Democrat Georgia Representative Hank Johnson: "Migrants are not crossing into the U.S. illegally"

MSN ^ | September 27, 2023 | Gregory Werner, Hillary Vaughn

[Macho MAGA Man]

are not crossing into the U.S. illegally, but instead are sitting at the border and seeking asylum, despite record numbers of illegal entries into the country being reported along the southern border.

Johnson was asked about the immigration crisis while passing through the halls of the Capitol building, particularly about the nearly 10,000 migrants who cross the border into the U.S. illegally each day.

"Well, they’re not crossing into the U.S. illegally," Johnson responded when asked at what point the crossings would become an invasion. "They’re sitting at the border seeking asylum."

People seeking asylum, though, must prove they suffered persecution, or fear future persecution in their country of origin, according to the American Immigration Council’s website.

Many of the migrants coming to the U.S. are seeking economic opportunity, which is not a basis of asylum.

[Macho MAGA Man]

Hank 'Guam' Johnson has spoken.

[Toddsterpatriot]

"Migrants are not crossing into the U.S. illegally"

They're walking in backwards.

[laconic]

Dunce.

[knarf]

He's factually correvt.

There's no federal stay to keep illegals out and they can be called migrants or invaders or whatever.

We patriots have not set up machine gun nests on the border . . . . . . . . yet.

[qaz123]

Don’t forget the ‘M’ people and helium for the clowns.

[Sarah Barracuda]

He’s the Baghdad Bob of our times “There are no US forces in Baghdad”

[No name given]

He is such a liar 🤥!

[TornadoAlley3]

They are crawling through razor wire.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Of course they’re not crossing into the US illegally. They’re crossing the Pacific to Guam, in order to tip the island over.

[Robert DeLong]

In 2010, during a House Armed Services Committee hearing about the US military installation in Guam, Rep. Hank Johnson expressed concerns about the potential negative impact of adding 8,000 Marines and dependents to an island of 180,000 people. He said, "My fear is that the whole island will become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize," to which Admiral Robert F. Willard responded, "We don't anticipate that." Johnson's office claimed that he was deadpan and had used a facetious metaphor to draw attention to the potential negative impact of adding 8,000 Marines and dependents to an island of 180,000 people. In 2017, Johnson issued a written statement stating that he was not suggesting that the island of Guam would literally tip over.

If only we had known just how low the requirements were for the House position of Representative.

[Bullish]

Hank Johnson is an embarrassment to an entire race of people.
Aren’t the voters smart enough to see that and get rid of him?

[griswold3]

Unfortunately you are correct.

[gundog]

Someone probably told Hank that the population of Guam was near a tipping point, and that’s what he thought it meant.

[gundog]

No. He’s likely a pretty bright guy relative to many he represents.

[vpintheak]

What an idiot.

[ealgeone]

wonder what his take would be in those same “migrants” broke into his house??

[Skywise]

ThEyRe NoT iLlEgAlS - ThEyRe JuSt SeEkInG a BeTtEr lIFe.

Dude, you’re a bald faced liar.

[frank ballenger]

Our country is being ruined by truly incompetent, truly stupid people. Everyone is supposed to shuffle their feet in place, look upward and then downward and clear their throat and say “sounds great.” It doesn’t.

[Robert DeLong]

Perhaps.

[Colo9250]

Hank is correct on this.

US Code Art 8 asylum is current law that allows these people to be here.

The Republicans and the Rats don’t want you to know this.