https://twitter.com/AuronMacintyre/status/1786413630843408862

According to a Congressional Research Service report, the U.S. has been using parole programs to admit refugees beginning in the 1950s. The 1996 Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act established parole’s current use “on a case-by-case basis for urgent humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit.”

…the humanitarian parole program allows up to 30,000 asylum-seekers into the U.S. each month from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela combined.

What I haven’t been able to identify is whether or not other presidents have used the program at the level the Biden administration has.

It’s an odd program and seems likely the intent was to help emergency situations, which once again, Biden seems to be abusing– potentially illegally.

The people using the program are required to have a US sponsor.

There are solid rules already set up, and agreed upon by international treaties. However, the Biden administration has chosen to flagrantly ignore these rules.

When George III of Britain was trying to reassert the Crown’s authority after his father and grandfather neglected it, he let it be known that certain laws passed by Parliament would not be enforced by the Crown.

The Biden Administration is doing something similar.

“Personnel is policy”

Rep Jim Jordan (R-OH) has released several new pieces of previously unseen information revealing what Elon Musk called a “smoking gun” in regards White House pressure on Facebook to censor the lab leak theory of Covid-19….

+ Bonus:
“[EcoHealth president] Peter Daszak Perjures Himself Before Congress: Criminal Prosecution Imminent?”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2024-05-02/peter-daszak-perjures-himself-congress-criminal-prosecution-imminent

EcoHealth. Gotta love the name…

And an article on “Bombed-Out Gaza” that doesn’t mention “tunnels” at all but doesn’t forget the “famine”…
“Rebuilding Bombed-Out Gaza Could Take Into Next Century: UN”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/rebuilding-bombed-out-gaza-could-take-next-century-un

That’s not been my experience. I saw your links above. I couldn’t open the second one because I won’t turn off my ad blocker but either way, I trust polls about as far as I can throw an elephant.

They “sample” a tiny percentage of a population, then try to correct for any biases before declaring that their results represent the entire population. BS. Even if they aren’t intentionally trying to skew the results to reach a specific outcome (which they often are), there are too many variables and unknowns for any poll to be taken seriously.

The plural of anecdote actually is data. To that end, a single example from my experience. My Uncle Simon was forced to flee and defect from Bulgaria when it was still under the thumb of the USSR. I won’t go through the entire story of why and how (even though it is interesting), but I’ll skip to the point: He’s was inculcated with socialist propaganda from the youngest age and even though he’s lived in the US since he was in his early 20’s, started a successful business under the capitalist system and raised an American family (married to my mother’s sister), he’s still a devout Socialist and believes that the US should emulate his home country’s government policies…just without the corruption and graft this time.

He just doesn’t grok that the corruption and graft is a feature of socialist governments, not a bug, nor that it was the capitalist system in the US that allowed him to thrive.

That’s just one data point from which I draw my conclusions…I have had many over my lifetime (I spent 21 years in the military and the 2 decades since have been spent in an occupation that requires extensive travel…I’ve been all over the country and much of the world in my life). People who are steeped in socialist propaganda their entire lifetimes often cannot separate themselves from that. They truly believe that it isn’t the system that’s at fault, only the way it was executed in the place they fled, and that it could work here, if only we do it “the right way” and put the “right” people in charge.

It’s the same thing that’s turned Colorado and Virginia blue over the past few decades: people fleeing high tax, poor business environment states like California and New York get to their new homes and immediately start voting for the very same policies that led to the conditions they fled in their home states. Fast forward ten years and they just can’t figure out why their new home states are rapidly devolving into the same thing they left a decade ago.

Lather, rinse, repeat.

The problem is that Socialism is so captivating because it appeals to the baser qualities of human nature: laziness, envy, greed, etc. The entire premise is that you don’t have to work as hard as, be as talented as, or have the self-discipline of other people to be just as successful…because the government will ensure that those talented, hard-working self-disciplined people will be forced to share their bounty with you. It never even clicks with them that the only way that the government possibly can ensure that everyone has “equity” in a system like that is to ensure that everyone is equally poor and miserable; and often if that fact does “click” with them, they don’t care because their envy and resentment ensures they’d prefer for everyone to be poor and miserable than for anyone anywhere to have more than they do.

When you point out that the party apparatchiks have more than everyone else, they just write that off to the corruption of the people in charge…it’s not the system’s fault, it’s because we’re not doing it right. We don’t need a new system, we just need to put “better” people in charge.

Except that the entire system is based on envy and greed. How can you possibly end up with “honest” people in charge when advancement within the system is based on who does envy and greed the most effectively?

But I digress and I’m going down the rabbit hole. Sorry about that. The point is, I don’t believe that the end result of massive migration of people from socialist countries is going to be net positive. I don’t think history proves that out and I don’t think that polls (even if they are unbiased and properly conducted) that are sampling people who’ve often been here for several generations is indicative of the mindset of people who’ve just arrived and are still carrying a lifetime of propaganda with them.

BTW, there’s a reason that people from socialist societies that become outspoken advocates for capitalism and liberty are typically fairly well-known…because they are the outliers and their positions cause them to stand out and be noticed. They aren’t the rule, they are the exceptions that prove the rule and that’s why we notice them.