“What is happening at our southern border … truly is an atrocity,” Malliotakis said on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow, author of Breaking the News: Exposing the Establishment Media’s Hidden Deals and Secret Corruption. “It’s not just a humanitarian crisis. It is literally a national security crisis. The president has turned our borders over to the cartels.”
Exclusive — Rep. Nicole Malliotakis: Cartels Are ‘Making Half a Billion Dollars a Month’ with Human Trafficking Thanks to Joe Biden
Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) told Breitbart News on Thursday that transnational criminal cartels are “making half a billion dollars a month” via human trafficking due to President Joe Biden’s directives towards the U.S.-Mexico border and immigration.
“What is happening at our southern border … truly is an atrocity,” Malliotakis said on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow, author of Breaking the News: Exposing the Establishment Media’s Hidden Deals and Secret Corruption. “It’s not just a humanitarian crisis. It is literally a national security crisis. The president has turned our borders over to the cartels.”
She reflected on her recent visit to the southern border and migrant holding facilities and talks with Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers.
Malliotakis shared, “What we’ve learned during this visit was that Customs and Border Protection has been completely overrun. They are being diverted by this migrant crisis that has been put in place by cartels and smugglers for multiple reasons. The first reason is because they’re making a half a billion dollars a month smuggling individuals.”
She added, “Many of these individuals, by the way, are exploited [and] put into sex trafficking. Many of the children are being abused. Women [and] children being raped, are sexually assaulted along this journey, and as [CBP agents] are being diverted in processing these asylum claims — of which less than ten percent are legitimate asylum claims — they are also being diverted in overseeing these facilities and in some cases they’re babysitting the smaller children who are coming over unaccompanied … with smugglers.”
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The Biden administration’s use of CBP agents as caretakers and babysitters for migrant children smuggled across the southern border without their parents drains human resources which could otherwise be used to better prevent illegal entry into the U.S., Malliotakis noted.
“As [CBP agents] are being diverted, a bunch of other nefarious activities are occurring at the open and porous parts of our border, and that includes the gun trafficking, the drug trafficking, the human trafficking,” she remarked. “There have been multiple reports about the individuals who are criminals that have been caught. One particular [CBP] unit we visited with … had intercepted sex offenders, gang members, convicted criminals, AK-47s, thousands of pounds of drugs — heroin, meth, fentanyl, to name just a few.”
She assessed, “President Biden has allowed this to happen. He’s incentivized this to happen by reversing the policies that President Trump had in place. … He and [Vice President Kamala Karris] need to go there, see what we saw, hear what we heard from the Customs and Border agents who are begging for these policies to be reversed and are begging for the support from our federal government.”
Malliotakis said Democrat policies are facilitating the sexual abuse of migrant women and children.
“Democrats claimed to be the champions of women,” she stated. “They claimed to be the ones who care for children. … We were at this border facility and one of my colleagues heard a story — and the girl was right there, an unaccompanied nine-year-old girl — she tried to talk to her and ask her [why] she was crying to ask her what was wrong. The girl could not respond, and the Border Patrol agent came over and said, ‘She cannot respond because she lost her vocal cords. She was gang raped.’ [A] barely nine-year-old girl.”
The New York Post reported on the incident mentioned by Malliotakis. The paper quoted a Border Patrol agent, who said:
We were going to send [the nine-year-old migrant girl] to the hospital. And as I got closer to her, I noticed that she couldn’t speak. And I asked the medical staff what happened. And the reason she was going to the hospital was because she had gotten gang raped. And the reason that she couldn’t speak was because she had lost her voice in the process while she was getting raped. Those things hit hard.
Malliotakis reiterated that criminal cartels exploit Border Patrol agents’ humanitarian conduct to evade capture.
“A six-month-old baby was thrown in the Rio Grande because [human smugglers] were trying to divert attention … so the CBP would automatically go try to save the baby, and then they could get away,” she said.
Biden Announces U.S. Troop Drawdown by 20th Anniversary of Sept. 11 Attacks
(CNSNews.com) - President Joe Biden announced Wednesday that the U.S. will begin withdrawing U.S. troops from Afghanistan on May 1 with a deadline of withdrawing all troops by Sept. 11 of this year, the 20-year anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
“I’m speaking to you today from the Roosevelt treaty room in the White House, the same spot where on October of 2001, President George W. Bush informed our nation the United States military had begun strikes on terrorist training camps in Afghanistan,” the president said.
“It was just weeks, just weeks after the terrorist attacks on your nation that killed 2,977 innocent souls that turned lower Manhattan into a disaster area, destroyed part of the Pentagon and made hallowed ground of a field in Pennsylvania and sparked an American promise that we would never forget,” Biden added.
“We went to Afghanistan in 2001 to root out al Qaeda, to prevent future terrorist attacks against the United States planned from Afghanistan. Our objective was clear. The cause was just. Our NATO allies and partners rallied beside us,” he said.
Biden said that while he supported military action in Afghanistan when he was in Congress, as vice president during the Obama administration, he visited the region and what he saw reinforced his “conviction that only the Afghans have the right and responsibility to lead their country and that more military force could not create or sustain a durable Afghan government.”
He noted that since Osama bin Laden was killed, “our reasons for remaining in Afghanistan have become increasingly unclear even as the terrorist threat that we went to fight evolved.”
“Over the past 20 years the threat has become more dispersed, metastasizing around the globe,” Biden said.
“When I came to office, I inherited a diplomatic agreement duly negotiated between the government of the United States and the Taliban that all U.S. forces would be out of Afghanistan by May 1, 2021 - just three months after my inauguration. That’s what we inherited, that commitment,” the president said.
“It's perhaps not what I would have negotiated myself, but it was an agreement made by the United States government, and that means something. So in keeping with that agreement and with our national interests, the United States will begin our final withdrawal on May 1 of this year,” he said, pledging that the drawdown will be safe, deliberate, and responsible.
“U.S. troops and forces deployed by our NATO allies and partners will be out of Afghanistan before we mark the 20th anniversary of that attack on September 11th, but we won't take our eye off the terrorist threat,” he said.
Biden pledged that the United States will reorganize its “counter-terrorism capabilities and assets in the region to prevent reemergence of the terrorists with a threat to our land.”
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That same year, on January 12, 2020, a Muslim man crept up behind a Coptic woman walking home with groceries, pulled her head back with a hand full of hair, and slit her throat with a knife in his other hand. Catherine Ramzi was rushed to a nearby medical center, where her throat was sewn with 63 stitches; doctors told her she came within an inch of dying. It is believed that he may have identified her as a Christian for not wearing a hijab around her hair or for having a cross tattoo on her wrist.
President Biden: “The Holy Qur’an Reminds Us That ‘God is the Light of the Heavens and Earth’”
(CNSNews.com) - President Joe Biden put out a statement on Monday in honor of the beginning of the Muslim month of Ramadan.
“Jill and I send our warmest greetings and best wishes to Muslim communities in the United States and around the world,” said the president. “Ramadan Kareem.”
“As many of our fellow Americans begin fasting tomorrow, we are reminded of how difficult this year has been,” said Biden. “In this pandemic, friends and loved ones cannot yet gather together in celebration and congregation, and far too many families will sit down for iftar with loved ones missing.
“Yet, our Muslim communities begin the month of revelation with renewed hope,” said Biden. "Many will focus on increasing their consciousness of the presence of God in their lives, reaffirming their commitment to the service of others that their faith compels, and expressing gratitude for the blessings they enjoy—health, well-being, and life itself.
“Muslim Americans have enriched our country since our founding,” Biden said. “They are as diverse and vibrant as the America they have helped build.”
“As we remember those who we have lost since last Ramadan, we are hopeful for brighter days ahead,” said Biden.
“The Holy Qur’an reminds us that ‘God is the light of the heavens and earth,’ who leads us out of darkness to the light,” said the president. “Although our White House festivities will be held virtually this Ramadan, Jill and I look forward to resuming the traditional White House Eid celebration in person next year, inshallah.”
Here is the full text of President Biden’s statement on Ramadan:
Statement from the President at the Beginning of Ramadan
Jill and I send our warmest greetings and best wishes to Muslim communities in the United States and around the world. Ramadan Kareem.
As many of our fellow Americans begin fasting tomorrow, we are reminded of how difficult this year has been. In this pandemic, friends and loved ones cannot yet gather together in celebration and congregation, and far too many families will sit down for iftar with loved ones missing.
Yet, our Muslim communities begin the month of revelation with renewed hope. Many will focus on increasing their consciousness of the presence of God in their lives, reaffirming their commitment to the service of others that their faith compels, and expressing gratitude for the blessings they enjoy—health, well-being, and life itself.
Muslim Americans have enriched our country since our founding. They are as diverse and vibrant as the America they have helped build. Today, Muslims are leading in our efforts to fight COVID-19, playing a pioneering role in vaccine development and serving as frontline health care workers. They are creating jobs as entrepreneurs and business owners, risking their lives as first responders, teaching in our schools, serving as dedicated public servants across the nation, and playing a leading role in our ongoing struggle for racial equity and social justice.
But still, Muslim Americans continue to be targeted by bullying, bigotry, and hate crimes. This prejudice and these attacks are wrong. They are unacceptable. And they must stop. No one in America should ever live in fear of expressing his or her faith. And my administration will work tirelessly to protect the rights and safety of all people.
On my first day as President, I was proud to end the shameful Muslim travel ban, and I will continue to stand up for human rights everywhere, including for Uyghurs in China, Rohingya in Burma, and Muslim communities all over the world.
As we remember those who we have lost since last Ramadan, we are hopeful for brighter days ahead. The Holy Qur’an reminds us that “God is the light of the heavens and earth,” who leads us out of darkness to the light. Although our White House festivities will be held virtually this Ramadan, Jill and I look forward to resuming the traditional White House Eid celebration in person next year, inshallah. We wish your families an inspiring and rewarding month.
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Muslim Man Butchers Christian Mother and Child in Egypt
“As if he were slaughtering chickens.”
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Raymond Ibrahim is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article first appeared on Coptic Solidarity.
A Muslim man butchered a Coptic Christian woman and her toddler son with a machete—“as if he were slaughtering chickens,” said eyewitnesses. He also unsuccessfully tried to slaughter the Christian woman’s young daughter.
The facts are currently sparse. The incident occurred on April 3, 2021, in the streets of Minya Governate, Egypt. The name of the murderer, a tuk-tuk driver, is Abu Muhammad al-Harami; his victims are Mary Sa‘d and her six-year-old son Karas.
When their paths crossed in the streets, he made threatening and derogatory comments to the mother; she responded by saying that she would report him to police—at which point Abu Muhammad leapt on Mary with his machete, butchering her and her son. Her four-year old daughter fled and hid, as did the murderer, who was reportedly arrested four days later.
Egyptian media and authorities are currently warning people not to jump to conclusions concerning the motive of the murderer. The latest explanation is that the crime had nothing to do with the woman’s Christian identity, but rather was the unfortunate outcome of the man’s attempt to steal her golden necklace.
The reality, however, is that there have been many seemingly random attacks on Copts in the streets of Egypt.
In late December 2020, for example, two Muslim brothers went on a stabbing spree against Copts, killing one Christian and critically injuring two others. Authorities said the brothers were in mourning and upset, because their mother had died earlier that day. But as a local Coptic priest said, “what does the death [of the murderous Muslims’ mother] and the Copts have to do with each other??” He added that the two brothers had for years been in the habit of verbally harassing and insulting Christians.
That same year, on January 12, 2020, a Muslim man crept up behind a Coptic woman walking home with groceries, pulled her head back with a hand full of hair, and slit her throat with a knife in his other hand. Catherine Ramzi was rushed to a nearby medical center, where her throat was sewn with 63 stitches; doctors told her she came within an inch of dying. It is believed that he may have identified her as a Christian for not wearing a hijab around her hair or for having a cross tattoo on her wrist.
Two days before that attack, on January 14, 2020, another Muslim man tried to slaughter a Christian man with a sharp box-cutter in a public space; he managed only to slice off a portion of his victim’s ear. Although this attack was like the others also dismissed as a generic “crime,” the culprit, Muhammad ‘Awad, was actually arrested and, when questioned as to why he tried to murder the Copt, confessed that he did not know him, but that he simply “hates Christians, for they are from among the People of Lot, and the [death] penalty must be applied to them, for they commit indecencies.”
Whatever the true motive behind Abu Muhammad’s slaughter of Mary Sa‘d and her small child, here, at any rate, is the latest account of a Muslim butchering Christians in Egypt.
CRS: ‘Mexican Cartels Remain the Primary Source of Heroin and Fentanyl Trafficking Into the United States’
(CNSNews.com) - A report published by the Congressional Research Service on April 2 concluded that Mexican drug cartels have “exploited” the COVID-19 pandemic and “remain the primary source of heroin and fentanyl trafficking into the United States.”
“As predicted, the cartels seem to have exploited the pandemic for profit and territorial gain,” said the CRS report.
“The pandemic does not appear to have diminished the extensive criminal and political power of Mexico’s criminal organizations,” said the report.
“In 2020, President Trump exhorted the Mexican government to do more to contain the cartels, which he described as posing ‘a clear threat to Mexico and the Mexican government’s ability to exert effective control over parts of its country,” said the report.
“DHS also considers Mexican cartels a key threat to the U.S. homeland because of their ability to control territory and trafficking routes along the U.S. Southwest Border and to co-opt officials at various levels of government,” the report said.
“Mexico’s cartels remain the primary source of heroin and fentanyl trafficking into the United States,” the CRS report stated.
“According to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, the Sinaloa Cartel and the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) in particular ‘show signs of expansion in Mexico’ and have increased their role in production and pill pressing,” it said.
“Neither the risk of infection nor government-mandated mobility restrictions during the pandemic appear to have significantly deterred cartel activity,” the CRS report said. “Since the pandemic’s onset, the range of criminality by smaller cartels has expanded as new opportunities for exploitation have appeared. Current conditions seem to have fostered intensified inter-cartel competition, favoring larger Mexican cartels’ territorial ambitions. As a result, crimes of assault and homicide have remained elevated during Mexico’s pandemic response, even as crimes of opportunity, such as robbery, appear to have declined.
“Mexico’s homicide rate remains ‘stuck’ at historically high levels, with 27 murders per 100,000 in 2020,” said the report. “During 2020, the most homicides in Mexico were reported in the central state of Guanajuato and the border state of Baja California, where rival groups jockeyed for drug routes, extortion rackets, and control of other illicit markets. Organized crime-related violence even encroached into the Mexican capital. There was a sharp increase in murders of public office holders and candidates for Mexico’s midterm elections scheduled for June 2021.”
THE GLOBALIST DEMOCRAT PARTY'S AGENDA OF SURRENDER TO MEXICO "This is country belongs to Mexico" is said by the Mexican Militant. This is a common teaching that the U.S. is really AZTLAN, belonging to Mexicans, which is taught to Mexican kids in Arizona and California through a La Raza (now calling itself UNIDOus) educational program funded by American Tax Payers via President Obama and Joe Biden, when they gave LA RAZA $800,000.00 in March of 2009!
Thune: ‘One Important Piece of Infrastructure Is to Finish Building the Border Wall’
(CNSNews.com) - Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) drew the connection between the border crisis and the debate over President Joe Biden’s $2 trillion infrastructure bill, saying that “one important piece” to include would be finishing the border wall.
Speaking to reporters on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, Thune talked about the recent congressional trips to the border and how smugglers were being enriched and benefiting from some of the children making the “traumatic journey into this country.”
He said that members of Congress wanted to see the crisis first hand, especially considering that neither Biden nor Vice President Kamala Harris, who was tasked with leading the response to the border crisis, have yet visited the border.
“And the press hasn’t been able to get there to see what’s going on. It is a full-blown crisis at the border, which desperately needs to be addressed, and it is important that the American people know what’s going on there, and I hope the administration will realize the error of their ways in getting away from some of these policies that had worked and been effective in securing the border, and now they’ve got this humanitarian crisis, national security crisis down there, which is desperately in need of a solution,” Thune said.
“One of the things they could do, there’s been a lot of talk about infrastructure, the administration’s talking about the infrastructure bill, one important piece of infrastructure is to finish building the border wall. That would be really important, and it’s already been funded. Congress has appropriated money for that. The administration’s chosen not to take those dollars and finish building out the wall,” he said.
“We heard from Border Patrol how important the wall is and how critical it is to the security down there. Just one observation about what the leader talked about, and that is the infrastructure bill. It’s absolutely true that there’s bipartisan support in Congress, has been in the past. I’ve been involved in my time in both the House and Senate on the relevant committees in drafting and getting support for infrastructure bills,” the senator said.
“The 2015 Fast Act passed with a big bipartisan majority. I was involved in drafting that. There’s always support for infrastructure as understood by most people - infrastructure physically. I think the American people understand what that is. It’s roads and bridges, ports, waterways,” Thune said.
“If you want to add broadband to that, I think there’s support for adding broadband to it, but the proposal that the administration has put forward spends more on electric vehicles than it does on roads and bridges and ports and waterways and airports combined. Then you add all the stuff they have tried to consider in the definition of infrastructure,” he said.
“It is a massive expansion of government, financed on the backs of the American taxpayers with taxes that will hurt the American economy and cost jobs. We can do this. We can do it the right way, and if the president is sincere about his calls for bipartisanship and unity, then he’ll sit down with Republicans and figure out a way to do something that’s truly, truly infrastructure in the best interest of the American people," the senator added,
THE GLOBALIST DEMOCRAT PARTY'S AGENDA OF SURRENDER TO MEXICO "This is country belongs to Mexico" is said by the Mexican Militant. This is a common teaching that the U.S. is really AZTLAN, belonging to Mexicans, which is taught to Mexican kids in Arizona and California through a La Raza (now calling itself UNIDOus) educational program funded by American Tax Payers via President Obama and Joe Biden, when they gave LA RAZA $800,000.00 in March of 2009!
Trillions of dollars have already been funneled upward to the ruling elite over the last year, while 2.7 million have died as a result of the policies pursued by capitalist governments around the world.
Whitmer and Biden refuse to fight surging pandemic in Michigan
For the seventh week in a row, K-12 schools were the number one source of COVID-19 outbreaks in Michigan, followed once again by manufacturing and construction job sites. Yet Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer continues to refuse to order schools to go virtual and nonessential workplaces to close.
Michiganders caught COVID-19 at a rate of over 7,000 per day over the last week, numbers not seen in the state since last Thanksgiving, the peak of the fall/winter surge. The number of confirmed cases Tuesday hit 10,277, the highest daily number of the pandemic to date. The state continues to lead the US with 72.9 new cases for every 100,000 residents. The next highest state-wide case rate is 41.7 in New Jersey.
In virtually every part of the state, the pandemic is spreading like wildfire. Sixty-one of Michigan’s 83 counties saw more than 50 cases per 100,000 residents on April 13. The rural “thumb” area north of Detroit is especially dangerous, with the counties of Lapeer, Tuscola, and Sanilac all above 100 daily new cases per 100,000 residents, and St. Clair and Huron counties both over 150, according to the website CovidActNow.
COVID-19 hospitalizations in Michigan are now at their highest levels ever, surpassing anything seen in previous surges, and health care is now being rationed across the state to make room for more patients. The situation is so severe that even Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky called Monday for Governor Whitmer “to really close things down, to go back to our basics, to go back to where we were last spring, last summer, and to shut things down.”
Michigan’s new surge is fueled by the B.1.1.7 variant, which is now dominant across the US. This variant is also up to 75 percent more contagious than wild-type COVID-19, and it thrives among children. B.1.1.7 is more concentrated in Michigan than in any other state, accounting for an estimated 70 percent of new cases there.
The first case of B.1.1.7 in Michigan was detected on January 16 in Washtenaw County. This was also the lowest point in the curve of K-12 school outbreaks in the state. Having reached 56 new outbreaks per week before Thanksgiving break, this number was down to just 2 per week for the first weeks of January. The downward trend started when the state’s health department ordered high schools to close for the remainder of the semester on November 15, and fell off dramatically when all schools closed as normal for winter break.
As B.1.1.7 took hold in Michigan and schools reopened, outbreaks in schools skyrocketed to unseen heights, reaching 80 per week by April 5. This rise preceded the surge in case rates across Michigan, which shows that not only are schools vectors for transmission when community spread is already high, but that they actually serve as a catalyst for community spread.
But Whitmer continues to refuse to order even a limited lockdown of schools or workplaces. She maintains that “Michigan doesn’t have a policy problem, we have a compliance problem.” This is an effort to shift blame for the new surge onto individual “problem” workers and youth, who won’t “comply” with the Governor’s completely voluntary recommendations to wear a mask inside Michigan’s cramped schools and factories and to order takeout instead of dining out at restaurants, which she has also allowed to remain open for in-person dining.
In the spring and summer of 2020, as the pandemic first hit Michigan, Whitmer issued emergency executive orders to shut down all schools and some non-essential businesses. But on October 12, the Michigan Supreme Court ruled in Midwest Institute of Health, PLLC v. Governor that Whitmer’s legal basis for ordering schools to go completely virtual was unconstitutional.
The Democrats have presented this decision as an insurmountable barrier, foisted upon Whitmer by hostile Republicans, which completely prevents her from taking any measures to shut down schools. However, a brief examination shows that this is far from the case.
At the time, the Michigan Supreme Court was comprised of four Republican justices: Stephen Markman, Brian K. Zahra, David Viviano, and Elizabeth T. Clement; and three Democrats: Megan Cavanagh, Bridget Mary McCormack, and Richard H. Bernstein.
There were two questions in the emergency powers case: whether a 1945 law allowed the governor to issue executive orders related to a pandemic; and if a separate 1976 law the governor cited as justification was constitutional. By winning on either one of these questions, Whitmer could continue to issue lockdown orders as before.
The Governor lost 4-3 on both questions. On the second question, the ruling proceeded along party lines, with all four Republicans ruling against and all three Democrats in favor of Whitmer.
But on the first question, the votes against Whitmer's actions were from McCormack (D), Viviano (R), Bernstein (D) and Markman (R). The three justices voting for Whitmer's actions were Zahra (R), Clement (R), and Cavanagh (D).
Thus, it was the Democrats on the Michigan Supreme Court who sunk Whitmer’s emergency powers, not the Republicans. If the Democratic justices had supported Whitmer on the first question, she would have won 5-
Moreover, a month after the ruling, as daily new cases in the state surpassed 7,000 for the first time and outbreaks in schools were exploding, the director of the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services Robert Gordon issued a “Gatherings and Facemasks” order in his own name, which brought in-person instruction at high schools to an end from November 18 through the end of the year. The order states: “Gatherings at public, nonpublic, and boarding schools for the purpose of conducting in-person instruction, sports, and extracurricular activities serving pupils in grades 9 through 12 are prohibited.”
The laws that Director Gordon cited as justification for the November order have not been challenged by anyone, and the MDHHS continues to cite them as a basis for updated Gatherings and Facemasks orders. However, the newest such order explicitly states that “gatherings at public, nonpublic, and boarding schools are permitted for the purpose of conducting in-person instruction.”
President Joe Biden has now repeatedly rejected calls to send a “surge” of vaccines to Michigan to counter the rise of the pandemic in Michigan. His administration is walking a tightrope, trying to continue to force open schools across the country while ignoring the growing number of infections and deaths or listening to the dire warnings of experts. But the catastrophe in Michigan shows what the rest of the country could soon face if immediate action is not taken.
The subject of COVID-19 in Michigan’s schools is also being blacked out and downplayed by the mainstream media. In particular, the New York Times is covering up the fact that Michigan’s schools are its top source of COVID-19 transmission.
In its two major articles on the pandemic in Michigan published Monday (“Surging Virus Has Michigan’s Democratic Governor at Loggerheads With Biden,” and “The C.D.C. director says Michigan needs to shut down, not get extra vaccine, to slow its virus outbreak”) the Times claims that Michigan’s outbreak is “driven by a highly infectious virus variant, loosened restrictions, travel, youth sporting events and uneven compliance with the remaining rules.” The quoted passage appears in both articles, neither of which mention the hundreds of outbreaks at Michigan schools or workplaces since the present surge began in last February.
Likewise, the Times’ page “Tracking Coronavirus in Michigan: Latest Map and Case Count” includes a section called “Outbreak clusters,” which completely omits K-12 schools and almost all workplaces. They falsely present colleges, prisons, nursing homes, and two meat-packing plants as the main sources of outbreaks. The word “school” does not appear on the page.
The situation in Michigan is a warning to the world: the ruling class, whether represented by Democrats like Whitmer and Biden or Republicans like Trump, is set on reopening schools and workplaces, even if it means knowingly infecting thousands of schoolchildren, teachers and other workers with a deadly virus. Trillions of dollars have already been funneled upward to the ruling elite over the last year, while 2.7 million have died as a result of the policies pursued by capitalist governments around the world.
The end result of this economic warfare is the usurpation of power from American citizens to foreign nationals. First, this is hidden but as their power grows it moves into the open. This can be seen in Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez asserting that immigration laws should not apply to Latinos as this land is rightfully theirs, as well as Senator Kamala Harris asserting that foreign nationals have the right to make laws with respect to U.S. citizens.
The Middle Class’s Slow Ascent and Swift Decline
During the mid-14th Century, the Black Plague ravaged Europe, killing up to half the population by some estimates. Urban centers were hardest hit, but the plague didn’t discriminate -- rich and poor, nobles and peasants all suffered.
Calamities of that magnitude inevitably lead to big changes. But, like the trade routes opened by Genghis Khan, the long-term societal consequences of the Black Death were not all necessarily bad.
Because the continent held fewer people after the plague’s devastation, labor was in short supply. A limited labor supply meant that workers had greater bargaining power and could command higher wages. Frustrated rulers enacted laws capping worker pay, but those laws were widely ignored. Local landowners needed work done and were willing to pay more to entice laborers away from other employers.
With higher wages enabling savings, frugal European peasants gradually turned into a budding middle class. Long-sighted parents invested in educating their children, which enhanced the next generation’s earning potential. Land ownership, previously limited to the Church and nobility, became an achievable goal for common people.
An economically empowered middle class could assert itself politically, employing financial strength as negotiating leverage. Over time, non-nobles secured recognized rights and, eventually, a say in government. Autocracies became constitutional monarchies that became republics.
As horrific as the Black Death was, most people agree that reduced social, political, and economic inequality is good.
But what if you disagreed?
What if you felt secure enough in your position within the ruling class to view greater socio-political equality as a bad thing? If you were an aspiring oligarch, for instance, what lessons might you extract from the long-term consequences of the Black Plague?
For starters, you might wonder if the process works in reverse. If a limited labor supply reduces inequality by allowing workers greater bargaining power, then it would make sense that policies that leave laborers and tradesmen with less bargaining power would increase economic and political inequality. That is, if you sit atop the societal heap and want to be even further distanced from the hoi polloi, you might reduce the working class’s leverage by flooding the labor market with more workers.
Interestingly enough, this isn’t too far off from what we see with modern American immigration policy. The ruling-class “Establishment” has, over the last half-century, consistently pushed for ever-increasing immigration as a means of expanding the labor supply. Corporate moneymen want lower payrolls, and the political class wants a slice of that corporate money. Even the party that once represented labor (or at least pretended to) backs mass migration for the steady stream of malleable future voters.
While this has been occurring, ordinary citizens have remained more skeptical of large-scale immigration. Because voters at least theoretically have a say in governance, you can’t just tell the citizenry that mass immigration is needed because the ruling class wants to enhance its wealth and political power.
So, instead of openly stating their intentions, the establishment makes it a question of morality, rather than economics or civics. We’re a “nation of immigrants” with an ethical duty to welcome all comers -- just look at the poem on the Statute of Liberty, after all. And, besides, if you have any reservations about mass immigration, you must be racist and xenophobic.
This arrangement has been very fruitful for the ruling class, causing a dramatic increase in economic inequality since the 1965 overhaul of the U.S. immigration system. The middle class’s share of total national income has dropped by one-third, while its share of total wealth went from 32 to 17 percent -- a little over half the prior level. And those figures are pre-COVID -- the current gaps have almost certainly widened.
At the same time, population growth and a ballooning dollar supply have led to inflated real estate prices. The average American home now costs a full $100,000 more than if home prices had simply kept up with inflation over the past 50 years. Working-class wages haven’t kept pace, and more and more young adults are priced out of the market, as wealth inequality increases from one generation to the next. High home prices even discourage some young people from starting families at all.
When public policy favored domestic workers, U.S. companies would train new employees to do the jobs the businesses needed. Today, the would-be aristocrats running Walt Disney’s company demand soon-to-be unemployed American workers train their lower-paid foreign replacements.
The economic and political decline of the American middle class has been an unheralded catastrophe. COVID-19 hastened the process, but no plague or epidemic bears the blame. The true culprit is a perfidious establishment who no longer feel any sense of responsibility or loyalty toward their countrymen -- and public policies designed to further empower the already powerful.
Biden Releases 6.4K ‘Remain in Mexico’ Migrants into U.S. with Route to Secure Work Permits
President Joe Biden’s administration has released more than 6,400 migrants enrolled in the now-defunct “Remain in Mexico” program into the United States interior, offering them work permits to take American jobs, Breitbart News has learned.
After taking office in January, Biden ended the Remain in Mexico program, which had proven remarkably effective in eliminating the Catch and Release policy whereby border crossers are apprehended and subsequently released into the U.S. interior while awaiting their asylum hearings.
As of February, of the more than 71,000 asylum cases under Remain in Mexico, less than one percent of foreign nationals were found to have a legitimate asylum claim.
Biden announced in February that his Department of Homeland Security (DHS), with the help of the United Nations, would start releasing about 25,600 migrants enrolled in the program into the U.S. interior. Breitbart News exclusively reported that the migrants are being released in Brownsville and El Paso, Texas, as well as San Diego, California.
Internal data reviewed by Breitbart News reveals that as of April 10, the Biden administration had released more than 6,400 Remain in Mexico migrants into the U.S. interior. The release process, which includes parole, is allowing migrants to secure one-year work permits to take American jobs while they await their hearings.
The data indicates that the Biden administration has been releasing about 125 Remain in Mexico migrants every day into the U.S. interior who can eventually obtain work permits. The majority of those released are from Cuba, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador.
Breitbart News also exclusively reported the rate at which the Biden administration is releasing border crossers into the U.S. interior. Since January 23, DHS has released more than 42,000 border crossers into the U.S. interior — a population four times the size of Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
A memo from Republican Study Committee (RSC) Chairman Jim Banks notes that the Biden administration’s packing foreign nationals into the U.S. labor market via Catch and Release, as well as through “sanctuary country” orders that have gutted interior immigration enforcement, is helping to serve “the interests of … ultra-wealthy multinational corporations.”
New analysis projects that 1.2 million illegal aliens will arrive at the southern border by the end of the year — an illegal immigration surge not seen since the Great Recession. Tens of thousands will likely be released by the Biden administration into the U.S. interior.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
Texas and Missouri Sue Biden Administration for Revoking Trump’s ‘Remain in Mexico’ Policy
Texas and Missouri sued President Joe Biden’s administration Tuesday for rescinding the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), saying the program which forced migrants to wait in Mexico while their hearings progressed needs to be reinstated.
The Trump administration created that policy – also called the “Remain in Mexico” policy – in 2019 to prevent unmanageable numbers of foreigners claiming asylum from crossing the U.S. border. Most asylum claims are denied, and many foreigners claim it to enter the country, then disappear into the general population while their asylum claims are still pending in court.
In a press release, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said he and Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt filed the lawsuit in an effort to reinstate the program and “curb the criminal and humanitarian crisis at the border.”
He continued:
The MPP restricts illegal aliens’ ability to remain in the United States during immigration proceedings, which greatly reduces the burden shouldered by state and federal agencies tasked with defending our border.
President Biden could immediately remedy the influx of crime pouring across our border by reinstating the Migrant Protection Protocols. Dangerous criminals are taking advantage of the lapse in law enforcement and it’s resulting in human trafficking, smuggling, a plethora of violent crimes, and a massive, unprecedented burden on state and federal programs for which taxpayers must foot the bill. We cannot allow this lawlessness to destroy our communities any longer. President Biden must act.
The lawsuit explained how the MPP “changed the incentives for economic migrants with weak asylum claims, and therefore reduced the flow of aliens—including aliens who are victims of human trafficking—to the southern border.”
The lawsuit alleges that Biden’s change in policy violates the federal Administrative Procedure Act (APA), both because it was “arbitrary and capricious” and also because it violates federal immigration law. The lawsuit also claims that the Biden administration violated a legally binding agreement to consult with the states on this issue, and finally that Biden has violated his duty under the Take Care Clause of the U.S. Constitution.
The Biden administration has released almost 42,000 border crossers into the United States since he took office in January, according to Breitbart News.
“Almost immediately after taking office, Biden restarted the Catch and Release process whereby border crossers are apprehended and released into the nation’s interior by ending the Remain in Mexico program and canceling U.S. cooperative asylum agreements with Central America,” the report said.
In a tweet Tuesday, the Texas attorney general’s office said as crimes such as trafficking increase on the border, reinstating the MPP is necessary:
As horrific crimes like trafficking spike at our border, reinstating the Migrant Protection Protocols is necessary. The Biden Admin's policy failures are endangering Americans and over-burdening law enforcement.
Once again, I'm taking action.https://t.co/5TZx6W9HMU
— Texas Attorney General (@TXAG) April 13, 2021
In regard to Missouri, the lawsuit said, “With its intersection of major interstate highway routes, Missouri is a major destination and hub for human trafficking.”
“By dismantling the MPP, the Administration has directly caused a massive uptick in illegal immigration through Central America, Mexico, and to the U.S. Southern border,” the document read.
The case is Texas v. Biden No. 2:21-cv-67 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas.
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