ONLY ABOUT ONE IN EIGHT BORDER JUMPERS ARE ACTUALLY CAUGHT.
THE REST GO ON TO LOOT JOB, WELFARE, SOCIAL SERVICES AND THEN VOTE DEMOCRAT FOR
MORE
CNN, Fox
News Fixate On Iran—Ignore Mexican Invasion By Ann Coulter
4.3M
Migrants Caught at SW Border in Decade — More Than Los Angeles Population
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Border Patrol agents apprehended
more than four million migrants who illegally crossed the southwest border with
Mexico during the past 10 fiscal years. If these migrants were placed into a
single city, it would be larger than Los Angeles by population.
During the past 10 fiscal years,
October 1, 2009, through September 30, 2019, U.S. Border Patrol agents assigned
to the nine sectors that make up the United States’ southwest border with
Mexico apprehended 4,318,200 migrants. The highest year during that decade for
apprehensions occurred during Fiscal Year 2019 when agents apprehended 851,553
— including 76,020 Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) and 473,682 Family Unit
Aliens (FMUA), according to reports obtained from U.S. Customs and Border
Protection.
Apprehensions by Fiscal Year:
FY2019 — 851,553 FY2018 — 396,579 FY2017 — 303,916 FY2016 — 408,870 FY2015 — 331,333 FY2014 — 479,371 FY2013 — 414,397 FY2012 — 356,873 FY2011 — 327,577 FY2010 — 447,731
During the past decade, Rio Grande
Valley (RGV) Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended the largest numbers of
migrants. Between fiscal years 2010 and 2019, RGV Sector agents apprehended
1,600,663 migrants who illegally crossed the border into South Texas, the
reports state.
Agents assigned to the Tucson Sector
had the second-highest number of total apprehensions — 946,948. The Big Bend
Sector in West Texas had the lowest number of total apprehensions — 56,149.
The report shows a shifting in
migration traffic during the past decade. In FY2010, the Tucson Sector reported
the highest number of apprehensions — 212,202. This changed in FY2013 when the
largest apprehension numbers shifted to the RGV Sector.
In Fiscal Year 2019, RGV agents
apprehended 339,135 migrants including 34,523 UACs and 211,631 FMUAs.
During the past 10 fiscal years,
Border Patrol agents apprehended a total of 433,216 unaccompanied minors.
Officials reported that more than half of those apprehensions, 235,050 took
place in the RGV Sector.
FMUA apprehension numbers for the
decade were not readily available. U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials
provided statistics for Fiscal Years 2013 through 2019. During that period,
Border Patrol agents apprehended 857,328 family units. More than half of these,
463,811, occurred in the RGV Sector.
FMUA apprehensions represent the
largest increase in migrant demographics. The number of apprehensions jumped
from 14,855 in FY2013 to 473,682 in FY2019 — an increase of more than 3,000
percent. Again, more than half of the FMUA apprehensions occurred in the RGV
Sector — 463,811.
With three fiscal years missing from
the FMUA report, FMUA and UAC apprehensions account for 1.3 million of the
total 4.3 million apprehensions. These demographics also represent the highest
cost to U.S. taxpayers in terms of processing, transporting, feeding, and
providing healthcare, Border Patrol officials repeatedly state.
Migrants Flooded
the Border in 2019 — Census Bureau Claims the Inflow Dropped
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Arias / AFP / Getty Images
31 Dec 2019196
8:53
The Census Bureau claims that
immigration dropped to just 595,000 people in the 12 months up to mid-2019, but
the estimate is built on conflicting data, said Steven Camarota, a statistician
at the Center for Immigration Studies.
“Net
immigration is a very hard thing to measure because there is so much sampling
variability” amid continued arrivals and departures, he said, adding that President
Donald Trump’s pro-American policies may be prompting illegal migrants to evade
surveys.
The
bureau’s conflicting migrant population estimates are hidden under t he bureau’s
claim that the nation’s population rose by just 0.5 percent from
July 2018 to July 2019, up to 328 million. The number is low partly
because the bureau says the resident population of legal and illegal migrants
rose by only 595,000 during the year up to July 2019.
But
the Department of Homeland Security reported that 700,000 migrants crossed the
southeastern border in the nine months before July 2019. The vast majority of
those Central American migrants were allowed to stay pending their eventual
asylum hearings.
Trump
sharply reduced the flow of border migrants in the second half of 2019 and may
have reduced the number of new overstays and new illegals. But Congress and
business have blocked his 2018 efforts to shrink legal immigration.
Business
groups and investors want
the federal government to stimulate their economic growth and stock values
by adding more
immigrant workers and more consumers . Faster
population growth means higher forecasts for economic consumption, sales,
housing prices, and profits, thus boosting the value of stock prices on Wall
Street.
So
business groups are touting the bureau’s new low-ball estimate to demand even
more migration. For example, the New
York Times portrayed the
bureau’s new claim of slow immigrant growth as bad for investors and the
economy:
William
H. Frey, a noted demographer and senior
fellow at the Brookings Institution , said in an interview Monday
that the percentage increase was the lowest in a century. The growth rate
during the most recent decade, about 6.7 percent, is expected to be the lowest
since the government started taking population counts around 1790, he said.
“This
is a huge downturn in the nation’s growth,” Mr. Frey said. “This is even lower
than the Great Depression.”
Census
watchers say that one of the biggest reasons for the stagnancy of the
population is the decrease in the number of new immigrants. a trend that has
continued through President Trump’s first three years in office.
…
“The
immigration is really the [economic] safety valve for us going forward,” Mr.
Frey said of population growth. “I think that immigration is an important part
of what we have to think about going forward.”
In
contrast, wage-earning Americans gain from a reduced migrant inflow. Any declines
in worker population pressure employers to compete for new employees by
offering higher wages and by training sidelined Americans. The slower
population growth also allows young Americans to migrate to good jobs in other
regions, and to buy homes in good locations at lower costs. Slower population
growth also forces employers to buy labor-saving machines to allow employees to
earn more by getting more work done each day.
Those
changes also mean that slower population growth — via lower births or reduced
immigration — also tends to transfer wealth from older investors back to young
wage-earners. “Throughout American history, even during the Great Depression,
business always says they don’t have enough workers,” said Camarota, adding:
That’s
true today as well – [because] they always want to keep wages down [and] they
have an [economic] interest in an ever-more densely populated America. Whether
that is in the interest of the American people already here that is a different
question.
Almost 50% of U.S. employees got higher wages in 2019, up
from almost 40% in 2018.
That's useful progress - but wage growth will likely rise
faster if Congress stopped inflating the labor supply for the benefit of
business. http:// bit.ly/2SyaLg7
However,
the Associated Press pushed the same pro-migration,
pro-growth theme. “Immigration is a wildcard in that
it is something we can do something about,” Frey said. “Immigrants tend to be
younger and have children, and they can make a population younger.”
“Immigration
is no fix for an aging society,” said Camarota. “The immigrants grow old,
and they don’t have that many children.” Currently, “everybody has
got low fertility … and the fertility of young immigrants has declined more than
the fertility of natives,” he said.
Some
of the population data is easy to count accurately. For example, government
agencies and hospitals reported just 3,791,712 births and 2,835,038 deaths
in 2019, so boosting the native-born population by only 956,674.
But
estimates for immigration are far more difficult, said Camarota.
For
example, the two Census Bureau population-tracking estimates lag far
behind the news.
In
November, the bureau released its 2018 American Community Survey that excluded
data from the second half of 2018 and all of 2019. So the 2018 report missed
the inflow of roughly 800,000 migrants across the border in 2019 as it reported
that 1.45 million new legal and illegal immigrants settled in the United
States during 2017.
The
estimated 1.45 million immigrant inflow in 2017 is down from 1.75 million
migrants in 2016 and the 1.62 million migrants in 2015, but it was
also more than any year between 2002 to 2013.
Alongside
the ACS, the bureau also releases the Current Population Survey (CPS). It
“showed a significantly larger total number of [legal and illegal] immigrants
in 2018 (45.8 million) vs. the total shown in the ACS (44.7 million),” said
a November
analysis by Camarota.
“A
recent news story in the New
York Times Slows to a
Trickle ,” said an October report by
CIS, which explained:
An
op-ed in the Times mistakenly
interpreting the earlier report as meaning that “immigration fell 70%”
in the last year. The writers interpret this as the result of President Trump’s
immigration policy changes.
But
it is not clear that any slowdown in immigration has actually taken place.
First,
growth in the immigrant population does not measure new arrivals; immigrants
come and go, so the net change in the total is not the same as the annual
number of new arrivals.
More
important, though, is that the two Census Bureau surveys that measure the
foreign-born have recently diverged in unexpected ways. The Times
These
annual differences produce larger differences over several years, said the CIS
report:
In
terms of growth, the ACS shows a 4.8 million increase from 2010 to 2018 in the
immigrant population, while the [2018] CPS shows a 6.9 million increase over
the same period. The just-released 2019 CPS shows an increase of 7.3 million
since 2010 …
From
2015 to 2019, growth in the immigrant population averaged one million in the
CPS, while in the ACS it averaged 600,000 from 2015 to 2018 (Figure 1 and Table
1).
NYT's Tom Edsall says Trump's immigration-reform voters
are 'snakes and vermin.'
Edsall usually tries to understand ordinary Americans'
concerns. But he & his elite peers live in a bubble & just don't see
immigration's huge economic damage to Americans. http:// bit.ly/2YQO7Aq
The
swearing-in of new citizens also lags,he Census Bureau reports. The
naturalization data show that a record number of immigrants became citizens —
and possible voters — in 2019:
CALIFORNIA: now a colony of Mexico
By Jessica Vaughan
Earlier this week ICE released its 2019 report on
enforcement activity. While overall removals increased due to a record number
of illegal arrivals at the southwest border, removals from the interior
declined by 10 percent. Meanwhile, ICE's caseload grew by 24 percent, with more
than 630,000 cases added to its docket, which has grown to a record high of
more than three million cases.
Vox
Editor Says U.S. Needs 600 Million Migrants to Counter China
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5:27
The
nation’s Military-Industrial Complex needs to import at least 600 million
immigrants to counter the growing push by China for world power, says a
forthcoming book by Matthew Yglesias, the top editor at the influential
progressive website, Vox.com.
The One Billion Americans book is “a bold
case for massive population growth in the name of national greatness,” says
the blurb from
the publisher, Penguin Random House. The press release continues:
America is in decline. Fewer children are born each year due to
financial pressure. Thousands flee our iconic cities with their housing
shortages and broken infrastructure. While we tie ourselves into knots trying
to stop the flow of immigrants, our exhausted economy deflates the heartland’s
already shrinking population. To survive China’s impending global takeover (not
to mention Russia), we can’t afford to be weak. We need to get bigger, much
bigger. We need one billion Americans.
The United States has a population of roughly 320 million
Americans, so Yglesias’s plan would require a population boost of at least 600
million. If the migrants are imported over 20 years, his plan requires that
annual immigration be raised from roughly one million legal immigrants to at
least 15 million legal immigrants.
The blurb does not describe how much extra cash the 320 million
Americans will have to pay for housing as the 600 million people compete for
decent housing — any housing — in cities and suburbs.
The blurb is silent about how much wealth would flow from wage
earners to stock investors as hundreds of millions of imported workers flood
the labor market, drive down salaries, and spike the stock market.
The blurb says nothing about the politics of a country where
most new immigrants would likely flow to the coastal states, boosting the
relative wealth and voting power of California over Colorado, New Jersey over
Nebraska, and New York over Nevada.
The blurb does not describe the likely civic chaos in a super-diverse
country where American citizens would be stripped of their shared religious,
cultural, and historical ties that have long been used to bind the people to
each other, the elite to the ordinary, and the rulers to the ruled.
The blurb ignores alternative ideas for curbing China, for
example, cutting immigration to spur Americans’ productivity, science,
prosperity, political coherence, and ability to support weaker countries in
Asia and Africa.
The blurb discreetly ignores the role of clever people who have
helped to export jobs, technology, and wealth to China over the past 20
years:
But the blurb suggests Yglesias’s great transformation will
create many opportunities for a class of clever people in the major cities —
such as Matt Yglesias — to rule over ordinary Americans amid the civic
divisions that Yglesias and his peers want to create:
Of course, more people requires more housing, not to mention
better transportation, improved education, a revitalized welfare system, and
climate change mitigation.
…
Drawing on economic theory
and research from leading policy experts, he offers ideas from around the
globe—from Singapore’s approach to traffic jams to Canada’s town planning—that
move us beyond left-right divides, to explore the practical and creative
solutions our times call for.
Yglesias’s
website is pro-migration and anti-Trump . In August 2019, he echoed the Cold War claims
that Americans’ homeland is instead a “Nation of Immigrants” with a
world-changing mission that overwhelms mundane matters, such as Americans’ wages
and prosperity:
Immigration to the United States has not, historically, been an
act of kindness toward strangers. It’s been a strategy for national growth and
national greatness.
Washington
and his fellow founders could have established America as a kind of exclusive
club. The present-day United States undoubtedly would still be a prosperous and
pleasant nation. But our cities would be smaller, our global influence would be
reduced, and many fewer of the world’s cutting-edge companies would be based here.
We would suffer, as small countries tend to, from our talented and ambitious
young people seeking their fortunes in bigger places abroad. With many fewer
people, it wouldn’t be the great
While a lot has changed since Washington’s time, two
fundamentals have not. The United States is still a country with a mission and
a desire for greatness on the world stage. And America’s openness to people who
want to move here and make a better life for themselves is fuel for that
greatness.
Unsurprisingly, Yglesias breezily dismisses the abundant
evidence the immigration shifts money from ordinary wage-earners to wealthy
investors:
as Michael
Greenstone and Adam Looney of the
center-left Hamilton Project put it , “immigrants and U.S.-born workers generally do
not compete for the same jobs; instead, many immigrants complement the work of
U.S. employees and increase their productivity.”
In contrast, there’s much evidence — including 30 years of
economic statistics — that immigration is a disguised economic policy to
transfer wealth from young American wage-earners to older investors, and from
heartland states to the coasts.
THOMAS
HOMAN, the former acting head of
"They
say they care about these people, they
care
about children dying and women being
raped...
they need to look in the mirror
because
if you keep offering enticements...
'sanctuary
cities'... free health care... in-state
tuition...
people are going to put themselves in
harm's
way to come to this country," Homan
Six-Time
Deported Illegal
GCSO
29 Dec 20192,239
1:57
A six-time deported
illegal alien has been arrested for allegedly killing a 51-year-old Colorado
grandmother after being released from local law enforcement custody.
Juan Sanchez, a Mexican
illegal alien who has already been deported from the United States six times
over the last decade, was arrested last week and charged with vehicular
homicide and fleeing the scene of an accident after he allegedly hit and killed
Annette Conquering Bear, a grandmother, while she was walking home from
Walgreens, 9 News reported .
Sanchez, Immigration and Customs
Enforcement (ICE) officials revealed, was deported from the U.S. twice in 2002,
three times in 2008, and in 2012. Sometime after his last deportation, he
illegally re-entered the U.S. for the seventh time.
“Sanchez is an ICE enforcement priority,”
ICE officials said in a statement.
Four days before Conquering Bear’s killing,
Sanchez was in local law enforcement custody on suspicion of drunk driving but
was released after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials said
they did not have enough time in advance to lodge a detainer against him so he
could be turned over to their custody.
During that arrest, Sanchez was allegedly
driving drunk with a blood-alcohol level of 0.183, which is twice the legal
limit. Police said Sanchez admitted to having had “two beers” before getting in
his car and driving with an “international driver’s license.”
Sanchez was taken into custody at the time
and was then quickly released after he became uncooperative and allegedly
telling officers, “I’ll fight my way out of jail.”
The illegal alien is now being held on a
$500,000 bond.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart
News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder .
Sanctuary City Released Human Rights Violator
And then NYC hit the snooze button on this wake-up call
In my last post , I discussed a Liberian
amnesty provision that was snuck into section 7611
of the National Defense Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2020 . I specifically
referenced the case of Liberian human rights violator Charles
Cooper , who
was removed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to Liberia in
June 2018. I left out the part about how the New York Police Department (NYPD)
failed to honor an ICE detainer for him, and released him without even
notifying the agency. The incident does not reflect well on those who set the
rules for New York's finest.
Cooper entered the United
States in January 2006 on a nonimmigrant visa, and remained beyond his
authorized return date. He was no ordinary visa overstay. According to ICE, Cooper
"served as a bodyguard to former Liberian President Charles Taylor and was
a member of a paramilitary police unit called the Secret Security Service
(SSS)."
ICE continued:
"Cooper, while a member of the SSS and the National Patriotic Front of
Liberia [NPLF], was directly involved in the persecution of civilians in
Liberia." In addition to identifying Cooper as "a human rights
violator," the agency asserted that he was "a member of an
organization known for setting fires to whole villages."
The aforementioned Charles Taylor is a special case.
He was a Liberian civil servant in the 1980s, and was accused of embezzlement.
He made his way to the United States, but escaped from prison in Massachusetts
where he was being held for extradition, and travelled back to West Africa. He
thereafter formed the NPFL, and in 1989 launched attacks against the Liberian
government from the Ivory Coast, igniting Liberia's first civil war.
Global
Security explains
that between December 1989 and the middle of 1993, the NPFL "is estimated
to have been responsible for thousands of deliberate killings of civilians. As
NPFL forces advanced towards Monrovia in 1990, they targeted people of the
Krahn and Mandingo ethnic groups, both of which the NPFL considered supporters
of [then-Liberian President Samuel] Doe's government."
Various factions became
involved in the conflict, including the NPFL; forces that were loyal to Doe;
the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and their Nigerian-led
peacekeeping force, ECOMOG; and the breakaway Independent National Patriotic
Front of Liberia (INPFL), which was led by Prince Johnson. INPFL captured, mutilated,
and killed Doe on September 10, 1990.
The first bloody civil war
ended with Taylor's election as president in 1997. According to Britannica , however:
As
president, Taylor restructured the army, filling it with members of his former
militia. Conflict ensued between Taylor and the opposition, and Monrovia became
the scene of widespread gun battles and looting. Governments around the world
accused Taylor of supporting rebels in Sierra Leone, and in 2000 the United
Nations Security Council imposed sanctions on Liberia. The country was
subsequently gripped again by civil war, and Taylor, accused of gross human
rights violations, was indicted by a UN-sponsored war-crimes tribunal (the
Special Court for Sierra Leone) in 2003.
Following
widespread international condemnation, Taylor agreed to go into exile in Nigeria.
In March 2006, however, the Liberian government requested Taylor's extradition,
and Nigeria announced that it would comply with the order. Taylor subsequently
attempted to flee Nigeria but was quickly captured. Charged with crimes against
humanity and war crimes committed during Sierra Leone's civil war, he was later
sent to The Hague, where he was to be tried before the Special Court for Sierra
Leone.
Taylor was found guilty in
April 2012 on 11 counts "of bearing responsibility for the war crimes and
crimes against humanity committed by rebel forces during Sierra Leone's civil
war", and subsequently sentenced to 50 years in prison.
Back to Cooper . As noted, he entered as
a nonimmigrant with permission to remain until August 2006. When he failed to
depart, he was placed into removal proceedings. He was ordered removed by an
immigration judge and appealed the decision, which was dismissed by the Board
of Immigration Appeals in February 2016.
According to ICE:
On
Aug. 11, 2017, Cooper was arrested by the New York Police Department, and
charged with DWI. On that same date, [ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations
(ERO)] deportation officers lodged an immigration detainer with the NYPD's
Richmond Central Booking. Cooper was released from NYPD custody, without the
detainer being honored and without notification to ICE.
Fortunately, in May 2018,
ICE deportation officers arrested Cooper in Staten Island, New York, leading to
his removal.
As my former
colleague Preston
Huennekens reported:
"In March 2013, New York City began ignoring [ICE] detainer notices."
According to ICE , the agency had "not
been notified about the release of aliens in custody at New York City
facilities since 2014, except for those that fall within the 170 crimes
considered egregious by the Mayor's Office." Apparently, human rights
violators do not make the cut.
Huennekens noted that in just
one three-month period (January to mid-April 2018), the NYPD and the New York
Department of Corrections together ignored 440 detainers; "40 of those
individuals released from custody subsequently committed more crimes and were
arrested again." About this, ICE stated: "In
just three months, more than three dozen criminal aliens were released from
local custody. Simply put, the politics and rhetoric in this city are putting
its own communities at an unnecessary risk."
To restate the obvious:
Sanctuary policies, including those that prevent ICE from finding out about the
release of dangerous aliens and that require police to ignore ICE detainers,
make no sense. They only serve as sanctuary for criminals, or in Cooper's case,
human rights violators.
Cooper should have served
as a wake-up call to those in power who, for purely political reasons, require
the NYPD to turn a blind eye to ICE's requests for help. But instead, as
Huennekens' reporting demonstrates, Gotham's officials simply hit the snooze
button.
Census: Number of ‘majority Hispanic’ US counties doubles
by Paul Bedard
November 21, 2019
In the latest evidence of the effect Latin American
immigrants are having on the United States, the number of U.S. counties that
have turned majority Hispanic has doubled.
New Census Bureau data analyzed by the Pew Research Center
found that from 2000 to 2018, the number of majority Hispanic counties jumped
from 34 to 69.
What’s more, the overall number of U.S. counties that turned
majority minority-based, mostly Hispanic or African American, also surged to
151 from 110 in 2000. Most of those counties are in Southern California and
along the Mexico-U.S. border.
“Overall, 69 counties were majority Hispanic in 2018, 72 were
majority black and 10 were majority American Indian or Alaska Native. The
majority American Indian or Alaska Native counties are unique in that most have
experienced overall population declines since 2000, even as the share of
American Indian or Alaska Native residents in these counties remained fairly
flat,” said the Pew analysis.
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Other reports have shown that the share of immigrants, mostly
Hispanic, have continued to break records due to legal and illegal immigration
and the baby boom among new arrivals.
The majority black counties are also in the South, though
mostly from Louisiana and to the east.
“While the black share of the total U.S. population has not
changed substantially over the last two decades, the number of majority black
counties in the U.S. grew from 65 to 72 between 2000 and 2018. One contributing
factor may be migration of black Americans from the North to the South and from
cities into suburbs,” said Pew.
Census
Bureau: Immigration Driving Half of U.S. Population Growth
Immigration to the United States is now driving
nearly half of all population growth in the country instead of increased birth
rates, the U.S. Census Bureau finds.
The latest Census Bureau estimates on the U.S.
population reveal that about 48.5 percent of all population growth is driven by
the country’s mass illegal and legal immigration policy, where more than 1.5
million foreign nationals are admitted to the country every year.
(Axios)
Axios analysis by Stef
Knight details the
growing share to which immigration is increasingly driving population growth
across the U.S. Since 2011, for example, the level to which immigration has
accounted for overall population growth has increased more than 13 percent.
According to
the Wall Street Journal growing solely because of immigration.
This concludes that about nine percent of counties have regional birth rates
that do not exceed the annual number of deaths in the area.
Similarly,
the Wall Street Journal
Though
pundits have claimed that the country’s admittance of 1.2 million legal
immigrants a year is necessary to increase birth rates, researchers have found
that the growth of the immigrant population has little impact on birth rates.
Center for
Immigration Studies Director of Research Steven Camarota discovered in his latest study this year that
“immigrant fertility has only a small impact on the nation’s overall birth
rate,” citing that immigrants in the U.S. raise the nation’s birth rate for all
women by two births per 1,000 women.
“Immigration
has a minor impact because the difference between immigrant and native
fertility is too small to significantly change the nation’s overall birth
rate,” Camarota noted in the study.
At current
legal immigration levels, the U.S. population is set to hit an unprecedented 404 million residents by 2060 — including
a foreign-born population of 69 million.
The U.S.
does not have to rapidly increase its total resident population and
foreign-born population, as legal immigration moratoriums have been implemented in the past to give time for new
arrivals to properly assimilate to American life. Halting all immigration to
the country would stabilize the population to a comfortable 329 million
residents in the next four decades.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News.
Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder
In a
rising number of U.S. counties, Hispanic and black Americans are the majority
Non-Hispanic
white Americans account for 60% of the U.S. population , but in a growing number of counties, a majority of residents are
Hispanic or black, reflecting the nation’s changing demographics and shifting
migration patterns.
In 2018,
there were 151 U.S. counties where Hispanics, blacks or two much smaller racial
and ethnic groups – American Indians and Alaska Natives – made up a majority of
the population, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data . That
was an increase from 110 such counties in 2000. The 41 counties that joined the
list between 2000 and 2018 are all majority Hispanic or majority black. (For a
full list of these counties, see the
sortable table at the end of the post.)
Overall, 69
counties were majority Hispanic in 2018, 72 were majority black and 10 were
majority American Indian or Alaska Native. The majority American Indian or
Alaska Native counties are unique in that most have experienced overall
population declines since
2000, even as the share of
American Indian or Alaska Native residents in these counties remained fairly
flat.
There were no
U.S. counties where Asians accounted for more than half of the population, but
in Honolulu County, Hawaii, the population was 42% Asian and 9% Native Hawaiian
or Pacific Islander.
The South and
Southwest of the United States hold most of the counties where Hispanic, black
or indigenous people make up a majority of residents. These counties represent
just 5% of the 3,142 counties in the U.S. and about half of the country’s
293 majority
nonwhite counties (a figure that
includes counties where multiple racial
and ethnic groups combine to account for a majority).
About this analysis
Rapid
growth in majority Hispanic counties
The number of
majority Hispanic counties doubled between 2000 and 2018, from 34 to 69 –
mostly in the South and West. In all but four of these 69 counties, the
Hispanic share of the population grew during that period. The few counties that
experienced declines saw only slight decreases, and no county that was majority
Hispanic in 2000 fell below 50% Hispanic by 2018.
These trends
are in line with the growth of the U.S. Hispanic population as a whole, which
reached a new high in 2018
even as its rate of growth slowed. The Latino population grew at a faster rate than
most other racial or ethnic groups during the 2000s, due to relatively high birth rates among Hispanic women and immigration from
Latin America.
Related: See Pew Research Center’s U.S. population projections through 2065, which provide a look at immigration’s impact on
population growth and on racial and ethnic change.
In 2018,
Texas was home to the 10 counties in the U.S. with the largest shares of
Hispanic residents. Starr County, home to about 65,000 people overall, had the
largest concentration of Hispanic residents, at 96% of the population. Other
counties where Hispanics accounted for an especially large share of residents
included Webb (95%), Hidalgo (92%) and Cameron counties (90%) – all in Texas.
The Hispanic populations
of some larger U.S. counties also grew between 2000 and 2018. San Bernardino
County, California (population 2.2 million) was the most populous county to
become majority Hispanic during this span. Osceola County, Florida (home to
about 370,000) saw the largest percentage
point increase in Hispanic residents during this time (26
points, rising from 29% to 55%).
The
migrating U.S. black population
While the
black share of the total U.S. population has not changed substantially over the
last two decades, the number of majority black counties in the U.S. grew from 65 to 72
between 2000 and 2018. One contributing factor may be migration of black
Americans from the North to the South and
from cities into suburbs.
There are now
15 majority black counties that were not majority
black in 2000. Among them, Rockdale County, Georgia, located about half an hour
outside Atlanta, had the largest percentage point increase in the share of
black residents (from 18% in 2000 to 55% in 2018). With about 930,000
residents, Shelby County, Tennessee, which contains Memphis, was the county
with the largest population to become majority black.
The 10
counties with the highest shares of black residents in 2018 were in Mississippi
(seven counties) Alabama (two) and Virginia (one). In these 10 counties, about
70% or more residents were black.
Meanwhile,
eight counties that were majority black in 2000 are no longer. Three of these
are large U.S. cities that the Census Bureau includes in its county estimates:
Washington, D.C.; Richmond, Virginia; and St. Louis, Missouri. Washington (home
to roughly 702,000 residents in 2018) saw a 19% increase in total population
during that period, while its black population decreased by 9%. The
city’s share of
black residents declined by 15 percentage points, from 60% to 45%.
Majority
American Indian or Alaska Native counties
In 2018,
there were eight U.S. counties where more than half of the population was
American Indian; two other counties were majority Alaska Native.
While
majority Hispanic and black counties are growing in number, these predominantly
American Indian or Alaska Native counties have experienced net population loss
from 2000 to 2018. And one county that was majority American Indian or Alaska
Native in 2000 is no longer: San Juan County, Utah, where the share of American
Indian residents fell 8 percentage points, from 55% to 47%.
All 10
majority American Indian counties are located on or near reservation land in
the Midwest and the West, and most have populations of fewer than 20,000
people. The exceptions are McKinley County, New Mexico, and Apache County,
Arizona, both of which are home to about 72,000 people.
The two
counties where the majority of residents were Alaska Native are both in rural
Alaska: Bethel Census Area (population of roughly 18,000) and Nome Census Area
(population of about 10,000).
Population in U.S. counties where
Hispanic, black or indigenous people are a large share of residents
State
County
%
of population that was one racial/ethnic group other than white in 2000
%
of population that was one racial/ethnic group other than white in 2018
Largest
racial/ethnic group, 2018
Alabama
Bullock
County
72.6%
69.5%
Black
Alabama
Dallas
County
63.0%
70.0%
Black
Alabama
Hale County
59.2%
57.8%
Black
Alabama
Macon
County
84.3%
80.0%
Black
Alabama
Marengo
County
51.4%
51.1%
Black
Alabama
Montgomery
County
48.5%
58.5%
Black
Alabama
Sumter
County
72.4%
71.4%
Black
Alabama
Wilcox
County
71.4%
70.7%
Black
Alaska
Bethel
Census Area
81.7%
82.3%
American
Indian/Alaska Native
Alaska
Nome Census
Area
75.0%
74.1%
American
Indian/Alaska Native
Arizona
Apache
County
76.5%
73.2%
American
Indian/Alaska Native
Arizona
Santa Cruz
County
80.8%
83.4%
Hispanic
Arizona
Yuma County
50.5%
64.3%
Hispanic
Arkansas
Chicot
County
53.5%
53.4%
Black
Arkansas
Crittenden
County
46.9%
53.7%
Black
Arkansas
Jefferson
County
49.4%
56.8%
Black
Arkansas
Phillips
County
58.6%
61.4%
Black
Arkansas
St. Francis
County
48.7%
52.3%
Black
California
Colusa
County
46.5%
60.3%
Hispanic
California
Fresno
County
44.0%
53.5%
Hispanic
California
Imperial
County
72.2%
84.6%
Hispanic
California
Kern County
38.4%
54.0%
Hispanic
California
Kings
County
43.6%
55.0%
Hispanic
California
Madera
County
44.3%
58.3%
Hispanic
California
Merced
County
45.3%
60.2%
Hispanic
California
Monterey
County
46.8%
59.1%
Hispanic
California
San Benito
County
47.9%
60.6%
Hispanic
California
San
Bernardino County
39.2%
54.0%
Hispanic
California
Tulare
County
50.8%
65.2%
Hispanic
District of
Columbia
District of
Columbia
59.9%
44.9%
Black
Florida
Gadsden
County
57.0%
55.1%
Black
Florida
Hendry
County
39.6%
54.3%
Hispanic
Florida
Miami-Dade
County
57.3%
69.1%
Hispanic
Florida
Osceola
County
29.4%
55.3%
Hispanic
Georgia
Bibb County
47.2%
55.0%
Black
Georgia
Burke
County
50.8%
46.9%
Black
Georgia
Clayton
County
51.4%
69.9%
Black
Georgia
DeKalb
County
54.3%
53.7%
Black
Georgia
Dougherty
County
60.0%
70.3%
Black
Georgia
Early
County
47.8%
51.0%
Black
Georgia
Jefferson
County
56.0%
52.4%
Black
Georgia
Macon
County
59.2%
59.8%
Black
Georgia
Richmond
County
49.5%
56.0%
Black
Georgia
Rockdale
County
18.1%
55.4%
Black
Georgia
Sumter
County
48.8%
52.4%
Black
Georgia
Washington
County
53.1%
53.3%
Black
Kansas
Finney
County
43.3%
50.5%
Hispanic
Kansas
Ford County
37.7%
55.5%
Hispanic
Kansas
Seward
County
42.1%
62.0%
Hispanic
Louisiana
Claiborne
Parish
47.1%
51.6%
Black
Louisiana
Madison
Parish
60.2%
62.4%
Black
Louisiana
Orleans Parish
66.9%
59.1%
Black
Louisiana
St. Helena
Parish
51.9%
51.9%
Black
Louisiana
St. John
the Baptist Parish
44.6%
57.0%
Black
Louisiana
West
Feliciana Parish
50.1%
44.3%
Black
Maryland
Baltimore
city
64.2%
61.9%
Black
Maryland
Prince
George’s County
62.6%
61.9%
Black
Mississippi
Adams
County
52.5%
52.4%
Black
Mississippi
Bolivar
County
64.8%
63.6%
Black
Mississippi
Clay County
56.1%
58.5%
Black
Mississippi
Coahoma
County
68.9%
76.6%
Black
Mississippi
Copiah
County
50.7%
51.2%
Black
Mississippi
Hinds
County
60.9%
72.4%
Black
Mississippi
Holmes
County
78.0%
82.0%
Black
Mississippi
Jasper
County
52.7%
53.0%
Black
Mississippi
Jefferson
Davis County
57.1%
59.6%
Black
Mississippi
Kemper
County
57.7%
60.7%
Black
Mississippi
Leflore
County
67.3%
74.0%
Black
Mississippi
Marshall
County
50.1%
47.0%
Black
Mississippi
Noxubee
County
68.9%
71.8%
Black
Mississippi
Pike County
47.3%
53.1%
Black
Mississippi
Sunflower
County
69.5%
73.2%
Black
Mississippi
Tallahatchie
County
59.0%
56.7%
Black
Mississippi
Washington
County
64.3%
71.9%
Black
Mississippi
Yazoo
County
53.6%
56.7%
Black
Missouri
St. Louis
city
51.1%
45.6%
Black
Montana
Big Horn
County
58.4%
62.6%
American
Indian/Alaska Native
Montana
Glacier
County
61.0%
63.0%
American
Indian/Alaska Native
Montana
Roosevelt
County
55.0%
58.0%
American
Indian/Alaska Native
New Mexico
Bernalillo
County
42.0%
50.3%
Hispanic
New Mexico
Chaves
County
43.8%
57.2%
Hispanic
New Mexico
Doña Ana
County
63.4%
68.6%
Hispanic
New Mexico
Grant
County
48.8%
50.7%
Hispanic
New Mexico
Lea County
39.7%
59.4%
Hispanic
New Mexico
Luna County
57.8%
67.6%
Hispanic
New Mexico
McKinley
County
73.4%
73.9%
American
Indian/Alaska Native
New Mexico
Rio Arriba
County
72.9%
71.2%
Hispanic
New Mexico
San Miguel
County
78.0%
77.5%
Hispanic
New Mexico
Santa Fe
County
49.0%
51.1%
Hispanic
New Mexico
Taos County
58.0%
56.9%
Hispanic
New Mexico
Valencia
County
54.9%
61.0%
Hispanic
New York
Bronx
County
48.4%
56.4%
Hispanic
North
Carolina
Bertie
County
62.1%
60.7%
Black
North
Carolina
Edgecombe
County
57.2%
57.2%
Black
North
Carolina
Halifax
County
52.3%
53.1%
Black
North
Carolina
Hertford
County
59.3%
60.3%
Black
North
Carolina
Northampton
County
59.4%
56.9%
Black
North
Carolina
Vance
County
48.0%
50.5%
Black
North
Carolina
Warren
County
54.4%
50.6%
Black
North
Dakota
Rolette
County
72.5%
76.6%
American
Indian/Alaska Native
South
Carolina
Bamberg
County
62.2%
59.8%
Black
South
Carolina
Clarendon
County
53.0%
46.9%
Black
South
Carolina
Fairfield
County
58.9%
57.0%
Black
South
Carolina
Hampton
County
55.4%
52.7%
Black
South
Carolina
Jasper
County
52.5%
41.0%
Black
South
Carolina
Lee County
63.4%
63.6%
Black
South
Carolina
Marion County
56.1%
56.3%
Black
South
Carolina
Marlboro
County
50.6%
50.6%
Black
South
Carolina
Orangeburg
County
60.7%
61.6%
Black
South
Carolina
Williamsburg
County
66.0%
64.4%
Black
South
Dakota
Oglala
Lakota County
93.2%
89.5%
American Indian/Alaska
Native
South
Dakota
Todd County
84.5%
82.6%
American
Indian/Alaska Native
Tennessee
Haywood
County
50.9%
50.2%
Black
Tennessee
Shelby
County
48.5%
53.6%
Black
Texas
Andrews
County
40.0%
56.6%
Hispanic
Texas
Atascosa
County
58.6%
64.7%
Hispanic
Texas
Bee County
53.9%
59.3%
Hispanic
Texas
Bexar
County
54.3%
60.5%
Hispanic
Texas
Caldwell
County
40.4%
53.0%
Hispanic
Texas
Cameron
County
84.4%
89.8%
Hispanic
Texas
Dawson
County
48.2%
58.1%
Hispanic
Texas
Deaf Smith
County
57.4%
73.5%
Hispanic
Texas
Dimmit
County
85.0%
87.4%
Hispanic
Texas
Duval
County
88.0%
89.1%
Hispanic
Texas
Ector
County
42.4%
61.3%
Hispanic
Texas
El Paso
County
78.2%
83.0%
Hispanic
Texas
Frio County
73.8%
79.3%
Hispanic
Texas
Gonzales
County
39.6%
51.5%
Hispanic
Texas
Hale County
47.9%
59.7%
Hispanic
Texas
Hidalgo
County
88.4%
92.4%
Hispanic
Texas
Jim Wells
County
75.7%
80.4%
Hispanic
Texas
Karnes
County
47.4%
55.3%
Hispanic
Texas
Kleberg
County
65.4%
73.4%
Hispanic
Texas
Lamb County
43.5%
55.9%
Hispanic
Texas
Maverick
County
95.0%
95.2%
Hispanic
Texas
Medina
County
45.5%
52.4%
Hispanic
Texas
Moore
County
47.5%
56.3%
Hispanic
Texas
Nueces
County
55.8%
64.2%
Hispanic
Texas
Pecos
County
61.0%
68.8%
Hispanic
Texas
Reeves
County
73.4%
75.0%
Hispanic
Texas
San
Patricio County
49.4%
58.4%
Hispanic
Texas
Starr
County
97.5%
96.4%
Hispanic
Texas
Terry
County
44.1%
55.9%
Hispanic
Texas
Uvalde
County
65.9%
72.1%
Hispanic
Texas
Val Verde
County
75.5%
82.5%
Hispanic
Texas
Ward County
42.0%
54.3%
Hispanic
Texas
Webb County
94.3%
95.5%
Hispanic
Texas
Willacy
County
85.7%
88.4%
Hispanic
Texas
Zapata
County
85.4%
94.6%
Hispanic
Texas
Zavala
County
91.2%
93.9%
Hispanic
Utah
San Juan
County
55.2%
47.4%
American
Indian/Alaska Native
Virginia
Brunswick
County
56.7%
54.6%
Black
Virginia
Danville
city
44.0%
50.5%
Black
Virginia
Greensville
County
59.7%
59.0%
Black
Virginia
Petersburg
city
78.7%
76.3%
Black
Virginia
Portsmouth
city
50.4%
53.3%
Black
Virginia
Richmond
city
57.2%
46.8%
Black
Virginia
Sussex
County
62.0%
56.1%
Black
Washington
Adams
County
47.1%
64.3%
Hispanic
Washington
Franklin
County
46.6%
53.5%
Hispanic
Note:
This analysis includes only counties with 10,000 or more residents in 2018.
These counties account for 77% of the nation’s 3,142 counties and 99% of the
U.S. population.
Source:
Pew Research Center analysis of 2000 decennial census and 2018 Census Bureau
population estimates.
Share
of counties where whites are a minority has doubled since 1980
Last week’s
Census Bureau release of 2014
population estimates confirms that the U.S. is becoming ever more diverse, at
the local level as well as nationally. As of last summer, according to a Fact
Tank analysis, 364 counties, independent cities and other county-level
equivalents (11.6% of the total) did not have non-Hispanic white majorities –
the most in modern history, and more than twice the level in 1980.
That year –
the first decennial enumeration in which the nation’s Hispanic population was
comprehensively counted – non-Hispanic whites were majorities in all but 171
out of 3,141 counties (5.4%), according to our analysis. The 1990 census was
the first to break out non-Hispanic whites as a separate category; that year,
they made up the majority in all but 186 counties, or 5.9% of the total. (The
Census Bureau considers Hispanic to be an ethnicity rather than a race;
accordingly, Hispanics can be of any race.)
Since then, the nation’s Hispanic
population has more than doubled, from 22.4 million to 55.4 million , powering
the increase in majority-minority counties. Last year, 94 counties had Hispanic
majorities – just over twice the number of majority-Hispanic counties in 1990
(45), and one more than the number of counties last year with non-Hispanic
black majorities.
Another
telling indicator of greater diversity: In 1990, there were only 29 counties
where no single racial or ethnic group made up a majority of the population.
Last year, 151 counties had no racial or ethnic majority.
While the
single biggest Hispanic-majority county is in Florida (Miami-Dade, 66% of whose
2.7 million people are Hispanic), most are concentrated in the Southwest: 60
are in Texas, 12 are in New Mexico and 11 are in California. All but two of the
93 black-majority counties are in states of the old Confederacy (with 25 in
Mississippi, 17 in Georgia and 11 in Alabama). In 26 counties, Native Americans
or Alaska Natives (who are combined into one group for census purposes)
comprise the majority; aside from eight lightly populated boroughs and census
areas in Alaska, most of the other counties overlap with reservations in the
Southwest and Great Plains.
All in all,
non-Hispanic whites are less than a majority in four states – California,
Texas, New Mexico and Hawaii – as well as the District of Columbia. In fact, in
none of those places does a single racial or ethnic group have a majority:
California has almost equal shares of Hispanics (38.6%) and non-Hispanic whites
(38.5%); non-Hispanic whites are the plurality in Texas (43.5%); Hispanics in
New Mexico (47.7%); blacks in D.C. (47.4%); and Asians in Hawaii (36.4%).
Ann Coulter: Surprise! That 'cheap'
immigrant labor costs us a lot
BY ANN COULTER,
OPINION CONTRIBUTOR
We could pay for
every idiotic boondoggle proposed by the 300 Democratic presidential candidates
if the current president would simply keep his central campaign promise to
build a border wall and deport illegal aliens. (Back off — “illegal alien”
is the term used in federal law.)
BLOG: JUDICIAL WATCH
ESTIMATES THAT THE INVASION COST US $135 BILLION JUST IN WELFARE. THIS DOES NOT
INCLUDE THE MEXICAN CRIME TIDAL WAVE OR $50 BILLION IN REMITTANCES.
A 2017 study by
the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) found that illegal aliens
cost the American taxpayer — on net — $116 billion a year .
That’s pretty
high, but the actual number is more likely triple that.
Straight out of
the chute, FAIR assumes that there are only 12.5 million illegal
immigrants in the country, approximately the same number we’ve been told
for the last 15 years as we impotently watched hundreds of thousands more
stream across our border, year after year after year.
The 12 million
figure is based on the self-reports of illegal aliens to U.S. census
questionnaires. (Hello! I’m from the federal government. Did
you break the law to enter our country? Now tell the truth! We have
no way of knowing the answer, and if you say yes, you could be subjecting
yourself to immediate deportation.)
More serious
studies put the number considerably higher. At the low end, a Massachusetts
Institute of Technology and Yale study last year put the number of illegals
at 22 million . Yet Bear Stearns investment bank had
it at 20 million back in 2005 , and Pulitzer Prize-winning
investigative reporters Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele
reported in 2004 that 3 million illegals were crossing each
year — so
simple math would put it at well over 60 million today.
So, right there,
the FAIR study underestimates the tab for illegal immigration by at least a
factor of three, meaning the real cost is about $350 billion a
year. That’s triple what Sen. Elizabeth Warren ’s (D-Mass.) free college tuition plan
will cost in a decade .
I don’t mean to
bash FAIR. It’s sweet how immigration restrictionists always bend over
backward to be impartial. But their circumspection doesn’t mean the rest of us
have to ignore reality.
Journalists’
usual method of determining the cost of “unauthorized entries” — as they
say — is to phone some fanatically pro-illegal immigration group, such as
Cato or CASA, and get a quote sneering at anyone else’s estimate of the costs.
In a deeply
investigated 2017 Washington Post article , for example, the Post cited the
“belief” that illegal aliens “drain government resources.” Without looking
at any facts or figures, the reporter disputed that “belief” with a quote from
Cathryn Ann Paul of CASA: "It's a myth that people who are undocumented
don't pay taxes."
So there you
have it! Cathryn Ann Paul says it’s a “myth.” Now let’s move on to
the vibrant diversity being gifted to us by illegal aliens.
Earlier this
year, The New York Times mocked President Trump ’s tweet saying illegal immigration costs "250 Billion
Dollars a year" by quoting big-business shill Alex Nowrasteh of the Cato
Institute: "There's no basis to any of those numbers about the
fiscal cost." Am I doing OK, Mr. Koch?
The Times
further explained that Trump’s figure “did not take into account the economic
benefits of undocumented immigrants” — for example, the surprisingly affordable
maids of some reporters.
Randy Capps of
the Migration Policy Institute told the Times that studies of the cost of
illegal immigration count only the costs or only the benefits. “They tend to
talk past each other, unfortunately,” he said.
BLOG: THE TAX-FREE MEXICAN
ECONOMY IN LOS ANGELES COUNTY ALONE IS ESTIMATED TO BE IN EXCESS OF $2 BILLION
YEARLY. THIS SAME COUNTY HANDS ANCHOR BABY BREEDERS MORE THAN $1 BILLION YEARLY
IN WELFARE.
Well, the FAIR
study counted both. For every dollar illegal immigrants pay in taxes —
fees, Social Security withholding taxes, fuel surcharges, sales and property
taxes — they collect $7 in government benefits: schooling, English as a second
language classes, hospital costs, school lunch programs, Medicaid births,
police resources and so on.
Legal immigrant
households also were big winners, receiving $4,344 more in government services
than they paid in taxes. (Our government does a fantastic job
deciding who can immigrate here.)
Only with
nonimmigrant households does the government almost break even, doling out a
mere $310 more in benefits than those households pay in taxes. (Surprise!
The deficit is on track to hit $1 trillion next year.)
Like FAIR
estimates, Rector’s study accepted the U.S. Census Bureau’s allegation that
we’ve had the same number of illegal aliens in this country since the beginning
of the Bush administration. Also like the FAIR study, Rector’s examination
counted only the obvious costs imposed on us by illegal immigrants —
things such as health care, education, fire and police protection, parks,
roads, and bridges.
But there are all sorts of costs that no one ever
Why not count
the lost wages themselves? We want to know the cost-benefit ratio to those
already here , not to the new total that includes the illegal immigrants.
If it's a net negative to those already here — well, that's the point.
And what was the
tab of illegal immigration to the family of Kate Steinle, the young woman shot
dead by an illegal immigrant in San Francisco in 2015? There were obvious,
tragic costs, of course — but there also are hidden costs, such as the lost
productivity of the people close to Kate for years to come, the additional
police presence around the San Francisco pier where she was killed and the
reduction in tourist dollars.
We hear about
the great largesse bestowed upon us by illegal immigrants all day
long. The only hidden benefits are the warm feelings of self-righteousness
that the CASA spokesman gets when bleating about illegals and the happiness
that cheap servants bring to the top 10 percent.
In Maine,
overdose deaths from opioids, mostly Mexican heroin , have skyrocketed in the last
decade, up from an already catastrophic 100 to 200 deaths per year to more than
double that — 418 in 2018. What is the cost of the state legislature
spending weeks debating a bill to provide heroin addicts with Narcan? The cost
of more crime and more police?
This isn’t to
gratuitously mention the fact that completely unvetted,
self-chosen illegal immigrants can, in fact, be rapists, drug dealers and
cop-killers. It is to say that no analysis of illegal immigration’s cost
can ever capture the full price.
Exclusive: Border Patrol Circulates Intel Alert Titled ‘Suspected Suicide Bomber en Route to the U.S.’
3:10
Authorities along the U.S. border are on alert after receiving a law enforcement intelligence warning about a possible suicide bomber heading north toward the U.S.-Mexico Border. Breitbart obtained an exclusive copy of the leaked official document from a source operating under the umbrella of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The official report was circulated to law enforcement partners along the U.S. border, the intelligence originated from Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), and the report was circulated by Border Patrol Intelligence. Breitbart confirmed the authenticity of the document with multiple law enforcement sources; however, the details contained within the report have not been verified by Breitbart and the purpose of officials circulating the warning is to alert other authorities and to seek help in verifying the accuracy of the information.
The report being authentic does not verify that a suicide bomber is actually headed toward the U.S.-Mexico Border, but rather that such intelligence was received from a credible source or sources.
According to the document, on January 8, 2020, the Yuma Sector Operations Center received information from HSI about a previously deported Guatemalan national named “…” who is allegedly leading a group of four Middle Eastern males and one female to the U.S. from Mexico. The female is described as a “suspected suicide bomber.”
The report stated that according to HSI, the group already traveled through Guatemala, Belize, and is currently in Veracruz, Mexico. The described group is expected to travel to San Luis Rio Colorado in the Mexican state of Sonora, just south of Arizona.
“HSI reported they received information the group will be making entry into the U.S. through the All-American Canal in the next couple of days,” the report revealed. The All-American Canal is located in California.
Breitbart redacted contact information and images from the official report, as well as the name of the alleged individual accused of leading the group.
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ANN COULTER EXPOSES TRUMP’S “WALL” HOAX
In fact, Trump is steadily moving in the precise opposite
direction of what he promised.
Illegal immigration is on track to hit the highest levels in
more than a decade, and Trump has willfully decided to keep amnesty advocates
Jared, Ivanka, Mick Mulvaney, Marc Short, and Mercedes Schlapp in the White
House. For all his talk about immigration, did he ever consider hiring people
who share his MAGA vision?
Video shows climbers surmounting border wall
Trump claimed 'impossible to climb'
A popular video clip shows two climbers
using a ladder and rope to successfully cross a border wall President Trump
claimed was "impossible to climb."
In a visit to the southern border in
September, Trump claimed that portions of newly built wall along the
U.S.-Mexico border near Tijuana were reinforced and even "championship
mountain climbers" were unable to cross them. A video posted by
photojournalist J. Omar Ornelas, however, shows two individuals using a ladder
and other tools to cross the border successfully.
The president also noted the recent throttle in immigration numbers and
credited the newly built wall. "People aren't even coming up," Trump
said. "You see the numbers are going way down, and we're not doing a catch
and release anymore."
The video of the climbers was widely
shared as critics of Trump's border wall policy championed the effort of the
migrant climbers to disprove the president's claim. Several hundred miles of
border wall are currently under construction at the southern border,
though no new fencing has been completed since Trump took office.
While the "impossible to
climb" claim was disproven, the Department of Homeland Security claims the
wall's efficacy cannot be understated. "When it comes to stopping drugs
and illegal aliens from crossing our borders, border walls have proven to be
extremely effective," a statement said. "Border security relies on a combination
of border infrastructure, technology, personnel and partnerships with law
enforcement at the state, local, tribal, and federal level. For example, when
we installed a border wall in the Yuma Sector, we have seen border
apprehensions decrease by 90 percent."
THE
NEW YORK TIMES IS MEX OWNED AND SUBSTANTIALLY NOTHING BUT A MOUTHPIECE FOR LA
RAZA 'The Race'
Jared
Kushner Fails Up, Again
Having solved the Middle East, the president’s son-in-law tackles the
border wall.
Opinion Columnist
Ivanka
Trump and Jared Kushner, who, reports say, has been given the job of overseeing
construction of a wall between Mexico and the United States. Credit... Anna
Moneymaker/The New York Times
Jared
Kushner just got a promotion. Another one. At
least I think we can call it that, and it’s a deliciously perfect assignment.
The pallid princeling is now responsible for speeding construction of the
border wall. In other words, a make-believe fixer will oversee a fairy-tale
fix.
Josh
Dawsey and Nick Miroff of The Washington Post broke the news , and when I read it, I realized that I
hadn’t heard much about Jared — or, for that matter, Ivanka — in a good long
while. They’re front and center when the administration is announcing some
ostensibly sensible initiative or claiming a pittance of progress. But when its
corruption is being exposed and the drizzle of subpoenas becomes a downpour,
they vanish, cuddling for warmth under the gilded umbrella of their
hallucinatory virtue.
We can
pretty much chart the weather of the administration by the relative visibility
of Donald Jr., so loud and hirsute, and Jared, so smooth-cheeked and mute.
Donald Jr. thrives when it’s nastiest, stomping gleefully through the muck.
Jared comes out only if his suit won’t get dirty or his hair wet.
During the impeachment inquiry, we’ve seen a lot
of Donald Jr. That’s partly because he has been hawking his new book, copies of
which the Republican National Committee spent nearly $100,000 on . But it’s also because he’s such
a ready, eager conduit for his father’s wrath, with a talent for exaggeration
and misdirection that’s clearly chromosomal.
Jared and Ivanka have been strategically scarce,
though Ivanka did flutter into view, in a fashion, when President Trump boasted two weeks ago that she had created 14
million jobs since the inauguration. “Fourteen million and going up!” he
clarified, lest anyone get the misimpression that she thought her work was
done. Never! On behalf of the American people, Ivanka is tireless. There’s no
rest for the weary, and there’s even less of it for those who live at the
crossroads of self-infatuation and delusion.
In an interview last month on Fox Business, Ivanka said
that she and Dad were “fighting every day for the American worker” and that she
was determined to “drive hard every single day to make an impact.”
“Your
time and service — our time here — is finite,” she mused, and while I’d love to
believe that she was prophesying her and her father’s imminent eviction from
the White House, I think she was referring, in her deeply spiritual way , to the span of a human life.
“It’s sand through an hourglass.” As Ivanka serves us, she never forgets the
sand.
Democrats believe that the Trump administration’s
void of ethics will sour American voters on the president. But those voters are
likelier to abandon him for the administration’s vacuum of competence — for his
nonsensical managerial style, captured in his magical thinking about Jared.
He tasked
Jared with reinventing the federal government. Unless constant rash firings,
unfilled jobs and shakedowns of foreign governments constitute reinvention, this
remains on Jared’s infinite to-do list . The president put Jared in
charge of brokering a durable peace between Israelis and Palestinians. Insert
punch line here. He followed Jared’s counsel that faith be placed in Saudi Arabia and its crown
prince, Mohammed bin Salman. We know how that worked out.
The
president somehow looked at that track record and decided that the dynamo he
should entrust with his central campaign
promise — a secure barrier between the United States and Mexico — was … Jared!
And so we have the trillionth gorgeous example of his investment in fiction.
Nearly
three years into Trump’s presidency, the border wall barely exists. Subtract
the upgrading of fencing and such that was already there and Trump has, by some recent estimates ,
constructed
fewer than 25 miles of actually new barrier. The southwestern border is nearly
2,000 miles long.
But Jared
is on the case! According to The Post, he “convenes biweekly meetings in the
West Wing, where he questions an array of government officials about progress”
and “explains the president’s wishes.” Huh. Those wishes are hardly cryptic,
and how complicated can this questioning be? Already, The Post reported,
there’s grumbling that Jared is just an annoyance.
That
belittles his symbolic significance. Many journalists, including me, have tried
to settle on the perfect mascot for the Trump administration. There are choices
galore. The greedy, vainglorious Scott Pruitt, who did his best to decimate the
Environmental Protection Agency, fit the bill , but he’s long gone. Mike Pompeo embodies the Faustian arc of so many of the
president’s aides and allies, from principle-driven dismissal of Trump during
the 2016 campaign to reputation-torching submission when he dangled a ticket to
the big time.
But for
naked opportunism and situational scruples, Jared’s my guy. Remember how he and
Ivanka were going to contain the president’s ego, blunt his cruelty, whisper
sweet moderation in his ear? That was then. Now he’s devoting himself to an
exorbitant, unnecessary monument to Trump’s nativism and xenophobia.
There’s
an upside, though. With Jared in the saddle, this horse won’t go far.
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