Saturday, January 22, 2022

JOE BIDEN AND HIS SEC OF OPEN BORDERS LYING LAWYER MAYORKAS - LIES, SPIN, AND GAMING THE LAWS LIKE TO PARASITE LYING LAWYERS - Biden’s Homeland Security Dept Recruiting Journalists To Help Spin Border Crisis

THERE IS NOTHING MORE DANGEROUS TO AMERICA THAN A PACK OF PARASITE LAWYERS GAMING THE LAWS.

Leftists like to keep criminals, rioters, and illegal aliens out on the streets where they can do damage to American society instead of behind bars where they belong.

HOW MANY LIES HAVE THESE TWO LAWYERS PERPETRATED AS THEY FLOODED AMERICA WITH UNSKILLED LABOR TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED AND VOTE DEMOCRAT FOR MORE. MOST OF THESE PEOPLE WILL END UP ON WELFARE OR IN JAILS.

Joe Biden’s Fractured Fairy Tales

The President’s talent for political fiction.

 

 25 comments

Joe Biden has been called a pathological liar, Pinocchio on steroids, delusional and totally detached from reality.

That’s unfair. Instead, let’s just say the president has a flair for fiction. Think of him as a master storyteller to put Hans Christian Andersen and the Brothers Grimm to shame. Here are a few of my favorite Biden bedtime stories:

  1. The Democrats Freedom to Vote Act will secure the right to vote for millions of Americans the GOP is trying to disenfranchise – Biden said Republicans working for election reform (secure ballots) are on the side of George Wallace not Martin Luther King. So, according to POTUS, to stand with the civil rights icon means supporting ballots mailed out en masse, casting ballots by putting them in drop-boxes, no requirement of signature verification, and no ID of any sort if you vote in person. DC now requires proof of vaccination and a photo ID to enter most indoor venues. That must mean that Mayor Bowser stands with George Wallace.
     
  2. White Supremacy is a threat to democracy – Did white supremacists riot in more than 23 states in 2020, burning whole city blocks? (Actually, that was BLM and Antifa.) Are there hundreds of churches preaching white supremacy? (No, but there are hundreds of mosques preaching jihad.) Are foreign governments supporting white nationalism? (Oh, you must mean the way Iran, Yemen and half a dozen other Islamic states fund jihad here?) White supremacy is the Democrats’ “look-over-here” ploy to distract the credulous from Islamic extremism and leftists subversion.
     
  3. What happened on January 6, 2021 was an insurrection or an attempted coup, if you prefer. – You betcha, struck at the very heart of democracy it did. Except, the only death directly attributable to the riot at the Capitol was an unarmed protestor shot by Capitol police. In fact, none of the rioters had guns. (How do you overthrow a government with supersonic jets by throwing folding chairs?) January 6, 2021 is the Democrats’ Reichstag fire. The goal is to criminalize the conservative movement and the half of the country that agrees with Donald Trump. The real threat to democracy isn’t the non-insurrection of 2021, but using the myth to crush dissent.
     
  4. America does not have a crime problem. In 2021, 12 cities reached new highs for the number of homicides. Police officers intentionally killed in the line of duty hit a 20-year high. Many cities are plagued with smash and grab. In Los Angeles, railroad cars are looted as they stand on sidings. Homeless crazies stab women to death and throw them onto subway tracks. There are mayors who pander to the criminal element, prosecutors who put those arrested back on the streets as fast as they’re processed and a president who all but calls cops racists. A crime problem -- where would that come from?
     
  5. America is racist – We fought a civil war with half-a-million dead to abolish slavery. Segregation would not have ended without the support of the white majority in the 1960s. You can say anything – and I do mean anything – about Caucasians and nobody blinks an eye. But use the “N-word” (even in jest) once and your life is destroyed. POTUS thinks COVID treatment should go to minorities first. We’re racist the way Outer Mongolia is anti-Semitic.
     
  6. Only the rich will pay the administration’s proposed tax hikes – This is a familiar refrain from the party of plunder. Every time they propose a new tax hike, we’re assured that only-the-top-1%, super-rich, multi-millionaires will pay it. How is it then that in 2018 the average filer paid $15,322 in federal income taxes alone – almost $46,000 for a family of three. Democrats use the rich as bait to get the middle class to stick its head in a noose.
     
  7. We can fight inflation with spending – This is like fighting wildfires by spraying gasoline from a crop duster. Spending drives inflation. The U.S. government is now running a deficit of 7.8% of GDP. Of course, it’s just a coincidence that in the same year Washington spent trillions to supposedly fight COVID, stimulate the economy, and repair infrastructure, inflation reached its highest level in almost 40 years.
     
  8. The rising cost of gas has nothing to do with the administration’s energy fantasies. As soon as he took office, President Green set about making America a net energy importer once again – the Keystone XL pipeline cancelled, new oil and gas leases on public land and waters prohibited, an impossible green agenda embraced (promises to cut emissions by as much as 52% from 2005 levels by 2030). We’ve paid for this with a 58% increase in the price of gas in the past year (home heating up 34%). Biden’s policies have worked wonders for the energy sector – Russia’s.
     
  9. There is no crisis at the Border – Think of what’s happening at the border not as a crisis but an opportunity -- for Democrats to import a new electorate. Those midnight flights to relocate thousands of illegals across the country is an urban legend. Pictures of illegal encampments just south of the border – an optical illusion. Just ask Vice President Harris. She was close to the border -- once.

Oh, and the pullout from Afghanistan? It was easily the most successful military operation since the D-Day landings.

As Sinbad the Biden spins his yarns, in thousands of ways a million times a day, life gets harder and harder for the average American. Unlike Biden’s fractured fairy tales, Rapunzel and the Little Mermaid didn’t come with trillion-dollar price tags attached.

Biden’s Homeland Security Dept Recruiting Journalists To Help Spin Border Crisis

With GOP poised to retake power in 2023, immigration agencies seek writers to draft 'responses to congressional inquiries'

Getty Images
 • January 21, 2022 4:10 pm

SHARE

The Biden administration is actively recruiting journalists to provide communications and public relations services on behalf of the Department of Homeland Security as it struggles to contain the illegal immigration crisis on the southern border.

This week, DHS posted three job openings for the position of "writer-editor"—one at Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and two in the public affairs office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The timing and job descriptions suggest the Biden administration is already preparing for the onslaught of immigration-related congressional inquiries that will presumably occur if Republicans regain control of the House and Senate in 2023.

CBP, for example, is seeking a writer-editor whose duties will include drafting "responses to congressional inquiries on complex issues related to the enforcement of legislation." The position, which comes with a generous starting salary of between $89,834 and $116,788, will also involve "presenting information to maximize understanding and minimize controversy among the intended audiences."

ICE, meanwhile, is looking for two writers whose duties will include "creating talking points" for the senior agency officials who will presumably be called to testify before Congress if Republicans take power. According to the job listing, qualified candidates must have experience "following guidance from the leadership and adhering to the views of the organization's leadership." The position, which comes with an even more generous starting salary of between $126,233 and $164,102, requires a "secret" level security clearance and is classified as "high risk," which refers to its "potential to damage the public's trust in the Federal Government."

Despite the Biden administration's reluctance to address the border crisis, immigration remains a top concern among American voters. According to Gallup, immigration has consistently ranked among the top four issues Americans cite as the "most important problem" facing the country. Meanwhile, President Joe Biden's top priority—so-called voting rights, or "election reform"—barely registers as a top concern for voters.

Just one in three voters approve of Biden's handling of immigration, according to the RealClearPolitics polling average. Perhaps they are turned off by Vice President Kamala Harris's egregiously flippant attitude toward the situation. Fiscal year 2021 saw the highest level of migrant apprehensions (1.7 million) at the southern border in U.S. history, but because the Biden administration is already dealing with several significant crises, and because the mainstream media are reluctant to cover the issue for ideological reasons, immigration has largely been absent from the political conversation.

That will presumably change in the increasingly likely event that Republicans are victorious in this year's midterm elections and take charge of the congressional hearing schedule in 2023. If the DHS job listings are in fact part of an effort to confront that eventuality, it would be a rare display of competence and preparation from an administration that has proven itself hopelessly inept when it comes to solving the problems Americans actually care about.

Following Free Beacon Story, DHS Reveals Report on Illegal Immigrant Population

Biden admin failed to produce report on visa overstays in 2021

US Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas (Getty Images)
 • January 7, 2022 12:50 pm

SHARE

President Joe Biden's Department of Homeland Security quietly released a long-awaited report on Tuesday evening detailing large segments of the illegal immigrant population that it had been keeping from the public, but backdated the report to make it look as if the agency had posted it online when it was expected last year.

The agency posted its 2020 Entry/Exit Overstay Report, which provides an exact accounting of foreign travelers with expired visas who are no longer legally allowed to be in the United States. The release comes two months after the Washington Free Beacon reported in November on the administration's failure to post the report, which the executive branch is legally required to produce annually to Congress and has in the past been promptly shared with the public. While the administration had released the report to select members of Congress, it had yet to be released to the public—a major departure from prior transparency standards.

Though the report wasn't released until Jan. 4, 2022, the DHS website backdated the release date on its website to show it was posted on Sept. 30, 2021, the date the report was submitted to Congress. In previous years, the release date on DHS's website reflects when the report was posted publicly and not when the report was first given to Congress.

DHS did not respond to a request for comment on the decision to backdate the report.

The failure to publicly release the report elicited anger from Republicans on Capitol Hill, who voiced concerns that the administration was withholding the report during negotiations over the White House spending proposals to hide the number of migrants who could receive amnesty under the president's Build Back Better plan. Sens. Josh Hawley (R., Mo.) and James Lankford (R., Okla.) in December sent a letter to DHS chief Alejandro Mayorkas demanding its public release.

"We are concerned that DHS did not publish the FY 2020 Entry/Exit Overstay Report on a public website out of concerns that this report would complicate the conversation around the ‘Plan C' amnesty proposals in the Democrats’ partisan reconciliation package," Hawley and Lankford wrote. "Plan C" amnesty refers to the third attempt by Democratic lawmakers to get the Senate parliamentarian to allow the inclusion of immigration reform in their budget reconciliation bill.

The now-public 2020 report documents the "highest ‘suspected in country overstay rate' of all the public reports out there," one immigration expert who viewed the report told the Free Beacon. According to the data provided by DHS, 584,885 foreign nationals overstayed their visa, compared with 497,272 in 2019.

That record-breaking overstay rate is due to "the COVID-19 outbreak," Mayorkas says in the report, calling it "an anomaly when compared with the prevailing trend" of declining overstays over the years. He wrote that DHS "will continue to publicly release this report, at a minimum, on an annual basis," ignoring the fact that no report was published publicly last year.

Those identified as potential visa overstays in the report are not necessarily targeted for removal by immigration authorities. Congress mandated that the report be released annually to the public due to the belief that "the large number of annual in-country alien overstays threatens national security and the integrity of legal immigration."

Trump targeted visa overstay rates in an April 2019 executive order that directed DHS to "engage with the governments of countries with [high] total overstay [rates]."

The 2021 fiscal year saw more recorded illegal border crossings than at any time in U.S. history. November saw an increase in border crossings after a three-month downward trend.

Biden's handling of the visa overstay report is part of a broader culture of secrecy from the White House on the topic of immigration. The Free Beacon reported on Wednesday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement has yet to release its annual report detailing the number of illegal immigrants removed from the United States in 2021.

Biden Admin Unable To Locate 50,000 Migrants Released Into US in 2021

Numbers contradict testimony by DHS chief Alejandro Mayorkas

Immigrants cross the Rio Grande in September / Reuters
 • January 12, 2022 6:10 pm

SHARE

Nearly half of all migrants that Border Patrol released into the United States in 2021 cannot be located, according to data from the Department of Homeland Security.

More than 100,000 migrants were released into the United States from the southern border between March 21 and Aug. 31, 2021, and given a notice to report to Immigration and Customs Enforcement within 60 days, according to the data. Nearly half of those—47,705—did not check in, making their status and location unknown to immigration authorities.

The release of the data comes after Sen. Ron Johnson (R., Wis.) in August pressed Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas for an accounting of all migrants released into the United States. Mayorkas responded to the letter on Jan. 11, nearly three months after Johnson’s request.

Following a March 2021 policy directive from President Biden, migrants were given "Notices to Report" to an immigration office rather than "Notices to Appear" at an immigration court. Proponents of the change in policy say it was necessary due to the 1.5 million backlogged cases at the nation's immigration courts. But critics say report notices made it easier for migrants to dodge Homeland Security.

The distinction between a "Notice to Report" and "Notice to Appear" is crucial, with the latter holding "real legal effect," according to Center for Immigration Studies immigration expert Andrew Arthur. Should a migrant miss an order to appear in court, an immigration judge could order that person's immediate removal. "Notices to Report," however, effectively operate on an honor system, with little recourse for the federal government to punish the offender.

According to the data provided by the Department of Homeland Security, just 15.6 percent of the over 100,000 migrants released into the country were issued removal proceedings.

The migrant numbers released contradict statements by Mayorkas in September, when he appeared in front of the Senate. During an exchange with Sen. James Lankford (R., Okla.), Mayorkas said that a vast majority of migrants given "Notices to Report" had checked in with immigration officials following their apprehension.

"Approximately 75 percent have indeed reported within the time frame or within their reporting time frame," he said. "And as to those who have failed to report, that would qualify as an enforcement priority of ours."

The Department of Homeland Security earlier this month released a report that details the number of foreigners who overstayed their visas in 2020. That report found that 2020 saw the highest number of suspected visa overstays on record, with 584,886 foreign nationals living in the United States longer than federal law allows.

The Washington Free Beacon revealed earlier this month that the Biden administration has yet to release a report that outlines the number of illegal immigrants removed from the United States in 2021.

Illegal Alien Gets 20 Years in Prison for Murdering 24-Year-Old Alabama Woman

Screen Shot 2022-01-21 at 4.02.05 PM
MCSO
1:35

An illegal alien has been sentenced to just 20 years in prison after murdering a 24-year-old woman in Marshall County, Alabama.

Edgar Almanza-Zarazua, a 25-year-old illegal alien from Mexico, had fled back to Mexico after having murdered 24-year-old Gloria Stephanie Palomec in June of 2016. Months later, in October 2016, Zarazua was hit with murder and attempted murder charges though police searched for him for years.

A break in the hunt for Zarazua came after he was accused of murdering an individual in Mexico and placed in a local jail.

The Marshall’s County Sheriff’s Office worked with the United States Marshal’s Service to extradite Zarazua to the U.S. in January 2020 where he was flown to Birmingham, Alabama, and held on a $3.5 million bail.

Though Zarazua was initially charged with murder in the death of Palomec, he pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of manslaughter this month and was given a 20-year prison sentence by Judge Tim Riley — the maximum sentence for such a charge.

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency has a detainer on Zarazua so that when he completes his prison sentence, he will be turned over to federal agents for arrest and deportation.

John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here


THERE IS NOTHING MORE DANGEROUS TO AMERICA THAN A PACK OF PARASITE LAWYERS GAMING THE LAWS.

Taxpayer-Funded Lawyers for Illegals

So-called “deportation defense” is the next big thing in radical causes.

 

Leftists like to keep criminals, rioters, and illegal aliens out on the streets where they can do damage to American society instead of behind bars where they belong.

Leftist groups like the Kamala Harris-endorsed Minnesota Freedom Fund, National Lawyers Guild, and the ACORN successor group, Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment (MORE), set up bail funds for rioters to get them back out on the streets causing mayhem.

Now radicals are doing the same thing for illegal aliens.

The best friend of illegal aliens right now is the Brooklyn, New York-based Vera Institute of Justice, which spends much of its resources freeing illegals who often fail to appear for immigration hearings, from immigration detention facilities.

The extremist open-borders and anti-law and order narratives on Vera’s website, reeking of anti-Americanism, read like they were written by Noam Chomsky.

According to Vera: “In its scale and brutality, the American justice system is a global aberration[,]”; “The United States incarcerates more people than any other country in the world[,]”; and “People of color are incarcerated at an unmistakably higher rate than white people.”

The group’s mission is “[t]o end the overcriminalization and mass incarceration of people of color, immigrants, and people experiencing poverty.”

Vera was founded in 1961 by philanthropist Louis Schweitzer and magazine editor Herbert Sturz, who “recognized the injustice of a bail system in New York City that locked people up simply for being poor.” Schweitzer died in 1971. Sturz, who died in June 2021, served on the board of leftist billionaire George Soros’s grantmaking behemoth, the Open Society Institute, since renamed Open Society Foundations.

Originally called the Manhattan Bail Project, it focused on helping low-income New Yorkers meet bail conditions they could not afford. Nowadays, much of Vera’s work is concerned with immigration-related issues. “Because very few can afford to hire a lawyer, most immigrants face deportation proceedings alone and without any legal defense,” according to Vera.

It is a well-heeled nonprofit that gets much of its funding from the federal government. In fiscal 2019 it employed 334 people, took in $178.5 million, and ended with year with $97.3 million.

Vera is a pioneer in the field of the “deportation defense program,” which can be defined as any initiative that provides legal representation to a non-citizen in deportation proceedings, typically at little or no cost to the client.

This deportation defense movement grew out of the sanctuary city movement, which gave illegal aliens permission to rob, rape, and murder Americans by, among other things, stigmatizing immigration enforcement. Both of these activist agglomerations demonize U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

These two movements “come from the same philosophy, namely that non-citizens should have the same or even superior rights to those afforded to legal citizens,” said Dale L. Wilcox, executive director and general counsel of IRLI, the legal arm of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR). IRLI is a public interest law firm founded in 1986 that describes itself as being “dedicated to achieving responsible immigration policies that serve our national interest.”

“In this case, if a citizen were in need of legal services for a civil matter, they would be required to find an attorney at their own expense. Aliens facing deportation in a civil matter are being given taxpayer-funded legal representation that citizens would not get. The residents of the community did not have an opportunity to vote on this; it was done as a deal between local government officials and groups like Vera,” Wilcox said.

"Sanctuary policy opposes the practice that aliens with criminal records who are in city or county jails can be detained at the request of ICE for transfer of custody and possible deportation,” he said. “This comes from agreements between local sheriffs' departments and ICE to safeguard a community. Sanctuary laws would nullify those agreements because one or more local politicians want to terminate them for self-serving partisan reasons, in many cases as a result of lobbying efforts from groups like CASA de Maryland and Vera.”

Vera favors expanding the right to taxpayer-provided counsel and supports the creation of a taxpayer-funded federal defender service to provide legal representation to everyone in immigration proceedings who can’t afford a lawyer.

But until that day arrives, Vera is working with city and county governments across America to establish programs that offer free legal representation at taxpayer expense to illegal aliens fighting deportation, according to a recent report from IRLI, which states that Vera “claims that, out of the more than 50 publicly funded local and state deportation defense programs across the U.S., its SAFE Initiative (Safety & Fairness for Everyone) is formal partners with 22 of these communities.”

IRLI estimates that a minimum of $5.6 million will be spent by taxpayers living in these communities on these programs in fiscal 2022.

“These programs are an insult to every law-abiding American citizen and legal resident,” according to Wilcox.

“Our laws clearly state that non-citizens charged with civil offenses do not have a right to legal representation. Yet we have radical anti-borders groups starting these programs and sticking unknowing citizens with the bill. It’s outrageous.”

According to IRLI, “under U.S. law, illegal aliens and other non-citizens facing deportation orders do not have a right to legal representation because immigration law is a civil matter, not a criminal one.”

At first it may be jarring to read that would-be deportees “do not have a right to legal representation” – that just doesn’t seem right. This is America, after all.

The phrase doesn’t actually mean what you may think it means. Of course, people accused of immigration law violations have a right to retain counsel to act for them in legal proceedings but they do not have a right to the services of a lawyer paid for by the government.

Leftist groups like Vera want to change that.

They hope to build on a sliver of a legal right that is known as “Civil Gideon.”

In Gideon v. Wainwright (1963), the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution applies the Sixth Amendment, which states that a defendant in criminal proceedings has a right to “the Assistance of Counsel,” to the states, thereby creating a right for criminal defendants unable to afford their own lawyers to have the state appoint and pay for attorneys on their behalf.

The left-leaning American Bar Association, asserts that there is such a thing as a “civil right to counsel,” but acknowledges it is not a widely accepted concept.

Civil right to counsel, or “Civil Gideon,” is the idea that “people who are unable to afford lawyers in legal matters involving basic human needs—such as shelter, sustenance, safety, health, and child custody—should have access to a lawyer at no charge,” according to the ABA.

While this right to counsel “exists in criminal matters, it exists at present only in very limited circumstances in civil matters.”

Vera, meanwhile, “has served as the main catalyst for the proliferation” of existing deportation defense programs for illegal aliens, according to IRLI.

Vera doles out one-time grants to local governments that create these programs in the hope they become permanent. Its first program began in New York City in 2013 and was called the New York Immigrant Family Unity Project.

Programs like it have multiplied since 2013, IRLI reports. In July 2021, Vera boasted that various “communities successful[ly] demand public investment in representation for immigrants.”

Vera states that in California, Santa Ana “increased and made permanent funding for its universal representation program,” and Long Beach “committed to leveraging federal sources of stimulus and recovery funding to aid an increase in public funding for the Long Beach Justice Fund.” San Diego began a new $5 million legal defense program, “the first of its kind in a border county.”

Indianapolis initiated “a new immigration legal defense fund,” and Philadelphia boosted fiscal 2022 spending on the Pennsylvania Immigrant Family Unity Project (PAIFUP), according to Vera.

Philadelphia won’t call itself a sanctuary city, opting instead to dub itself a “Welcoming City,” according to a statement from 2018: “We do not allow our City employees, including police officers, to ask about the documentation status of people they encounter.”

In 2019 Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney, a Democrat, unveiled PAIFUP, a joint effort between Vera and the city to combat all the imagined “hate” coming out of the Trump administration. Local taxpayers shelled out the initial $100,000, and Vera and the Samuel S. Fels Fund kicked in  an additional $200,000, IRLI reports.

PAIFUP was in financial trouble during the pandemic lockdowns of 2020 when Philadelphia was poised to eliminate its funding but city leaders “somehow not only found a way to maintain the program amid a financial crisis, but doubled taxpayer commitment to $200,000 for next fiscal year.”

PAIFUP acknowledged it had “no eligibility criteria other than income and a lack of private counsel” and that it did not “exclude individuals based on prior criminal convictions, residency, or any other reason.”

Lots more government money is in the pipeline for the Vera Institute of Justice.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) awarded Vera a $158 million taxpayer-funded contract in 2021 to assist unaccompanied minors in avoiding deportation from the U.S., IRLI told Fox News.

ILRI investigator Jason Hopkins told the media outlet that Vera states on its website that it “is committed to ensuring that every person facing deportation receives legal representation regardless of … history with the criminal legal system.”

“That really opens up the door to—is this an illegal alien who’s been charged, convicted of murder, rape and any other heinous crime?” Hopkins said.

“Vera is very open that they really don’t care about their criminal history."

No comments: