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The growth of hunger during the pandemic is a damning exposure of the incapability of capitalism to provide for even the most basic of social needs and an objective expression of the need for the working class to expropriate the wealth of the capitalist oligarchs and to put it towards the needs of the vast majority of the population.

 


Poll: Americans More Concerned with Jobs, Economy than the Coronavirus



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Americans are more concerned with jobs and the economy than the Chinese coronavirus, an Ipsos survey released Thursday found.

The survey asked respondents to rate the “most important problem facing the U.S. today.”

A plurality, 22 percent, chose the “economy, unemployment, and jobs,” as the leading problem facing America. Thirteen percent chose public health, disease, and illness, followed by immigration (12 percent), the healthcare system (9 percent), the environment and climate (8 percent), inequality and discrimination (6 percent), crime or corruption (6 percent), terrorism and extremism (4 percent), and education (4 percent). The remaining causes saw three percent support or less.

That issue — the economy, unemployment, and jobs — also leads across party lines, as 27 percent of Republicans chose it, as did 29 percent of independents and 16 percent of Democrats. However, 16 percent of Democrats also chose public health, disease, and illness.

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The survey, taken October 6-7, 2021, among 1,005 U.S. adults, has a margin of error of +/- 3.5 percent.

It coincides with Friday’s lackluster jobs numbers released by the Labor Department, showing the U.S. adding 194,000 jobs in September.

As Breitbart News reported:

The September numbers are even worse than the disastrous report from August, showing only 235,000 jobs created. (August’s reported gains were revised up, however, from 235,000 to 366,000.)

The sluggish pace of jobs created surprised experts again, as they predicted about 500,000 jobs created, but the economy fell short again.

Meanwhile, Biden’s approval rating continues to sink underwater as several polls released in the last few weeks show.

President Joe Biden listens during his meeting with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and Chairman of the High Council for National Reconciliation Abdullah Abdullah, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Friday, June 25, 2021. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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Sixty million in US relied on food banks in 2020

 

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Sixty million people in the United States, nearly 1 in 5, received assistance from food banks and similar organizations in 2020 according to the nonprofit Feeding America, representing a 50 percent increase over the prior year. According to a research brief by The Conversation, the sharpest increase in the rate of food insufficiency was among so-called middle-income households, households that make $50,000 to $75,000 per year, rising from 0.98 percent to 1.48 percent.

 

Cars line up for food at the Utah Food Bank’s mobile food pantry at the Maverik Center Friday, April 24, 2020, in West Valley City, Utah [Credit: AP Photo/Rick Bowmer]

Food insufficiency increased among Americans at all income levels according to The Conversation’s analysis of Census Bureau survey data after April 23. American households earning less than $50,000 have the highest level of food insufficiency, with each lower income bracket tracking with a higher level, with 4.4 percent of those under $25,000 food insecure. That is, this is a problem that affects primarily the working class.

Food insufficiency, according to the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), “is a more severe condition than food insecurity and measures whether a household generally has enough to eat. In this way, food insufficiency is closer in severity to very low food security than to overall food insecurity.”

As defined by the USDA, “Food insecurity is the limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods, or limited or uncertain ability to acquire acceptable foods in socially acceptable ways.” The USDA reports that overall food insecurity has rose in the US from 9.5 percent of the population as of April 23, 2020, to 13.4 percent as of December 21, 2020.

As of the end of August, according to the US Census Bureau’s weekly Household Pulse survey, more than 7 percent of all households and 9 percent of households with children said they sometimes or often did not have enough to eat.

 

Feeding America also projected that 54 million Americans didn’t have enough food to eat in 2020, a 46 percent increase over 2019.

As of March 2021 more than 42 million Americans received Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits, an increase of 5 million from the previous March.

While Congress passed a 15 percent increase to SNAP benefits at the end of last year, which it later extended, this is set to expire September 30, the end of FY 2021. A reassessment of the USDA’s “Thrifty Food Plan,” which is used to determine SNAP benefits, is set to take effect October 1 as a result of the 2018 Farm Bill, passed under the Trump administration, which stipulates a readjustment of payments for the first time since 2006 according to the USDA.

The Thrifty Food Plan will translate into an average $11 monthly increase over the current assistance program, from $240 to $251, despite the end of some federal benefits to SNAP, though with inflation factored in, using 2020 to 2021 numbers on the Minneapolis Fed’s inflation calculator, it will actually amount to a 68 cent decrease. The average amount will drastically decrease in 2022 to $169 a month before inflation if remaining federal pandemic assistance provisions for SNAP are allowed to expire according to USDA, though the decrease in real terms is likely to be far larger as inflation is expected to continue and accelerate.

According to the key findings section on a USDA study released before July 4 this year “88 percent of SNAP participants reported facing some type of barrier to achieving a healthy diet throughout the month.”

The second point states that, “The most common barrier overall, reported by 61 percent of SNAP participants, was the affordability of foods that are part of a healthy diet.”

The annual projected cost of the Thrifty Food Plan is a mere $20 billion, one-sixth the cost of the $120 billion transferred every month from the Fed to Wall Street, or about 2.8 percent of the $715 billion 2022 US military budget being requested by the Biden administration.

Furthermore, food prices are skyrocketing. The Consumer Price Index for food has increased to 2.7 percent for 2021 compared to 2020, with large increases seen in some food groups.

USDA forecasts for wholesale beef, farm-level eggs, farm-level wheat and flour prices were revised upwards this month. Beef is predicted to increase between 17 and 20 percent in 2021 based on data currently available this month, with the same for pork, with wheat rising between 33 and 36 percent and poultry with a 16 to 19 percent increase.

This, along with the disastrous job situation where upwards of 7.5 million unemployed workers have been cut off jobless benefits, millions are at risk of being thrown out of their homes with the lapsing of the national eviction moratorium, accompanied with skyrocketing home and rental costs that are bound to drive both an immiseration and radicalization of the working class.

The growth of hunger during the pandemic is a damning exposure of the incapability of capitalism to provide for even the most basic of social needs and an objective expression of the need for the working class to expropriate the wealth of the capitalist oligarchs and to put it towards the needs of the vast majority of the population.

 

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“Heroin is not produced in the United States. Every gram of heroin present in the United States provides unequivocal evidence of a failure of border security because every gram of heroin was smuggled into the United States. Indeed, this is precisely a point that Attorney General Jeff Sessions made during his appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on October 18, 2017 when he again raised the need to secure the U.S./Mexican border to protect American lives.” Michael Cutler …..FrontPageMag.com

Republican Senators: Biden and Mayorkas Create ‘Open Borders’

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“It’s obvious we have an open border,” Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), the senior Republican on the homeland defense appropriations committee, said.

“I’ve talked to [Alejandro] Mayorkas … [and the] the administration, they didn’t have a plan,” she said during a press event in the Senate on Thursday. “They keep throwing their hands up saying, “This is somebody else’s fault.” … [but] there is no plan,” Capito said.

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas gestures as he speaks at a press briefing at the White House on September 24, 2021, in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Capito’s “open borders” warnings were echoed by several other Senators at the press conference.

“It’s very clear – the message down there is ‘This is an open border,'” said Sen. John Hoeven (R-ND).

“Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have handed control of the agenda and immigration over to the radical open-borders, extreme left,” said Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX). “Their radical open-border policies trumps any desire to combat COVID and it is dangerous.”

WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 12: Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) gestures as he speaks during a news conference on the U.S. Southern Border and President Joe Biden’s immigration policies, in the Hart Senate Office Building on May 12, 2021 in Washington, DC. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas will testify on May 13 before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on the DHS treatment of unaccompanied minors at the U.S. Southern border. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) gestures as he speaks during a news conference on the U.S. Southern Border and President Joe Biden’s immigration policies, in the Hart Senate Office Building on May 12, 2021, in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

“While they say we do not have an open border, the entire country is watching what’s happening on our southern border,” said Sen. James Lankford (R-OK).

The “open borders” talking point is an easy way for the GOP Senators to appeal to their base voters, noted Mark Krikorian, the director of the Center for Immigration Studies. But, he said, “they’re not confronting the [pocketbook] tension between their voters and the donors on immigration … They’re simply responding to the easiest, most obvious outrages that the administration is perpetrating, It’s the path of least resistance.”

U.S. Customs and Border Protection mounted officers attempt to contain migrants as they cross the Rio Grande from Ciudad Acuña, Mexico, into Del Rio, Texas, September 19, 2021. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)

For example, migration steers job investment away from heartland states by delivering many foreign workers to the coasts where coastal investors prefer to create jobs. The impact of cheap-labor migration on investors’ job-creation plans is highlighted by a report at an economic research site, SSTI.org.

The report shows late-stage venture capital investments are concentrated in the states where investors and their new workers — legal and illegal migrants — prefer to live. For example, in the last three months of 2020, investors made investment deals worth roughly $2,028 per person in California, $936 per person in New York, $167 per person in Pennsylvania, $128 per person in Ohio, $52 per person in Kentucky — and 55 cents per person in West Virginia, which is ranked among the poorest states in the union.

This regional skew will be turbocharged by two hidden elements in the Democrats’ reconciliation bill that GOP Senators have ignored.

One section would inflate housing prices and real estate wealth by accelerating chain migration to the coastal states.

The second section would allow Fortune 500 companies and their subcontractors to hire endless foreign college graduates instead of hiring young Americans in the heartland states. The corporate hiring would be skewed because the bill would allow the companies to pay an uncapped number of foreign graduates with green cards, so avoiding profit-sapping salary payments to Americans.

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A worker stacks packaged Beautyrest bed frames at the Hollywood Bed Frame Company factory in Commerce, California, seven miles (11 km) southeast from downtown Los Angeles, April 14, 2017. (Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images)

Yet Capito was correct to say Biden’s deputies had no plan to exclude the Haitian migrants, said Krikorian:

They had no plan to limit patient illegal immigration [at Del Rio] because they didn’t want to do it. They didn’t want to limit the number of people and the only reason they ending up acting was because Fox News had drone pictures [on September 15] and it became politically impossible not to respond.

Krikorian continued:

The open borders people [in the White House had] learned that the administration will let them get away with anything. And the Biden people were happy to do that until the issue politically became unsustainable. Some of these hard open-borders people see themselves as having been betrayed by Biden [saying]  “Why did we vote for him when we got Trump’s policies?” Well, the fact is Biden was happy to let them do anything they wanted until it exploded politically in his face and he had to respond. So it’s not that he’s not with them. It’s that the consequences of the anti-borders policies are politically toxic and the White House has to respond to that.

The Senate press conference was complemented by an October 7 letter to Mayorkas asking for more information about his department’s response to the Del Rio landing. Thirty-seven GOP Senators signed the letter, which said:

While we applaud the administration’s original stated intent to expel the majority of migrants under the CDC’s Title 42 order or to expeditiously remove them, we are concerned that DHS did not actually carry out this plan, deployed resources in a manner that weakened border security, and undermined the deterrent effect of any future statements that the Biden administration will enforce our immigration laws at the border … The Administration’s response to the ongoing border crisis only makes it more likely that we will continue to experience surges like the one in Del Rio.

The letter was signed by Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), as well as:

Senators James Lankford (R-Okla.), Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), Susan Collins (R-Maine), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Rick Scott (R-Fla.), Roger Marshall (R-Kan.), Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.), Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), John Thune (R-S.D.), Jerry Moran (R-Kan.), Steve Daines (R-Mont.), Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Todd Young (R-Ind.), Jim Risch (R-Idaho), John Hoeven (R-N.D.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.), John Boozman (R-Ark.), Tim Scott (R-S.C.), John Kennedy (R-La.), Mike Braun (R-Ind.), Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), Deb Fischer (R-Neb.), Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), Mike Lee (R-Utah), Ben Sasse (R-Neb.), Ted Cruz (R-Texas), John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), and Rob Portman (R-Ohio).

This year’s push for amnesty and more migration is being led by Mark Zuckerberg’s FWD.us network of coastal investors. They stand to gain financially from more cheap labor, government-aided consumers, and urban renters. Their network has funded many astroturf campaigns, urged Democrats to not talk about the economic impact of migration, and manipulated coverage by the TV networks and the print media.

A photographer shows a migrant girl how to use her camera, at a stadium-turned-shelter in Mexico City, where Central American migrants – mostly Hondurans- who are taking part in a caravan towards the US, rest during a stop in their journey, on November 6, 2018. (Alfredo Estrella/AFP via Getty Images)

Nationwide, migration is deeply unpopular because of its economic impact It damages ordinary Americans’ career opportunities, cuts their wages, raises their rents, curbs their productivity, shrinks their political clout, widens regional wealth gaps, and wrecks their democratic, equality-promoting civic culture.

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 pocketbook opposition is multiracialcross-sexnon-racistclass-basedbipartisan,  rationalpersistent, and recognizes the solidarity Americans owe to each other.

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The pandemic pushed millions of U.S. workers to join the 'Great Resignation.' Here's why


Poll: Americans More Concerned with Jobs, Economy than the Coronavirus

A man wearing a mask walks by Century 21 department store, Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2020 in the Brooklyn borough of New York. The discount department store chain has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and is closing its 13 stores. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
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Americans are more concerned with jobs and the economy than the Chinese coronavirus, an Ipsos survey released Thursday found.

The survey asked respondents to rate the “most important problem facing the U.S. today.”

A plurality, 22 percent, chose the “economy, unemployment, and jobs,” as the leading problem facing America. Thirteen percent chose public health, disease, and illness, followed by immigration (12 percent), the healthcare system (9 percent), the environment and climate (8 percent), inequality and discrimination (6 percent), crime or corruption (6 percent), terrorism and extremism (4 percent), and education (4 percent). The remaining causes saw three percent support or less.

That issue — the economy, unemployment, and jobs — also leads across party lines, as 27 percent of Republicans chose it, as did 29 percent of independents and 16 percent of Democrats. However, 16 percent of Democrats also chose public health, disease, and illness.

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The survey, taken October 6-7, 2021, among 1,005 U.S. adults, has a margin of error of +/- 3.5 percent.

It coincides with Friday’s lackluster jobs numbers released by the Labor Department, showing the U.S. adding 194,000 jobs in September.

As Breitbart News reported:

The September numbers are even worse than the disastrous report from August, showing only 235,000 jobs created. (August’s reported gains were revised up, however, from 235,000 to 366,000.)

The sluggish pace of jobs created surprised experts again, as they predicted about 500,000 jobs created, but the economy fell short again.

Meanwhile, Biden’s approval rating continues to sink underwater as several polls released in the last few weeks show.

President Joe Biden listens during his meeting with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and Chairman of the High Council for National Reconciliation Abdullah Abdullah, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Friday, June 25, 2021. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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Cruz: Biden’s Policies Responsible for 430,000 Percent Increase in Catch-and-Release at Border

By Melanie Arter | October 7, 2021 | 4:38pm EDT

 
 
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. - From Acandi, they started on foot -- and armed with machetes, lanterns and tents -- the dangerous trek of at least five days to Panama through the Darien jungle, battling snakes, steep ravines, swollen rivers, tropical downpours and criminals often linked to drug trafficking. (Photo by RAUL A
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.


According to the Washington Times,

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. 

Memo: Biden Admin Weighing Plans To Send Migrants to Vermont

Internal deliberations come after crisis in Del Rio, Texas

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The crisis on the southwest border is forcing the Department of Homeland Security to consider flying migrants all the way to Vermont for processing, according to internal documents reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon.

Federal immigration agencies are preparing contingency plans for a chaotic fall and winter that include looking to states thousands of miles away for assistance. According to a memo obtained by the Free Beacon, DHS is husbanding resources for the "unconfirmed" transfer of migrants to New York and Vermont and awaiting a response from Border Patrol about the number of additional processing machines required.

A spokeswoman for Customs and Border Protection declined to address the Vermont relocation plans, saying the department does not comment on leaked information.

The Oct. 6 memo indicates that federal officials are considering moving migrants to the Swanton Sector, a Border Patrol site that encompasses 24,000 square miles and includes the entire state of Vermont, as well as broad swaths of upstate New York and New Hampshire. The internal deliberations come just weeks after more than 10,000 migrants, mostly from Haiti, arrived in Del Rio, Texas, and sparked a humanitarian crisis in the border town.

The Swanton Sector, documents show, would require across-the-board upgrades to facilities in order to expand capacity. New computers and cellular systems for internet connection are just two of the technology overhauls required for the mission. The document did not indicate how many migrants the Swanton Sector should expect if they are indeed processed there.

"The idea of moving migrants from Haiti and South America to one of the country’s coldest regions shows how disastrous the situation is on the southern border and that DHS is running low on options," one senior DHS official said, noting the peculiar nature of potentially relocating people more acclimated to the warmer climates of South America.

More than 1.5 million migrants have crossed the southern border in 2021, with that number expected to reach 2 million by the end of the year given current trends. The month of August saw 208,887 encounters, with July recording the most encounters in more than two decades.

The release of migrants into border towns has created tension with mayors and city officials. The COVID-19 pandemic has only exacerbated concerns by local leaders on the border that the release of migrants puts further strain on public health facilities.

An inspector general report released in September concluded that the Biden administration has yet to implement a "formal" COVID-19 testing policy for migrants. Most holding facilities are operating far beyond capacity, making "proper physical distancing" impossible, per the IG.

Some cities, such as Laredo, Texas, have filed lawsuits against the Biden administration in order to stop DHS’s practice of dropping off migrants on the streets. Citing overwhelmed hospitals, Laredo officials called the Biden administration’s conduct a direct threat to the health of residents.

The inspector general and critics of the Biden administration say that the administration’s decision not to fully use Title 42—a federal law that allows the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to effectively shut down the nation’s border during a health crisis—continues creating incentives for migrants from around the world to come to the border and apply for asylum. President Joe Biden has expanded Title 42 exemptions to include unaccompanied minors as well as family units, while focusing on deporting single men without a humanitarian-related reason to stay in the country.

The Biden administration is trying to end the Trump-era "Remain in Mexico" policy that forces asylum seekers to wait outside the United States before their asylum court hearing. The Supreme Court ruled against the Biden administration's request for a stay on a federal court ruling that found Biden acted unlawfully when trying to end the program. Proponents of "Remain in Mexico" argue the program deters migrants without credible claims of asylum from entering the country.


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“Heroin is not produced in the United States. Every gram of heroin present in the United States provides unequivocal evidence of a failure of border security because every gram of heroin was smuggled into the United States. Indeed, this is precisely a point that Attorney General Jeff Sessions made during his appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on October 18, 2017 when he again raised the need to secure the U.S./Mexican border to protect American lives.” Michael Cutler …..FrontPageMag.com


WATCH: Migrants Stream into South Texas Border Town at Night

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ROMA, Texas — Border Patrol agents stood in the city’s town square processing a continuous flow of mostly Central American migrants eagerly seeking to surrender. The groups, escorted from the banks of the Rio Grande by Army National Guardsmen and Roma Police, numbered more than 200 in a few hours on Tuesday alone.

Human traffickers in Miguel Aleman, Tamaulipas, ferried the migrants in inflatable rafts. Soldiers stood watch on the riverbank observing the smugglers conduct their business. Once on U.S. soil, soldiers led the migrants into the city in groups of 30 or more.

Border Patrol agents took biographical information from the migrants as they waited for transportation to a processing center and likely release. As reported by Breitbart Texas, the routine is a nightly affair for all parties involved.

The process flows smoothly on both sides of the border. In Mexico, trucks move quietly in the darkness to unload migrants and deliver them to the river guides. The migrants, who have already paid the Gulf Cartel for the right to cross the river, wear wrist bracelets as proof of payment.

Almost on the half hour, each group is lined up along the U.S. side of the river and instructed to march into the city. As the migrants emerge from the darkness, Roma Police escort the migrants to Border Patrol per a federal grant program.

The population of Roma is slightly greater than 11,000. The number of migrants crossing into the city will eclipse that number in less than one month at the current pace, according to a source within CBP. Roma does not have a Border Patrol station in the city proper and the apprehensions are carried under the nearby Rio Grande City hub.

Overall, the source says, the numbers are not waning as the new fiscal year begins. According to the source, more than 9,000 migrants have been apprehended in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas in the last week.

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Arrests of Deported Sex Offenders, Criminal Aliens Up 300 Percent Along Border

A group of migrants, including a deported sex offender, are apprehended by Van Horn Station Border Patrol agents. (Photo: U.S. Border Patrol/Big Bend Sector)
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The number of arrests of deported sex offenders, felons, and gang members continues to spike in multiple sectors along the U.S.-Mexico Border. Recent cases include Mexican cartel members.

Arrests of criminal migrants who illegally re-enter the U.S. jumped from 2,438 in FY 2020 to 9,728 through the end of August 2021. This represents an increase of nearly 300 percent with the September numbers still unreported. Of those arrested, 448 had convictions for sexual offenses — up from 156 for all of FY 2020. Additionally, agents apprehended 1,769 migrants with outstanding warrants for their arrest.

Yuma Sector Chief Patrol Agent Chris T. Clem tweeted a photo of another criminal alien taken into custody on October 6 after illegally re-entering the U.S. The sector identified the man as Edward Antonio Gutierrez-Martinez and said he has felony convictions for first-degree child rape and incest.

Big Bend Sector Border Patrol agents arrested a group of 35 migrants earlier this week who had illegally entered the U.S. in one of Texas’ most remote regions. The Van Horn Station agents processed the migrants and found one to be a previously deported sex offender. A U.S. court convicted the Salvadoran national for second-degree felony rape, according to information obtained from Border Patrol officials.

The Salvadoran national has multiple deportations in his federal immigration history. A federal court convicted him for illegal re-entry after removal as a convicted felon. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officers last removed the criminal alien in November 2016. He now faces new federal charges for illegal re-entry after removal. If convicted, he could face up to 20 years in federal prison.

Corpus Christi Station agents received a call on October 4 from the Refugio County Sheriff’s Office regarding a suspect group of smuggled migrants. The agents responded and determined the group of five migrants illegally entered the U.S., according to Rio Grande Valley Sector officials.

During processing, a criminal database search identified one of the men, a Mexican national, as a member of the hyperviolent MS-13 gang. Reports show an extensive criminal history in the U.S. including a third-degree assault with criminal negligence causing injury with a weapon, officials stated. The court sentenced the Mexican national to 18 months in jail. ERO officers subsequently removed the man to Mexico.

The following day, McAllen Station agents received a request for assistance from the La Joya Police Department. The officers had five suspected migrants in custody. Agents responded and took the group into custody for illegally entering the U.S.

The agents identified the migrants as citizens of Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico. During processing, a records check identified two of the men as members of the Gulf Cartel. Officials said one of the cartel members has been active for many years. The second appeared to be in training.

In Fiscal Year 2021, Border Patrol agents around the nation arrested 325 gang members through the end of August. Of those, more than 150 gang members were arrested in the RGV Sector, officials stated.

In California, El Centro Sector agents arrested a Mexican national and identified him as a member of the Sureño gang. The man has a criminal history including a conviction for drug trafficking in 2015.

Breitbart Texas reports extensively on the arrest of migrants with criminal histories that include sexual offenses. These reports also include the arrests of previously deported child sex offenders.

Bob Price serves as associate editor and senior news contributor for the Breitbart Texas-Border team. He is an original member of the Breitbart Texas team. Price is a regular panelist on Fox 26 Houston’s What’s Your Point? Sunday-morning talk show. Follow him on Twitter @BobPriceBBTX and Facebook.

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“Joe Biden is great on immigration. I guess depends on your perspective. If you’re a human trafficker, or drug dealer, or all those migrants wearing the Biden let us in shirts, you’d give him an A-plus, plus, but the American people would give him an F. The crisis we said our border was not only entirely predictable. It was predicted. I predicted it last fall that if you campaign all year long on open borders, amnesty, and health care for illegals, you’re going to get more migrants at the border. That’s exactly what’s happened every month since the election.”

                                                                         SEN. TOM COTTON

Are we going to prioritize the interests of liberals who want to replace our militant Normal voters with pliable foreigners and establishment stooges who want to please rich donors by importing countless cheap foreign laborers, or are we going to prioritize the economic security and the physical safety of American citizens by securing our border no matter what it takes?

HIGHLY GRAPHIC IMAGES OF AMERICA UNDER LA RAZA MEX OCCUPATION

 

This is what America will look like with continued open borders with Narcomex. That is the agenda of the Globalist Democrat party for endless hordes of ‘cheap’ labor.

 

http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2013/10/america-la-raza-mexicos-wide-open.html

 

THE NARCOMEX INVASION OF AMERICA…. By invitation of the Democrat Party

https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/11/trump-seeks-deal-with-narcomex-as.html

There are many reasons why, for the first time, the government of Mexico would agree to work cooperatively with the United States over an extremely serious immigration-related issue. It is likely, of course that President Trump was not just posturing when he said he would cut off aid to Mexico and other countries who permit the United States to be invaded by illegal aliens.

Under Guzman’s leadership, the Sinaloa Cartel became the largest drug trafficking organization in the world with influence in every major U.S. city.

 

The allegations against Pena Nieto are not new. In 2016, Breitbart News reported on an investigation by Mexican journalists which revealed how Juarez Cartel operators funneled money into the 2012 presidential campaign. The investigation was carried out by Mexican award-winning journalist Carmen Aristegui and her team….The subsequent scandal became known as “Monexgate” for the cash cards that were given out during Peña Nieto’s campaign. The allegations against Pena Nieto went largely unreported by  U.S. news outlets.

GOP Governors Say Border Crisis is Drug Crisis — Killing Youth

A Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agent and K-9 carry out an initial inspection at an interior immigration checkpoint. (File Photo: Bob Price/Breitbart Texas)
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MISSION, Texas — A group of Republican governors visiting the Rio Grande Vally border with Mexico said the border crisis is also a drug crisis. The governors said the explosion of fentanyl and methamphetamine pouring across the unsecured border is killing young people all across the nation.

“The amount of fentanyl apprehended just by the Texas Department of Public Safety just this year is more than enough to kill every man, woman, and child in the states of Texas, California, and New York,” Texas Governor Greg Abbott told reporters during a news conference near Mission, Texas, on Wednesday afternoon. The governor said Texas Department of Public Safety Director, Colonel Steve McCraw, briefed the group of nine visiting governors on the flow of drugs across the border, into Texas, and then on to states across the nation.

Flow of drugs through Mexico, into Texas, and on to states across the U.S. (Map: Texas Department of Public Safety)

Flow of drugs through Mexico, into Texas, and on to states across the U.S. (Map: Texas Department of Public Safety)

Ohio Governor Mike DeWine said, “In Ohio, at least 80 percent of our overdose deaths every week are caused by fentanyl. It is getting mixed into everything. I get calls, I get letters from family members who have lost someone.”

Republican governors receive briefing on the Texas/national border crisis. (Photo: Randy Clark/Breitbart Texas)

Republican governors receive a briefing on the Texas/national border crisis. (Photo: Randy Clark/Breitbart Texas)

“So this crisis at the southern border is a humanitarian crisis,” DeWine added. “It is also a drug crisis. It’s a fentanyl crisis.”

Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds said, “With interstate 35 and interstate 80 we’re a direct route for drugs to pipe through to Des Moines, Council Bluffs, and then out through the United States.”

Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds receives border briefing in Weslaco, Texas. (Photo: Randy Clark/Breitbart Texas)

Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds receives border briefing in Weslaco, Texas. (Photo: Randy Clark/Breitbart Texas)

The Iowa governor said her state has experienced a tremendous in both methamphetamine and fentanyl. She said it is up 1000 percent from the same period last year.

“That’s killing our young people,” Gov. Reynolds stated. “The other thing that we’re also experiencing is the purity of the fentanyl. We are seeing it like every other state, across this country, and it’s taxing not only Iowans but our law enforcement as well.”

Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts added, “Talking to the colonel of my State Patrol, methamphetamine, in the Midwest, is up four times what it was last year. We’ve seen that our State Patrol has confiscated more than about two and a half times the amount of fentanyl in our state this year versus last year.”

Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts is briefed on drug flow into U.S. during a Texas Department of Public Safety briefing near the border with Mexico. (Photo: Randy Clark/Breitbart Texas)

Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts is briefed on drug flow into U.S. during a Texas Department of Public Safety briefing near the border with Mexico. (Photo: Randy Clark/Breitbart Texas)

Colonel McCraw told the assembled group of governors that the border crisis has “allowed Mexican cartels to evolve and become the most dangerous most violent most brutal criminal organizations in the world they dominate the drug and human trafficking market throughout the United States. And if you have a fentanyl problem in Iowa, you have one in Oklahoma, you have a border problem. And that’s exactly what’s been going on.”

McCraw expressed his gratitude to the governors who have sent additional law enforcement resources to Texas due to the Biden administration’s changes in policies leading to the current border crisis.

“We’re proud to stand with you today and thank you for all you do and thank you for sending troopers down here and resources,” the DPS director concluded. “We appreciate that. We know that by putting them here, you’ve been able to protect your state, and I know you care deeply about protecting your citizens from harm and God bless you.”

Bob Price serves as associate editor and senior news contributor for the Breitbart Texas-Border team. He is an original member of the Breitbart Texas team. Price is a regular panelist on Fox 26 Houston’s What’s Your Point? Sunday-morning talk show. Follow him on Twitter @BobPriceBBTX and Facebook.

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

New border wall forces smugglers to dig expensive tunnels and launch drones

SAN DIEGO — Top U.S. border officials expect cartels to build more tunnels from Mexico to the United States and increasingly rely on drones for surveillance operations as the 400 miles of new border wall makes it harder to smuggle people and drugs into the country.

Transnational criminal organizations have long used tunnels and drones at the southwest border, but senior Border Patrol officials across the country are bracing for more activity as new 30-foot-tall barrier wall goes up in areas that have long been easy for criminals to cross.

“Don't be fooled into thinking that the cartels and smuggling organizations won't do whatever to try to adapt,” said Anthony Porvaznik, chief of the Border Patrol’s Yuma sector in western Arizona. “We fully expect to see more tunneling activity.”

“Smugglers are in the business to make money,” said Border Patrol’s national chief, Rodney Scott, during a one-on-one tour with the Washington Examiner of the Southern California region. “I definitely think they will, but again, we talk about the wall system all the time … because it's a 30-year, enduring investment that, without it, they wouldn't have to go to drones, they wouldn't have to go to tunnels, they wouldn't even have to go to the port of entry. They were just driving trucks across before, and the overhead expenses for them were significantly lower to just drive across.”

Three types of tunnels are seen on the southern border: rudimentary tunnels comparable to gopher holes that only go several feet deep; those that connect into existing infrastructure systems, like a drainage system; and sophisticated ones that can go as deep as 90 feet. Scott said federal investigators typically learn very early on about the elaborate kind of tunnels and intentionally do not bust them until they are almost complete.

“On average, it takes about a year for them to dig it. It takes engineers, and it takes a lot of money, so if we can literally keep them focused on pouring their money into a hole in the ground, we know about, we'll let it go until right at the end,” said Scott. “We just want to make sure no illegal substances or people get into the U.S.”

In August, federal agents announced the discovery of the “most sophisticated” tunnel ever found at the border. The tunnel was built 25 feet below the sandy grounds of Yuma, Ariz. It was far enough along that ventilation and rail systems had already been installed.

Anna Giaritelli / Washington Examiner

In August, federal agents announced the discovery of the “most sophisticated” tunnel ever found at the border. The tunnel was built 25 feet below the sandy grounds of Yuma, Arizona. It was far enough along that ventilation and rail systems had already been installed. Yuma border officials showed the tunnel to the Washington Examiner. Outside companies are remediating the tunnel, which includes filling it with concrete so that it cannot be used in the future.

Despite Yuma’s recent bust, the San Diego region’s soil composition makes it the most suitable for tunnel builders out of the nine regions by which the Border Patrol divides the southwest border.

“Here, it's soft, so they have to actually line it with wood and hold it up,” said Porvaznik, who is based in Arizona. “In San Diego, they can dig it out, and it's more clay-like material, so it'll stay.”

Yuma border officials showed a recently discovered cross-border tunnel to the Washington Examiner during a regional tour in late October. Outside companies are remediating the tunnel, which includes filling it with concrete so that it cannot be used in the future.

Anna Giaritelli / Washington Examiner

Border officials expected the wall to have an impact on tunneling and included in annual wall funding money for underground systems that can detect disturbances in the soil. In Southern California, Border Patrol has a team that tracks tunnel activity. Border Patrol San Diego Chief Aaron Heitke said intelligence specialists map out warehouses located near the border and go door to door to meet with business owners to get a feel for who may be a threat. The team takes an overt approach, out in public and by asking businesses if they see unusual activity to tip off the Department of Homeland Security. The task force can also track imports and exports, as well as taxes filed to the Internal Revenue Service, to see if a business is a front or conducting legitimate trade.

The tunnel found near Yuma, Ariz., had a rail system built inside that would have been used to move contraband from Mexico into the United States.

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“We’re literally kind of mapping out like, ‘Sony has been here forever. It's a legitimate business. We've never had any problems. It's a lower threat,'” said Scott, who previously oversaw the San Diego region. “This warehouse — you’ve got seven businesses in different suites that have been here for years. We know them. They call, they don’t, whatever — you kind of gauge it. And this one turns over every 30 days, every 60 days. That's something we're going to watch.”

In El Paso, where tunnels are less prevalent because of the river and canal systems, agents constantly see drones flying over from Mexico.

“All day long — 24/7 in this area — there’s drones going up and down,” said Border Patrol's El Paso division chief for operations, Walter Slozar. “They’re not using them to smuggle things yet ... We can even tell like when one goes up, ‘Oh, when that one goes up, that’s when something happens over here.'”

Drones surveil agents on the ground and inform smugglers when to send migrants over the border and when agents may be wrapped up elsewhere.

The western Arizona and eastern California regions are also seeing a heavy use of drones but for the smuggling of drugs over the wall. Porvaznik said drones will make up to 30 trips back and forth each night, carrying approximately a kilogram of drugs northbound.

Porvaznik points to a framed photograph in his office that shows an “octocopter,” an eight-propeller unmanned aerial system that goes for $16,000. Border Patrol’s aerial surveillance trucks detected it flying through U.S. airspace near the border transporting 25 pounds of cocaine over the border.

“It’s dark, and they’re silent,” said Porvaznik. “We've had numerous instances of drones working in [the] San Luis area, bringing over load after load, and they just keep making trips all night. At times, they overload them, and they crash. And so, our agents have found them with dope strapped to them."

Yuma agents have been able to track where some drugs are dropped and then pursue drivers who transport it. Agents do not have a way to force a drone and are still in the process of detecting them.


NARCOMEX: MEX PRESIDENT SUCKS OFF BRIBES FROM DRUG CARTELS

Witness testimony pointed to alleged bribes to former Mexican presidents and even money that went into one of AMLO’s failed presidential campaigns.

 

https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2020/03/mexican-president-courts-la-raza-heroin.html

 

Last year, AMLO ( MEX PRESIDENT) was harshly criticized for ordering the release of El Chapo’s son Ovidio “El Raton” Guzman Lopez shortly after his military and police forces captured him in Culiacan Sinaloa 

MEXICO KILLS AMERICA TWICE OVER!

DHS Secretary: ‘ICE Interdicted Enough Fentanyl Last Year to

Kill Every American Twice Over’

https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2019/03/dhs-secretary-ice-interdicted-enough.html

“Mexican Border States Net 320 Pounds of Meth in Two Days” BREITBART

“Eight-Time Deportee Accused of Trafficking $850,000 in Meth, Cocaine.”

                                                                                  MICHAEL CUTLER

JUDICIAL WATCH:

 

“The greatest criminal threat to the daily lives of American citizens are the Mexican drug cartels.”

 

“Mexican drug cartels are the “other” terrorist threat to America. Militant Islamists have the goal of destroying the United States. Mexican drug cartels are now accomplishing that mission – from within, every day, in virtually every community across this country.” JUDICIALWATCH

 

 

NARCOMEX PRESIDENTS SUCK IN STAGGERING BRIBES FROM LA RAZA HEROIN CARTELS

 

"While other witnesses at Mr. Guzmán’s trial in Federal District Court in Brooklyn have testified about huge payoffs from traffickers to the Mexican police and public officials, the testimony about Mr. Peña Nieto was the most egregious allegation yet. If true, it suggests that corruption by drug cartels had reached into the highest level of Mexico’s political establishment."

https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2019/01/el-chapo-trial-formermexican-president.html

The former president of Mexico, Enrique Peña Nieto, took a $100 million bribe from Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the infamous crime lord known as El Chapo, according to a witness at Mr. Guzman’s trial. ALAN FEUER

HIGHLY GRAPHIC!

IMAGES OF AMERICA UNDER LA RAZA MEX OCCUPATION… gruesome!

http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2013/10/america-la-raza-mexicos-wide-open.html

 

BEHEADINGS LONG U.S. OPEN BORDERS WITH NARCOMEX: The La Raza Heroin Cartels Take the Border and Leave Heads

http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/05/highly-graphic-la-raza-heroin-cartels.html

 

HIGHLY GRAPHIC VIDEO!

LA RAZA DRUG CARTELS CUT OUT HEART OF LIVING MAN.

http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/01/highly-graphic-la-raza-herion-cartel.html

MARK LEVIN:

‘THERE IS A BIG, UGLY SIDE TO ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION

http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2017/01/mark-levin-big-ugly-side-to-illegal.html

 

NARCOMEX DRUG CARTELS OCCUPY 

 

TEXAS

 

http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2014/12/is-texas-safe-place-for-narcomex-drug.html

 

 

MCALLEN, Texas -- The capture of three top Mexican drug cartel bosses on the U.S. side of the Texas border helps to illustrate the irony of how even narco's seek refuge from the violence in Mexico.

 

 

LOS ANGELES – GATEWAY FOR THE LA RAZA MEX DRUG CARTELS

 

NARCOMEX in LA RAZA-OCCUPIED LOS ANGELES – Western gateway for the MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS and MEXICO’S SECOND LARGEST CITY.

 

http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2014/09/los-angeles-under-la-raza-occupation.html

 

Federal agents raided Q.T Fashion and numerous other businesses in the downtown fashion district Wednesday, cracking down on a scheme that cartels are increasingly relying on to get their profits — from drug sales, kidnappings and other illegal activities — back to Mexico, authorities said.

 

Nine people were arrested in raids targeting 75 locations, and $90 million was seized — $70 million in cash. In one condo, agents found $35 million stuffed in banker boxes. At a mansion in Bel-Air, they discovered $10 million in duffel bags.

 

"Los Angeles has become the epicenter of narco-dollar money laundering with couriers regularly bringing duffel bags and suitcases full of cash to many businesses," said Robert E. Dugdale, the assistant U.S. attorney in charge of federal criminal prosecutions in Los Angeles.

 

 

THE LA RAZA MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS REMIND AMERICANS (Legals) THAT THERE IS NO (REAL) BORDER WITH NARCOMEX!

 

SHOCKING IMAGES OF CARTELS ON U.S. BORDERS:

http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2017/11/americas-open-borders-with-narcomex.html

“Heroin is not produced in the United States. Every gram of heroin present in the United States provides unequivocal evidence of a failure of border security because every gram of heroin was smuggled into the United States. Indeed, this is precisely a point that Attorney General Jeff Sessions made during his appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on October 18, 2017 when he again raised the need to secure the U.S./Mexican border to protect American lives.” Michael Cutler …..FrontPageMag.com


Dems Tuck Multibillion-Dollar Handout to Illegal Immigrants Into Reconciliation

Biden's $3.5 trillion spending bill gives migrants same child benefits as Americans

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President Joe Biden’s budget includes a provision that provides billions of dollars in cash to illegal aliens with children.

The $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill extends the Child Tax Credit to anyone in the United States who provides an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number, overturning a crucial safeguard against fraud. Federal law required a valid Social Security number to receive the cash transfer from the federal government. The potential payout for illegal immigrants is massive, with each family receiving a monthly payment of $250 to $300 per child.

A survey from the Pew Research Center found that roughly 675,000 children are not eligible for a Social Security number, making the tax credit expansion for illegal aliens cost between $2.025 billion to $2.43 billion a year. Other estimates put the total number of illegal children residing in the United States at more than 800,000.

Families, regardless of their legal status, would be eligible to receive checks of $3,600 per year per child. The Democratic bill would amount to a universal basic income for parents residing in the country. Under U.S. law, illegal immigrants are barred from enjoying the benefits of federal entitlements.

Democrats are trying to advance an amnesty provision into the budget reconciliation bill, a process reserved for budgetary matters. Congressional Democrats have argued that granting legal status to millions of illegal aliens would add $139.6 billion to the budget deficit by 2032 due to their increased use of welfare programs. The Senate parliamentarian ruled in September that Democrats cannot include a road to citizenship for illegals in their bill, although party leaders have vowed to keep fighting for its inclusion.

Welfare policy expert Samuel Hammond said the potential payout for illegals under the expanded Child Tax Credit exceeds the per capita income of many migrants' home countries.

"Consider that the value of the CTC for an infant child is now $3,600 per year. That alone represents 40 percent of Colombia’s per capita income, and nearly 120 percent of Haiti’s. This is why countries with unconditional welfare benefits also tend to have relatively restrictive immigration laws," Hammond wrote in American Compass. "America’s historical openness to immigration, in contrast, has in large part been enabled by rules and program structures that minimize the fiscal cost of lower wage migrants."

The White House did not return a request for comment on the Child Tax Credit provision.

As the country faces a historic surge of migrants applying for asylum, the Biden administration risks compounding the crisis by offering a greater financial incentive to those willing to make the trip to the southern border. One 2015 study commissioned by the Institute of Labor Economics concluded that expanding Norway’s welfare benefits to poorer European countries generated "substantial (expected) costs for the welfare state" and a distorted labor market.

"For families with children, [the cash benefit] entails that a job in Norway may be attractive even if the offered wage is extremely low. For example, the Norwegian cash‐for‐care subsidy for a one‐year-old child now amounts to NOK 6,000 per month, which … corresponds to 629 Euros, or around 80 percent of average earnings in Poland," the researchers wrote. "Such features give employers and prospective immigrant employees incentives to agree on very low wages and poor working conditions."