https://nypost.com/2024/11/13/opinion/question-for-trump-to-solve-just-how-many-million-migrants-did-joe-let-in-8-million-12-15/
Question for Trump to solve: Just how many million migrants did Joe let in? 8 million? 12? 15?
By Andrew Arthur
Published Nov. 13, 2024, 7:35 p.m. ET
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President-elect Donald Trump has promised to crack down on the southern border and deport those here illegally.
But the million-dollar question left by the Biden administration: Just how many people is that?
A recent House Judiciary report says that “For almost four years, Americans have watched as President Joe Biden and border czar Vice President Kamala Harris have abandoned the southwest border and welcomed nearly 8 million illegal aliens into the United States.”
But that 8 million is likely an undercount — and perhaps by a lot.
The House Committee on Homeland Security estimated in the spring that there would have been 10 million encounters during Biden’s four-year term. And that doesn’t include “got-aways” — people who crossed illegally without ever talking to a Border Patrol agent.
There are, meanwhile, all kind of “parole” and other programs the Biden administration used without Congressional approval to fly immigrants in directly from South America and other parts of the world.
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OK, so the answer is “a lot”. Some proportion are criminals or neer’do’wells, While the rest are a mix of those seeking a better life or some who want to collect on the dole.
How do we differentiate who is a “Priority One Removal” and who don’t we really care about?
Fortunately some really smart people have some great ideas.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/11/expediting_deportation_using_carrots_and_sticks.html
americanthinker.com
Expediting Deportation, Using Carrots and Sticks
By Ned Barnett
<< EDITOR ADDED DATE 2024-11-13>>
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How do you deport the roughly twenty million individuals living illegally in the United States? For a lot of reasons, this will be a huge challenge, and likely a costly one – when was the last time the government did anything even remotely correct without it busting the budget?
Well, for one thing, you could try offering incentives for people to make their deportation easier than it might otherwise have been.
First, offer them an option. Go home on your own, and you will be eligible to apply for legal residency, along with anyone else who wants to come to America and who hadn’t broken our laws to get here.
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What about the stick? Tell this same population that if the government has to take actions to deport them, they will have to wait for more than the current ten years before even getting to the end of the line for legal immigration, lengthening the time before they can return to America, but this time as legal immigrants.
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And, the details outlined seem very reasonable.
Then DJT4547 and his team can focus on the criminals, welfare cheats, and sanctuary cities and NGOs.
I like this approach. We’ll see how they tackle it.
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