Bacon's Rebellion

Every State Is a Border State

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James A. Bacon
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by Kerry Dougherty

File this under “Illegals Committing Crimes.”

Anibal Guzman

I know, I know, the Democratic Party line is that illegals commit fewer crimes than American citizens. Frankly, one violent crime by an illegal alien is too many.

Fact is, if the southern border closed, crime rates would drop dramatically. Including in Virginia.

Last weekend the body of an Hispanic man aged 20 to 30 was found in a wooded area off Rte. 29 near Oakton. He’d been bludgeoned and stabbed to death.

Two men were arrested, and guess what? One was an illegal from Honduras: Maudin Anibal Guzman-Videz.

Was this the suspect’s first brush with the law since he snuck into the country?

Of course not.

He was arrested in Fairfax in March for malicious assault, but never showed up for his court date. ICE issued detainers for him, which the Fairfax County Sheriff ignored. Now this same man was allegedly involved in a murder. Continue reading.

 

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94 responses to “Every State Is a Border State”

  1. Eric the half a troll Avatar
    Eric the half a troll

    “Fact is, if the southern border closed, crime rates would drop dramatically. Including in Virginia.”

    Math is not Kerry’s strong point apparently.

    1. ken Avatar
      ken

      Remember the Dem's old adage about gun control: "If it saves just one life." Guess that no longer counts…..

      1. Eric the half a troll Avatar
        Eric the half a troll

        Your analogy would only work if Dem’s claimed that saving that one life would drive down crime rates over all…

    2. Nancy Naive Avatar
      Nancy Naive

      What? How could we get to the OBX?

  2. VirginiaGroyper Avatar
    VirginiaGroyper

    Either end immigration entirely or return to the standards of the 1924 Johnson-Reed Act. Simple.

    1. GeorgeWallaceandGromit Avatar
      GeorgeWallaceandGromit

      This is the way. Only from Western Europe.

      1. DiversityCelebrator Avatar
        DiversityCelebrator

        Residents of Virginia without FFV roots should be given green card-like status. They’re mostly just parasites leeching off the federal government in their NOVA tract homes anyway. I never understood how living on a quarter acre of land and sending your kids to public schools made you one of the state’s elite, but that’s what they claim. Jokes on them.

        1. LarrytheG Avatar
          LarrytheG

          How do FFV folks live?

          1. Chip Gibson Avatar
            Chip Gibson

            Phoning a friend…what is an FFV? Electric car?

          2. LarrytheG Avatar
            LarrytheG

            DiversityCelebrator
            "Residents of Virginia without FFV roots should be given green card-like status. They’re mostly just parasites leeching off the federal government in their NOVA tract homes anyway."

          3. how_it_works Avatar
            how_it_works

            First Families of Virginia.

            The ones who all claim to be descended from Pocahontas.

          4. DiversityCelebrator Avatar
            DiversityCelebrator

            First Families of Virginia is a catch all for those with Virginia ancestry from the 17th century.

            How it works is not correct in the assertion that they all descend from Pocahontas; that would be a wildly limited group. The group that descends from Pocahontas are referred to as “Red Bollings” due to Robert Bolling’s marriage to Jane Rolfe, granddaughter of Pocahontas.

          5. Chip Gibson Avatar
            Chip Gibson

            I have Virginia ancestry from the 17th century – FFR – First Families of Rednecks.

          6. how_it_works Avatar
            how_it_works

            I have Virginia ancestry from the 18th century. Some Germans that were conned by Governor Spotswood into immigrating to Virginia to work at silver mine.

            There was no silver mine.

            But that's how the Germanna settlement started.

          7. how_it_works Avatar
            how_it_works

            I have Virginia ancestry from the 18th century. Some Germans that were conned by Governor Spotswood into immigrating to Virginia to work at silver mine.

            There was no silver mine.

            But that's how the Germanna settlement started.

          8. LarrytheG Avatar
            LarrytheG

            Interesting. They're still there! Not only Silver mines, but Goal mines along the Rappahannock and Rapidan rivers.

          9. how_it_works Avatar
            how_it_works

            So the story I read is that the Germans arrived to Virginia expecting to work in a silver mine and there was no work and no silver mine. A few of them stayed in Virginia, others (like my Germanna ancestors) left Virginia for greener pastures.

          10. LarrytheG Avatar
            LarrytheG

            I have never taken the time to do much looking at ancestors but my mothers Maiden name was Loving and her dad and grandad were Virginia natives. Dad had German Parents in Rochester’s NY. She had a knick-knack room you could not turn around in without breaking such important memento. Ask me how I know! 😉

          11. how_it_works Avatar
            how_it_works

            Wikipedia offers a much narrower definition:

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Families_of_Virginia

            "First Families of Virginia were families in the British colony of Virginia who were socially prominent and wealthy, but not necessarily the earliest settlers."

            As far as Pocahontas, there's estimated to be 100,000 descendants.

          12. how_it_works Avatar
            how_it_works

            Wikipedia offers a much narrower definition:

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Families_of_Virginia

            "First Families of Virginia were families in the British colony of Virginia who were socially prominent and wealthy, but not necessarily the earliest settlers."

            As far as Pocahontas, there's estimated to be 100,000 descendants.

          13. LarrytheG Avatar
            LarrytheG

            I figured the "parasite" thing would burn pretty good… 😉

            So.. longtime plantation folks thing the heart of the Virginia economy are parasites?

            interesting.

          14. how_it_works Avatar
            how_it_works

            I don’t know what long time plantation folks think about the heart of the Virginia economy.

            I do know that they had the best opportunity to shape it into something of their liking.

          15. LarrytheG Avatar
            LarrytheG

            I’m guessing they had no great hopes or planning for NoVa. That’s probably Yankee-land for them!

          16. how_it_works Avatar
            how_it_works

            You snooze, you lose.

          17. LarrytheG Avatar
            LarrytheG

            THe initial/original “economy” of Virginia was what? Agricultural products?

          18. how_it_works Avatar
            how_it_works

            I dare say that the initial/original "economy" of most states was agricultural products.

          19. how_it_works Avatar
            how_it_works

            I dare say that the initial/original "economy" of most states was agricultural products.

          20. LarrytheG Avatar
            LarrytheG

            So is that how FFV made their living?

          21. DiversityCelebrator Avatar
            DiversityCelebrator

            Forgot to reply LarryG – not in new build developments that pollute the environment and mar the beautiful landscape.

          22. LarrytheG Avatar
            LarrytheG

            well, that would eliminate about 80% of modern Virginia, no?

        2. GeorgeWallaceandGromit Avatar
          GeorgeWallaceandGromit

          They’re just modern day Burghers

          1. LarrytheG Avatar
            LarrytheG

            "Burgess was a British title used in the medieval and early modern period to designate someone of the burgher class. It originally meant a freeman of a borough or burgh but later came to mean an official of a municipality or a representative in the House of Commons.

            Usage in American colonies

            The term was also used in some of the American colonies. In the Colony of Virginia, a "burgess" was a member of the legislative body, which was termed the "House of Burgesses" ]"

            How did they become landowners in the colonies?

          2. CJBova Avatar
            CJBova

            Land patents or grants of land for coming to or transporting others to settle in Virginia.

          3. LarrytheG Avatar
            LarrytheG

            Was that like homesteading where anyone could get a land patent just by coming?

          4. CJBova Avatar
            CJBova

            https://lva-virginia.libguides.com/land-grants
            “This collection consists of Virginia land patents (1623–1774) and land grants (1779–February 2000). It includes land grants within the Northern Neck Proprietary (1690–1874) along with survey plats and accompanying papers for the Northern Neck land grants (1697–1874).

            “The Virginia government began recording land patents around 1623 when the royal governor, as the agent of English crown, assumed control over the distribution of unappropriated land within the new colony. A few earlier patents, issued by the Virginia Company of London, were recorded or affirmed in the first volumes. Until the early 1700s, land was principally distributed to people who brought settlers into the colony. For each immigrant, the importer was entitled to a “headright” of fifty acres of land. Because the land patents list the names of imported persons, they are the primary source for documenting early Virginia immigration. Beginning in 1699, a person could acquire unappropriated land through the purchase of “treasury rights,” and by 1715, this practice had mostly supplanted the headright system.

            “The Northern Neck proprietary originated in 1649 when King Charles II, then living in exile, bestowed land in northern Virginia to seven of his supporters. Through purchase and inheritance this land was consolidated by Thomas, Lord Fairfax. The land consisted of over 5.2 million acres, located between the Rappahannock and Potomac Rivers, and stretching into what is now West Virginia. Beginning in 1690, land grants could be purchased from the agents of the proprietor. Although the proprietary ceased granting land in 1781, grants within the Northern Neck area were recorded in a separate series of volumes until 1874.

            “At the end of the Revolutionary War, the Virginia General Assembly established the Land Office and revised the system for the sale of land warrants. That warrant system remained the practice until 1950, when the distribution of vacant lands became the responsibility of the counties and independent cities. The state continued to issue grants for escheated lands.

            Virginia also awarded military bounty land grants for those who had served in the French and Indian War (1754–1763), Dunmore’s War (1774), and the American Revolution (1775–1783). For additional information and online records of the military bounty land grants, see Revolutionary War Bounty Land Claims.”

            “For a more detailed overview see the Virginia Land Office Research Note.”

          5. LarrytheG Avatar
            LarrytheG

            re: ” land was principally distributed to people who brought settlers into the colony. For each immigrant, the importer was entitled to a “headright” of fifty acres of land. ”

            so did the immigrants themselves get land? Where did the immigrants who got imported live?

          6. f/k/a_tmtfairfax Avatar
            f/k/a_tmtfairfax

            President Obama's and my forefather Mareen The Emigrant Duvall came to Maryland as an indentured servant and later received a patent from the Calverts to some substantial landholdings in what is now Anne Arundel and Prince Georges Counties and owned several palatial homes and 18 slaves. None of his wealth came to Obama's mother or my dad.

          7. LarrytheG Avatar
            LarrytheG

            what did they do to deserve the patent? How did they earn a living and acquire wealth?

          8. f/k/a_tmtfairfax Avatar
            f/k/a_tmtfairfax

            As far as I know, Duvall and Lord Calvert became friends and transacted business together. Supposedly, Duvall received 100 acres for his 7 years of servitude from another colonist and grew his landholdings over several decades. He had two large estates, Laval and Middle Plantation.

          9. LarrytheG Avatar
            LarrytheG

            Duvall and Lord Calvert did “business” together but Duvall was in servitude? How did he “grow” his landholdings? What did he do to make money, build wealth – enough to buy large amts of land?

          10. f/k/a_tmtfairfax Avatar
            f/k/a_tmtfairfax

            I'm not sure of the details or the timing regarding the relationship between Duvall and the Calverts. I'd guess it began somewhat later than when Duvall completed his 7-year contract for service and after he acquired his first tracts of land. I think he supported the Jacobins and, perhaps, was rewarded for that. And, as they say, money begets money. I'm learning about the Duvalls bit by bit.

            By the time my great grandfather was born in Washington, D.C., his grandfather Duvall was a humble block maker at the Washington Naval Yard. It strikes me that the large size of families from generation to generation outstripped the assets, at least on my line of the family.

          11. LarrytheG Avatar
            LarrytheG

            If you got a bunch of land back then, the ways to make money and gain wealth were limited and mostly related to the land. I’m talking about when the country was first settled, even before it was the “U.S”. How did people
            get land and gain wealth?

          12. CJBova Avatar
            CJBova

            They worked at it.

          13. CJBova Avatar
            CJBova

            Don’t forget marriages were used to consolidate land holdings, and also, new grants came with every trip back to England and returning to Virginia. Some early settlers were wealthy to begin with. Cavaliers and Pioneers is a classic on who received land and for whose transport.

          14. LarrytheG Avatar
            LarrytheG

            what did that work consist of? what kind of work in what kind of economy?

    2. LarrytheG Avatar
      LarrytheG

      Heckfire, half of our Medical specialists are immigrants!

      And have you looked at our "tech" companies… these days?

  3. energyNOW_Fan Avatar
    energyNOW_Fan

    well our bigger crime problem in NoVA seems to be from out-of-state MD DC but NY NJ too coming here to steal. Our police doing seemingly good job trying to catch them to minimize. But overall this gets into my feeling Virginia being friendly to lower income groups (and gov't/military), as far as why taxes need to be high on middle class and middle class may not stick around to settle here to pay 5% car taxes etc and hugely expensive utility projects sure to boost electric bills, which a large portion of the Va. population will be exempted from due to lower income. It's hard to minimize the positive impact though of immigrants taking on jobs like home improvements, health care, etc.

  4. Thomas Dixon Avatar
    Thomas Dixon

    Vote accordingly? We did that in 2020 but they still stole it and illegally imported all this carnage. Voting isn't enough.

  5. Teddy007 Avatar
    Teddy007

    Over $750 billion in commerce crosses the U.S.-Mexico border every year. To claim that one can "close the border" demonstrates either massive ignorance or the failure to say what one really means.

    1. LarrytheG Avatar
      LarrytheG

      It's a failure, a refusal, to deal with realities.. fairly common these days with some folks.

      1. Chip Gibson Avatar
        Chip Gibson

        Close the border.

        1. Teddy007 Avatar
          Teddy007

          No one looks clever by intentionally misunderstand something. One cannot "close" the border with Mexico without being willing to take a massive economic hit to the U.S. economy. The people who are currently complaining about the price of eggs would just begin to complain about the price of tomatoes without realizing that closing the border caused a price increase.

          1. Chip Gibson Avatar
            Chip Gibson

            Close the border – we all know what that means – stop the invasion of our sovereign Nation. Deport the illegals. Not worried about the price of eggs and tomatoes. I grow my own.

          2. Teddy007 Avatar
            Teddy007

            No one outside of Southern California or Arizona grows their tomatoes year round. Look at the produce boxes in the grocery store some time and see how much comes across the border from Mexico.

          3. Chip Gibson Avatar
            Chip Gibson

            We do eggs and beer until growing season brings us fresh tomatoes. Maters, around here.

          4. Chip Gibson Avatar
            Chip Gibson

            We do eggs and beer until growing season brings us fresh tomatoes. Maters, around here.

          5. Chip Gibson Avatar
            Chip Gibson

            We do eggs and beer until growing season brings us fresh tomatoes. Maters, around here.

          6. Chip Gibson Avatar
            Chip Gibson

            And, hot sauce for the eggs….

          7. Chip Gibson Avatar
            Chip Gibson

            Although, I do have a penchant for Modelo….perhaps, I should revisit my position…

          8. Teddy007 Avatar
            Teddy007

            Once again, no one looks clever by intentionally misunderstanding and misrepresenting.

  6. LarrytheG Avatar
    LarrytheG

    It's a failure, a refusal, to deal with realities.. fairly common these days with some folks.

  7. f/k/a_tmtfairfax Avatar
    f/k/a_tmtfairfax

    The biggest issue with illegal immigration, besides the fact that it makes a mockery of the federal government's duty to protect our borders, is the fact that the benefits of illegal immigration go the immigrants and their employers. Does anyone think a home builder will charge below market price for a home because he/she saved big bucks using illegal labor? But many of the costs for government services, supporting illegal immigrants and their families are socialized, falling on state and local taxpayers and users of their services.

    Every state and local government official I've known who addressed the costs of government says that, on the whole, residential taxpayers don't pay enough real estate and sales taxes to support the costs of services that they use. Ergo, there is a need for governments to have significant numbers of commercial and industrial businesses to make up the difference. For example, Fairfax County taxpayers pay to fund the economic development agency, even though chambers of commerce often perform those functions from private money in many places around the nation.

    Also, there is a push among some elected officials in Fairfax County to lure data centers to the county and to open a casino, probably in Tysons.

    Any fair immigration reform plan such as giving illegal immigrants who have been in the country for say 5 years and don't have a criminal record, non-immigrant visas should also require those who employ them to pay a per-capita tax to at least local governments.

    The fact that few, if any economists who tout the benefits of illegal immigration address this issue shows the level of corruption in academia. It's up there with the corruption in the media.

    1. LarrytheG Avatar
      LarrytheG

      Illegal immigrants work for far less than it would cost if "legal" workers did the work, right?

      We have E-verify as well as a guest worker program. Neither is effective and works as it should and as a result we have this huge economy where the workers are often preyed upon by dishonest employers and the workers have few, if any, protections and benefits that other "legals" would have if they did that work.

      An effective E-Verify and Guest worker program would severely sanction employers who violate the law – that "law and order" , some conservatives speak of.

      1. f/k/a_tmtfairfax Avatar
        f/k/a_tmtfairfax

        People respond to economic incentives. When I was a kid, my dad worked for the Telephone Company. For a time, he installed and repaired telephone lines and equipment at the then large stockyards and packing plants in South St. Paul, MN. While hardly an easy and pleasant job, stockyard and packing plant workers were union members. The pay and benefits were reasonably good.

        Now, find a packing plant that doesn't rely almost totally on illegal workers. Business owners want cheap labor. Leftists want future voters and a large class of dependent residents so that people in the professional caring class have jobs. And the costs are passed on to state and local taxpayers.

        I'm for giving illegal people who have been in the county at least 5 years and without a criminal record non-immigrant visas. I agree that E-Verify should be mandatory. If an employer cannot match E-Verify clearances to individuals either W-2 employees or 1099 employees, all compensation paid to the nonqualified employees should not be tax deductible. And they would still be open to fines. P.S. Add a reward for anyone turning in a business that violates E-Verify.

        Tighten up on the standards for asylum and chain immigration. Require sponsors for immigrants who don't qualify fanatically and make them pay. Try adopting a child from overseas without proving sufficient assets and income. Why are other people treated differently?

        1. LarrytheG Avatar
          LarrytheG

          You dad did good because of the unions which conservatives have killed and instead supported illegal hiring of undocumented. You KNOW , WHO they are TMT! It’s ain’t the “liberals”. It’s often and mostly those who claim to be conservatives… the same ones who talk about “free market”, “free will” , and law & order!

          1. f/k/a_tmtfairfax Avatar
            f/k/a_tmtfairfax

            I have nothing against people joining labor unions based on their free choice. But I think it's wrong to make them join or pay dues equivalents as a condition of employment.

            And, yes, I'm opposed to those on the right who think illegal immigration is acceptable so long as they can hire workers on the cheap. That's why I support granting longer-term illegal immigrants without criminal records non-immigrant visas, mandatory use of E-Verify and rewards for people who turn in employers who don't use it.

            All immigration should be based on what is required of parents adopting children from overseas. They must prove they have sufficient income and assets to support the child and sign papers making the financially responsible. Immigrants, except bona fide refugees, should be ineligible for public benefits and should require a sponsor.

          2. LarrytheG Avatar
            LarrytheG

            We really are largely in agreement with minor differences on immigration. On unions, if you really support them overall but disagree with the “dues” point then don’t oppose unions per se but, like immigration, support reforms. Your view on immigration is at odds with most conservative commenters in BR, right?

          3. f/k/a_tmtfairfax Avatar
            f/k/a_tmtfairfax

            Congress and Reagan tried immigration reform with amnesty in 1986. It was a dismal failure across the board – neither Republican nor Democratic administrations provided the enforcement intended by the law. Any reforms with amnesty and a path to citizenship is totally unacceptable unless Congress also gives me the right to decide whether I have to pay federal income tax.

            Having said that, mass deportations of every illegal alien would disrupt the economy. A good friend of mine who is a Democrat, the kind that used to believe in putting Americans first, persuaded me to buy into his proposal to give long-term illegals without a criminal record a non-immigrant visa. This would let them work without fear of deportation except for bad behavior, receive the protections of U.S. labor laws and the freedom to go to their home countries and return openly. But they would not become citizens. It's a compromise position, giving no one exactly what they want but giving them something.

            I think this should be tied to ending chain immigration; tightening asylum laws, including imposing lifetime reentry bans on anyone who lies and strong sanctions on any American resident who helps such person; mandatory E-Verify, with a ban on deducting for income tax purposes any compensation to an employee or contractor that has not been cleared by E-Verify; rewards paid to any resident who turns in an E-Verify violator; and more flexibility allowing employers to bring in people with needed skills so long as they pay such people the going wage and compensation, with severe penalties for those who don't.

            Would many conservatives and liberals disagree with me? I suspect so. But I always call them the way I see them.

            Again, if you want to join a labor union, feel free to do so. But no one should be compelled or pressured to join. Like FDR, I see no problem with public sector unions but oppose collective bargaining with them. It should also be a crime for any elected official to receive any contribution from a labor union, labor union PAC or labor union official when that labor union has organized a work group within the jurisdiction where the official governs.

          4. LarrytheG Avatar
            LarrytheG

            On immigration, you won’t get everything you want on one go and if that is your requirement, we’ll never get to any kind of better place.

            Any demand that we must do everything now or nothing is a fail, in my view.

            Public sector unions ought to be able to collectively bargain, but not strike.

            Unions are powerful for employers also because it creates an environment where it’s much harder for bad bosses to treat people unfairly or worse. It holds both workers and bosses of workers accountable for their respective work and roles. All employees directly benefit from this, even the ones that don’t want to join – they are directly benefitting from the protections and benefits that the unions do bargain for. IF they do not join, they should not be eligible for the protections and benefits the union bargained for , in my view. If their boss does bad things to do, they should not be able to run to the union for help. He should get the salary and benefits the company wants to give him, not what the unions bargained for.

          5. f/k/a_tmtfairfax Avatar
            f/k/a_tmtfairfax

            Any grant of benefits to any illegal immigrants must be balanced with strict enforcement and lots of penalties. Otherwise, nothing will pass Congress. And the interest groups need to accept half a loaf.

            Larry, if all unions did was work for the benefit of their members, many more people would join them even in right to work states. But the leaders get involved in politics and take stands that many workers don't like.

          6. LarrytheG Avatar
            LarrytheG

            What kind of “grant” to an “illegal immigrant” and from who? On unions, I’m jus saying that only union members get the benefits and protections they bargained for and their leaders no more get involved in poitics than the bosses and company owners do , right?

          7. f/k/a_tmtfairfax Avatar
            f/k/a_tmtfairfax

            Isn't anything more than deportation a grant of benefits from Congress?

            Many private sector union workers are conservative in their politics, while unions toe the Democratic Party line. Most public sector union workers are quite liberal in their politics.

            https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/31/politics/union-voters-election-trump-biden/index.html

          8. LarrytheG Avatar
            LarrytheG

            No. A “grant” implies something tangible is given with a tangible value. And I am fine with union members being conservative or liberal as long as the law for unions itself is fair. I don’t decide to support or not support something because the members might be “liberal” or “conservative”. I just want a level playing field for all and then all of us can be as liberal or conservative as we want to be – but we all have the same laws.

          9. f/k/a_tmtfairfax Avatar
            f/k/a_tmtfairfax

            2nd Reply. Your comments sent me back to my Labor Law class in law school. As I recall, federal law prohibits an employer with a union contract from paying any employee covered by the agreement differently than the contract provides. If it were otherwise, an employer could offer workers who refuse to join in union (in right-to-work states) or who would agree to vote to decertify the union more than the union contract provides. In theory, enough workers would jump ship on the union for better compensation.

            Kudos to my labor law professor who clearly taught me well.

          10. LarrytheG Avatar
            LarrytheG

            So the business _could_ offer non-union higher pay and better benefits and they made that illegal?
            Sounds more like an anti-union law than a pro-union law.

          11. Drive-by Commentator Avatar
            Drive-by Commentator

            ". . . ending chain immigration; . . . " You mean like the "chain immigration" that enable Melania Kraus to bring in her parents, cousins, . . . .

        2. Drive-by Commentator Avatar
          Drive-by Commentator

          " Leftists want future voters . . . " So tell me, how do illegal aliens become voters?

  8. DiversityCelebrator Avatar
    DiversityCelebrator

    Addressing legal immigration is as important as ending illegal immigration.

    1. Teddy007 Avatar
      Teddy007

      And how should legal immigration be addressed?

      1. DiversityCelebrator Avatar
        DiversityCelebrator

        Returning to the immigration policy of the founders of the nation. Free whites of good character.

      2. DiversityCelebrator Avatar
        DiversityCelebrator

        Returning to the immigration policy of the founders of the nation. Free whites of good character.

        1. Teddy007 Avatar
          Teddy007

          Can never happen and they did not follow it given their love of slavery.

          1. DiversityCelebrator Avatar
            DiversityCelebrator

            This is a very myopic view of how politics unfolds and assumes the views of the last 70 years will be held by those in perpetuity.

        2. LarrytheG Avatar
          LarrytheG

          Dang! he said it!

  9. Nancy Naive Avatar
    Nancy Naive

    Tell it to Lankford.

    1. LarrytheG Avatar
      LarrytheG

      We truly found out how many were truly interested in reforming immigration. It appears to be a made up political issue.

      1. Nancy Naive Avatar
        Nancy Naive

        It’s a real issue. The GOP just isn’t a serious political party anymore.

        1. LarrytheG Avatar
          LarrytheG

          about virtually everything – it all defaults to the “grand leader”…

        2. Chip Gibson Avatar
          Chip Gibson

          As opposed to the Marxist Democrat Nut Farm?

          1. Nancy Naive Avatar
            Nancy Naive

            They do try.

          2. Chip Gibson Avatar
            Chip Gibson

            That which is lacking in the Republican party overall…

        3. Teddy007 Avatar
          Teddy007

          The cheap labor Republicans seem to have regained the insider position with Trump over the anti-immigration Republicans.

  10. energyNOW_Fan Avatar
    energyNOW_Fan

    I saw that the Fairfax Sheriff office disputes the claim that ICE requested holding these individuals in detention. Obviously the perception is Fairfax is not cooperating with ICE, but given the Feds performance in Trump attempt, which to me has some common threads with other Fed agency enforcement actions, there is room to question both sides in the matter of lack of effectiveness.

  11. Drive-by Commentator Avatar
    Drive-by Commentator

    Undocumented immigrants paid $96.7 billion in federal, state, and local taxes in 2022. Most of that amount, $59.4 billion, was paid to the federal government while the remaining $37.3 billion was paid to state and local governments. Undocumented aliens contribute around $700 million in taxes to Virginia annually.

    Of course, if we just deported them all, there are lots of good ol' American boys just waiting to pick tomatoes, strawberries, beans . . . . repair potholes in bridge surfaces at midnight . . . clean motel rooms . . .

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