Former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) is blasting President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris for their “open border policy” that she says is helping “gangs, cartels, and human traffickers” profit billions off illegal immigration at the United States-Mexico border.
Biden officials have said they plan to end the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Title 42 public health authority at the southern border, admitting that doing so will spur a surge unlike any other ever seen before in American history.
Specifically, Biden officials say they are preparing for a “mass migration event” at the border where they expect a foreign population the size of Atlanta, Georgia — roughly 500,000 — to show up every month hoping to be released into the U.S. interior by the administration’s expansive Catch and Release network .
In a statement, Gabbard said ending Title 42 is the wrong move for Americans.
“Biden/Harris open border policy has been a disaster,” Gabbard said. “Rescinding Title 42 will make the massive flood of immigrants even worse. Main beneficiaries are gangs, cartels and human traffickers. Trump policy of having people wait on other side of the border worked and needs to be reinstated.”
While on the presidential campaign trail in 2019, running as a Democrat in the open primary race, Gabbard regularly bucked the open borders lobbying and the party’s political establishment with her defense of national sovereignty and border controls.
In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News, Gabbard said:
The reality is that we do not have a nation if we don’t have borders. It’s a false choice for people to say you’re anti-immigrant if you support secure borders. That’s just not the case.
Likewise, Gabbard blasted her fellow Democrat presidential candidates who advocated for open borders under the disguise of humanitarianism with programs like those to give universal free college tuition to illegal aliens, paid for by American taxpayers.
“I don’t, I don’t support open borders … some of the other Democratic candidates will say, ‘Well, open borders, that’s a conservative argument and that’s not really what’s being advocated for,’ if you look at some of the practical implications of some of the things they are pushing for, it is essentially open borders,” Gabbard said.
Since Biden took office, he has grown the nation’s illegal alien population by 1.1 million .
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Department of Homeland Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas’s tenure as the agency lead has been marred by a series of policy missteps and blunders that contributed to a historic migrant border crisis impacting communities across the country.
During his tenure, the Secretary’s policy missteps led to record profits for drug and human trafficking organizations, record arrests of criminal migrants and gang members, and sadly, contributed to record line of duty deaths for Border Patrol agents. Lax enforcement strategies led to a surge in migrant deaths and the record-breaking influx of unaccompanied migrant children.
Mayorkas’ policies for Immigration and Customs (ICE), the DHS agency charged with interior enforcement of immigration laws has all but neutered ICE agents’ ability to arrest migrants solely based on their illegal presence within the United States.
A recent addition to the list includes perhaps the most significant lapse in Secret Service protection protocols in the agency’s history.
The latest gaffe was revealed on Wednesday when two men posing as DHS Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) employees were arrested for participating in a scheme to perhaps infiltrate the United States Secret Service — an agency that also falls under the Mayorkas’ DHS umbrella.
According to an affidavit filed in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, the men, Arian Taherzadeh and Haider Ali, managed to infiltrate the tight circle of four Secret Service agents over a lengthy time period. A witness reports seeing one of the men in the area as early as 2020. Beginning in February 2021, according to the affidavit, Secret Service agents began accepting gifts and gratuities from the pair. The agents, one of whom is currently assigned to the protection detail for First Lady Jill Biden, accepted free apartments, smartphones, law enforcement surveillance technology and equipment, and other favors from the duo.
In the latest case development, Secret Service agents assigned to the president and vice president’s security detail may be involved as well according to a report in the New York Post.
Investigators have yet to reveal whether the pair acted alone or as part of a foreign government-sponsored intelligence-gathering operation. The passport of Haider Ali showed recent visits to Pakistan and Iran. As their scheme unfolded, ultimately Taherzadeh and Ali were able to compromise the security team for the most guarded officials in the United States.
Unlike Mayorkas’ swift condemnation of Border Patrol agents on horseback wrongly accused of whipping migrants during the Haitian migrant crisis, the secretary remained silent on the latest incident under his watch. He has thus far not condemned the unethical acts of the Secret Service agent, reportedly acknowledged by them in the affidavit, nor has he promised a quick investigation and consequences for those involved in perhaps endangering the first lady, the vice president, or the president.
Mayorkas’ series of blunders and missteps are quickly piling up and include noteworthy record-breaking statistics that seem to run contrary to the responsibilities bestowed upon him as the Secretary of Homeland Security. Those responsibilities include overseeing efforts to counter terrorism and enhance security, secure and manage our borders while facilitating trade and travel, enforcing and administering our immigration laws, safeguarding and securing cyberspace, building resilience to disasters, and providing essential support for national and economic security – in coordination with federal, state, local, international and private sector partners.
1: MIGRANT CROSSINGS
Deliberate policy decisions made by Mayorkas since his confirmation in February of 2021 led to the highest migrant apprehension totals along the southwest border in more than 20 years. In 2021, more than 1.9 million migrants were apprehended entering the country illegally. More than 500,000 migrants managed to elude apprehension during the same timeframe.
Among the migrants apprehended during the year was a 21-year old Saudi Arabian national suspected of being a potential terrorist, according to DHS. Shortly after an announcement of the arrest appeared on social media, all evidence of the announcement was scrubbed by the agency within days . Although most apprehensions involve migrants entering the United States for economic purposes, the agency cannot attest to the identity or intentions of the 500,000 migrants who were not intercepted by DHS during the year. Nor will the agency release details of arrests involving any migrants found to be on the terrorism watch list.
2: CARTEL PROFITS
With the unprecedented increase in migrant crossings, human traffickers, many associated with Mexican cartels who also control the drug smuggling industry likely made record profits under Mayorkas’ watch. Based on the agency’s internal documents, cartels engaged in human trafficking have netted nearly $1 billion in smuggling fees per month in 2021.
In November, according to agency records, 42,000 pounds of methamphetamine were seized by Customs and Border Protection agencies eclipsing any previous one-month total in DHS history. Other narcotics, such as fentanyl have been seized at record levels in cities across the country prompting an outcry from ten Republican governors who met in Texas in October to discuss the border crisis.
3: CRIMINAL MIGRANT AND GANG MEMBER ARRESTS
In August 2021, with only six months at the helm, Mayorkas’ DHS personnel saw a 265% increase in the arrest of criminal migrants and organized gang members . By that time, nearly 9,000 criminal migrants had been arrested — up from 2,438 for all of 2020. The term “criminal alien” is not used by Border Patrol to refer to migrants with only immigration violations. It is reserved for those with convictions for state and federal crimes like murder, rape, sexual assault, burglary, robbery, narcotics, and others.
4: BORDER PATROL LINE OF DUTY DEATHS
The decisions concerning the limitations placed upon the use of the COVID-19 Title 42 emergency authority at the border placed not only the American public at risk but proved to have a catastrophic effect on the Border Patrol workforce. Agents are expected to routinely work in grossly overcrowded facilities. Under the direction of Secretary Mayorkas, more Border Patrol agents died in the line of duty than in any other year in the history of the Border Patrol.
Of the 15 agents who died in the line of duty in 2021, 13 died as a result of COVID-19. Two were killed in vehicle-related accidents. The record-breaking line-of-duty deaths eclipse the previous record set in 1998 when six Border Patrol agents died while on duty.
5: MIGRANT DEATHS
The border crisis under Mayorkas’ watch also led to an increase in migrant deaths in many parts of the southwest border. The total migrant deaths recorded by the Border Patrol, which only includes migrant remains recovered by agents, is not a statistic the agency is willing to release to the public. One federal law enforcement official, not authorized to speak to the media, told Breitbart Texas eight migrants drowned in one two-week period in March 2022 in a single Border Patrol sector. Other sources report two additional migrant deaths during the same time frame.
In Brooks County, Texas, known for the significant level of migrant deaths recorded each year, migrant deaths increased more than 280 percent in 2021 when compared to 2020. At least 25 migrants have died in this single county 80 miles inland from the border this year.
6: UNACCOMPANIED MIGRANT CHILDREN
On another front, the agency took direct steps to eliminate the applicability of the CDC Title 42 emergency expulsion order to unaccompanied migrant children. In 2021, more than 146,925 unaccompanied migrant children were apprehended at the border, a 340% increase from the year before Mayorkas assumed the helm of DHS. Most of these children were released to sponsors within the United States. The volume was such that the emergency intake shelters were hastily opened to house the migrant children in numerous cities across the United States. In one month alone during 2021, nine such shelters were opened by the Department of Health and Human Services to accommodate the onslaught of unaccompanied migrant children. There are more than 10,500 unaccompanied children in federal custody awaiting release into the United States as of Friday.
7: HAITIAN MIGRANT CRISIS
As Mayorkas’ carried on business as usual inside the beltway, thousands of mostly Haitian migrants were allowed to cross the border at will and construct a shantytown under the International Bridge in Del Rio, Texas. Breitbart Texas broke the story and covered the gradual buildup of migrants in the city.
The first reporting on the incident occurred on September 9, 2021, announcing 500 migrants being detained under the bridge in shelters the migrants constructed themselves due to overcrowding in Border Patrol facilities. By September 15, 5,000 had arrived without a federal response from Mayorkas.
The Secretary told reporters when asked why it took so long for the administration to respond adequately to the situation, “the volume was rather sudden, rather dramatic, rather quick.”
On September 16, the count had risen to 10,000 mostly Haitian migrants . Over the next three days, the count reached nearly 15,000 , at which time the Secretary finally began to send additional federal resources to the area.
The crisis negatively impacted residents in the area after international ports of entry in the city were shut to all legitimate traffic to and from Mexico because of the situation. State and local authorities were left to manage an untenable situation for weeks without significant federal resources to handle the immense challenges of a migrant swell that grew to half the size of the local community.
Upon arrival to the city, Mayorkas proudly exclaimed during a press conference near the camp “our borders are not open”.
8: ICE INTERIOR ENFORCEMENT
In September, Mayorkas finalized his Guidelines for the Enforcement of Civil Immigration Law . The new policy professes a founding principle that recommends prosecutorial discretion as a cornerstone stating:
“A principal feature of the removal system is the broad discretion exercised by immigration officials. Federal officials, as an initial matter, must decide whether it makes sense to pursue removal at all,” according to the guideline.
The policy places an emphasis on the most serious of violations, including terrorism or espionage offenses. Threats to public safety are also included for violent offenses but include mitigating factors that may tilt the scales in favor of declining enforcement on such offenders. The list includes advanced or tender age, length of time in the United States, mental condition contributing to criminal conduct, or a physical or mental condition requiring care or treatment.
Also included in the list in favor of declining is status as a victim of a crime, or victim, witness, or party in legal proceedings, the impact of removal on family in the US, whether the noncitizen may be eligible for humanitarian protection or other immigration relief or military, other public service of the noncitizen or their immediate family, time since an offense and evidence of rehabilitation, and if the conviction was vacated or expunged. There are almost twice as many factors listed in the policy that lean toward declining an enforcement action than there are in favor of pursuing an arrest of a migrant.
Migrants considered a threat to border security are also included as a priority for apprehension and removal only if apprehended at the border while attempting to unlawfully enter the United States or they are apprehended in the United States after unlawfully entering after November 1, 2020. The policy implies that there is an existing legal amnesty protecting migrants who entered the country prior to November 1, 2020. There is no such law.
Within a mere 14 months of assuming his position, Secretary Mayorkas has few agency records left to break other than those he has managed to set during his tenure. Meanwhile, missteps within the agency continue to mount.
Randy Clark is a 32-year veteran of the United States Border Patrol. Prior to his retirement, he served as the Division Chief for Law Enforcement Operations, directing operations for nine Border Patrol Stations within the Del Rio, Texas, Sector. Follow him on Twitter @RandyClarkBBTX.
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Biden Admin Slows Migrant Drop-Offs in Texas After Governor Orders Them Bused to DC File Photo: Randy Clark/Breitbart Texas 3:32
Texas officials report the Biden administration stopped dropping off released migrants in many cities across the state following Governor Greg Abbott’s order to start busing them to Washington, D.C. From the Texas Panhandle to the Rio Grande Valley, Texas city officials sent the State requests for assistance in offering bus transportation for any released migrants who voluntarily want to catch a ride to the nation’s capital.
The Texas Division of Emergency Management (TDEM) dispatched multiple buses to areas where community leaders expressed concerns about the federal government dropping off migrants in their cities, TDEM spokesman Seth Christensen said in a written statement. He said Texas “has the capability to send as many [buses] as necessary to fulfill the requests from mayors and county judges.”
“From the RGV to Terrell County, a large majority of the communities that originally reached out for support through this operation have now said that the federal government has stopped dropping migrants in their towns since the governor’s announcement on Wednesday,” Mr. Christensen added.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced orders Wednesday for state officials to charter buses to transport migrants to Washington, D.C. in response to the Biden Administration’s plans to end the Title 42 coronavirus protection protocol and begin large-scale mass releases, Breitbart Texas reported .
“To help local officials whose communities are being overwhelmed by hordes of illegal immigration who are being dropped off by the Biden administration, Texas is providing charter buses to send these illegal immigrants who have been dropped off by the Biden administration to Washington, D.C.,” Governor Abbott said during a press conference on Wednesday afternoon in Weslaco, Texas. The governor said the first drop-off location will be the U.S. Capitol steps in the nation’s capital. He added that the bus rides are completely voluntary from the migrants’ perspective.
“We are taking them to the United States Capitol where the Biden administration will be able to more immediately address the needs of the people that they are allowing to come across our border,” the governor added. The governor signed the letter to TDEM Chief Nim Kid ordering the action.
“Texans have a backbone and the will to secure our border,” Abbott stated. “Two things that Joe Biden does not have.”
In addition to the busing program, the governor also announced that the State will begin enhanced safety inspections of commercial vehicles crossing the border from Mexico.
“A zero-tolerance policy for unsafe vehicles for smuggling migrants across the border is being implemented immediately,” the governor stated.
Breitbart Texas reached out to DPS officials for initial results from the enhanced safety inspections. The department is not yet ready to release statistical data on the operation at this early date, officials responded.
Texas officials also told Breitbart on Saturday that the Texas Military Department and the Department of Public Safety are already beginning lighting projects at border crossing areas currently being utilized by human smugglers to move large migrant groups across shallow water crossings.
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 Face .
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Texas Holds Up Truck Traffic to Change Mexico’s Migration Politics GUILLERMO ARIAS/AFP via Getty Images 6:15
Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) is choking truck traffic across the U.S.-Mexico border to get Mexico’s government to help block the migrant flood invited by President Joe Biden’s border chief, says Todd Bensman, a Texas-based expert at the Center for Immigration Studies.
“If Texas wants to back those trucks up severely, they can do it as much as they want,” Bensman told Breitbart News.
The point is to get governors and mayors in northern Mexico where the maquiladoras [oursourced U .S outsourcing factories] are, to start complaining to [Mexican President Andrés Manuel López] Obrador, and Obrador is then going to complain to the American ambassador. Then it’s going to go to the State Department, and then Biden is going to have to do something.
Bensman posted a video of the resulting cross-border traffic jams on Friday afternoon:
“The Biden Administration’s open-border policies have paved the way for dangerous cartels and deadly drugs to pour into the United States, and this crisis will only be made worse by ending Title 42 expulsions,” Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said at an April 6 press event. He added:
With the end of Title 42 expulsions looming next month, Texas will immediately begin taking unprecedented action to do what no state has done in American history to secure our border. The new strategies announced today and next week will further strengthen our already robust response to the Biden border disaster, and we will use any and all lawful powers to curtail the flow of drugs, human traffickers, illegal immigrants, weapons, and other contraband into Texas.
Abbot signed the safety directive on April 6, telling the Texas Department of Public Safety:
As you have explained, the cartels that smuggle illicit contraband and people across our southern border do not care about the condition of the vehicles they send into Texas any more than they care who overdoses from the deadly fentanyl on board. In response to this threat, which is projected to grow in the coming months, I hereby direct the Department of Public Safety (DPS) to conduct enhanced safety inspections of vehicles as they cross international ports of entry into Texas. These inspections should begin immediately to help ensure that Texans are not endangered by unsafe vehicles and their unsafe drivers.
Cross-border traffic is falling fast. Frieghtwaves.com reported Friday:
At the Pharr-Reynosa International Bridge, 2,516 commercial trucks crossed on Thursday, a 35% decline compared to the same day last week before Abbott’s measures were announced, according to CBP data.
Commercial truck traffic at Laredo’s Colombia-Solidarity Bridge was 2,233 on Thursday, an 11% decline compared to last Thursday.
Texas’ decision to carefully check the cross-border trucks for drugs will quickly get the angry attention of powerful U.S. business groups, said Bensman. Those groups have outsourced their supply of critical food and manufacturing components to Mexican farms and factories, known as maquiladoras.
Trucks can bypass the traffic jams on the Texas border, but only by taking a 1,250-mile detour through Mexico to reach the entry at Nogales, Arizona.
“That’s one of the things McAllen is concerned about,” Javier Villalobos, that border city’s Republican mayor, told the Democrat-leaning TexasTribune.org news site. “If it affects negatively, we’re going to be in the governor’s ear daily.”
When Biden’s deputies complain, “what Texas is going to do is first say ‘What are you talking about? We’re just keeping our roads safe. We don’t know anything about Mexico,'” Bensman said.
But Texas officials also will have a strong message for Biden’s government, he added: “We do know that you need to tell the Mexicans to shut this [migration] down. Close this off, ship the migrants out, block the crossing point… We want you to be like President Donald Trump.”
Biden’s people — especially his pro-migration border chief Alejandro Mayorkas — do not want to stop the growing migration through Mexico, Bensman said:
They’re not going to do Trump, they’re not going to channel Trump. They’re going to do what they always do — they’re going to file a lawsuit against Texas, and they’re going to allege that Texas is blocking international trade. And they’re going to name a whole bunch of national security reasons for this.
Texas is going to deny it. They’re gonna say “No, we’re not. We’re just doing what we’ve always done, just you know, a little bit differently. We have a right to check trucks. That’s all we’re doing.”
It’ll be up to a judge. It’ll probably be filed in the Ninth Circuit [in California]. And those left-wingers over there in the Ninth Circuit are going to issue an injunction [against Texas] and then we’ll go [to other courts] from there.
This is a high-stakes hardball version of the “Texas Hold’em,” card game, Bensman said.
In 2019, in his third year in office, Trump ignored his pro-business advisors and got serious about the migration problems that he was elected to solve. “Here’s the way this worked when Trump was in office,” said Bensman:
Trump said [Mexico in 2019], ‘I’m implementing the first 5 percent trade tariff … [and] If I don’t see you get getting rid of the migrants, within a month, it goes to 10 percent and then if you still haven’t done it, it goes to 15 percent and it goes all the way up to 28 percent.”
He was willing to do a 28 percent tariff on all Mexican goods — but he never had to even get to 5 percent because the [Mexican] mayors and governors of those [northern Mexican] states rely on those [outsourcing] businesses which also are powerful and have influence. So they all went to President Obrador and said, “Guys, we’ve got to comply [with Trump],” and he did.
“I don’t think this will be any different,” said Bensman. “If Texas wants to back those trucks up severely, they can do it as much as they want.”
Cuban-born Alejandro Mayorkas Invites Flood of Poor Cuban Migrants AP Photo/Gregory Bull 9:53
President Joe Biden’s Cuban-born border chief Alejandro Mayorkas is welcoming a massive Cuban migration into the United States, just as Cuba’s communist government is letting pro-democracy protestors leave the island prison.
In March, “more than 32,000 Cubans were taken into U.S. custody along the Mexico border, double the number who arrived in February, ” says a report in the Washington Post . The government “is on pace to apprehend more than 155,000 Cubans during the current fiscal year, records show, nearly four times the 2021 total and a twelvefold increase over 2020.”
“Almost everyone from the younger generations is leaving … [it is] a stampede,” Maria Victoria Gonzalez told the Washington Post .
“Bray Perez, a 19-year-old Cuban university student, is fast losing friends to a growing wave of migration off the island,” Reuters reported on March 17. “Every time I go home, I find that 10 people have left … It’s hard to get up in the morning and know I’m not going to see them anymore,” he added.
The migrants are flying into Nicaragua and then traveling by road through Mexico to the U.S. border, which is being opened to Cuban migrants by border chief Alejandro Mayorkas.
“I don’t think he has a secret pro-Cuban [government] agenda,” said Mark Krikorian, director of the Center for Immigration Studies. “But that’s the actual effect of his policy.”
Mayorkas was born in Cuba, but his parents were invited by Americans to live in the United States in 1960 because Cuba’s communist government stole private property and murdered opponents.
Mayorkas still identifies as an immigrant and is using his job — he is secretary of the Department of Homeland Security — to maximize the inflow of poor migrants into Americans’ homeland.
That multinational flood is suppressing Ameicans’ wages, spiking their housing costs, and helping keep millions of Americans out of the workforce.
Under the Title 42 border rules, Mayorkas has full authority to expel the migrants — even if their dictatorial government refuses to take them back. But, “according to preliminary data obtained by The Post , U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has only deported 20 Cubans in the past five months, and just 95 during the 2021 fiscal year,” the Washington Post reported.
Mayorkas also has a limited authority to allow Cubans into the United States under a so-called “parole” exemption to normal border rules. The authority was created by the Cold War-era Cuban Adjustment Act of 1966, and it also allows paroled Cubans to get fast-track green cards and then citizenship.
In May, the U.S. Embassy in Cuba will reportedly begin accepting requests from Cuban parents to visit their emigrant children in the United States. Many may hope to stay in the United States to benefit from much better healthcare programs.
Mayorkas’s welcome for migrants is “in effect, a dictatorship support program” for Cuba’s dictatorship, said Krikorian. “The communists in Cuba use immigration the way other oppressive regimes sometimes do — to release some of the built-up steam, built-up discontent … as a way to maintain their hold on society,” he told Breitbart News.
“Our immigration policy has had negative effects on various countries in different ways for years and years,” said Rosemary Jenks, director of government relations for NumbersUSA. For example, “by bringing all of the motivated and educated and resourced people from a very poor country to the United States, that harms that [poor sending] country,” she said.
U.S. government policies — including loose borders — have extracted at least 15 million young, hard-working people from Mexico and Central America. Once in the United States, the migrants are used as workers, consumers, and renters. The population transfer hinders economic trade with the United States and makes it more difficult for the migrants’ home countries to grow out of poverty and chaos .
“The compassionate thing to do is to reduce that flow,” Jenks said.
The emigration also generates cash for Cuba’s communist government once the migrants send U.S. wages back to their families, he said. “It’s become easier and easier over the years to send remittances from the United States to Cuba, and obviously, the Cuban regime benefits in a variety of ways from that money,” he said, adding that some of the welfare aid from the federal government to Cuban migrants will end up in Cuba.
Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) questions Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on oversight of the Department of Homeland Security, on Capitol Hill November 16, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty)
Cuba’s autocrats are facing rising protests, according to an April 5 report in the Miami Herald. The article was headlined “ More than 46,000 Cubans, biggest wave in years, have arrived in the U.S. in five months,” and it said:
With a soaring inflation rate, widespread shortages of basics and little prospects for economic recovery from the impact of the pandemic, Cuba topped the worldwide “misery index” in 2021, compiled annually by John Hopkins University economist Steve Hanke. After widespread protests last year seeking regime change and improved living conditions, the government made some minor reforms to the private sector with little effect on the larger economy, which follows a centralized socialist model.
Cuban authorities also launched an all-out assault on civic liberties, passing decrees and legislation further restricting freedom of expression and other civil rights while arresting more than 1,400 people, including several minors , for participating in the islandwide protests last July 11. Harsh sentences meted out to the protesters have also sent a chilling message, and many young Cubans are seeking to start a new life elsewhere.
“The Cuban economy is in a deep crisis,” said Camilo Condis, a young Cuban entrepreneur who co-hosts the podcast El Enjambre, Spanish for swarm. “Although it is true that the COVID-19 pandemic and the [U.S. ] sanctions have negatively affected the economy, the Cuban government has not taken any measures to promote development within the country and continues to bet on a failed centralized economy.”
But Mayorkas is not specifically trying to help the communist regime that pushed his parents into exile, said Krikorian:
He is, in fact, helping the Cuban regime, but he’s helping every other regime that wants its discontented population to emigrate. I can’t imagine Mayorkas’ actions are in any way targeted toward Cubans — he’s unwilling to enforce the [U.S.] immigration law against anybody.
Migration advocates welcomed the additional inflows — and jeered at advocates for reduced migration.
The Washington Post reported that the poor Cubans are borrowing funds to pay the smugglers’ networks in the expectation that they will travel to Nicaragua, then Mexico, then across the U.S. border, and into U.S. jobs.
Cubans “are smart and they’ve concluded that it’s worth it to borrow the money to get to the United States,” Krikorian said. “What that does is benefit smugglers, benefits the communist regime, benefits the migrants themselves — and the losers are American workers and American taxpayers.”
Since at least 1990, the D.C. establishment has used a wide variety of excuses and explanations — for example, “Nation of Immigrants ” — to justify its policy of extracting tens of millions of migrants and visa workers from poor countries to serve as workers, consumers, and renters for various U.S. investors and CEOs.
The self-serving economic strategy of extraction migration has no stopping point. It is brutal to ordinary Americans because it cuts their career opportunities, shrinks their salaries and wages, raises their housing costs, and has shoved at least ten million American men out of the labor force.
Extraction migration also distorts the economy, and curbs Americans’ productivity , partly because it allows employers to use stoop labor instead of machines.
Migration also reduces voters’ political clout , undermines employees’ workplace rights, and widens the regional wealth gaps between the Democrats’ coastal states and the Republicans’ Heartland states.
Secretary Of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas looks on at El Paso International Airport, on June 25, 2021 in El Paso, Texas. (PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)
An economy built on extraction migration also alienates young people and radicalizes Americans’ democratic, compromise-promoting civic culture because it allows wealthy elites to ignore despairing Americans at the bottom of society.
The economic strategy also kills many migrants, exploits poor people, splits foreign families, and extracts wealth from the poor home countries.
The extraction migration policy is backed by progressives who wish to transform the United States from a society governed by European-origin civic culture into a progressive-led empire of competing identity groups. “We’re trying to become the first multiracial, multi-ethnic superpower in the world,” Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA), told the New York Times on March 21. “It will be an extraordinary achievement … we will ultimately triumph,” he insisted.
Not surprisingly, the wealth-shifting extraction migration policy is very unpopular, according to a wide variety of polls .
The polls show deep and broad public opposition to labor migration and the inflow of temporary contract workers into jobs sought by young U.S. graduates.
The opposition is growing , anti-establishment , multiracial , cross-sex , non-racist , class-based , bipartisan , rational , persistent , and recognizes the solidarity that Americans owe to one another.
Exclusive Photos: Illegal Alien Charged with Killing 72-Year-Old Florida Man Left Vehicles Crushed Source/WCSO 2:26
Photos, exclusively obtained by Breitbart News, show the extent of damage that was left behind from a fatal drunk-driving crash where an illegal alien was charged with killing a 72-year-old man in Walton County, Florida.
As Breitbart News exclusively reported , 42-year-old illegal alien Jose Virgilio Carcamo Elvir was charged with four felonies, including DUI manslaughter, after allegedly causing an eight-vehicle crash that killed 72-year-old Perry Adrian Cole and injuring three others.
Florida Highway Patrol, as well as eyewitnesses, said Elvir was drunk at the time of the crash and had multiple opened Budweiser cans in his vehicle. Elvir had been driving with an expired license from Alabama though it is unclear how he was able to secure a license being an illegal alien.
Sources close to Breitbart News are now revealing photos from the fatal crash:
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The Walton County Sheriff’s Office confirmed that Elvir is an illegal alien living in the United States and that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency has placed a detainer on him so that, if he is released, they will take over custody.
According to a report issued by Florida Highway Patrol, exclusively obtained by Breitbart News, Elvir was driving drunk in Walton County on April 3 when he crashed into the back of another vehicle and caused an eight-vehicle crash as a result.
Cole, a resident of Palmetto Bay, Florida, was involved in the crash and rushed to Sacred Heart Medical Center in Santa Rosa, Florida, where he was later pronounced dead as a result of his injuries. Three other Americans sustained serious bodily injuries in the crash and were taken to a nearby hospital.
“Just weeks after a Haitian criminal alien brutally murdered a Florida husband and wife in Daytona Beach, another innocent Floridian lost his life at the hands of an illegal alien in Walton County,” Gov. Ron DeSantis’s (R) office wrote in an exclusive statement to Breitbart News. “How much senseless violence and suffering will Americans endure, while the Biden Administration doubles down on their reckless open-borders agenda?”
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here .
226 Migrants Apprehended at Single Border Crossing Site in 24 Hours U.S. Border Patrol/Rio Grande Valley Sector 3:56
Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended more than 226 migrants at a single border crossing location in a 24-hour period. The apprehensions are part of a record number of migrant crossings along the southwest border with Mexico.
Rio Grande Valley Sector Chief Patrol Agent Brian Hastings tweeted photos of agents making apprehensions of two large migrant groups at a single border crossing on Thursday and Friday.
Hastings said Rio Grande City agents apprehended one group of more than 100 migrants near La Grulla, Texas, during the early morning hours of April 8. Less than 24 hours earlier, the agents apprehended another 126 migrants at the same location.
Unofficial apprehension numbers obtained from a source operating under U.S. Customs and Border Protection told Breitbart Texas that Rio Grande Valley Sector agents apprehended nearly 44,000 migrants in March. This was part of a total of approximately 209,000 migrants apprehended by Border Patrol agents along the entire southwest border with Mexico.
The March apprehensions put the total during the first six months of Fiscal Year 2022 at more than one million, Breitbart reported . The source revealed the startling number of apprehensions that appear to still be on the increase.
Border Patrol agents and U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers are expected to be overwhelmed with migrant crossings in the days and weeks following the expected end of Title 42 in late May. The resources of many federal law enforcement agencies are supposed to be stretched thin as they respond to the expected spike in already record-setting border crossings.
Texas Congressman Michael McCaul (R-TX) told Fox News on Wednesday that the administration is anticipating approximately 500,000 migrants to cross the border in the weeks following the end of Title 42.
“They’re talking about 500,000 in the next five weeks,” McCaul told Fox News. “That would be 100,000 people per week coming into the country. We don’t know who they are.”
In response, Texas Governor Greg Abbott ordered the Texas Military Department to begin mass migration response rehearsals along the state’s border with Mexico.
During Wednesday’s press conference, Gov. Abbott also announced plans to bus migrants released by federal officials in Texas to Washington, D.C., Breitbart reported .
“We are taking them to the United States Capitol where the Biden Administration will be able to more immediately address the needs of the people that they are allowing to come across our border,” the governor added. The governor signed the letter to TDEM Chief Nim Kid ordering the action.
“Texans have a backbone and the will to secure our border,” Abbott stated. “Two things that Joe Biden does not have.”
The governor added that the Biden administration is already busing released migrants from the border region to San Antonio.
“I’ve got a better idea,” he explained. “Instead of busing these people to San Antonio, let’s continue the ride — all the way to Washington, D.C.”
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Border Chief Mayorkas: Equity Is U.S. ‘Core Founding Principle’ Graeme Jennings, Guillermo Arias/Getty Images 9:39
Joe Biden’s pro-migration border chief says the “core founding principle” of the United States is “equity,” and that he is building an immigration system built on “equity.”
“It is all about achieving equity, which is really the core founding principle of our country,” Alejandro Mayorkas declared at a meeting hosted by Al Sharpton’s National Action Network.
“We, as a Department of Homeland Security [DHS], are your Department of Homeland Security as much as anyone else’s and we need to live that in the equity that we demonstrate,” he told the mostly black audience.
“Equity” is a vague term being used by activists to call for government-controlled redistribution of wealth, jobs, and status throughout the United States’ increasingly diverse, chaotic, unequal, and divided society. For example, the Merriam-Webster dictionary describes the term as “Equity is often related to justice or proportional fairness … Equality differs from equity in that it relates more to sameness or equal distribution.”
Mayorkas’s embrace of “equity” — not equality, or color-blind enforcement of Congress’s laws — seems to be shaping his policies at the DHS, including his selective enforcement of the nation’s popular immigration laws .
Mayorkas described a minor example of equity — his efforts to help poor black communities get access to federal aid:
Just a few weeks ago, I was in Detroit, Michigan, meeting with faith leaders — predominantly African American faith leaders — in talking about our grant program, our nonprofit Security Grant Program, which is designed to protect nonprofit organizations, to enable enabled them to secure themselves against an increasing threat landscape. And what I learned was that our grant program is very complicated. It is very difficult in some respects to access. And some of these just as much in need, and perhaps in greater need of the funds that we have to distribute, don’t have the resources to [hire] a grant-applicant professional … How can we break down those barriers? … How can we build for them the capacity that they might not otherwise have?
But Mayorkas’s promise of equity goes far beyond equal access to government funds — he is also applying “equity” to help foreign migrants take jobs and wages from lower-skilled Americans.
“We are building an immigration system that is designed to ensure due process, respect human dignity, and promote equity,” Mayorkas tweeted in August 2021, as he sketched out his plans for easy-asylum rules that would encourage a mass migration of poor job-seekers into Americans’ homeland.
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“Justice is our priority,” Mayorkas declared at a November 2021 Senate hearing, adding , “That includes securing our border and providing relief to those [migrants] who qualify for it under our laws.”
Illegals can remain in the United States to compete for jobs and housing, as long as they do not commit violent crimes, Mayorkas said in January 2022. “Unlawful presence in the United States, alone, will not be a basis for immigration enforcement action … it is a matter of justice and equity as well,” he told the U.S. Conference of Mayors in Washington.
Mayorkas described his “identity” as a champion for migrants in his speech to the 2021 American Constitutional Society (ACS) national convention:
The element of dignity [and] the rule of law: Those are two foundational guideposts as I seek to lead an agency, as we, as servants of the law, seek to bring justice in whatever we do. And here in the Department of Homeland Security, I think that must guide everything that we do.
Many advocacy groups are using “equity” claims to accelerate the inflow of non-white migrants and sexual diversities into Americans’ homeland, and also to reduce non-white deportations . “Just as Black people are more likely than white people to be targeted by police, research suggests that Black immigrants are also disproportionately vulnerable to immigration enforcement,” said an October 2020 statement by Vera.org.
Mayorkas is a wealthy , pro-migration zealot and is unlikely to feel any economic damage from the policies he inflicts on ordinary Americans. He is also wrapping his equity agenda for foreign migrants under the cloak of U.S. vague racial claims, saying in his Friday speech on equity:
The greatest terrorist-related threat that we face in the homeland is a threat of individuals drawn to violence because of ideologies of hate or false narratives propagated on social media and other online platforms. And the most prominent threat is a threat of white supremacists. And that came quite clearly to the surface when we saw over the past several months [threats against] historically black colleges and universities. We reached out in the department to the presidents of the HBCUs and requested that we be allowed to sit around the table with them to listen to what they were confronting, to understand the gravity of the threat that they face … its impact on their communities — the communities of students — and to be able to respond as they needed us to do, to have them around the table.
Mayorkas did not explain “ideologies of hate or false narratives.”
But the economic impact of the government’s extraction migration strategy has deeply damaged millions of Americans — and especially lower-skilled black and white Americans who have lost wages, jobs, and homes to a wave of imported replacement workers.
U.S. government policies — including loose borders — have extracted at least 15 million young, hard-working people from Mexico and Central America. Once transferred to the United States, the migrants are used as workers, consumers, and renters for U.S. investors. That population transfer hinders economic trade with the United States and makes it more difficult for the migrants’ home countries to grow out of poverty and chaos .
Mayorkas’s pro-migration policies are increasingly unpopular and politically dangerous to Joe Biden’s diverse and divided coalition.
For example, independent swing voters strongly oppose Biden’s decision to lift the Title 42 border barrier in late May, according to a Morning Consult poll of 2,003 registered voters. “With the political environment now in a much more dire state for Democrats due to persistent inflation, immigration threatens to transform the upcoming midterm elections from a defeat into a catastrophe,” according to an April 6 report by Morning Consult.
“Mayorkas needs to remember that his salary is paid for by American taxpayers, and it is his job to serve Americans and their best interests,” said a November 2021 post by Pawel Styrna, at the Federation for American Immigration Reform. “Instead, he chooses to focus primarily and, in fact, solely, on the desires and needs of foreign nationals,” he added.
“His is a textbook case of a government official openly and brazenly flouting his duties – and that has nothing to do with the classic Western understanding of justice,” Styrna wrote.
Since at least 1990, the D.C. establishment has used a wide variety of excuses and explanations — for example, “Nation of Immigrants ” — to justify its policy of extracting tens of millions of migrants and visa workers from poor countries to serve as workers, consumers, and renters for various U.S. investors and CEOs.
The self-serving economic strategy of extraction migration has no stopping point. It is brutal to ordinary Americans because it cuts their career opportunities, shrinks their salaries and wages, raises their housing costs, and has shoved at least ten million American men out of the labor force.
Extraction migration also distorts the economy, and curbs Americans’ productivity , partly because it allows employers to use stoop labor instead of machines.
Migration also reduces voters’ political clout , undermines employees’ workplace rights, and widens the regional wealth gaps between the Democrats’ coastal states and the Republicans’ Heartland states.
An economy built on extraction migration also alienates young people and radicalizes Americans’ democratic, compromise-promoting civic culture because it allows wealthy elites to ignore despairing Americans at the bottom of society.
The economic strategy also kills many migrants, exploits poor people, splits foreign families, and extracts wealth from the poor home countries.
The extraction migration policy is backed by progressives who wish to transform the United States from a society governed by European-origin civic culture into a progressive-led empire of competing identity groups. “We’re trying to become the first multiracial, multi-ethnic superpower in the world,” Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA), told the New York Times on March 21. “It will be an extraordinary achievement … we will ultimately triumph,” he insisted.
Not surprisingly, the wealth-shifting extraction migration policy is very unpopular, according to a wide variety of polls .
The polls show deep and broad public opposition to labor migration and the inflow of temporary contract workers into jobs sought by young U.S. graduates.
The opposition is growing , anti-establishment , multiracial , cross-sex , non-racist , class-based , bipartisan , rational , persistent , and recognizes the solidarity that Americans owe to one another.
