Rep. Jaime Herrera-Butler (R-WA) probably will be re-elected. Age 41, now serving her 7th term in Congress, Herrera-Butler’s never had a “real” job. She’s a career politician, of the sort wingnuts want to “term limit.” They have another reason for term-limiting he[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Immigration’
April 20th, 2022 - 1:20 pm § in Politics, Schools & Colleges
Republicans can’t count
Rep. Debbie Lesko (R-AZ), a Trumper election denier (details here), not only can’t read an election result, but can’t count warm bodies wading across the Rio Grande and climbing over fences, either. She tweeted on Tuesday, April 19, 2022, “Border Patrol agents have apprehended more tha[...]
April 16th, 2022 - 9:27 pm § in Politics
GOP governor’s border stunt will cost you at grocery checkout
And he doesn’t care. Like busing migrants to Washington D.C., Texas GOP Gov. Greg Abbott’s “tighter inspections of trucks entering Texas from Mexico” was political theater, not a serious policy or solution to a problem. Migrants illegally jumping the border from Mexico into T[...]
Are the Democrats throwing immigrants under the bus?
“Democrats are set to leave immigrants in the lurch again” That’s the headline of a Vox article published on Monday, November 15, 2021 (here). I say, “click bait.” Why? That article begins, “The House may soon vote on Democrats’ $1.75 trillion budget reconciliat[...]
Economist wins Nobel Prize for debunking GOP arguments
“A U.S.-based economist won the Nobel prize for economics Monday for pioneering research that showed an increase in minimum wage does not lead to less hiring and immigrants do not lower pay for native-born workers, challenging commonly held ideas,” NBC News reported on Monday, October 11[...]
Border Patrol attacks Haitians with horses and whips (video)
Read story here. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
Why are Haitians piling up on the Texas border?
Pretty simple, really. “Many of the Haitians currently at the border are believed to have been living in South America after the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, but the toll of the pandemic on the region fueled migration to the US southern border,” CNN says (read story here). The Biden adminis[...]
Tucker Carlson falsely blames refugees for housing shortage
Ranting about America’s housing crisis, which is real enough, Fox host Tucker Carlson told his gullible audience, “So, why is it happening? Well, lots of reasons, but one reason it’s happening is America is becoming a lot more crowded than it ever was, and one of the reasons for th[...]
Trump’s Border Patrol harassed lawyers and journalists
A secret Border Patrol anti-terrorism team routinely detained and questioned immigration lawyers and journalists at the U.S.-Mexico border, documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) reveal. “Following revelations two years ago by NBC 7 San Diego that some journalists and o[...]
March 21st, 2021 - 1:40 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Did Trump stop migrants?
Nope. Migration into the U.S. increased under Trump. For more about immigration under Trump, and more charts, go to the BBC story here. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]