The Trump-loathing media hates the notion of mass deportations. They are upset that voters support it. After the election, a CBS News poll found 57% of Americans are ready to put the brakes on illegal immigration.
On Dec. 8, ABC “This Week” moderator Martha Raddatz pressed conservative Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) on the cost: “A recent analysis found it would cost about $315 billion and take at least 10 years to deport everyone in the U.S. without legal status. You often talk about the need to cut government spending. So how is this mass deportation going to be paid for?”
Naturally, Raddatz didn’t elaborate that her estimate came from a leftist lobbying group called the American Immigration Council, which fervently advocates against deportation. This is the same Sunday-show sheriff that interrupted J.D. Vance as he criticized Venezuelan gangs taking over apartment complexes in Aurora, Colorado: “I’m going to stop you. The incidents were limited to a handful of apartment complexes.”
Vance memorably said, “Do you hear yourself?”
Now try to find any interview in which Raddatz or any other “mainstream” TV interviewer asked a Biden official about the costs of mass importation. How will we pay for it?
First, the journalists would suggest that mass importation just happened. It wasn’t a policy. This is just as flagrantly dishonest as letting Team Biden claim “there is no border crisis.” President Joe Biden wiped away all of President Donald Trump’s border controls, and his administration flew in planeloads of Cubans, Haitians and Venezuelans and granted them blanket amnesty. It wasn’t unintentional.
In 2022, Raddatz was blaming mass illegal immigration on … Republican governors. “You talk about the border wall, you talk about open borders, I don’t think I’ve ever heard President Biden say, ‘we have an open border, come on over,'” Raddatz said to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. “But the people I have heard say it are you, former President Trump, Ron DeSantis. That message reverberates in Mexico and beyond. So they do get the message that it is an open border and smugglers use all those kinds of statements.”
Journalists have never cared about the costs of these programs because they support them, so why ask skeptical questions about it? They’re not opponents of aggressively increasing government spending. But they demonstrate an intense need to question Republicans and point out how they might be hypocrites when they try to reverse the Biden policies.
Donalds replied with the Republican analysis from the House Budget Committee: “The cost of massive illegal immigration to the federal government, to state governments and to local governments is more than $150 billion per year.”
Voters often resent their tax dollars being used to house illegal aliens in hotels and set them up with debit cards and free meals. Journalists don’t.
Donalds added: “So if you’re going to say that it cost us $300 billion over a decade to repatriate illegal aliens to their home country versus the American taxpayer having to pay more than a trillion dollars over the same decade to keep those illegal aliens in the United States, that is a savings to the American people.”
Let’s guess that journalists don’t really see this issue as a matter of spending or savings. That’s a gotcha question. They see themselves as supporting the “diversity” and “inclusion” that illegal immigrants bring with them across the border, and opposing the odor of “white nationalists” who object to their presence.
Tim Graham is director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of the blog NewsBusters.org. To find out more about Tim Graham and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.
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Overwhelming the system in illgal alien invasions is classic “Saul ALinsky”,,,,,,Obama, Hillary and Joe’s political mind mentor, right out of his book “Rules for Radicals”,,dedicated to;
“the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom – Lucifer”
In this overwhelming , of our social programs, the fools are destroying the very social benefit structures they created, in financial bankruptcy and national debt, just another sign that socialism usually ends up commiting national suicide in the end.
Exactly. YES it may cost 810 BILLION to get them all out.
BUT just look at NYC for example. THEY PAY 7 BIL A YEAR on illegals. According to even several LIBERAL WEBSITES, the AVERAGE being spent on illegals, is 171 BILLION A YEAR.
So 310 bil, divided by 171, means we RECOUP THAT COST IN barely TWO years…
BRING IT ON!
“A recent (Democrat) analysis found it would cost about $315 billion and take at least 10 years to deport everyone in the U.S. without legal status. You often talk about the need to cut government spending. So how is this mass deportation going to be paid for?”
“So if you’re going to say that it cost us $300 billion over a decade to repatriate illegal aliens to their home country versus the American taxpayer having to pay more than a trillion dollars over the same decade to keep those illegal aliens in the United States, that is a savings to the American people.”
We the taxpayers are forced to pay over $2,000.00 per month for every one of the 14 million illegal immigrants that the Democrat Party has imported. 14 million illegal immigrants times $2,000 = 28 Billion dollars $28,000,000,000.00) each and every month.
AND IF WE keep them here, that number will ONLY GROW.
. It’s pay me a few billions to deport the law breakers now, or pay in trillions,,,,,even a total failed democracy later. when the termites they brought in who are hiding in the woodworks of our cities and government eat away the very foundations of our democracy.
Exactly. A BIG pain now, to get rid of the problem, OR moderate PAIN FOR EVER… I know which i’d rather.
President Biden will go down in history as the greatest Presidential redistributor of American wealth to foreign enemy people and governments, and on an individual level, to his crime family and Self. Burdening this country with 15-20 million illegal foreign people of selfish interest and criminal intentions can end in no other way result than to make America weaker AGAIN, and AGAIN, and AGAIN. The very social programs that the socialist democrats designed to redistribute and weaken the American strong to the benefit of the American weak are now being applied on an international level resulting in millions of people of foreign mindsets to enter and pollute the American political discourse, whom the Democrats would give equal rights and privileges to foreigners who come from countries that hate and despise us for our wealth, and whose leaders would do anything to weaken this nation’s ability to defy they and their criminal intentions. “Tell me who your friends are, and I’ll tell you what you are” Criminal minded people are birds of a feather that soon flock together, and the flocks of vultures that Joe beguiled into this country shows that HE also was born of a criminal mindset, where the criminals now are to get special privileges and unequal lighter punishments under the law, while their own family of criminals get the gravy, and the PEOPLE get the garbage to eat, but have to pay the price of a 12 course meal.
HE seems to handidly find billions to give away to everyone else in the world, but struggles to find any for AMERICANS.
” Illegal Immigrants are just undocumented democrat voters.”
Author unknown.