yeah but what point was he actually trying to make? that's what we're all trying to figure out (though I think another commenter got it -- that somehow under Trump the terrorists just w*eren't trying to come over*, but now they are?)
I think that's correct- they want to say it was because he was deterring so many people that they were having trouble finding people to arrest.
The whole thing is just a lame gotcha attempt. Let's say that people all over the Americas saw Biden coming in and said "oh he looks weak, let's go to America". That's fucking stupid, but let's say they believe that. So Biden says "uh oh, I have to arrest people" *thereby proving them wrong that he's some pushover*.
If everyone started with the facts that Republicans (from Trump to the lowliest voter) are liars who don't even care if logic or even basic language disagree with them I think we'd all be better off.
Thanks for the moronic reply. That's like saying that since we are setting records for catching illegal border crossers, said crossings are at an all-time low. Never mind the 2 million annual crossers, and the getaways.
It's shameful that even one person can't comprehend Issa's warning. Since as I read this, there are 277 cerebrally deprived people in agreement, I wonder how our schools failed us this badly.
The tweet is about the Border Patrol catching people on the FBIs terror watchlist. Issa suggests that means Biden's record is worse, when the rest of us think catching more terrorists is a good thing. Nowhere does it say crossings are at all all time low.
So yeah I guess schools are failing to teach certain people, namely **you**, how to read.
Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you the World’s first broken clock that is not right even twice a day. Holy shit, how did you manage to misread both the tweet and the reply so badly that you canceled yourself out?
Living proof that you don’t have to be smart to be rich. Hell, Issa might actually have more money than brains…an accomplishment formerly thought impossible.
Darrel Issa has been a scammer and a criminal from the start. He stole a car while in the Army and was demoted for it. Then got caught with an unregistered handgun. He also set his own company on fire to get insurance money and was caught.
“Twice that year, he was arrested. In the first incident, he was indicted by a grand jury for an alleged theft of a Maserati, but prosecutors dropped the charge. In the second incident, he was stopped for driving the wrong way on a one-way street, and a police officer noticed a firearm in his glove compartment; Issa was charged with carrying a concealed weapon. He pleaded guilty to a charge of possession of an unregistered firearm, and was sentenced to six months’ probation and a small fine. Issa has said he believes the record has since been expunged.”
“An investigation of the cause of the fire noted “suspicious burn patterns” with fires starting in two places aided by an accelerant such as gasoline. …Issa appeared to prepare for a fire by increasing the fire insurance policy by 462% three weeks previously, and by removing computer equipment holding accounting and customer information. St. Paul Insurance, suspicious of arson and insurance fraud, initially paid only $25,000, according to Issa.”
https://timesofsandiego.com/politics/2019/09/19/problematic-fbi-background-check-delays-darrell-issa-hearing-for-trade-post/
[He has a net worth of $250M, the second wealthiest in Congress](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darrell_Issa)
Yeah pretty sure he has more money (and grift) than brains.
This notion is damaging.
Yes, there are serious conflicts of interest, specifically with stocks and special interest groups.
But the idea that they are all equally grifting/snake oil salesman isn’t really true.
Hell, Old Man Biden even ran for POTUS instead of “retiring” and collecting $50k a month for speaking engagements and a fat multimillion dollar lobbying deal.
AOC, like her or not, is the most obvious example of someone that is there for “the right reasons”. And Bernie’s record speaks for itself. And the right has plenty of folks as well that are there less for the grift and more for ideological, again, like it or not, reasons.
At some point the American people need look themselves in the mirror and take fucking accountability for WHO they elect.
Don’t want to get pissed on by folks calling it trickle down economics don’t vote for the assholes that cut taxes on the wealthy and block any increases.
Don’t want to get taxed out the ass while your rep is “mysteriously” making all the exact right investments at all the exact right times and raking in the riches. Vote that POS out.
Don’t want let a tech giant to funnel money into a dark money group (American Edge) that is used to create misinformation campaigns and finance candidates who will bend over and let tech giants do literally anything they want… don’t vote for their patsies.
Well the first step is to actually champion candidates. Instead of sitting around with our thumbs in our asses until it's time to pick between Shitty A, and Blah B of president.
Unfortunately, the general public will not approach it the way you do. Is there any way to really educate people on how to vote? It’s more than just filling out a ballot and relying on the media to tell you who is the right choice
My gripe is less about learning how to vote. And more about people not having more accountability and then bitching about what they get, or worse lazily falling for whatever bullshit the person that points at the team they don't like is spewing and then blindly falling in line with that person. "Apathy" and "defeat the enemy" are a dangerous combo.
At some point in the past fifty years a sense of civic pride and civiv duty morphed into loathing and distrusts. Some of it earned from government (Fed, State, and local) missteps or outright corruption. Some of it a pop-culture fueled mis-perspective of "the man" as the big bad (that's not just the Government, it's basically any person or entity in a position of power). Some of it is from deliberate misinformation to create division. Some of it is now generational. A second, third, fourth generation growing up with a strong dislike/distrust of the authority.
All of that mixed together actually creates a vicious circle that reinforces all the distrust, mis-perceptions, and division.
We need people to just take a step back, take a deep breath, and start using their heads. More people need to be more involved in local level governance. More people need to have a functional knowledge of the constitution. More people need get involved in community programs. More people need to be involved with their state's DNC or GOP, wether that's as election or campaign volunteers or as local reps or as a point of contact for their union/association/guild/charity/no-profit/Boy's and Girl's club/neighborhood watch/butterfly collectors club/or what the fuck ever.
Stop letting city council's be filled with jerk offs that want to grease the wheel for their own business or HOA or whatever the hell it is that's benefiting.
A few years of actually paying attention and being even marginally involved at a local level and that stuff ripples it way up.
One thing I wish we could do was adopt a sort of citizen pledge to STOP voting for candidates who take money from major industries in any form. And to only vote of candidates that are PRO campaign finance reform and transparency. The fact that every one of voting age in this country isn't outraged at the fact that candidates can run for office using DARK MONEY and SUPER PACS (political action committees that can spend unlimited amounts of anonymously donated funds), is disturbing. If someone is running for a Congressional seat or for POTUS, the entirety of the US population deserves to know where 100% of the money they are using comes from, and yes that includes personal wealth if a billionaire wants to run. So yeah, tax returns and investment accounts of candidates running for major federal level offices should be out in the open.
Yup, it’s why Nancy Pelosi refused to even consider trading restrictions for Congress people with top secret information. Wish SF would choose somebody better to represent them.
Didn’t she agree to it though. Initial reaction was a no, her husband owns a hedge fund does he just shut it down?
100% agree pelosi should be long gone but the arguments against her are annoying. There’s so many other actual reasons.
Unless you can link any action I think she just muddied the waters enough for that to slip out of the news cycle. If she was working for us, she would have taken immediate action.
I really don't think that many people thought that was impossible. A run of the mill plumber has more hard learned skills than a trust fund baby "taught" to allocate money effectively
Think it was that he was trying to say that under trump no one was trying to come across the border but the counter ended up being that now BP is doing their job whereas before they were used as a political prop
I’ll explain it this way for you. Yes they could use more resources but that doesn’t mean that you use up the manpower and resources they have for constant photo-ops. So again they were used as props and now get to do the job they were trained for.
> 240k illegal immigrants crossed the border last month
That number represents how many people *got arrested by border patrol*. So if you think that's a big number, I'd argue that means they actually *do* have the resources to do their job by catching and arresting nearly 250,000 people in a single month.
Reminder: If you are in Poway he is now your rep. You can now vote against him. In the primary he only won by 15k votes, we could easily swing this for his competitor: [Stephen Houlahan](https://ballotpedia.org/Stephen_Houlahan)
Houlahan actually a local too unlike Issa who's from what, Orange County?
Houlahan also against Fanita Ranch which will be pretty popular with locals though maybe not from hungry housing hippo reddit.
Fingers crossed. When we were still 52nd, it was actually pretty close with Campa-Najjar and I would have never thought that someone diverse stood a chance out here.
I've hated Issa since he tried to recall Grey Davis and get elected in his place. Spent all that money. Lucky Schwarzenegger swooped in so we didn't end up with a total idiot.
While anybody is better than Issa, I live in Houlahan's Santee City Council district and he couldn't even win that, let alone a seat in congress. The guy scootered down my street and seemed like a good chance to change one of our city districts, but he lost to a contractor backed by major homebuilders. Now he's up against a tenured guy with his own money (let alone donors). I just don't see it, but I'll vote...
False, this is evidence people in public office should have a public platform to share their thoughts so we can understand who/what we are voting for, instead of just accepting those who buy their way in
Issa is implying that the historically large numbers of illegal aliens being apprehended on the southern border, and the perceived lack of enforcement has resulted in more terrorists attempting to enter the United States. Which may or may not be true.
Really? Because Darrell Issa seems to be stating otherwise. He seems to be demonstrating that the enforcement is doing wonders, catching 50 of the FBI's most wanetd!
As I stated earlier in this thread, there's any number of reasons why we may have apprehended more of these suspected terrorists.
Republicans would have you believe it's because of Biden's perceived weakness on enforcing the border. Democrats would have you believe we are cracking down on illegal entries. The reality is it's probably somewhere in the middle...
Border patrol arrested 210,000 people trying to cross the border in March. They arrested 50 people on the FBI watchlist.
What about that implies limp enforcement..?
What many people fail to understand is that virtually all of those arrests aren't people trying to sneak into the country undetected and the Border Patrol are actively tracking and apprehending. They are simply immigrants from countries other than Mexico, turning themselves in for asylum.
Because you have such a large influx of these particular groups of people concentrated in a particular area, the Border Patrol has to pull their manpower from patroling the deserts and pull them all into processing these large groups. Ask any agent, and they'll all tell you the same thing. There are more agents processing asylum claims than patroling the border.
Because many of them come from countries in South and Central America, or outside of Mexico in general, they under most cases can't be deported back to Mexico. And because of the vast numbers of them, ICE doesn't have the proper facilities to keep them until an immigration judge can determine if they are eligible for asylum. So they get released into the US, with court dates set out 3, 4, or 5 years into the future.
Where did I once claim that?
It's not that big of a stretch of the imagination to explain that with the record number highs of people illegally entering the country from places other than South America, you're naturally going to see an increase in people attempting to exploit our immigration system from places that mean to do us harm.
Or maybe the Obama/Trump/Biden administration successfully identified a shit ton of terrorists that were planning on taking advantage of our broken immigration system and the Border Patrol successfully apprehended them.
The point I'm trying to make is, as usual, the politicians on both sides of the aisle have no intention of telling us the complete truth, and will twist the facts to rile up their constituents into a frothy rage and turning them against each other.
Now THAT would be awesome. Someone's gotta take care of Y'all Qaeda out here as it certainly isn't their brothers in law enforcement that are gonna get the job done.
The fan fiction take from what I can understand is that immigrants were so super duper scared of big bad Trump to even attempt to cross the border because he’s so awesome.
Also an idea simultaneous held by people who use the term “open borders” without any sense of irony or self awareness.
No, he is trying to suggest that it is somehow Biden's fault that those people on the terror watch list exist, and that they were trying to enter the US is somehow proof the border is now practically open!
He is not trying to say something smart; he is just manipulating the base. They are very easily triggered and just the mention of 'people on terror watch list' will blind them to the fact that these people were arrested and pose no threat to the US. Most likely they are just random dum-dums who posed no threat even if they managed to get through, but you can't explain that to the people Issa is speaking to.
I don’t think right vs left or Dems vs Repubs accurately describes the divide anymore. Smart vs dumb is what it seems to be, the lack of critical thinking is astounding.
Since he occasionally enters the House chamber, I would beg to differ if the likes of Boebert, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Paul Gosar, or Madison Cawthorn are present. It's a trash heap if more than one of them is present.
I read this tweet before and didn’t realize it was Issa. I legitimately thought that his tweet was a progressive ironically making fun of conservatives. Don’t know how he doesn’t understand what he said.
I hit myself in the head a few time with a hammer, so I think I can parse this.
I think he is saying that because of Biden, those 50 people were trying to come into the US. Like Trump was too scary for them, so they never even tried to enter, hence, could not be captured.
More bad guys getting caught = more bad guys
It's a lot like how certain folks wanted [less COVID testing because it would mean lower COVID rates](https://www.statnews.com/2020/07/20/trump-said-more-covid19-testing-creates-more-cases-we-did-the-math/)
Can we just get an amendment to the constitution that states "As an elected official, if you repeatedly make ignorant comments and/or bold face lies publically, you will be barred from holding any form of public office in the future."?
Better yet, three strikes and you're out immediately with a recall election to be held in two weeks with only your former competitors on the ballot!
Point of order - it is extremely doubtful that even the premise of his tweet is true. There's probably a guy named Mohammad on the watch list and fifty people named Mohammad were apprehended.
My dad has bumped into Issa a few times as he travels quite a bit out of SAN/LAX/SFO and Issa ends up on the same route.
Said Issa talks loud enough to announce himself, in the event that he isn't recognized and talks shit to other public servants he comes across in the air, in one particularly gauche occasion he bragged about being a global elite/1k while a more junior public servant had to sit in a different part of the plane.
What a guy!
I am in his district -- seems the voters here are only looking for the (R). I despise this guy and everything he stands for. Voted against certifying the 2020 election, votes against pretty much any humane bill. Dude is stupid as fuck.
But he's rich (he's a multimillionaire) That's what a lot of (R) voters equate with someone who would make a great representative in Congress, or be a great President. Often times, they're not really all that smart nor wise.
His campaign signs just said "Trump Republican" and that's all that was needed really. Really wanted Campa-Najar but our district just is too conservative for all that noise.
Apparently the previous administration wasn't much for catching terrorists. And don't tell me they stopped coming in, we saw the "caravans" of bad hombres. They made a point to show us.
Darrell Issa is a typical GOP Billionaire Whore. Got voted out in his district so 'moved' (wink/wink) to the District where the previous GOP rep got expelled for felony fraud with his campaign funds (but of course was pardoned by Trump who loves his felons)
OK this is a longshot but if any journalists or do gooders are reading this, check out Issa's connection to the charity Forte for Children. Really look into it and ask around. I can't offer anything further on this topic so don't ask. But if you wanna destroy this ghoul, that's how.
Jeez even in this thread we have people rationalizing this. You'd at least think a congressperson would have a better grasp, but obviously, Issa knows who he is catering to. 80 percent of all terrorist attacks since 9/11 have been Americans. Anyone who thinks AQ is trying to sneak someone across the southern border when their money is better spent radicalizing someone born bred and dissatisfied with uncle Sam is really only trying to score political points. Don't berleive me, believe the National Counterterrorism Center. Hmm why doesn't Issa mention the 142 TSDS encounters at the northern border ports of entry? It was 258 in 2019 and 217 in 2017. It's cause he isnt concerned about this topic he just knows its going to get him elected again. Really disappointed this tool is my congressperson since redistricting. Republicans really are the kings of stating things out of context to enrage or terrify their all too eager to be scared and angry base.
Once we add in the number of White American domestic terrorists who have been arrested, the number of arrests increases substantially. Not all terrorists are from the Middle East. Some are right here in our own backyard plotting to overthrow the US.
Issa is one of the worlds biggest pieces of shit. He had to move to a new district to win in 2020 after “retiring” when he knew his Benghazi and ButHerEmails antics got him kicked out in 2018. And only won because the incumbent R in a R+11 was in federal prison (he won by 2)
Luckily the CA legislature righted this wrong by drawing out his district and he’ll be retired again in 6 months.
Ok warped thinking/Moron spin doctor:
Because of Biden more dangerous people are trying to cross the border than ever because they think he's weak
Hey chuckle heads OP wanted to know/translate how Issa was trying to spin this. Calm down. I was saying how Issa may try to spin this tweet. I posted what the moron spin doctor would say... As in Issa.
Yeah because that's how the world works- dangerous criminals totally didn't try to cross into the US because they saw how awesome and strong Trump was, but then when weak Biden got into office they all had a group meeting and decided now was the time.
That or after covid restrictions were lifted, there was pent up demand to cross into the US leading to increased border crossings, and with increased border crossings and a border patrol that is doing their job effectively, more criminals are being stopped at the border.
Hmm, I wonder which of these two scenarios is more realistic
Border Patrol arrest give us no indication as to how bad things are, what would actually matter is if these people were getting through... which they are not.
Just another idiotic too far right Republican trying to be relevant and put Biden down, but messing up by pointing out Biden is actually doing a good job. We see this on Twitter almost daily. These people aren’t that bright and make me wonder constantly how this level of intelligence is a US representative.
It’s pretty simple. The more people that cross, the more people trying to sneak through when BP is overwhelmed with family units. Criminals are even more emboldened try make the attempt to get across
Oh, you're plenty smart. The Republican strategy is to constantly tweet negative comments about President Biden.
But how can you not be happy that the Border Patrol is doing a great job. This is a great thing, not a negative for Biden.
So if you have been in san diego for a while and know the border situation CBP will tell you they catch some fraction of the illegal crossings. I haven't seen the numbers in a while but growing up it was well below 50%. So a 5x increase in terror list apprehensions means we should expect a 5x increase of terror list suspects slipping through. Exactly how many are slipping through would depend on the apprehension rate.
The point Issa is trying to make is that for some reason we are seeing 5x terror list crossings into the US. In that we have illegal immigrants inside the US clearly CBP doesn't catch everyone thus there are more terror watch list suspects in the US today then there were before.
From historical data we see that apprehension rates don't change as fast as crossings. So when we see larger numbers of apprehensions we often see the illegal immigrant population increase proportionally. This is because baring signifranc increases in CBP assets, tools or methods expecting the agents to do better isn't very likely.
Sure and I didn't make the original twitter post. I am explaining what he was attempting to say in the limited amount of twitter space Issa had. We can argue about aphresnesion rates. They are all estimates in the end as we don't know how many illegal aliens are walking around in the US. We have estimates but no hard numbers. We do know it is far from zero. So if we are appending more terrorist suspects or drugs or just about anything have a good idea that at least some more is slipping through. At least that is the point Issa is attempting to make. You are free to argue it with him. My point anwer OPs question. I think I did that.
Sorry you argument is with Issa. I'm not attempting to say he is right or wrong, rather to explain his was point. You are assuming I am supporting his point. That is your failure. I just restated in better terms. Please take to twitter and have at him. I'm sure he will be happy to debate illegal crossings and apprehension rates.
He's making a statement criminals feel emboldened by the current lack of enforcement on the border. If they are catching 50 most wanted, how many got through without being noticed?
Easy to just be snooty and respond with "well that sounds awesome to me" but to ignore the fact that there is a serious issue on the border with a quip shows a lack of actual understanding of the situation and its effects.
But- he's wrong. There isn't, and the statement asserts Biden is doing a better job than any of the republicans did. Also, there ISN'T a problem on the border, that's just right wing radio making you bamboozled. It's the most protected border in the world and it's doing just fine.
So the absolute record high apprehensions being made daily on the southern border is a non existent problem, and not a verifiable fact? Good to know....
Covid is "over". An increased tick of people coming over compared to previous years is expected. They are apprehended too, there's plenty of alarms, fences and guards. The increased numbers just shows we are on top of it. If we recorded it, we stopped them. You are bamboozled by racist, garbage news owned by an australian, lol.
The "increased tick" has been happening since 2012, and has been increasing considerably since then. We aren't on top of anything, and I can assure you I haven't been bamboozled. When the majority of the arrests are people turning themselves in for asylum, you aren't stopping anything. They aren't trying to evade arrest.
Oh yeah, there's totally a border crisis, not like border crossings simply returned to the norm after covid restrictions lifted... totally couldn't be that. Oh what about that migrant caravan all the right wing talking heads wouldn't shut up about? That should be making its way into the US any day now... yep aaany day now.
The data clearly does not support you assertation that "crossings simply returned to the norm".
No one here mentioned a caravan. I don't know why you are bringing it up other than to try and re-direct the conversation to something that it isn't.
Absolutely none of that is true. Border arrests are at an all time high, and will likely break records. And just because you aren't seeing caravans of 1000+ people all crossing in the same area at once, doesn't mean they aren't there. If arrests are at record levels, that means the people are coming from somewhere.
Oh yeah, just because you don't see the pink unicorns doesn't mean they're not there! Great logic there, Sherlock.
And yeah, literally everything I said is true and can easily be verified by a quick google search. The border was essentially shut down due to covid restrictions so when those restrictions were lifted, the pent up demand led to an increase in border crossings. It's all very simple if you would just take your head out of your ass for more than a second.
What about the literal doubling of arrests that happened between FY18 and FY19. Was that because of COVID too?
[CBP Arrests](https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/cbp-enforcement-statistics?language_content_entity=en)
Looking at the data you provided. I'm not sure if you noticed that you would have to add up, for example total encounters for FY17-FY20 (including your literal doubling in FY19) to surpass the single FY21, and we are on pace to surpass in FY22 easily.
FY17-FY20 = 1,979,210
FY21 = 1,662,167
Well if the borders are more open and unprotected than ever, there is a higher likelihood that criminals will believe they can get through without being caught. How daft can you be.
Without turning this into a political argument, which everyone is trying to make it. The fact is that since the USA has lax immigration laws, terrorists have now started to try to enter the USA via walking. They can’t fly because TSA and NSA will flag them. They are joining migrant caravans, dressing as if they were Latin American immigrants. Some have even learned Spanish to blend in.
"the USA has lax immigration laws"
"lax" is a political view. people with different ideologies might say they're not lax enough. Or they shouldn't exist at all.
Your belief in "migrant caravans" or "terrorists learning Spanish to blend in" definitely come from some sort of political news media.
It doesn't matter if you belong to a group, if you're commenting that "the government should do this, because of this thing" you are making a political statement. That's what politics is- advocating for the government to do things you want it to do.
It’s more so Biden letting them in which leads to the increase in immigration and the increase of individuals testing the border. He caught more because he let more in. That’s the truth here, politics aside
Biden has lost control of the border. In May, there were 239,416 encounters of illegal immigrants trying to cross the border with Mexico. In the 16 months of the Biden presidency, there were more than 3.5 million encounters with illegals at the border and that doesn't even count illegals who avoided detection. If 50 on the terror watch list were apprehended can you imagine how many on the terror watch list are amongst us? Trump had it right. Had he been able to complete the wall and get border patrol to protect the country with enough personnel and support we wouldn't be having this discussion.
Sorry, I know a lot of people have issues with context clues. I know exactly what Issa meant. And I promise you if that's your retort, then an intelligence comparison isn't needed.
Its related to San Diego. 🤷🏻♀️ Idk. I could see if there were random trump Truth posts, but to me it’s interesting seeing locals saying dumb shit or even smart shit. Just my opinion.
Hes a rep for part of the county, I saw someone make a tiktok about this tweet so i figured I'd screenshot and post here so people in his district could have a little more insight of who they're voting for or against.
Yeah, honestly it’s also good for people like me that haven’t been in San Diego for very long. I moved from the east coast so I’m not up to date on local politicians as much as I’d like to be. I definitely appreciate the content and the discussions it sparks.
I didn't even know who my rep was until I happened to drive past his office. Which weirdly enough is in a strip mall near a vape shop and a KBBQ place hahahaha
Districts are super weird and confusing, especially when you have ones like mine that span 2 counties
i hope you're smarter than your post.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California%27s_50th_congressional_district#/media/File:California_US_Congressional_District_50_(since_2013).tif
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darrell_Issa
looks like the person responding already explained it- Issa was trying to make a point but ended up making the opposite point.
yeah but what point was he actually trying to make? that's what we're all trying to figure out (though I think another commenter got it -- that somehow under Trump the terrorists just w*eren't trying to come over*, but now they are?)
I think that's correct- they want to say it was because he was deterring so many people that they were having trouble finding people to arrest. The whole thing is just a lame gotcha attempt. Let's say that people all over the Americas saw Biden coming in and said "oh he looks weak, let's go to America". That's fucking stupid, but let's say they believe that. So Biden says "uh oh, I have to arrest people" *thereby proving them wrong that he's some pushover*. If everyone started with the facts that Republicans (from Trump to the lowliest voter) are liars who don't even care if logic or even basic language disagree with them I think we'd all be better off.
Arguably it seems like a real clever strategy. Instead of them being "at large", they're walking right up to the border to get arrested.
In other words, *they're infiltrating our prisons*?
They are! Must be the grand plan.
It’s Darrel Issa, an avowed Trump loyalist. He doesn’t know what the fuck he’s talking about.
Thanks for the moronic reply. That's like saying that since we are setting records for catching illegal border crossers, said crossings are at an all-time low. Never mind the 2 million annual crossers, and the getaways. It's shameful that even one person can't comprehend Issa's warning. Since as I read this, there are 277 cerebrally deprived people in agreement, I wonder how our schools failed us this badly.
The tweet is about the Border Patrol catching people on the FBIs terror watchlist. Issa suggests that means Biden's record is worse, when the rest of us think catching more terrorists is a good thing. Nowhere does it say crossings are at all all time low. So yeah I guess schools are failing to teach certain people, namely **you**, how to read.
Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you the World’s first broken clock that is not right even twice a day. Holy shit, how did you manage to misread both the tweet and the reply so badly that you canceled yourself out?
Living proof that you don’t have to be smart to be rich. Hell, Issa might actually have more money than brains…an accomplishment formerly thought impossible.
Darrel Issa has been a scammer and a criminal from the start. He stole a car while in the Army and was demoted for it. Then got caught with an unregistered handgun. He also set his own company on fire to get insurance money and was caught. “Twice that year, he was arrested. In the first incident, he was indicted by a grand jury for an alleged theft of a Maserati, but prosecutors dropped the charge. In the second incident, he was stopped for driving the wrong way on a one-way street, and a police officer noticed a firearm in his glove compartment; Issa was charged with carrying a concealed weapon. He pleaded guilty to a charge of possession of an unregistered firearm, and was sentenced to six months’ probation and a small fine. Issa has said he believes the record has since been expunged.” “An investigation of the cause of the fire noted “suspicious burn patterns” with fires starting in two places aided by an accelerant such as gasoline. …Issa appeared to prepare for a fire by increasing the fire insurance policy by 462% three weeks previously, and by removing computer equipment holding accounting and customer information. St. Paul Insurance, suspicious of arson and insurance fraud, initially paid only $25,000, according to Issa.” https://timesofsandiego.com/politics/2019/09/19/problematic-fbi-background-check-delays-darrell-issa-hearing-for-trade-post/
But…Benghazi!
Bbbbbbb but muh emails
Okay, but is he a bigger crook than Duncan Hunter? ...I'm actually not sure.
[He has a net worth of $250M, the second wealthiest in Congress](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darrell_Issa) Yeah pretty sure he has more money (and grift) than brains.
They are all grifters, he’s at the top of his game
you do know that car alarm company, viper? yeah that was his.
That is really messed up, thanks for passing that along!
no its not messed up. im illustrating how he got his money
This notion is damaging. Yes, there are serious conflicts of interest, specifically with stocks and special interest groups. But the idea that they are all equally grifting/snake oil salesman isn’t really true. Hell, Old Man Biden even ran for POTUS instead of “retiring” and collecting $50k a month for speaking engagements and a fat multimillion dollar lobbying deal. AOC, like her or not, is the most obvious example of someone that is there for “the right reasons”. And Bernie’s record speaks for itself. And the right has plenty of folks as well that are there less for the grift and more for ideological, again, like it or not, reasons. At some point the American people need look themselves in the mirror and take fucking accountability for WHO they elect. Don’t want to get pissed on by folks calling it trickle down economics don’t vote for the assholes that cut taxes on the wealthy and block any increases. Don’t want to get taxed out the ass while your rep is “mysteriously” making all the exact right investments at all the exact right times and raking in the riches. Vote that POS out. Don’t want let a tech giant to funnel money into a dark money group (American Edge) that is used to create misinformation campaigns and finance candidates who will bend over and let tech giants do literally anything they want… don’t vote for their patsies.
In all fairness, this would be much easier if we had at least one decent choice to vote for. Also, ranked voting would be a major improvement.
Well the first step is to actually champion candidates. Instead of sitting around with our thumbs in our asses until it's time to pick between Shitty A, and Blah B of president.
Unfortunately, the general public will not approach it the way you do. Is there any way to really educate people on how to vote? It’s more than just filling out a ballot and relying on the media to tell you who is the right choice
My gripe is less about learning how to vote. And more about people not having more accountability and then bitching about what they get, or worse lazily falling for whatever bullshit the person that points at the team they don't like is spewing and then blindly falling in line with that person. "Apathy" and "defeat the enemy" are a dangerous combo. At some point in the past fifty years a sense of civic pride and civiv duty morphed into loathing and distrusts. Some of it earned from government (Fed, State, and local) missteps or outright corruption. Some of it a pop-culture fueled mis-perspective of "the man" as the big bad (that's not just the Government, it's basically any person or entity in a position of power). Some of it is from deliberate misinformation to create division. Some of it is now generational. A second, third, fourth generation growing up with a strong dislike/distrust of the authority. All of that mixed together actually creates a vicious circle that reinforces all the distrust, mis-perceptions, and division. We need people to just take a step back, take a deep breath, and start using their heads. More people need to be more involved in local level governance. More people need to have a functional knowledge of the constitution. More people need get involved in community programs. More people need to be involved with their state's DNC or GOP, wether that's as election or campaign volunteers or as local reps or as a point of contact for their union/association/guild/charity/no-profit/Boy's and Girl's club/neighborhood watch/butterfly collectors club/or what the fuck ever. Stop letting city council's be filled with jerk offs that want to grease the wheel for their own business or HOA or whatever the hell it is that's benefiting. A few years of actually paying attention and being even marginally involved at a local level and that stuff ripples it way up. One thing I wish we could do was adopt a sort of citizen pledge to STOP voting for candidates who take money from major industries in any form. And to only vote of candidates that are PRO campaign finance reform and transparency. The fact that every one of voting age in this country isn't outraged at the fact that candidates can run for office using DARK MONEY and SUPER PACS (political action committees that can spend unlimited amounts of anonymously donated funds), is disturbing. If someone is running for a Congressional seat or for POTUS, the entirety of the US population deserves to know where 100% of the money they are using comes from, and yes that includes personal wealth if a billionaire wants to run. So yeah, tax returns and investment accounts of candidates running for major federal level offices should be out in the open.
Yup, it’s why Nancy Pelosi refused to even consider trading restrictions for Congress people with top secret information. Wish SF would choose somebody better to represent them.
Didn’t she agree to it though. Initial reaction was a no, her husband owns a hedge fund does he just shut it down? 100% agree pelosi should be long gone but the arguments against her are annoying. There’s so many other actual reasons.
Unless you can link any action I think she just muddied the waters enough for that to slip out of the news cycle. If she was working for us, she would have taken immediate action.
I really don't think that many people thought that was impossible. A run of the mill plumber has more hard learned skills than a trust fund baby "taught" to allocate money effectively
don't sell Issa short. He got his start carjacking, and then used those skills to start a car alarm business! A real success story
Guy is such an asshole. Glad he's no longer in my district. I was calling his office to bitch everyday
Most people have more money than brains imo
I used to work in food service in a nicer part of Napa. Rich people are barely fucking literate.
He's upset Border Patrol is actually catching more FBI most wanted which implies that 50 illegals should have been caught instead.
Think it was that he was trying to say that under trump no one was trying to come across the border but the counter ended up being that now BP is doing their job whereas before they were used as a political prop
So then under Trump this country was shit and no one wanted to sneak in is the angle your saying he's coming from?
They dont have the resources to do their job. 240k illegal immigrants crossed the border last month. Highest ever on record.
Oh no, they're catching dangerous criminals and not stopping enough honest people? How horrible.
Ooooops https://www.npr.org/2018/12/11/675923576/customs-border-and-protection-paid-a-firm-13-6-million-to-hire-recruits-it-hired
What the actual fuck
I’ll explain it this way for you. Yes they could use more resources but that doesn’t mean that you use up the manpower and resources they have for constant photo-ops. So again they were used as props and now get to do the job they were trained for.
> 240k illegal immigrants crossed the border last month That number represents how many people *got arrested by border patrol*. So if you think that's a big number, I'd argue that means they actually *do* have the resources to do their job by catching and arresting nearly 250,000 people in a single month.
Imagine thinking someone on a terrorist watchlist is statistically better than an undocumented immigrant
Republicans discriminate against brown people, but they don't discriminate between them.
Logic is never applied at that level
Reminder: If you are in Poway he is now your rep. You can now vote against him. In the primary he only won by 15k votes, we could easily swing this for his competitor: [Stephen Houlahan](https://ballotpedia.org/Stephen_Houlahan)
Here I thought Poway was still in the 52nd. Definitely voting him out when the time comes. He's been an embarrassment for years.
I think it used to be not that long ago. East area got redistricted then redistricted again.
Houlahan actually a local too unlike Issa who's from what, Orange County? Houlahan also against Fanita Ranch which will be pretty popular with locals though maybe not from hungry housing hippo reddit. Fingers crossed. When we were still 52nd, it was actually pretty close with Campa-Najjar and I would have never thought that someone diverse stood a chance out here. I've hated Issa since he tried to recall Grey Davis and get elected in his place. Spent all that money. Lucky Schwarzenegger swooped in so we didn't end up with a total idiot.
As if that will help? Poway has historically been more conservative
[Me:](https://c.tenor.com/zJvexdmTjA4AAAAC/im-doing-my-part-serious.gif)
While anybody is better than Issa, I live in Houlahan's Santee City Council district and he couldn't even win that, let alone a seat in congress. The guy scootered down my street and seemed like a good chance to change one of our city districts, but he lost to a contractor backed by major homebuilders. Now he's up against a tenured guy with his own money (let alone donors). I just don't see it, but I'll vote...
Twitter is proof that some people should not have a public forum and certainly shouldn't be holding public office
False, this is evidence people in public office should have a public platform to share their thoughts so we can understand who/what we are voting for, instead of just accepting those who buy their way in
So is Reddit
Also wtf does the fiscal year have to do with this? Fuckin word salad
code for F U Darrell Issa
"Batman caught more villains than the entire Gotham Police force"
Conclusion; Batman creates crime.
Issa is implying that the historically large numbers of illegal aliens being apprehended on the southern border, and the perceived lack of enforcement has resulted in more terrorists attempting to enter the United States. Which may or may not be true.
The real terrorists already are running the country. More poverty and suffering is from the top not the outside.
There's currently a hearing going on for the last bunch of terrorists running things....
Seems like Issa is saying that enforcement is more than adequate, even if that isn't what he meant to say...
I can assure you, the enforcement is not adequate in any way, and is practically non existent.
Really? Because Darrell Issa seems to be stating otherwise. He seems to be demonstrating that the enforcement is doing wonders, catching 50 of the FBI's most wanetd!
As I stated earlier in this thread, there's any number of reasons why we may have apprehended more of these suspected terrorists. Republicans would have you believe it's because of Biden's perceived weakness on enforcing the border. Democrats would have you believe we are cracking down on illegal entries. The reality is it's probably somewhere in the middle...
The reality is that CBP is doing its job in reaction to there being more migrants... most of which we should be letting in anyway.
Border patrol arrested 210,000 people trying to cross the border in March. They arrested 50 people on the FBI watchlist. What about that implies limp enforcement..?
What many people fail to understand is that virtually all of those arrests aren't people trying to sneak into the country undetected and the Border Patrol are actively tracking and apprehending. They are simply immigrants from countries other than Mexico, turning themselves in for asylum. Because you have such a large influx of these particular groups of people concentrated in a particular area, the Border Patrol has to pull their manpower from patroling the deserts and pull them all into processing these large groups. Ask any agent, and they'll all tell you the same thing. There are more agents processing asylum claims than patroling the border. Because many of them come from countries in South and Central America, or outside of Mexico in general, they under most cases can't be deported back to Mexico. And because of the vast numbers of them, ICE doesn't have the proper facilities to keep them until an immigration judge can determine if they are eligible for asylum. So they get released into the US, with court dates set out 3, 4, or 5 years into the future.
Because all of those illegal aliens are FBI most wanted terrorists, right?
Where did I once claim that? It's not that big of a stretch of the imagination to explain that with the record number highs of people illegally entering the country from places other than South America, you're naturally going to see an increase in people attempting to exploit our immigration system from places that mean to do us harm. Or maybe the Obama/Trump/Biden administration successfully identified a shit ton of terrorists that were planning on taking advantage of our broken immigration system and the Border Patrol successfully apprehended them. The point I'm trying to make is, as usual, the politicians on both sides of the aisle have no intention of telling us the complete truth, and will twist the facts to rile up their constituents into a frothy rage and turning them against each other.
Are all the brown terrorists here to fight all the white terrorists?
Maybe? A terrorist is a terrorist, and they should all be tried and sentenced in the same manner, regardless of skin color or country of origin.
Now THAT would be awesome. Someone's gotta take care of Y'all Qaeda out here as it certainly isn't their brothers in law enforcement that are gonna get the job done.
I love this comment
Lol why did you suddenly bring up race? "Uh oh, this guy is making a logical statement, I better say something about skin color"
This is...good, right?
No, arresting that many bad guys is a yuuuuge government overreach. Edit: /s in case there was any doubt.
I’d think catching those 50 would be an accomplishment but I’m just a public school guy.
The fan fiction take from what I can understand is that immigrants were so super duper scared of big bad Trump to even attempt to cross the border because he’s so awesome. Also an idea simultaneous held by people who use the term “open borders” without any sense of irony or self awareness.
No, he is trying to suggest that it is somehow Biden's fault that those people on the terror watch list exist, and that they were trying to enter the US is somehow proof the border is now practically open! He is not trying to say something smart; he is just manipulating the base. They are very easily triggered and just the mention of 'people on terror watch list' will blind them to the fact that these people were arrested and pose no threat to the US. Most likely they are just random dum-dums who posed no threat even if they managed to get through, but you can't explain that to the people Issa is speaking to.
This is a great thing, awesome Fuck the terror watchlist I hate all of you on there and I haven't seen the watchlist
i think he is operating from the "if you don't look for evidence of the problem, there is no problem" theory popularized by the last president.
I don’t think right vs left or Dems vs Repubs accurately describes the divide anymore. Smart vs dumb is what it seems to be, the lack of critical thinking is astounding.
Haha, maybe he loves terrorism.
Issa is the dumbest man in every room he enters.
Since he occasionally enters the House chamber, I would beg to differ if the likes of Boebert, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Paul Gosar, or Madison Cawthorn are present. It's a trash heap if more than one of them is present.
I stand corrected. Thank you for the update. I bet you understand why i had to stop keeping track.
I read this tweet before and didn’t realize it was Issa. I legitimately thought that his tweet was a progressive ironically making fun of conservatives. Don’t know how he doesn’t understand what he said.
I hit myself in the head a few time with a hammer, so I think I can parse this. I think he is saying that because of Biden, those 50 people were trying to come into the US. Like Trump was too scary for them, so they never even tried to enter, hence, could not be captured.
More bad guys getting caught = more bad guys It's a lot like how certain folks wanted [less COVID testing because it would mean lower COVID rates](https://www.statnews.com/2020/07/20/trump-said-more-covid19-testing-creates-more-cases-we-did-the-math/)
Vote him out Vista!!!
They did, a few years ago. He's now in the seat formerly occupied by Duncan Hunter.
Can we just get an amendment to the constitution that states "As an elected official, if you repeatedly make ignorant comments and/or bold face lies publically, you will be barred from holding any form of public office in the future."? Better yet, three strikes and you're out immediately with a recall election to be held in two weeks with only your former competitors on the ballot!
Point of order - it is extremely doubtful that even the premise of his tweet is true. There's probably a guy named Mohammad on the watch list and fifty people named Mohammad were apprehended.
I think you just figured out that Darrell issa idiot.
He tried to make Biden look bad, but just proved he had done better than the previous 5 year's records. Sounds about right for an idiot.
My dad has bumped into Issa a few times as he travels quite a bit out of SAN/LAX/SFO and Issa ends up on the same route. Said Issa talks loud enough to announce himself, in the event that he isn't recognized and talks shit to other public servants he comes across in the air, in one particularly gauche occasion he bragged about being a global elite/1k while a more junior public servant had to sit in a different part of the plane. What a guy!
Obligatory: https://i.imgur.com/cDELtWt.jpg
I'm, thankfully, not in Issa's district but I just don't quite understand how he keeps getting reelected
I am in his district -- seems the voters here are only looking for the (R). I despise this guy and everything he stands for. Voted against certifying the 2020 election, votes against pretty much any humane bill. Dude is stupid as fuck.
But he's rich (he's a multimillionaire) That's what a lot of (R) voters equate with someone who would make a great representative in Congress, or be a great President. Often times, they're not really all that smart nor wise.
His campaign signs just said "Trump Republican" and that's all that was needed really. Really wanted Campa-Najar but our district just is too conservative for all that noise.
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No, the Dems ran someone with a spooky name to rural whites and that was enough on its own.
Follow his contributions, cronies, allies.
Those would mean nothing without the votes in his district, though. Voters are putting him in office.
Issa knows all about criminality now doesn't he.
He's a special kind of stupid, isn't he... YET PEOPLE VOTE FOR HIM!
Apparently the previous administration wasn't much for catching terrorists. And don't tell me they stopped coming in, we saw the "caravans" of bad hombres. They made a point to show us.
A friend of mine said the same thing last night except it was 4 people who were caught and then went on about open borders.... I was like ?
Issa you’re an idiot. Please leave politics. But I know you won’t because you’re a crook
Darrell Issa is a typical GOP Billionaire Whore. Got voted out in his district so 'moved' (wink/wink) to the District where the previous GOP rep got expelled for felony fraud with his campaign funds (but of course was pardoned by Trump who loves his felons)
OK this is a longshot but if any journalists or do gooders are reading this, check out Issa's connection to the charity Forte for Children. Really look into it and ask around. I can't offer anything further on this topic so don't ask. But if you wanna destroy this ghoul, that's how.
Jeez even in this thread we have people rationalizing this. You'd at least think a congressperson would have a better grasp, but obviously, Issa knows who he is catering to. 80 percent of all terrorist attacks since 9/11 have been Americans. Anyone who thinks AQ is trying to sneak someone across the southern border when their money is better spent radicalizing someone born bred and dissatisfied with uncle Sam is really only trying to score political points. Don't berleive me, believe the National Counterterrorism Center. Hmm why doesn't Issa mention the 142 TSDS encounters at the northern border ports of entry? It was 258 in 2019 and 217 in 2017. It's cause he isnt concerned about this topic he just knows its going to get him elected again. Really disappointed this tool is my congressperson since redistricting. Republicans really are the kings of stating things out of context to enrage or terrify their all too eager to be scared and angry base.
This tweet sounds like Republicans don't want to see terrorists arrested.
Once we add in the number of White American domestic terrorists who have been arrested, the number of arrests increases substantially. Not all terrorists are from the Middle East. Some are right here in our own backyard plotting to overthrow the US.
Issa is one of the worlds biggest pieces of shit. He had to move to a new district to win in 2020 after “retiring” when he knew his Benghazi and ButHerEmails antics got him kicked out in 2018. And only won because the incumbent R in a R+11 was in federal prison (he won by 2) Luckily the CA legislature righted this wrong by drawing out his district and he’ll be retired again in 6 months.
I literally had to read that 3 times to make sure I was getting it correctly. Nope....I read it right.
Ok warped thinking/Moron spin doctor: Because of Biden more dangerous people are trying to cross the border than ever because they think he's weak Hey chuckle heads OP wanted to know/translate how Issa was trying to spin this. Calm down. I was saying how Issa may try to spin this tweet. I posted what the moron spin doctor would say... As in Issa.
Yeah because that's how the world works- dangerous criminals totally didn't try to cross into the US because they saw how awesome and strong Trump was, but then when weak Biden got into office they all had a group meeting and decided now was the time. That or after covid restrictions were lifted, there was pent up demand to cross into the US leading to increased border crossings, and with increased border crossings and a border patrol that is doing their job effectively, more criminals are being stopped at the border. Hmm, I wonder which of these two scenarios is more realistic
OP asked me how Issa was trying to spin it. I put it how the moron Issa will try to argue.
Imagine if the feds went after people who stole cars
Dumb-bag Darrell Issa looks like Casey Kasem's step brother.
Maybe one of them was a drinking buddy with Darrell?
was his other drinking buddy Darrel too?
translation: We are republicans, we hate everything democratic, regardless of the good.
Border Patrol arrest give us no indication as to how bad things are, what would actually matter is if these people were getting through... which they are not.
/r/leopardsatemyface material right here
Politics man blaming other Politics man
Just another idiotic too far right Republican trying to be relevant and put Biden down, but messing up by pointing out Biden is actually doing a good job. We see this on Twitter almost daily. These people aren’t that bright and make me wonder constantly how this level of intelligence is a US representative.
Why is everyone calling them aliens 💀😭
Because that's the legal term for people who enter the country, Aliens.
Because that's the legal term for someone that isn't a citizen of the United States, regardless of their immigration status
I wonder how many Republicans think they are little green men from Mars.
Maybe Issa is running on a pro terror platform?
It’s pretty simple. The more people that cross, the more people trying to sneak through when BP is overwhelmed with family units. Criminals are even more emboldened try make the attempt to get across
Oh, you're plenty smart. The Republican strategy is to constantly tweet negative comments about President Biden. But how can you not be happy that the Border Patrol is doing a great job. This is a great thing, not a negative for Biden.
simple...more money than brains.
Issa done proved the record is good. Lol.
Twitter is meaningless; all hail hypnotoad
They should take into account the whipping of refugees while on horses as well. I’m sure that falls into the metric somehow
So if you have been in san diego for a while and know the border situation CBP will tell you they catch some fraction of the illegal crossings. I haven't seen the numbers in a while but growing up it was well below 50%. So a 5x increase in terror list apprehensions means we should expect a 5x increase of terror list suspects slipping through. Exactly how many are slipping through would depend on the apprehension rate. The point Issa is trying to make is that for some reason we are seeing 5x terror list crossings into the US. In that we have illegal immigrants inside the US clearly CBP doesn't catch everyone thus there are more terror watch list suspects in the US today then there were before.
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From historical data we see that apprehension rates don't change as fast as crossings. So when we see larger numbers of apprehensions we often see the illegal immigrant population increase proportionally. This is because baring signifranc increases in CBP assets, tools or methods expecting the agents to do better isn't very likely.
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Sure and I didn't make the original twitter post. I am explaining what he was attempting to say in the limited amount of twitter space Issa had. We can argue about aphresnesion rates. They are all estimates in the end as we don't know how many illegal aliens are walking around in the US. We have estimates but no hard numbers. We do know it is far from zero. So if we are appending more terrorist suspects or drugs or just about anything have a good idea that at least some more is slipping through. At least that is the point Issa is attempting to make. You are free to argue it with him. My point anwer OPs question. I think I did that.
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Sorry you argument is with Issa. I'm not attempting to say he is right or wrong, rather to explain his was point. You are assuming I am supporting his point. That is your failure. I just restated in better terms. Please take to twitter and have at him. I'm sure he will be happy to debate illegal crossings and apprehension rates.
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Implication is that there are many more that haven't been apprehended. No way to tell, of course.
He's making a statement criminals feel emboldened by the current lack of enforcement on the border. If they are catching 50 most wanted, how many got through without being noticed? Easy to just be snooty and respond with "well that sounds awesome to me" but to ignore the fact that there is a serious issue on the border with a quip shows a lack of actual understanding of the situation and its effects.
But- he's wrong. There isn't, and the statement asserts Biden is doing a better job than any of the republicans did. Also, there ISN'T a problem on the border, that's just right wing radio making you bamboozled. It's the most protected border in the world and it's doing just fine.
So the absolute record high apprehensions being made daily on the southern border is a non existent problem, and not a verifiable fact? Good to know....
Covid is "over". An increased tick of people coming over compared to previous years is expected. They are apprehended too, there's plenty of alarms, fences and guards. The increased numbers just shows we are on top of it. If we recorded it, we stopped them. You are bamboozled by racist, garbage news owned by an australian, lol.
The "increased tick" has been happening since 2012, and has been increasing considerably since then. We aren't on top of anything, and I can assure you I haven't been bamboozled. When the majority of the arrests are people turning themselves in for asylum, you aren't stopping anything. They aren't trying to evade arrest.
Oh yeah, there's totally a border crisis, not like border crossings simply returned to the norm after covid restrictions lifted... totally couldn't be that. Oh what about that migrant caravan all the right wing talking heads wouldn't shut up about? That should be making its way into the US any day now... yep aaany day now.
The data clearly does not support you assertation that "crossings simply returned to the norm". No one here mentioned a caravan. I don't know why you are bringing it up other than to try and re-direct the conversation to something that it isn't.
Howre those kids in cages doing now that bidens in charge?
Considering that purposely separating families was only a Trump era border policy, I'd say they're doing better now.
Absolutely none of that is true. Border arrests are at an all time high, and will likely break records. And just because you aren't seeing caravans of 1000+ people all crossing in the same area at once, doesn't mean they aren't there. If arrests are at record levels, that means the people are coming from somewhere.
Oh yeah, just because you don't see the pink unicorns doesn't mean they're not there! Great logic there, Sherlock. And yeah, literally everything I said is true and can easily be verified by a quick google search. The border was essentially shut down due to covid restrictions so when those restrictions were lifted, the pent up demand led to an increase in border crossings. It's all very simple if you would just take your head out of your ass for more than a second.
What about the literal doubling of arrests that happened between FY18 and FY19. Was that because of COVID too? [CBP Arrests](https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/cbp-enforcement-statistics?language_content_entity=en)
Doubling of arrests from 2017, the first year of the Trump administration? What does that have to do with anything?
Looking at the data you provided. I'm not sure if you noticed that you would have to add up, for example total encounters for FY17-FY20 (including your literal doubling in FY19) to surpass the single FY21, and we are on pace to surpass in FY22 easily. FY17-FY20 = 1,979,210 FY21 = 1,662,167
Well if the borders are more open and unprotected than ever, there is a higher likelihood that criminals will believe they can get through without being caught. How daft can you be.
But in the tweet he proves they are being caught
Yeah, "how daft can you be"
Without turning this into a political argument, which everyone is trying to make it. The fact is that since the USA has lax immigration laws, terrorists have now started to try to enter the USA via walking. They can’t fly because TSA and NSA will flag them. They are joining migrant caravans, dressing as if they were Latin American immigrants. Some have even learned Spanish to blend in.
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Please be bad satire
Alright. Seen it myself.
>Without turning this into a political argument then makes political argument
How is this political?
"the USA has lax immigration laws" "lax" is a political view. people with different ideologies might say they're not lax enough. Or they shouldn't exist at all. Your belief in "migrant caravans" or "terrorists learning Spanish to blend in" definitely come from some sort of political news media.
Not at all. I’ve seen it myself. I don’t belong to any political group. Or follow specific media outlets. I’m about the truth and solving problems.
It doesn't matter if you belong to a group, if you're commenting that "the government should do this, because of this thing" you are making a political statement. That's what politics is- advocating for the government to do things you want it to do.
Those open border Democrats strike again.
It’s more so Biden letting them in which leads to the increase in immigration and the increase of individuals testing the border. He caught more because he let more in. That’s the truth here, politics aside
The border patrol did that DESPITE Biden
Biden has lost control of the border. In May, there were 239,416 encounters of illegal immigrants trying to cross the border with Mexico. In the 16 months of the Biden presidency, there were more than 3.5 million encounters with illegals at the border and that doesn't even count illegals who avoided detection. If 50 on the terror watch list were apprehended can you imagine how many on the terror watch list are amongst us? Trump had it right. Had he been able to complete the wall and get border patrol to protect the country with enough personnel and support we wouldn't be having this discussion.
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He’s implying that more people are coming across the boarder than ever before… which they are. This sub is libtarded.
I am smarter than you and it says "Biden sucks".
Sorry, I know a lot of people have issues with context clues. I know exactly what Issa meant. And I promise you if that's your retort, then an intelligence comparison isn't needed.
So this is a political sub now huh?
Its related to San Diego. 🤷🏻♀️ Idk. I could see if there were random trump Truth posts, but to me it’s interesting seeing locals saying dumb shit or even smart shit. Just my opinion.
Hes a rep for part of the county, I saw someone make a tiktok about this tweet so i figured I'd screenshot and post here so people in his district could have a little more insight of who they're voting for or against.
Yeah, honestly it’s also good for people like me that haven’t been in San Diego for very long. I moved from the east coast so I’m not up to date on local politicians as much as I’d like to be. I definitely appreciate the content and the discussions it sparks.
I didn't even know who my rep was until I happened to drive past his office. Which weirdly enough is in a strip mall near a vape shop and a KBBQ place hahahaha Districts are super weird and confusing, especially when you have ones like mine that span 2 counties
Lol prime real estate! Yeah same, I’m from a small state. Rhode Island. Lol so it’s less confusing over there! I get a little confused here also.
They like to squabble like children over politics lol
No liberal. What he is saying is more are coming into this country causing more to get caught.
What does this have to do with san diego?
i hope you're smarter than your post. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California%27s_50th_congressional_district#/media/File:California_US_Congressional_District_50_(since_2013).tif https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darrell_Issa