5 Lies Biden Used to Break the Border—and How Trump Can Fix It

by | Dec 21, 2024 | Daily Signal

Over the past four years, President Joe Biden conducted an experiment: What happens if you open the U.S. border to nearly all who seek entry? 

He released millions of illegal aliens at the border, paroled over a million more using programs Congress never authorized, and allowed at least 2 million more to evade the Border Patrol . 

That resulted in the fastest illegal influx in U.S. history. The foreign-born population now exceeds the previous high from the 1890s—over 15%.

The legacy media did its best to hide all this, habitually “gaslighting” their audience—telling many smaller lies in the hopes that eventually people will believe one big lie.

The big lie Biden and his media allies told America is that open borders bring unmitigated good. To prepare the public to swallow this, they told many little lies. 

They aren’t. Congress authorized around 850,000 legal immigrants a year, based on family relationships and labor needs. The millions Biden has paroled, released, or given “temporary” protection to under dubious programs are outside what Congress intended. And unless Congress changes it, the law should be upheld. 

2. They Said Illegal Aliens Commit Fewer Crimes Than Americans 

The methodology of studies claiming this is suspect, but we know some illegal aliens do commit additional crimes, every one of which is preventable if laws are enforced. One report estimates that “crime by illegal aliens … cost the country some $166.5 billion.” But the cost in victims assaulted or murdered, and a declining sense of public safety, is incalculable. 

3. They Told You That All Immigrants Boost the Economy 

Which ones? Those under 30 with doctorates in rocket science do. But those without a high school degree, skills, or English don’t. Almost 60% of families headed by an illegal immigrant are on a federal welfare program. Illegal aliens are less educated than U.S. citizens. Over their lifetimes, most of those let in under Biden’s border boom will be a fiscal burden to the country, not a benefit.

4. They Told You Illegal Immigrants Cost Nothing 

According to one congressional estimate, illegal immigrants cost over $150 billion a year. To take but one example, the Biden administration wrote a rule forcing Americans to pay for health insurance for people here illegally. “Congress never intended that illegal aliens should receive Obamacare benefits,” said Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach, after a federal court overturned Biden’s rule this week. 

5. They Told You It Was Inevitable

While the Biden administration undid every effective policy of previous eras, it asked you to believe that mass illegal migration wasn’t its fault. But it was not earthquakes, wars, or feckless governments that attracted the world’s economic migrants to our borders. This week, even The New York Times admitted: “The Biden administration’s policy appears to have been the biggest factor.”  

Some of us have been saying that for years. But the legacy media only turned the lights back up when their favorite team lost an election. 

The people elected Donald Trump to fix Biden’s mistake. How? The recipe is clear, and with Tom Homan as border czar, the cook is in the kitchen.

1. Reinstate the Migrant Protection Protocols 

Also known as “Remain in Mexico,” this policy discourages fraudulent asylum claims by keeping applicants outside the U.S. until their claims are decided. We also need to conclude Asylum Cooperative Agreements with every possible country, to deal with refugee claimants closest to their homes. 

2. Turn Off the Cash Spigot 

Mass movement of people from the Third World to the First is facilitated by the U.N. and globalist elites—elected and unelected. Billions of taxpayer dollars have been spent to bring inadmissible aliens to and into the U.S. We can reverse the polarity of this flow by defunding nongovernmental organizations that facilitate the process and by funding law enforcement.

3. Seal the Border 

Authorize Border Patrol to remove or detain illegal entrants, not process and release them. Re-activate lights, sensors, and other measures Biden’s Department of Homeland Security sidelined. Close gaps in the border wall. Barriers don’t stop everyone, but they channel illegal crossing to ports of entry. And, given that both sides of the wall are generally in the United States, we can prosecute anyone cutting or climbing it. 

4. Enforce Laws in the US Interior  

The Biden administration hamstrung Immigration and Customs Enforcement with prohibitions, arbitrary limits, and paperwork. Biden’s dereliction of duty has created a huge backlog in enforcement, including deportations, that needs a major effort to reduce.

5. Get States on Board 

States and cities need to hand over illegal aliens in their custody to federal authorities when asked. They need to stop giving out jobs, driver’s licenses, in-state tuition, welfare, and other benefits to people here illegally.

Biden broke the border. America saw the results and voted accordingly. It’s time to restore the rule of law, the value of American citizenship, and legal immigration that puts Americans first.

Originally published by Fox News

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California’s Downfall Funded by ‘George Soros and the Cartels,’ Former Democrat Claims

by | Dec 21, 2024 | Daily Signal

Following Donald Trump ‘s election victory in November, California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, convened a special session of the California Legislature to “Trump-proof” the state. At the top of the agenda: Newsom’s effort to prevent the second Trump administration from deporting illegal aliens who live in California. 

“This is going against the rule of law and against the will of the American people” who elected Trump, Silicon Valley entrepreneur Allison Huynh says of Newsom’s plans. 

Democrats in California have “romanticized” sanctuary cities, illegal aliens, and even crime, says Huynh, a former Obama fundraiser and Democrat. 

“We’re just opening the gate and allowing all these illegal immigrants to come in, a lot of criminals, drug dealers, and it’s all funded by George Soros and the cartels,” she says, referring to the Hungarian-American investor, liberal political activist, and donor. 

Soros-financed candidates for district attorney, considered soft on crime, have won election in cities in California and other states.

A narrative perpetuated in California justifies crime in the name of being kind to the poor, she says, but the reality is that “we’re basically frogs being boiled alive.”

Huynh grew up under Vietnam’s communist regime until age 7, when her family moved to America. Now, she says, she is watching as her state embraces “full-blown socialism.” 

Huynh joins this episode of “The Daily Signal Podcast ” to explain how Newsom’s actions are moving California toward socialism and whether hope remains for her state.

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House Passes Spending Bill Without Debt Limit Raise

by | Dec 20, 2024 | Daily Signal

After a tumultuous 48 hours and change, the House has voted in favor of a continuing resolution that funds the government until March.

The continuing resolution passed under suspension of the rules, which requires a two-thirds majority of the lower chamber. With the Senate’s approval and President Joe Biden’s signature, the government shutdown scheduled to kick in at Friday’s end will be averted.

Beyond keeping the government open until March, the continuing resolution included $100 billion in disaster aid for damage caused by Hurricanes Milton and Helene. It will also provide $30 billion in economic aid for farmers and a one-year extension of the farm bill. The package does not address the debt limit that President-elect Donald Trump wanted to raise, punting the issue to the early part of the Trump administration.

Democrats were angered by House Speaker Mike Johnson’s inability to get his conference to go with the deal negotiated by congressional leadership. 

When Johnson unveiled the more than 1,500 page deal on Tuesday, conservative opposition , spearheaded by Rep. Chip Roy , R-Texas, quickly tanked the deal. Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance denounced the original spending bill in a statement Wednesday, saying it “would give sweetheart provisions for government censors and for Liz Cheney.” and

Democrats were happy to let Johnson and the House GOP squirm for all of Thursday. But on Friday, when the prospect of a shutdown became real, Democrats were forced into getting the funding package across the finish line.

Elon Musk praised Johnson’s action in a post on X Friday, writing “The Speaker did a good job here, given the circumstances. It went from a bill that weighed pounds to a bill that weighed ounces. Ball should now be in the Dem court.”

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Education Department Cancels Loan Cancellation Scheme

by | Dec 20, 2024 | Daily Signal

The U.S. Department of Education announced today that it will be withdrawing both parts of its Plan C for student loan cancellation. One part involves various ways the department would have declared that a borrower has a “hardship ” deserving of complete loan cancellation. The other part would have identified additional categories for waivers of loan repayments, such as when the borrower’s loan balance is larger than the original loan (which is, in fact, a normal situation for many borrowers who get their loan payments deferred for various reasons ). Both are being withdrawn via a scheduled notice in the Federal Register on Dec. 26.

Withdrawing the hardship rule was what my Heritage Foundation colleague Madison Marino and I advised in our regulatory comment on the proposed rule. We argued that the department should confess its pretextual rulemaking—conveniently finding “authority” to cancel as much debt as quickly as possible—and that this newly discovered authority violated what is called the Major Questions Doctrine, which presumes that Congress doesn’t delegate to agencies issues of major political or economic significance.

We noted several additional problems in the proposed hardship rule, such as a completely unknown cost to the government and, therefore, to the taxpayers. That’s because other student loan schemes of the department, especially the SAVE plan (which changes the parameters of income-based repayment plans), have been enjoined by courts—they can’t be enforced—so it’s very hard to determine how many borrowers would be affected by eligibility for one scheme or the other.

Our colleague Paul Ray also provided several distinct reasons that the proposed rule is deficient. One is that “the proposal’s list of factors to assess hardship is woefully inadequate.”

Meanwhile, the proposed rule to extend waivers of repayment has already been enjoined by the court of the Eastern District of Missouri. This is one of many instances of “We told you so.” On May 16, my colleagues Jack Fitzhenry, Lindsey Burke, and Madison Marino had given many reasons against the proposed rule in a 12-page regulatory comment .

Good riddance to some of the most lawless actions of one of the most lawless agencies in one of the most lawless administrations in U.S. history.

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