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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.