THE DOCTRINE OF THE N.A.F.T.A. GLOBALIST DEMOCRATS IS TO SERVE THE BILLIONAIRE CLASS WITH ENDLESS WAVES OF INVADING 'CHEAP' LABOR SUBSIDIZED WITH WELFARE FUNDED BY TAXES ON MIDDLE AMERICA.
In many speeches, Mayorkas says he is building a mass migration system to deliver workers to wealthy employers and investors and “equity” to poor foreigners. The nation’s border laws are subordinate to elites’ opinion about “the values of our country,” Mayorkas claims.
Florida Pulls $2 Billion From BlackRock in Largest Anti-ESG Divestment
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R.) / Getty ImagesReuters • December 1, 2022 12:15 pm
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By Ross Kerber
(Reuters)—Florida's Chief Financial Officer said on Thursday his department would pull $2 billion worth of its assets managed by BlackRock Inc, the biggest such divestment by a state opposed to the asset manager's environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) policies.
While the move will hardly dent BlackRock's $8 trillion in assets, it underscores how the backlash among many Republican politicians, such as those in Florida, against ESG investing, which they see as promoting a "woke agenda," is gathering steam.
Republicans are set to assume control of the House of Representatives in January. This will allow them to hold hearings on ESG and grill the chief executives of BlackRock and other major assets managers about their ESG policies, and also pressure regulators to scrutinize them.
In a statement, Florida CFO Jimmy Patronis said the state's Treasury, which he oversees, would remove BlackRock as manager of about $600 million of short-term investments and have its custodian freeze $1.43 billion of long-term securities now with BlackRock, with an eye on reallocating the money to other money managers by the start of 2023.
Patronis accused BlackRock of focusing on ESG rather than higher returns for investors.
"Florida's Treasury Division is divesting from BlackRock because they have openly stated they've got other goals than producing returns," Patronis said in the statement provided by his office.
A BlackRock representative did not immediately comment.
While BlackRock has encouraged portfolio companies to take steps like disclosing more data about their carbon emissions or to add more diverse board members, it has said its efforts are aimed at improving company performance and resisted calls for steps like divesting from oil companies. U.S. Democratic officials have argued BlackRock doesn't press ESG concerns enough.
So far, only Republican-controlled states have made major reallocations away from BlackRock, including $794 million pulled by Louisiana's treasurer and $500 million by Missouri's treasurer, both in October.
Earlier this week, Republican attorneys general from various states asked a federal regulator to limit Vanguard Group Inc's activities over ESG concerns, and asked United Parcel Service Inc and FedEx Corp to clarify their policies on tracking firearms shipments.
(Reporting by Ross Kerber in New York; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)
Florida Pulls $2 Billion from BlackRock in Largest Anti-ESG Divestment
Florida Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis announced on Thursday that the state would start to pull $2 billion in assets away from BlackRock due to the state’s opposition to the company’s major push into Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) policies.
The CFO’s $2 billion divestment is the most significant anti-ESG divestment to date, as Republican states have started to take a stand against this type of leftist activism in financial investing.
Patronis explained in a press release that the state’s treasury would “immediately have Florida’s custody bank freeze approximately $1.43 billion worth of long-term securities and remove them as the manager of approximately $600 million worth of short-term overnight investments.”
The billions of dollars in funds are invested through asset managers as part of Florida’s Treasury Investment Pool, according to the press release. However, Patronis noted that the state would be completely divested y from BlackRock’s management and relocated to other fund management entities by the beginning of 2023.
Patronis said in a statement that, as Florida’s chief financial officer, it is his responsibility to get the best return possible for his state’s taxpayers, noting that the “more effective we are in investing dollars to generate a return, the more effective we’ll be in funding priorities like schools, hospitals and roads.”
Acknowledging that the major banking institutions and economists are predicting there will be a recession while the Federal Reserve increases interest rates to combat the inflation crisis, Patronis added, “I need partners within the financial services industry who are as committed to the bottom line as we are – and I don’t trust BlackRock’s ability to deliver.”
Patronis further explained:
BlackRock CEO Larry Fink is on a campaign to change the world. In an open letter to CEOs, he’s championed ‘stakeholder capitalism’ and believes that ‘capitalism has the power to shape society.’ To meet this end, the asset management company has leaned heavily into Environmental, Social, and Governance standards – known as ESG – to help police who should, and who should not gain access to capital.
Whether stakeholder capitalism, or ESG standards, are being pushed by BlackRock for ideological reasons, or to develop social credit ratings, the effect is to avoid dealing with the messiness of democracy. I think it’s undemocratic of major asset managers to use their power to influence societal outcomes. If Larry, or his friends on Wall Street, want to change the world – run for office. Start a non-profit. Donate to the causes you care about.
Using our cash, however, to fund BlackRock’s social-engineering project isn’t something Florida ever signed up for. It’s got nothing to do with maximizing returns and is the opposite of what an asset manager is paid to do. Florida’s Treasury Division is divesting from BlackRock because they have openly stated they’ve got other goals than producing returns. As Larry Fink stated to CEOs ‘[A]ccess to capital is not a right. It is a privilege.’ As Florida’s CFO I agree wholeheartedly, so we’ll be taking Larry up on his offer. There’s no lack of companies who will invest on our behalf, so the Florida Treasury will be taking its business elsewhere.
As the Sunshine State’s CFO touched on in his statement, ESG policies are a form of leftist activism in financial investing that has become the latest vector to influence the way Wall Street financial firms and corporations continue to take social and political positions that do not relate to their business, such as stances associated with climate change, as well as the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) agenda. Wall Street firms, such as BlackRock and others, sell ESG as a way to invest according to specific criteria that the political left pushes on voters and consumers.
Notably, the state’s $2 billion may not significantly impact the asset manager, as BlackRock has $8 trillion in assets. However, it still drew significant criticism from the company, claiming the move was politically motivated.
“We are disturbed by the emerging trend of political initiatives like this that sacrifice access to high-quality investments and thereby jeopardize returns, which will ultimately hurt Florida’s citizens,” BlackRock said in a statement. “Fiduciaries should always value performance over politics.”
In addition to Florida, state treasurers from Republican-controlled states like Louisiana and Missouri reallocated hundreds of millions of dollars away from BlackRock in October.
Border Patrol agents in Robstown, Texas along with local law enforcement authorities discovered 25 pounds of liquid fentanyl hidden in a specialized compartment inside a vehicle’s gas tank. Officials say this quantity of liquid fentanyl is enough to kill a population of 5.665 million people — more than double the population of the city of Houston.
Rio Grande Valley Sector Chief Patrol Agent Gloria Chavez tweeted praise over the efforts of Border Patrol agents and Nueces County Sheriff’s Office deputies in discovering the hidden narcotics. According to Chavez, the street value of the liquid fentanyl is $1.8 million.
Chief Chavez declared the seizure, “the largest amount of liquid fentanyl in the history of the USA” in her tweet. Drug traffickers often convert the liquid fentanyl into powder which is then formed into tablets for easy sale and distribution across the United States. During Fiscal Year 2022, which ended in on September 30, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers seized more than 14,000 pounds of fentanyl in all its forms. Fentanyl seizures have risen nearly 200% from 2020 when 4,800 pounds were seized, according to CBP reports.
The city of Robstown is located just west of Corpus Christi and about 150 miles north of the Texas-Mexico border.
According to a recent Drug Enforcement Public Safety Alert, Fentanyl remains the deadliest drug threat facing the United States. It is a highly addictive synthetic opioid that is 50 times more potent than heroin and 100 times more potent than morphine, officials stated. An amount small enough to fit on the tip of a pencil is considered a potentially deadly dose. According to the DEA alert, The Sinaloa Cartel and Jalisco Cartel in Mexico, using chemicals largely sourced from China, are primarily responsible for most of the fentanyl being trafficked inside the United States.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott recently declared these two cartels to be terrorist organizations due, in large part, to their trafficking of this deadly drug, Breitbart Texas reported. Under the governor’s Operation Lone Star, Texas Department of Public Safety troopers and National Guardsmen seized more than 353 million lethal doses of fentanyl.
According to the CDC, more than 107,000 Americans died of drug poisoning in 2021, with more than half of the deaths involving synthetic opioids like fentanyl. No information was provided concerning suspects arrested in connection to the seizure.
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.
GAMER LAWYER CHUCK SCHUMER KNOWS THERE ARE CLOSE TO 50 MILLION ILLEGALS WHO WOULD JUMP AT THE CHANCE TO BRING UP THE REST OF MEXICO FOR THE NEXT ROUND OF AMNESTY HOAXES MIDDLE AMERICA WILL END UP PAYING FOR!
Last month, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) suggested that an amnesty for the nation’s 11 to 22 million illegal aliens is the “ultimate goal” of Democrats to massively grow the U.S. population by adding tens of millions more foreign-born residents.
Angel Families, Reformers: Congress Must Reject ‘Special Interest’ Amnesty, Immigration Expansion Schemes
A coalition of Angel Families, immigration reformers, national populists, and former Trump officials are urging the lame-duck Congress to reject “special interest” amnesty efforts for illegal aliens and an expansion of legal immigration levels.
In recent weeks, Democrats have urged 10 Senate Republicans to join them in approving the DREAM Act, which would provide green cards and, eventually, naturalized American citizenship to 3.3 million illegal aliens enrolled and eligible for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
Similarly, special interest groups are lobbying Republicans and Democrats to throw support behind an amnesty for at least 2.1 million illegal aliens working on United States farms — a boon for the agricultural lobby.
Likewise, a handful of Republicans and Democrats are hoping to pass a green card giveaway that would massively benefit Fortune 500 tech conglomerates and companies that have spent decades outsourcing American white-collar jobs to foreign visa workers.
Groups like Advocates for Victims of Illegal Alien Crime (AVIAC), the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), NumbersUSA, the Claremont Institute, the Remembrance Project, the Heritage Foundation, and Judicial Watch, among others, are banding together to urge Congress to reject such amnesty and immigration expansion schemes.
“… we are deeply concerned about the immediate danger posed by the lame-duck session of Congress that is now underway,” the letter states:
Even though power is about to change hands in one chamber, various media outlets report there will be attempts to push damaging immigration legislation such as a mass amnesty and increased immigration through Congress over the next few weeks. [Emphasis added]
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We, therefore, ask that you take all actions necessary to stop these efforts. We urge you to show the American people that you stand with them by rejecting special interest legislation and instead taking immediate steps to reverse this crisis and restore law and order to our immigration system. As we set forth in our previous letter, that will require the new Congress to pass a strong border security bill, undertake aggressive oversight, and use purse-string authority to rescind funds that further Biden’s open borders agenda. [Emphasis added]
Do not allow special interests to take advantage of the lame-duck session to pass their bankrupt immigration agenda and throw average Americans under the bus. The American people are, after all, the ultimate stakeholders in our immigration system. They have voiced their will and we urge you to respect it. [Emphasis added]
Former Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials and others also signed the letter, including Chad Wolf, Christopher Landau, Derek Maltz, Gene Hamilton, Joseph Edlow, Ken Cuccinelli, Lamar Smith, Mark Meadows, Mark Morgan, Rodney Scott, Russ Vought, and Thomas Homan.
Separately, officials with Americans for Legal Immigration (ALIPAC) have said they have organized a grassroots effort that has activists calling members of Congress, asking them to oppose any amnesty efforts in the lame-duck session.
“We support the full and comprehensive enforcement of our existing immigration laws as the US Constitution requires, and we call on the majority of Americans who agree to get on the phones to the US Senate to oppose Lame Duck Amnesty 2022 immediately,” ALIPAC’s William Gheen wrote in a statement.
Last month, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) suggested that an amnesty for the nation’s 11 to 22 million illegal aliens is the “ultimate goal” of Democrats to massively grow the U.S. population by adding tens of millions more foreign-born residents.
Such mass immigration plans are supported by the nation’s biggest multinational corporations who see a constant flow of foreign workers and newly arrived consumers as a boon to their profit margins while keeping U.S. wages low and stagnant.
A flooded labor market from mass immigration to the U.S. has had a devastating impact on America’s working and middle class while redistributing wealth to the highest earners and big businesses.
While creating an economy that tilts in favor of employers, the economic model helped keep wages stagnant for decades. Between 1979 and 2013, wage growth for the bottom 90 percent of Americans grew just 15 percent. Meanwhile, wage growth for the top one percent of Americans was nearly 140 percent higher.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
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President Joe Biden’s border agency expects 9,000 to 14,000 economic migrants per day after officials remove the Title 42 legal barrier in late December, says CNN.
The predicted inflow adds up to roughly 4.5 million migrants per year or more than one extra southern migrant for every American birth in the United States.
The southern flow of roughly 4.5 million will add to the annual inflow of roughly 2 million legal immigrants, visa workers, and tourists illegally taking jobs.
The combined inflow would deliver roughly seven million migrants in 2023, or two migrants for each of the 3.6 million Americans born in 2020.
Since 1990, the inflow of migrants has imposed a huge cost on Americans by cutting wages. It is also boosted rents and housing prices, and it has reduced native-born Americans’ clout over elites.
On November 29, the New York Timesdescribed the plight of a poor pregnant woman and her boyfriend in Texas:
When her lawyer asked her why she was seeking an abortion, G said she didn’t think she would make a suitable parent. She had just graduated from high school and was working as a cashier at the H-E-B supermarket chain … He didn’t make enough as a brick mason to move out of his parents’ house, and for a year, G had been crashing with friends. An abortion, she believed, would be “in the best interest of the fetuses.”
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Although G had applied for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, the safety-net program for low-income parents, she was denied because their household income exceeded the $231 monthly threshold.
Immigration has pushed many native-born Americans out of careers in a wide variety of fields and spiked the number of “Deaths of Despair.”
Top Democrats prefer to welcome more migrants than help Americans build families and raise more children. “We have a population that is not reproducing on its own with the same level that it used to,” Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said on November 16.
Now, more than ever, we’re short of workers … The only way we’re going to have a great future in America is if we welcome and embrace immigrants, the dreamers and … all 11 million — or however many undocumented there are here [emphasis added].
Business elites in Schumer’s New York City have long used poor and compliant immigrants to inflate business profits in their housing and service sectors.
Biden’s migration program is being run by the nation’s border chief, Alejandro Mayorkas, who is a Cuban-born, pro-migration zealot. His pro-migration policies are overseen — and sometimes curbed — by election-minded appointees in the White House.
So far, the administration has not proposed any plans to reduce or stop this migrant wave that will do huge damage to ordinary Americans.
Instead, officials are promising to spend billions of additional dollars to register and then quickly transport the economic migrants from the border toward Americans’ workplaces, overpriced housing, and crowded K-12 schools.
However, the government’s welcome for wage-cutting foreign migrants is being portrayed as curbs by pro-establishment media outlets.
DHS officials are pulling from border plans released over the spring to prepare for the end of Title 42, including, for example, considering additional soft-sided facilities to process migrants.
The department is also accelerating asylum processing times, doubling down on anti-smuggling operations, and coordinating with partners in the Western hemisphere, according to the administration official.
Axios reported that officials may try to bar single adults — but do nothing to stop the families or women with children who cannot sneak through the desert:
One proposal would bar … asylum single adults who illegally cross the border and have not first applied for legal pathways offered by the U.S. or protection in other countries they traveled through. They would be placed in the expedited removal process [that allowed them to work in the United States].
In 2022, roughly 600,000 single migrants sneaked across the border while Mayorkas’ ordered border agents to register women and children arriving at the border.
The Axios report also suggested that officials may try to reduce the number of illegal migrants by simply legalizing their entry, despite Congress’ yearly cap of roughly 1 million immigrants:
Actions to expand legal pathways for migrants and asylum seekers and crack down on people who do not enter the U.S. at legal entry points were discussed in detail as recently as a Cabinet-head level meeting on Monday, according to the two sources familiar.
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To incentivize people to apply and enter the U.S. legally, officials are looking at raising the 24,000 person cap on the number of Venezuelans who can be paroled via a new process started last month. The process forces back to Mexico those who instead attempt to cross the border illegally.
The quasi-legalization of illegal migration is already far advanced.
For example, Mayorkas is allowing progressive groups in Mexico to help job-seeking migrants file online legal requests for “immigration parole.” Many of the applications are quickly approved, so allowing the poor migrants to avoid the cartels’ border taxes, and to safely walk into the United States through the official “Ports of Entry.”
The parole doorway was created by Congress to enable the legal entry of a small number of emergency cases, such as a foreign seaman suffering a heart attack. But the useful loophole has been hugely expanded by Mayorkas into a “humanitarian parole” freeway into Americans’ workplaces.
Extraction Migration
Government officials try to grow the economy by raising exports, productivity, and the birth rate. But officials want rapid results, so they also try to expand the economy by extracting millions of migrants from poor countries to serve as extra workers, consumers, and renters.
Extraction Migration slows innovation and shrinks Americans’ productivity. This happens because migration allows employers to boost stock prices by using stoop labor and disposable workers instead of the skilled American professionals and productivity-boosting technology that earlier allowed Americans and their communities to earn more money.
This migration policy also reduces exports because it minimizes shareholder pressure on C-suite executives to take a career risk by trying to grow exports to poor countries.
Migration undermines employees’ workplace rights, and it widens the regional economic gaps between the Democrats’ cheap-labor coastal states and the Republicans’ heartland and southern states.
An economy fueled by Extraction Migration also drains Americans’ political clout over elites and it alienates young people. It radicalizes Americans’ democratic civic culture because it gives a moral excuse for wealthy elites and progressives to ignore despairing Americans at the bottom of society, such as drug addicts.
Progressives hide this Extraction Migration economic policy behind a wide variety of noble-sounding explanations and theatrical border security programs. Progressives claim the U.S. is a “Nation of Immigrants,” that economic migrants are political victims, that migration helps migrants more than Americans, and that the state must renew itself by replacing populations.
But the progressives’ colonialism-like economic strategy kills many migrants on their treks to U.S. jobs. It exploits the poverty of migrants and splits foreign families as it extracts human resources from poor home countries to serve wealthy U.S. investors.
Similarly, establishment Republicans, media businesses, and major GOP donors hide the skew towards investors by ignoring the pocketbook impact and by touting border chaos, welfare spending, migrant crime, and drug smuggling.
Teenage girls are being imported from poor countries for prostitution via President Joe Biden’s easy migration rules, a government employee told Project Veritas.
The teenage girls are imported via the Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) program, which allows easy entry for migrants who claim they are under the age of 18. The young adults, teenagers, and children are given to the Department of Health and Human Services, which then quickly transfers them to the “sponsors” — many of whom are illegals who earlier paid coyotes and cartels to deliver the youths to the border.
Biden’s deputies “have relaxed a lot of the stringent vetting [of sponsors] by creating these additional field guidance [documents] and there’s a focus on ‘Move the children’ [to the sponsors] as opposed to placing children in safe homes,” said the whistleblower, Tara Lee Rodas, a former Department of Health and Human Services manager. “Right now, it is speed over safety — move the children [to sponsors in] 10 to 15 days” she added.
Progressives applaud the program which has delivered 290,000 children and teenagers since January 2021, most of whom are work-ready teenage males.
“We are paying to put children in the hands of criminals,” Rodas said.
“Our sponsors typically are not citizens, they’re not permanent residents, they don’t have legal presence,” she said, adding:
We fly that product directly to the [sponsor/]trafficker. The trafficker then has the ability to labor traffic that child until they’re caught — if they ever are, and God forbid it is sex trafficking … Once the children are gone to the sponsor, there’s nothing that we can do about it.
The legal process also gives sponsors immense control over the children and teenagers, Rodas said:
The sponsor can hold up [a draft] order of deportation to that child and say “This is your order of deportation. If you do not do what I say, when I say, I’m going to call ICE on you myself.”
Veritas’s camera crew spoke to a 16-year-old girl who said she had been used as a prostitute. “She [her sponsor] was pimping me and I didn’t like that,” the girl told Veritas.
The government’s rush to transfer children from the border to their traffickers comes after major media outlets — and Democrats — spent much effort slamming Trump’s deputies for not rushing the kids through the shelter system to the sponsors.
Few, if any, of the liberal reporters who slammed Trump for detaining children ever followed up to see if the kids were being forced to work, or were being used as prostitutes. The pro-migration reporters at Reuters, however, have covered several cases of UAC child labor in the United States.
“The Biden administration is in denial about the consequences of their policies and instead is acting as if this is simply a benign family reunification or a child-protection program,” said Jessica Vaughan, the director of policy studies at the Center for Immigration Studies. “In fact, they are incentivizing and enabling the trafficking of kids,” she told Veritas.
The child trafficking is aided by Biden’s border chief, Alejandro Mayorkas, who is a Cuban-born, pro-migration zealot.
Mayorkas is using his legal authority and budget, plus U.S. diplomatic power, to win control of the migration business from the cartels. That policy is intended to help minimize the public’s recognition of — and opposition to — the federal government’s wealth-shifting economic policy of Extraction Migration. The policy is pulling millions of renters, consumers, and workers from other countries to expand economic growth for investors and Wall Street.
Rodas also exposed government-aided labor trafficking where children were imported for use in the U.S. economy, often in restaurants or by staffing companies.
The teenagers skipped mandatory schooling and instead earned wages to pay their smuggling debts to cartels and their coyotes,
The revelation of government-enabled sex trafficking comes after Biden’s deputies finally acknowledged that teenage boys are being imported for labor in American factories and slaughterhouses. In mid-November, the Department of Labor admitted:
An investigation by the department’s Wage and Hour Division that discovered that [Packer Sanitation Services Inc.] had employed at least 31 [foreign-born] children — from 13 to 17 years of age — in hazardous occupations. The jobs performed by children included cleaning dangerous powered equipment during overnight shifts to fulfill sanitation contracts at [slaughterhouses] in Grand Island, Nebraska and Worthington, Minnesota, and at Turkey Valley Farms in Marshall, Minnesota.
The use of the UAC program for labor trafficking and sex trafficking has been an open secret for several years.
“Honestly, I think almost everyone in the system knows that most of the [migrant] teens are coming to work and send money back home,” Maria Woltjen, executive director and founder of the Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights, told a ProPublica reporter. “They want to help their parents,” she said in a November 2020 article.
Establishment media outlets, including many liberal women who cover the demands and preferences of migrants, do not cover the expanding economy of child labor and debt-bondage migrants.
President Donald Trump reduced UAC child migration to just 20,000 UAC migrants in 2020. The accomplishment was fought tooth and nail by business-backed legal groups and was much criticized by media outlets.
Trump got no credit for minimizing child labor and faced enormous criticism for separating several thousand imported children from their adult parents who were being prosecuted for illegal entry. The parents had brought their children to help them exploit a border loophole that had been created by the ACLU, President Barack Obama’s deputies, and federal Judge Dolly Gee.
Since then, Biden’s border chief has been reimporting migrants who were duly deported by judges during Trump’s administration.
So far, Republicans have made little effort to investigate the UAC labor trafficking or to shame Democrats for their support of child labor and child prostitution.
The Republican’s inaction is likely due to their business donors, who oppose any debate about the pocketbook and economic impacts of legal and illegal migration. Any extra migrants help CEOs to hold down wages, boost rents, and spur retail sales.
The UAC labor-trafficking pipeline was created in 2008 when Congress voted unanimously for thepoorly-drafted William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of2008. Pro-migration lawyers quickly used the loophole to create a massive rush of job-seeking child migrants by 2014.
Breitbart News has extensively followed the Democrat-backed trafficking of teenagers into U.S. workplaces.
Exposed: Biden’s Secret Labor Trafficking Pipeline from Mexico
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President Joe Biden’s border chief is using Mexico-based migrant advocacy groups to smuggle off-the-books economic migrants into Americans’ workplaces and housing.
Border chief Alejandro Mayorkas is allowing the progressive groups in Mexico to help job-seeking migrants file online legal requests for “immigration parole.” Many of the applications are quickly approved, so allowing the poor migrants to avoid the cartels’ border taxes, and to safely walk into the United States through the official “Ports of Entry.”
This process allows economic migrants to take U.S. jobs and housing needed by poor Americans — even though many millions of Americans are poor and have fallen out of the workforce.
The parole doorway was created by Congress to enable the legal entry of a small number of emergency cases, such as a foreign seaman suffering a heart attack. But the useful loophole has been hugely expanded by Mayorkas’ Department of Homeland Security into a “humanitarian parole” freeway into Americans’ workplaces.
Agency data suggests that up to 100,000 southern migrants have been quietly delivered into the United States by Mayorkas, a Cuba-born, pro-migration zealot.
The rising inflow is partly visible on a web page run by Mayorkas’ agency.
The page shows the dramatic rise in migrants registered at the official ports of entry by the Office of Field Operations agency. Many of these migrants appear to be part of the parole pipeline — and the monthly inflow grew fivefold from October 2021 to 26,405 in October 2022.
This increase is especially high in a few locations. In October 2021, for example, just 1,224 migrants crossed at Laredo. In October 2022, the Laredo inflow had increased tenfold to 13,986, according to DHS.
GOP Senators Press Social Media Giants To ‘Take Immediate Steps To Stop Facilitating Illegal Immigration’
Cartels use Facebook, Snapchat, TikTok, other sites to drive human smuggling schemes
A human smuggler and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg / edited from Getty ImagesCollin Anderson • November 18, 2022 12:00 pm
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The world's largest social media companies are facing pressure from Republican lawmakers to "take immediate steps to stop facilitating illegal immigration" as cartels use their platforms to recruit drivers for human smuggling schemes.
In a Thursday letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Republican senators Marsha Blackburn (Tenn.), Thom Tillis (N.C.), and Steve Daines (Mont.) accused the company of failing to curtail the solicitation of those smuggling schemes on its platforms, which include Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. Cartel smugglers often use those sites, the Wall Street Journalreported last month, to anonymously post advertisements promising thousands of dollars to Americans in border states if they complete a short driving job, which really consists of picking up illegal migrants who have just crossed into the United States. For Blackburn, Tillis, and Daines, Meta should be able to shut down those posts, which they say have "led to a devastating amount of drug and human trafficking and other forms of violent crime."
"Although your company has developed—and long enjoyed the benefits of—incredibly complex algorithms and other technology to keep users addicted, you claim to be unable to curb these illegal immigration schemes," the letter, which the Washington Free Beacon obtained exclusively, states. "You have the ability to address this problem, and it is critical that you take immediate steps to stop facilitating illegal immigration on your platform."
Meta responded to the Journal‘s report by saying it "prohibits the facilitation of human smuggling and invests in technology and works with law enforcement to address the issue." In late January, however, the company privately announced it would allow users to solicit human smugglers on its platforms, the Free Beacon reported. In an internal memo detailing the decision, Meta stressed the need to allow people to use Facebook and its other platforms to "seek safety or exercise their human rights," a move it acknowledged comes with "tradeoffs" such as scrutiny from "law enforcement and government bodies."
Meta is not the only social media giant that has a cartel problem. TikTok—whose CEO received a similar letter from Blackburn, Tillis, and Daines—has been flooded with cartel recruitment posts, which promise fast cash and lavish parties for those who drive for the criminal organizations. "Cartels are trying to get workers. … [They] show lots of money, they show lots of drinking, partying, and everything else," Commander Jorge Esparza of the Brooks County Sheriff Department told the Free Beacon in May. "It's like a joke on law enforcement," Sgt. Aaron Moreno of the Hidalgo County Sheriff's Department added. "I've seen TikTok videos where there's coyotes in a vehicle and they have a long rifle."
Beyond Meta and TikTok, Blackburn, Tillis, and Daines also sent letters to executives at Snapchat and Twitter. The letters include a deadline of December 16 for the companies to answer an array of questions, including the volume of smuggling posts on their platforms, whether they use "algorithms and artificial intelligence" to identify and remove those posts, and how they "coordinate with law enforcement to help them identify people involved in smuggling groups." None of the companies returned requests for comment.
Illegal immigration has exploded under President Joe Biden. Customs and Border Protection encountered more than two million migrants at the southern border in the last fiscal year alone, the first time that figure has been reached in American history. Still, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre assured reporters in September that the Biden administration has "taken unprecedented action over the past year and a half to secure our border."
From April 2020 to April 2021, more than 100,000 Americans died from drug overdoses, according to data from the National Center for Health Statistics. An overwhelming majority of those deaths came from opioids, and fentanyl smuggling has surged at the southern border since the start of Joe Biden's presidency. Joseph Simonson and Collin Anderson
THIS POS ZUCKERBERG CLEANSES ALL POSTS ON THE
BIDEN CRIME FAMILY, BUT MAKES SURE THE CARTELS
GET THEIR MESSAGE THROUGH. ZUCKERUNT IS A MAJOR
DONOR TO THE MEXICAN FASCIST PARTY OF LA RAZA!
By failures of border security, a lack of the enforcement of our immigration laws from within the interior of the United States and huge numbers of visas for high tech workers, the lives and livelihoods of Americans and their children, are being stolen by America’s corrupt political elite who are doing the bidding of those who provide them with huge “Campaign Contributions” (Orwellian euphemism for bribes) pursue legislation that is diametrically opposed to the best interests of America and Americans. MICHAEL CUTLER
“Mexican drug cartels are the “other” terrorist threat to America. Militant Islamists have the goal of destroying the United States.Mexican drug cartels are now accomplishing that mission – from within, every day, in virtually every community across this country.” JUDICIALWATCH
Scandal-Plagued Texas Dem Received Donation From Family Tied to the ‘Most Dangerous Cartel Operating in Mexico’
Rep. Henry Cuellar (D., Texas) / Getty ImagesKarl Salzmann • November 2, 2022 2:45 pm
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Democratic Texas congressman Henry Cuellar and his brother, a Texas sheriff, received thousands of dollars from a family with close ties to Mexico's "notoriously brutal" Los Zetas cartel, National Reviewreported Monday.
Cuellar, who is facing a tough reelection race this year, in 2006 received $1,000 from the then-wife of Antonio Peña Arguelles, a money launderer for Los Zetas, which U.S. officials have called "the most technologically advanced, sophisticated, and dangerous cartel operating in Mexico." Peña Arguelles, who in 2014 was sentenced to more than two years in U.S. federal prison, himself donated $1,500 to Cuellar’s brother, Webb County sheriff Martin Cuellar (D.).
While the San Antonio Express-News at the time reported on the donations, the story "never garnered national attention and largely disappeared" after Henry Cuellar reportedly gave the money to charity, National Review noted.
The National Review report comes as the United States faces an unprecedented migrant crisis, with two million illegal immigrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border since last October. The Biden administration has faced widespread criticism, including from Cuellar, for its handling of the crisis.
It also comes as Cuellar faces corruption allegations, with the FBI in January raiding his home and campaign office. The multiple scandals have added up to the congressman's toughest reelection fight since he first took office in 2005.
"Cuellar's strange donation link to an alleged conduit for one of the largest and most violent cartels in the region could be a liability," National Review noted:
Cartels leave a heavy footprint in the Rio Grande Valley, and a large segment of the region's economy is linked to Border Patrol jobs. Notably, the National Border Patrol Council—the labor union representing some 18,000 Border Patrol agents—opted to endorse Cuellar's Republican challenger, Cassy Garcia, over the Democratic incumbent this year, despite having routinely endorsed Cuellar in past elections.
Cuellar's campaign told National Review after publication that "resurfacing this 10-year-old story is a blatant smear attempt" and insisted that Cuellar "had no knowledge" of the Peña Arguelles family's background.
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