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Taxpayers Paying to Fly Criminal Migrants into the Interior
Biden ‘turning ICE ERO into an unofficial travel coordination agency’
On January 27, Bill Melugin from Fox News reported that illegal migrants — including some with criminal records — are being released at the Southwest border in Texas. That’s bad. What’s worse, however, is that taxpayers are paying the fees for some of those migrants to travel into the interior, with one ICE agent complaining: “The Biden administration has turned ICE ERO [Enforcement and Removal Operations] into an unofficial travel coordination agency”.
DHS “Discreetly” Releasing Illegal Migrants. This report follows video from Brownsville, Texas, of single adults — mostly males — being released and transported to flights at Valley International Airport in Harlingen, Texas, to hop planes to Atlanta, Houston, and Miami.
An unidentified ICE agent told Melugin that “this has been discreetly going on since last spring”, and that his agency “has been releasing migrants with misdemeanor criminal records including assault, DUI, drug possession, and illegal reentry”. When Melugin asked ICE about this scheme, the agency did not deny it.
DHS Lacks Authority to Release Illegal Migrants and Certain Criminals. There is so much wrong here, and by “wrong”, I mean in blatant violation of clear mandates in the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA).
As I have explained many times before, DHS has two choices when it apprehends illegal migrants at the border. Section 235(b)(1) of the INA allows the department to process those migrants for “expedited removal”, meaning that they can be quickly removed without appearing before an immigration judge.
If those migrants in expedited removal are found to have a credible fear of returning to the home country, however, they are to be placed into removal proceedings where they can seek asylum from an immigration judge.
The other option for DHS, under section 235(b)(2) of the INA, is to place those migrants directly into removal proceedings.
Regardless of whether those aliens are processed under section 235(b)(1) or (2) of the INA, however, they are supposed to be detained until they are granted relief from removal or protection on the one hand or removed on the other. They cannot be released.
DHS apparently (and I only say “apparently” because the Biden administration isn’t publicly explaining exactly what it is doing) believes that it can release those aliens under section 236(a)(1) of the INA. That provision allows DHS to either detain aliens that it arrests on immigration warrants, or alternatively to release those aliens on a bond of at least $1,500 or “conditional parole”.
Back in October, however, I explained that section 236(a) of the INA does not apply to illegal migrants encountered by CBP at the border because they are not arrested on warrants — those are “warrantless” arrests under section 287(a)(2) of the INA. The Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit — whose jurisdiction covers Texas — appears to be headed toward the same conclusion.
Even if, however, DHS could release illegal migrants under section 236(a) of the INA, section 236(c) of the INA requires DHS to detain certain criminal aliens. Aliens with drug possession convictions are subject to such “mandatory detention”, and other crimes Melugin referenced may be.
Taxpayers “Footing the Bill for Migrant Travel”. Melugin also asked the ICE agent whether “U.S. taxpayers were footing the bill for migrant travel”. The agent explained that they work with nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), which then go to the families of those migrants to ask for an address in the United States and for a bus or plane ticket for the migrants “to the city of their choosing”.
“If that doesn’t happen, the NGO will buy the ticket themselves, then bill the federal government for reimbursement.” Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen may be writing the check, but the money is coming out of your pocket.
ICE “Morale Has Never Been Lower”. Needless to say, this revolving door at the border has taken a toll on the ICE agents who are unwilling participants in this “catch and transport” scheme.
The agent told Melugin “that he feels the Biden administration has turned ICE ERO into an unofficial travel coordination agency, and morale has never been lower”.
Regrettably, that is a natural reaction, but the administration’s actions have not been unexpected.
Back in late May, the Washington Post ran an article captioned “Biden administration reins in street-level enforcement by ICE as officials try to refocus agency mission”, as if ICE officers under the Trump administration had been grabbing random people off the street and deporting them (they weren’t).
Here is the key line in that report, however: “ICE under President Biden is an agency on probation.” Respectfully, ICE ERO under the Biden administration is not on probation — rather, ICE officers are being actively and deliberately punished by being forced to violate their oaths.
Here is ERO’s mission statement: “ERO protects the homeland through the arrest and removal of [aliens] who undermine the safety of our communities and the integrity of our immigration laws.”
It is beyond cavil that drunk drivers and criminals with assault records “undermine the safety of our communities”, while serial border offenders not only “undermine the integrity of our immigration laws” — they blatantly flaunt them.
Why is ICE being punished? It appears to be nothing more than simple math in the minds of many of the president’s advisors: Donald Trump liked immigration enforcement; ICE does immigration enforcement; Trump = bad; so through the transitive property, ICE = bad.
Of course, ICE never did anything Congress didn’t tell them to do, but in the opinion of the White House it deserves to be punished by being forced to do the opposite of what its agents signed up for. Instead of keeping illegal migrants out of the United States, ICE must help them get in.
That said, you are being punished, too. The citizens of the United States elected the representatives who wrote the immigration mandates the Biden administration is now ignoring, and American taxpayers are now being forced to pay to send illegal migrants — including criminals — into communities nationwide.
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Tom Cotton: Joe Biden Will Keep Foreign Drug Dealers in U.S.
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) slammed President Joe Biden’s administration amid evidence that his deputies want to minimize the deportation of illegal migrants who are caught dealing deadly drugs.
“It’s the Biden administration policy to allow illegal aliens to stay in America even after they: -Deal fentanyl and heroin -Commit fraud -Commit assault -Drive drunk -Launder money,” Cotton tweeted February 8.
“More than 80,000 Americans died from drug overdoses last year. And the Biden administration just announced that deporting illegal alien cartel members who deal with fentanyl and heroin is no longer a priority for his administration,” he added.
For more than 20 years, many Americans have been killed by drunk-driving illegals, including many killed after federal and state officials decide not to deport illegals.
It's the Biden administration policy to allow illegal aliens to stay in America even after they:
-Deal fentanyl and heroin
-Commit fraud
-Commit assault
-Drive drunk
-Launder moneyhttps://t.co/Vr0RhYAJQV
— Tom Cotton (@TomCottonAR) February 8, 2021
The Washington Post reported February 7 how Biden’s deputies are changing deportation priorities for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency:
While ICE’s new operational plans are not yet final, interim instructions sent to senior officials point to a major shift in enforcement. Agents will no longer seek to deport immigrants for crimes such as driving under the influence and assault, and will focus instead on national security threats, recent border crossers and people completing prison and jail terms for aggravated felony convictions.
“Generally, these convictions would not include drug based crimes (less serious offenses), simple assault, DUI, money laundering, property crimes, fraud, tax crimes, solicitation, or charges without convictions,” acting director Tae Johnson told senior officials in a Thursday email advising them on how to operate while new guidelines are finalized.
“The priority for the enforcement of immigration laws will be on those who are imposing a national security threat, of course, a public safety threat, and on recent arrivals,” Biden spokeswoman Jen Psaki said in the February 8 White House press briefing:
Nobody is saying that DUIs or assaults are acceptable behavior, and those arrested for such activities should be tried and sentenced as appropriate by local law enforcement. But we’re talking about the prioritization of who is going to be deported from the country.
The priority list for deportations also excludes migrants who take American’ jobs and wages. This policy will largely abandon the task of protecting Americans’ right to a national labor market.
Biden has repeatedly declared he wants to make the nation’s immigration system more “fair” to migrants. Since January 20, he has minimized deportations, stopped construction of the border wall, offered an amnesty to migrants, broken anti-migration deals with three counties, and has lowered legal barriers to migration.
However, he has said little or nothing about how he will protect Americans’ rights, wages, safe streets, and reasonable housing from foreign criminals or job seekers. A February 2 statement said:
President Biden’s strategy is centered on the basic premise that our country is safer, stronger, and more prosperous with a fair, safe and orderly immigration system that welcomes immigrants, keeps families together, and allows people—both newly arrived immigrants and people who have lived here for generations—to more fully contribute to our country.
Amid Biden’s inrush of migrants and shutdown of deportations, more than 20 million Americans are unemployed or are stuck in part-time jobs.
Biden is also rolling back protections for American graduates, who have lost at least one million jobs because Fortune 500 CEOs and their subcontractors have hired more than 1 million foreign graduates for jobs sought by Americans.
In a separate tweet, Cotton lambasted Biden’s team for dropping a rule that would protect American graduate from losing jobs to H-1B graduate visa-workers who are willing to work for low wages in the hope of getting green cards:
Big Tech abuses the H-1B visa program to hire cheap foreign labor instead of Americans. That isn’t good for American workers, but the Biden administration is letting companies get away with it.https://t.co/YIolIoyqJl
— Tom Cotton (@SenTomCotton) February 5, 2021
For years, a wide variety of pollsters have shown deep and broad opposition to labor migration — or the hiring of temporary contract workers into the jobs sought by young U.S. graduates.
The multiracial, cross-sex, non-racist, class-based, priority-driven, and solidarity-themed opposition to labor migration coexists with generally favorable personal feelings toward legal immigrants and immigration in theory.
Joe Biden's deputies attack Americans' right to their own national labor market, by quietly barring the deportation of illegal migrants who take Americans' wages and jobs.
That labor policy helps corporate donors.
But hurts blue collars & college grads. https://t.co/RNCMFv4aJh
— Neil Munro (@NeilMunroDC) February 8, 2021
Report: ICE Releases Border-Crossing Terrorist Suspect from Venezuela Despite FBI Recommendation
A Lebanon-born Venezuelan on the FBI’s terrorism watchlist due to “highly derogatory information” is free in Michigan
When President Joe Biden’s government ended interior deportations of illegally present foreign nationals in America last year, one group left on a very short list of potential expellees was “suspected terrorists”.
But a new and so-far undisputed news report has it that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) headquarters in Washington, D.C., ordered the release of a Lebanon-born Venezuelan named Issam Bazzi who swam the Rio Grande into Brownsville, Texas, and then was flagged as being on the FBI’s terrorism watchlist.
All this and more comes from former New York Times writer and Pulitzer Prize winner Charlie LeDuff, reporting in a January 27 story for the online news outlet Deadline Detroit. LeDuff’s report stated that ICE HQ overrode FBI recommendations to keep the 50-year-old Bazzi in custody on the Texas border because of “highly derogatory Information” and that he posed a flight risk.
The reason ICE headquarters intervened for the release of a suspected border-crossing terrorist from Hezbollah-friendly Venezuela whose intelligence file contained highly derogatory information?
Concern that he might catch Covid-19 in the detention center because he was overweight, LeDuff reported.
Instead of extended detention, investigation, and deportation that are all supposed to be in store for every FBI watch-listed migrant caught crossing the border, Bazzi is living free on his own recognizance in Dearborn, Mich., pending the outcome of an asylum case that will take years to conclude because of a backlog.
Someone in the federal government apparently was left so aggrieved or fearful by ICE headquarters’ intervention that they leaked classified, “sensitive government documents” about the episode to LeDuff. He went with it after the FBI and ICE stonewalled his calls for comment.
Those documents describe Bazzi as a person with highly derogatory information and ties to an unspecified terrorist group, LeDuff wrote (although it is likely Hezbollah, as I’ll explain shortly).
In October, Bazzi flew with his wife and daughter from the Venezuelan capital of Caracas to Monterrey, Mexico, a typical travel plan for record numbers of Venezuelans fleeing the economy destroyed by the military dictatorship of Nicolas Maduro and now swelling the mass migration crisis at the U.S. southern border.
Some 24,819 Venezuelans crossed in December 2021, well more than double the number in just September and compared to 206 in December 2020, CBP data show. Some who got in before March 2021 will get to stay under a benefit the Biden administration announced called Temporary Protected Status. Most who came in after March still get to stay while they pursue asylum on grounds of persecution by Venezuela’s government.
The Bazzi family was amid this latter throng. In November 2021, they hired a smuggler who crossed them from Matamoros, Mexico, into Brownsville.
A National Security Problem Emerges in the New Venezuelan Border Migration
If LeDuff’s story is true — and, again, no one has challenged it — the Bazzi river crossing and release to the Detroit area reveal a national security threat embedded in this new Venezuelan traffic not previously considered. It is a threat with which U.S. homeland security will be challenged to contend, competently, due to the mass migration crisis. That crisis has reached historic proportions and appears to have overburdened almost every border management control system in the American arsenal, including counterterrorism programs that should have kept Bazzi in custody.
As I report in America’s Covert Border War: The Untold Story of the Nation’s Battle to Prevent Jhadist Infiltration, such finds trigger in-person interrogations by federal officers and further investigation to determine threat level, purpose, and other potential collaborators. A routine database check at the Texas border apparently showed Bazzi was on the FBI’s terrorism watchlist. In line with those protocols, after at least one federal in-person interview, the FBI recommended to ICE that Bazzi remain in detention as a flight risk, LeDuff cited the leaked documents as saying. That would be the norm.
Usually, anyone caught at the border who is already flagged as a suspected jihadist terrorist is deported, I report in my book. No known public reporting has shown that migrants on the watchlist were simply released on their own recognizance.
But very abnormally, ICE headquarters ordered him released on or about December 9 with a personal recognizance bond and honor-system promise that he voluntarily report to Detroit immigration offices in March. In this, Bazzi was treated like any other of the hundreds of thousands of migrants who are not on the FBI terrorism watchlist that the Biden administration has let in since taking office,.
Evidence Stacking Up that Border Counterterrorism Systems Are Faltering
Last year, the U.S. Border Patrol apprehended some 14 migrants who crossed the southern border and were on the FBI terrorism watchlist, according to former Chief Border Patrol Agent Rodney Scott. This number would not account for an undisclosed number of others almost certainly also caught south of the border on the routes through Panama, Costa Rica, and Mexico. And they often enough are.
Americans can only hope that, in the current mass migration crisis that started and went on throughout 2021, none of those 14 were released into the country on their own recognizance to pursue asylum claims. All should have been deported in line with standard procedure. Deportation also should have happened to all of those caught by American allied countries south of the border, as Mexico typically does and also as Costa Rica and Panama do, working closely with the Americans.
The Bazzi case is only the second case I have noted where these wise protocols have broken down.
One explanation why Bazzi was released might be that the border crisis of historic proportions in the American experience is finally breaking down the systems that catch migrant-terrorists that I described in America’s Covert Border War.
The first case seems to have happened In late December, in Mexico. I reported that Mexico’s government released a Yemeni migrant it knew, from a previous encounter, had flagged on the FBI’s terrorism watchlist. CBP considered the Yemeni to be a “Category 5” member of a terrorist organization.
Mexico first captured Ahmed Mohammed Ahmed in April 2021 and, in line with American protocols, deported him back to Yemen. But an American law enforcement intelligence source told CIS that Mexican authorities left him in Europe at the airport and returned to Mexico. Ahmed abandoned his flight and returned to Mexico, too. The Mexicans caught him again in July 2021.
Mexican immigration, by then utterly swamped with huge and historic volumes of migrants going to the southern border, held him for nearly five months. But then they had to clear their own detention centers. They flushed out Ahmed with everyone else, the law enforcement source told CIS. Like any Central American or Haitian migrant, the Yemeni was told to voluntarily report in once a week to Mexican immigration, but of course, he disappeared instead.
That release presented a sharp departure from normal collaborative protocols with American intelligence, wherein the two governments together would make sure such a migrant was deported and never released.
The Americans felt compelled to issue a bulletin warning law enforcement in the Del Rio, Texas, area to be on the lookout for the man.
Of Venezuela’s Terrorism Nests and Rolling Luggage on the Rio Grande
Venezuelans arriving in Tapachula, Mexico, in January 2021 from the Rio Suchiate river border with Guatemala. Photo by Todd Bensman.
Iran and its Lebanon-based proxy, the U.S.-designated terrorist organization Hezbollah, maintain deep ties with Venezuela’s central government, through the nation’s wealthy Lebanese diaspora. The Iran-Hezbollah presence inside Venezuela, working within Lebanese clan structures, dates to when the late leftist dictator Hugo Chavez took power in 1999 and appointed many Venezuela-born Lebanese to powerful cabinet posts, including offices of immigration, foreign trade, and tourism. That presence and influence, backed in recent years by Russia, continued after Chavez died to the present-day regime of Nicolas Maduro.
Joseph Humire, executive director of the Center for a Secure and Free Society with contacts inside Venezuela, reports extensively about how Iran and Hezbollah work closely with the Maduro regime building transnational organized crime, human smuggling, and financial networks throughout South America and into the United States.
He told CIS that American and Israeli intelligence services have long known that Iran, Hezbollah, and Venezuela’s Lebanese government officials provide these foreign operatives with elaborate state-sponsored cover identities and access to its state-run airline and banking systems, enabling them to move freely in the Western Hemisphere.
The state-issued fake identities have allowed terrorist operatives to travel all over the region and world developing illicit businesses and building terrorism capability, without the true origins and identities of these operatives becoming known, Humire said.
“I have examined a couple dozen cases of individuals who got the full suite of records enabling establishment of identities,” Humire said. “New birth certificates, passports, banking, and property all get put under these names so that that person now has a document ledger saying they were born in Venezuela.”
Clandestine agents of Hezbollah’s notorious Unit 910 are periodically uncovered inside the United States, including, as I have extensively reported, in the Detroit area.
Humire said he does not recognize the name Bazzi, which LeDuff provided in his story.
But he said his organization has uncovered links between the major human smuggling organization that is moving significant numbers of Venezuelans right now and the state-run airline that most often flies the migrants into Guatemala or Mexico for their journey into the United States.
LeDuff reported that Bazzi flew from Caracas, Venezuela, to Monterrey, Mexico, which is known to be a typical leg of the Venezuelan migration route. Many Venezuelans are, almost comically, seen dragging rolling luggage over the Guatemala border river or up the Texas banks of the Rio Grande.
With regard to Bazzi and thousands of others reaching the American southern border, he described a problem for American law enforcement: “The real big question is, is he just a Venezuelan Lebanese who is part of the community where everyone is fleeing the conditions in the country? Or that he is one of those terror figures whose movement the [Maduro] government facilitated with new identities?”
“American homeland security”, Humire said, “is going to have a hard time figuring that out.”
The Bazzi case, he said, “may be the first proven case where individuals fitting this background are moving through the corridor. If this is not the case with him, it still is going to happen sooner or later.”
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