During his first address to a joint session of Congress, President Joe Biden touted his massive amnesty plan for millions of illegal aliens even as 22.4 million Americans remain jobless or underemployed.
“On day one of my presidency, I kept my commitment and I sent a comprehensive immigration bill to Congress,” Biden said. “If you believe we need a secure border — pass it. If you believe in a pathway to citizenship — pass it.”
“If you actually want to solve the problem — I have sent you a bill, now pass it,” Biden continued.
Biden touted his amnesty plan, which Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) admitted last month “doesn’t have support” in Congress, which was introduced in the House and Senate in March. The plan would give amnesty to 11 to 22 million illegal aliens living in the United States while doubling legal immigration levels.
Previous analysis of the Biden amnesty revealed the plan would import a foreign-born population nearly the size of California by 2031 as nearly 12 million illegal aliens would have taken advantage of the amnesty provisions by then. Overall, the Biden amnesty would likely bring more than 37.3 million foreign nationals to the U.S.
Biden also urged the U.S. Senate to pass two amnesty plans which passed out of the House last month — one that could provide amnesty to 4.4 million illegal aliens and another that would give green cards to about 2.1 million illegal aliens working on farms.
“Congress needs to pass legislation this year to finally secure protection for the DREAMers — the young people who have only known America as their home,” Biden said.
“And, permanent protections for immigrants on temporary protected status who come from countries beset by man-made and natural-made violence and disaster,” Biden said. “As well as a pathway to citizenship for farmworkers who put food on our tables.”
Senate Democrats would need votes from ten Senate Republicans to pass the two amnesties without changing the Senate rules by using the nuclear option to blow up the filibuster.
As Breitbart News exclusively reported in March, 17 Senate Republicans have publicly said they will not support the two amnesties approved by the House and touted by Biden. Those senators include immigration moderates like Marco Rubio (R-FL), James Lankford (R-OK), and Mike Crapo (R-ID), among others.
The other 33 Senate Republicans have either yet to state clear positions or have not stated publicly their position on the amnesties. Those include conservatives like Sens. Rand Paul (R-KY), Cynthia Lummis (R-WY), and John Kennedy (R-LA).
Biden touting the amnesties is the latest pressure campaign by the corporate interest, donor class, and political establishment coalition that has for months been lobbying lawmakers to back plans that would add millions of foreign workers to the U.S. labor market to compete for jobs against Americans.
Most recently, former President George W. Bush has done a media tour for his latest pro-migration portraiture book in which he urges lawmakers to pass amnesty for illegal aliens and increase the flow of foreign workers to the U.S. to take blue-collar jobs.
Bush admitted last week that he is working with the Koch brothers’ network of donor class organizations to lobby Congress on an amnesty.
Similarly, giant multinational corporations like Google, Facebook, Amazon, IBM, Best Buy, Microsoft, Verizon, Visa, Ikea, Uber, and HP, along with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce have sent letters to members of Congress asking that they back the amnesties.
The Chamber of Commerce called the two amnesties that passed the House “critically important” despite an ongoing unemployment crisis that has lasted for a year since economic lockdowns began.
In recent weeks, a group of Senate Republicans and Democrats have met to negotiate an amnesty plan for potentially millions of illegal aliens enrolled and eligible for former President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) suggested last week he would back a stand-alone DACA amnesty.
While discussions of amnesty have continued, the U.S.-Mexico border continues to be inundated with illegal immigration and interior immigration enforcement has been gutted significantly thanks to a series of “sanctuary country” orders by the Biden administration.
Analysis projects that federal immigration officials could encounter 1.2 million illegal aliens at the southern border this year. Likely hundreds of thousands more could successfully enter the U.S., undetected by agents.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here
Pro-Immigration Survey Backfires, Shows the Public Wants ‘America First’ Policy GEORGE FREY/AFP via Getty Images 5:23
Strong majorities of Americans believe U.S. migration policy should first serve the interests of their fellow Americans, according to an opinion survey by the pro-migration Cato Institute.
“Nearly two-thirds (63%) of Americans say it’s more important when making immigration policy to consider what ‘benefits the United States and its current citizens,'” said the April 27 survey of 2,600 U.S. adults.
But, the survey added, “thirty‐seven percent (37%) believe it’s more important to consider what benefits the most people regardless of nationality.”
Conservatives back the America first view by more than 80 percent, while the critical, swing-voting, election-deciding “moderates” strongly favor the pro-America perspective by 61 percent to 38 percent, says the survey, which is titled “E Pluribus Unum: Findings from the Cato Institute 2021 Immigration and Identity National Survey.”
The survey is important because it helps the public recognize that the vast majority of their fellow Americans also oppose cheap labor migration into their jobs and neighborhoods. Amid many pro-migration reports from corporate-owned media, Americans have long opposed migration because it shifts opportunity and wealth from working Americans towards Wall Street investors and the coastal states and is dangerous to migrants and damages their home countries .
The crosstabs show that Democrats and liberals tend to elevate the interests of migrants over the preferences and needs of Americans. For example, 68 percent of “very liberal” and “58 percent” of “somewhat liberal” voters would set U.S. immigration policy by what ” benefits the most people regardless of nationality,” according to the crosstabs of the survey. Overall, President Joe Biden’s 2021 voters picked the globalized view by 56 to 44 percent.
The Cato survey also showed that the most pro-migration respondents in their survey also prefer to live in neighborhoods with people like them instead of the diverse communities that are being imposed on Americans by Biden’s pro-migration policies.
For example, 88 percent of the “very liberal” respondents said they would prefer to live in a neighborhood where most people had “similar values and sentiments as you.” Similarly, 84 percent said they want to live in neighborhoods “where people … speak the same language as you.”
The Cato survey did not explore the apparent contradiction between the liberals’ much-declared preference for an open-borders migration policy and their quiet personal preference for non-diverse neighborhoods.
Unsurprisingly, the poll shows that first-generation migrants are more pro-American than “very liberal” Americans, with just 39 percent of recent immigrants backing the globalist policy.
Second-generation immigrants, such as the American-born sons and daughters of new immigrants, flip towards liberals, with 55 percent favoring global benefits over American concerns.
But most Americans of Latino ancestry back the pro-American perspective, by 55 percent to 45 percent.
The survey is useful because the results often contradict the pro-migration goals of the Cato Institute. For example, the Cato press release touted parts of the survey that are claimed to show public support for easy migration of foreign workers:
The country’s history of immigration is deeply rooted in the American consciousness: 53% say that the “ability to immigrate to a new country is a human right for all people.” Democrats (72%) and libertarians (55%) are more likely than independents (45%) and Republicans (33%) to agree. At the same time, only 33% of the public favors removing “all restrictions on immigration” after the pandemic is over. Strong liberals stand out with 72% who favor open borders, while 54% of moderate liberals and 82% of conservatives oppose.
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 multiracial , cross-sex , non-racist , class-based , intra-Democratic , rational , 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 Yor K
Watch — Open Borders Activists: ‘Cops and Borders, We Don’t Need Them! All We Want Is Total Freedom!’ 2:32
A group of open borders activists and illegal aliens demanded “total freedom” from both law enforcement and borders during a lengthy demonstration in Washington, DC, Friday, where Secret Service made arrests after activists blocked an intersection near the White House.
Several activists, some of whom are affiliated with the group Movimiento Cosecha, carried megaphones and led the crowd in chants of “Cops and borders we don’t need them. All we want is total freedom!”
According to a release detailing the protest, illegal aliens, DACA recipients, and their allies moved to block traffic around the White House on President Biden’s 100th day of office to protest what they described as “crumbs” from the 78-year-old commander-in-chief and his fellow Democrats.
“President Biden ended his first 100 days in office with broken promises and insufficient action for my community,” Gema Lowe, an organizer with Movimiento Cosecha, said in a statement, criticizing Biden’s pursuit of a “piecemeal” strategy” instead of blanket amnesty — a reference to the Dream and Promise Act, specifically.
“Biden originally committed to a pathway to citizenship for all 11 million undocumented immigrants. Now he is ready to pursue a ‘piecemeal’ strategy instead that would exclude me and millions of others who have lived in this country for decades,” Lowe said.
“We deserve better. That is why today I am willing to risk arrest, detention, and deportation to demand papers, not crumbs,” Lowe added.
Hector Morales, another organizer and DACA recipient, also proudly asserted he would risk arrest to “tell President Biden that I won’t accept piecemeal bills that exclude and criminalize my own community members.”
“I won’t accept these crumbs. We need permanent protection for all,” he said.
According to the release, “thousands of undocumented workers and families with Movimiento Cosecha and partner organizations will mobilize downtown to demand ‘Papers, Not Crumbs’ from President Biden and the Democratic Party” on Saturday.
President Biden’s Secret Service arrested several activists as the protest unfolded, prompting allies to shout “we love you” and “we see you.”
At one point during the demonstration, activists broke out in song, singing, “We are not afraid” and “we will live for liberation because we know why we were made.”
Pilot Wounded as Cartel Shoots at Border State Police Helicopter in Mexico Nuevo Leon Government 2:13
A group of gunmen suspected of being part of Los Zetas shot at a Mexican state police helicopter injuring the pilot. The wounded pilot quickly landed the aircraft while bleeding profusely.
The attack took place on Friday afternoon when a helicopter belonging to Nuevo Leon’s State Police forces carried out air reconnaissance over an area northwest of the Monterrey Metropolitan area. The region has seen a heavy presence of cartel activity in recent weeks.
Just one day before the attack, Mexico’s National Guardsmen raided a narco-camp where members of the Cartel Del Noreste faction of Los Zetas held up. This comes as the criminal organization seeks to gain new territories.
As the flight crew flew over the area where the seizures took place, a group of gunmen on the ground began shooting at the aircraft. Some of the bullets struck the pilot, injuring him. The gunfire forced the pilot and co-pilot to take evasive maneuvers and return to the headquarters while they radioed for help.
By the time the helicopter landed, emergency medical personnel were waiting to treat the injured pilot. The pilot is reported to be in stable condition. Law enforcement sources revealed to Breitbart Texas that the pilot lost two fingers from one of the shots that struck him.
As Breitbart Texas reported, the areas northwest of Monterrey witnessed a heavy presence of CDN-Los Zetas gunmen as they seek to take new territories by force from their rivals with the Gulf Cartel . The gunmen utilize large convoys of gunmen in armored vehicles to fight with their rivals and, at times, clashing with police forces who routinely are under-gunned when facing up against the gunmen.
Gerald “Tony” Aranda is an international journalist with more than 20 years of experience working in high-risk areas for print and broadcast news outlets investigating organized crime, corruption, and drug trafficking in the U.S. and Mexico. In 2016, Gerald took up the pseudonym of “Tony” when he joined Breitbart Texas’ Cartel Chronicles project Since then he has come out of the shadows and become a contributing writer for Breitbart Texas.
Joe Biden Touts Massive Amnesty for Illegal Aliens in Address to Congress C-SPAN/YouTube 4:57
During his first address to a joint session of Congress, President Joe Biden touted his massive amnesty plan for millions of illegal aliens even as 22.4 million Americans remain jobless or underemployed.
“On day one of my presidency, I kept my commitment and I sent a comprehensive immigration bill to Congress,” Biden said. “If you believe we need a secure border — pass it. If you believe in a pathway to citizenship — pass it.”
“If you actually want to solve the problem — I have sent you a bill, now pass it,” Biden continued.
Biden touted his amnesty plan, which Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) admitted last month “doesn’t have support” in Congress, which was introduced in the House and Senate in March. The plan would give amnesty to 11 to 22 million illegal aliens living in the United States while doubling legal immigration levels.
Previous analysis of the Biden amnesty revealed the plan would import a foreign-born population nearly the size of California by 2031 as nearly 12 million illegal aliens would have taken advantage of the amnesty provisions by then. Overall, the Biden amnesty would likely bring more than 37.3 million foreign nationals to the U.S.
Biden also urged the U.S. Senate to pass two amnesty plans which passed out of the House last month — one that could provide amnesty to 4.4 million illegal aliens and another that would give green cards to about 2.1 million illegal aliens working on farms.
“Congress needs to pass legislation this year to finally secure protection for the DREAMers — the young people who have only known America as their home,” Biden said.
“And, permanent protections for immigrants on temporary protected status who come from countries beset by man-made and natural-made violence and disaster,” Biden said. “As well as a pathway to citizenship for farmworkers who put food on our tables.”
Senate Democrats would need votes from ten Senate Republicans to pass the two amnesties without changing the Senate rules by using the nuclear option to blow up the filibuster.
As Breitbart News exclusively reported in March, 17 Senate Republicans have publicly said they will not support the two amnesties approved by the House and touted by Biden. Those senators include immigration moderates like Marco Rubio (R-FL), James Lankford (R-OK), and Mike Crapo (R-ID), among others.
The other 33 Senate Republicans have either yet to state clear positions or have not stated publicly their position on the amnesties. Those include conservatives like Sens. Rand Paul (R-KY), Cynthia Lummis (R-WY), and John Kennedy (R-LA).
Biden touting the amnesties is the latest pressure campaign by the corporate interest, donor class, and political establishment coalition that has for months been lobbying lawmakers to back plans that would add millions of foreign workers to the U.S. labor market to compete for jobs against Americans.
Most recently, former President George W. Bush has done a media tour for his latest pro-migration portraiture book in which he urges lawmakers to pass amnesty for illegal aliens and increase the flow of foreign workers to the U.S. to take blue-collar jobs.
Bush admitted last week that he is working with the Koch brothers’ network of donor class organizations to lobby Congress on an amnesty.
Similarly, giant multinational corporations like Google, Facebook, Amazon, IBM, Best Buy, Microsoft, Verizon, Visa, Ikea, Uber, and HP, along with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce have sent letters to members of Congress asking that they back the amnesties.
The Chamber of Commerce called the two amnesties that passed the House “critically important” despite an ongoing unemployment crisis that has lasted for a year since economic lockdowns began.
In recent weeks, a group of Senate Republicans and Democrats have met to negotiate an amnesty plan for potentially millions of illegal aliens enrolled and eligible for former President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) suggested last week he would back a stand-alone DACA amnesty.
While discussions of amnesty have continued, the U.S.-Mexico border continues to be inundated with illegal immigration and interior immigration enforcement has been gutted significantly thanks to a series of “sanctuary country” orders by the Biden administration.
Analysis projects that federal immigration officials could encounter 1.2 million illegal aliens at the southern border this year. Likely hundreds of thousands more could successfully enter the U.S., undetected by agents.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here
Pro-Immigration Survey Backfires, Shows the Public Wants ‘America First’ Policy GEORGE FREY/AFP via Getty Images 5:23
Strong majorities of Americans believe U.S. migration policy should first serve the interests of their fellow Americans, according to an opinion survey by the pro-migration Cato Institute.
“Nearly two-thirds (63%) of Americans say it’s more important when making immigration policy to consider what ‘benefits the United States and its current citizens,'” said the April 27 survey of 2,600 U.S. adults.
But, the survey added, “thirty‐seven percent (37%) believe it’s more important to consider what benefits the most people regardless of nationality.”
Conservatives back the America first view by more than 80 percent, while the critical, swing-voting, election-deciding “moderates” strongly favor the pro-America perspective by 61 percent to 38 percent, says the survey, which is titled “E Pluribus Unum: Findings from the Cato Institute 2021 Immigration and Identity National Survey.”
The survey is important because it helps the public recognize that the vast majority of their fellow Americans also oppose cheap labor migration into their jobs and neighborhoods. Amid many pro-migration reports from corporate-owned media, Americans have long opposed migration because it shifts opportunity and wealth from working Americans towards Wall Street investors and the coastal states and is dangerous to migrants and damages their home countries .
The crosstabs show that Democrats and liberals tend to elevate the interests of migrants over the preferences and needs of Americans. For example, 68 percent of “very liberal” and “58 percent” of “somewhat liberal” voters would set U.S. immigration policy by what ” benefits the most people regardless of nationality,” according to the crosstabs of the survey. Overall, President Joe Biden’s 2021 voters picked the globalized view by 56 to 44 percent.
The Cato survey also showed that the most pro-migration respondents in their survey also prefer to live in neighborhoods with people like them instead of the diverse communities that are being imposed on Americans by Biden’s pro-migration policies.
For example, 88 percent of the “very liberal” respondents said they would prefer to live in a neighborhood where most people had “similar values and sentiments as you.” Similarly, 84 percent said they want to live in neighborhoods “where people … speak the same language as you.”
The Cato survey did not explore the apparent contradiction between the liberals’ much-declared preference for an open-borders migration policy and their quiet personal preference for non-diverse neighborhoods.
Unsurprisingly, the poll shows that first-generation migrants are more pro-American than “very liberal” Americans, with just 39 percent of recent immigrants backing the globalist policy.
Second-generation immigrants, such as the American-born sons and daughters of new immigrants, flip towards liberals, with 55 percent favoring global benefits over American concerns.
But most Americans of Latino ancestry back the pro-American perspective, by 55 percent to 45 percent.
The survey is useful because the results often contradict the pro-migration goals of the Cato Institute. For example, the Cato press release touted parts of the survey that are claimed to show public support for easy migration of foreign workers:
The country’s history of immigration is deeply rooted in the American consciousness: 53% say that the “ability to immigrate to a new country is a human right for all people.” Democrats (72%) and libertarians (55%) are more likely than independents (45%) and Republicans (33%) to agree. At the same time, only 33% of the public favors removing “all restrictions on immigration” after the pandemic is over. Strong liberals stand out with 72% who favor open borders, while 54% of moderate liberals and 82% of conservatives oppose.
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 multiracial , cross-sex , non-racist , class-based , intra-Democratic , rational , 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 .
— Neil Munro (@NeilMunroDC) April 24, 2021
Exclusive: Migrant ‘Got-Away’ Total Exceeds 185K this Year, Says Source File Photo: John Moore/Getty Images 3:00
A law enforcement source within Customs and Border Protection says more than 185,000 migrants escaped Border Patrol apprehension so far this fiscal year. On average, more than 30,000 illegal aliens avoided capture in the last 22 days the source said.
Breitbart Texas reported in mid-April , the “got-away” total exceeded more than 155,000 leaving Border Patrol leadership frustrated. Last year, 69,000 illegal migrants managed to avoid apprehension by the Border Patrol. In just over seven months of this fiscal year, which began on October 1, 2020, the number of “got-aways” nearly tripled last year’s totals. Sources report the sharpest increase began in January.
The metric is usually not released by the Department of Homeland Security. It is achieved by counting illegal immigrants who ultimately escape Border Patrol apprehension after being observed by aircraft platforms and camera systems. In addition, Border Patrol agents using traditional sign-cutting techniques identify footprints crossing the border and count those that elude apprehension.
“That’s where it gets tricky,” says one Border Patrol agent who did not wish to be identified. “On a small trail, dozens can walk all over each other’s footprints, so you just do your best. Often, they’ll glue carpet to the soles of their shoes making detection even harder.”
Sources report for these reasons, the “got-away” count is usually lower than reality. How much so is debatable as the latter method of counting is not scientific. The increasing “got-away” numbers come as CBP reports its highest apprehension totals since 2006.
Despite the current administration’s refusal to call the immigration situation on the border a crisis, the recent surges are concerning. The increasing number of unaccompanied migrant children crossing the border has Health and Human Services struggling to find sponsors within the United States. Many believe the impetus for the surges in illegal entries is being fueled by the promise of amnesty legislation . The Biden administration’s new policies regarding lax interior enforcement and a reduction in removals are also believed to be contributing to the surge in activity along the border.
Recent reports concerning the reduced patrols being conducted by the Border Patrol are likely contributing to the surge in the “got-away” count. Addressing the humanitarian needs of thousands of migrants crossing the border directly impacts the Border Patrol’s ability to patrol many remote areas. This situation is likely to worsen as the crisis develops.
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.
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