jason-sᴍɪᴛʜ
43 posts
@ElementWeb304
Independent Thinker/Oilfield Trucker
The story of ULA during its first decade was its monopoly on US launch contracts. The story of the second decade was the unraveling of that monopoly. In the third decade, we will find out whether the empire strikes back. arstechnica.com/space/2024/01/…
🚨America's illegal immigration crisis is shattering century-old records with alarming numbers: 2023: 3,201,144 2022: 2,766,582 2021: 1,956,519 2020: 405,036 2019: 859,501 2018: 404,142 2017: 310,531 2016: 415,816 2015: 337,117 2014: 486,651 2013: 420,789 2012: 364,768 2011: 340,252 2010: 463,382 On President Biden's inaugural day, he introduced policies that incentivize illegal immigration: • Paused Deportations • Suspended "Remain in Mexico" • Stopped Border Wall Construction Since these policy changes, over 8 million people have illegally entered the country, with millions more slipping past border patrol undetected. This surge in illegal immigration is a national security crisis, costing American taxpayers hundreds of billions per year. Major U.S. cities, grappling with the escalating financial burden, are slashing budgets for essential services such as fire, police, sanitation, and education. President Biden holds the power to halt this crisis that is draining America's resources. The solution is as simple as the actions that led to this crisis—Biden should use his pen to reverse his policy changes. Chart via @biancoresearch
This chart should make you go insane. This is the number of high skilled workers that want to work here. There is a cap at 85,000 slots that will be filled. We are actively shooting our future selves in the foot.
By all available metrics, this administration's border policy is a disaster. Monthly Encounters have averaged: - 98,000 for the two previous administrations. - 242,000 for the Biden border. In fact, the flood of humans entering is so vast that Apprehensions alone now exceed the combined Encounters metric of the previous administrations. Monthly Apprehensions have averaged: - 34,000 for the previous two administrations. - 111,000 for the Biden border. And these averages understate the current situation -- it's getting worse every month. December 2023 was the worst single month in history at the southern border.
The largest migrant caravan of 2023 known as the 'poverty exodus,' has recently departed from Southern Mexico, comprising approximately 15,000 individuals from 24 countries en route to the US border. Yet Democrats are focused on cooking pictures I posted that reminded me of my upbringing’s. I can’t with so much pettiness. @TexasTribune you should write about this caravan on its way. That would be more productive.
Friend of the Court Briefs Filed in Internet Archive’s Appeal — Hundreds of librarians joined prominent library organizations & non-profits in filing amicus briefs in Hachette v. Internet Archive. Read why they believe our appeal should succeed: blog.archive.org/2023/12/29/fri…
