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Dem NJ Mayor: We Turned Away Migrant Bus Because It’s ‘Major Security Risk’ — Don’t Know If They’re Armed

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IAN HANCHETT

2 Jan 2024

While speaking to New York ABC affiliate WABC on Monday, Edison, New Jersey Mayor Sam Joshi (D) stated that he turned a bus full of migrants sent to the city back because local police “did not know if any of those 40 individuals were carrying weapons, they couldn’t be identified.” And this is “a major security risk. It’s a health risk. And we’re just not going to tolerate that.” Joshi, who plans to send migrants back to the border, also stated that he doesn’t want to pawn problems off on other mayors.

WABC New Jersey Reporter Toni Yates stated, “The town of Edison, however, has its own answer: A charter bus to send migrants back to the southern border. The bus that arrived the other night was simply ordered to leave.”

She then played a clip of Joshi saying, “Edison Township Police officers did not know if any of those 40 individuals were carrying weapons, they couldn’t be identified. And that is a major problem. That’s a major security risk. It’s a health risk. And we’re just not going to tolerate that.”

After mentioning other arrivals in Edison over the summer and how other mayors say “help and order” are key, Yates played a clip of Joshi stating that “The solution for me, as the Mayor of Edison, is not to pawn it off to another mayor.”

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REPORT: Monthly Migrant Encounters in December Exceed 300K for First Time

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BOB PRICE

2 Jan 2024

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For the first time ever, migrant encounters along the southern border exceeded 300,000 in a single month, according to a report citing unofficial CBP sources. The report states December was the highest month in history for migrant encounters along the southwest border.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials, including Border Patrol agents and CBP OFO officer, encountered 302,000 migrants along the southwest border in December, according to an official source speaking with Fox News on Tuesday. The reported encounters set a new single-month record for CBP encounters and mark the first time this number has exceeded the 300,000-migrant threshold.

If the numbers reported by Fox News are accurate, this brings the first-quarter total number of encounters to more than 785,000 migrants.

The majority of the 302,000 reported migrant encounters in December were migrants apprehended by Border Patrol agents after illegally crossing the border between ports of entry. During the first 28 days of December, that number exceeded 232,000, Breitbart Texas reported.

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The historic surge in migrant apprehensions is hitting the Del Rio and Tucson Sectors especially hard. During the first 21 days of December, Tucson Sector Chief Patrol Agent John Modlin reported his sector apprehended nearly 74,000 migrant apprehensions. This represents the largest single-month total for the Tucson Sector since the last year of the Clinton administration, when agents encountered 76,245 in March 2020. In contrast, during FY20, President Donald Trump’s last full year in office, Tucson Sector agents apprehended only 66,076 migrants.

Del Rio Sector Acting Chief Patrol Agent John Bernal reported the apprehension of more than  22,000 migrants during the week before Christmas — plus another 1,600 known gotaways.

During the first two months of Fiscal Year 24, which began on October 1, Del Rio Sector agents apprehended 81,159 migrants who illegally crossed the border between ports of entry. This represents an apprehension rate of approximately 1,330 migrants per day. The daily apprehension rate in December appears to be in the 2,500 to 3,000 migrants range.

On New Year’s Day, overcrowded NGO shelters and Border Patrol processing centers forced federal officials to release busloads of migrants directly onto the streets of Eagle Pass, Breitbart’s Randy Clark reported. “Most of the migrants huddled outside a local transportation company, hoping to make a quick exit from the small border city,” Clark wrote.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection will report official numbers for December in mid-January.

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. He also serves as president of Blue Wonder Gun Care Products. Follow him on Twitter @BobPriceBBTX.

Released Migrants Overwhelm Texas Border Town on New Year’s Day

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RANDY CLARK

2 Jan 2024

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EAGLE PASS, Texas — With non-government migrant shelters at capacity and closed for the New Year’s Day holiday, the Border Patrol was forced to release migrants directly onto the streets of Eagle Pass. Most of the migrants huddled outside a local transportation company, hoping to make a quick exit from the small border city. The transportation hub is only a block from an official port of entry that has been closed for weeks due to the latest border surge hitting the small community of 30,000 residents.

Breitbart Texas posted near the transportation hub and spoke to several released migrants walking through the heart of downtown Eagle Pass. One migrant woman, who walked along the sidewalk with her two small children, says she cannot afford the cost of transportation to leave the city and hopes the local non-government shelter, Mission Border Hope, will help her. Guadalupe, a 30-year-old Venezuelan national, says she hopes to make her way to Chicago to meet a friend who entered the United States several weeks ago.

Guadalupe says she left Venezuela after a divorce that left her to take care of her two sons, who are less than five years old. Although migrant crossings have slowed in recent days, the Border Patrol is still dealing with the aftermath of a surge that saw more than 22,000 migrant apprehensions during the third week of December. According to the Border Patrol, the releases are a last resort to alleviate overcrowding at a processing facility near Eagle Pass and surrounding Border Patrol Stations within the Del Rio Sector, which includes Eagle Pass.

According to a source within CBP, not authorized to speak to the media, nearly 1,500 migrants are released daily, mostly to non-government migrant shelters. When the shelters reach capacity or close for holidays, the migrants are released directly onto the city streets. Although most quickly leave the border city for other parts of the United States, the cost of providing emergency medical care to the migrants is costing the city’s fire department more than $20,000 daily, according to city officials.

The decision to close the city’s international bridge in late November also negatively impacts local businesses relying on legal border crossers to augment sales during the holiday season. Wait times to cross the border at the city’s only open port of entry are reported to be as high as 10-12 hours. The excessive wait time is discouraging many legitimate border crossers from making the trip into Eagle Pass from neighboring Piedras Negras, Mexico, a city of more than 200,000 residents.

The release of nearly 1,500 migrants in just one border town daily is a bad sign for many sanctuary cities far from the border that are struggling to deal with the cost of providing the migrants with shelter and care. Less than a week ago, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson joined New York City Mayor Eric Adams and Denver Mayor Mike Johnson in a joint video press conference to renew pleas to the Biden Administration to provide more funding to cover the costs incurred due to the increase in migrant arrivals.

According to Chicago Mayor Johnson, the city is currently providing shelter to 15,000 migrants. Despite a recent city ordinance that bans buses carrying migrants to the city without proper coordination with the city and imposes a $3,000 fine for violations, Johnson says an estimated 500 migrants arrived daily over the Christmas weekend in rogue buses.

During the press conference, Johnson directed his anger at the State of Texas, saying:

Texas bus operators continue to willfully break the law by disregarding regulations designed to ensure the safety of asylum seekers arriving in Chicago. To date, 95 buses have been cited in violation of the ordinance, two buses have been impounded and three buses have been issued ANOVs (Administrative Notice of Violations) for illegal sewage dumping.

Guadalupe, the Venezuelan mother of two released on New Year’s Day in Eagle Pass, told Breitbart Texas she hopes to reach Chicago as soon as possible despite the cold weather. “Anything is better than Venezuela at this point. What do we have to lose?” she emphasized.

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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NYC and Chicago Aren’t Fighting Texas, They’re Fighting Migrants

So much for sanctuary cities.

January 2, 2024 by Daniel Greenfield 4 Comments

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The mayors of Chicago and New York City have spent months acting as if Texas Gov. Abbott or Florida’s Gov. DeSantis busing migrants out is some sort of kidnapping or human trafficking. New York City and Chicago began cracking down on migrant buses while claiming that they’re happy to have the migrants, they’re just trying to make things better for everyone.

So the buses just started dropping off NYC bound migrants in Jersey.

Busloads of asylum seekers headed for the Big Apple are thwarting Mayor Eric Adams’ crackdown on arrivals by being dropped off in New Jersey and jumping on a train to reach their “final destination” — turning a family-friendly Garden State suburb into a migrant hub.

“From what we understand, after being dropped at the train station the migrants then took trains to New York City,” Mayor Michael Gonnelli said in a statement.

“It seems quite clear the bus operators are finding a way to thwart the requirements of the Executive Order by dropping migrants at the train station in Secaucus and having them continue to their final destination.”

He claimed that bus operators have “figured out a loophole in the system” to circumnavigate a new order and ensure the migrants reach New York City.

There’s no ‘loophole’ here.

It’s very obvious that the migrants want to come to NYC and get all the free stuff. The buses can drop them off in Jersey and they’ll just take a train into New York City. No one is forcing them to do this. And NYC and Chicago are trying to stop migrants, not buses.

At some point everyone involved needs to admit that.

It isn’t, as I’ve said before, even clear as to what percentage of the migrants are being bused in by Gov. Abbott from Texas and what percentage are traveling on the low-cost charter buses that routinely move immigrants, legal and illegal, across the country.

The Republican busing campaigns are relatively small and they’re not what is bringing NYC or Chicago to their knees.

Democrats and the media have kept repeating the lie that the issue is the busing. And in some ways busing is even a little bit unhelpful because it allows them to divert attention from the migrants and to blame it all on conservative governors. But this isn’t about Texas. NYC and Chicago aren’t trying to ban buses, they’re trying to ban migrants. So much for sanctuary cities.

Daniel Greenfield

Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.

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