You are paying for every “newcomer” who illegally crosses our Southern Border

During the Trump years, the Democrats declared the cities that they ran to be “sanctuary cities,” and refused to co-operate with Federal authorities to removes “newcomers” illegally here, even when they had committed serious crimes. Now that they are confronted with the costs of an open border. And now the mayors of New York and Chicago and the other large Democrat cities are demanding that the Feds “pick up the tab.” In NY, luxury hotels are being re-purposed — at taxpayer expense — to house the “newcomers” who have flooded across our Southern border and ended up in NY.

Does that make sense?

When my mother immigrated to the US (nearly a century ago), immigrants who were "unable to take care of themselves without becoming public charges," were declared unsuitable for American citizenship and therefore denied entry. Today family members who ask that their relative be afforded “green card status” are asked to “sponsor” them, to keep them from becoming “public charges.”

Do those rules make more sense?

Imagine that upon waking up in the morning, you hearing water running. Because the sound seems to be coming from the basement, you check. As you start down the basement steps, your worst fears are quickly confirmed. The one-inch water pipe, in the exposed rafters, some 8 feet above the meter, has burst, and is pouring 20 gallons a water per minute into your basement.

What do you do? (a) Climb back into bed and hope the problem goes away? (b) Grab a bunch of old rags and begin sopping up the water? (c) Begin moving the basement furniture outside to dry? (d) Close the main shutoff valve?

Any same individual would choose to close the main shutoff valve! But not President Biden.

Consider the crisis at our Southern Boarder, and compare.

President Trump’s first step was to “close the main shut off valve” — build a state-of-the-art border wall to keep “newcomers” from illegally entering the US between our ports of entry.

President Joe Biden’s first step upon taking office was to immediately halt construction to close the remaining gaps in the wall. He believes that if he welcomes the “newcomers” with open arms, provides them with free food, housing, schooling for their children, medical care, cell phones, etc. that the “newcomers” will be forever grateful to him and his fellow Democrats, and will vote “Democrat” for the rest of their lives, thereby guaranteeing that the Democrats win all future elections.

And what is the cost to the taxpayers of the Biden Vote-Buying scheme?

The Federation for American Immigration Reform (“FAIR”) after taking account of the taxes that the “newcomers” pay into the Federal Treasury — estimates the cost to be $150,000,000,000 annually. You can easily calculate your share of that —as well as the shares of your spouse and each of your children.

First Published in the Moline Dispatch and Rock Island Argus on March 13, 2024. 

Copyright 2024, John Donald O'Shea