americanthinker | Last
week, the House Appropriations Committee passed its 2019 budget for the
Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which, if passed, will squash
President Trump's border security plan, force DACA amnesty, and give
millions of illegal aliens free passes into your community. The wall is
not mentioned. At all.
As
congressional disapproval climbs north of 90%, House members have again
openly refused to provide the necessary funding even to scratch the
surface of President Trump's request to fund the wall. In a public
display of political grandstanding, remarkable only in its dishonesty,
DHS subcommittee chair GOP rep. Kevin Yoder touted this bill as taking
"the largest steps in years toward finally fulfilling our promise to the
American people to secure the border. We add funding for more than 200
miles of physical barrier[.]" Really, Kev? A word search of
the bill fails to find the word "wall" or "barrier" anywhere in the
document. Simply put, Yoder and his GOP co-conspirators are once again
lying directly to the public.
Echoing
Yoder's yodel of self-praise, Appropriations Committee chairman Rodney
Frelinghuysen said, "This bill ... also provides the necessary funding
for critical technology and physical barriers to secure our borders[.]" Do you see the age-old ploy of "one politician lies and the other swears to it" on full, unabashed display?
So
what about the $5 billion allegedly for a wall that members are falling
over each other to tweet about? While most other funding for DHS must
be doled out within a year, House GOP members deliberately stretched out
the $5 billion through September 30, 2023, five long years down the
road. How can we trust them, especially since the bill never mentions
the wall or a barrier? Doing the math, and assuming (foolishly) that $1
billion each year will be allocated for Trump's wall, it will take 25
years to complete! By then, another 25 million illegal aliens will have
illegally invaded the country, birthing another 50-100 million more
anchor babies, while draining billions in taxpayer dollars from an
already depleted U.S. bank account.
It
gets worse. Democrat members proposed amendments designed to undermine
the president on almost every aspect of his immigration policy. To do
this, Democrats needed GOP members to vote for adoption, and the GOP
co-conspirators complied. Here is a list of important amendments that
passed the "voice vote" roll call, which hides GOP members' identities.
