Yesterday:

Congressman Mark Alford
[January 14, 2024]
We can’t handle a band-aid for this humanitarian crisis.
We’ve got to have a tourniquet before we bleed to death as a nation.
This is an existential crisis. This is an invasion of our sovereign nation, it has to stop.

As always, the responses:

The crisis is a cult that wants to install a criminal authoritarian dictator who is the biggest national security threat to our country, our Constitution and democracy.

Ouch. There’s that.

It’s coming, the crime wave that’s gonna happen because millions have no money and nothing to do. Why don’t you libs start a list of people against closing the borders so the police know who to ignore when they call because some immigrant gang has broken into their house [….]

That’s not how it works, actually:

“….Compared to undocumented immigrants, U.S. citizens were twice as likely to be arrested for violent felonies in Texas from 2012 to 2018, two-and-a-half times more likely to be arrested for felony drug crimes, and over four times more likely to be arrested for felony property crimes….”

Oh lord. More crazy videos to distract and rile. Just stop with all the propaganda and do your job.

More gaslighting by Congressman Mark Alford!

That level of hyperbole is even beyond your norms. If these immigrants are such a problem, why is unemployment so low? Why is the crime rate among immigrants lower than other sectors of our population? Why are 80% plus of those charged with drug trafficking American citizens? Yes, immigration needs to be much better controlled. But it is extremely far from an invasion or existential crisis for our nation. The biggest threat from our immigration problems is how it has been used by your party to prevent Congress from doing its job. Our dysfunctional Congress is the true existential threat to our Republic.

why are Democrat mayors of sanctuary cities saying they cannot take in any illegals?

To paraphrase GOP Rep Nehls…the GOP won’t do anything about it so Biden won’t win.

A small step is better than no action, despite your desperate, extreme claims

3 migrants — a woman and two children — drowned in the Rio Grande river while Texas National Guard “physically barred” U.S. Border Patrol from trying to rescue them.
Last week, Texas National Guard took over Shelby Park in Eagle Pass, Texas, after Abbott granted them “full control” of the park without permission from local officials. Since then, the state guard has prohibited federal authorities from entering the area adjacent to the border.
Blood on Abbott’s hands.

There wasn’t nothing wrong with the border. Until Joe Biden came in and his buddy Obama.

If you think your job is in jeopardy because an illegal may take it…maybe it’s time to re-think your career path.

Give justice to the weak and the orphan; maintain the right of the lowly and the destitute.
– Psalm 82:3

your dramatic reading of Republican talking points may actually get you your coveted job as a news-reader on NewsMax. However, you’re SUPPOSED to be working, you know, like passing laws. #useless

Mark Alford [….] you’re clearly uninformed or ignorant or both.

Mark Alford Oh? Many here have asked you for your sources, yet you don’t respond. Many, including me, have asked you for compassion for the “stranger”, as commanded by Christ. Yet you ignore both pleadings and spout this asinine rhetoric that has absolutely no basis in fact! Who here is uninformed?

Mark Alford BTW, it’s not a good look for a politician to call voters ignorant.

No work permits…they broke the law and need to be removed from our country. We cannot afford 489 billion a year. Someone needs to do something about these idiotic Democrats.

489 billion. You sound just like Alford. Do you have any issue with 8.1 billion dollar budget for the BOP to cover the expense of our American lawbreakers

I have a problem with all government waist. The Dems vote party line for this mess. I think there are many Republicans need to go also. Too many self interest get rich quick scum in the congress and the senate. It is not only the money though, I worry about the safety of our country. Too many Chinese and middle eastern military aged men traveling in groups crossing our border. No families with them could only mean one thing. But the free health,, housing, food, cell phones, and five thousand dollar debit cards need to stop.

Waste.

Where was Jesus from, again?

“…No families with them could only mean one thing…”

There was no room at the inn? Just asking.