Wednesday, August 31, 2022

DOES JOE BIDEN WORK FOR BIG TECH OR DOES BIG TECH WORK FOR THE BIDEN REGIME? - TechCrunch notes that in 2019, a deal was made between U.S. regulators that allowed the Justice Department to launch investigations of Apple and Google while the Federal Trade Commission would focus on other Big Tech investigations including Amazon and Facebook.

 

Bill Maher rips media over Hunter Biden cover-up



SO LONG HAS BRIBES SUCKER JOE BIDEN IS IN THE WHITE HOUSE THERE WILL NEVER BE ANY ANTI-TRUST ACTIONS AGAINST HIS TECH CRONIES!


NEO-FASCIST TECH BILLIONAIRES AND THE BIDEN REGIME… what do the tech billionaires get from protecting the Biden crime family?

https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2022/08/sundar-pichai-of-googles-assault-on.html

 Nor can we forget the role being played by the tech giants, who are using IT as a weapon for social control and the destruction of privacy.

4.  Congress, he argues “is a joke.” Our government is run by “The cogs and lickspittles in the bureaucracy, led by a small elite in corporations, above all in Big Tech and finance, will determine all important policies, foreign and domestic.”


Big Tech vs Free Speech: Breitbart Exposed the Masters of the Universe in 2018 Townhall


 https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/05/05/flashback-breitbart-news-town-hall-exposed-the-silicon-valley-masters-of-the-universe/


Big Tech takes on Truth Social

It wasn't a matter of "if," but "when" and "how" big tech would target Donald Trump's social media platform, Truth Social.

Truth Social was recently barred from the Google Play Store, which is a digital distribution service for applications meant for Android phones.

Currently, there are more than 130 million Android smartphone users in the United States.

Axios reported the following statement from Alphabet, which owns Google.

On Aug. 19, we notified Truth Social of several violations of standard policies in their current app submission and reiterated that having effective systems for moderating user-generated content is a condition of our terms of service for any app to go live on Google Play.

Trump Media and Technology Group CEO Devin Nunes said the decision on whether the app would be available was "up to the Google Play Store."  Nunes had previously called Google a "monopoly."

Google reiterated that Truth Social's violations, and the steps to redress them, have been clearly communicated with the company.

Trump Media pushed back, saying Truth Social was creating a "vibrant, family-friendly environment."

Google says it is up to Truth Social to comply with its rules.

The dispute continues.

Truth Social was founded as a free speech platform, following the coordinated social media ban on President Trump following the occurrences of January 6.

Upon its launch, Truth Social became the most downloaded application on the Apple Store.

Big Tech was always going to find a way to restrict Truth Social's reach.

Big Tech is vehemently opposed to people speaking their minds and effectively questioning the approved talking point from the establishment.

A perfect example is the Hunter Biden laptop story.

In October 2020, the New York Post had carried myriad reports on the shady lucrative business dealings of Hunter Biden, enabled by his father, Joe Biden, when he was vice president.

The laptop also contained photos of drug-addled Hunter in a compromising position with a prostitute.  There were messages of Hunter using racist language and videos of him using drugs. 

The stories showed Joe Biden as corrupt, nepotistic, and potentially compromised by hostile foreign countries.

During the 2016 presidential elections, Donald Trump and his supporters effectively used social media to counter the narrative of the establishment.  The establishment characterized it as disinformation and hate speech.

During the 2020 presidential election, Big Tech didn't allow factual information to hurt the Democrats. 

Twitter locked the New York Post's account.  Facebook restricted the spread of the story.  CEO Mark Zuckerberg claimed he acted following a warning from the FBI about "misinformation."

This suppression of vital information was a blatant act of meddling in the 2020 presidential election.

A poll revealed that 16% of Biden voters said they would have voted differently had they known of Hunter's laptop.

So how did Big Tech grow into this monster that interferes in the elections with impunity?

They began like all providers by offering their applications such as Facebook and Twitter for free.  People registered, and their reach and popularity grew.

Over the years, they built their ecosystem by eliminating or buying out all competition.

Old social media sites such as Orkut gradually faded away from public memory.

Competitors such as Instagram, the popular photo and video sharing social networking service, and WhatsApp, which is an instant messaging and voice-over-IP service, were acquired by Facebook Inc. 

The growth was rapid and vast, such that these social media platforms have become official communication channels for governments worldwide. 

In time, they had not just control, but a total monopoly, it was at this point they assumed the role of arbiter and controller of information.

If anyone questioned the efficacy of the COVID-19 vaccines, his message was either blocked, restricted, or labeled as unreliable.  At times, the user was deplatformed for being a "serial violator."

However, if anyone overstated the efficacy of the vaccines, his message was promoted.

The world wide web was meant to be a platform that challenged the monopoly of the establishment.  It was supposed to be a forum for rebels and dissenters.

It is most unfortunate that Big Tech engaged in total surrender to become allies with the establishment.

Back to Truth Social.

Truth Social is to Big Tech what Trump is to Washington, D.C.

Big Tech has built an ecosystem that comprises echo chambers.  If Truth Social is allowed to exist, it blows a gaping hole in this ecosystem, and soon everything implodes.

Both Washington, D.C. and Big Tech realize that one dissenter can destroy their ecosystem, and hence they are going to use all their might to crush the rebellion.

This is merely the beginning of Truth Social's battles.  There are a myriad.

Don't be too surprised if the Apple Store follows Google to challenge Truth Social for the violations of standard policies.  It is not beyond the realm of possibility that they add clauses to their policies just to restrict Truth Social and block the app from iOS, which is Apple's mobile operating system.

But applications are not the only way that Truth Social can be accessed.

Truth Social can be accessed via the web.  Here, too, Big Tech can play their games.

Big Tech can collude with various internet service providers to either restrict or reduce the download speed for Truth Social.

Browsers such as Google's Chrome and Apple's Safari and Microsoft's Edge can reduce the download speed of Truth Social.

This could result in it taking forever for Truth Social to load and users quitting in frustration.

Big Tech can also go after Truth Social's infrastructure.

Big Tech controls not just applications, but also the infrastructure such as servers that host the apps as well as the network infrastructure.

Truth Social wisely chose not to use Amazon servers.  This may be the cause of a rocky phase initially, but it will be beneficial for Truth Social's longevity.

Parler, which promised free speech to its users, was banned from using Amazon's servers.  This occurred when Trump was banned from social media, and there were rumors that Trump would join Parler.

In the future, Amazon will make attempts to buy out the firms that provide servers to Truth Social.

Let's look at personnel, a great deal of Truth Social's success will also depend on its staff who will both maintain the app and add new features as the app grows.

Big Tech could pledge never to employ any individual who worked for Truth Social.  This policy may not be explicitly stated.  But blacklisting a company means that it won't always attract the best talent.

When the GOP wins the House and the Senate following the midterms, confronting Big Tech must be a high priority.

They must ensure that Truth Social and other platforms that challenge the Big Tech monopoly are allowed to grow.

It is true that government must never interfere in the functioning of a free market.  But when certain parties have a total monopoly over the market owing to the backing of a political party, the government has to intervene and level the playing field. 

Image: Screen shot from Real America's Voice via YouTube.


Report: DOJ Prepares to File Antitrust Lawsuit Against Apple

Tim _Apple_ Cook testifying via TV (Pool/Getty)
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According to recent reports, the U.S. Department of Justice is in the early stages of drafting an antitrust lawsuit against Apple.

According to Politico, the U.S. Department of Justice is in the early stages of drafting an antitrust lawsuit against Apple. The report suggests that a potential lawsuit could arrive by the end of the year but also stresses that a final decision over whether or not to sue the company has yet to be made.

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Apple’s Tim Cook (Noah Berger/AFP)

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TechCrunch notes that in 2019, a deal was made between U.S. regulators that allowed the Justice Department to launch investigations of Apple and Google while the Federal Trade Commission would focus on other Big Tech investigations including Amazon and Facebook.

The DOJ has reportedly been investigating whether Apple abused its market power to dominate smaller tech companies, including hardware and software makers. Apple’s control over its App Store has long angered developers who wish to sell their apps directly to consumers without apple taking a 30 percent cut of all transactions. This issue became the subject of Fortnite developer Epic Games’ lawsuit against Apple which is currently under appeal.

The DOJ began reaching out to developers as early as 2020 in its examination of Apple’s business practices. The initial discussions included the makers of a parental control app that was pulled from the App Store for not complying with Apple’s rules. One developer said that their app was pulled from the store for six months, causing it to lose half its business.

The Bluetooth tracking device maker Tile has also accused Apple of engaging in unfair competition with the introduction of Apple’s AirTag. The Apple tracking device launched with direct access to the iPhone’s ultra-wideband technology for precision finding capabilities and integration into Apple’s “Find My” app. Tile argued that it shouldn’t have to sacrifice its direct relationship with its customers through its own app in order to compete with Apple’s hardware by becoming just another “Find My” partner. Tile further claimed that Apple’s decision to enter the market would all it to easily dominate due to its first-party advantage and ecosystem power.

JOE BIDEN AND THE OPIOID CARTELS - 'You Notice How Many People Are Dying of Opioid Overdoses Now?'

Border Town USA: Migrants Busted in Michigan with Mexican Cartel’s 20K Fentanyl Pills

https://www.breitbart.com/border/2022/04/19/border-town-usa-migrants-busted-in-michigan-with-mexican-cartels-20k-fentanyl-pills/

 

https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2022/04/joe-bidens-sabotage-of-homeland_19.html


JOE BIDEN'S SABOTAGE OF HOMELAND SECURITY - Illegal immigration is also the ways and means by which illegal drugs enter the United States. Last year, 100,000 Americans, most of them young, died of overdoses, with two-thirds of these Americans succumbing to fentanyl that is produced in China and comes through Mexico. PATRICK BUCHANAN 

Biden: 'You Notice How Many People Are Dying of Opioid Overdoses Now?'

By Susan Jones | August 31, 2022 | 6:10am EDT

  

Ray Donovan, chief of operations at the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), stands in front of "The Faces of Fentanyl" wall, which displays photos of Americans who died of a fentanyl overdose, at DEA headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, on July 13, 2022. America's opioid crisis has reached catastrophic proportions, with over 80,000 people dying of opioid overdoses last year, most of them due to illicit synthetics such as fentanyl. (Photo by AGNES BUN/AFP via Getty Images)
Ray Donovan, chief of operations at the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), stands in front of "The Faces of Fentanyl" wall, which displays photos of Americans who died of a fentanyl overdose, at DEA headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, on July 13, 2022. America's opioid crisis has reached catastrophic proportions, with over 80,000 people dying of opioid overdoses last year, most of them due to illicit synthetics such as fentanyl. (Photo by AGNES BUN/AFP via Getty Images)

(CNSNews.com) - President Joe Biden told an audience in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania on Tuesday that his crime fighting plan "does something else really important: It addresses the opioid epidemic," he said.

"You notice how many people are dying of opioid overdoses now?" the president asked. "And by the way, laced with fentanyl."

According to the Drug Enforcement Administration, Mexico and China are the primary source countries for fentanyl trafficked directly into the United States.

That drug, and others, are smuggled across the porous southwest border daily.

Just five days ago, in fact, U.S. Border Patrol agents seized 340 packages of fentanyl pills weighing 187 pounds near Gila Bend, Arizona. Fentanyl is generally considered lethal at just 2 milligrams.

"But we’re going to impose tougher penalties for deadly fentanyl trafficking that’s poisoning communities across this country," said Biden, who refuses to enforce border security -- or even visit the places where hordes of people cross illegally into the United States every single day.

Biden said tougher penalties for fentanyl trafficking "is a key part of the Unity Agenda...that I announced in my State of the Union Address. We can do this. We have to do this. We’ll make America safer."

As CNSNews.com has reported, Since February 2021, the first full month of Joe Biden's presidency, 3,385,016 people are known to have entered the country illegally, based on "encounter" statistics reported by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

That number includes 1,946,780 in the current Fiscal Year, which ends in September (see chart below).

(Source: CBP)
(Source: CBP)

It's not clear how many of the total "encounters" have been expelled for public health or other reasons, only to repeat their illegal entry attempts.

Likewise, an unknown number of people, including human/drug smugglers, have crossed the southwest border undetected.


Also See:
Rep. Byron Donalds: Biden's Open Borders Goal Is to 'Change the Electorate'


10 Alleged MS-13 Members Indicted on Murder Charges in Texas, Maryland, ‘Multiple Acts of Mutilation and Dismemberment’

By Micky Wootten | August 31, 2022 | 3:25pm EDT

  

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(CNS News) – Ten alleged MS-13 gang members have been indicted by a federal grand jury in the Southern District of Texas on a series of charges, including seven murders that “were allegedly brutal in nature.” Some of the crimes also occurred in Maryland.

On Aug. 25, 2022, the Department of justice issued a press release about the indictment. The indictment charges 10 alleged MS-13 gang members with “crimes including racketeering conspiracy, murder, attempted murder, and conspiracy to murder in aid of racketeering, related firearms charges, and obstruction of justice.”

The indictment includes allegations that the defendants “were leaders and members” of La Mara Salvatrucha, or “MS-13.” The defendants face criminal charges “related to seven murders, one attempted murder, and one murder conspiracy,” the DOJ release reports.

These crimes allegedly took place between 2015 through 2018 in the Southern District of Texas and the District of Maryland.

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The indictment states:

“In or around July 2018, WALTER ANTONIO CHICAS-GARCIA, A/K/A ‘WALTER,’ A/K/A ‘MEJIA,’ and others contacted MS-13 leaders in El Salvador, including FRANKLIN TREJO-CHAVARRIA, A/K/A ‘IMPULSIVO,’ and others known and unknown to the Grand Jury, and requested and received permission to murder Elian Ortiz, a seventeen year-old male, because he wanted to leave MS-13.”

“On or about July 3, 2018, WALTER ANTONIO CHICAS-GARCIA, A/K/A ‘WALTER,’ A/K/A ‘MEJIA,’ and others known and unknown to the Grand Jury, lured Elian Ortiz to a wooded area in Houston, Texas, in order to murder Elian Ortiz.”

“On or about July 3, 2018, WALTER ANTONIO CHICAS-GARCIA, A/K/A ‘WALTER,’ A/K/A ‘MEJIA,’ and others known and unknown to the Grand Jury, murdered Elian Ortiz in Houston, Texas.”

“On or about July 3, 2018, WALTER ANTONIO CHICAS-GARCIA, A/K/A ‘WALTER,’ A/K/A ‘MEJIA,’ and others known and unknown to the Grand Jury, took photos of Elian Ortiz’s body to send them to MS-13 leaders in El Salvador, which included FRANKLIN TREJO-CHAVARRIA, A/K/A ‘IMPULSIVO,’ and others known and unknown to the Grand Jury as proof of the murder.”

The DOJ noted that the seven murders in question “were allegedly brutal in nature,” including “multiple acts of mutilation and dismemberment with machetes.” Among the alleged murder victims are “a juvenile female and a police informant,” the DOJ stated.

In recent years “law enforcement uncovered several alleged homicides and attempted murders related to these cliques and their associates,” the release states. These crimes “were committed to maintain the gang’s control, to retaliate against rival gangs and to seek retribution against those who were believed to have cooperated with law enforcement against the gang,” said the DOJ.

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The press release further stated that, “leaders in El Salvador and elsewhere allegedly authorized the acts to ensure individual members and cliques followed the customs, rules, and protocols of the larger MS-13 enterprise.”

“MS-13, including its leadership, membership, and associates, constituted an ‘enterprise,’ as defined by Title 18, United States Code, Section 1961(4), that is, a group of individuals associated in fact, which engaged in, and the activities of which affected, interstate and foreign commerce,” the indictment reads.

The document defines MS-13 as “a violent international street gang involved in a variety of violent criminal activities operating throughout the United States.” https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1528686/download

According to an Aug. 26 press release from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement,

“The 10 individuals indicted included Franklin Trejo-Chavarria, 25; Julio Vigili-Lopex, 25; Walter Antonio Chicas-Garcia, 25; Luis Ernesto Carbajal-Peraza, 30; Carlos Alexi Garcia-Gongora, 24; Wilson Jose Ventura-Mejia, 26; Angel Miguel Aguilar-Ochoa, 37; Marlon Miranda-Moran, 23; William Rivas-Guido, 26; and Carlos Elias Henriquez-Torres, 22.”

Among the 10 defendants, eight of them are in U.S. custody except for Trejo-Chavarria and Vigil-Lopez, both of whom are currently in El Salvador, according to ICE. 

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“All ten defendants are citizens of El Salvador,” the release reads

Neither the DOJ nor ICE’s announcement of the indictment specified the legal status of any of the 10 alleged MS-13 gang members. The DOJ press release omitted the fact that all 10 men are El Salvadorian nationals.

CNS News contacted the Department of Justice to inquire about the legal statuses of each of the eight indicted alleged MS-13 members currently in the custody of U.S. law enforcement. The DOJ did not respond.

According to U.S. Attorney General Merrick B. Garland, “the charges in this case reflect the Justice Department’s commitment to dismantling and disrupting MS-13, a criminal organization that sows violence, terror, and fear in communities across the country.”

FBI Director Christopher Wray said, “This indictment is one example of the persistent work being done by the FBI and our partners to combat violent gangs like MS-13 that inundate communities with violence.”

“The FBI is committed to reducing violent crime and combating the threat criminal enterprises pose,” said Wray. “We are proud to work alongside our local, state, Tribal and federal enforcement partners in bringing violent members of criminal organizations like MS-13 to justice.”

According to U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery, the case serves as “an important step in curbing crime in Texas,” as well as “a message to criminal organizations that federal authorities are working with local law enforcement to stop the violence.” 

The allegations in the indictment further state that “transnational criminal street gangs like MS-13 are a plague upon society that must be rooted out in the interest of public safety and national security,” remarked Mark Dawson, the Special Agent in Charge of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Houston.

“HSI Houston is committed to continue to work alongside our law enforcement partners to bring an end to the relentless terror and violence that they reign on the innocent and law-abiding members of our communities,” said Dawson.

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The case is being investigated by the FBI, HSI, the Houston Police Department, the Galveston Police Department, the Texas Department of Public Safety, and the Prince George’s County Police Department, with assistance provided by the U.S. Marshals Service and the DEA. 

According to the DOJ’s Office of Justice Programs, “MS-13 was formed by Salvadoran immigrants that came to the United States in order to escape the civil war in their home country. Some of its members were trained in guerilla warfare and the use of military weapons. The gang is well-organized and is heavily involved in lucrative illegal enterprises, being notorious for its use of violence to achieve its objectives.”

“Fear and intimidation are used in extorting payments from any legitimate or illegitimate business owners for the right to conduct their business in MS-13 territory,” said the Office of Justice Programs. “MS-13 members have been involved in rapes and witness intimidation. In addition to local crimes, MS-13 is known to participate in numerous transnational crimes; for example, they are involved in the illegal trafficking of stolen vehicles from the United States to Central America. They also participate in weapon smuggling and illegal firearm sales.”



Nearly 5 Million Illegal Immigrants Crossed Border During Biden Administration

https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2022/08/20/nearly-5-million-illegal-immigrants-crossed-border-during-biden-administration/


Biden Addresses 'Mexico's Biggest Complaint' About Southern Border; No Mention of U.S. Objections

By Susan Jones | August 31, 2022 | 7:38am EDT

  

Migrants illegally cross the Rio Grande River in Eagle Pass, Texas, on May 22, 2022. (Photo by ALLISON DINNER/AFP via Getty Images)
Migrants illegally cross the Rio Grande River in Eagle Pass, Texas, on May 22, 2022. (Photo by ALLISON DINNER/AFP via Getty Images)

(CNSNews.com) - Speaking about his "Safer America Plan" in Pennsylvania on Tuesday, President Biden mentioned Mexico's concerns about the southern border, but not America's concerns about that same border.

"Mexico, which has real problems, causing us real problems — you know what their biggest complaint is?" Biden asked. "Can’t we stop gun — gun trafficking across the southern border into Mexico."

While Biden complained about guns flowing north to south, he made no mention of the 3,385,016 people known to have illegally flowed south to north across that same border during Biden's presidency.

That number includes human smugglers, gang members, drug smugglers and dozens of people on the terrorist watchlist -- not to mention an unknown number of "got-aways" who fall into those categories.

So why should Biden worry what Mexico thinks?

Former Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf told Fox News Tuesday night:

"Well, to be honest, I'm not really concerned about what Mexicans think. I'm concerned about what Americans think, and I'm concerned about putting Americans first.

"And this administration, time and time again, refuses to acknowledge that there is a border crisis of their own making. The president refuses to go to the border; the vice president refuses to go to the border. They refuse to listen to law enforcement officers. You have the chief of Border Patrol on record in the last day or so, saying that the cause of this crisis, is because there are no consequences to illegal behavior,

"And this is the system that they have set up and designed, they do not apologize for it, and they actually brag about it.

"And so for the president to sit there and talk about what Mexicans are thinking and feeling -- he should really stop and think about that and say, I'm actually president of the United States and maybe should I be putting together policies and thinking about what's best for Americans.

"This gets me hot and bothered at the end of the day, because he's not doing his job, this administration refuses to enforce laws on the border and it's causing an unmitigated disaster when you have 100,000 overdose deaths because of fentanyl. Ninety percent of that comes across that southern border.

"So if he wants to protect Americans, he wants to be on the side of law enforcement, it's time to do your job along that border and solve that crisis we have today."

Fox News Digital reported on Tuesday that Raul Ortiz, the head of the U.S. Border Patrol, said under oath that Biden's "no consequences" border policy is causing the unprecedented surge of illegal aliens.

"Fox News Digital first obtained a video of Ortiz's assertions, which came during a recorded deposition from July 28 as part of discovery in a lawsuit by Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody against the Department of Homeland Security and other border agencies," the report said.

"Ortiz, who has more than 31 years of experience in law enforcement, told attorneys representing Florida that he believes migration will increase at an exponential rate at the southern border because there are no 'consequences' in place to curb the tide of migrants flooding into the U.S.

"'In my experience, we have seen increases when there are no consequences,' said Ortiz during the deposition

"'So, if migrant populations believe that they're going...there are not going to be consequences, more of them will come to the border. Is that what you're saying?' questioned the attorney.

"Ortiz responded: 'There is an assumption that if migrant populations are told that there is a potential that they may be released, that, yes, you can see increases.'"

 

500 Migrants in 3 Large Groups Apprehended near Border in Texas

Large migrant groups increase in numbers as the Biden administration prepares to end Title 42. (U.S. Border Patrol/Rio Grande Valley Sector)
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Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol agents encountered five large groups of migrants who illegally crossed the border from Mexico into Texas over the past weekend. The groups totaled nearly 500 migrants from Central America and across the globe.

Rio Grande City Station Border Patrol agents encountered two large groups of migrants in Starr County, Texas, according to information obtained from Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol officials. The groups were made up of 142 single adults, 101 family units, and 130 unaccompanied children. The 373 migrants in the two groups came from Cuba and multiple South and Central American nations, officials stated.

Nearby in the McAllen Station area of responsibility, agents encountered a third large group. This group of 121 migrants located in Hidalgo County, Texas, was made up of 21 single adults, 30 family units, and 70 unaccompanied minors, the report continued.

In total, RGV Sector agents took 494 migrants into custody from the three large groups. Unaccompanied alien children accounted for 200 of these apprehensions — more than 40 percent of the total.

“RGV agents have encountered more than 130 large groups illegally entering the United States since October 2021, resulting in more than 21,000 migrant apprehensions,” sector officials said in a written statement. “The logistics required to transport and process groups of this size continues to place a strain on manpower and resources, as they are often encountered in desolate areas inaccessible to large transport vehicles.”

Border Patrol defines a group of more than 100 migrants as a large group.

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 Facebook.

WE CAN'T SAVE OUR COUNTRY UNTIL WE GET RID OF BIDEN AND HIS LAWYER AND TECH INFESTED CORRUPT REGIME!


FAIR president Dan Stein also criticized the Biden Administration, saying “The endless flow of illegal aliens and the incursion of lethal narcotics pouring across our border will not end until this administration demonstrates a willingness to enforce our laws.”


“Joe Biden’s transition is absolutely staked with tech industry players,” noted Protocol, an online publication that covers technology.

Zuckerberg’s Meta going all in on censorship as the midterm election nears

By Thomas Lifson

Meta, the corporate parent of Facebook, has announced its plans to control the flow of information on the site where most voters get their news. You see, the public has to be protected from “misinformation” and the omniscient sages of Meta are just the folks to decude what is and isn’t worthy of being shared with the public. Nick Clegg, Meta’s “President, Global Affairs, offers these takeaways from a longer essay:

 

NAFTA at 25: Nearly 5M American Manufacturing Jobs Lost, Stagnant Wages

 

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/01/16/nafta-at-25-nearly-5m-american-manufacturing-jobs-lost-stagnant-wages/

As the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) turns 25 this year, American manufacturing jobs and U.S. workers’ wages continue trying to come back after more than a decade of massive layoffs and stagnant pay.

 

During its enactment, free trade proponents claimed NAFTA would create a million U.S. jobs in its first five years. Not only did these job numbers never come to fruition, but NAFTA has more easily allowed multinational corporations to outsource and offshore American jobs to Canada and Mexico.

 

Feds Pinpoint Nearly 30K Mexican

Passport Holders With Middle Eastern

Names in Fraud Investigation

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Federal law enforcement officials have identified a high number of individuals with Middle Eastern names traveling with Mexican passports, according to an internal Department of Homeland Security memo obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

Since the beginning of 2022, nearly 30,000 Mexican passport holders were flagged as part of the investigation into passport fraud, the memo states, adding that each identified individual will be further evaluated. A senior official at DHS who spoke on the condition of anonymity said the agency will likely investigate whether any of the individuals have traveled to the United States and whether there are any other patterns in their travel. 

The concern over fraudulent passports comes as a surge of illegal migrants at the southern border overwhelms the immigration system. With hundreds of thousands of migrants attempting to enter the country each month, Border Patrol and other law enforcement agencies often lack resources to properly vet who is entering the country. DHS secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said last year that the United States risks losing its "first line of defense" because of the "unsustainable" amount of illegal immigration at the border. 

There are fears that terror groups such as al Qaeda could take advantage of the strained immigration system. Last April, for example, two Yemeni nationals on the terrorist watch list were apprehended at the southern border. Law enforcement officials appear concerned that bad actors could abuse the legal travel system to enter the country with passports obtained from Mexico, and enter the United States legally. Roughly 20 million Mexican citizens easily travel to the United States as tourists each year, according to the U.S. Travel Association.

"This investigation highlights that criminals often use legal travel to facilitate criminal activity," the senior DHS official told the Free Beacon. "The nexus to Mexico should cause the public and lawmakers to reflect on how a porous border can be even more dangerous."

The Department of Homeland Security did not respond to a request for comment.

The concerning passports were identified by the agency's National Targeting Center, the memo states. The lesser known subagency, created shortly after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, "works quickly and quietly to identify people and products that pose potential threats to our Nation’s security, and to stop them from entering the United States," according to a 2014 public memo.

The National Targeting Center also assists Immigration and Customs Enforcement with deporting money launderers and child predators, the senior DHS official said. The National Targeting Center regularly partners with other agencies on investigations involving terrorism or global criminal networks.

The agency uses naming conventions specific to different regions to automatically pinpoint the most likely nationality of individuals—in Mexico, for example, individuals typically keep two surnames, one from each parent. In much of the Arab world, individuals can be given much longer names which often include an entire chain of ancestors on the father's side.

FBI director Christopher Wray testified in the Senate earlier this month that the border crisis "represents a significant security issue and represents a wide array of criminal threats that flow out of it."

"Any port of entry, any potential vulnerability is something we know foreign terrorist organizations and others will seek to exploit," Wray said.

Customs and Border Protection does not provide complete data on the total number of suspected terrorists apprehended at the southern border, citing security concerns. A joint report from the Department of Justice and DHS concluded that 2,554 individuals on the terror watch list attempted to enter the United States in 2017.

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Biden is Paying Osama bin Laden’s Old Airline to Fly Out Afghans

The Taliban are getting rich from the immigration business. And we’re paying for it.

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Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.

Ariana Afghan Airlines used to fly Al Qaeda terrorists from Afghanistan to the Middle East. As a sideline, it also flew guns and drugs on behalf of the Islamic terrorist organization. While Ariana was controlled by Osama bin Laden, it was allegedly coordinated by Viktor Bout, the Russian arms dealer whom Biden has offered to trade for pothead WNBA player Brittney Griner.

But these days Ariana has a new mission and we’re the ones paying for it.

The Biden administration is buying bulk tickets on the Taliban airline, according to a congressional report, and paying "approximately $300,000 per flight to a Taliban controlled airline in order to allow U.S. citizens and Afghan allies to continue evacuating."

Taliban Air flies Afghans to Qatar, a close ally and state sponsor of Islamic terrorists, and then they go on to America. With tens of thousands to over a hundred thousand Afghans in the pipeline, the Taliban could see over $100 million in payments from Biden for its airline.

Ariana Afghan Airlines, notorious for its terrorist connections and its poor safety record (the Europeans banned it some years back and it’s ranked as one of the most dangerous airlines in the world although face masks and probably burkas are compulsory), is once again under the control of the Taliban. And it’s a crucial part of the Taliban business model.

The Taliban sabotaged Biden’s retreat, keeping Americans and Afghans with visas trapped behind enemy lines to profit from their evacuation. And they’ve been doing just that. While the media has been shy about covering what’s going on, the Taliban have been quite open.

Taliban officials have boasted of handing out over 700,000 passports to collect $50 million.

“We are issuing up to 4,000 passports daily and we aim to increase the number to 10,000,” Shirshah Quraishi, deputy director of Afghanistan’s passport department, bragged.

It’s a myth that the Taliban are not allowing Afghans to leave. They’re happy to facilitate the trip for the right price. They’re also willing to let Americans and other foreigners visit since “the Taliban leadership also made more than $1 million in visa fees paid by more than 4,100 foreign nationals who have visited Afghanistan over the past year.” Many if not most of those visitors are involved in humanitarian aid organizations which the United States is also financing.

The Taliban profit from the Biden administration buying bulk tickets on its terrorist airline, they profit from issuing the visas to Afghans leaving the country and they profit from them once they come to America. A Los Angeles Times profile of a family of Afghan refugees describes them getting welfare payments and then sending money back home to Afghanistan.

Such remittances are a commonplace reality among immigrants and a major incentive for mass migration. A number of Latin American economies depend on remittances leading them to encourage mass migration to America. The Taliban have done the same thing in Afghanistan.

In 2020, total Afghan international remittances were estimated at $780 million making up 4% of the failed state's GDP. Between the mass migration and the collapse of Afghanistan's economy, the numbers fell, but will likely rebound to become much higher in the coming years.

Much of this money is sent through the Islamic ‘Hawala’ system often used by terrorists.

The Biden administration deliberately insulated remittances from sanctions on the Taliban and Al Qaeda’s Haqqani network going so far as "authorizing transactions involving the U.S.-blacklisted Taliban or Haqqani Network that are incident and necessary to the transfer of noncommercial, personal remittances to Afghanistan."

Biden had created a massive loophole for funding Al Qaeda and the Taliban.

Afghans in America are collecting welfare and sending cash back home. Some of it may be going to their family members while other payments may end up in the hands of the terrorists. Either way, the Taliban and Al Qaeda will take their cut.

And the flow of remittances will make the Taliban Air flights and the visa payoffs seem minute.

Taliban financial institutions break up remittances into installments, thereby potentially profiting from interest rates (despite the formal Islamic stricture against it), charge fees and peg payments to their artificial exchange rate against the dollar which has little connection to reality.

The Taliban profit in three separate ways from just the payments alone, and will profit in many more ways as the money is injected into an economy that they control. That’s why they want to hand out 10,000 visas a day if they can. The more Afghans come to America, the more money the terrorists make when they send payments back home. It’s also why so many of the Afghan migrants are young military-age men. They were never refugees, but guest workers meant to move to America, get jobs, collect aid and send the money back to the Taliban terror state.

The flow of military-age men also helps disguise a terrorist infrastructure allowing Taliban, ISIS and Al Qaeda to inflitrate America, build criminal and terror cells to provide more cash and plot attacks among the huge number of undocumented migrants flown out by Biden in the last days.

The Afghanistan refugee crisis is actually a deliberate effort by the Taliban to create a sustainable funding model for their failed terrorist state through humanitarian aid, passports, flights and remittances. And Americans are footing the bill at every stage of the scam.

Under Osama bin Laden, Ariana Afghan Airlines was a system for transporting terrorists. Under the Taliban, it will play that role once again. Even the Clinton administration had sanctioned Ariana, while Biden is funding Ariana flights, allowing the terror airline to maintain its legitimacy and finance its operations. On September 11, Al Qaeda infiltrated our nation and flew airplanes into our buildings. Now, the terrorists are inflitrating their cash cows and terrorists into America.

And we’re paying their airline for the tickets.

Record Number of Migrants Arrested at the Border This Year

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A record number of migrants have been arrested at the southern border this fiscal year, U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced on Monday.

Border Patrol reported making 1.82 million arrests, beating last fiscal year’s record-setting 1.66 million. Two-thirds of those migrants were single adults. Analysts expect arrests to reach two million by the end of the fiscal year, which runs from October to the end of September, the Wall Street Journal reported

"We’re apprehending people left and right," Border Patrol agent Jesus Vasalvilbaso told the Wall Street Journal.

The border crisis continues to surge under the Biden administration’s more lenient immigration policies. In the 2021 fiscal year, the Biden administration reduced migrant prosecutions by nearly 80 percent. In April, the administration announced it plans to end Title 42, a Trump-era immigration policy that allowed the United States to quickly expel illegal immigrants, a decision most voters opposed.

In response to the president’s immigration policy, Texas governor Greg Abbott (R.) has bused thousands of asylum seekers from the border to the Democrat-run cities of Washington, D.C., and New York City, prompting the cities' mayors to call for federal aid.

"[It] has never been worse," Abbott told Fox News in July. "And it's never been worse because the numbers are higher than they've ever been, the problems and challenges are mounting on the other side of the border. But worst of all, we are not seeing the president lift a finger to do anything about it. … It's reprehensible."

Kamala Harris Urges Illegal Migrants to Help Elect Joe Biden

NEIL MUNRO

Sen. Kamala Harris promised Sunday to reduce detention space for migrants as she asked an illegal immigrant activist to help Joe Biden win the election.


Rep. Byron Donalds: Biden's Open Borders Goal Is to 'Change the Electorate'(MORE BELOW)



The midterms: Watch out!

In about two months as of this writing, the vast majority of rank and file Americans eagerly anticipate having the opportunity to finally start the process of righting the path of our dangerously out-of-control ship of state.  Conservative commentators and some Republican political leaders (other than the RINOs) talk endlessly of a huge "red wave" that, in the words of one observer, will "destroy the Democratic Party as a national institution".

Polling data, conventional wisdom, and the horrendous performance of the Biden regime along with their lackeys in Congress — all point to such an outcome.  But is that what is really in store for America?

To begin with, looking at the many irregularities that have been seen even in the recent primary season, it should now be clear that we have a long way to go until we can realistically expect genuinely free and fair elections.  While substantial progress has been made in many parts of the country, many others are still plagued with crooked secretaries of state and highly dubious electronic voting systems.  If the midterms do in fact take place, while Republicans might very well take back both houses of Congress, given what fraud will still likely occur, our margin of victory will probably be underwhelming.  In the current circumstances, I submit that it would be downright foolish to expect much more than that.

Note the phrase in the paragraph above, if the midterms do in fact take place.  We need to be prepared for the distinct possibility that they will not.

What will it mean if even a bare-majority Republican Congress is seated in January of 2023?  First, it means that there will be a much larger contingent of MAGA Republicans in the mold of Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene.  There will be at least a dozen, or perhaps even dozens; this will be a powerful political force.  It will mean a new speaker of the House and a new Senate majority leader, also quite possibly MAGA, who will set an entirely new legislative agenda.  It will mean almost immediate impeachment hearings for Biden, as well as other officials, such as A.G. Garland.  It will mean additional hearings and investigations into all manner of corruption on the part of the Regime (e.g., what really happened on January 6, 2021?).  The IRA could very well be repealed, and even if it isn't due to a presidential veto, any remaining aspect of Biden's agenda not signed into law by January will be consigned to the trash heap. 

Most dangerously for the Regime, if they have not found a way to stop Trump from running in '24 by the time a new Republican Congress is seated four months from now, their chances of stopping him are all but nonexistent short of assassination.  And even if they do stop him, the MAGA movement he started will only grow stronger; a President DeSantis taking office in January of '25 would be every bit as dangerous to the Regime as a President Trump, perhaps even more so.

In short, the Regime simply cannot afford to lose Congress.  This is a matter of existential importance to them; many of their top leaders will face not only the loss of political power, but quite likely even long prison sentences or worse if they are ultimately held accountable.  So if their internal polling is telling them in the coming weeks that they cannot "fraud" their way out of losing Congress, that voter sentiment against them is simply too strong to overcome with what fraud apparatus they have left, what might they do to avoid defeat?

The extent to which the Biden Crime Family — along with many other Democratic leaders and RINO Republicans — is compromised by the CCP is well known.  Many reports have been emanating from the Far East that the PRC is making serious preparations for war.  Additionally, October is traditionally the most favorable month in terms of seasonal weather conditions in the waters surrounding Taiwan, such as would be necessary to carry out an invasion of the island.  What is more, unlike what had been the case in Ukraine, where the U.S. had no treaty obligations, the U.S. has made very specific commitments to Taiwan; the island is genuinely a vital strategic interest for the U.S.  The PRC knows that if it attacks Taiwan, it will also be confronting the U.S.  So it only logically follows that a PRC attack on Taiwan will be accompanied by a simultaneous assault on the U.S. in some form in order to frustrate our abilities to intervene on Taiwan's behalf.

A PRC attack on the U.S. in conjunction with an invasion of Taiwan might not be by traditional military means such as missile attacks, etc.  It could very well involve cyber-warfare attacks on our infrastructure, our power grid, our communications.  If such a crisis were to erupt just before the elections, there would be little time to recover from these disruptions, such that this emergency could easily serve as a pretext to postpone the elections indefinitely, or even dissolve Congress and establish full on rule by decree on the part of the Regime.  It would not surprise this writer at all if the Regime actively coordinated this crisis with the PRC.

Hopefully, if this dark scenario unfolds as described above, what patriotic elements remain of our national security establishment will act to stop these traitors and finally re-establish the Rule of Law and our Constitutional Republic.  If not, we may well be on the precipice of losing our country for decades to come, as the world enters a Communist Chinese-led Dark Ages 2.0.

All of us must pray for deliverance, at the earliest possible moment, from these criminal usurpers.

Image: Tom Arthur via Wikimedia CommonsCC BY 2.0.


 

LOS ANGELES IS MEXICO'S 

SECOND LARGEST CITY

Jose Angel Gutierrez, professor, University of Texas, Arlington and founder of La Raza Unida political party screams at rallies: "We have an aging white America. They are dying. They are s hitting in their pants with fear! I love it! We have got to eliminate the gringo, and what I mean by that is if the worst comes to the worst, we have got to k  ill him!"

 

The president of FAIR Dan Stein discussed the report, stating that ​​“Roughly the equivalent of the entire population of Ireland has illegally entered the United States in the 18 months President Biden has been in office, with many being released into American communities.”

He continued, saying “In that time, the Biden administration has blamed an unprecedented surge of illegal immigration on all sorts of external factors, except their own sabotage of our nation’s immigration laws.”

 

JUDICIAL WATCH:

 

“The greatest criminal threat to the daily lives of American citizens are the Mexican drug cartels.”

 

http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2016/12/the-american-border-with-narcomex.html 

 

“Mexican drug cartels are the “other” terrorist threat to America. Militant Islamists have the goal of destroying the United States. Mexican drug cartels are now accomplishing that mission – from within, every day, in virtually every community across this country.”                 JUDICIAL WATCH

 

How Foreign Drug Operations Are Taking Over Californias Desert Towns: Jorge Ventura

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YL86snd4dP8&t=1285s

 

Mexican Cartels Are Growing Marijuana In California’s National Forests

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAnlncWbFMM

 

JUDICIAL WATCH:

 

“The greatest criminal threat to the daily lives of American citizens are the Mexican drug cartels.”

 

http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2016/12/the-american-border-with-narcomex.html 

 

 

“Mexican drug cartels are the “other” terrorist threat to America. Militant Islamists have the goal of destroying the United States. Mexican drug cartels are now accomplishing that mission – from within, every day, in virtually every community across this country.” JUDICIAL WATCH

“Mexican authorities have arrested the former mayor of a rural community in the border state of Coahuila in connection with the kidnapping, murder and incineration of hundreds of victims through a network of ovens at the hands of the Los Zetas cartel. The arrest comes after Breitbart Texas exposed not only the horrors of the mass extermination, but also the cover-up and complicity of the Mexican government.”

 

“Heroin is not produced in the United States. Every gram of heroin present in the United States provides unequivocal evidence of a failure of border security because every gram of heroin was smuggled into the United States. Indeed, this is precisely a point that Attorney General Jeff Sessions made during his appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on October 18, 2017 when he again raised the need to secure the U.S./Mexican border to protect American lives.” Michael Cutler …..FrontPageMag.com

 

 

Congressional Budget Office: U.S. Population Growth Will Be Entirely’ Driven by Immigration by 2043

By CNSNews.com Staff 

 

(CNSNews.com) - The Congressional Budget Office is predicting in a demographics report it published in July that by 2043 population growth in the United States will be “entirely” driven by net immigration.

“By 2043, deaths exceed births,” says the CBO report, “population growth after that point is driven entirely by net immigration, in CBO’s projections.”

“Over the course of the next decade, immigration accounts for about three-quarters of the overall increase in the size of the population, and the net effects of fertility and mortality account for the remaining quarter,” says the report.

 

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“After 2032, population growth is increasingly driven by net immigration, which accounts for all population growth in 2043 and beyond,” it says.

“Population growth is determined by births, deaths, and net immigration,” says the CBO report. “In CBO’s projections, fertility rates remain low and immigration becomes an increasingly important part of overall population growth.”

According to the CBO’s projections, the number of babies born to American women will continue below the “replacement rate” into the future.

“In CBO’s projections, the total fertility rate falls to 1.60 births per woman in 2021, rises to 1.75 births per woman in 2030, and remains at that value thereafter,” it says. “That rate is below the replacement rate—the fertility rate required for a generation to exactly replace itself in the absence of immigration—of about 2.1 births per woman.”

The CBO projects that the numbers of both legal and illegal immigrants coming to the United States will increase in the coming years.

“CBO develops its projections of net immigration (the number of all people who enter the United States less the number who leave in that year) using three categories: lawful permanent residents (LPRs), who are authorized to work, liable to pay income taxes, and eligible for most federal programs; legal temporary residents (LTRs), whose eligibility for federal programs is limited; and foreign-born people without legal status, who are generally not eligible for federal programs,” explains the CBO report.

“Under current law, annual net immigration to the United States would rise from 950,000 people, on average, in the first decade of the projection period to 1.1 million people, on average, in the third decade, CBO projects,” says the report.

“LPRs, which are the largest category of projected total net flows, rise from 800,000 to 870,000 people per year, on average, from the first decade to the third decade in CBO’s projections,” it says.

“Net flows of foreign-born people without legal status rise from 80,000 people per year, on average, in the first decade to 150,000 people per year in the third decade,” says the report. “CBO projects net flows of LTRs to be 80,000 people per year, on average, throughout the 30-year projection period.”

 

Joe Biden: ‘Absolutely Bizarre’ to Suggest Limit on U.S. Capacity to Absorb Immigrants

JOEL B. POLLAK

LAS VEGAS, Nevada — Former Vice President Joe Biden campaigned inside a Chinese restaurant on Tuesday evening, telling supporters it was “bizarre” to suggest a limit on immigration to the U.S.

Biden promised to expand immigration to the U.S. if elected president.

“Folks, look — the idea that there’s some limitation on the capacity of anyone who — on the immigrants in this country is absolutely bizarre! It’s absolutely bizarre.”

Biden, speaking to a packed crowd inside the Harbor Palace Seafood Restaurant on the eve of the next Democratic debate, addressed members of the Asian-American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community, urging them to turn out the vote ahead of Saturday’s caucuses.

Last month, the AAPI Victory Fund super PAC endorsed Biden for president, citing his ability to defeat President Donald Trump and his experience working with immigrant communities from South Asia, East Asia and the Pacific generally.

Though the AAPI immigrant community is politically diverse, it has trended Democratic in recent years.

Last year, Breitbart News reported, another local AAPI organization in Las Vegas expressed opposition to President Trump’s proposed merit-based system for legal immigration.

On Tuesday, Biden promised, if elected, to allow family reunification visas.

“We should be able to increase, to three million people, the people who could come for family reunification. Period, period, period, period.”

He called the idea that the U.S. could not “reunite” more families “absolutely bizarre.”

Biden also reminded his audience that Latinos were not the only beneficiaries of President Barack Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which applied to those brought to the country illegally as children.

He said there were “thousands and thousands of AAPI ‘Dreamers'” who had benefited from DACA as well.

Afterwards, Biden greeted attendees, some of whom proceeded to the Chinatown Mall to cast early votes before the polling place there closed.

Biden hopes to finish in the top three in Nevada, and to win South Carolina on Feb. 29, to make the case that he is still a top contender for his party’s nomination. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) now leads national polls, as well as Nevada polls.

Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News. He earned an A.B. in Social Studies and Environmental Science and Public Policy from Harvard College, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. He is also the co-author of How Trump Won: The Inside Story of a Revolution, which is available from Regnery. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak. 

 

Rep. Byron Donalds: Biden's Open Borders Goal Is to 'Change the Electorate'

By Susan Jones

 

 

 

 

 

(CNSNews.com) - Since February 2021, the first full month of Joe Biden's presidency, 3,385,016 people are known to have entered the country illegally, based on "encounter" statistics reported by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

That number includes 1,946,780 in Fiscal Year 2022, which ends in September (see chart below).

It's not clear how many of the total "encounters" have been expelled for public health or other reasons, only to repeat their illegal entry attempts.

Likewise, an unknown number of people have crossed the southwest border undetected.

 

(Source: Customs and Border Protection)

"What's the endgame here?" Maria Bartiromo, host of "Sunday Morning Futures," asked Florida Republican Rep. Byron Donalds on Sunday. "What's the point of having this wide-open border?"

"The endgame is to turn them into U.S. citizens at some point with another one of these illegal DACA measures that Barack Obama did when he was in office," Donalds said:

 

"And so you have kind of changed the population.

"Look, in New York and California, they tried to pass measures where noncitizens can vote. Why would you do that, except you're trying to change the electorate and change the nature of the electorate, so you can keep power?

"Federal immigration law and federal border security law is to protect the citizenry, not just from threats, but also to maintain the cohesion of America. When you have a president who flagrantly violates the law on purpose, not only is it unconstitutional. It's destructive of all of our cities, whether you live in a blue city or a red city, a blue state or a red state.

"Don't believe me. Go ask (New York City Mayor) Eric Adams, who now wants federal support. What Eric Adams should be asking for is for Joe Biden to reverse course on his reckless border policy."

‘The answer is close the border’

Speaking of Mayor Adams, New Jersey Republican Rep. Jeff Van Drew told "Mornings With Maria" on Monday that Adams is learning firsthand what illegal immigration is doing to the country, now that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is sending busloads of border-crossers to New York City.

"You know, it's wonderful when you give speeches about sanctuary cities and how great they are and we should have open borders but now that -- and I don't blame Texas, and I don't blame governor Abbott at all.

“They're just sending a small percentage of the people that are coming over, and now this mayor is finding out what it really means, and he's even got more resources than these small Texas towns.

"It's easy, the answer is close the border. The answer is, build the wall. It's not complicated stuff. But rather than do that, this mayor of New York City is going to spend all kinds of money that he doesn't spend on taking care of veterans, doesn't take care of the countless number of homeless people that are in New York City, but he is going to take care of people that are illegal, that are bringing in all other kinds of problems including crime, including the cartels, including being on the terror watch list.”

"All of these things so important and so terrible, that's what he's going to bring in."

Van Drew agreed with Donalds that the Democrat goal is to change the nation's demographics:

"Just keep this in mind," Van Drew said:

"With the number of people that have crossed the border since Joe Biden has been president and we have had this (Democrat) majority in Congress, if you were to put them all together they would be -- it's unbelievable, the 30th largest state in the union. We're literally creating new

states in a sense with huge populations we're bringing in.

"It's to make sure that they change the fabric of America, to change America to its core. There's no other reason you would do this."

Van Drew said some of the illegal aliens are "dangerous people," "especially the cartels" that engage in human trafficking and drug trafficking.

‘Overdose awareness’

This past Friday, President Biden issued a proclamation declaring August 28 through September 3, 2022, as "Overdose Awareness Week."

The words "border" and "immigration" do not appear in the proclamation, although it does say that "untreated addiction and drug trafficking" are "two critical drivers of the overdose epidemic."

"We are targeting drug trafficking organizations by disrupting the operating capital they need to sustain their criminal enterprises," the proclamation says. But again, there's no mention of border security.

"During Overdose Awareness Week, we renew our commitment to taking bold action to prevent overdoses and related deaths," the proclamation says. "We continue our efforts to enhance prevention, harm reduction, treatment, and recovery support services for individuals with substance use disorder and addiction.  We affirm our duty to stop the flow of illicit drugs from reaching our communities..."

 

 

 

 

 

Migrants are apprehended by US Border Patrol and National Guard troops in Eagle Pass, Texas, near the border with Mexico on June 30, 2022. (Photo by CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images)

(CNSNews.com) - Since February 2021, the first full month of Joe Biden's presidency, 3,385,016 people are known to have entered the country illegally, based on "encounter" statistics reported by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

That number includes 1,946,780 in Fiscal Year 2022, which ends in September (see chart below).

It's not clear how many of the total "encounters" have been expelled for public health or other reasons, only to repeat their illegal entry attempts.

Likewise, an unknown number of people have crossed the southwest border undetected.

 

(Source: Customs and Border Protection)

"What's the endgame here?" Maria Bartiromo, host of "Sunday Morning Futures," asked Florida Republican Rep. Byron Donalds on Sunday. "What's the point of having this wide-open border?"

"The endgame is to turn them into U.S. citizens at some point with another one of these illegal DACA measures that Barack Obama did when he was in office," Donalds said:

 

"And so you have kind of changed the population.

"Look, in New York and California, they tried to pass measures where noncitizens can vote. Why would you do that, except you're trying to change the electorate and change the nature of the electorate, so you can keep power?

"Federal immigration law and federal border security law is to protect the citizenry, not just from threats, but also to maintain the cohesion of America. When you have a president who flagrantly violates the law on purpose, not only is it unconstitutional. It's destructive of all of our cities, whether you live in a blue city or a red city, a blue state or a red state.

"Don't believe me. Go ask (New York City Mayor) Eric Adams, who now wants federal support. What Eric Adams should be asking for is for Joe Biden to reverse course on his reckless border policy."

‘The answer is close the border’

Speaking of Mayor Adams, New Jersey Republican Rep. Jeff Van Drew told "Mornings With Maria" on Monday that Adams is learning firsthand what illegal immigration is doing to the country, now that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is sending busloads of border-crossers to New York City.

"You know, it's wonderful when you give speeches about sanctuary cities and how great they are and we should have open borders but now that -- and I don't blame Texas, and I don't blame governor Abbott at all.

“They're just sending a small percentage of the people that are coming over, and now this mayor is finding out what it really means, and he's even got more resources than these small Texas towns.

"It's easy, the answer is close the border. The answer is, build the wall. It's not complicated stuff. But rather than do that, this mayor of New York City is going to spend all kinds of money that he doesn't spend on taking care of veterans, doesn't take care of the countless number of homeless people that are in New York City, but he is going to take care of people that are illegal, that are bringing in all other kinds of problems including crime, including the cartels, including being on the terror watch list.”

"All of these things so important and so terrible, that's what he's going to bring in."

Van Drew agreed with Donalds that the Democrat goal is to change the nation's demographics:

"Just keep this in mind," Van Drew said:

"With the number of people that have crossed the border since Joe Biden has been president and we have had this (Democrat) majority in Congress, if you were to put them all together they would be -- it's unbelievable, the 30th largest state in the union. We're literally creating new

states in a sense with huge populations we're bringing in.

"It's to make sure that they change the fabric of America, to change America to its core. There's no other reason you would do this."

Van Drew said some of the illegal aliens are "dangerous people," "especially the cartels" that engage in human trafficking and drug trafficking.

‘Overdose awareness’

This past Friday, President Biden issued a proclamation declaring August 28 through September 3, 2022, as "Overdose Awareness Week."

The words "border" and "immigration" do not appear in the proclamation, although it does say that "untreated addiction and drug trafficking" are "two critical drivers of the overdose epidemic."

"We are targeting drug trafficking organizations by disrupting the operating capital they need to sustain their criminal enterprises," the proclamation says. But again, there's no mention of border security.

"During Overdose Awareness Week, we renew our commitment to taking bold action to prevent overdoses and related deaths," the proclamation says. "We continue our efforts to enhance prevention, harm reduction, treatment, and recovery support services for individuals with substance use disorder and addiction.  We affirm our duty to stop the flow of illicit drugs from reaching our communities..."


Democrat-Linked Group Claims 96,000 Extra Immigrant Voters in Georgia

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NEIL MUNRO

26 Aug 20220

8:24

A Democrat-backed group claims to have naturalized almost 100,000 legal immigrants in Georgia before the November elections.

Over 96,000 newly naturalized Americans in the state, who naturalized between 2016 and 2020, could significantly influence the outcome of the 2022 midterm elections,’ said the press statement by National Partnership for New Americans (NPNA), the SEIU union, and various Georgia-based, pro-migration groups. It added:

This number exceeds over eight times the state’s November 2020 presidential election margin of victory and the 2021 Senate runoff election margin of 93,272 votes.

“We’re knocking on doors, we’re having conversations with community members, we are registering people at festivals,” Jerry Gonzalez, the CEO of the Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials (GALEO) told 11Alivecom. “So the Latino electorate in Georgia is truly powerful, and it’s also outperforming the national low voter participation rate,” he added.

The naturalization includes many Indians, who are one of the most pro-diversity, pro-Democratic immigrant blocs. “The number of newly naturalized citizens originally from India, 11,188, is nearly equal to the margin of victory during the November 2020 presidential election,” the statement said.

Georgia used to be a solidly red state. However, the growing number of legal and illegal migrants recruited by businesses has allowed the Democrats to gain state seats and to win a national Senate majority in 2021 when Georgians elected two Democrat Senators.

Nationwide, Democrats are hoping to naturalize two million legal immigrants in time for the November election. The NPNA website says:

Naturalize Now. Vote Tomorrow! 

There are currently 9 million lawful permanent residents eligible to naturalize and become U.S. Citizens.”

Our campaign goal to Naturalize #2MillionBy2022 is a partnership among the country’s leading immigrant and refugee advocacy and service organizations, cities and counties and national advocacy organizations and unions.

In a July report, the group claimed the growing population of additional legal-immigrant voters:

By the time of the 2022 midterm elections, they can total an estimated 5.19 million … This multiracial, multi-generational, and majority women group of [legal immigrant] naturalized citizens represent a potential voting bloc that in 2022 can decide various political outcomes including who controls the U.S. Senate by voting in states like Georgia, Arizona, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Florida

The mass inflow of Democratic-voting legal immigrants is protected by the Georgia business groups. The groups — including agriculture, construction, retail, and landlords — strongly favor the extraction of additional workers, consumers, and renters from foreign countries, by both legal and illegal migration. This political skew is reducing American employees’ wages, raising their housing costs, and diminishing their political and civic power.

The business lobby has huge sway over the state GOP, which has done very little to exclude a huge number of illegal migrants — perhaps 500,000 — from the state’s jobs, housing, and schools, said D.A. King, the founder of the Dustin Inman Society. which favors immigration reforms to benefit ordinary Americans.

For example, King is now trying to get the GOP governor of Georgia, Brian Kemp, to enforce a Georgia law that requires sheriffs to report jailed illegals to the federal government.

GOP leaders also downplay the data showing that legal migrants strongly favor Democratic legislators. For example, Kemp promoted voting by five pro-Democratic foreign-language populations when he served as Secretary of State from 2010 to 2018.

 

Kemp won his 2018 election by just 50,000 votes.

The state also automatically enrolls citizens for voting whenever they get a new driver’s license, said, King. Non-naturalized migrants need to actively opt out to avoid registering for voting, he said, adding “that is a huge part of how the Democrats  have registered so many voters.”

Most immigrant populations tend to move toward the center only after 20 or 40 years. For example, a rising minority share of Latinos is now willing to vote GOP because of the Democrats’ bad management of the economy and the border.

But high immigration levels ensure a plentiful supply of new voters for Democrats. The left-wing New York Times reported on August 13:

Asian American voters have steadily shifted in the direction of Democrats since the turn of the century, as a younger and more liberal generation has come of age politically, while conservative-leaning older voters have turned away from the Republican Party’s … views on race and national identity.

Tracy Xu, a voter at [Democratic Sen. Michelle] Au’s event, said she planned to vote for Democrats in November because she was upset about gun crime and the rollback of abortion rights. The law enacted by Georgia Republicans to ban most abortions, Ms. Xu said, reminded her of the repressive reproductive policies in China, where she lived for the first half of her life.

But the donor-dominated Georgia GOP is trying to win votes from legal immigrants in Georgia by nominating naturalized immigrants for state seats, the New York Times noted:

Republicans have put forward a handful of Asian American candidates, too: Dr. Au’s opponent in her state legislative election this year, Narender G. Reddy, is an Indian American real estate agent and longtime Republican donor

 

The press statement from the Latino group CASA provided additional information about the newly naturalized voters:

This voting bloc, called New American Voters, is racially and ethnically diverse, with a majority coming from Asia (37,773 or 39%) and the Americas (34,479 or 36%), followed by new citizens coming from Africa (15,510 or 16%). These groups respectively are larger than the 11,779-vote margin of victory during the November 2020 presidential election.  …. Approximately 61% are under the age of 45 years.

Decades of data show that new immigrants are among the most pro-Democratic groups, partly because the Democrats are eager to enable the preservation of their home-countries cultures — such as India’s caste culture — and also to provide welfare.

But “there’s a certain amount of Republicans who actually believe that … a majority of all the immigrants are going to vote for Republicans,” he said. “It’s a mystery to me,” he said, adding, “the Georgia government is driven by what the Georgia Chamber of Commerce dictates.”

Voters do not recognize the power of business lobbies in Georgia politics,  said King:

The Georgia Chamber of Commerce has their own lobbyists around the Capitol, and I know that [House] speaker [Rep.] David Ralston [GA-7], the second most powerful man in the state of Georgia, has told state representatives –after he clears a bill to be dropped — to go clear it with the Chamber of Commerce.

Kemp aligns himself with the state’s business employers.  His campaign website says:

Governor Kemp built his first business – Kemp Development and Construction Company – with a pick-up truck and a shovel. Over thirty years later, he is a successful entrepreneur with companies and investments in banking, farming, timber, manufacturing, and real estate.

“After spending the last eighteen years watching Republican voters in the monthly Saturday morning breakfasts and working in the national and state Capitols,” said King, “I can sadly report that most of the voters have no idea how their government really works.”

 

Kamala Harris Urges Illegal Migrants to Help Elect Joe Biden

NEIL MUNRO

Sen. Kamala Harris promised Sunday to reduce detention space for migrants as she asked an illegal immigrant activist to help Joe Biden win the election.

BLOG EDITOR: WHY DIDN’T LAWYER KAMALA HARRIS TELL THE ILLEGAL TO GO HOME??? SHE’S THE ONE WHO AS ATTORNEY GENERAL OF CA DECLARED THAT NEARLY HALF THE MURDERS IN MEXIFORNIA ARE BY MEX GANGS!

“I’m undocumented … I can’t vote …What can we do during this election to help make sure that we get you elected?” asked Astrid Silva, who was brought into the United States as a child by her illegal migrant parents.

“You can tell people who can vote what life is like for you now, and what life can be like,” Vice President nominee Harris told the Nevada-based political organizer who runs the pro-amnesty Dream Big Nevada group, adding that:

We are committed to shutting down private detention centers and ending policies that have been about separating children from their parents at the border.

Harris’s comments may be a coded message to would-be illegal migrants and their supportive legal-immigrant relatives.

For example, if implemented, Harris’s promise to start “shutting down private detention centers” could cripple border enforcement. If the enforcement agency does not have commercial prisons to hold detainees prior to their asylum hearings, the agency would be forced to release waves of job-seeking migrants into the U.S. labor market.

Similarly, Harris’s promise to end “policies … about separating children” echoes the media-magnified demand by pro-migration activists that officials release migrant mothers and children when they cross the border. That demand would let migrant families freely travel to relatives — including their illegal migrant husbands and fathers — who are working illegally in the United States.

Last week in Nevada, I caught up with my friend @Astrid_NV, to discuss the Biden-Harris plan for immigration reform and how Dreamers can make a difference in this election.

If you're eligible to vote, show up at the ballot box for those who can't: https://t.co/VbrfuqVy9Ppic.twitter.com/knU2qFSYmn

— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) November 1, 2020

Like Biden, Harris pushed the Cold War “Nation of Immigrants” claim, even though only about 10 percent of people in the United States are legal immigrants:

We want to have a president who understands we are a nation of immigrants. This is a country that was built and that has derived its strength from immigrants coming here over the generations.

Harris also tried to blur the legal and civic differences between illegal migrants, legal immigrants, and American citizens. For example, she told Silva:

Define who you are, and you tell the world who you are. Don’t let anybody ever put you in a box because they have a limited perspective on who can do what and who can be one.

[…]

We are all in this together. And so, chin up, shoulders back, right? We speak our truth and know that there will always be people applauding and supporting that even if you can’t see them at that one moment, know that there are so many of us who are supporting your leadership and the power of your voice. It’s really important.

Harris also claimed President Donald Trump vilified immigrants: “We’ve seen under the current president the kind of vitriol, the kind of hate, the vilification of immigrants in such a horrible way.”

But a Washington Post poll showed in April that Latinos are the strongest advocates for a near-total halt to legal immigration during the coronavirus epidemic and economic crash.

Biden’s 2020 plan promises to “reassert America’s commitment to asylum-seekers and refugees,” wipe out Trump’s asylum reforms, bar any deportations for 100 days, and end migration enforcement against illegal aliens unless they commit a felony.

Joe Biden’s asylum and open-border policies will destroy the American middle class by releasing millions of foreign migrants into the United States, Stephen Miller told reporters October 28. https://t.co/BaeLSIud7y

— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) October 28, 2020

Biden also wants to let companies import more visa workers, let mayors import temporary workers, and allow an unlimited flow of foreign graduates through U.S. universities into white-collar jobs. Biden would “exempt from any cap [the] recent graduates of Ph.D. programs in STEM fields.”

Biden also wants to accelerate the inflow of chain migration migrants and dramatically accelerate the inflow of poor refugees to at least 125,000 per year.

“The influx of low wage workers from all across the world will drive down incomes, drive down wages, deplete the middle class, bankrupt Social Security, bankrupt Medicare, bankrupt Medicaid, bankrupt federal entitlements, overcrowd schools, and overcrowd every hospital in the middle of a pandemic,” White House aide Stephen Miller told reporters on October 28.

“It is an assault on reason, it is an assault on law enforcement, and it’s an assault on the very idea of having a country, having a Republic,” Miller added. “This is not about left or right or Center. This is about between having a country, or not even having a country.”

 

Black Americans File Federal Lawsuit Against NYC for Law Allowing Foreign Nationals to Vote

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JOHN BINDER

 

ul of black Americans, residing in New York City, have filed a federal lawsuit against the city’s Board of Elections for a local law that would allow nearly a million foreign nationals to vote in citywide elections.

As Breitbart News has chronicled, Democrats on the 51-member New York City Council approved a plan last month that allows more than 800,000 foreign nationals with green cards, visas, and work permits the opportunity to vote in citywide elections so long as they have resided in the city for at least 30 consecutive days.

Four black Americans — Phyllis Coachman, Deroy Murdock, Katherine James, and Anthony Gilhuys — represented by the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) have now filed a lawsuit in federal court that mimics their lawsuit filed in New York state which challenges the law on the grounds that it violates the 15th Amendment and the Voting Rights Act.

Racial discrimination, the latest lawsuit alleges, is behind the New York City law as it seeks to dilute the votes of black Americans by adding hundreds of thousands of Hispanic and Asian immigrants to the voting rolls.

The lawsuit states:

Local Law 11 violates the Fifteenth Amendment and Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act because it was adopted with impermissible racial intent. It was the explicit intent of the Law’s sponsors to increase the voting strength of certain racial subgroups while simultaneously decreasing the voting strength of other racial subgroups. An election law enacted with any racial intent or purpose is unconstitutional under the Fifteenth Amendment and Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. As the Supreme Court of the United States has stated, “There is no room under the Amendment for the concept that the right to vote in a particular election can be allocated based on race.” [Emphasis added]

According to data from the 2020 American Community Survey of the United States Census, there are approximately 1,300,000 foreign nationals residing in Bronx, Kings, New York and Queens Counties. Of that total, approximately 495,000 are Hispanic and 348,000 are Asian. [Emphasis added]

New York City has approximately five million active registered voters. The addition of approximately one million foreign-citizen voters could potentially make up almost 20 percent or more of the electorate in future New York City elections. This is greater than the margin of victory in many municipal elections. [Emphasis added]

The lawsuit cites former Councilmember Ydanis Rodriguez (D) as “consistently” advocating for the law “with an explicit racial purpose.”

“Throughout the September 20, 2021, New York City Council public hearing, Council Member Rodriguez spoke in favor of the Bill in racial terms … many of his statements referred to the race of the foreign citizens who would be granted municipal voting rights,” the lawsuit states.

In June, the New York Supreme Court struck down the law as “illegal, null, and void” because “it is clear … that voting is a right granted to citizens of the United States” after the New York Republican Party filed suit in the state.

The federal lawsuit brought by black Americans is the third to challenge the law but the first that asks the federal courts to intervene in blocking its implementation.

The case is Coachman v. the City of New York, No. 1:22-cv-05123 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here


 THE STAGGERING COST OF OPEN BORDERS


U.S. Rents Hit Record High, Coinciding with Skyrocketing Mass Immigration

JOHN BINDER

Rents across the United States have hit a record high, with the median rent for a one-bedroom apartment now reaching nearly $1,500 a month, according to the Zumper National Rent Index.

The sky-high rents are up almost 12 percent compared to the same time last year, the analysis finds. The jump in rents now beats out last year’s record rents.

Cities inundated with mass immigration — New York City, New York; San Francisco, California; Miami, Florida; Los Angeles, California; and Washington, D.C. — have the highest rents as thousands of new arrivals every month push up the cost of housing immensely, a boon for real estate investors and a kick in the gut for renters and first-time homeowners.

The median rent for a one-bedroom apartment in New York City, for instance, has jumped almost 40 percent since the same time last year, and rent for two-bedroom apartments has increased more than 46 percent.

In Manhattan, the median rent has hit $4,212. Meanwhile, on the west coast, rents have similarly skyrocketed. The median rent in San Francisco has hit more than $3,000 a month, while median rents in San Jose, San Diego, Los Angeles, Oakland, and Santa Ana range from $2,160 to $2,780

 

n Miami, where nearly 6 in 10 residents are foreign nationals, pulling more immigrants to the area every year, median rents have jumped to about $2,500 a month. In Washington, DC, where the state of Texas is busing thousands of border crossers, median rents are now at $2,370.

At the same time, rents in cities across Ohio, Kansas, Texas, Louisiana, Kentucky, Oklahoma, upstate New York, and Iowa have dropped.

Real estate investors are some of the biggest beneficiaries of mass immigration to the United States. Immigration-driven population growth, set to bring the United States population to more than 400 million by 2060, is likely to send housing prices even higher.

A 2017 study published in the Journal of Housing Economics found that “increases in immigration into a metropolitan statistical area are linked with rising rents and home prices in that metropolitan statistical area and neighboring metropolitan statistical areas.”

As legal immigration brings over a million legal immigrants to the United States annually, as well as more than a million more on temporary work visas, the Biden administration has implemented an expansive Catch and Release network where thousands of border crossers and illegal aliens are sent all over the nation every month to await court hearings.

In the meantime, those new arrivals need housing.

While it is unclear exactly where border crossers and illegal aliens are resettling, the administration’s Alternative to Detention (ATD) program gives insight into the level of mass immigration to each city coinciding with record-high housing costs.

In Boston, Massachusetts, for instance, where the median rent has hit $2,730, the number of border crossers and illegal aliens released to the area on ATD has boomed. In December 2020, just 1,500 ATD migrants were being monitored in Boston. Today, more than 8,300 ATD migrants are in the city.

The same has occurred in New York City. In 2020, fewer than 3,700 ATD migrants were being monitored. Today, more than 10,500 ATD migrants are being monitored there. More than 16,500 ATD migrants are in San Francisco today; in 2020, about 10,600 were being monitored.

John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here


Nearly 5 Million Illegal Immigrants Crossed Border During Biden Administration

https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2022/08/20/nearly-5-million-illegal-immigrants-crossed-border-during-biden-administration/

 

SPENCER LINDQUIST

A whopping 4.9 million illegal immigrants have crossed our border since Biden has taken office, a report from the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) found.

The president of FAIR Dan Stein discussed the report, stating that ​​“Roughly the equivalent of the entire population of Ireland has illegally entered the United States in the 18 months President Biden has been in office, with many being released into American communities.”

He continued, saying “In that time, the Biden administration has blamed an unprecedented surge of illegal immigration on all sorts of external factors, except their own sabotage of our nation’s immigration laws.”

The nearly 5 million illegal immigrants who have entered our country since Biden took office includes nearly 200,000 that crossed the border in July of 2022. 

With 199,976 illegal immigrants entering in July, the figure marks a whopping 325 percent increase over the average number of July apprehensions across former President Trump’s four years in office. Of the 199,976 illegal immigrants, 134,362, or 67 percent, were single adults.

There were also 10 individuals on the terror watch list who were stopped on our southern border last month. 

Perhaps even more startling, July is the 17th straight month in which border patrol has had 150,000 encounters or more. In addition, 2,071 pounds of fentanyl, the equivalent of 469 million lethal doses, and 12,989 pounds of methamphetamine were seized at the southern border in July alone.

Thomas Homan, the former Acting Director of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for the Trump Administration, joined Alex Marlow on Breitbart News Daily on Sirius XM to discuss the border crisis.

He said that the number of illegal immigrants entering our country under Biden “blows every other record out of the water” despite the fact that the Trump Administration “handed this administration the most secure border we’ve ever had.”

FAIR president Dan Stein also criticized the Biden Administration, saying “The endless flow of illegal aliens and the incursion of lethal narcotics pouring across our border will not end until this administration demonstrates a willingness to enforce our laws.”

Spencer Lindquist is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter @SpencerLndqst and reach out at slindquist@breitbart.com.

 

Men Behind ‘Potential Massacre’ in Virginia Were Illegal Immigrants

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Two men arrested for plotting a mass shooting at a Fourth of July fireworks show in Richmond, Va., were illegal immigrants.

Police arrested the men earlier this month following an anonymous tip that the two were planning an attack at the Dogwood Dell Amphitheater. During the arrests, Richmond police seized two assault-style rifles, one handgun, and hundreds of rounds of ammunition.

Both men were charged with possession of firearms by non-U.S. citizens, according to court records. A Richmond police spokeswoman said at a press conference that the two suspects are from Guatemala. 

The incident is the second high-profile crime by illegal immigrants in recent weeks. Two illegal immigrants were arrested in Texas for their alleged role in the deaths of more than 50 migrants left in a semi-trailer. 

The weapons possessed by the Virginia suspects also raises questions about how gun control laws could prevent such attacks in the future. Both men were not allowed to purchase any firearms under federal law. Richmond authorities said they are working with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to trace where the suspects' weapons and ammunition came from.

The two suspects were roommates in the Richmond area. At least one of the men was living in the United States on an expired visa, and the Associated Press reported that court filings show both are living in the United States illegally. 

The motivation behind the attack is unknown. Police say there is no reason to believe there was any connection to previous mass shootings. At least one man was offered $15,000 bail. 

"We know their intent. Their intent was to conduct a mass shooting at our Fourth of July celebration," Richmond police chief Gerald Smith said at the press conference.

The amphitheater targeted in the alleged plot seats more than 2,000 people. Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R., Va.) called the anonymous tipster a "hero" who helped prevent a "potential massacre."