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STILL THEY COME New arrivals board buses in Yuma, Arizona, on their way for physical examinations.


“So, their solution to the chaos is not to stop the chaos. It’s to move the chaos into the interior of the country where there are fewer cameras.” — Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma


ford of Oklahoma recently told Newsmax TV, “What the Biden administration has fo- cused on isn’t reducing the amount of chaos at the border. “They just don’t want to


have the spot where the news cameras can focus and say, ‘Look at all this chaos here.’ “So, their solution to the


chaos is not to stop the chaos. It’s to move the chaos into the interior of the country where there are fewer cameras.” Bensman agrees. “All of


these policies, every single one of them, is designed for only one purpose — and that is to keep the border kind of visually clean,” he says. “It’s like a big giant bottle


of Visine. They’re just trying, hoping, and praying that they


scored enough to get the red out. That’s the basic premise of everything they’re doing.” But the risk they run,


Bensman contends, is that the immigrants’ basic human needs and the cost of provid- ing for them nationwide are becoming increasingly diffi- cult to hide. Second- and third-tier


counties and cities — includ- ing Buffalo, New York, India- napolis, Indiana, and Mont- gomery County, Maryland, to name only a few — are al- ready feeling the pain. And Bensman says that’s just the beginning. “Small and medium cities


across the country are locked in combat within their po- litical structures over these


Newsom vs. DeSantis: Trading Blows on Immigration T


wo of the nation’s fastest-rising politicians,


California Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom and Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis, are locked in a pitched battle over border policy. When DeSantis put 16


migrants on a charter flight to Sacramento earlier this summer, Newsom blasted


him on Twitter as a “small, pathetic man.” Newsom then launched an oficial investigation into “the circumstances around who paid for the group’s travel and whether the individuals orchestrating this trip misled anyone with false promises or have violated any criminal laws.”


DeSantis remains focused


on the race for the 2024 GOP nomination. But he’s served notice that he’s perfectly happy to trade blows in the political arena if that’s what Newsom wants. Last year, after Newsom


aired attack ads in the Sunshine State urging Floridians to “join us in


huge numbers of people coming in, and where to put them, and how to pay for them,” he says. “They’re going into the


schools,” Bensman adds, “there’s weird crime, they’re taking service jobs and re- ally costing us. They’re fill- ing up our hospitals and our schools, and we’re having to have bond elections to pay for portable classrooms and all that kind of stuff.” The bottom line, he says,


is that the millions of souls migrating into the United States all need a place to live once they’re granted admis- sion. And no political maneu-


California, where we still believe in freedom,” DeSantis noted the mass exodus of Californians to jurisdictions with lower taxes and less regulation. DeSantis shot back,


“People are leaving California in numbers we’ve never seen before because of his failed policies.” — D.P.


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