NYC to add more cops with funds previously earmarked for immigrant crisis



Within a year, there will be more than 1,500 new members of New York's Finest, thanks to an influx in funds that were previously intended to address the immigrant crisis, the New York Post reported.

The next two classes of NYPD officers — set to graduate in January and April 2025, respectively — had been nixed last year amid major budget cuts meant to help address the hordes of illegal immigrants pouring into the city.

Now, with more than $100 million restored to NYPD coffers, those two classes have been reinstated, meaning that 1,600 rookie cops will be out on the streets by next October, according to the Post, citing sources in City Hall.

'We're making even MORE investments to public safety, affordability, and livability for working-class New Yorkers.'

On Wednesday, Mayor Eric Adams (D) basically confirmed that report during a press conference to discuss the new budget cycle.

"The November plan adds two police academy classes, which will put 1,600 new officers on our streets by October 2025, increasing our uniformed force to nearly 34,000, getting back and reaching our goal of 35,000 officers patrolling our streets," Adams said at the press conference.

"That's a lot of officers," he continued, "who alongside all the civilian employees of the NYPD work day in and day out to keep us safe."

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During the press conference, Adams celebrated the reduced cost of addressing the immigrant crisis. According to a press release from his office, the city will save nearly $500 million over the next two fiscal years "primarily due to lower-than-expected number of asylum seekers entering the city's care since July 2024."

Earlier this month — just days after President-elect Donald Trump soundly defeated Kamala Harris, largely on account of the border crisis — New York City decided to end a program which provided thousands of immigrants living at the Roosevelt Hotel with prepaid debit cards in lieu of boxed meals. One of the main reasons cited for ending the program was the dwindling number of new arrivals.

Likewise during the press conference on Wednesday, Adams announced the appointment of Jessica Tisch as the new NYPD commissioner and referenced an officer who was shot in Queens on Tuesday night.

Officer Rich Wong, a seven-year veteran of the force, was wounded during a shootout with a violent suspect who had reportedly committed several armed robberies in the Queens neighborhood of Jamaica. During the shootout, the suspect, 57-year-old Gary Worthy, managed to shoot Wong in the thigh. Wong returned fire, fatally striking Worthy in the face.

Thankfully, Wong has already been discharged from the hospital. An innocent bystander was also wounded in the incident but is expected to survive, the Post reported.

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Biden’s lax border policies unleash 647,000 criminal aliens



Acting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Patrick Lechleitner revealed in a letter to Congress last week that 425,431 migrants with criminal convictions — which include charges such as rape, murder, assault, and drug possession — have been released into American communities. Lechleitner also noted that another 222,141 migrants who were allowed into the United States currently face criminal charges in U.S. courts. None of these individuals are currently in ICE custody.

This means 647,572 convicted and accused criminal aliens are currently free in the United States. For those who argue that the 222,141 individuals facing criminal charges are innocent until proven guilty, you’re correct. However, upwards of 98% of criminal cases in U.S. courts result in a guilty plea or conviction. Based on these statistics, roughly 217,000 of the 222,141 individuals facing charges are likely to be convicted.

Team Biden is more committed to 'helping' foreigners than it is in protecting American citizens from threats to their safety and national security.

To put these numbers in perspective, Boston has a population of 675,647, and Washington, D.C., has 689,545 residents. Cities like Rochester, New York; Richmond, Virginia; and Spokane, Washington all have populations between 200,000 and 225,000. Thanks to the Biden administration’s refusal to exclude ineligible foreign nationals, we now have enough criminal aliens to fill a medium-sized U.S. city.

You might be asking yourself, “How could the federal government miss nearly 700,000 convicted and potential alien criminals?” The simple answer is by willfully ignoring the immigration laws of the United States.

The Biden administration doesn’t like the Immigration and Nationality Act, the law that dictates when and how foreigners can enter the United States and how long they can stay. Under our system, if an administration doesn’t agree with a particular law, it lobbies Congress to draft and vote on a new bill. But that hasn’t happened with immigration. Even though Americans have repeatedly expressed their desire for secure borders and safe communities, that doesn’t align with the Biden administration’s worldview.

For more than three years, the Biden administration has assured Americans that everything is OK at the southern border, all while turning the Department of Homeland Security into a concierge and taxi service for border crossers. The administration has been unapologetically allowing criminals, terrorists, and Lord knows who else to enter the country, all while smiling and telling the public, “Don’t worry, you’re safe! All those military-aged men crossing the border just want asylum and the American dream. And besides, we’re carefully vetting them all.”

Of course, Lechleitner’s letter shows that little to no vetting has taken place. That’s not surprising. Anyone with experience in immigration enforcement will tell you it’s impossible to thoroughly vet that many people so quickly. In fact, anyone with common sense should be able to tell you that. But when it comes to border security and immigration policy, common sense has been in short supply lately.

To the extent that the corporate media covers this story at all, it will engage in theatrical handwringing and attempt to blame everything from xenophobia to capitalism. But this issue stems directly from the choice to ignore binding laws duly enacted by Congress. This means the problem never had to exist in the first place. The Immigration and Nationality Act grants the president more than enough authority to restore order at the border, if only Joe Biden would use it.

Doing so would ensure that asylum is reserved for people genuinely persecuted by their home governments. Right now, the Biden administration is making a mockery of America’s legitimate responsibilities under international humanitarian law. We’re not helping people who are actually facing persecution, because a rogue chief executive has unlawfully turned asylum into a “get across the border free” pass.

Anyone who prefers to be in the United States rather than their own country is taking advantage of our corrupted asylum system. Meanwhile, U.S. citizens are paying the price, both in blood and treasure, for uninvited guests — many of whom have repaid our kindness with violent, criminal behavior.

But Team Biden is more committed to “helping” foreigners than it is in protecting American citizens from threats to their safety and national security. Therefore, we should all be asking ourselves how many more Kate Steinles, Laken Rileys, and Rachel Morins it is going to take before the White House and Congress put their heads together and do something to stop this insanity?

Biden-Harris' toothless asylum rules too strict, UN agency says



The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, a UN agency, released a statement on Monday criticizing the Biden-Harris administration's decision to extend its so-called asylum restrictions, which the agency claimed "severely curtails access to protection for people fleeing conflict, persecution, and violence, putting many refugees and asylum seekers in grave danger without a viable option for seeking safety."

The agency expressed "profound concern," arguing that "every person seeking asylum must be granted access to safety and afforded the opportunity to have their claims individually and fairly assessed before deportation or removal."

'We have not cut off our asylum system.'

In June, President Joe Biden signed Proclamation 10773, 89 FR 48487 - Securing the Border, an executive order that claimed to give the federal government the authority to shut down the southern border when the number of immigrant encounters reached 2,500 per day for seven consecutive days. The restriction could be lifted if the average number fell to 1,500 per day for a week.

However, it carved out numerous exceptions, including for unaccompanied minors; individuals from countries that do not take back deportees; and individuals experiencing medical emergencies, a "severe form" of trafficking, or those with a "credible fear." Additionally, the so-called shutdown does not impact foreign nationals who schedule an appointment to claim asylum at a port of entry through the Customs and Border Protection's CBP One app.

The administration recently extended these actions and added that the average number of encounters must drop below 1,500 per day for 28 days before being lifted. Additionally, as part of the recent extension, the administration announced that it is now counting all children in that total. Previously, only children from Mexico were counted.

Despite the administration's toothless restriction potentially impacting only foreign nationals who attempt to illegally cross the border between designated ports of entry, the UNHCR claims the rules are too strict and may even violate international law.

"Limiting or blocking such access is a violation of international refugee law and the humanitarian principles to which the United States has long been a leader," the agency's statement read.

"UNHCR remains committed to collaborating with the U.S. in support of much needed reforms to enhance the fairness, efficiency, and capacity of its asylum and border management systems," it continued. "The United States has a long history of offering refuge and it is crucial that it continues to uphold its legacy as a beacon of protection for those in need. That is why UNHCR continues to call on the U.S. to reconsider these measures and ensure that no person seeking protection is unjustly turned away or put at risk of harm."

The American Immigration Lawyers Association similarly claimed that the administration's new rule is effectively an asylum ban, the Associated Press reported.

Kelli Stump, the AILA's president, stated, "It is imperative that our nation have safe, orderly, and efficient processes at the border that also ensure fair and humane treatment of asylum seekers. The consequences of denying asylum to someone who is being persecuted can literally be a matter of life or death."

Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas rejected those claims, pointing to the restriction's built-in exceptions, according to the AP.

"We have not cut off our asylum system," Mayorkas remarked.

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Biden administration offers 'mass amnesty' to illegal immigrants by quietly terminating 350,000 asylum cases: Report



The Biden administration has effectively offered "mass amnesty" by quietly terminating asylum cases to hundreds of thousands of migrants, according to an eye-opening report.

The Biden administration has "terminated without a decision on the merits of their asylum claim" more than 350,000 migrant asylum cases since 2022, according to a new report from the New York Post – citing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials as their source. The illegal immigrants reportedly have their asylum cases dismissed as long as they don't have a criminal record or are deemed to not be a threat to the United States.

While the migrants are not granted asylum per se, they are also not denied asylum. In addition, their asylum cases are terminated without a decision based on the merits of their asylum claim. Consequently, they are removed from the legal system and no longer required to check in with authorities. They are free to live in the U.S. without fear of deportation.

According to the Post, there were 102,550 migrants allowed to remain in the U.S. after having their asylum cases dismissed in 2022. The figure purportedly jumped to 149,305 last year. In the first four months of 2024, a whopping 113,843 illegal aliens had their asylum cases terminated, according to the data. Conversely, there were allegedly 18,119 such cases in 2021, 4,730 in 2020, and 4,746 in 2019.

'You're basically allowing people who don't have a right to be in the United States to be here indefinitely.'

"This is just a massive amnesty under the guise of prosecutorial discretion," Center for Immigration Studies' Andrew Arthur – a former immigration judge – told the New York Post. "You're basically allowing people who don't have a right to be in the United States to be here indefinitely."

Since President Joe Biden took office in January 2020, 77% of asylum seekers have been allowed to remain in the country, according to The Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse – a self-described "data gathering, data research and data distribution organization at Syracuse University."

TRAC found there is a backlog of nearly 3.6 million unresolved asylum cases.

Handling the millions of asylum cases are only 725 immigration judges, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

The average wait time for illegal immigrants awaiting their cases to be heard by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is reportedly more than 6 years. Those awaiting a case to be taken by the Executive Office for Immigration Review have an average wait time of roughly 4.3 years.

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Blaze News investigates: Small border town battles port closure amid rising immigration



United States Customs and Border Protection announced on December 1, 2023, that the Lukeville Port of Entry in Arizona would be "temporarily" closed down "until further notice."

Nearby local communities and small businesses were stunned by the abrupt news and were left with no indication of when the port's operations would resume.

Less than 30 miles up the road from the Lukeville Port of Entry lies the town of Why, an unincorporated rural community with approximately 100 residents, a number that fluctuates depending on the time of year with snowbirds heading elsewhere during the hot summer months. Travelers on their way to Mexico from the Phoenix metropolitan area, Tucson, and California converge at Why, the final stop before reaching the Lukeville port. The border crossing offers the most direct route for those headed to Puerto Peñasco, also called Rocky Point.

Why has one Mexican food restaurant and a convenience store, the Why Not Travel Store, a favorite pitstop for many tourists.

Blaze News spoke with the store's general manager, Bernadette Nez, about the port of entry closure, how it impacted her business, and the unknowns regarding its reopening.

"Everything was very slow," Nez stated. "We didn't get any travelers heading down to Mexico. We only had a few locals, and Why is very small."

Nez explained that when the port of entry closed, her business saw only about 15 people per day. She has never seen the port completely shut down during her 40 years of residing in the area.

"We barely even had enough to make our light bill," she told Blaze News. "It was like a ghost town."

Nez said her business ultimately survived the lull thanks to the area's residents, including Border Patrol agents living in the town, who stepped up by shopping at the convenience store more frequently during the closure. She noted that Why is a tight-knit community where everyone knows their neighbors.

Lukeville itself is not much of a town but serves as more of a stopping point for those heading across the border. It includes one gas station market, about a dozen or so trailer homes, and not much else. The Pima County Sheriff's Department provides law enforcement services to the area.

On the other side of the border in Mexico, business owners also felt the sting of the shutdown.

David Grosse, an Arizona resident with rental properties in Rocky Point, told Blaze News that approximately 90% of his renters canceled their stays upon hearing the news that the Lukeville Port of Entry was closed. Arizona residents own the majority of the 6,000 condos and 3,500 homes in Puerto Peñasco, the Arizona Republic reported.

Most tourists headed to the vacation destination drive through the Lukeville border because it is "convenient, and people feel comfortable with it," Grosse said.

"Every property in the area got impacted. And, for me, I was controlling around 50," he explained. "Everyone drives down to Rocky Point because it's the closest beach. And the renters going down for two or three nights basically all canceled and needed to be refunded or moved into some sort of unknown future."

He noted that when the port of entry was shut down, no one had any indication of when it might reopen.

"The people going back and forth are all Americans," Grosse stated, adding that the closure impacted the area's restaurants and those with rental properties. Some of Grosse's prospective renters are still hesitant to book their travel accommodations because they are not confident the port will remain open.

Port closure sparks safety concerns

The Lukeville border shutdown was necessary to "redirect personnel to assist the U.S. Border Patrol with taking migrants into custody," the CBP argued.

"In response to increased levels of migrant encounters at the Southwest Border, fueled by smugglers peddling disinformation to prey on vulnerable individuals, CBP is surging all available resources to expeditiously and safely process migrants," the agency wrote.

CBP's Tucson sector, which includes the Lukeville Port of Entry, is one of the busiest areas for illegal migrant crossings. According to the agency's reporting, in the first six months of fiscal year 2024, the sector experienced a shocking 342,002 migrant encounters. The next busiest sector, Del Rio in Texas, experienced 194,288. These numbers do not include known or unknown gotaways.

Pima County Sheriff Chris Naños has staunchly maintained that the issues at the border are CBP's responsibility and should not fall on the shoulders of county or state law enforcement agencies.

"The border is a federal government issue. It's their problem," he told Blaze News. "If [Border Patrol] needs our assistance, we'll assist them. But I do not want my deputies doing Border Patrol work. My deputies have a job to do, and it's not working the border."

A December NBC News report, which was published amid the Lukeville closure, stated that CBP was releasing illegal migrants into the interior of the country "as fast as possible to avoid overcrowding," according to three Department of Homeland Security officials who spoke to the news outlet. The sources claimed that migrants were "released directly onto the streets" in the Tucson area.

Naños said that the migrant street releases are a "concern," not so much for the department but for "the city of Tucson and the Board of Supervisors of Pima County."

Referring to the supervisors, he remarked, "They saw — and I agree with this — the need to deal with, in a humanitarian crisis, people who were going to be released out onto the street. Basically, 'We don't know what to do with these people.' They have crossed the border lawfully through the asylum process, and Border Patrol was going with what they're challenged with and that was: Under the federal government guidelines, if they meet the asylum protocols, they're to be released into the United States until their court date time."

"Whether that court date's tomorrow or 10 years from tomorrow, is another issue. But that's not for the sheriff to deal with. Even Border Patrol will tell you, they have no control over those federal courts. They just schedule the court date that they're given," he added.

Blaze News asked Nez whether she had seen any migrants wandering the streets near Why or Ajo, the neighboring community.

"No, surprisingly we haven't," she replied. "We have just seen a lot of Border Patrol."

Naños told Blaze News that Ajo's crime levels are low, with the town averaging 1.4 to 1.8 emergency calls to the department per day. He stated that CBP alerted the county with "a week or two's notice" that the Lukeville Port of Entry would be shut down — more warning time than locals were provided.

Arizona state Sen. David Gowan (R), whose district includes the Douglas Port of Entry, painted a different picture regarding immigration's impact on rural Arizona communities. He told Blaze News that law enforcement officers have "reached their break point," noting that the state's ranchers and farmers are also battling increased criminal activity that threatens their lives and livelihoods.

"Our local sheriffs and their deputies are overwhelmed with crimes being carried out in our communities as a direct result of this open border crisis. Instead of focusing on responding to calls for service from our citizens, they're juggling the influx of drug trafficking, human smuggling, high speed chases, rapes, murders, and other atrocities from criminals either coming across our border from Mexico, or U.S. citizens who are trying to make money by participating in these crimes," Gowan commented.

One story that received media attention amid the Lukeville Port of Entry shutdown involved an American citizen who was forced to take an alternate route on his way back from Rocky Point. Craig Ricketts, an Arizona resident, was driving outside of Sasabe, Mexico, when he got caught in the crossfire of two rival smuggling gangs, KTVK reported. Ricketts' vehicle was shot at least 16 times, and he sustained two gunshot wounds to his ankle and arm.

"The first thing I noticed was my left window was shattered. I saw a bullet hole through my front window, and my radio was blown out with a bullet," Ricketts told the news outlet shortly after the attack.

He said he planned to travel through Nogales, but his GPS led him just outside Oquitoa, Sonora, roughly an hour and a half from Sasabe.

The Attorney General's Office in Sonora told the media outlet that it was the second violent incident in the last month involving an American victim.

According to KTVK, two rival smuggling gangs began fighting near Sasabe in November. Due to the conflict, many of the town's residents fled to the U.S. after being granted humanitarian waivers. The ongoing violent rivalry has also rocked communities south of Sasabe, including Altar, Caborca, and Benjamin Hill, the media outlet reported.

Lora Ries, the director of the Border Security and Immigration Center at the Heritage Foundation and former acting deputy chief of staff for the DHS, told Blaze News, "The Lukeville Port of Entry was shut down because border agents were overrun due to the Biden administration's open border policies. If communities want a functioning border, they should direct their ire at the Biden administration and demand that it stop the illegal flow of people."

"Those who benefit from legal travel and immigration and demand more of it need to be vocal about advocating against illegal immigration. Solve the whole problem, not just their special need by exception," Ries added.

The port reopens, but issues remain

The Lukeville Port of Entry remained closed for a month before CBP announced it would resume field operations on January 4, 2024, just days after Ricketts was injured.

Nez told Blaze News that she is thankful the closure did not last longer and is happy to see her customers again.

"We're just hoping that another shutdown of the border doesn't happen, ever," she remarked. "It really caused a lot of trouble within our personal lives and our work lives."

When asked whether he is concerned the port could be shut down again, Grosse told Blaze News, "I don't know exactly what any government is going to do. Somebody's allocating these people — the migrants, or forces, or whatever it is — and they're designating where they're supposed to cross the border."

Grosse, who has managed rental properties in Rocky Point since 2010, explained that, during his recent travels between Arizona and Mexico, he has observed many migrants seeking asylum at the U.S. border who "look like foreign troops," noting that nearly all are adult males around military age. He noted that he began noticing this right after the October 7 attack on Israel.

"I've been traveling back and forth for years," he stated, noting that the experience has previously always been "incredibly normal."

"The reaction to: I'm seeing what looks like an army of troops coming across — everyone says it's not that; it's something else," he told Blaze News.

"And I'm supposed to ignore what I saw with my eyes. And I do have concern," Grosse added.

Jeff Rainforth, a reporter and videographer, recently spent seven weeks in Lukeville filming his experiences at the southern border.

In October, Rainforth captured video of large groups of illegal migrants he stated were mainly from Middle Eastern and African countries. His observations aligned with what Grosse described to Blaze News.

"It was surreal," Rainforth wrote, regarding his accounts in Lukeville. "Like out of an apocalyptic movie."

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In a January post on X, he wrote, "From my time on the border near Lukeville, Arizona. The port of entry closed because so many illegal aliens were there. Mostly male illegal aliens from the African countries of Senegal and Guinea which are majority Islamic. Tensions were very high because people tried to cut in line to get on transport vehicles first. I see that all the time. There were so many illegal aliens, many had to sleep here 3 days. There's not enough Border Patrol and the Biden administration refused to call in the national guard to help."

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Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs (D) said last month that the state is "at a crucial juncture" regarding the number of migrants crossing the southern border.

"I hope that we don't see street releases. We're going to do everything we can to avoid that, but as you know, our budget picture isn't great, and we've expended a good amount of the funding we have for these programs," Hobbs stated.

The governor requested $752 million for CBP's Shelter and Services Program to cover the costs of humanitarian aid expenses in an effort to keep migrants off the street.

Pima County, which includes Lukeville, has been using federal funds since 2019 to provide temporary housing and transportation out of state for those claiming asylum.

The county has the largest linear border with Mexico than any county in the country, Sheriff Naños explained. Along that border and under the county's jurisdiction sit several small towns in addition to Lukeville, including Sasabe and Arivaca. Of all the townships and communities along Pima County's border with Mexico, the sheriff's department received only 126 calls in one year, according to Naños.

"And, of course, you have the Indian reservation, which takes up probably about I'm guessing, 70 to 75 miles of that border," he continued. "I wouldn't say it's open, but the reservation — most people don't realize this — the reservation is its own nation. … And their border actually exceeds south of the Mexico border. So, that reservation goes beyond the Mexican line that we know of. They have quite a bit of impact with the Mexican population and that governance."

Naños explained that federal funding to provide services to migrants was set to run out on April 1, igniting great concern that waves of individuals would be released onto the streets. He said that using Pima County or the city of Tucson's funds to address migrants' humanitarian needs means less money in the budget for his department and other community necessities.

"Fortunately, last minute, the federal government stepped in and has now taken on some responsibility. I guess at least for now until December to continue funding those asylum seekers," he told Blaze News.

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Gov. Whitmer proposes $8M for attorneys for asylum-seeking immigrants, 97% of whom are reportedly in the US illegally



Democrat Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan has proposed spending millions of dollars to provide legal representation to immigrants looking to claim asylum in the United States, the vast majority of whom are reportedly facing deportation because they are in the country illegally.

In fiscal year 2025, Whitmer would like to designate $8 million to provide legal assistance to immigrants seeking asylum in the U.S. because they fear persecution in their home country. Some in her state have cheered the proposal. Capital News Service even claimed it could be "lifesaving."

"I get calls every day from people who need legal help, who have called every nonprofit in the state," said Sabrina Balgamwalla, the director of the Asylum and Immigration Law Clinic at Wayne State University. "I have to turn them away because our docket is full."

Capital News Service seemed to lament that, as of December, just 32% of immigration cases in Michigan involved an attorney. Without one, an applicant's chances of winning an immigration case are about 10%, Transitional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University suggested.

Elizabeth Orozco-Vasquez, the chief executive officer at Freedom House in Detroit, claimed that asylum applicants are "twice as likely" to be successful with an attorney helping them.

However, according to the top Republican in the state House, most people who request asylum in the U.S. do so only as a last resort to keep from being deported. "More than 97% of asylum seekers in fiscal year 2023 claimed asylum defensively after they were facing deportation," said state Rep. Matt Hall of Richland Township, "and most asylum claims get denied."

According to a federal government website, deportation is a process to remove "noncitizens" who have violated U.S. immigration law by violating their visa, threatening public safety, or committing a crime. In other words, they are apparently in the country illegally.

"In Michigan, Gretchen Whitmer is trying to talk tough while using taxpayer-funded aid to encourage these very illegal aliens," Hall added. "First she offered them rent assistance, and now she’s hoping to pay attorneys to help them obstruct deportation."

On Monday, reporters asked Whitmer about the proposed money to provide attorneys for asylum-seekers as well as her Newcomer Rental Subsidy program, which provides $500 a month in rental assistance to some asylum-seekers and other "newcomers" for up to 12 months. "If you are here illegally, I do not believe you should have access [to those programs]," Whitmer replied.

"I know that we’ve got to reform immigration in this country. There is no question about that. It’s important that we do it in a responsible way because our economy relies [on those individuals,]" she continued.

"That is the greatest strength of our state and country."

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The hidden agenda: Exposing the immigration bill's reality



Joe Biden has the power to secure the border, but for some reason, he won’t do it.

Even the immigration bill, which is hailed as the strictest ever, is masking its true implications in convoluted legal jargon.

“It has multiple loopholes,” Mark Levin explains, “including the fact that they have to come through the port of entry. So, now they’ll be rubber-stamping them through the port of entry, just like that.”

While it used to be that immigrants would have to wait six months, they no longer have to wait at all under this bill.

The bill also ensures that immigrants immediately get a green card, which gives them legal protection. After four years of having that green card, they become citizens.

“At some point, you have 10 million people here illegally. They get on the track for green cards, refugee status, because some bureaucrats said so,” Levin says.

“'It’s the toughest we’ve ever seen,'” he mocks, adding, “No it’s not. It enshrines what’s been taking place. It’s a disaster.”

The bill itself is over 300 pages and does almost nothing to actually secure the border.

“You don’t need 300 pages of laws to secure the border,” Levin says. “I have a six-word law, you ready for this? Biden shall enforce existing immigration laws. Six, that’s it. It’s not even one page.”


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