This X post by Joe Gebbia shares a striking chart from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) visualizing U.S. net immigration from 2001 to 2024, broken down by status: lawful permanent residents (LPR+ in cyan), nonimmigrants on temporary visas (dark blue), and other foreign nationals without legal status (red). The data reveals stark contrasts across presidencies—modest inflows under Bush (9.8M total) and Obama (7M), a dip during Trump's term (3M), and a massive surge under Biden (10.4M, dominated by 7.5M+ in the "other" category). Projections show sustained high levels through 2024, with an average of 2M annual net immigrants expected from 2024-2034, mostly legal permanent residents. Posted in response to a discussion on a controversial USCIS memo requiring re-interviews for refugees admitted 2021-2025, Gebbia's caption defends the policy as necessary cleanup from prior "abuse," sparking debates on immigration enforcement, with critics calling the chart understated and others highlighting legal vs. illegal inflows.
Look, this CBO chart doesn't lie—it's a damning receipt on Biden's wide-open borders, dumping over 10 million migrants into America in four years, with the red spike screaming unchecked illegal entries that Trump wisely slashed to 3 million during his watch. Gebbia's spot-on: that USCIS re-interview memo is long-overdue housecleaning for the refugee scam the left ran from 2021-2025, freezing green cards until we vet who the hell we're letting in. No more abusing asylum for economic tourists; it's about real security, not sanctuary virtue-signaling. And don't get me started on the "legal" blue bars—they're just as bloated, flooding the system with temp workers who overstay and chain-migrate families, undercutting wages for everyday Americans.
Tie this national mess to Colorado, and it's a gut-punch for us Rockies folks. Denver's already hemorrhaged $180 million in 2024 alone on hotels-turned-shelters for 42,000+ new arrivals—mostly Venezuelans bused in by Abbott to expose the hypocrisy—slashing funds from roads, schools, and our wildfire defenses. We've got 160,000 undocumented here, 29% of all immigrants, jamming up ELL classrooms with 9,000 kids while teacher shortages leave two-thirds of spots empty, and spiking our uninsured rates to force $8 million more in state Medicaid next year. International migration drove over half our 56,000 population bump last year, sure, but it's no "vitality"—it's straining housing (hello, tighter market? Good for prices, bad for young families), bloating welfare rolls, and turning sanctuary-state Dems like Polis into budget-busters who expanded driver's licenses for illegals without a two-year wait, inviting more chaos. Trump's mass deportations starting right here in Aurora? Music to our ears—it's time to prioritize Coloradans over this invasion, seal the border, and reclaim our purple-mountain majesty before it turns into a taxpayer-funded tent city.