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🔗 New Insightful Video: Senator Josh Hawley evaluates President Biden’s recent border policy proposal. A critical look at the implications for national security and immigration. 🇺🇸 Join the discussion and share your professional perspective. #USPolicy #BorderSecurity #JoshHawley #NationalDebate

Stop printing cash. It has no value

Can Biden Fix the Border? On the Bipartisan Policy Center's This Week In Immigration podcast I interview Theresa Cardinal Brown on the question that has been on many people's lips. We cover: - If we need Congress to act on the border and why (spoiler alert - we absolutely do) - What President Biden has done (or tried to do) and if it has been effective - What Trump-era policies Biden ended, and the significance of this - And more... This is a complex, politically charged topic that few people clearly understand - Theresa is one of them. Please share with your networks. #immigration #bordersecurity #immigrationpolicy #border

This seems like deflection. Why does the Administration want to make Mexico accountable for the US border crisis? Isn't Mexico a victim of the open border policy that brings millions of people through Mexico every year on their way to the US? Mexico won't fix the border crisis. From past experience, we know an executive order from the President can dramatically stem illegal crossings; Biden is unwilling to do that. Ultimately, it is the duty of Congress to pass border legislation and the funds necessary to enforce the legislation. I think the media underplays the impact of the border on voting. Trump was a nothingball candidate until he gave his "wall" speech. After that he zoomed in the polls. Biden doesn't seem to understand the importance of this issue to his re-election odds. https://lnkd.in/gGbbGjaT #migration #immigration #bordercrisis #bordersecurity #borderwall #nationalsecurity #foreignpolicy #election2024 #bidenadministration #biden U.S. Department of State

Walls have never been and will never be a good answer to a problem, so I believe this recent announcement by the Biden administration is a big step backward for our country. If you don’t believe me, look at what a colossal failure the wall around the Gaza Strip has been. Thank goodness Germany finally recognized the futility of the Berlin Wall and tore it down. Rather than wasting more money on border walls, why don’t we spend our valuable time and resources addressing the actual problem and enact true immigration reform?! For those of you who don’t believe we should enable more and easier legal immigration, we still have 2x the number of open jobs as job seekers here in the USA. Immigration has always, and will continue to, fuel our economy if we enable it well. The other fact is most of our ancestors were immigrants, so we shouldn’t be opposed to opening the doors to immigration. When Ellis Island was open, we approved legal entry for ~98% of the immigrants and the majority of them were processed in only half a day! This is the gold standard we should be working towards today. We also need to provide a path to all the undocumented immigrants who are currently living in the USA who are working, paying taxes, and following our laws (better than our citizens actually). “The Biden administration announced Wednesday that 26 federal laws were waived to allow border wall construction in Texas, marking the administration’s first use of an executive power often used by former President Trump to fund projects along the southern border. The waived laws will help expedite the construction of barriers and roads in Starr County, Texas, which is experiencing “high illegal entry,” the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said in a statement posted to the U.S. Federal Registry.” #teardownthewalls #immigrationreform #commonsense #stoptheinsanity

Let's clear up some confusion about where things stand in negotiations over a possible overhaul to border security and immigration policy, and what it means for aid to foreign allies. My latest for Bloomberg TV:

5 big reasons to pay attention to what’s happening at the border right now. When it comes to the US-Mexico border, there’s often so much noise that it’s hard to hear — and see — what’s really going on. I’ve covered immigration for more than a decade, through three different presidential administrations and through many different moments when people on all sides of the issue have warned of crisis conditions and authorities have appeared overwhelmed. That’s happening once again. But a few different factors make this moment feel different. The... https://lnkd.in/d4gNJudc

Decisions are a part of addressment of a situation. Where are the trade/monetary penalties for shifting the responsibility to the countries that are sending us their social problems? In an adult world, where is the requiring of addressment of the responsibility of and by home countries keeping their people in their own countries by having/making those countries responsible for keeping their citizens in-country by having countries and governments governing them worth living in?

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