What Trump’s Border Policy Will Mean to You – Top 3 Takeaways – November 13th, 2024
- Let the fear mongering begin. On a scale of 1-10 how excited are you about how quickly President-Elect Donald Trump is moving forward with cabinet picks and his administration's plans? And of the president’s plans, which is it that has you the most excited...if I’m answering my own question btw, it would without a doubt be the elimination of the Department of Education – something I’ve called for my entire career - with Trump’s border/deportation policy not far behind. Tomorrow I’ll address Trump’s plans to disassemble the Department of Education. For today, though, let's discuss the biggest issue that Donald Trump can have the biggest impact with starting on day 1. The border. In a separate story today, I’ll break down the entire Trump border plan – it's considerable. Immediately stop the inflow of illegal immigrants while simultaneously starting the outflow of illegal immigrants. There’s not a single issue that has a more immediate impact than this one. Not only are you currently 914% more likely to be the victim of a crime perpetrated by a noncitizen compared to four years ago... You’re paying far more money to be victimized by illegal immigrants compared to four years ago. As I’ve shared with you... 63 percent of households headed by a non-citizen use at least one welfare program. The average net cost to taxpayers of each illegal immigrant during the duration of the time they are here is $68,000 leading to a cost per federal taxpayer of $1,156 per year. How dumb do you have to be to force taxpayers to pay $1,156 more in taxes per year to be 914% more likely to be victims of a crime? As dumb as the Biden-Harris administration. But there’s actually much more to the story as well. With a minimum of 11 million illegal immigrants allowed into the country according to the Biden administration's own count (with an actual total that’s likely higher), and an average of 2.5 people per house, that’s a minimum of 4.4 million affordable housing units that have also been taken up by those who shouldn’t be here anyway. In other words, immediately addressing the illegal immigrant crisis in this country, addresses most of the ongoing crises in this country. Trump’s border plan and mass deportation program = 1) Lower crime 2) lower inflation 3) More affordable housing 4) Lower tax burden 5) Lower strain on government assistance programs. Ahh, yes but my top takeaway today was about the fear mongering that’s already begun...so about that...
- ‘People are afraid’: Trump’s deportation plan raises concerns. That was the headline from central Florida’s NBC affiliate WESH. As the story goes on to say... citing the executive director of Apopka’s Hope Community Center: People are afraid. There are 700,000 U.S. citizens who have at least one undocumented person in their family in Florida. All of these 700,000 citizens are having these conversations with their family members. Their families are about to be ripped apart maybe. But fear mongering headlines and stories like that one within our state are by no means on their own. Across the country and around the world there are headlines like this one from the Guardian: ‘Mass deportations would disrupt the food chain’. And this one from WGN: ‘A lot of fear and anxiety’ Immigration attorneys address concerns as Donald Trump names ‘border czar’. Now, I don’t know about you, but let me ask a few questions and get your thoughts about this issue. If someone is committing a federal crime, should they be afraid of being caught? If someone is knowingly harboring a federal criminal is that supposed to be ok, you know if they’re family and all? Would you rather those who’ve already committed federal crimes have fear and anxiety about what comes next or would you rather they’re completely at peace in their taxpayer provided affordable housing unit with their taxpayer provided government assistance programs? Yes, I’m aware of the many arguments that many illegal immigrants have been here a long time, established roots, etc. My question for those who pose those concerns is this. How long should one be able to commit a federal crime before it becomes ok for them to be committing a federal crime? The bottom line is that there’s a right and a wrong way to go about doing things in life.
- If you chose the wrong way, there should be consequences for those actions. And yes, the longer you continue to do the wrong things, the greater and harder the consequences should be expected to be. As Tom Homan, the incoming Trump Border Czar has said - If the parent is undocumented and they have U.S. born children, or spouses, and you don't want to separate them, then let's deport the U.S. citizens. Life is about choices. Bad choices, illegal choices, are to blame for conversations like those – not those who seek to uphold the law. And as for the fearmongering related to food...Sounds awfully familiar, doesn’t it? Here’s a flashback to the first half of last year. Remember when Florida passed the immigration law cracking down on illegal immigrants and those who might employ them across the state? Remember when Florida Democrat Party Chairwoman Nikki Fried claimed in May of last year that the new law would cause 800,000 migrants to leave Florida creating a food crisis? Quoting Nikki at the time: I don’t know who is going to be doing the picking of the fields during the harvest and who is building all these new homes for everybody who is moving to our state. As I mentioned in answer to Nikki, presumably and preferably people who aren’t breaking the law. What a novel concept, right? And I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention my favorite example of related hyperbole. It came when the organizer of the “Latino Movement” organized protests in West Palm Beach against the law, after it had already been signed mind you, and said this to a sympathetic reporter at WPTV...I don’t want to pay $2 for a strawberry. As compelling of an argument as it is that we should allow federal criminals into our communities in avoidance of $2 strawberries... Even in Biden’s hyper inflated America have you been paying $2 for a strawberry? Have you had trouble finding fresh from Florida produce? Have we had a food crisis in Florida due to our state’s effort to do what it can to enforce the law? So yeah, let the fear mongering across the country begin. But most importantly, let’s get back to adhering to the rule of law once again. That’s precisely, and only, what the incoming Trump administration intends to do. Isn’t it ironic that the same media apparatus that sought to put Trump away for alleged crimes that he is said to have committed, is now opposed to Trump upholding the rule of law and in favor of those who continue to break it? We’re either a country that abides by the rule of law, or effectively a banana republic with only selective interpretation of it. How exactly have the past four years of that been working out for you? Which kind of country would you prefer? Of course, we know because you just overwhelmingly voted for it. Clearly your news media at large didn’t - but they are often quick to tell you that they’re on your side (if you’re an illegal immigrant that is).