“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.”
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.
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 multiracial , cross-sex , non-racist , class-based , bipartisan , rational , persistent , and recognizes the solidarity Americans owe to each other.
Arrests of Deported Sex Offenders, Criminal Aliens Up 300 Percent Along Border Photo: U.S. Border Patrol/Big Bend Sector 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 Face .
DHS cancels Texas border wall contracts amid mounting concern
Drug cartel fires shots across America's southern border
Mexican cartels firing machine guns across the Rio Grande at National Guard troops
I believe that there’s a word for a situation in which munitions are fired across an international border aimed at troops defending that border. It is a “war.” Fox News’ Bill Melugin – the preeminent journalist on the story of our southern border – captured video of tracer rounds at night coming across the Rio Grande, and the taunts that accompanied them.
Fred T. of The Right Scoop summarizes:
“Armed carter members with AK-47s have stood on the opposite side of the Rio Grande” from National Guard troops and “taunted” them, Melugin reports. They have “racked the slides on their guns and have yelled to them in Spanish ‘oh we should just shoot you soldiers.'”
“Incredibly rare to see direct gunfire from a machine gun going into the U.S. like that,” says Melugin.
This video is only one minute long and worth watching:
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Tracer rounds visible just above the horizon (YouTube screengrab , cropped)
The automatic weapons fire directed at National Guard soldiers is not coming from the armed forces of Mexico, but rather from the cartels that constitute the de facto governing force of major parts of Mexico. If Donald Trump were still in office, I have no doubt that he would be on the phone with Mexican President Lopez Obrador telling him that either Mexico ends the attacks on the United States or he will. Yes, that would involve weapons like predator drones or fighter aircraft (A-10 Warthogs can unleash hell on anything on the ground) or even artillery. And no, it would not be an attack on the sovereign nation of Mexico but rather on terror groups it is unable or unwilling to suppress. President Trump would explain this and no doubt would first offer the President of Mexico the role of ending the attack.
But retaliation for this attack on our sovereign territory and our armed forces has to be done. A failure to respond invites more and bigger attacks. That’s statecraft 101.
The odds that President Biden will even be aware of this situation are slim, as his puppet masters know that he is incapable of dealing with complex issues.
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THREE LAWLESS LAWYERS: BIDEN, HARRIS, AND MAYORKAS.
THE ECONOMY JUST TOOK ANOTHER WRONG TURN, JOBS DISASTER, EXECS GET PAID THEN BANKRUPTCY
JOE BIDEN DRUNK OR JUST SENILE?
Even with the assistance of an autocue' Biden is 'utterly incoherent'
Armed cartel members reportedly taunt Texas National Guard
AK-47 wielding cartel members seen at southern border | Guy Benson Show
Fox News crew witnesses gunfire by suspected cartel members into US
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
Biden to Cancel Border Wall Projects in Texas Photo: Randy Clark/Breitbart Texas 3:00
The Department of Homeland Security plans to terminate all remaining border wall projects in the Border Patrol’s Laredo and Rio Grande Valley Sectors. The projects have been paused since January as the agency pondered a final determination to cancel the projects or allow some to continue. The decision brings finality to all remaining projects in South Texas.
In the Friday announcement, DHS will begin initial preparations to conduct environmental site work and stakeholder outreach on other Congressionally approved border wall projects that the administration cannot cancel unilaterally. The administration promises not to construct any new border barrier systems or execute permanent land acquisition related to these projects.
Gap in a border wall construction project. (Photo: Randy Clark/Breitbart Texas)
According to the statement:
Environmental planning activities will cover projects funded with DHS’s Fiscal Year 2018-2021 barrier system appropriations where construction had not started. These activities include additional biological, cultural, and natural resource surveys for project areas where no data have been previously collected. CBP will also conduct comprehensive and targeted outreach with interested stakeholders, including impacted landowners, tribes, state and local elected officials, and federal agencies.
These activities will not involve any construction of new border barrier or permanent land acquisition.
The Biden administration is calling for Congress to cancel the remaining border wall funding appropriated during the Trump administration and instead fund “smarter border security measures,” such as technology and modernization of land ports of entry. Unless Congress cancels the funding, the administration is obligated to exhaust the appropriated funds towards the border barrier projects already funded.
As reported by Breitbart Texas, nearly $6 million per day was exhausted on the paused border wall projects along the southwest border. The money was spent on materials, idled equipment, and make-safe job site activities. The 60-day pause to reach a final determination on the projects, initiated immediately after President Joe Biden took office, has lingered on for nearly nine months at significant expense to the taxpayer.
The administration, obligated to pursue previously funded border barrier projects, will likely slow-roll the environmental process and stakeholder engagement efforts. This delay will likely add to the cost borne by taxpayer projects the current administration has no intention of completing.
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.
DHS Mayorkas Rejects Congress, Cancels Border Wall Contracts Paul Ratje/AFP/Getty, Graeme Jennings-Pool/Getty 4:13
The nation’s border chief is cancelling contracts to finish construction of the border wall, even though Congress voted to build the border wall, according to a press release from Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
“They have been directed to build a border wall by Congress [and] they’re just canceling the contracts because they don’t care what Congress does,” said one Hill staffer, who added:
Congress certainly should [sue the agency], but it won’t until after Republicans take back control. The [congressional] Democrats are not interested in [preserving the] powers of Congress unless the President is of a party they don’t like.
However, “the people in South Texas probably can [sue] because they can say they’re the ones being harmed specifically by the Executive Branch not enforcing or not following the law,” the source added.
In general, it is illegal for agencies to refuse to spend appropriated money.
The Oct. 8 announcement comes as DHS chief Alejandro Mayorkas is refusing to implement Congress’s immigration laws, including the laws that require asylum-seekers be held in detention until their pleas for asylum are judged.
Hundred of migrants have been killed by Mayorkas ‘s refusal to enforce the border law.
Tens of thousands of Haitians left jobs in South America to reach for Mayorkas’s dangled offer of U.S. jobs, but once Biden’s border polls crashed, Mayorkas pitilessly reversed his welcome policies and sent thousands of the South American Haitians — jobless and penniless — over to Haiti.
Drug smugglers have used Mayorkas’s migration-friendly policies to help move lethal drugs past the overstretched border agents. In 2020, roughly 90,000 Americans were killed by drug addictions.
At least 800,000 migrants have crossed the border since January because of Mayorkas’s welcome for migrants. This partially open-door policy has allowed many employers to hire low-wage illegal migrants instead of paying decent wages to Americans. His loose labor policy also rewards employers who refuse to hire and train millions of sidelined Americans, including homeless drug addicts in Pennsylvania.
Mayorkas is a Cuban-born refugee. He is an immigration zealot who insists that Americans’ homeland must be a “Nation of Immigrants,” regardless of the impact to Americans’ wealth and society, and also insists that the “dignity” of migrants must be the “foremost” priority of the agency.
Mayorkas’s DHS statement tries to dodge Congressional authority by claiming it may, eventually, some time in the future, build a wall, but only after spending much time and money talking about building a wall:
Until and unless Congress cancels those funds, the law requires DHS to use the funds consistent with their appropriated purpose, and beginning environmental planning activities is part of the Department’s plan to do so.
For example, the wall construction money will be used to host meetings with opponents of the wall, the statement says:
Environmental planning activities will cover projects funded with DHS’s Fiscal Year 2018-2021 barrier system appropriations where construction had not started. These activities include additional biological, cultural, and natural resource surveys for project areas where no data have been previously collected. CBP will also conduct comprehensive and targeted outreach with interested stakeholders, including impacted landowners, tribes, state and local elected officials, and federal agencies.
These activities will not involve any construction of new border barrier or permanent land acquisition.
In February, several Republicans voted to confirm Mayorkas, despite numerous warnings from critics.
The Republicans who voted for Mayorkas were Sens.. Shelley Moore Capito (R-VA), Susan Collins (R-ME), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Rob Portman (R-OH), Mitt Romney (R-UT), and Dan Sullivan (R-AK).
JOE BIDEN'S SABOTAGE OF HOMELAND SECURITY. WHAT WILL IT COST US AND WHO WILL PAY?
Since the beginning of 2021, Border Patrol agents have arrested 325 gang members, a sharp decrease from previous years even as general apprehensions have skyrocketed. In 2019, the agency arrested 976 gang members and 808 in 2018. More than 150 of this year's gang-related arrests have been in the Rio Grande Valley, the sector that has seen the brunt of this year's migrant surge.
Fake scandal: Why are Google, Amazon and Microsoft on the hot seat for contracting with ICE and Border Patrol?
Business Insider is reporting that it's got the hottest of insider scandals. No, not the tens of thousands of illegal aliens from more than a hundred countries now surging across our border.
Here's the notorious scandal:
The story is a premium subscriber item, so it's impossible to read without a subscription. But Business Insider couldn't help itself. It tweeted out 11 more tweets crowing about its story, with each tweet adding more of the story content. Who needs a premium subscription when the content is all there? Twitter featured the story on its sidebar with a summary, so the promotion was even better.
In these tweets, we learned that the companies were using intermediaries to reap big ICE and Border Patrol contracts. Apparently, that was a no-no. Leftists within these big tech companies complained about it, because apparently there shouldn't be any Border Patrol interfering with illegals or ICE surveillance of transnational crime and cartels.
Via Wikipedia, here are what the two agencies do:
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE ) is a federal law enforcement agency under the U.S. Department of Homeland Security . ICE's stated mission is to protect the United States from the cross-border crime and illegal immigration that threaten national security and public safety.[3] [4]
This mission is executed through the enforcement of more than 400 federal statutes and focuses on immigration enforcement, preventing terrorism and combating the illegal movement of people and goods.[5] [6]
ICE maintains attachés at major U.S. diplomatic missions overseas . ICE does not patrol American borders; rather, that role is performed by the United States Border Patrol , a unit of U.S. Customs and Border Protection , which is a sister agency of ICE.
These agencies, are perfectly legal, they're even funded by Congress. Congress can get rid of them any time it likes by defunding them, but somehow, it does not. That might be because they do important and necessary work that benefits the American people. But to Business Insider and all the tech creeps it quotes, this is a total scandal.
Amazon, Google and Microsoft shouldn't be contracting with them?
Even as Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp basically contract with human-smuggling cartels, by allowing them operate freely on their platforms , and with their leaders (such as Mark Zuckerberg) openly enabling illegals and advocating for DACA recipients and thereby encouraging more illegal immigration?
One of these things is a scandal, and it's not the one with Amazon's name on it.
Now, nobody likes Google, Amazon, or Microsoft very much, but there's nothing wrong with their contracting with ICE or the Border Patrol to use their data-mining and other expertises, to help them catch lawbreaking criminals.
These companies have brought this phony-scandal situation upon themselves by trying to hide the contracts and sometimes making politically correct statements about the wonderfulness of illegals.
What they should be doing is openly contracting with these agencies and telling the open-borders mob to shove it. They should be sanctioning Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram for enabling human-smuggling cartels, given that these big-tech companies overlap with each other in services and they can probably do that, as well as standing for law and order.
We often speak of illegal immigrants as lawless, but this situation shows a greater problem of lawlessness. Those who contract lawfully with law enforcement shouldn't be hemming, hawing, apologizing and pretending they aren't as if they're the lawless ones. Nor should they be apologizing. Companies who enable cartels and illegal immigrant rackets are the ones who belong on the hot seat. They promote untold human misery with these acts and need to be held responsible. They deserve a few visits from ICE now that we think of it. Nobody, but nobody, whether at Amazon, Google, Microsoft or anywhere else should have to apologize or explain that they have contracted with lawful agencies serving the American public.
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Cartel Violence Spills Into US as Border Patrol Treats Gunshot Victims
Migrants land on U.S. soil after crossing the Rio Grande on July 01, 2021 in Roma, Texas. / Getty Images Joseph Simonson • October 8, 2021 4:13 pmBorder Patrol agents are dealing not just with surging migrant populations but also with victims of cartel violence who are being treated in the United States for wounds sustained in Mexico.
Customs and Border Protection disclosed on Thursday that agents found five migrants outside the border town of Hidalgo, Texas, who required emergency medical treatment due to gunshot wounds that are suspected to have taken place in Mexico. Those migrants were sent to a local hospital and their condition remains unknown.
"This encounter serves as yet another reminder of the dangers migrants face when they place their well-being in the hands of smugglers who are only interested in turning a profit," Rio Grande Valley Sector chief patrol agent Brian S. Hastings said in a statement. "Smugglers routinely place migrants in dangerous situations where they are at risk of drowning, exposure to the elements, and assault."
Customs and Border Protection did not disclose the status of the six other migrants found in the group, nor whether the injured would be deported after their treatment. Immigration and Customs Enforcement did not respond to a request for comment.
News of the injured migrants comes as warfare between rival cartels in Mexico is putting both American civilians and military personnel at risk. Fox News reported gunfire flying over the head of Texas Army National Guard soldiers standing guard near the border late Thursday night.
"Soldiers told us there have been cartel gunfights in Ciudad Miguel Aleman, the Mexican city across from Roma, TX, frequently in recent days and weeks," journalist Bill Melugin tweeted on Friday. "The soldiers heard gunfire and explosions two days ago and showed us this video of smoke billowing after the gunfight."
Since the beginning of 2021, Border Patrol agents have arrested 325 gang members, a sharp decrease from previous years even as general apprehensions have skyrocketed. In 2019, the agency arrested 976 gang members and 808 in 2018. More than 150 of this year's gang-related arrests have been in the Rio Grande Valley, the sector that has seen the brunt of this year's migrant surge.
Meanwhile, fentanyl seizures in 2021 have nearly doubled compared with last year. By the end of July, CBP reported its agents confiscated 9,337 pounds of the narcotic.
Republican Senators: Biden and Mayorkas Create ‘Open Borders’ John Moore/Getty Images 7:46
“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.”
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.
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 multiracial , cross-sex , non-racist , class-based , bipartisan , rational , persistent , and recognizes the solidarity Americans owe to each other.
Arrests of Deported Sex Offenders, Criminal Aliens Up 300 Percent Along Border Photo: U.S. Border Patrol/Big Bend Sector 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 Face .
