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7 minutes ago, Big Blitz said:

 

 

We knew it to be a lie all along.  Biden broke it with EO's his first few weeks in Office.  He could have rescinded the EOs himself.

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Pentagon orders 3,000 additional troops to US-Mexico border

by Chris Harris and Gabrielle Fahmy

 

The Pentagon is sending about 3,000 more active-duty troops to the U.S.-Mexico border as President Donald Trump seeks to clamp down on illegal immigration and fulfill a central promise of his campaign, U.S. officials said Saturday. His defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, has ordered elements of a Stryker brigade combat team and a general support aviation battalion for the mission, the Pentagon announced. The forces will arrive along the nearly 2,000-mile border in the coming weeks.

 

https://nypost.com/2025/03/01/us-news/pentagon-sends-additional-troops-to-the-us-mexico-border/

 

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Mayorkas: Who'll Pick the Cotton -- Er, Crops?

Ed Morrissey

 

In an ever-changing world, it's good to have some reliable consistency. When it comes to labor policy, Democrats have consistently made this same argument since ... 1861.

 

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The agricultural argument is absurd on its face in another way. If picking crops is "a job Americans won't do," then it's just as true of illegal immigrants. Estimates put their participation in the ag sector at around one percent. Mayorkas' successor Kristi Noem and new border chief Tom Homan aren't raiding farms to find criminal aliens. ICE is conducting raids in major cities, where mayors like Brandon Johnson have declared "sanctuary" from federal law enforcement. What crops does Chicago produce, anyway?

 

But even if an influx of cheap labor were that important -- to either industry -- the answer isn't to stop enforcing border security. The proper response would be to set up a program for temporary labor to assist US firms as needed and as necessary. We used to have such programs in the past, but those relied on strong border security and strong disincentives for violating the terms of the programs by overstaying or attempting to receive unauthorized services. Did Mayorkas even once suggest such an effort to provide cheaper labor via secure and legal means?

 

So Mayorkas' argument fails any rational basis of consideration. Now let's tackle its moral vacuity. Mayorkas wants to argue that the real value of illegal aliens is only in how they can make life cheaper for Americans. They are apparently only good for manual labor, as a sort of Untouchable caste in the American context, with apparent anxiety that their absence will force elites to perform Untouchable tasks. Or at least Mayorkas thinks that's how the rest of America thinks, which would be an entirely different kind of cynical elitism, but just as despicable. 

 

It also sounds aaaawfuuuuuullllly familiar as an argument from Democrats to exploit mass importation of labor to keep costs down for the nobility. Some things never change. 

 

https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2025/03/06/mayorkas-wholl-pick-the-cotton-er-crops-n3800480

 

 

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