Presidential contender Nikki Haley wants to deport the cartels’ illegal migrants — but also help CEOs quickly import migrants for jobs that would otherwise go to better-paid Americans.
Nikki Haley: Stop Illegal Migration, Grow Legal Migration
Presidential contender Nikki Haley wants to deport the cartels’ illegal migrants — but also help CEOs quickly import migrants for jobs that would otherwise go to better-paid Americans.
“Stop catch and release, and go to catch and deport,” the former governor of South Carolina told an April 3 press conference on the Texas border, adding:
You do that [on the border] — but when it comes to actual immigration laws itself, instead of doing quotas every year on how many we’re going to let through, you partner with your businesses and see what they need …
In South Carolina, we’ve got farmers and we’ve got a tourist industry that is always looking for workers. When you start to listen to your businesses and do what they need, all of a sudden the economy goes up, people are going to work and everything gets better.
“She’s explicitly calling for American workers to have to compete with the entire labor force of the Third World and that’s appalling — it’s exactly what I would expect from a [George W.] Bush retread,” responded Mark Krikorian, the director of the Center for Immigration Studies.
What Haley is calling for is the reversal of well over a century of immigration law, and a rejection of the very purpose of immigration law which is to protect American workers, American taxpayers, and American national security [from investors who import cheaper labor] … It is an attempt at a more palatable version of the Uni-party approach to immigration, which is that we shouldn’t have illegal border crossings, but we should have unlimited immigration [for business] so that nobody has to cross the border illegally.
Krikorian continued:
When you import large numbers of poor people into a modern society, you’re going to create huge [welfare] costs for taxpayers because those people will not be able to feed their own children based on their [low] earnings … Her perspective means that taxpayers are going to be subsidizing the businesses that use immigrant labor.
It’s crony capitalism, pure and simple. And the modern Republican Party has developed precisely in opposition to crony capitalism. So what Haley represents is a throwback to an earlier Bush-era version of Republicanism that Republican voters have repeatedly rejected.
The pro-migration pitch “is an absolute loser,” because it echoes the business-first policies favored by Gov. Mitt Romney in 2012, and Sen. John McCain in 2008, said one pro-American activist.
Haley’s political campaigns have been largely funded by businesses and investors.
Fox News covered the press conference but ignored Haley’s call for faster and unlimited labor migration.
President Joe Biden and his border chief have repeatedly called for the use of more global labor to fill jobs in the U.S. economy, regardless of many sidelined Americans, political polls, and the economic impact on ordinary Americans’ wages and rents. Biden has welcomed roughly 4.2 million economic migrants from Mexico since January 2021.
Haley visited the border with Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX) who is now blocking a vote on a border bill by Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX). Roy’s bill reaffirms the existing law that bars the release of migrants into the United States. That law is being ignored by Biden’s pro-migration border chief, Alejandro Mayorkas.
Gonzales opposes Roy’s no-release bill while also insisting that the GOP and the Democrats should bar funding for migrant releases. “You end catch-and-release by defunding DHS’ catch-and-release program — it’s that simple,” he told the press conference, without explaining how the GOP can get Democrats to agree to block the funding.
In the press conference, Haley repeated her call for a fast-track, employer-driven migration system that would mimic the “Any Willing Worker” plan pushed by Pres. George W. Bush in 2004 to let CEOs hire foreigners instead of Americans:
We have to secure the border and f0llow the rules. But with regular immigration, we’ve got take all the bureaucracy down. Our number one goal should be: “Who do we bring into this country that makes our country better? You do it on merit. You do [bringwho our businesses need. You do what talent we need and you focus on that.
The second thing you do is, you focus on what our businesses need. When you look at what our businesses need, and you match it up with the talent, then you’re all of a sudden making America stronger, you’re making it economically stronger, and you’re making the infrastructure stronger. And then, you take down the wait time. We don’t have enough processors, and you’ve got too many people sitting on paper and not doing their job. To be honest, we need to in and just break it, clean it up, and then start back over. That’s the only way to get that immigration process back up and running.
Haley wrapped her pro-migration pitch in a sharp criticism of Biden’s costly welcome for illegal migration.
2024 Republican Presidential Primary candidate Nikki Haley visits a Texas ranch owner along the Rio Grande. (Randy Clark/Breitbart Texas)
But that criticism of illegal migration ignored the pocketbook damage done to American employees by companies’ use of lower-wage migrants. Instead, her criticism of illegal migration focused on the tax burden imposed on the GOP’s base of middle-class taxpayers:
The [illegal migrants] are coming to your state. They’re going into your schools. They’re going into your hospitals. Your law enforcement officers are suddenly having to deal with them. They are now taking up your taxpayer dollars.
When someone comes to you through legal immigration, they have to be sponsored. Guess who all these illegal immigrants are sponsored by? The taxpayers of America. You are paying for them — because all of a sudden they are going into our communities and billions of dollars have gone to fund illegal immigrants.
So what do we do about this? The way we fix it is we go back to what I did in South Carolina — you do [the] mandatory E-Verify program, which makes sure … no business can hire any illegal immigrants. The second thing is … we fire the 87,000 IRS agents and hire at least 25,000 Border Patrol and ICE agents so that we can go and give these other border patrol agents the help they need …
Stop the taxpayer handouts for these illegal immigrants. Make sure that we’re defunding sanctuary cities … We need to make sure we go back to Remain in Mexico [program] because that is stopped, and we need to make sure that we keep Title 42 [border barrier].
The one thing that can make the biggest difference is: Stop catch and release, and go to catch and deport. When you start deporting these illegal immigrants, they will stop coming. Right now on social media, they’re telling their other cartels where to bring people through, what passages to take, how to get there, what to say when they get there. Why are we doing this? Stop the insanity because we’re doing this to ourselves.
She also hit other talking points without talking about the economic damage or lower wages and higher housing costs:
This is a national security issue … Are we waiting for a 9-11 moment? … Biden needs to open his mouth and say this is a crisis. He needs to let his cabinet agencies say that this is a crisis … You’ve got illegal immigrants coming across. They are your new section of homeless because there is no one there to take care of them, So look on a corner street near you, look for a tent city somewhere near you, because when they come over, there is no one that is going to take care of them. So we have got to start taking care of the American people … So my big question is when is “Biden coming to the border? ” We’ve given up on Kamala … Secondly, when’s Congress going to do something?
Extraction Migration
The federal government has long operated an unpopular economic policy of Extraction Migration. This colonialism-like policy extracts vast amounts of human resources from needy countries, reduces beneficial trade, and uses the imported workers, renters, and consumers to grow Wall Street and the economy.
The migrant inflow has successfully forced down Americans’ wages and also boosted rents and housing prices. The inflow has also pushed many native-born Americans out of careers in a wide variety of business sectors and contributed to the rising death rate of poor Americans.
The lethal policy also sucks jobs and wealth from heartland states by subsidizing coastal investors with a flood of low-wage workers, high-occupancy renters, and government-aided consumers.
The population inflow also reduces the political clout of native-born Americans, because it allows elites to divorce themselves from the needs and interests of ordinary Americans.
A 54 percent majority of Americans say Biden is allowing a southern border invasion, according to an August 2022 poll commissioned by the left-of-center National Public Radio (NPR). The 54 percent “Invasion” majority included 76 percent of Republicans, 46 percent of independents, and even 40 percent of Democrats.
THERE IS NO GREATER THREAT TO AMERICA THAN JOE BIDEN!
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Josh Hawley: Biden’s ‘Concierge Service’ for Illegal Aliens Comes at Expense of Americans’ Jobs, Wages
President Joe Biden’s “concierge service” for illegal aliens comes at the expense of Americans’ jobs and wages, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) said this week.
In a letter to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, Hawley blasted the administration’s migrant mobile app — known as CBP One — that has released more than 30,000 foreign nationals into the United States since early January by allowing them to schedule appointments at the southern border.
Specifically, the migrant mobile app allows foreign nationals who are pregnant, mentally ill, elderly, disabled, homeless, or crime victims living in Mexico to schedule appointments at the border for release into the U.S. interior.
Hawley writes that the migrant mobile app is in effect “like making a restaurant reservation” and will have dire effects on Americans’ jobs and wages:
Under your leadership, the Department is marketing a new phone app, called CBP One, that allows unauthorized migrants to reserve a time to cross the border, like making a restaurant reservation. How convenient. I gather the app is meant to expedite asylum claims, or so your Department’s promotional material says. But I noticed you said nothing about asylum when I asked you at the hearing. And the Texas Monthly has recently reported that “[a]t no point does the app ask users ‘Are you seeking asylum?’” Worse, when migrants show up at the border to enter the country, they “are given no interviews and asked no questions about vulnerabilities they listed in the app or about why they’re seeking asylum in the U.S.—they’re simply released into the country on official parole.” [Emphasis added]
…I imagine there are plenty of Americans who would appreciate this level of service from their government. Your choice to spend untold sums of taxpayer money—you said you had no idea what it cost—on concierge service for illegals is baffling. It is also revealing. It demonstrates your priorities: open borders, no matter the cost to Americans; no matter the jobs lost, the wages lost, the drugs flooding our schools. [Emphasis added]
Hawley calls the migrant mobile app “a full-on institutionalization of an open border and the abuse” of U.S. asylum laws, pressing Mayorkas to disclose how many foreign nationals have used the app since its inception, how many are expected to use the app after border controls end in May, and if the app will be updated to ask applicants if they have legitimate asylum claims.
The tech companies involved in the migrant mobile app’s creation, Hawley writes, should also be disclosed to the public and Congress along with the taxpayer costs associated with the app.
Biden’s expansive Catch and Release network at the border is pumping hundreds of thousands of foreign workers, often illegal, into working- and middle-class American jobs. At the same time, fewer Americans are working.
As Breitbart News reported, at the end of 2022, there were nearly two million fewer native-born Americans working compared to the same time in 2019, while two million foreign-born workers have been added to the workforce compared to the same time period.
In particular, the decline in the labor participation rate among working-class native-born Americans has dropped to 70.3 percent at the end of last year compared to 71.4 percent in 2019, 74.8 percent in 2006, and 76.4 percent in 2000.
Working-class native-born American men, those without a bachelor’s degree between 25 to 54 years old, had only an 83.7 percent labor participation rate at the end of 2022 — declining consistently since the year 2000.
The Biden administration has largely ignored efforts to get native-born Americans back into the workforce, instead adding millions of foreign workers to the labor market which adds downward pressure, particularly for working-class Americans in terms of finding jobs and securing higher wages.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
Biden Wants the Public To Think He's Cracking Down on the Border. Critics Aren't Buying It.
Biden pivots to the center on immigration ahead of 2024 election
Over the last four months, President Joe Biden has rolled out a series of immigration policies that could just as easily have emerged from former president Donald Trump's administration: a hard cap on the number of Latin Americans who can claim asylum in the United States, temporary deportation to Mexico for those asylum seekers, and a planned reimplementation of detaining migrant families behind bars.
Staring down an estimated 5.5 million southern border crossings since the president took office—the most in U.S. history—Democratic strategists say Biden's 180-degree pivot on immigration underscores his vulnerability on the issue as he prepares to run for a second term. Polling suggests the issue is a liability for the president: A March Associated Press poll found that just 39 percent of U.S. adults approve of his handling of immigration, while just 38 percent approve of his response to the border crisis.
"I think the electorate is much closer to the center on immigration than where the White House has been," said Democratic political consultant Mike Mikus, who has worked for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and the campaign of former Pennsylvania governor Tom Wolf (D.). "The people who decide elections are in the middle."
But virtually all of Biden's attempts to pivot to the center on the border, which is still seeing a historically high number crossings, are too little too late and meant to grab headlines rather than solve the problem, critics say. Working with allies to accept more migrants or creating a new asylum application process may prompt media commentary about Biden's attempt at triangulation in the lead-up to 2024, those critics allege, but do nothing to change the fact that millions of Latin Americans believe they are welcome to start new lives in the United States.
Even some liberals agree. For two years, said Democratic political consultant Colin Strother, the White House allowed "ideologues" to determine the nation's immigration policies, leading to chaotic flows of illegal immigrants. Now, administration officials are trying to undo the damage. "Biden sees the same polling data as everyone else. They're talking to focus groups, they know it's a problem," Strother said.
Last month, Biden announced a new cooperation agreement with Canada to stem the flow of illegal immigrants at the U.S. northern border. That agreement includes the establishment of a refugee program in Canada for 15,000 migrants allegedly fleeing violence and economic collapse in South America and Central America.
Although the White House touted the agreement as a step forward in overcoming "the daunting challenges of today," the 15,000 figure is a drop in the bucket, compared with the more than 156,000 southern border crossings in January alone, and fails to address Border Patrol's lack of resources.
Meanwhile, the administration has neglected to use the one tool immigration hawks believe is the best way to stop future illegal crossings: deportations, which have plummeted to historic lows.
"We'll never have a secure border without robust enforcement of the nation's immigration laws in the interior of the country," said former senior Department of Homeland Security official Jon Feere. "The Biden administration's policies have created a nationwide sanctuary where ICE arrests and removals have plummeted."
At the same time, Biden is doubling down on a more permissive immigration regime while offering tough talk to lawbreakers. In January—the same month Biden made the first trip of his entire political career to the southern border—the White House trumpeted a program that would make it easier for migrants from four Latin American countries to enter the United States by allowing them to apply for asylum via a mobile phone application. Up to 30,000 migrants will be accepted each month from those countries, which Biden says will deter migrants from simply showing up on the U.S.-Mexico border. All other migrants from those countries would be turned away at the border.
Many of these policy changes are happening as Biden charges ahead, despite bipartisan criticism, with his plan for a May repeal of Title 42, a pandemic-era rule that gives authorities the power to turn away anyone on the southern border who may constitute a public health risk. As a compromise, Biden implemented a new rule in February that following Title 42's termination bars migrants who first passed through another country from entering the United States. Left-wing activists, such as those at Human Rights Watch, blasted the proposal as "deadly" and reminiscent of Trump-era policies.
But, immigration experts noted, Biden's rule is full of loopholes that negate much of the deterrence effect. Under the plan, family units will be exempted from accelerated deportation, as will children. The White House also floated the possibility of detaining families—a practice required by law but often ignored by both Republican and Democratic administrations—before their immigration hearings, although no action has been taken following outcry from congressional Democrats.
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EXCLUSIVE: Known Migrant Got-Aways Top 400K in Past Six Months
A Border Patrol report reviewed by Breitbart Texas shows that more than 400,000 migrants are classified as known got-aways during the first six months of Fiscal Year 2023. The report shows more than 60,000 got-aways in March.
Breitbart Texas obtained an unofficial Border Patrol report that indicates more than 400,000 migrants crossed the border illegally between ports of entry and were not apprehended by agents in the field. The report shows the number of got-aways in March jumped from nearly 51,000 in February to more than 60,000 in March.
Migrant got-aways are a conservative estimate of the number of migrants who are seen crossing the border but cannot be apprehended at the time, migrants that are part of a group that is partially apprehended, or by estimating numbers based upon tracks found in smuggling areas.
The estimated number of known got-aways during the first six months of Fiscal Year 23, which began on October 1, 2022, topped 400,000, the report reviewed by Breitbart News reveals. This is up by more than 30 percent over the same period in FY22 when officials estimated there were just under 300,000 known got-aways.
The Tucson Sector reported the highest number of got-aways. The nearly 18,000 got-aways represent a small increase over last March’s report. El Paso also leads the year-to-date numbers with more than 106,000 estimated known got-aways.
This is followed by the El Paso Sector (just over 15,000) and the Del Rio Sector (nearly 11,000). El Paso leads the year-to-date got-away numbers with more than 122,000 estimated known got-aways.
In March, Border Patrol agents apprehended more than 161,000 migrants who crossed the border between ports of entry. This, combined with the March got-aways brings the total number of known border crossers in March to more than 220,000 migrants.
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.
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: All numbers reported above for March 2023 apprehensions and got-aways come from unofficial Border Patrol reports obtained by Breitbart Texas. These numbers are subject to change when CBP releases the official Southwest Land Border Encounters Report later this month.
Investigation: Killers, Gang Members Posing as Migrant Children to Get into U.S.
Illegal alien adults, some who go on to kill and others who are gang members, are posing as Unaccompanied Alien Children (UACs) to get released into the United States with the help of the federal government, a statewide grand jury in Florida finds.
After a more than five-month investigation, the statewide grand jury issued findings about the UAC pipeline in the U.S. where migrant children arrive at the southern border, are taken into Department of Homeland Security (DHS) custody, turned over to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and then released to sponsors across American communities.
“Many of the facts we have learned are depressing to contemplate and provoke a great deal of outrage,” the statewide grand jury writes before revealing their findings.
Among those findings are that the UAC pipeline into the U.S. interior is being exploited by illegal alien adults, posing as children, who go on to commit murder and many of whom are gang members associated with the likes of MS-13.
One particular case cited by the statewide grand jury was that of 24-year-old Yery Noel Medina Ulloa who posed as a UAC to get released into the U.S. interior.
Prosecutors allege that Ulloa was sent to live with 46-year-old Francisco Javier Cuellar, a father of four, by the federal government. In November 2021, Ulloa allegedly murdered Cuellar.
Similarly, the statewide grand jury details how hundreds of illegal alien adults attempt to use the UAC pipeline every year to get into the U.S. interior. Many end up being gang members.
Even when adults are found in the UAC pipeline, they are removed from the program and released into American communities, according to the statewide grand jury:
We received testimony and saw photographs and other evidence regarding other adults masquerading as UACs, including men and women ranging in age from 27 to 37. HHS discovered 105 children the agency later determined were actually adults during fiscal year 2021 alone, according to its own website. Often, the adults will have fake documents showing their age as a minor. In just the month of August, 2022, El Paso Border Patrol agents arrested seven adults aged from 19 to 26 who tried to pass as children; agents in that region have discovered more than 665 adult illegal aliens who tried to pose as unaccompanied minors to gain expedited entry into the United States in the past 12 months. [Emphasis added]
We reviewed evidence about UAC who, while they were in fact minors, presented phony documentation and fraudulent claims in an effort to enter the country. Yet none of these cases resulted in a report to ICE or any other law enforcement authority, even to investigate the source of the documents. Each incident is a separate federal criminal offense. Instead, the people who discovered them were ordered to report the matter to their cohorts in ORR (sometimes they were effectively misled that they were reporting to the FBI, when in fact they were not) More incredibly, the adults posing as children were simply taken out of the facility and released, as one manager put it, “into the wild”; the minors were permitted to submit other documents, supposedly more legitimate than the first set. [Emphasis added]
According to the testimony of the Border Patrol’s acting chief, even as far back as 2017 it was known that at least 59 UAC had been identified as members of the MS-13 gang. That number has increased significantly; we received testimony that other gangs likewise send members and even have UAC members graduate to adulthood and apply to sponsor other UAC members. Entire separate facilities were required at some ORR shelters to house those UAC who were flashing gang signs, engaging in fights, and making threats due to gang affiliation. [Emphasis added]
The statewide grand jury, formed by the Florida Supreme Court at the request of Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), is made up of teachers, retirees, military veterans, business owners, and homemakers and is tasked with investigating smuggling operations that drive illegal immigration in the U.S.
The findings come as DHS officials admitted last month that potentially thousands of UACs whom the federal government has lost contact with are ending up in a labor trafficking pipeline where they work brutal jobs unfit for even adults.
That same labor trafficking pipeline was referenced by the statewide grand jury:
Some ‘children’ are not children at all, but full-grown predatory adults; some are already gang members or criminal actors; others are coerced into prostitution or sexual slavery; some are recycled to be used as human visas by criminal organizations; some are consigned to relatives who funnel them into sweatshops to pay off the debt accumulated by their trek to this country; some flee their sponsors and return to their country of origin; some are abandoned by their so-called families and become wards of the dependency system, the criminal justice system, or disappear altogether. [Emphasis added]
Since President Joe Biden took office, a quarter of a million UACs have been resettled with sponsors across American communities. The majority, 64 to 66 percent, are boys, while 72 percent of all UACs are 15 to 18 years old. Only 15 to 16 percent of UACs are babies, toddlers, and pre-teens.
Related: ABC’s Rivers: ‘I’ve Never Seen Anything’ Like ‘Hundreds’ Lined up at Border in Years, Officials Say They Can’t Keep up
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
Border Patrol Agents Catch Convicted Rapist Trying to Sneak Across U.S.-Mexico Border
(CNSNews.com) - U.S. Border Patrol agents in Texas caught a convicted rapist trying to sneak across the U.S.-Mexico border into the United States on March 30.
“Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents assigned to Laredo South Station arrested a convicted sex offender in Laredo, Texas,” said a press release published by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
“On March 30,” said the release, “Border Patrol agents while working their duties apprehended an individual crossing the Rio Grande in west Laredo.
“After transporting the individual to the Laredo South Station for processing,” said the CBP press release, “agents identified him as Magdaleno Campos-Escobar, a 57-year-old Mexican citizen.
“Campos-Escobar had a prior felony conviction for Rape-Sexual Assault in Houston, Texas,” said the CBP press release. “He was taken into custody and was processed for Felony Re-Entry.”
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