Migrants Left Freezing at VP's Home on Christmas Eve

Sunday, December 25, 2022

Two busloads of migrants were dropped off in front of Vice President Kamala Harris' residence in Washington, DC, on Christmas Eve in 18 degree weather, a law enforcement source told CNN. The source said there was no one from any organization or aid group on the ground to receive them in front of the Naval Observatory, where the vice president's home is located.

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"A separate administration official confirmed the arrival and said law enforcement has estimated that approximately 50 more migrants are inbound and expected late Christmas Eve, likely after 10 p.m. ET. The initial two busloads were taken to local shelters, according to the official.

It's not clear who is responsible for sending the migrants to the Naval Observatory, though CNN reported earlier this year that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott had sent buses of migrants north, including to a location outside Harris' home."

Obviously this was the Rwing White Christian Nationalist thing to do to celebrate Christmas.

Meow Contempt will be SO proud!

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2022-12-24 11:48 PM | Reply

Seriously?

#2 | Posted by REDIAL at 2022-12-24 11:49 PM | Reply

Yeah, apparently "owning them some libs" by showing cruel abuse and indignities to minorities is what is most important to them these days... well, along with Bounties on women and trans.

#3 | Posted by Corky at 2022-12-24 11:53 PM | Reply

apparently "owning them some libs" by showing cruel abuse and indignities to minorities is what is most important to them these days...

It will work. The MAGATs will raise their Mason jars in support.

#4 | Posted by REDIAL at 2022-12-25 12:00 AM | Reply

No consequences only because the gov Abbott is white.

#5 | Posted by fresno500 at 2022-12-25 05:06 AM | Reply

Kompassionate Konservatives

#6 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2022-12-25 06:56 AM | Reply

Yes, because the Cons know the Innkeeper who dumped Jesus, Mary, and Joseph into the cold manger is the real hero of the Bible.

#7 | Posted by TFDNihilist at 2022-12-25 09:11 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Amazing how deaf the Twice baked administration is to the plight of the Southern border states even when the evidence of an unsecure border is dropped on their doorstep. Calling it a Republican stunt does not solve the problem. They're more interested in getting LGBTQ centers in Pakistan than doing something about the border. Nero fiddles while Rome burns. It's 18 degrees in Jacksonville and American homeless citizens are not on heated buses taken to a ritzy area to be taken care of. If the illegals were given last resort cold weather accommodations like our homeless, you libs would be outraged. Boarder czar is not doing her job, is she?

#8 | Posted by gracieamazed at 2022-12-25 09:22 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

This is the cherry on top of Hot Wheels' Uvalde celebration.

#9 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2022-12-25 09:34 AM | Reply

#8 | Posted by gracieamazed

Your Christmas day revulsion.

#10 | Posted by Angrydad at 2022-12-25 09:36 AM | Reply

#8 happy holidays gracie.

I'd wish you a happy new year, but considering that even on Christmas you're a miserable sack of ...

#11 | Posted by jpw at 2022-12-25 09:51 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

It's a perfect Republican Christmas: make people's hard lives harder to make a performative point while you warm yourself by the home hearth. Scum. Of. The. Earth.

#12 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2022-12-25 10:59 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 5

Hey, Gracie wants to spend her tax money housing and feeding the homeless. Who knew she was a Lib?

#13 | Posted by TFDNihilist at 2022-12-25 11:00 AM | Reply

- a Republican stunt does not solve the problem.

Amazed Gracie finally got something right.

#14 | Posted by Corky at 2022-12-25 12:28 PM | Reply

#14 I did not call it that, the left did. Merry Christmas.

#15 | Posted by gracieamazed at 2022-12-25 12:35 PM | Reply | Funny: 2

#13 I was never against spending tax dollars on homeless and mentally ill. But for a look at who does, read the comments: drudge.com

#16 | Posted by gracieamazed at 2022-12-25 12:40 PM | Reply | Funny: 2

I don't understand, why doesn't she invite them in? Talk about heartless, she lives on taxpayer dime anyhow.

a Republican stunt does not solve the problem.

idk, Isn't Biden sending immigrants in the dead of night also a "stunt"?

None of this would be happening if we'd just open up our Border, allow everyone one that enters at a PoE a citizen and protect our borders from Fentanyl.
The Lumpers here claim virtue, but say nothing unless a Republican copies them, this place is full of virtue signalers, and hypocrites.

Hey, Gracie wants to spend her tax money housing and feeding the homeless. Who knew she was a Lib?
#13 | POSTED BY TFDNIHILIST

We spend BILLIONs of taxdollars on "homelessness" there's a whole industry related to it, it will never be solved the way we are approaching it. Not much different really than Healthcare, Education, or the Military.

It's all a funding scam at this point.

If X doesn't exist where does that leave politicians and their remora's? There's no way this country every becomes better with the government sloshing around so much money. Its not that the intentions are wrong, its there is no accountability, nor an end to the amount that will be spent and sucked up before it gets to the cause.

#17 | Posted by oneironaut at 2022-12-25 12:50 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

I don't understand, why doesn't she invite them in?

Do you think the Secret Service is going to let a busload of unannounced randos into the VP's residence?

#18 | Posted by REDIAL at 2022-12-25 12:53 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

...I was never against spending tax dollars on homeless and mentally ill...
#16 | Posted by gracieamazed

Yet you constantly vote for the party that is. In fact, the guy you voted for twice is the one who is wasting millions of your tax dollars on stunts like this instead of helping vulnerable Floridians.

#19 | Posted by TFDNihilist at 2022-12-25 12:57 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 6

#18

That's what makes it so ridiculous.

#20 | Posted by horstngraben at 2022-12-25 01:01 PM | Reply

I don't understand, why doesn't she invite them in?

Well. You're a fkkking moron, so this comes as no surprise to anyone.

#21 | Posted by ClownShack at 2022-12-25 01:21 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#17 | POSTED BY ONEIRONAUT

Your boy Putin crapped his pants.

#22 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2022-12-25 01:23 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Gracie is heartless.

She find joy in the misery of others.

Its what makes her such a steadfast Republican.

#23 | Posted by ClownShack at 2022-12-25 01:23 PM | Reply

Why was this done?

Because cruelty is all the Republican Party stands for.

Look at how excited Grosie and OneNut are by the news.

They hate people who aren't white and love to watch them suffer.

#24 | Posted by ClownShack at 2022-12-25 01:45 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

And they wonder why seemingly every Christian who is not an Evangelical or an abortion of Obsessed Catholic has left the Republican party.

#25 | Posted by Tor at 2022-12-25 06:48 PM | Reply

Why was this done?
Because cruelty is all the Republican Party stands for.

Mayor of El Paso (D) requests the "state-sponsored" busses all the time at twice the rate of any other city in Texas.

But yeah sure blame Republicans, this is because Lumpers are out of ideas.

And they wonder why seemingly every Christian

Since when are Lumpers Christian?

#26 | Posted by oneironaut at 2022-12-25 06:59 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

Dec 13, 2022
El Paso faced a major surge in illegal crossings' over the weekend, senior border official says

More than 2,400 migrants crossed into the United States near El Paso, Texas, daily over the weekend, according to a senior Border Patrol official, marking what he described as a "major surge in illegal crossings" in the region.

"Over the weekend, the El Paso Sector experienced a major surge in illegal crossings, with a 3-day average of 2,460 daily encounters, primarily through the downtown area of El Paso. We will continue to keep the public informed as the situation evolves," said acting Chief Patrol Agent Peter Jaquez of the El Paso Sector in a tweet.
www.cnn.com

None of this made it on the DR did it? Wheres the outrage?

Give them citizenship and let them work. All we can do is bus these people around the country to distribute the load, they can't get legally get jobs.

Quit supporting the capitalist!

#OpenBorders
#StopFetanyal

#27 | Posted by oneironaut at 2022-12-25 07:04 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

www.nbcdfw.com
^^^^^^
This was the highlight of IAMRUNT's year.

#28 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2022-12-25 07:33 PM | Reply

It's a childish prank. A performative gesture aimed at pissing off the hated left.
That's all it is.

If that's what you consider an accomplishment, then I guess you won.

#29 | Posted by cbob at 2022-12-25 08:50 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Since when are Lumpers Christian?
#26 | POSTED BY ONEIRONAUT AT 2022-12-25 06:59 PM | FLAG:

"Lumpers." What a silly, pointless term.

#30 | Posted by cbob at 2022-12-25 08:51 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Calling it a Republican stunt does not solve the problem.
#8 | Posted by gracieamazed

Nor do abusive anti christian republican stunts solve any problems.

#31 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2022-12-25 11:32 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

"Lumpers." What a silly, pointless term.
#30 | POSTED BY CBOB

Silly and pointless describes pretty much everything that troll posts.

#32 | Posted by ClownShack at 2022-12-25 11:40 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

The Republicans have become a cruel parody of morality and their actions accrual parody of the Nativity Story we celebrate at Christmas time as christians.

This is their announcing that they are no longer a party controlled by Christians.

#33 | Posted by Tor at 2022-12-26 12:34 AM | Reply

From 'Amazing Gracie the rightwing seasonal fruitcake'...

"Amazing how deaf the Twice baked administration is to the plight of the Southern border states even when the evidence of an unsecure border is dropped on their doorstep..."

The 'plight of southern states' is summed up in the singular
sentence that "white racists continue to be alarmed that
brown folk of all types are moving to 'their region' of the country".

A). White people don't OWN a region of the country.
Nobody does.

B). Brown folk have the 'right to settle anywhere'.

C). The GOP recognizes the racist nature of its base and
so repeatedly makes hay of these issues, to fling
red meat to their ravenous hordes of deplorable
followers.

In sum. Your party is a Party of Racist White People.
It's why your party is lucky if they pull even 5% of
the minority vote in election after election.

#34 | Posted by earthmuse at 2022-12-26 09:41 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 6

"Amazing how deaf the Twice baked administration is to the plight of the Southern border states even when the evidence of an unsecure border is dropped on their doorstep. Calling it a Republican stunt does not solve the problem. They're more interested in getting LGBTQ centers in Pakistan than doing something about the border. Nero fiddles while Rome burns. It's 18 degrees in Jacksonville and American homeless citizens are not on heated buses taken to a ritzy area to be taken care of. If the illegals were given last resort cold weather accommodations like our homeless, you libs would be outraged. Boarder czar is not doing her job, is she?

#8 | POSTED BY GRACIEAMAZED"

That "plight" at the boarder was manifested by the previous administrations orders that have not changed. Orange pig face ex POTUS allowed those people to pile up at the Mexican boarder and you fascist hicks would be up in arms if Biden did change that order so there's that. That fact remains that those white supremacist governors of Floridah and Texass are breaking international law and American laws with these abject racist maneuvers and should probably go to jail for this crap. Also, those Venezuelans that they are screwing over would have more than likely vote for right wing scum like those governors, as they hate all things socialism, if they had not been used and abused by them. Now, they will receive care and humane treatment by the left wing and hopefully change their minds about voting for a white wing racist fascist like Abbot.

#35 | Posted by Wildman62 at 2022-12-26 11:02 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

POSTED BY ONEIRONAUT

Vile manure pile...LOL!

#36 | Posted by Angrydad at 2022-12-26 11:04 AM | Reply

#35. That is completely false. Please stop lying.

#37 | Posted by BellRinger at 2022-12-26 11:44 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

Fact is El Paso is completely overwhelmed. They were dealing with their own cold snap and people were freezing in the streets. It's a humanitarian crisis manufactured by this administration.

#38 | Posted by BellRinger at 2022-12-26 11:46 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

It's a humanitarian crisis manufactured by this administration.

POSTED BY BELLRINGER AT 2022-12-26 11:46 AM | REPLY

You're a joke. This has been a crisis my entire lifetime.

#39 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2022-12-26 11:47 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 5

#37 | Posted by BellRinger

LOL!!!!

That's funny coming from the Drudge's most prolific perpetrator of misinformation.

#40 | Posted by Angrydad at 2022-12-26 11:56 AM | Reply

#39 We are setting new records in numbers. A couple of decades ago it was almost exclusively young working age Hispanic men coming in looking for work. Now it's entire families and the amount of human, sex and drug trafficking is staggering. The 2019 and 2020 numbers were vastly below what they are now and I can point to Biden's rhetoric on the campaign trail, his immediate reversal of his predecessor's policies, like remain in Mexico, his lax enforcement and complete detachment from the issue - neither he or his border czar VP have even visited the border.

It is worse than it's ever been and when 42 ends, which Biden favors it ending the numbers are expected to skyrocket from where they are now, which is already at record highs.

#41 | Posted by BellRinger at 2022-12-26 12:03 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

Flint Water Jeff was giddy when his dotarded hero was killing migrant toddlers in his concentration camps.

#42 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2022-12-26 12:07 PM | Reply

Now it's entire families and the amount of human, sex and drug trafficking is staggering.

Drugs, Sex and Rock & Roll!

What the fkkk are you talking about you hyperventilating kooze.

Few years ago it was Muslims sneaking in across the border.

Then it was flotillas and caravans heading to the border.

Then Trump told you it was criminals and rapists being sent across the border. (Which got your vote)

Now it's "sex and drug trafficking"?

How about this dumb fkkk, Post facts, Links, Citations.

Because no one here believes anything you post.

#43 | Posted by ClownShack at 2022-12-26 12:11 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

"Now it's entire families"

Thanks, Greg Abbott!

#44 | Posted by snoofy at 2022-12-26 12:16 PM | Reply

#43. Everything in the post you responded to is factual. Get out of your stupid left wing news bubble and educate yourself. It's not my fault you are completely ignorant.

#45 | Posted by BellRinger at 2022-12-26 12:24 PM | Reply

" Everything in the post you responded to is factual"

Then credible links to your claims should be easy to post.

Or is "staggering" another one of those words you don't understand?

#46 | Posted by Danforth at 2022-12-26 12:41 PM | Reply

"Get out of your stupid left wing news bubble and educate yourself."

This, from the guy who refused to watch the J6 hearings, and still to this day claims they were partisan ... just not in the "loyal Republicans testifying against Republicans" way.

#47 | Posted by Danforth at 2022-12-26 12:44 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 4

Everything in the post you responded to is factual.

Listen chicken little, you've been crying about "the crisis at the southern border" for decades now.

Facts prove the majority of illegal immigrants are people over staying their visas. Not crossing the border.

I've provided you with these facts recently.

You're a liar.

You obviously can't provide credible evidence for your claims. Which is why you won't.

Besides, look no further than Matt Gaetz to combat sex trafficking in America. Wonder why republicans don't want him investigated and have done everything in their power to protect him.

#48 | Posted by ClownShack at 2022-12-26 12:48 PM | Reply

#41...Balldinger...

Your post is 100% rightwing hearsay...

Post ONE, one single study or article
verifying this TRIPE that was done by
anything other than a rightwing news outlet or a GOP owned institution, like the
Chamber of Commerce...

You wont find it, because it doesn't exist.
It ONLY exists in the fact free rightwing
echo chamber...

#49 | Posted by earthmuse at 2022-12-26 12:53 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

El Paso is completely overwhelmed.

By what?

#50 | Posted by ClownShack at 2022-12-26 03:58 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Isn't GracieAmazed the poster living like a parasite off her ex-husband's military benefits?

I guess the incessant lectures about 'takers' are a side effect.

#51 | Posted by zarnon at 2022-12-26 07:06 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

I guess you were ok with just letting them freeze to death in Texas. Abbot warned that Texas didn't have the resources to handle the number of people crossing.

#52 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2022-12-26 08:33 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

@#52 ... Abbot warned that Texas didn't have the resources to handle the number of people crossing. ...

... and what has he done to try to get more resources? Has he talked to all the oil company executives who contribute to his campaigns?

Or has he, as his actions actually show, just trying to make a political spectacle, through the use of freezing children, out of his inability to govern his state?

#53 | Posted by LampLighter at 2022-12-26 08:51 PM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 1

This is a deliberate mocking of Christianity.

#54 | Posted by Tor at 2022-12-26 09:00 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Abbot warned that Texas didn't have the resources to handle the number of people crossing.
#52 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTURDS

Why not? Texas has the second strongest economy in America.

What's preventing the state from providing the resources necessary.

What's preventing Abbot from asking for federal assistance.

What resources are available to them when they arrive at their destination That the state of Texas is unwilling to provide?

What result does he expect will result from his actions.

It's just blind hate.

#55 | Posted by ClownShack at 2022-12-26 09:09 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Migrants Dropped Near VP Harris Home on Frigid Christmas Eve
www.voanews.com

...Some were wearing T-shirts despite temperatures hovering around 15 degrees Fahrenheit (-9 degrees Celsius). It was the coldest Christmas Eve on record for Washington, according to The Washington Post....

How cold was it in El Paso, TX at the time?

In the afternoon of Christmas Eve, the temperature was in the mid- to upper-40s in El Paso, TX.

I've seen other reporting that that said some of the people sent to 15-degree temperatures was wearing shorts, and did not know where they were going.

This was a political stunt by Gov Abbott, intentionally hurting people for the Republican cause.

#56 | Posted by LampLighter at 2022-12-26 09:13 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Another view, from across the pond...

US: Migrants dropped in frigid weather outside VP's home
www.dw.com

...Over 100 migrants, including small children, were dropped-off in freezing temperatures outside Vice President Kamala Harris' home over the holiday. A White House spokesperson described the move as a "cruel" stunt.

Rights groups and the US government sharply criticized on Sunday the bussing of dozens of asylum-seekers in frigid and dangerous weather conditions to Washington, D.C.

What happened with the people on the bus?

Between 110 and 130 people seeking asylum in the United States were placed on charter busses and driven from the border with Mexico in Texas to the US capital.

They were dropped-off near the residence of Vice President Kamala Harris on Saturday night, when Christmas Eve celebrations were taking place.

Young children were among those on board the busses. Some people were only clad in t-shirts when they reached Washington, D.C. At the time, temperatures in the capital were around 15 degrees Fahrenheit (-9 degrees Celsius).

The journey and drop-off took place as a massive winter storm brought snow, ice and extreme cold to 60% of the US....

#57 | Posted by LampLighter at 2022-12-26 09:19 PM | Reply

@#57

Cruelty.

That seems to be the mantra of the current Republican Party.

Cruelty.

He's not hurting the people he needs to be": a Trump voter says the quiet part out loud
twitter.com

#58 | Posted by LampLighter at 2022-12-26 09:22 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Meh.

#59 | Posted by Bluewaffles at 2022-12-26 09:36 PM | Reply | Funny: 2

Also clownshack, we don't owe illegals a thing. The end.

#60 | Posted by Bluewaffles at 2022-12-26 09:39 PM | Reply | Funny: 2 | Newsworthy 1

What's preventing Abbot from asking for federal assistance.

He has, so has the mayor of ElPaso, Eric in NYC.

See this is how cruel Biden is, if Biden Admin gave the assistance it would be admitting there's a problem.

Biden is pure evil.

#61 | Posted by oneironaut at 2022-12-26 10:01 PM | Reply | Funny: 2

@#61 ... He has ...

Evidence?

All I see is along the lines of...

Without evidence, Gov. Greg Abbott asks whether nonprofits are helping migrants enter Texas
www.texastribune.org

thx.

#62 | Posted by LampLighter at 2022-12-26 10:12 PM | Reply

we don't owe illegals a thing.

Considering American imperialism destroyed most, if not all, of South and Central America, perhaps we do.

#63 | Posted by ClownShack at 2022-12-26 10:13 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

IAMRUNT cheered for the Uvalde massacre because most of the victims were Hispanic. What a -------.

#64 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2022-12-26 10:22 PM | Reply

@#60 ... we don't owe illegals a thing. The end. ...

A couple of questions...

1) Are those coming here to request asylum "illegals?"

2) since American companies seemed to have based the American economy upon illegals, how do we fix that problem?

Yer up...

#65 | Posted by LampLighter at 2022-12-26 10:22 PM | Reply

"Hey,, I saw a migrant,,, it was giving fentanyl to a little girl with blonde hair and blue eyes... And it was showing her ------ and pictures of girls dressed up like boys.. if it bites her she'll turn into a migrant.."

-- Fox News reporters and other members of the industrial outrage complex, scaring meemaws and peepaws day in and day out, for profit and fun

#66 | Posted by tres_flechas at 2022-12-26 10:29 PM | Reply

Oneisanut's off his NYPost rocker.

Reality:

"On the same day DHS announced that Venezuelans would be expelled under Title 42, the City of El Paso received the promised $2 million from the federal government for upfront costs related to migrants.

Meanwhile, the city is still in the process of submitting reimbursement requests for the more than $6 million spent during the last quarter for the migrant surge."

In the meantime several council members (El Paso) have cried out about militarization" of the Texas border by Gov. Greg Abbott.

"Three days later, under the cover of darkness, Texas National Guard troops stationed Humvees and staged reams of concertina wire on northern edge of the Rio Grande. The soldiers gripped their rifles in the face of men, women and children seeking asylum."

And then there's this:

The mayor also announced that FEMA has promised to send an additional $7 million to assist the city and El Paso County.

So who to believe? All the reporting or Oneisanut screaming "BIden's pure evil!"

#67 | Posted by YAV at 2022-12-26 10:32 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

@#66

If a Fox news reporter had reported what you quoted, then google should be able to find it.

But google, and other search engines, came up with zilch.

So I'll ask you, gotta link?

Yer up.

#68 | Posted by LampLighter at 2022-12-26 10:33 PM | Reply

Lamp..,

1) If they can't provide a valid claim for asylum, then yes they're 100% illegal and have ZERO business being here and again refuse them entry/send them back.

2) Fine companies 1MM per illegal employed by a company (knowingly and unknowingly) and it would most likely stop tomorrow.

I'll even go a step further, if Democrats were onboard with this, we could use the fines and money that has to be diverted to helping illegals to actually helping our own underserved citizens. Everyone wins.

#69 | Posted by Bluewaffles at 2022-12-26 10:35 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

Speaking of El Paso, when is IAMRUNT's child-raping idol going to reimburse El Paso for his klan rally expenses?

www.msn.com

#70 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2022-12-26 10:39 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

@#69 ... 1) If they can't provide a valid claim for asylum ...

Good to see you admit that.

Processing of a claim takes a while. And until that claim is determined to be invalid, they are not "illegal."

So, and going back to the topic of this thread, Gov Abbott seemed to have abused legal asylum seekers.

... Fine companies 1MM per illegal employed by a company (knowingly and unknowingly) and it would most likely stop tomorrow. ...

Yeah, that looks good on paper (or in your browser) but why has it not been put into effect? Even under the Trump administration?

Could it be that companies have a substantial political effect and they actually want the immigration to continue (for reasons i stated earlier)?

#71 | Posted by LampLighter at 2022-12-26 10:43 PM | Reply

Well, this is interesting...

Op-ed: Mexican Immigrants Boost Trade, Investment And Prosperity
www.forbes.com

... Mexican immigration to the United States encourages increased trade and investment, enhancing prosperity in both countries, according to new research. Most political discourse over immigration from Mexico to the U.S. has been emotional, with U.S. elected officials using heated political rhetoric and focusing on illegal entry. The research suggests Americans should look beyond the rhetoric and focus on economic facts....

... The research suggests Americans should look beyond the rhetoric and focus on economic facts. ...

Perhaps it is the "economic facts" that the companies, who want immigrants in their workforce, seem to focus upon.

{shrug}

#72 | Posted by LampLighter at 2022-12-26 10:49 PM | Reply

" Fine companies 1MM per illegal employed by a company (knowingly and unknowingly) and it would most likely stop tomorrow."

What? Republican Sheriffs will finally start frog-marching owners against the will of the Republican members of the Chambers of Commerce?

Now pull the other leg.

#73 | Posted by Danforth at 2022-12-26 11:44 PM | Reply

Meow Contempt will be SO proud!

I am.

It was warmer up there than it was in SW Texas Christmas Eve---so yay for the wretches!

And just as a supplementary primer for any dumbfuq who happens to be reading this, what's been happening at the border the past several years isn't some status quo, ambient condition that's somehow existed all along.

It's a deliberate and manufactured mass-migration strategy in play both here and in Europe. Unfortunately, whomever is pulling the strings of the current US Regime with regards to their "Stateless Utopian" strategy is also simultaneously creating tremendous opportunities for the drug cartels.

The Wretches herd towards Eagle Pass. Resources are deployed there. The narcos then know to cross in Ojinaga or Sanderson---where the BP can't tactically respond quickly enough because they're processing new Democrat voters 200 miles east.

This is a crisis because we end up losing national treasures like George Floyd due to the influx of Fentanyl.

Oh, what that man could have been were he still with us!

BTW...A colored boy from a low-income neighborhood in St. Louis or Chicago has a more (actually) legitimate claim for "asylum" than does some fat little squaw and her spawn from some village in Honduras.

But it never really was about "asylum".....

#74 | Posted by Mao_Content at 2022-12-27 12:21 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

Well, this is interesting...

Not really why not make a thread if you think it's so interesting.

#75 | Posted by oneironaut at 2022-12-27 12:27 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

@#74 ... And just as a supplementary primer for any dumbfuq who happens to be reading this, ...

So anyone reading your comment is a "dumbfuq?" Even those who might agree with your comment's assertions?

OK, I gotta say, that comment alone seems to show a lack of any manner of logic in your comments.

But, let's move on...

... It's a deliberate and manufactured mass-migration strategy in play both here and in Europe. ...

Got links for that assertion?

Seriously, that is an amazing assertion. What's yer got to back it up?

... This is a crisis because we end up losing national treasures like George Floyd due to the influx of Fentanyl. ...

Your use of the word "because" seems to indicate you have evidence of cause and effect. Please state that evidence.

thx.

.... BTW...A colored boy from a low-income neighborhood in St. Louis or Chicago has a more (actually) legitimate claim for "asylum" than does some fat little squaw and her spawn from some village in Honduras. ...

And your substantiation for that comment is?....

I mean really, you seem to make some quite radical, yet interesting, assertions.

If only you would provide any manner of evidence or substantiation for those assertions, then we could have a conversation. And I might even learn something.

But your comments seem to be focused more upon disruption than discussion.

That's on you and the comments you post.

Yer up.

#76 | Posted by LampLighter at 2022-12-27 12:33 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

@#75 ... Not really why not make a thread if you think it's so interesting. ...

Because it is relevant to this thread.

Yer up.

#77 | Posted by LampLighter at 2022-12-27 12:35 AM | Reply

Look, say what you will, there is an emergency at the border. Plain and simple, we are being invaded by other countries. The federal government is putting near no attention nor money into this invasion.

I live a few counties away from the border. Near every week, there are several high speed chases through our town. Cars and trucks wind up speeding and not making a curve and crashing instead. Sometimes into people's homes, while they are at home. Suddenly those that were packed into the truck bail out, running right through their living rooms. No, I'm not making this up. What would you do, if you have settled down and are watching tv, to suddenly have a truck come crashing through the wall of your house and a bunch of strangers get up and run through it, headed for the back door?

I notice these sanctuary cities are all crying about dealing with a few thousand people in a month. There are literally over 5,500 people coming in each day in Texas...each friggin day. Not a thousand a month. Until something is done to address this invasion, it's time some of these cities that haven't had to deal with this invasion, who also aren't getting money from the federal government to have a small taste of what's going on down here. It seems to be the only way to force attention on the problem since Washington has been ignoring it. Putting it on their doorstep seems to be the only way to get attention that can't be ignored and brushed off.

Notice that neither Kamala nor Biden have actually come down to the border line itself to have a look. Instead they have absolutely avoided having to come down and see it for themselves while the director of immigration has come down and claimed there isn't a problem here. None what so ever. He didn't go down to the border either, choosing to stay in the offices. The border guards were unbeliving of this issue of no problems, while they are being snowballed every day with not enough people to deal with it. In other words they are whitewashing the issue and refusing to deal with it. The problem is, it's not going away.

I notice there was a big hue and cry about the dumping of them on Kamala's virtual doorstep in the winter there. Guess what? It's no different down here. There are so many coming in, there are no facilities to deal with them here. Here they are sleeping outside, on the street because there are no places to put them. All the facilities here are full, with people sleeping in the floor inside because there are no beds for them. No room for them to take in more, with thousands waiting their turn at coming across that haven't arrived yet.

#78 | Posted by BBQ at 2022-12-27 12:35 AM | Reply

So anyone reading your comment is a "dumbfuq?"

#76 | POSTED BY LAMPLIGHTER

So far....

#79 | Posted by Mao_Content at 2022-12-27 12:43 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

I live a few counties away from the border

I grew up on the border....in Presidio County....in a very remote ranching community.

My parents still live there.

It is indeed a mess.

#80 | Posted by Mao_Content at 2022-12-27 12:46 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

@#78 ... Look, say what you will, there is an emergency at the border. Plain and simple, we are being invaded by other countries. ...

If that is truly the case, then why didn't fmr Pres Trump solve the "emergency" in June 2018?

Back then, Stephen Miller worked with the Republican Congress to create a bill that was in line with fmr Pres trump's Four Pillars mantra.

Yet, in spite of fmr Pres Trump's own aide on immigration, Stephen Miller, working with Congress to get the bill that fmr Pres Trump wanted, the Four Pillars, fmr Pres Trump indicated he would not sign the bill.

Why?

Could fmr Pres Trump have wanted to keep immigration as a political issue, so we can be where we are now on this topic?

And your comment is just continuing the politics?

Why didn't fmr Pres Trump want to enact the bill that Stephen Miller got Congress to agree to?

Trump just said he "certainly wouldn't sign" an immigration bill his White House helped write (2018)
www.vox.com

...Trump might have torpedoed a bill that even immigration hardliners in his administration like Stephen Miller were trying to pass....

Why?

#81 | Posted by LampLighter at 2022-12-27 12:50 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

@#80 ... It is indeed a mess. ...

I note you still avoid answering questions I pose.

Why?

#82 | Posted by LampLighter at 2022-12-27 12:51 AM | Reply

@#79 ... So far.... ...

And, by that, you mean?

Why the ambiguity?

Do try harder.

thx.

#83 | Posted by LampLighter at 2022-12-27 12:54 AM | Reply

And, by that, you mean?

That you're a --------....

#84 | Posted by Mao_Content at 2022-12-27 01:11 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

But your comments seem to be focused more upon disruption than discussion.

Does your alias have a link to fortify its assertion about my comments?

Maybe from Vox?

Or Paul Krugman?

Yer up....Tiny Dancer

#85 | Posted by Mao_Content at 2022-12-27 01:19 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

Ho Ho Ho Kamala.

#86 | Posted by visitor_ at 2022-12-27 09:38 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

Yer up....Tiny Dancer
#85 | POSTED BY MAO_CONTENT

Still using this line, huh?

#87 | Posted by jpw at 2022-12-27 10:00 AM | Reply

From deep in the bowels of an insane conspiracy theorist:

"It's a deliberate and manufactured mass-migration strategy in play both here and in Europe. Unfortunately, whomever is pulling the strings of the current US Regime with regards to their "Stateless Utopian" strategy is also simultaneously creating tremendous opportunities for the drug cartels."

LOL!!!!

#88 | Posted by Angrydad at 2022-12-27 10:40 AM | Reply

Good. Thank you Governor Abbott. Send them all to DC.

#89 | Posted by BidenLies at 2022-12-27 10:55 AM | Reply

#89 - LOL! Biden truly owns your sorry hemorrhoid riddled ass! "Send them all to DC" and don't tell anyone, because nothing says you're a pathetic bitter loser more than that!

#90 | Posted by YAV at 2022-12-27 11:13 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 4

Posted by BidenLies

Fresh trash plonked!

LOL!

#91 | Posted by Angrydad at 2022-12-27 11:13 AM | Reply

"Look, say what you will, there is an emergency at the border. Plain and simple, we are being invaded by other countries. "

Has been for quite a while now.

Are you sick of the partisan infighting and lack of compromise yet?

It's Congress's job to make immigration laws that work. And they aren't even debating it much less doing anything about it.

Hey. I have an idea!

Let's build a big beautiful wall and pretend the world and all it's problems that created all these refugees, asylum seekers and economic immigrants don't exist!

Then we don't even have to talk about it anymore!

#92 | Posted by donnerboy at 2022-12-27 01:42 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Ho Ho Ho Kamala.

#86 | POSTED BY VISITOR_

It's true! It's true! The Dems have made it clear.
The climate must be perfect all the year.

A law was made a distant moon ago here:
July and August cannot be too hot.
And there's a legal limit to the snow here
Because Kamala!
The winter is forbidden till December
And exits March the second on the dot.
By order, summer lingers through September
Because Kamala.
Kamala! Kamala!
I know it sounds a bit bizarre,
Because Kamala, Kamala
That's how conditions are.
The rain may never fall till after sundown.
By eight, the migrants must disappear.
In short, there's simply not
A more congenial spot
For happily-ever-aftering than here
Because Kamala!

#93 | Posted by donnerboy at 2022-12-27 02:10 PM | Reply

Nothing says "our values" like dropping children off without shoes in 18 degree weather without anyone to meet or care for them. Awesome job, Republicans! You truly know how to make it clear how much you should be valued!

#94 | Posted by YAV at 2022-12-27 09:57 PM | Reply

What happened to their shoes? Did someone take them?

#95 | Posted by visitor_ at 2022-12-28 10:32 AM | Reply

What happened to their shoes? Did someone take them?

#95 | POSTED BY VISITOR

Who put them on the bus?

#96 | Posted by Zed at 2022-12-28 10:50 AM | Reply

What happened to their shoes? Did someone take them?

You truly are a privileged person with no ability to comprehend what these people have and are going through. That's actually hopeful to me. It means (possibly) that if you can grasp the sheer horror of where they lived and came from, of all they lost along the way - that maybe, just maybe - you can find some compassion for them and understand why they risked their very lives to get here.

#97 | Posted by YAV at 2022-12-28 11:27 AM | Reply

If they arrived in the USA without shoes, they must have walked hundreds of miles without them. If they had shoes at the border but none at Kamala's palace, someone must have taken them. Or your shoeless refugee comment is a lie.

#98 | Posted by visitor_ at 2022-12-28 11:45 AM | Reply

#98 | POSTED BY VISITOR

1) They never had or lost their shoes.

2) State of Texas took them.

#99 | Posted by Zed at 2022-12-28 11:51 AM | Reply

Kamala's palace? You are mentally f**ked up. Seriously.
Your thinking is so horrible there's no point in bothering with you.
Thanks for killing that "hope" I had for you.
l won't make that mistake again.

#100 | Posted by YAV at 2022-12-28 11:51 AM | Reply

Here. Just in case you want to actually know what's happening:
www.wola.org
www.theborderchronicle.com
www.theguardian.com

The Border Patrol routinely takes everything away from people seeking asylum. The only things you may bring (if you are fortunate, that is) are those things that fit in a plastic bad DHS might give you. If anything you have on is "moldy" or deemed a risk in some way (health) it must be left behind.

As a result shoes are being left behind all too often, and people rely on doubling up pairs of socks to get by.

#101 | Posted by YAV at 2022-12-28 12:05 PM | Reply