While Biden has vowed to flood the U.S. labor market with more foreign workers to compete against Americans for jobs, he has shied away from questions on whether he will eliminate tariffs on foreign imports that were imposed by Trump. Such elimination of tariffs would be a boon to multinational corporations that offshore their production and jobs overseas only to import their products back into the U.S. market, often with no penalties for doing so.
The Border: 10,000 Apprehensions in 48 Hours
And those are just the people who got caught.
What was once known as the Southern border of the United States is essentially nonexistent in this time of Biden regime misrule, and so it was no surprise Wednesday when Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz tweeted some figures showing just how bad the border area has become:
Past 48 Hours…
– 10,070 Apprehensions
– 52 lbs. of Fentanyl
– 38 lbs. of Ecstasy
– 11 lbs. of Meth
– 11 lbs. of Cocaine
– $48,000 Seized
– 20 Firearms
– 5 Stolen Vehicles Recovered
– 5 Sex Offenders
– 4 Warrants
– 1 Gang Member
Significant numbers for just 2 days!
Indeed, and it was just business as usual for the border, although Ortiz didn’t mention the terrorists. It came to light last October that up to that point in 2022, the Border Patrol had caught at least 98 people at the border who are on terror watchlists. There is no indication that they’ve stopped coming since then. Terrorists can see what’s happening at the border as much as anyone else can; why shouldn’t they take advantage of the mess Old Joe has made? And those 98, of course, were just the ones who got caught.
Fox News reported that “the number of migrant encounters at the U.S. southern border climbed to a record more than 227,000 during the month of September and more than 2.3 million for fiscal year 2022, according to data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection.” That data also shows that “there were 20 known or suspected terrorists arrested at the southern border in September, bringing the total terror watchlist arrests at the border for the fiscal year 2022 to 98. The number of terror watchlist arrests at the border for the last five years combined was 26.”
What did Old Joe and his handlers say about this? Nothing, of course, because they weren’t challenged by the sycophantic Leftist propagandists we call “journalists.” And the administration had every reason to stonewall any inquiry, as nothing demonstrated the catastrophe that is the Biden regime’s handling of the border crisis more vividly than the entry of known terrorists into the United States.
The terror risk involved in the open border has long been known. U.S. Customs and Border Protection reported as far back as Feb. 3, 2021 that “Yuma Sector Border Patrol agents arrested a group of 11 Iranian citizens who illegally crossed the border into the United States….Yuma Sector agents apprehended eight Iranian nationals in FY2020, compared to just 14 from all other border patrol sectors combined. So far in FY2021, Yuma Sector agents have apprehend [sic] 14 nationals from Iran.”
Rep. John Katko (R-N.Y.) asserted in March 2021 that “individuals that they have on the watchlist for terrorism are now starting to exploit the southern border. We need to wake up.”
Then in August 2021, former Border Patrol chief Rodney Scott warned that the Southern border was “a national security crisis,” with “TSDBs at a level we have never seen before. That’s a real threat.” In October, he said on Fox News that “we have terrorist threats we can’t get into in this type of a forum but they are real.”
Yes, they are, and they’re entirely Biden’s handlers’ fault. Former Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Mark Morgan said Monday that border agents are “demoralized” with the border “wide open.” He added that “every aspect of our public health, safety, national security is being jeopardized.” Over 7,000 migrants cross the border every day as it is, and once Title 42, a Trump administration attempt to control the wave of migrants, is ended as Biden’s handlers plan to do next month, that number is expected to jump to 18,000 per day.
Morgan observed that one group that is taking advantage of this is the drug cartels. “They know, because of this administration, our borders are wide open,” Morgan said. “We literally handed over operational control to the cartels. It’s way beyond the millions that have been smuggled in this country.” Not just terrorists, but drug cartels as well. The nightmare never ends.
Make no mistake: this has all been done on purpose. The Biden administration, Morgan added, “opened our borders and intentionally created and facilitated a catastrophic crisis on the southwest border that we’ve never seen in our lifetime.” Why would they do such a thing? You know the answer. Morgan explained: “Their priorities [are] to get as many illegal aliens in this country because – it’s disgusting – but because they see a perceived political benefit.”
The Left seems intent on destroying the country in pursuit of unchallenged political power within it. What kind of a country they’ll be ruling over once it is overrun with migrants and its economic power entirely outsourced or outpaced doesn’t seem to be a question that ever crosses their minds. How they’ll be able to pay for all their new welfare recipients once the American middle class is entirely taxed out of existence is also not a priority consideration for them.
The only thing that matters is gaining and securing political power indefinitely. But this might easily become a Pyrrhic victory.
Robert Spencer
Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch and a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He is author of 26 books including many bestsellers, such as The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades), The Truth About Muhammad and The History of Jihad. His latest books are The Critical Qur’an and The Sumter Gambit. Follow him on Twitter here. Like him on Facebook here.
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Many Democrats understand that the welfare checks for foreign children will encourage more illegal immigration, he said:
They know what’s going on. But they know that they can’t say what their true goal is, which is actual open borders with open, uncontrolled migration both ways. And this is a step toward getting rid of borders.
“It’s a globalist mindset and it welcomes anything that moves toward open borders,” he concluded. NEIL MUNRO
Illegal aliens continue overwhelming the state, draining California’s already depleted public services while endangering our lives, the rule of law, and public safety for all citizens. Arthur Schaper
GOP Rep. Tony Gonzales Says Open the Border for Labor Migration
Texas GOP Rep. Tony Gonzales wants to allow an unlimited inflow of foreign workers into the jobs that otherwise would go to better paid Americans.
The inflow “needs to be where anybody who wants to come and work can do so,” Gonzales told Semafor.com for an April 9 post.
Gonzales’ open border for legal migrant employees is the flip side of his call for tighter border curbs against illegal migration:
Just when you think it can’t get any worse, it does … [so] how do you create a work visa program that encourages [illegal migrants] … come [legally] and work and live the American dream through the front door?
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This is an area that is bureaucratic, it is so broken right now. One, employers don’t want to go through the process. Two, on the other end [migrants ask themselves], “Why would I go through a work visa when I can just come into the country illegally?”
I’ve been working on some [immigration] fixes for a couple of years now. We’re almost there. We’re just about to roll it out. A lot of my attention right now is focused on [the narrower issue of] border security. But I do think we can walk and chew gum at the same time.
Gonzales is heavily backed by business groups who insist that employers should not be inconvenienced by a labor shortage, or be denied a supply of imported consumers and renters.
For example, the Blackstone investor group was one of Gonzales’ leading donors in 2022. Blackstone’s co-founder, Steven Schwartzman, is a pro-migration donor who told Vox.com in 2019 that it would be “completely nonsensical” for the U.S. government to curb the hiring of foreign graduates at U.S. universities.
Gonzales and other business-backed GOP legislators are now blocking a vote on a modest border security bill by Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX).
File/Rep. Tony Gonzales, R-Texas, center, and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., ride a U.S. Border Patrol air boat as Leader McCarthy leads fellow Republicans on a tour of the U.S.-Mexico border on Monday, April 25, 2022 in Eagle Pass, TX. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty)
Roy’s bill only reaffirms that existing law bars the catch and release of migrants into the United States. That law is being ignored by President Joe Biden’s pro-migration border chief, Alejandro Mayorkas.
GOP Presidential candidate Nikki Haley is also pushing a Gonzales-type plan to stop illegal migration and also accelerate the hiring of foreign workers.
“Stop catch and release, and go to catch and deport,” the former governor of South Carolina said during an April 3 press conference with Gonzales on the Texas border. She continued:
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.
A GOP open border for workers would be a disaster for ordinary Americans, including the GOP’s populist base and the growing bloc of white-collar swing voters who will likely decide the 2024 election.
“It’s crony capitalism, pure and simple,” Mark Krikorian, the director of the Center for Immigration Studies, told Breitbart News in response to Haley’s plan.
And the modern [populist]] 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 mass inflow of foreign employees would be a mass disaster for many a vast population of American families and their children.
Gonzales suggested to Semafor that employers would provide migrant workers with a “livable” wage. But his labor inflow would reinflate the cheap-labor bubble that suppressed Americans’ wages from 1990 to the coronavirus crash of 2020.
The flood of cheap foreign employees also would reduce the incentive for employers and investors to offer good working conditions or to invest in the labor-saving, productivity boosting machines that allow employers to do more work — and earn more pay — each day.
The flood of immigrant employees would also concentrate in the few big coastal states, so spiking housing costs for ordinary Americans. That labor flood would also divert job-creating investment from heartland states.
In early April., Krikorian slammed Hlaey’s plan to let companies hire foreign employees:
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.
The similar Gonzalez plan would also be a disaster for the many GOP politicians who hope to win majorities in the House and Senate. Polls show rising public opposition to migration, especially to the labor migration that suppresses both blue-collar and white-collar salaries.
In 2004, President George W. Bush pushed his “Any Willing Worker” plan that would have let CEOs hire foreigners instead of Americans. Bush declared:
Out of common sense and fairness, our laws should allow willing workers to enter our country and fill jobs that Americans have are not filling. We must make our immigration laws more rational, and more humane. And I believe we can do so without jeopardizing the livelihoods of American citizens.
In July 2007, Bush’s approval fell to just 29 percent shortly after he tried and failed to push his Comprehensive Immigration Reform cheap-labor bill through the Senate.
The Semafor video was produced by Joe Posner, Semator’s chief video producer, who has little understanding of U.S. immigration politics. He gushed about Gonzales’ plan:
In the context of Republican politics, this is actually pretty amazing stuff here because the [GOP] line [on immigration] usually is that it’s either more border security or nothing.
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.
Migration — and especially, labor migration — is unpopular among swing voters. 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
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