Date: November 18, 2024
Host: Jim Schneider
Guest: Andrew Arthur
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Border safety and security for Americans. That was a driving element in the recent presidential election because nearly 4 years ago, the Biden/Harris administration dismantled the border control policies that had been working effectively under the previous Trump administration.
Millions of people have encroached on our borders. Some did it secretly, while others entered illegally by appointment using a special Biden/Harris supplied app. This has resulted in the criminal element creating havoc across America through violent crimes such as rapes, murders, car jackings and even the takeover of apartment complexes. Social services have been maxed out and our nation’s health care, education system and housing have been impacted. Even many police and sheriff’s departments have been overwhelmed while many law abiding citizens have been called upon to pick up the bill.
However, a new day has dawned with President-elect Donald Trump returning to the White House and he’s promised to close our borders to those seeking to enter illegally.
Joining Jim to discuss what’s ahead for border security was Andrew Arthur. Andrew is Resident Fellow in Law and Policy for the Center for Immigration Studies. He began his legal career through the Attorney General’s Honors Program as a clerk to an Administrative Law Judge in the Office of the Chief Administrative Hearing Officer at the United States Department of Justice, Executive Office for Immigration Review. Later in his career he was promoted to the Immigration and Naturalization Service General Counsel’s Office in D.C., first as an Associate General Counsel, then as an Assistant General Counsel and Acting Chief of the INS National Security Law Division. In the General Counsel’s Office, he supervised attorneys handling cases involving espionage, terrorism, and persecutors. He advised the Attorney General among others on matters pertaining to National Security. In 2001, he left INS to become a Counsel on the House Judiciary Committee where he performed oversight of immigration issues. After 5 years there, he was appointed to the immigration bench serving for eight years as an Immigration Judge at the York Immigration Court in York, Pennsylvania. At the beginning of the 114th Congress, Judge Arthur left the bench and came back to Capitol Hill, where he served as staff director of the National Security Subcommittee at House Oversight and Government Reform before taking retirement from federal service in 2016.
According to Andrew, the House Judiciary Committee recently issued a report indicating that about 8 million people have come into the U.S. About 6 million of them were apprehended or encountered at the border or ports and released into the country or they used the Biden/Harris supplied app. Another 2 million of those individuals are what’s described as “known got-a-ways” because they somehow managed to elude overwhelmed border patrol agents.
He went on to note that this is going to take about a decade to resolve at a cost of about one trillion dollars. This isn’t simply removal costs. This includes the costs to the federal government, state and local governments across the nation, schools, hospitals, housing, etc.
This is a multi-faceted topic therefore you’ll hear discussion surrounding Mexico’s responsibility, the Parole in Place policy, the appointment of Tom Homan as “Border Czar” under President-elect Trump, immigration comments by Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, what deportation under Trump might entail, Canada bracing for a Trump migrant surge and input from callers nationwide.
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