With a national debt exceeding $38 Trillion - should we be funding illegal aliens with billions of dollars? The national insanity continues - thanks to GOP rinos.

 

Senate GOP fails to halt welfare funding for non-citizens

By Sarah Roderick-Fitch | The Center Square 2-1-26

U.S. Senate Republicans failed to halt over $5 billion in funding for refugees, with 20 GOP senators joining every Senate Democrat to continue providing costly taxpayer benefits to refugees. U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., introduced the End Welfare for Non-Citizens Act.

U.S. Senate Republicans failed to halt over $5 billion in funding for refugees, with 20 GOP senators joining every Senate Democrat to continue providing costly taxpayer benefits to refugees.

U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., introduced the End Welfare for Non-Citizens Act to end taxpayer benefits for refugees, asylees and illegal immigrants earlier this week.

In an impassioned plea on the Senate floor Friday afternoon, Paul argued that the U.S. shouldn’t be “the world’s sugar daddy.”

“Many refugees are good people, frankly, some of the best Americans just got here, but our welcome mat should not be a welfare check. Anyone who sponsors immigrants or refugees should be responsible for their welfare,” the senator argued before the vote.

As previously reported by The Center Square, nearly $6 billion in continual funding for refugees is poised to be approved.

Funding for the refugee program skyrocketed under the Biden administration as part of the Refugee and Entrant Assistant programs.

The funding rose from less than $2 billion in fiscal year 2021, the last year of President Donald Trump’s first term, to nearly $9 billion the next fiscal year – the first year of former President Joe Biden’s administration.

Despite the government admitting many of the refugees were unvetted, taxpayers are poised to remain on the hook for billions of dollars, as many of these refugees continue to qualify for over a dozen taxpayer-funded benefits.

The benefits refugees are eligible to receive include: Supplemental Security Income (SSI), Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Women, Infants and Children (WIC), HUD Public Housing and Section 8 housing vouchers, emergency Medicaid, Affordable Care Act health plans and subsidies, full-scope Medicaid, Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), federal student aid and Pell grants, REAL ID, Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act services, refugee resettlement programs through the Office of Refugee Resettlement and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), according to the National Immigration Law Center.

For those who didn’t qualify for SSI or TANF, refugees were eligible for up to 12 months of Refugee Cash Assistance (RCA) through the ORR.

In addition, many refugees qualified for employment assistance through Refugee Support Services, which included: childcare, transportation, “employability services,” job training and preparation, job search assistance, placement and retention, English language training, translation and interpreter services and case management, according to the Administration for Children and Families Office of Refugee Resettlement.

The ORR also noted that “some clients may be eligible for specialized programs such as health services, technical assistance for small business start-ups and financial savings.”

Many refugees also qualified for “immigration-related legal assistance” to assist them “on their pathway to obtaining a permanent status.”

Congressionally appropriated spending on refugee and migrant assistance programs rose sharply under the Biden administration, totaling roughly $30 billion over those four years.

In particular, lawmakers significantly increased appropriations for the Refugee and Entrant Assistance programs – housed in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services – which provide benefits to eligible refugees.

In fiscal year 2021, the last year of Trump’s first term, Congress appropriated $1.91 billion for REA programs. That number shot up to $8.92 billion the following year, coinciding with the influx of Afghan refugees and record-high border crossings.

Total federal assistance for refugee programs in fiscal year 2023, however, reached $10 billion, as an OpenTheBooks investigation highlighted.

“With a national debt exceeding $38 trillion, Washington should not be running a welfare system on autopilot,” according to a release from Paul's office. “The End Welfare for Non-Citizens Act puts America First by stopping taxpayer dollars from being siphoned into benefits for non-citizens. If we want a sustainable safety net and responsible stewardship of taxpayer dollars, this bill is a must-pass.”

Among his first acts upon his second inauguration in January 2025, Trump suspended the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program, saying “it would be detrimental to the interests of the United States.”

 

Numerous links in this post about migrants 'with their feet' transforming European demographics.

 

Spain offering amnesty to 500K illegal migrants bucks EU, global trend, sparks backlash

Spain is the European Union’s only major member state still governed by a socialist-led coalition.

By Eric J. Lyman in Rome 1-30-26 justthenews.com

At a time when most of Europe is tightening border controls and rethinking asylum policies, Spain is taking a different tack, announcing a dramatic regularization plan for undocumented migrants that has sparked domestic backlash and raised eyebrows among leaders from other European states.

Spain, the European Union’s only major member state still governed by a socialist-led coalition, this week announced a reform that will grant up to half a million people legal status. In a country of around 50 million residents, that amounts to around 1% of the population.

In announcing the reform, Elma Saiz, Spain’s minister for Migration, said beneficiaries of the reform will be able to seek work “in any sector, in any part of the country.” 

She also said migrants in the country had “a positive impact” and that the plan would “give dignity” to people already working in Spain.

“Some say we’re going too far, that we’re going against the current,” Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said via social media. “When did recognizing human rights become something radical?”

Spain’s change in policy comes as the European Union’s other major countries – France, Germany and Italy – have been pushing for tighter immigration controls, stepping up border patrols, scaling back asylum rights and helping to fund initiatives to create incentives for would-be migrants from Africa, the Middle East and Asia to stay home.

As in the U.S., public sentiment in Europe is largely opposed to the plan. But European countries have so far stopped short of the Trump administration's effort – led by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency – that focuses on locking down its borders to stop illegal migration and deporting those already in the country with criminal records.

“We know we have to take more control over our borders,” Magnus Brunner, the European Union’s top migration official, said this week.

In France the number of “regularized” migrants was down 10% last year compared to 2024, though there was an increase in foreign student arrivals. In broad terms, the country has been stepping up enforcement efforts by hiring more agents and increasing border control budgets.

On Friday, Germany reached a deal to finally implement the European Union’s Common European Asylum System over opposition by the far-right Alternative for Germany political party. While the reform will speed up processing of asylum requests, it will also reduce access to programs by unauthorized arrivals.

In Italy, which has pushed hardest for stricter European rules on mass migration, the topic was front page news this week after the trial began to determine responsibility for a 2023 migrant tragedy in which 90 people die off the southern Italian coast while trying to reach Italian shores. 

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni continues to push for a plan that would allow Italy to process new refugee arrivals at facilities in Albania, which is outside the European Union and so not subject to the bloc’s asylum rules.

In the U.K., which is not a member of the European Union, a new survey said that the public continues to believe migrant arrivals are on the rise even as numbers trend downward. Late last year, tension over the topic of illegal migration sparked riots and protests in some parts of the country.  

Spain says most of the new arrivals there are coming from Latin America, though the backlash against the new policy is based in part on media reports about arrivals from Africa scaling fences to reach Spanish enclaves in North Africa or reaching Spain’s shores in makeshift boats.

According to data from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, overall “irregular” migrant arrivals in January were about half the level from a year earlier and down by 60% compared to the same month in 2024. 

Last year was the second consecutive year that overall refugee arrivals in Europe declined following a seven-year high of more than 275,000 new arrivals in 2023, UN statistics showed.

Alan Mendoza, executive director of the Henry Jackson Society, a trans-Atlantic foreign policy and national security think tank, based in the United Kingdom, told Fox News Digital, "Spain’s decision appears calculated to increase the lure of Europe as a destination for illegal migrants in general, causing problems for all of its neighbors. 

"If Spain wishes to become a repository for such people, then I’m sure other European countries would appreciate signing agreements to transfer their own illegal migrants there," he said. "Absent this, we will all be paying the price for Spanish largesse."

Vox, a national conservative political party in Spain, considers the plan amnesty that could fuel irregular migration.

Vox leader Santiago Abascal wrote on social media that the measure "harms all Spaniards," Fox Digital also reports. 

 

Minnesota Governor Walz certainly has 'encouraged' the massive protests with his explosive words.

 

Tim Walz asks if civil war is breaking out — and gets bombarded with brutal mockery

Carlos Garcia January 29, 2026 theblaze.com

The Democrat does not appear to understand his own historical analogy.

As agitators continue to interrupt federal immigration operations in Minnesota, the state's governor is tossing gasoline on the conflagration by implying a civil war is erupting.

Democratic Gov. Tim Walz asked if the violence in Minnesota was akin to that at Fort Sumter, which famously precipitated the Civil War of the 1860s.

'That is literally the dumbest f**king thing anyone has ever said in the history of anything.'

"I mean, is this a Fort Sumter?" Walz asked rhetorically in an interview with the Atlantic.

"It’s a physical assault," he added. "It’s an armed force that’s assaulting, that’s killing my constituents, my citizens."

The failed vice presidential candidate was referring to the lethal shooting of Renee Good, who had driven her car into an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent, and a second lethal shooting of nurse Alex Pretti, who interfered with an operation while armed with a gun.

While many have been calling for a calming of heated rhetoric, the comments from Walz were widely ridiculed on social media.

"What a complete and total dumbass. Good grief," replied CNN commentator Scott Jennings.

"Tim Walz is, to put it mildly, not the sharpest tool in the shed," responded Mike Coté of the Spectator.

"That is literally the dumbest f**king thing anyone has ever said in the history of anything, and quoting it as though it were not condemns the Tweeter as well," replied John Podhoretz of Commentary.

"Walz, once again, proves he is a moron who both lacks the context for the (horrible and inaccurate) historical analogies he uses and also is not lowering the heated rhetoric. The fact Harris thought this guy was some kind of positive is astounding," said another user.

Others pointed out that Walz appeared to misunderstand his own comparison.

"Federal agents are in a recalcitrant state trying to enforce federal law, and the governor of that state wonders if it’s Fort Sumter without stopping to puzzle out which side that makes him in the analogy," replied Charles C.W. Cooke of National Review.

RELATED: Tim Walz says Democrats need to be 'meaner' and 'bully the s**t out of' Trump

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge8MXLVpVGU

"Uh. Yeah. That is a more apt comparison than he probably realizes. Once again, democrats starting a Civil War to keep their slaves. (Walz, dude, you are the bad guy)," said another user.

Walz is under investigation for allegations that he obstructed investigations into massive fraud in the Minnesota Somali community. He has since dropped his re-election campaign for the governor's office.