Last week, I issued a press release promising that I would be voting against the disastrous $1.7 trillion, 4155-page omnibus spending bill to fund the federal government for the remainder of the fiscal year 2023. If you miss the press release, don’t despair, my gift to you this Christmas Sunday is to post it again HERE! It’s well worth the read. True to my word, I voted against this colossal mess for many reasons.

Here are a few of the more objectionable provisions in the bill:

$45 billion to protect Ukraine's borders.
$410 million to protect the borders of Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Tunisia and Oman.
$0 to protect our own borders.
$200 million to fund the Gender Equity Fund.
$286 million to carry out programs under Title X, which funds Planned Parenthood.
$535 million in payments to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
$1.4 billion in spending for membership in global multilateral organizations, including the United Nations.
$575 million to fund reproductive health in areas where population growth threatens biodiversity and endangered species.
$3 million to fund an American LGBTQ+ Museum in New York City.
$3.6 million to build the Michelle Obama Trail in Georgia.
$3 million to construct bee-friendly highways.

Honestly, I can go on and on with many more outrageous examples but I think you get my point. I will simply end it here by restating what WASN’T funded: efforts to secure our southern border. It’s true. In fact, the omnibus includes language that expressly prohibits any U.S. Customs and Border Patrol funds to be used to secure America’s southern border. This last minute, lame duck legislation is a betrayal of American voters’ wishes as expressed at the ballot box last month. Sadly 18 Republican Senators and Nine Republican Congressman voted with all but one democrat to crush our country.

Words Matter: Why the Left Seeks to Change Policy with Language

In the dystopian book “1984” by George Orwell, the authoritarian government in the story created its own language called “Newspeak” that was used to propagandize the people. Written as fiction, this fascist technique is and has been for decades, being used by the far left to pursue their immoral, unjust and bizarre policies. It also serves to demoralize people and confuse people about objective truths.

The Left twists the English language in ways to convince people to embrace their patently unpopular and absurd positions.

Let’s look at the legal term, contained in the federal code, for people who come to our country illegally, or overstay their visas illegally. The law defines non-citizens as “aliens.” 8 USC 1101(3) (“The term ‘alien’ means any person not a citizen or national of the United States”). For decades, the proper term widely used was “illegal aliens.” At some point in the 1990’s, the left, with their media lap dogs, decided the term did not portray their desire for open borders sympathetically. So, they started to call illegal aliens “undocumented people” or “undocumented workers.” This misnomer was done to create the appearance that the only reason these people were illegal was that they were simply missing a piece of paper, some type of minor inconvenience. Like you not being able to find a receipt.

But that was false then, and now. These illegals are not merely “undocumented” they are here in violation of our laws and they inflict economic losses, extreme cost on our law enforcement with higher crime and they burden our hospitals and schools and housing supply. They engage in sex trafficking, slavery and drug running. Illegal aliens brought enough fentanyl into our country in 2021 to kill over 100,000 of our young people. They take jobs and keep wages unduly low. They take apartments and cause rent prices to increase. In short, illegal aliens inflict a lot of damage to our country, but the Left is hoping if you call them “undocumented” they simply sound innocent and looking for a misplaced receipt.

In the last two years, with a massive invasion underway of over five million illegal aliens, the media and the left now call illegal aliens “migrants” The term “undocumented worker” clearly was not sympathetic enough, so calling them “migrants” sounds like they are fleeing a war zone when, in fact, none are fleeing war zones. They are pouring into our country illegally to get welfare benefits, housing, health care and other benefits.

Unfortunately, if you look at the newspapers and even some Republicans when they talk about the border, they are now using the term “migrant.” If you use their definitions, you have already lost the argument. The correct term is “illegal alien” and we should all make sure to use the correct term. Always.

For Immediate Release
Contact: Anthony Foti

Date: December 27, 2022
anthony.foti@mail.house.gov

Gosar Statement Regarding Biden’s Holiday News Dump on November Border Crossings

Prescott, AZ – Congressman Paul A. Gosar, D.D.S. (AZ-04) issued the following statement after the Biden regime released new data showing that a record 233,740 illegal aliens illegally crossed the southern border in November 2022, making it the worst November on record.

“On Christmas weekend and mere hours after Congress shamelessly passed the $1.7 trillion omnibus bill sending billions of dollars to foreign countries for border security, the Biden regime announced that 233,740 illegals crossed our border last month. To put this into perspective, that is enough lawbreakers to fill State Farm Stadium, home of the Arizona Cardinals, more than 3.5 times.

Things are only going to get worse. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) projects 14,000 illegals per day, or 420,000 per month, will soon cross the southern border once Title 42 orders expire.

In 2018, nearly 30 million illegal aliens were living in the United States, according to a study conducted by Yale University. Since Biden took office, DHS reports another five million lawbreakers have crossed into our country bringing the total number of illegals currently living in America to over 35 million.

That number is likely much higher when factoring in chain migration, “gotaways” and the significant undercounting of illegal aliens. Sadly, Senate democrats and even some Republicans are renewing their calls to grant amnesty to millions of people living in America illegally. This is lunacy. Amnesty only serves to encourage illegals to stay in the United States while simultaneously green lighting more to cross our southern border.

It’s abundantly clear that Joe Biden and democrats in Congress are intent on allowing as many illegal aliens as possible into our country. Rather than considering amnesty legislation for lawbreakers, Republicans in Congress must fight to secure our border and it begins with impeaching Department of Homeland Secretary Mayorkas for his failures to secure the border and protect Americans,” concluded Congressman Gosar.

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If You Like Title 42, You’ll Love Section 212(f): The ‘suspension of entry’ provision that ‘exudes deference to the President in every clause’