The Senate immigration bill, aka border security bill, is only designed as the cover for the Senate to send $60 billion more to Ukraine. The Ukraine money is the priority (corps/lobbyists) the border “security” bill is the technique to create and spend it.
That said, they certainly would not want to let a created and purposeful border crisis go to waste, and they didn’t. The latest version of the Senate Immigration Reform Bill is now public [SEE HERE]. The proposed Senate border security bill provisions are actually worse than existing non-secure border provisions.
[LINK TO BILL]
America First Legal did a great job hitting on the top-line issues created by this new bill. In many ways, multiple ways, this supplemental “border security” bill makes things worse. The bill codifies into law the loopholes currently being used to increase the number of illegal aliens. By this design the bill makes things worse.
Link to thread taking the bill apart section by section – SEE HERE
When Is Now
25 years ago this month.
As I commented at https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/01/31/january-31st-2024-presidential-politics-resistance-day-1107/comment-page-3/#comments :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_Republican_Conference#Current_hierarchy#m
lists the following as Republican Leadership
Mike Johnson (LA) as Speaker of the House (Conference leader)
Steve Scalise (LA) as House Majority Leader
Tom Emmer (MN) as House Majority Whip
Elise Stefanik (NY) as Chair of the House Republican Conference
Blake Moore (UT) as Vice Chair of the House Republican Conference
Lisa McClain (MI) as Secretary of the House Republican Conference
Gary Palmer (AL) as Chair of the House Republican Policy Committee
Richard Hudson (NC) as Chair of the National Republican Congressional Committee
Guy Reschenthaler (PA) as House Republican Chief Deputy Whip
So on January 31, 2024 I called each of these members (phone numbers listed at https://www.house.gov/representatives#m ) and left a message with the person who answered the phone mentioning not only to vote against the horrific amnesty bill but that it should not even be voted on in the house – the bill not to be brought for a vote! In the case of Speaker Johnson I left a message on the answering machine / voicemail – not able to reach a person.
I INTEND TO CALL THEM AGAIN …
And I read yesterday that Johnson has created a stand alone bill for Israel for $17.6B with no cut in IRS funding also. Appears quietly ignored by MSM.
Everyone is ignoring it on purpose. There lots of pretending going on over here and over there.
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Great thinker of 18 century VOLTAIRE- one time said – whom you can not criticize (…and I add friendly and constructive criticism)-IS YOUR ENEMY !!!!… not a friend…..
Apparently, many ONLY (or almost ONLY) criticize Israel – disproportionate criticism indicates an agenda or irrationality (aka antisemitism).
THE ONLY ONE (OR ALMOST ONLY ONE) THAT THE UNITED NATIONS CRITCIZES IS ISRAEL.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-senate-unveils-118-billion-bipartisan-bill-tighten-border-security-aid-2024-02-04/#m
“In addition to $20.23 billion for border security, the bill included $60.06 billion to support Ukraine in its war with Russia, $14.1 billion in security assistance for Israel, $2.44 billion to U.S. Central Command and the conflict in the Red Sea, and $4.83 billion to support U.S. partners in the Indo-Pacific facing aggression from China, according to figures from Senator Patty Murray, who chairs the Senate’s Appropriation Committee.
An additional $10 billion would provide humanitarian assistance for civilians in conflict zones including in Ukraine, Gaza and the West Bank, although the bill includes a provision barring its funds from going to the U.N. agency for Palestinians, UNRWA. The Biden administration and other nations have paused funding to the agency over allegations that some of its staff were involved in Hamas’ Oct. 7 attacks in southern Israel.”
$10 billion for Gaza ??? With friends like the current US government, Israel does NOT need enemies?
You’re the one with an agenda.
It’s on topic in the sense that all these spending bills are part of the quid pro quo Kabuki theater that is Congress.
Exactly.
It ain’t here .
Your comment is silly ,why ?
To not support Israel,or the funding for their war , or the constant sending of our tax dollars there , doesn’t mean you hate Jews .
I don’t support any of that , nor do I support sending our tax dollars all over the world to different countries .
Yet ,my daughter married a Jewish man ,so my grandchild is part Jewish,and I have nieces and nephews who are part Jewish, because my sister married a Jewish man .
Maybe it’s the fact they(the Jews ) believe I’m a dog is my problem, but that’s only for the Zionists and talmudists,not all Jews ,or Christian Jews .
And no pretending on these facts ,homey don’t play that.
No offence intended, but, it’s not unrelated or off topic. Keep supplying weapons to the middle east that results in a bunch of pissed off Muslims sneaking across our southern border to seek revenge on the taxpayer (unwittingly) paying for it is a problem, Our government’s handlers have prioritized the security of Israel (and Ukraine) over the United States, but calling that out as off topic and antisemitic is nuts. But I think you already know that.
saaaadly…..you have to remain him about it……
Yes it does. It has to do with ridiculous spending on other countries.
Just because I don’t like US money going to any and all countries, doesn’t make me anti-Semitic. And I don’t play that game.
Try it with someone you can!
And this is a MAGA / America First site.
And all you is promote Israel and not America.
And name calling is not allowed per guidelines.
Is that all you got?
Get ready!
Borg
Stand up
Fight
Just say no
United we stand
They are evil and seek to devide !
Texas isn’t our only border. We have a much longer northern border and many thousand miles of coastline to protect.
The best defense is to ENFORCE our CURRENT laws against illegal invasion and to detain and deport all invaders!
And recently, there has been an increase in news articles, here and there, about the weakness and porous nature of our border with Canada.
the sand dwellers and cave inhabitants have been boating through Lake of The Woods for 50 years. Somalians, Afghans and the Pakistani faithful have been ruining Minnesota forever.
Abbott should have and could have closed that border 2Y ago with the Tx NG and didn’t. Played politics with it…
Waiting to see what happens this summer no doubt…and hoping that people will do what they are doing….’being happy that he finally did something’….
Sometimes political “stunts” can draw attention to issues that many would otherwise ignore. However, seeing vanloads of illegals in my rural area of Illinois didn’t give me the warm fuzzies.
The only thing that was good about Abbot not closing the border 2y ago is that it allowed him to bus illegal aliens north. He did this to an extent that has prevented the Dems from ignoring this issue – now they have to gaslight. So maybe by getting them to acknowledge the issue it improves his hand in this standoff?
Don’t be too sure about Abbot or DeSantis ‘achieving’ anything good by sending illegals to sanctuary cities.
We must remember, the census counts illegals as part of the population for purposes of Congressional representation, thereby, increasing the number of Blue State seats in the House. Once the traitors get amnesty for all of these illegals, (which they want/will) then those new illegals will get to vote and the result will be permanent majorities for the fascist party.
Letting these illegals in is just one step towards a permanent power grab by traitors in both parties. Distributing them throughout the country into major cities is another step in altering the political landscape.
Remember, RNC wants money and the DNC wants power. This type of scummy behavior accomplishes both goals.
The aliens would’ve been bused north anyways. Here, Abbott and the RINOS, get to play hero.
Agree. Cali was the prototype. Now a one-party state approaching collapse, its former greatness unrecognizable.
Moreover – it’s actually illegal – breaking our current immigration laws for Governor Abbott and other Governors to send illegal invaders to sanctuary cities around the country – they are actually facilitating the invasion!
Right you are. It’s a sleight of hand trick which is all part of establishing a permanent DNC majority. Once the illegals get their amnesty it’s over.
your posting is definitive
often, we get mired in word salads
but, the bottom line simplicity is what you posted and what is required
often, I think “journalists” must be paid by the word (are they?)
as I scan my eyes through the many paragraphs looking for one
or two sentences that sum it up, whatever “it” is.
What a country!
This bill appropriates much more money to Ukraine than for defense of our nation.
FJB
FTGOP as well.
And his boss too.
What a shock
They’ve gotten so bold in their grifting that they don’t even bother to try to hide it any longer.
That’s because we’ve gotten so ‘bold’ in our acquiescence to the grifters and their treasonous COUP. Don’t forget to wear your masks today. Poison death shots, anyone?
Someone explain how we vote our way out.
And then explain why we should not openly revolt.
Our votes do not matter.
We are not represented.
Revolution is the only answer.
Vote Trump
vote Trump/revolution.
You don’t!
So, the GOPe has traded open borders for perpetual warfare.
When the warfare comes home, the GOPe doesn’t see the bullseye on their backs apparently.
Surprised?
Not since 1992.
They want both. They get rich when their handlers get rich – all from the American taxpayer. No worries.
They want both. Period. Issues not solutions.
KILL THE BILL
NO MORE MONEY FOR UKRAINE
DEPORT ALL ILLEGALS AND SECURE OUR BORDER
easier said than done……………..unfortunately
One poster here suggested the hiring of bounty hunters to find the illegal aliens and arrest them for deportation! I would add a fee for those who turn in illegal aliens for deportation! It would cost less for the bounty hunters, the finders fees and a one way ticket back to their home than the billions of our tax dollars to keep them here on the government teat!!! Eventually Congress will give them all citizenship with voting rights and that needs to be avoided at all costs!!!
STOP SENDING $$$$$$ FOR BOTH WARS !!!!!!!
Disgusting
If this is passed….the USA is done!!!!
Captured by the communists!! They win!!!
You can’t vote your way out of this if passed!!!
Joe Biden sold the USA out to the Chinese way back when he was V.P.
F*ck Congress. If Johnson lets this piece of shit bill come to the floor, this country is lost even Trump wins. I am sorry but quit giving tax payer dollars to ALL foreign countries. Remember when Trump wanted $4 billion for the wall and Congress said it is silly to waste that kind of money. But look at all the money we waste now. Trillion dollar spending bills are common place. And we all know at the end the Reuplicans will bend over and give citizenship to every illegal here and Dems will never lose another election.
At this point, place sharpshooters on the border and shoot every damn one of them that tries to cross illegally. I am fed the f*ck up with this shit.
100%
This is a WAR. We should have been shooting all along.
Quit paying taxes.
Well said.
Will the House stand firm?
Let me be clear, we are watching Steve, and you had better be right
This is DOA..
The “Let me be clear” signal…
DANGER, DANGER, WILL ROBINSON!!!!
When a Congresscritter or any other Swamp denizen says “Let me be clear…”, brace yourself for a whopper of a lie coming your way.
‘Automatic work permits’ will be used as a mechanism to limit/block the deportation of illegals if PDJT wins his third election. This, along with asylum hearings scheduled for 3+ years, is designed to let the camel into the tent.
You’ll be considered a racist if you don’t let illegals work while they await their deportation hearing in 3 years. In the interim, anchor babies will be birthed or the ‘asylee’ will disappear into the country in their version of ‘Catch Me if You Can’.
Don’t ever, ever, ever, hire illegal labor at your house/business, and let your local contractor (landscaper, roofer, housecleaner, snowplow) know that you don’t want illegal labor at your residence.
You are on the right track, this piece of manure is designed to block and thwart PDJT upon his return to the White House. Not only what you have mentioned, the bill states that any legal challenges to the legislation can only be adjudicated in the D.C. circuit courts. Talk about a stacked deck! What I like to know is, does this bill amend or replace (in whole or in part) the Immigration and Nationality Act? The INA contains a provision where POTUS has broad power to shut down the borders and expel illegal aliens, I think the appropriate clause is Section 212(f). It would be interesting to see.
It just confirms that the Democrats and Republicans are working TOGETHER to destroy our country. It’s the “Establishment” against We the People.
The word is “bipartisan”. Doesn’t it sound so sweet and fuzzy and warm?
BTW, someone go tell Lankford to take a flying leap off of President Trump’s wall.
That is where we should hang these traitors. EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM.
bipartisan traitors
But when and if, the bill doesn’t pass, it solely becomes the “Republicans” fault.
Good. We will then know some RINOS grew a pair!
“Bipartisan” just like Nancy Pelosi’s National Commission on J6!!!!!
“Establishment” equals “Lying criminals.”
Senate communists are just doing what traitors do and the voters keep voting for them. Zero surprises here.
Like Sundance says…”Prepare accordingly”
Like change the bedding for when there is forced illegal housing ?
It appears that the Senate is determined to pass legislation like this in 2024 to tie up President Trump just in case he wins the presidential election.
Senate shifts 51-49 to R majority, Turt is Majority leader and all’s right with the DC swamp world, MIC and Administrative state.
So is this the same illegality used to pass Obamacare? Revenue increasing bills according to the Constitutuion are supposed to originate in the house. Looks like they took a veterans care bill (with Obamacare it was veterans housing i believe) and kept the House bill number and substituted this. Assuming this bill has some mechanism to raise a tax or something somewhere in it to “pay” for Ukraine money laundering and child trafficking. It sure would have been nice if republicans had back when they took over after Obamacare was passed filed suit and declared it unconstitutional.
Called Deem and Pass, aka “The Demon Pass”.
Nope, this is an “Emergency Supplemental Bill” which handily(for Congress) avoids the “pay as you go” accounting and budget provision. In other words-it goes straight to our debt without having to be included in the regular order of the annual budget funding/spending accounting.
And if you venture to actually wade through even small portions of this lawfare monstrosity, you’ll find that 10’s of billions of dollars are “transferable” from one government department to another one (as well as to NGO’s and nonprofits) through 2028.
It is an absolute masterpiece of smoke and mirrors heifer poop that doesn’t solve a single domestic (or foreign) problem the American people care about and certainly doesn’t help to secure our own borders now or in the future! But it sure spends a lot of our money overseas and elsewhere with plenty left over for profits, greasing palms and grift both here and abroad.
As per usual, this bill increases our problems and the “players” wallets while emptying our own wallets.
The same sleight – of – hand Dingy Harry Reid used to initially fund Obamacare.
Congress is the backbone of all our woes in America yet not one old bone can/is being removed. The devil’s playground.
Let’s see. 60 billion to continue the genocide in Ukraine. 20 billion to take America apart at the seams. And 14 billion for HQ. Somebody’s happy with this. Never again
Are there enough Republicans to survive a cloture vote? I am not sure
Those Republicans standing fast should make this a true filibuster and read this bill out loud. Shove it in the face of the Republican sellouts.
Just saw this from Speaker of House :
I’ve seen enough. This bill is even worse than we expected, and won’t come close to ending the border catastrophe the President has created. As the lead Democrat negotiator proclaimed: Under this legislation, “the border never closes.”
If this bill reaches the House, it will be dead on arrival.
https://x.com/speakerjohnson/status/1754333708193091928?s=61&t=WAJNjiOb9WjI79tM2u9BXA
I hope Johnson holds firm but he buckled on the CR which he said he would not previously.
Last week the EU committed $54 billion (USD) to Ukraine. With that infusion, why do we need to send an additional $60 billion?
Remember, only a few Congress members (Rand Paul) have been asking for an audit of the money/goods sent to Ukraine by the potted plant.
Smells like another free-for-all money grift.
Mike Gill is not available for comment.
https://rumble.com/v2wairy-juan-o-savin-and-david-nino-rodriguez-and-mike-gill.html
John Podesta said, and I paraphrase, “What do they think wetwrok is? It’s not swimming in the backyard pool!”
Wetwork.
Have to type fast to prevent being kicked off the site before I finish a comment.
All government state & federal especially the senate are fully captured and compromised and do as they ordered by their dark masters.
No surprise.
Mitch McConnell and all of Kentucky can kiss my white azz.
Kentucky is also represented in the Senate by Rand Paul, who will fight this tooth and nail. It’s not KY any more than it’s FL or OK. If Rubio supports this, DeSantis will primary him over it. Langford will be censured by the OK Republican party.
Despite that, McConnell will have enough GOP votes for cloture for it to pass the Senate even if every pubbie votes against actual passage …which they won’t.
The real fight will be in the House where there may yet be enough Dem nay votes to outweigh the RINOs.
Tricky Rick Scott is up for reelection to the US Senate this year. Florida primary is in August.
Senator Rand Paul never protested keeping the Senate open which would have allowed President Trump to make recess appointments; as mg says, all of Kentucky can . . . you know, the thing.
Hey MG!
I’m curious as to what state you hail from, if you are in the US.
I ask because while I agree in your assessment of Mitch McConnell, I disagree with the propensity of some folks in holding all the citizens of a state responsible for electing a dud or even a total disaster like McConnell.
It would be nice to know what state you vote in so I can research whether to use your your own criteria to also hold you accountable for any Duds your entire state ever elected.
My own state of North Carolina has elected many a fine candidate for office and also many a Dud. As for my own voting record since 1976 both here and in Arizona, I’ll admit to have voting for 56 candidates that ended up being a Dud or even a major criminal screw up in the 95 times I have voted for the many(well over 1,000) candidates in all local, state, and federal elections since then.
I’m sure there are even more Duds than I actually know of and there has been many a time that I could not stomach voting for either candidate in a race. But you’re certainly welcome to blame me entirely for all and any NC or AZ(1979-1987) election outcomes if it makes you feel better.
And “To be perfectly clear”, I have absolutely no intention of kissing your or anyone else’s azz, regardless of color, over my voting record or anything else for that matter!
OUR govt hates us.
OUR congress hates us.
That’s ALL you need to know and realize.
The past 30Y we have descended down this cliff of no return.
And today the govt and congress is BRAZEN…
There is NO concern of backlash, the people revolting, the govt being stopped from full tyranny
NO representation…elect a Dem or a Republican or an indep….
Foreign countries are represented more than our country.
Illegals have MORE rights than we citizens.
We work,pay taxes to SUPPORT govt, congress and EVERY country on earth; then continue to allow illegals by the millions to enter.
THAT THIS BILL was DRAWN…says all you need to know about govt, congress. THEY KNOW this bill will PASS….they don’t CARE ONE WHIT what’s in this bill….donors, chamber, K St, lobbyists, foreign govts have PAID for this bill.
JOHNSON, VACATE the chair….don’t care who is next, but YOUR TURN is over…worse than McCarthy….
We The People have NO power, NO representation and OUR OWN govt hates us….
Well said!
If there was ever a bill that was tailor made for republicans to vote against in an election year, this is it.
Me thunks your sentence might be more realistic if you had inserted ‘real’ in front of ‘republicans’.
We all need to accept the fact that the “real republicans” are the ones who are pushing for it.
Worse is that this will tie President Trump’s hands when he tries to shut the border. This is TREASON and must not pass.
Luciferians as Overlords.
Definitely.
Never let a crisis go to waste. Doesn’t matter if it’s the pandemic or the southern border… DC is always looking for opportunities to expand power and control.
Denver Police At Airport Off The Record “The media will not tell you this. — We’ve arrested, the Denver Police in Denver has arrested over 50 Al Qaeda members in the last 2 months”
“So I just had a conversation with a Denver police officer at the airport, and we were talking about the crime that’s going on, not only in Denver, but our country. And he says, the media will not tell you this. I’m not even supposed to talk about this, but I don’t care anymore. We’ve arrested. The Denver police in Denver has arrested over 50 Al Qaeda members in the last 2 months.
Mission accomplished.
This U.S Federal Government is not only beyond corrupt, it operates as a bi-polar entity, on purpose. You send money to Israel to continue bombing civilians, but then want to send aid money to the civilian victims you are paying to bomb.
There’s only one thing at this point that needs eliminating. Deconstruction of our Corporate/Banker-run, bankrupt government, the United States.
Best explanation/description I’ve ever read. It’s perfect! Kudos!
In the former United States I would have said, “Write your Senators!” But my Senators are Cruz and Cornyn. So what good would that do?
This bill is a crock.
I had an email from Ted Cruz (the camp of) yesterday
telling me that he was the No. 1 target of the Democrats.
I laughed as I clicked delete.
One very good thing is the true conservatives are not donating to Rona’s flower and botox fund. The RNC has very little money, that is great news, hopefully the RNC will no longer exist. As they hate your guts.
Other than American taxpayers $$$, the heads of state receiving these funds would soon spit on 98% of Americans and steal their money. Oh, wait…
I’ve lived on both the US/Canada and US/Mexico borders…MANY years ago. Canada didn’t feel like a foreign country way back then. We watched Canadian TV, bought groceries in Canada, used Canadian money. From there we moved to the AZ/Mexican border. We were so shocked that they wouldn’t take Canadian money.
Why can’t they just enforce the immigration laws we already have? I guess I know the answer to that common sense question. It enforces the laws just a little too much for their open borders/Democrat voters/cheap labor tastes.
So this bill does nothing.
And then there is this little gem:
Illegals are only counted if they are from Canada and Mexico.
twitter.com/ChrisMurphyCT/…https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GFiv1biasAAul1s?format=png&name=medium
The entire concept will be dismantled and re-assembled by the Administrative State as a massive Trojan horse. That’s what the Admin State is about.
If our VSG- Very Stable Genius – isn’t at this moment rounding up Black Hats in his capacity of acting CiC, then it is increasingly looking like the southern border will be permanently removed and WW3 initiated in Europe. Hard to conceive of either of those horrors being part of Trust The Plan. VSG’s late-September announcement that DC would be back in the hands of the White Hats “in less than 5 months” runs out in just 2 weeks. Steadfast!
… it also locks in green card giveaways through 2030.
Ah, another landmine left for President Trump by the illegitimate Resident and illegitimate CONgress.
Soft invasion? Who came up with that?
Most people have NO IDEA about what is actually going on. WATCH THIS! He visits the invasion route to see.
The US is effectively FUNDING UN camps along the way, Mayorcas is secretly videoed by a drone while visiting one of the southernmost camps, and the CCP is taking full advantage of this with an influx of Chinese men with most unwilling to talk with the investigators and with their camps being off-limits to same.
BEHIND THE BORDER CRISIS WITH MICHAEL YON (1:10:35)
The HighWire with Del Bigtree
2 Feb 2024
https://rumble.com/v4azl3o-behind-the-border-crisis-with-michael-yon.html
The UN agency setting up major camps along the invasion path:
UN IOM – International Organization for Migration (NOT “immigration”)
https://www.iom.int/iom-global-appeal-2024
As pointed out in the video, the amount of IOM funding by country:
#1 USA
#2 Germany
#3 Canada
The “Republican” half of the UniParty is allowing this because both parties actually want it for:
1. cheap, hard working labor
2. demographic replacement (the phony anyway “Republicans” will simply adapt their platform as needed, probably remaining fast on their two hot button issues which bring the faithful to the polls: abortion and guns) with a greater percentage of nanny state dependents (although we are already WELL on our way to financial destruction via DEBT)
3. replacements for the low birth rate by importation (because incentivizing legal citizen women to have more or ANY children would reduce the skilled labor force and harm the cheap labor goal)
The low birth rate part stated out loud:
Wow, they are now saying it out in the open (1:37)
13 Jan 2023
This^^^. This is the man that Bret Weinstein refers to in his Tucker Carlson interview about the border crisis. Bret says this is the man that has been investigating this issue.
Yep, even though Bret also travelled there along with Chris Martinson of Peak Prosperity, the Del Bigtree video is much superior to Tucker’s interview with Bret.
What is ACTUALLY going on is INSANELY DIFFERENT than ANY narrative most have likely heard.
I started watching Mark Levin last night and although he was mostly correct during his monologue (he didn’t come close to listing ALL of the factors behind this INTENTIONALLY ALLOWED invasion) when he and his first guest EXCLUSIVELY blamed the Dims, you know, the usual UniParty angle, I just changed the channel!
People will not need to wonder WHY the “Republican” half of the UniParty has done NOTHING about this for THREE YEARS after watching that Del Bigtree interview.
I just see the money floating into other people’s pockets here.
It’s MUCH worse than just that.
NEVER FORGET…
The Resident is ILLEGITIMATE, as is CONgress. Most of them got there AND ARE STAYING THERE fraudulently.
We SAW IT in 2016, 2018, 2020 and 2022. We have been seeing it for over a year (MAL RAID 8 Aug 2022 after President Trump announced his candidacy) for 2024.
It’s past time for a SWAMP DRAINING.
Can we just secede from the criminals in DC? Over 100 years of getting the shaft from those bums is enough.
Biden and the NGO globalists and company want the border open. Big Ag lobby wants fresh meat. Your vote doesn’t matter on the macroscale. Big Money has a big impact.
d.c. needs to be … now , more than ever … a smoldering hole … ( dont’ forget the suburbs … get all of the deep state … with one device … )