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If you’re in the middle class, you don’t need me to tell you that everything is too expensive and it is hard to make ends meet, let alone build wealth. Costs have risen over the last 4 years, and they haven’t come down enough, nor have wages caught up enough to meaningfully ameliorate the pain.
We’re 4 million homes short in this country. We understand this acutely in Charlotte—and two weeks ago, the average age of a first time home buyer in America crept above the age of 40 for the first time in history. Young Americans are stuck in apartments or their parents’ homes, deferring the traditional wealth building process of home ownership by a decade or more. That carries a LIFETIME of consequence.
You cannot tell me that being 4 million homes short, yet allowing AT LEAST 14 million people to enter our country illegally over the past 4 years, are not connected in any way and are not driving significant challenges for American citizens. I don’t buy it, and while I don’t buy it, Americans don't feel safe in their cities, either, Charlotte included. There are and remain serious consequences of a societal breakdown of law, order, and the way things should be.
Enter the reaction to Operation’s Charlotte’s Web. The chairwoman of the North Carolina Democratic Party just equated ICE and Border Patrol agents to members of the KKK. Yes, the leader of a statewide political party is villainizing law enforcement, something that has happened repeatedly in Charlotte and every other American city in recent years, simply for upholding our laws and apprehending only 370 illegal aliens.
But what she’s either conveniently forgetting or deliberately ignoring is what we’ve already discussed: countless Americans feel left behind. They see elite politicians prioritizing 370 illegal aliens over 750,000 American citizens who are simply trying to make it in life—and are struggling to do so. Yet the elite politicians are out there breaking their backs to protect illegal aliens without any regard for the safety of law enforcement, or corresponding outcomes for American citizens. This is a betrayal of the purpose of the government.
I want to state unequivocally that I believe immigration and immigrants are vitally important—LEGAL IMMIGRATION, and LEGAL IMMIGRANTS. And, I fundamentally believe there are good people in our country illegally, who simply want the same things we want: more opportunity, and a fair shake to work hard and make a go of it. I understand this and the humanitarian argument behind it.
But, although ours is a compassionate nation—who has taken the huddled masses—we are also a nation of laws. And the enforcement of those laws makes us a just society, not a mean one, and not an evil one. It is a lack of opportunity and justice that illegal immigrants are fleeing, finding refuge here in the United States. But when their first act in coming here is breaking the law, it sows the exact same seeds of chaos here that first destroyed the countries from which they left. That destruction will follow them here, if we do not enforce our laws.
We have an obligation to protect American citizens from crime and deteriorating opportunity. Enforcing the law does not make us Klansmen, but failing to enforce the law will be our national suicide.
https://x.com/RepPatHarrigan/status/1993031474359271456
Congressman Zach Nunn @ZachNunn - To the men and women of our military and intelligence community: keep doing what you're doing — serving proudly and patriotically to defend the Constitution and our nation.
Thank you for your faith in America, and for ignoring the political messages of a select group of lawmakers who are trying to infuse politics into military service.
It's unconscionable, it deserves to be called out, and most importantly, it should be ignored.
https://x.com/ZachNunn/status/1992997933009002786
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