Friday, March 19, 2021

Billy Long: It's a crisis, Mr. President

(From Seventh District Congressman Billy Long)

One of President Biden’s campaign slogans was to ‘Build Back Better’. Unfortunately, he is doing no such thing when it comes to the illegal immigration crisis his policies have caused in just the first two months of his presidency. 

In fact, his policies are tearing down all existing norms and laws surrounding illegal immigration into our country. 


Essentially, President Biden has effectively hung a neon ‘Open’ sign along our border, and people are accepting the invitation.








The Biden Administration has termed what he has caused at the southern border as a “challenge” when really, this is a crisis the likes we haven’t seen in over a decade. In February, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents had over 100,000 encounters at the southwest border. 96.5% of those encounters were migrants apprehended attempting to cross into the United States illegally. 

This is the highest February total in fifteen years. We can only imagine the number of people who aren’t caught by CBP.

So how did we get here? The answer is simple: poor policy. Among President Biden’s very first actions as President, he stopped construction of the wall at the southwest border, halted deportations, and restarted the Obama-era catch and release policy. He also has provided illegal immigrants with incentives to cross the border illegally with his proposed immigration plan. 

His plan would grant millions of illegal immigrants lawful status in the United States, ultimately giving them a pathway to full U.S. citizenship. The prospect of granting amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants will only cause more to come, which is what we are seeing happen now. 

This proposal also does nothing to increase enforcement - no money for the wall, no money to ensure that our country has a secure border. The very idea of these policies possibly becoming law is causing an illegal immigration crisis of massive proportions. If the Biden proposal becomes law, I fear that what we are seeing now will only be a taste of what’s to come.








The worst part about this though is that the administration wants you to believe that this isn’t a crisis, it’s a “challenge,” and they will go to any length to misrepresent what is happening at our southern border. Along the border, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has migrant detention facilities to process illegal immigrants. 

The Biden administration has floated renaming these detention centers “reception centers”. This proposed name change underscores the fact that President Biden does not want to enforce any immigration laws and that when you arrive in the U.S. illegally, you will be welcomed at our “reception centers” where you’ll be released into the country.

This lax effort to enforce immigration laws that have been duly passed by Congress is nothing short of pathetic. The Biden Administration can attempt to sell the “it’s a challenge” and “reception center” fluff to the American public but no one is buying it. 

Just two months into Joe Biden’s presidency, the number of illegal immigrants has gone up month over month, our border patrol agents are completely overwhelmed, and illegal immigrants who have tested positive for COVID-19 are being let into the country. This was a completely preventable crisis and there is just one man who is responsible for manufacturing it: President Joe Biden.

8 comments:

  1. Anonymous2:02 PM

    You and your president are pathetic. It was demonstrated that his billion dollar wall, taken from military housing could be scaled(in terms you can understand, gone over) in a minute or less. It was his aide, Bannon, who feathered that idea and solicited donations which him and his partner stole from the pot. No big surprise and YOUR president has stolen untold millions from the taxpayers for his jaunts to HIS golf courses and resorts and ferried his screwed up kids around the world to make deals with Russians and the Chinese. We still have not seen an accounting of his or even your campaign fund and where it went nor his SMALL turnout of an inauguration back in 2017. By the way, where have been your town meetings to discuss issues that are of concern for you meager minimum wage citizens. Step up and be something other than a lackey for a failed president.

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  2. Anonymous3:05 PM

    2:02PM... your incoherent babbling doesn't change the FACTS that are in this article. But that's how you blind bitter Democrats always respond to the facts... "he's racist" "Misogynist" blah blah blah, anything dramatic to take the focus off of the facts.

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  3. Anonymous4:45 AM

    Billy Long is literally a traitor to America. You don't get to go back to business as usual after attempting an insurrection.

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  4. Anonymous1:40 PM

    Wait I thought Donald Trump already solved the crisis at the border. Right?
    Because he promised didn't he? To build a wall and solve the border crisis, in fact didn't he solve the largest border crisis in decades? Millions of people 'marching' to our border and Trump stopped it.

    Or did Trump not really fix anything at all?

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  5. Anonymous10:13 PM

    Looks like a bunch of Trump haters who don't want to admit that Senile Joe the Pretender-In-thief has invited all the illegal aliens who Trump paid the Mexicans to keep on their side of the border right in to give old Boomers some Boomer-Remover virus and get stimulus checks. Maybe even ten million this year and the coyotes and drug dealers will grab every stray kid in order to avoid "separating families." All of which is fine given that you Democrats are begging for it. Senile Joe or whoever is pulling that old clown's puppet strings scored an own goal.

    Maybe you will soon refugee back to California when us natives organize militias.

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  6. Anonymous10:05 AM

    @10:13 Can you please try that again with at least one cohesive thought and one complete sentence? Bonus points for being grounded in reality.

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  7. Anonymous1:44 PM

    How did they get ol' Billy Blob away from the Vegas buffet long enough to even give his ignorant opinion about this? Most of his rhetoric and lies sounds like he was talking out the other side of his you know what with his mouth full.

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  8. Anonymous1:50 PM

    How can anyone so large can get their head so far up their @$$?

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