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This statement by the President of the United States is astonishing. My friends in Texas and southern Arizona tell a different tale.

Commented: Thursday, February 8th, 2024 @ 5:27 pm By: Van Zant

Rep. Lankford hopefully, learned a good lesson. He was about as MAGA as one can get. Until they ate him alive.
MAGA - at some point, turns on everybody. Support that at your own risk

Commented: Thursday, February 8th, 2024 @ 1:17 pm By: Big Bob

To Conclude and Broadcast the Specific outcome of this meeting between the Beaufort County School Board, and the Beaufort County Board of Commissioners:

There was a big show exhibiting that Beaufort County Schools will receive a around $42,000,000.00 from the so-called Education Lottery to build one mega school for the Washington area, in a time with a static student population at $383.00 per square foot, providing that the Beaufort County Taxpayers match about $12,000,000.00 in taxpayer funding.

The vote by the Beaufort County Commissioners was: In the affirmative of 5 was the Center-Left Coalition Members Bill Booth, Randy Walker, Jerry Langley, Frankie Waters and John Rebholz; voting in the negative of 2 were Republican County Commissioners Hood Richardson and Stan Deatherage.

There is no firm knowledge at this point where the funding will exactly come from. There has been no discussion by the controlling Center-Left Coalition as to whether a bond referendum for the money, and to discern the wishes of the people would be appropriate.

Commented: Thursday, February 8th, 2024 @ 9:55 am By: Stan Deatherage

Big Bob: My first point about your ongoing points, shrouded in your feckless communication of ideals, is your ambivalence to correctness.

My second point is your assertion that 87 million voters, real or not in the voting totals, will join you in the Stupidity Pool, and ... Big Bob, why so cynical regarding the intelligence level of the American voter?

Commented: Thursday, February 8th, 2024 @ 9:09 am By: Stan Deatherage

Where to begin with Little Bobbie's whitewash?

What good is mandating employers to check immigration status? Lankford's folly would have granted withspread automatic work permits to illegal aliens. Besides, its already supposedly "mandated" but how much good is that doing? Those automatic work permits would have just encouraged more migrants to flood into the US.

"narrow executive branch parole authority"? The Biden regime is illegally using it now to let 1.1 million illegal aliens into the country last year. It needed to be ended totally, but instead was being codified into law and allowing at least 5,000 illegal aliens a day to come in under it (and some read the bill at 8,500). That would be over 1.5 million a year (or over 2 million a year)

Border wall construction? This is nothing but an illusion in the bill that was extremely limited and not the tall bollards of the Trump wall but something lower and easier to climb the very limited places it would be put.

"Safeguards for "migrant children"? "Unaccompanied minors" are one of the most corrupt rackets in the current immigration scheme and procedures here need to be severely tightened up, not "safeguarded". America does almost nothing to verify age of those who claim to be children. European countries that have taken steps to verify age have found over half of those claiming to be children were really adults lying about their age and in Norway it was am astounding 90% of "unaccompanied minors" who were really adults. The extremely violent MS13 criminal gang from El Salvador has been using this "unaccompanied minor" loophole to import their thugs into the US.

"Limit asylum in the US"? - If it effectively did that, it would be huge but it doesn't. There are both limits and expansions of asylum in the bill. The most important limitation on asylum as imposed by some European countries is that if a migrant is already in a safe country, they are not entitled to asylum in another country. Mexico is deemed a safe country, so this really needs to be imposed here, but of course it is not in this worse than worthless bill.

Criminalize overstaying a legal visa? It is already criminal, but just not enforced. Since the Mayorkas Mafia is not enforcing most of our immigration laws, who in their right mind would expect them to start enforcing anything new here?

This bill is a total fraud that was intended primarily to codify and legalize Biden's illegal "parole pathway" with a little window dressing thrown in and lots of money to spread the migrants around the country. The term "Invasion Authorization Act" coined by opponents is far more apt for it than the official one used by Biden.

Commented: Thursday, February 8th, 2024 @ 8:28 am By: borderhawk

S\The SEcure Border Act 2023
Would have re-started boarder wall construction.
Limit asylum in the US
Keep safeguards for migrant children
Narrow executive branch parol power
Criminalize overstaying a legal visa
Mandate employers to actually check immigration status

Nowhere in the bill would it allow old white people to shoot migrants as they cross the boarder, but hey you have to compromise.

Commented: Thursday, February 8th, 2024 @ 6:27 am By: Big Bob

Reality suggests otherwise. Democrats are united (mostly). Republicans are now divided in two parties . MAGA and RINOS.

Another reality. Because the domcrat party is not split (mostly) all 87 million of us are going to vote JB again. Republicans and MAGA can fight for what's left.

Commented: Thursday, February 8th, 2024 @ 7:16 am By: Big Bob

The problem, Little Bobbie, is that the Lankford bill neither "solved" anything nor was it a "compromise". It codifies some of the worst illegal things Biden is doing, creates more incentives for illegals to come, and does nothing to stop them. Anything that looks otherwise is only a smokescreen.

The problem for the GOP is that we have a Fifth Column traitor named Mitch McConnell in our midst who is in bed with the special interests who want more illegal immigration, and he sent a like minded fool, Lankford, to do a sellout deal with the Democrats. If he had sent someone genuinely committed to border security like Ted Cruz, they would have never signed off on such a one sided betrayal of the American people.

Commented: Thursday, February 8th, 2024 @ 6:39 am By: John Steed

My point is you are looking at 5 more years of nothing regarding an issue you care about. Given half the country is a lot like me, you will have to compromise. I suppose you can hold out for better terms but at some point everybody has to give.

In addition, it's an election year and it has been effective wedge against the democrats. So maybe thats more important than solving a real problem. Maybe thats why my side sees your passion for cruelty as disingenuous.

Only thing left to do is roll the dice.

Commented: Wednesday, February 7th, 2024 @ 7:48 pm By: Big Bob

Big Bob: It is true that Joe Biden does represent you quite well.

Commented: Wednesday, February 7th, 2024 @ 6:52 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Question; if Biden wins, what are you going to do about the boarder then? Since the GOP defeated a bill they approved in the hope trump can take credit. There is no guarantee of that. In fact the opposite is way more likely. What then? You are looking at 5 years of nothing all because nobody will stand up to fat orange boy.
I always say MAGA cant govern. This proves it.

Maybe after JB wins, republicans will stop being so afraid.

Commented: Wednesday, February 7th, 2024 @ 5:14 pm By: Big Bob

Not only is Berger no friend of conservatives or conservative principles, he is no friend of Beaufort County. Berger was behind the gerrymandering of our last Senate district which was dominated by Democrats and was a majority black district. Berger did that to us because he wanted to get rid of the strongest voice of reason against expensive and unreliable "green energy" in the senate, Senator Bill Cook. Berger was clearly already plotting with Cooper and the special interests to impose the Green New Deal, and Sen. Cook was the guy standing in the way. Berger got him out of the way by gerrymandering Beaufort County into a district that was totally illogical while drawing Cook's old district for green energy cheerleader Rep. Bob Steinburg.

Berger is a total scumbag, doing deals with Cooper and the special interests that screw real Republicans. Any candidate aligned with Berger should be defeated. A candidate aligned with Berger is no different than a candidate aligned with Liz Cheney or Mitt Romney.

Commented: Wednesday, February 7th, 2024 @ 4:16 pm By: Rino Hunter