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HOW MANY STATES ARE NOW COLONIES OF MEXICO?
The migrant inflow has successfully forced down Americans’ wages and also boosted rents and housing prices. The inflow has also pushed many 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.
NEIL MUNRO
I can no longer remain in today’s Democratic Party that is now under the complete control of an elitist cabal of warmongers driven by cowardly wokeness, who divide us by racializing every issue and stoke anti-white racism, actively work to undermine our God-given freedoms, are hostile to people of faith and spirituality, demonize the police and protect criminals at the expense of law-abiding Americans, believe in open borders, weaponize the national security state to go after political opponents, and above all, dragging us ever closer to nuclear war. TULSI GABBARD
The Threat of Secession in Modern America
Texas state representative Bryan Slaton introduced a bill, on the 187th anniversary of the fall of the Alamo, to allow Texans to vote on seceding from the United States. Yes, secession, as in the pre–Civil War abandonment. Slayton said in a tweet, "After decades of continuous abuse of our rights and liberties by the federal government, it is time to let the people of Texas make their voices heard." In fact, history teaches us that there are a few ways that this movement may be successful even without secession.
First the history. Most Americans may believe that this war was already fought and even that secession is not a legal course forward, but a little research proves that the question is far more complicated than it first appears. One need look no farther than the aftermath of the Civil War to see the seeds of doubt.
As legal historian Cynthia Nicoletti of the UVA School of Law notes in her recent book, Secession on Trial: The Prosecution of Jefferson Davis, it was far from settled law even in 1865, on the heels of the Civil War. She concludes that none of the Confederate leadership was prosecuted for treason because it was a real possibility that their actions were not illegal. The nation and the administration simply could not risk a finding by the federal courts that the war they had just completed was illegal and that the thousands of dead had been killed by that illegal act.
Article 1, section 10 of the U.S. Constitution says nothing about a prohibition upon the states to secede, nor does Article 1, section 8, which enumerates the specific powers of the federal government. However the Tenth Amendment in the Bill of Rights does state, "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." This would, on its face, seem to include the right of secession as being reserved to the States or the people.
Roll the clock back a few decades before what many Southerners still refer to as the War of Northern Aggression, and we find that as early as the 1820s, serious discussion of secession was before the US Congress. In 1833, in response to South Carolina's nullification of federal tariffs, Andrew Jackson signed his "Force Bill" into law. However, Jackson knew that threats of military force might lack the force of law and that threats alone could not maintain the Union, so he also reduced the questioned tariffs, essentially forestalling secession for few decades while recognizing that he had only cooled the simmering pot, not removed it from the fire. As Greg Jackson, M.A. notes in a study blog post on secession, "Jackson knew that the tariff issue was merely a pretext." Jackson predicted that the issue of secession would come up again, since "disunion and southern confederacy" were the real objectives. He also said, "The next pretext will be the negro, or slavery question." Jackson was prescient, and for the next three decades, various compromises would attempt to forestall disunion without an invading army.
In 2021, the same issues plague conservative values, and the battle between states' rights and federal rights continues. Texas seems to be taking a page from South Carolina's playbook with the realization that a vote on the topic will force the conversation that the federal government was willing to start a war to avoid.
As with all governments, the U.S. federal government has an inherent, unhealthy addiction to power and greed. Those on the federal government's side recognize that there is no position of power in this discussion and that the outcome of a legal contest on the issue is far from a secure win for their position. Let's face it: even war is preferable to losing power and access to other people's money.
It would be remiss in an article on this topic not to discuss the oft cited case of Texas v. White (74 U.S. 700, 1869) in which SCOTUS stated that the secession of the states was not legal, and therefore, Texas had never ceased to be a state of the United States. This decision, written in 1869 just a few short years after the surrender at Appomattox, is disputed by several legal scholars as bad law. In fact, the opinion references the Articles of Confederation and attempts to distinguish that union from the U.S. Constitution while simultaneously using the foundation of the Articles for its logic. The resulting opinion of the Court has been described as a "tortured decision" to use a commercial sale of bonds case to justify the Civil War or at least avoid condemning it as illegal.
According to polls, it seems that over 60% of Texans believe in a strict interpretation of the Constitution — a very limited federal government that, they would argue, is as the founders intended. They also believe, based upon the post, tweets, and releases of the grassroots orgs pushing for a secession vote, that the orders of federal courts must be followed by all, including the federal government in general and the Executive Branch specifically. Their claims are not baseless.
At the end of World War 2, there were only about 50 countries in the world. In 2000, that number had grown to 195, largely as a result of countrywide referenda to leave the conquering and colonial powers of yesteryear. The Biden administration and the U.S. government might be wise to take heed and have the discussion as opposed to the alternatives.
Texas will do the nation a service if it passes this bill, but probably not by secession. We can only hope that the current politicians will be as wise as Andrew Jackson, because we have clearly seen the result of the intransigent attitudes that would prevail in 1861.
Finally, It should also be noted that at least 18 states, as of this date, have committees, legislative groups or people working at the grassroots level, to consider or work toward secession. As goes Texas, will they also?
Michael Ange, Ph.D., a semi-retired consultant, author of 10 non-fiction books and hundreds of periodical articles published on three continents, has long been a student of the law studying at universities in the U.S. and the U.K.
Image: Don Hankins via Flickr, CC BY 2.0.
THE GLOBALIST DEMOCRAT PARTY FOR BANKSTER BAILOUTS, WALL STREET, OPEN BORDERS FOR MORE "CHEAP" LABOR AND WELFARE FOR WALL STREET...“That our Democratic Party is not the party that is of, by, and for the people. It is a party that has been and continues to be influenced by the foreign policy establishment in Washington represented by Hillary Clinton and others' foreign policy, by the military-industrial complex, and other greedy corporate interests,”
REP. TULSI GABBARD
Nikki Haley Calls for ‘Catch and Deport’ During Tour of Texas Border Hotspot
DEL RIO, Texas — Nikki Haley, the former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and former South Carolina governor received a firsthand account of how the current border crisis is impacting residents living along the Texas border with Mexico. On Monday, Haley met with law enforcement officers, private business owners, and border residents who gave the candidate their take on the continuing border crisis. Haley, accompanied by Representative Tony Gonzales (R-TX), began the border tour with stops in Del Rio and Eagle Pass, Texas, two of the busiest areas for migrant crossings in the nation.
Haley met with employees of the San Antonio Shoemakers Factory in Del Rio and heard firsthand about business operations conducted at the factory less than two miles from the Rio Grande. The factory employs more than 500 workers in the small border town. Just prior to the tour, Haley visited with the Tambunga family who lost two relatives in a vehicle crash that involved a migrant smuggler in Ozona, Texas. A grandmother and granddaughter were killed during the crash that occurred as the migrant smuggler attempted to flee from authorities at speeds in excess of 100 miles per hour.
2024 Republican Presidential Primary Candidate Nikki Haley visits factory workers in Del Rio near the Texas border with Mexico. (Randy Clark/Breitbart Texas)
The former governor and U.N. ambassador toured the Rio Grande in Del Rio while accompanied by Representative Gonzales. The tour took place near an area where more than 30,000 mostly Haitian migrants were held by the Border Patrol in a makeshift campsite in September 2021 after they crossed the Rio Grande. In the time since, the Del Rio Sector of the Border Patrol became one of the top migrant crossing spots nationwide.
Local rancher Marshall Whaley told the Republican presidential candidate that migrant crossings through his property threaten his cattle business. “When our fences get cut, cattle get loose and pose a liability to the public that results in a mandatory quarantine of the animals to reduce the spread of ticks,” Whaley told the ambassador. “That gets costly,” he emphasized.
2024 Republican Presidential Primary Candidate Nikki Haley talks with a Texas rancher about the impact of migrant crossings on his property and business. (Randy Clark/Breitbart Texas)
In March, as reported by Breitbart Texas, more than 161,000 migrants were apprehended by the Border Patrol along the southwest border. According to a source within CBP, of that total, nearly 25,000 migrants were apprehended crossing the Rio Grande within the Del Rio Sector alone.
During the tour, Haley told Breitbart Texas releasing migrants at the border contributed to the current crisis. She added that she supports “catch and deport” instead of “catch and release”.
In South Carolina, Haley signed a law that mandated the statewide use of E-Verify and required police officers to contact federal immigration officials after arresting migrants within the state.
Haley culminated the tour with a press conference in Eagle Pass. The candidate elaborated on the need to designate cartels as foreign terrorist organizations telling reporters, “We have had enough fentanyl cross the border to kill every American citizen — it’s the leading cause of death for people between 18 and 49.” She told reporters actions need to be taken that force China to stop shipments of the drug to Mexico — “China knows what they are doing as well,” Haley stated.
Haley also outlined a stringent platform on immigration including requiring employers to use E-Verify nationwide and the hiring of 25,000 new Border Patrol agents and ICE personnel in place of the 87,000 IRS agents the current administration hopes to hire. Haley says her border plan would prohibit sanctuary states and cities from giving taxpayer funds to migrants as well.
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.
Florida Grand Jury Slams Joe
Biden’s Child-Trafficking
Program
President Joe Biden’s progressive deputies are smuggling children and teenage migrants to U.S.-based labor traffickers and employers, a Florida grand jury declared on March 30.
The federal government “is facilitating the forced migration, sale, and abuse of foreign children, and some of our fellow Florida residents are (in some cases unwittingly) funding and incentivizing it for primarily economic reasons,” the 46-page report published by Florida’s Statewide Prosecutor’s Office said.
The jury’s report, described as “stunning” by the Miami Herald, describes how foreign children and teens are delivered to employers via a relay-chain network of coyotes, cartels, federal agencies, government-funded nonprofits, and U.S.-based labor traffickers. The New York Times sketched the resulting child workforce in a dramatic article on February 25: “Cristian works a construction job instead of going to school. He is 14. … Carolina packages Cheerios at night in a factory. She is 15. … Wander starts looking for day-labor jobs before sunrise. He is 13.”
“It’s outrageous that we are still talking about ending child labor in the United States,” Jessica Vaughan, the policy director at the Center for Immigration Studies, said.
The labor trafficking is aided by many of the progressive groups who loudly denounce Americans’ concerns about illegal migration, Vaughan told Breitbart News:
What’s shameful is that the [groups] attempt to take this moral high ground as if they’re actually helping [migrant] people, when in fact they’re drawing them into forced labor and other abusive situation. … The [groups] are openly in partnership with the government … [and] with the cartels, and they’re participating in the supply of cheap labor to the employers who benefit the most financially from this arrangement of replacing Americans with exploited migrants.
“Every American should be proud to take up this cause of ending child-labor trafficking,” she added.
But, she added, “we have to remember that there are some Republicans who … are also willing to [excuse this labor trafficking] under the myth that we need these workers.”
The GOP legislators who are “offended by this … they’re the ones that really have to take up this cause,” she said.
The Florida grand jury investigated the “Unaccompanied Alien Children” (UAC) program that Biden revived after he took over from President Donald Trump.
The investigation was backed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is trying to show his bona fides on the high-profile migration debate.
The grand jury was overseen by Attorney General Ashley Moody, who is a political ally of DeSantis. In March, Moody also persuaded a judge to block Biden’s massive “parole pathway,” which is intended to import at least 600,000 workers each year for the jobs and homes needed by Americans nationwide.
Biden’s pro-migration deputies, nonprofits, and federal contractors hid much evidence from the jury about the child trafficking, the report said as it described the scale of the problem:
Since January 2021, approximately 165,000 UAC nationwide have been given to someone who is not their parent or legal guardian, approximately 90,000 have been turned over to someone claimed to be a family member without DNA testing and without adequate document verification, and about 30,000 have been surrendered to someone to whom they have no known relation.
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One [delivery] address in Texas had 44 children sent to it; another had 25. One sponsor in Bonita Springs, Florida, had multiple children sent to multiple addresses, and he applied using different versions of his hyphenated surname. One address in Austin, Texas, had more than one hundred UAC released to a single-family dwelling
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ORR [the federal office of Refugee Resettlement] placed eight children with members of a human trafficking ring. The traffickers enticed the children to come into the United States, promising they could attend school. When CBP apprehended the children at the border and placed them in custody, the traffickers applied as sponsors, pretending to be family friends. Once HHS [the department of Health and Human Services] released the children to the traffickers, the traffickers forced them to work on an egg farm in Marion, Ohio for 12 hours a day, six or seven days a week. The children lived in poor conditions, and the traffickers threatened them and their families with physical harm and even death if they did not work and surrender their paychecks.
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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
The report quoted a contractor’s employee who escorted teens and children from government shelters to the labor traffickers: “As one witness put it, ‘I was there. I saw what was going on. These people [ORR and its contractors] are aware of what’s happening. They aren’t naive—they’re complicit.’”
The grand jury concluded that Biden’s reckless participation in the labor trafficking system may violate state law:
This could be construed as facilitating the trafficking of those children, or at a minimum, abandoning them to neglect. To quote §787.06, Florida Statutes (4)(a) Any person having custody or control of a minor who transfers custody or control of such minor, or offers to transfer custody of such minor, with knowledge or in reckless disregard of the fact that, as a consequence of the sale or transfer, the minor will be subject to human trafficking commits a life felony[.]
Moody has already won a major migration case and may sue to block the federal labor-trafficking network in Florida.
The report was released as top Democrats, government-funded migration groups, and their media allies try to hide the problem and dodge the blame for the industrial-age workplace abuse created by their delivery of the coyotes’ child clients to U.S. employers:
For example, Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) asked a token question about the child workforce during a March 28 hearing with the nation’s border chief, Alejandro Mayorkas. In turn, he provided a token answer, saying, “We are focused on addressing the employers who abuse these children and other vulnerable individuals.:”
The Boston Globe publicized some of the excuse-making on May 26:
For some children, earning money is a matter of life or death. Smugglers are often involved with international cartels, said Danielle Pocock, a human trafficking attorney at Ascentria Care Alliance in Worcester. If migrant youths don’t pay what they owe, the cartel may threaten to kill family members or kidnap the child, Pocock said.
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Diego Low, director of the Metrowest Worker Center in Framingham, has helped migrant children as young as 12 who are working on construction sites, including a 15-year-old who fell and broke his femur. But given that laws regulating staffing agencies are so weak, and the debt owed to smugglers is so high, Low usually only goes after the worst offenders.
“If you come up here and owe $15,000 with 6 percent interest per month, what are you going to do?” Low said. “How are we going to pick a fight about them working too much?”
“It’s like this open secret,” Adrian Ventura, said executive director of the Centro Comunitario de Trabajadores workers’ center in New Bedford. “Everybody knows that it’s going on.”
“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.
“Many social justice organizations are falling all over themselves to expose child labor in other countries and demanding that American corporations stop using products made abroad with child labor,” noted Vaughan, adding:
I don’t see anybody out there talking about boycotting Ben & Jerry’s, or divesting themselves of stock in [cereal] factories that children were working in, or calling for a boycott of Hyundai automobiles because of the child labor in their manufacturing plants. They will look the other way if it’s an [politically] inconvenient type of child labor.
Extraction Migration
The federal government has long operated an unpopular economic policy of Extraction Migration.
This colonialism-like policy uses the “Nation of Immigrants” narrative to hide the extraction of human resources from poor countries. This policy reduces beneficial trade but uses the imported workers, renters, and consumers to boost Wall Street, federal tax revenues, 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 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.
FLASHBACK: Sen. Cruz: Democrats’ Inhumane Amnesty Incentivizes Child Trafficking
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