The Biden Administration has been touchy about using the word “crisis” to describe the catastrophic flow of illegal aliens across our border ever since he took office. Most Republicans think it’s because of the Administration’s reluctance to admit failure. More likely, it’s because they don’t see it as a failure at all. In fact, their plans are succeeding – just a little bit more than they had expected.
KRIS W. KOBACH
Exclusive–Kobach: Biden’s Immigration: It’s not an Unintended Crisis; It’s a Planned Event
The Biden Administration has been touchy about using the word “crisis” to describe the catastrophic flow of illegal aliens across our border ever since he took office. Most Republicans think it’s because of the Administration’s reluctance to admit failure. More likely, it’s because they don’t see it as a failure at all. In fact, their plans are succeeding – just a little bit more than they had expected.
The Biden Administration intentionally caused a surge of migrants across the border, and it started on the first day of Biden’s presidency. He announced a 100-day “pause” in deportations. That sent an immediate and undeniable signal to people in Mexico, Nicaragua, Honduras, and Guatemala. Migrants understood it as: “You have 100 days to make it to the United States—if you make it in, you get to stay.”
Biden’s acting DHS Secretary stated at the time that allowing “certain noncitizens ordered deported” to stay in the country “will allow DHS to ensure that its resources are dedicated to responding to the most pressing challenges that the United States faces….” That was revealed as a lie a few weeks later when the Biden Administration announced new guidelines that dramatically restricted ICE’s ability to deport illegal aliens. Under the new guidelines, it’s extraordinarily difficult for ICE officers to remove anyone who is not a convicted aggravated felon, a member of a gang, or a terrorist. ICE officers aren’t being reassigned to “more pressing challenges” like the acting Secretary claimed. They are literally being forced to sit behind their desks.
ICE officers report that the situation is desperate. They are unable to remove more than 80 percent of the aliens who would have been removed from the country under Trump Administration protocols. Undertaking the removal of a less-threatening illegal alien now requires getting special permission from the anti-enforcement holdovers from the Obama years who now run the agency. And that permission is rarely granted. As a result, morale in the agency is at an all-time low. ICE agents are witnessing the surge of illegal aliens across the border, but their leadership refuses to let them get out of the building to do their jobs.
As if this wasn’t bad enough, the Biden Administration compounded the 100-day pause and the new ICE guidelines with the ending of Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” policy, which forced asylum applicants to wait in Mexico for their future asylum hearings in American immigration courts. As I have written previously, this was a crucial reform because approximately 90% of the asylum claims are ultimately rejected; consequently, many of the applicants disappear into the fabric of American society and never show up for the hearing. With the end of the “Remain in Mexico” policy, some 25,600 asylum applicants waiting in Mexico were allowed in. And this was on top of the new wave of migrants heading for our border.
A massive 78,000 migrants showed up in January—a ten-year record for the month of January. In February, the number was even bigger—Customs and Border Patrol reported 100,441 encounters. The flow has jumped to an average of more than 3,000 border crossers daily. That’s roughly triple the typical 1,100 a day during the last year of the Trump Administration. And the general rule is that for every one migrant apprehended, another three successfully sneak in illegally. That means that more than half a million additional illegal aliens entered the United States during the first two months of the Biden Administration.
Meanwhile, Border Patrol officers have been taken off of their normal enforcement duties too. Instead of patrolling areas without border wall in order to keep illegal aliens out (which the Trump Administration recognized to be extremely important during a pandemic), Border Patrol officers are now spending their time processing the migrants into the country.
So who benefits from this absurd reality? First and foremost, the Mexican cartels. They have seen their trafficking numbers triple. And it’s not just human trafficking; it’s drug trafficking too.
But cynical politicians on the Left also benefit. They succeeded in turning California blue over the past two decades by replacing U.S. citizen voters with low-income migrants who vote overwhelmingly Democrat. New Mexico followed, along with Arizona which in the process of flipping. But Texas is the ultimate target.
It’s not an unexpected crisis. It’s a plan that yielded bigger results than the Biden Administration anticipated.
Kris W. Kobach served as the Secretary of State of Kansas during 2011-2019. An expert in immigration law and policy who was an informal adviser to President Trump, he also coauthored the Arizona SB-1070 immigration law and represented in federal court the 10 ICE agents who sued to stop Obama’s 2012 DACA executive amnesty. During 2001-03, he served as U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft’s chief adviser on immigration and border security at the U.S. Department of Justice. His website is kriskobach.com.
Republicans Blast Biden for Ignoring Border Crisis
Former acting ICE director: Biden ignored warnings about illegal immigration from Trump team
House Republicans criticized President Joe Biden for failing to acknowledge the crisis on the southern border after they visited immigration facilities on Monday.
The Republican delegation, led by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R., Calif.), surveyed multiple immigration facilities on the border in New Mexico and Texas. Rep. August Pfluger (R., Texas), a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, blasted the administration’s response after speaking to immigration officials. He said the conditions on the ground are deteriorating and potentially undermining national security.
"It’s such a shame that the Biden administration won’t call it a crisis … but they’re signaling it [is a crisis] with all the resources that they’re putting into it," Pfluger told the Washington Free Beacon. "Anybody who cares about the security of this country should be doing something, regardless of partisan lines."
In the first two months of the Biden presidency, thousands of aliens have attempted to illegally enter the United States, including unaccompanied minors and families. The Biden administration has revoked Trump-era immigration policies, including the "remain in Mexico" policy that made asylum-seekers wait in Mexico before their immigration hearing. Biden also revoked proposed worker protections that would prevent illegal immigrants with deportation orders from gaining legal employment.
Pfluger said the immigration crisis is making Americans less safe. Sparse resources for border patrol authorities have left holes in border security for human traffickers and other dangerous criminals to exploit. McCarthy said border officials told him they have already detained illegal entrants on federal terror watchlists.
"The number one job of the president is to keep the citizens of this country safe," Pfluger said. "The secretary of state has come out and said that we will be judged on our progress on keeping Americans safe and secure…. You have to ask yourself, are we meeting that metric? I don’t think so."
"There are people who would do bad things in this country and they are incentivized by the lack of strong policy and rhetoric to keep the border and this country safe," Pfluger added.
The White House referred the Free Beacon to comments Department of Homeland Security secretary Alejandro Mayorkas made Tuesday, which offered several policy solutions for the influx at the border but neglected to call the situation a crisis.
"The situation we are currently facing at the southwest border is a difficult one," Mayorkas said. "We are tackling it. We are keeping our borders secure, enforcing our laws, and staying true to our values and principles. We can do so because of the incredible talent and unwavering dedication of our workforce."
Mark Morgan, the former acting ICE director and a Heritage Foundation fellow, told the Free Beacon that Biden’s crisis was completely avoidable. Morgan said he briefed members of the Biden transition team about the ongoing situation at the border, and his recommendations were met with little interest or attention.
"We warned them not only with our words but also with extensive briefings with the transition team. We gave them the facts, the data, the historical analysis, and we told them: If you do what you are saying you are going to do, you are going to create a crisis," Morgan said. "And they ignored it and did it anyway…. It’s a joke."
Rep. Chuck Fleischmann (R., Tenn.), the ranking member overseeing homeland security appropriations, said the aversion to calling the situation a crisis is costing American taxpayers. He said an inability to conduct en masse coronavirus testing, limited resources for border security, and ongoing humanitarian problems have led to a disaster on multiple levels.
"This is a crisis on multiple levels. It’s a humanitarian crisis, a national security crisis, and a coronavirus crisis," Fleischmann said. "It’s unfathomable…. I don’t know what the Biden administration is thinking. They’re either oblivious or they just want it to happen."
THESE FUCKERS DO NOT FOOL ANONE! THEY NEVER OPEN THEIR BRIBES SUCKING MOUTHS THAT ANOTHER PILE OF LIES FALL OUT!
GOP Congresswoman to DHS Secretary: If FEMA Was Deployed to the Border, Wouldn’t It Stand to Reason There’s an Emergency on the Border?
(CNSNews.com) - Rep. Kat Cammack (R-Fla.) questioned DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas at a House Homeland Security Committee hearing Wednesday on whether the Federal Emergency Management Administration’s (FEMA) involvement at the border signifies that there is a crisis at the border.
Cammack also asked whether FEMA has enough resources to handle the pandemic, the border crisis, and the upcoming hurricane season.
The congresswoman began her line of questioning by asking the DHS secretary what FEMA stands for.
CAMMACK: Secretary Mayorkas, I know we’ve been in and out of meetings all day, so if this question has been asked previously, I apologize. Can you tell me what FEMA stands for?
MAYORKAS: The Federal Emergency Management Administration.
CAMMACK: Excellent. So since FEMA has now been deployed to the border, that would stand to reason that there is an emergency on the border, correct?
MAYORKAS: Congresswoman, perhaps you did not hear me—
CAMMACK: A yes or no would suffice.
MAYORKAS: We have a serious challenge at the border, and we are tackling it.
CAMMACK: So FEMA being the emergency management administration, they deal with emergencies, and they are now being deployed to the border, and it’s not an emergency? Is that what I’m hearing?
MAYORKAS: Congresswoman, if you’ll allow me, FEMA, the men and women of FEMA have tremendous capabilities, operational capabilities to address challenges in a series of our mission sets. We--
CAMMACK: I’m glad you said—I’m sorry I have to reclaim my time, because I’m very limited, and I’m glad you said that, because the men and women of FEMA are incredible, and I represent a hurricane-prone state so this is really important to me, especially as the ranking member of the Emergency Preparedness and Response and Recovery Subcommittee, so with everything that we have going on – a global pandemic, a border crisis - with everything happening, does FEMA have the resources necessary to effectively respond to the pandemic, the border crisis, and the upcoming hurricane season in your opinion?
MAYORKAS: Yes.
CAMMACK: Yes, they do? Excellent.
MAYORKAS: Let me share with you a glowing example of that. As I said at the outset the beginning, the president set a goal for FEMA to set up 100 federally supported vaccination centers in 30 days. They stood up 441 in 30 days, and the number is over 900 today. Their capabilities are extraordinary, and I have tremendous confidence in their ability to provide the assistance that they are to Health and Human Services … in handling the issue of unaccompanied children at our Southwest border and other mission sets. Tremendous confidence.
CAMMACK: Excellent, real quick. Talking I know FEMA is great when it comes to standing up infrastructure, but talking about DHS as a whole, and I know you all play a role here. Do you support the walls around the capitol region?
MAYORKAS: What---are you speaking of the fencing, Congresswoman?
CAMMACK: Yes, the 10-foot wall, fencing with razor wire around it.
MAYORKAS: Congresswoman, that is an issue that I—
CAMMACK: Just a yes or no.
MAYORKAS: Congresswoman, if I may, that is an issue that I have not studied. I’ve left to the security experts with respect to what particular type of physical barriers are best suited for the protection security of the Capitol region.
CAMMACK: I apologize. I know I’m new here, and I know you’re new here, but as secretary of DHS … you’re telling me that you haven’t studied whether or not a 10-foot fence around the Capitol region is necessary as secretary of homeland security?
MAYORKAS: Congresswoman, I have deferred to the experts with respect to the nature of the physical barrier that is most effective in protecting the capitol region. where that barrier should be, whether it should be singular in nature, wherever it is or whether it should vary---
CAMMACK: Secretary Mayorkas, I’m going to reclaim my time, because I think we can both agree that physical barriers do work, but I do want to bring it home a little bit, because I know several of my colleagues have talked about the statistics, the numbers of folks coming over the border, but I just want to bring it home a little bit.
See, I’m from a small town out west, and the month before I was supposed to graduate high school, which was 2006, one of my classmates was kidnapped by an illegal who had been deported multiple times, and I think when you have policies that incentivize folks to come over illegally, and we don’t have the proper mechanisms in place to protect our borders – as you say, FEMA has been deployed, and they are an emergency agency - that kind of impact has resounding effects, so my question to you – her name was Amber Scott, the young lady that was kidnapped by this illegal criminal. How many Ambers have to be kidnapped across America before you will take action?
Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) interrupted to tell Cammack that her time had expired, but the secretary asked if he could answer the congresswoman’s question.
“Congresswoman, I find that question to be extraordinarily disrespectful, disrespectful not only to me, but disrespectful to the men and women of the Department of Homeland Security and to all the frontline personnel throughout this country who dedicate themselves to the safety and security of the American people,” Mayorkas said.
Cammack responded, by saying, “I’m sorry that you feel that way. I’m sorry that you feel that way. I’m sure the American people feel that way about the border situation they’re facing right now.”
Watch Live: DHS Mayorkas Defends His Side-Door, Max-Migration Plans
President Joe Biden’s homeland defense secretary — Alejandro Mayorkas — faces a House oversight hearing today, where he will defend his plans to expand immigration levels by opening side doors in the nation’s immigration law.
On Tuesday, Mayorkas outlined his plan to expand immigration above the roughly one million immigrants annually scheduled by Congress.
“For years, the asylum system has been badly in need of reengineering,” said the March 16 statement by Mayorkas. He continued:
In addition to improving the process by which unaccompanied children are placed with family or sponsors, we will be issuing a new regulation shortly and taking other measures to implement the long-needed systemic reforms. We will shorten from years to months the time it takes to adjudicate an asylum claim while ensuring procedural safeguards and enhancing access to counsel.
Mayorkas is a lawyer and also a strong supporter of the unpopular claim the United States is a “Nation of Immigrants,” not of Americans. So he can argue his immigration expansion plans complies with the nation’s complex and loopholed immigration law, major parts of which have been written by agency regulators and pro-migration judges. Mayorkas wrote:
We are keeping our borders secure, enforcing our laws, and staying true to our values and principles …
I came to this country as an infant, brought by parents who understood the hope and promise of America. Today, young children are arriving at our border with that same hope. We can do this.
Read more here.
Pelosi Says Joe Biden Blameless for Border Crisis: He’s ‘Not Quite Two Months’ in Office
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) admitted Wednesday there is a crisis at the southwest border, but exonerated President Joe Biden from any and all blame due to his short tenure of office.
“The president has been in office not quite two months,” Pelosi said during an appearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”
“They are addressing it and it will improve,” she said confidently, without offering any evidence to support her claim. She continued “we are all impatient” when it comes to unaccompanied children at the border.
“As far as the children are concerned, you can imagine me as a mother of five every minute that a parent is separated from a child to me is a crisis,” Pelosi said. “So we want this to move along expeditiously.”
As Breitbart News reported, the crisis at the southern border has been growing for weeks and is now attracting attention on a broader scale as more and more children are arriving on their own.
Migrant children arriving at the border from Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador have a 95 percent chance of remaining in the U.S. https://t.co/JzLcdtOy1Z
— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) January 6, 2021
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) told Breitbart News on Tuesday that Biden’s “open border policy” and promises of amnesty are an “invitation” for illegal immigration, human smuggling, and sex trafficking operations run by transnational criminal cartels.
“What we are seeing is a true surge at the border,” Blackburn said on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow. “It is a crisis, and this is a crisis of the Biden administration’s making.
“When President Biden basically said our border is open — you’re not going to be deported, you’re not going to be turned away — people saw that as receiving an engraved invitation to come to the U.S. to get in line and try to get the benefits.”
Biden made his no-deportations promise by pledging “nobody will be deported” from the United States until they commit a felony under his national immigration plan:
PBS News HourPelosi rejected the notion such Biden policies were a “pull factor” for migrants to come to the U.S. She said people should seek asylum in the United States if they are seeking safety from persecution.
“If they have a well-founded fear of persecution, yes it is agreeable,” Pelosi said. “We have to address the causes of this migration … if we can help them there in our hemisphere that would be a good thing. People generally like to stay home.”
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Pelosi appeared to prove Cotton’s point Sunday, when she told ABC that FEMA is going to the border in order “to help facilitate” the transfer of illegal alien children “into family homes”:
"I'm so pleased that the president, as a temporary measure, has sent FEMA to the border in order to help facilitate the children going from one — the 72-hour issue into where they are cared for as they are transferred into family homes or homes that are safe for them to be.”
Sen. Cotton: Biden’s Not Deploying FEMA to Stop Illegals, But to ‘Expedite Them, Wave Them in Even Faster’
By Craig Bannister | March 15, 2021 | 4:40pm EDT
Sen. Tom Cotton
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The Biden administration isn’t sending the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to the southwest border in order to secure it, but to help and encourage illegal aliens to relocate to the U.S. even faster, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) said Monday.
“They’re deploying FEMA to expedite” illegal immigration, Sen. Cotton told Fox News:
“They're not deploying FEMA to secure the border, to try to finish the wall, or to stop those migrants from crossing. They're deploying FEMA to expedite them, to wave them in even faster and give them a bus ticket and a plane ticket and send them wherever they want to go in the United States.
“That is the Biden border crisis."
Sen. Cotton was responding to comments House Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) made to ABC earlier in the day, in which she claimed that Biden “inherited a broken system at the border.”
"At no point in that rambling, incoherent answer did Nancy Pelosi even come close to expressing a rational thought about what's happening at the border,” Sen. Cotton said. “What they inherited from the Trump administration was a border that was closed. We were building a wall and we were turning away all migrants who had no right to cross into our country.”
Noting that border crossing have increased every month since the election, Sen. Cotton attributed the current border crisis to “Joe Biden's promises of amnesty and open borders and free health care for illegals during the campaign.”
Pelosi appeared to prove Cotton’s point Sunday, when she told ABC that FEMA is going to the border in order “to help facilitate” the transfer of illegal alien children “into family homes”:
"I'm so pleased that the president, as a temporary measure, has sent FEMA to the border in order to help facilitate the children going from one — the 72-hour issue into where they are cared for as they are transferred into family homes or homes that are safe for them to be.”
The left’s two big albatrosses – Biden and Pelosi
One has to wonder, do those on the left, including the media, actually think that Joe Biden is a viable candidate for president? Do they not realize that Nancy Pelosi is as senile as Joe? Like Joe, she often slurs her words, suffers brain freezes mid-sentence and spews gibberish. Biden is life-long corruptocrat, a known plagiarist, a pathological liar and a truly mean and evil man. You can catch a glimpse of just how mean in the film about Clarence Thomas; it was Biden who grilled him mercilessly during the hearings over Anita Hill’s phony allegations. Biden is a racist as well. Pelosi is a life-long power-mad lunatic. She has allowed her own district to dissolve into a homeless camp with all the attendant problems – discarded needles, feces on the streets and sidewalks, and an ever-escalating crime wave. Smash and grab car burglaries occur by the minute in San Feancisco and there are no consequences for the perpetrators if caught. Like Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Pelosi and her husband are millionaires several times over; they’ve become rich because both have been in Congress for so many years. They all get rich on insider information. Joe Biden goes further; we all know he used a billion dollars in U.S. aid as leverage to get a Ukrainian prosecutor fired because he was investigating his son. John Kerry was in on that bit of bribery. He is as low a form of life as Biden.
And yet, at the moment, Biden is their candidate and Pelosi is their Speaker who embarrasses herself every time she opens her mouth, as does Biden. Both of them belong in a long-term care facility for the aged. That the Democrats consider either of these pols a credit to their party is proof of their willful blindness. Why do they not see what everyone outside of their party can see? That these two people are way past their sell-by date. How is Joe going to debate President Trump? He is unable to utter a coherent sentence or answer a simple question. Pelosi submitted a $3 trillion spending bill that is simply a joke. Biden has vowed to pick a “woman of color” as his running mate. Woe be unto him if he doesn’t.
As for the left’s “believe all women” mantra, that went out the window the moment Tara Reade accused Biden of sexual assault. Reade’s allegations are infinitely more credible than Christine Blasey-Ford’s fabricated accusations against a high school-aged Brett Kavanaugh, but Democrats are so self-unaware, they don’t recognize their own gross hypocrisy. This time Reade is “making it up.” See Ami Horowitz’ recent video. Blasey-Ford most likely never met Justice Kavanaugh. Reade did work in Biden’s office, did report his behavior and tell others at the time. But the Dems believed Blasey-Ford and don’t believe Reade. Go figure. Denial is a dangerous and mystifying psychological defense mechanism and the Democrat party is in denial about the mental capacity of its two most prominent “leaders.”
Donald Trump has warned our federal government about the dangers China represents to the US since the 1980s. He was right and since he took office he has tried to rectify the horrific trade imbalance. No one can refute the fact that China purposely unleashed the covid virus upon the world but Nancy Pelosi calls Trump’s focus on China “a diversion.” Is she really that clueless? Probably not, but destroying Trump is far more important to her than protecting America. Her comments about Trump’s use of hydroxychloroquine as a prophylactic are outrageous. It is the most effective drug at the moment, used all over the world. And Trump is not “morbidly obese” She however is morbidly botoxed and has undergone so much plastic surgery she resembles a character from the film Death Becomes Her. She is a ghoul in every sense of the word but the left seems not to realize it. They celebrate how she wields her power. That is what they admire; it’s the only thing they admire in anyone. They just cannot abide it in a republican, especially when they were so certain Hillary was going to win the 2016 election and they would all be in fat city. They would have been all-powerful. They would have had control of all the levers of power in this country. And being the spoiled children they are, to this day they cannot accept that defeat, especially to an outsider like Trump. They love to mock him, to call him stupid but he has them all by the short hairs and runs rings around their collective body of never-Trumpers.
To be sure, Biden and Pelosi have their devoted fans who are so blinded by their hatred of Trump and their thoroughly unwarranted hero worship of Biden and Pelosi that they mistakenly think they are normal and healthy but both are seriously in need of an intervention. Why Jill Biden allows Joe’s candidacy to continue is a cruelty, a form of elder abuse. As for Pelosi, where are her five kids telling her it is time to retire? Of course the lady of iron will would refuse but how much longer can her infirmities be on public display? Only time will tell but it seems pretty likely Trump has the election in the bag. Biden is the weakest candidate the democrat party has run since George McGovern and McGovern was a decent man; Biden is not. As for Pelosi, her district is so damaged, so depressed, they will likely re-elect her and keep her in office until she is 100% wax-ready for Madame Tussaud’s.
Come Over’ While His DHS
Secretary Signals Setting Up
Entry Process
The U.S. Border with Mexico is in chaos as thousands of migrants try to enter the United States in response to Joe Biden’s open borders policy while the president claims he has said they should stay away.
Biden tells migrants 'don't come over' in ABC News exclusive interview – ABC News via @ABC – https://t.co/B3jAyghMn5
— Anita Kumar (@anitakumar01) March 16, 2021
“Do you have to say quite clearly, ‘Don’t come’?” ABC anchor George Stephanopoulos asked Biden in an interview Tuesday.
“Yes, I can say quite clearly: Don’t come over,” Biden said. “Don’t leave your town or city or community.”
According to ABC, “Republicans have said Biden’s moves to rescind former President Donald Trump’s harsh immigration policies have encouraged migrants to come to the United States, but Biden told ABC News that ‘we’re sending back people’ who cross the border.”
“Was it a mistake not to anticipate this surge?” Stephanopoulos said.
“First of all, there was a surge in the last two years,” Biden said. “In ’19 and ’20, there was a surge, as well.”
“I heard the other day that they’re coming because they know I’m a nice guy,” Biden said. “Here’s the deal, they’re not.”
But as Breitbart News reported, Biden’s Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas is sending a different signal, saying he wants to expand economic migration into the United States on top of the roughly one million people per year set by Congress.
“For years, the asylum system has been badly in need of reengineering,” Mayorkas said in a March 16 statement. He continued:
In addition to improving the process by which unaccompanied children are placed with family or sponsors, we will be issuing a new regulation shortly and taking other measures to implement the long-needed systemic reforms. We will shorten from years to months the time it takes to adjudicate an asylum claim while ensuring procedural safeguards and enhancing access to counsel.
Since Biden was sworn into office he has worked to reverse former President Donald Trump’s immigration policies, including securing the border with a wall, and ended an agreement with Mexico to keep asylum seekers in that country while their asylum claims were litigated.
According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, in February 2021, Unaccompanied Alien Children taken into custody numbered 9,297.
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Border Patrol agents in the nation’s busiest sector continue to encounter large groups of migrants illegally crossing from Mexico into South Texas. Nearly 24,000 were apprehended in the last two weeks alone — nearly 28,000 for all of February.
Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol agents continue to apprehend large groups of migrants illegally crossing the border. Chief Patrol Agent Brian Hastings tweeted last Friday that nearly 24,000 migrants had been taken into custody in his sector during the past two weeks. Hundreds more were apprehended in the days that followed.
This group adds to the nearly 24,000 individuals apprehended throughout the RGV in the last two weeks.
For more info on activity in the RGV, click the link: https://t.co/s1uz7Tv6l1 https://t.co/lh2Yp1ATIM
— Chief Patrol Agent Brian Hastings (@USBPChiefRGV) March 13, 2021
On Saturday morning, agents assigned to the Rio Grande City Station encountered a group of 134 migrants after they illegally crossed the border near Las Lomas, Texas. The agents identified 128 migrants as family units — mostly from Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua.
A few hours later, agents from this same station encountered another large group of migrants near La Grulla, Texas. In this incident, the agents apprehended 113 migrants composed of family units and unaccompanied alien children, officials stated. Included in the 113 migrants were 17 Romanian nationals. The balance came to the U.S. from Central America, officials stated.
“Even with the spread of the COVID-19 virus, human smugglers continue to try these brazen attempts with zero regard for the lives they endanger nor to the health of the citizens of our great nation,” officials said in a written statement.
The #RGV continues to see an increase in illegal crossings despite #COVID19 concerns.
Two large groups totaling 201 illegal aliens were arrested by agents in Rio Grande City and La Joya, TX.
The group consisted of 71 family members & 19 unaccompanied alien children. pic.twitter.com/MZQbDXfPhx— Chief Patrol Agent Brian Hastings (@USBPChiefRGV) March 11, 2021
Last week, Rio Grande Valley Sector agents apprehended large groups of mostly family-unit migrants from Central America near La Grulla, La Joya, and Roma. These groups totaled 339 migrants from Central America, Romania, and Cuba, officials stated.
“Despite the inherent dangers of crossing the treacherous Rio Grande, illegal aliens continue to risk their lives to enter the United States,” Border Patrol officials stated. “In recent days, Border Patrol has conducted multiple rescues of individuals, who were set adrift by smugglers. Groups are smuggled on inflatable rafts almost always exceeding the maximum capacity of the rafts, and rarely provided life vests.”
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 What’s Your Point? Sunday-morning talk show. Follow him on Twitter @BobPriceBBTX and Face
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