Nobel prize-winning economist Milton Friedman scolded the Wall Street Journal for cheerleading an open-border immigration policy. "It's just obvious you can't have free immigration and a welfare state," he warned.
This leads to a “transfer state,” as the Heritage Foundation describes, the government taxing the upper and middle classes, transferring money to lower economic classes via subsidies and benefits.
In other words, “The transfer state redistributes funds from those with high-skill and high-income levels to those with lower skill levels.”
YouTube screen grab How many migrants are not encountered? Those are called "Gotaways" and Border Patrol estimates 1,000 per day, or 365,000 per year.
DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas acknowledges, "600,000 illegal 'gotaways' crossed border in 2023, calls immigration system broken." These are estimates.
There is no interest in securing our national border.
Open borders provide cheap labor for the Chamber of Commerce Republican establishment.
U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson visited the U.S.-Mexican border with a gaggle of Republicans, huffing and puffing about what a "Catastrophe" exists at the border.
Going back to his predecessor Paul Ryan, Republicans have fought Trump on building a border wall and applied no pressure on Biden to secure the border.
Closing our border and enforcing existing immigration law would be a good place to start.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/01/no_border__say_goodbye_to_america.html
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