By Mike Stone and Steve Holland
WASHINGTON (Reuters)—A new U.S. weapons package for Ukraine will include about 50 Bradley Fighting Vehicles, two U.S. officials said on Thursday.
On Wednesday President Joe Biden said that sending Bradley Fighting Vehicles to Ukraine was being considered to help fight Russia's invasion.
The latest security package for Ukraine is expected to be unveiled on Friday, the officials said.
The armored vehicle with a powerful gun, which is manufactured by BAE Systems Plc, has been used as a staple by the U.S. Army to carry troops around battlefields since the mid-1980s.
The Army has thousands of Bradleys, which could give the Ukrainians more firepower on the battlefield. Biden's move, however, is short of sending Abrams tanks to Ukraine, which the Ukrainians have been requesting.
Late last month, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy told the U.S. Congress that the tens of billions of dollars of aid it had approved to help Ukraine combat the Russian invasion was not charity, but an investment in global security.
The United States has sent about $21.3 billion in security assistance to Kyiv as Europe's biggest land conflict since 1945 grinds on, killing tens of thousands. The size of Friday's security aid package was not immediately clear.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The United States has increasingly sent more capable weapons to Ukraine. As the war progressed and Ukraine's needs changed, more complex weapons systems, including High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) and National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile Systems (NASAMS), were shipped to Kiyv.
Most recently, the United States pledged to send a Patriot missile system to repel Russian missile and drone attacks. Training and other logistics still need to be worked out.
The Army is working to retire its Bradley fleet, and is working with industry to build a replacement as it seeks to modernize.
Human Smuggling Incidents on Rise in Southeast Texas Border Sector, Says Chief U.S. Border Patrol/Rio Grande Valley Sector 3:53
Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol officials report a rise in the new year in the number of interior human smuggling incidents encountered. During the past week, agents interdicted seven human smuggling incidents.
Beginning on New Year’s Eve, Kingsville Station agents assigned to the Javier Vegam Jr. Checkpoint on U.S. Highway 77 observed a tractor-trailer approaching for inspection. During a secondary inspection, a K-9 team alerted to the presence of migrants dangerously packed between pallets of produce. The agents arrested the driver and the four migrants hidden in the cargo.
Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol agents find four migrants on a pillar of a border bridge. (U.S. Border Patrol/Rio Grande Valley Sector)
Later that evening, Falfurrias Station agents assigned to the Border Patrol checkpoint on U.S. Highway 281 in Brooks County, Texas, observed a Ford Explorer approaching for inspection. During an immigration interview, the agents identified three passengers as migrants illegally present in the U.S.
The agents searched the U.S. citizen driver during the arrest and discovered a gram of methamphetamine. Deputies from the Brooks County Sheriff’s Office took the driver into custody on state drug and human smuggling charges.
As human smugglers attempted to move migrants across the Rio Grande on New Year’s Day, Harlingen agents observed four migrants stuck on a pillar beneath the Los Indios Port of Entry bridge. The agents contacted the Harlingen Fire Department who assisted in lowering the migrants from the pillar.
Border Patrol agents seize a 7.62 semi-automatic rifle from a foreign national who was smuggling migrants. (U.S. Border Patrol/Rio Grande Valley Sector)
On January 2, Kingsville Station agents observed a vehicle making a U-turn just before the Javier Vega, Jr. Checkpoint. The agents conducted a traffic stop and identified the driver and the three passengers as migrants illegally present in the United States. The agents found a 7.62 semi-automatic rifle in the vehicle, arrested the driver, and turned him over to Kenedy County deputies for state charges.
Elsewhere in the sector, McAllen Station agents responded to suspicious activity near Los Ebanos. The agents observed two vehicles departing from a known human smuggling pickup area. Both vehicles refused to stop when Border Patrol agents attempted an interdiction stop.
A CBP Air and Marine Operation helicopter aircrew responded along with police officers from Sullivan City. The occupants of both vehicles bailed out near Sullivan City, officials stated. A search of the area led to the arrest of 19 migrants attempting to avoid apprehension. The two drivers managed to escape apprehension.
A Dodge Durango loaded with migrants runs through three Texas rancher’s fences before fleeing on foot. (U.S. Border Patrol/Rio Grande Valley Sector)
Later that night, a Texas Department of Public Safety trooper observed a Dodge Durango load up a group of suspected migrants. The trooper engaged the driver in a pursuit and called for assistance from Falfurrias Station agents. During the chase, the driver drove the SUV through three ranch fences before stopping.
Two occupants of the vehicle bailed out and fled into the brush. A search of the area was unsuccessful.
“I am very proud of the tremendous work performed by our Border Patrol Agents in the Rio Grande Valley in 2022. I’m elated to see that our Agents kicked off 2023 with the same dedication and vigor as they have always! RGV agents work around the clock to target illicit activity in our border region every day increasing safety in our comm unities,” RGV Sector Chief Patrol Agent Gloria I. Chavez said in the written statement.
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.
So Democrats in Congress helped Democrats in the White House smuggle roughly 2.2 million southern migrants over the southern border, and also to supercharge the transfer of legal migrants and visa workers into U.S. jobs. “The issue of immigration is how do we make sure that companies and businesses have the opportunity to employ people,” labor secretary Marty Walsh said in December. NEIL MUNRO
“Increased immigration will be key to sustaining apartment
demand in these areas over the coming decades,” said the
report by the apartment association.
Rents are rising because real estate companies are trying to please investors, says a Washington Post report that ignores the economic impact of President Joe Biden’s open borders policy.
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'ABOUT TO BREAK' THE LYING POL SAYS? CALIFORNIA HAS LONG BEEN
A COLONY OF MEXICO AND LA RAZA WELFARE STATE. CA HAS THE
LARGEST NUMBER OF ILLEGALS AND THE LARGEST NUMBER OF
HOMELESS. NOT HARD TO DO THE MATH ON THAT EVEN AS THEIR LIES
FLOW LIKE AN OPEN SEWER.
‘About to Break’: Newsom Says Feds Are Overwhelming California With Immigrants California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D.) / Reuters Susannah Luthi • December 13, 2022 6:00 pmCalifornia Gov. Gavin Newsom (D.) this week warned that California would experience an unsustainable flow of illegal immigrants once President Joe Biden reverses the Trump administration’s border policy.
"The fact is, what we’ve got right now is not working and is about to break in a post-42 world unless we take some responsibility and ownership," the governor told ABC News Monday .
Newsom’s comments allude to the Biden administration’s plan to next week lift Title 42, a Trump-era policy that allows law enforcement to quickly expel illegal immigrants. The governor also complained about the Biden administration’s decision to send "planes and buses to California full of migrants because of all the good work … the state is doing for the immigrant community," ABC News's Sacramento, Calif., affiliate reported.
Newsom's apparent criticism of Biden’s immigration moves is new for the governor known for tweeting condemnations of Texas and Florida, whose Republican governors have transported busloads of illegal immigrants to liberal enclaves like Martha’s Vineyard and Washington, D.C. Newsom also raised his national profile by fighting President Donald Trump’s immigration policies.
Now, it seems, he will miss at least some aspects of Trump’s pandemic policy.
"I'm saying that as a father," Newsom said. "I'm saying that as someone that feels responsible for being part of the solution and I'm trying to do my best here."
Newsom added that he didn't mean "to point fingers."
Spokesmen for Newsom and the Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond when the Washington Free Beacon asked how many immigrants the federal government has sent to California this year.
The Newsom team did not give California reporters advance warning of his border visit, which ABC said was apparently only covered by national press.
‘Step Up’: Dem Mayors Demand Biden Take Action To Stem Migrant Tide New York City mayor Eric Adams (D.) / Getty Images Philip Caldwell • January 5, 2023 1:47 pmDemocratic mayors who have struggled to address an influx of illegal immigrants in their cities are taking out their frustrations on the Biden administration, demanding the White House grant them resources to manage the overflow, according to a Wednesday Politico report .
"What's callous is how we have been ignored as a city. And now I have to make tough decisions on the resources of New York," said New York City mayor Eric Adams at a Wednesday press conference. "It is time for the federal government to step up."
Adams's comments this week came as New York faces a surge of illegal immigrants bused in from Republican states, including Texas and Florida. Adams on Tuesday said Democratic Colorado governor Jared Polis is also planning to send migrants to New York.
Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot, who has also dealt with an influx of migrants, is similarly frustrated with the Biden administration, Adams said at the Wednesday press conference.
"When I spoke to her yesterday," Adams said, "she says, ‘Eric, you know, we have been a little too patient. You know, we can't do anything to embarrass our families, but it's about time we started to do that.'"
The Biden administration told Politico the White House has been in contact with Adams and is increasing support for cities burdened by migrants.
Washington, D.C., mayor Muriel Bowser in September declared a public health emergency when the state of Texas bused migrants to the nation's capital. Bowser said Washington, D.C., would seek federal reimbursement for the city's programs to address the migrant arrivals.
“Increased immigration will be key to sustaining apartment
demand in these areas over the coming decades,” said the
report by the apartment association.
Rents are rising because real estate companies are trying to please investors, says a Washington Post report that ignores the economic impact of President Joe Biden’s open borders policy.
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So Democrats in Congress helped Democrats in the White House smuggle roughly 2.2 million southern migrants over the southern border, and also to supercharge the transfer of legal migrants and visa workers into U.S. jobs. “The issue of immigration is how do we make sure that companies and businesses have the opportunity to employ people,” labor secretary Marty Walsh said in December. NEIL MUNRO
Biden Creates a “Shadow” Immigration System
Washington, D.C. (January 5, 2023) - After ignoring the border crisis for two years, today the Biden administration announced new border policies which includes minor changes to tactics, but no change to long-term strategy.in November .perversion of the immigration ‘parole’ power to a new low. He is literally pushing the Constitution's separation of powers into the gutter by creating a shadow immigration system totally divorced from the will of Congress and the American people. He plans to proudly parole into the U.S. up to 360,000 otherwise illegal aliens a year with no basis in law, and we know that they will never leave.”
“Increased immigration will be key to sustaining apartment
demand in these areas over the coming decades,” said the
report by the apartment association.
Rents are rising because real estate companies are trying to please investors, says a Washington Post report that ignores the economic impact of President Joe Biden’s open borders policy.
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Biden Seeks To Solve Border Crisis—by Making It Easier To Enter the United States Joseph Simonson • January 5, 2023 3:20 pmMigrants from Nicaragua, Cuba, Haiti, and Venezuela will have an easier time entering the country thanks to President Joe Biden's new immigration plan, which he says will stymie illegal border crossings.
The United States will accept up to 30,000 migrants from those countries under a "humanitarian parole" program, Biden announced on Thursday. Migrants who qualify for the program will be able to travel directly from their home countries to the United States after applying to the program through a mobile app, rather than declare asylum at the southern border after crossing from Mexico. Biden in the fall implemented a pilot version of the program for Venezuelans.
Biden's plan comes as the United States, since the president took office, has suffered the worst border crisis in its history. Federal data show that the southern border has seen more than four million illegal border crossings since the beginning of 2021, with the pace showing no signs of slowing.
Critics of Biden's proposal questioned how making it easier for migrants to enter the United States would deter migrants from illegally crossing the southern border. Others raised questions about the legality of Biden's proposal.
"This is one of the most egregious, unlawful abuses of humanitarian parole authority in the history of our nation—a middle finger to Congress, the American people, and the rule of law," said Federation for American Immigration Reform director of communications R.J. Hauman.
Biden argued the new plan would ease strain on Border Patrol and offer clarification for those who wish to migrate to the United States. Individuals who don't meet the eligibility requirements will be deported under an expansion of Title 42, a public health law that allows for the accelerated expulsion of migrants.
"We should all recognize that as long as America is the land of freedom and opportunity, people are going to try to come here," Biden said.
Migrants who qualify for the program include those with financial and familial support in the United States. The Biden administration says individuals in the countries covered by the program face unique hardship, citing instability and crime.
Published under: Biden Administration Border Crisis Border Patrol Cuba Haiti Illegal Immigration Immigration Joe Biden Nicaragua Title 42 Venezuela
“Increased immigration will be key to sustaining apartment
demand in these areas over the coming decades,” said the
report by the apartment association.
Rents are rising because real estate companies are trying to please investors, says a Washington Post report that ignores the economic impact of President Joe Biden’s open borders policy.
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LOS ANGELES, California — Homeless people are dying in the doorways of storefronts on the streets of L.A. amid a nationwide surge in deaths among the homeless population in the midst of a cold and stormy winter.
Deaths within the homeless population rose in many U.S. cities in 2022. In Reno, Nevada, for example, the number of homeless deaths doubled in 2022 from the year before; Seattle and King County saw the highest number of homeless deaths in two decades, at 270 people.
Forensic assistant Laurentiu Bigu, left, and investigator Ryan Parraz from the Los Angeles County coroner’s office cover the body of a homeless man found dead on a sidewalk in Los Angeles, Monday, April 18, 2022. The 60-year-old man died from the effects of methamphetamine, according to his autopsy report. Nearly 2,000 homeless people died in the city from April 2020 to March 2021, a 56% increase from the previous year, according to a report released by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. Overdose was the leading cause of death, killing more than 700. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong
Though the immediate causes of death vary, from exposure to COVID, one cause is drug overdoses. There were nearly 108,000 deaths from drug overdoses in the U.S. in 2021, many caused by the spread of lethal fentanyl.
Some critics of current homelessness policies argue that drugs are being overlooked as a cause of the deaths.
Deaths are partly caused by cold conditions: five homeless people died in one recent cold snap in Seattle, for example. But even warm-weather cities are seeing a shocking rise in homeless deaths
The San Diego Union-Tribune recently reported that the city saw a record 574 homeless deaths in 2022, up 7% from the year before — and 39% from 2020. It added that the true number of homeless deaths was likely higher.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of the recent e-book, Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election . His recent book, RED NOVEMBER , tells the story of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary from a conservative perspective. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak .
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