In recent weeks we have seen a disaster unfolding as our southern border collapses. People are swarming the border crossing both legally and illegally. All security is gone for protection against Drugs, criminals and disease. Our new President has decided that our country is in need of people from central America and anywhere else to come here. We offer free food, shelter, medical, schooling and huge stimulus funds. This is a good deal.
However, for most Americans it is a terrible deal. Since most of these people swarming the border have no skills and usually speak little English, they are unemployable except for basic labor. Most of that labor is paid in cash with no taxes. Consequently, they qualify for public assistance from the tax payers to live on. Thus, allowing them to send money home instead of our treasury.
This neat little trick allows money that should be paid in taxes to be transferred to other countries while we support those here with our tax dollars. In some countries that money coming from the U.S. is the biggest income source for their country. With chain migration we soon will have whole families we can support directly. Unfortunately, that usually stops the transfer of money to the country so they encourage more to leave for the U.S. and send money back.
Many of these people are subject to criminal influences because in most cases that’s who brought them into the country. They can be used to move drugs inside our country because police no longer bother stopping them, they have no money for fines and then get out of jail free. The young good-looking ones will get a job but not a good one.
Many criminal gang members slip in with the crowd and just because they look like bad guys they are let go with the others. Since they usually prey on the immigrant Hispanic community most Americans do not see them. Of course, they sell drugs but since that has become a non-violent crime they are let go. Do they show up for court, who is kidding who?
Even worse is the allowing all these people in without testing for Covid-19. Americans entering into this country must be tested before they are allowed to re-enter their home country. Our President also wants all Americans tested and vaccinated yet, he lets in untested people and spreads them throughout the country. Since some were tested and it was found that about 10% had the Covid 19 virus, was that not how our country was initially infected from China?
The result is that if more people are infected, we can be held hostage in our own country even longer so more Executive Orders can be issued. Can’t do this, can’t do that, more government control. How can a President do that to the people he says he cares about? The president is not King, where is the Supreme Court? How can the laws passed by congress and signed by a President be overturned by “Executive Order”? Our country’s Constitutional government has truly been overthrown. We now have a dictator, Hail to the king.
david schlapman says
Excellent!
I fear that the old story of the epitaph on the tombstone ” It can’t happen here” will soon ring true.
Kelli Robertson says
I’m disgusted by the whole border crisis. Our government can’t even take care of the children here in our country legal or not. How can we allow illegal immigration that overwhelms our borders? I’m all for LEGAL immigration but not what is happening at our borders. Mike is right on point.
Tim Colburn says
The problem will be here in Mesquite sooner than you think. Unless you have lived in the border states, you have no idea how bad the problem really is before our President opened the borders.
Steven Balek says
Tim,
My wife and I have lived in one of those Border States and had to leave it because of the Government that continued to provide a safe haven for the Illegals and criminals, which encourage them to come and stay. Slowly but surely those States are becoming an extension of Mexico and Central America with rampant crime. The Middle Class and higher are leaving in droves, of which some are coming to Nevada to escape it. Slowly, the problem is moving this way and I’m not sure they have figured it out. Unfortunately, just a few years ago we used to leave our home unlocked while gone for short duration’s to the store, lunch or to visit a neighbor. Not only do we not do that now, we lock our home, have security cameras and loaded guns to protect ourselves and belongings.
Mesquite PD is great, but sometimes they can not be there as soon as necessary, so you better be able to defend yourself and your property until they can arrive.
Joan S Cooperman says
We lived in San Diego and every night we would have 100’s of illegals running down our street trying to steal cars to get to LA. In the morning we would find trash in our back yard from where they would go trough yards looking for houses that they could get into. One day my 5 year old niece and I were in the estuary looking at birds and the drug cartel started to come thru, we were put in a shack by the border patrol because they were armed and dangerous. Then the wall was built, it changed immediately. We never had a problem. They moved to where there was no wall. It is a disgrace what Biden is doing stopping the wall. and ltting them all come in. What can we do.
Craig Redfield says
You are so right about this, Mike. A lot of them were released without court dates as well, not that the ones with court dates, will show up anyway. Don’t forget the $0.65 a gallon increase in gasoline prices, since Inauguration Day, which will trickle down 2 increased food prices and building prices, only to mention a couple of big ones! When all our prices start going up, don’t forget to thank those people who voted for Joe!
Pat Galliher says
Wow, I’m glad this was posted under opinion because it is complete baloney. Most of your contentions are not supported by any actual facts and are just the regurgitated crap spouted by others. For instance, even in California, the most “socialist” of the states, undocumented persons are not able to get public assistance (food stamps and welfare), but few people that want to keep your narrative going seem to care about that truth. Undocumented aliens are also not eligible for medical care except in emergencies. And suggesting that “many” of them will be used to ferry drugs around the country is just crap. You have not and cannot provide a source for something like that because it is completely untrue.
There are an awful lot of issues with our border and with our immigration system, but it’s been a mess for decades through both Republican and Democrat presidencies, and you are blaming Pres. Biden who has only been in office for two months. That seems fair.
Mike Young says
Pat – you act like you know something but you obviously have not seen the welfare offices in Calif.. They are full of undocumented people just waiting to get their Snap cards. One they get them with the help of some activists who coach them in Spanish what to say. Once they have them they do not have to come back. No mater what the law says they is no proof of citizenship required and by law you can not require it. Into the Spanish speaking part of any town and you will find coaches that get you pass the questions and if you fail once or twice just go to the next office, medical care no problem. Food bank no problem, housing just move in with fellow travelers.
Border was a big problem until a President came along who was willing to do something. Now he is gone, so is his programs and look what we have now. Thanks Biden I love the holes left in the wall because you ordered immediate stop, but did you know we still have to pay?
Mitch Miller says
Sorry Pat, but you are the one spouting nonsense. Govt agencies put illegal immigration costs at $116B per year. They pay in approx $12B per year in taxes, sales tax and property taxes. Calif passed legislation in 2019 giving medi-cal / medi-caid to undocumented. Education for k-12 is free to all, even undocumented. Calif gave $500 cash to undocumented during covid. Also Calif gives undocumented a drivers license; WIC cards; calFresh food program access; and CAP (cash assistance program).
Meanwhile, America’s children and our vets suffer. Of the worlds developed nations, the USA ranks number one in child poverty (WHO).
I am not against immigration, as all of our families are immigrants but it has to be controlled immigration.
Michael Brown says
Excellent column, Mr. Young. I agree on all counts.
It has been clear for decades that the Left has sought to expand the cheap labor pool in this country to the benefit of their political donors and to the detriment of the American worker. In addition, the political Left, while posturing as humanitarians, have also sought to allow illegals to flow over our border for a second purpose – to eventually expand the Democrat base of political support. There is nothing new here – anyone with any political awareness would have seen this coming. How is the impact/burden of this virtually uncontrolled migration across our southern border good for our schools, the education of our school children, our system of support services and the taxpayer? Indeed, how is it good for America?
Here I think it important to interject that America first is not the same as America only!! But I digress.
We can and should hold media largely responsible for giving basement hiding Joe Biden and the radical Left a pass during the 2020 election season. An election season that saw Joe Biden successfully avoid policy questions with the help of compliant/complicit media. All of this while America watched many of her cities burn, businesses being looted and set ablaze as Left-wing city mayors ordered their police to stand down, thus denying protection to law abiding citizens and their property. This happened in plain sight, often with flames and smoke billowing into the air as a backdrop, while what passes for journalists these days made a valiant effort to assure the viewer these Left-driven riots were “protests” and were essentially peaceful.
But I think stopping with the assignment of responsibility for what is unfolding in our nation to a largely uninquisitive group of partisan, left-wing stenographers posing as journalists is a mistake. I think a measure of responsibility for the debacle we see unfolding at the border must also be shouldered by those who decided to elect a very cognitively challenged Joe Biden to lead the country – a man who appears to be little more than a front man for a very radical Left that is busy installing their policy and “cancel culture” agenda as they attempt to avoid real debate by calling those who oppose their “woke” outlook and policy agenda racists.
I would like to know how a policy that encourages the predictable flooding of our borders – how is that good for America? The executive order shutting down construction of the oil pipeline and damaging our ability to continue our energy production dominance/independence – how is that good for America? I would like to know how the passage of exclusively Democrat written HR1 – a voting bill that, if passed, will by all reports allow massive nation-wide use of mail-in ballots, thus further calling into question election integrity (can you say ballot harvesting?) – just how is that good for America?
A push by the Left for additional massive spending bills (infrastructure – think “shovel ready”), massive additional debt and massive tax increases are coming (you don’t really think your taxes won’t increase, do you?). Don’t overlook that $5/gallon gasoline could be a reality by the end of the year.
Stay tuned, we haven’t seen anything yet!!
John Thompson says
Thanks Mike; as always you are spot on, but now it will get worse as Biden cannot take care of this and now has given the task to Harris, we are in REAL TROUBLE NOW !!
Ruth Dickie says
I don’t see any facts in your post supported by documentations in your post. “Put your money where your mouth is.” Open your eyes, Mike’s post is right on!
Ruth Dickie says
That comment of mine was meant for Pat.
Pamela Gillick says
Right on, Mike and Michael!!
Gerald M Hegeman says
Pat has it right!! You others want to go back to the child abuse policy?? And what is the shot at VP Harris about?? Thank God there is no xenophobia in Mesquite!!
Jack Rochford says
Gerald M Hegeman, you are aware that in 2018 the current VP compared ICE to the KKK, correct? In the primary debates she raised her hand when asked who would decriminalize unauthorized border crossings. She also signaled approval for medical insurance and welfare benefits for illegal immigrants. She is a terrible choice to oversee the border catastrophe this Administration has caused. Mike’s opinion piece is correct and criticism of Harris is warranted. Let’s embrace legal immigrants with open arms, but oppose illegal immigration with closed borders.
Robert Monson says
Jack,agree with you completely.The wall needs to be finished to help keep our country safe.Biden says he was elected to solve problems,but he is the problem.
Ann Marquez says
The Border issue did not just start with Biden, it has been an on going issue since 1886 And if it was easy to fix I’m sure someone would have fixed it already. The people at the border are desperate, the counties they are leaving are corrupt and broken, and we can’t hand over fist fix other counties too. All we can do is to try to stabilize the borders. The Biden Administration seem to be more forth coming by allowing some Media inside the facility. The Media is some what responsible too, they are showing you what draws an audience, they are no longer fare and balanced. Resolving the issue will also take action and cooperation by congress. Biden has been in office a few months, I think we should give them some time. The Trump Administration was in office in for years and did not allow Media into the the Facilities or tell the truth if asked about the borders, facilities, or the wall that you paid for, all he did was was Lie about that and may other topics. Trump was good at self promoting, racial divide, and endangered the life of the public by not taking action and disastrously handling the COVID-19 pandemic.
If you have any “positive solutions” to offer I’m sure they would gladly be heard and implement.
Might the Native American have felt the same way when the White Man came and took their land, brought diseases and killed all the buffalo and brought slaves to work the land for them (maybe they should have build a wall, would you or your ancestors be here?).
Let us learn from history, work together, and not promote hate.