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March Border Crossings Jump to 15-Year High

More than 171,000 migrants and 19,000 unaccompanied minors were apprehended

A migrant camp in March / Getty Images

Collin Anderson • April 5, 2021 12:20 pm

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U.S. Border Patrol agents apprehended more than 171,000 migrants at the southern border in March, marking a 15-year high.

The figure includes nearly 19,000 unaccompanied minors, which tops the prior all-time monthly high of nearly 12,000 in May 2019. According to the Washington Post, the surge has allowed nearly 1,000 illegal migrants—often cartel smugglers bringing drugs—to enter the United States daily without being captured.

Both Democrats and Republicans have labeled the situation a "crisis," a tag that President Joe Biden and top White House officials have rejected. Biden insisted during a March press conference that the surge is merely a seasonal spike, falsely asserting that the historic number of migrant apprehensions happens "every single solitary year." He has yet to address the record number of border crossings in March, and the White House did not return a request for comment.

Biden administration officials expect to encounter 2 million migrants at the southern border in 2021. Border apprehensions have not surpassed 1 million since 2006. Many Border Patrol agents working the northern border are now being reassigned to the Rio Grande Valley to help deal with the surge.

Sen. Joe Manchin (D., W. Va.) visited the southeastern border with Texas Democratic congressman Henry Cuellar on Thursday. The senator suggested a 90-day moratorium on immigration to quell what he called a "human crisis."

"So if that means shutting everything down for 90 days of how we have people come into our country, sending that message … is that going to put the pressure?" Manchin said. "Something has to be done and it has to be expedited. … This problem is not going away. The problem will not cure itself, I can assure you, and they're coming in droves."

The migrant surge has led to "severe overcrowding" at Customs and Border Protection detention facilities, two independent inspectors concluded Friday. The Biden administration has responded by pushing to relocate unaccompanied minors to nonstandard holding facilities, a move that federal officials warn will subject migrant children to "extremely dangerous" conditions. The White House last week asked the Pentagon to use military bases in Texas and California to house such migrants.

Administration officials have also asked unrelated agency employees to apply for one-to-four-month volunteer stints at the border in an attempt to aid Border Patrol agents, many of whom have been pulled from policing the territory to care for migrant children. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission chairwoman Charlotte Burrows, for example, called on staffers to "lend support" to the "unprecedented influx of unaccompanied children at our Southern Border" in a Tuesday email obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

"These children are alone, frightened, separated from family, and currently being housed by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in holding areas that were not meant for children beyond a short period of time," Burrows said.

Biden’s ‘Sanctuary Country’ Orders Cut Deportations by 50 Percent

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JOHN BINDER

5 Apr 202142

3:18

President Joe Biden’s “sanctuary country” orders, implemented at the start of his administration, have helped cut deportations of illegal aliens by 50 percent in March, a report reveals.

According to internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) data, reviewed by the Wall Street Journal, the Biden orders helped cut deportations by 50 percent in March. The month before, Biden had cut deportations by 53 percent compared to January.

Biden also reduced arrests of illegal aliens by two-thirds compared to the rate of arrests in the final months of former President Trump’s administration. For perspective, in December 2020, ICE agents had arrested 4,400 criminal illegal aliens. By February, under Biden, 1,900 criminal illegal aliens were arrested — a decrease of 57 percent.

Likewise, Biden has dramatically cut the number of illegal aliens in ICE detention nationwide. In February, data showed that just a little more than 13,500 illegal aliens were in ICE custody, a record low.

In March, the Journal reports that just about 14,000 illegal aliens were in ICE custody, a steep drop compared to the more than 56,000 illegal aliens in ICE detention in 2019.

The gutting of interior immigration enforcement is a result of Biden’s sanctuary country orders that require ICE agents to effectively not arrest or deport illegal aliens unless they are recently convicted aggravated felons, terrorists, or known gang members.

If ICE agents want to arrest and deport illegal aliens outside of this narrow scope, they must get approval from senior ICE officials in Washington, D.C. Analysis finds that the Biden orders are likely to prevent about 9-in-10 deportations of illegal aliens.

“The guidelines get us to a point where someone needs to be victimized, violently, before our immigration laws are enforced,” former ICE official Jon Feere told the Journal.

In Florida, and other states, ICE agents are being prevented from taking criminal illegal aliens into their custody after their prison sentences are finished. Instead, these criminal illegal aliens are being released into American communities.

Florida, Arizona, and Montana’s Attornies General are currently suing Biden over the orders, accusing the administration of violating federal immigration law by providing sanctuary to most illegal aliens living in the United States.

At the state level, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) is overseeing a targeted crackdown on illegal immigration in response to the Biden orders. DeSantis’s directives include requiring state agencies to report to local authorities whenever a criminal illegal alien is released into their community due to the Biden orders.

“These are convicted felons who are here illegally,” DeSantis said. “If you can’t remove them, then what do you have? Just a complete lawless system and a complete open border?”

John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here. 

Deputy Border Patrol Chief: ‘Way Over 100,000 People’ ‘Have Gotten Away from Us This Year’

IAN HANCHETT

5 Apr 2021251

0:58

On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” Deputy Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz stated that “way over 100,000 people” have gotten away from the Border Patrol so far this year.

Ortiz said, [relevant remarks begin around 3:30] “We have technology and we have some resources out there that give us an estimate of how many people are actually getting away from us and we continue to try and refine and have as much confidence in that statistic as we can. But I can tell you that, so far, it’s been way over 100,000 people that have gotten away from us this year. But the Border Patrol agents, as well as our law enforcement partners, are doing everything we can. Our resources are just stretched awfully thin right now.”

Two Yemenis on FBI Terrorism Watch List Apprehended at Border in California

Photo: U.S. Border Patrol/El Centro Sector

BOB PRICE

5 Apr 2021244

2:24

El Centro Sector Border Patrol agents arrested two Yemeni nationals who illegally crossed the border into the U.S. in separate incidents during the past two months. Agents identified both men as being on the FBI’s Terrorism Watch List and the No-Fly list.

Agents assigned to the El Centro Border Patrol Station on March 30 arrested a migrant for illegally entering the United States approximately two miles west of the Calexico Port of Entry. The agents transported the man to the El Centro Processing Center where all migrants undergo a biometric background investigation and criminal background check, according to information obtained from CBP officials.

Agents identified the man as a 26-year-old illegal alien from Yemen. A records check found the man is listed on the FBI’s Terrorism Watch List and on the No-Fly list.

Officials said the man is being held in federal custody pending removal proceedings.

On January 29, El Centro Station agents arrested another migrant in nearly the same location west of the Calexico Port of Entry. The agents transported him to the station for processing and a background investigation.

The agents identified the man at a 33-year-old illegal alien from Yemen. Records revealed the Yemeni man is on the FBI’s Terrorism Watch List and the No-Fly list.

During a physical search, the agents also found a cell phone sim card hidden underneath the insole of his shoe, officials stated.

The agents processed the man and turned him over to ICE Homeland Security Investigations.

“Part of the Border Patrol’s mission states we will protect the country from terrorists,” Chief Patrol Agent Gregory K. Bovino said in a written statement. “Today, like every other day, our agents did that. These apprehensions at our border illustrate the importance of our mission and how we can never stop being vigilant in our everyday mission to protect this great country.”

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 Facebook.

Migrants are Islam’s ‘eye’ on the West

By Raymond Ibrahim

Not only are Muslims living in the West supposed to hate their “infidel” host nations and neighbors; they are supposed to spy on them by serving as Islam’s “eye” on the West.

As discussed here, numerous online fatwas -- that is, decrees written by authoritative Muslim scholars (ulema), appearing on respected Islamic websites -- insist that Islamic law (shari‘a) requires Muslims living in the West to maintain “enmity and hatred” for their new homeland and its inhabitants.  This applies equally to migrant refugees; they are duty bound to hate and be disloyal to those nations welcoming them in and providing them with free food, shelter, and healthcare -- so say the learned sheikhs of Islam.

Another fatwa, authored by the late Sheikh Muhammad ibn al-Uthaymeen -- deemed a “giant of conservative Islam” -- offers more precise, and disturbing, conditions for any Muslim who lives in the West. 

Published by the well-regarded Muslim website, IslamWay.net, and titled in translation (all translations in this article my own), “What Is the Ruling for Living in the Lands of Infidels,” it, too, states that, along with “preserving and upholding his Islam,” the “first condition” for any Muslim who lives among non-Muslims is that he/she has “enmity and hatred for the infidels, staying far from their loyalty and love -- for loyalty and love for them contradicts the faith.”

Next the fatwa states the first reason any Muslim should ever willingly move to the West:  to wage jihad -- which belongs in the “lands of the infidels” -- but in this case, by way of da‘wa, or proselytizing.  In the words of the fatwa:

He resides to call [da‘wa] and entice [non-Muslims] to Islam, for this is a form of jihad, which is a communal obligation for those capable of it… [Moreover] da‘wa to Islam is one of the obligations of the religion.

In other words, just as violent jihad is meant to bring infidels under Muslim rule, so too is da‘wa a form of jihad, as it too brings infidels under Muslim rule (albeit willingly, and therefore at a much lower success rate than the sure and preferable method of violent jihad).

To spy on non-Muslims is the second reason given to legitimize Muslims living in the West:

He resides [there] to study the conditions of the infidels and to learn what they are about concerning their corruption of doctrine, false worship, loose morals, and chaotic condition.  [Then] he warns the [Muslim] people against being deceived by them and shows to their admirers the truth of their condition.  This sort of residency is another form of jihad… for the corruption of the infidels is evidence of the righteousness of Islam.

Then comes this:

Such a one lives in the lands of the infidels to be an eye for the Muslims. 

The fatwa continues by saying that Muhammad himself promoted installing spies among non-Muslims.  It cites the battle of the Trench, when the prophet sent a Muslim man (Hudhaifa bin al-Yaman) to feign friendship to and dwell among their infidel enemies, while reporting back and exposing their true condition to Muhammad -- sensitive information that enabled the prophet eventually to subjugate them.

At any rate, such is what Muslims are being openly taught (at least in Arabic and other Islamic languages).  Rather than giving something back to those Western nations taking them in and providing them with free benefits -- even by simply being good and law-abiding citizens -- Muslims willingly residing in the West are exhorted to hate, disavow, cajole, and spy on their benefactors, always for Islam’s benefit.

Incidentally, it is worth mentioning that the same big-tech companies that are busy censoring whoever contradicts their approved narrative, have no problem giving a platform for such hate-filled and subversive talk to spread.  Apple, as one example, offers an app for IslamWay -- this website that calls on Muslims to hate and spy on non-Muslims.  And why not, since few in the West can decipher what the Arabic says, even as millions of Muslims are radicalized by it?

Raymond Ibrahim, author of Sword and Scimitar, is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, a Judith Rosen Friedman Fellow at the Middle East Forum, and a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Gatestone Institute.