Terry Virts, an astronaut, has declared his candidacy for US Senate. He will be running as a Democrat.
Well, his ignorance or his attempt to gaslight us is sufficient reason for people not to support him. At least me.
He said he was willing to break with the national party on issues such as immigration, which he says he supports only if it is legal. “The Democratic Party, for some inexplicable reason, gaslit us and told everybody that, ‘Hey, this illegal immigration is OK,’ and voters knew that it wasn’t,” he said.
Did Biden allow too many people in who were claiming asylum? Yes. But it was all legal. We may not have liked what he was doing, but to claim it was illegal is either a sign of sheer ignorance or an attempt to start his political career by lying, a typical politician.
Of those 6.5 million encounters by CBP, 2.5 million people have been released into the U.S. with notices to appear in immigration court or report to Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the future, or other classifications, such as parole.
There are certainly others who have crossed the border by evading the authorities. DHS estimated there were 660,000 “gotaways,” or unlawful entries, in fiscal 2021. The agency would not provide an updated estimate. However, a DHS spokesperson told us: “Under this Administration, the estimated annual apprehension rate has averaged 78%, identical to the rate of the prior Administration.” The prior administration is Trump.
I would have no problem with deporting all the people here illegally, but not by masked men rounding up Mexican-looking people. When they start asking all the porcelain-looking people with blue eyes for their papers, then maybe it could be tolerated. However, there are sufficient stories that those porcelain-looking individuals are simply waved through checkpoints.
