Mexico’s President Says Biden Responsible for Migrant Surge at Border
ILDEFONSO ORTIZ and BRANDON DARBY
23 Mar 202128
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Expectations created by President Joe Biden about better treatment for migrants led to the current border surge, said Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO).
During his daily news conference, AMLO spoke about the ongoing border crisis and said the increase in migrants entering Mexico and heading to the U.S. is partly due to the expectations created by President Biden.
AMLO: “Expectations were created that with the Government of President Biden there would be a better treatment of migrants. And this has caused Central American migrants, and also from our country, wanting to cross the border thinking that it is easier to do so” pic.twitter.com/TNrZQamuWK
— José Díaz-Briseño (@diazbriseno) March 23, 2021
“Expectations were created that with the Government of President Biden there would be a better treatment of migrants. And this has caused Central American migrants, and also from our country, wanting to cross the border thinking that it is easier to do so,” AMLO said.
The statements come one day after Mexico’s military confirmed the deployment of 8,700 soldiers to curb the growing number of migrants traveling through the country.
Ildefonso Ortiz is an award-winning journalist with Breitbart Texas. He co-founded Breitbart Texas’ Cartel Chronicles project with Brandon Darby and senior Breitbart management. You can follow him on Twitter and on Facebook. He can be contacted at Iortiz@breitbart.com.
Brandon Darby is the managing director and editor-in-chief of Breitbart Texas. He co-founded Breitbart Texas’ Cartel Chronicles project with Ildefonso Ortiz and senior Breitbart management. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook. He can be contacted at bdarby@breitbart.com.
Mexico’s president says he will share with President Joe Biden his willingness to find a way to legalize the flow of migrants from Central America and Mexico as a way to meet American labor needs.
“I have a teleconference with Biden on Monday and we are going to talk about that topic,” President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) said this weekend during one of his news conferences. “Let’s fix the migratory flow, legalizing it, to give guarantees to the workers so they don’t risk their lives, and that their human rights are protected.”
During the conference, AMLO said the U.S. would need about 600,000 to 800,000 laborers per year for economic growth. The Mexican politician brought up the Bracero program when the U.S. provided migrant farmworkers with permits during World War II.
The topic of the migrant workflow had not been previously discussed publicly by the Foreign Relations Ministry or the Interior Secretariat ahead of the virtual meeting between Lopez Obrador and Biden.
The issue comes as Mexican authorities see a dramatic rise in human smuggling activities as thousands of Central American migrants continue to make their way north. Mexican officials predicted a dramatic rise in migratory flows at the start of 2021 due to work shortages from the pandemic and recent natural disasters that shook Central America. Officials in Mexico did not publicly discuss the political effect that a Biden Administration would have on the matter.
Mexican authorities have found several large groups of migrants at hotels or being moved in tractor-trailers in recent weeks. Officials are also seeing a spike in ransom kidnappings where cartel-connected human smugglers hold migrants to further extort their families.
Ildefonso Ortiz is an award-winning journalist with Breitbart Texas. He co-founded Breitbart Texas’ Cartel Chronicles project with Brandon Darby and senior Breitbart management. You can follow him on Twitter and on Facebook. He can be contacted at Iortiz@breitbart.com.
Brandon Darby is the managing director and editor-in-chief of Breitbart Texas. He co-founded Breitbart Texas’ Cartel Chronicles project with Ildefonso Ortiz and senior Breitbart management. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook. He can be contacted at bdarby@breitbart.com.
Mexican President Will Promote Migrant Work Visa Program to Biden
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ILDEFONSO ORTIZ and BRANDON DARBY
Mexico’s president says he will share with President Joe Biden his willingness to find a way to legalize the flow of migrants from Central America and Mexico as a way to meet American labor needs.
“I have a teleconference with Biden on Monday and we are going to talk about that topic,” President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) said this weekend during one of his news conferences. “Let’s fix the migratory flow, legalizing it, to give guarantees to the workers so they don’t risk their lives, and that their human rights are protected.”
During the conference, AMLO said the U.S. would need about 600,000 to 800,000 laborers per year for economic growth. The Mexican politician brought up the Bracero program when the U.S. provided migrant farmworkers with permits during World War II.
The topic of the migrant workflow had not been previously discussed publicly by the Foreign Relations Ministry or the Interior Secretariat ahead of the virtual meeting between Lopez Obrador and Biden.
The issue comes as Mexican authorities see a dramatic rise in human smuggling activities as thousands of Central American migrants continue to make their way north. Mexican officials predicted a dramatic rise in migratory flows at the start of 2021 due to work shortages from the pandemic and recent natural disasters that shook Central America. Officials in Mexico did not publicly discuss the political effect that a Biden Administration would have on the matter.
Mexican authorities have found several large groups of migrants at hotels or being moved in tractor-trailers in recent weeks. Officials are also seeing a spike in ransom kidnappings where cartel-connected human smugglers hold migrants to further extort their families.
Ildefonso Ortiz is an award-winning journalist with Breitbart Texas. He co-founded Breitbart Texas’ Cartel Chronicles project with Brandon Darby and senior Breitbart management. You can follow him on Twitter and on Facebook. He can be contacted at Iortiz@breitbart.com.
Brandon Darby is the managing director and editor-in-chief of Breitbart Texas. He co-founded Breitbart Texas’ Cartel Chronicles project with Ildefonso Ortiz and senior Breitbart management. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook. He can be contacted at bdarby@breitbart.com.
GAMER LAWYER JOE BIDEN IS AS CONTEMPTUOUS OF THE LAWS AND BORDERS AS ANY OTHER CRIMINAL ELEMENT OR INVADING IILEGAL!
Cruz to DHS Secretary: ‘You’re Right’ the Immigration System Is ‘Broken, But You Broke It’
(CNSNews.com) – During a Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) accused DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas of breaking the immigration system after the secretary called it “fundamentally broken.”
At the DHS oversight hearing, Cruz grilled Mayorkas on how many illegal immigrant children were housed in caged Border Patrol facilities during the Biden administration, how many women or children were sexually assaulted while trying to cross the U.S. border and how many rapists, murderers or child molesters have been released into the country - information which the secretary could not provide.
CRUZ: You testified several times that our immigration system is ‘fundamentally broken.’ True or false, under President Trump we saw the lowest rate of illegal immigration in 45 years.
MAYORKAS: I don’t know if it’s within 45 years, but we certainly saw in 2020 a low level. 2019 was very high --
CRUZ: True or false, Secretary Mayorkas, this year under Joe Biden, we’ve seen the highest rate of illegal immigration in 61 years.
MAYORKAS: Again, I don’t know the number of years, but it’s certainly a historic high.
CRUZ: So you’re right it’s broken, but you broke it. Let me ask you in the calendar year 2021, how many illegal immigrants do you expect to have crossed illegally into the United States?
MAYORKAS: I believe the total number of encounters has been referenced in this hearing earlier is approximate---just under 1.7 million.
CRUZ: But there’s two months remaining. Is it correct that you project just over 2 million illegal immigrants in calendar year 2021?
MAYORKAS: I believe that is correct, Senator. I know for the last three months we’ve seen a drop in the numbers by reason—
CRUZ: And how many children do you project in 2021?
MAYORKAS: I’m sorry.
CRUZ: How many children will have crossed illegally in 2021?
MAYORKAS: I believe that thus far through October 31st, Senator, approximately 125,000 unaccompanied children have been transferred to the shelter and care of Health and Human Services.
CRUZ: Now you told another senator you don’t know how many gotaways there have been?
MAYORKAS: I will have to circle back, Senator, with that information.
CRUZ: So that wasn’t a fact that you thought was relevant to this hearing?
MAYORKAS: Oh, it is absolutely relevant. I understand why the question is posed. It’s a fact of great---
CRUZ: But you’re not prepared to answer it. How about this. How many deaths? How many illegal aliens have died crossing illegally into the United States under Joe Biden’s administration?
MAYORKAS: I don’t have that data.
CRUZ: So the deaths, you didn’t prepare that data either. Alright, how about this. How many children have been in the Biden cages in calendar year 2021?
MAYORKAS: Senator, I respectfully disagree with your use of the term cages.
CRUZ: Fine, you can disagree with it. How many children have been to the Biden cages? I’ve been to the Biden cages. I’ve seen the Biden cages. How many children have you detained at the Donna tent facility, and the cages you built to
hold kids. How many children have been in those cages?
MAYORKAS: Senator, I can provide to you the following figure that when – let me say, that when a child ---
CRUZ: It’s a simple question. How many children have been in those cages?
MAYORKAS: I respectfully am not familiar with the term cages and to what you are referring.
CRUZ: Enclosures in which they are locked in, in which I took photographs and put them out, because you blocked the press and didn’t want people to see the Biden cages. These secure facilities in which they are locked down in Donna. Those facilities, how many children have been in them?
MAYORKAS: Senator, there are three types of facilities. There’s the--
CRUZ: The Donna tent cages. The Donna facility. Let’s take the Donna facility. How many children have been there?
MAYORKAS: That is a soft-sided facility. It is not
CRUZ: Are you going to answer the question? How many children have been in that facility?
MAYORKAS: I will have to circle back with you with the precise number.
CRUZ: By the way, here’s a photograph of the Biden cages.
MAYORKAS: Senator, that is precisely why I articulated--
CRUZ: Children sleeping on floors, crashed in upon each other. When I took this photograph, the rate of COVID positivity was over 10 percent.
MAYORKAS: May I speak, Senator?
CRUZ: You can answer the question. How many kids have been in these conditions?
MAYORKAS: That is precisely why I stated in March of this year that a Border Patrol station is no place for a child, number one. Number two---
CRUZ: Secretary Mayorkas, you’re not answering my question, so let me ask you this. In the past year, has Joe Biden been down to see the Biden cages?
MAYORKAS: Senator, I will again—
CRUZ: Has Joe Biden been down to see this facility? Yes or no?
MAYORKAS: The president has not been down to the border--
CRUZ: Okay, no. Has Kamala Harris been down to see the Biden cages, this facility? Yes or no.
MAYORKAS: The vice president was at the border--
CRUZ: Has she been down to see this facility? I know she went to El Paso. Has she seen the Biden cages?
MAYORKAS: They’re not cages, and--
CRUZ: What are these walls?
MAYORKAS: Senator—
CRUZ: Has Kamala Harris seen them? Yes or no.
MAYORKAS: Senator, the, the--
CRUZ: It’s a simple question. Yes or no. We don’t need a paragraph. Yes or no. Has Kamala Harris been down to see these detention facilities?
MAYORKAS: She has not been down to—
CRUZ: Has any Democratic senator on this committee been down to see the Biden cages?
MAYORKAS: I will once again disagree with your use of terminology---
CRUZ: These facilities--- Has any Democratic member of this committee given a damn enough to see the children being locked up by Joe Biden and Kamala Harris because of your failed immigration policies?
MAYORKAS: Senator I cannot speak to the members of this committee_
CRUZ: You don’t know if any Democrats have been down there?
MAYORKAS: Democrats have been down—
CRUZ: To see this facility? Yes or no.
MAYORKAS:---to the Donna facility. Whether they are members of this facility, I do not know.
CRUZ: Let me ask you a different question. How many women have been sexually assaulted being trafficked into this country in 2021?
MAYORKAS: Senator, I have no ability to determine---
CRUZ: So you didn’t try to find out?
MAYORKAS: assaulted in Mexico along the migratory --
CRUZ: How about this. How many children have been sexually assaulted by traffickers or other people when they were coming in illegally?
MAYORKAS: I do not have that data.
CRUZ: Okay, so you don’t know that either. Let me ask you this. How many illegal immigrants have you released into the United States who are COVID positive?
MAYORKAS: Senator, it is our policy to test individuals--
CRUZ: I didn’t ask your policy. How many illegal aliens have you released who are COVID positive?
MAYORKAS: Let me just say when they are released, they are placed in immigration—
CRUZ: How many have you released that were COVID positive?
MAYORKAS: I will have to get that number for—
CRUZ: So you don’t have that answer either. Let’s try this. How many illegal aliens have you released who had criminal convictions?
MAYORKAS: Who have criminal convictions in Mexico?
CRUZ: Criminal convictions in whatever jurisdiction.
MAYORKAS: Those individuals if they pose a public safety threat--
CRUZ: How many individuals with criminal convictions have you released?
MAYORKAS: Senator, I do not have—
CRUZ: Let’s specify it more narrowly. How many murderers have you released?
MAYORKAS: I’m not aware of any murderers—
CRUZ: How many rapists have you released?
MAYORKAS: I’m not aware of any rapists--
CRUZ: How many child molesters have you released?
MAYORKAS: I’m not aware of any child molesters whom we have released into the United States, and I should say—
CRUZ: Senior Customs and Border Patrol leadership have told me that your agency is slow walking, refusing to comply with the order from the federal court to return the Remain in Mexico policy. What would you say to the judge if the judge was asking why you should not be held in contempt and incarcerated for defying a federal court order?
MAYORKAS: It is because we are implementing the court’s order in good faith. We are working with Mexico. It requires a bilateral relationship and an agreement, and I should also add—
CRUZ: Have you or anyone on your staff expressed to Mexico to resist going back to this agreement?
MAYORKAS: No, and I should also indicate to you, Senator, that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), under the Sex Offenders operation known as SOR apprehended 495 individuals between June 4 and Sept 1st who committed sex offenses, and we’re very focused on public safety
October Border Encounters With Illegal Russian Immigrants Up 22,428% from Oct. 2020
(CNSNews.com) – The number of U.S. Customs and Border Protection “encounters” with illegal Russian migrants on the southwest border in the first month of the new fiscal year rose more than 225-fold from the same month last year.
According to monthly data released by the CBP on Monday, 1,577 encounters with Russians were recorded last month, up from just seven in October 2020 – an increase of 22,428.6 percent.
Other strikingly large increases in the number of apprehensions along the U.S.-Mexico border last month include those involving illegal migrants from Colombia (up 11,428.1 percent from Oct. 2020), Venezuela (up 9,274.8 percent), India (up 6,980 percent), Brazil (up 4,744.1 percent), and Turkey (up 3,727.2 percent).
If the Oct. 2021 figures are compared to those from Oct. 2019 – before the global coronavirus pandemic occurred – the increases are still significant: encounters with Russians up by 1,271.3 percent, with Colombians up by 7,207.3 percent, with Venezuelans up by 1,741.4 percent, with Indians up by 289 percent, with Brazilians up by 425 percent, and with Turks up 2,238.8 percent.
Overall, the CBP reported 164,303 encounters on the southwest border last month, the majority from Mexico (65,726), and the northern triangle countries of Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras (50,937 combined).
Of migrants from the rest of the world intercepted along the border, the largest numbers of interactions occurred with those from Venezuela (13,406 encounters), Nicaragua (9,212), Brazil (7,896), and Cuba (5,870).
The data released by the CBP do not include an accounting of those migrants who escape detection on their way into the United States.
The CBP provides data on “encounters” rather than the number of actual individuals apprehended because it says many migrants make multiple attempts to get into the United States.
For the month of October, the CBP said 29 percent of the encounters involved individuals who had had at least one prior encounter during the previous 12-month period.
The CBP is the largest federal law enforcement agency falling under the Department of Homeland Security.
During a Senate Judiciary Committee DHS oversight hearing on Tuesday, Republican senators grilled Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on migration and other issues.
“Do you believe that the Biden immigration policies are successful?” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) asked Mayorkas.
“I think rebuilding a broken immigration system and rebuilding a dismantled one takes time, and we’re on the road to success,” replied the secretary, who like other administration officials often describes the migration system it inherited from the Trump administration as “broken.”
(White House press secretary Jen Psaki alone has used the word “broken” in relation to the immigration system during at least 13 separate press briefings since March.)
“You think we’re on the right track as a nation?” Graham asked.
“I do,” said Mayorkas.
Asked how he would grade himself, Mayorkas replied, “Senator, I’m a tough grader on myself. And I give myself an ‘A’ for effort, investment in mission, and support of our workforce.”
Asked if he thought the administration was doing a better job than its predecessor, Mayorkas said, “I believe in the policies that we are putting forward and I condemned a number of the policies that were promulgated in the prior administration.”
Graham then asked whether Mayorkas thought the authorities have more control over the border now than was the case under the Trump administration.
“I think that we have more control that is consistent with our values as a nation,” he said.
Romney: Biden ‘Has Made it Pretty Clear’ the Southern Border Isn’t a Priority
(CNS News) -- When asked if President Joe Biden will secure the southern border, Senator Mitt Romney (R-Utah) said, “He’s made it pretty clear it’s not a real priority.”
At the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, CNS News asked the senator, “Will President Biden secure the southern border?”
Romney replied, “Well, he hasn’t so far, and there’s no indication that he will. By putting the vice president in charge of it, I think he’s made it pretty clear it’s not a real priority.”
Biden’s border neglect began the first week of his presidency when he revoked former President Donald Trump’s executive order that focused on strengthening the southern border policies to prevent illegal immigration. This included halting construction of the wall.
“The policy of my Administration is to protect national and border security, address the humanitarian challenges at the southern border, and ensure public health and safety,” Biden wrote in his order. “My Administration will reset the policies and practices for enforcing civil immigration laws to align enforcement with these values and priorities.”
Biden believed Trump’s policies were too harsh, but they worked.
Southern border encounters have increased 238% during Biden’s first fiscal year as president, reported U.S. Customs and Border Protections.
One of the most tangible effects of Biden’s lack of border policy was when more than 11,000 migrants camped under a bridge in Del Rio, Texas for several days, waiting to enter the United States.
At the end of September, 26 governors signed a letter to Biden addressing their concerns about the future safety of the American people, believing the practically open border is a threat to national security.
“The months-long surge in illegal crossings has instigated an international humanitarian crisis, spurred a spike in international criminal activity, and opened the floodgates to human traffickers and drug smugglers endangering public health and safety in our states,” the letter read.
The governors cited concern over the increasing levels of criminal activity, including unprecedented amounts of fentanyl crossing the southern border.
“More fentanyl has been seized this fiscal year than the last three years combined--almost 10,500 pounds of fentanyl when only 2 milligrams prove fatal,” said the governors. “This is enough to kill seven times the U.S. population.”
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas admitted the border crisis was unsustainable to patrol agents in September, reported Fox News.
“A couple of days ago I was down in Mexico, and I said look, you know, if our borders are the first line of defense, we’re going to lose and this is unsustainable,” Mayorkas said. “We can’t continue like this, our people in the field can’t continue and our system isn’t built for it.”
23 Aliens Previously Convicted of Homicide Charged With Illegal Reentry in Arizona in Biden's First 9 Months
By Terence P. Jeffrey | November 17, 2021 | 4:13am EST
Since February, which was President Joe Biden's first full month in office, 23 aliens who had previously been convicted of homicide in the United States were charged in Arizona with illegally reentering this country.
We know this because the office of the U.S. attorney for Arizona regularly publishes these numbers. It puts out a monthly report on "immigration and border crimes" in its district, which encompasses all of Arizona.
In February alone, for example, the office reported that 190 foreign nationals in Arizona had been charged with "illegal reentry" to this country. Among these, 151 had already been convicted of a nonimmigration crime in the United States. These included 44 aliens who had what the U.S. attorney's office described as "violent crime convictions." Two of these had already been convicted of "homicide" in the United States.
But that did not stop these two from allegedly returning illegally to this country after they had been deported.
Among those whom the office of the U.S. attorney charged from February through October with illegally reentering this country were 400 aliens who had previously been convicted here of what the U.S. attorney characterized as a "violent crime."
There were also aliens who had previously been convicted of crimes that are not characterized as violent but that could clearly pose a danger to the public. These included 320 who had previously been convicted of driving under the influence and 846 who had previous "drug crime convictions."
The return to the United States of deported aliens who had previously been convicted of homicide did not stop with the two charged in Arizona in February with illegal reentry.
In March, the U.S. attorney for Arizona charged with "illegal reentry" another three individuals who had previously been convicted of homicide in the United States. In April, the office charged two more who had previously been convicted of homicide. In May, it charged three more. In June, it charged six more. In July, it charged one more. In August, it charged four more. And, in September, it charged two more.
That brought the total (since February) to 23.
In October, fortunately, the office of the U.S. attorney did not charge anyone who had previously been convicted of homicide with illegal reentry to the United States.
But the data published by the Arizona U.S. attorney over the last nine months makes an obvious point: America has created a revolving door. A foreign national can come here, kill someone, be arrested, convicted and put in prison, then be released and deported.
Then they can reenter the country illegally.
In recent days, much of the nation and the media have been fixated on a homicide case being tried in Wisconsin. But how much attention was ever focused on the 23 homicides carried out in this country by the foreign nationals who, after their convictions, imprisonments and deportations, had allegedly returned illegally to Arizona?
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas runs the federal agency that is responsible for securing our borders and enforcing the immigration laws. This week, he testified in the Senate Judiciary Committee.
What was he concerned about?
The first section of the written testimony he submitted to the committee was headlined "Terrorism." This is a threat, he told the committee, that has "evolved."
"In the years immediately following 9/11, the primary threat evolved from foreign terrorists to homegrown violent extremists (HVEs) — the individuals in America who are radicalized by a foreign terrorist organization's ideology," he said. "The threat has evolved further and now includes domestic violent extremists (DVEs) — U.S.-based lone actors and small groups who seek to further political or social goals wholly or in part through unlawful acts of force or violence, without direction or inspiration from a foreign terrorist group or foreign power. These actors are motivated by various factors, including biases against minorities, perceived government overreach, conspiracy theories promoting violence, and false narratives often spread online.
"Today," Mayorkas continued, "U.S. based lone actors and small groups who are inspired by a broad range of ideologies, including HVEs and DVEs, pose the most significant and persistent threat to the homeland."
The government official responsible for securing our border, in other words, sees the "most significant and persistent threat" to our country coming from other Americans. He does not see it coming from foreign nationals who were convicted of homicide in the United States, deported and then illegally reentered the country.
To deliberately harm someone's property or person is an evil act for which the perpetrator must be held legally accountable. An American citizen who does so as a political protest should face the legal consequences just as surely as an alien who does so for other reasons.
Will Mayorkas stop foreign nationals who have already been convicted of homicide in this country from illegally crossing our border?
Neither he, nor any future Homeland Security secretary, can ever hope to do so if there is no physical barrier at our border and people can continue to cross illegally without ever being screened by Customs and Border Protection.
(Terence P. Jeffrey is the editor-in-chief of CNSNews.com.)
Border Chief Alejandro Mayorkas: Our Priority Is Justice (FOR ILLEGALS), Not Border Security (FOR LEGALS)
Americans should not have a secure border until they also provide justice for migrants, according to Alejandro Mayorkas, the pro-migration secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.
Mayorkas made the claim after being asked Tuesday by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR): “What should be a higher priority of the United States Government? Securing our border or giving amnesty to illegal aliens who are already here?”
“Justice is our priority,” Mayorkas declared at a Senate hearing, adding “That includes securing our border and providing relief to those [migrants] who qualify for it under our laws.”
Cotton asked Mayorkas to compare his border-security record to President Donald Trump’s border numbers: “Are you satisfied that two and a half times as many illegal migrants have crossed into this country this year compared to last year?”
“No, I’m not,” replied Mayorkas, who then added: “but worse is to promulgate and operationalize a policy that defies our values as a nation.”
Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) questions Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on oversight of the Department of Homeland Security, on Capitol Hill November 16, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
In 2021, Mayorkas has allowed roughly one million illegal and conditionally-legal migrants from many foreign nations across the southern border with Mexico. He has also sought to bring in roughly one million migrants and several hundred thousand foreign contract workers. These legal and illegal migrants compete for the jobs and houses needed by Americans, including the roughly four million Americans who join the workforce each year.
Mayorkas “doesn’t even consider the possibility that there are competing [justice] interests here,” said Mark Krikorian, the director of the Center for Immigration Studies. By not recognizing the damage caused to Americans by loose migration, Mayorkas subordinates the enforcement of Americans’ immigration laws to his own vision of justice for migrants, said Krikorian:
There’s no question of justice for Americans, whether less skilled Americans, whether it is American people in general who have an interest in sovereign borders. What he’s saying is that there’s only one aspect of justice that’s relevant here — and that is justice for illegal aliens.
Legal and illegal immigration imposes huge economic, civic, and personal costs on Americans — often unjust, and frequently lethal.
Labor migration is deeply unpopular because it damages ordinary Americans’ career opportunities, cuts their wages, and raises their rents. Migration also curbs Americans’ productivity, shrinks their political clout, and widens regional wealth gaps. Migration also radicalizes Americans’ democratic, compromise-promoting civic culture, and allows elites to ignore despairing Americans at the bottom of society.
Mayorkas is a child refugee from Cuba and a pro-migration zealot who is opening many doors in the border for economic migrants.
In June, for example, he argued that the dignity of migrants is the “foremost” duty of his agency. In May, he said the agency’s “highest priority” is the return of lawfully deported adults to live with their left-behind children in the United States. In December 2020, he claimed an amnesty would raise wages for Americans.
In April 2021, he said migrant-owned companies “are the backbone of our communities — and of our country.” In September 2021, he reminded migrants that they can claim fear of torture to avoid a quick expulsion. In 2013, Mayorkas declared that Americans’ homeland is “a nation that always has been and forever will remain a Nation of Immigrants.”
In numerous events, including the Senate hearing, Mayorkas has insisted that the nation’s values require a welcome for migrants — even though less than one-third of Americans support the “Nation of Immigrants” claim.
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) listens to testimony from Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on oversight of the Department of Homeland Security. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
“In this administration’s view, Americans don’t have any claim to justice with regard to immigration — the only justice concern is that of foreigners,” Krikorian said, adding:
To the extent the left wants there even to be an immigration policy, [it prefers it] be focused on giving every single person in the world who wants to move here an opportunity to make a [asylum] case — regardless of the numerical limits that Congress has enacted. That’s what asylum is [to the left] — its an end-run around the [annual] numerical limits … It is intended to be a way of ignoring the concepts of numerical limits on immigration.
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, bipartisan, rational, persistent, backed by Democratic voters, and rests on the solidarity that Americans owe to each other.
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