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Blackburn: Inflation Raising the Possibility of Food Shortages
Friday on FNC’s “Hannity,” Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) explained how inflation, which she said was caused partly by the Biden administration’s embrace of the so-called Green New Deal, could lead to problems down the road.
Blackburn told “Hannity” fill-in host Sean Duffy that food shortages were possible because of farmers’ inability to plant as much because of the rising cost of fertilizer.
Transcript as follows:
DUFFY: Joining me now is Tennessee Senator Marsha Blackburn. Marsha, good to see you.
I got to tell you what. So listening to Congresswoman Escobar’s explanation of why we’re feeling this pain right now is that we didn’t actually transition to green energy early enough as opposed to we’re not drilling more in America, producing more American energy. What say you?
SEN. MARSHA BLACKBURN (R-TN): I say that now they’re trying to make it the people’s fault, because we didn’t fall in line with that Green New Deal and that socialist agenda and do this decades ago. And if we had, then we wouldn’t be having this problem now.
It is just amazing to me. They cannot ever say that Joe Biden said, he was going to end the oil and gas industry. And on day one, he said about taking the steps to make that promise come true.
With the Keystone with taking ANWR offline with your offshore drilling being ended, stopping fracking. The list goes on and on. He’s had 42 regulations since he took office that are directed directly at making it more difficult for the oil and gas industry to drill, to explore, to produce, to refine here in the United States.
DUFFY: Senator, he did run on that, right? He indicated listen, I’m going to attack American oil and gas and energy. He did say that and some people might give him kudos for sticking to his promise.
But you and I both served in the House together. I mean, at one point when your policies don’t help people, but actually hurt people, are kicking more people into poverty, you would think a leader would pivot and go, You know what, no, no, this actually isn’t working. I want to make sure my people are ok, that they can afford groceries. They can put gas in their car to go to work, so they can make a living for their family.
BLACKBURN: That is right. And I’ve been in five Tennessee counties today. And, Sean, it is amazing. Every one of them are worried about their county budgets. They hope that the budgets hold to the end of the year.
One of the counties was telling me about how the price of energy and inflation affects everything, all these county budgets, they needed some eight-inch pipe for a water line, they had been paying $4 a foot for that pipe. You know what it is right now? $14.50 a foot.
So all of these products that come from derivatives of oil and gas, you’re seeing the price hikes there too. Inflation at 9.1 percent, your groceries going through the roof, your price at the pump through the roof. People just cannot afford this.
And you know what, Sean, the food shortages, the fear this is causing with people, the way they’re anticipating food shortages, because in rural America, they know that the farmers are not planting as much this year to go into that supply chain for our food that you’re going to see on the shelves next year. And the reason they’re not planning, the cost of fertilizer, the cost of diesel, they cannot afford to get the crop in the ground.
DUFFY: Which is now going to drive up the cost of food. This is a vicious cycle, Senator. I know you see it firsthand in Tennessee. I see it firsthand in Wisconsin. And you know what, we’re grateful we have people like you fighting for some common sense policies in the Senate.
So thank you for joining me tonight too. I always appreciate your common sense.
BLACKBURN: Good. Good to be with you.
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Two-Front ‘Invasion’ – Biden’s Massive Illegal Migrant Surges in Florida and Texas
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ANALYSIS – Thanks to Team Biden’s horrible immigration and border policies which essentially dismantled President Trump’s effective policies immediately upon Biden’s inauguration, the country is now facing two separate illegal migrant crises.
The first, better-known one is in Texas where hundreds of thousands of migrants are flooding regularly across the border, but now we are seeing a second wave of migrants surging toward the U.S. from the Caribbean into Florida.
The Washington Examiner reports:
As record numbers of Cubans and Haitians attempt to cross the southern land border illegally, others are increasingly taking to the sea. Department of Homeland Security authorities with the Coast Guard told the Washington Examiner its personnel are interdicting more migrants at sea than ever before.
However, these illegal migrants are generally not counted in the numbers provided by the Department of Homeland Security Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, policy director at the Washington-based American Immigration Council, wrote in a message to the Examiner:
Interdiction at sea is a Coast Guard function and individuals who are intercepted at sea do not get processed under immigration laws. Haitians … are taken back to Guantanamo Bay and processed at the Migrant Operations Center (MOC), then deported back to their home countries.
But Cubans and Haitians are also crossing by land. More than 170,000 people from Cuba and Haiti have attempted to cross the U.S.-Mexico border since last October — 10 times more than all of 2020 and the highest-ever number of Cubans and Haitians seeking asylum in the U.S.
The Cuban government has refused to take back its citizens under removal procedures. Thus, Cuban migrants who reach land largely avoid being deported.
“Just from Cuba alone, we already have more people in the last nine months than the entire Mariel boatlift. That’s just from one country — just from one country,” Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., said Wednesday, the Examiner reported.
Meanwhile, the Coast Guard is warning of the dangers of these sea crossings:
The Examiner adds:
Since the start of the federal government’s fiscal year last October, the Coast Guard crews deployed to the southeastern coast of Florida and waters around Haiti and Puerto Rico have intercepted more than 10,000 people attempting to enter the United States illegally by boat. Just 2,000 of the 10,000 were off the coast of Cuba and Puerto Rico, while the remainder were around South Florida and the Florida Keys.
Roughly 3,400 were from Cuba and 6,100 were from Haiti — four times more Haitian migrants than the previous 12-month record.
As many Texas counties declare their border crises as an ‘invasion,’ we can now see that we have a two-front migrant invasion of the United States — one by land in Texas, another by sea in Florida. ALD
The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the positions of American Liberty News.
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Biden Admin Announces 192K Migrant Apprehensions in Late Friday Night Report
The Biden administration reported that Border Patrol agents apprehended nearly 192,000 migrants who illegally crossed the southwest border between ports of entry. Officials sneaked out the report late Friday evening.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials released the July Southwest Land Border Encounters Report indicating the apprehension of 191,898 migrants who illegally crossed the border between ports of entry. This brought the total for the current fiscal year, which began October 1, 2021, to more than 1.6 million migrant apprehensions — more than 830,000 during the past four months. With only three months to go in the current fiscal year, apprehensions are only about 25,000 shy of last year’s record-shattering 1,659,206 apprehensions.
The Friday night released report actually shows a slight decline in apprehensions between May and June. While the June report represents an increase of only 7.4 percent over the previous year’s report, it is the largest number of June apprehensions in Border Patrol reports dating back to the Clinton administration.
Of the 1.6 million migrants apprehended so far this fiscal year, single adults accounted for more than 70 percent of the total. Officials reported 23 percent as family units and nearly seven percent as unaccompanied minors.
The Friday-night report did not include an update of the report breaking down apprehensions by Border Patrol sectors. However, Border Patrol reports reviewed earlier this month by Breitbart Texas indicate the Del Rio Sector took over the number 1 position with the apprehension of more than 45,000 migrants.
The Rio Grande Valley Sector barely fell to second place as agents apprehended just under 45,000 migrants. The El Paso, Tucson, and Yuma Sectors each accounted for more than 20,000 apprehensions.
In addition, approximately 400,000 more migrants successfully sneaked into the U.S. interior without being apprehended. This brings the total known migrant crossings to more than 2 million with three months remaining in FY22.
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