Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) has spent $12.7 million busing border jumpers to Washington D.C., New York City, and Chicago (see story here). The Daily Mail says this dough paid for transporting more than 7,400 migrants out of Texas, which by my rough calculation comes out to about $1,700 per nose. The ben[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Immigration’
The border crisis (cartoon)
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August 17th, 2022 - 12:38 am § in Politics
PHOTOGRAPHY: Border wall
There’s speculation the wind blew them over (see story here). Maybe they needed more ballast? Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
July 12th, 2022 - 4:15 pm § in Law and Courts
Does this judge think he’s president, or is he simply incompetent?
Congress doesn’t give ICE nearly enough resources to deport all illegals, so it has to prioritize. This is done by the agency’s political bosses in Washington D.C. In fact, a federal law explicitly makes Department Homeland Security (DHS) secretaries responsible for “establishing natio[...]
April 20th, 2022 - 5:11 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Joe Crackpot for Congress
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[...]
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)
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