The latest Biden administration disclosures in Biden v. Texas Delaware , at a rate of 2,115 per day.
Background. Briefly, Texas April 2021 to challenge the Biden administration’s suspension of the Trump-era Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP, better known as “Remain in Mexico”). The matter was assigned to Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas.
On June 1, while that case was pending, Mayorkas issued a memo terminating MPP. That termination decision was rolled into the pending case brought by the states.
On August 13 , Judge Kacsmaryk issued an order enjoining Mayorkas’s termination of MPP. To ensure compliance with that order, the court required DHS to report monthly on the number of CBP encounters at the Southwest border, the number of aliens expelled pursuant to public-health orders issued by CDC under Title 42 of the U.S. Code in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, and the number released into the United States.
The latest disclosure was filed on June 15 , reflecting DHS activity through the end of May. By my count, it is the eleventh such disclosure, including a supplemental one filed on September 23 .
The June 15 Status Report. That June 15 disclosure, captioned “Defendants’ Monthly Report for May 2022”, reveals that DHS encountered 239,416 aliens at the Southwest border last month — a combination of illegal entrants who were apprehended by Border Patrol and aliens deemed inadmissible by CBP officers in the Office of Field Operations (OFO) at the land border ports of entry.
Of that number, according to DHS, just short of 100,700 were expelled under Title 42, and an additional 13,755 were removed or returned under the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), not counting 2,696 aliens who were removed via expedited removal pursuant to section 235(b)(1) of the INA or voluntary return (117,150 total).
That reveals that, even though it’s a public-health order, Title 42 is critical to managing the chaos at the Southwest border — underscoring the importance of U.S. district court Judge Robert R. Summerhays’ May 20 order preventing CDC from terminating Title 42.
The disclosure also states that while Border Patrol detained more aliens than its detention capacity would normally allow (5,600 aliens, exceeded by 230 percent during the average day in May), ICE is still underutilizing its detention capacity by 19.27 percent on the average day — at a huge cost to American taxpayers.
Next, the government breaks down the total number of “applicants for admission” DHS encountered. As calculated, this is the sum of illegal entrants Border Patrol apprehended and applicants for admission CBP officers at OFO deemed inadmissible at the Southwest border minus aliens expelled under Title 42 (all of whom, confusingly, are counted as “encounters” in CBP’s monthly statistics ). I refer to them collectively as “migrants” because they are seeking to migrate to the United States.
In May, DHS recorded 138,717 such migrants/applicants for admission at the Southwest border. Of that number, CBP released 68,527 of them into the United States on an extremely limited authority known as “parole”, despite the fact that section 235 of the INA mandates that each of those migrants be detained .
I have previously explained — in depth — that this is an misuse of the parole authority, and that the Biden administration’s policy of releasing these migrants (who are supposed to be detained) on parole is driving the current Southwest border crisis.
In any event, those 68,527 aliens who were released on parole weren’t the only migrants whom DHS released. An additional 9,946 were set free by ICE — 922 on bond, 4,598 on orders of recognizance, 162 on orders of supervision, and 4,264 on parole.
It sounds like ICE released those migrants under section 236(a) of the INA , but as I have explained before (and as the Fifth Circuit has agreed on slightly different grounds), unless agents in a stunning exercise of clairvoyance were waiting at the border with warrants of arrest naming those aliens, it lacks the authority under that provision to make such releases.
Biden Has Released 1,049,532 Southwest Border Migrants. All told, then, DHS released 95,318 migrants from the Southwest border in May, bringing the total number of Southwest border migrants released under the Biden administration (again from the 11 disclosures in Texas ) to 1,049,532.
By way of comparison, that is more people released into the United States than the total number of migrants Border Patrol agents at the Southwest border apprehended in any given fiscal year between FY 2007 and FY 2020. In fact, it’s more than the sum of illegal migrants apprehended at the Southwest border between FY 2009 and FY 2010 (1,002,351).
Or that’s larger than the population of Austin, Texas, the 11th largest city in the United States, more than twice the size of Atlanta, Ga., or three-plus Cincinnati, Ohios . Or 59,198 more people than there are residents of the president’s home state of Delaware .
Delaware has two senators (Thomas Carper (D) and Chris Coons (D)), and one congresswoman (Lisa Blunt Rochester (D)). Perhaps all of those released migrants should demand their own representatives, but with all the support they are receiving from the White House, they hardly need it.
Alternatively, consider this. There were 496 days between January 21, 2021 (the day after the inauguration) and May 31, 2022 (the last reporting day in Texas ). DHS released — on average — 2,115 illegal migrants per day throughout that period.
In a March 2019 interview , Jeh Johnson — who was DHS secretary under the Obama-Biden administration — explained that when he served in that role, he received daily updates on border apprehensions, and viewed fewer than 1,000 apprehensions a day as “a relatively good number, and if it was above 1,000 it was a relatively bad number, and I was gonna be in a bad mood the whole day”.
What would Jeh Johnson do if his department was releasing more than twice that “bad day” number every day? The answer is “something different”, by which I mean a massively revamped border policy or a different job.
Speaking of President Barack Obama, in September he opined:
Immigration is tough. It always has been because, on the one hand, I think we are naturally a people that wants to help others. And we see tragedy and hardship and families that are desperately trying to get here so that their kids are safe, and they're in some cases fleeing violence or catastrophe. ... At the same time, we're a nation state. We have borders. The idea that we can just have open borders is something that ... as a practical matter, is unsustainable.
Those sentiments are no longer the position of the party that the 44th president led for eight years. Or perhaps they are, but his fellow partisans no longer care about being a nation state or about the sustainability of an open-borders policy.
This is madness — financially and legally.
On the financial side, almost of all those migrants are poor (not counting the ones who show up sporting Versace ), with low levels of education and few job skills. They will be a fiscal drain — on states and municipalities, on school systems and hospitals, on local utilities and services — for years, if not decades. You will pay for that, while businesses benefit from the cheap labor.
On the legal side, for how long can the immigration laws of the United States be degraded, disregarded, discarded, and diminished before they aren’t laws at all?
And yet it gets worse.
Got-Aways and Unaccompanied Alien Children. That’s because these official figures exclude two other groups of migrants who proceeded from the Southwest border into the interior of the United States —“got-aways” and unaccompanied alien children (UACs).
Fox News reports that there have been 440,000 such got-aways — aliens who entered illegally and successfully evaded apprehension — thus far in FY 2022, on top of an additional 400,000 in FY 2021.
Although most of those got-aways in FY 2021 likely entered after the Southwest border descended into chaos following the inauguration, I will give the current president the benefit of the doubt and only hold him responsible for two-thirds of the got-aways last fiscal year, or 266,667 aliens. That brings Biden’s got-away total to 706,667.
Turning to the UACs, starting on February 1, 2021, and through the end of May, CBP encountered 227,075 of them at the Southwest border.
Under a seriously flawed (and poorly thought out) 2008 law , DHS must release every UAC from a “non-contiguous country” (that is every nation other than Canada and Mexico) to the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) at HHS, nearly all for placement with a “sponsor” (usually the UAC’s own parent or a close relative, most here illegally) in the United States.
Of those 227,075 UACs encountered by CBP at the Southwest border under the Biden administration, 190,053 are nationals of non-contiguous countries.
If all those 190,053 UACs were placed into one school district, it would be the nation’s tenth largest, ahead of the current number 10 , the Hawaii Department of Education (which runs the schools in former President Obama’s former home state), in enrollment by more than 10,000 students.
Grand Total and Their Environmental Impact. Adding the 706,667 got-aways to the 190,053 UACs and to the 1,049,532 migrants that DHS has released, a grand total of 1,946,252 aliens have crossed over the Southwest border and into the United States under Joe Biden. None of them had visas or other permission to do so — they just came right in, often with DHS or ORR metaphorically holding the door.
That’s a larger population than the 38th largest U.S. state, Nebraska, meaning that it’s more people than live in 13 states and the District of Columbia, and more people than live in America’s fifth largest city, Phoenix, Ariz.
The Center for Sustainable Systems at the University of Michigan reports that the United States — which has less than 5 percent of the world’s population — consumes 16 percent of the world’s energy, and that in 2019, each person in this country emitted 20 metric tons of the greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide. Those new migrants, consequently, will account for 38,925,040 metric tons of CO2 annually.
By comparison, the average person in Mexico emitted 3.58 tons of carbon dioxide (in 2016 ); in Guatemala, 1.12 tons (also in 2016 ); in El Salvador, 1.08 tons (2016 ); and in Honduras, 1.01 tons (2016 ).
That makes sense — the United States is a large country, many people cannot walk to work, stores, or school, and there is a lot of industry here (the United States also accounts for 15 percent of the world’s GDP). When any foreign national moves to this country, his or her carbon footprint is going to get a whole lot larger, by a factor of anywhere between six and 10.
If you are concerned about the effects of climate change on the environment, the arrival of nearly two million new people in the United States in just 16 months should be a concern — particularly given that those new arrivals are on top of all the immigrants and nonimmigrants who came here legally.
Nothing’s Going to Change Anytime Soon. Not to be a downer, but none of this is going to change anytime soon. You should be prepared for longer commutes, larger class sizes, more extended waits in your local emergency room, higher state and local taxes, even more inflated housing costs, and an ever-increasing amount of CO2 . President Biden’s not going to change his border policies, unless and until the courts or the electorate force him to.
THERE IS NO GREATER DANGER TO AMERICA THAN THE DEMOCRAT PARTY AND THEIR LYING GAMER LAWYER-POLITICIANS
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Chris Hedges | NAFTA, Clinton, and Obama BETRAYED Americans... and Joe Biden was right there with the worst of them!
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Biden defended the wealthy in his speech to the donors but begged them to be aware of wealth inequality
Joe Biden’s Border Policy Attracts World’s Migrants
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The rising share of global migrants arriving at the southern U.S. border has prompted pro-migration advocates to fund a mosque in Tijuana, Mexico.
The San Diego Union-Tribune reported on June 16:
The two-story shelter is in Tijuana’s Zona Norte close to the U.S.-Mexico border. The 8,000-square-foot facility has the capacity to serve up to 150 people arriving at the border seeking asylum. Some might stay in Mexico, but most are looking to enter the United States. It currently houses 30 people.
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The investment was almost half a million dollars, raised from community donations, [Sonia] GarcÃa said. The shelter is home to migrants from Kenya, Ghana, Russia and Afghanistan, among others.
“We are safe here,” said Ilyas Salarzai, 22, from Afghanistan. “The Latina Muslim Foundation has been very good.” Salarzai is currently waiting for certain documents as part of his immigration process.
The mosque will have plenty of customers. In May, more than 2,000 single adult migrants from Muslim-majority countries were registered at the U.s. border with Mexico.
Almost half the migrants who arrived at the border in May were from countries that had sent few migrants until President Joe Biden pushed the door open in January 2021. “Unlike every one of his predecessors, Biden isn’t attempting to deter illegal entrants — he is instead inviting asylum applications from any foreign national who can make it here,” Mark Krikorian, the director of the Center for Immigration Studies, tweeted on June 17.
During the month, officials registered 239,416 migrants arriving at the border. Only 106,999 were rejected under the Title 42 anti-disease barrier because of exceptions created by homeland security Alejandro Mayorkas.
Immigrants from India wait to board a U.S. Border Patrol bus to be taken for processing after crossing the border from Mexico on May 22, 2022 in Yuma, Arizona. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)
That left 138,717 migrants who were registered. Nearly all of the economic migrants were approved for release under various quasi-legal excuses, such as the nation’s much-abused asylum rules.
The to-be-released group included 14,696 “Unaccompanied Alein Children,” some of whom are children being delivered to illegal-migrant parents, but most of whom are youths looking for jobs.
Once released, the migrants take jobs, if only because they need to pay the labor-trafficking debts to Mexican cartels and other smuggling gangs.
The flood of extra labor helps to cut Americans’ wages , drive up Americans’ rents, and to consume services and goods — such as used autos — that are also needed by Americans.
The largest inflow came from countries in the Caribbean and South America — Venezuela (3,410), Haiti (3,110), Cuba (19,975), Brazil (1,266), and Nicaragua (15,512). Those inflows are rising, largely because prior migrants from those countries used their cellphones to show their home-country peers how Biden’s administration had released them into the U.S. job market.
In May, the global arrivals were fewer than the pan-American arrivals. But each released migrant will likely start a new chain of migrants from the often-huge populations in their home countries.
The global inflow included 185 people from Armenia, 28 from Kyrgystan, 983 from Russia, 106 from Ukraine, 69 from Angola, 95 from Bangladesh, 118 from Cameroon, 179 from China, 849, from Georgia in the Caucasus mountains, 1,907 from India, 52 people from Nigeria, 147 people from Romania in southern Europe, 104 people from Somalia, 172 people from Senegal, and 1,770 people from Turkey.
Biden’s deputies choose to exempt nearly all of the global migrants from the Title 42 border-barrier rule. For example, none of the 1,770 Turks or the 172 Senegalese, and just one of the 104 people from Somalia, were turned back at the border. Nearly all of the people rejected by the Title 42 rules are from Mexico, Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala:
The May inflow of 138,717 men, women, youths, and children is just part of the overall inflow.
For example, leaks from border officials suggest that another 55,000 migrants sneak across the border each month. Nearly all of these so-called “got-aways” are men seeking jobs. That month;y inflow has put roughly 440,o00 extra migrants into the US labor market since October 1.
In addition, officials at the Department of State are awarding many work visas to foreigners, including many Filipino nurses :
The routine inflow of legal immigrants delivers roughly 1 million new legal migrants each year.
Federal agencies also invite roughly 1 million foreign temporary workers. Many additional foreign workers arrive as tourists but take jobs, and many others overstay their visas and stay illegally in jobs.
The quasi-legal inflow of migrants — plus the inflow of got-aways — across the Mexican borders will is on track to exceed 1 million during the year.
All told, the inflow of migrants and workers in 2022 is likely to hit three million workers –or roughly 3 foreign workers for every four Americans who turn 18.
The huge inflow of legal, quasi-legal, and illegal migrants is intended to cut Americans’ wages and drive up their rents.
Extraction Migration
Since at least 1990, the D.C. establishment has extracted tens of millions of migrants and visa workers from poor countries to serve as legal or illegal workers, temporary workers, consumers, and renters for various U.S. investors and CEOs .
This 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’ big coastal states and the Republicans’ heartland and southern states.
An economy built on extraction migration also alienates young people and radicalizes Americans’ democratic, equality-promoting civic culture because it allows wealthy elites to ignore despairing Americans at the bottom of society.
The extraction migration economic policy is hidden behind a wide variety of noble-sounding excuses and explanations. For example, progressives claim that the U.S. is a “Nation of Immigrants ,” that Americans have a duty to accept foreign refugees, and that the state must renew itself by replacing populations.
But the colonialism-like economic strategy also kills many migrants, exploits poor people, and splits foreign families as it extracts human-resource wealth from the poor home countries. The migration policy also minimizes shareholder pressure on companies to build up complementary trade with poor countries.
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The economic policy is backed by progressives who wish to transform the U.S. from a society governed by European-origin civic culture into a progressive-directed empire of competitive, resentful identity groups.
“We’re trying to become the first multiracial, multi-ethnic superpower in the world,” Rep. Rohit Khanna (D-CA) told the New York Times on March 21. “It will be an extraordinary achievement … we will ultimately triumph,” he boasted.
Not surprisingly, the wealth-shifting extraction migration policy is very unpopular , according to a wide variety of polls . These polls show deep and broad public opposition to labor migration and the inflow of foreign contract workers into careers sought by young U.S. graduates.
1800 Migrants Apprehended in West Texas Border Sector in Single Day Randy Clark/Breitbart Texas 2:55
Officials report that Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended nearly 1,800 migrants in a 48-hour period ending Saturday afternoon. The apprehensions made the sector the busiest in the nation on that day.
Del Rio Sector Chief Patrol Agent Jason D. Owens tweeted photos of agents apprehending large groups of migrants on Saturday, June 18. At the time he tweeted, Del Rio agents had apprehended 1,780 migrants — many in large migrant groups of up to 400.
“The Del Rio Sector accounts for nearly 50% of all large groups apprehended by the US Border Patrol,” Chief Owens said in the tweet.
Human smugglers utilize large groups of migrants to tie up Border Patrol agents and resources in a given area. While large groups are defined as 100 or more migrants crossing in a single incident, Del Rio Sector agents are seeing groups as large as 400 illegally crossing from Mexico into Texas.
From Midnight until about 8 p.m. on Saturday, Del Rio Sector agents apprehended more than 1,100 migrants making it the single busiest sector for that day.
One of the groups, apprehended near Normandy, Texas, approached 500 migrants in size.
In May, Del Rio Sector agents apprehended 44,388 or the 222,656 migrants taken into custody along the southwest border with Mexico, according to the Southwest Land Border Encounters report released last week.
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 .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.
Numbers of Unaccompanied Migrant Children Rising at U.S.-Mexico Border U.S. Border Patrol/Rio Grande Valley Sector 3:10
Biden administration officials report a concerning increase in the number of unaccompanied migrant children being apprehended after crossing the southwest border with Mexico. Border Patrol agents apprehended more than 14,000 unaccompanied minors in May. The numbers continue to rise in June.
Border Patrol agents working the southwest border with Mexico apprehended 14,442 unaccompanied migrant children during the month of May, according to a recently released Southwest Land Border Migration Report. This represents an increase of nearly 22 percent over the previous month and the largest month since July 2021.
Reports from the Departments of Homeland Security and Health and Human Services reviewed by Breitbart Texas show the numbers are continuing to increase in June. On June 16, Border Patrol agents apprehended nearly 500 unaccompanied migrant children bringing the 30-day running average to 407 per day. The number of children held in HHS custody stands at 10,167.
After peaking in July 2021 at 18,954, the number of unaccompanied children apprehended at the border fell to 8,751 in January. By March, the number jumped back up to 14,138 and nearly hit 15,000 in May.
From October 1, 2021, to May 31, 2022, Border Patrol agents apprehended 98,654 unaccompanied children. This is a jump of nearly 26 percent over the same period in FY21.
A dramatic shift in migrant demographics took place in January 2021 when President Joe Biden took office and changed many of the immigration and border security policies of the Trump administration. In December 2020, President Trump’s last full month in office, agents apprehended less than 5,000 migrant children traveling without a parent or guardian. By February 28, President Biden’s first full month in office, that number jumped to more than 9,400. It doubled the next month to nearly 19,000.
Since February 2021, the Biden administration reported the apprehension of more than 220,000 unaccompanied children — an average of nearly 14,000 per month.
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 .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.
The policy would spike Wall Street and Fortune 500 profits by giving them floods of cheap foreign workers plus many new foreign consumers. NEIL MUNRO
With Biden in office, America’s southern border has vanished entirely.
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2022/06/is-joe-bidens-open-borders-destroying.html
So, while we in America are getting a fair number of sex traffickers; mountains of fentanyl; low skilled, illegal workers who drive down wages; and more welfare mouths to feed, the Latin Americans who come here mostly want to work and mostly hew to traditional western, Christian values. ANDREA WIDBURG
Ten Years Later: Over 53K Illegal Aliens Given DACA Despite Arrest Records Including for Murder, Rape, Kidnapping ASO/KCJ/GCSO/WCSO/SCJ
Ten years ago, in 2012, former President Barack Obama created the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program via executive order that has allowed nearly 800,000 illegal aliens to evade arrest and deportation.
New Amnesty Argument to Voters: Migrants’ Kids Do Better than Your Kids Jack Guez/Getty Images 17:04
Americans should welcome many more migrants because the migrants’ children will be more successful than the Americans’ children, says the advocates for a new pro-migration, pro-amnesty political campaign.
“No matter which country their parents came from, children of immigrants are more likely than the children of the U.S.-born to surpass their parents’ incomes when they are adults,” two economic historians say in a June 1 article for Time.com.
Foreign children have greater economic success because arriving migrants tend to arrive in the U.S. coastal cities where U.S. investors create new jobs and economic opportunities, said Leah Boustan at Princeton and Ran Abramitzky at Stanford. The two economic historians have authored a new book, “Streets of Gold: America’s Untold Story of Immigrant Success, ” which is now being heavily promoted by pro-migration lobbies.
Americans lose out because they are less likely to leave the civic wealth of their communities, they write:
Many of the children of U.S.-born parents grow up in areas where their families settled long before, so economic mobility for them is often coupled with the costs of leaving home … In other words, U.S.-born families are more rooted in place, while immigrant families are more footloose—and this willingness to move toward opportunity seems to make all the difference.
“Their desire to give more people in other countries the opportunity to live in the United States may be laudable, but they seem to have an appalling lack of concern for their fellow Americans,” said Steven Camarota, the research director at the Center for Immigration Studies.
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’ big coastal states and the Republicans’ heartland and southern states.
An economy built on extraction migration also alienates young people and radicalizes Americans’ democratic, equality-promoting civic culture because it allows wealthy elites to ignore despairing Americans at the bottom of society.
The extraction migration economic policy is hidden behind a wide variety of noble-sounding excuses and explanations. For example, progressives claim that the U.S. is a “Nation of Immigrants ,” that Americans have a duty to accept foreign refugees, and that the state must renew itself by replacing populations.
But the colonialism-like economic strategy also kills many migrants, exploits poor people, and splits foreign families as it extracts human-resource wealth from the poor home countries. The migration policy also minimizes shareholder pressure on companies to build up complementary trade with poor countries.
The economic policy is backed by progressives who wish to transform the U.S. from a society governed by European-origin civic culture into a progressive-directed empire of competitive, resentful identity groups. “We’re trying to become the first multiracial, multi-ethnic superpower in the world,” Rep. Rohit Khanna (D-CA) told the New York Times on March 21. “It will be an extraordinary achievement … we will ultimately triumph,” he boasted.
Not surprisingly, the wealth-shifting extraction migration policy is very unpopular , according to a wide variety of polls . These polls show deep and broad public opposition to labor migration and the inflow of foreign contract workers into careers sought by young U.S. graduates.
They “consistently understate the fact that immigration crowds out other Americans from moving to these high-employment, high-wage growth cities,” noted Jason Richwine, a Harvard Ph.D. who now works at the Center for Immigration Studies.
In prior studies from 2017 to 2021 , the two authors admitted that Congress’s decision to block migration from 1924 to the 1970s was a huge benefit for many Americans. The cut-off allowed poor Americans to quit their dangerous coal mining jobs for factory jobs, and to migrate from the southern cotton economy to jobs in California and the North, and it also forced farmers to mechanize many jobs once performed by manual labor.
But Congress restarted immigration in 1965 and then doubled the inflow in 1990, and it effectively replaced American migrants with international migrants. “By most measures, internal migration in the United States is at a 30-year low,” said a 2011 academic study , titled “Internal Migration in the United States.”
The inflow of immigrant labor also reduces pressure on investors to move their job-creating investments outside the coastal, high-growth cities, Richwine added. “They don’t have to worry about finding the labor in America … where there are a lot of people looking for work.”
That migration-caused diversion of wealth-creating investment is increasingly being recognized by Midwest politicians, including Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Sen. Todd Young (R-IN), and Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN).
The two authors’ message is being pushed out via a variety of favorable book reviews , soft-touch interviews , and friendly media mentions — plus education curricula — because they are the faces of a new elite-backed campaign to extract more valuable consumers, workers, and renters from poor countries.
The claim that migrants do better than Americans is a key pitch in the campaign. “Just as in the past, immigrants often double their income — or more — by moving to the U.S. from their home country,” Boustan said at a June 7 presentation at the investor-funded American Enterprise Institute, adding:
Children of immigrants that grow up close to the bottom of the income distributionc– so, think about the 25th percentile, for example — are more likely to reach the middle class that children of similar [income] U.S-born households.
Source: Leah Boustany, Ran Abamitzky in “Street of Gold.”
The internationalist-minded authors laud the immigration of skilled immigrants — but also minimize any obligation to curb the inflow of unskilled migrants who compete with millions of low-income Americans, despite historically low wages and work participation rates. Instead, they favor the inflow of more unskilled foreign workers to substitute for the rising number of discarded Americans who can do the blue-collar jobs.
Boustan said on June 7:
Well, one thing is clear to us: Our immigration system does not need to pre-select immigrants based on their wealth or their level of Education. We do not need to move to a Canadian-style point system. Rather, if we’re willing to plan with the future in mind and take a long view, we can continue to accept immigrants from poor countries who can do any of the jobs that need [to be done in] agriculture and in services, with the confidence of the American economy will allow their children to thrive.
That claim is very different from her 2021 paper, where she argued to fellow academics there is a “growing consensus that … immigrants can be readily replaced with [wage-boosting] mechanization or automation.”
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Her new 2022 book is also a turnaround from her coverage of black migration in an unpublicized 2017 book that was formally endorsed by the association of university economists, the National Bureau of Economic Research .
The two authors say little about how migration policy can be reformed to boost productivity by American white-collar , blue-collar , or agriculture workers . That disregard complements their corporate allies’ eagerness to grow the U.S. consumer economy by extracting more workers, more consumers , and more renters from poor countries.
In many campaign events, Boustany and Abramitzky seem unconcerned with the expanding economic disaster facing many millions of alienated, sidelined, ordinary Americans. For example, in their Time.com article, they wrote:
In April 2020, the New York Times ran a special feature called “I Am the Portrait of Downward Mobility .” “It used to be a given that each American generation would do better than the last,” the piece began, “but social mobility has been slowing over time.”
In paging through the profiles, we couldn’t help noticing one group of Americans who defies this trend: the children of immigrants …
In contrast, the New York Times article made the effort to describe Americans who are losing out after the federal government doubled immigration rates in 1990 — and created a multi-decade bubble of cheap labor — at the request of investors and progressives
“My financial situation is vastly worse than that of my parents, who were 40 when I was born,” Lauren Bruce, of Madison, Wis., told the New York Times. “They always owned houses and had new cars, never worried about seeing a doctor, benefited from solid pensions and preached that college was the secret to their success … There was a ladder. I’m not sure that ladder exists any more.”
“My parents, a mechanic and a waitress in rural Alabama, were able to purchase a home and land and save money for the future,” said Melissa Haddock, an administrator in Florence, Ala. “I live week to week and rent.”
“Since the late 1990s, mortality rates for middle-aged (45–55), White non-Hispanic (WNH) Americans began to rise while rates declined for all other demographic and age groups,” according to a 2021 study at the National Library of Medicine. “Research suggests these causes of death (i.e., suicide, poisoning, alcohol-related liver disease) are driving the overall mortality rate for middle-aged WNHs and have been described as “deaths of despair” in the literature,” said the study, continuing:
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If we’re making immigration policy from the perspective of what is best for Americans, we have to want a system where employers are incentivized — and also politicians are incentivized — to get low-skilled Americans back to work,” responded Richwine. The policy should also encourage troubled Americans “get their social problems straightened out to the best extent that we can, to make them productive people.
But if employers and legislators can import immigrants to solve their problems, they need not care about troubled Americans, Richwine added:
We want all Americans to have some kind of important role in our society and in our economy so that we have to care about them. It’s nice to be able to say we care just out of the goodness of our heart, but the reality is that when low-skilled Americans become important cogs, then we’re going to naturally care a lot more about the fact that maybe they’re too dependent on welfare or maybe they need to kick that drug habit … There’s no incentive right now to do those things as long as there’s this steady flow of foreign labor.
At the June 7 AEI event, Breitbart News asked Boustan if she would favor some form of compensation for the Americans who will be harmed by future migration into high-opportunity cities. She ignored the conclusions of her 2017 book and dodged the question, saying:
There isn’t really a lot of strong evidence that immigrants who are coming into the U.S. today are displacing U.S. workers … I don’t think there’s strong evidence that immigrants are taking jobs or lowering wages for U.S. foreign workers, even lower-skilled U.S. foreign workers, some of whom are black.
Goldman Sachs, President Joe Biden’s economic advisors , and many other employers disagree with her claim that migrants do not lower Americans’ wages.
Stan Veuger , the AEI manager who organized the event, dismissed the question of compensation for the government’s migration policy:
I don’t think the way we usually run things is that if there is a public policy change or some development in the economy, that the federal government goes out and hands out checks to everyone who may or may not have had last out. I don’t think that’s how democratic capitalism typically works, but I understand the impulse. It’s obviously how other countries have organized themselves, especially until 1989 [when the Berlin Wall was removed].
Under current laws, the federal government compensates people injured by mandated vaccinations, it provides retraining funds to people who lose jobs via free trade, and it compensates people who lose property when government builds roads. Those programs reflect the long-standing view that citizenship is built on a set of reciprocal benefits and obligations between the government and the citizens.
The view is deemed obsolete by the many progressive and business groups who want to treat Americans as replaceable economic cogs, rather than as Americans with moral and legal rights.
Investors Ally With Progressives
Boustan’s book is the spearhead of a PR campaign to break what she said is a political logjam. “Immigration has been stuck in a holding pattern,” she lamented on June 7:
There was a real holding out of hope that the Senate and the House would pass a pathway to citizenship in exchange for more intensive efforts on the border. And that did not pass in 2013, and that’s the last that we’ve heard of an attempt at comprehensive immigration reform.
But that political impasse between elites and populists can be broken by the political alliance of globalist-minded Wall Street investors and her anti-nationalist progressive sector, according to Boustan:
Here I am at AEI, and I’ve heard from many conservatives saying “America works! Anyone can make it here! That’s the message of your research.” But I’ve also heard from many progressives who saw in our research a hopeful message that a diverse set of immigrant groups can contribute to our society.
The same pro-migration, cheap labor, workforce replacement campaign is backed by many state-level business leaders and local gentry elites in GOP-leaning heartland states.
“We need immigrants,” claimed Robert Leonard, a radio host in Iowa. “Every rural manufacturing leader I have spoken with, regardless of party affiliation … know immigrants can help solve their labor problems,” said Leonard, who lives near a factory that is selling robot cow-milking machines to the dairy farmers who complain about labor shortages.
Like many other comfortable liberals, Boustan uses one crude term — “conservatives” — to hide the Politics 101 distinctions between business interests and mainstream public concerns.
Boustan’s ambitious campaign would combine the globalist, state business, and internationalist loobies to deliver more diverse migrants into the cities, jobs, and communities that would otherwise be filled by more influential and better-paid Americans and their children:
Politicians have shifted the conversation on immigration. In fact, such a shift took place in a single generation right after World War Two, with efforts by President [Harry] Truman and then Presidents [John] Kennedy and [Lyndon] Johnson to redefine America as “A Nation of Immigrants.” I take that sentiment for granted, that phrase “A Nation of Immigrants.” It was an idea that was offered here in Washington and then spread to the public and led to the border being reopened in 1965.
So we believe that a politician who takes this message seriously will succeed– a politician who is strong and emphasizing America as a nation of immigrants, rather than [being] defensive about this supposed perpetual crisis at the border.
And here’s the message: “That immigrants contribute to our economy through science, innovation and vital services, that the children of immigrants from nearly every poor country can move up to the middle class, that immigrants are just as keen to become Americans now as they were in the past, and that America is a country that embraces diversity and lets in new ideas.”
A positive and optimistic message about immigration is broadly popular, and might even be a political winner if it is embraced proudly. We believe that we can reclaim the legacy of America’s “Streets of Gold.”
In her AEI event, Boustan did not acknowledge that President Donald Trump offered Americans an optimistic message about migration fights to win the White House in 2016. Trump’s America-first policy deflated the post-1990 cheap-labor bubble and raised employment and wages for many working-class Americans — even though it was partially blocked by pro-business groups in D.C. and allied appointees in his administration.
Extraction Migration
Since at least 1990, the D.C. establishment has extracted tens of millions of migrants and visa workers from poor countries to serve as legal or illegal workers, temporary workers, consumers, and renters for various U.S. investors and CEOs .
This economic strategy of Extraction Migration has no stopping point. It is brutal to ordinary Americans because it cuts
THE DEMOCRAT PARTY'S ASSAULT ON AMERICA'S BORDERS AND AMERICAN BORN WORKERS DEPRESSES WAGES NEARLY A HALF TRILLION DOLLARS YEARLY!
Chamber of Commerce: Obama’s DACA Illegal Aliens Are ‘the American Dream’ Drew Angerer/PHILIP DAVALI/Ritzau Scanpix/AFP via Getty Images 2:56
The United States Chamber of Commerce is celebrating former President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program on its 10th anniversary, calling enrolled illegal aliens the embodiment of “the American dream.”
This week, President Joe Biden’s administration marked the 10th anniversary of Obama’s DACA program that has helped nearly 800,000 illegal aliens evade arrest and deportation from the U.S.
Neil Bradley with the Chamber of Commerce marked the anniversary of DACA by calling on Republicans to work with Democrats to pass amnesty for the millions of illegal aliens enrolled and eligible for the program.
“It is outrageous and unacceptable that after a decade of debate, Republicans and Democrats in Congress have not been able to come together and enact legislation to protect the hundreds of thousands of Dreamers,” Bradley wrote in a statement:
Brought here as children, the vast majority of these young men and women know no other home than the U.S. They have been educated here and they contribute to their communities and the businesses where they work. Some have even started their own business where they employ other Americans. That is the American Dream . [Emphasis added]
Because of Congress’s inaction, our neighbors, coworkers, and friends who happen to be Dreamers face tremendous uncertainty about whether they will be allowed to remain our neighbors and coworkers. Providing these individuals with permanent legal status is not just good for our communities and the economy, it is the right thing to do . [Emphasis added]
For months, the Chamber has been lobbying Republicans in Washington, D.C. to advance amnesty for illegal aliens and double legal immigration levels to bring in more than two million foreign nationals a year on green cards and visas.
Despite their mass immigration advocacy, a number of elected Republicans continue accepting donations from the Chamber’s political action committee (PAC), including Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Todd Young (R-IN), John Thune (R-SD), Mike Lee (R-UT), Jerry Moran (R-KS), Vernon Buchanan (R-FL), Peter Meijer (R-MI), Don Bacon (R-NE), Dan Crenshaw (R-TX), Ashley Hinson (R-IA), Maria Salazar (R-FL), Nancy Mace (R-SC), Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), and Elise Stefanik (R-NY), among others.
As Breitbart News reported, from 2012 to 2018, more than 53,000 illegal aliens were awarded DACA despite having prior arrest records including for crimes like murder, kidnapping, rape, child pornography, and sex crimes.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here .
Ten Years Later: Over 53K Illegal Aliens Given DACA Despite Arrest Records Including for Murder, Rape, Kidnapping ASO/KCJ/GCSO/WCSO/SCJ
Ten years ago, in 2012, former President Barack Obama created the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program via executive order that has allowed nearly 800,000 illegal aliens to evade arrest and deportation.
Standards for the Obama program were set so low that tens of thousands of illegal aliens with prior arrest records for crimes like murder, rape, and kidnapping were able to secure DACA status.
In 2018, then-President Trump’s administration released comprehensive data on DACA, previously hidden by the Obama administration, that revealed the extent to which the program had successfully helped shield criminal illegal aliens from arrest and deportation by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency.
From 2012 to 2018, about 53,792 illegal aliens were awarded DACA despite having prior arrest records. Meanwhile, nearly 8,000 illegal aliens awarded DACA were later arrested for crimes, the data shows.
For instance, thousands of illegal aliens were given DACA status despite arrests for drug crimes, assault, burglary, gun crimes, money laundering, hit-and-run, sexual abuse, child pornography, and robbery, among others.
More than 30 illegal aliens were given DACA status despite having previously been arrested for rape. Ten illegal aliens, likewise, were awarded DACA after having been arrested for murder and 95 illegal aliens after having been arrested for kidnapping.
The full list of prior arrests for illegal aliens given DACA status can be viewed here:
United States Citizenship and Immigration Services
As Breitbart News has chronicled for years, thousands of DACA illegal aliens have gone on to commit crimes against Americans.
In 2019, for example, 23-year-old illegal alien Jesus Manzanilla Alvarado was given just six months in prison after having been convicted of repeatedly sexually assaulting a 68-year-old hospital patient who was suffering from anxiety and depression in St. Cloud, Minnesota.
Alvarado had been awarded DACA years prior, ICE officials confirmed at the time, and had multiple run-ins with the law. DACA allowed him to secure a job and remain in the U.S.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here .
With Biden in office, America’s southern border has vanished entirely.
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2022/06/is-joe-bidens-open-borders-destroying.html
So, while we in America are getting a fair number of sex traffickers; mountains of fentanyl; low skilled, illegal workers who drive down wages; and more welfare mouths to feed, the Latin Americans who come here mostly want to work and mostly hew to traditional western, Christian values. ANDREA WIDBURG
EXCLUSIVE: Biden DHS Instructs Border Patrol Agents to Not Apprehend Migrants on Walls, in Rio Grande File Photo: Randy Clark/Breitbart Texas 4:07
A new Border Patrol enforcement policy has been disseminated to agents warning them not to enforce immigration laws or attempt to arrest migrants near waterways, walls, canals, or other barriers. According to a CBP source, the policy most likely foreshadows pending administrative disciplinary charges against members of the agency’s Horse Patrol Unit lodged during the Haitian migrant crisis in Del Rio.
The source, speaking on the condition of anonymity, says the document also warns against repatriating migrants without due process by encouraging them to return to Mexico. The memorandum from Tony L. Barker, Acting Chief of the Border Patrol’s Law Enforcement Directorate, was disseminated on Friday.
Specifically, the document advises agents to follow the instructions given when apprehending migrants at or near the immediate border area:
When encountering individuals in dangerous environments, Border Patrol Agents (BPAs) should take extra law enforcement safety precautions. Whatever the situation encountered, such as a river, canal, or other waterway; the border fence, wall, or other barriers keep the following general guidance in mind:
If individuals are “staging” along the United States international border, BPAs may use deterrence measures, give instructions not to cross, and/or contact foreign government partners for assistance.
For everyone’s safety, it is recommended that BPAs do not attempt to apprehend or arrest anyone in a waterway, on the border fence or any other dangerous barrier. Arrests should be mad in an area where it is safe, such as once the migrant makes landfall or come down from the fence.
BPA’s will not forcibly guide individual(s) back into waterways or other unsafe environments.
BPAs will not forcibly remove anyone from the United States at the border. Migrants must be inspected and processed for appropriate dispositions.
A presentation designed to educate Border Patrol agents on the new enforcement policy accompanied the memorandum. The source says the document will likely encourage agents to refrain from any enforcement activities near the immediate border.
The source says the sudden dissemination of the new instructions is likely a foreshadowing of administrative disciplinary charges for the mounted agents involved in the Haitian migrant crisis in Del Rio last fall. In all likelihood, the Horse Patrol agents in question will be accused of endangering the migrants close to the river, alleging that they were attempting to force them back without due process, the source explained to Breitbart Texas.
Four Horse Patrol Unit Border Patrol agents have been assigned to administrative duties since the allegations were lodged against them by DHS Secretary Mayorkas. The allegations stem from a highly publicized incident on September 19, 2021, near a makeshift outdoor encampment holding roughly 15,000 mostly Haitian migrants . Video and photographs taken by freelance journalist Paul Ratje were widely circulated and sparked initial claims that agents were “whipping” migrants.
Further examination led many to concede the images showed Border Patrol agents using long reins to control the horses. The photographer who captured the incident also denied witnessing the agents making any whipping actions at the migrants.
In December 2021, the agents were cleared of criminal wrongdoing .
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.
Editor’s note: The original headline was updated to reflect that arrests are instructed to occur off of border barriers or once a migrant crosses the Rio Grande and onto U.S. soil.
THIS IS THE FUKER WHO PROMISED AMNESTY TO THE CARTELS!
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