The Biden administration has become so “dysfunctional” that Americans are crossing the border into Mexico “because gas is cheaper there,” according to Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) citing Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in talks with President Biden this week.
Jim Jordan Rips ‘Dysfunctional’ Biden Admin: Americans Crossing Border into Mexico ‘Because Gas Is Cheaper There’
The Biden administration has become so “dysfunctional” that Americans are crossing the border into Mexico “because gas is cheaper there,” according to Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) citing Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in talks with President Biden this week.
Appearing on Newsmax’s The Chris Salcedo Show on Tuesday, Rep. Jordan touched on President Joe Biden’s recent meeting with the president of Mexico wherein he touted the “continued cooperation on migration” between the two countries.
In a joint statement released on Tuesday, the two leaders stated that the U.S. and Mexico “affirm our broad and deep cooperation and commitment to building a more prosperous and secure future for the people of North America.”
According to Rep. Jordan, such cooperation is non-existent and “the whole country” is aware of the fact.
“There is no cooperation,” he said. “What we have is an open border.”
Further, the Ohio congressman said, “We no longer have a border.”
“It’s complete chaos,” he added. “Anyone with the brain understands that.”
Rep. Jordan then highlighted the repeated records of illegal border crossers being set monthly by the Biden administration.
“We have said, I think, over 150,000 illegal migrants have come across our border for 15 months straight,” he stated.
“I mean it’s literally record after record after record,” he added.
Recalling the Trump-era “Remain in Mexico” immigration policy as well as the construction of the border wall systems along the Mexico-U.S. border, Rep. Jordan lamented the current lack of a secure border.
“We used to have in place the ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy. We used to actually build the wall under President Trump,” he said.
“We used to have a secure border for goodness sake,” he added.
Highlighting a line from the Mexican president about Americans entering his country for lower gas prices, Rep. Jordan argued it was a sign of how “dysfunctional” the Biden administration has become.
“But for me the key takeaway was the Mexican president talking about how now Americans are going across the border into Mexico because gas is cheaper there,” he said.
“If that isn’t a picture for just how dysfunctional [and] how bad the Biden administration has been, I don’t know what it is,” he added.
Rep. Jordan’s remarks come as President Biden welcomed the Mexican president to the White House to discuss the bilateral relationship between the U.S. and Mexico as well as the surge in migrants, the rise in gas prices, and trade and climate concerns.
The United States currently faces record-high levels of illegal immigration, with more than 209,000 migrants apprehended after crossing the border from Mexico into the U.S. in March, the highest number of migrant apprehensions for one month since March 2000 — the last year of the Clinton administration.
It also breaks the Biden-era record of 200,658 set in July 2021.
Last month, Border Patrol agents apprehended nearly 192,000 migrants who illegally crossed from Mexico, according to government records previewed by Breitbart Texas.
Since March 1, agents apprehended more than 182,000 migrants in the nine southwest border sectors.
Last year, President Biden set new records for illegal immigration by enticing more than two million border crossers and illegal aliens to take the often deadly journey through Mexico to the nation’s southern border in the hopes of being released into the U.S.
Earlier this year, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas was reported to have admitted in private that illegal immigration in President Biden’s first year in office was “worse now than … ever” in American history.
In May, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley called to secure the border, stating that if all illegal immigrants were gathered into a new city, it would be the fourth largest in the country.
In April, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) warned the country was heading toward the “biggest migration crisis in U.S. history” as a result of Biden administration policies.
According to Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX), the United States is currently under “invasion” at its southern border and thus called to reject funding a government that refuses to secure it.
In March, Rep. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) accused President Biden of significantly damaging national security by deliberately creating a border crisis to expand the Democrat voter bloc, as he called for an investigation into the president over his actions.
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Mexican President: So Many Americans Are Crossing the Border to Buy Our Cheaper Gas That We’re Doubling the Fuel Supply
By Craig Bannister | July 13, 2022 | 3:07pm EDT
The president of Mexico says that so many Americans are crossing the border into his country to save money on gas, that he’s doubling the fuel supply at gas stations near the border - and putting “over 1,000 kilometers of gas pipelines” at President Joe Biden’s disposal.
In a White House meeting with Biden on Tuesday, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador explained how he’s helping out while the American people are waiting for the Biden Administration to do something about high gas prices:
“In the meantime, while we’re waiting for prices to go down, we have decided that it was necessary for us to allow Americans who live close to the borderline so that they could go and get their gasoline on the Mexican side at lower prices.”
“And right now, a lot of the drivers — a lot of the Americans — are going to Mexico, to the Mexican border, to get their gasoline,” López Obrador said, noting that the price of a gallon of gas is more than a dollar and a half less expensive in Mexico:
“Right now, a gallon of regular costs $4.78 average on this side of the border. And in our territory, $3.12.”
The Mexican president said that he’s committed to doubling the supply of fuel in order to accommodate the needs of cost-conscious American border-crossers:
“However, we could increase our inventories immediately. We are committed to guaranteeing twice as much supply of fuel. That would be considerable support.”
“California, which borders Mexico, remains one of the most expensive states for gas, at more than $6 per gallon, according to AAA. In Texas, the average is about $4.20,” according to The New York Post.
Pres. López Obrador also touted Mexican gas pipelines, which he offered to put “at the disposal” of Pres. Biden, in order to provide relief to Americans in southwest border states:
“We are putting at the disposal — or sending at the disposal of your administration over 1,000 kilometers of gas pipelines throughout the southern border with Mexico to transport gas from Texas to New Mexico, Arizona, and California for a volume that can generate up to 750 megawatts of electric energy and supply about 3 million people.”
Sen. Daines: Biden Should Be Talking First With U.S. Oil Producers, Not With Saudi Crown Prince
(CNS News) -- Sen. Steve Daines (R-Mont.) disapproves of President Joe Biden’s trip to Saudi Arabia this week in an attempt to combat inflated gas prices, asserting that Biden first needs to meet with U.S. oil producers to discuss “how we can increase production and to restore the Keystone Pipeline.”
At the U.S. Capitol on Monday, CNS News asked Senator Daines, “Is it appropriate for President Biden to travel to Saudi Arabia to meet with Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman?”
Daines replied, “The first meetings President Biden should have—should’ve had—are with U.S. oil producers talking about how we can increase production and to restore the Keystone pipeline. He should be staying home, talking to U.S. producers.”
Biden is expected to meet with Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman on Friday, in a trip many suspect is to secure oil because domestic gasoline prices are very high.
When was campaigning for office in 2020 he said, “I guarantee you, we’re going to end fossil fuels.” Soon after taking office, Biden took action to reduce domestic production of oil, including revoking the permit for the controversial Keystone XL Pipeline, which was expected to carry 830,000 barrels per day of Alberta oil sands crude to Nebraska, according to CNBC.
Biden claims that oil is not the purpose of this week’s trip. “The commitments from the Saudis don’t relate to anything having to do with energy,” he said. “It happens to be a larger meeting taking place in Saudi Arabia. That’s the reason I’m going. And it has to do with national security for them — for Israelis.”
In March 2022, it was reported that the crown princes of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates refused to take calls from Biden that likely had to do with securing allies against Russia and ensuring continued access to oil. The crown princes denied these calls due to “unhappiness about Biden’s policies in the region,” reported the Times of Israel.
On July 10, Biden wrote an op-ed for the Washington Post defending his trip. “When I meet with Saudi leaders on Friday, my aim will be to strengthen a strategic partnership going forward that’s based on mutual interests and responsibilities, while also holding true to fundamental American values,” he said.
The president also wrote, “My views on human rights are clear and long-standing, and fundamental freedoms are always on the agenda when I travel abroad.”
A response-commentary was published in The Post on Monday, saying, “A grip-and-grin photograph with MBS [Mohammed bin Salman] signals to autocrats everywhere that you can quite literally get away with murdering a journalist as long as you possess a natural resource the United States wants badly enough.”
Opposition to Biden’s trip stems in part from the belief that the Saudi Crown Prince was connected to the 2018 murder of Washington Post journalist and political opponent Jamal Khashoggi.
House Minority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) tweeted, “Why would President Biden plead for more Saudi Arabian oil when we could be producing more domestic energy right here in America? Our country should be producing more oil by Americans, for Americans.”
"Many Americans forget is that our country is located against a socialist failed state that is promising to descend even further into chaos – not California, the other one. And the Mexicans, having reached the bottom of the hole they have dug for themselves, just chose to keep digging by electing a new leftist presidente who wants to surrender to the cartels and who thinks that Mexicans have some sort of “human right” to sneak into the U.S. and demographically reconquer it." KURT SCHLICHTER
With Biden in office, America’s southern border has vanished entirely.
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2022/06/is-joe-bidens-open-borders-destroying.html
So, while we in America are getting a fair number of sex traffickers; mountains of fentanyl; low skilled, illegal workers who drive down wages; and more welfare mouths to feed, the Latin Americans who come here mostly want to work and mostly hew to traditional western, Christian values. ANDREA WIDBURG
WHAT???? SHOULD AMERICA LOOK TO THE GOP TO END BIDEN’S ORCHESTRATED MASSIVE INVASION TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED?!?!?!
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2022/06/president-of-narcomex-howls-it-is.html
Republican Study Committee Creates Holistic Immigration Plan to Raise Wages, Grow Middle Class
The RSC Budget would prohibit federal funds from going to cities or jurisdictions operating as sanctuaries for illegal immigrants. There are at least 190 of these so-called sanctuary jurisdictions across the country,[7] and many cities have seen increased crime rates since declaring themselves sanctuary cities.[8
Study: More than 7-in-10 California Immigrant
Welfare
More than 7-in-10 households headed by immigrants in the state of California are on taxpayer-funded welfare, a new study reveals.
The latest Census Bureau data analyzed by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) finds that about 72 percent of households headed by noncitizens and immigrants use one or more forms of taxpayer-funded welfare programs in California — the number one immigrant-receiving state in the U.S.
Meanwhile, only about 35 percent of households headed by native-born Americans use welfare in California.
All four states with the largest foreign-born populations, including California, have extremely high use of welfare by immigrant households. In Texas, for example, nearly 70 percent of households headed by immigrants use taxpayer-funded welfare. Meanwhile, only about 35 percent of native-born households in Texas are on welfare.
In New York and Florida, a majority of households headed by immigrants and noncitizens are on welfare. Overall, about 63 percent of immigrant households use welfare while only 35 percent of native-born households use welfare.
President Trump’s administration is looking to soon implement a policy that protects American taxpayers’ dollars from funding the mass importation of welfare-dependent foreign nationals by enforcing a “public charge” rule whereby legal immigrants would be less likely to secure a permanent residency in the U.S. if they have used any forms of welfare in the past, including using Obamacare, food stamps, and public housing.
The immigration controls would be a boon for American taxpayers in the form of an annual $57.4 billion tax cut — the amount taxpayers spend every year on paying for the welfare, crime, and schooling costs of the country’s mass importation of 1.5 million new, mostly low-skilled legal immigrants.
As Breitbart News reported, the majority of the more than 1.5 million foreign nationals entering the country every year use about 57 percent more food stamps than the average native-born American household. Overall, immigrant households consume 33 percent more cash welfare than American citizen households and 44 percent more in Medicaid dollars. This straining of public services by a booming 44 million foreign-born population translates to the average immigrant household costing American taxpayers $6,234 in federal welfare.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
Mexican President AMLO Lectures Americans: Reject ‘Conservatism,’ Accept ‘Transformation’
Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) lectured American citizens on Tuesday, urging them to reject “conservative” and embrace “transformation.”
During a press conference with President Joe Biden, AMLO attacked “the conservatives” in the United States for their opposition to the administration’s globalist agenda on energy, trade, and immigration.
“I know that your adversaries — the conservatives — are going to be screaming all over the place, even to heaven,” AMLO said. “They’re going to be yelling at heaven.”
“In the face of this crisis, the way out is not through conservatism,” he continued. “The way out is through transformation. We have to be bold in our actions. Transform not maintain the status quo.”
Instead of defending Americans, Biden seemingly agreed with AMLO.
“We have liberals, moderates, conservatives, and extreme conservatives,” Biden said. “I’m waiting for the Republican Party to come back to traditional conservative positions. We have to start to talk with them, to one another, in this country, with respect.”
AMLO also suggested that “it is indispensable” for Biden and Congress to pass amnesty for illegal aliens living in the U.S.
“It is indispensable for us to regularize and give certainty to migrants that have for years lived and worked in a very honest manner, and who are also contributing to the development of this great nation,” AMLO said.
In May, more than 222,000 border crossers and illegal aliens were apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border — the largest level of monthly illegal immigration since the Clinton administration. Since Biden took office, his administration has released over a million border crossers and illegal aliens into American communities.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
Exclusive: Republican Study Committee Creates Holistic Immigration Plan to Raise Wages, Grow Middle Class
A Republican Study Committee (RSC) budget proposal would create an immigration plan to secure the American border, curb illegal immigration, and reform America’s legal immigration system to boost wages and grow the middle class, Breitbart News has learned exclusively.
The RSC releases an annual budget to showcase its ideas for how a budget should be crafted but also to outline their policy solutions to fix the problems facing the nation. The RSC is the only non-committee congressional group to release a budget proposal every year.
The RSC, led by Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN), has moved to propose the policy solutions that would better the American people and advance an America First agenda.
This section of the RSC budget could serve as a model for a House Republican model should they take back the House during the 2022 midterm elections.
An RSC policy document held that Republicans, if they obtained the House majority, should hold public health bureaucrats such as Anthony Fauci accountable.
In this section, the RSC details how their budget would secure the border, crack down on illegal immigration, and fix the incentives in the legal immigration system to aid American workers.
The RSC explained:
- Immigration policy should protect our national security by protecting the American people from terrorism, cartels, and other threats to their safety.
- Immigration policy should prioritize American workers, help grow our middle class, raise wages, and enhance economic opportunity for all lawful residents.
- Immigration policy should respect the rule of law, along with immigrants that honor our legal immigration processes, rather than incentivize law breaking.
- Immigration policy should aim to assimilate legal immigrants into the American family so they too can take pride in our values, history, and heritage.
Immigration experts hailed the proposal crafted by Banks, Budget and Spending Task Force Chairman Kevin Hern (R-OK), and the rest of the RSC.
RJ Hauman, head of government relations for the immigration group Federation for American Immigration Reform, said in a statement:
The Republican Study Committee’s (RSC) Fiscal Year 2023 budget blueprint correctly recognizes that the border crisis continues to threaten national security, public health, wage levels, employment security, and poses unsustainable strains on government resources. As FAIR has long noted, every immigration policy decision by the federal government must serve the interests of American citizens, families, and workers. The RSC understands this, while the party in power does not. FAIR applauds Chairman Banks, Budget and Spending Task Force Chairman Hern, and the entire RSC membership for their leadership on the immigration issue amid a historic crisis. Republican leaders and the entire conference should take note of what this blueprint contains going into the 118th Congress. They will have a mandate to immediately legislate unflinchingly, and must ensure that our immigration laws protect and serve the interests of the American people as they were meant to do.
In addition, the RSC mentioned that its border proposal has introduced “dozens, if not hundreds, of bills to fix America’s immigration system and to fix the crisis at the southern border.”
The RSC stated that these bills to address America’s border and illegal immigration crises include:
The RSC Budget supports Rep. Clay Higgins’ (R-LA) bill, the Finish the Wall Act, which, among other things, would complete wall construction projects proposed by President Trump. The RSC budget would also implement Rep. Matthew Rosendale’s (R-MT) bill, REMAIN in Mexico Act of 2021 to require the Biden administration to continue to implement President Trump’s Migrant Protection Protocols. This budget would also implement Rep. Mike Johnson’s (R-LA) bill, the Closing Asylum Loopholes Act, which would increase the “credible fear” standard to reduce fraud in the asylum process and preserve the programs for those truly in need. Additionally, the RSC Budget supports hiring more immigration judge teams to handle backlogs and make it easier to secure our borders and ports of entry.
The RSC Budget would prohibit federal funds from going to cities or jurisdictions operating as sanctuaries for illegal immigrants. There are at least 190 of these so-called sanctuary jurisdictions across the country,[7] and many cities have seen increased crime rates since declaring themselves sanctuary cities.[8] Accordingly, the RSC Budget supports Rep. Guy Reschenthaler’s (R-PA) No Sanctuary for Criminals Act, which would block federal grants from flowing to these jurisdictions. The RSC Budget also supports legislation that would allow victims of illegal alien crime to sue sanctuary jurisdictions for damages. The RSC budget supports Rep. Randy Feenstra’s (R-IA) bill, Sarah’s Law, to ensure that federal authorities can detain, until ICE can process them, any illegal alien that commits a crime that results in the death of another person.
This budget also supports the following common-sense measures to support border security and protect the American homeland:
- Rep. Vicky Hartzler’s (R-MO) bill, Eradicate Crossing of Illegal Tunnels (EXIT), which would expedite the approval process that U.S. Customs & Border Patrol (CBP) agents must undergo to destroy tunnels at the border used for illegal crossings and the transportation of narcotics.
- Rep. Dan Meuser’s (R-PA) Immigration Transparency and Transit Notification Act of 2022, which would require the HHS Secretary to notify Federal, state and local health officials of any jurisdiction before placing an illegal immigrant there.
- Rep. Tom McClintock’s (R-CA) Illegal Immigrant Payoff Prohibition Act, which prohibits settlement payments to illegal aliens in connection with their inadmissibility.
- Rep. Dan Bishop’s (R-NC) Immigration Detainer Enforcement Act, which would give explicit authority to local law enforcement agencies to hold detained illegal immigrants for 48 hours to allow DHS to assume custody.
- This budget supports defunding the United Nation’s International Organization of Migration,
- Rep. Ted Budd’s (R-NC) Stopping Traffickers and Their Accomplices Act, which would require abortion providers to report suspected human trafficking to the National Human Trafficking Hotline.
The budget would also slash the Emergency Refugee and Migration Assistance Fund, which the conservative group believes operates as a “slush fund for liberal bureaucrats to subsidize Biden’s open borders agenda.”
Roy Beck, the president of NUMBERS USA Education & Research Foundation, said in a statement:
The RSC Budget contains a sweeping but practical blueprint for immigration policies that would provide a fairer playing field for American wage-earners and would begin to narrow current economic disparities that are destabilizing our society. The greatest beneficiaries would be Americans of all races and ethnicities in the economic underclass. The many specific line items truly justify the authors’ claim to “prioritize American workers, help grow our middle class, raise wages, and enhance economic opportunity for all lawful residents.” Adoption of the budget proposals would create conditions that should result in bringing back into the job market millions of Americans who have abandoned it, or been abandoned by it. And they would remove barriers to the aspirations of American students in many careers. Most of the provisions are not speculative in that they either have been proven effective in the past or have been recommended by a succession of federal commissions over the last half-century. They would greatly reduce the illegal foreign worker competition by eliminating the major incentives for foreign citizens to enter the country illegally or to overstay their visas. And the budget provisions, if implemented by a President, would end the chaos at our borders. If adopted in full, the immigration budget items would be one of the greatest steps ever taken by Congress for a more equitable and harmonious society.
The RSC proposal also put forward numerous reforms to the legal immigration system to improve Americans’ lives, including:
- Ending the diversity lottery visa program
- Limiting chain migration to the spouses and children of U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents
- Support the intent of the 14th Amendment to only confer citizenship, at birth, to someone born of at least one U.S. citizen
- Add bonding requirements to certain visas with high overstay rates to mitigate visa overstays
- Require employers to use E-Verify to ensure that potential employees are legally eligible to work in the United States
Additionally, the budget would ban business deductions for wages paid to illegal immigrants. “Wages illegitimately paid to support illegal immigration should not qualify as a legitimate business expense,” it charged.
The proposal would also implement reforms to the H-1B Visa program to end “corrupt practices.” It would specifically implement Banks’ American Tech Workforce Act to ensure that businesses cannot undercut American wages by higher foreign H-1B workers at a lower wage:
The bill would also replace the current lottery system used in the program, which outsourcing firms abuse by flooding the system with applications to make it more likely they receive H-1B slots. Instead, the bill would award H-1B visas to companies willing to pay the highest wages for their workers. Finally, the bill would limit the ability of Big Tech firms to contract with third-party companies to fill positions with H-1B workers for jobs that are eventually outsourced.
The RSC proposal is especially powerful considering that a coalition of multinational corporations and the United States Chamber of Commerce have continued to lobby Biden to loosen the rules for foreign H-1B visa workers to pack the labor market with more foreign workers.
“There are about 650,000 H-1B visa foreign workers in the U.S. at any given moment. Americans are often laid off in the process and forced to train their foreign replacements,” Breitbart News’s John Binder noted.
Goldman Sachs has also moved to cut roughly $100 billion from Americans’ wages by importing 2.5 million extra foreign workers.
The H-1B program has often been abused to the detriment of white-collar Americans.
The RSC budget also said the United States should deny admission and permanent residence status to any individual likely to abuse the American welfare system.
Many leading conservatives helped craft the RSC budget proposal, including Rep. Kevin Hern (R-OK), who is the RSC Budget and Spending Task Force chair and is also running to replace Banks for RSC chairman. Other task force members include:
- Byron Donalds (R-FL)
- Ralph Norman (R-SC)
- Trent Kelly (R-MS)
- Ronny Jackson (R-TX)
- Beth Van Duyne (R-TX)
- Bob Good (R-VA)
- Tom Tiffany (R-WI)
- Ben Cline (R-VA)
- Ron Estes (R-KS)
- Roger Williams (R-TX)
- Fred Keller (R-PA)
- Troy Nehls (R-TX)
- Michael Cloud (R-TX)
- August Pfluger (R-TX)
“As conservatives, we believe our country should be open to those that will seek the American dream, and not those that will seek to depend on the American taxpayer. We also believe it is morally reprehensible for liberal elites in the Biden Administration to use the hard-earned dollars of the American people to enact an open borders agenda,” the RSC budget explained.
Sean Moran is a congressional reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter @SeanMoran3.
EXCLUSIVE VIDEO — Rep. Mayra Flores: Biden Admin Encourages Illegal Immigration
The policies of President Joe Biden are encouraging people to risk their lives by trying to illegally enter the U.S., said recently elected Congresswoman Mayra Flores from South Texas.
“He is not saying it with words, but he is saying it with actions — with what he is doing,” said Congresswoman Flores in an exclusive interview. “He is telling the people to practically come, bring everyone, take the risk, and endanger your children.”
Flores recently granted Breitbart News an interview where she spoke about the current issues facing her district in South Texas, particularly the immigration crisis. According to Flores, mismanagement by the Biden Administration at the border has worsened while Democrat politicians dismiss the challenges at hand.
“It’s not fair, it’s not fair for the Democratic Party to take advantage, because they are taking advantage of the needs of the migrants,” she said.
Apprehensions at the border have jumped dramatically since the start of the Biden Administration, leading to almost daily record-breaking figures. Messaging by the administration, plus moves like ending Title 42 removals, have overwhelmed the detention and enforcement capabilities of the Department of Homeland Security.
“In truth, there are some very bad people crossing our border,” Flores said. “While our agents on the border are tied up with children and women, there are terrorists coming in.”
The congresswoman was referring to reports claiming that in May, 15 individuals apprehended were on a terrorist watch list while a total of 50 had been apprehended since October 2021.
“Things have changed. I believe that we need to secure our border and to help good people come here legally,” Flores said.
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