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E.J. Dionne gushes over President Biden's State of the Union and how it will change the unwanted trajectory of his presidency.

Nothing could be further from the truth!

As many letter writers to The R-G are concerned with the evils of the Trump presidency, which is no more, they miss the counterculture Biden presidency. Nothing makes sense. For example, Russias brutal attack on Ukraine, negotiating with Iran (one of four countries in the world that is sponsoring terrorism), inflation, increased violence in the cities, illegal immigration at the southern border and curtailing fossil fuels in America, which leads to a loss of jobs and dependence on foreign countries who wish to harm America.

These are only a few such policies that testcommon sense andDionne is wrapped up inBiden's political speech andfuture when America is becoming a shellof the Jefferson/Madison/Monroe philosophy of limiting Federalism.

Is it too late to change course?

Joel Marks, Florence

Thank you for the very comprehensive article on Measure 110.

Voterswho approved Measure 110 legalizing certain quantities of life-ruining substances such as methamphetamine and heroin have been duped. A year later and there is no clear indication, contrary to the ballot measure contention, that funded treatment programs have materialized. Hard-drug abusers should be given the option to receive the treatment they need, or be forced out of our communities through incarceration.

Either way, voters have been fooled on this one. Bureaucratic infighting and red tape have prevented the immediate roll out of treatment centers, and police have one less tool to combat rampant drug abuse and property crime in our state.

Seth P. Shenker, Eugene

President Biden wont be sending our military to fight in Ukraine, so its simply a matter of time before Russias military capability overtakes Ukraine.

When planning Ukraines invasion, Putin anticipated the current sanctions and for years has accumulated a pool of money intended to offset the effects he knew sanctions would have on Russias economy.

Recently, Putin rattled his nuclear sword. Bullies are only deterred after their own nose gets bloodied. Without harsher economic reprisals for Putins brutality happening soon, Moldova will become his next victim.

Today our best option for supporting the brave Ukrainian people and avoiding WWIII is to punish Russia with sanctions on their fossil fuel exports. Russias money pool will evaporate much faster without fossil fuel revenues.

This move will drive up already high world oil prices and put further economic hardships on Europeans as well as Americans. That is still much less traumatic than what Ukrainians are experiencing and a much better choice than shedding blood and risking nuclear war.

Doing nothing further to punish Putin would eventually represent a more substantial risk to world peace.

Bob Hoitt, Springfield

In the March 3 Register-Guard guest view supporting EmX buildouts, no mention was made of EmX ridership, nor revenue data. That could be because no accurate, verifiable statistics exist. Unlike conventional buses, EmX has no internal fare enforcement. Drivers have no contact with passengers, so they cannot ascertain fare payment. No electronic, nor mechanical, oversight exists to verify ridership or revenue. Very rarely does a transit officer check fares, but only at Eugene or Springfield stations. They do not ride the route to confront oncoming passengers.

Why hasnt LTD or Eugene remedied this huge hole in their accounting records? EmX virtue invocation means nothing without paying customers. Accurate and auditable revenue and patronage metrics must be collected. Both federal and state agencies granting taxpayer money for EmX projects demand that data. What are LTD and Eugene going to present? EmX has been in existence for nearly 15 years, so no excuse exists for not solving this problem. Until then, shelve proposed EmX buildouts.

Charlie Rojas, Eugene

The article Moving ahead (R-G, March 6) indicates thepurpose of the partnership between Eugene, LTD and other regional entities" (unnamed) is to redesign major streets inEugene to "make them work better for takingthe bus, walking and biking.

Since the majority of users of these thoroughfares arepeopledrivingprivate or commercial vehicles and since a significant portion of thefunds are generated from gasoline taxes, itseems to me that the paramount purpose of anyredesign (if really necessary) should be toredesign these roads for the use, convenience and safety of those driving trucks and cars on them. Did I misssomething?

Ridership on LTD is as low as it has been since 2012 and walking and biking are fine, but they simply do not represent the majority ofusers. Redesigningand spending tax dollars on these projects for the stated purpose of enhancing bus, bikes and walkers should be reconsidered.

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Shannon Roseta, Eugene

I would like to share a quote from Mohammed Rafik Mhawesh, a Palestinian writer and journalist based in Gaza City.He says, "We fight our oppressors, and we get branded terrorists.Ukrainians do the same, and they get applauded for their courage."

Hmmm.

Margaret Brye,Eugene

For all who are concerned about the effects climate change will have on our grandchildrens world, now is a critical time. The new report by the International Panel on Climate Change tells us that the window of opportunity to prevent the average global temperature from rising more than 1.5 to 2.0 degrees centigrade is closing fast. The report goes into detail on the predicted devastating effects global warming will have on the planet.

Action must be taken quickly at the national level to accomplish the goal of at least keeping global temperature rise below 2.0 degrees C. A 50% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and net zero by 2050 are important components. Polls consistently show that a majority of Republicans and Democrats are worried about the effects of climate change and want Congress to act. This should not be a partisan issue. Now is the time to let our senators and representative know we want them to pass effective climate legislationthis year.I hope you agree that we owe this to our grandchildren.

Richard Barnhart, Eugene

If just for one minute we were to think of taking care of ourselves first, the gas prices wouldn't be where they are.Why are we exporting so much oil to other countries and evidently ignoring our own shortage here? It doesn't take rocket science to look out for No. 1 and any overages can move elsewhere.That's No. 1. No. 2, we do have oil reserves. How about tapping them until all this mess is over.And No. 3, gas stations do not refill their tanks every day, but they sure do like to increase gas prices daily.

Simply put, it's another case of corporate greed.

Richard Besser, North Bend

M. Reza Behnam'sarticle "Palestinians are refugees in theirown land" is long overdue.It explicitlypoints out theconditions Palestinians have lived with since the Zionist war of 1946-1947.

Palestinian children are put in Israeli prisons for throwing rocks at tanks, but their parents are not allowed to visit them because they are not allowed to enter Israel.

There are so many other inhumane practices that exist, yet anyone who objects to those things is called antisemitic.Year after year, our senators and representatives vote to send $3.8 billion to Israel.The majority of that money goes to the military, which continues to bombard Palestine, destroy its homes and take their land for Zionist settlers.

Where is the sanity in all of this?

Ruth Roberts, Corvallis

The Lane County commissioners have fast-tracked a request to their planning staff to consider funding for a new baseball stadium for the Eugene Emeralds. The stadium is estimated to cost $50 million, which the county can't afford even with the $7.5 million approved by the Oregon Legislature. I don't believe local government agencies ought to fund a private for-profit business unwillingto assume some or all of the cost. In this case, the parent company of the Ems, the San Francisco Giants, has not indicated an interest in providing funding.

Why does the local government in Eugene immediately rush to consider approval ofany sports-related facility? Such a venue willlikely disrupt the neighborhood, exacerbate traffic and be available only for those with enough discretionaryincome to afford season tickets.

Has a sportscomplex ever been turned down in Eugene? Not that I recall.

Pat Reilly, Eugene

Carol Carver (Letters, March 3), in relating her experience with racism, sadly, is mild compared to the rampant racism that makes up our nation's history.

I wish to share one of my own. I grew up in the projects in a Queens neighborhood. These were high-rise apartment buildings with culturally diverse, lower middle-class families. One day two Black siblings, perhaps 5 and 7years old, were arguing. One screamed at the other, "White Jew, White Jew!" Obviously, learned by environmental rote.

Carver cited George Santayana's quote: "Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat it." German philosopher Georg Hagel's quote is far more accurate: The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history."

Prejudice is not race-, religion- or gender-specific. It is human-specific and humankind, left to itself is hapless and helpless. Providentially, we are not left to ourselves.

James Tsalapinas, Harrisburg

I was glad to see that in the March 6R-G all nine letters to the editor condemned Putins attack on Ukraine and Trumps praise of the brutal dictator. Some on the far right, like Marjorie Taylor Green and Tucker Carlson, are applauding Putin, but the vast majority of Americans support freedom and democracy.

Another story by the AP, The West recalculates the cost of war," said U.S. citizens might have to pay higher gas prices. Russia supplies 40% of Europe's oil and gas, and Putin thought he could hold Europe hostage because of Europes dependence. But Germany shut down the NordStream2 pipeline and is accelerating its move to renewables.

We should do the same.

Putin will be hurt the most if the world shuts down its oil and gas. We should temporarily ramp up U.S. production to help the Europeans, but at the same time curtail our own use of fossil fuels and increase alternative energy to keep prices down. Russian oil production is more harmful to the environment than ours, but we need stricter regulations, to do less harm. China is watching, and if Russia can invade Ukraine without severe consequences, it may invade Taiwan.

Jerry Brule, Eugene

When I see the struggle the Ukrainians are goingthrough in their fight for the freedoms America and a host of other countries have enjoyed in the lesson of self-government,greed, self-indulgence tainted with sloth and debauchery have made anugly reflection of a once revered symbol.

We should be ashamed of ourselves.

What do you see when you look into the mirror? Do you see a person who rejects your doctor's adviceon free immunizations or perhaps paying $4 to $5 a gallon for gas?

Woe be you. It tugs at my heartstrings to see you suffer so.

Review your self-imposed ills from your place of comfort, if you're not too busy slamming government, the price of beer or some social atrocitythat has discomfitedyou. If that isyou in the mirror, go back to watching TV and see what true grit and democracy are all about. The fighting and dying Ukrainians are what we used to be. If you're not too mentally inert you might learn what a true Americans should be.

Leslie Marti, Eugene

The citizens of Ukraine are fighting against an aggressive and more powerful adversary to protect their democracy. As the fight rages in Ukraine, we must not forget the fight that rages in our own country to defend democracy and its tenets.

A local young woman who graduated from Sheldon High School and UO has already been shot with rubber bullets and teargassed in Texas for trying to get the voting rights promised for all Texans. She works for Good Deed Corps in the Texas Rising effort. It seems many Hispanic Texas residents in the Rio Grande area have been discouraged from registering to vote for years. The unpaid workers for Texas Rising are trying to change that. Theyve legally organized registration drives and voter education activities all allowable under Texass new voter suppression laws.

Unfortunately, when these voters submit registration forms or ask for mail-in ballots, the state denies those efforts. When the state was asked for more registration forms, the head of Texas elections said there were no more forms and no more would be printed as the state couldnt afford to print more.

Thats not democracy, thats tyranny.

Hal Huestis, Eugene

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Until the late 19th century, there wasnt any such thing as illegal or legal immigration to the United States. Thats because before you can immigrate somewhere illegally, there has to be a law for you to break.

American immigration didnt really begin until the late 1700s, when the United States became an independent nation. Before that, Africans had unwillingly entered the Americas as enslaved peoples and Europeans had entered as settlerswhich is something totally different. While immigrants are beholden to the laws of the land they migrate to, settlers come to disrupt the current system and implement their own laws, write the scholars Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang.

But once the U.S. made its Constitution the new law of the land, immigrants flocked to the country with few restrictions. This didnt mean that they were welcomed in the New World. In the beginning, when immigrants came mostly from northern and western Europe, anti-Irish and anti-Catholic sentiment were rampant. By the mid- to late-19th century, people from southern and eastern Europe as well as China were coming over, and Americans resented the presence of Chinese, Italians, and more Catholics.

The walls of a holding area in the Angel Island Immigration Station feature inscriptions from immigrants who were detained there. Due to prolonged questioning, some immigrants were detained for months, or even years.

Although some states like California passed local immigration laws during this time, these laws either werent well enforced or were thrown out by courts, says Madeline Y. Hsu, a professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. In fact, there were no federal laws governing who could enter and who couldnt until the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.

At the time, Chinese people worked in gold mines, factories, railroads, and agriculture, especially on the West Coast. Although these immigrants made up only .002 percent of the U.S. population, white Americans blamed them for low wages and other economic problems. To placate economic and racial anxieties, the radical exclusion act banned almost all immigration from China, making only a few exceptions for special groups like students and diplomats. In addition, the Immigration Act passed that same year banned people who were poor, mentally ill, or convicted of crimes from entering the country.

Because only a very narrow group of Chinese people could legally immigrate, the acting presumption was that if youre Chinese you must have come in illegally, Hsu says. Chinese become the only group required to carry around certificates of residence, which are intended to showto documentthat they have in fact entered legally. In 1917, the Asiatic Barred Zone Act banned most immigration from Asia, as well as immigration by prostitutes, polygamists, anarchists, and people with contagious diseases.

Asian exclusion continued with the 1924 Immigration Act, which banned all people who could not become naturalized citizens per the 1790 Naturalization Act. That naturalization law had originally said that only free white people could become naturalized citizens. Yet by 1924, previously excluded groups like Mexicans, black Americans, and Native Americans had won citizenship rights, and the law really only applied to Asians.

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But the biggest change the 1924 act made to immigration policy was introducing numerical caps or quotas based on country of origin. These quotas gave enormous preference to people from northern and western Europe over those from southern and eastern parts of the continent. Turns out, the previous restrictions on Asian immigrants had made very little impact on the growing levels of immigration to the United States, Hsu says, because the vast majority of immigrants came from Europe. These new quotas were meant to address a sense of crisis that America was accepting too many immigrants, particularly too many non-Anglo Saxon ones.

The 1924 act resurfaced in the news in September 2017 when United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that the U.S. would end DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals), a policy to give people who came to the U.S. as undocumented children a legal avenue to stay. Sessions had earlier stated that the 1924 Immigration Act was good for America.

But according to Mae M. Ngai, a professor of Asian American studies and history at Columbia University, the 1924 act is considered almost universally to be a stain on our history.

Its an obviously racist act, she says. It ranked people from all over the world on a kind of hierarchy of desirability based on their race and national origin There is no controversy over that.

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The 1924 quota system remained largely in place until the 1960s, when a new law established a new system. Each year, there is a cap on the total number of visas that the U.S. can issue. According to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the U.S. cannot issue more than seven percent of the total allowable visas to one nation.

Before this change in 1965, there had been no numeric caps on immigration within the Americas. So when the U.S. decided that it would only take a certain percentage of people from each nation per year, it was the first time the U.S. had put an official cap on Mexican immigration.

Prior to this, Mexican immigrants freely, and commonly, found work in the United States. Yet after the Hart-Celler Immigration Act was passed, Whole groups of migrants from Mexico and Latin America whose entrance to the U.S. would have been considered legal before 1965 suddenly became illegal, writesJane Hong, a history professor at Occidental College, in The L.A. Times.

Theres a lot of talk about the DACA students and [accusations] that its an unlawful program, Hsu says.The problem with that is that you can always change laws, she continues. Laws are constantly changed in order to accommodate actual circumstances.

For example, it is a fact that Mexicans have already been immigrating to and living in the U.S. for a very long time. Whether lawmakers choose to consider that reality is another story.

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Former congressman and leading Republican gubernatorial candidate Lou Barletta (R-PA) told Breitbart News Saturday that as governor, he will use all powers available to him to stop illegal immigration, noting that many in the GOP do not have the backbone to stand against the radical lefts illegal immigration policies.

Recent polls show the Republican primary race as very much a two-man battle between himself and State Sen. Doug Mastriano. But with Democrat Gov. Tom Wolf (D) leaving office, Republicans have a clear chance to flip the governors mansion. Recent polls, Barletta said, are a reflection on what were seeing on the ground, as he has a huge grassroots campaign.

People know who I am, he said, noting that they can look at his record. Many remember the actions he took as the mayor of Hazleton, where he was essentially the first mayor to stand up and fight against illegal immigration, and he believes that is the kind of fighter they are looking for again.

We see so many politicians making campaign promises, and they get in and become part of the problem and disappoint people, Barletta said. They want a fighter. They saw me on the national stage as a mayor of a small town and do something that nobody else in the country had the courage to do, and I really do believe thats part of why were in front.

As mayor, he prioritized fighting sanctuary city policies and the drugs pouring into his city.

I didnt talk about it. I actually did something about it, he said, noting that he was elected in 2000 and watched as the town was overcome by illegal immigrants.

Our population grew by 50 percent, but our tax revenue stayed the same, he said, describing gangs moving in and recruiting children. Emergency times also increased as illegal aliens used emergency rooms as primary health care. Barletta, at the time, asked for help as violent crime went up.

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I couldnt find an elected official anywhere in Pennsylvania, he said, ultimately going to Washington, DC, and meeting with the Department of Justice in 2005. He begged them for help but realized no one there was going to help, either. Ultimately, Barletta took matters into his own hands and moved to suspend the license of any business that knowingly hired an illegal alien because it is illegal to hire unlawful workers. He added, I would also suspend the license of any landlord who knowingly harbored or rented to illegal aliens.

As a result, illegals represented by ACLU sued him, and he fought it to the Supreme Court. But many cities across the country followed what he did in Hazleton, and he battled for it in Congress as well.

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Unfortunately for us, I found out that even on our own side, people dont like to talk about it, but they didnt have the backbone or courage to do something about it, and look at the mess we have today, he said, explaining thatmost politicians do not want to tackle issues regarding immigration because they will be called a racist or bigot. But he said as governor, he will have a lot more power to do something about the issue. Barletta added that he recently called out PresidentJoe Biden, Gov. Tom Wolf (D), and State Attorney General Josh Shapiro over the ghost flights of illegals coming in the dead of the night, dumping them all over Pennsylvania without any knowledge.

He also noted that fentanyldeaths have hit a record high and we know the fentanyl is coming from the southern border. Yet Pennsylvania officials are continuing to allow Biden to dump illegal aliens in the Keystone State.

That ends when Im governor of Pennsylvania. I will go after anyone who aids what I think is human trafficking here into Pennsylvania dumping people without our knowledge into our communities, he said. Ill go after the buses or anybody that helps relocate people who are illegally being brought into Pennsylvania.

Barletta also said he will go after every sanctuary city with every resource that [he has] in [his] power to protect the citizens of Pennsylvania.

The former congressman also vowed to unleash energy in Pennsylvania as governor, noting that the Russian invasion of Ukraine highlights Bidens failure on our energy policy a major national security issue, he said.

And Pennsylvania is the answer to that. We have more energy in Pennsylvania than countries around the world, in the Middle East. We can be a global leader, and we will be when I become governor, Barletta said, vowing to drop the state out of theRegional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.

Were going to greenlight pipelines when Im governor. Were going to reform DEP [Department of Environmental Protection], which, he said, they used as a weapon to stop natural gas companies.

Pennsylvania is the answer to our national security issues, and when Im governor, well be a global leader again, he promised.

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(The Center Square) Florida joined a multi-state coalition led by Texas suing the Biden administration for reinstating an Obama-era program that allows illegal immigrants to enter and remain in the U.S., bypassing laws established by Congress.

In addition to Texas and Florida, Indiana, Missouri, Montana, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Alaska joined the lawsuit over the Biden administration's reinstating a 2014-era Central America Minors (CAM) Program that was halted by the Trump administration in 2017.

The lawsuit announcement came after attorneys general from 12 states, all Republicans, participated in a border summit in the McAllen, Texas, area hosted by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody attended the summit and met with law enforcement officials about the dramatic overrun of the border brought on by President Joe Bidens reckless immigration policies the impact of which is resulting in public safety ramifications for citizens and taxpayers far beyond U.S. states that border Mexico, she said.

After seeing the chaos in person, it is even more clear to me now that Biden and [Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro] Mayorkas are building their own illegal organization to transport illegal immigrants into and around our country thumbing their noses at federal laws. I will not only work aggressively to stop these illegal acts, but I will continue to inform Floridians about what their federal government is actually doing, and the dangers associated with those decisions, she added.

This was the second time Moody has been to the border with Paxton, after having attended a border summit in Del Rio last year about the joint efforts between Florida and Texas in Operation Lone Star. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott discussed the border security initiative. At the time, DeSantis said he was astonished to learn of how many illegal immigrants being apprehended said their final destination, after coming through the southern border, was Florida.

Florida, like Texas, sued the administration over its immigration policies last year, as well as over vaccine mandates.

Of this latest lawsuit, DeSantis said he was glad AG Moody was helping to block the reckless immigration policies of the Biden administration.

The Biden administration continues to disregard the laws of this country and allow massive numbers of illegal aliens across the border, without regard to possible criminal backgrounds or connections to illicit activity, DeSantis said. Not only are these illegal aliens allowed free reign in this country, but the administration also pushes the burden and costs onto the states and ignores the consequences of its policies.

The CAM program provides certain minors who entered the U.S. illegally the ability to secure protected status instead of being deported. The status then enables them to petition the government to bring in extended family members, including adult caregivers, from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala, without going through the proper legal channels, Moody said. CAM applies to illegal immigrants with a pending claim for asylum, though many may not be granted asylum or show up to their hearings, she added.

There is no authority in federal law for this sort of program, the AGs who sued argue, as Congress never authorized it.

The Biden administration reinstating CAM, the lawsuit argues, usurps the power of Congress to dictate a national scheme of immigration laws and is contrary to the Immigration Naturalization Act.

The Biden administration launched the program last March and expanded and revised it last June. It announced it would first begin processing eligible applications that were closed when CAM was terminated in 2017, and then begin accepting new applications with new guidance.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken and Mayorkas said reinstating CAM was responsible and another component of the Presidents multi-pronged approach to address the challenges of irregular migration throughout North and Central America. Blinken and Mayorkas said they were proud to expand access to the program to a greater number of qualifying individuals.

Those eligible for the program, they said, include legal guardians and parents who are in the U.S. illegally under withholding of removal status, deferred enforced departure status, deferred action, on parole, have temporary protected status or lawful permanent residence.

The changes will dramatically expand access to the CAM program, Blinken and Mayorkas said, adding that they were firmly committed to welcoming people to the United States with humanity and respect, as well as providing a legal alternative to irregular migration. We are delivering on our promise to promote safe, orderly, and humane migration from Central America through this expansion of legal pathways to seek humanitarian protection in the United States.

The AGs argues that most individuals in the program dont qualify as refugees and instead of the program being used on a case-by-case basis, depending on urgent humanitarian-related circumstances or significant public benefit, its being applied on a broad scale. Its arbitrary and capricious, the AGs argue, and violates the presidents duty to make sure that the laws are faithfully executed.

The complaint highlights the harm the program is causing Floridians by unlawfully admitting illegal immigrants into Florida, costing taxpayers millions of dollars.

Florida spends more than $100 million every year incarcerating people who are in the U.S. illegally and commit crimes, the complaint states. This is in addition to the untold number of public benefits illegal immigrants receive, regardless of their immigration status, including education, emergency medical services and victims services.

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Houston, Texas, is one of the rare, nice big cities left in this country. A little hot in the summer, but great people, very pretty neighborhoods and a lot going on. Thanks to the energy sector, biotech and aerospace, Houston has an enormous and still robust economy. It is hardly some dying mill town in the Northeast or the Upper Midwest. Your kids might want to move to Houston someday, maybe after college. It's not Baltimore.

But all of a sudden Houston, Texas is starting to look a little more like Baltimore. Crime in Houston has gotten scary. The murder rate there has risen by more than 50% in just the last year. It's bad. Here's a local news report:

MATTHEW SEEDORFF, KRIV REPORTER: A deadly start to the year across Houston. Police investing at least 41 homicides through 24 days. So far this year Houston has more murders than New York City, Los Angeles, even Chicago.

DOUGLAS GRIFFITH, HOUSTON POLICE OFFICERS UNION PRESIDENT: Its one of those things where Im fearful just for my family to go out of the house.

MATTHEW SEEDORFF, KRIV REPORTER: The president of the Houston Police Officers union frustrated.

DOUGLAS GRIFFITH, HOUSTON POLICE OFFICERS UNION PRESIDENT: If it keeps up this pace we are going to be well over 500 murders this year.

I'm fearful just for my family to go outside the house. As you heard, that was the president of the police union in Houston, so he would know. It's amazing this is happening in all places in Houston, and what's so telling about this crime wave is how recently it began.

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Murders in Houston started to spike in a big way after Joe Biden became president. Why is that exactly? Very simple answer: Joe Biden opened the southern border. Texas shares more than 1,200 miles of border with Mexico. There is a brutal cartel war underway in Mexico right now. It's been going on for a long time. Many of the combatants in that war have now moved north into Texas. They brought drugs with them. They've also brought machine guns.

Migrants are seen at the Rio Grande near the Del Rio-Acuna Port of Entry in Del Rio, Texas. (nternational Bridge, whPhoto by Charlie C. Peebles/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

This fall, a felon opened fire on Houston police officers with a fully automatic rifle. You hear a lot about assault weapons. But the truth is authorities don't see fully automatic weapon weapons very often. They are heavily regulated, and typically they're owned by collectors.

But automatic weapons are very common in war zones, and there is a war in Mexico. So, with no border in place, the cartels are bringing their armaments here. There are firefights in Houston.

POLICE OFFICER:It's Houston police. Let's do this the easy (gunshots in the background).

That's automatic weapons, fire. It sounds like Syria or Mexico, but it's an apartment complex in Houston, Texas. We could go on if you know anybody who lives in Houston. Call and ask, How has your city changed recently? And they'll tell you. Open borders did this, Houston didn't do it to itself, this was done to Houston and not just to Houston, to so many places across this country where millions of illegal aliens have flooded in during Joe Biden's presidency.

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On Monday, for example, more than 100 illegal Haitian migrants landed in the Florida Keys in a single boat. Instances like this are no longer uncommon in the state of Florida. The world is coming to America's shores. Why? Because they're fully aware that the Biden administration is rewarding foreign nationals for violating our federal immigration law. It is an invasion.

Huge numbers of Americans are dying as a result of that invasion. 100,000 dead last year of drug addicts. Most were killed by fentanyl that is trucked in from Mexico across open borders. Long term, there are massive labor market disruptions, there is evaporating social cohesion and so on. The costs of this have been beyond calculating, and this is exactly why no sane country opens its borders ever, ever, anywhere.

What Joe Biden is doing right now has never been done, and it's about to get much worse. We're not guessing. Currently, a Trump era regulation called Title 42 allows the Border Patrol to turn illegal migrants back to Mexico on the grounds that there's a pandemic in progress, so we probably shouldn't let millions of people infected with COVID move here without permission. Seems sensible. But according to Democrats, this rule is racist because it might slow the human wave of migration. So for months, they've been demanding that the Biden administration suspend this rule.

SEN. CHUCK SCHUMER: Iurge President Biden and Secretary Mallorca's to immediately put a stop to these expulsions and to end this Title 42 policy at our southern border. We cannot continue these hateful and xenophobic Trump policies.

REP. SHEILA JACKSON LEE: In addition, a relic, Title 42, exists. It is a relic of the Trump administration. It was created to be mean-spirited. Title 42, I ask for a suspension of it.

SEN. ALEX PADILLA: I urge the Biden administration and my colleagues to remember the refugees who are waiting at our border, kept out by the cruel and unnecessary Title 42 policy.

SEN. BOB MENENDEZ: Look, Title 42 is being used in a way that I think is indiscriminate and that violates the basic essence of our law. But this process that the Biden administration has continued from the Trump administration in my mind is really inexcusable.

So, your kid has to wear a mask in school, but illegal aliens get to come here with no restrictions at all, despite the fact they may be infected with COVID because otherwise you're a racist.

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That's the case they were making, and so finally, inevitably, the Biden administration has caved. Turns out even trying to maintain basic public health standards is unacceptable if it gets in the way of increasing mass immigration. Title 42 is being nullified.

A similar rule you should know will still apply to you. American citizens are not exempt to this day. You as a citizen are not allowed to return to the United States without permission from the CDC. Rochelle Walensky will sign off on that. So coming back to the country you were born in is no longer your birthright. But illegal aliens now face no barriers at all. And of course, they know it. Everyone knows it. It's not their fault. It's our president's fault.

Migrants, many from Haiti, are seen at an encampment along the Del Rio International Bridge near the Rio Grande. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

According to Axios, "U.S. intelligence officials are privately bracing for a massive influx of more than 170,000 migrants at the Mexico border" now that Title 42 is ending.

So the wave grows, the total transformation of this country accelerates. So we've been very passive in the face of this, people make grumpy noises about it, no one's done anything. How should we respond?

Well, the same way we respond to any other invasion. With the U.S. military. That's why countries have militaries to stop invasions, and this would not be a hard invasion to stop. Our military could seal the border with Mexico in days. That would save American lives. It would restore order. And it would end the invasion.

Does that sound crazy like a misuse of the U.S. military? Well, keep in mind that Nancy Pelosi called in the US.. military to protect her from Trump voters at the U.S. Capitol. She treated our soldiers like her personal security detail.

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And then, of course, at this very moment, we are sending thousands of American troops and billions in military American military hardware to Eastern Europe to help Ukrainians restore their borders. So the obvious question is: Why not here? Why not take America's safety, your family's safety, as seriously as Nancy Pelosi takes her own safety?

That seems like a fair question. Probably not Russian disinformation. Probably an honest question. We spoke to Rep. Maria Salazar in Miami last night, and we asked that question of her. She refused to answer.

TUCKER: I just can't help notice the contrast between your desire to send MiGs to Ukraine to preserve its borders, but not here. Should we send the U.S. military to the Mexican border, since you have admitted that tens of millions of people have come here illegally, that our borders are porous? They're not defended, they're open. Should we send the U.S. military to the Mexican border?

SALAZAR: That is why I have created a whole plan, so we can really seal the border, because you know what? My community, the ones that I represent

TUCKER: Would you call for sending

SALAZAR: Let me finish. Let me finish

TUCKER: Do you represent America, if I could say?

TUCKER: I'm asking question of borders. All of us are appalled by the violation of Ukraine's borders. You don't seem as appalled by the violation of our borders by tens of millions of people. So let me ask you for the third time.

SALAZAR: Sure, I do. That's a misrepresentation.

TUCKER: You support military equipment -- okay, then, would you support the U.S. military securing the United States border tonight or on the same timetable as sending MiGs to Ukraine? How about that?

SALAZAR: That's hypothetical again.

Oh, it's hypothetical. I've got a plan, right? How many plans have you heard about from Republicans for, say, the past twenty-five years? Many, many, many.

To restate this is a highly dangerous situation that the Biden administration has placed our country in. Mexico, whatever its merits, is in the middle of a war, not a new war, a war that has raged on for more than a decade, a war that has likely killed more than 100,000 people so far.

There are videos of trucks burning in the town of Nuevo Laredo. That's just feet from the U.S. border in the state of Texas. The video is the aftermath with three hour gun battle between cartels and government forces. The situation there is so chaotic that the trucks just burn in the middle of the road. No one comes to put out the fires to restore order to arrest anyone.

So that's not a law enforcement action. That's a war. That's what wars are like. A few years ago, the Sinaloa cartel used heavy machine guns and armored vehicles to win a pitched battle against the Mexican military. That's a war, a civil war. Feet from our border. That's the country Joe Biden opened our border to. It's insanity.

And yet somehow our Congress cannot be bothered to notice this, any of it, even as millions stream across. Murder victims in Houston, apparently don't have influential social media accounts, so Kevin McCarthy doesn't know that they exist. And that's a shame because when he sees that on Tik Tok, he acts.

Here's McCarthy demanding we send military equipment across the world to stop the invasion of another country:

KEVIN MCCARTHY:We think about what President Biden should do. I think there's a bipartisan movement right here. Provide them the MiGs, provide them the planes where they can create a no-fly zone, provide them the armament that they need to continue to fight a war that they did not create.

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So McCarthy says of the Ukrainians, it's a war they didn't create, and that is certainly true. The Ukrainians did not create that war. The Ukrainians did not invade their own country. But we didnt either. We didn't invade our own country. Very few Americans wanted to open our border to a narco state in the middle of a drug war. Joe Biden did that to us.

And no one cares. So maybe we need our own Zelensky to get the world's attention and stop the invasion of America. Who will that be?

This article is adapted from Tucker Carlson's opening commentary on the March 17, 2022 edition of "Tucker Carlson Tonight."

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