THE GREATEST ENEMIES OF THE AMERICA MIDDLE CLASS ARE THE GAMER LAWYERS, CONGRESS AND THE GAMER SOCIOPATH LAWYER IN THE WHITE HOUSE!
McCarthy: ‘The Very First Day, the First Thing We’re Going to Do Is Repeal the 87,000 IRS Agents’
Friday, during an appearance on FNC’s “Jesse Watters Primetime,” House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy teased Congress’ immediate upcoming actions to start 2023.
First up, according to the California Republican, after electing the Speaker of the House was to repeal the 87,000 IRS agents provision passed by Congress earlier this year.
“Great question – the first thing we have to do is elect our Speaker. We can’t do anything until we elect that Speaker,” he said. “And if you watch, the White House is actually pushing back on our investigations, saying we’re not going to give you anything till you get this solved. So, we need to be able to move forward with that.”
“Then, on the very first day, the first thing we’re going to do is repeal the 87,000 IRS agents,” McCarthy continued. “Another reason why the Democrats are mad at me, I think – government should be here to help you, not to go after you, then we’re going to secure our border. You’ve got to secure this border, the millions of people coming across, the fentanyl that’s killing our children. We need to work on our economy. That means making us energy-independent. We need to hold this government accountable. Where’s the origin of COVID began? Find out what this Biden family had done in the process. Make sure the FBI is not going after Americans but actually going after crime. We’ve got so much work behind us, and we need to start on the very first day.”
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266K Migrants Apprehended in 2 Months in Texas-Based Border Sectors
Border Patrol agents in the five Texas-based sectors apprehended more than 266,000 migrants in the first two months of the new fiscal year. Nearly 107,000 of those entered through the El Paso Sector.
El Paso Sector Chief Patrol Agent Peter Jaquez reports the increasing number of migrants crossing into the El Paso Sector. During the first two months of Fiscal Year 23, which began on October 1, El Paso Sector agents apprehended 106,561 migrants, according to the November Southwest Land Border Encounters Report released on the Friday night before Christmas. This is up more than 260 percent from the 29,539 apprehended in the same period last year. It is anticipated that more than 50,000 migrants will be apprehended in December.
The El Paso Sector continues to be the busiest sector for migrant apprehensions along the southwest border with Mexico.
In the Del Rio Sector, agents apprehended 90,482 during the first two months of the fiscal year. This represents an increase of nearly 55 percent over the 58,439 apprehended in the same period last year. The apprehensions trended upward during the first two months with 42,762 in October and 47,720 in November. The trend is expected to continue in December as large migrant groups continue to cross in large numbers.
The Rio Grande Valley, Laredo, and Big Bend Sectors all reported decreases in apprehensions during the first two months of the year. The Rio Grande Valley Sector reported 56,118 migrant apprehensions. This was followed by 10,280 in the Laredo Sector and 2,797 in the Big Bend Sector. Officials in the RGV sector reported a new trend of large migrant groups crossing into the Brownsville Station area of responsibility.
Single adults accounted for 185,464 of the migrant apprehensions during the first two months — up 44 percent from last year. Family units and unaccompanied minors represented 61,856 and 19,018 apprehensions respectively.
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.
ENDING WELFARE FOR ILLEGALS, WHICH BIDEN HAS EXPANDED MASSIVELY, AND IMPOSING E-VERIFY AND PUTTING EMPLOYERS OF ILLEGALS IN PRISONS BUILT ALONG THE OPEN NARCOMEX BORDER WOULD END JOE'S ORCHESTRATED INVASION THAT DAY.
THE REALITY IS BOTH PARTIES ARE WORKING FOR THE INVASION, AND JOE KNOWS IT, BECAUSE THEY ALL WANT TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED FOR THEIR CORPORATE PAYMASTERS.
DESTROYING THE COUNTRY, OUR BORDERS AND THE AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS IS NOT IMPORTANT COMPARED TO QUARTERLY CORPORATE PROFITS.
Joe Biden Reopens Welfare-Dependent Legal Immigration to the United States
President Joe Biden’s United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has officially reopened legal immigration to foreign nationals with a history of using American taxpayer-funded welfare benefits.
In early 2020, the Trump administration finalized a federal regulation known as the “public charge” rule that made it less likely for foreign nationals to secure green cards to permanently reside in the United States if they had previously used welfare programs like food stamps, Medicaid, or taxpayer-funded housing programs.
Almost immediately after taking office, Biden threw out the finalized public charge rule imposed by the Trump administration, blowing open the door for welfare-dependent legal immigration to the United States, for which American taxpayers will ultimately foot the bill.
Late last week, USCIS started imposing Biden’s public charge rule which specifies that foreign nationals with a history of welfare dependency will not be excluded from seeking green cards to permanently resettle in the United States.
“[Department of Homeland Security] will not consider receipt of noncash benefits (for example, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, public housing, school lunch programs, etc.) other than long-term institutionalization at government expense,” the agency states.
When Trump first issued the Public Charge rule in 2019, polls found that the policy was overwhelmingly popular with Americans. About 6 in 10 Americans said they supported ending welfare-dependent legal immigration, including 56 percent of Hispanics and 71 percent of black Americans.
In 2017, the National Academies of Science noted that state and local taxpayers are billed about $1,600 each year per immigrant to pay for their welfare and revealed that immigrant households consume 33 percent more cash welfare than American citizen households.
A similar study from the Center for Immigration Studies found that about 63 percent of noncitizen households use at least one form of public welfare, while only about 35 percent of native-born American households are on welfare. This means that noncitizen households use nearly twice as much welfare as native-born American households.
Chart via the Center for Immigration Studies
Every year the federal government rewards about 1.2 million foreign nationals with green cards to permanently resettle in the United States, while another 1.4 million foreign nationals secure various temporary work visas to take American jobs.
The latest Rasmussen Reports survey shows that Americans overwhelmingly, by a 69 percent majority, want to reduce legal immigration levels. This includes a plurality of Americans, 36 percent, who want legal immigration levels cut at least in half.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
The Other Border Crisis: El Centro, Calif. (16.7%) and Yuma, Ariz. (16.3%) Lead Nation in Unemployment
(CNSNews.com) - The surge of migrants seeking to cross the southwest border into the United States is not the only crisis that this country is seeing along that border: It is also the site of the U.S. metropolitan areas that have the highest unemployment rates.
The El Centro, Calif., metropolitan area led the nation with an unemployment rate of 16.7 percent in November, according to data released today by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
That was 4.9-times greater than the national unemployment rate, which was just 3.4 percent in November.
The city of El Centro sits about 13 miles north of the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol station on the border between Calexico, Calif., and Mexicali, Mexico.
The Yuma, Ariz., metropolitan area had the nation’s second highest unemployment rate—16.3 percent—in November. Yuma sits in the southwest corner of Arizona--just north and east of the Mexican border.
“Yuma, AZ, had the largest over-the-year rate increase in November (+5.0 percentage points),” said BLS.
Six of the remaining positions in the Top Ten metro areas with the highest unemployment rates were taken by metro areas situated in California’s Central Valley—the state’s primary agricultural region.
These include Visalia-Porterville, which ranked third with an unemployment rate of 8.5 percent; Merced, which ranked fourth with an unemployment rate of 7.2 percent; Hanford-Corcoran, which tied for fifth (with Yakima, Washington) with an unemployment rate of 6.9 percent; Bakersfield, which ranked seventh with an unemployment rate of 6.8 percent; Fresno, which ranked eighth with an unemployment rate of 6.6 percent; and Yuba City, which tied for tenth (with Madera, Calif.) with an unemployment rate of 6.3 percent.
The Texas border metro area of McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, Texas rounded out the top 10—coming in ninth with an unemployment rate of 6.4 percent.
By contrast, the metropolitan areas with the nation’s lowest unemployment rates in November were far from the southern border. In fact, three of them were in North Dakota, another three were in Minnesota, and yet another was in South Dakota.
The metros with the lowest unemployment rates included: Fargo, North Dakota which ranked first with an unemployment rate of 1.5 percent; Mankato, Minnesota, and Rochester, Minnesota, which tied for second with an unemployment rate of 1.6 percent; Sioux Falls, South Dakota, which placed fourth with an unemployment rate of 1.7 percent.
Bismarck, North Dakota; Columbia, Missouri; Grand Forks, North Dakota and Logan, Utah, all tied for fifth with an unemployment rate of 1.8 percent.
And Billings, Montana; Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota; and Provo-Orem, Utah, all tied for ninth with an unemployment rate of 1.9 percent.
Blue State Blues: The Border Will Define the 2024 Election
The crisis at the southern U.S. border continues to be the greatest failure of Joe Biden’s presidency — one that he refuses even to acknowledge — and it will define the 2024 presidential election more than any other issue.
Earlier this week, the Supreme Court preserved the one remaining mechanism for border enforcement: Title 42, a pandemic-era rule that allows the U.S. to prohibit immigration to the country for public health reasons.
President Biden once declared that wanted to drop Title 42, just as he got rid of every other mechanism that former President Donald Trump used to enforce the border — notably the “Remain in Mexico” policy, which required asylum applicants to wait before entering the U.S.; and the border “wall,” which is one infrastructure project, along with the Keystone XL pipeline, that Democrats somehow could not find the money to fund.
Now the Biden administration is trying to wash its hands of the Title 42 controversy, claiming that it would drop the policy only under duress, thanks to a court order — one that the administration initially sought. The fact that thousands of people are flocking to the border every day is causing some in the White House to realize that the mainstream media cannot ignore the problem forever, and that blame will eventually be assigned.
The official Biden administration position is that the border crisis cannot be resolved until Congress — i.e. Republicans — passes “comprehensive immigration reform,” including a path to citizenship for illegal aliens. That argument is hostage-taking dressed up as compromise: the administration is saying that Republicans must either accept millions of new (Democrat-voting) citizens now, or there will be millions more in the future.
Of course, there is no guarantee that any compromise on immigration will stop the border influx. The lesson Republicans have learned from past failures is that border security must come first, or it does not come at all.
Meanwhile, the Biden administration is playing for time, hoping the crisis somehow disappears and that people forget all the lies the White House has told about it. (Remember the claims that migration was “seasonal”?)
But the border issue is about much more than the border. It is about drugs, and the fentanyl pandemic that is killing upwards of 100,000 Americans every year, thanks to cross-border smuggling.
It is about terrorism, and the large number of people on terror watch lists who are taking their chances on the southern border.
It is about crime, and the shadow of fear that has fallen across American cities as cartels and gangs grow more brazen.
The border issue is also about equality — about rich liberals in Martha’s Vineyard praising their own piety as they ship migrants to a military base after 24 hours on the island, or declaring states of emergency over a few dozen arrivals in big cities, while small towns in Republican-voting border areas are swamped by hundreds of thousands of people.
It is about democracy — about American citizens seeing their votes potentially diluted by people who refuse to follow the rules, and by politicians who are violating their sworn oaths to uphold the law.
Republicans do not agree on much these days. Establishment leaders seem to believe the biggest problem is Donald Trump. Trump seems to think the biggest problem is the 2020 election. Social media activists seem to be most exercised over vaccines, or drag shows. And no one seems to care about federal spending anymore.
The one unifying issue is the border crisis. And the candidate with the most credible border policy will prevail.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of the recent e-book, Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election. His recent book, RED NOVEMBER, tells the story of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary from a conservative perspective. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
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