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There is a huge difference in vetting of legal immigrants and illegal aliens.

Illegal aliens usually throw away their real ID before they cross the border. Reporters have found vast piles of discarded ID's on the south bank of the Rio Grande, for instance. After they cross the border, they are then "undocumented" so they can be anyone they want to be, give whatever name, whatever age, and whatever country of origin they think will most benefit them. Multiple European countries that have used other tests to discover true age, for example, have found that a majority of illegal aliens who claim to be unaccompanied minors are, in fact, adults lying about their age. In Sweden, it was as high as 90%. When authorities do not have the correct name, age, and country, how are they expected to do any meaningful vetting????? For those with criminal records or on terrorist lists, you can expect 100% of them to give false information to get into the country.

For legal immigrants, they are most of the time still in their home country, where it is easy to find out if they are giving their true identities and then to thoroughly check their background. These are people who can be properly vetted. Illegal aliens are NOT.

One thing that would help a lot when an illegal alien is processed is a polygraph.

Commented: Monday, July 28th, 2025 @ 8:56 am By: borderhawk

The real unfairness of the way our immigration system has been run is Biden allowing illegal aliens in line in front of legal immigrants who are trying to do it the right way. If we need more immigrants, there is a big waiting list of people who are applying properly, not trying to sneak to the head of the line. Legal immigrants should ALWAYS have precedence over those who do not respect our immigration laws.

On the immigration debate, I think of my former employee, Sergiu, when I was running an American-funded office in Moldova. Sergiu was our accountant, with a university degree and excellent written and spoken English. His wife was a law student, also with excellent English skills. They applied repeatedly to emigrate to the United States, but there were a lot more Moldovans applying to immigrate than there were immigration slots. Finally, he also applied to Canada. It turned out that accounting was a skill Canada was looking for in immigrants and he was accepted the first time he applied. As with legal US immigration, he and his wife went through extensive medical and background checks and he was required to pass the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL), a test many Americans would have a hard time passing. He passed that test on the first try, getting his immigrant visa soon after. Although it meant I had to hire a new accountant, I was happy for Sergiu and his wife when they were able to board the plane to their new life in Prince Edward Island, Canada.

We have a screwed up immigration system, when people like Sergiu are left on waiting lists while unvetted illegal aliens who thumb their noses at our immigration laws are waved across the border, too many of them connected to foreign criminal gangs. I am happy that President Trump is working hard to fix that.

Commented: Sunday, July 27th, 2025 @ 7:58 pm By: Steven P. Rader

Victoria: Thank you for your succinct and precise dose of truth.

Commented: Friday, July 18th, 2025 @ 8:04 am By: Van Zant

Without borders, we are not a country. America cannot be the world's welfare provider to every deadbeat who wants to show up on our doorstep. The open-borders advocates are simply anti-American. Biden's open borders policy was a conspiracy to destroy America. It is great that it is gone. Deportation of illegal aliens is the way to correct that problem.

Commented: Friday, July 18th, 2025 @ 7:38 am By: Victoria

Well, I'll state the obvious. This Bill Lee is obviously a Biden open borders Democrat.

Commented: Thursday, July 17th, 2025 @ 3:35 pm By: Bubba

Well, I'll state the obvious. This Bill Lee is obviously a Biden open borders Democrat.

Commented: Thursday, July 17th, 2025 @ 2:43 pm By: Bubba

Washingtonian: That is simple; effectively, the vast majority of the members of the "Democratic" party are Democratic Socialists.

In Beaufort County, even the local county GOP is not restricting Democratic Socialists from the local county GOP.

It is rather frustrating for Conservatives in local politics /governing as elected real Republicans, where the Center-Left /Left Coalition, in the majority on the Beaufort County's Board of County Commissioners, is comprised of two Democratic Socialist and two Republic Imposters, actually governing as Democrats.

Effectively, the local county GOP does not vet candidates or politicians once they knowingly show the World, by their actions, that they are "Democratics."

Commented: Thursday, July 17th, 2025 @ 12:06 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Then who are you talking about when you bring up "Tusk"???? Donald Tusk is the only person by that last name I am aware of in either US or world politics.

Globalism is the totalitarian threat in the 21st century just as Naziism and Communism were in the last century. Mass migration is one of the things they are pushing to try to bring down national governments.

Commented: Thursday, July 17th, 2025 @ 8:11 am By: John Steed

Donald Tusk, the prime minister of Poland (at least for now, as his government seems to be unraveling over illegal immigration) is definitely a globalist, and therefore an elitist. I am not familiar with Mrump. Oh, and when the Tusk government goes, the polls show that nationalists and ultra-nationalists will have a majority and Poland will decisively reject globalism.

Commented: Wednesday, July 16th, 2025 @ 8:58 pm By: John Steed

There will be globalism. Who is able to make war with the beast?

Someone really has a beef with ice water? That’s wild, lukewarm is no good, as it was written:

“ I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.

So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.

Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked” (Rev 3:15)

Commented: Wednesday, July 16th, 2025 @ 7:31 pm By: Will Simmons

Globalism is based on elitism. Their WEF confabs at Davos have lots of luxury private jets parked and lots of high end prostitutes ready for action. Yet they want to preach to the masses about "global warming" and eating bugs and worms instead of meat. Mass migration is one of their tactics to try to break down the nation-state. Their version of socialism or the Great Reset would resemble the comment of the leader of the pigs in Orwell's "Animal Farm" when he said "all animals are equal, but some are more equal than others."

Commented: Wednesday, July 16th, 2025 @ 3:52 pm By: borderhawk

Hood, the US used to have something like you describe, the old Bracero Program, where foreign farm workers came in through a controlled and monitored program, worked, and then went home. It was repealed by Democrats in Congress after pressure to do so from Cesar Chavez' United Farm Workers Union. The union was made up of mostly Hispanic farm workers who were American citizens and did not like the foreign worker competition. Chavez also constantly told his union members to report illegal aliens they were aware of living in the US to the Border Patrol, for the same reason.

Commented: Wednesday, July 16th, 2025 @ 9:13 am By: Steven P. Rader