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MSNBC Guest Demonstrates That the Left Does Not Understand the Issue of Illegal Immigration at All 

Illegal immigration was one of the main issues in the 2024 election, rivaling the issue of the economy for most people. Joe Biden allowed millions of people to illegally cross the southern border and voters wanted it to stop.

MSNBC guest Lauren Leader shows that the left still does not grasp the enormity of the issue or what the people voted for.

In the segment below, she makes it clear that she (and many others like her) do not see this as a crime. They do not want America’s immigration laws enforced. She even tries to argue that deportation would be expensive, without ever addressing the massive costs of housing and feeding all of these people.

Partial transcript via the Western Lensman on Twitter/X:

MSNBC lib doesn’t think illegal aliens have committed a crime; worries about chaos and cost of deportations:

“That is what is disturbing…they see anyone who has entered the country as committed a crime…most Americans don’t see it that way.”

“This is going to be a lot of chaos.”

Um. If they entered the country illegally, they did commit a crime. Americans do see it that way and voted accordingly. The mass chaos and untold cost of mass *importation* hasn’t been a concern of theirs.

This kind of upside-down, bizarro-world stuff is what American voters rejected.

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CNN’s Abby Phillip Gets Schooled by Rep. Lawler as He Shuts Down Her Claim That Deporting Illegals Is ‘Too Expensive’

CNN host Abby Phillip seemed more concerned with the cost of deporting illegal immigrants than the devastating financial and social toll their unchecked influx is already imposing on American taxpayers.

During an exchange with Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY), Phillip’s attempt to question the feasibility of deportation efforts was met with a brutal dose of reality.

Phillip smugly suggested that deporting illegal immigrants might be too expensive, quipping that Homan “doesn’t seem to have a sense of the scope—what it’s going to take, what it’s going to cost.”

But Lawler, armed with cold, hard facts, quickly set the record straight, exposing the absurdity of Phillip’s argument.

Lawler brought up the tragic human cost of sanctuary policies, recounting a horrifying incident where a criminal alien—previously deported by the Trump administration but allowed back into the country by the Biden regime—committed an unthinkable act of violence by burning a woman alive on a subway.

He slammed sanctuary states and cities like New York for enabling such heinous crimes by refusing to cooperate with federal immigration law.

And it’s not just public safety that’s at stake—it’s the livelihoods of hardworking Americans. Lawler pointed out the hypocrisy of New York Governor Kathy Hochul, who burdens her state’s citizens with a $2,500 congestion pricing fee while simultaneously funneling taxpayer dollars into free services for illegal immigrants.

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Report: Gov. Newsom Scheming Ways To Shield Illegals from Trump Deportation Effort

Democrat Cali. Gov. Gavin Newsom will use taxpayer money to help illegal aliens circumvent President-elect Donald Trump’s mass deportation operation ahead of his inauguration next month, reports claim.

According to an internal memo obtained by Politico, the governor’s team and the California Department of Social Services are working on an “Immigrant Support Network Concept” that would create “hubs” to “connect at-risk individuals, their families, and communities with community systems — such as legal services, schools, labor unions, local governments, etc.”

The unpublished memo says hubs would collect “critical” intel on communities “in order to coordinate policies statewide,” with a final plan to be introduced mid-January.

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Migrant Charged with Murder for Lighting Sleeping Woman on Fire Chain Smoked Synthetic Drug, Shelter Roommate Claims

The Guatemalan migrant who shocked the world by lighting a sleeping woman on fire in a New York City subway chained smoked the synthetic drug K2, according to his homeless shelter roommate.

Sebastian Zapeta, 33, was arrested on Sunday after being spotted by high school students on the subway. He has been charged with first and second-degree murder, as well as arson.

Raymond Robinson, who slept next to Zapeta at the shelter, told the New York Post that the migrant was a heavy drinker who “bugged out” when smoking the K2.

“He said, ‘I’m going out to make my normal run,’ then the next thing I hear what he did on the news,” said Robinson.

Robinson said the accused murderer smoked about $30 worth of the drug per day.

“He smoked K2, drank and bugged out,” Robinson said. “He would bug out and talk to himself when he was high, but he never harmed nobody or himself. When he wasn’t high he’d talk like we’re talking regular.”

Zapeta told police that he was so drunk that he does not remember lighting the woman on fire.

“The migrants mainly get up in the morning, leave and come back drunk,” Robinson said. “He would come back drunk most days.”

The woman was asleep on the train as she was lit on fire by the suspect at the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue subway station around 7:30 a.m. on Sunday.

As she was engulfed in flames, Zapeta sat calmly on a bench and watched as she died.

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Five-Time Deported Child Sex Predator Released Back to NYC Streets

A Mexican child sex predator who has been removed from the U.S. on five prior occasions was arrested again after being released by New York City authorities.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced the latest apprehension of 36-year-old Raymond Rojas Basilio, a Mexican national with a shocking criminal record dating back more than two decades.

During a 4-day stretch in 2002, Rojas Basilio was caught by U.S. Border Patrol on three separate occasions after he made illegal entries near Douglas, Arizona.

Rojas Basilio voluntarily returned to Mexico following each interception.

“U.S. Customs and Border Protection encountered Rojas Jan. 6, 2012, at Dennis DeConcini Port of Entry in Nogales, Arizona, when he applied for admission to the U.S. Rojas presented an Arizona Driver’s License and U.S Birth Certificate which CBP determined to be fraudulent. CBP processed Rojas, served him a notice and order of expedited removal and verified his departure to Mexico on the same date,” ICE explained in a press release.

Five days later, the Mexican pulled a similar stunt at Morley Gate Port of Entry in Nogales, Arizona, and was sent back to his home country by U.S. authorities.

Rojas Basilio then illegally crossed the border at an unknown date and time, making him one of millions of ‘gotaways’ lurking across the country.

On Aug. 28, 2023, Rojas Basilio was arrested by the New York Police Department and charged with first-degree sexual abuse with an individual less than 11 years old.

He was then released back to the streets with a future court date.

On Sept. 20, 2024, Rojas Basilio was convicted of forcible touching of the intimate parts of another person.

On Nov. 11, he was sentenced to just 60 days incarceration, six years probation, and ordered to register as a sex offender.

On Dec. 17, Rojas Basilio was arrested at his residence in Queens by officers with ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) New York City.

He is currently in ICE custody amid pending removal proceedings.

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DeSantis Migrant Crackdown Boosts State’s Economic Performance

Ron DeSantis’s crackdown on illegal workers in Florida has boosted the state’s economic performance, despite gloomy predictions from the media, commentators and “experts” that it would do the opposite.

DeSantis took to Twitter earlier this week to hail the Sunshine State’s latest figures, which show, he claims, that “incentivizing more illegal immigration” is actually a counterproductive economic policy.

“FL’s best-in-the-nation legislation combatting illegal immigration generated the typical array of false media narratives,” DeSantis Tweeted.

“That such narratives blew up shows that good policy pays dividends. The goal needs to be disfavoring illegal immigration rather than—as is common across the US—incentivizing more illegal immigration.”

New economic data revealed Florida’s GDP grew by 3.2% from Q1 to Q2 2024. In addition, the state added 133,000 jobs between October 2023 and now.

In May, Florida passed a sweeping bill, SB1718, that includes mandatory E-verify rules for hiring workers, a ban on local governments issuing IDs to migrants, and harsh sanctions for businesses that hire illegals.

Forbes recently hailed DeSantis’s legislation as a model to be followed on the national level under the second Trump administration.

“So far, the critics have been wrong. Florida’s economy has continued to grow despite warnings about the impact of SB1718. According to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, the state’s gross domestic product increased by 9.2% last year, tops in the nation and outpacing the national average by nearly 3 percentage points. In 2024, Florida’s economic growth remains strong, surpassing the national average in the first two quarters of the year, with Florida being one of just a handful of states to post 6% growth or higher in both quarters. This comes despite the Florida Policy Institute warning that the E-Verify requirement alone could cost the state $12.6 billion in its first year.”

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Mass Deportations Would Save Americans $62 Billion a Year

“It would cost hundreds of billions of dollars to deport every undocumented immigrant in our country,” Senator Dick Durbin warned.
After losing the open borders debate and the election, Democrats and their media stopped arguing that mass migration is a right and that mass deportations violate human rights.

6 out of 10 registered voters were polled in favor of deporting illegal aliens. The American people had spoken.

So Democrats and their media instead argued that mass deportations would be too expensive. The American Immigration Council, an immigration lawyers lobby group funded by the Ford Foundation, Soros and other open borders groups, was quoted in the media as warning that mass deportations might cost $88 billion a year. None of the media outlets citing the AIC have reported what it is and who it represents, but have taken its $88 billion figure as fact.

This would still make a year of mass deportations cheaper than California’s $128 billion light rail to nowhere. And unlike the light rail to nowhere, the deportations would actually go somewhere.

Mass deportations would end cartel violence and restore national security making it a far better investment than the California train that the Biden administration had decided to fund again.

There’s no reason to take the AIC’s figure as fact. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has an $8 billion annual budget. It already ‘expels’ around a quarter of a million illegals and foreign criminals a year. ICE does more than just detain and deport illegals which our current deportation system often does in about the most expensive way possible. Illegals are currently deported on charter flights also used to fly executives around the country. There’s no reason for the ‘rock star’ treatment.

But let’s for a moment assume that the wildest estimates of open borders supporters are right.

One estimate of the costs of the border crisis ran to $150 billionin 2023. Even assuming that the $88 billion figure is correct, mass deportations would still provide a $62 billion net benefit.

But the $150 billion is likely only a part of the larger cost. Consider the story of one just city.

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Massive Hordes of Illegals Caught on Camera in Tijuana, Mexico being Transported into The US With CBP One App During Biden’s Final Days in Office

Biden and the Democrats are still flooding the country with illegal aliens during their final days in power in an apparent attempt to undermine Trump’s mass deportations and secure border policy. 

Real America’s Voice correspondent Ben Bergquam, host of the Law and Border series, posted new footage Monday afternoon showing a large group of illegal aliens walking up a ramp to be transported into the United States by the Biden Administration.

“They had a group the same size at 5 AM and another group the same size at 8 AM and it happens every day!” says Bergquam.

These illegals are using Biden’s CBP One app, which has become the “primary vehicle” for mass illegal immigration for so-called asylum seekers, according to the National Immigration Forum. Mexico’s government has even been busing migrants to the US border to get them to CBP One appointments. As The Gateway Pundit reported in June 2024, over 1 million illegals have been allowed into the US through so-called “legal” means with the CBP One App and the CHNV program.

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Anchor babies with birthright citizenship is an idiotic policy that encourages migrants to come to the U.S. illegally

Birthright citizenship essentially invites people from around the world, who happen to be pregnant, to make every effort they can to come into our country, whether they break our laws to get in or not. 

They don’t want to take the time to go through the legal process so they just jump the line and come in to use our health care system, which they get for free, to have their babies here. 

Then the baby of the illegals automatically becomes a citizen and we call that an anchor baby. The baby then qualifies for all the benefits of other U.S babies. 

Then people who are pro-illegal on immigration say that we can’t send the parents back because it would break up the family. Of course, the parents then get all of the benefits that other citizens get, because it would be unfair to the baby if we didn’t hand them out. 

And here is one of the most idiotic statements I have seen from Jason Riley, an opinion writer at the Wall Street Journal, who says illegal immigration will go way up if Trump gets his way to stop this ridiculous rule. 

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10,000 “Special Interest” Aliens Apprehended at Border This New Fiscal Year

Over 10,000 “special interest” aliens were apprehended at by Border Patrol during the first two-and-a-half months of the new fiscal year, beginning 1 October.

“Special interest” aliens come from countries with known ties to terrorism.

These countries include Iran, Syria, Egypt, Afghanistan, Mali and Nigeria.

Many of these migrants crossed into the US via the southern border with Mexico, although they have also tried to enter US territories like the US Virgin Islands.

In October, for example, Border Patrol apprehended 124 Iranians at various crossing points along the southern border.

Per Breitbart, “According to a source within CBP [Customs and Border Patrol] not authorized to speak to the media, Special Interest Alien crossings into Eagle Pass were once a rarity. Violence in Sinaloa, Mexico, according to the source, is one reason migrants from special interest countries may be choosing to enter the United States in Eagle Pass, Texas. The trend is concerning, the source told Breitbart Texas.”

Donald Trump has promised the largest mass deportation operation in American history beginning on day one when he takes office, on 20 January.

He has already appointed Tom Homan to be his “border czar.” Homan became notorious during Trump’s first term for his tough stance on immigration while in control of ICE. He presided over the controversial “family separation” policy that saw migrant families broken up and deported separately from one another.

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