Sen. Cruz: It's Not Just Karine Jean-Pierre: 'It's Joe Biden Who Is Paying Her to Lie'
(CNSNews.com) - On Tuesday afternoon, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre flatly rejected Sen. Ted Cruz's suggestion that she go to the southwest border to see for herself how many people are walking into the United States illegally.
"I certainly don't need lectures or invitations from Republicans about the border or border policies. And — you know, and I certainly won’t take advice on the border from anyone who voted against securing a record level of funding for the Department of Homeland Security," Jean-Pierre said.
On Tuesday night, Sen. Cruz (R-Texas) repeated his invitation to Jean-Pierre, saying President Biden "is paying her to lie," as a "docile corporate media" gives the lies a pass.
"Look, what we are seeing right now, Sean, it's not normal," Cruz told Fox News's Sean Hannity:
"This is not a normal state of affairs. We saw Joe Biden go to Philadelphia and give one of the most hateful, divisive speeches any sitting president has ever given. He's called half of America fascists. He called you and me and every one of your listeners fascists. And it's wrong, demonizing the American people.
"We saw Karine Jean-Pierre stand up and say people are not crossing the border, they're not walking across the border. Listen, we're used to flacks spinning. This was a flat out lie, it's an objective lie, it is one hundred percent false.
"I invited her, come down to the border and see, and her response was, 'I don't need to be lectured by Republican senators.'
"I"ll tell you what. I'm going to give a challenge Karine Jean-Pierre right now.
"Come to this border, spend 60 minutes, one hour with me and the border patrol union. We will encounter dozens if not hundreds of illegal immigrants coming across, and if we don't, let's bring the entire White House press corps, and one of two things will happen: If we don't encounter anyone I'll stand up and say I was wrong, but when we encounter hundreds of people crossing, do you have the courage and integrity to stand in front of the press corps you're lying to, and say, 'I lied to you'?
"That's what an honest White House press secretary would say. And at the end of the day, when she lies, it's not just her, it's Joe Biden who is paying her to lie, and it's every one of the docile corporate media that roll over. If every single fact-checker doesn't say 'pants on fire,' they're complicit in the lie."
As CNSNews.com reported, Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters on August 29 that people aren't just walking across the border:
"It's not just that people are walking across -- across the border,” she said. “We have -- we have a plan in place. This is not like switching the -- the lights on, right? This is going to take a process. We are fixing a broken system that was actually left by the last administration."
PUT EMPLOYEES OF ILLEGALS IN PRISONS BUILT ON THE NARCOMEX BORDER AND IMPOSED E-VERIFY AND THE INVASION ENDS THAT DAY!
BUT THEY'RE NEVER GOING TO DO IT. 50 MILLION ILLEGALS IN OUR OPEN BORDERS DEPRESSES WAGES NEARLY HALF A TRILLION DOLLARS AND COST HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS IN WEFLARE AND CRIME RELATED COSTS.
GOP Leaders Promise to Exclude Illegal Migrants from American Jobs
GOP leaders are collectively urging Republican candidates to show voters that a Republican majority will protect their wages by requiring all employers to exclude illegal migrants from jobs.
“Republicans have a clear plan to secure our border: Combat illegal immigration by requiring proof of legal status when applying for a job,” said a leadership campaign document, which was sent to Republican candidates in early August by the House’s GOP leadership team.
Until recently, “the campaign message for most Republicans on immigration has been centered on “Biden is bad, our border is being overrun!” said R.J. Hauman, the head of government relations at the Federation for American Immigration Reform. He continued:
This is true and voters agree. But [Republicans] have to tell us what their plan is besides getting elected. That’s what they’re doing here and we’re thrilled to see it. Mandatory E-verify. No taxpayer benefits for illegal aliens, and ending catch and release are absolutely essential [for candidates] to stress on the [campaign] trail.
E-Verify is an Internet-based system that allows employers to quickly verify that prospective employees are legal at no cost in time or cash to the employers.
The campaign document is titled “The Republican Commitment to A Nation That’s Safe.” The leading paragraph says:
Record illegal border crossings under the Biden administration have led to more illegal drugs and overdoses, more crime, and a demoralized Border Patrol who are demonized by the left and prohibited from carrying out their law enforcement mission. The crisis at the border has become a national security and humanitarian crisis and must be addressed.
The document also includes other important commitments by a Republican majority to curb illegal migration, such as restoring the Remain in Mexico program and ending the “catch and release” policies that allow illegal migrants into U.S. jobs and housing via various border loopholes.
“But it can’t stop there,” Hauman told Breitbart News.
“Republicans will have to protect American workers, impeach [border chief Alejandro] Mayorkas, conduct aggressive oversight, and leverage the appropriations process,” he said, adding, “We’re confident that they will.”
Immigrants wait to board a U.S. Border Patrol bus to be taken for processing after crossing the border from Mexico, while standing amid a shadow cast by the U.S.-Mexico border barrier, on May 19, 2022, in Yuma, Arizona. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)
The campaign document echoes the GOP leaders’ July agenda of migration-related measures that they promised to push through the House.
The agenda titled “House Republicans: We Must Secure the Southern Border,” includes a to-do list for the House’s border security and judiciary committees.
The judiciary section promises useful legislation that would require E-Verify and much else:
Require implementation of an MPP that ends the Biden administration’s lax border enforcement and restores order at the Southern border.
End Catch and Release. Fix the Flores settlement to enable DHS to keep children and their parents together while their immigration cases are pending.
Strengthen the Asylum Process. Change asylum laws to protect legitimate claims and prevent fraudulent claims, strengthen the asylum process, and ensure that those seeking asylum apply in a safe country through which they traveled instead of waiting to apply in the U.S.
End the Disparate Treatment of Unaccompanied Alien Children (UACs). Reform the removal process for non-trafficked, UACs from noncontiguous countries, to ensure consistency and eliminate a dangerous pull factor while deterring trafficking and smuggling of UACs.
Fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Reject the Democrats’ “abolish ICE” policies by fully funding ICE enforcement and removal operations, including detention bedspace, criminal investigations, and drug trafficking mitigation efforts
Ensure Employers Use E-Verify. Protect U.S. jobs for Americans and legal immigrants, by ensuring U.S. employers use the E-Verify system to confirm that their employees are eligible to work in the United States.
End Abuse of Parole Authority. Ensure that Secretary Mayorkas can no longer abuse Congressionallyprovided parole authority to create mass avenues for immigration that do not exist in law.Prevent Benefits Abuse. Ensure that illegal aliens are not enrolled in taxpayer-funded welfare programs like Medicaid/Medicare and Social Security.
Increase Penalties for Visa Overstays.
The matching agenda for the homeland security committee includes an empty promise to fund a border wall that President Joe Biden’s deputies cannot be forced to implement, plus a trivial commitment to clear some vegetation along the Rio Grande river:
Clear the Carrizo Cane and Salt Cedar. These invasive species along the Rio Grande River impede CBP’s activities along the border. The non-native plant is also an obstacle for first responders and should be eradicated.
The GOP agenda matches the consensus report drafted in May by pro-American migration reform groups.
Many Republican candidates try to avoid the pocketbook pitches on immigration that get attention from voters for fear they could irritate donors.
But in July, former President Donald Trump touted a list of detailed immigration policy promises, Breitbart News reported:
… the next GOP president must reimplement “Remain in Mexico, our Safe Third agreements, asylum restrictions, enhanced rapid deportation initiatives, our surge of military resources, and much more,” adding that these should be “permanently installed.”
Moreover, he called for funding to bring about “the largest-ever increase in the number of new ICE officers” … [and said] historic personnel increases must be implemented to remove those who overstay their visas. Additionally, he outlined the need for a financial penalty and bond system so that individuals who overstay their visas suffer “significant financial consequences.”
“Democrats have an open borders agenda,” said Hauman. “Republicans now have a secure borders agenda, it’s time for the American people to decide.”
How Liberal Elites Detest Middle America
By Patrick J. Buchanan | September 7, 2022 | 7:41am EDT
Speaking at a San Francisco fundraiser in 2008, Barack Obama sought to explain the reluctance of working-class Pennsylvanians to rally to his cause.
"You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and ... the jobs have been gone now for 25 years, and nothing's replaced them."
"And it's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment ... as a way to explain their frustrations."
Translation: The world has left Middle America behind, and Middle America has reacted by clinging to its bibles, bigotries and guns.
Eight years later, Hillary Clinton was the Democratic nominee and, at a fundraiser in New York, addressed the same issue:
"You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right? ... The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic — you name it."
"Now, some of those folks — they are irredeemable, but thankfully they are not America."
Last week, President Joe Biden addressed the same issue. But it was not with an off-the-cuff remark that our president revealed his thoughts.
At Independence Hall in Philadelphia, whence came the Declaration of Independence and Constitution, and flanked by two U.S. Marines, Biden described the Middle Americans of 2022. Only now they're known as "MAGA Republicans," and no more anti-American assemblage is to be imagined.
In a speech he labored on for days, the president described that half of the Republican Party he sees as wedded to "semi-fascism."
"The Republican Party today is dominated, driven and intimidated by Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans. And that is a threat to this country."
"MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our Republic."
"MAGA forces ... promote authoritarian leaders, and they fan the flames of political violence that are a threat to our personal rights, to the pursuit of justice, to the rule of law, to the very soul of this country."
"MAGA forces are determined to take this country backwards — backwards to an America where there is no right to choose, no right to privacy, no right to contraception, no right to marry who you love."
Biden is here hypocritically denouncing as "backward" moral stands championed by his own Catholic faith — opposition to abortion and same-sex marriage — that he himself held not so long ago.
Biden went on:
"MAGA Republicans do not respect the Constitution. They do not believe in the rule of law. They do not recognize the will of the people. They refuse to accept the results of a free election."
"MAGA Republicans ... embrace anger. They thrive on chaos. They live, not in the light of truth but in the shadow of lies."
"MAGA Republicans look at America and see carnage and darkness and despair. They spread fear and lies. Lies told for profit and power."
"MAGA Republicans ... are destroying American democracy."
On Labor Day, Biden returned to the theme:
"Extreme MAGA Republicans ... embrace political violence ... (and) defend the mob that stormed the Capitol. And people died."
This is the place at which Biden has arrived, 19 months into a presidency that began with his commitment to bring America together:
"Today, on this January day, my whole soul is in this: Bringing America together. Uniting our people. And uniting our nation. I ask every American to join me in this cause."
After 19 months in office, Biden has given up on that cause, for a new cause. The name of the game now is an old one: divide et impera, divide and conquer. Biden hopes to split "mainstream Republicans" off from "MAGA Republicans" and demonize the latter as intolerable allies or partners in our democracy.
Indeed, the catalogue of sins and crimes Biden attributes to MAGA Republicans — extremism, violence, mendacity, authoritarianism — not only raises a question as to the state of the soul of the nation; it raises a question of its continuance as a democratic republic.
At his first rally following the Biden diatribe, Trump called the president "an enemy of the state" and Biden's speech, "the most vicious, hateful and divisive ... ever delivered by an American president."
In an earlier time, this exchange between the two presidents might have been settled with pistols at dawn.
A house divided against itself cannot stand, said Abraham Lincoln, invoking a biblical truth. While the attributes and conduct Biden attributes to MAGA Republicans may not be such as to make a civil war inevitable, they surely do raise the question of whether our republic ought to endure or to be dissolved.
Indeed, Biden should be asked what differentiates MAGA Republicans who back Trump, given the crimes Biden listed, from the Black Shirts who accompanied Benito Mussolini on the March on Rome?
Does Biden believe MAGA Republicans are as sincere in their beliefs and the methods they espouse to advance those beliefs, as Biden himself, Nancy Pelosi and Kamala Harris are in theirs?
And if so, what do we have left in common?
(Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of "Nixon's White House Wars: The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever.")
Former Acting ICE Director Jonathan Fahey: NYC Mayor Is Part of the Problem as a Sanctuary City Mayor
(CNSNews.com) - New York City Mayor Eric Adams has announced that he’s sending a delegation of city officials to the border in Texas for a fact-finding mission, which former acting ICE Director Jonathan Fahey said Wednesday is a waste of taxpayer resources, because the problem lies in Washington, D.C.
“Why not just simply say to fellow Democrats, close the border, stop the human trafficking, stop the drug trafficking, stop the human suffering. Yeah, that would probably be a much better way to deal with it and certainly more efficient. Yeah, the Eric Adams thing is pure nonsense,” Fahey told Fox Business’s “Mornings with Maria Bartiromo.”
It’s like he’s sending a fact-finding mission to Texas. Everyone knows what's going on. We have an open border. There are people suffering. There are people dying. There are drugs coming across. There’s human smuggling.
They don't need a fact-finding mission, and the irony of it is his complaint is these are costing resources to New York City residents and taxpayers, and yet they’re going to waste taxpayer resources and sending silly fact-finding mission down there so it makes it look like he's doing something about it.
The answer’s in Washington, D.C. if they want to deal with it, and he's part of the problem. He’s one of these sanctuary city mayors that’s encouraged illegal immigration for years and years.
They won't even kick out the most serious criminals and for him they act like they should be doing something about it now, it's just so unserious. He’s got a lot of problems in New York City. He should deal with them in a serious manner and help the citizens rather than just play these little games.
He said that the Biden administration’s border policy is “two-fold.”
It's an open border, meaning that anyone can come here and it's defacto amnesty which is once you are here, you're not getting kicked out other than extreme circumstances. So that's the policy, but they don't just get a court date. Remember, they get a free cell too when they come across.
If they come to court they won't get kicked, and if they don't come to court they are not getting kicked out. It is truly amazing that this is going on and, you know, this is a serious issue and for the administration to be playing games and consistently lying about what's going on it's really a disgrace.
They are not serving the American public. They are undermining law enforcement in every respect by just letting -- letting all of these people flout our asylum laws, other laws. It's really unbelievable. It's a disgrace and it's causing so much harm but they are not going to change. They have shown no willingness. They've even gotten worse on the open-border agenda.
Everything they do is to encourage illegal immigration. Anyone that stands up against it, they call them names, they undermine them. They cut their legs from under them and they are not going to change.
Labor Sec’y Walsh: Worker Shortage Due to Lack of Immigration Reform a ‘Bigger Threat’ in Some Cases Than Inflation or Recession
On Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Labor Secretary Marty Walsh argued that “we’re going to have to have a real serious conversation in this country about immigration and immigration reform” in order to address the shortage of workers which is, in some cases, “a bigger threat to our economy than inflation is at this point, than a recession.”
Walsh stated, “Well, the first thing is we don’t have enough workers in the United States of America to fill all of the job openings that are out there. Right now, at this moment in time, more Americans are working in this country than in any other period in the history of America. So, when you think about the amount of jobs and people that are working, it’s a really incredible number. The problem is that we don’t have enough people. There [are] about five million people, I think, still, roughly…that are either looking for work or just not in the workforce, for a whole host of reasons, illnesses, child care, whatever it might be. So, at some point, we’re going to have to have a real serious conversation in this country about immigration and immigration reform. And when I talk to big business in America and I talk to businesses, every single one of them, to a person, says to me, we need to — we’re going to have to think about this long-term and how do we deal with these issue[s].”
He added, “I think, in this country, when you think about our economy, you think about our country, there [are] two sides in immigration. We don’t want immigration — or we’d like to see legal immigration. The problem is, in America, if we don’t have workers to fill these jobs, it’s going to hurt our economy overall. And if you have six million jobs, let’s just play with that number right now, let’s assume six million jobs that, if everyone went to work in America tomorrow that was eligible — or not even eligible, but they went to work, we have six million job openings. As you just said, it’s going to hurt business in our country, it’s going to hurt our economy, and in some cases, I think it’s a bigger threat to our economy than inflation is at this point, than a recession.”
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Democrat Gov. Pritzker Promises ‘Emergency Housing’ for Migrants as Rents Skyrocket for Chicagoans
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) is promising “emergency housing” for migrants bused from Texas even as rents in Chicago have skyrocketed for residents.
Last week, Texas governor Greg Abbott (R) started busing border crossers to the sanctuary city of Chicago after sending thousands over the last few months to the sanctuary cities of Washington, DC and New York City.
In response, Pritzker is promising migrants “emergency housing” as well as “health care screenings, the offer of COVID-19 vaccines and … additional legal resettlement assistance.”
Meanwhile, as Breitbart News has reported, Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot has called Abbott’s sending of the migrant buses “racist and xenophobic” along with “immoral” and “unpatriotic.”
Chicago Mayor's Office / FacebookPritzker’s pledge of emergency housing for migrants comes as Chicagoans face sky-high rents and housing costs. The most recent analysis shows that Chicagoans are paying about 20 percent more on rent this year compared to last year.
Today, the average rent in Chicago is more than $2,900, which is nearly 20 percent higher than the cost of rent at the same time last year. Rents in Chicago have increased so much that tenants are forming unions to fight their landlords and the city.
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, President Joe Biden’s administration has also implemented an expansive Catch and Release network where every month thousands of border crossers and illegal aliens are sent all over the nation 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 into each city coinciding with record-high housing costs.
In August, the Biden administration had more than 13,000 border crossers and illegal aliens in Chicago on the ATD program. In November 2020 fewer than 6,600 border crossers and illegal aliens had been sent to Chicago on the ATD program.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
But you can't help but think that Adams and Lightfoot are overplaying their parts. Faced with intractable crises caused by their radical movement, they're relishing a crisis that they can blame on Texas and the virtue signaling that comes with it.
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