The topic of the migrant workflow had not been previously discussed publicly by the Foreign Relations Ministry or the Interior Secretariat ahead of the virtual meeting between Lopez Obrador and Biden.
The issue comes as Mexican authorities see a dramatic rise in human smuggling activities as thousands of Central American migrants continue to make their way north. Mexican officials predicted a dramatic rise in migratory flows at the start of 2021 due to work shortages from the pandemic and recent natural disasters that shook Central America. Officials in Mexico did not publicly discuss the political effect that a Biden Administration would have on the matter.
Mexican authorities have found several large groups of migrants at hotels or being moved in tractor-trailers in recent weeks. Officials are also seeing a spike in ransom kidnappings where cartel-connected human smugglers hold migrants to further extort their families.
Rep. Pat Fallon Files Articles of Impeachment Against DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas
(CNSNews.com) – Rep. Pat Fallon (R-Texas) filed articles of impeachment against DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Tuesday, fulfilling a promise he made last week before being sworn in.
"Since day one, Secretary Mayorkas’ policies have undermined law enforcement activities at our southern border," Fallon said in a statement last week, Fox News reports.
"From perjuring himself before Congress about maintaining operational control of the border to the infamous ‘whip-gate’ slander against our border patrol agents, Secretary Mayorkas has proven time and time again that he is unfit to lead the Department of Homeland Security," he said.
"His willful actions have eroded our immigration system, undermined border patrol morale, and jeopardized American national security. He has violated the law and it is time for him to go," the congressman added.
Though no text is available for H.Res.8, Fox News reported last week that the first article of impeachment against Mayorkas says that the secretary failed to faithfully execute the “Secure the Fence Act of 2006,” which requires him to “maintain operational control over the entire international land and maritime borders of the United States.”
The second article claims that Mayorkas is “in violation of his constitutional oath, willfully provided perjurious, false, and misleading testimony to Congress." The article points to the secretary’s testimony in April 26 and Nov. 15 congressional hearings, during which he said that the border was secure.
In Mexico, Joe Biden Promotes Plan to Make it ‘Easier’ for Migrants Trying to Enter the United States as Part of ‘Greatest Migration in Human History’
President Joe Biden promoted his plan Tuesday to make it easier for migrants to come to the United States after meeting with the leaders of Mexico and Canada.
“This has been the greatest migration in human history around the world as well as in this hemisphere,” Biden said, speaking about the ongoing migration crisis after meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador during a summit in Mexico City.
But the president did not appear troubled by the volume of border crossings and migrants flooding into local communities in the United States, placing a burden on U.S. citizens and legal residents.
He spoke about his administration’s plan for new ways to allow migrants claiming asylum to sign up, get background checks, get a sponsor, and get them examined, allowing them to go directly to a port of entry to make their case.
“We’re trying to make it easier for people to get here, opening up the capacity to get here,” Biden said.
He said that the majority of migrants were fleeing the countries of Venezuela, Cuba, Haiti, and Nicaragua and that his administration would reach out to them directly to get them to sign up for admission to the United States.
He suggested his new plan would cut down the number of immigrants crossing at the Southern border using cartels and coyotes and getting victimized to make the “god-awful” trip to the United States.
“Look, right now the cartels make a lot of money, which they use for drug trafficking as well,” he said.
He complained that Republicans and even some Democrats were reluctant to work with him on immigration reform, despite a long tradition of immigration to the United States.
“All of you know, all of us in the United States are immigrants,” he said, speaking of his own Irish ancestors who came to the U.S. during the potato famine in Ireland.
WHAT??? JOE BIDEN IS A LYING GAMER LAWYER? WHO'D A THOUGHT???
President Biden's mass migration crisis has bestowed such fabulous riches upon these criminal organizations that traditional drug trafficking is no longer the only prize worth dying for. Nowadays, Mex cartels are battling one another for control of an illegal immigrant smuggling boom. And the bonanza of illicit gains from it are being spent on growing and arming the ranks of the cartels' paramilitary armies - creating a economic and national security threat to the U.S. Todd Bensman
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"Kids are being raped by cartel members. Tons of drugs are flooding across the border that will kill Americans. Millions of illegal aliens are flooding across the border," the lawmaker tweeted Tuesday.
Rep. Cuellar: Highest Percentage of Successful Asylum Cases Comes from China
(CNSNews.com) – Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) said Tuesday that what qualifies as a legitimate asylum claim is persecution by the state based on religion or sex, not fleeing poverty and looking for a job.
In fact, he said the country with the most successful asylum cases adjudicated in the United States is China, not one of the Latin American countries.
“In fact, most of the people that are coming in for asylum, you know, they need to understand that the law under asylum means there has to be a persecution by the state based on religion, sex or one of those reasons,” the congressman told Fox News’ “America’s Newsroom.”
“Coming from poverty, looking for a job, that doesn't allow it, and what’s interesting, when you look at the number of successful asylum cases, you know which is the number one country that gets the highest percentage? It’s China. It’s not one of the Latin American countries, so we have to look at the asylum and make sure that we vet people before they come in and they’re asking for asylum,” he said.
Cuellar accompanied President Biden during his trip to Mexico this week, and the congressman said the Border Patrol agents he talked to felt that the president’s plan to extend the CBP One asylum app to Nicaraguan, Cuban, and Haitian migrants will work.
“Well, he did show up, which I'm glad, and on Thursday, he came out with a plan that I have talked to some of the Border Patrol agents, and they feel the plan will work. That is you provide an incentive for people that want to ask for asylum to do it the right way, and if they don't, there should be a disincentive if they come in between ports of entry, but we gotta have to have the resources to implement this correctly,” he said.
When asked whether Biden has the ear of open border activists, Cuellar said, “I think in the past they have only listened to immigration activists. You have to listen to the men and women in green and blue, and this is something the president did go down there and talk to the men and women in green and blue, but more importantly, you gotta to listen to border communities, because look, what New York is getting or Chicago, Washington is getting is only a drop -- only a drop of what we get down there to the border.
“So listening to landowners, mayors, county judges and all that, folks down there, it is important, because we don't have a single sanctuary city or county along the border, none. I've talked to so many border officials, and none of them has said just letting people in is the right way,” the congressman said.
As CNSNews.com previously reported, Rep. Tony Gonzales said he was told by the White House that he would not be invited to accompany Biden on his trip to the border, despite the fact that Gonzales represents El Paso, Texas, which is where the president visited.
Cuellar said that he doesn’t know why Gonzales was not allowed to go.
“I don't know how that decision was made to who was going. I didn't know about it til-- even myself until the very end. I can tell you about Tony. Tony Gonzalez is a friend of mine. Senator John Cornyn is a friend of mine. Those two individuals, we’ve talked many a times to try to find bipartisan ways to address this issue,” he said.
“So I will continue working with Tony in appropriations, and I certainly want to work with Senator John Cornyn and other folks, Democrats and Republicans - the ones that want to find practical solutions and not just do political messaging, and I’m talking about both the left and the right,” the congressman added.
Biden Chooses ‘Wall’ for Photo of First Border Visit — After Ending Trump’s Project
President Joe Biden tweeted an image of his first-ever border visit Sunday that featured part of the “wall,” or border fence, in El Paso, Texas — after he and his party shut down President Donald Trump’s border wall.
Biden ran in 2020 on a promise to build “not another foot” of Trump’s border project after Democrats refused to fund it in 2019 and claimed that it was motivated by racism and the desire to keep brown or black people out.
As soon as he took office, Biden halted construction of the high bollard fencing that Trump had been building along the wall — though the Biden administration later quietly filled in some gaps that had been left behind.
Yet with thousands of migrants pouring across the border daily, and millions entering the U.S., often illegally, since he took office, Biden was under pressure to visit the border for the first time in a half century of politics.
He chose to tweet an image of himself doing so — from the official presidential account — flanked by Border Patrol officers and walking along the fence that exists in El Paso, one of the most secure points on the border.
There was also an irony in Biden using Border Patrol agents as props in a photo: he has refused to apologize for claiming falsely in 2021 that agents were using whips to beat Haitian migrants. They were later exonerated.
Biden had never previously visited the border, despite false White House claims to the contrary. He was once in a motorcade that drove near the border, also in El Paso, during the 2008 presidential campaign, for a few miles.
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.
Southern Border Visit ‘Two Years Too Late,’ Texas’s Abbott Tells Biden
Border has seen four million migrant crossings since January 2021
Ben Wilson •Texas governor Greg Abbott (R.) told President Joe Biden that his visit Sunday to the southern border in El Paso was "$20 billion too little and two years too late."
In a letter Abbott handed to the president on the city airport's tarmac, the governor blamed Biden for the "worst illegal immigration in the history of our country," adding that Texans are paying a "high price," sometimes with their lives.
Biden received the letter after he stepped off Air Force One in El Paso, where he spent roughly three hours touring sites before heading to Mexico City for meetings.
Republicans have criticized Biden for months for failing to visit the border as it faces record levels of illegal immigration. Agents tallied 313,681 migrant encounters in December, which broke November's record-setting level. The last fiscal year saw a total of 2.4 million encounters. Four million immigrants have attempted to illegally cross into the United States since the beginning of 2021, federal data show.
Ahead of Biden's visit, El Paso police cleared out migrant camps throughout the city, where the Democratic mayor declared a state of emergency in December over homeless migrants.
"Your open-border policies have emboldened the cartels, who grow wealthy by trafficking deadly fentanyl and even human beings," Abbott said.
The governor listed several actions the Biden administration should take, including enforcing Title 42, a Trump-era policy allowing agents to turn away migrants due to the pandemic. Biden has sought to reverse the rule and the Supreme Court is set to rule on it next month.
"You must immediately resume construction of the border wall in the State of Texas, using the billions of dollars Congress has appropriated for that purpose," Abbott said.
Abbott also called for the designation of drug cartels as "foreign terrorist organizations." Former president Donald Trump said last week that if reelected he would deploy military assets to "wage war on cartels."
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