America Faces No Greater Threat Than Joe Biden and the Democrat Party. Their Assault to Our Borders Is As Great As Their Assault to Free Speech and Free Elections
Monday, October 2, 2023
White House: We’re ‘on a Sustainable Fiscal Path’ - WITH 10 MILLION MORE ILLEGALS HELPING US TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED AND KEEP RENTS SOARING! - VIDEO: Veteran, 95, Kicked Out of Nursing Home to Make Room for Illegals This is Biden's America.
Report: Home Prices ‘Unaffordable’ for Average Americans
Average Americans cannot afford to buy a home in a growing number of communities across the United States, according to a report released Thursday by real estate data provider ATTOM.
The report, CBS News noted, details how researchers analyzed 575 United States counties last year and found that 99 percent of those areas have home prices that are out of reach for “the average income earner” making $71,214 a year.
Housing experts blamed a few trends for driving up housing costs.
“Mortgage rates have topped 7%, adding hundreds of dollars per month to a potential house payment,” CBS News reported. “At the same time, homeowners who locked in at lower mortgage rates during the pandemic have opted not to sell out of fear of having to buy another property at today’s elevated rates, depleting the supply of homes for sale.”
Daryl Fairweather, chief economist of Redfin, told CBS MoneyWatch that the only people who are selling right now are “people who really need to move because of a life event — divorce, marriage, new baby, new job, etc.”
“That lack of new inventory is keeping prices high,” Fairweather said.
The National Association of Realtors reported in August that the national median existing-home price was $407,100, up 3.9 percent from last year. Freddie Mac reported that the average interest rate of a 30-year home loan was 7.19 percent, up from 6.48 percent at the beginning of this year.
“The dynamics influencing the U.S. housing market appear to continuously work against everyday Americans, potentially to the point where they could start to have a significant impact on home prices,” ATTOM CEO Rob Barber said in a statement Thursday. “We will see how this shakes out as the peak 2023 buying season winds down.”
Housing experts told the outlet the findings add to a growing body of research showing a lack of affordable housing, especially for younger millennials looking to become home owners.
Dan Hnatkovskyy, co-founder of new home construction startup NewHomesMate, said that many first-time home buyers have “had to postpone their home-buying dreams,” while older buyers with more cash on hand can buy down interest rates or absorb a higher monthly payment as they buy homes across the U.S.
ATTOM defined “unaffordable” as the cost for someone who has to pay more than 28 percent of their income toward a particular home. ATTOM assessed that between a mortgage payment, homeowners’ insurance, and property taxes, home costs would require 35 percent of someone’s annual wages or more.
The cities with the least affordable homes include Los Angeles, Chicago, Phoenix, San Diego, and Orange County, California, ATTOM said. Areas around Cleveland, Detroit, Houston, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh “have the most affordable homes compared with median salaries for residents there,” according to the report.
On Friday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street,” White House National Economic Council Director Lael Brainard asserted that we’re “on a sustainable fiscal path” due to the deal brokered between Congress and the White House on spending a few months ago and defended the spending on legislation passed by the Biden administration.
Co-host Sara Eisen asked, “I’m sure politically there’s blame on both sides, but the toll that you talk about, the way I’m hearing it from investors is, it comes after this big standoff over the debt ceiling, the dysfunction and the inability for both sides to be able to work together to tackle our fiscal picture, which is not looking great, is now costing us AAA credit ratings, warnings of potential more downgrades from the rating agencies. Is there a concern, are you concerned that the bond vigilantes could come after U.S. debt, and we could be looking at persistently higher rates as a result of what’s happening or not happening in Washington?”
Brainard responded, “I am concerned that House Republicans don’t seem to understand what they are putting at risk here, and, again, completely unnecessarily. If you think about it, they’re right back at it. It was just three months ago that the president sat down with Speaker McCarthy, House Republicans, House Democrats, Senate Republicans, Senate Democrats, and the president all came together, did a deal, and the deal was very clear on the budget parameters. And yet, here we are, just three months later, rehashing the same issues with even more draconian cuts being put on the table at the threat by House Republicans of shutting the government down. It is an unnecessary risk, and I really hope they’ll take the opportunity they have to act and to avoid it.”
Eisen then asked, “But doesn’t the administration take on some of the blame at least for the fiscal picture and the outlook and the fact that all of this legislation — and a lot of it is good stuff for the investment and for the future of our country — but is costing a lot of money and is going to increase the needs, the borrowing needs next year, the Inflation Reduction Act, the CHIPS Act, the Infrastructure Act, that’s all coming, and that’s all part of it, and it’s all part of what’s been frustrating to Republicans?”
Brainard answered, “So, really, Senate Republicans have come together, joined hands with Senate Democrats, and have put out a path forward for keeping the government open. And have been taking action that’s in line with the agreement that was reached back just three months ago that did put the country on a sustainable fiscal path with $1 trillion in spending cuts. If you look at the economy, we just got those second-quarter GDP numbers yesterday, and a big, important part of that was business investment. Business investment is responding to these great investment incentives to build here in America, employ Americans, to invest in the future of the country, whether it be in semiconductors or in the clean energy transition. So, we’re seeing a lot of really strong, long-term investments as a result of that important certainty that investors are getting in that legislation.”
The Biden administration’s policies can be summed up as “America Last.” Watch this short video in which a 95-year-old veteran of the Korean War speaks to reporters about having been booted from his nursing home on short notice in order to make way for the people Democrats always prioritize over citizens and veterans: illegal aliens.
Hollywood star James Woods went for Joe Biden’s throat in a Wednesday post blasting Joe Biden’s dangerous crisis at the southern border.
The famously conservative actor slammed the president with an X post reading, “Biden’s border tsunami is beyond a nightmare.”
Woods’ comment came in reply to a press conference by Alabama’s Republican U.S. Senator Katie Britt who was seen excoriating Biden’s immigration failures and blasting the media for refusing to report on it all.
Britt spoke about her recent trip to the border where she met and talked to illegal immigrants who face extreme peril and death in their attempt to walk through Joe Biden’s wide open border.
“We walked through and we got to hear women tell us their stories,” Sen. Britt said of her visit to the border, “and their stories are brutalizing.”
She then blasted the press to their faces, for ignoring these horrendous stories of what these illegals go through. “That’s on you,” she said pointing accusingly at the press in the room.
“Because when a woman sits there and she tells you a story not about just being raped,” Britt continued, directly addressing the media before her, “but how many times a day she’s raped. When she tells you about having to lay that bed, while they come in and out, and in and out, it’s disgusting and it’s despicable.”
“Folks, you look at the number of people that have died at the border because Joe Biden has made it more and more enticing to come here,” she said. “Make no mistake, this is a result of failed policy. We can fix this. We can’t throw money at this and fix it. We have to actually change the policy.”
“I looked in the eyes of CBP agents who said ‘We’re exhausted. We’re not only having to be paper-pushers, we’re also trying to do what we took an oath of office to do, and that is protect this border,'” she continued. “But when they tell you about finding small children who had drowned in that river, or pulling the lifeless body of a woman who was pregnant with twins, it changes the way you think about what’s happening.”
“Drug cartel, guys, they have the tentacles all over this country. We need you to start telling that story,” Britt added in a plea to the news-avoiding media.
“They will tell you exactly how much they paid to get here,” Britt said of the migrants she met, “then they’ll tell you where they’re going, what their job’s going to be, and how much more they owe. Got it? And guess what? Just the other day in Alabama a gentleman told me, ‘You will come back here with me in this neighborhood right behind you, you will see migrants who are here illegally, and they will tell you about the drug cartels coming around every other week to collect.”
“Guys, that’s not the American dream,” Britt concluded. “That’s an American nightmare.”
Woods, who last year noted that if you “scratch a liberal you will find a fascist every time,” and Alabama Sen. Britt are 100 percent correct. Joe Biden has created a nightmare for illegals who are beaten, raped, forced to carry illegal drugs, and then forced into a potential lifetime of servitude to the drug cartels just to get a chance to walk across our southern border in violation of our immigration laws.
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In March, for instance, the group Doctors Without Borders identified the sexual violence that illegals face on the way to our border as widespread and endemic.
While solid numbers are very difficult to compute, in 2017, the group felt up to 32 percent of illegals women are raped on their way to the USA. Today, with the ubiquity of the control the cartels have over the trek, it may be even worse.
Woods is on point when he pins this wave of sexual abuse, rapes, torture, enslavement, and violence on Joe Biden. His open door policies have created a hell on earth for millions of economic migrants desperately trying to come to the U.S.A.
Border Patrol agents assigned to the nine southwest border sectors apprehended more than two million migrants for the second consecutive year. September’s apprehension of approximately 218,000 migrants pushed the Fiscal Year 23 report to just over two million migrants, according to unofficial Border Patrol reports reviewed by Breitbart Texas.
Since President Joe Biden took office in January 2021, Border Patrol agents apprehended more than 5.7 million migrants who illegally crossed the southwest border between ports of entry, the reports indicate.
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In September, the last month of the fiscal year, Border Patrol agents apprehended just over 218,000 migrants, unofficial reports revealed. This brought the total for the year to approximately 2,045,000 migrant apprehensions. In addition, Border Patrol officials classified an additional 664,000 migrants as known got-aways.
In contrast, during President Donald Trump’s last full fiscal year in office, agents apprehended only 400,651. During the last two months alone, agents apprehended 399,000 migrants.
The two million migrant apprehensions do not include migrants who entered the country through the CBP One app and other immigration blanket parole programs not authorized by Congress. Official U.S. Customs and Border Protection reports that include these numbers are not expected to be released until the end of October.
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Following the end of Title 42 on May 11, the Biden administration relished in a brief decline in migrant apprehensions along the border. In June, agents apprehended 99,543 migrants. During that time, migrants and human smuggling cartels re-evaluated the Biden border security and immigration plans, pushing another surge of migrants to the border. Since the low point in June, apprehensions jumped approximately 119 percent to September’s 218,000.
Migrant apprehensions exceeded 200,000 per month in four months during the fiscal year. Two additional months exceeded 180,000.
Despite the recent surge in the Tucson and Del Rio Sectors, the El Paso Sector finished the year in first place with the apprehension of more than 426,000 migrants. Del Rio finished the year in second place with the arrest of nearly 400,000 migrants. The Tucson, Rio Grande Valley, and San Diego Sectors rounded out the top five with 374,000, 338,000, and 230,000 respectively.
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In September, Tucson Sector agents apprehended more than 51,000 migrants. Del Rio finished second with nearly 48,000 apprehensions. The Rio Grande Valley Sector finished in third with more than 45,000 apprehensions.
In the five Texas-based Border Patrol sectors, agents apprehended nearly 134,000 of the 218,000 September apprehensions (61 percent). This brought the FY23 total for the Texas-based sectors to more than 1.2 million of the 2.045 million apprehensions (60 percent).
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.
Bob Price is the Breitbart Texas-Border team’s associate editor and senior news contributor. 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.
EDITOR’S NOTE: The September and FY23 year-end totals referenced above came from unofficial Border Patrol reports obtained from multiple law enforcement agencies. Official reports from U.S. Customs and Border Protection are not expected to be released until late October.
Migrant Surge in Texas Border Town Outpacing Haitian Crisis of 2021
EAGLE PASS, Texas — An estimated 1,500 mostly Venezuelan migrants entered the small border town of Eagle Pass, Texas, during the late evening hours on Tuesday. The latest group of migrants to surrender to authorities brings the eight-day total of migrant crossings to more than 16,000. It took ten full days in September 2021 for 15,000 mostly Haitian migrants to ford the river during the infamous immigration surge in Del Rio.
In just over a week, Breitbart Texas observed more than 16,000 migrants stream across the Rio Grande from Piedras Negras, Coahuila, to Eagle Pass. Despite the heavy presence of local, state, and federal law enforcement, Texas military soldiers, and layers of razor wire, the migrants crossed the border into Texas unscathed. Border Patrol agents scrambled to find transportation to quickly move the migrants from the highly visible park in Eagle Pass to grossly overcrowded detention centers.
Media swarmed to the Eagle Pass area to cover the current migrant crisis, due in part, to the easy access for photojournalists to the staging area. In contrast, the 15,000 mostly Haitian migrants were detained outdoors in the grueling heat for days on end in an area not visible to media cameras.
During the Haitian crisis, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas claimed he did not know the migrants were coming in these large numbers. However, Breitbart’s coverage of the growing crisis proved there was no way he could not have known.
For nearly a month, constant news reports from Breitbart Texas followed the migrant population count and eventually about the population at the camp. These data did not escape the intelligence-gathering capabilities of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The government’s own press releases helped to tally the arrivals.
In early September, 500 migrants were detained by DHS at the camp. By September 12, 1,500 were detained. By the end of that same day, 2,000 had arrived. On the 14th, 3,000 were living in squalor below the bridge. By the 15th, 5,000 had arrived without a federal response.
Border Patrol agents in Eagle Pass hold the large group of mostly Venezuelan migrants under the international bridge while awaiting transportation. (Randy Clark/Breitbart Texas)
More than 2,000 migrants crossed the border into Eagle Pass by midnight on Tuesday morning. This has become an average day for migrant apprehensions during the past eight days as more than 16,000 migrants crossed into the small Texas border town. Eagle Pass has a population of less than 30,000 people.
As migrants continued crossing the border on Tuesday, border agents received a surprise visit from their boss, U.S. Border Patrol Chief Jason Owens. The chief praised his agents for how quickly they were able to process the migrants — a sharp contrast from the 2021 Haitian crisis where migrants were left in the heat for days.
USBP Chief Jason Owens tours the Texas border crisis in Eagle Pass. (Randy Clark/Breitbart Texas)
“I want you to notice the efforts of our Border Patrol agents, the spirit, drive, and determination that the men and women who wear this uniform have, who come in each and every day to face the overwhelming challenges they face managing not only this influx, but trying to maintain the border security mission that keeps all of our communities safe,” Owens emphasized.
One day earlier, a group of Republican congressmen from Texas and New York visited the same location to get a first-hand look at the current crisis.
Republican representatives demand border solutions be achieved through the congressional “Power of the Purse.” (Photos: Breitbart Texas)
Some of the representatives demanded that solutions to the ongoing border security crisis be tied to the looming budget talks.
After the day’s border tour, Congressman Tony Gonzales (R-TX) told reporters, “Now more than ever, Congress needs to pass a strong budget that puts a stop to Biden’s open-borders agenda. This should not be a partisan issue.”
West Texas Congressman Jodey Arrington added, “Congress is broken. It’s hard to have any hope they’re going to do much about the border crisis, but we are going to push and use the power of the purse.”
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.
Bob Price is the Breitbart Texas-Border team’s associate editor and senior news contributor. 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.
12K Migrants Apprehended in Arizona Border Sector in One Week
Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended more than 12,000 migrants during the past week. Unofficial Border Patrol reports reviewed by Breitbart Texas reveal the apprehension of approximately 50,000 migrants so far this month.
Tucson Sector Chief Patrol Agent John R. Modlin posted a report on social media showing that his agents apprehended 12,000 migrants during the past week. The agents also carried out approximately 700 rescues of migrants in distress in the Arizona desert.
Modlin stated that the agents also arrested approximately 150 people on federal criminal charges. The report also reveals 17 human smuggling interdictions and ten drug seizures.
One week earlier, Modlin reported the apprehension of 11,000 migrants in the same sector. One of those migrants was a convicted rapist who was deported after a conviction in the state of Washington.
With one day to go in the fiscal year, Tucson Sector agents have apprehended more than 372,000 migrants. This includes official and unofficial Border Patrol reports reviewed by Breitbart Texas.
Official numbers for September and the year-end report for FY23 will likely be released late in October.
Bob Price is the Breitbart Texas-Border team’s associate editor and senior news contributor. 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.
1,800 Migrants Pour into Texas Border Town in Single Day as Crisis Continues
EAGLE PASS, Texas — According to a source within U.S. Customs and Border Protection, nearly 1,800 migrants were apprehended entering the small Texas border town of Eagle Pass, Texas, on Monday. Nearly 1,400 migrants made landfall along the Rio Grande in the heart of the downtown area. The migrants were quickly moved to a Border Patrol processing facility that is already nearly five times over its capacity of 1,000 migrants.
Hundreds of migrants apprehended by the Border Patrol made their way to the Texas border on freight trains in the Mexican city of Nava, Coahuila, on Sunday. The migrants walked 27 miles to reach the border city of Piedras Negras, Coahuila. In a scene that has repeated itself daily, Breitbart Texas observed migrants crossing the river in large groups of more than one hundred being staged for transport under the Eagle Pass International Bridge 1, which has been closed since Wednesday. The Biden administration closed the bridge to legal border crossings while the illegal crossings continued unabated.
Adding to the migrants arriving in Piedras Negras by freight train are hundreds that arrive by bus and other means to the border city as they make their way to the United States. The source told Breitbart the story of migrant crossings elsewhere is being missed.
“The optics of the huge wave of migrants that come into the downtown area require the bulk of our agents to deal with, but they aren’t the only ones crossing,” the source explained. “Large groups are arriving in Piedras Negras by bus and crossing through more remote areas as well.”
In addition to the nearly 1,400 migrants crossing into the heart of Eagle Pass, nearly 400 more were discovered farther from the city. The number of migrant encounters by one of two Border Patrol stations in Eagle Pass reached more than 1,700 by day’s end, according to the source. The station’s area of responsibility is centered around the incorporated areas of the city. The Del Rio Sector’s other station in Eagle Pass is responsible for more remote areas where migrant crossings occur in smaller numbers but whose Border Patrol agents are also tasked with assisting in the current migrant crossing spike in the downtown area.
The source told Breitbart Texas nearly 15,000 migrants have crossed into Eagle Pass in the last eight days. The unprecedented migrant surge has strained the agency’s resources, impacting routine patrols outside a small footprint in the city.
“These daily crossings take every available Border Patrol agent to deal with, whether transporting, processing, or providing humanitarian services under the bridge, we have no one left to patrol ranches outside the city,” the source lamented.
As reported by Breitbart Texas, nearly 600,000 migrants are believed to have eluded apprehension this fiscal year, according to the Border Patrol. The number of known got-a-ways is likely much higher, according to the source, as fewer Border Patrol agents are performing the routine patrols relied upon to gather the data.
The mayor of Eagle Pass issued a disaster declaration last week in hopes of receiving additional funding to deal with the crisis. City workers cleared debris from land near the international ports of entry to accommodate the Border Patrol’s need to stage the migrants underneath the bridge. The city has also provided all-weather road materials to assist with bus access to move the migrants.
The city’s 7-day disaster declaration will expire on Tuesday and require a vote of the City Council to extend.
So far this month, more than 35,000 migrants have been apprehended in the Del Rio Sector that includes the Eagle Pass area of operations, according to Border Patrol reports reviewed by Breitbart Texas.
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.
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