On Sunday, September 24, 2023 at 1:24:01 PM UTC-7, George.Anthony wrote:
> On 9/24/2023 12:47 PM, bfh wrote:
> > Technobarbarian wrote:
> >> On Saturday, September 23, 2023 at 7:48:01 PM UTC-7, kmiller
> >> wrote:
> >>> On 9/23/2023 9:58 AM, bfh wrote:
> >>>> kmiller wrote:
> >>>>> On 9/22/2023 11:29 PM, bfh wrote:
> >>>>>> kmiller wrote:
> >>>>>>> On 9/22/2023 12:36 PM, bfh wrote:
> >>>>>>>> George.Anthony wrote:
> >>>>>>>>> On 9/22/2023 11:33 AM, bfh wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>> George.Anthony wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>>> Technobarbarian <technob...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>  ÂÂÂ
> >>>>>>>>>>>>   Yeah,
> >>>>>>>>>>>> this guy is an all American hero. The only
> >>>>>>>>>>>> thing he cares about is his own fat ass.
> >>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>> "Trump, who led the longest government shutdown
> >>>>>>>>>>>> in US history, calls on Republicans to let it
> >>>>>>>>>>>> happen again in 9 days so they can 'defund
> >>>>>>>>>>>> these political prosecutions against me'"
> >>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>> https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-longest-government-shutdown-tells-gop-meet-funding-deadline-prosecutions-2023-9
> >>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>
> > TB
> >>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>> A government shut down is always a good thing
> >>>>>>>>>>> regardless of which side you are on.
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>> I can't articulate my own opinion, because I've
> >>>>>>>>>> been diagnosed by our resident psychiatrist with
> >>>>>>>>>> having problems with the English language, so I'll
> >>>>>>>>>> just say that's a pretty good - and pleasantly concise -
> >>>>>>>>>> description of my opinion also.
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> I wonder what it's like to be all-knowing, all-seeing
> >>>>>>>>> and a Google expert?
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> I don't know. I'm not smart enough to figure out how to
> >>>>>>>> figure that out, because a lot of the tools in my
> >>>>>>>> toolbox have been lost or stolen - which is only part
> >>>>>>>> of the problem because I seem to have also transitorily
> >>>>>>>> misplaced my table.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> What!? You haven't asked LLaMA?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I've become moderately disillusioned with LLaMa - it acts
> >>>>>> and performs a lot like some Real People in here. And you
> >>>>>> should at least try to spell its self-identified name
> >>>>>> correctly. If it should happen to crawl RORT and see your
> >>>>>> blatant disrespect, it might go find a safe space.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> As long as it doesn't cross the border illegally, it should
> >>>>> be OK.
> >>>>
> >>>> It can't cross the border - the border is secure.
> >>>>
> >>> Of course it is. Look at all the work the retrumplicans are doing
> >>> in Congress to secure it. Oh, wait. HqwHawHaw!
> >>
> >> It's not like the retrumplicans haven't done anything. They have
> >> been grandstanding on the issue with a border bill that has no
> >> chance of passing. As usual they can't find any way to find common
> >> ground with the Democrats, so they just stand by and wring their
> >> hands. Shit, if they compromise it might look like Biden won one.
> >>
> >> "May 11, 2023 House Republicans pushed through a sweeping border
> >> security bill on Thursday that would crack down on unlawful
> >> immigration, blowing past solid Democratic opposition and narrowly
> >> avoiding an embarrassing mutiny within their own ranks on one of
> >> their signature midterm campaign promises.
> >>
> >> Republicans timed approval of the measure, which has no chance in
> >> the Democratic-led Senate, to spotlight their hard-line stance on
> >> immigration just as President Biden is facing a potential border
> >> surge with Thursday night’s expiration of Title 42, the
> >> pandemic-era rule allowing for swift expulsion of migrants.
> >>
> >> The bill would revive and codify a variety of border policies
> >> championed during the Trump administration, including construction
> >> of a border wall, the “Remain in Mexico†practice of keeping
> >> migrants seeking asylum either in detention facilities or on the
> >> opposite side of the border and expedited deportation of
> >> unaccompanied children. It also would mandate that companies verify
> >> their employees are legally eligible to work in the United States
> >> through a program known as E-Verify, and criminalize visa overstays
> >> of more than 10 days.
> >>
> >> The 219-to-213 vote to pass the bill came only after months of
> >> internal Republican feuding capped by a final, marathon round of
> >> haggling this week that highlighted the party’s tenuous hold on
> >> its fractious majority and led to a series of last-minute changes
> >> to win over holdouts. Two Republicans, Representatives Thomas
> >> Massie of Kentucky and John Duarte of California, joined Democrats
> >> in opposing the legislation, citing objections to the E-Verify
> >> requirement.
> >>
> >> The Republican divisions had threatened to muddle a debate the
> >> party had timed for maximum political advantage, in which G.O.P.
> >> lawmakers denounced the Biden administration for rising waves of
> >> migration that are expected to surge further after Title 42
> >> expires."
> >>
> >> "https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/11/us/politics/house-republicans-immigration-bill.html"
> >>
> >> There are at least a couple of things worth noting here. For many
> >> years the majority of our undocumented immigrants are people who
> >> entered the country legally and overstayed their visa.
> >>
> >> The number of undocumented immigrants in this country has been
> >> relatively stable for a long time at around 12 million people.
> >
> > Yeah, right. That's why even Democrat mayors and governors are starting
> > to complain and ask for money?
> >
> > Then there's this:
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------
> > ...
> > Figure 3. There is a lot of variation from month to month, but the
> > foreign-born population grew much more slowly during Trump's presidency
> > than during Obama's or Biden's. (January 2010 to February 2022, in
> > millions)
> > ...
> > Conclusion
> >
> > We estimate that in January 2019, the number of illegal immigrants in
> > the country was 11.48 million, similar to DHS’s estimate of 11.39
> > million for 2018. By January 2021, we estimate the number had dropped to
> > 10.22 million as a result of travel restrictions and other policies
> > imposed as a result of Covid-19 and perhaps the deterioration in the
> > U.S. economy. The number then rebounded to 11.35 million by January 2022
> > — a 1.13 million increase since President Biden took office at the
> > beginning of 2021. This means that growth in the illegal immigrant
> > population accounted for very roughly two-thirds of the 1.6 million
> > increase in the total foreign-born population (legal and illegal
> > immigrants together) in President Biden’s first year in office (January
> > 2021 to January 2022). The share of growth in the total foreign-born
> > population accounted for by illegal immigrants is even larger if we
> > compare the number in January 2021 to our preliminary February 2022
> > estimate of 11.46 million. What’s more, the total foreign-born
> > population reached 46.7 million in February of this year, a new record
> > high in American history.
> >
> > While the large swings in the illegal-immigrant population may seem
> > unlikely, we find indirect evidence in the monthly CPS that the number
> > of illegal immigrants fell between 2019 and 2021 and then grew
> > dramatically by 2022. The number of both non-citizens and non-citizen
> > Hispanics declined then rebounded over this time period. Changes in
> > these populations should be highly correlated with trends in the
> > illegal-immigrant population. We think the recent increase in illegal
> > immigrants reflects policy changes by the Biden administration and the
> > lessening of the Covid-19 pandemic, as well as the recovery of the economy.
> > ------------------------------------------------------
> > https://cis.org/Report/Estimating-Illegal-Immigrant-Population-Using-Current-Population-Survey
> >
> Well, you just sent Captain Google scrambling for something he can rebut
> with. I still say it's impossible to know the number of undocumented
> alien democrat voters in this country. Estimates are just that and it
> depends on who is doing the estimating. Of course the libs' estimate
> will be lower or unchanging over the years but anyone with half a brain
> knows that's impossible... just over the past two years.
> --
> Thousands of unchecked illegal aliens are crossing the border all the
> while I have to get my pecker x-ray'd or get felt up by a TSA agent just
> to get on an airplane.

Oh yeah, thanks for reminding me. Another significant difference between me and the average rort dweeb is that I frequently backup my opinions with facts. It makes the know nothings crazy because all they have to rebut it with is ignorance.

TB