Monday, May 31, 2021

THREAT TO AMERICA - JOE BIDEN'S MINISTER OF PROPAGANDA AND OPEN BORDERS MARK ZUCKERBERG

 Biden’s deputies have already canceled an ICE office that was created to prevent discrimination against American graduates by CEOs who are eager to hire the many foreign graduates who accept low wages if they can stay in the United States.

At the border, Biden’s deputies have begun welcoming a massive wave of migrant families seeking to join their illegal migrant spouses and fathers who are now working U.S. jobs.


Steel: ‘Zuckerbucks’ Corrupted the 2020 Election for Big Tech

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Dark Money. Citizens United. The Koch Brothers.

Remember when Democrats used to decry the corrupting influence of corporate money in politics?

“Today, the Supreme Court kept open the floodgates to uninhibited special interest spending in our campaigns and in our politics,” Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi lamented following a 2012 Supreme Court decision to uphold Citizens United. “Their disappointing decision to uphold Citizens United deals yet another blow to a fundamental American value: that the voices of the people determine the outcome of our elections, not the checkbooks of the few.”

Nine years later, the Democrat Party is content to see American elections outsourced to “the checkbooks of the few” – so long as the checks are signed by Big Tech.

While mainstream media headlines have focused on President Trump’s bans from TwitterFacebook, and Instagram after the election, Big Tech’s greatest election manipulation came well before voters cast their ballots and in a decidedly traditional way.

Good old-fashioned money in politics.

Too late to affect the outcome, the public is slowly learning more about how Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and his wife, Priscilla Chan, funneled more than $419.5 million through two non-profit organizations to influence the 2020 election.

At the time, Zuckerberg framed the donation as necessary to help election officials prepare for unforeseen challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet far from personal protective equipment for poll workers and contactless voting, Zuckerberg’s millions bankrolled get-out-the-vote campaigns.

The public should be deeply troubled by the partisan affiliation of the private groups tapped by Zuckerberg to enhance voter participation. The bulk of the Zuckerberg money – $350 million – was channeled to the Center for Technology and Civic Life (CTCL). The group’s founder and executive director, Tiana Epps-Johnson, is a former Obama Foundation Fellow and Election Administration Director of the far-left New Organizing Institute. According to CTCL’s own report, election officials spent the funds on “social media and advertising” and allowed government officials to “purchase thousands of dollars in billboards, television commercials, radio, etc.”

The second group receiving Zuckerberg election funds, the Center for Election Innovation and Research, spent $69.5 million in 23 states. Its funding was inequitably distributed to aid battleground states. More than half of CEIR grants were distributed to just four swing states: $13.2 million to Pennsylvania, $11.9 million to Michigan, $5.6 million to Georgia; and $4.8 million to Arizona.

New York has double the population of Michigan, yet received just $5 million – less than half of Michigan’s funding. If the funds were truly meant “to provide nonpartisan, accurate, and official voting information to the public,” why did more populous but uncompetitive states receive less money?

More than six months after the election, the public still doesn’t have a full accounting of the full extent of how these organizations spent nearly a half-billion dollars. The only available accounting: a locked Google spreadsheet that identifies the 2,500 government agencies that received funding, but that doesn’t share how much each entity received or how the funds were spent.

“The full extent of the grants isn’t known,” NPR News concluded in its December 2020 investigation into the unprecedented privatization of the 2020 election administration. “The Center for Tech and Civic Life declined repeated interview requests from APM Reports to discuss the funding and how it was used. In late October, the group listed the jurisdictions that received funding on its website but didn’t disclose dollar amounts or funding priorities for each jurisdiction.”

In addition to the partisan affiliations of its founders and lack of transparency for how the money was spent, the public should be concerned that the group’s voter turnout efforts were heavily concentrated in Democrat strongholds in swing states.

The Associated Press confirms that CTCL distributed “$6.2 million to Wisconsin’s five largest cities, $10 million to Philadelphia, and $6 million to Fulton County, which includes Atlanta.” A March 2021 report by the Foundation for Government Accountability found that Democrat counties received 92 percent of CTCL’s funding in Pennsylvania.

“It just doesn’t pass the smell test,” says Nicholas Horton, research director for the Foundation for Government Accountability. “Government should be a neutral, fair arbiter of the election process, and the public should have no doubts and full confidence in that process when going to vote in the polls.”

Shawn Steel, a former chairman of the California Republican Party, is a member of the Republican National Committeeman.

WHY ARE ALL BILLIONAIRES GLOBALIST DEMOCRATS WHO HAVE PUMPED BIG MONEY INTO THE BIDEN KLEPTOCRACY? BECAUSE BIDEN HAS ALWAYS BEEN FOR OPEN BORDERS!

Executives with Google, Amazon, Apple, IBM, HP, the Chamber of Commerce, the Business Roundtable, the Microsoft Corporation, Twitter, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s FWD.us, Michael Bloomberg’s New American Economy, and other corporations have filed an amicus brief in a lawsuit to ask a federal court to keep more than 90,000 foreign visa-holders in the U.S. workforce.

The deep public opposition to labor migration is built on the widespread recognition that legal and illegal migration moves money away from most Americans’ pocketbooks and families. Migration moves money from employees to employers, from families to investors, from young to old, from children to their parents, from homebuyers to investors, from technology to stoop labor, from red states to blue states, and from the central states to the coastal states such as New York.


Big Tech, Chamber of Commerce, Outsourcing Industry Unite to Keep Foreign Workers in American Jobs

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The nation’s biggest tech corporations joined forces with the United States Chamber of Commerce and the outsourcing industry to keep foreign visa-holders in American jobs even as about 16.4 million Americans remain jobless.

Executives with Google, Amazon, Apple, IBM, HP, the Chamber of Commerce, the Business Roundtable, the Microsoft Corporation, Twitter, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s FWD.us, Michael Bloomberg’s New American Economy, and other corporations have filed an amicus brief in a lawsuit to ask a federal court to keep more than 90,000 foreign visa-holders in the U.S. workforce.

The lawsuit was first filed in 2015 by Save Jobs USA, a group of former American workers at Southern California Edison who had their jobs outsourced to foreign visa workers, to block the Obama administration from giving work permits to H-4 visa-holders who are the spouses of H-1B visa workers.

The outsourced American workers argue that the executive action by Obama wrongly gives the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) the authority to provide work permits to tens of thousands of H-4 visa holders. Congress, they argue, did not authorize such authority to DHS and thus, the agency does not have the authority to provide the work permits.

“There is no statutory authorization for an alien possessing an H-4 visa to work,” Save Jobs USA’s initial complaint states.

Today, close to 100,000 foreign spouses of H-1B visa-holders have American jobs in the U.S. labor market thanks to the H-4 visa work permit authorization that the Obama administration began. That has been continued throughout the Trump and Biden administrations.

The cheap foreign labor pipeline, Save Jobs USA argues, unjustly increases foreign labor market competition against America’s white-collar workforce who are forced to compete for jobs against such visa-holders.

“Save Jobs USA members are injured by DHS’s new H-4 Rule because they will compete with H-1B and H-4 guest workers for jobs,” their complaint states. “DHS’s findings for the H-4 Rule repeatedly state that it will increase the number of Save Jobs USA’s H-1B competitors.”

The corporate alliance between tech conglomerates, the Chamber of Commerce, and the outsourcing industry, though, is hoping to convince the court that throwing out work permits for H-4 visa-holders will “undercut” the American economy.

The H-4 visa, like the and Optional Practical Training (OPT) program and the H-1B visa program, helped flood the U.S. white-collar labor market by providing a constant flow of foreign workers to which corporations can outsource jobs rather than hiring Americans. In many cases, American workers who already hold the job and are merely fired, replaced, and forced to train their foreign replacements.

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

DHS Mayorkas Drafts ‘Roadmap’ for Mass Migration

US Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas arrives to testify during a US Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security hearing about the Fiscal Year 2022 Funding Request for the Department of Homeland Security, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, May 26, 2021. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo by …
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President Joe Biden’s border officials are planning to dramatically expand legal migration into Americans’ workplaces, neighborhoods, and society, according to a May 31 New York Times article.

“We want to take a broad approach toward opening up the legal avenues that have always been available but that [President Donald Trump’s officials] tried to put roadblocks upon,” one senior Biden appointee told the New York Times.

The appointee, Felicia Escobar Carrillo, works for Alejandro Mayorkas, the pro-migration chief of the Department of Homeland Security. “There are significant changes that need to be made to really open up all avenues of legal immigration,” she said.

But the Mayorkas plan is a direct challenge to the “tight labor market” plan endorsed by President Joe Biden in a May 28 speech.

Biden said:

Rising wages aren’t a bug; they’re a feature.  We want to get — we want to get something economists call “full employment.”  Instead of workers competing with each other for jobs that are scarce, we want employees to compete with each other to attract workers.  We want the — the companies to compete to attract workers.

Look, this isn’t just good for individual workers, it also makes our economy a whole lot stronger.  When American workers have more money to spend, American businesses benefit.  We all benefit.  Higher wages and more options for workers are a good thing.

The Mayorkas plan may be curbed by Biden’s intervention. But it can also be curbed if GOP legislators deny funds and if pro-American groups file lawsuits to block abuses of migration-law loopholes.

Americans already see the wage benefits of a tight labor market because of policies set by President Donald Trump in 2020.

The New York Times reported May 30 that federal agencies have “been issuing far fewer immigrant work visas during the pandemic thanks to travel and other restrictions, so employees from abroad who usually fill temporary help, agricultural and seasonal positions are missing from the labor market.” The Times added:

Teens are earning more than just fatter paychecks as employers try to lure applicants. Workers at Kennywood are receiving season park passes for themselves and three family members — a bonus worth around $300. Applebee’s offered an “Apps for Apps” deal in which applicants who were interviewed received a free appetizer voucher. Restaurants and gas stations across the country are offering signing bonuses.

In contrast, the Mayorkas plan would extract foreign migrants from other countries and uses them to flood the labor market, depress salaries and spike real estate prices.

Under Mayorkas’ plan, workers would compete for company jobs — flipping Biden’s plan to have companies compete for workers.

Two reporters at the New York Times — Michael Shear and the worker-importation plan, which is likely written using poll-tested language:

The blueprint, dated May 3 and titled “D.H.S. Plan to Restore Trust in Our Legal Immigration System,” lists scores of initiatives intended to reopen the country to more immigrants, making good on the president’s promise to ensure America embraces its “character as a nation of opportunity and of welcome.

Divided into seven sections, the document offers detailed policy proposals that would help more foreigners move to the United States, including high-skilled workers, trafficking victims, the families of Americans living abroad, American Indians born in Canada, refugees, asylum-seekers and farm workers. Immigrants who apply online could pay less in fees or even secure a waiver in an attempt to “reduce barriers” to immigration. And regulations would be overhauled to “encourage full participation by immigrants in our civic life.”

The New York Times did not post a copy of the draft plan, and it also downplayed the wealth-shifting economic consequences of government-imposed labor inflation, saying:

Most research has shown that legal immigration to the United States has benefits for the country’s economy, especially at a time when the country’s population growth is slowing. But Mr. [Ken] Cuccinelli and others who favor severe restrictions on immigration say it is obvious to them that letting foreigners compete for jobs — especially when the country is still recovering from an economic downturn like the one created by the pandemic — will hurt the prospects for American citizens.

In reality, decades of experience show that labor inflation does both — it expands the economy and hurts working Americans.

Legal immigration and illegal migration expand the economy by importing more consumers, renters, and workers, regardless of their health or skills. That inflow boosts Wall Street investors with extra revenues and profits.

But migration simultaneously cuts Americans’ wages, spikes real estate costs, and diverts much wealth from heartland states to the coasts, such as Los Angeles and New York.

Migration also distorts national politics by shifting power to university-credentialled progressives and creating an alliance between the progressives and coastal investors, such as the investors in Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s FWD.us group.

The Zuckerberg investor group has close ties to senior White House officials, including Ron Klain, Biden’s chief of staff. In April, the group helped reverse a White House decision to stabilize the inflow of refugees in 2021. The group is now using its network of subsidized allies to use the reconciliation process to revive the stalled amnesty and cheap labor bills:

NPR reported:

[Ali Noorani of the National Immigration Forum] says Biden will soon have to demonstrate that he’s willing to put the same kind of political muscle behind getting something done on immigration.

“After infrastructure gets off the table, we need to make sure that immigration is the next issue on the couch at the Oval Office,” he said. “And we’re not there yet.”

Mayorkas repeatedly claims that the United States is a Nation of Immigrants — instead of a nation of Americans and their children — and has repeatedly sketched his plans to legally import more migrants.

“We have a three-pronged approach,” Mayorkas told a Senate hearing on May 13. “Address the root causes [of migration], to build legal pathways [into the U.S.], and to advocate more with the hope that Congress will pass immigration reform,” said Mayorkas, who tweeted April 28 that “immigrant-owned businesses that are the backbone of our communities — and of our country.”

“We’re increasing and improving legal migration,” Tyler Moran, a Mayorkas ally in the White House official, told the May 14 Washington Post. “We have put in place a number of policies creating legal pathways to migrate and seek protection, and we see that as a metric of success,” she added.

Mayorkas is already opening numerous side doors in the nation’s immigration law. Those side doors can legally admit an uncapped number of asylum seekersdeported parole recipientsteenage workersrefugees, and unreported illegal migrants.

On May 25, the Associated Press described one of the lawfully deported migrants who Mayorkas invited to return using his legal authority to parole people into the United States:

Keldy [Mabel Gonzales Brebe] counts her blessings to be together as a family, free from death threats in Honduras and the pain of separation.

Yet now they face new difficulties. Keldy’s son, Mino, dropped out of school to help pay rent on the house that six of them share. Keldy sleeps on the living room sofa. She wants to get a job, but is caring for her 7-year-old autistic niece and an unsteady 75-year-old mother, along with cooking and cleaning for the family. She sees drug use on the streets of the Kensington section of Philadelphia where they live.

“I hear gunshots sometimes. With my sister, when we run a quick errand, I look around to see whether someone was killed,” Keldy said. “La Ceiba, where I grew up, was like that.”

Mayorkas has also demolished the Trump-era regulations that protect American graduates from the uncapped inflow of college-trained foreign workers favored by U.S. Fortune 500 companies. The companies are pushing legislation that would allow companies to hire foreign workers with the promise of U. S. citizenship in exchange for 10 years of low-wage, no-complaint work.

GOP populists are spotlighting the wage-shifting impact of elite-backed labor migration.

“One of the sad things about an immigration crisis like the one we now face is how badly hurt our own fellow citizens are, especially the most forgotten – our poor,” Ken Cuccinelli, a former top DHS official for President Donald Trump, told Breitbart News. He continued:

Those of us on the right need to fight to protect America’s poor, including their wages and job opportunities, from being destroyed by a flood of illegal labor into the low end of the labor market. Too often, our poorest fellow citizens – who are disproportionally minorities, btw – are forgotten in the scramble of such a crisis.”

If the government does not “artificially inflate the labor supply, then if you want that work done, you have to pay workers more to attract them to the work that you want done,” Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) pointed out during a March interview on Mobile, AL radio’s FM Talk 106.5. Brooks continued:

The employers will be put in a position where they either have to pay the wages that are necessary to attract the workforce they need that is necessary for their businesses to operate, or they go out of business. But that’s the way it is supposed to be in a free enterprise economy where the market forces allocate resources to what’s profitable and denies it to what is not profitable.

“There is no job in America that Americans won’t do — there are jobs that Americans won’t do at the paltry wages that some employers want to pay,” said Brooks, who is running for U.S. Senate in Alabama.

For many years, a wide variety of pollsters have shown deep and broad opposition to labor migration and the inflow of temporary contract workers into jobs sought by young U.S. graduates. This opposition is multiracialcross-sexnon-racistclass-basedbipartisanrationalpersistent, and recognizes the solidarity Americans owe to each other.

The voter opposition to elite-backed economic migration coexists with support for legal immigrants and some sympathy for illegal migrants. But only a minority of Americans — mostly leftists — embrace the many skewed polls and articles pushing the 1950’s corporate “Nation of Immigrants” claim.

The deep public opposition to labor migration is built on the widespread recognition that legal and illegal migration moves money away from most Americans’ pocketbooks and families. Migration moves money from employees to employers, from families to investors, from young to old, from children to their parents, from homebuyers to investors, from technology to stoop labor, from red states to blue states, and from the central states to the coastal states such as New York.



Mayorkas Defies GOP Legislators: ‘The Border Is Closed’

In this July 25, 2013 file photo, Alejandro Mayorkas, President Obama's nominee to become U.S. deputy secretary of the Homeland Security Department, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on his nomination. U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Deputy Director Alejandro Mayorkas …
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Homeland defense secretary Alejandro Mayorkas faced two Hill hearings May 26, yet GOP legislators failed to extract any information that would help recognize his campaign to open Americans’ national borders to myriad migrants from all over the world.

In both hearings, Mayorkas easily distracted GOP legislators with promises of subsequent information and with strings of poll-tested adjectives that obscured his policy of letting many economic migrants flood into Americans’ workplaces and housing markets.

“Our commitment is a safe, orderly, and humane immigration system,” he said, without stating how many people — perhaps millions — he may admit through the legal side-doors in current U.S. immigration law.

He is welcoming the uncapped numbers of economic migrants via the side doors for asylum seekers, paroled individuals, Temporary Protected Status migrants, and people who meet his novel “acute vulnerabilities” exception to the Title 42 healthcare barrier.

Both hearings started well, with the top GOP members declaring concern about the Biden migration.

“I’m deeply troubled,” said Rep. Chuck Fleischmann (R-TN) as he started his morning statement. He then asked:

The Washington Post states the agency’s 6,000 officers currently average one arrest every two months. One arrest every two months! My first question, sir. Is that an accurate statistic? And is that the intended outcome of the various orders and directives, a near stop of all immigration violation arrests?

“That is a data point with which I am completely unfamiliar,” Mayorkas responded to the question about the widely-read Washington Post article.

Mayorkas’ continued his evasive answer by changing the subject, saying,  “Law enforcement effectiveness is not a quantitative issue. It is a qualitative one. The question is … what will deliver the greatest public safety results for the American public? And that is what I am focused on.”

“The border is closed,” he told Fleischmann.

“The administration continues to insist that the border is secure,” said Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) in her afternoon statement, adding:

The facts on the ground that I just described apparently are not viewed [by the administration] as a security or law enforcement challenge, but a mere logistical challenge in processing migrants who arrive with no legal claim to enter the United States. Additionally, ICE apprehensions and deportations have plummeted, and more criminal aliens are on the streets.

Mayorkas stuck to his see-no-migration, say-nothing-useful, and hear-no-difficult-question script throughout the hearings.

“We will be smart and effective, and we will also be humane” to migrants, he said., without acknowledging the huge economic redistribution and civic cost imposed by President Joe Biden’s policy of extracting consumers and cheap labor from poor countries.

“We are working tirelessly to rebuild our immigration system and into one that upholds our nation’s laws, and is fair, equitable, and reflects our values,” he said, without mentioning his legal and civic duty to protect Americans’ right to their national labor market.

“We are apprehending more serious criminals, more serious public safety threats than previously was the case, okay, that is what smart and effective [immigration] enforcement is all about,” he said. But his message implied that he regards the deportation of economic migrants who threaten Americans’ wages as not “smart or effective.”

Mayorkas downplayed the stealthy migration of working adults and the approved migration of their families as he tried to shift the focus to younger migrants. “We continue to see the migration, the irregular migration, of unaccompanied children, but we continue in our success of managing that flow … So we continue with our success.” he told one Democrat.

“The only use that this administration is willing to make of immigration law is in support of criminal law,” countered Mark Krikorian, director of the Center for Immigration Studies. “What that means is they reject the very idea of enforcing immigration law … to protect American workers, to protect American sovereignty –.all the purposes that immigration law on its own exists for they reject,” he added.

At every stage in the two hearings, GOP legislators let Mayorkas evade and dodge.

“That data item in the article is something with which I’m completely unfamiliar,” he told Capito when she repeated Fleischmann’s morning question about the Washington Post article.

“I’m not familiar with the data … I don’t have the data at my fingertips,” Mayorkas told Republicans, as though his aides could not summon the data from the department’s computers. He promised other Republicans that he would deliver the data after the hearing — when it can remain hidden from curious media outlets.

“Most certainly, Senator, you have a right to that data, and we will provide it to you,” he said after dodging an easy-to-answer question about how many migrants were sent home after being stopped at the border.

When asked about the flood of migrants seeking asylum status, Mayorkas shifted the focus by promising to “bring greater efficiency to the process, and shrink considerably that time between apprehension and final adjudication.” But he said nothing about how many migrants could use the more efficient process to get into the United States to ask for asylum, or if an efficient system would grant asylum to people because of commonplace poverty and ethnic discrimination, or because of unprovable claims of domestic abuse or criminal violence.

Mayorkas also was helped because some GOP legislators showed little knowledge of the issue, despite their job on the Homeland Security panel of the appropriations committee.

Sen. John Hoeven (R-ND) asked about the migrants, saying, “Where are those individuals while they’re awaiting adjudication? .. Are they released into the public at large?”

GOP Senators frequently also let him slip away from questions. One senator asked how the border would be protected once President Biden lifts the Title 42 healthcare barrier. Mayorkas answered, “It is our responsibility to plan ahead. That’s what we do every single day, and every single year that I have been privileged to serve in the department.”

The GOP legislators even treated Mayorkas as a good-faith actor.

Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS) asked, “Mr. Secretary, what commitments will you give us that any funding allocated to your department for border security and immigration enforcement will be used on proven and logical solutions to re-secure our borders and discourage this dangerous influx of migrants?”

He replied, “Senator, you have 100 percent commitment from me that the funding we will receive and are privileged to receive will be used in the smartest and most effective way securing our border and enforcing the immigration laws of this country.”

But Mayorkas had already claimed to Rep. Fleischmann the “border is closed” and that he was unfamiliar with the Washington Post data.

In reality, Mayorkas’s “closed” border was crossed by roughly 40,000 “got-aways” in April, plus at least 40,000 migrants that Mayorkas allowed into the U.S. Mayorkas enforced immigration law in May by admitting up to 7,000 “vulnerable” people per month through the Title 42 barrier and approving Temporary Protected Status (TPS) work permits for 150,000 Haitian migrants.

The labor migration is deeply unpopular, in part, because it moves wealth from Americans’ pay packets to investors, and from heartland states to coastal states.

“Asylum exists in our law, and TPS exists,” said Krikorian. But Mayorkas and the administration, he said, are:

abusing his authority and misusing these programs as a way of making an end-run around congressionally passed limits on immigration. The whole point is to render the [1965] Immigration and Nationality Act moot so that the President essentially decides on his own who gets to enter and stay in the United States.

In both of their hearings with Mayorkas, “Republicans could have highlighted contradictions and … highlighted issues so that voters understand what the stakes are next time they go to the polls,” Krikorian said.

“In a sense, that’s the most important job when you’re in the minority: So why Republicans are so bad at it?” he said:

Republican members of Congress don’t have nearly the depth of expertise on immigration that exists on the Democratic side. There are some staff members on the Republican side who really know what’s going on, but there’s not that many. [Also] Republican members probably don’t consider it that important, it’s just easier to say, “Okay, we’re for a wall and now move on to the next thing.”

As far as the staff itself, the [immigration] expansionist side has literally tens of thousands of people whose full-time job is to weaken America’s border. Legislators who agree with that perspective have a huge pool of people to select from … [and] Democrats can get a lot of their expertise for free from lobbyists, corporations, from immigration law groups, and from the various activist groups.

There’s probably 50 people in the whole country whose full-time job it is to highlight the [economic and civic] costs of immigration.

Some GOP legislators simply asked Mayorkas for favors. “We’ve got a lot of fish, but we don’t have a lot of workers,” said Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK). “You kept your promise and delivered [H-2B visa workers] in advance of a significant date which I appreciate.”

“Thank you very much, Senator,” Mayorkas replied. “Since you and I last spoke, I have delved into the concerns that you express on the behalf of employers in the Alaskan fisheries industry. It is my plan to engage with those employers next week, to hear directly from them with respect to their concerns.”

In contrast, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) used single and direct questions to press Mayorkas for answers in a May 13 Senate hearing.

The GOP members of the House panel include Fleischmann, Steven Palazzo (R-MS), John Rutherford (R-FL),  and Ashley Hinson (R-IA).

The GOP members of the Senate panel include Capito, Murkowski, Hoeven, Hyde-Smith, and John Kennedy (R-LA).


Former Acting CBP Commissioner: DHS Secretary Must Go

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Former Acting Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Mark Morgan and two former top DHS officials are calling for Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas’ job. The joint statement was issued by Morgan, former Acting ICE Director Tom Homan, and Ken Cuccinelli, former Acting Deputy Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.

Morgan further told Breitbart Texas, “The final straw for me was the Secretary’s testimony in front of Congress last week … Rather than be honest with the American people and take ownership of the crisis they created at our southern border, he continued the spin, misdirection, and blatant lies being pushed by the Biden Administration.”

The statement and request for Mayorkas to be dismissed comes as DHS struggles to deal with the highest influx of migrants in more than 20 years. According to Customs and Border Protection, more than 178,000 apprehensions occurred in April alone. There are more than 20,000 unaccompanied migrant children in custody of the federal government according to the Department of Health and Human Services.

Morgan told Breitbart Texas, “He sounded more like a politician than the Secretary responsible for protecting our homeland security.”

The formal joint statement reads:

Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas took an oath to defend and secure our country, but in less than four months on the job he has abjectly failed to live up to that commitment. Instead, he has presided over a reckless abandonment of enforcing America’s immigration laws and securing our borders. If President Biden has the best interests of the American people in mind, the path forward is clear: Return to the Rule of Law.

Mayorkas has shown that he is the wrong person to lead the Department of Homeland Security. Rather than providing the support and tools his agencies need to execute their fundamental missions, he has created an unmitigated crisis where both immigration enforcement and border security are almost non-existent. Border apprehension numbers are at a historic high, while deportations are at an all-time low. In defiance of existing federal law, ICE agents have been ordered not to arrest known public safety threats, as well as ignore a federal judge’s order to deport criminals, after receiving due process at great taxpayer expense. The number of migrant children in federal custody is through the roof. Criminal cartels and human traffickers are proliferating and profiting at unimaginable levels. Not only is this not securing the homeland, it’s a complete abandonment of the brave men and women we once had the privilege to lead.

Enough is enough. The nation needs a Secretary of Homeland Security who will actually secure the homeland and fix – not facilitate – the border crisis. Someone who will enforce the law, not reward or ignore lawbreakers. We’re running out of time, Mr. President. The American people are watching.

Randy Clark is a 32-year veteran of the United States Border Patrol.  Prior to his retirement, he served as the Division Chief for Law Enforcement Operations, directing operations for nine Border Patrol Stations within the Del Rio, Texas, Sector. Follow him on Twitter @RandyClarkBBTX.