By Ann Coulter
Human Events Online, January 30, 2019
Even if it were true that fewer immigrants were accessing government assistance than American citizens, the number of immigrants who should be on welfare is, wait, checking my notes ... yes: ZERO. Why would any country bring in people who immediately need our monetary support?
In fact, bringing in poverty-stricken immigrants is a disaster for the welfare programs intended to help our fellow Americans. Fully half of all non-citizens in the United States are on at least one welfare program, according to the (very non-MAGA) Migration Policy Institute.
The only purpose of these Cato “studies” are the headlines, which will be endlessly repeated throughout media without a moment’s reflection.
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http://humanevents.com/2019/01/30/who-benefits-from-mass-immigration-not-you/
House Gives Victims of Illegal Alien Crime Bipartisan Standing Ovation on Chamber Floor
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The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday gave victims of illegal alien crimes a bipartisan standing ovation on the floor of the chamber as House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy read out the names of Americans killed by illegal aliens in a lengthy speech.
McCarthy began his speech bashing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s strategy on the government funding battle that has protected the “status quo” on immigration, a system that has led to serious consequences for American citizen victims of illegal immigration.
McCarthy said on the House floor:
At a time when the country expects its leaders in Washington to look forward, this House majority is looking backward. When our country expects solutions, they are using this chamber to settle political scores. As hundreds of thousands of Americans painfully experienced, portions of our federal government were shut down for 35 days. A shameful record under this majority’s watch. It was a shutdown that never had to happen.
McCarthy continued by recounting how the shutdown happened in large part due to obstruction from Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. He also walked through how President Donald Trump made a number of concessions and offers to Democrats to have an honest deal to end the shutdown and secure the border with a wall along the border but Democrats rejected them every time:
After the President signed a three-week continuing resolution the Speaker gloated with a Presidential-style enrollment ceremony. Democrats marveled at her exercise of raw political motivation. And many in the media responded like they were beat reporters for their hometown team. This all sounds like a historic moment! What exactly was everyone celebrating? Nothing. They were celebrating achieving nothing. They were celebrating a status quo that suits their political interests and personal pursuits of self-righteousness. A status quo that causes pain and suffering for Americans across this country.
From there, McCarthy walked through the statistics of American victims of illegal alien crimes and the effects that an insecure border has on the American public:
There have been 266,000 criminal aliens arrested the last two years. This includes charges or convictions of 100,000 assaults, nearly 30,000 sex crimes, and 4,000 violent killings. Three hundred Americans die every week from heroin. And More than 90 percent of heroin comes across the Southern border. And roughly 10,000 children are being smuggled into the U.S. every year to be sold for human trafficking.
McCarthy called it “zero sum politics,” and lamented how in Washington, D.C., “nothing ever changes.”
“Well I’d like to spend some time and reflect on Americans and their families who might not have been celebrating the status quo preserved by this majority,” McCarthy said.
At that stage, McCarthy then began reading off 50 names of Americans who were killed by illegal aliens–including many police officers. It was during McCarthy’s reading of these names that the powerful moment happened on the House floo, in whih all Republicans and all Democrats present–approximately 60 members in total, as the full House was not present for this speech–stood in unison, along with their staff members with them on the floor and people watching from the gallery–giving the Americans slain by illegal aliens a bipartisan standing ovation from the full House of Representatives.
“All members on the floor–both Republicans and Democrats–rose and solemnly stood as McCarthy read the victims’ names one by one,” a senior GOP aide who was on the floor at the time and witnessed the powerful moment told Breitbart News. “Even onlookers from the gallery joined. It was a very emotional and powerful moment.”
McCarthy was the GOP Speaker, and as he gave this speech, the House was split between Republicans and Democrats among the approximately 60 members present at about even, the GOP staffer present on the floor told Breitbart News, though as it went on there were more Republicans than Democrats there.
Rep. William Lacy Clay (D-MO), a Democrat and top member of the Congressional Black Caucus, was managing the floor for the Democrat majority in the House and, according to the senior GOP aide who was present, joined in with everyone else, including all the Democrats, Republicans, and staff present in standing to honor the Americans killed by illegal aliens.
Here is a full list of the 50 names that McCarthy read out on the House floor:
- Jerry David
- Sherri David
- Deputy Josie Greathouse-Fox
- Pierce Corcoran
- Officer Ronil Singh
- Clinton Howell
- Robert Page
- Justin Lee
- Ellie Bryant
- Grayson Hacking
- Dominic Durden
- Edwin Jackson
- Grant Ronnebeck
- Kenneth Scott-Mahr
- Officer Kevin Will
- Sergeant Brandon Mendoza
- Sergeant Cory Wride
- Josh Wilkerson
- Spencer Golvach
- Kate Steinle
- Detective Michael Davis
- Deputy Danny Oliver
- Bob Barry
- Parker Moore
- Officer Andy Chavez
- Lauren Bump
- Louise Sollowin
- Serenity Reedy
- Vanessa Pham
- Kathleen Byham
- Agent Brian Terry
- Officer Henry Canales
- Donald Mayle
- Breanna Schneller
- Amanda Thomas
- Jennifer Lee Hampton
- Officer Andrew Widman
- Officer Rodney Johnson
- Buddy Mason
- Adrienne Shelly
- Mollie Tibbetts
- Ronald da Silva
- Sarah Root
- Drew Rosenberg
- Kara Willingham
- Oscar Navarro
- Margaret Kostelnik
- Andres Duran
- Rock Jones
- Michael Grubbs
And here is video of McCarthy’s full House floor speech posted by the Minority Leader’s office:
“These are just 50 names of Americans whose lives have been lost to illegal immigration,” McCarthy said after he finished reading their names. “They no longer have their voice. But we can and must be their voice today.”
McCarthy also read off the names of various so-called DREAMers whom he says should be upset because the Democrats have refused to make a deal with President Trump–and then he rounded out his speech saying that he implores Congress to consider the impact that its refusal to solve the problem once and for all has on all Americans and the broad effect that congressional inaction causes.
“Mr. Speaker as this House adjourns for the week today — after just one rule bill — I implore my colleagues to take some time and think deeply about these individuals, their families, and what our country stands for,” McCarthy said. “It certainly isn’t this political stunt by this majority and it certainly isn’t the status quo they are so proud to protect. As members of the U.S. House of Representatives we are a very small group with a very large responsibility. The burden on us 435 Americans is to represent 325 million Americans faithfully. To work together so that tomorrow is better than today. Let us not let these political distractions get in the way of our duty. Instead – lets actually get to work.
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There Really Is a Crisis at the Border
Strangers, Edel Rodriguez, 2018
In the present showdown with Democrats, Trump laid out his case for a border wall whereas the two vulture-looking Democrats, significantly, did not address his main point: that the wall would keep out drugs and illegal aliens who committed crimes. The media, vigorously attacked Trump’s speech—evenbefore he delivered it (Jonathan Karl at CBS almost threw a tantrum prior). Since then, the hive-mind of MSM journalists have avoided the central issue of crime and have instead focused at length on bureaucrats’ paychecks and ignored crimes by illegal aliens.
There is a game that philosophers like to toss back and forth: if a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it, has it made a sound? The mainstream media (MSM), both in the USA and abroad, has the firm belief that if an event is not reported (as news) then it didn’t happen and no one is the wiser. Dictatorships adhere to this principle.
A study in Arizona showed that illegals commit twice more crimes than other residents, as does a nationwide study. So, if anyone insists that illegals don’t commit crimes, then submit the following— which are only a tiny fraction of crimes committed.
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- Gustavo Garcia, a previously deported alien murdered a 51-year-old American.
- Franco Cambrany Francisco-Eduardo killed the son of a fire department captain.
- Joel Valera, a deported illegal alien, committed a sex crime, carried out domestic violence and shot and killed 40-year-old Arthur Gomez Jr.
- Jose Ramirez-Valesco an illegal alien from Mexico, raped a 16-year-old girl.
- After local officials ignored an ICE detainer request, Miguel Luna brutally beat and raped three women.
- New Jersey, which is a self-styled sanctuary state, refused an ICE detainer for Luis Rodrigo Perez, an illegal immigrant from Mexico. Upon release, he murdered three people.
- Non-citizen households use welfare twice as much as citizen households.
- Darwin Martinez Torres, an MS-13 gang member, raped and murdered a Muslim girl (which the media showcased as an instance of American Islamophobia).
- Pablo Serrano-Vitorino, an illegal alien from Mexico, murdered five Americans.
- Pablo Villavicencio Calderon, an illegal immigrant from Ecuador was guilty of domestic violence. Democrats fought against his extradition.
- Cristhian Bahena Rivera, an illegal alien from Mexico, “looking for a better life,” killed an Iowa student who was against deporting illegal immigrants. Elizabeth “Pocahontas” Warren told the family that they should focus on the poor migrant families instead of their daughter. CNN commentator Symone Sanders and Rekha Basu, independent of each other, blamed the killing on “toxic masculinity.” Well, the parents also didn’t think that illegal immigrants were the problem. In fact, the mother afterwards invited anillegal immigrant to live with her.
- Jose Alfonso Rodriguez-Garcia was deported ten times and during that time, he committed theft, possession/sale of drugs, auto theft, and rape. Although he does not belong to MS-13, surely he qualifies for Pelosi’s “spark of divinity.”
- In Oregon, Eduardo de la Lima Vargas, drunk while driving, killed a couple, thereby orphaning their four children.
- In San Francisco, five times deported Jose Ines Garcia Zarate shot and killed Kate Steinle. California is a “sanctuary state.” Incredibly Zarate was not convicted in San Francisco. He subsequently sued Trump for saying bad things about the murderer. And when UC-SD Republicans put fliers in campus on Steinle, UC-SD College Democrats published a statement on their Facebook page condemning what they described as “racist propaganda” while at UC Berkeley, leftists vandalized posters announcing a vigil for Steinle.
- In Tucson, two Ethiopians were arrested for fraud when it was found that they had ties to the terrorist organization Al-Shabab.
- In Texas, illegal immigrant Ramon Pedro was apprehended with his “daughter” whom he had been raping.
- In Ft. Myers, Florida, an illegal immigrant from Haiti shot and killed an officer.
- Daniel Hernandez Del Angel, has been illegally living in the country for the last 22 years, and raped a 7-year-old and her mother. He has a spark of divinity, too.
- At Rochester East High School, Abigail Hernandez, an illegal immigrant and potential DACA threatened to shoot students with a shotgun.
- In Los Angeles Alejandro Alvarez Villegas, 32, an illegal immigrant, attacked his wife with a chainsaw.
- Bryan Cordero-Castro stabbed to death a 16-year-old girl.
- Franklin Freddy Meave Vazquez, a DACA, committed several crimes.
- Previously deported Ramon Escobar from El Salvador murdered three homeless men.
- Mexican Freddy Meave Vazquez killed a crew member aboard a boat and tried to kill the other crew, having previously kidnapped someone in Virginia.
- In Austin, a sanctuary city, illegal alien Nicondemo Coria-Gonzales beat and raped seven women. He had been previously deported five times.
- In New York, Ever Martinez-Reyes from El Salvador, while “looking for a better life,” raped a woman and broke her jaw.
- In Dover, previously deported Mexican Juan Carlos Hernandez-Tapia raped a six-year-old girl. Did Democrats care? Doubtful.
- In Massachusetts, a little girl was burned and disfigured in a voodoo ritual by her Haitian mother.
- Margarito Quintero, an illegal immigrant on his way to “looking for a better life” killed a father and his two infant children.
- You know how, according to the MSM propaganda, those wonderful DACAsare future Nobel Prizewinners and Medal of Honor recipients? Well, one of those priceless youths murdered Grant Ronnebeck for a pack of cigarettes. 60,000 DACAs have an arrest record and in Arizona, DACAs make up 8% of the jail population.
- Drew Rosenberg was killed by Roberto Galo in 2010, an illegal immigrant from Honduras.
- Francis Hernandez had been arrested 16 times in 5 years without ever being turned over to immigration authorities. Later, “in his search for a better life,” while driving 81 miles an hour, he killed two women and a 3-year-old child.
- 16-year-old Kayla Cuevas and 15-year-old Nisa Mickens were butchered by MS-13 members who possessed “a spark of divine genius.”
- Police officer Ronil Singh (a LEGAL immigrant) was murdered by Gustavo Perez Arriaga, an illegal alien living in California.
- Galtsog Gantulga, a Mongolian DACA, had two DWIs, one of which was a hit and run.
- Edibaldo Duran, a Mexican illegal alien, beat, robbed and raped a woman. Not a peep from feminists.
- In Connecticut, an illegal immigrant from Jamaica murdered a 12-year-old.
- Illegal alien Francisco Manzano started a fire in the hanger of a US military base in Arizona.
- In Massachusetts, 17-year-old Herson Rivas was butchered by MS-13 members from El Salvador.
- Luis Rodrigo Perez, another one of those wonderful, blameless, DACA, murdered three persons in Missouri. He had been previously arrested and released in New Jersey, a sanctuary state.
- Illegal immigrant and all around psychopath Luis Enrique MonroyBracamontes laughed that he only killed two cops.
- Three MS-13 teenage gang members (minors) attacked other youths with knives and bats. They had been previously released from custody.
- Salvador Diaz-Garcia, a DACA DREAMER, raped a girl in Burien, WA., tearing her ear off and knocking out her teeth, later sexually assaulting a minor.
- In Wheaton, MD., Felix Silva-Zuniga, an illegal immigrant paid MS-13 members (and illegal aliens) to have sex with a minor that they were pimping out.
- In the Portland People’s Republic of Antifa, Oregon, Santiago Flores-Martinez a previously deported illegal immigrant from Mexico, raped a 9-year-old little girl. Antifa will no doubt be protesting his arrest.
- San Antonio college student Jared Vargas was murdered by illegal Ernesto Esquivel-Garcia, who had been previously arrested and released with a request for him to voluntarily deport himself.
- Wilfredo Perez-Aguilar is a Guatemalan illegal immigrant who was sentenced and deported for raping a 12-year-old and was recently caught trying to reenter the United States. If ICE had been abolished as so many liberals want it to be, he would be already inside the country.
- Jose Manuel Tiscareno Hernandez, an illegal alien from Mexico, raped an 11-year-old child.
- Border Patrol agents arrested a DACA recipient for smuggling more than 17 pounds of methamphetamine.
- An unnamed illegal immigrant from Mexico has been deported 44 times.
- A drunken Jose Martin Duran Romero plowed his vehicle into an ambulance, killing a toddler inside and injuring the mother. And, yes, he was an illegal immigrant.
- An illegal immigrant from Haiti assaulted some men, stole property from a car and shot a police officer.
- A drunken Esteysi Sanchez drove a car and killed a man.
- In Alabama, Antonio Corince, a 29-year-old illegal alien, admitted to sexually abusing a child.
- Gerardo Valerio-Romero, an illegal alien from Mexico, sexually abused an eight-year-old, a relative. While in custody of Utah County, he was diagnosed with cancer and began receiving treatment costing American taxpayers $1 million.
- Twitter banned the Center for Immigration Studies from using the term “illegal immigrants” as “hate speech.”
- Gustavo Araujo Lerma and his wife Maria Eva Velez were charged with aggravated identity theft, passport fraud, conspiracy to commit unlawful procurement of naturalization and citizenship, and five counts of voting by an alien.
- The Public Interest Legal Foundation has determined that there were numerous illegal aliens who illegally voted in Virginia elections.
- Joel Arrona Lara was detained by ICE while driving his pregnant wife to the hospital, whereupon the MSM hive-mind instantly proclaimed him nationally and loudly as a victim and martyr to Trump’s cruel policy. In a turn of events, the illegal immigrant was wanted for murder in Mexico, rather than having committed a murder in the US (at least, not yet). His wife’s hospital bill was paid by taxpayers. In fact, we pay $2 billionannually to support anchor babies by illegal aliens.
- Several cities in Maryland allow illegal aliens to vote illegally in elections, even though it is illegal.
- Illegal aliens have boasted of helping Democrats in elections.
- The DOJ announced the arrest of dozens of illegal aliens who voted illegally. A drop in the bucket.
- Hundreds of illegal aliens were discovered (after the fact) of having voted illegally in North Carolina.
- An investigation by the Fresno Bee has revealed that in order to prevent deportation of illegal aliens convicted of sex crimes, the California government has to put them in mental health facilities.
- Carlos Isaias-Aponte, aka Santo Ramirez-Ferman, aka Francisco Ocasio,aka Luis A. Camacho, was a heroin trafficker, an identity thief, and a welfare fraudster from the Dominican Republic and, of course, an illegal alien.
- The city of San Francisco deliberately spent $385,000 to register non-citizen voters.
- Because she wasn’t doing a good job being a prostitute, three illegal alien MS-13 gang members, exhibiting that “spark of divinity,” beat a 15-year-old half to death with baseball bats.
- In Santa Rosa, California, Eulalio Miniz Orozco was captured on video stabbing a fellow diner, a 61-year-old man. Orozco had been deported seven times and had a long criminal record.
- Daniel Enrique Fabian, an illegal alien from Peru, who was brought over as a baby, was using the PlayStation, then took a break to rape a girl in his house, his second victim. He left the game microphone on during the rape and so was arrested.
- Luis Enrique Monroy Bracamontes, a Mexican citizen who repeatedly entered the U.S. illegally, killed an officer.
- According to a report, 62% of illegal aliens are on welfare.
- An illegal alien Muslim committed welfare fraud and theft. His wife and daughter yelled “Fuck America!” at cameras.
- Three MS-13 gang members were caught by border patrol agents, sneaking into the US, as part of the 2018 caravan.
- An illegal identity theft ring was busted in California, run by illegal immigrants from Central America. Andres Avelino Anduaga, an illegal alien from Mexico was one such individual, with an extensive criminal record, having taken $361,000 in benefits.
- In Kansas, Victor David Garcia Bebek, a Peruvian national voted in 2012 and 2014. Other instances of voter fraud by illegal immigrants can be found here.
- An illegal alien from Tunisia, a Muslim, was jailed for weapons possession charges, among others.
- Ivan Zamarripa-Castaneda, an illegal alien, was allowed to bond out of jail following a deadly hit-and-run accident before ICE could seize him.
- Nathan Valdez who came illegally to this country from Mexico as a baby grew up to murder a man.
- If convicted in Nevada, illegal immigrant Wilbur Ernesto Martinez Guzman would be the youngest serial criminal in this country, targeting old people.
- 7 times deported Nemias Garcia-Velasco from Mexico, driving 100mph, killed someone.
- Previously deported Victor Francisco Michel-Lara from Mexico raped a 7-year-old multiple times (it should be remembered that Trump was repeatedly criticized for saying that illegal Mexicans coming over were rapists).
Incidentally, it would be a mistake to think that other minorities welcome illegal immigrants with open arms. Quite the contrary. Although leftists give the impression that all minorities support illegal immigration, this is a delusion. Many blacks and Hispanics want them out of their neighborhoods and out of their cities. Even legal immigrants want them gone and complain that the media ignores them.
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Illegal immigrants are, of course, being protected and sanitized by liberals in various ways while deliberately ignoring inconvenient facts, such as that 70%“asylum seekers” don’t bother to show up to court). Amazon’s Jeff Bezos set aside $33 million for scholarships for illegals (nothing for Americans, or legal immigrants) with New York State allocating $27 million, while Los Angeles has legalized street vendors for illegal immigrants’ benefit and Denver legalized public defecating in the streets for their benefit.
Meanwhile, mass deportations and border patrols have proven to curtail criminal gang activity. But the media doesn’t report it. They’re pushing the mantra that the issue is Trump’s “fake crisis.”
The tree has fallen in the forest and many people have heard it.
WORLD-WIDE THREAT ASSESSMENT MAKES POWERFUL CASE FOR BORDER SECURITY
Senate hears from leaders of the intelligence community.
February 1, 2019
Timing is everything. Congress is currently in the midst of debating the construction of a "border wall" or “border barrier” to protect the dangerous U.S./Mexican border as the clock ticks down to another possible partial shutdown of our government if an agreement cannot be reached.
Meanwhile, on Tuesday, January 29, 2019 the Senate Intelligence Committee conducted a hearing on Worldwide Threats that was predicated on a just-released paper, "World-Wide Threat Assessment," that was issued by Daniel Coats, the Director of the Office of National Intelligence, which oversees the U.S. intelligence community.
As we will see, elements of that report addressed issues that have a clear nexus to border security and immigration law enforcement.
However, the leaders of the Democratic Party have thus far made it clear that they will oppose any and all efforts to construct a barrier to block the uninspected entry of aliens and cargo into the United States while simultaneously claiming that they don't oppose border security -- even as some Democrats call for disbanding Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
While the Democratic Party leaders claim that a wall or barrier on the southern border is a waste of money and find all sorts of other absurd excuses to oppose it, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi outrageously and infamously claiming that any such structure would be “immoral,” the leaders of the U.S. Border Patrol as well as the leaders of the Border Patrol Council, the union that represents our valiant Border Patrol agents, have publicly and repeatedly stated that a wall or barrier is essential to help them to secure our nation’s borders.
Clearly the Democrats have no interest in actually securing our borders or in the enforcement of our immigration laws.
Now we come to that hearing conducted by the Senate Intelligence Committee and the report that served as the predication for that hearing.
Inasmuch as the report contains material furnished by all of the elements of the U.S. Intelligence Community, the leaders of these agencies were witnesses at the hearing.
This is the Witness List:
Director Daniel Coats
Office of the Director of National Intelligence
ODNI
Office of the Director of National Intelligence
ODNI
Director Christopher Wray
Federal Bureau of Investigation
FBI
Federal Bureau of Investigation
FBI
Director Gina Haspel
Central Intelligence Agency
CIA
Central Intelligence Agency
CIA
Director General Robert Ashley
Defense Intelligence Agency
DIA
Defense Intelligence Agency
DIA
Director General Paul Nakasone
National Security Agency
NSA
National Security Agency
NSA
Director Robert Cardillo
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
NGA
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
NGA
Several areas of concern about national security vulnerabilities addressed in the report have a clear and unmistakable nexus to immigration, border security and related issues.
Page 4 of the report included this paragraph:
Migration is likely to continue to fuel social and interstate tensions globally, while drugs and transnational organized crime take a toll on US public health and safety. Political turbulence is rising in many regions as governance erodes and states confront growing public health and environmental threats.
Page 10 included the following excerpt:
TERRORISM
Sunni Violent Extremists
Global jihadists in dozens of groups and countries threaten local and regional US interests, despite having experienced some significant setbacks in recent years, and some of these groups will remain intent on striking the US homeland. Prominent jihadist ideologues and media platforms continue to call for and justify efforts to attack the US homeland.
Page 18 of the report focuses on Transnational Criminal Organizations and provided vital information about drug trafficking and human trafficking.
Here is an excerpt of the material provided in this chapter of the report:
TRANSNATIONAL ORGANIZED CRIME
Global transnational criminal organizations and networks will threaten US interests and allies by trafficking drugs, exerting malign influence in weak states, threatening critical infrastructure, orchestrating human trafficking, and undermining legitimate economic activity.
Drug Trafficking
The foreign drug threat will pose continued risks to US public health and safety and will present a range of threats to US national security interests in the coming year. Violent Mexican traffickers, such as members of the Sinaloa Cartel and New Generation Jalisco Cartel, remain key to the movement of illicit drugs to the United States, including heroin, methamphetamine, fentanyl, and cannabis from Mexico, as well as cocaine from Colombia. Chinese synthetic drug suppliers dominate US-bound movements of so- called designer drugs, including synthetic marijuana, and probably ship the majority of US fentanyl, when adjusted for purity.
Approximately 70,000 Americans died from drug overdoses in 2017, a record high and a 10-percent increase from 2016, although the rate of growth probably slowed in early 2018, based on Centers for Disease Control (CDC) data.
Increased drug fatalities are largely a consequence of surging production of the synthetic opioid fentanyl; in 2017, more than 28,000 Americans died from synthetic opioids other than methadone, including illicitly manufactured fentanyl. The CDC reports synthetic opioid- related deaths rose 846 percent between 2010 and 2017, while DHS reports that US seizures of the drug increased 313 percent from 2016 to 2017.
Other Organized Crime Activities
Transnational criminal organizations and their affiliates are likely to expand their influence over some weak states, collaborate with US adversaries, and possibly threaten critical infrastructure.
Mexican criminals use bribery, intimidation, and violence to protect their drug trafficking, kidnapping-for-ransom, fuel-theft, gunrunning, extortion, and alien-smuggling enterprises.
Gangs based in Central America, such as MS-13, continue to direct some criminal activities beyond the region, including in the United States.
Transnational organized crime almost certainly will continue to inflict human suffering, deplete natural resources, degrade fragile ecosystems, drive migration, and drain income from the productive—and taxable—economy.
Human trafficking generates an estimated $150 billion annually for illicit actors and governments that engage in forced labor, according to the UN’s International Labor Organization.
This is not the first report or the first hearing to provide clear evidence that the porous U.S./Mexico border creates national security, public safety, and public health vulnerabilities for Americans.
I have written a number of articles about this issue; one of my recent articles took on the bogus claim that technology is better than a wall: "Why Trump’s Wall Is A Must" - And why a “virtual fence” will stop no one.
My May 11, 2018 article, "Congressional Hearing: Iranian Sleeper Cells Threaten U.S.," was predicated on a hearing conducted by the House Homeland Security Committee.
A failure to stop the flow of illegal alien workers also undermines the U.S. economy, and costs American and lawful immigrant workers jobs and suppresses their wages. That fundamental fact was the basis for my commentary, "OPEN BORDERS FACILITATE AMERICA’S RACE TO THE BOTTOM" - “Cheap labor” is anything but cheap.
As I have noted ever so many times in my articles and in my Congressional testimony, simply securing the problematic border against the illegal (uninspected) entry of aliens won’t end the immigration crisis but would close one of the major holes in what I have come to refer to as the Immigration Colander. I have come to conceptualize the wall on the U.S./Mexican border as the equivalent of a wing on an airplane. Without a wing the airplane will not fly, but the wing by itself would go nowhere.
The immigration system has never had a meaningful program to enforce the immigration laws from within the interior of the United States. The need to enforce the immigration laws from within the interior of the United States is commonsense and was noted as an important issue by the 9/11 Commission. The dirty secret is that our political leaders understand just how important interior enforcement is but have intentionally never provided the resources to enforce those laws from within the interior. Consider that, in the wake of the terror attacks of 9/11 President George W. Bush created the Department of Homeland Security (DHS ) and in so doing, broke the former Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) into multiple components that then blended immigration with other agencies such as Customs.
However, while the leadership of neither the Democrats nor the Republicans have been willing to take the necessary measures to finally save the immigration crisis through effective but fair law enforcement, unhinged members of the Democratic Party are now calling for dismantling ICE altogether. They are calling for immigration anarchy even as yet another hearing, involving the leaders of the U.S. intelligence community, are clear about the nexus between threats confronting America and border security and immigration law enforcement.
Meanwhile cities and states that are controlled by the Democrats have created “Sanctuary Cities” and “Sanctuary States” that shield illegal aliens from detection from ICE including criminals, members of transnational gangs and drug trafficking organizations. These jurisdictions also shield international fugitives and terrorists and, in shielding aliens who were smuggled into the United States, protect the human traffickers who smuggled them here.
If these politicians were really concerned about the plight of trafficked aliens, they could cooperate with ICE and make certain that ICE provides these aliens with visas that are available for aliens who cooperate with investigations into human trafficking and major crimes.
As we have seen with the trial of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, New York City -- the American city with the largest, best-trained and -equipped police department in the United States -- became the hub for the Mexican Sinaloa Drug Cartel that purportedly moved hundreds of tons of drugs including heroin, cocaine, meth, fentanyl, and marijuana into the U.S. across the Mexican border.
The only rational reason that NYC would have been selected as the hub, given the nature and reputation of the NYPD is the fact that NYC is a “Sanctuary City.” This was the focus of my article, "NEW YORK CITY: HUB FOR THE DEADLY DRUG TRADE" - “Sanctuary” policies attract foreign drug traffickers, fugitives and terrorists.
For far too long America has been bleeding red (blood) and green (money). Truly secure borders wold represent a giant step on the road to resolving the immigration crisis. Failure to secure the border costs innocent lives, each and every day.
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