When it comes to COVID, illegals outrank the military
Should American citizens be treated differently than immigrants illegally entering the country? How about our men and women who serve in the military? Many would likely answer yes, but that’s not the way it appears to be playing out when it comes to COVID vaccine mandates.
Recently, the brother of Col. Alexander Vindman, of impeachment infamy, expressed his support for a prosecution team that secured a first in the nation conviction of a lieutenant for failing to get a COVID-19 vaccine. Regardless where one stands on the issue of mandates, the double standard when it comes to the new vaccine policy announced for migrants is hard to accept. In the midst of firing members of the military for not getting jabbed, the Biden administration has declared the pandemic over for purposes of turning migrants away from the Southern Border (i.e., use of Title 42) and stated it will no longer be implementing COVID mitigation measures such as testing and vaccines for migrants entering the country. The idea that those not legally in the country are entitled to more liberty and autonomy than American citizens may strike many as puzzling.
Given the migrant numbers, the contradiction in treatment is staggering. More than 2.4 million illegal migrants have come in contact with Border Patrol agents since President Joe Biden took office, and that number does not include those who are not caught. The CBP encounter 221,303 illegals in March 2022 alone, the 13th straight month of over 150,000 encounters -- a trend never before recorded. Many of these people are ferried to various cities in the U.S. and, since they are no longer tested or vaccinated, could potentially spread COVID-19 to unsuspecting U.S. citizens who come in contact with them.
Is this double standard acceptable to most Americans? How many Americans fully understand the differing levels of treatment? This is what drives my organization, the Center to Advance Security in America (CASA) to be so active. We have sent Freedom of Information Act requests to the federal government to find out the basis for these policies and how they are being implemented, so the public can be properly informed of why American citizens should be subject to tighter restrictions than those illegally entering our country. The American people need to know. And they will, if CASA has anything to say about it.
Adam Turner is the Director of the Center to Advance Security in America.
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WashPost Says Mayorkas’s ‘Prompt Deportation’ Claim Is ‘Mostly False’
The Washington Post‘s fact-checker has finally recognized a clear public deception by Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, who frequently claims illegal migrants he allows into the United States are promptly deported.
Writer Glenn Kessler deemed Mayorkas’ claim as containing “significant factual error and/or obvious contradictions … “mostly false.”
The criticism by the establishment news outlet will do little to change Mayorkas’s policies, which imported at least 1.5 million wage-cutting, rent-boosting migrants over the southern border in 2021. Those numbers are set to rise in 2022 as Mayorkas minimizes his use of Title 42.
But the Washington Post‘s criticism may encourage D.C. editors and reporters to show more skepticism about Mayorkas’s pro-migration policies and claims.
The fact-checker focused on Mayorkas’ May 1 claim to Fox News Sunday:
You know what happens to these individuals? They are either expelled under the Title 42 of the CDC, or they are placed into immigration enforcement proceedings. They make their claims under the law. If those claims don’t prevail, they are promptly removed from the United States.
Kessler noted that more than one million illegals have been exempted from Mayorkas’s “promptly” promise:
Mayorkas, in his remarks, gave the impression of a smooth-running machine: Noncitizens who illegally entered the United States are given their day in court and, if they lose, they promptly are deported. But the reality is much different. Certain nationalities, such as Mexicans, appear on a faster track to deportation. But others are not.
Indeed, more than 1 million people who entered the country without proper documents have been given deportation orders — and still have not left. Others have disappeared — a problem that may have gotten worse as tens of thousands of undocumented immigrants are released in the country each month.
There are at least one million migrants with final orders of deportation from judges — plus at least 11 million more who are either hiding in the long, complex, loopholed deportation process or else are hiding from the federal government.
But Mayorkas’ deception goes far deeper than his use of “promptly.”
For example, Kessler did not describe Mayorkas’ effort to convert the U.S. immigration system from a protective guard for Americans’ families into an aid program for poor and unlucky foreigners.
This post-American progressive policy also serves to accelerate the bipartisan, pro-investor Extraction Migration economic policy. That policy pulls foreign consumers and workers from many foreign countries — through many legal, quasi-legal, and illegal avenues — into Americans’ economy and society.
This colonialism-like extraction policy has drastically changed Americans’ society and economy since 1990. For example, taking inflation into account, median wages have barely grown while the stock market has grown at least tenfold.
Moreover, Kessler also allowed himself to be manipulated when he posted a deeply misleading statement from Mayorkas’s agency:
The statement noted that DHS and the Justice Department in March issued a new regulation to “conclude certain asylum cases in months instead of years, meaning that those deemed ineligible for asylum can be removed more quickly.”
On May 4, Sen. Robert Portman (R-OH) rebutted Mayorkas’s claims of a fast-track asylum process:
Portman: …. [S]hould [we] be removing more people who did not qualify [for asylum]?”
Secretary Mayorkas: We should be able to remove individuals who have made a claim for relief, who have had that claim heard by an immigration court and the immigration court denied that claim. Those individuals do not have a legal basis to remain in the United States and therefore should not be permitted to do so.”
Portman: But you and the administration have a policy not to do that. That’s the point.
Secretary Mayorkas: Ranking Member Portman, that is precisely why we promulgated the asylum officer rule to more expeditiously be able to remove individuals.
Portman: Well, we can talk about that later, but the asylum officer rule says that [if] you are at the border [you] get a quick adjudication. But if the adjudication is that you do not qualify because you’re an economic refugee … [you] are then allowed to appeal that decision to the regular immigration court judge.
Kessler is also late to the game.
For example, on May 4, Mayorkas repeated the “promptly” claim in a Senate hearing with Democrat and GOP legislators:
After Title 42 is lifted, non-citizens will be processed pursuant to Title 8, which provides that individuals who cross the border without legal authorization and are unable to establish a legal basis to remain in the United States, are promptly removed from the country.
In response, many GOP Senators said they do not trust Mayorkas or believe his statements.
“People around my state, they don’t believe at all the border is under control,” said Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL). “I don’t believe you’re doing anything to make the border secure. … I don’t think there’s any question you’re not enforcing the law.”
“When you say that we have operational control of the border, is that actually disinformation?” Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), the GOP leader of the Senate’s homeland defense appropriations committee, asked. “We don’t believe that is true,” she added.
Extraction Migration
Since at least 1990, the D.C. establishment has extracted tens of millions of migrants and visa workers from poor countries to serve as legal or illegal workers, temporary workers, consumers, and renters for various United States investors and CEOs.
This economic strategy of Extraction Migration has no stopping point. It is brutal to ordinary Americans because it cuts their career opportunities, shrinks their salaries and wages, raises their housing costs, and has shoved at least ten million American men out of the labor force.
Extraction migration also distorts the economy and curbs Americans’ productivity, partly because it allows employers to use stoop labor instead of machines. Migration also reduces voters’ political clout, undermines employees’ workplace rights, and widens the regional wealth gaps between the Democrats’ coastal states and the Republicans’ Heartland and southern states.
An economy built on extraction migration also alienates young people and radicalizes Americans’ democratic, compromise-promoting civic culture because it allows wealthy elites to ignore despairing Americans at the bottom of society.
The policy is hidden behind a wide variety of excuses and explanations, such as the claim that the U.S. is a “Nation of Immigrants” or that Americans have a moral duty to accept foreign refugees. But the economic strategy also kills many migrants, exploits poor people, splits foreign families, and extracts human resources from the poor home countries.
The economic policy is backed by progressives who wish to transform the U.S. from a society governed by European-origin democratic culture into a progressive-led empire of competing identity groups. “We’re trying to become the first multiracial, multi-ethnic superpower in the world,” Rep. Rohit Khanna (D-CA), told the New York Times on March 21. “It will be an extraordinary achievement … we will ultimately triumph.”
Not surprisingly, the wealth-shifting extraction migration policy is very unpopular, according to a wide variety of polls. The polls show deep and broad public opposition to labor migration and the inflow of foreign contract workers into jobs sought by young U.S. graduates.
The opposition is growing, anti-establishment, multiracial, cross-sex, non-racist, class-based, bipartisan, rational, persistent, and recognizes the solidarity that Americans owe to one another.
EXCLUSIVE: Juvenile Human Smuggler Shot After West Texas Police Chase near Border
A juvenile human smuggler attempting to transport five migrants away from the border was shot by law enforcement after leading them on a pursuit through a rural west Texas county. A source familiar with the investigation says the smuggler attempted to strike authorities with his vehicle before he was shot.
The source notes the shooting occurred when authorities spotted a suspicious vehicle near Brackettville, Texas, early Monday. The driver of the white Ford sedan led a 10-mile pursuit on Farm to Market Road 674 in rural Kinney County.
According to the source, the driver, believed to be a juvenile U.S. citizen from San Antonio, pulled off the roadway before five suspected migrants fled onto a nearby ranch.
The source says the smuggler drove his vehicle toward Texas Department of Public Safety troopers and a Kinney County Sheriff’s deputy. Police fired several shots at the driver to avoid being run over, according to the source. The driver was struck multiple times and taken into custody.
The driver was transported to a medical facility in nearby Del Rio, and was later transferred via helicopter to a critical care facility in San Antonio. His condition is unknown as of press time. The driver was reportedly struck twice in the chest and once in an arm.
Three of the migrants were eventually arrested and are being detained by Kinney County. The migrants will most likely be transferred to the Border Patrol for processing.
Kinney County Sheriff Brad Coe confirmed the incident but offered no comment or further details. The incident is under further investigation by the Texas Rangers.
The Kinney County Sheriff’s Office has struggled to contain the rise in human smugglers using local roadways. The small law enforcement agency relies on assistance from the State to curtail the illicit traffic and resulting damages.
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.
Two Mexican Men Charged with Hostage Taking, Smuggling, Weapons Violations in U.S.
The U.S. Attorney for the District of Arizona filed charges against two Mexican nationals for their roles in an alleged human smuggling scheme that included extorting family members for the release of migrants being held for ransom. The suspects allegedly demanded a payment of $8,000 for each migrant being held against their will in Arizona.
Following the April 8 arrest of two Mexican nationals illegally present in the United States by federal and local police, a federal grand jury handed down indictments against Olegario Lares-De La Rosa, 29, and Ivan Heriberto Borboa-Ruiz, 28, for Conspiracy to Commit Hostage Taking, Hostage Taking, Conspiracy to Commit Transportation of Illegal Aliens for Profit, Transportation of Illegal Aliens for Profit, and Prohibited Possessors of Firearms and Ammunition, according to a statement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Arizona.
Court records obtained by Breitbart Texas revealed that on April 6, a family member of a migrant smuggled illegally into the United States received a phone call from the cell phone of his cousin who he knew was being smuggled into Arizona from Mexico. The caller said two men were being held hostage until a payment of $8,000 for each migrant was received. The relative said the called demanded an in-person delivery of the funds. The relative responded that he was in New York and could not go to Tucson to make the payment, the criminal complaint stated.
The relative contacted ICE Homeland Security Investigations to report the alleged extortion attempt.
The following day, the relative reported receiving another phone call, this time from a Phoenix phone number. The caller reportedly demanded the relative deposit $8,000 into two separate bank accounts. The caller said if he made the payments, his cousins would be released, the complaint continues.
Federal officials began tracking the cell phone as it moved from Tempe, Arizona, to Tucson. A specific location for the final destination could not be determined from the tracking technology. An HSI agent working undercover contacted the cell phone caller and arranged to meet the suspected smugglers at a Home Depot parking lot in Tucson on April 8.
The investigator states in the complaint that Borboa-Ruiz arrived at the parking lot and got into the undercover agent’s vehicle. The agent gave the suspect the $16,000 which the suspect promptly counted. He then made a phone call to confirm receipt of the cash. The two migrant cousins were then released from a black Hyundai Accent.
Borboa-Ruiz then exited the vehicle and began walking through the parking lot until HSI agents moved in and placed him under arrest. During a search, the agents found a 9mm CZ P-07 pistol in his pocket, the complaint states.
The Hyundai driver, later identified as Lares-De La Rosa, attempted to flee and crashed into a wash. As he drove away, the suspect reportedly threw a 9mm Zrodelta LLC pistol out of the car. He fled on foot following the crash and was taken into custody by HDA and Marana police officers a short time later.
During the investigation, HSI agents found that a federal court previously convicted Lares-De La Rosa in 2017 for Reentry of a Removed Alien. The court sentenced the Mexican national to 21 months in federal prison.
A records check on Borboa-Ruiz is also a Mexican national illegally present in the U.S.
The six-count indictment obtained by Breitbart Texas charges the two men with human smuggling for financial gain and weapons violations.
“A conviction for the crime of Conspiracy to Commit Hostage Taking carries a maximum penalty of life imprisonment, a $250,000 fine, or both,” the U.S. Attorney’s Office said in a written statement. “The remaining charges each carry a maximum penalty of 10 years, a $250,000 fine, or both.”
A magistrate judge ordered Lares-De La Rosa to be held without bond pending trial due to being a flight risk and a danger to the community. The judge noted the defendant committed the alleged offense while out on release pending trial on another federal, state, or local charge, court documents state.
The judge also ordered Borboa-Ruiz held without bond. The judge noted two previous felony convictions and that the crime was committed while the defendant was on release for a federal, state, or local offense. The judge determined the defendant to be a flight risk and a danger to the community.
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
1400 Migrants Apprehended in Nine Large Groups in Texas’ Busiest Border Sectors
Border Patrol agents in the Del Rio and Rio Grande Valley Sectors apprehended more than 1,400 migrants in nine large groups after they illegally crossed from Mexico into Texas. The migrants came to the U.S. from multiple nations.
Over the past few days, Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended more than 1,000 migrants in six large groups, according to information received from Border Patrol officials. Large groups are defined as more than 100 migrants crossing the border in a single incident.
The groups apprehended near La Grulla, Rio Grande City, and Roma, Texas, during the past several days came to the U.S. from Cuba, Romania, and multiple Central and South American nations, officials reported. They included 406 single adults, 322 family units, and 301 unaccompanied alien children.
During this fiscal year, which began on October 1, 2021, RGV Sector agents encountered more than 50 large groups leading to the apprehension of nearly 9,000 migrants, the report reveals. Smugglers utilize these large group crossings to overwhelm Border Patrol agents leaving agents tied up with transporting, processing, and caring for the migrants. This leaves much of the border unprotected enabling smugglers to move drugs and “high value” migrants across the border and into the U.S. interior.
In the Del Rio Sector, the nation’s second-busiest, agents encountered three more large groups in less than 15 hours. The incidents led to the apprehension of nearly 400 migrants.
At about 4 a.m. on May 7, agents encountered 126 migrants near Normandy, Texas, a well-known border crossing area for large groups. Agents identified the migrants as citizens of Cuba (92), Peru (4), Colombia (17), Nicaragua (7), and Venezuela (6). The group included 70 single adult males, 26 adult females, and ten family units.
A few hours later, a second group consisting of 131 migrants crossed near Eagle Pass, Texas. This group consisted of migrants from Colombia (2), Costa Rica (2), Cuba (87), Nicaragua (37), and Venezuela (3). They included 45 adult males, 29 adult females, and 57 migrant family units.
At about 6:15 p.m., agents encountered the third group within a 15-hour period, officials stated. The 132 apprehended migrants included citizens of Colombia (37), Cuba (57), Nicaragua (6), Peru (21), and Venezuela (11). Agents report the group is made up of 60 adult males, 41 adult females, and 11 family units.
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
2600 Migrants Apprehended, Six Bodies Recovered in Texas over Mother’s Day Weekend
Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended more than 2,600 migrants over Mother’s Day Weekend. Agents also interdicted 16 human smuggling loads, rescued 12 migrants, and recovered the remains of eight deceased migrants.
Del Rio Sector Chief Patrol Agent Jason D. Owens tweeted a report showing a busy Mother’s Day Weekend for his Border Patrol agents. During the holiday weekend, agents apprehended 2,658 migrants.
These apprehensions included nearly 400 migrants apprehended in three large groups, Breitbart Texas reported. One group (126 migrants) crossed the border near Normandy, Texas. The other two groups — 131 and 132 migrants respectively — crossed closer to Eagle Pass. These included migrants from seven nations.
Chief Owens reported the weekend’s apprehension of 2,658 migrants including 57 unaccompanied children and 496 family units. These apprehensions also included those arrested in 16 interdicted human smuggling incidents, Owens stated.
Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents carried out 12 rescue operations and, unfortunately, had to recover the bodies or remains of six migrants.
Breitbart Texas reached out to Del Rio Sector Border Patrol officials for additional information regarding the six deaths. An immediate response was not available. It is not known where or how these six deaths occurred.
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
Migrant Convicted of Rape in New York Caught Crossing AZ Border
Border Patrol Agents in Naco, Arizona, arrested a migrant previously convicted of sex offenses on Tuesday. Erik Contreras-Diaz, a Guatemalan citizen, was caught by the agents shortly after he illegally re-entered the country. Agents soon discovered Contreras was a registered sex offender from an attempted 1st degree rape in New York in 2016.
Contreras-Diaz, who was illegally present in Mount Kisco, New York, was arrested in 2016 and accused of felony rape, sexual abuse, and robbery. According to a news report in the Hudson Valley Post, NY State Police were sent to investigate a reported sex offense on July 27, 2016. After an initial investigation, police say a then 26-year-old Erik Contreras-Diaz brought a woman to a motel and made unwanted sexual contact with her.
According to the victim, on numerous occasions, she attempted to contact police for assistance but was thwarted by Contreras-Diaz.
The victim was ultimately able to exit the motel room and after a brief struggle and summoned police.
Contreras-Diaz was subsequently convicted and sentenced to 42 months in prison. He now faces up to 20 years in federal prison if convicted of illegally re-entering the country after his removal.
Contreras-Diaz was one of two previously convicted sex offenders arrested by agents in Naco, Arizona, within a span of 10 hours on Tuesday. Sergio Fernandez-Barvosa, a Mexican national, was also arrested after being found to have been convicted of attempted child molestation in Arizona. He was sentenced to prison for five years.
Although most migrants apprehended by the Border Patrol have no previous criminal records, the sheer volume of apprehensions is creating an equal rise in those that do have convictions for serious criminal offenses who are illegally re-entering.
In the Tucson Border Patrol Sector alone, agents have arrested four additional migrants with serious criminal records for offenses committed in the United States in the first 10 days of May.
On May 1, agents in Nogales arrested Sigifredo Delgadillo-Ramirez, a Mexican citizen, who was convicted of three counts of attempted 1st degree murder in California in 1992.
On May 3, agents in Douglas arrested Felix Armenta, also a Mexican national, and found he had been convicted of felony attempted aggravated criminal sexual abuse in 2008 in Illinois.
On May 5, agents near Ajo arrested Rene Martinez-Monge, a citizen of El Salvador. During their initial investigation, agents discovered a previous conviction for felony attempted murder in Los Angeles, California.
On May 7, agents in Douglas apprehended Armando Contreras-Lopez, who had crossed with a large group of migrants. It was discovered the Mexican national is a registered sex offender for endangering the welfare of a child in New Jersey.
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.
86 Mostly Cuban Migrants Apprehended in AZ Desert near Border
Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents encountered a group of 68 migrants who illegally crossed the border from Mexico into the Arizona desert. The migrants mostly came to the U.S. from Cuba.
Lukeville Station Border Patrol agents came upon a group of 68 migrants along the border fence west of Lukeville, Arizona, according to a tweet from Tucson Sector Chief Patrol Agent John R. Modlin. The agents identified the group to mostly be citizens of Cuba.
Modlin reported the group consisted mostly of single adults and family unit migrants. Multiple Border Patrol agents and resources became tied up in order to transport, care for, and process the group of migrants.
Human smugglers utilized these types of groups in order to prevent Border Patrol agents from being able to patrol other areas of the border. Agents repeatedly told Breitbart this tactic enables the smugglers to move drugs or other high-value migrants across the border.
Another example of this took place on Wednesday in the Del Rio Sector where agents apprehended more than 150 migrants who illegally crossed the border near Eagle Pass, Texas. The group appeared to mostly be single adults, according to video tweeted by independent journalist Ali Bradley.
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
3-County Pursuit Leads to Smuggler’s Arrest in Texas 160 Miles from Border
A suspected human smuggler is in a South Texas jail after leading police on a pursuit that raced through three counties. The pursuit began when the suspected smuggler refused to stop for a traffic violation and ended with the arrest of the smuggler and five migrants.
Medina County Sheriff’s Office deputies attempted to stop a white Dodge Ram pickup for a traffic violation on Tuesday, KENS CBS5 in San Antonio reported. The driver fled into neighboring Atascosa County where he drove through a ranch, stopping long enough to drop off four migrants.
The driver took off again and led law enforcement officers into Bexar County and the outskirts of San Antonio — approximately 160 miles from the Texas-Mexico border. The pursuit reached speeds up to 80 miles per hour, officials reported.
The driver turned around and led police back into Atascosa County where officers deployed spike strips along Highway 16 to stop the fleeing vehicle. The deputies arrested the driver, a resident of Carrizo Springs, Texas.
During a search of the Ram truck, officials found another migrant hiding under the truck’s toolbox.
The driver now faces state charges for human smuggling and evading arrest, officials stated. Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents took custody of the five migrants.
Medina County Sheriff Randy Brown told KENS the human smuggling high-speed pursuits are “hard to keep up with.” He said this was the fifth pursuit in his county in the past 24 hours.
A few days earlier, another human smuggling pursuit nearly ended in tragedy with the 15-year-old suspected smuggler allegedly attempted to run down a Texas DPS trooper and a Kinney County deputy after a pursuit, Breitbart Texas’ Randy Clark reported. Police fired several rounds at the driver to avoid being struck by the vehicle.
The suspected human smuggler is reported to be in stable condition after being shot twice in the chest and one in the arm.
Deputies arrested three migrants following the pursuit. Two other migrants managed to escape.
Kinney County Sheriff Brad Coe told Breitbart his seven-deputy department is also having difficulty dealing with the increase in human smuggling activity in his 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
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