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Study: Joe Biden to Halt Nearly 9-in-10 Deportations of Illegal Aliens

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JOHN BINDER

25 Jan 2021899

3:58

President Joe Biden’s executive order halting deportations for 100 days will likely keep nearly 9-in-10 illegal aliens in the United States who would have otherwise been deported, analysis finds.

The order, issued by Biden on January 20, directs the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to halt deportations of illegal aliens for 100 days except those who are terrorists or convicted of an “aggravated felony.” Also, illegal aliens who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border on or after November 1, 2020, can still be deported.

Still, the order is expected to keep most of all illegal aliens in the U.S. who would have been deported over the next 100 days.

Analysis from Center for Immigration Studies Policy Director Jessica Vaughan reveals that about 88 percent of illegal aliens deported in 2018 were not aggravated felons. This indicates that nearly 9-in-10 illegal aliens will be shielded from deportation for at least 100 days because they have yet to be convicted of an aggravated felony.

“This is a drastic and unprecedented order,” Vaughan wrote in her analysis.

“Out of all interior deportations, the number of cases classified as ‘not aggravated felons’ in 2018 was 83,804,” Vaughan notes. “This was 88 percent of all interior deportations.”

The order “means that ICE must release criminal aliens and others in custody who are not covered in these definitions” along with keeping convicted criminal illegal aliens in the U.S., Vaughan states:

This will include aliens convicted of domestic violence, sex offenses, drunk driving, theft causing loss of less than $10,000, vehicular homicide, an infinite number of misdemeanor crimes, and much more. It means that when USCIS refuses green cards or other benefits because the applications were fraudulent, that unqualified applicant will be able to stay anyway. It means that in the next 100 days, if a local police officer arrests a previously deported gang member, even one with a serious criminal history, for a new crime that is not an aggravated felony, ICE will not be able to take action to remove that gang member again. [Emphasis added]

Already, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against Biden’s order halting deportations calling it “unlawful” and a violation of federal immigration law.

“Failure to properly enforce the law will directly and immediately endanger our citizens and law enforcement personnel,” Paxton said in a statement.

The deportation halt had become a promise to open borders groups after they successfully lobbied Biden in late 2019 and early 2020 to take up the issue. In March 2020, the open borders lobby began requesting Biden permanently halt deportations, although he has not gone that far yet.

Biden’s order could potentially serve as a boon to a caravan of Central American migrants headed to the border in the hopes of taking advantage of the new administration’s lax enforcement policies.

In a recent interview with CNN, a migrant with the caravan said Biden is “going to help all of us” by giving “us 100 days to get to the U.S.” — a direct reference to his 100-day deportation halt.

Deportations for illegal aliens is a huge cost-savings for American taxpayers, research has found. The taxpayer cost of the roughly 11 million to 22 million illegal aliens living across the U.S. totals nearly $750 billion over the course of a lifetime while each deportation costs just $10,900. This indicates that taxpayers would save about $622 billion over a lifetime if every illegal alien were deported.

John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder. 

Homeless Advocates Invade Washington State City Hall — Mayor Flees

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BOB PRICE

23 Jan 20211,297

3:17

Homeless-advocate demonstrators forced their way into the Bellingham, Washington, City Hall after the mayor announced plans to move a temporary encampment. Officials escorted the mayor out of the building after protesters broke in.

The demonstrators arrived Friday morning to protest the city’s plans to move a temporary homeless encampment a few yards further away from City Hall, the Bellingham Herald reported.  The homeless advocates blocked streets with cars and took down the American flag from the grounds of City Hall.

KIRO journalist Deedee Sun tweeted a video showing the protesters dragging the American flag around on the ground.

#BREAKING: Protestors broke into a locked city hall in Bellingham today. Mayor had to be escorted out for safety.

They also tore down the American flag outside. Stole a KGMI journalist’s mic and threw a hot drink on him.

They’re supposed to be here advocating for the homeless. pic.twitter.com/uIMbRVRwBl

— Deedee Sun (@DeedeeKIRO7) January 23, 2021

Officials escorted Bellingham Mayor Seth Fleetwood from the building after the rioters broke into the building, Sun reported.

“It was unsettling,” Mayor Fleetwood told the local news outlet. “They banged on the door and we got word they had somehow broken it open and were entering, and I was advised to leave.”

The mayor said he was ushered out the back door and driven away.

Fleetwood said the city’s plans would only move the temporary homeless encampment 25 feet away from the buildings. The city developed plans to move the homeless after multiple fires and a propane tank explosion.

“We seek a peaceful end to this encampment and if there is confrontation, we will not be the aggressors,” the mayor explained.

Sun reported the protesters eventually cleared out. “Mayor says violence today does not help those who are experiencing homelessness in any way,” she tweeted.

#UPDATE: just drove by City Hall. Protestors appear to have mostly cleared. Maybe a few hanging around.

Mayor says violence today does not help those who are experiencing homelessness in any way.

City will still work to get folks to voluntarily leave the encampment.#KIRO7 pic.twitter.com/Nzvcqkimv4

— Deedee Sun (@DeedeeKIRO7) January 23, 2021

The Bellingham Herald “Camp 210” has been in this location since November. It consists of several wooden structures and large tents.

The newspaper also reported graffiti painted on City Hall.

Bellingham police officials told the local newspaper that about 20 people got inside the building. They said no damage was done and no arrests were made.

Bob Price serves as associate editor and senior news contributor for the Breitbart Texas-Border team. He is an original member of the Breitbart Texas team. Price is a regular panelist on Fox 26 Houston’s Sunday-morning talk show, What’s Your Point? Follow him on Twitter @BobPriceBBTX, Parler @BobPrice, and Facebook.  

Poll: Majority of Americans Want Officials to Stop Migrant Caravan at the Border

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HANNAH BLEAU

23 Jan 202137

2:14

The vast majority of Americans want Biden administration officials to stop the migrant caravan making its way through Central America when it reaches the southern border, a sentiment that comes as President Biden seeks to make amnesty for over 11 million illegal aliens a reality, a Rasmussen Reports survey released Friday found.

A caravan of Honduran migrants is reportedly making its way to the southern border as the Biden administration begins to undo many of former President Trump’s policies, making immigration reform a top priority. Biden has been pushing an amnesty plan in his first days in office, aiming to grant U.S. citizenship to anyone who can prove they were in the United States illegally on or before January 1. While a Biden transition team member told NBC News that “now is not the time to make the journey” to the U.S., the official did say that help is “on the way.”

A Rasmussen Reports survey released Friday showed that 60 percent of likely U.S. voters want officials to halt the caravan at the border.

“That’s double the 30% of voters who believe the migrants should be allowed to enter the United States temporarily until each of their cases can be individually reviewed,” Rasmussen found. The survey also found that a plurality, or 48 percent, view it as a bad idea to stop the construction of the border wall. Forty-five percent say otherwise.

The opinions appear to be deeply partisan, with 82 percent of Republicans expressing the view that the caravan should be stopped at the border, followed by 63 percent of unaffiliated voters and 38 percent of Democrats who believe the same.

The survey, taken January 19-20, 2021 among 880 likely U.S. voters, has a margin of error of +/- 3.5 percent.

Interestingly, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) did not include Biden’s plan for amnesty in his list of three policy priorities for the Senate, listing impeachment, the coronavirus, and confirmations instead.

Amnesty Polls Show Americans Want Jobs for Americans

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NEIL MUNRO

23 Jan 2021227

11:51

Business groups are trying to reassure politicians it is safe to go back into amnesty waters — even though many politicians remember their peers who did not long survive the summer of 2013.

The New York Times‘ chief White House reporter, Michael Shear, echoed the corporate reassurances in a January 19 report on President Joe Biden’s amnesty plan:

Todd Schulte, the president of FWD.us, an immigrant rights group created by Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and others with ties to Silicon Valley, said he too was “deeply encouraged” to see Mr. Biden make a pathway to citizenship a “clear priority on Day 1.” Polls, he said, show that 75 percent of Americans support that goal.

“Polling consistently shows broad, bipartisan support for immigrants and immigration reform,” a pro-amnesty statement posted January 19 by a huge coalition of business, political, and investor groups said. The group includes Schulte’s FWD.us group, the George W. Bush Institute, the Koch-funded Libre Initiative, many Silicon Valley firms, and Michael Bloomberg’s New American Economy group.

Titled “We Support Bipartisan Immigration Reform in 2012,” the statement continued:

Recent polls have found that over 77% of Americans believe that immigration is good for the country and 78% believe DACA recipients should be able to remain in America, and a Fox News poll on Election Day that found 71% of Americans support legal status for undocumented immigrants. Historically, strong support has existed for immigration reform that addresses border security, expanded visa programs for high-skilled and agricultural workers, and regularizing the status of undocumented immigrants.

But those polls are the swimming pool floats of amnesty politics.

Three of the four cited polls merely asked respondents about their overall mood toward migrants or immigration without being asked to comment on numbers or civic consequences. In one poll, the illegal migrants were described a “Dreamers.” Another poll asked if illegals should merely be “offered a chance to apply for legal status“:

Immigration reform is popular.
Immigration reform is possible.https://t.co/JznQX6Rls0 pic.twitter.com/FxnLAlPyQ6

— National Immigration Forum (@NatImmForum) January 21, 2021

The Jobs and Solidarity Polls

The many polls that ask Americans to choose between practical alternatives provide significantly different answers. For example, Rasmussen Reports recently asked:

When businesses say they are having trouble finding Americans to take jobs in construction, manufacturing, hospitality and other service work, what is generally best for the country? Is it better for businesses to raise the pay and try harder to recruit non-working Americans even if it causes prices to rise, or is it better for the government to bring in new foreign workers to help keep business costs and prices down?

The answer showed that 66 percent of Americans prefer more pay and recruitment for Americans, while only 19 percent favored additional foreign workers.

Republican respondents split 74 percent to 13 percent, and swing-voting “other” voters split 62 percent to 20 percent. The Rasmussen poll showed Democrats also strongly backed Americans over corporate migrants, 64 percent to 23 percent.

For years, a wide variety of pollsters have shown deep and broad opposition to labor migration — or the inflow of temporary contract workers into jobs sought by young U.S. graduates.

The multiracial, cross-sex, nonracist, class-based, and solidarity-themed opposition to labor migration coexists with generally favorable personal feelings toward legal immigrants and toward immigration in theory — despite the media magnification of many skewed polls and articles that still push the 1950’s “Nation of Immigrants” claim.

Investigative surveys also show that the public hides its overwhelming opposition to any migration. For example, a 2014 report showed that roughly 60 percent support “cutting off migration“:

The results suggest that respondents mask their opposition and [that] underlying anti-immigration sentiment is far higher than direct estimates suggest even before the financial crisis… We implore future efforts to measure anti-immigration sentiment to be cautious about direct measurement of opposition, as these measures underestimate anti-immigration sentiment both before and after the financial crisis.

The “Nation of Immigrants” Polls

Business groups have learned how to goose polls by nudging respondents with key phrases, such as “Nation of Immigrants” and “skilled” workers.

They also try to reassure respondents by adding unenforceable conditions, such as “pay taxes and learn English.” Many of these tricks were developed as lobbyists hired pollsters to test reassuring language that would help politicians avoid voters’ anger.

“My sense is that you have [legislators] who understand where the chattering class is on this issue [, but] they’re wondering how will this affect my folks backs home,” Kristen Soltis Anderson, a pollster at the Winston Group, said in 2013. “That’s why polls like this are being released,” she said.

But the manipulated polls failed to persuade Americans. The Gang of Eight plan was blocked, and Sen. Chuck Schumer lost five Senate seats to the GOP in 2014.

In the House, the GOP Majority Leader Eric Cantor also lost his seat in 2014 for quietly pushing the same amnesty. The morning after his defeat, FWD.us announced a survey by ten establishment pollsters that almost 80 percent of Republicans would support an amnesty and that perhaps 25 percent of Latino voters would be open to supporting a pro-amnesty GOP. A DailyCaller.com article about the FWD.us poll included a quote from a Hill staffer:

“These GOP pollsters aren’t GOP pollsters — they’re bought and paid-for GOP consultants working for someone else, and the GOP is stupid enough to believe them,” said a Hill aide. “The entire political class [in DC] has been revealed to be fools” for trusting corporate polls that claim there’s broad public support for amnesty, he said.

And in 2016, the voters’ understandable solidarity with their fellow Americans carried Donald Trump’s pro-American policies into the White House.

After his 2016 election, Trump’s pro-American policies helped shrink American unemployment and raise Americans’ median household wages by seven percent in 2019. In 2020, Trump won roughly 32 percent of the Latino vote, partly because many Latinos want to be prosperous  Americans — not just government-dependent, hyphenated Latino-Americans.

In 2020, however, Trump’s immigration speeches ignored the economic impact of cheap-labor migration.

Instead, he focused on the donor-approved subsidiary issues of illegal migration, crime, and sanctuary cities. Trump’s do-not-follow-the-money 2020 strategy was quickly countered by a wave of soft focus, pro-migration advertising from very wealthy corporate donors, including FWD.us.

Joe Biden’s Amnesty

In contrast to his central role in the disastrous Gang of Eight amnesty, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is leaving the immigration battle to his allies.

And those allies keep admitting it is not safe to go back into the amnesty waters.

“We need to make the case to the American people, although in poll after poll, we see when the question is raised, we see a majority of Americans in support of reform,” said the bill’s cheerleader in the Senate, Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ). Passing the bill will be a “herculean” task for business and progressives, he said as he repeatedly declared its popularity.

CBS reported on January 18:

Representative Lou Correa, a [Democratic] moderate from California, said he worries immigration reform may not be prioritized due to the pandemic and other issues.

…

[Correa added,] “But politically the reality is this: you as a president have only so much political capital and you can only do so much heavy lifting before you can’t anymore.”

Politico reported on January 15:

Veronica Escobar (D-Texas) said a “piecemeal” approach is not an option. “The administration has a very limited window of opportunity before House members begin running for reelection,” she said. “Every day that passes is a day that the window shuts just an inch more. …We’ve got to get it done in one fell swoop.”

Business leaders acknowledge that voters can overpower donors.

“Some of the politicians that we had helped get elected, I would see them on TV, and they would be talking about policies that were antithetical [to our goals] — against immigration, against criminal justice reform, against a more peaceful foreign policy. I was horrified,” Charles Koch told Axios in an interview on November 24.

Republicans also see where the voters are.

“Before we deal with immigration, we need to deal with COVID, make sure everyone has the chance to find a good job, and confront the threat from China,” GOP Sen. Marco Rubio said on January 19. He was a founding member of the Gang of Eight, and his career nearly ended in the subsequent 2016 primaries.

“Will this proposal help Americans get back to work?” the GOP’s House leader, Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), asked on January 21. “Most certainly not. And until that happens, the Biden administration must focus on helping our own citizens first.”

The Economics

The public skepticism toward migration is understandable because migrants help transfer massive wealth from American wage earners to stockholders.

Migration moves money from employees to employers, from families to investors, from young to old, from children to their parents, from homebuyers to real estate investors, and from the central states to the coastal states.

The economic transfer is recognized by independent academics, the National Academies of Science, the Congressional Budget Office, executives, the Economist, more academics, the New York Times, the New York Times again, state officials, unions, more business executives, a Nobel-winning economist, lobbyists, many academics, the Wall Street Journal, federal economists, Goldman Sachs, oil drillers, the Bank of Ireland, Wall Street analysts, fired professionals, legislators, the CEO of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, 2015 Bernie Sanders, the Wall Street Journal’s editorial board, Eric Weinstein, more Wall Street Journal, construction workers, New York Times subscribers, a former Treasury secretary, academic economists, a New York Times columnist, a Bloomberg columnist, author Barack Obama, former President Barack Obama, and the Business Roundtable.

Migration also allows investors and CEOs to skimp on labor-saving technology, sideline U.S. minorities, ignore disabled people, exploit stoop labor in the fields, shortchange labor in the cities, and impose tight control and pay cuts on American professionals.

Migration also helps corral technological innovation by minimizing the employment of American graduates, undermine Americans’ labor rights, and redirect progressive journalists to cheerlead for Wall Street’s priorities and claims:

Joe Biden's amnesty will flood the white-collar labor market, so helping CEOs expand the use of cheap & subordinate foreign graduates.
IOW, Biden would push many pro-Democratic US graduates into the same poverty & low-status future as blue-collars. #H1Bhttps://t.co/QHbVAXr62V

— Neil Munro (@NeilMunroDC) January 19, 2021

Tom Cotton: Joe Biden Putting Foreigners into Jobs Needed by Americans

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ROBERT KRAYCHIK

21 Jan 202153

2:32

President Joe Biden is prioritizing illegal aliens and foreigners above Americans for available jobs, said Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) on Thursday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow.

Marlow asked about Democrats’ ongoing push for amnesty and citizenship for millions of illegal aliens.

Cotton replied, “Talk about putting Americans last and foreigners first. Just look at what happened when Joe Biden left the inauguration yesterday. He went back to the Oval Office [and] he signed executive orders that would end construction of the border wall, that would end the Remain-in-Mexico policy, and that would reinstate work permits for illegal aliens under President Obama’s DACA program. Every one of those is designed to weaken immigration enforcement and to put illegal aliens — and foreigners who aren’t even in the country yet — at the head of the line for jobs that Americans need when ten million Americans are still out of work.”

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Cotton added, “It just shows how obsessive the Democrats are about admitting more foreigners into our country at a time when we still have millions of people who are out of work and we face a global pandemic.”

Biden’s ceasing of border wall construction and ending of the Trump administration’s “Remain in Mexico” policy is an incentive for migration across the southern border, Cotton said.

Cotton remarked, “When you stop construction of the border wall and you stop the very successful Remain in Mexico policy … you are simply asking for a surge of migrants at our border.”

“Joe Biden’s proposals during his campaign already encouraged the migrant caravan we’ve seen and we’re going to see more of that in the days ahead,” Cotton continued. “That will be wildly unpopular, in particular at a time when so many people are still out of work.”

Cotton remarked on public health concerns regarding the coronavirus in the context of a migrant caravan from Central America approaching the U.S.

“We have no idea if the people coming to the border and claiming asylum are carrying coronavirus with them, potentially one of the new and more contagious variants of the coronavirus,” Cotton warned. “So this is going to be a big fight. Fortunately, we have the most important power in American politics on our side: We have public opinion on our side.”

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Key Senate Republicans Reject Joe Biden’s Amnesty for Illegal Aliens

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JOHN BINDER

21 Jan 202112

3:44

Key Senate Republicans, many of whom have supported amnesties in the past, are rejecting President Joe Biden’s plan to give amnesty to about 11 to 22 million illegal aliens living in the United States that also includes increases to legal immigration.

Biden, who released his amnesty plan this week, wants to provide approximately all illegal aliens a fast-track pathway to green cards and, eventually, U.S. citizenship as 18 million Americans remain jobless and another 6.2 million are underemployed.

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), a former member of the infamous “Gang of Eight,” which sought an amnesty for illegal aliens in 2013, shot down Biden’s amnesty saying congress must aid Americans and the growing threat of China before prioritizing foreign nationals.

“Before we deal with immigration we need to deal with COVID, make sure everyone has the chance to find a good job, and confront the threat from China,” Rubio said in a statement:

America should always welcome immigrants who want to become Americans. But we need laws that decide who and how many people can come here, and those laws must be followed and enforced. There are many issues I think we can work cooperatively with President-elect Biden, but a blanket amnesty for people who are here unlawfully isn’t going to be one of them.

Likewise, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) — who has repeatedly backed amnesty for illegal aliens, including as a member of the “Gang of Eight” in 2013 — suggested the Biden amnesty has little chance of passing the Senate.

“I think probably the space in a 50-50 Senate would be some kind of DACA deal,” Graham said, according to NBC News. “Comprehensive immigration is going to be a tough sell given this environment, but doing DACA, I think, is possible.”

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) has warned Senate and House Republicans against supporting the Biden amnesty, even if Democrats and the administration claim it includes enforcement measures.

Most significantly, perhaps, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell called the announcement of Biden’s amnesty plan “a rough ‘day one’ for American workers.”

“The failed Paris deal will hurt American families while China and Russia grow emissions … and a proposal to gut immigration enforcement and give blanket amnesty? Rough ‘day one’ for American workers,” McConnell said.

Biden’s amnesty plan will include a litany of giveaways to big business, the open borders lobby, and Democrats who are looking to secure their permanent political majority by importing voters. The plan includes:

• Amnesty with a fast-track to American citizenship
• Immediate green cards for DACA illegal aliens and TPS beneficiaries
• A 700 percent increase in the refugee resettlement program
• Reinstatement of the Central American Minors (CAM) program
• Work permits for the family members of H-1B and H-2B visa holders
• Additional employment-based and chain migration visas
• Fast-track to the U.S. for Central American family members of citizens
• An expansion of the Diversity Visa Lottery program

Every year more than 1.2 million legal immigrants are awarded green cards and another 1.4 million foreign nationals are given visas. In addition, hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens are added to the U.S. population annually.

John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder. 

U.S. Chamber to Joe Biden: You Can Help Americans by Importing Foreign Workers

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NEIL MUNRO

21 Jan 20215,484

4:13

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce says its corporate members can create jobs for Americans if President Joe Biden’s amnesty and migration bill provides them with “the world’s most talented and industrious people.”

The chamber made the January 20 press statement as it applauded Biden’s draft “U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021” that would dramatically accelerate the inflow of foreign workers into Americans’ blue-collar and white-collar jobs. The statement said:

The changes proposed in President Biden’s legislative plan would help many businesses meet their critical workforce needs. Having the world’s most talented and industrious people contribute to our economy drives growth, and in turn, creates jobs for hardworking Americans.

“Nobody believes that,” responded Jessica Vaughan, policy director at the Center for Immigration Studies. The chamber’s companies have shown they want to bring in lower-skilled compliant migrants to take the support jobs created by higher-skilled migrants, even though millions of creative, hard-working, and outspoken Americans are ready to fill both categories of jobs, she said.

The Chamber’s support for Biden’s labor importation bill was explained by Tom Collamore, a former vice president at the chamber. “This is key to stimulating investment of capital [money] that has been sitting on the sidelines, and which would lead to new jobs and economic growth,” Collamore said in a January 19 New York Times article.

“They’re hoarding [the sidelined capital] because they want to invest in [low wage] foreign workers … instead of using it to advance productivity, technology, or wages for American workers,” Vaughan responded. “It is a pretty straightforward admission that what they’re concerned about is their own profits, not the well-being of workers or [technological] modernization.”

“The chamber thinks that Americans who are out of work are not industrious or talented and should be consigned to subsidiary jobs, welfare, and the dole for the rest of their lives,” she added.

In the 2020 election, the U.S. Chamber backed numerous Democratic candidates, largely because the Democrats promised to inflate the labor supply with cheap foreign workers.

“If you have ten people for every job, you’re not gonna have a drive [up] in wages,” Tom Donohue, the CEO of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, explained to Breitbart News in January 2020. “If you have five people for every ten jobs, wages are going to go up,” he complained.

The vast majority of Americans tell pollsters that the federal government should ensure Americans have decent jobs before it allows companies to import more foreign workers.

The polls show Americans’ deep and broad opposition to labor migration and the inflow of temporary contract workers into the skilled jobs needed by young and mid-career American graduates.

The multi-racial, cross-sex, non-racist, class-based opposition to labor migration co-exists with generally favorable personal feelings toward legal immigrants and toward immigration in theory — despite the media’s magnification of many skewed polls that still push the 1950’s “Nation of Immigrants” claim.

The public’s civic solidarity is derided by investor-backed progressives as “xenophobia.” But migration moves money from employees to employers, from families to investors, from young to old, from children to their parents, from homebuyers to real estate investors, and from the central states to the coastal states.

Migration also allows investors and CEOs to skimp on labor-saving technology, sideline U.S. minorities, ignore disabled people, exploit stoop labor in the fields, shortchange labor in the cities, impose tight control and pay cuts on American professionals.

Migration also helps corral technological innovation by minimizing the employment of American graduates, undermine Americans’ labor rights, and redirect progressive journalists to cheerlead for Wall Street’s priorities and claims.

The inflow of India's visa-workers creates a huge 'bonded labor' workforce that empowers Fortune 500 CEOs & shrivels professionalism, say US/India tech-professionals.
"We’ve lost our competitive, innovative advantage because of it," says US manager. #H1Bhttps://t.co/EgkcLsf4Xm

President Biden speaks to Mexican President about reversing Trump's 'draconian immigration policies' as the two leaders also work to promote development in Central America

• Biden used the call with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to 'review bilateral cooperation on a range of bilateral and regional issues'
• The two leaders agreed to work closely together to 'stem the flow of irregular migration to Mexico and the United States' 
• President Joe Biden spoke with Canadian counterpart Justin Trudeau Friday 
• Conversation lasted about 30 minutes and plans were made to talk next month 
• They covered everything from the pandemic to environmental protections
• Biden also spoke with Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador Friday

By AFP

PUBLISHED: 23:42 EST, 22 January 2021 | UPDATED: 17:44 EST, 23 January 2021

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President Joe Biden asserted in a phone call with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador Friday that he would be reversing the Trump administration's 'draconian immigration policies.'

Adding to the growing list of policies rejected by his administration, Biden used the call as a opportunity to 'review bilateral cooperation on a range of bilateral and regional issues,' according to a readout of the call shared by the White House. 

'The President outlined his plan to reduce migration by addressing its root causes, increasing resettlement capacity and lawful alternative immigration pathways, improving processing at the border to adjudicate requests for asylum, and reversing the previous administration's draconian immigration policies,' the readout states, not mentioning Trump by name. 

President Biden used the call with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to 'review bilateral cooperation on a range of bilateral and regional issues'

The two leaders agreed to work closely together to 'stem the flow of irregular migration to Mexico and the United States,' as well as work to help promote development in the Northern Triangle of Central America

The readout added that the two leaders agreed to work closely together to 'stem the flow of irregular migration to Mexico and the United States,' as well as work to help promote development in the Northern Triangle of Central America. 

Mexico's Lopez Obrador wrote on Twitter that his discussion with Biden had been 'friendly and respectful.'

'We talked on issues related to migration, #COVID19 and cooperation on development and well-being. Everything indicates that relations will be good for the well-being of our peoples and nations,' Lopez Obrador said.

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In his first call to a foreign leader as US President, Joe Biden spoke with Canadian counterpart Justin Trudeau Friday on a number of topics and made plans to continue the conversation next month, Ottawa and Washington said in separate statements.

During the conversation, which Canada said lasted approximately 30 minutes, the two leaders covered everything from the coronavirus pandemic, which has led to the closure of the US-Canada border since March, to environmental protections.

Trudeau and Biden made plans to talk again soon, with Canada leaving open the possibility of a virtual or even in-person discussion, while the White House said only that 'the two leaders agreed to speak again in a month.'

The discussions, the Canadian statement said, would 'advance the important work of renewing the deep and enduring friendship between Canada and the United States.' 

US President Joe Biden spoke with Canadian counterpart Justin Trudeau and covered everything from the coronavirus pandemic, which has led to the closure of the US-Canada border since March, to environmental protections

Neither Washington nor Ottawa confirmed an exact date.

According to both countries, the leaders discussed Biden's decision to cancel the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline, a project fiercely opposed by environmentalists but backed by Ottawa.

Upon taking office on Wednesday, Biden rescinded a permit for the pipeline via executive order, blocking completion of the project started almost a decade ago.

Trudeau had previously said it was 'an important project for us,' citing continental energy security and jobs, and reacted with disappointment Friday over its cancellation.

'The prime minister raised Canada's disappointment with the United States' decision on the Keystone XL pipeline,' Trudeau's office said in its statement, but added that the prime minister emphasized the 'important economic and energy security benefits of our bilateral energy relationship.'

The 1,210-mile pipeline, starting in 2023, was to transport up to 830,000 barrels of oil a day from the Alberta oil sands to Nebraska and then through an existing system to refineries in coastal Texas.

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, pictured in December 2020, confirmed on Twitter that he spoke with new US President Joe Biden on Friday

The three countries form the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, which replaced the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and binds nearly half a billion consumers in a single market that comprises about 27 percent of global GDP, in a region where trade hit $1.2 trillion in 2019 - though that was before the coronavirus pandemic hit.

Trudeau said prior to the call that the new administration represents an opportunity to turn the page on a challenging relationship with the US under Trump, who once labelled Trudeau as 'dishonest' and 'meek.'

'We are truly beginning a new era of friendship,' he said.

The White House said the pair's Friday phone call highlighted 'the strategic importance of the US-Canada relationship' while 'reinvigorating our bilateral cooperation on an ambitious and wide-ranging agenda.'

ICE Agents Ordered to Free All Illegal Aliens in Custody: ‘Release Them All’

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JOHN BINDER

23 Jan 202119,504

2:02

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, tasked with enforcing federal immigration law, are being instructed to free all detainees in their custody, as President Joe Biden’s administration halts deportations.

An internal January 21 ICE memo, independently reviewed by Breitbart News and first reported by Fox News’s Tucker Carlson, orders agents to “stop all removals,” including land and air deportations.

In addition, the memo tells agents that “all cases” of detainees in ICE custody are now to be considered “no significant likelihood of removal in foreseeable future” — suggesting all detainees will need to be released.

“Release them all, immediately,” the ICE official wrote to staff in the memo. Typically, if detainees do not have sponsors in the United States, agents can hold an individual in their custody. The memo, though, states that is no longer the case and that even detainees without sponsors must be released.

It is unclear if ICE is currently carrying out the mass release of all 14,195 detainees in its custody, 71.45 percent of whom are convicted criminals or have pending criminal charges. These detainees are currently held in approximately 138 facilities across the United States.

ICE has halted all deportations, regardless of the criminal convictions of an illegal alien, as a result of Biden’s executive order stopping removals for at least 100 days. The initiative is a long-term goal of the open borders lobby, which has sought a permanent end to deportations.

ICE officials have not responded to a request for comment in time for this publication.

John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder. 

Trump’s Former DHS Secretary Lobbies Senate to Approve Biden’s DHS Pick

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JOHN BINDER

23 Jan 202128

2:29

Kevin McAleenan, former acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for the Trump administration, is lobbying senators to approve President Joe Biden’s pick to lead the agency, Alejandro Mayorkas.

In a letter leaked to CNN’s Jake Tapper, McAleenan writes to the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee asking members to quickly approve Mayorkas’s nomination.

“Ali Mayorkas is … committed to the success of the Department, the people who serve in it, and he understands the essential role it maintains in protecting our homeland and our values. … I urge the Committee to complete its work and the Senate to confirm Alejandro Mayorkas as the next Secretary of Homeland Security,” McAleenan wrote.

The letter comes despite Mayorkas’s scandal-plagued background in the Obama administration where he was accused by the DHS inspector general of acting “improperly” for securing EB-5 visas for wealthy foreign investors.

During a hearing, Mayorkas defended his actions, saying he “fixed problems,” and promised to help Congress pass an amnesty for 11 to 22 million illegal aliens despite its potential to drive an uncontrollable mass migration to the United States-Mexico border.

McAleenan was one of a handful of Washington, DC, insiders from the national security establishment who was promoted to the top job at DHS while Donald Trump was president. Others included Gen. John Kelly, Kirstjen Nielsen, Elaine Duke, and Chad Wolf.

Days before resigning, McAleenan gave an interview where he attacked Trump’s policy at the U.S.-Mexico border. McAleenan claimed the Zero Tolerance policy “went too far” and repudiated the term “illegal alien.”

McAleenan had also been accused of leaking the details of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids to the establishment media in order to stop the operation. About a month after his announced resignation, a report alleged that McAleenan had led a quiet front inside DHS to stoke opposition to Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” policy.

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), who sits on the committee, has said he will oppose Mayorkas’s nomination.

John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder. 

Exclusive: Joe Biden Made America ‘Less Safe’ with a ‘Stroke of a Pen,’ Says Former Customs and Border Protection Head

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BOB PRICE

23 Jan 2021224

4:38

Former U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Mark Morgan said President Joe Biden made America less safe within hours of being sworn-in on January 20. He said the new president’s executive orders ending the Trump administration’s Migrant Protection Protocol and stopping construction of border wall systems places Americans’ lives in danger.

“With the stroke of a pen, President Biden made this country less safe,” Commissioner Morgan told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview. “It’s pure politics over public safety.”

Morgan said he was amazed at how quickly he transitioned on these issues without taking the time to talk to the experts in Border Patrol and CBP about the direct impact of the executive orders that ended border wall system construction and the highly successful “Remain in Mexico” program.

“Look, I know what our team said to the transition team,” the former commissioner explained. “I know the facts and data and analysis that was provided. I know what they told them and gave them that that showed that the wall works.”

“Again, it’s part of that multi-layer strategy of infrastructure, technology, and personnel that we’ve discussed,” he stated. “It’s not just a wall.”

Morgan said the ending of the Migrant Protection Protocol (MPP), also known as the “Remain in Mexico” program, also makes American’s less safe.

“So this was this is something we’ve been saying was the most dangerous thing that he’s been saying all along, that he was going to get rid of on day one, and that’s what he did,” the commissioner stated. “That policy alone attributed to the absolute reduction of [migrant] families coming up from Central America.”

From the peak of the migrant border in May 2019 to February 2020, CBP reported a 92 percent reduction in the number of Central American migrant families crossing the border from Mexico, Breitbart Texas reported.

During a press conference in March, Morgan told reporters:

Back in May, 61 percent of those we were encountering were families, the majority of those from the Northern Triangle countries. Because, again, they (transnational criminal organizations — TCOs) knew our system was broken. If you came to the U.S. with a kid you were going to be released into the interior of the U.S.

So, the major goal that we set out to do with the President’s strategy with respect to this was to decrease the flow of families from the northern triangle countries. We have succeeded nine months in a row those numbers, families from Northern triangles have gone down and continue to go down.

Last weekend, thousands of Honduran migrants forced their way across the Guatemalan border with an intent to make their way to the United States after Biden took office.

Morgan said this is a direct result of Biden’s “open border strategy.”

“Don’t take my word for it,” he said. “Listen to the migrants themselves. Quote, ‘Biden told us we have 100 days to get to the US border.'”

Some of these migrants presented fake COVID-19 test results to Guatemalan border security officials in an attempt to be allowed passage through the country.

In preparation for the expected increase in illegal border crossings due to Biden’s border security and immigration changes, CBP officials scheduled construction of a new soft-sided processing center, Breitbart Texas reported this week.

“We knew our facilities would become overwhelmed like they were in 2019,” Morgan told Breitbart. “Bottom line — we’re getting ready for another illegal immigration surge.”

Morgan said his tenure as CBP commissioner was not about politics.

“It was about law and order,” he said. “It’s about the safety and sovereignty of this great nation.”

“It’s just frustrating what I’m seeing right now,” Morgan concluded. “To me, it’s all politics. It’s all about politics. And our country’s less safe because of it and it’s just disgusting.”

Breitbart Texas reached out to U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials for additional information about the shuttering of border wall construction and the end of MPP. CBP officials referred us to the White House who has not yet responded to our request for information.

Bob Price serves as associate editor and senior news contributor for the Breitbart Texas-Border team. He is an original member of the Breitbart Texas team. Price is a regular panelist on Fox 26 Houston’s Sunday-morning talk show, What’s Your Point? Follow him on Twitter @BobPriceBBTX, Parler @BobPrice, and Facebook.

EXCLUSIVE: Drug Rehab Center Was Front for Mexican Border State Cartel

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GERALD TONY ARANDA

22 Jan 20210

2:05

An investigation into a shooting at a drug rehab center in Nuevo Leon revealed the facility was a front for one of the local cartels.

The shooting took place shortly after midnight on New Year’s Eve in the Monterrey Metropolitan Area. Gunmen pulled up in two SUVs and began firing dozens of rounds. The attack was not fatal as only two men inside were injured. The incident garnered minimal coverage by news outlets in Nuevo Leon.

Breitbart Texas consulted with U.S. law enforcement sources operating in Mexico who say the attack was not an isolated incident, but part of an ongoing turf war. The rehab clinic operated without any certifications or licensing and is owned by Jeronimo “El Jero” Hernandez de la Rosa, a local member of the Gulf Cartel. El Jero operates under Agustin Jaime “El Barbas” Gonzalez Garza, a regional crime boss with a long criminal history including drug, weapons, and fuel theft charges.

Jerónimo “El Jero” Hernández de la Rosa

Cadereyta, where the rehab is located, is a key territory used to steal large quantities of fuel from pipelines. The Cartel Del Noreste factions of Los Zetas have been trying to take the region by force.

Two weeks before the attack on the rehab center, gunmen ambushed and killed 48-year-old Francisco Guerrero Barreiro outside of Cadereyta City Hall. Even though that attack took place shortly after midnight, authorities did not respond until 6 a.m. to document the crime scene and collect the body.

Cadereyta is the same city where, in April, gunmen from the CDN-Los Zetas killed a Gulf Cartel regional boss during a cockfight despite Coronavirus lockdowns at the time.

CDN-Los Zetas gunmen dressed as police officers. They killed a regional Gulf Cartel boss named Ulises Ramses Lozano Garcia and injured six others.

Gerald “Tony” Aranda is a contributing writer for Breitbart Texas.

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GRAPHIC: 12 Mutilated Bodies Dumped in Mexican Coastal State

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ILDEFONSO ORTIZ and BRANDON DARBY

18 Jan 202134

1:41

Authorities in the coastal state of Veracruz are silent about 12 bound and mutilated bodies dumped in a rural community.

Photographs taken near Las Choapas and shared on social media show in gruesome detail how 12 victims were bound, tortured, and dumped on a dirt road.

According to La Silla Rota, some of the victims were identified as kin to each other. One was a municipal official from a nearby town. Another, identified as Teodulo “G,” is described as a local town leader.

The gruesome murders sparked a large buildup of police and military in the area as officials expect more violence in the coming days.

Veracruz continues to be one of the most violent states in Mexico where factions of Los Zetas, the Gulf Cartel, and Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion (CJNG) fight for control of lucrative drug trafficking routes to Texas.

Ildefonso Ortiz is an award-winning journalist with Breitbart Texas. He co-founded Breitbart Texas’ Cartel Chronicles project with Brandon Darby and senior Breitbart management. You can follow him on Twitter and on Facebook. He can be contacted at Iortiz@breitbart.com. 

Brandon Darby is the managing director and editor-in-chief of Breitbart Texas. He co-founded Breitbart Texas’ Cartel Chronicles project with Ildefonso Ortiz and senior Breitbart management. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook. He can be contacted at bdarby@breitbart.com.