America Faces No Greater Threat Than Joe Biden and the Democrat Party. Their Assault to Our Borders Is As Great As Their Assault to Free Speech and Free Elections
Thursday, October 7, 2021
VICTOR DAVIS - NAFTA GLOBALIST JOE BIDEN IS DESTROYING AMERICA AS FAST AS HE CAN SUCK OFF A BRIBE
Cruz: Biden’s Policies Responsible for 430,000 Percent Increase in Catch-and-Release at Border
Haitian migrants rest as they cross the jungle of the Darien Gap, near Acandi, Choco department, Colombia, heading to Panama, on September 26, 2021, on their way trying to reach the US. (Photo by RAUL A
(CNSNews.com) – Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said Wednesday that the Biden administration’s immigration policies are responsible for a 430,000 percent uptick in catch-and-release numbers on the southern border, because on day one of his administration, President Joe Biden stopped construction of the border wall, ended the Remain in Mexico policy, and continued catch and release.
“The Washington Times reported on Sunday that catch and release numbers increased more than 430,000 percent this August compared to last August – 430,000 percent. That’s a percentage so big you almost think it’s a typo,” Cruz said.
In August 2020, the Trump administration managed something stunning. Border Patrol agents caught more than 47,000 illegal immigrants and immediately released just 10 of them into the interior.
This August, under President Biden, the Border Patrol made more than 195,000 arrests and released 43,941 people — an increase of more than 430,000%.
“The Biden Department of Homeland Security is preparing for up to 400,000 illegal immigrants to cross the border this month. We are seeing tens of thousands of Haitian immigrants,” Cruz said.
The senator said that a couple of weeks ago, he was in Del Rio, Texas, and saw 10,503 Haitian migrants camped out under the Del Rio bridge, overwhelming DHS’s capacity.
“Just over a week ago, I met with the Foreign Minister of Panama. She described how this year, the country of Panama – Panama sits on the juncture between South America and North America. This year, they have seen over 80,000 Haitians who had been living in South America crossing into Panama illegally on their way to the United States,” he said.
Cruz said that’s because the president and vice president refuse to enforce the law.
“Those are decisions they made literally the first day in office. Three decisions drove this crisis – immediately halting construction of the border wall – that happened on day one; reinstituting the failed policy of catch and release – that also happened on day one; and most indefensibly ending the incredibly successful Remain in Mexico international agreement,” he said.
“Remain in Mexico last year produced the lowest rate of illegal immigration in 45 years. This year because Joe Biden and Kamala Harris refuse to enforce the law, have continued to be utterly lawless, we are seeing the highest rate of illegal immigration in 21 years. This is a human catastrophe, a disaster. Texas is paying the price,” the senator said.
“The last couple of weeks, I did roundtables with farmers and ranchers in south Texas who described the chaos of finding dead bodies on their ranch land day after day after day, who described – moms in south Texas who described that they wouldn’t let their teenage children go outside unless they carried a loaded firearm because there’s so many human traffickers and narcotics traffickers crossing across their properties,” Cruz said.
“This is a humanitarian crisis. It’s a public health crisis. It’s a national security crisis, and right now Joe Biden and Kamala Harris refuse to do a damn thing about it. Joe Biden won’t even go to the southern border, and Kamala Harris refuses to go to the Rio Grande Valley – the epicenter of this tragedy. This tragedy needs to end, and Joe Biden and Kamala Harris needs to follow the law,” he said.
Exclusive— Victor Davis Hanson: ‘Open Borders,’ ‘Globalism,’ ‘Tribalism’ Are Reminiscent of Rome’s Collapse
Borders, language, and culture are essential for national continuity, Hanson stated in an interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow.
He remarked, “Every nation that has survived has had borders that were defensible and clear, and the idea was that they have their own space to inculcate their language or traditions or customs, then enhance their constitution. Without that, it’s just short of a migratory, 5th century A.D. Rome where people come across the Danube River and destroy the nation-state.”
Growth of “identity politics” predicated on ethnicity and race, Hanson warned, would contribute to American collapse if unchecked.
He stated, “Identity politics is another natural human pathology where we identify by our superficial appearance, and when we start to do that we regress to something like the former Yugoslavia or Rwanda. And that trajectory will be in our future unless we stop it and realize that we’re a very rare multiracial democracy that’s given up — each of us — our primary identities as race or [ethnicity] and have absorbed, instead, the idea of Americanism.”
American values of civic nationalism transcend ethnic and racial lines, Hanson held.
Illegal immigration dilutes the value of citizenship, Hanson said, with distinctions between residents and citizens becoming obscured.
“You can’t have a country unless there are individual people who are legally here and legally have traditional and customary rights,” he stated.
“[Citizenship] is under attack,” he determined. “Natural, organic forces suggest that the middle class is no longer central to the American experience, and we can see that whether it be declining wages, or increasing student debt up to $1.7 trillion in aggregate, or people marrying later or having children later, buying homes later. [It is] the strangulation of the middle class, which was always essential to citizenship.”
The undermining of citizenship is advanced by “the blurring between a resident a citizen,” Hanson added, “The idea that we have 50 million people here in the United States who were not born in the United States makes it an enormous challenge to assimilate and integrate them. … Just at the time when we needed to emphasize the responsibilities and rights of citizens, we blurred the two.”
Immigrants and supporters demonstrate during a rally in support of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) in front of the White House on September 5, 2017, in Washington DC. (ERIC BARADAT/AFP via Getty Images)
Hanson credited former President Barack Obama with advancing ethnic and racial agitation by socially commodifying artificial grievances. The 44th president regularly advanced neo-Marxist narratives in which the ideology’s paradigm of class struggle was reframed as a hierarchy of oppression based on continually changing left-wing parameters related to ethnicity, race, and sexual preference.
“I think Obama started a lot of it when he recreated this idea of diversity, meaning that we didn’t consider class anymore,” Hanson said. “Suddenly class didn’t matter. You could be a multi-millionaire Punjabi immigrant; you could own seven ophthalmology clinics and be from South Korea; you could be Oprah; you could be Meghan Markle, but you were now a victim because you were so-called non-white and you represent 30 percent of the population.”
He continued, “That polarization, I think, enticed people and encouraged them to keep going.”
Hanson warned of the growing pursuit of manufactured victimhood among Americans to secure various advantages over others in lieu of meritorious distinctions.
“Tribalism — we could use that word — is now endemic, and everybody is trying to find a tribal affiliation,” he concluded. “It’s a search to find a cache, because if you are oppressed or a victim — victimized — then you feel that you have certain rights to compensation, or reparatory action from the government, or favoritism in hiring.”
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