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No. of Recommendations: 5
As long as we're talking about immigration and the southern border, Jim Jordan led republican members of Congress to the Arizona border with Mexico while the president was making his historic visit to the war zone in Ukraine. Jordan's group was told that around 4,000 immigrants cross the U.S. border near Yuma each day and their goal was to shine a spotlight on all those illegal immigrants easily crossing into America.
But Jordan and his convoy came up empty. They didn't spot a single illegal border crosser.
His stunt failed but enforcement measures are improving on the southern border, partly a result of new administration policies announced in January.
Immigration officials, however, say enforcement measures are working, pointing to statistics that show Border Patrol encounters between designated ports of entry in January were at their lowest level in nearly two years. U.S. Border Patrol encounters between southwest border ports of entry last month totaled 128,410, down 42% from the 221,675 reported in December 2022, according to a February report from the agency.Jordan, in an interview at the border, begrudgingly admitted that the numbers were "good" but characterized the 42% drop as a small step in the right direction.
https://www.cleveland.com/news/2023/02/us-rep-jim-...https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statement...
No. of Recommendations: 2
But Jordan and his convoy came up empty. They didn't spot a single illegal border crosser. - commonone
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Gosh golly, then I have been duped by the hundreds and hundreds of video clips showing massive border crossing in small and large groups, some running from agents, some turning themselves in, night vision video from drones, immigrants dieing in the back of abandoned semi's, human trafficking, fentanyl seizures.
I realize now there is no problem with border security and all of this so-called evidence was manufactured on a sound stage at Fox studios.
No. of Recommendations: 2
I realize now there is no problem with border security and all of this so-called evidence was manufactured on a sound stage at Fox studios.
Amazing how some refuse to accept the reality of what is actually happening at our southern border.
All because of that big blue D blinding them to the truth.
No. of Recommendations: 3
"Gosh golly, then I have been duped by the hundreds and hundreds of video clips showing massive border crossing in small and large groups, some running from agents, some turning themselves in, night vision video from drones, immigrants dieing in the back of abandoned semi's, human trafficking, fentanyl seizures.
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One, you are being laughingly dishonest with yourself if you think you are responding to what the person you quoted said. You missed his point. He never said what you are sarcastically think you are responding to.
Two, didn't you already admit upthread that some people will always get through?
No. of Recommendations: 4
bighairymike: I realize now there is no problem with border security and all of this so-called evidence was manufactured on a sound stage at Fox studios.
LurkerMom: Amazing how some refuse to accept the reality of what is actually happening at our southern border.
All because of that big blue D blinding them to the truth.
Gee, some people just have an inability to read or understand. Here, again, is what I actually wrote: "Sources aside, again, no one disputes that immigration is a serious and challenging issue that needs to be addressed..."
