1ºElisa Reyna Well if I was a terrorist group like on 9/11 you would not only welcome me and my buddies in. But also pay for room and board and food as we gathered intelligence as sleeper cells tend to do.
Human trafficking has exploded. But the children do not matter. I spit on them. Cause kids get hurt here. So it is what it is, as you would say.
The fetynal flooding in killing many is no problem. Let it flood the streets. Make sure china sends people in easily to be able to hunt down US citizens that speak out against them also. Bring in more diseases from foreign countries. The kids in school will enjoy them. Also old folks homes.
Give them all of our taxes as we citizens struggle paycheck to paycheck. They earned it by never paying taxes.
Vaccum up all resources by flooding the border at an alarming rate. Money grows on trees in your warped mind. Also no drawbacks or dangers come with an completely open border.
If you have no border. You have no country. You have a territory.
2ºGary Morgan Biden could have closed the border or should I say kept it closed, just like Trump did. No, he told them to come and is even flying them in, so don't use that excuse!!! When all these illegals start taking over, what are you going to do about it then?? Biden is the one to blame along with Mayorkas! Biden didn't need money to close the border, but he does need more and more money to butter up college kids by paying off their student loans! Taxpayer's money, what part of that don't you understand??? Illegals are welcome because they want to push to be able to let them vote or illegally vote.
3ºMikel Deschesnes in the White House Press Room, during a Covid briefing. Trump turned to Fauchi's female assistant and said "I've heard (one of his favourite phrases) that ingesting bleach could help. Have we seen any results on that yet"? I'm sure you can find it somewhere. The same Trump who told a famous reporter on tape that he didn't want the American people told what was already known about Covid so as not to panic them! The same guy who denies having National Security documents but is caught on tape joking about the fact that he has! Why do you think he's doing everything possible to delay all his pending trials? If you're innocent surely you'd want to prove it in Court?
4ºMatthew Kramlich . Well if he claims to be innocent, why is he begging all his lawyers to delay a trial? If you are innocent go out to the date of the trial and prove it. SIMPLE!!!!!! He knows this will kill him in elections and someone who wants to be president doesn't go threatening a judge and his family. Also where is it that this is a communist country? People in Russia if they say one thing out in the media negative about Putin they get put in prison for 10 years. SO you better go check about communist countries if you really want to know. Trump is the kind of person that would do that. People insult biden. Does he go out and throw the person in prison for 10 years? NO!!!! Does Biden go and tell our alliances that he wants for Russia to hurt them?? NO!!!!!!
5ºJennifer Lynn . It is fully there. Trump will do anything to get off of it. He is constantly pulling this stunt of delay because he knows it will impact him in the election. He wouldn't be fighting like this if he knew it wouldn't impact him in the election. Ask yourself. Do you want a person like this running our country who already made threats to our alliances who have been our alliances for many years and even presidents in the past who were republicans who worked with our alliances? If this fool comes in he would FOR SURE want to make alliances with Russia and North Korea. And you can then count on the United States sinking really bad on the world stage. And don't forget there would be domestic wars going on. So don't bank on America being great again under this fool. Count on more division and hatred if by some miracle he got in.
6ºAlex Rodriguez I don't have a problem with the border. we have criminals right here. We have pedophiles right here. we have drug dealers right here. We have prostitutes pimps spousal abuse murderers rapist all Americans right here. I'm not going to down anybody that's coming for a better life because that's what Ellis Island was all about maybe you don't know that maybe you need to go visit the Ellis Island Museum but I'm not going to put anybody down that is crossing over they haven't done anything they just crossed over and I'm not going to presume that they're this horrible human being when we have horrible human beings that are right here born in the United States why isn't anybody doing anything about them why are you worried about somebody coming over who hasn't done anything yet it's ridiculous.
7ºTo those Nigerian citizens currently attacking the Nigerian government, and especially our immigration authorities, due to Mr. Larry Madowo's post complaining about his $215 alleged Nigerian visa payment, do note the following:
The Nigerian visa can be obtained at $25 on arrival for Kenyan citizens, of which Mr. Madowo is one. The $170 is for the biometric fee.
Also, Nigeria has reciprocal visa policies with Mr. Madowo's home country, Kenya. I have been to Kenya multiple times. For many years, Nigerian citizens enjoyed visa-free or visa-on-arrival privileges at Kenyan airports. This was recently revoked. And you do not expect Nigeria to be pleased about this, especially as more Nigerians visit Kenya than vice versa. If Mr. Madowo wants to take a dig at African nations frustrating a "borderless Africa", he should look closer to home.
Moreover, Larry Madowo, who is a CNN correspondent, and who should have known that he is very likely to visit Nigeria, which is Africa's biggest economy, more than once a year, should have applied for a multiple-entry Nigerian visa, which is available to him for five years at a more affordable cost of just $100, which is far cheaper than the Kenyan visa for Nigerians for the same period, and which would have eliminated the need for multiple biometric charges. He would have just needed to do ONE biometric payment.
Larry Madowo did not do his homework correctly. It is entirely the responsibility of a traveller to research the immigration requirements of the country he intends to visit. He was negligent in his responsibilities and is trying to blame Nigeria. For a journalist on a platform like CNN, he has demonstrated a surprising ignorance of non-proprietary information, which can be publicly sourced with a cursory Google search.
What he is complaining of is not even unique to Nigeria, as those Nigerians who are supporting him, due to their disappointment at the results of the last elections, seem not to be aware.
For example, whenever a Nigerian or Kenyan reapplies for a British visa, they MUST still pay for their biometrics and take them, even if they just had them recently. It is a standard practice. It is precisely the same process in Nigeria for which Mr. Madowo is complaining about.
Therefore, prudent individuals choose to apply for a long-term multiple visa, of which the British five-year multiple entry visa costs £771, which is almost ten times the cost of a five-year Nigerian visa. That £771 does not include the cost of Biometrics.
And I saw supposedly enlightened Nigerians, like Dr. Victor Oladokun, of the African Development Bank, commenting on Mr. Madowo's post as though Nigeria had erred and was not acting in line with international best practices.
Can Larry Madowo try the stunt he pulled with Nigeria against the United Kingdom or the United States?
I am proud of my country. I salute the reforms in our immigration system. And I, for one, will not sit idly while Mr. Madowo undermines Nigeria for an oversight he is entirely responsible for.
I visited Kenya with twenty of my friends and family for my fiftieth birthday, and I was asked to pay a bribe at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in the early hours of January 17, 2024. I have documentary and eyewitness evidence and can prove it in court. I am not known as a meticulous record keeper for nothing! However, for the sake of African brotherhood, I kept a lid on this, because "love covers over a multitude of sins."
Mr. Madowo, like a typical African dictator, is only abusing his privileged position in the media industry to bully the Nigerian Immigration Service unnecessarily, and again, I, for one, will not have it!
Reno Omokri
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