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Congressman Pat Harrigan @RepPatHarrigan - I’m very frustrated by what has transpired over the last week during Operation Charlotte’s Web, and it is not for the reasons that you think.
After hearing from business leaders, farmers, politicians, and everyone in between about their concerns of how this operation was handled, I feel that good folks genuinely lack understanding of the size and scope that illegal immigration became under the Biden administration, and how that impacts the safety of our communities and the opportunities of future generations of American citizens today.
At a minimum, 14 million illegal aliens entered the United States from 2021-2024, an unprecedented escalation. Some of these illegal aliens are not good people, and assertions that some foreign countries ‘emptied their prisons’ and relieved the burden of these folks onto the streets of the United States, are true. Absolute instances of illegal alien crime jumped from 71k to 174k between 2021 and 2023. In 2024 alone, there were 516,050 criminal charges filed against illegal aliens across the United States. That crime represents real impacts, to real American citizens, that should never have happened at all.
More than the criminal impact, is the societal impact. 59% of illegal alien-headed households receive government welfare today. Since coming to Congress, the revelation of the sheer size and scope of our entitlement state, which is supporting illegal immigrants at the expense of American citizens, is ASTOUNDING, UNSUSTAINABLE, and largely UNRECOGNIZED by the same citizens who are sentencing their children’s and grandchildren’s generations to a mountain of debt—$38 trillion and counting by the way. It’s one of the reasons we closed the illegal alien Medicaid loophole in the Working Families’ Tax Cuts Act, because 39% of illegal-headed households were taking advantage of it at the expense of American citizens who actually qualify for and need it.
North Carolinians need to wake up to the fact that OVER 30,000 children didn’t show up to school in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school system during Operation Charlotte’s Web. There’s only 141,000 children in the entire school system, and folks always complain about class size and low per-capita spending as reasons why our schools are challenged. Countless children have reported their teachers have to have language translation apps operating during class so illegal alien students can understand what is being taught. Illegal immigration is absolutely impacting educational outcomes of the next generation of American citizens.
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