Here to read the rest and to see the CoC letters.
I feel helpless as I see our Texas communities devastated
As I watch representatives from Texas, Arizona and other border states beg and plead for a stop to the border “crisis” I am dismayed by the complete lack of empathy demonstrated by the current administration.
Americans were promised “humanity, compassion and transparency”.
Where is the humanity and compassion when a nine year old girl drowns crossing the Rio Grande or a 12 year old boy makes the dangerous trip with a smuggler so he can enter the US alone; or two little girls dropped 14 feet from the top of the border wall?
Where is the humanity and compassion when an overflow of illegal aliens is dropped off in border communities of Arizona like Gila Bend in the middle of nowhere in open desert? (Rep Andy Biggs, R-Ariz.) And where is the humanity and compassion for communities like Hidalgo County (Texas) that already have high poverty rates and do not have resources to accommodate new migrants? This community is still facing high unemployment rates because of the coronavirus.
“Del Rio Mayor, Bruno Lozano pleaded with President Joe Biden to halt the release of migrants into the area. Mayor Lozano said the city does not have the resources available to house and care for illegal migrants flooding across the Texas-Mexico border.” And Democrat US Rep Henry Cuellar released photos showing the conditions of unaccompanied migrant children and families under CBP custody because “it’s important that the public know.”
Yes, the public should know that these children will be in communities across the country soon. Because, although, this “crisis” was created by greed for power – American citizens will be asked to show “humanity and compassion”.
— Maria Silvia Montoya
Editor’s note: Maria Silvia Montoya lives in Sherman, Texas, a former Georgia resident and a member of the Dustin Inman Society advisory board. dak
Colorado is one signature away from providing housing benefits to residents regardless of immigration status — a first-of-its-kind policy in the U.S., according to state officials.
The Senate followed in the House’s footsteps on Tuesday, giving final passage to a bill that would affect the roughly 180,000 people estimated to be living in Colorado without authorization.
Colorado’s Department of Local Affairs, which administers housing assistance programs and requested that lawmakers bring this bill, believes the state will be the first in the nation to allow people “to apply for, and receive, state-funded public housing assistance regardless of immigration status,” spokesman Brett McPherson said.
“We have been dreaming of a moment like this for well over a decade,” said Victor Galvan, political field director for the Colorado-based organization United for a New Economy. “This means that people will be able to plan for emergencies, work with direct service providers at the county, state and city level to be able to plan for moments in which they lose a job and have dug so far into their savings that they can’t afford rent, moments when catastrophe hits and they have nowhere else to go but to the state or the city or county for support…
Read the rest here (no pay wall) in the liberal Denver Post.
Immigration amnesty to cost billions.
The below write-up is taken from NumbersUSA.com
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released an analysis last Thursday which found that one of the Democrats’ latest amnesty bills, The American Dream and Promise Act, would cost $35 billion over the next decade.
The Dream and Promise Act recently passed through the House would grant amnesty to several million illegal immigrants that allegedly illegally crossed the border as children. The legislation would also deliver green cards to hundreds of thousands of foreigners who were given Temporary Protected Status (TPS) or Deferred Enforced Departure status.
The Migration Policy Institute (MPI) found the legislation could grant amnesty to roughly 4.4 million illegal aliens of the 11 to 15 million aliens living illegally in the United States, reports Breitbart News.
Democrats, and some Republicans, voted for the legislation as roughly 17 million Americans remain unemployed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The legislation passed through the House Thursday evening with 228 votes in favor of the bill and 197 votes against it, even as approximately 17 million Americans remain unemployed. Nine House Republicans voted in favor of the Democrat amnesty bill.
The lone House Democrat to support American workers and vote against Amnesty during a jobs crisis was Jared Golden (D-Maine).
The nine House Republicans who voted to reward illegal immigration and expand Chain Migration in the upswing of what could be the worst border surge in recent history were: David Valadao (R-Calif.), Mario Diaz-Balart (R-Fla.), Carlos Gimenez (R-Fla.), Maria Salazar (R-Fla.), Fred Upton (R-Mich.), Don Bacon (R-Neb.), Chris Smith (R-N.J.), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Penn.), and Dan Newhouse (R-Wash.).
According to Breitbart, the CBO – a nonpartisan organization, found that the primary cost of the amnesty would come from:
Illegal immigrants obtaining eligibility for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and Medicaid tax credits, eligibility for the earned income and child tax credits, and eligibility for Social Security. In contrast, the federal government would only receive slight revenues from migrants receiving lawful permanent resident (LPR) status by charging them corporate income and Medicare taxes and the non-refundable portion of tax credits for health insurance.
Overall, the Dream and Promise Act would cost $42.48 billion and bring in revenues of $7.15 billion, meaning it would cost $35 billion by 2031.
For the complete story, please visit Breitbart News.
We are sorry to inform you that D.A. King, President and founder of the Dustin Inman Society, has left us.
Donald (“D.A.”) Arthur King, 1 April 1952 – 5 March 2025.
D.A. King left this life and his work for the nation that he loved, confident that he has done his best. D.A. passed on peacefully after a private battle with cancer.
“Once a Marine, always a Marine” – D.A. was always visibly proud of his service and his honorable discharge from the U.S. Marine Corps (1970-1976).
D.A. described himself as “pro-enforcement” on immigration and borders, an issue on which he dedicated the last 21 years of his life as an expert activist, writer and public speaker.
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