Kamala Harris and VP expectations

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Anonymous wrote:From Heather Cox Richardson newsletter today


If President Biden is showing his support for the strong unions of the past, Vice President Kamala Harris is in charge of the future. The White House today announced the establishment of a National Office of Gun Violence Prevention, to be overseen by the vice president.

Lately, Harris has been taking the lead in embracing change and appealing to younger voters. On September 9 she hosted a celebration honoring the 50th anniversary of hip hop, and she is currently in the midst of a tour of college campuses to urge young people to vote. She has been the administration’s leading voice on issues of reproductive rights and equality before the law, issues at the top of concerns of young Americans. Now adding gun safety to that list, she is picking up yet another issue crucially important to young people.

When 26-year-old Representative Maxwell Frost (D-FL) introduced the president today, he said that he got involved in politics because he "didn't want to get shot in school."

If the president and the vice president today seemed to represent the past and the future to carry the country forward, the present was also in the news today, and that story was about corruption and the parties’ different approaches to it

Noted that Heather Cox Richardson failed to mention Harris' role as border czar among her responsibilities.
She will be as successful at gun safety as she has been on the border. They are working really hard at reinventing Harris, but it is failing.

Rep Connolly addresses your mischaracterizations of border issues better than I can …


Republicans are clamoring over themselves to blame President Joe Biden for any and every challenge facing America. Nowhere is that more apparent than on the issue of immigration and border security.

If you listen to my Republican colleagues, you’d believe Joe Biden single-handedly broke our immigration system and refuses to fix it. They keep this lie alive by perpetuating a series of myths about Democrats and the border.

It’s time to correct the record.

MYTH: The Biden administration has implemented an “open border” policy that has created chaos at our border with Mexico.

TRUTH: President Biden inherited an immigration system in tatters. The Trump administration cut off legal pathways to citizenship, leaving would-be migrants with fewer lawful methods of entering the country. They cut funding to Central American countries in 2019 as they splurged on an ineffective, costly wall.

It was the Trump administration that tightened sanctions on Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua, exacerbating the macroeconomic crises that have led hundreds of thousands to flee and arrive at the southern border. When they pulled the rug out from various, essential assistance programs, they made the problem worse.
But our immigration system has been broken for many decades — long before Joe Biden or Donald Trump took the oath of office. Time and again, Democrats have proposed solutions to fix the immigration system in a reasonable, humane way. And time and again, Republicans have opposed these efforts at every turn.

One might recall that in 2013, House Republicans thwarted comprehensive immigration reform after an agreement was reached in the Senate. Many of those same House Republicans who prevented that legislation from passing are now intent on blaming irregular migration, an issue our country has dealt with for over a century, solely on the Biden administration.

There’s only one problem with their affinity for blaming Democrats — it doesn’t hold up to basic scrutiny. In fact, between December 2022 and January 2023, the Biden-Harris administration halved the number of encounters at the border and reduced the number of Cuban, Venezuelan, Nicaraguan, and Haitian migrants by 97 percent.

MYTH: The Biden administration has ignored the border and is refusing to commit proper resources to it.

TRUTH: The idea that Democrats have ignored the situation at the border and refused to commit resources to solving it is another outright lie. In reality, the Biden-Harris administration and congressional Democrats have surged record levels of funding to the border.

The FY23 government funding package that President Biden signed into law provided Border Patrol with $7.153 billion — a 17 percent increase from the year before. Additionally, the funding package provided $65 million for 300 new Border Patrol agents, $60 million for 125 new personnel at points of entry; and $230 million for technology like autonomous surveillance towers.

House Republicans voted against this historic funding.

MYTH: Biden’s “open border” policies allow undocumented immigrants to flood the country with deadly fentanyl.

TRUTH: Republicans continue to blame vulnerable migrants fleeing violence, hunger, and natural disasters for illicit drug smuggling, but facts are stubborn things. Over 90 percent of fentanyl, and over 80 percent of total illegal narcotics, arrive at legal points of entry—not between them—and are smuggled largely by Americans—not undocumented migrants. In fact, migrants accounted for less than 9 percent of fentanyl trafficking convictions in FY 21, compared to more than 86 percent for American citizens.

In December 2022, CBP seized 4,500 pounds of fentanyl, the largest amount ever recorded. Incredibly, just five of those 4,500 pounds were seized at the border by U.S. Border Patrol. Republicans are focused on 1 percent of the problem, 100 percent of the time.

MYTH: Biden’s “open border” policies have allowed criminals and terrorists to pour over the southern border unchecked, contributing to a spike in crime in America.

TRUTH: Study after study has shown that undocumented immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than U.S. citizens. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Alternatives to Detention Program provides a strong example: The latest data from ICE released on Feb. 3, 2023, demonstrated 99.4 percent of immigrants monitored on ICE’s Alternatives to Detention Program attended their court hearings compared to the .6 percent which failed to attend their hearing.

Not all undocumented immigrants are tracked through this program, but immigrants, when paroled into the United States, overwhelmingly are lawful individuals that attend their court hearings. An American Immigration Council report found that over the past 11 years, an overwhelming 83 percent of immigrants attended their immigration court hearings, and those who failed to appear in court often did not receive notice or faced hardship in getting to court.

Republicans who assert the Biden administration is releasing countless dangerous migrants into the country are not only trafficking in xenophobic, anti-immigrant sentiment, but they are also peddling lies that are categorically false.

The situation at the border demands serious policy solutions that provide a pathway to citizenship for DACA recipients; address the root causes of migration like repression, political instability, violence, hunger, and lack of economic opportunity; and fix our own broken immigration system.

Oh, please.

Joe Biden, himself, said he wanted migrants to surge the border,. And, he said, just two nights ago, that he wants to fast track processing at the US border, expand legal pathways for citizenship, increase the total number of refugees, send money to help sanctuary cities, and speed up work-permits for illegals. No mention whatsoever of securing our border. It's all about bringing more people in and processing them more quickly. All of this sends the message to migrants.... "Come! You will get in!" Because THAT is what Joe wants.

Connelly didn't mention these facts in his spin. He's a tool.
And, his little comment about releasing dangerous migrants into our country...... yep, they are. Gerry should get his facts straight.

"Erie County #NewYork -a deep blue county, will no longer accept illegal immigrants from NYC Mayor Eric Adams' resettlement program after another migrant has been charged with sexual assault…A migrant raped a woman in front of her toddler."

"Illegal migrant posed as a teenager. The Biden administration let him into the country and dropped him off in Florida on a midnight flight. After he murdered a man it turns out he was a 23 year old from Honduras."

"Roberto Emilio Vasquez-Santamaria, 64, was arrested in connection to a homicide on Monday in Eagle Pass, Texas, according to the sheriff’s office.
Vasquez-Santamaria passed through the Eagle Pass sector in May. He was processed and released with a notice to appear virtually at a Florida station in June 2025. The Peru native allegedly provided two different addresses in Tampa and Orlando."

"The driver of a Honda Odyssey who forced a school bus carrying elementary school children off the road and down an embankment in Ohio, killing one child and injuring 26 others, was caught illegally crossing the southern border and then released into the country by President Joe Biden in 2022."

Oh puhleeze - where do you get your facts? AI generated misinformation factories ?

The president never said he wanted to surge the border.

The temporary work visa deal with Venezuelans (controversial as it is) is for those who already arrived illegally.

In his own words....

And, that work visa Biden has now offered to nearly 700,000 Venezuelans is a magnet for more to come. And, they are coming. To the tune of 5,000 to 10,000 a DAY.
Nothing like rewarding illegal behavior, right, pp?

Your stats are way off …

It is very telling that your two “news” sources are face book and you tube / platforms that are extremely susceptible to deep fakes and misleading information.

If you Google media coverage on Biden alleged comments on surging the border - you tube videos come up not credible news sources.

Except for this from AP which completely reframes your allegations and misrepresentations of Biden admin border policies …

Border migrant surge
May 2, 2023 — The Biden administration will send 1500 troops to the U.S.-Mexico border amid an expected migrant surge following the end of coronavirus ..

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Anonymous wrote:From Heather Cox Richardson newsletter today


If President Biden is showing his support for the strong unions of the past, Vice President Kamala Harris is in charge of the future. The White House today announced the establishment of a National Office of Gun Violence Prevention, to be overseen by the vice president.

Lately, Harris has been taking the lead in embracing change and appealing to younger voters. On September 9 she hosted a celebration honoring the 50th anniversary of hip hop, and she is currently in the midst of a tour of college campuses to urge young people to vote. She has been the administration’s leading voice on issues of reproductive rights and equality before the law, issues at the top of concerns of young Americans. Now adding gun safety to that list, she is picking up yet another issue crucially important to young people.

When 26-year-old Representative Maxwell Frost (D-FL) introduced the president today, he said that he got involved in politics because he "didn't want to get shot in school."

If the president and the vice president today seemed to represent the past and the future to carry the country forward, the present was also in the news today, and that story was about corruption and the parties’ different approaches to it

Noted that Heather Cox Richardson failed to mention Harris' role as border czar among her responsibilities.
She will be as successful at gun safety as she has been on the border. They are working really hard at reinventing Harris, but it is failing.

Rep Connolly addresses your mischaracterizations of border issues better than I can …


Republicans are clamoring over themselves to blame President Joe Biden for any and every challenge facing America. Nowhere is that more apparent than on the issue of immigration and border security.

If you listen to my Republican colleagues, you’d believe Joe Biden single-handedly broke our immigration system and refuses to fix it. They keep this lie alive by perpetuating a series of myths about Democrats and the border.

It’s time to correct the record.

MYTH: The Biden administration has implemented an “open border” policy that has created chaos at our border with Mexico.

TRUTH: President Biden inherited an immigration system in tatters. The Trump administration cut off legal pathways to citizenship, leaving would-be migrants with fewer lawful methods of entering the country. They cut funding to Central American countries in 2019 as they splurged on an ineffective, costly wall.

It was the Trump administration that tightened sanctions on Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua, exacerbating the macroeconomic crises that have led hundreds of thousands to flee and arrive at the southern border. When they pulled the rug out from various, essential assistance programs, they made the problem worse.
But our immigration system has been broken for many decades — long before Joe Biden or Donald Trump took the oath of office. Time and again, Democrats have proposed solutions to fix the immigration system in a reasonable, humane way. And time and again, Republicans have opposed these efforts at every turn.

One might recall that in 2013, House Republicans thwarted comprehensive immigration reform after an agreement was reached in the Senate. Many of those same House Republicans who prevented that legislation from passing are now intent on blaming irregular migration, an issue our country has dealt with for over a century, solely on the Biden administration.

There’s only one problem with their affinity for blaming Democrats — it doesn’t hold up to basic scrutiny. In fact, between December 2022 and January 2023, the Biden-Harris administration halved the number of encounters at the border and reduced the number of Cuban, Venezuelan, Nicaraguan, and Haitian migrants by 97 percent.

MYTH: The Biden administration has ignored the border and is refusing to commit proper resources to it.

TRUTH: The idea that Democrats have ignored the situation at the border and refused to commit resources to solving it is another outright lie. In reality, the Biden-Harris administration and congressional Democrats have surged record levels of funding to the border.

The FY23 government funding package that President Biden signed into law provided Border Patrol with $7.153 billion — a 17 percent increase from the year before. Additionally, the funding package provided $65 million for 300 new Border Patrol agents, $60 million for 125 new personnel at points of entry; and $230 million for technology like autonomous surveillance towers.

House Republicans voted against this historic funding.

MYTH: Biden’s “open border” policies allow undocumented immigrants to flood the country with deadly fentanyl.

TRUTH: Republicans continue to blame vulnerable migrants fleeing violence, hunger, and natural disasters for illicit drug smuggling, but facts are stubborn things. Over 90 percent of fentanyl, and over 80 percent of total illegal narcotics, arrive at legal points of entry—not between them—and are smuggled largely by Americans—not undocumented migrants. In fact, migrants accounted for less than 9 percent of fentanyl trafficking convictions in FY 21, compared to more than 86 percent for American citizens.

In December 2022, CBP seized 4,500 pounds of fentanyl, the largest amount ever recorded. Incredibly, just five of those 4,500 pounds were seized at the border by U.S. Border Patrol. Republicans are focused on 1 percent of the problem, 100 percent of the time.

MYTH: Biden’s “open border” policies have allowed criminals and terrorists to pour over the southern border unchecked, contributing to a spike in crime in America.

TRUTH: Study after study has shown that undocumented immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than U.S. citizens. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Alternatives to Detention Program provides a strong example: The latest data from ICE released on Feb. 3, 2023, demonstrated 99.4 percent of immigrants monitored on ICE’s Alternatives to Detention Program attended their court hearings compared to the .6 percent which failed to attend their hearing.

Not all undocumented immigrants are tracked through this program, but immigrants, when paroled into the United States, overwhelmingly are lawful individuals that attend their court hearings. An American Immigration Council report found that over the past 11 years, an overwhelming 83 percent of immigrants attended their immigration court hearings, and those who failed to appear in court often did not receive notice or faced hardship in getting to court.

Republicans who assert the Biden administration is releasing countless dangerous migrants into the country are not only trafficking in xenophobic, anti-immigrant sentiment, but they are also peddling lies that are categorically false.

The situation at the border demands serious policy solutions that provide a pathway to citizenship for DACA recipients; address the root causes of migration like repression, political instability, violence, hunger, and lack of economic opportunity; and fix our own broken immigration system.

Oh, please.

Joe Biden, himself, said he wanted migrants to surge the border,. And, he said, just two nights ago, that he wants to fast track processing at the US border, expand legal pathways for citizenship, increase the total number of refugees, send money to help sanctuary cities, and speed up work-permits for illegals. No mention whatsoever of securing our border. It's all about bringing more people in and processing them more quickly. All of this sends the message to migrants.... "Come! You will get in!" Because THAT is what Joe wants.

Connelly didn't mention these facts in his spin. He's a tool.
And, his little comment about releasing dangerous migrants into our country...... yep, they are. Gerry should get his facts straight.

"Erie County #NewYork -a deep blue county, will no longer accept illegal immigrants from NYC Mayor Eric Adams' resettlement program after another migrant has been charged with sexual assault…A migrant raped a woman in front of her toddler."

"Illegal migrant posed as a teenager. The Biden administration let him into the country and dropped him off in Florida on a midnight flight. After he murdered a man it turns out he was a 23 year old from Honduras."

"Roberto Emilio Vasquez-Santamaria, 64, was arrested in connection to a homicide on Monday in Eagle Pass, Texas, according to the sheriff’s office.
Vasquez-Santamaria passed through the Eagle Pass sector in May. He was processed and released with a notice to appear virtually at a Florida station in June 2025. The Peru native allegedly provided two different addresses in Tampa and Orlando."

"The driver of a Honda Odyssey who forced a school bus carrying elementary school children off the road and down an embankment in Ohio, killing one child and injuring 26 others, was caught illegally crossing the southern border and then released into the country by President Joe Biden in 2022."

Oh puhleeze - where do you get your facts? AI generated misinformation factories ?

The president never said he wanted to surge the border.

The temporary work visa deal with Venezuelans (controversial as it is) is for those who already arrived illegally.

In his own words....

And, that work visa Biden has now offered to nearly 700,000 Venezuelans is a magnet for more to come. And, they are coming. To the tune of 5,000 to 10,000 a DAY.
Nothing like rewarding illegal behavior, right, pp?

Your stats are way off …

It is very telling that your two “news” sources are face book and you tube / platforms that are extremely susceptible to deep fakes and misleading information.

If you Google media coverage on Biden alleged comments on surging the border - you tube videos come up not credible news sources.

Except for this from AP which completely reframes your allegations and misrepresentations of Biden admin border policies …

Border migrant surge
May 2, 2023 — The Biden administration will send 1500 troops to the U.S.-Mexico border amid an expected migrant surge following the end of coronavirus ..

Goodness. Are you trying to claim that the youtube clip of Biden saying he hoped migrants would surge the border is fake? Really?

“I would in fact make sure that there is, that we immediately surge to the border — all those people are seeking asylum. They deserve to be heard,” Biden said. “That’s who we are. We’re a nation that says, ‘If you want to flee and you’re fleeing oppression, you should come.’ “
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/jorge-ramos-asks-joe-biden-why-latinos-should-trust-him-1239402/

And, what stats are wrong? The work visas for Venezuelans?

About 472,000 Venezuelans in the U.S. on or before July 31 now will be eligible for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for a period of 18 months. Some 243,000 Venezuelans already have the status stemming from a 2021 designation that was renewed last year.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us-offers-work-permits-half-million-venezuelans-already-country-2023-09-21/

That is MORE than 700,000.

And, those 1500 troops are not there for border enforcement at all. They are there for processing and to free up agents so they can process more migrants. And, how effective have the troops been given that we currently are seeing between 5000 to 10000 migrants a day at our border????

Face it. Biden has been an absolute disaster when it comes to the border. I don't know why anyone expected anything different given his rhetoric and what he considered a "success" with the withdrawal of Afghanistan.

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Anonymous wrote:From Heather Cox Richardson newsletter today


If President Biden is showing his support for the strong unions of the past, Vice President Kamala Harris is in charge of the future. The White House today announced the establishment of a National Office of Gun Violence Prevention, to be overseen by the vice president.

Lately, Harris has been taking the lead in embracing change and appealing to younger voters. On September 9 she hosted a celebration honoring the 50th anniversary of hip hop, and she is currently in the midst of a tour of college campuses to urge young people to vote. She has been the administration’s leading voice on issues of reproductive rights and equality before the law, issues at the top of concerns of young Americans. Now adding gun safety to that list, she is picking up yet another issue crucially important to young people.

When 26-year-old Representative Maxwell Frost (D-FL) introduced the president today, he said that he got involved in politics because he "didn't want to get shot in school."

If the president and the vice president today seemed to represent the past and the future to carry the country forward, the present was also in the news today, and that story was about corruption and the parties’ different approaches to it

Noted that Heather Cox Richardson failed to mention Harris' role as border czar among her responsibilities.
She will be as successful at gun safety as she has been on the border. They are working really hard at reinventing Harris, but it is failing.

Rep Connolly addresses your mischaracterizations of border issues better than I can …


Republicans are clamoring over themselves to blame President Joe Biden for any and every challenge facing America. Nowhere is that more apparent than on the issue of immigration and border security.

If you listen to my Republican colleagues, you’d believe Joe Biden single-handedly broke our immigration system and refuses to fix it. They keep this lie alive by perpetuating a series of myths about Democrats and the border.

It’s time to correct the record.

MYTH: The Biden administration has implemented an “open border” policy that has created chaos at our border with Mexico.

TRUTH: President Biden inherited an immigration system in tatters. The Trump administration cut off legal pathways to citizenship, leaving would-be migrants with fewer lawful methods of entering the country. They cut funding to Central American countries in 2019 as they splurged on an ineffective, costly wall.

It was the Trump administration that tightened sanctions on Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua, exacerbating the macroeconomic crises that have led hundreds of thousands to flee and arrive at the southern border. When they pulled the rug out from various, essential assistance programs, they made the problem worse.
But our immigration system has been broken for many decades — long before Joe Biden or Donald Trump took the oath of office. Time and again, Democrats have proposed solutions to fix the immigration system in a reasonable, humane way. And time and again, Republicans have opposed these efforts at every turn.

One might recall that in 2013, House Republicans thwarted comprehensive immigration reform after an agreement was reached in the Senate. Many of those same House Republicans who prevented that legislation from passing are now intent on blaming irregular migration, an issue our country has dealt with for over a century, solely on the Biden administration.

There’s only one problem with their affinity for blaming Democrats — it doesn’t hold up to basic scrutiny. In fact, between December 2022 and January 2023, the Biden-Harris administration halved the number of encounters at the border and reduced the number of Cuban, Venezuelan, Nicaraguan, and Haitian migrants by 97 percent.

MYTH: The Biden administration has ignored the border and is refusing to commit proper resources to it.

TRUTH: The idea that Democrats have ignored the situation at the border and refused to commit resources to solving it is another outright lie. In reality, the Biden-Harris administration and congressional Democrats have surged record levels of funding to the border.

The FY23 government funding package that President Biden signed into law provided Border Patrol with $7.153 billion — a 17 percent increase from the year before. Additionally, the funding package provided $65 million for 300 new Border Patrol agents, $60 million for 125 new personnel at points of entry; and $230 million for technology like autonomous surveillance towers.

House Republicans voted against this historic funding.

MYTH: Biden’s “open border” policies allow undocumented immigrants to flood the country with deadly fentanyl.

TRUTH: Republicans continue to blame vulnerable migrants fleeing violence, hunger, and natural disasters for illicit drug smuggling, but facts are stubborn things. Over 90 percent of fentanyl, and over 80 percent of total illegal narcotics, arrive at legal points of entry—not between them—and are smuggled largely by Americans—not undocumented migrants. In fact, migrants accounted for less than 9 percent of fentanyl trafficking convictions in FY 21, compared to more than 86 percent for American citizens.

In December 2022, CBP seized 4,500 pounds of fentanyl, the largest amount ever recorded. Incredibly, just five of those 4,500 pounds were seized at the border by U.S. Border Patrol. Republicans are focused on 1 percent of the problem, 100 percent of the time.

MYTH: Biden’s “open border” policies have allowed criminals and terrorists to pour over the southern border unchecked, contributing to a spike in crime in America.

TRUTH: Study after study has shown that undocumented immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than U.S. citizens. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Alternatives to Detention Program provides a strong example: The latest data from ICE released on Feb. 3, 2023, demonstrated 99.4 percent of immigrants monitored on ICE’s Alternatives to Detention Program attended their court hearings compared to the .6 percent which failed to attend their hearing.

Not all undocumented immigrants are tracked through this program, but immigrants, when paroled into the United States, overwhelmingly are lawful individuals that attend their court hearings. An American Immigration Council report found that over the past 11 years, an overwhelming 83 percent of immigrants attended their immigration court hearings, and those who failed to appear in court often did not receive notice or faced hardship in getting to court.

Republicans who assert the Biden administration is releasing countless dangerous migrants into the country are not only trafficking in xenophobic, anti-immigrant sentiment, but they are also peddling lies that are categorically false.

The situation at the border demands serious policy solutions that provide a pathway to citizenship for DACA recipients; address the root causes of migration like repression, political instability, violence, hunger, and lack of economic opportunity; and fix our own broken immigration system.

Oh, please.

Joe Biden, himself, said he wanted migrants to surge the border,. And, he said, just two nights ago, that he wants to fast track processing at the US border, expand legal pathways for citizenship, increase the total number of refugees, send money to help sanctuary cities, and speed up work-permits for illegals. No mention whatsoever of securing our border. It's all about bringing more people in and processing them more quickly. All of this sends the message to migrants.... "Come! You will get in!" Because THAT is what Joe wants.

Connelly didn't mention these facts in his spin. He's a tool.
And, his little comment about releasing dangerous migrants into our country...... yep, they are. Gerry should get his facts straight.

"Erie County #NewYork -a deep blue county, will no longer accept illegal immigrants from NYC Mayor Eric Adams' resettlement program after another migrant has been charged with sexual assault…A migrant raped a woman in front of her toddler."

"Illegal migrant posed as a teenager. The Biden administration let him into the country and dropped him off in Florida on a midnight flight. After he murdered a man it turns out he was a 23 year old from Honduras."

"Roberto Emilio Vasquez-Santamaria, 64, was arrested in connection to a homicide on Monday in Eagle Pass, Texas, according to the sheriff’s office.
Vasquez-Santamaria passed through the Eagle Pass sector in May. He was processed and released with a notice to appear virtually at a Florida station in June 2025. The Peru native allegedly provided two different addresses in Tampa and Orlando."

"The driver of a Honda Odyssey who forced a school bus carrying elementary school children off the road and down an embankment in Ohio, killing one child and injuring 26 others, was caught illegally crossing the southern border and then released into the country by President Joe Biden in 2022."

Oh puhleeze - where do you get your facts? AI generated misinformation factories ?

The president never said he wanted to surge the border.

The temporary work visa deal with Venezuelans (controversial as it is) is for those who already arrived illegally.

In his own words....

And, that work visa Biden has now offered to nearly 700,000 Venezuelans is a magnet for more to come. And, they are coming. To the tune of 5,000 to 10,000 a DAY.
Nothing like rewarding illegal behavior, right, pp?

Your stats are way off …

It is very telling that your two “news” sources are face book and you tube / platforms that are extremely susceptible to deep fakes and misleading information.

If you Google media coverage on Biden alleged comments on surging the border - you tube videos come up not credible news sources.

Except for this from AP which completely reframes your allegations and misrepresentations of Biden admin border policies …

Border migrant surge
May 2, 2023 — The Biden administration will send 1500 troops to the U.S.-Mexico border amid an expected migrant surge following the end of coronavirus ..

Goodness. Are you trying to claim that the youtube clip of Biden saying he hoped migrants would surge the border is fake? Really?

“I would in fact make sure that there is, that we immediately surge to the border — all those people are seeking asylum. They deserve to be heard,” Biden said. “That’s who we are. We’re a nation that says, ‘If you want to flee and you’re fleeing oppression, you should come.’ “
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/jorge-ramos-asks-joe-biden-why-latinos-should-trust-him-1239402/

And, what stats are wrong? The work visas for Venezuelans?

About 472,000 Venezuelans in the U.S. on or before July 31 now will be eligible for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for a period of 18 months. Some 243,000 Venezuelans already have the status stemming from a 2021 designation that was renewed last year.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us-offers-work-permits-half-million-venezuelans-already-country-2023-09-21/

That is MORE than 700,000.

And, those 1500 troops are not there for border enforcement at all. They are there for processing and to free up agents so they can process more migrants. And, how effective have the troops been given that we currently are seeing between 5000 to 10000 migrants a day at our border????

Face it. Biden has been an absolute disaster when it comes to the border. I don't know why anyone expected anything different given his rhetoric and what he considered a "success" with the withdrawal of Afghanistan.

I can’t imagine why all Democrat politicians are supporting open borders. I just don’t get it.

[Anonymous]

Let's be frank. Mostly white men vote GOP. Most of the negative coverage of VP Harris comes from white male conservative pundits, or WSJ, NY Post, right-wing media. This group isn't voting for Democrats anyways.

VP Harris has a high approval rating from Democrats and Democrat-leaning Independents. For 2024 that's all that matters.

Remember: the alternative is Trump.

Biden and Harris will coast to re-election.

[Anonymous]

20:28 is such a liar. Harris rated so poorly, that she was one of the first Democrats forced to drop out of the presidential race... shortly after she so eloquently —and correctly—called Joe Biden a racist on the world stage. They must hate each other for that.

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Anonymous wrote:From Heather Cox Richardson newsletter today


If President Biden is showing his support for the strong unions of the past, Vice President Kamala Harris is in charge of the future. The White House today announced the establishment of a National Office of Gun Violence Prevention, to be overseen by the vice president.

Lately, Harris has been taking the lead in embracing change and appealing to younger voters. On September 9 she hosted a celebration honoring the 50th anniversary of hip hop, and she is currently in the midst of a tour of college campuses to urge young people to vote. She has been the administration’s leading voice on issues of reproductive rights and equality before the law, issues at the top of concerns of young Americans. Now adding gun safety to that list, she is picking up yet another issue crucially important to young people.

When 26-year-old Representative Maxwell Frost (D-FL) introduced the president today, he said that he got involved in politics because he "didn't want to get shot in school."

If the president and the vice president today seemed to represent the past and the future to carry the country forward, the present was also in the news today, and that story was about corruption and the parties’ different approaches to it

Noted that Heather Cox Richardson failed to mention Harris' role as border czar among her responsibilities.
She will be as successful at gun safety as she has been on the border. They are working really hard at reinventing Harris, but it is failing.

Rep Connolly addresses your mischaracterizations of border issues better than I can …


Republicans are clamoring over themselves to blame President Joe Biden for any and every challenge facing America. Nowhere is that more apparent than on the issue of immigration and border security.

If you listen to my Republican colleagues, you’d believe Joe Biden single-handedly broke our immigration system and refuses to fix it. They keep this lie alive by perpetuating a series of myths about Democrats and the border.

It’s time to correct the record.

MYTH: The Biden administration has implemented an “open border” policy that has created chaos at our border with Mexico.

TRUTH: President Biden inherited an immigration system in tatters. The Trump administration cut off legal pathways to citizenship, leaving would-be migrants with fewer lawful methods of entering the country. They cut funding to Central American countries in 2019 as they splurged on an ineffective, costly wall.

It was the Trump administration that tightened sanctions on Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua, exacerbating the macroeconomic crises that have led hundreds of thousands to flee and arrive at the southern border. When they pulled the rug out from various, essential assistance programs, they made the problem worse.
But our immigration system has been broken for many decades — long before Joe Biden or Donald Trump took the oath of office. Time and again, Democrats have proposed solutions to fix the immigration system in a reasonable, humane way. And time and again, Republicans have opposed these efforts at every turn.

One might recall that in 2013, House Republicans thwarted comprehensive immigration reform after an agreement was reached in the Senate. Many of those same House Republicans who prevented that legislation from passing are now intent on blaming irregular migration, an issue our country has dealt with for over a century, solely on the Biden administration.

There’s only one problem with their affinity for blaming Democrats — it doesn’t hold up to basic scrutiny. In fact, between December 2022 and January 2023, the Biden-Harris administration halved the number of encounters at the border and reduced the number of Cuban, Venezuelan, Nicaraguan, and Haitian migrants by 97 percent.

MYTH: The Biden administration has ignored the border and is refusing to commit proper resources to it.

TRUTH: The idea that Democrats have ignored the situation at the border and refused to commit resources to solving it is another outright lie. In reality, the Biden-Harris administration and congressional Democrats have surged record levels of funding to the border.

The FY23 government funding package that President Biden signed into law provided Border Patrol with $7.153 billion — a 17 percent increase from the year before. Additionally, the funding package provided $65 million for 300 new Border Patrol agents, $60 million for 125 new personnel at points of entry; and $230 million for technology like autonomous surveillance towers.

House Republicans voted against this historic funding.

MYTH: Biden’s “open border” policies allow undocumented immigrants to flood the country with deadly fentanyl.

TRUTH: Republicans continue to blame vulnerable migrants fleeing violence, hunger, and natural disasters for illicit drug smuggling, but facts are stubborn things. Over 90 percent of fentanyl, and over 80 percent of total illegal narcotics, arrive at legal points of entry—not between them—and are smuggled largely by Americans—not undocumented migrants. In fact, migrants accounted for less than 9 percent of fentanyl trafficking convictions in FY 21, compared to more than 86 percent for American citizens.

In December 2022, CBP seized 4,500 pounds of fentanyl, the largest amount ever recorded. Incredibly, just five of those 4,500 pounds were seized at the border by U.S. Border Patrol. Republicans are focused on 1 percent of the problem, 100 percent of the time.

MYTH: Biden’s “open border” policies have allowed criminals and terrorists to pour over the southern border unchecked, contributing to a spike in crime in America.

TRUTH: Study after study has shown that undocumented immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than U.S. citizens. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Alternatives to Detention Program provides a strong example: The latest data from ICE released on Feb. 3, 2023, demonstrated 99.4 percent of immigrants monitored on ICE’s Alternatives to Detention Program attended their court hearings compared to the .6 percent which failed to attend their hearing.

Not all undocumented immigrants are tracked through this program, but immigrants, when paroled into the United States, overwhelmingly are lawful individuals that attend their court hearings. An American Immigration Council report found that over the past 11 years, an overwhelming 83 percent of immigrants attended their immigration court hearings, and those who failed to appear in court often did not receive notice or faced hardship in getting to court.

Republicans who assert the Biden administration is releasing countless dangerous migrants into the country are not only trafficking in xenophobic, anti-immigrant sentiment, but they are also peddling lies that are categorically false.

The situation at the border demands serious policy solutions that provide a pathway to citizenship for DACA recipients; address the root causes of migration like repression, political instability, violence, hunger, and lack of economic opportunity; and fix our own broken immigration system.

Oh, please.

Joe Biden, himself, said he wanted migrants to surge the border,. And, he said, just two nights ago, that he wants to fast track processing at the US border, expand legal pathways for citizenship, increase the total number of refugees, send money to help sanctuary cities, and speed up work-permits for illegals. No mention whatsoever of securing our border. It's all about bringing more people in and processing them more quickly. All of this sends the message to migrants.... "Come! You will get in!" Because THAT is what Joe wants.

Connelly didn't mention these facts in his spin. He's a tool.
And, his little comment about releasing dangerous migrants into our country...... yep, they are. Gerry should get his facts straight.

"Erie County #NewYork -a deep blue county, will no longer accept illegal immigrants from NYC Mayor Eric Adams' resettlement program after another migrant has been charged with sexual assault…A migrant raped a woman in front of her toddler."

"Illegal migrant posed as a teenager. The Biden administration let him into the country and dropped him off in Florida on a midnight flight. After he murdered a man it turns out he was a 23 year old from Honduras."

"Roberto Emilio Vasquez-Santamaria, 64, was arrested in connection to a homicide on Monday in Eagle Pass, Texas, according to the sheriff’s office.
Vasquez-Santamaria passed through the Eagle Pass sector in May. He was processed and released with a notice to appear virtually at a Florida station in June 2025. The Peru native allegedly provided two different addresses in Tampa and Orlando."

"The driver of a Honda Odyssey who forced a school bus carrying elementary school children off the road and down an embankment in Ohio, killing one child and injuring 26 others, was caught illegally crossing the southern border and then released into the country by President Joe Biden in 2022."

Oh puhleeze - where do you get your facts? AI generated misinformation factories ?

The president never said he wanted to surge the border.

The temporary work visa deal with Venezuelans (controversial as it is) is for those who already arrived illegally.

In his own words....

And, that work visa Biden has now offered to nearly 700,000 Venezuelans is a magnet for more to come. And, they are coming. To the tune of 5,000 to 10,000 a DAY.
Nothing like rewarding illegal behavior, right, pp?

Your stats are way off …

It is very telling that your two “news” sources are face book and you tube / platforms that are extremely susceptible to deep fakes and misleading information.

If you Google media coverage on Biden alleged comments on surging the border - you tube videos come up not credible news sources.

Except for this from AP which completely reframes your allegations and misrepresentations of Biden admin border policies …

Border migrant surge
May 2, 2023 — The Biden administration will send 1500 troops to the U.S.-Mexico border amid an expected migrant surge following the end of coronavirus ..

Goodness. Are you trying to claim that the youtube clip of Biden saying he hoped migrants would surge the border is fake? Really?

“I would in fact make sure that there is, that we immediately surge to the border — all those people are seeking asylum. They deserve to be heard,” Biden said. “That’s who we are. We’re a nation that says, ‘If you want to flee and you’re fleeing oppression, you should come.’ “
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/jorge-ramos-asks-joe-biden-why-latinos-should-trust-him-1239402/

And, what stats are wrong? The work visas for Venezuelans?

About 472,000 Venezuelans in the U.S. on or before July 31 now will be eligible for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for a period of 18 months. Some 243,000 Venezuelans already have the status stemming from a 2021 designation that was renewed last year.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us-offers-work-permits-half-million-venezuelans-already-country-2023-09-21/

That is MORE than 700,000.

And, those 1500 troops are not there for border enforcement at all. They are there for processing and to free up agents so they can process more migrants. And, how effective have the troops been given that we currently are seeing between 5000 to 10000 migrants a day at our border????

Face it. Biden has been an absolute disaster when it comes to the border. I don't know why anyone expected anything different given his rhetoric and what he considered a "success" with the withdrawal of Afghanistan.

I can’t imagine why all Democrat politicians are supporting open borders. I just don’t get it.

Umm it is hard to imagine because it is not true - just Republican propaganda …

Biden sent many hundreds of troops to the border to help contain the surge - placing the illegal immigrants in holding centers and deporting them .

The 470 k temporary work visas for existing V Immigrants who arrived before 2021 were requested by many states.

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Anonymous wrote:20:28 is such a liar. Harris rated so poorly, that she was one of the first Democrats forced to drop out of the presidential race... shortly after she so eloquently —and correctly—called Joe Biden a racist on the world stage. They must hate each other for that.

Harris's POTUS run - with 20 other candidates who didn't win either- got her the VP gig.

She was on the ticket that got the most votes in a presidential election - ever.

In polling that doesn't have Biden in it, Harris polls as the TOP choice to win the Democratic party nomination.

You might not like it, but tough.

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Anonymous wrote:From Heather Cox Richardson newsletter today


If President Biden is showing his support for the strong unions of the past, Vice President Kamala Harris is in charge of the future. The White House today announced the establishment of a National Office of Gun Violence Prevention, to be overseen by the vice president.

Lately, Harris has been taking the lead in embracing change and appealing to younger voters. On September 9 she hosted a celebration honoring the 50th anniversary of hip hop, and she is currently in the midst of a tour of college campuses to urge young people to vote. She has been the administration’s leading voice on issues of reproductive rights and equality before the law, issues at the top of concerns of young Americans. Now adding gun safety to that list, she is picking up yet another issue crucially important to young people.

When 26-year-old Representative Maxwell Frost (D-FL) introduced the president today, he said that he got involved in politics because he "didn't want to get shot in school."

If the president and the vice president today seemed to represent the past and the future to carry the country forward, the present was also in the news today, and that story was about corruption and the parties’ different approaches to it

Noted that Heather Cox Richardson failed to mention Harris' role as border czar among her responsibilities.
She will be as successful at gun safety as she has been on the border. They are working really hard at reinventing Harris, but it is failing.

Rep Connolly addresses your mischaracterizations of border issues better than I can …


Republicans are clamoring over themselves to blame President Joe Biden for any and every challenge facing America. Nowhere is that more apparent than on the issue of immigration and border security.

If you listen to my Republican colleagues, you’d believe Joe Biden single-handedly broke our immigration system and refuses to fix it. They keep this lie alive by perpetuating a series of myths about Democrats and the border.

It’s time to correct the record.

MYTH: The Biden administration has implemented an “open border” policy that has created chaos at our border with Mexico.

TRUTH: President Biden inherited an immigration system in tatters. The Trump administration cut off legal pathways to citizenship, leaving would-be migrants with fewer lawful methods of entering the country. They cut funding to Central American countries in 2019 as they splurged on an ineffective, costly wall.

It was the Trump administration that tightened sanctions on Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua, exacerbating the macroeconomic crises that have led hundreds of thousands to flee and arrive at the southern border. When they pulled the rug out from various, essential assistance programs, they made the problem worse.
But our immigration system has been broken for many decades — long before Joe Biden or Donald Trump took the oath of office. Time and again, Democrats have proposed solutions to fix the immigration system in a reasonable, humane way. And time and again, Republicans have opposed these efforts at every turn.

One might recall that in 2013, House Republicans thwarted comprehensive immigration reform after an agreement was reached in the Senate. Many of those same House Republicans who prevented that legislation from passing are now intent on blaming irregular migration, an issue our country has dealt with for over a century, solely on the Biden administration.

There’s only one problem with their affinity for blaming Democrats — it doesn’t hold up to basic scrutiny. In fact, between December 2022 and January 2023, the Biden-Harris administration halved the number of encounters at the border and reduced the number of Cuban, Venezuelan, Nicaraguan, and Haitian migrants by 97 percent.

MYTH: The Biden administration has ignored the border and is refusing to commit proper resources to it.

TRUTH: The idea that Democrats have ignored the situation at the border and refused to commit resources to solving it is another outright lie. In reality, the Biden-Harris administration and congressional Democrats have surged record levels of funding to the border.

The FY23 government funding package that President Biden signed into law provided Border Patrol with $7.153 billion — a 17 percent increase from the year before. Additionally, the funding package provided $65 million for 300 new Border Patrol agents, $60 million for 125 new personnel at points of entry; and $230 million for technology like autonomous surveillance towers.

House Republicans voted against this historic funding.

MYTH: Biden’s “open border” policies allow undocumented immigrants to flood the country with deadly fentanyl.

TRUTH: Republicans continue to blame vulnerable migrants fleeing violence, hunger, and natural disasters for illicit drug smuggling, but facts are stubborn things. Over 90 percent of fentanyl, and over 80 percent of total illegal narcotics, arrive at legal points of entry—not between them—and are smuggled largely by Americans—not undocumented migrants. In fact, migrants accounted for less than 9 percent of fentanyl trafficking convictions in FY 21, compared to more than 86 percent for American citizens.

In December 2022, CBP seized 4,500 pounds of fentanyl, the largest amount ever recorded. Incredibly, just five of those 4,500 pounds were seized at the border by U.S. Border Patrol. Republicans are focused on 1 percent of the problem, 100 percent of the time.

MYTH: Biden’s “open border” policies have allowed criminals and terrorists to pour over the southern border unchecked, contributing to a spike in crime in America.

TRUTH: Study after study has shown that undocumented immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than U.S. citizens. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Alternatives to Detention Program provides a strong example: The latest data from ICE released on Feb. 3, 2023, demonstrated 99.4 percent of immigrants monitored on ICE’s Alternatives to Detention Program attended their court hearings compared to the .6 percent which failed to attend their hearing.

Not all undocumented immigrants are tracked through this program, but immigrants, when paroled into the United States, overwhelmingly are lawful individuals that attend their court hearings. An American Immigration Council report found that over the past 11 years, an overwhelming 83 percent of immigrants attended their immigration court hearings, and those who failed to appear in court often did not receive notice or faced hardship in getting to court.

Republicans who assert the Biden administration is releasing countless dangerous migrants into the country are not only trafficking in xenophobic, anti-immigrant sentiment, but they are also peddling lies that are categorically false.

The situation at the border demands serious policy solutions that provide a pathway to citizenship for DACA recipients; address the root causes of migration like repression, political instability, violence, hunger, and lack of economic opportunity; and fix our own broken immigration system.

Oh, please.

Joe Biden, himself, said he wanted migrants to surge the border,. And, he said, just two nights ago, that he wants to fast track processing at the US border, expand legal pathways for citizenship, increase the total number of refugees, send money to help sanctuary cities, and speed up work-permits for illegals. No mention whatsoever of securing our border. It's all about bringing more people in and processing them more quickly. All of this sends the message to migrants.... "Come! You will get in!" Because THAT is what Joe wants.

Connelly didn't mention these facts in his spin. He's a tool.
And, his little comment about releasing dangerous migrants into our country...... yep, they are. Gerry should get his facts straight.

"Erie County #NewYork -a deep blue county, will no longer accept illegal immigrants from NYC Mayor Eric Adams' resettlement program after another migrant has been charged with sexual assault…A migrant raped a woman in front of her toddler."

"Illegal migrant posed as a teenager. The Biden administration let him into the country and dropped him off in Florida on a midnight flight. After he murdered a man it turns out he was a 23 year old from Honduras."

"Roberto Emilio Vasquez-Santamaria, 64, was arrested in connection to a homicide on Monday in Eagle Pass, Texas, according to the sheriff’s office.
Vasquez-Santamaria passed through the Eagle Pass sector in May. He was processed and released with a notice to appear virtually at a Florida station in June 2025. The Peru native allegedly provided two different addresses in Tampa and Orlando."

"The driver of a Honda Odyssey who forced a school bus carrying elementary school children off the road and down an embankment in Ohio, killing one child and injuring 26 others, was caught illegally crossing the southern border and then released into the country by President Joe Biden in 2022."

Oh puhleeze - where do you get your facts? AI generated misinformation factories ?

The president never said he wanted to surge the border.

The temporary work visa deal with Venezuelans (controversial as it is) is for those who already arrived illegally.

In his own words....

And, that work visa Biden has now offered to nearly 700,000 Venezuelans is a magnet for more to come. And, they are coming. To the tune of 5,000 to 10,000 a DAY.
Nothing like rewarding illegal behavior, right, pp?

Your stats are way off …

It is very telling that your two “news” sources are face book and you tube / platforms that are extremely susceptible to deep fakes and misleading information.

If you Google media coverage on Biden alleged comments on surging the border - you tube videos come up not credible news sources.

Except for this from AP which completely reframes your allegations and misrepresentations of Biden admin border policies …

Border migrant surge
May 2, 2023 — The Biden administration will send 1500 troops to the U.S.-Mexico border amid an expected migrant surge following the end of coronavirus ..

Goodness. Are you trying to claim that the youtube clip of Biden saying he hoped migrants would surge the border is fake? Really?

“I would in fact make sure that there is, that we immediately surge to the border — all those people are seeking asylum. They deserve to be heard,” Biden said. “That’s who we are. We’re a nation that says, ‘If you want to flee and you’re fleeing oppression, you should come.’ “
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/jorge-ramos-asks-joe-biden-why-latinos-should-trust-him-1239402/

And, what stats are wrong? The work visas for Venezuelans?

About 472,000 Venezuelans in the U.S. on or before July 31 now will be eligible for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for a period of 18 months. Some 243,000 Venezuelans already have the status stemming from a 2021 designation that was renewed last year.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us-offers-work-permits-half-million-venezuelans-already-country-2023-09-21/

That is MORE than 700,000.

And, those 1500 troops are not there for border enforcement at all. They are there for processing and to free up agents so they can process more migrants. And, how effective have the troops been given that we currently are seeing between 5000 to 10000 migrants a day at our border????

Face it. Biden has been an absolute disaster when it comes to the border. I don't know why anyone expected anything different given his rhetoric and what he considered a "success" with the withdrawal of Afghanistan.

I can’t imagine why all Democrat politicians are supporting open borders. I just don’t get it.

Umm it is hard to imagine because it is not true - just Republican propaganda …

Biden sent many hundreds of troops to the border to help contain the surge - placing the illegal immigrants in holding centers and deporting them .

The 470 k temporary work visas for existing V Immigrants who arrived before 2021 were requested by many states.

1. Those troops were there to help process migrants. KJP announced at the presser last week that Biden has deported 250,000 since May. Sounds like a lot. But, once you realize that more than 700,000 entered during that time, you realize it ISN'T a lot.
2. The 470,000 migrants are those who arrived before July 31, 2023 -2 months ago. Get your facts straight. And, the message has made it down to Venezuela that if you can get here, you will be permitted to work and not be deported.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:20:28 is such a liar. Harris rated so poorly, that she was one of the first Democrats forced to drop out of the presidential race... shortly after she so eloquently —and correctly—called Joe Biden a racist on the world stage. They must hate each other for that.

Harris's POTUS run - with 20 other candidates who didn't win either- got her the VP gig.

She was on the ticket that got the most votes in a presidential election - ever.

In polling that doesn't have Biden in it, Harris polls as the TOP choice to win the Democratic party nomination.

You might not like it, but tough.

Approve - 39.6 Disapprove - 53.3
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/approval/kamala-harris/

As of Sept. 19, 39% of registered voters had a favorable opinion of Harris and 54% had an unfavorable opinion — a net rating of -15 percentage points, according to a Times average.
https://www.latimes.com/projects/kamala-harris-approval-rating-polls-vs-biden-other-vps/

Pretty much the same:
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/kamala_harris_favorableunfavorable-6690.html

NBC News poll: Kamala Harris hits record low for VP net favorability
https://www.axios.com/2023/06/26/kamala-harris-poll-2024-election-biden

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Anonymous wrote:From Heather Cox Richardson newsletter today


If President Biden is showing his support for the strong unions of the past, Vice President Kamala Harris is in charge of the future. The White House today announced the establishment of a National Office of Gun Violence Prevention, to be overseen by the vice president.

Lately, Harris has been taking the lead in embracing change and appealing to younger voters. On September 9 she hosted a celebration honoring the 50th anniversary of hip hop, and she is currently in the midst of a tour of college campuses to urge young people to vote. She has been the administration’s leading voice on issues of reproductive rights and equality before the law, issues at the top of concerns of young Americans. Now adding gun safety to that list, she is picking up yet another issue crucially important to young people.

When 26-year-old Representative Maxwell Frost (D-FL) introduced the president today, he said that he got involved in politics because he "didn't want to get shot in school."

If the president and the vice president today seemed to represent the past and the future to carry the country forward, the present was also in the news today, and that story was about corruption and the parties’ different approaches to it

Noted that Heather Cox Richardson failed to mention Harris' role as border czar among her responsibilities.
She will be as successful at gun safety as she has been on the border. They are working really hard at reinventing Harris, but it is failing.

Rep Connolly addresses your mischaracterizations of border issues better than I can …


Republicans are clamoring over themselves to blame President Joe Biden for any and every challenge facing America. Nowhere is that more apparent than on the issue of immigration and border security.

If you listen to my Republican colleagues, you’d believe Joe Biden single-handedly broke our immigration system and refuses to fix it. They keep this lie alive by perpetuating a series of myths about Democrats and the border.

It’s time to correct the record.

MYTH: The Biden administration has implemented an “open border” policy that has created chaos at our border with Mexico.

TRUTH: President Biden inherited an immigration system in tatters. The Trump administration cut off legal pathways to citizenship, leaving would-be migrants with fewer lawful methods of entering the country. They cut funding to Central American countries in 2019 as they splurged on an ineffective, costly wall.

It was the Trump administration that tightened sanctions on Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua, exacerbating the macroeconomic crises that have led hundreds of thousands to flee and arrive at the southern border. When they pulled the rug out from various, essential assistance programs, they made the problem worse.
But our immigration system has been broken for many decades — long before Joe Biden or Donald Trump took the oath of office. Time and again, Democrats have proposed solutions to fix the immigration system in a reasonable, humane way. And time and again, Republicans have opposed these efforts at every turn.

One might recall that in 2013, House Republicans thwarted comprehensive immigration reform after an agreement was reached in the Senate. Many of those same House Republicans who prevented that legislation from passing are now intent on blaming irregular migration, an issue our country has dealt with for over a century, solely on the Biden administration.

There’s only one problem with their affinity for blaming Democrats — it doesn’t hold up to basic scrutiny. In fact, between December 2022 and January 2023, the Biden-Harris administration halved the number of encounters at the border and reduced the number of Cuban, Venezuelan, Nicaraguan, and Haitian migrants by 97 percent.

MYTH: The Biden administration has ignored the border and is refusing to commit proper resources to it.

TRUTH: The idea that Democrats have ignored the situation at the border and refused to commit resources to solving it is another outright lie. In reality, the Biden-Harris administration and congressional Democrats have surged record levels of funding to the border.

The FY23 government funding package that President Biden signed into law provided Border Patrol with $7.153 billion — a 17 percent increase from the year before. Additionally, the funding package provided $65 million for 300 new Border Patrol agents, $60 million for 125 new personnel at points of entry; and $230 million for technology like autonomous surveillance towers.

House Republicans voted against this historic funding.

MYTH: Biden’s “open border” policies allow undocumented immigrants to flood the country with deadly fentanyl.

TRUTH: Republicans continue to blame vulnerable migrants fleeing violence, hunger, and natural disasters for illicit drug smuggling, but facts are stubborn things. Over 90 percent of fentanyl, and over 80 percent of total illegal narcotics, arrive at legal points of entry—not between them—and are smuggled largely by Americans—not undocumented migrants. In fact, migrants accounted for less than 9 percent of fentanyl trafficking convictions in FY 21, compared to more than 86 percent for American citizens.

In December 2022, CBP seized 4,500 pounds of fentanyl, the largest amount ever recorded. Incredibly, just five of those 4,500 pounds were seized at the border by U.S. Border Patrol. Republicans are focused on 1 percent of the problem, 100 percent of the time.

MYTH: Biden’s “open border” policies have allowed criminals and terrorists to pour over the southern border unchecked, contributing to a spike in crime in America.

TRUTH: Study after study has shown that undocumented immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than U.S. citizens. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Alternatives to Detention Program provides a strong example: The latest data from ICE released on Feb. 3, 2023, demonstrated 99.4 percent of immigrants monitored on ICE’s Alternatives to Detention Program attended their court hearings compared to the .6 percent which failed to attend their hearing.

Not all undocumented immigrants are tracked through this program, but immigrants, when paroled into the United States, overwhelmingly are lawful individuals that attend their court hearings. An American Immigration Council report found that over the past 11 years, an overwhelming 83 percent of immigrants attended their immigration court hearings, and those who failed to appear in court often did not receive notice or faced hardship in getting to court.

Republicans who assert the Biden administration is releasing countless dangerous migrants into the country are not only trafficking in xenophobic, anti-immigrant sentiment, but they are also peddling lies that are categorically false.

The situation at the border demands serious policy solutions that provide a pathway to citizenship for DACA recipients; address the root causes of migration like repression, political instability, violence, hunger, and lack of economic opportunity; and fix our own broken immigration system.

Oh, please.

Joe Biden, himself, said he wanted migrants to surge the border,. And, he said, just two nights ago, that he wants to fast track processing at the US border, expand legal pathways for citizenship, increase the total number of refugees, send money to help sanctuary cities, and speed up work-permits for illegals. No mention whatsoever of securing our border. It's all about bringing more people in and processing them more quickly. All of this sends the message to migrants.... "Come! You will get in!" Because THAT is what Joe wants.

Connelly didn't mention these facts in his spin. He's a tool.
And, his little comment about releasing dangerous migrants into our country...... yep, they are. Gerry should get his facts straight.

"Erie County #NewYork -a deep blue county, will no longer accept illegal immigrants from NYC Mayor Eric Adams' resettlement program after another migrant has been charged with sexual assault…A migrant raped a woman in front of her toddler."

"Illegal migrant posed as a teenager. The Biden administration let him into the country and dropped him off in Florida on a midnight flight. After he murdered a man it turns out he was a 23 year old from Honduras."

"Roberto Emilio Vasquez-Santamaria, 64, was arrested in connection to a homicide on Monday in Eagle Pass, Texas, according to the sheriff’s office.
Vasquez-Santamaria passed through the Eagle Pass sector in May. He was processed and released with a notice to appear virtually at a Florida station in June 2025. The Peru native allegedly provided two different addresses in Tampa and Orlando."

"The driver of a Honda Odyssey who forced a school bus carrying elementary school children off the road and down an embankment in Ohio, killing one child and injuring 26 others, was caught illegally crossing the southern border and then released into the country by President Joe Biden in 2022."

Oh puhleeze - where do you get your facts? AI generated misinformation factories ?

The president never said he wanted to surge the border.

The temporary work visa deal with Venezuelans (controversial as it is) is for those who already arrived illegally.

In his own words....

And, that work visa Biden has now offered to nearly 700,000 Venezuelans is a magnet for more to come. And, they are coming. To the tune of 5,000 to 10,000 a DAY.
Nothing like rewarding illegal behavior, right, pp?

Your stats are way off …

It is very telling that your two “news” sources are face book and you tube / platforms that are extremely susceptible to deep fakes and misleading information.

If you Google media coverage on Biden alleged comments on surging the border - you tube videos come up not credible news sources.

Except for this from AP which completely reframes your allegations and misrepresentations of Biden admin border policies …

Border migrant surge
May 2, 2023 — The Biden administration will send 1500 troops to the U.S.-Mexico border amid an expected migrant surge following the end of coronavirus ..

Goodness. Are you trying to claim that the youtube clip of Biden saying he hoped migrants would surge the border is fake? Really?

“I would in fact make sure that there is, that we immediately surge to the border — all those people are seeking asylum. They deserve to be heard,” Biden said. “That’s who we are. We’re a nation that says, ‘If you want to flee and you’re fleeing oppression, you should come.’ “
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/jorge-ramos-asks-joe-biden-why-latinos-should-trust-him-1239402/

And, what stats are wrong? The work visas for Venezuelans?

About 472,000 Venezuelans in the U.S. on or before July 31 now will be eligible for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for a period of 18 months. Some 243,000 Venezuelans already have the status stemming from a 2021 designation that was renewed last year.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us-offers-work-permits-half-million-venezuelans-already-country-2023-09-21/

That is MORE than 700,000.

And, those 1500 troops are not there for border enforcement at all. They are there for processing and to free up agents so they can process more migrants. And, how effective have the troops been given that we currently are seeing between 5000 to 10000 migrants a day at our border????

Face it. Biden has been an absolute disaster when it comes to the border. I don't know why anyone expected anything different given his rhetoric and what he considered a "success" with the withdrawal of Afghanistan.

I can’t imagine why all Democrat politicians are supporting open borders. I just don’t get it.

Umm it is hard to imagine because it is not true - just Republican propaganda …

Biden sent many hundreds of troops to the border to help contain the surge - placing the illegal immigrants in holding centers and deporting them .

The 470 k temporary work visas for existing V Immigrants who arrived before 2021 were requested by many states.

5 million illegals crossing in past 2 years.look at what’s going on in NYC with 110k migrants there. State of emergency in Mass. Asking national guard to help. Emergency in Chicago with migrants sleeping in police stations. El Paso declaring state of emergency, and so on.

BTW, all democratic leaders in these states/cities.

You must be blind to think the border is secure and Biden is doing a good job with that. I bet you you are in the minority of people thinking there is no issue with the broder.

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Anonymous wrote:From Heather Cox Richardson newsletter today


If President Biden is showing his support for the strong unions of the past, Vice President Kamala Harris is in charge of the future. The White House today announced the establishment of a National Office of Gun Violence Prevention, to be overseen by the vice president.

Lately, Harris has been taking the lead in embracing change and appealing to younger voters. On September 9 she hosted a celebration honoring the 50th anniversary of hip hop, and she is currently in the midst of a tour of college campuses to urge young people to vote. She has been the administration’s leading voice on issues of reproductive rights and equality before the law, issues at the top of concerns of young Americans. Now adding gun safety to that list, she is picking up yet another issue crucially important to young people.

When 26-year-old Representative Maxwell Frost (D-FL) introduced the president today, he said that he got involved in politics because he "didn't want to get shot in school."

If the president and the vice president today seemed to represent the past and the future to carry the country forward, the present was also in the news today, and that story was about corruption and the parties’ different approaches to it

Noted that Heather Cox Richardson failed to mention Harris' role as border czar among her responsibilities.
She will be as successful at gun safety as she has been on the border. They are working really hard at reinventing Harris, but it is failing.

Rep Connolly addresses your mischaracterizations of border issues better than I can …


Republicans are clamoring over themselves to blame President Joe Biden for any and every challenge facing America. Nowhere is that more apparent than on the issue of immigration and border security.

If you listen to my Republican colleagues, you’d believe Joe Biden single-handedly broke our immigration system and refuses to fix it. They keep this lie alive by perpetuating a series of myths about Democrats and the border.

It’s time to correct the record.

MYTH: The Biden administration has implemented an “open border” policy that has created chaos at our border with Mexico.

TRUTH: President Biden inherited an immigration system in tatters. The Trump administration cut off legal pathways to citizenship, leaving would-be migrants with fewer lawful methods of entering the country. They cut funding to Central American countries in 2019 as they splurged on an ineffective, costly wall.

It was the Trump administration that tightened sanctions on Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua, exacerbating the macroeconomic crises that have led hundreds of thousands to flee and arrive at the southern border. When they pulled the rug out from various, essential assistance programs, they made the problem worse.
But our immigration system has been broken for many decades — long before Joe Biden or Donald Trump took the oath of office. Time and again, Democrats have proposed solutions to fix the immigration system in a reasonable, humane way. And time and again, Republicans have opposed these efforts at every turn.

One might recall that in 2013, House Republicans thwarted comprehensive immigration reform after an agreement was reached in the Senate. Many of those same House Republicans who prevented that legislation from passing are now intent on blaming irregular migration, an issue our country has dealt with for over a century, solely on the Biden administration.

There’s only one problem with their affinity for blaming Democrats — it doesn’t hold up to basic scrutiny. In fact, between December 2022 and January 2023, the Biden-Harris administration halved the number of encounters at the border and reduced the number of Cuban, Venezuelan, Nicaraguan, and Haitian migrants by 97 percent.

MYTH: The Biden administration has ignored the border and is refusing to commit proper resources to it.

TRUTH: The idea that Democrats have ignored the situation at the border and refused to commit resources to solving it is another outright lie. In reality, the Biden-Harris administration and congressional Democrats have surged record levels of funding to the border.

The FY23 government funding package that President Biden signed into law provided Border Patrol with $7.153 billion — a 17 percent increase from the year before. Additionally, the funding package provided $65 million for 300 new Border Patrol agents, $60 million for 125 new personnel at points of entry; and $230 million for technology like autonomous surveillance towers.

House Republicans voted against this historic funding.

MYTH: Biden’s “open border” policies allow undocumented immigrants to flood the country with deadly fentanyl.

TRUTH: Republicans continue to blame vulnerable migrants fleeing violence, hunger, and natural disasters for illicit drug smuggling, but facts are stubborn things. Over 90 percent of fentanyl, and over 80 percent of total illegal narcotics, arrive at legal points of entry—not between them—and are smuggled largely by Americans—not undocumented migrants. In fact, migrants accounted for less than 9 percent of fentanyl trafficking convictions in FY 21, compared to more than 86 percent for American citizens.

In December 2022, CBP seized 4,500 pounds of fentanyl, the largest amount ever recorded. Incredibly, just five of those 4,500 pounds were seized at the border by U.S. Border Patrol. Republicans are focused on 1 percent of the problem, 100 percent of the time.

MYTH: Biden’s “open border” policies have allowed criminals and terrorists to pour over the southern border unchecked, contributing to a spike in crime in America.

TRUTH: Study after study has shown that undocumented immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than U.S. citizens. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Alternatives to Detention Program provides a strong example: The latest data from ICE released on Feb. 3, 2023, demonstrated 99.4 percent of immigrants monitored on ICE’s Alternatives to Detention Program attended their court hearings compared to the .6 percent which failed to attend their hearing.

Not all undocumented immigrants are tracked through this program, but immigrants, when paroled into the United States, overwhelmingly are lawful individuals that attend their court hearings. An American Immigration Council report found that over the past 11 years, an overwhelming 83 percent of immigrants attended their immigration court hearings, and those who failed to appear in court often did not receive notice or faced hardship in getting to court.

Republicans who assert the Biden administration is releasing countless dangerous migrants into the country are not only trafficking in xenophobic, anti-immigrant sentiment, but they are also peddling lies that are categorically false.

The situation at the border demands serious policy solutions that provide a pathway to citizenship for DACA recipients; address the root causes of migration like repression, political instability, violence, hunger, and lack of economic opportunity; and fix our own broken immigration system.

Oh, please.

Joe Biden, himself, said he wanted migrants to surge the border,. And, he said, just two nights ago, that he wants to fast track processing at the US border, expand legal pathways for citizenship, increase the total number of refugees, send money to help sanctuary cities, and speed up work-permits for illegals. No mention whatsoever of securing our border. It's all about bringing more people in and processing them more quickly. All of this sends the message to migrants.... "Come! You will get in!" Because THAT is what Joe wants.

Connelly didn't mention these facts in his spin. He's a tool.
And, his little comment about releasing dangerous migrants into our country...... yep, they are. Gerry should get his facts straight.

"Erie County #NewYork -a deep blue county, will no longer accept illegal immigrants from NYC Mayor Eric Adams' resettlement program after another migrant has been charged with sexual assault…A migrant raped a woman in front of her toddler."

"Illegal migrant posed as a teenager. The Biden administration let him into the country and dropped him off in Florida on a midnight flight. After he murdered a man it turns out he was a 23 year old from Honduras."

"Roberto Emilio Vasquez-Santamaria, 64, was arrested in connection to a homicide on Monday in Eagle Pass, Texas, according to the sheriff’s office.
Vasquez-Santamaria passed through the Eagle Pass sector in May. He was processed and released with a notice to appear virtually at a Florida station in June 2025. The Peru native allegedly provided two different addresses in Tampa and Orlando."

"The driver of a Honda Odyssey who forced a school bus carrying elementary school children off the road and down an embankment in Ohio, killing one child and injuring 26 others, was caught illegally crossing the southern border and then released into the country by President Joe Biden in 2022."

Oh puhleeze - where do you get your facts? AI generated misinformation factories ?

The president never said he wanted to surge the border.

The temporary work visa deal with Venezuelans (controversial as it is) is for those who already arrived illegally.

In his own words....

And, that work visa Biden has now offered to nearly 700,000 Venezuelans is a magnet for more to come. And, they are coming. To the tune of 5,000 to 10,000 a DAY.
Nothing like rewarding illegal behavior, right, pp?

Your stats are way off …

It is very telling that your two “news” sources are face book and you tube / platforms that are extremely susceptible to deep fakes and misleading information.

If you Google media coverage on Biden alleged comments on surging the border - you tube videos come up not credible news sources.

Except for this from AP which completely reframes your allegations and misrepresentations of Biden admin border policies …

Border migrant surge
May 2, 2023 — The Biden administration will send 1500 troops to the U.S.-Mexico border amid an expected migrant surge following the end of coronavirus ..

Goodness. Are you trying to claim that the youtube clip of Biden saying he hoped migrants would surge the border is fake? Really?

“I would in fact make sure that there is, that we immediately surge to the border — all those people are seeking asylum. They deserve to be heard,” Biden said. “That’s who we are. We’re a nation that says, ‘If you want to flee and you’re fleeing oppression, you should come.’ “
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/jorge-ramos-asks-joe-biden-why-latinos-should-trust-him-1239402/

And, what stats are wrong? The work visas for Venezuelans?

About 472,000 Venezuelans in the U.S. on or before July 31 now will be eligible for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for a period of 18 months. Some 243,000 Venezuelans already have the status stemming from a 2021 designation that was renewed last year.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us-offers-work-permits-half-million-venezuelans-already-country-2023-09-21/

That is MORE than 700,000.

And, those 1500 troops are not there for border enforcement at all. They are there for processing and to free up agents so they can process more migrants. And, how effective have the troops been given that we currently are seeing between 5000 to 10000 migrants a day at our border????

Face it. Biden has been an absolute disaster when it comes to the border. I don't know why anyone expected anything different given his rhetoric and what he considered a "success" with the withdrawal of Afghanistan.

I can’t imagine why all Democrat politicians are supporting open borders. I just don’t get it.

Umm it is hard to imagine because it is not true - just Republican propaganda …

Biden sent many hundreds of troops to the border to help contain the surge - placing the illegal immigrants in holding centers and deporting them .

The 470 k temporary work visas for existing V Immigrants who arrived before 2021 were requested by many states.

5 million illegals crossing in past 2 years.look at what’s going on in NYC with 110k migrants there. State of emergency in Mass. Asking national guard to help. Emergency in Chicago with migrants sleeping in police stations. El Paso declaring state of emergency, and so on.

BTW, all democratic leaders in these states/cities.

You must be blind to think the border is secure and Biden is doing a good job with that. I bet you you are in the minority of people thinking there is no issue with the broder.

She is. The 23% who "approve" of his handling of the border are probably all here illegally.

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Anonymous wrote:20:28 is such a liar. Harris rated so poorly, that she was one of the first Democrats forced to drop out of the presidential race... shortly after she so eloquently —and correctly—called Joe Biden a racist on the world stage. They must hate each other for that.

Harris's POTUS run - with 20 other candidates who didn't win either- got her the VP gig.

She was on the ticket that got the most votes in a presidential election - ever.

In polling that doesn't have Biden in it, Harris polls as the TOP choice to win the Democratic party nomination.

You might not like it, but tough.

Approve - 39.6 Disapprove - 53.3
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/approval/kamala-harris/

As of Sept. 19, 39% of registered voters had a favorable opinion of Harris and 54% had an unfavorable opinion — a net rating of -15 percentage points, according to a Times average.
https://www.latimes.com/projects/kamala-harris-approval-rating-polls-vs-biden-other-vps/

Pretty much the same:
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/kamala_harris_favorableunfavorable-6690.html

NBC News poll: Kamala Harris hits record low for VP net favorability
https://www.axios.com/2023/06/26/kamala-harris-poll-2024-election-biden

Poll Democrats, college educated women, African Americans, youth.

You'll get a MUCH different result.

GOP opinions don't matter. They are not voting for Democrats.

Biden is polling a little better than Harris. He'll still beat Trump soundly in 2024.

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Anonymous wrote:From Heather Cox Richardson newsletter today


If President Biden is showing his support for the strong unions of the past, Vice President Kamala Harris is in charge of the future. The White House today announced the establishment of a National Office of Gun Violence Prevention, to be overseen by the vice president.

Lately, Harris has been taking the lead in embracing change and appealing to younger voters. On September 9 she hosted a celebration honoring the 50th anniversary of hip hop, and she is currently in the midst of a tour of college campuses to urge young people to vote. She has been the administration’s leading voice on issues of reproductive rights and equality before the law, issues at the top of concerns of young Americans. Now adding gun safety to that list, she is picking up yet another issue crucially important to young people.

When 26-year-old Representative Maxwell Frost (D-FL) introduced the president today, he said that he got involved in politics because he "didn't want to get shot in school."

If the president and the vice president today seemed to represent the past and the future to carry the country forward, the present was also in the news today, and that story was about corruption and the parties’ different approaches to it

Noted that Heather Cox Richardson failed to mention Harris' role as border czar among her responsibilities.
She will be as successful at gun safety as she has been on the border. They are working really hard at reinventing Harris, but it is failing.

Rep Connolly addresses your mischaracterizations of border issues better than I can …


Republicans are clamoring over themselves to blame President Joe Biden for any and every challenge facing America. Nowhere is that more apparent than on the issue of immigration and border security.

If you listen to my Republican colleagues, you’d believe Joe Biden single-handedly broke our immigration system and refuses to fix it. They keep this lie alive by perpetuating a series of myths about Democrats and the border.

It’s time to correct the record.

MYTH: The Biden administration has implemented an “open border” policy that has created chaos at our border with Mexico.

TRUTH: President Biden inherited an immigration system in tatters. The Trump administration cut off legal pathways to citizenship, leaving would-be migrants with fewer lawful methods of entering the country. They cut funding to Central American countries in 2019 as they splurged on an ineffective, costly wall.

It was the Trump administration that tightened sanctions on Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua, exacerbating the macroeconomic crises that have led hundreds of thousands to flee and arrive at the southern border. When they pulled the rug out from various, essential assistance programs, they made the problem worse.
But our immigration system has been broken for many decades — long before Joe Biden or Donald Trump took the oath of office. Time and again, Democrats have proposed solutions to fix the immigration system in a reasonable, humane way. And time and again, Republicans have opposed these efforts at every turn.

One might recall that in 2013, House Republicans thwarted comprehensive immigration reform after an agreement was reached in the Senate. Many of those same House Republicans who prevented that legislation from passing are now intent on blaming irregular migration, an issue our country has dealt with for over a century, solely on the Biden administration.

There’s only one problem with their affinity for blaming Democrats — it doesn’t hold up to basic scrutiny. In fact, between December 2022 and January 2023, the Biden-Harris administration halved the number of encounters at the border and reduced the number of Cuban, Venezuelan, Nicaraguan, and Haitian migrants by 97 percent.

MYTH: The Biden administration has ignored the border and is refusing to commit proper resources to it.

TRUTH: The idea that Democrats have ignored the situation at the border and refused to commit resources to solving it is another outright lie. In reality, the Biden-Harris administration and congressional Democrats have surged record levels of funding to the border.

The FY23 government funding package that President Biden signed into law provided Border Patrol with $7.153 billion — a 17 percent increase from the year before. Additionally, the funding package provided $65 million for 300 new Border Patrol agents, $60 million for 125 new personnel at points of entry; and $230 million for technology like autonomous surveillance towers.

House Republicans voted against this historic funding.

MYTH: Biden’s “open border” policies allow undocumented immigrants to flood the country with deadly fentanyl.

TRUTH: Republicans continue to blame vulnerable migrants fleeing violence, hunger, and natural disasters for illicit drug smuggling, but facts are stubborn things. Over 90 percent of fentanyl, and over 80 percent of total illegal narcotics, arrive at legal points of entry—not between them—and are smuggled largely by Americans—not undocumented migrants. In fact, migrants accounted for less than 9 percent of fentanyl trafficking convictions in FY 21, compared to more than 86 percent for American citizens.

In December 2022, CBP seized 4,500 pounds of fentanyl, the largest amount ever recorded. Incredibly, just five of those 4,500 pounds were seized at the border by U.S. Border Patrol. Republicans are focused on 1 percent of the problem, 100 percent of the time.

MYTH: Biden’s “open border” policies have allowed criminals and terrorists to pour over the southern border unchecked, contributing to a spike in crime in America.

TRUTH: Study after study has shown that undocumented immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than U.S. citizens. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Alternatives to Detention Program provides a strong example: The latest data from ICE released on Feb. 3, 2023, demonstrated 99.4 percent of immigrants monitored on ICE’s Alternatives to Detention Program attended their court hearings compared to the .6 percent which failed to attend their hearing.

Not all undocumented immigrants are tracked through this program, but immigrants, when paroled into the United States, overwhelmingly are lawful individuals that attend their court hearings. An American Immigration Council report found that over the past 11 years, an overwhelming 83 percent of immigrants attended their immigration court hearings, and those who failed to appear in court often did not receive notice or faced hardship in getting to court.

Republicans who assert the Biden administration is releasing countless dangerous migrants into the country are not only trafficking in xenophobic, anti-immigrant sentiment, but they are also peddling lies that are categorically false.

The situation at the border demands serious policy solutions that provide a pathway to citizenship for DACA recipients; address the root causes of migration like repression, political instability, violence, hunger, and lack of economic opportunity; and fix our own broken immigration system.

Oh, please.

Joe Biden, himself, said he wanted migrants to surge the border,. And, he said, just two nights ago, that he wants to fast track processing at the US border, expand legal pathways for citizenship, increase the total number of refugees, send money to help sanctuary cities, and speed up work-permits for illegals. No mention whatsoever of securing our border. It's all about bringing more people in and processing them more quickly. All of this sends the message to migrants.... "Come! You will get in!" Because THAT is what Joe wants.

Connelly didn't mention these facts in his spin. He's a tool.
And, his little comment about releasing dangerous migrants into our country...... yep, they are. Gerry should get his facts straight.

"Erie County #NewYork -a deep blue county, will no longer accept illegal immigrants from NYC Mayor Eric Adams' resettlement program after another migrant has been charged with sexual assault…A migrant raped a woman in front of her toddler."

"Illegal migrant posed as a teenager. The Biden administration let him into the country and dropped him off in Florida on a midnight flight. After he murdered a man it turns out he was a 23 year old from Honduras."

"Roberto Emilio Vasquez-Santamaria, 64, was arrested in connection to a homicide on Monday in Eagle Pass, Texas, according to the sheriff’s office.
Vasquez-Santamaria passed through the Eagle Pass sector in May. He was processed and released with a notice to appear virtually at a Florida station in June 2025. The Peru native allegedly provided two different addresses in Tampa and Orlando."

"The driver of a Honda Odyssey who forced a school bus carrying elementary school children off the road and down an embankment in Ohio, killing one child and injuring 26 others, was caught illegally crossing the southern border and then released into the country by President Joe Biden in 2022."

Oh puhleeze - where do you get your facts? AI generated misinformation factories ?

The president never said he wanted to surge the border.

The temporary work visa deal with Venezuelans (controversial as it is) is for those who already arrived illegally.

In his own words....

And, that work visa Biden has now offered to nearly 700,000 Venezuelans is a magnet for more to come. And, they are coming. To the tune of 5,000 to 10,000 a DAY.
Nothing like rewarding illegal behavior, right, pp?

Your stats are way off …

It is very telling that your two “news” sources are face book and you tube / platforms that are extremely susceptible to deep fakes and misleading information.

If you Google media coverage on Biden alleged comments on surging the border - you tube videos come up not credible news sources.

Except for this from AP which completely reframes your allegations and misrepresentations of Biden admin border policies …

Border migrant surge
May 2, 2023 — The Biden administration will send 1500 troops to the U.S.-Mexico border amid an expected migrant surge following the end of coronavirus ..

Goodness. Are you trying to claim that the youtube clip of Biden saying he hoped migrants would surge the border is fake? Really?

“I would in fact make sure that there is, that we immediately surge to the border — all those people are seeking asylum. They deserve to be heard,” Biden said. “That’s who we are. We’re a nation that says, ‘If you want to flee and you’re fleeing oppression, you should come.’ “
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/jorge-ramos-asks-joe-biden-why-latinos-should-trust-him-1239402/

And, what stats are wrong? The work visas for Venezuelans?

About 472,000 Venezuelans in the U.S. on or before July 31 now will be eligible for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for a period of 18 months. Some 243,000 Venezuelans already have the status stemming from a 2021 designation that was renewed last year.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us-offers-work-permits-half-million-venezuelans-already-country-2023-09-21/

That is MORE than 700,000.

And, those 1500 troops are not there for border enforcement at all. They are there for processing and to free up agents so they can process more migrants. And, how effective have the troops been given that we currently are seeing between 5000 to 10000 migrants a day at our border????

Face it. Biden has been an absolute disaster when it comes to the border. I don't know why anyone expected anything different given his rhetoric and what he considered a "success" with the withdrawal of Afghanistan.

I can’t imagine why all Democrat politicians are supporting open borders. I just don’t get it.

Umm it is hard to imagine because it is not true - just Republican propaganda …

Biden sent many hundreds of troops to the border to help contain the surge - placing the illegal immigrants in holding centers and deporting them .

The 470 k temporary work visas for existing V Immigrants who arrived before 2021 were requested by many states.

5 million illegals crossing in past 2 years.look at what’s going on in NYC with 110k migrants there. State of emergency in Mass. Asking national guard to help. Emergency in Chicago with migrants sleeping in police stations. El Paso declaring state of emergency, and so on.

BTW, all democratic leaders in these states/cities.

You must be blind to think the border is secure and Biden is doing a good job with that. I bet you you are in the minority of people thinking there is no issue with the broder.

More mischaracterizations …

Nobody thinks there are no border issues and nobody thinks sovereign states should have open borders without legal processes for immigration.

However, the Wall was idiotic, expensive and unrealistic.

Biden has sent hundreds of troops to the border to help contain the surge.

Just as with mitigating climate change, there are no easy fixes and complex reality requires complex responses.

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She is an absolute moron.

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Anonymous wrote:She is an absolute moron.

And not one single positive accomplishment. Yet.