As more Republicans start to fold on deportations, I want to talk about some very simple policy changes that could help solve the illegal immigration problem. These are solutions that, for some reason, almost nobody's talking about. Plus, the NFL has just hired a Chief Kindness Officer.
00:09:34.840They're pushing paper and doing doge and causing people not to get badly needed resources down there.
00:09:42.600She clearly doesn't know how to manage.
00:09:44.240She's never managed a large organization, and she's failing at every possible measure of the job.
00:09:50.040Now, it's almost word for word what Ilhan Omar was saying before the alien from the first Men in Black movie squirted some vinegar on her.
00:09:59.960There's really no daylight between a senior Republican senator from a red state and a Muslim communist who openly despises this country and wants to destroy it from within.
00:10:07.160And the reason these two politicians are in total agreement is that a leftist domestic terrorist who deliberately instigated several violent confrontations with ICE agents in order to obstruct them received exactly the fate that he was looking for.
00:10:19.760And it's not just Tom Tillis who's leaving Noam out to dry.
00:10:33.560Senate Majority Leader John Thune sidesteped Tuesday when asked if he had confidence in Noam.
00:10:38.540She serves the pleasure of the president.
00:10:39.740He told reporters the important thing is that the president's got confidence in his team.
00:10:44.060Centrist Senator Susan Collins from Maine, who chairs the Appropriations Committee that controls the DHS budget, didn't go as far as Markowski or Tillis when asked about Noam.
00:10:52.320I've urged her to have a pause in both Minnesota and Maine on this surge of enforcement.
00:10:57.960You know, it's always the case that when Democrat and Republican establishments agree on something, and many of them agree right now on this, well, we need to pause.
00:12:46.980And you'd think it would take an awful lot for Republicans to join forces with somebody like this.
00:12:50.780She's advocating for the creation of a database that leftists can use to harass, attack, and ultimately murder ICE agents.
00:12:59.300But maybe it's not so surprising to see bipartisan agreement on this point.
00:13:02.120Because, after all, the business interests that largely fund both parties have become very happy with, if not dependent on, the fact that millions of illegal aliens with fake Social Security numbers provided by the IRS are working for their companies and taking out their loans.
00:13:18.820That would explain why the Cato Institute, which is supposedly a libertarian think tank, although it's really an arm of the Democrat Party that Republicans pretend to take seriously, just put out this remarkable video along with some accompanying research.
00:13:32.860Now, watch as Cato attempts to make the argument that American citizens are more of a drain on our welfare system than illegal aliens.
00:13:40.120Immigrant consumption of welfare benefits is a huge issue in the immigration debate.
00:13:46.560And it makes sense because the federal government and state governments spend about $3.4 trillion a year in welfare benefits in the United States.
00:13:55.120But when you drill down into the data, what you find is that immigrants consume, on a per capita basis, 24% fewer welfare benefits than native-born Americans do.
00:14:06.400And then when you drill down even further, you find that non-citizens consume 53% less.
00:14:11.520And non-citizens, that includes illegal immigrants, green card holders, student visas, all the above.
00:14:16.100So while the welfare state is a big problem in American politics, and it's a huge issue that so many people are on welfare, it's not an imported problem.
00:14:24.680It's a native-born, homegrown problem.
00:14:27.320And if you really want to do something about it, what we should do is build a higher wall around the welfare state, not around the country.
00:14:33.700If you want to read more about this research, come to Cato.org to read about immigrant and native-born consumption of welfare and entitlement benefits.
00:14:42.100Now, the point of this video is to provide Republicans with a talking point, which they can use as an excuse for caving on immigration enforcement.
00:14:53.220I mean, first of all, to be clear, he's counting Social Security as welfare, even though it's really a Ponzi scheme that you pay into and that you can only access when you're relatively old.
00:15:01.840Obviously, illegal aliens, many of whom do not arrive in this country at the age of 65, are not going to be receiving a lot of Social Security benefits.
00:15:08.480But more importantly, if you do what he says and actually read the research on Cato's website, here's what you'll find.
00:15:15.420Quote, all comparisons in this brief are calculated on a per capita basis rather than per household, which avoids attributing native-born welfare consumption to immigrants living in mixed status households.
00:15:25.320What this means is that if an illegal alien has 10 children in the U.S. in her household and every single one of those 10 anchor babies receives food stamps and free education and free housing for life, then under Cato's statistical model, they don't count as immigrants receiving welfare.
00:15:41.780After all, thanks to birthright citizenship, those 10 anchor babies are U.S. citizens.
00:15:45.180So you're not allowed to count any of those benefits that those anchor babies receive, according to Cato.
00:15:51.000Obviously, the point of this statistic is to obscure the enormous toll that illegal aliens and their offspring have on our economy.
00:15:59.360And of course, the Cato study doesn't account for the billions of dollars in fraud that illegal aliens commit every year.
00:16:06.220In just one state, Minnesota, they've been caught stealing hundreds of millions of dollars in a matter of months, as we all know now.
00:16:13.400Here's a recent case from Massachusetts where some Haitian migrants set up a couple of fraudulent grocery stores and robbed the SNAP program out of hundreds of thousands of dollars.