WHERE WILL YOUR PERMANENT RESIDENCY BE, OR MULTIPLE PERMANENT RESIDENCES BE?
#2 CITIZENSHIP is the ultimate option, the thing that we're really really pushing for.
* It's when you can say I am Brazilian or I am El Salvadorian.
* You have all the rights as someone born in the country. [A a permanent resident does not have the qualifications to hold an elected office; a citizen does]
* You actually get the passport.
* In most cases, your citizenship can be passed on to the next generation of your family.
* If something happens to the passport, you just apply for another one.
Eric R. Weinstein’s “Great Replacement” https://t.co/eTU0L1U0uC via @JohnnyVedmore
— St. Michael, the Archangel (@aveng_angel) October 5, 2024
"The Great Replacement" concept is not just used to intimidate or scare domestic populations, it is real and it is really being implemented. So don't dismiss the obvious fallout from this. It's designed to lower the standard of living wherever it is implemented. You're doubling the population in many cases so as to reduce the amount of goods once available to just the native population.
Vedmore explains,
Essentially the UN decided that the democratic voters of a nation-state would oppose unfettered economic migration, as we are experiencing today, and the folks at this globalist entity believed they knew better. To achieve their goals, the United Nations needed to subversively introduce this agenda in an undemocratic manner without gaining the consent of the native citizens of the democracies that they were to target. The man they chose to analyse and map out this scheme, which many refer to now as “The Great Replacement” was Eric R. Weinstein, who has since become a central figure in the “Intellectual Dark Web” whose members include Ben Shapiro, David Rubin, Jordan B. Peterson, Sam Harris, Douglas Murray, Joe Rogan, and Eric’s brother Bret Weinstein.
Vedmore's revelation is so valuable here. It's important to keep regular notes as to who the "Intellectual Dark Web" is. When I first heard Jordan Peterson, I thought he was fantastic and was really pursuing truths in service of working kids.
Ben Shapiro.
David Rubin.
Jordan B. Peterson.
Sam Harris [in my opinion, one of the more disgusting guys anywhere].
Douglas Murray.
Joe Rogan, and
Bret Weinstein.
In the context of "The Great Replacement," however, Eric Weinstein stands out as the prime culprit. He was employed by the UN, an exclusive hotbed of communist intellectuals.
Eric Weinstein was employed by the UN to produce a document entitled: "Migration for the Benefit of All: Towards a New Paradigm of Economic Immigration," Weinstein was aware of the damage which economic migration was to do to the native populations in places such as the United States and the United Kingdom. In one part of the document he produced for this nefarious United Nations agenda entitled, “Preference for migrants, undercutting of natives”, Weinstein wrote:
“When migrant and native workers of comparable value to an employer are asked to compete, it is to be expected that the employer will take the applicant who costs him/her less. If, however, the respective terms of employment of the native and the migrant workers differ considerably, the employer may develop a preference between otherwise equal candidates. If migrant workers are not permitted to seek alternative work in the host country, then their “company loyalty” is reduced to a matter of law and regulation. In such circumstances, employers know that they will not have to earn migrant worker loyalty with the expenditure of resources that would be needed in the case of native workers. Thus it is to be expected that in systems tethering migrant workers to their employer-sponsors, some migrants will out-compete natives of comparable or greater value simply by virtue of the terms of employment set by the MWP. Since this is precipitated by a rational market response on the part of native employers, this consequence must be seen as a natural, if unfortunate, by-product of direct migrant sponsorship.”
You don't say Jamie.... https://t.co/yIcBbmiN18
— Tom Luongo (Head Sneetch) (@TFL1728) September 24, 2024
We are screwing up tons of other things, including immigration. But life isn't either or, so when your kids say we'll do this or that . . . You know, you're dealt the hand you're dealt, and you got to deal with it. So we should be very clear about helping the lower-income population. Every country has to control the borders, and we have to control the borders. So they're all important.
00:22 Would you take the deal that the Republicans put on the table, which is we want this border and immigration policy as we've laid out, and then we'll fund the rest. Would you take that than neither?
00:32 I have not read that deal in total, but I probably would take it. We have to control the borders. We need more merit-based immigration. We need more seasoned immigration. [seasoned? You mean of a certain age?] We need DACA to have a place here. We need a path to citizenship. If you do not control the borders, you are going to destroy our country. And so I think the people who think that somehow it's okay, well now that they're sending the migrants into New York and stuff like that . . . so to all of my super liberal friends, now they realize what a problem it is. Did it have to be that? So we want to have a big heart for the world, but we have to control [the border and immigration].
It's a strange world but I do think the eating the dogs & cats stunt has won Trump the elections... pic.twitter.com/qnLgJcLPrc
— Robin Monotti (@robinmonotti) September 13, 2024
The meme also indicts Ohio Governor, DeWhine, who has been accused, not charged, with running a Haitian child trafficking. God, I am sick of hearing about these child trafficking rings. It's never-ending. And no movie by Mel Gibson or Caviezel. Is a cat meme the only way to get people's attention about illegal immigration?
HOLY SH*T @RepThomasMassie calls out the Speaker of the House.
— Bryce Lipscomb (@BryceMLipscomb) September 10, 2024
Bravo Mr. Massie for your courage to always do the right thing.
Thomas Massie represents the independent voices of America who are tired of corruption at the highest levels. pic.twitter.com/RyyOyv3nto
From BipartisanPolicy.org,
What is a CR, a continuing resolution?
On an annual basis, Congress is responsible for providing funding for around 30% of all government functions, called discretionary spending. This funding is split up into 12 bills, which are typically due to be passed by both chambers by the start of each fiscal year on October 1, known as “regular appropriations.”
More often than not, though, Congress fails to complete all spending bills on time. A continuing resolution (CR) is a temporary “stop gap” by which Congress funds the federal government for a limited period to avoid a lapse in appropriations (more commonly referred to as a government shutdown). Lawmakers use CRs to ensure federal agencies continue operations until Congress and the President reach an agreement on how to appropriate federal funds for the rest of a fiscal year.
How does a continuing resolution work? What are the different types of CRs?
There are six main components of a CR that determine how federal agencies can operate when it is in effect:
CRs can be enacted for part of a fiscal year (short-term CR) but can be extended or even enacted for the full year (full-year CR). CRs can also cover all or only select federal agencies, depending on the status of individual appropriations bills, and they can vary in their duration.
When Congress has passed full-year appropriations for some agencies and not others, the government is sometimes referred to as “partially funded.” When different CRs cover different agencies for different time periods, it is often called a “laddered” CR.
A “year-long” or “full-year” CR is when one or more federal agencies or programs are covered by a CR for the entire fiscal year. This has happened for all or some of the regular appropriations bills 15 times since 1977, three of which were in the 21st century: in FY2007, FY2011, and FY2013.
What’s the difference between a continuing resolution and a shutdown?
A CR is a legislative measure used by Congress to avert a government shutdown. A shutdown occurs when there is neither a full-year spending bill nor a CR in effect for a department or agency with expiring budget authority. For many parts of government, that expiration date occurs at least once annually at the end of the fiscal year. If a CR or a full-year deal is not in place when an agency’s budget authority expires, some federal agencies and programs agencies are required by the Congressional Budget and Impoundment and Control Act of 1974 to stop all programs or activities that are not critical to national security or the protection of lives or property.
How have continuing resolutions been used in the past?
CRs have become a regular tool for Congress, which repeatedly struggles to complete the annual appropriations process on time: Congress has enacted at least one CR in all but three of the past 47 fiscal years. From 2010 to 2022, policymakers passed 47 continuing resolutions ranging in duration from one to 176 days. From FY1998 to FY2023, an average of five CRs were enacted each fiscal year, though as many as 21 were implemented in one fiscal year (FY2001). In the 21st century, Congress has used CRs to provide funding for federal agencies for an average of five months each fiscal year, though lawmakers have also passed full-year CRs.
Why does Congress pass continuing resolutions?
Congress may pass a CR when it cannot reach political agreement on full-year funding, often due to divided party control in government. This includes failure to agree on any or all of the following:
Even when there is political agreement on some or all of the above, delays from the president, one chamber of Congress, or both chambers can prevent lawmakers from enacting full-year appropriations before October 1. For example, the House may not consider all of its appropriations bills by June 10 (required by law but without any penalty for lawmakers’ failure to act). These procedural delays can necessitate a CR even absent the political disputes outlined above.
What effects do continuing resolutions have on the federal government?
CRs can yield operational challenges and funding uncertainty for impacted agencies, including disruptions to financial planning, hiring staff, or beginning new projects and activities—demonstrating the difficulty of relying on CRs for federal budgeting. They can also place significant administrative burdens on federal agencies and waste taxpayer resources.
Many agencies’ programs may be limited or halted altogether under a CR. For instance:
In addition to these effects, the rate of spending during a CR can create problems even after full-year spending is passed, especially if it comes late in the fiscal year. For example, if the spending level is cut in an agency’s final appropriation, but the agency had been operating at a higher, prior-year annualized rate under the CR, it may have to drastically adjust operations during the latter months of the fiscal year to avoid overspending. This can mean sharp decreases in services, activities, or even stopping ongoing projects. Conversely, if the appropriation is at a higher level than covered during the CR, the agency may be incentivized to accelerate spending in the final months of the fiscal year, which can lead to wasteful spending on unneeded goods or services.
Just as important, a CR leaves federal agencies stuck on the funding levels and policy directives of the prior year, even though public needs and program priorities change on a consistent basis. For example, federal agencies are stuck in early 2024 on spending laws that were put in place in December 2022, over a year prior.
What are the effects of a CR that lasts the whole year?
Before FY2024 appropriations were completed in March 2024, some lawmakers had discussed enacting a year-long CR. Other lawmakers in both parties, and some federal officials, have pointed to the numerous ways in which a year-long CR—while preferable to a government shutdown—could disrupt federal agencies and programs:
A CR leaves federal agencies and departments with limited flexibility to adapt to shifting program needs and requirements, forcing programs to operate as if the current budget year is largely the same as the last one, when no two budget years are the same
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