Arizona GOP gubernatorial candidate wants to ‘declare an invasion.’ Here’s what she means

Arizona's Republican gubernatorial candidate, Kari Lake, pledged to "declare an invasion" over the immigration crisis at the southern border. CNN's Kyung Lah speaks to a law professor who breaks down what Lake means.
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  1. CNN says, “You didn’t hear what you heard. You didn’t see what you saw. You don’t know what you know. We will tell what to see, hear and know”.

    1. Yes, they gave us 4 good years under trump. No war, no high inflation, lower crime….better prices, better living, better future.

    1. yup. Trump had over a million encounters at the southern border in 2019 and 477,000 immigrants were added to the US population from every country on earth. Encounters were twice as many of any year since 2007.

      Biden saw 2.8m encounters, which continued the trump trajectory but he only added 244,000 new immigrants, documented or otherwise to the US population in 2021.

      Biden recovered every job in every sector of the economy that was still unfilled when he took office and created five million excess jobs on top of that.

      Reagan “fixed the economy” by raising taxes on the middle class and giving 3m undocumented visitors a path to citizenship. Biden only raised taxes on the top 1.8% of earners and he hasn’t given any immigrants amnesty – but he should. We need immigrants.

      When Trump took office there were about half a million immigration cases in the courts. Trump left Biden with a 1.3 Million Case Backlog in Immigration Court.

      According to CATO, Trump’s changes in immigration enforcement policies can explain 90 percent of the drop in removals between Oct. 2019 and April 2021 while actions taken during the Biden administration can explain about 10 percent of the drop.

      Biden was 5x more effective at protecting our borders in 2021 than trump was in 2019 when the trump border crisis began.

    1. Yet you can’t say how.
      What is a mess is someone like mark kelly who ADMITS border problems, yet voted against more agents. Voted to give convicted felons in prison stimulus checks. Has done nothing.
      Then talk about the hobgoblin. (Hobbs), a weak, won’t debate, runs from reporters, and is a certified racist. State of AZ had to pay a lot of money for her racism settlement.
      Clown show much? 😅😅😅😅

  2. Can someone tell me when we should expect that check from Mexico paying for the wall? Still waiting Republicans. That was your campaign promise after all.

    1. @Passing through Time you are the reason why I am starting to believe people should go to college before voting.

  3. “It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.”
    ― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

  4. America being the “land of immigrants” is a bit different then the land of illegal immigrants don’t you think

  5. A status conference has been scheduled for Tuesday at 10 a.m. in a federal courthouse in Phoenix.

    Arizona Republican gubernatorial nominee Kari Lake, who has embraced the politics of former President Donald Trump’s election lies and has not committed to accepting the results of her own race if she loses, said on Wednesday that she hadn’t “heard anything about” the report, but immediately seized on it to promote a central plank of her campaign.

  6. Republi-cons are the ones blocking immigration reform – Border problems could easily be solved by streamlining the system. Simply offer cost-deferred visas and work permits, along with background check for anyone who wants to visit or work. This way non-citizens could be taxed to cover indigents, and law enforcement could focus on real dangerous people.

    People crossing national borders are no more or less bad for the country than people crossing state borders. Population increase through immigration is just as good or better than population increase through domestic birth.

    The vast majority of people trying to get in could afford temporary housing to get started, but end up losing their life savings paying crooked smugglers to get them past our absurd restrictions. This is all counterproductive and just political.

  7. If it can be done it will be done considering the fact that she’s a shoe in to win against Katie Hobbs at this point.

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