Friday, December 24, 2021

TERRORISM IN THE AGE OF JOE BIDEN'S SABOTAGE OF HOMELAND SECURITY - ‘Potential Terrorist' From Saudi Arabia Caught After Crossing Biden's Open Border

 THERE IS NO GREATER DANGER TO AMERICA THAN THE DEMOCRAT PARTY! A PARTY OF BRIBES SUCKING, LYING SOCOIOPATH LAWYERS. THESE ARE BILLARY AND HILLARY, LAWYER JOE BIDEN, HIS PARASITE LAWYER SON, HUNTER AND LAWYER JAMES BIDEN, LAWYER BARACK OBAMA AND RACIST LAWYER MICELLE OBAMA, THE BANKSTERS’ RENT BOY, LAWYER ERIC HOLDER, AND THE BRIBES SUCKING LAWYER KAMALA HARRIS AND HER LAWYER HUSBAND. THAT’S ONLY THE START OF THE LIST!

Guilt By Accusation

How Democrats use the tactics of Stalin’s prosecutors.

Bruce Hendry

 

Editors' note: Below is Part 3 of a new essay written by Bruce Hendry: Democrats, Progressives and Socialists. Stay tuned for the ensuing chapters. [See links to previous chapters below this article].

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7. Islamic Immigration Is Like All Other Immigrations.

The idea that Islamic immigration is just like all of the other immigrants is100% wrong. The National press and Democrats have a double standard when it comes to Islam. Islam is permitted to be against Jews and Christians, but Jews and Christians cannot be against Islam. When Ilhan Omar, the Muslim congresswoman from Minnesota’s 5th district accused Jews of being traitors and buying the Democrat Party, nothing happened to her; but when Judge Jeanine Pirro, a Fox news host returned the fire with a speech that was true, she got suspended from her show. 

The Koran make it very clear why Islam is a danger to any non-Islamic society. If Islamic immigrants only brought their religion with them, then I would not be writing this, but Islam is also a political and military doctrine. Religion in Islam cannot be separated from politics and the military - they come as part of the package. Islam is different than other religions in that it is a total way of life that includes the mission to subdue all other religions and establish a global Islamic Caliphate by any means necessary. Islam includes a Constitution establishing Sharia Law. Muslims consider the Koran to be the final revelation of God. Islamic law touches on virtually every aspect of life and society, from banking and welfare, to family life, holy war against infidels. the environment, and how many times a man can shake his penis after he urinates, and which direction a person must face when she defecates. Because the Qur’an is considered the unarguable and final word of God, nothing in it can ever be changed or updated.

The word “Islam” does not mean “peace”, as the liberals seem to think but “submission.” The rationale for Islam meaning “peace” is that if everybody in the world submits to Islam then there will be peace. Islam actually means violence to subdue the world for Allah, and only then peace. Islam does not allow for the “corrupt” western ideas of democracy, freedom, tolerance and equality. It’s easier to understand Islam if you substitute the literal translation of “Islam” into the 5 Pillars of the faith. For instance the 1st Pillar of Islam “ becomes “The First Pillar of Submission.” Christianity is about being a good person; Islam is about being an obedient Muslim. 

What, you may ask, is the cultural battle that has been waged by Islam against the West for the last 1,400 years? It’s virtually everything that we hold dear in a free western society. Here are the Islamic values that the progressive left is so intent on protecting:

Censored Speech: Islam forbids freedom of speech, and speaking against Islam, Mohammed or Allah is called blasphemy and is punishable by death. In ancient times Jews and Christians had similar rules, but Islam has them today and, every Saturday, beheadings, stoning to death and amputations are carried out in the public square in major cities in Saudi Arabia.

Islam Uber Alles. The Koran is very precise in dividing the world into, Dar al-Islam, “the house of peace” and Dar al-Harb, the “house of war” which is the rest of the world that is waiting to be conquered by Islam. Leaving Islam for another religion is punishable by death.

Subordination of Women: In the West, we value women’s rights. In Islam, the women are considered property, to be controlled by their father before they are married and by their husband after they are married. Every woman is subject to a wali, a male guardian. She requires his permission to do almost anything of importance. Yet the head of the so-called Women’s March, Linda Sarsour is a Muslim, and a strong advocate of the Shari’a  laws that keep women in their place.

Theocratic Dictatorship: The American idea of the separation of church and state is anathema to Islam. In Islam, religion and state are one.

Political Submission: The right to vote and to choose your own political leaders and to create and enforce your own laws is condemned by Islam as a corrupt western idea.

Inequality under the law:  In Islam, men have more rights than women, and Muslims have more rights than non-Muslims.

I think the easiest way to understand Islam is to understand that this is a cult conceived of by a brilliant individual named Mohammad centered around himself. It is not that different from other cults in which the adherents were willing to kill and or die for their master. In Islam today there are innocent victims that are killed somewhere in the world every day in the name of Islam, and those Islamic killers are victims too, they are victims of the Islamic cult which not only allows for this kind of violence but also encourages it through the teachings of the Koran and the Islamic concept of holy war or jihad.

The Koran instructs its believers to convert the whole world to Islam and they have done a pretty good job of it over the centuries. Now, in addition to exploiting western values of democracy and inclusion to their own advantage they have another potent weapon, much more dangerous than the suicide bombers - the weapon of demographics, of their birth rate. Pew research reports that the Islamic birth rate is the highest of any religion in the world and is 2x that of the world at large - even more when considering the low birth rates of United States or Europe. In many countries, France and Israel come to mind, the Muslims will eventually be the largest number of voters and then they can and will take over the country at the ballot box.

We in the United States should be worried about Islam because there has never been a time in history that Islamic authorities taught the equality of non-Muslims with Muslims, and there has always been, with no historical interruption, Jihad, the Holy war against the Infidel. 

‘Potential Terrorist' From Saudi Arabia Caught After Crossing Biden's Open Border

How long before the consequences of Biden’s open border become… explosive?

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Governor Greg Abbott of Texas has announced that his state will be building the border wall that Biden’s handlers won’t build, and on Monday we saw yet again why this wall will come not a moment too soon: U.S. Border Patrol officials announced that a “potential terrorist” linked to “Yemeni subjects of interest” was caught in Arizona after crossing into the country from Mexico. Biden’s handlers resolutely ignore the evidence that their open border mess is a national security issue, yet that evidence just keeps on piling up.

According to Fox News,

… the 21-year-old man was apprehended Thursday night entering the U.S. from Mexico through Yuma, Arizona, according to a tweet from Yuma Sector Chief Patrol Agent Chris T. Clem. He appears to have been wearing a jacket emblazoned with an American flag patch and another that stated: ‘Central Oneida County Volunteer.’ The man is allegedly from Saudi Arabia and ‘is linked to several Yemeni subjects of interest.’

Central Oneida County is in New York; Central Oneida County Volunteer Ambulance Corps Chief Thomas Meyers said the Saudi who was apprehended is not actually a member of the organization. It’s unclear how he got the jacket, but it suggests that he may have been in the United States before.

Border Patrol officials did not explain why the man was considered a “potential terrorist,” but there is nothing implausible about the claim. Rep. John Katko (R-NY), ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee, distributed a fact sheet in October warning that “known or suspected terrorists are crossing the border ‘at a level we have never seen before.’”

John Cohen, the Department of Homeland Security’s counterterrorism coordinator, denied this, claiming, “That just simply is not the case. It is just factually inaccurate to frame the southern border as a place where we are seeing a significant number of al-Qaida or ISIS-related terrorists or foreign terrorists.” He said that the rate of jihad terrorists crossing the border was “very low,” and “low in comparison to people who are seeking to travel to the United States through the aviation infrastructure, through the northern border.”

However, when Border Patrol chief Rodney Scott retired last August, he released a video message in which he said: “Over and over again, I see other people talk about our mission, your mission, and the context of it being immigration or the current crisis today being an immigration crisis. I firmly believe that it is a national security crisis. Immigration is just a subcomponent of it, and right now it’s just a cover for massive amounts of smuggling going across the southwest border — to include TSDBs at a level we have never seen before. That’s a real threat.” The TSDB is the Terrorist Screening Database. Scott was referring to people who are on the database crossing the practically nonexistent Biden-era Southern border.

Biden’s handlers may be trying to cover up such incidents. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced last April that “U.S. Border Patrol agents assigned to the El Centro Sector arrested two Yemeni men within the last two months that were identified on a terrorism watch list.” However, the day after the CBP released that press release, it replaced it with an “Access Denied” notice, and it never returned. Were Biden’s handlers nervous that wide distribution of such information would expose their border policy even more than it was already exposed for the monstrous act of national betrayal that it is? Unfortunately for them, however, CBS-Los Angeles had already picked up the story, as well as Reuters and VOA.

“The first incident,” the CBP reported in its now-spiked release, “occurred on January 29, at approximately 1:10 a.m., when agents assigned to the El Centro Station arrested a man for illegally entering the United States. … Agents conducted records checks, which revealed that the man, a 33-year-old illegal alien from Yemen, was on the FBI’s Terrorism Watch List as well as on the No-Fly list.” Then on March 30, “at approximately 11:30 p.m., when agents assigned to the El Centro Station arrested a man for illegally entering the United States,” agents “conducted records checks, which revealed that the man, a 26-year-old illegal alien from Yemen, was also on the FBI’s Terrorism Watch List and on the No-Fly list.”

Now a similar incident has happened. There could be many others, but if there were, would Biden-era officials even bother to tell us? Would the sycophantic establishment media bother to investigate a story that might make a Democrat president, or even a Democrat pretend-president, look bad? Will sanity return to the border before the consequences of Biden’s open border become positively … explosive?

Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch and a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He is author of 23 books including many bestsellers, such as The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades)The Truth About Muhammad and The History of Jihad. His latest book is The Critical Qur’an. Follow him on Twitter here. Like him on Facebook here.

Originally published at PJ Media

6 International Bad Guys Thrilled to Have Biden in Office This Year

A woman walks down from the stage inside an auditorium at Kabul University's education center during a demonstration in support of the Taliban government in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Sept. 11, 2021. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
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President Joe Biden is nearing the end of his first year in office – a meaningful milestone after a year of global chaos spurred on by incoherent and sometimes seemingly deliberately counterproductive policies.

As a candidate, Biden promised voters, “America’s coming back like we used to be: ethical, straight, tell ’em the truth … supporting our allies, all those good things.” For much of the year, America’s allies have loudly complained they feel anything but supported – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky described himself more as “very unpleasantly surprised.”

But not all international actors have reason to dismay over Biden’s policies. Terrorists, guerrillas, and assorted state-actor rogues all have had reason to cheer this year. Below, six of the worst global offenders better off today thanks to Biden.

Ansarallah (the Yemeni Houthi movement)

Fighters loyal to Yemen's Huthi rebels pump their fists during a ceremony on the eve of celebrations marking the birth of Islam's Prophet Mohammed, in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on October 18, 2021. (Photo by Mohammed HUWAIS / AFP) (Photo by MOHAMMED HUWAIS/AFP via Getty Images)

Fighters loyal to Yemen’s Huthi rebels pump their fists during a ceremony on the eve of celebrations marking the birth of Islam’s Mohammed, in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on October 18, 2021. (MOHAMMED HUWAIS/AFP via Getty Images)

The Houthis are a Shiite jihadist terrorist organization that triggered a civil war in Yemen by overthrowing legitimate President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi in 2015. The group is closely allied to Iran, the world’s stop state sponsor of terrorism, and its motto is “Allahu Akbar, Death to America, Death to Israel, a Curse on the Jews, Victory to Islam.” Thanks to its violent overthrow of the government and subsequent persecution of Yemeni citizens, Yemen is arguably the world’s worst humanitarian disaster today, a place where mass deaths due to malnutrition, famine, and preventable disease are common.

As one of his first moves in office, Biden delisted the Houthis as a Foreign Terrorist Organization, reportedly a friendly gesture meant to convince the group to stop blocking humanitarian aid into Yemen and starving its own people. Secretary of State Antony Blinken clarified in his statement on the matter that the Biden administration does not actually think the Houthis are not terrorists, but lying about it, the administration hopes, could result in “dialogue.”

“The revocations are intended to ensure that relevant U.S. policies do not impede assistance to those already suffering what has been called the world’s worst humanitarian crisis,” Blinken wrote.

The revocation of the designation, which allows greater unimpeded funding for the terrorists, resulted in near-immediate blocking of humanitarian aid to Yemeni citizens trapped in Houthi territory.

“Ongoing interference in international aid operations by the Houthis in Yemen has prevented millions of people from receiving the assistance they need to survive,” the State Department admitted to Breitbart News less than a month after the designation was revoked.

The little aid that gets through, the Associated Press reported at the time, the Houthis get paid to allow.

The delisting preceded not just a financial windfall for the Houthis but a whirlwind of more terrorist activity, including missile attacks on schools and a mass kidnapping of workers at the former U.S. embassy in Sana’a, the nation’s capital. The U.S. Center for Strategic and International Studies documented a doubling of Houthi attacks on neighboring Saudi Arabia in the past year.

The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)

A man and children stand next to a graffitis of late FARC commander Alfonso Cano (C) at El Oso Territorial Training and Reincorporation Area (ETCR), in Gaitania, Tolima Department, Colombia, on October 27, 2021. - It all began in a hovel perched on a mountainside in the Colombian Andes, where peasant soldiers, beseiged by government forces, founded in the spring of 1964 the Revolutionary Arned Forces of Colombia. After 50 years of armed struggle, and another five since the historic 2016 peace accords that ended FARC's battle against the state, this isolated southcentral region has rediscovered peace. (Photo by Raul ARBOLEDA / AFP) (Photo by RAUL ARBOLEDA/AFP via Getty Images)

A man and children stand next to a graffitis of late FARC commander Alfonso Cano (C) at El Oso Territorial Training and Reincorporation Area (ETCR), in Gaitania, Tolima Department, Colombia, on October 27, 2021. (RAUL ARBOLEDA/AFP via Getty Images)

In a similar move, the Biden administration delisted the FARC – a narco-communist terrorist organization responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths, kidnappings, rapes, forced abortions, incidences of child soldier use, and other human rights atrocities – as a foreign terrorist organization in November. Unlike the Houthis, the FARC has embarked on a years-long process of legitimization that included the signing of a “peace deal” with the Colombian government. The deal, which won then-President Juan Manuel Santos the Nobel Peace Prize in 2016, allows the FARC to operate as a political party and fund itself with its dubious drug trafficking proceeds with little oversight. It also grants the terrorist organization uncontested seats in the Colombian Congress.

The “peace deal” has done little to reduce FARC violence in the country and preceded a record cocaine cultivation boom. The organization has thrived, however, by superficially dividing itself into political figures – the FARC proper – and guerrilla terrorists, which it has branded FARC “dissidents.” No evidence suggests that these two groups do not share common aspirations, but the Biden administration nonetheless delisted the FARC proper and rebranded the “dissidents” with the name “Second MarquetalĂ­a,” which is actually what the FARC calls its current war on the Colombian government.

Colombian President IvĂ¡n Duque responded to Biden’s move with surprise and disgust.

“We would have preferred another decision,” lamented President IvĂ¡n Duque, expressing surprise and confirming Washington kept him out of the loop of that decision.

“The military estimates that there are currently more than 2,700+ armed militants, 1,700+ residual forces, and another 1,000 or so in Venezuela,” Joseph Humire, the executive director of the Center for a Secure Free Society, told Breitbart News this month. “If you add this up, this means that the FARC-D [dissidents] has about 5,400 dissident fighters and is rebuilding its armed militant structure in Colombia and Venezuela … The Biden admin FARC delisting will help them fill the ranks.”

Nigeria’s Fulani Herdsmen/Boko Haram

Fulani muslim men pray in Masallacin Shehu Mosque, Sokoto, Sokoto State, Nigeria, on April 24, 2019. - Although it has lost its former political power, the Sokoto Sultanate Council continues to exist and the Sokoto Sultan -traditionally belonging to the Fulani People- is still a leading figure in Nigerian society. Due to its impact, the Sokoto Caliphate is also revered by Islamists in modern Nigeria. Usman Dan Fodio was a prominent Fulani religious leader, Islamic promoter and the founder of the Sokoto Caliphate. The ongoing strife between Muslim herders and Christian farmers, sometimes hiding conflict due to religious differences, is a divisive issue for Nigeria and some other countries in West Africa. (Photo by Luis TATO / AFP) (Photo credit should read LUIS TATO/AFP via Getty Images)

Fulani Muslim men pray in Masallacin Shehu Mosque, Sokoto, Sokoto State, Nigeria, on April 24, 2019. (LUIS TATO/AFP via Getty Images)

The Biden administration inexplicably removed Nigeria from a State Department list of “Countries of Particular Concern” over religious freedom, a move that the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), a separate government entity, said it was “appalled” by. The move occurred alongside Blinken announcing significant investments in the Nigerian government, an apparent move to compete with China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), which offers poor countries extravagant loans with high interest rates meant for infrastructure projects that later trap the country under Beijing’s influence.

Delisting Nigeria, to many religious freedom advocates, equated to ignoring the plight of Christians in the north of the country who face extreme, deadly persecution at the hands of both the Sunni jihadist Boko Haram group and the jihadist Fulani terrorists often referred to as “herdsmen.” The Nigerian government under President Muhammadu Buhari has repeatedly claimed that it has defeated Boko Haram and has taken more recently to claiming, in response to ongoing Boko Haram attacks, that the group responsible for Boko Haram attacks is actually the Islamic State (Boko Haram pledged allegiance to the Islamic State, so they are the same group). The “defeated” Boko Haram reportedly funnels as much as $43 million in clandestine funds through Nigerian banks annually, according to a Nigerian government money laundering agency, and jihadists continue to plague both local officials and Christian communities in the north of the country.

The Fulani jihadists may be an even greater threat to the free exercise of Christianity in the country. Initially described as a conflict between Fulani Muslim herders and Christian farmers over how to use land, the Fulani insurgency has taken on near-genocidal proportions with little intervention from Buhari, himself a Fulani Muslim. Fulani groups regularly threaten massacres if Christian communities do not shut down churches or remove displays of faith. Unlike Boko Haram, which is mostly relegated to northeastern Borno state, entire communities of thousands of Christians in multiple states have been displaced by Fulani attacks, greatly destabilizing the country. To ensure the few Christians who survive their attacks never return, Fulanis tend to burn down entire villages of hundreds of homes.

“There are many orphans in IDP [internally displaced people] camps and many of them don’t even know their parents, because Fulani herdsmen came and killed them,” the governor of Nigeria’s Benue state, Samuel Ortom, said on Monday. Ortom noted that he has taken in four such orphans himself, but that the number is simply too large due to the scope of the danger from Fulani jihadists.

The Buhari government has done next to nothing to address the problem, and the Biden administration rewarded it.

Vladimir Putin

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND - JUNE 16: U.S. President Joe Biden (R) and Russian President Vladimir Putin meet during the U.S.-Russia summit at Villa La Grange on June 16, 2021 in Geneva, Switzerland. Biden is meeting his Russian counterpart, Putin, for the first time as president in Geneva, Switzerland. (Photo by Peter Klaunzer - Pool/Keystone via Getty Images)

U.S. President Joe Biden (R) and Russian President Vladimir Putin meet during the U.S.-Russia summit at Villa La Grange on June 16, 2021, in Geneva, Switzerland. (Pool/Keystone via Getty Images)

After hyperventilating for four years about how President Donald Trump was allegedly a Kremlin plant intent on tanking the country and rebuilding the Soviet Union, the Democrats have done little to oppose several major Biden policy decisions that actively benefit Russian leader Vladimir Putin. The largest and most obvious gift Biden has handed Putin is the repeal of sanctions imposed on the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, which would connect Russia to Germany and give the Putin regime unfettered access to the European market – icing out key American ally Ukraine.

The move prompted a tirade from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in which he proclaimed himself “very unpleasantly surprised” and complained that he found out the sanctions would be lifted from television news, not from the White House. Zelensky also immediately demanded a meeting with Biden to discuss the issue before Biden met with Putin – a demand Biden promptly ignored.

Biden has since threatened to restore the sanctions, but only if Russia invades Ukraine – by which time, Zelensky pointedly noted this month, the sanctions “won’t matter to anyone.”

Putin has indicated he gets along very well with Biden – with policies that benefit Moscow, why wouldn’t he? – and the Kremlin was happy to offer that the two leaders joked around plenty during their last video meeting in early December.

Also greatly benefitting Putin is Biden’s extension, then sudden cancelation, of the Afghan War, resulting in key American assets no longer present near Russia and the return of the Taliban to power, now with interests aligned with Moscow.

The Taliban

Head of the Taliban delegation, deputy prime minister Abdul Salam Hanafi speaks to the media during an international conference on Afghanistan in Moscow on October 20, 2021. (Alexander Zemlianichenko/Pool/AFP)

Head of the Taliban delegation, deputy prime minister Abdul Salam Hanafi speaks to the media during an international conference on Afghanistan in Moscow on October 20, 2021. (Alexander Zemlianichenko/Pool/AFP)

After 20 years out of power – a result of its ties to the al-Qaeda jihadist organization and the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks – the Afghan Taliban triumphantly entered Kabul as then-President Ashraf Ghani stuffed a helicopter with millions of dollars in cash and flew away.

It was a victory made possible only through the bizarrely incoherent policies of President Joe Biden. Last year, the Taliban agreed to stay out of Kabul and not to attack Americans in exchange for President Donald Trump agreeing to end the 20-year Afghan War by May 1, 2021. Biden decided to break the agreement, extending the war, an extremely unpopular one in America, and giving the Taliban an excuse to break the deal. Taliban jihadists enthusiastically did so, launching 22,000 attacks in the four months following Biden breaking the agreement in April.

By August, the Afghan government no longer existed.

The Taliban is now making friends with China, Russia, and Iran; duping the United Nations by claiming to be interested in creating an “inclusive” government; and severely repressing the women and girls of Afghanistan while engaging in massacres of people suspected to have ties to the U.S. or former Afghan government. Controlling Kabul also means controlling Afghanistan’s vast natural resources, including a large supply of rare-earth metals and, of course, poppy fields for cultivating opium.

Arguably no human rights abuser has benefitted more from Biden’s presidency than the Taliban. Except…

China

WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 15: U.S. President Joe Biden participates in a virtual meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Roosevelt Room of the White House November 15, 2021 in Washington, DC. President Biden met with his Chinese counterpart to discuss bilateral issues. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

U.S. President Joe Biden participates in a virtual meeting with Chinese dictator Xi Jinping at the Roosevelt Room of the White House November 15, 2021, in Washington, DC. President Biden met with his Chinese counterpart to discuss bilateral issues. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

The rise of a longtime business associate of the Chinese Communist Party to the presidency has come with some perks for Beijing. The Biden administration has excelled in showing diplomatic weakness in the face of a country committing the world’s worst genocide ongoing today. To Secretary of State Blinken’s credit, he has called the mass internment, sterilization, and execution of Uyghur Muslims and other minorities in China a “genocide” – just not to the face of the Communist Party.

At a disastrous meeting with senior Chinese officials in Alaska in March, Blinken instead chose to blandly agree with Chinese officials that America is the true human rights villain, echoing the grievances of the Marxist group Black Lives Matter. Chinese officials have publicly scolded Blinken like a child on several other occasions, but at least the Alaska meeting was the only one so embarrassing Chinese companies sold celebratory swag to commemorate it.

Then there are the actual policies. Biden has refused to boycott the 2022 Winter Olympics, set to take place in Beijing, over the Uyghur genocide. Worse than not boycotting, however, the Biden administration announced it would engage in what it called a “diplomatic boycott,” meaning politicians would not travel to Beijing. China pointed and laughed at the non-boycott, its state media arms observing that the diplomats in question were never invited, so they couldn’t “boycott” if they wanted to.

Despite rampant human rights abuses, intellectual property theft, and attempts to subvert free speech laws in the United States, Biden also insists on cooperating with the Chinese Communist Party on the environment, his officials repeatedly claiming that China is key to combatting climate change. The fact that China is the world’s worst polluter – in carbon emissions, in plastic waste, by almost every possible metric – seems to escape “climate czar” John Kerry, who personally benefits from business with China. In a coup for China, Biden returned the United States to the Paris Climate Agreement, which claims to aspire to limit carbon emissions but actually allows China to increase its emissions, the worst in the world, for at least another decade. With Biden in power, the Chinese government has walked back that promise, too.

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CBS: Cartels Succeed in Record Delivery of Youth, Child Migrants in 2021

Young minors talk to an agent outside at a pod in the Donna Department of Homeland Security holding facility, the main detention center for unaccompanied children in the Rio Grande Valley run by the US Customs and Border Protection, (CBP), in Donna, Texas on March 30, 2021. - The minors …
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President Joe Biden and his pro-migration progressives admitted at least 40,000 coyote-delivered, work-ready young male migrants in 2021 under the excuse of saving “unaccompanied alien children.”

“What the advocacy groups are saying is that open borders is ‘For the children,’ when in fact, they’re talking about [admitting] 17-year-old construction workers,” said Mark Krikorian, the director of the Center for Immigration Studies. “In other contexts, they’d call it the ‘White Savior Complex,'” he added.

The 2021 numbers were announced by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to a friendly CBS reporter:

The Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) shelter system received 122,000 migrant children [and youths] who were taken into U.S. custody without their parents in fiscal year 2021, an all-time high that shattered previous records, according to new government figures obtained by CBS News.

“The record number of shelter transfers was fueled by the unprecedented arrival of 147,000 unaccompanied children to the U.S.-Mexico border in fiscal year 2021, which ended in October,’ said CBS.

The government-aided labor trafficking was sketched in November 2020 by ProPublica, a left-wing, non-profit website:

“Honestly, I think almost everyone in the system knows that most of the teens are coming to work and send money back home,” said Maria Woltjen, executive director and founder of the Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights, a national organization that advocates for immigrant children in court. “They want to help their parents.”

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Some began to work when they were just 13 or 14, packing the candy you find by the supermarket register, cutting the slabs of raw meat that end up in your freezer and baking, in industrial ovens, the pastries you eat with your coffee. Garcia, who is 18 now, was 15 when he got his first job at an automotive parts factory.

The youth inflow adds to the other inflows of legal and illegal migrants, which total about 1.5 million in 2021, atop the population of roughly 45 million resident foreign-born people.

The nation’s huge and growing population of legal and illegal migrants helps to drive down Americans’ wages, reduce high-tech investment, push up housing prices, distort national politics, and give politicians an excuse to avoid difficult domestic problems, such as fentanyl deaths, low wages, expensive housing, poor productivity, and civic demolition.

The UAC catch-and-release loophole was inadvertently created by Congress’ Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008.

The 2008 law sought to protect trafficking victims, such as child prostitutes and child labor, while the traffickers were prosecuted. But it is now used by the cartels to deliver young workers to U.S.-based labor brokers and to deliver the children of illegal migrants to the parents’ addresses in the United States.

‘The stated intentions were honorable … if a 10-year-old kid is found wandering around near the border, we want to make sure that we deal with that kid properly,” said Krikorian. “The problem is that, like any of these policies, it’s immediately seized on by smugglers as an opportunity to get more illegal aliens of the United States.”

The migrants are not thinking about the progressives’ “For the children” pitch or U.S. laws, Krikorian said.

They’re simply using the system that we set up. They’re gaming the system that [Congress] put in place. It’s our responsibility to fix that. There’s no reason that unaccompanied minors shouldn’t be expeditiously sent home … Unless they’re lying about their age or lying about other things; how can you condemn them and not condemn the lawmakers and the advocacy groups that created these loopholes? It’s like criticizing somebody for using a tax shelter — as long as they’re not lying and breaking the law, the problem may be the tax shelter, not the person taking advantage of it.

The unspoken migration is bad for the sending countries, he added.

This is an issue that transcends the unaccompanied minors issue, but it’s not a viable development strategy to export your young people and hope that they send some money back. What kind of development is that? … The deadbeats aren’t leaving — it’s the ones who want to work and earn some money. I’m not saying we should strip-mine this [human] resource for us to use for ourselves — but if you’re in Guatemala, your young people with get-up-and-go should be staying to work, not getting up and going to the United States.

The young migrants are accompanied to the U.S. border by contract coyotes, who also pay off the cartels to get routine access to the border.

The coyotes hand off the youths and children to DHS agents at the border, who then pass the migrants to the HHS shelters. The shelter officials then transfer the migrants to the coyotes’ customers, who are labeled as “sponsors” by the HHS.

In 2019, 80,634 young migrants got across before Trump, and his deputies bypassed opposition from progressive judges and pro-migration groups. In 2020, Trump and his deputies allowed just 33,239 young migrants across the border, mostly very young children.

The 2021 inflow of 146,925 young migrants is double the 2019 number and almost five times the 2020 inflow.

Most of the children and youths from Mexico are sent back, but UACs from Central America are welcomed by Biden’s deputies.

In 2021, government officials welcomed 114,211 coyote-delivered Central American UAC migrants, almost seven times the 2020 inflow of 15,687 Central American UACs. Those nations provided 92 percent of the young migrants.

Most of the young migrants are being transported to their parents or relatives living illegally in the United States.

HHS reported; “In more than 80 percent of cases the child has a family member in the United States. In more than 40 percent of cases that family member is a parent or legal guardian.”

Democrats and Republicans in Congress barred Trump’s enforcement officials from deporting illegals who paid to get their children delivered.

The delivery of the children helps persuade resident adult illegals to stay working in the U.S. economy. Without the deliveries, many migrants would return home to their families.

The pipeline also reduces the burden and cost of illegal migration because strong adult migrants can sneak over the border, work for a year or two, and then order their children to be delivered via the government-cartel delivery system.

The UAC loophole is only for migrants younger than 18. Roughly one-third claim to be age 17. Almost four-in-ten claim to be aged 15 to 16. However, border agents are under pressure to accept whatever age is offered, giving the cartels an open door to maximize the number of migrants who pay transit fees on their way to a U.S. job.

One-third of the arriving young migrants are female; two-thirds are boys and men.

The government-backed cartel delivery service is so efficient that the illegal-migrant customers complain when their foreign children are not delivered fast enough.

“During the ten days that Andrea’s 6-year-old son, Juan, was held in government custody after crossing the southwest border with his grandmother, the Venezuelan mother who lives in California said she called government officials several times a day, trying to arrange his release,” said a Washington Post article from April 20. It continued:

“How can they do this to a child?” said Andrea, 37, who goes by her middle name and did not want her last name used because she did not want to jeopardize her asylum case. “He’s never been separated from his family.”

Pro-migration groups prefer to ignore the labor trafficking, the cartels’ role, and the economic damage to Americans. So the establishment media usually describe the massive inflow as a logistics problem, not as disruptive migration and economic turmoil. For example, CBS devoted much of its article to praising HHS for importing so many youths and children:

At the largest site, a tent complex inside the Fort Bliss Army base in Texas, migrant teens reported mental health distress, inadequate services and prolonged stays. Children there were constantly monitored for escape attempts, panic attacks and self-harm. After the conditions were publicly reported in June, HHS took remedial measures.

More than 107,000 migrant children in HHS care were released to sponsors during fiscal year 2021, another record. The states with the highest number of placements were Texas, Florida, California and New York, which collectively received more than 45,000 unaccompanied children.

“The exploitation of this loophole is something that Congress never really was thinking about when they passed this legislation,” said Krikorian. “It was clearly a mistake — we’ve seen the consequences of it, and we need to fix it.”

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