Video from the Texas Department of Public Safety shows what appears to be a Gulf Cartel gunman pointing an AK-47 rifle at a helicopter aircrew as they patrolled the border in Starr County. The gunman eventually flees and Mexican law enforcement responds to the area.
The Texas DPS helicopter aircrew was conducting air patrol operations in Starr County on March 18 when they observed a gunman in Mexico pointing what appeared to be an AK-47 rifle at the helicopter, a DPS spokesman told Breitbart Texas in response to an inquiry. The gunman eventually fled to a cartel hideout.
DPS contacted the Government of Mexico for assistance. Mexican military members responded to the location and found the hideout and multiple cartel members. The Mexican military engaged in a gun battle with the cartel members. The shootout left five cartel members dead and four others in custody, DPS officials reported.
Mexican military officials seized four rifles and a suspect vehicle.
DPS officials are working with the Government of Mexico for possible extradition of the gunmen to the United States where they could face state or federal charges relating to pointing a firearm at an aircraft.
Governor Greg Abbott deployed Texas DPS resources to the border under Operation Lone Star to help curb the massive spike in migrant crossings resulting from the Biden Administration’s policy changes relating to border security and immigration.
In late February, the Texas Military Department and DPS issued warnings to law enforcement officers and soldiers working under Operation Lone Star, Breitbart Texas reported . The statement warned those working the border security mission about possible retaliation from the Matamoros faction of the Gulf Cartel, Operation Lone Star, according to information obtained by Breitbart Texas. The warnings follow the arrest of Alfredo “El Contador” Cardenas, the head of the Gulf Cartel organization in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, and Obed Pena, on Saturday, as first reported by Breitbart Texas.
In February, Breitbart reported that cartel gunmen fired on Border Patrol agents attempting to stop a human smuggling attempt near Fronton, Texas. One month earlier, gunmen fired at agents and struck a Border Patrol vehicle as the agents attempted to arrest a migrant in the same area.
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 .
Ildefonso Ortiz is an award-winning journalist with Breitbart Texas. He co-founded Breitbart Texas’ Cartel Chronicles project with Brandon Darby and senior Breitbart management. You can follow him on Twitter and on Facebook . He can be contacted at Iortiz@breitbart.com .
Mexico cynically wades into El Paso shooting debacle, brimming with hypocrisy
By Monica Showalter
As if the El Paso mass murder couldn't be a more noxious showcase for political bad behavior, in wades the Mexican government, launching lawsuits against the U.S. for supposedly failing to protect its citizens, which is something they've never bothered about before. According to NBC News :
Mexico on Sunday threatened to take legal action against the United States for failing to protect its citizens after this weekend's mass shooting in the border city of El Paso .
Of the 20 people gunned down at a Walmart at the Cielo Vista Mall, at least seven were Mexican citizens, and Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard promised Mexico City will act.
In a statement, the Foreign Ministry called the attack in El Paso a "terrorist act against innocent Mexicans."
Apparently, they've seen how their individual illegals can exploit loopholes in U.S. law to their advantage, and now that bastion of peace and tranquility to our south would like a serving of the same. Instead of warning Mexican potential illegals to stay out of the U.S. the way a normal country would do, they want to muscle the U.S. legal system to their benefit, creating a sort of right to protection in the U.S. which is something Mexicans certainly don't have back home.
And more to the point, the Mexican state would like to blame the U.S. for the action of the lone freak who shot up the Wal-Mart in El Paso, same as the average Democratic politician. The fact that the freak is going to the executioner's table is irrelevant, because what they're really after is putting the U.S. and President Trump in particular on trial.
According to a summary of their doings from Axios :
Mexico threatened legal action Sunday against the U.S. for failing to protect its citizens after a shooting in the border city of El Paso, Texas, killed 20 people, including 6 Mexican nationals, the New York Times reports.
Details: Mexico's Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said the Mexican government was looking into extraditing the suspect to Mexico on a terrorism charge over Saturday's shooting, per CNN . Mexico also plans legal action against the seller who provided the weapon used in the attack, according to the NYT.
What they're saying: Ebrard said in a Twitter video , translated by NBC News , that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador wants to "ensure that Mexico’s indignation translates" into "expeditious and forceful" legal action for the country to take a role and demand that conditions are established that protect Mexicans in the U.S.
The big picture: Many Mexicans are aware of an anti-immigrant screed apparently posted online by the suspect just before the shooting and they see the attack as an expression of tensions between the U.S. and Mexico over immigration, guns and violence, often fueled by President Trump's policies and rhetoric , the Times notes.
On those grounds, any American who's attacked, assaulted, drinks poisoned liquor, or is killed in Mexico, should have grounds to do the same. Failure to protect, don't you know. Such irony. Turns out more Americans (75 of them) have been killed in Mexico than all the remaining countries of the world combined . Here's what Forbes reported last year :
In 2016, according to my analysis of the data, more Americans were reported killed by homicide in Mexico than the combined total of Americans killed by homicide in every other country abroad.
More than 31 million Americans visited Mexico in 2016, the National Travel & Tourism Office says, and State Department data shows there were reports of 75 American homicide victims there. In comparison, 49 million Americans traveled to all other foreign countries, and 69 were reported killed by homicide.
That's quite some hypocrisy they've got, given the number of American dead bodies they've got on their record. Think they'll go along with reciprocity? Not the Mexican government we know. The double standard stands.
But that's hardly their only hypocrisy. Here's another logic joke from them:
They encourage their nationals to emigrate illegally (remember the Mexican government comic books ? Apparently, they're still distributing them) to get rid of potential discontents, and now they complain when the place, loaded as it is with unvetted migrants they don't want around, is somehow not safe? Any city loaded with illegals is a den of crime -- just look at the crime in Chicago, Baltimore or any sanctuary city. Apparently, those killings are O.K. by the Mexicans so long as they are done by other Mexicans or maybe Central Americans. But this Dallas-area white interloper doing the killing is something different, something sue-worthy? They've tolerated crime for years on both sides of the border, not doing a thing so long as the distilled remittances keep coming. Now at this late date, with this lone freak, they are suddenly upset.
Now for a third hypocrisy: They say they want to extradite the maggot? What the heck would that be for? Like El Chapo Guzman, he'd be in a fine position to continue his Internet postings in a Mexican prison because all kinds of contraband is tolerated in Mexican prisons, particularly cell phones, and anything can be bribed for. For that matter, he'd be in a great position to escape, much as Guzman did from Mexican prisons, more than once. The creep, under Mexican law, would also be spared the death penalty, something he's not going to be spared if he stays in Texas. It looks like this extradition move is some sort of revolting bid to save him and allow him to flourish. You can bet he'd be a happy camper if somehow he got extradited to Mexico. Sorry amigos: The maggot is going to pay.
What we are seeing here is plain old garden variety Mexican meddling in our internal affairs, this time rooted in some icky festering wounded national pride, some bid from Mexico to assert itself over U.S. laws in the wake of Trump's muscle on Mexico over the illegal migrant surge, using the U.S. courts with their continuous anti-Trump rulings to make itself the sovereign here. Mexico has already sent their illegals and now they want to take over gubernatorially through the courts, which puts this act on a continuum.
This garbage should be smacked down for the hypocrisy it is and as fast as possible. We don't need their government ruling over here and we sure as heck shouldn't be paying them.
Armed Human Smugglers Arrested in Arizona near Border U.S. Border Patrol/Tucson Sector 2:29
Border Patrol agents in the Tucson Sector arrested multiple armed human smugglers as they attempted to move their “cargo” into the U.S. interior this week. The agents also interdicted multiple dangerous smuggling attempts.
Tucson Sector Chief Patrol Agent John R. Modlin tweeted multiple images showing the weapons seized during the arrest of two armed human smugglers. The arrest took place in two separate incidents.
Tucson Sector agents teamed up with Arizona Department of Public Safety troopers to arrest a U.S. citizen for allegedly smuggling four migrants in a vehicle. During the traffic stop on Interstate 10 near Casa Grande, Arizona, agents found a loaded handgun. The agents processed the four migrants. The driver was arrested and the firearm seized.
A few days earlier, Douglas Station agents assisted the Douglas, Arizona, Police Department with the arrest of a group of migrants being smuggled in a vehicle. The agents took custody of the two smuggled migrants. During a search, agents found two loaded pistols and multiple magazines.
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 .
U.S., Mexican Officials Brace for Migrants Fleeing Inflation Breitbart Texas/Randy Clark 2:05
Economic hardship is hardly a new root cause for the exodus of Central American countries — but new data indicate that inflation will worsen the existing migrant crisis at the U.S. border. American and Mexican officials are actively preparing for the inflation-driven surge expected in the coming months.
Officials from both countries discussed their concerns about rising food and energy prices with regard to irregular migration, according to a Bloomberg report . Inflation is hot well beyond U.S. borders and is keenly felt in Central American nations.
In February, Honduras and El Salvador saw the fastest consumer price increases since 2014 and 2011, respectively. Inflation in Mexico was 7.3% in February, near the two-decade high reached in November, according to Bloomberg.
A White House official confirmed to Bloomberg the issue of inflation was discussed during a recent trip by DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to Mexico and Costa Rica earlier this week. Officials involved in the talks believe inflation will be the impetus for an additional wave of migration.
As part of the talks, Mexico is urging President Joe Biden to prepare to remove migrants directly into their home countries. The plan, in the Mexican government’s opinion, would help to discourage migrants entirely.
The United States is still heavily reliant on the CDC’s emergency Title 42 authority to quickly expel some Central American migrants to Mexico. The order allows DHS to expel the migrants without entertaining time-consuming asylum petitions.
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.
NOTHING FOR BLACK AMERICA, THEY STARTED THE ASSAULT ON U.S. BORDERS AND VOTING THAT CONTINUES TO THIS DAY UNDER THE BIDEN OPEN BORDER REGIME
Joe Biden is on record that illegals are “ already Americans ,” and under Alejandro Mayorkas, the Biden Department of Homeland Security is effectively the Department of Human Trafficking. John Fonte of the Hudson Institute makes a strong case that “operational control of the border is no longer in American hands ,” and under the control of Mexican cartels. These are criminal organizations but behind the scenes, a more powerful dynamic is in play. Lloyd Billingsley
“Even if the immigration law is executed with perfection, there will be parents separated from their children.” That was Cecilia Muñoz, White House Director of Intergovernmental Affairs, in an October 18, 2011 interview with Gretchen Gavett of PBS. The problem, according to Muñoz, was “a broken system of laws, and the answer to that problem is reforming the law.” In the meantime, “even broken laws have to be enforced.” Therefore, parents who broke the law would be separated from their children. Lloyd Billingsley
" This is country belongs to Mexico" is said by the Mexican Militant. This is a common teaching that the U.S. is really AZTLAN, belonging to Mexicans, which is taught to Mexican kids in Arizona and California through a LA Raza educational program funded by American Tax Payers via President Obama, when he gave LA RAZA $800,000.00 in March of 2009!
With increasing homelessness, a soft approach to criminal prosecution, and the ongoing embracing of illegal immigration, violent crimes are increasing after having seen a reduction the past few years.” P.F. WHALEN
Undeterred, on September 2, state lawmakers sent a budget to Governor Newsom calling for $600 million in spending increases and a reduction in state revenue with the extension of earned income tax credits for immigrants and illegal aliens. Balance sheet be damned, California must cater to illegal aliens. P.F. WHALEN
Work permits now available to certain illegal aliens who claim parental abuse or abandonment
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has revised the Special Immigrant Juvenile (SIJ) program in ways that effectively transform it into another version of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). Combined, the new regulation and policy disregard congressional intent and will allow hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens to immediately obtain work permits and will further fuel the surge of unaccompanied alien children (UACs) being smuggled across the southern border.
Congress created the SIJ classification in 1990 to provide a pathway to legal status for certain alien children in the U.S. foster care system who required judicial intervention to protect the minor from parental abuse, abandonment, or neglect. But as my colleague Jessica Vaughan put it, “the [implementing] rules were written with loopholes that you can drive a truck through.” The Obama administration realized that illegal alien minors were increasingly targeting the SIJ program solely for the purpose of obtaining lawful immigration status and not due to abuse, neglect, or abandonment by the parents, and proposed a rule in 2011 to curb such abuses.
The Trump administration reopened the comment period in 2019 and finished the final rule in October 2020, but the White House’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) failed to conclude review (government lingo for "approve") before President Biden’s inauguration. In a February 1, 2021, post , I urged the Biden administration to finalize that SIJ rule.
Instead, the Biden administration finalized a very different SIJ rule that will encourage immigration fraud. For starters, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) “may consent to a grant of SIJ classification when the petitioner has provided evidence of court-ordered relief from parental abuse, neglect, abandonment, or a similar basis under state law, as well as evidence of the factual basis for a juvenile court’s determination.” The Trump-era rule also redefined “consent” because the previous definition was repeatedly being struck down by the courts, but the Biden administration’s expansive definition appears designed to maximize the number of SIJ designations sought by UACs.
My colleague David North already covered two additional regulatory changes that will encourage immigration fraud. First, the SIJ rule includes an “age out” provision that violates the statutory requirement that the alien be under the age of 21 to be eligible for SIJ status. Instead, USCIS will grant SIJ status regardless of the alien’s age at the time of adjudication as long as the petition was submitted before the alien turns 21. More problematically from an integrity standpoint, the rule prohibits the accused parent from participating in the proceedings to refute an allegation of abuse or abandonment. This ensures an incomplete evidentiary docket and the courts and USCIS will just take the illegal alien at his or her word, despite the obvious incentive to lie or stretch the truth in order to obtain an individualized amnesty.
Alongside the regulation, USCIS also announced a new SIJ policy granting deferred action and a work permit to illegal aliens granted SIJ but who do not have an employment-based 4th preference green card immediately available. When I ran the USCIS policy office, I rejected this exact same policy proposal from career staff because this amnesty lite will become a lucrative carrot that will fuel a significant increase in SIJ filings of dubious merit. While SIJs can obtain green cards, they are numerically capped and SIJ is not a lawful immigration status, meaning the alien is still removable. But if you give an illegal alien a work permit (and Social Security number and driver’s license) that’s game over, and removal will likely never occur. This is exactly what happened with the U visa program for crime victims. There is a statutory cap of 10,000 U visas per year but there are now hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens in the queue after USCIS created a waitlist that includes deferred action and a work permit. As Jessica Vaughan observed, “in practice, there are legitimate concerns that the program is vulnerable to fraud, improperly promoted by advocates, and exploited as an avenue to obtain legal status.”
The combined regulatory and policy changes just announced for SIJs come from the same playbook as the U visa exploitation and DACA. Under the guise of a sympathetic name (juvenile), SIJ is going to become the next illegal alien work permit program that will make it easier to repay the coyotes and cartels who smuggle UACs across the border.
ALARMING VIDEO ON MEXICO’S INVASION, OCCUPATION AND LOOTING OF JOBS AND WELFARE
(They really have absolutely no idea how many illegals are in the country as the Democrat Party, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, La Raza/ UnidoUS, Mexico and the Catholic Church thwart any effort to count them)
Largest Immigrant Groups in the United States
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpxeomE9FT
JAMES WALSH THE OBAMA-BIDEN HISPANICAZATION of AMERICA… first ease millions of illegals over our borders and into our voting booths! How the Democrat party surrendered America to Mexico:
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2014/07/james-walsh-hispanicazation-of-america.html
“The watchdogs at Judicial Watch discovered documents that reveal how the Obama administration's close coordination with the Mexican government entices Mexicans to hop over the fence and on to the American dole.” Washington Times
"This is country belongs to Mexico" is said by the Mexican Militant. This is a common teaching that the U.S. is really AZTLAN, belonging to Mexicans, which is taught to Mexican kids in Arizona and California through a LA Raza educational program funded by American Tax Payers via President Obama, when he gave LA RAZA $800,000.00 in March of 2009!
The “zero tolerance” program was dismantled by Attorney General Erc Holder once it had successfully cut the transit of migrants by roughly 95 percent. Initially, officials made 140,000 arrests per year in the mid-2000s, but the northward flow dropped so much that officials only had to make 6,000 arrests in 2013, according to a 2014 letter by two pro-migration Senators, Sen. Jeff Flake and John McCain.
“ The cost of the Dream Act is far bigger than the Democrats or their media allies admit. Instead of covering 690,000 younger illegals now enrolled in former President Barack Obama’s 2012 “DACA” amnesty, the Dream Act would legalize at least 3.3 million illegals , according to a pro-immigration group, the Migration Policy Institute.”
Biden Administration Still Hiding ICE
Enforcement and Removal Report
Detailed report has gone unpublished for the first time in a decade
The Biden administration recently allowed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to release a congressionally required report “detailing data from ICE’s broad responsibilities, including its role in counterterrorism; counterproliferation; counternarcotics; the investigation of crimes ranging from customs fraud to human trafficking and child exploitation; and the enforcement of the nation’s immigration laws.” As the agency’s description of the report illustrates, the report is a broad overview of all divisions within ICE, including information ranging from docket management issues within the Office of the Principal Legal Advisor to career development and financial issues within the Management and Administration division.
While this new report includes some immigration enforcement data, the report is not ICE’s comprehensive and detailed Enforcement and Removal Operations Report that the agency has released prior to the end of every calendar year for at least the past decade. (The Enforcement Report for Fiscal Year 2020 is available online ). Instead, the recently released report is a narrative-driven document that includes only a handful of enforcement-related statistics, all of which are intentionally written in a manner that is difficult to analyze and compare to previous years.
Members of Congress and reporters have been asking for months why the Enforcement Report for Fiscal Year 2021 is being hidden by the Biden administration. The still-unreleased report includes numerous tables and charts, year-over-year and monthly comparisons, and important numerical data — from detainers issued to criminality of aliens arrested to the number of arrests made in the interior of the United States compared to custody-transfer arrests from Border Patrol apprehensions — and would allow for a complete picture of the impact of the Biden administration’s controversial immigration enforcement policies.
The Biden administration’s troubling decision to not release the Enforcement Report is the result of a political decision; each ICE field office director sends the data to headquarters as part of their job responsibilities and the political leadership at ICE has been sitting on it since last fall. The Center for Immigration Studies has learned that the Biden White House took control of the draft report, rewrote it, and returned it to officers within ICE, hoping they would sign off on the new draft; the officers did not sign off on the White House’s draft, explaining that they would be unable to defend what they viewed as a politicized report that intentionally misrepresented the results of the White House’s policies. It seems the White House recognized that its attempted manipulation would be indefensible as the report remains hidden.
If the Biden administration were proud of its policies, it would have already published the Enforcement Report and would be happily comparing the new data to that found in reports from prior years. But this lack of transparency is consistent with the Biden administration’s secretive approach on immigration. ICE has not held one public press event on immigration since the administration started in January 2021, and it has issued few press releases on the impact of its agenda. The release of the recent ICE report was ICE’s first immigration-focused event and it was a closed-door, media-only conference call. The natural conclusion from this lack of transparency is that the data shows that the Biden administration’s extremely limiting immigration enforcement guidelines have been disastrous for public safety and that the administration does not want to defend it — in the court of public opinion or in actual courtrooms where its policies are currently facing serious judicial scrutiny. In fact, the administration’s decision to keep this data hidden might be part of a plan to keep the courts in the dark.
Below are some 2020 ICE enforcement tables, the 2021 versions of which the Biden administration has been sitting on since October of last year. The complete ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Report for Fiscal Year 2020 is available online .
ALARMING VIDEO ON MEXICO’S INVASION, OCCUPATION AND LOOTING OF JOBS AND WELFARE
(They really have absolutely no idea how many illegals are in the country as the Democrat Party, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, La Raza/ UnidoUS, Mexico and the Catholic Church thwart any effort to count them)
Biden Administration Still Hiding ICE Enforcement and Removal Report Detailed report has gone unpublished for the first time in a decade
The Biden administration recently allowed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to release a congressionally required report “detailing data from ICE’s broad responsibilities, including its role in counterterrorism; counterproliferation; counternarcotics; the investigation of crimes ranging from customs fraud to human trafficking and child exploitation; and the enforcement of the nation’s immigration laws.” As the agency’s description of the report illustrates, the report is a broad overview of all divisions within ICE, including information ranging from docket management issues within the Office of the Principal Legal Advisor to career development and financial issues within the Management and Administration division.
While this new report includes some immigration enforcement data, the report is not ICE’s comprehensive and detailed Enforcement and Removal Operations Report that the agency has released prior to the end of every calendar year for at least the past decade. (The Enforcement Report for Fiscal Year 2020 is available online ). Instead, the recently released report is a narrative-driven document that includes only a handful of enforcement-related statistics, all of which are intentionally written in a manner that is difficult to analyze and compare to previous years.
Members of Congress and reporters have been asking for months why the Enforcement Report for Fiscal Year 2021 is being hidden by the Biden administration. The still-unreleased report includes numerous tables and charts, year-over-year and monthly comparisons, and important numerical data — from detainers issued to criminality of aliens arrested to the number of arrests made in the interior of the United States compared to custody-transfer arrests from Border Patrol apprehensions — and would allow for a complete picture of the impact of the Biden administration’s controversial immigration enforcement policies.
The Biden administration’s troubling decision to not release the Enforcement Report is the result of a political decision; each ICE field office director sends the data to headquarters as part of their job responsibilities and the political leadership at ICE has been sitting on it since last fall. The Center for Immigration Studies has learned that the Biden White House took control of the draft report, rewrote it, and returned it to officers within ICE, hoping they would sign off on the new draft; the officers did not sign off on the White House’s draft, explaining that they would be unable to defend what they viewed as a politicized report that intentionally misrepresented the results of the White House’s policies. It seems the White House recognized that its attempted manipulation would be indefensible as the report remains hidden.
If the Biden administration were proud of its policies, it would have already published the Enforcement Report and would be happily comparing the new data to that found in reports from prior years. But this lack of transparency is consistent with the Biden administration’s secretive approach on immigration. ICE has not held one public press event on immigration since the administration started in January 2021, and it has issued few press releases on the impact of its agenda. The release of the recent ICE report was ICE’s first immigration-focused event and it was a closed-door, media-only conference call. The natural conclusion from this lack of transparency is that the data shows that the Biden administration’s extremely limiting immigration enforcement guidelines have been disastrous for public safety and that the administration does not want to defend it — in the court of public opinion or in actual courtrooms where its policies are currently facing serious judicial scrutiny. In fact, the administration’s decision to keep this data hidden might be part of a plan to keep the courts in the dark.
Below are some 2020 ICE enforcement tables, the 2021 versions of which the Biden administration has been sitting on since October of last year. The complete ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Report for Fiscal Year 2020 is available online .
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