Our president has given the charge and resources to Tom Holman to clean America of immigrants. Not just any immigrants. Not the immigrants who entered our great country following a prescribed method spelled out by law. Not the immigrants who followed the process filing for political asylum. Certainly not those immigrants who followed the law, applied for and passed a test to become American citizens.
Key Facts:
- Since President Biden and Secretary Mayorkas took office, there have been more than 9.5 million encounters nationwide and more than 7.8 million encounters at the Southwest border.
- U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) recorded 247,837 encounters nationwide in April, including 179,725 at the Southwest border (SWB). SWB encounters increased 5% compared to April of Fiscal Year (FY) 2021. Additionally, nearly 2 million known getaways have evaded U.S. Border Patrol under this administration.
- Since January 2023, 591,000 individuals have scheduled appointments with the app.
- Since the program began, 434,800 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans have been mass paroled under the administration’s CHNV parole program.
- Since FY21, 362 aliens on the terrorist watchlist have been caught crossing our Southwest border illegally.
- Encounters at the northern border in April of FY24 increased 1,240% compared to April of FY21.
Reference: https://homeland.house.gov/2024/05/22/startling-stats-factsheet-biden-administration-on-track-to-reach-10-million-encounters-nationwide-before-end-of-fiscal-year/#:~:text=The%20vast%20majority%20of%20those,compared%20to%20April%20of%20FY21.
Our “Border Czar” Holman understands the task he has been assigned. A majority of these illegals are hardened and dangerous criminals with no regard for American law, much less respect for other human beings.
In Aurora, Colo. the landlord of an apartment complex named The Edge at Lowry Apartments and some local officials claimed members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua (TdA) had essentially taken over the buildings, charging residents “rent” for protection and engaging in criminal activities. They have murdered Americans, applied for and received government benefits designed for Americans in need, and basically run roughshod over the laws of our land.
All of that considered, there are Americans willing, ready and actively violently protesting the enforcement of our nation’s immigration laws. This is beyond my comprehension and makes no sense.
This American has zero pity or sympathy for both the deportation of illegal immigrants nor the arrest and full prosecution of protestors placing I.C.E. agents in danger by doxing them and their families as they clean up our country.
These protesters threaten our very security as a nation. And I really don’t understand their adopting the name “Antifa” when their very mission is a disruption of a lawful society.
The time for taking names is over and the time is here to kick butt. Those who portray this clean-up as some totalitarian effort totally miss the point of law enforcement apprehending law breakers. In fact, the very opposite is happening as I.C.E. frees cities and states from the clutches of thugs, thieves and criminals.
So I say, “Let the games begin.”
Let’s take back America from illegals by apprehending and deporting them.
Doug Lively is a lifelong Augustan and local columnist for the Augusta Press. He previously served as a member of the Augusta Aviation Commission.
