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Why the Border Crisis Won’t End Soon: ‘If the Migrants are Flowing, So is the Money’

Published

10 months ago

June 9, 2023

A couple of days ago, Sara and Center for Immigration Studies Senior National Security Fellow Todd Bensman laid out in detail how your tax dollars, through the United Nations, are flowing to non-governmental organizations. Those NGO’s then provide food, water, and shelter for many thousands making their way illegally to the U.S. border. But they also hand out debit cards – funded by you – and provide counseling to help migrants create stories which they will use to claim asylum.

But why is this happening and will it subside anytime soon? Sara and Bensman explain why we should not expect this tidal wave of humanity to ease anytime soon. First, Bensman says as long as there are huge profits to be made for these NGO’s at taxpayer expense, the pipeline will continue. But he says there is also an ideology at work in the Biden administration and beyond that is driving this policy.

Be sure to hear the conclusion of this critical conversation about our national security crisis at our border, who is perpetrating it, and much more.

Immigration

BREAKING: Senate votes down both articles of impeachment against Mayorkas in party-line vote

Published

13 hours ago

April 17, 2024

Sara Carter Staff

The Senate voted down two articles of impeachment Wednesday which alleged Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas engaged in the “willful and systemic refusal to comply with the law” regarding the southern border in his capacity as DHS secretary. The second claimed Mayorkas had breached public trust.

What resulted in a party-line vote, began with Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., proposing a point of order declaring the first article unconstitutional, to which the majority of senators agreed following several failed motions by Republicans. The article was deemed unconstitutional by a vote of 51-48, with Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, voting present.

Fox News reports:

Schumer’s point of order was proposed after his request for unanimous consent, which would have provided a set amount of time for debate among the senators, as well as votes on two GOP resolutions and a set amount of agreed upon points of order, was objected to by Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo.

Schmitt stated in his objection that the Senate should conduct a full trial into the impeachment articles against Mayorkas, rather than the debate and points of order suggested by Schumer’s unanimous consent request, which would be followed by a likely successful motion to dismiss the articles.

Republican senators took issue with Schumer’s point of order, as agreeing to it would effectively kill the first of the two articles. Several GOP lawmakers proposed motions, which took precedence over the point of order, to adjourn or table the point, among other things. But all GOP motions failed.

After another batch of motions to avoid voting on Schumer’s second point of order, which would deem the second article unconstitutional, the Senate agreed to it. The vote was along party lines 51-49, with Murkowski rejoining the Republicans.