Oh now I get it. Joe is Harry, and Kamala is Lloyd. Dumb and Dumber III...do the hot sauce bit...

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/09/16/biden_enters_baghdad_bob_territory_on_inflation_and_immigration_148201.html

No, there's no influx of refugees. It's a stampede..

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/09/17/venezuelan-migrants-el-paso-border-crisis/10411406002/

There are about 11 million illegals in the United States. About 2/3 have been here at least 10 years and the good majority pay taxes.
About 1/3 come in through the southern border and most get sent back.

The majority of illegal aliens from Mexico are here because they had work visas that expired and they stayed and had visitor visas
and overstayed.

The ones from Venezuela come and seek asylum and if they can prove actual personal persecution and abuse through witnesses and hospital records etc they can become citizens. These people have to travel more then 2,500 miles to get to Mexico.
It is very difficult to win the asylum case.
Venezuala is not considered a terrorist country as Cuba and Iran and Syria and North Korea making it additionally more difficult to win their case.
There has to be documented tangible evidence in almost all cases.

This country has always been a country of immigrants legal or otherwise although some refuse to acknowledge that for mostly deplorable reasons when they search their souls.

The United States is a gigantic country that has plenty of room.
So illegal immigration ( not legal asylum seekers like those from Cuba and now Venezuela more recently ) should be cracked down on because there must be rules and procedures to get in.

However some people make the whole thing a catastrophic end of the world thing.
It isn’t.

Of the 11 million illegals about 500 thousand are DACA. and they pay lots of taxes and make up a large number of our perilously low numbers in the military.

Illegal immigration is no chicken little story.
Very few of these people commit crimes for obvious reasons and with current enforcement the empire is not in danger of collapse at least not from one half of the country.

Wonder why they all go to Texas..............must be a special place, eh?

Posted by laramiebob on 9/17/2022 3:22:00 PM (view original):
Wonder why they all go to Texas..............must be a special place, eh?

Because Texans want them and need them
and where will all those Republican politicians
get their poorly paid Nannies from.

and their gardeners

We could throw trillions of dollars at the planet and not have a clue as to how to know if/what the impact would be. We can't get close on defining what the tropical depression in the Caribbean will do in the next 72 hours, but we can predict out 50 years? Poor Greta has been hoodwinked... Cleaning it up, and putting people into a panic over it need to be addressed. Idiots like Gore and Kerry don't have a plan to fix it. They only know how to rob people of their money and sanity. Like climate change is something new on this 4.5 billion years old rock...

Deep fake? Oh my...

https://youtu.be/bCIy6tA-bC0

He's on top of things alright...

As President Biden continues depleting the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, the administration is reportedly considering replenishing its supply once prices drop below $80 per barrel.

In March, the president ordered the release of 180 million barrels to address supply shortages and skyrocketing gas prices in the U.S., though it had a minimal impact. Now, officials are “looking to protect US oil-production growth and prevent crude prices from plummeting,” Bloomberg reports, according to sources.

It was only two years earlier that Democrats blocked former President Trump from filling the reserve when oil was hovering around $24 per barrel.

Trump in March of 2020 was looking to stabilize the oil industry after Covid-19 hit in 2020 and crushed global petroleum demand. With oil at the time priced at about $24 a barrel, Republicans proposed spending $3 billion to fill up the reserve. But the idea became a political football in larger negotiations on trillions in coronavirus relief, with Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer proclaiming that his party had blocked a “bailout for big oil.”

That decision effectively cost the US billions in potential profits and meant Biden had tens of millions of fewer barrels at his disposal with which to counter price surges. (Bloomberg)

The reserve, which has a capacity of 727 million barrels, is reaching “crisis levels." After a recent drawdown, it stands at 442 million barrels, the lowest point it's been since 1984.

Not a meme stock or a collapsing currency, this is America's Strategic Petroleum Reserve, and this is before today's record release of 8.4mb, the largest ever. pic.twitter.com/yodSXxdjoO

— James Lavish (@jameslavish) September 12, 2022

The administration pushed back on Bloomberg's reporting about refilling the reserve, however.

“Claims that we are currently considering buying oil once it dips below $80 a barrel are inaccurate," said Energy Department spokeswoman Charisma Troiano.

“The Department of Energy proposed an approach months ago to replenish the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, and that approach does not include any such trigger proposal. As we said then, we anticipate that replenishment would not occur until well into the future, likely after fiscal year 2023,” the spokeswoman added.