Large Migrant Groups Continue Pouring Across ‘Closed Border’
Border Patrol agents continue to apprehend
increasing volumes of large migrant groups
illegally crossing the border in the Rio Grande
Valley Sector. Despite White House assurances
that the southwester border is “closed,”
apprehensions in March have already exceeded
the entire month of February.
Over the weekend, Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended three more “large groups” of migrants, CBP officials said in a written statement. In three incidents, the agents apprehended nearly 400 migrants — mostly family units and unaccompanied minors.
“Groups of over 100 apprehensions becoming the new normal as RGV agents encounter three this weekend totaling more than 369 illegal aliens,” Rio Grande Valley Sector Chief Patrol Agent Brian Hastings tweeted. “This is the 25th 100+ sized group this year.”
Groups of over 100 apprehensions becoming the new normal as RGV agents encounter three this weekend totaling more than 369 illegal aliens. This is the 25th 100+ sized group this year.
Click the link for the full story: https://t.co/vANAaIuyXV pic.twitter.com/FmDHozfEiM
— Chief Patrol Agent Brian Hastings (@USBPChiefRGV) March 23, 2021
By late last week, Hastings tweeted that his agents had already apprehended more than 34,000. With 11 days to go in the month at that time, the number of apprehensions in March exceeded February’s apprehensions for the entire month by more than 25 percent.
RGV agents remained busy on Thursday, apprehending over 2000 illegal aliens. Thursday’s encounters pushed RGV’s weekly total over 10K apprehensions! March monthly totals are now over 34K for #RGV Sector alone.#crossingyourborders pic.twitter.com/nga2wgBI6A
— Chief Patrol Agent Brian Hastings (@USBPChiefRGV) March 19, 2021
McAllen Station agents working the border near Havana, Texas, on Saturday encountered a group of 145 migrants, officials stated. Just a few hours later, agents working near La Joya, apprehended a second large group of 108. Border Patrol defines a “large group” as a single crossing of more than 100 migrants.
On Sunday morning, agents patrolling the border near Hidalgo, Texas, encountered the third large group consisting of 116.
In total, the agents apprehended 369 migrants. Officials report nearly 300 of the group were family units and unaccompanied minors. The remainder were said to be single adults.
“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,” Rio Grande Valley Sector officials said in a written statement.
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Former Acting ICE Director: Biden Administration Giving Green Light to Sex Traffickers, Child Traffickers
(CNSNews.com) – Former Acting ICE Director Tom Homan accused the Biden administration on Monday of “empowering the criminal cartels to smuggle the most vulnerable people in dangerous situations.”
Homan told “Fox News Primetime” that he used to have to look kids in their faces when they’ve crossed the border, and that’s why he gets so emotional when talking about the subject.
“And that's why a lot of people ask me why do you get so emotional on some of your interviews? Why do you yell at Congress? Because if people saw what I saw in my 34-year career, they’d be angry, too, because I’ve held dying children. I’ve held a dying child that suffocated to death in the back of a tractor-trailer in his father's arms. I found dead women. I’ve talked to women who were raped over 20 times making that journey,” he said.
“And what the Biden administration is doing is, as you said, giving a green light to sex traffickers, child traffickers that's you’re back in business. It's not compassion to put your children in the arms of criminal cartels. They don't care about these people. They’re nothing but a product, but once they get to their final destination, they get paid for them. During Operation Ice Storm in Phoenix, Arizona, if an alien couldn't pay the smuggling fees, they torture them. They kill them,” Homan said.
“I was there. I ran that operation. One person couldn't pay a smuggler's fee was stabbed in the face over 20 times. That's how he died. So for this administration to say they’re acting compassionately, no. You are empowering the criminal cartels to smuggle the most vulnerable people in dangerous situations. People are going to die. Women are going to be sexually assaulted. There is no compassion in this plan at all,” he added.
On the question of transparency, Homan said that the Biden administration can’t compare to the Trump administration. He said the White House saying that it will send out footage of the conditions at the border is “not transparency at all.”
“You can say what you want about President Trump. They hated him, but President Trump was down on the border all the time talking to the men and women. We let cameras in our detention facilities. We wanted the reporters there to show them, look, we have a serious crisis, humanitarian issue that we are dealing with,” Homan said.
“The Biden administration, first of all, the secretary gets on ‘Fox News Sunday’ and lies to the American people and say the border is closed and is secure. It is far from closed and secure. So they are hiding the truth from the American people in this, because there isn’t an accident. This isn't a mistake. They planned this. This is by design. This is what open borders looks like,” he said.
Fox News host Brian Kilmeade pointed out that President Joe Biden and DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas dealt with the issue when they were vice president and deputy homeland security secretary respectively, and they know how to fix the crisis at the border. In fact, Homan worked with Biden and Mayorkas to fix it.
“And how did we fix it? We built thousands of detention beds. We held people to see a judge, and 90 percent of them lost their case. And guess what? ICE removed them, and what happened when they saw the people coming home? The border numbers went down, and we removed the enticements,” Homan said.
“What's this administration doing? And they know better. Like you said, Ali Mayorkas was there, and so was Joe Biden. They are ending detention. They want to get these people out as quickly as possible - less than three days. ICE has been decapitated,” the former acting ICE director said.
“They can no longer execute removal orders from judges, and you just keep adding more and more enticements like … saying we’re going to put you in hotel rooms at $86 million at the same time we have homeless vets in the streets of Washington, D.C., would love to be in hotel rooms to take a hot shower but we are going to take care of those and keep enticing more illegal aliens across that border,” he said.
Homan predicted that the situation at the border will only get worse, especially when the Biden administration gets rid of Title 42 of the United States Code Section 265, enacted on March 21, 2020 during the Trump administration, which relies on a 1944 public health statute to indefinitely close the border to non-essential travel because of COVID.
“It's going to get worse. When they end Title 42, we’re in trouble. You’re gonna see a surge like you’ve never seen before, but as long as the administration is lying about when you say the border is secure. There’s over 1,000 got aways a day, Brian, over 1,000. We don't know if they have COVID. We don't know if they are gang members,” he said.
“When they tie the Border Patrol up with these family groups, 50 percent of the Border Patrol is no longer on the line, and the cartels send it through one sector. That's when they move the drugs and bad guys through. This is a national security issue not just a humanitarian issue,” Homan added.
What we are seeing here is plain old garden variety Mexican
meddling in our internal affairs, this time rooted in some icky
festering wounded national pride, some bid from Mexico to
assert itself over U.S. laws in the wake of Trump's muscle on
Mexico over the illegal migrant surge, using the U.S. courts with
their continuous anti-Trump rulings to make itself the sovereign
here. Mexico has already sent their illegals and now they want to
take over gubernatorially through the courts, which puts this act
on a continuum.
THE NEXT MEXICAN INVASION IS AT HAND:
"Mexican president candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador called for mass immigration to the United States, declaring it a "human right". We will defend all the (Mexican) invaders in the American," Obrador said, adding that immigrants "must leave their towns and find a life, job, welfare, and free medical in the United States."
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/07/mexican-president-andres-manuel-lopez.html
"Fox’s Tucker Carlson noted Thursday that Obrador has previously proposed granting AMNESTY TO MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS. “America is now Mexico’s social safety net, and that’s a very good deal for the Mexican ruling class,” Carlson added."
"Many Americans forget is that our country is located against a socialist failed state that is promising to descend even further into chaos – not California, the other one. And the Mexicans, having reached the bottom of the hole they have dug for themselves, just chose to keep digging by electing a new leftist presidente who wants to surrender to the cartels and who thinks that Mexicans have some sort of “human right” to sneak into the U.S. and demographically reconquer it." KURT SCHLICHTER
Billionaire Mexicans tell their poor to JUMP U.S. OPEN BORDERS and LOOT THE STUPID GRINGO… and loot they do!
Billions of dollars are sucked out of America from Mexico’s looting!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2017/08/narcomex-biggest-exports-to-us-are.html
1) Mexico ended legal immigration 100 years ago, except for Spanish blood.
2) Mexico is the 17th richest nation but pays the 220th lowest minimum wage to force their subjects to invade the USA. The expands territory for Mexicans, spreads the Spanish language, and culture and genotypes, while earning 17% of Mexico's gross GDP as Foreign Remittance Income.
Mexico: Where Is Your Shame?
At a demonstration Wednesday in Mexico City against Arizona's law.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Immigration: Mexico's government gloated triumphantly after a federal judge's injunction blocked Arizona's immigration law. But it's no victory for Mexico. In fact, Mexico's leaders ought to be mortified.
As radical immigration activists crowed with glee and the Obama administration claimed victory, Mexico's government joined the applause.
Calling Judge Susan Bolton's injunction Wednesday "a step in the right direction," Mexican Foreign Minister Patricia Espinosa declared: "The government of Mexico would like to express its recognition for the determination demonstrated by the federal government of the United States and the actions of the civil organizations that organized lawsuits against the SB 1070 law."
In reality, it ought to be ashamed. Supposedly framed as an issue of federal power pre-empting state power, it's hardly Mexico's business. But Mexico made a big show of saying its interest was in protecting its nationals from the dreadful racism of Arizona that its own citizens, curiously enough, keep fleeing to.
Espinosa said her government was busy collecting data on civil rights violations and her department had issued an all-out travel warning to Mexican nationals about Arizona.
That's where Mexico's hypocrisy is just too much.
First, Mexico encourages illegal immigration to the U.S. Oh, it says it doesn't, but it prints comic book guides for would-be illegal immigrants and provides ID cards for illegals once they get here. In Arizona alone, Mexico keeps five consulates busy.
That's not out of love for its own citizens, but because Mexicans send cash back to Mexico that helps finance the government.
Instead of selling its wasteful state-owned oil company or getting rid of red tape to create jobs in Mexico, Mexico spends the hard currency from remittances. It fails to look at why its citizens leave.
According to the Heritage Foundation-Wall Street Journal 2010 Index of Economic Freedom, Mexico's big problem is — no shock — government corruption, where it ranks below the world average.
That's where Mexico's cartels come in.
Mexico's encouragement of illegal immigration undercuts its valiant war against its smuggling cartels. The cartels' prowess and firepower have made them the only ones who can smuggle effectively across the border. U.S. law enforcers say they now control human-smuggling on our southern border.
Feed them immigrants and they grow more cash-rich — and right now, immigrant smuggling is about a third of the cartels' income.
Mass graves and car bombings are signs of criminal organizations getting bigger, and more powerful. Juarez, which has lost 5,000 people this year, bleeds because cartels fight over not just who gets the drug routes, but who gets the illegal-immigrant smuggling routes, too.
Aside from the cartel mayhem in Mexico, the bodies are piling up in the Arizona desert and U.S. Border Patrol rescues of abandoned illegals left to die have risen.
It's not the desert's fault, and it's certainly not Uncle Sam's fault, as activists claim. No, it's the fact that Mexicans are encouraged to emigrate. Criminal cartels don't fear abandoning their human cargo in the desert, as long as Mexico does nothing and blames Uncle Sam.
Hearing Mexico's government now cheer the Arizona ruling, which will only encourage more illegal immigration, gives the country's regime a pretty inhuman face.
If Mexico had any decency, it would do all it could to discourage illegal immigration and keep a respectful silence about Arizona.
It needs U.S. support for its war on cartels. Instead of insulting American citizens, Mexico should confront directly the reasons why its people are so desperate to leave, and do all in its power to destroy the cartels that are slowly killing the nation. That includes defunding the murderous gangs by halting illegal immigration.
Mexico’s President Says Biden Responsible for Migrant Surge at Border
Expectations created by President Joe Biden about better treatment for migrants led to the current border surge, said Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO).
During his daily news conference, AMLO spoke about the ongoing border crisis and said the increase in migrants entering Mexico and heading to the U.S. is partly due to the expectations created by President Biden.
AMLO: “Expectations were created that with the Government of President Biden there would be a better treatment of migrants. And this has caused Central American migrants, and also from our country, wanting to cross the border thinking that it is easier to do so” pic.twitter.com/TNrZQamuWK
— José Díaz-Briseño (@diazbriseno) March 23, 2021
“Expectations were created that with the Government of President Biden there would be a better treatment of migrants. And this has caused Central American migrants, and also from our country, wanting to cross the border thinking that it is easier to do so,” AMLO said.
The statements come one day after Mexico’s military confirmed the deployment of 8,700 soldiers to curb the growing number of migrants traveling through the country.
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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.
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