FUKHEAD BIDEN CAN'T DEFEND AMERICA'S BORDERS BUT WANTS TO SQUANDER AMERICA TO DEFEND THE BORDERS OF EVERY DICTATOR ON THE GLOBE!
Biden doesn't care about people's lives, only political victory: Lt. Gov. Patrick
Texas DPS spokesperson warns of ‘complete chaos' at border
Just in time for midterms, Joe Biden sets off the mother of migrant surges
The U.S. Border Patrol expects a record surge of migrants from 157 countries crossing our border illegally, with most presenting spurious claims to "asylum."
The Daily Mail reports:
The U.S. will see 1 million migrant encounters in the first half of Fiscal Year 2022, according to Customs and Border Protection (CBP), as the administration plans to start administering coronavirus vaccines to those in custody as it weighs ending Title 42 as early as next month.
This figure just accounts for migrants encountered, meaning there could be thousands of other 'gotaways' who evaded CBP when illegally crossing into the U.S.
Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz told Fox News that in the next few days, CBP will have encountered 1 million migrants from when the federal fiscal year started in October 2022.
Sure it's a big number — and the fiscal year is only half over.
But we ain't seen nuthin' yet.
These monster numbers come as Joe Biden has set the conditions for an even bigger surge — on two fronts.
One is in his executive order to replace immigration judges with newly created "asylum officers" brought in from the NGO open-borders ranks, to make decisions on asylum claims. These are people you can bet will rubber-stamp all asylum claims, regardless of what the law says.
The second incentive is in Biden's expected decision to scrap Title 42, an erratically employed executive order that allows Border Patrol agents to deport illegal crossers on COVID concerns. Based on the numbers of COVID-spreading migrants, such as in this instance here, it's pretty obvious that that order was used on only some migrants. Now it won't be used on any of them if the rule is rescinded on May 23, which seems likely following whatever recommendation the CDC puts out as its de facto union masters direct. The laughable claim now is that they'll offer them COVID vaccines, free of charge (to them), as if migrants who openly break the law can be trusted to come back for their second shot. Those who refuse will be sent back, unless they file an asylum claim, in which case they'll be allowed to stay but "stringently" monitored. Kind of like Afghan refugees being stringently vetted, right, Joe? Kids and babies will likely be forced to take them, too — and guess who will pay the medical bills and lawsuit bills when they get vaccine injuries? What could go wrong?
Both of those actions add up to two new incentives to cross the border illegally, just as the cartel human-smuggling networks have ramped up and improved their human-cargo pipelines, given the numbers seen. The current forecast is 18,000 migrants a day, up from the 7,000 or so being "encountered" today. You can bet that the numbers are going to be a hell of a lot higher than last year's 1.7 million illegal border crossings now that the risk of getting sent back is just about zero now. It's as sure as the sun coming up.
What's interesting here, though, is that this Biden lunacy comes just as midterms are approaching.
That surge won't hurt Republicans, but it will serve as a guided missile targeted at Democrats.
And what stands out is how many Democrats, particularly from border states, are clearly worried about it.
According to Fox News:
"Given the impacts that changes to Title 42 could have on border communities, border security, and migrants, we urge your administration not to make any changes to Title 42 implementation until you are completely ready to execute and coordinate a comprehensive plan that ensures a secure, orderly, and humane process at the border," Arizona Sens. Mark Kelly and Kyrsten Sinema said in a letter to President Biden last week.
There's also this from Bill Melugin of Fox News, citing a group of lawmakers which include Democrats:
That suggests panic time for Democrats in the most vulnerable geographical area for Democrats, the south Texas border corridors, which have shifted red as the human waves of human-smuggling have already inundated those regions, never mind what's coming up.
What the intensified surge will do is remind residents that Joe Biden has no intention of shifting course, nor does he care in the least about the American communities along the border most affected by the migrant surge. The Biden administration has been trying to hide just how many illegal migrants it's allowing in, but there's no hiding anything from the border communities at the tip of the spear, because these communities see everything.
That's why Democrats are alarmed, and should be. Joe Biden has basically pitched his own Democrat base over the side, and rather than try to regain the voters who are moving to other parties, he's writing the whole area off. A border surge never bothers Joe Biden, or, for that matter, his border "czar," Kamala Harris.
But it clearly is concentrating the minds of those Democrats who are likely to be thrown out by the voters. We are seeing noises now, but this may be nothing compared to what is to come as the surge hits record highs.
Democrats must be spitting mad at this mop in the face from senile old Joe just as they try to make their case to voters. They may get a bit angrier than just angry enough to send stern letters to Biden, as has been done, given the size of the surge ahead of midterms. If it gets bad enough, and they decide they don't want to be the sacrificial lambs for the Biden administration, they may withhold votes for the upcoming Supreme Court slot, or possibly break for the Republicans themselves.
Biden’s new “forever war”
On Saturday, US President Joe Biden ended his week-long tour of Europe to mobilize NATO for conflict with Russia with a belligerent rant in Warsaw, Poland. Media coverage of Biden’s speech was focused on its final passage, apparently ad-libbed, in which the American president said that Russian President Vladimir Putin “cannot remain in power.”
But an even more important aspect of the speech went largely undiscussed: Biden’s declaration of a “commitment” by the United States to “decades” of war.
Against the backdrop of the largest land war in Europe since World War II, Biden declared, “We must commit now to be in this fight for the long haul. We must remain unified today and tomorrow and the day after and for the years and decades to come.”
To what “fight” is Biden committing the United States?
Just nine months ago, when Biden announced the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, he said, “We’ve been a nation too long at war. If you’re 20 years old today, you have never known an America at peace.” He declared, “It’s time to end the forever war.”
Now, Biden is committing the American population to a new perpetual war—one that he said will have immense “costs” and “will not be easy.”
In his speech, Biden declared that the decades-long “fight” the US is initiating is a “great battle for freedom: a battle between democracy and autocracy, between liberty and repression, between a rules-based order and one governed by brute force.”
Biden picked a strange place to launch a struggle for “democracy.” This year, the Berlin-based Civil Liberties Union for Europe accused the Polish government of “seizing further control of the justice system, civil society and media, while cutting basic human rights and fuelling divisions by scapegoating migrants and other minority groups.”
The Polish government is controlled by the ultra-right, chauvinist, anti-Semitic and authoritarian PiS party. President Duda—Biden's constant companion during his warmongering crusade—heads a government that has completely banned abortion as a form of family planning, persecutes the LGBT community, and criminalizes the exposure of Polish complicity in the Holocaust.
As with the “war on terror,” which saw the most grievous violations of democratic rights in American history, Biden’s new decades-long war invokes “democracy” as a throwaway line that no one is to take seriously.
In his speech, Biden himself made clear the extent to which the United States had provoked Russia’s invasion by arming a NATO proxy on Russia’s border.
“In the years before the invasion, we, America, had sent over $650 million, before they crossed the border, in weapons to Ukraine, including anti-air and anti-armor equipment. Since the invasion, America has committed another $1.35 billion in weapons and ammunition.”
Everything that Biden has done over the past week has been intended to stoke up the US-NATO proxy war in Ukraine. He called the Russian president every name imaginable, from “butcher” to “murderous dictator” to “war criminal” to “thug.” He has poured weapons into Ukraine and doubled the forces deployed on Russia’s borders. As Edward Luce of the Financial Times commented, “US liberals are at least as hawkish as conservatives.”
Biden’s speech in Poland followed the conclusion of the NATO summit in Brussels, Belgium, where the leaders of the NATO alliance plotted out a major escalation of the conflict. At the summit, NATO announced a doubling of its forces on Russia’s border, and the New York Times reported plans by the US for full-scale war with Russia.
The actual causes of this new “forever war” are to be found in the documents of US military planners.
In 1991, amidst the dissolution of the USSR, then US President George H. W. Bush declared that the Gulf War against Iraq would usher in a “New World Order” led by the United States.
The following year, the Pentagon published a Defense Planning Guidance, termed the “Wolfowitz Doctrine,” proclaiming that the United States’ “first objective is to prevent the re-emergence of a new rival, either on the territory of the former Soviet Union or elsewhere, that poses a threat on the order of that posed formerly by the Soviet Union.”
The outpouring of US militarism initiated by the first invasion of Iraq was followed by three decades of perpetual war, including the bombing and breakup of Yugoslavia, the destruction and occupation of Afghanistan, the invasion and occupation of Iraq, the overthrow of the Libyan government and the years-long regime change in Syria.
Now, these wars are metastasizing into a direct US conflict with Russia and China, with potentially incalculable consequences.
The 2018 National Defense Strategy announced a pivot from US military engagements in the Middle East to efforts to combat Russia and China. “Inter-state strategic competition,” it proclaimed, “not terrorism, is now the primary concern in U.S. national security.”
In this context, it is clear that Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan was nothing but a redeployment of forces in preparation for military conflicts on an even greater scale.
Despite the efforts by the White House to walk back Biden’s statement, Biden’s ad-libbed declaration was the inescapable conclusion of the entire speech. Biden’s statements clearly reflect the actual US policy, the aim of which is the military isolation and economic ruination of Russia, the ouster of its government and the installation of a puppet regime that would turn it into a rump state.
Biden’s declaration of a new, decades-long commitment comes just days after his proclamation before leaving for Europe, that “there’s going to be a new world order out there, and we’ve got to lead it.”
Seven years ago, in his preface to A Quarter Century of War: The US Drive for Global Hegemony 1990-2016, WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North wrote:
The last quarter century of US-instigated wars must be studied as a chain of interconnected events. The strategic logic of the US drive for global hegemony extends beyond the neocolonial operations in the Middle East and Africa. The ongoing regional wars are component elements of the rapidly escalating confrontation of the United States with Russia and China.
The events of this week make one thing abundantly clear. The US’s plans for “great-power conflict” with Russia and China are leaving the planning stage and are being put into practice. Having instigated the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the United States is seizing upon it to carry out plans, decades in the making, to assert US hegemony through military means against nuclear-armed adversaries.
The only way out of the disaster threatening mankind is the building of a movement of the working class against war, aiming to unify the working classes of Russia, Ukraine, Europe, and the Americas against the capitalist system that is the root cause of war.
Biden unveils 2023 budget with massive spending on the military and police
President Joe Biden revealed his administration’s 2023 budget proposal Monday afternoon, featuring the largest ever US military spending and a substantial increase for domestic police repression.
While Biden gave lip service to increasing spending on domestic social programs and taxing billionaires, this was for show, given the narrow margin of Democratic Party control in both the House and Senate. More significant was his declaration that “fiscal responsibility” would be the priority of his administration.
In his brief address as he stood alongside budget director Shalanda Young, Biden outlined his priorities as “First, fiscal responsibility. Second, safety and security. And thirdly, investments needed to build a better America.”
He then reiterated, “The first value is fiscal responsibility. The previous administration as you all know, ran record budget deficits. In fact, it went up every year under my predecessor. My administration is turning that around. Last year, we cut the deficit by more than $350 billion. This year, we’re on track to cut the deficit by more than $1,300,000,000,000. That would be the largest one-year reduction in the deficit in US history.”
This means that when the proposed tax increase on the billionaires and other revenue-raising measures are blocked by Republicans and the right wing of his own Democratic Party, Biden will insist that there can be no cuts in the military, given the ongoing confrontation with Russia and the supposed threat of China. Social spending will inevitably bear the brunt.
And whatever the outcome of the horse-trading and infighting in Congress, the budget is based on the rosiest of assumptions: no resurgence of COVID-19, substantial economic growth, and a cooling of inflation from the present rate of nearly 8 percent. Biden said that he was calling for an end to pandemic-driven fiscal assistance to state and local governments and subsidies to large corporations. Pandemic spending “will be dramatically less than last year,” even though the actual number of people infected and in need of care has increased.
Biden said that a new tax on billionaires would raise $360 billion over the next ten years. This is the latest iteration of a long-time Democratic Party con game, claiming that it supports higher taxes on the wealthy, and enacting changes in the tax code that the multi-millionaires then easily evade. The Democrats never propose any measures that would actually redistribute wealth away from the super-rich, because, as Biden said Monday, “I’m a capitalist.”
He also proposed an increase in the corporate income tax rate from 21 percent to 28 percent. A similar plan went nowhere last year because of opposition by two right-wing Democrats, Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona. Neither has changed their position, so that proposal is purely to support a bit of populist demagogy in the 2022 election campaign.
The Democratic president went through a litany of promises on social spending, including child care, universal preschool, health care, expanding research into fighting cancer and climate change, and alleviating poverty and homelessness. Biden is well aware that none of these proposals will pass Congress unless watered down to virtually nothing.
The heart of his domestic program was law and order. “The answer is not to defund our police departments,” he declared, “It’s to fund our police and give them all the tools they need… The budget puts more police on the streets for community policing so they get to know the community they are policing.” There would be more funding for federal police agencies as well, including the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms (ATF).
The various domestic items pale by comparison with the massive outlays for the military, which will receive a record $813 billion, more than $2 billion a day. The bulk of this spending is for the acquisition of more and more weaponry—planes, ships, tanks, armored cars, advanced artillery, as well as $40 billion for the Department of Energy to build new and more destructive nuclear weapons.
There will also be a pay raise of 4.6 percent for military and civilian federal employees. The uniformed military and the employees of the Pentagon, CIA and departments primarily concerned with national security and domestic policing, such as Homeland Security, Justice, State, Veterans Affairs, Energy and Transportation, comprise the vast majority of federal employees.
The budget includes, for example, $42 billion for the Border Patrol, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and expansion and maintenance of border fencing. Another $30 billion will go to various programs to beef up local and state police forces.
The reactionary Russian invasion of Ukraine, in response to the intransigent insistence of the US government and the European imperialist powers on the expansion of NATO right up to Russia’s borders, has become an all-purpose excuse for giving the Pentagon every dollar it seeks, and then more.
Biden cited the war in Ukraine repeatedly, and called for a “bipartisan unity agenda” in response to the supposed global threats of Russia and China.
The budget document spells this out: “We are at the beginning of a decisive decade that will determine the future of strategic competition with China, the trajectory of the climate crisis and whether the rules governing technology, trade and international economics enshrine or violate our democratic values.”
The New York Times cited this passage and then declared bluntly that the core of Biden’s message was not “an urgent appeal to address racial and income inequality, climate change and the struggles of the middle class, but to reassert American dominance in a dangerous and competitive world.”
Combined with the 2022 budget just given final passage by Congress six months late, the Pentagon will receive a whopping increase of 10 percent over the first two years of the Biden administration. And that assumes that the US and NATO do not become more directly involved in the war between Russia and Ukraine, in which case an additional huge increase can be expected.
Some of the more significant budget items include $6.9 billion for the European Deterrence Initiative, which supports NATO operations mainly in Eastern Europe, targeting Russia. This is nearly double the figure of $3.6 billion from 2022. Some $692 million will go to Ukraine to sustain its military operations against Russia.
A record $130 billion will be devoted to military research and development, including hypersonic weapons, biotechnology and microelectronics.
Another $40 billion in the Air Force budget will go to other agencies on a classified basis. This is known as the “black budget” and finances operations which the national-security state does not report even to Congress, let alone the American people.
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Border State Democrats Beg Biden: ‘Consider Dangerous Impact’ Illegal Immigration Has on Our Communities
More elected Democrats, representing America’s border communities, are pleading with President Joe Biden to enforce Trump-era border controls to protect their constituents from a massive wave of illegal immigration.
On Wednesday, Biden officials spoke anonymously to the Associated Press, revealing that the administration has plans to end the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Title 42 order that gives federal immigration agents broad authority to quickly return border crossers and illegal aliens to their native countries.
As a result, Biden officials are readily admitting that about half a million border crossers and illegal aliens are expected to show up at the United States-Mexico border every month. This is the equivalent of a population the size of Atlanta, Georgia, arriving at the border over the course of just 28 to 30 days.
In a letter to Biden’s top agency officials, Reps. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) and Vicente Gonzalez (D-TX) joined House and Senate Republicans representing Texas to urge the administration not to end Title 42.
“We urge you to consider the dangerous impact rescission of the Title 42 order would have on our communities at this time,” the lawmakers write:
Since January 2021 DHS has eliminated measures designed to deter migrants from undertaking the dangerous journey to the southwest border. We strongly urge that DHS retain Title 42 authority until appropriate deterrent measures are put in place to ensure that Federal government facilities and local communities will not be overwhelmed by a sudden increase in migrant apprehensions. [Emphasis added]
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Finally, at the current levels of cross-border migration, DHS currently lacks adequate capacity to process and detain all migrants apprehended along the southwest border under its Title 8 authorities. A report published by the DHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) in January of this year found that Border Patrol stations in the Rio Grande Valley were overcrowded and that the high volume of apprehensions limited the effectiveness of COVID-19 mitigation measures. DHS’s practice of releasing migrants with a so-called “Notice to Report” or otherwise releasing them on parole may have reduced the time they are held in detention at Border Patrol facilities, but likely acts as a pull factor for even more migration, imposes substantial costs on local communities, and is an inappropriate substitute for taking measures to construct adequate facilities and reduce the overall number of migrants crossing the border. [Emphasis added]
Furthermore, small border communities lack the appropriate housing, transportation, and healthcare infrastructure to manage the ongoing release of migrant populations into their jurisdictions. South Texas mayors inform us that the local non-governmental organizations are completely at capacity in terms of lodging and other services, and that local transportation hubs have been overwhelmed with migrants, many of whom lack the financial means to purchase tickets. If the CDC were to rescind its Title 42 order at this time, Border Patrol facilities and local communities would be forced to absorb at least double the current number of migrants, likely with catastrophic results. [Emphasis added]
The letter comes as Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) has warned Biden not to end Title 42, telling CNN, “I would be very reluctant for the administration to end this Trump policy until they had a real plan in place.”
“I think we are a generous country but we have to be a country of rule of law … I would be very worried about this notion that the border would be overwhelmed,” Warner said. “I would really want to hear a specific plan with adequate personnel … to try to stop the flow of some of these economic refugees.”
Likewise, Sens. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) and Mark Kelly (D-AZ) are asking Biden to continue enforcing Title 42 as they have yet to see any plans from the administration as to how they would deal with a massive wave of illegal immigration.
“To date, we have not yet seen evidence that DHS has developed and implemented a sufficient plan to maintain a humane and orderly process in the event of an end to Title 42,” Sinema and Kelly wrote.
In 2021, more than two million border crossers and illegal aliens arrived at the porous southern border — a foreign population larger than the resident population of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. From January 2021 to August 2021, for example, more than half a million were released into the U.S. interior.
This year, experts predict more than 2.1 million will arrive. Hundreds of thousands are likely to be released into the U.S. interior as part of Biden’s expansive Catch and Release operation that buses and flies border crossers and illegal aliens to various American cities.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
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