JUDICIAL WATCH:
“The greatest criminal threat to the
daily lives
of American citizens are the Mexican drug
cartels.”
“Mexican drug cartels
are the “other” terrorist threat to America. Militant Islamists have the goal
of destroying the United States. Mexican drug cartels are now
accomplishing that mission – from within, every day, in virtually every community
across this country.” JUDICIALWATCH
"An
important factor in our long-term
success requires
securing our borders,"
Attorney
General Sessions said.
Overall, in the 2017 Fiscal Year, officials revealed that a
record-breaking 455,000 pounds plus of drugs had already been seized. In 2016,
that number amounted to 443,000 pounds. The 2017 haul is worth an estimated
$6.1 billion – BREITBART – JEFF SESSION’S DRUG BUST ON SAN DIEGO
Somali Who Executed Canadian Terror Attack Entered U.S. Via Mexico
OCTOBER 20, 2017
Somali Who Executed Canadian Terror Attack Entered U.S. Via
Mexico OCTOBER 2 0 , 2 0 1 7 The Somali terrorist who stabbed a Canadian police
officer and ran over four pedestrians a few weeks ago entered the United States
through the Mexican border and was released by Obama’s Department of Homeland
Security (DHS), allowing him to continue his journey north. The ISIS operative,
Abdulahi Hasan Sharif, was ordered deported, an Immigration and Customs
Enforcement (ICE) spokeswoman told various media outlets recently, but was
released on an “order of supervision” and the feds never saw him again. Sharif
entered the U.S. in 2011 through the San Ysidro port of entry in California
without documentation and was briefly held at the Otay Mesa Detention Center in
San Diego, a local newspaper reported. A year later he crossed the border into
Canada and settled in Edmonton after being granted refugee status. On September
30 he slammed into an Edmonton police officer with his car then got out of the
vehicle and repeatedly stabbed the cop with a knife. After fleeing the scene,
Sharif stole a truck and deliberately mowed down four pedestrians. Canadian
authorities found an ISIS flag in his car and have charged him with multiple
counts of attempted murder, criminal flight causing bodily harm and possession
of a weapon. Two years ago, Canadian authorities investigated the 30-year-old
terrorist for espousing extremist views. It’s disturbing that Sharif’s
northbound trek took him through the U.S.-Mexico border. As part of an ongoing
investigation into cartels, corruption and terrorism, Judicial Watch has for
years reported that Islamic extremists are entering the country through Mexico
and that ISIS is operating in border towns just miles from American cities.
Judicial Watch launched the project in 2014 by exposing a sophisticated
narco-terror ring with strong ties to ISIS and connections running from El Paso
to Chicago to New York City. Two of the FBI’s most wanted were embroiled in the
operation that also had deep ties to Mexico. Less than a year later, Judicial
Watch reported that ISIS is operating in a Mexican border town 10/20/2017
Somali Who Executed Canadian Terror Attack Entered U.S. Via Mexico - Judicial
Watch
https://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2017/10/somali-executed-canadian-terror-attack-entered-u-s-via-mexico/
2/4 just eight miles from El Paso, the result of Islamic terrorists joining
forces with drug cartels and human smugglers knowns as “coyotes.” When Judicial
Watch reported that Mexican cartels were smuggling foreigners from countries
with terrorist links into a small Texas rural town, federal authorities
publicly denied the story was true. Never the less, high-level sources on both sides
of the border confirmed to Judicial Watch that foreigners, classified as
Special Interest Aliens (SIA), were being transported to stash areas in Acala,
a rural crossroads located around 54 miles from El Paso on a state road –
Highway 20. Once in the U.S., the SIAs waited for pick-up in the area’s sand
hills just across Highway 20. At the time a Texas Department of Public Safety
report leaked by the media had already confirmed that for years members of
known Islamist terrorist organizations had been apprehended crossing the
southern border. Last year a high-ranking DHS official told Judicial Watch that
Mexican drug traffickers help Islamic terrorists stationed in Mexico cross into
the United States to explore targets for future attacks. Among the jihadists
that travel back and forth through the porous southern border is a Kuwaiti
named Shaykh Mahmood Omar Khabir, an ISIS operative who lives in the Mexican
state of Chihuahua not far from El Paso. Khabir trained hundreds of Al Qaeda
fighters in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Yemen and has lived in Mexico for more
than a year, according to information provided by Judicial Watch’s government
source. Now Khabir trains thousands of men—mostly Syrians and Yemenis—to fight
in an ISIS base situated in the Mexico-U.S. border region near Ciudad Juárez,
the intelligence gathered by Judicial Watch’s source reveals. Staking out U.S.
targets is not difficult and Khabir actually bragged in an Italian newspaper
article that the border region is so open that he “could get in with a handful
of men, and kill thousands of people in Texas or in Arizona in the space of a
few hours.” In the same article Mexico’s top diplomat, Foreign Affairs
Secretary Claudia Ruiz, said “this new wave of fundamentalism could have nasty
surprises in store for the United States.” While much of the American
mainstream media ignores that Sharif made it to Canada via the U.S.-Mexico
border, it’s hardly surprising considering Islamic extremists have been
infiltrating the country through the famously unprotected region for years.
Referring to the recent Canadian attack, a think-tank dedicated to
investigating the operations, funding, activities and front groups of Islamic
extremists worldwide writes: “Fears about a terrorist using the U.S.-Mexican
border as a gateway for an attack have been realized.” « « Toward The Past:
U.S. Doesn’t Vet or Assure Departure of Counterterrorism Trainees from
Developing Nation
October 21, 2017
Report: More than 150 Afghan officers training in America have gone AWOL
According to a report from the special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction, 152 soldiers from the Afghan army who had been selected for special training in the United States have gone AWOL while on U.S. soil.
According to the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, 13 of the 152 who had gone AWOL were still at large as of March 7 of this year. Seventy of the 152 had fled the United States; 39 gained legal status in the U.S.; and 27 were arrested, removed or in the process of being removed from the U.S. Three no longer were AWOL or returned to their training base in the U.S."There are so many problems here, it’s hard to know where to start," Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, said in a statement. "This is bad for national security, bad for Afghan military readiness, and bad for U.S. taxpayers."AWOL Afghans are considered a security risk in the U.S. because they have military training and are of fighting age, and relatively few are ever arrested or detained.Nearly all the Afghans who fled since 2005 were officers. Most were what the military calls "company grade" officers, meaning they were at the rank of lieutenant or captain. The prevalence of this group to abandon training posts is "particularly alarming," the report said, given the officers' important role in maintaining the overall readiness of the Afghan military.The Afghans have fled from posts across America, including Lackland Air Force Base in Texas, where they are required to take English-language training; Fort Rucker, Ala.; Fort Benning, Ga.; Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., and Fort Huachuca, Ariz.The report cited numerous bureaucratic impediments to catching AWOL Afghans. They are required to provide limited biographical and background information while in the U.S., which can make it difficult to track them down, it said. Also, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents cannot take any action to locate a missing Afghan trainee until the departments of Defense and State take certain actions to revoke the individual's official status. This delays the start of an ICE investigation in which time is of the essence, the report said.
With so many "green on blue" attacks in Afghanistan carried out by rogue Afghan soldiers, you would think the U.S. would carefully vet any Afghan army personnel before they got to the United States. The fact that they are required to provide only "limited biographical and background information" is extremely troubling.
The fact that there is only a small risk that any of these AWOL soldiers will become terrorists, or were infiltrated into the U.S. by the Taliban, is beside the point. It's a risk we shouldn't have to run if officials had done their job correctly.
JAMES WALSH
THE OBAMA HISPANICAZATION of AMERICA
How the Democrat party
surrendered America to Mexico:
“The
watchdogs at Judicial Watch discovered documents that reveal how the Obama
administration's close coordination with the Mexican government entices
Mexicans to hop over the fence and on to the American dole.” Washington
Times
U.S. Mayor Assures Mexican Consul His “Sanctuary City” Will
Provide Safe Spaces for Illegal Aliens
U.S. Mayor Assures Mexican Consul His “Sanctuary City” Will
Provide Safe Spaces for Illegal Aliens
OCTOBER
10, 2017
Shortly after Donald Trump got elected president, a California mayor arranged a
meeting with the Consul General of Mexico to assure the diplomat that his
“sanctuary city” will continue providing safe spaces for illegal immigrants,
according to records obtained
by Judicial Watch. The documents show that Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguin’s top
aide, Stefan Elgstrand, sent an electronic mail to the Mexican Consul General
in San Francisco, Gemi Jose Gonzalez Lopez, stating the following: “The recent
events around Trump’s executive order reminded me to reach out to you. We are a
sanctuary city and will continue to be. I imagine you are very busy dealing
with the concerns and fears of many residents in the Bay Area, and we want to
assist in providing safe spaces for them.”
Judicial Watch obtained the files as part of a
California Public Records Act request for information surrounding riots by the
radical leftist Antifa movement against President Trump and conservative
personalities scheduled to speak at the University of California Berkeley.
Media reported that
fires were set, fences and windows broken, firebombs launched and commercial-grade
fireworks thrown at police. A renowned, San Francisco-based pop culture
magazine wrote that
the uprising raised some big questions about the future of the free speech
movement. Judicial Watch requested the files to shed light into how city,
police and university officials handled the lawlessness, which received global
news coverage. The request asked for records of communications between
officials in the Berkeley mayor’s office and the Berkeley Police Department as
well as records of communications between the mayor’s office and officials at
UC Berkeley, one of the nation’s top public research universities.
The documents show a coordinated effort between
Democratic city officials nationwide to “build the movement to resist Trump.”
The operation is being financed by leftwing billionaire philanthropist George
Soros through one of his groups called Center of Popular Democracy. Earlier
this year Judicial Watch uncovered a scandal in
which the U.S. government quietly gave millions of taxpayer dollars to destabilize
the democratically elected, center-right government in Macedonia by colluding
with Soros’ Open Society Foundation. The U.S. Ambassador to Macedonia, Jess L. Baily, worked behind the scenes with Open
Society Foundation to funnel large sums of American dollars for the cause,
constituting an interference of the U.S. Ambassador in domestic political
affairs in violation of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations. The cash
flowed through the State Department and the famously corrupt U.S. Agency of
International Development (USAID) and Judicial Watch sued both
agencies for records related to funding and political activities of the Open
Society Foundation in Macedonia.
The Soros-backed, northern California movement
includes a taxpayer-salaried physics professor at UC Berkeley who advises Mayor
Arreguin on how to handle conservative protestors at a spring rally. The
professor, James McFadden, tells the mayor in an electronic mail obtained by
Judicial Watch to “create a corral” and ask the Trump supporters to “get in the
corral.” He describes Trump supporters as “delusional and paranoid about the
world around them” and says they’re “willing to use violence to impose that
order on us, especially when they have the blessing of a narcissistic authoritarian
president.” A professor at another California public university tells the
Berkeley mayor that the arrest of Antifa leader/middle school teacher Yvette
Felarca for assaulting a political opponent (captured on video) at a Sacramento rally, in which
seven people were stabbed, was a “McCarthyist political persecution” and he
condemned Felarca’s arrest and teaching suspension “in the strongest possible
terms.”
Ironically, Berkeley’s official government website brags
about being a bastion of the free speech movement. “In Alameda County alone,
Berkeley is ranked fourth in population behind Oakland, Fremont, and Hayward,”
the website states. “And yet, we are famous around the globe as a center for
academic achievement, scientific exploration, free speech and the arts.”
Indeed, Berkeley is renowned as the birthplace of the free speech movement in
in the 1960s. An opinion piece in
a California newspaper points out that the city’s free speech movement has gone
full circle, however. “Nowadays, Berkeley is rapidly becoming famed as one of
the least tolerant cities in the country — where any challenge to left-wing
orthodoxy is met with terrorist threats and mob violence.”
ILLEGALS & WELFARE
70% OF ILLEGALS GET WELFARE!
“According to the Centers for Immigration Studies, April '11, at least 70% of Mexican illegal alien families receive some type of welfare in the US!!! cis.org”
CIS
So when cities across the country declare that they will NOT be sanctuary, guess where ALL the illegals, criminals, gang members fleeing ICE will go???? straight to your welcoming city. So ironically the people fighting for sanctuary city status, may have an unprecedented crime wave to deal with along with the additional expense.
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$17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies.
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$12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of English.
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$22 billion is spent on (AFDC) welfare to illegal aliens each year.
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$2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs such as (SNAP) food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens.
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$3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens.
30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens. Does not include local jails and State Prisons.
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2012 illegal aliens sent home $62 BILLION in remittances back to their countries of origin. This is why Mexico is getting involved in our politics.
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$200 Billion Dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused by the illegal aliens.
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Nearly One Million Sex Crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants In The United States.
HOW “CHEAP” IS ALL THAT INVADING “CHEAP” LABOR?
Natalio Vitervo-Vasquez was deported twice but returned to provide “cheap” labor. He can’t read or write and raped his 10-year-old daughter.
“Prosecutors say the girl, who was 11-years-old at the time, went to a medical center where it was determined she was pregnant. Officials say she would have conceived the child at ten years of age.”
Judicial Watch: Sanctuary Cities Denied 284 ICE Detainers for Criminal Illegals in 3 Months
(CNSNews.com) -- After filing a lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the government watchdog group Judicial Watch was able to obtain documents showing that sanctuary cities (and counties) all across the nation refused to help with 248 ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) detainers on criminal illegal aliens in the first three months of 2017.
"These new documents confirm that sanctuary policies are dangerous and help the worst of the worst criminal element," said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton in a statement.
"The complaints of sanctuary politicians aside," said Fitton, "the Trump administration must catalogue the continued threat to the public safety caused by lawless sanctuary policies."
Judicial Watch filed the lawsuit in May because the DHS did not respond to a Freedom of Information Act request by the group in April. A court order forced the release of the documents this month.
The papers include the crimes committed by illegal aliens in the first three months of 2017, a list of jails that failed to cooperate with the ICE detainer program, and the "top 50 jurisdictions that failed to cooperate with the ICE detainer program," reported Judicial Watch.
Some of the top counties denying detainers included Ventura County, Calif. (188); Miami-Dade, Fla. (93); Denver, Colo. (74); Clark, Nev. (68); and Los Angeles, Calif. (57).
"Nationwide, a total of 284 detainers involving serious offenses were declined during the first three months of fiscal year 2017," said Judicial Watch, "including, in part, various forms of assault (16); drug-and-alcohol-related charges (39); and weapons charges and crimes against persons and property (18)."
An April 6, 2017 email from acting DHS Director Thomas Homan about complaints from Sen. Chuck Schumer's (D-N.Y.) office concerning errors in the Declined Detainer Outcome Reports (DDOR) said, "Certainly but NYC is extremely uncooperative. We will provide the information and work with OPLA and OGC staff to engage. They removed our officers from Rikers Island and will not honor detainers...."
In at least one instance, local law enforcement engaged in outright obstruction of ICE's efforts to pick up illegal immigrants, reported Judicial Watch. A March 21, 2017 ICE email states, "Hennepin County Adult Detention Center released an alien out the front door of the jail as an ICE officer was waiting in their sally port to take him into custody."
According to U.S. Immigrations and Custom Enforcement, "ICE places detainers on aliens who have been arrested on local criminal charges and for whom ICE possesses probable cause to believe that they are removable from the United States, so that ICE can take custody of the alien when he or she is released from local custody. When law enforcement agencies fail to honor immigration detainers and release serious criminal offenders, it undermines ICE’s ability to protect public safety and carry out its mission."
MEXICO'S CRIMINAL CLASS IN
CALIFORNIA'S OPEN BORDERS?
WHAT IS THE DEVASTATING COST OF
MEXICO'S CRIMINAL CLASS IN
CALIFORNIA'S OPEN BORDERS?
ICE Director: Suspected Wine Country Arsonist Is Illegal Alien Mexican National
WASHINGTON, DC — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Acting Director Tom Homan confirmed on Thursday that a man arrested in connection with setting a fire in Sonoma County Wine Country is an illegal alien from Mexico who has been twice returned to his “home country.”
Homan also confirmed that ICE has issued detainer requests for Jesus Fabian Gonzalez five times now in the past year alone, including the one issued on October 16 in relation to his most recent arrest on suspicion of arson. All of the arrests were made “by Sonoma County on various felony and misdemeanor charges,” according to Homan.
Sonoma County is considered a sanctuary jurisdiction and does not fully cooperate with federal immigration officials. That includes not honoring ICE detainer requests. “ICE was never notified of Mr. Gonzalez’ various releases,” Homan wrote in the statement regarding Gonzalez.
There were several fires in the region, and it is not clear what role the fires Gonzales allegedly set played in the overall disaster.
Homan’s public statement highlights the lack of cooperation from Sonoma County officials and the devastating wildfires that have ravaged the region:
Once again, a non-cooperative jurisdiction has left their community vulnerable to dangerous individuals and preventable crimes. ICE lodged a detainer against Jesus Gonzalez with Sonoma County jail officials on October 16, following his arrest on felony charges for maliciously setting fire to a property. This is especially troubling in light of the massive wildfires already devastating the region. Over the past year, ICE has lodged detainers against Mr. Gonzalez after four separate arrests by Sonoma County on various felony and misdemeanor charges. ICE was never notified of Mr. Gonzalez’ various releases. Additionally, Mr. Gonzales has been returned to his home country of Mexico on two separate occasions. The residents of Sonoma County, and the state of California, deserve better than policies that expose them to avoidable dangers. Non-cooperation policies – now enshrined in California state law – ensure only one thing: criminals who would otherwise be deported will be released and left free to reoffend as they please.
California Gov. Jerry Brown recently signed into law a bill that makes California a sanctuary state.
THE DEVASTATING COST OF MEXICO’S WELFARE STATE IN AMERICA’S OPEN BORDERS
Justice Department Jamming Shut The Revolving Door For Illegal Aliens
One of the running complaints raised against opponents of border security is the proliferation of criminal illegal aliens who enter the United States repeatedly, are apprehended and then sent back to their home countries. That part of the formula would be fine were it not for the fact that so many of them keep crossing the border multiple times, only to be found committing additional crimes. In some of the worst cases, you wind up with a result along the lines of the murder of Kate Steinle. But less high profile situations clog the system on a regular basis.
This year that destructive pattern has finally begun to change, albeit slowly. With new laws on the books and a more aggressive Attorney General, prosecutions are on the rise and sentences are at least somewhat more appropriate for the perpetrators. One such case came through this week in Louisiana, where Juan Carlos Rigoberto-Martinez had been caught in the country illegally multiple times after committing multiple crimes. The citizen of Honduras encountered a different sort of reception this time and found himself in federal court where he was summarily sent up the river for more than a decade. (Justice.gov)
BATON ROUGE, LA – Acting United States Attorney Corey Amundson announced that yesterday U.S. District Judge John W. deGravelles sentenced JUAN CARLOS RIGOBERTO-MARTINEZ, age 33, of Honduras, to serve 130 months in federal prison for illegally reentering the United States after removal. The defendant’s extensive criminal history, including his status as an aggravated felon, contributed significantly to the lengthy sentence.Yesterday’s sentence stems from the defendant’s federal conviction on April 12, 2017, for illegally reentering the United States after removal. Immigration authorities first removed the defendant from the United States on January 7, 2008, after he completed a state prison sentence in Georgia for burglary and theft.Several months later, on June 5, 2008, the U.S. Border Patrol found and arrested the defendant in Texas for illegally reentering the United States after removal. The defendant plead guilty to the offense, resulting in a 77-month federal prison sentence from the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas. On December 27, 2013, immigration authorities again removed the defendant from the United States following the completion of his prison term.
This is an encouraging development which will hopefully send a strong message to the illegal alien community. Too often in the past we’ve seen illegals who have been deported as many as seven times being brought in on charges and we essentially focus on the new crimes they have committed. If those are sufficiently “minor” in nature they are frequently given yet another free ride back to their homeland and the cycle begins anew.
Not so with Rigoberto-Martinez. He had done a short stretch in prison in Georgia for burglary in 2008 when he was deported back to Honduras. In a matter of months he was back in the United States illegally once again. This time he was arrested for multiple robberies in Baton Rouge. He was already found guilty on those counts, but this time there was a difference. In a separate trial, he was found guilty exclusively of reentering the country illegally after having been deported as a criminal illegal alien. That was the charge he was sent up on rather than the robberies. (For which he will serve a shorter, concurrent sentence.)
Even if all Rigoberto-Martinez had been convicted of was petty theft of a pack of gum at a convenience store, he could have been locked away for a good, long stretch for illegal reentry. It’s obvious that our prison system doesn’t need to be further strained with a deluge of these criminals, but the less welcoming of a place we make America for criminal illegal aliens, the lower the incentive will be to jump the fence and come here. The sentencing of Rigoberto-Martinez goes at least some way towards driving that message home among the illegal alien community.
Now if we can just make the E-Verify system mandatory across the board to decrease the incentive for illegal aliens looking to take paying jobs rather than stick-up jobs we might really have something going. But don’t get your hopes up, since that would involve Congress actually doing their jobs.
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Why weren't residents warned about the Northern California fires?
By Rafael Azul and Eric London
XAVIER BECERRA and the rise of Mexican fascism in the LA RAZA welfare state that was California
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2017/08/la-raza-supremacist-xavier-becerra-and.html
MEXICANS LOATHE LITERACY AND ENGLISH… SUCH APES THE
GRINGO WHOM THEY HATE!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2017/08/heres-reason-why-ca-schools-are-no.html
By Rafael Azul
AND YET JERRY BROWN IS ON THE MEX BORDER TELLING LA RAZA THAT CA IS MEXICO'S SECOND HOME.
IT'S LEGALS SECOND HOME TOO!
Gov. Jerry Brown, on a trip to Mexico, seeks to position California as a more welcoming place for immigrants... $35 BILLION PER YEAR IN WELFARE NOT WELCOMING ENOUGH?!?
We’ve got an even more ominous enemy within our borders that promotes “Reconquista of Aztlan” or the reconquest of California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas into the country of Mexico…. AND IT IS THE DEMOCRAT PARTY!
Wine Country Homeless Man Arrested on Suspicion of Arson
A homeless man, Jesus Fabian Gonzalez, was arrested Sunday afternoon in Wine Country on suspicion of arson after leaving a creek bed where a fire was burning in Sonoma County’s Maxwell Farms Regional Park.
Sonoma County Sheriff Sargent Spencer Crum told the Santa Rosa Press Democrat that a team of county probation officers patrolling the Maxwell Park area after a series of reports of ongoing fires in the region had observed Gonzalez, age 29, as he “walked out of the creek area and a plume of smoke behind him.”
Sheriff’s Deputy John Grohl responded to the probation officers’ call and confronted Gonzalez, who was wearing a trench coat. Gonzalez is well known to local law enforcement officials, and he reportedly usually is seen living under a nearby bridge. He told the law enforcement detail that “he started the fire because he was cold.”
Gonzales was arrested, and then transported to the Sonoma County Jail, where he was booked for suspected felony arson charges. Sonoma Valley Fire Protection District personnel put out the fire and district arson investigators went to the scene to gather evidence.
The Sonoma Times published an article in August about the rise of homelessness in the Wine Country. Local police chiefs try to keep track of the homeless, but enforcement is restricted because “social justice warriors” have been successful in California courts challenging anti-homeless ordinances as the modern-day equivalent of post-slavery Jim Crow and Depression era anti-Okie laws that dispersed “undesirables” after dark.
CalFire reported the grim statistics Sunday evening that there are still 33 fires still burning, with the Wine Country suffering the worst damage. There are at least 40 confirmed dead and 310 missing, and 75,000 of the 102,000 people that fled this weekend remain evacuated due to “Red Flag” fire conditions. The 15 largest Wine Country fires burned at least 217,566 acres in the four-county Wine Country over the last 7 days.
By concentrating 10,000 firefighters on the six major Wine Country fires, crews have achieved higher containment rates including: Sulfur Fire, 75 percent; Tubbs Fire, 60 percent; Atlas Fire, 56 percent; Reswood Fire, 35 percent; Nunns Fire, 25 percent; and Pocket Fire, 25 percent.
The new Oakmont Fire that started on Saturday in very rugged terrain is only 15 percent contained. Authorities would not comment regarding the cause of the new fire.
Although Wine Country temperatures are expected to hit 90 degrees on Monday, a cold Pacific Front moving down the Northwest caused the winds to drop from 35 to 45 miles per hour on Saturday night, and to 5-to-8 mile-per-hour gusts on Sunday. Temperatures will plunge to a high of 65 degrees on Thursday as a rainstorm moves in across the Wine Country. CalFire hopes to achieve containment of all major fires by next weekend.
Burned to the ground: Inside the Napa wineries gutted by raging wildfires that has devastated the $63billion industry and killed 40 people
- The wildfires, the deadliest in California history, have claimed 40 lives so far and have destroyed an estimated 5,700 properties
- More than 100,000 people have been evacuated in Sonoma, Napa, Santa Rosa and Calistoga
- Entire neighborhoods have been leveled and 214,000 acres of land has been reduced to ash
- Among the most high-profile victims of the disaster has been the area’s wine-making industry
- In Napa County alone, the industry contributes $13bn to the local economy each year and $50bn to the national coffers
- Nicholson’s Ranch winery in Sonoma and the Paras Vineyard on the flank of Mount Veeder sustained serious damage to properties
- While wineries suffered property damage to buildings, the vineyards - the lifeblood of the industry - have largely been spared
- Ninety per cent of the grape harvest in Sonoma and Napa Counties had already been picked when the fires ignited so smoke damage to fruit has been minimal
- 'I’m always trying to find a brighter side to it all – it could have been a lot worse for us,' said Ray Signorello, the owner of the Signorello Estate
It was late on Sunday evening when Ray Signorello realized something was wrong. His wife Tanya, had spotted flames coming down the hillside towards their Napa Valley wine estate.
The first warning came at 10.45pm - less than an hour later, the winery building containing the family home was on fire and the Signorellos had fled.
By Monday morning, nothing was left of the colonnaded winery building but a blackened heap of rubble dotted with exploded glass bottles, while a formerly picturesque stretch of olive trees on the hill behind had been badly burned.
‘The fire was fueled by 50mph winds so there wasn’t much to stop it,’ Signorello, 54, told DailyMail.com.
Ray Signorello (above), 54, the owner of a winery in Napa Valley, fled his home last Sunday evening
His wife Tanya, had spotted flames coming down the hillside towards their Napa Valley wine estate. The first warning came at 10.45pm - less than an hour later, the winery building containing the family home was on fire and the Signorellos had fled
By Monday morning, nothing was left of the colonnaded winery building but a blackened heap of rubble dotted with exploded glass bottles, while a formerly picturesque stretch of olive trees on the hill behind had been badly burned
‘Fortunately we didn’t have anybody injured here – that’s the most important thing,' he said
The 40-year-old Signorello Estate, which produces between 5,000 and 6,000 cases of wine each year, is one of 16 wineries wrecked by the monster blazes that have ravaged northern California over the past week
‘Fortunately we didn’t have anybody injured here – that’s the most important thing.’
The 40-year-old Signorello Estate, which produces between 5,000 and 6,000 cases of wine each year, is one of 16 wineries wrecked by the monster blazes that have ravaged northern California over the past week.
The wildfires, the deadliest in California history, have claimed 40 lives so far and have destroyed an estimated 5,700 properties – including 2,800 homes in Santa Rosa.
More than 100,000 people have been evacuated in Sonoma, Napa, Santa Rosa and Calistoga, entire neighborhoods have been leveled and 214,000 acres of land has been reduced to ash.
Alan Ramey, 25, and his sister, Claire Ramey, 27, are part of a family-run winery which buys some of its grapes from nearby vineyards. Property on their winery has been destroyed, though it's too soon to tell just how bad the damage is because fires are still raging
The Rameys buy their grapes from the Paras Vineyard on the flank of Mount Veeder. At Paras, the home of owner Jim Paras was totally destroyed with the property still unreachable almost a week later because of the Nuns Fire raging around it
Among the most high-profile victims of the disaster has been the area’s wine-making industry, which in Napa County alone contributes $13bn to the local economy each year and $50bn to the national coffers.
According to the Napa Winegrowers Association, 46,000 locals work in the wine business while in the US as a whole, 303,000 people make their living from Napa Valley vintages.
Signorello had been traveling in Canada with his two daughters, aged two and six, on the night of the blaze while wife Tanya was evacuated from the family home above the winery at 11pm.
Estate workers, including chief winemaker Pierre Birebent, 57, had battled to save the property; even using a garden hose in a desperate attempt to try and put out the flames.
But by the time Signorello finally made it back to his home on Wednesday afternoon, little was left but a charred heap of rubble.
He told DailyMail.com: ‘I didn’t believe it in the beginning but then when I saw the pictures my employees had taken on their phones, I knew it wasn’t here anymore.
‘You prepare yourself to see that; obviously when you get here in person, it’s dramatic. But I’m always trying to find a brighter side to it all – it could have been a lot worse for us. A lot worse.’
Much of the damage is to the land immediately behind the winery; a rugged olive grove dotted with California palms – now little more than blackened stumps.
A statue of the Virgin Mary, left close to the trees by a Mexican worker, was almost miraculously spared, with the blaze circling round each side but leaving the artwork untouched.
The vines, the lifeblood of the business, were also spared, as was a cellar holding barrels filled the 2016 vintage and the tanks containing this year’s harvest.
According to Signorello, the cost of repairing the main building likely to run into the millions of dollars and will take a minimum of 12 months to complete.
Nearby wineries such as the vast William Hill estate were also affected by the wildfires but did not suffer the same level of damage.
Others wrecked by the monster blazes include the Nicholson’s Ranch winery in Sonoma, where some structures were left blackened and charred, and the Paras Vineyard on the flank of Mount Veeder.
At Paras, the home of owner Jim Paras was totally destroyed with the property still unreachable almost a week later because of the Nuns Fire raging around it.
Alan Ramey, 25, whose family wine cellar buys some of its grapes from Paras, told DailyMail.com: ‘The house on the property was burned down.
‘It’s totally gone and we aren’t sure when we will be able to get there because the fire is still burning so we don’t know the full extent of the damage yet.’
His sister Claire, 27, added: ‘Jim Paras planted it a number of years back. He used to have his own wine label. We only buy old vine merlot from him.
‘What we’ve found is the merlot grown up on that part of Mount Veeder is really particularly dark, dense and beautiful.
‘We hope it can be brought back into shape fairly quickly but it could be too soon to say.’
Nearby wineries such as the vast William Hill estate were also affected by the wildfires but did not suffer the same level of damage
Like Signorello, the Rameys say they are grateful no one lost their life at Paras or at the 10 other vineyards that supplies the Ramey Wine Cellar with its grapes.
The business, which produces between 30,000 and 40,000 cases of wine per year, employs 16 people – none of whom were harmed, although some had to evacuate their homes.
Claire said: ‘We’ve been very lucky in that none of their homes had forced evacuations. We’ve had a couple in advisory evacuation areas but they’re still safe and well.
‘We’ve been doing half days where everyone takes care of the business for the first four hours, then goes and takes care of their families.’
With the employees and suppliers at both wineries confirmed safe, the Rameys and Signorello are now most worried for future of the vines themselves.
Ninety per cent of the grape harvest in Sonoma and Napa Counties had already been picked when the fires ignited so smoke damage to the fruit has been minimal.
But the vines, which take up to eight years to become productive after being planted, remain cause for concern.
‘If [the damage] goes down to the rootstock, it can take about two years for your crop to recover so you’re going to miss about two years of wine,’ Alan told DailyMail.com.
‘If it burns a good portion of the wood but still leaves some intact, you can possibly lose your next vintage.’
Pierre Birebent, 57, is the chief winemaker at Signorello's estate. Birebent battled to save the property, even using a garden hose in a desperate attempt to try and put out the flames
But by the time Signorello finally made it back to his home on Wednesday afternoon, little was left but a charred heap of rubble
Birebent, who is originally from Corsica, France, added: ‘The vines are fine, they are not touched which is the most important thing. If we lose the vines, we lose the business for sure’
‘As far as the business side goes, I can continue because I don’t have any interruption of product,’ Signorello told DailyMail.com
Signorello, whose vines are aged between 28 and 38 years old, said: ‘The vines were spared. We’re relieved we have our vineyards here.
‘It’s OK for this building [the winery] – I can probably get it back up and running in two years. But the vineyards, you plant them and it takes eight years before you even get a crop.
‘Our vines are between 28 and 38 years old and that’s what makes them special - with new vines, you wouldn’t have that.
‘I’m 54 years old and I don’t have another 38 years to wait for those vines to get that old again.’
Head winemaker Birebent, who is originally from Corsica, France, added: ‘The vines are fine, they are not touched which is the most important thing. If we lose the vines, we lose the business for sure.’
Because the vines remain intact, Signorello says he will be able to keep running the production side of the business while the winery building is rebuilt.
‘As far as the business side goes, I can continue because I don’t have any interruption of product,’ Signorello told DailyMail.com.
‘We will rebuild the building, we will have temporary space for the team offsite down in Napa, a little satellite trailer office on the property for the wine-making team and we’ll come back.
‘I’m looking to the bright side. There’s lots of people here in Napa and elsewhere that lost their lives and their homes. That’s obviously very, very dire so we were lucky.’
He added: ‘If people want to help, they can support Signorello by drinking my wines. Not just ours – wine from Napa Valley, Sonoma and the outlying valleys.
‘We see four million people a year here in Napa Valley. We’ll get the fires out soon and then this place will be back to normal.
‘We need to see the people back and so please don’t be afraid to come back and see us in Napa Valley soon.’
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Why weren't residents warned about the Northern California fires?
By Rafael Azul and Eric London
16 October 2017
Over a week has passed since the most devastating fires in California history began in Northern California. The death toll is still climbing, reaching 40 as of Sunday night. One hundred and seventy two people are still missing in Sonoma County, the hardest hit of the four affected counties, and another 74 are unaccounted for in neighboring Napa County.
Neither Napa nor Sonoma counties alerted residents of the fires through Wireless Emergency Alert (WEA) systems. Despite the fact that such technology is readily available, many of the dead and injured were caught sleeping, completely unprepared for what was coming. In some cases the victims did not hear horns or the desperate knocking of neighbors. Many rural residents beyond the reach of local police departments were left with no warning at all, their limited escape routes quickly engulfed by flames.
But the Washington Post reported yesterday that in neighboring Lake County, due north of Sonoma, local officials did send out an emergency blast that activated all cellphones, “turning them into the equivalent of squawking alarms.” Untold lives were saved by this activation of the WEA. Lake County is the only affected county that has reported zero fire deaths.
According to the Post:
“Of the four counties in Northern California where residents were killed in fires this week, two—Sonoma and Mendocino—had agreements in place with FEMA that enabled them to send alerts. Yuba and Napa counties did not, according to federal records.”
In Sonoma, local officials justified their failure to activate wireless notification on the grounds that it would produce mass panic and “because the warning is not targeted,” a county spokesperson said, adding, “to keep everyone safe we chose not to use a mass alert that would have reached areas not affected by the fire.”
The result was a nightmare. In Santa Rosa, the largest city in Sonoma County, the smoke and heat of approaching flames woke people in residential neighborhoods shortly after 1:00 AM. “Something told me, death, go, leave,” Julie Pilacelli, a resident of Santa Rosa’s Hemlock Street told the Los Angeles Times.
By 1:30 AM, most of the of Pilacelli’s neighbors were waking each other up and fleeing their homes. There had been no warning, no phone calls, no alarms. Eventually a lone patrol car with a megaphone but no alarm sound drove up Hemlock telling people to leave. “We were left high and dry,” said Jimmy Warren, also of Hemlock Street. “No one was there to help.”
County officials claim that warning the population would have clogged roads, but they have offered no explanation as to why emergency services did not have a county-wide evacuation plan in place to prepare for the inevitability of large fires, a common occurrence in rural and semi-rural parts of Northern California.
This week’s fires have far surpassed previous fires in death and destruction because unlike previous rural wildfires, these were able to approach densely populated urban areas. In this case, entire residential neighborhoods were left sleeping without warning as flames swept down from the hills despite the fact that they are situated right next to highways and would have been easy to evacuate with proper warning.
A FEMA spokesperson told CNN on Saturday that contrary to Sonoma County government claims, agencies sending emergency notifications do have “the option of providing geographic coordinates defining the area where the alert is to be targeted” with basic information like the location of cell phone towers.
In response, another Sonoma County spokesperson gave residents cold comfort then she told CNN on Sunday, “It’s something we’ll absolutely be looking into as part of our after-action plan.” Sonoma County already has WEA capabilities, unlike Napa, which has reportedly not used WEAs. Officials cite the existence of a separate warning system, for which residents needed to voluntarily sign up, as proof that the county did have a response in place.
But those who did sign up for the alerts often received notice several hours after the flames had enveloped their neighborhoods. A reader of the World Socialist Web Site reported that his family in Sonoma County was only alerted of approaching fires by a call from a neighbor and barely made it out alive. Three hours after the family evacuated, they received their cell phone evacuation notice from the county.
Many elderly people were evacuated from residential nursing homes with just minutes to spare and without public warning. The San Francisco Chronicle’s growing list of the dead includes many elderly or infirm people who may have been able to survive had they been warned and evacuated in a timely manner.
Different levels of local and state government have responded with a blame game. Governor Jerry Brown also has the capacity to activate the warning system, but administration officials sought to pass the buck on to local officials: “From the state level we wouldn’t do that,” said Kelly Houston, deputy director of the governor’s Office of Emergency Services. “Alerts and warnings happen on a local level…They decide what are the appropriate alerts for their population.”
Sonoma County Sheriff Robert Giordano in turn blamed residents for failing to sign up for the second, voluntary alert system that sends out texts in emergencies. “If you don’t sign your cellphone up, you don’t get that service,” Giordano said. “So the message is, sign up for SoCoAlerts if you live in this county.”
On Friday, a Sonoma County spokesman said that only 2 percent of the county’s 500,000 residents signed up for the emergency warning system, an indication of how little was done by the government to advertise the system.
Lake County officials explained their decision to activate the WEA system was simple: “We had folks that were in immediate danger, and wanting to notify them of the situation,” Police Lt. Corey Paulich said. Lake County regularly sends out WEAs for weather and criminal alerts. The county also uses an app called CodeRed which notifies residents of impending disasters. In short text messages, Lake County residents were told where the fire was and where their assigned evacuation center was located.
According to the federal government’s Ready.gov emergency preparedness website, WEAs “look like text messages, but are designed to get your attention and alert you with a unique sound and vibration.” They “are no more than 90 characters, and will include the type and time of the alert, any action you should take, as well as the agency issuing the alert.” They are simple, cheap, and effective, often used to send “Amber alerts”, warning drivers to be on the lookout for child abductors.
Sonoma County’s decision not to activate the WEA for fear of causing panic is not a justified “spur of the moment” judgment call. It betrays the government’s incompetence and its lack of confidence in its own evacuation emergency plans. Moreover, the county’s fears of causing panic indicate that county officials and police feared that social tensions in the county—and particularly in the working class and immigrant neighborhoods of Santa Rosa—have reached the point that a panic would produce riots or looting.
There is no telling how many lives would have been saved had the county governments flicked the switch and activated their warning systems. There is a telling difference between the lack of emergency preparations for natural disasters and the massive degree of government preparation in response to peaceful demonstrations against police violence, for example.
As in Houston after Hurricane Harvey, the task of saving lives and property falls to the working class. Thousands of firefighters have converged from all over the country in a veritable army that is combatting the flames in multi-day shifts. These firefighters continue to risk their lives to control the flames and have contained several of the fires. Despite their best efforts, high winds Saturday whipped up new fires like the large one that has now engulfed the Mayacamas mountain range, threatening the small towns of Kenwood, Glen Ellen, and Oakmont.
Reports indicate that up to one-third of all those fighting the flames are prisoners, paid just $1 per hour for the extremely dangerous job. Residents of the affected towns greet firefighters with massive rounds of applause wherever they are sighted in public and have even gathered to insure quiet in areas where firefighters are sleeping. Fire departments have had to issue public statements asking that the public cease donations of food and drink on account of the already overwhelming showing of popular support.
CALIFORNIA UNDER MEXICAN OCCUPATION:
XAVIER BECERRA and the rise of Mexican fascism in the LA RAZA welfare state that was California
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2017/08/la-raza-supremacist-xavier-becerra-and.html
THE ONCE GOLDEN STATE of CALIFORNA, NOW A LA RAZA MEX WELFARE STATE, IS No. 48 OF 50 STATES IN LOWER EDUCATION!
MEXICANS LOATHE LITERACY AND ENGLISH… SUCH APES THE
GRINGO WHOM THEY HATE!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2017/08/heres-reason-why-ca-schools-are-no.html
CalExit Leaders Believe if Catalonia Can Do it, California’s Independence Easier
California’s erstwhile secession movement has been inspired by Catalonia’s fight for independence, believing that California’s secession will be even easier.
The movement has splintered in recent months—known as CalExit and Yes, California alternatively—but the lead campaign is now headed up by the California Freedom Coalition, who believe there are lessons to be learned from Catalonia’s experience.
But the big difference, according to the Sacramento Bee;
[t]hey believe California has more legal tools at its disposal, creating an easier path to secession – if that’s what Californians decide they want.“There are definitely similarities in the fiscal situation – we both give more than we get back,” said Dave Marin, director of research and policy for the California Freedom Coalition. “But there’s more flexibility in the U.S. Constitution for secession than there is in the Spanish one. California has more tools available to it.”The Catalan Parliament, together with President of Catalonia Carles Puigdemont, approved in September a binding referendum to make Catalonia an “independent and sovereign state.” Spain’s constitutional court suspended the process, but Catalan authorities continued with the vote on Oct. 1, prompting violence between voters and Spanish security forces tasked with shutting it down.After a majority who voted in the referendum cast ballots for independence, Puigdemont issued a symbolic declaration of independence from Spain on Tuesday, but immediately suspended it to ease negotiations with the Madrid government…
Even though Catalonia succeeded in its attempt to vote for secession, it now must decide if it’s willing to risk the wrath of a spurned powerful centralized government crackdown. Things could get even more violent—and not surprisingly: all break-ups are painful, but try to “break up” with a huge, all-powerful government that can crush the life out of you by sending in its army.
Actions like what Catalonia did this week are almost always precursors to armed confrontation and civil war.
Commentator John Stossel exposes what’s behind question facing secessionists worldwide in an opinion piece for Fox News:
Recently, people in Catalonia voted to break away from Spain — not to declare war on Spain or refuse to trade with Spain, just to control their own affairs.The Spanish government said they must not even vote. They sent police to shut down polling places and beat protestors into staying off the streets.Governments never want to give up power.…The powerful prefer one big central government. Some want the whole world to answer to one government.…But central authorities aren’t the best way to solve our problems. Competition is.…As California tortures businesses, Californians move to Arizona and Texas.The more governments from which you can choose, the easier it is to benefit from competition between them.All Americans, however, must obey rules set by Washington, D.C.But what if most people in a state reject those rules and demand the right to govern themselves?There have been several secession movements in California — a plan to break California up into smaller states, a push to make Northern California a breakaway state called Jefferson, and now the “Yes California” movement that wants to make California a separate country.Calexit’s proponents say Californians shouldn’t have to answer to that evil President Trump.If Calexit ever happened, I suppose conservative parts of the state would vote to separate from the leftists who dominate Sacramento. Maybe we’d end up with three countries where there used to be one.
Secessionists in California aren’t planning to give up their cause anytime soon, even though polls show their cause is popular with only a third of voters–even after Trump was elected.
“We’re not strictly saying secession right now,” Marin told the Bee. “But if that number gets into the high 40s or 50s, it makes sense to consider. And then we have a few more tools to pursue it than Catalonia.”
Tim Donnelly is a former California State Assemblyman and Author, currently on a book tour for his new book: Patriot Not Politician: Win or Go Homeless. He also ran for governor in 2014.
THE DEVASTATING COST OF MEXICO’S WELFARE STATE IN AMERICA’S OPEN BORDERS
Thousands of undocumented immigrants among those affected by Northern California wild fires
By Rafael Azul
14 October 2017
Among the victims of the fires that have ripped through California’s wine country this week are thousands of undocumented workers, who make up the work force of vineyards, wineries and in tourism.
Different from other crops, vineyards depend on a year-round work force, as do the wineries. As a result, many undocumented immigrants and their families have established roots in the area. One Sonoma County official estimated that 20,000 undocumented workers live and work in the county.
Federal immigration agents have reportedly suspended their activities in Northern California because of the fire emergency according to ICE spokesperson James Schwab. He did not indicate when that suspension would end. Still, many immigrants are being extra cautious and hesitate to seek aid or refuge in shelters provided by the state.
The Sacramento Bee spoke to Sonoma County Supervisor Lynda Hopkins who was checking out reports of caravans of immigrant workers and their families heading toward the Pacific Coast: “I saw dozens of families,” she said. “They are traumatized. They lost homes. It is cold out there. But they are afraid that they will be targeted by ICE, if they go to shelters.”
Sonoma County officials have vouched for the safety of immigrants in county shelters and the Sonoma County Sheriff also tried to assure immigrant workers. According to the Sacramento Bee: “There’s a rumor out there that people are checking immigration status in shelters and that is not true. Shelters are asking for names because they want to identify the people who are coming into the shelter. Immigration status will not be asked of you…”
Once they return back to their homes, undocumented workers may not be allowed through checkpoints, however, since police officials will demand government issued IDs. However safe immigrant families may feel in shelters, it is certain that they will be excluded from long term federal emergency help.
As of Friday morning, forest, field and brush fires continued their devastation in Northern California.
The series of fires sweeping through wine country have obliterated 3,500 homes and businesses, including historic wineries and more than 90,000 businesses and homes have been left without power. Since the wild fires hit last Sunday night authorities have been busy carrying out mass evacuations, barely staying ahead of the spreading flames, including all 3,500 residents of the city of Calistoga.
So far at least 31 people have died and 600 have been reported missing in the northern counties of Sonoma, Mendocino, Napa and Yuba. Most impacted have been the elderly—the average age of the victims is 79, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times.
One of the most tragic deaths took place on Thursday in Mendocino County. Kai Shepherd, a 14-year-old youth, died as his family was escaping the Red Wood Valley. The family was fleeing together in a car when it was engulfed in flames. His sister Kressa, 17, survived but lost her legs; both she and her parents will require skin grafts.
Daniel Berlant, California Fire Assistant Deputy Director declared that, collectively, these are the deadliest fires in the state’s history. “We haven’t seen anything like this in Northern California,” said Governor Jerry Brown, who has declared states of emergency in nine counties. Brown warned on Thursday that the efforts to combat the fires is “not in any way finished.” There is great concern of further destruction since the fires have already hit urban areas.
Daniel Swain, a climate specialist from UCLA, in an interview with the BBC network, described the extraordinary climate events that combined to create these catastrophic fires—a combination of a wet winter, which triggered the growth of underbrush, a hot summer that dried it out, and hot and dry desert westerly winds that occur every autumn. “Unfortunately, all the conditions are present for an unprecedented event,” declared Swain.
As if all that were not enough, the strong winds have significantly degraded the air quality in the San Francisco Bay Area, affecting people suffering from pulmonary conditions, and forcing the cancellation of outdoor events this weekend. A local air quality official said that the air in the Bay Area on Thursday and Friday was the worst ever, and comparable to the highly polluted air in Beijing. Oakland, 45 miles (72 km) south of the fire, has been covered in smoke.
There is more optimism in Southern California where fires broke out in the hills and suburbs south of Los Angeles earlier this week. Lower wind activity on Wednesday allowed firefighters to gradually gain control and set a perimeter around the Canyon Fire 2. It is estimated that 65 percent of the fire is now under control. Barring a surge of wind activity, Orange County officials hope that the fire will be fully contained by Saturday, meaning that there will be minimal possibility that the fire would jump out of its perimeter.
Since it began on Monday morning, the Canyon Fire 2 has consumed 10,000 acres of land. It has destroyed 25 structures in the cities of Anaheim, Orange and Tustin, including 15 homes, while 48 other structures were damaged.
In the state of California, of which Los Angeles is a large part, most payouts to illegals go first to educate them, and then to jail them after they commit crimes, and then to pay for their medical care as they clog up emergency rooms and help themselves to Medi-Cal benefits from funds they never paid into. Welfare itself rates a distant fourth.
CALIFORNIA UNDER MEXICAN OCCUPATION:
XAVIER BECERRA and the rise of Mexican fascism in the LA RAZA welfare state that was California
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2017/08/la-raza-supremacist-xavier-becerra-and.html
WELFARE STATE, IS No. 48 OF 50 STATES IN LOWER EDUCATION!
MEXICANS LOATHE LITERACY AND ENGLISH… SUCH APES THE
GRINGO WHOM THEY HATE!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2017/08/heres-reason-why-ca-schools-are-no.html
LOS ANGELES: MEXICO'S ANCHOR BABY BREEDING FACTORY FOR 18 YEARS OF WELFARE. JUMP THE BORDERS, GET YOUR CHECK IN THE MAIL THE NEXT DAY!
"La Voz de Aztlan has produced a video in honor of the millions of babies that have been born as US citizens to Mexican undocumented parents. These babies are destined to transform America. The nativist CNN reporter Lou Dobbs estimates that there are over 200,000 (dated) "Anchor Babies" born every year whereas George Putnam, a radio reporter, says the figure is closer to 300,000 (dated) . La Voz de Aztlan believes that the number is aproximately 500,000 (dated) "Anchor Babies" born every year."
In the state of California, of which Los Angeles is a large part, most payouts to illegals go first to educate them, and then to jail them after they commit crimes, and then to pay for their medical care as they clog up emergency rooms and help themselves to Medi-Cal benefits from funds they never paid into. Welfare itself rates a distant fourth.
The LA RAZA ANCHOR BABY BREEDERS FOR WELFARE
MEXICO WILL DOUBLE AMERICA’S POPULATION
IMMIGRANT SHARE OF ADULTS QUADRUPLED IN 232 COUNTIES
CALIFORNIA UNDER MEXICAN OCCUPATION:
XAVIER BECERRA and the rise of Mexican fascism in the LA RAZA welfare state that was California
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2017/08/la-raza-supremacist-xavier-becerra-and.html
THE ONCE GOLDEN STATE of CALIFORNA, NOW A LA RAZA MEX
WELFARE STATE, IS No. 48 OF 50 STATES IN LOWER EDUCATION!
MEXICANS LOATHE LITERACY AND ENGLISH… SUCH APES THE
GRINGO WHOM THEY HATE!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2017/08/heres-reason-why-ca-schools-are-no.html
JUDICIAL WATCH:
ILLEGALS VOTING IN MASSIVE NUMBERS IN MEX-OCCUPIED CA
''California is going to be a Hispanic state," said Mario Obeldo, former head of MALDEF. "Anyone who does not like it should leave."
And M.E.Ch.A's goal is even more radical: an independent ''Aztlan,'' the collective name this organization gives to the seven states of the U.S. Southwest – Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas and Utah."
JOE LEGAL v LA RAZA JOSE ILLEGAL
Here’s how it breaks down; will make you want to be an illegal!
JOBS FOR LEGALS? 95 MILLION LEGALS GIVE UP HOPE FOR A JOB IN THEIR OWN COUNTRY.
A Nation unravels and Mexico invades, occupies and loots
AMERICA: NO LEGAL NEED APPLY
REPORT: The assault to finish off the American middle-class is NOT over
“The report noted that many illegals don't have jobs or have difficulty in landing good jobs because of local laws.”
“However, it identified several states that have begun easing employment laws so that illegals can get a job.”
JUDICIAL WATCH:
“The greatest criminal threat to the daily lives of American citizens are the Mexican drug cartels.”
“Mexican drug cartels are the “other” terrorist threat to America. Militant Islamists have the goal of destroying the United States. Mexican drug cartels are now accomplishing that mission – from within, every day, in virtually every community across this country.” JUDICIALWATCH
Overall, in the 2017 Fiscal Year, officials revealed that a record-breaking 455,000 pounds plus of drugs had already been seized. In 2016, that number amounted to 443,000 pounds. The 2017 haul is worth an estimated $6.1 billion – BREITBART – JEFF SESSION’S DRUG BUST ON SAN DIEGO
REMITTANCES ….. are only part of
Mexico’s looting… and billions for anchor baby
breeders, billions for heroin sales and then do the
numbers!
Mexicans abroad sent home nearly $2.4 billion in transfers in November, 24.7 percent higher than a year earlier, marking their fastest pace of expansion since March 2006, according to Mexican central bank data on Monday…
ILLEGALS & WELFARE
70% OF ILLEGALS GET WELFARE!
“According to the Centers for Immigration Studies, April '11, at least 70% of Mexican illegal alien families receive some type of welfare in the US!!! cis.org”
CIS
So when cities across the country declare that they will NOT be sanctuary, guess where ALL the illegals, criminals, gang members fleeing ICE will go???? straight to your welcoming city. So ironically the people fighting for sanctuary city status, may have an unprecedented crime wave to deal with along with the additional expense.
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$17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies.
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$12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of English.
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$22 billion is spent on (AFDC) welfare to illegal aliens each year.
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$2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs such as (SNAP) food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens.
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$3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens.
30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens. Does not include local jails and State Prisons.
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2012 illegal aliens sent home $62 BILLION in remittances back to their countries of origin. This is why Mexico is getting involved in our politics.
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$200 Billion Dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused by the illegal aliens.
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Nearly One Million Sex Crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants In The United States.
Disaster! U.S. Economy Lost 33,000 Jobs in September as Hurricanes Hit Hard
October 4, 2017
By Spencer Raley
The economy shrunk by 33,000 jobs in September while unemployment fell to 4.2 percent, according to closely-watched data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
It was the first payroll contraction since September 2010.
The numbers were much worse than expected. Economists had expected payrolls to grow by 100,000 and unemployment rate to hold steady. September was the first employment report to register the effects of hurricanes Harvey and Irma. Over the past 12 months, the economy has added an average of 172,000 jobs each month.
The storms’ effects are easy to detect in the underlying figures. Bars and restaurants lost 105,000 jobs, for example. These had been adding around 24,000 each month over the past year. Insurance companies added 11,000 jobs, largely reflecting hurricane-recovery efforts.
Prior jobs reports were revised for August and July, showing that the economy added 38,000 fewer jobs in those two months combined than previously reported.
Stock markets futures declined following the release of the report.
OPEN BORDERS:
IT'S ALL ABOUT KEEPING WAGES DEPRESSED AND PASSING ALONG
THE ILLEGALS' WELFARE AND CRIME COSTS TO THE AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS!
“That Washington-imposed policy of mass-immigration floods the market with foreign labor, spikes profits and Wall Street values by cutting salaries for manual and skilled labor offered by blue-collar and white-collar employees. It also drives up real estate prices, widens wealth-gaps, reduces high-tech investment, increases state and local tax burdens, hurts kids’ schools and college education, pushes Americans away from high-tech careers, and sidelines at least 5 million marginalized Americans and their families, including many who are now struggling with opioid addictions.” ---- NEIL MUNRO
WE CAN'T HELP OUR OWN AND YET WE HAND MILLIONS OF JOBS AND BILLIONS IN WELFARE TO BORDER JUMPERS!
JOE LEGAL v LA RAZA JOSE ILLEGAL
Here’s how it breaks down; will make you want to be an illegal!
October 4, 2017
Illegal Immigration: An Economic Poison Pill
The conversation surrounding illegal immigration is deeply personal for many people -- it is emotionally-charged and politically divisive. Debates often devolve into mud-slinging contests, and arguments morph into feigned outrage, even violent protests. But from an economic perspective the question is settled science: illegal aliens cost taxpayers billions, impoverish American workers, and are completely unnecessary for America’s economic success.
To begin with, illegal immigrants are expensive. According to the Federation for American Immigration Reform’s 2017 report, illegal immigrants, and their children, cost American taxpayers a net $116 billion annually -- roughly $7,000 per alien annually. While high, this number is not an outlier: a recent study by theHeritage Foundation found that low-skilled immigrants (including those here illegally) cost Americans trillions over the course of their lifetimes, and a study from the National Economics Editorial found that illegal immigration costs America over $140 billion annually. As it stands, illegal immigrants are a massive burden on American taxpayers.
Although border control is a federal responsibility, state and local governments shoulder two-thirds of the costs associated with illegal immigration. Unsurprisingly, this costs California more than any other state: California spends$30.3 billion on illegal aliens annually -- 17.7 percent of the state budget. Texas is next: illegal immigration costs the State of Texas $12.4 billion annually, or roughly 10 percent of the state's budget. In third place is New York, which spends $7.4 billion on illegal immigration.
Of course, the tax burden is only part of the story: illegal immigration also distorts the labor market, hurting American workers. Ever hear of the law of supply and demand? It is how the free market determines prices: when demand increases, prices increase (more people bid-up the price); conversely, when supply increases, prices decrease (less scarcity means less urgency), and vice versa. Supply and demand underpins the price of everything from gasoline, to apples, to the value of a person’s labor -- surgeons command high prices because there is a limited supply of surgeons, whereas store clerks make minimum wage because anyone can be a store clerk.
According to Pew Research, illegal immigration has flooded America’s labor market with at least 12 million new workers. This has dramatically, and rapidly increased the labor supply and therefore decreased wages for American workers. Ample evidence supports this claim. For example, before Hurricane Harvey, President Trump’s crackdown on illegal aliens had already caused wages for construction workers to rise by 30 percent in Texas (half of Texas’ construction workers were illegal aliens). Likewise,businesses in Maine were forced to hire American workers after the availability of visas for temporary foreign workers were restricted. As a result, unemployment decreased, wages increased, and working conditions improved in order to attract American workers. Illegal labor has distorted America’s labor markets, and hurt American workers in the process.
Finally, America’s economy will not collapse without easy access to illegal labor.
The standard refrain can be summed up as: “we need illegals to do the jobs Americans won’t do.” This is nonsense for two reasons. First, the claim is predicated upon the false assumption that America’s labor market is saturated and requires more workers to continue growing. This could not be further from the truth: right now fewer that 150 million Americans (out of 320 million) are employed, likewise there are 23 million Americans currently looking for work -- twice the number of illegal aliens in the country. Even assuming that every illegal aliens was employed, replacing them with American workers would still leave 11 million Americans unemployed.
Second, the claim is undermined by actual labor statistics. According to theBureau of Labor Statistics, millions of Americans -- of all races -- currently work as janitors, laborers, and agricultural workers. In fact, only four percent of American agricultural workers are illegal aliens, according to a report in theNational Review, putting to bed the myth that we would starve without illegal laborers. Clearly Americans are willing to work any job, provided they are compensated at fair market value -- this is not currently happening precisely because many illegals work under-the-table.
Believe it or not, states without illegal immigrants, like Montana or Ohio, are not economic backwaters with exorbitantly high costs of living -- people in Idaho can still afford McDonald’s and Starbucks, they just pay teenagers to work the drive-thrus. In fact, the cost of living in said states is often cheaper, because their governments do not require high taxes to subsidize legions of illegal aliens.
It is also worth mentioning that America is the only developed nation, until very recently, that imports millions of illegal immigrants to work in its service sector -- other rich nations like Japan and Canada, do not. Yet despite this, the GDP per capita of Japan has actually grown faster than America’s during the same period. The same is true of Canada and Australia. If illegal immigration is such an economic bonanza, why are Americans being left behind by nations without this “advantage”?
University professors, Silicon Valley CEOs, and politicians are not losing their jobs to illegals -- ordinary folk are. Illegal immigration is a contentious issue, but it remains important to couch policy discussions in facts -- not just abstract principles.
The Cost of Illegal Immigration to
Taxpayers is Growing at an Unsustainable
Pace
Taxpayers is Growing at an Unsustainable
Pace
By Spencer Raley
The Hill, September 28, 2017
The majority of the costs to taxpayers, $89 billion (66 percent), are borne at the local and state level. This means that American taxpayers are forced to bear the costs of the federal government’s failure to secure our borders every time they pay school taxes, local tolls, sales and excise taxes. It also means that illegal migrants get a lot of benefits that they don’t pay for.
Conversely, by a 5-to-1 ratio, the taxes paid by illegal immigrants wind up in federal coffers. Despite states bearing most of the costs associated with illegal immigration, the federal government receives 15.4 billion of their tax receipts, compared to $3.5 billion received by states and localities.
Conversely, by a 5-to-1 ratio, the taxes paid by illegal immigrants wind up in federal coffers. Despite states bearing most of the costs associated with illegal immigration, the federal government receives 15.4 billion of their tax receipts, compared to $3.5 billion received by states and localities.
U.S. Taxpayers Have Spent More Than $80 Billion on ‘Dreamers’
http://www.lifezette.com/polizette/shock-us-taxpayers-have-spent-more-than-100-billion-on-schooling-welfare-for-daca-immigrants/
ILLEGALS & WELFARE
70% OF ILLEGALS GET WELFARE!
“According to the Centers for Immigration Studies, April '11, at least 70% of Mexican illegal alien families receive some type of welfare in the US!!! cis.org”
CIS
K-12 education, WIC, Medicaid for illegal
immigrants brought as children adds up to
large price tag
JUDICIAL WATCH:
“The greatest criminal threat to the daily lives of
American citizens are the Mexican drug cartels.”
“Mexican drug cartels are the “other” terrorist threat to America. Militant Islamists have the goal of destroying the United States. Mexican drug cartels are now accomplishing that mission – from within, every day, in virtually every community across this country.” JUDICIAL WATCH
EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS:
Another Clandestine Cartel Crematorium Discovered near Texas Border
REYNOSA, Tamaulipas — Mexican authorities continue looking into the discovery of a clandestine human incineration operation where the Gulf Cartel burned the bodies of their victims.
The discovery occurred when neighbors of the Revolucion Obrera neighborhood complained of weird smells and the suspicion that a house was being used to burn bodies. Authorities arrived at the location and found that regular home was a cartel crematorium.
Inside the house, forensic investigators with the Tamaulipas Attorney General’s Office discovered various corpses and body parts in stages of incineration and decomposition. Some of the human remains were only superficially incinerated, while others were mostly turned into charred ashes.
The discovery comes as two rival factions of the Gulf Cartel continue fighting for control of this city. Since early May, the factions carried out hundreds of kidnappings, drive-by attacks, and more than 190 confirmed murders; however, the real numbers could actually be much higher.
One of the strategies used by both factions of the Gulf Cartel involves the kidnapping of lookouts, foot soldiers, and street-level dealers. As Breitbart Texas has reported, these victims are often tortured and murdered with their bodies either being dumped in shallow, clandestine grave sites or are incinerated.
Known as “cocinar” or “guiso”, the practice involves the use of 55-gallon drums that are filled with wood, old tires, and fuel to keep the flames burning while cartel members throw human remains into the fire. As Breitbart Texas reported, the practice is used by the Gulf Cartel in the rural areas around Reynosa. The most recent discovery appears to be unique in nature since it is the first time that a “cocina” was discovered inside the city.
Editor’s Note: Breitbart Texas traveled to the Mexican States of Tamaulipas, Coahuila, and Nuevo León to recruit citizen journalists willing to risk their lives and expose the cartels silencing their communities. The writers would face certain death at the hands of the various cartels that operate in those areas including the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas if a pseudonym were not used. Breitbart Texas’ Cartel Chronicles are published in both English and in their original Spanish. This article was written by “A.C. Del Angel” from Tamaulipas.
AMERICA: NO LEGAL NEED APPLY
REPORT: The assault to finish off the American middle-class is NOT over
“The report noted that many illegals don't have jobs or have difficulty in landing good jobs because of local laws.”
“However, it identified several states that have begun easing employment laws so that illegals can get a job.”
JOBS FOR LEGALS? 95 MILLION LEGALS GIVE UP HOPE FOR A JOB IN THEIR OWN COUNTRY.
A Nation unravels and Mexico invades, occupies and loots
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2017/09/jobs-95-million-not-in-labor-force-but.html
First Potential Class Action Suit Filed in Wine Country Fires
A Santa Monica class action law firm filed the first of what will probably be hundreds of lawsuits blaming the Wine Country firestorms on Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E).
Bill Robbins, as the managing partner of Robins Cloud LLP, filed a complaint against PG&E in the Superior Court of San Francisco on behalf of Jennifer and Wayne Harvell, who lost their Santa Rosa home during the fires. The lawsuit claims that California’s largest utility failed to properly maintain power lines and adequately clear brush as required by the California Public Utility Commission (CPUC).
Robbins was traveling Wednesday and unable to comment on the status of the litigation. But his office stated that he would be flying to the Wine Country and would be hosting a press conference regarding other clients that may soon join the suit.
Under CPUC rule General Order 95 – Rules 35 and 37: “Where overhead conductors traverse trees and vegetation, safety and reliability of service demand that certain vegetation management activities be performed in order to establish necessary and reasonable clearances.” The CPUC currently requires firebreaks of “not less than 10 feet in each direction from the outer edge” of any tower or electrical transmission line.
But tree trimming has become a controversial environmental issue for the Democrat majority in California’s legislature. “AB-2556: Electrical lines: trimming of trees,” was voted out of a State Assembly committee on a straight Democratic Party line and sent to the floor in 2012 to prohibit removing any tree “unless the tree is dead, rotten, or diseased.” The bill would also require 120-day public notice before tree removal.
The CPUC and all the state’s utilities opposed the bill, because it “would harm the CPUC’s objective of ensuring the safety and reliability of the overhead electric system.” The bill died on the Assembly floor, but utilities got the message to restrict tree trimming.
Breitbart News reported on October 14 that that Sonoma and Napa County emergency dispatchers sent crews last week to investigate reports of over a dozen downed powerlines and numerous exploding transformers. PG&E warned that its electrical lines are only rated up to handle 56-mile an hour winds, but had been hit with hurricane force gusts that exceeded 75-miles per hour.
Breitbart News also reported that the U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE) issued a detainer request on the Sonoma County Jail for Jesus Fabian Gonzalez, who was arrested Sunday on suspicion of arson in at least on Wine Country fire.
Although Sonoma County supervisors and the Santa Rosa City voted to be “sanctuaries” on February 6, 2017, Sonoma County Sheriffs arrested Jesus Fabian Gonzalez, 29, on suspicion of felony arson and booked him at the Sonoma County Jail on October 14, after a series of reports of ongoing fires in the region. Mr. Gonzalez was reportedly observed around 3:00 p.m. PDT wearing a jacket and walking “out of the creek area and a plume of smoke behind him.”
The Los Angeles Times reported on October 18, “Some homeless people who knew Gonzalez said that he had a habit of setting fire to brush along the creek bed.” The Times quoted David Moreno, 29, who witnessed Jesus Fabian Gonzalez screaming at the sheriffs when he was arrested: ‘I’m going to teach you a lesson you’ll never forget.”
The Sonoma County Jail told Breitbart News that Gonzalez is also subject to a $100,000 bench warrant issued in Ventura County. According to the Ventura County Courts’ website, $100,000 bail is for individuals that are alleged to have committed extremely serious crimes.
THE UNIDIOSus MAP OF LA RAZA-OCCUPIED AMERICA
They claim all of North America for Mexico!
(WARNING! THE BELOW LINK IS GRAPHIC ON MEXICAN HATRED OF LEGALS)
Cheap Labor, Open Borders Swamp Embraces Trump’s DHS Pick: ‘Experience Being Valued over Outsiders’
The Washington, D.C. political establishment – which supports a constant inflow of cheap, foreign workers to take American blue-collar jobs – and open border policies, is heaping praise on President Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Kirstjen Nielsen.
Nielsen, a donor to Republican establishment darling Jeb Bush and former DHS official under President George W. Bush, is being praised by pro-open borders Bush allies with whom she’s previously worked.
In the Washington Post, former Bush official and lobbyist Stewart Verdery welcomed Trump’s choice to pick Nielsen to run DHS because she was not an outsider.
“Nielsen’s nomination is a strong signal of competence and experience being valued by the White House over ideologues and outsiders,” Verdery told the Washington Post. “The homeland mission requires an unusual, diverse set of skills, and she has expertise in almost all of them.”
In 2014, Verdery urged House and Senate Republicans to give in to amnesty for the 12 to 30 million illegal aliens living in the U.S., writing for CNN how the GOP needed to support the expansion of foreign work visa programs, where cheaper foreigners are brought to the U.S. to take American jobs.
As a lobbyist, Verdery’s Monument Policy Group represents tech firms like Microsoft and Amazon, both of which have lobbied the Trump administration for more foreign workers to be imported to the U.S., further driving down the wages of American workers, immigration reformers argue.
Microsoft, which Verdery’s lobbying firm represents, even admitted to hiring illegal aliens who have been shielded from deportation by the Obama-created Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, as Breitbart Texas reported.
Also praising Nielsen’s appointment to DHS is pro-amnesty Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge, who has a long record of opposing the pro-American immigration agenda that got Trump elected.
In the Washington Post, Ridge said of Nielsen:
Former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge (R), the first secretary of homeland security, said in a statement that Nielsen was a “homeland security veteran” who was “extremely well versed in the all-hazard threats” challenging the nation’s security and resilience.“Kirstjen can hit the ground running and there won’t be a learning curve,” Ridge said. “Most importantly, in this hyper-political environment, Kirstjen is not a self-promoter. She is a patriot and takes a mission-focused approach to her work.”
When Ridge was serving as the head of DHS under Bush in 2003, he demanded that the entire illegal alien population be “legalized” and allowed to remain in the U.S.
At the time, Trump ally and Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO) slammed Ridge for indirectly pushing amnesty, all while potentially creating a surge at the U.S.-Mexico border.
“Mr. Ridge ought to read the laws he is charged with trying to enforce,” Tancredo told the Washington Times. “We have laws on the books that call for him to find and deport these people, and if he is unwilling to do so, he should resign.”
In 2010, Ridge railed against Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer’s pro-American immigration enforcement — which Trump ally and Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach helped craft — saying that instead of deporting illegal aliens, the federal government should have stepped in and legalized the millions of illegal aliens in the U.S.
“It’s ridiculous to think … we’re going to identify 12 million to 14 million people and send them back,” Ridge told the Associated Press at the time.
In 2016, Ridge even went on a media tour to announce that he refused to support Trump’s “America First” candidacy, writing in US News:
My disregard for Donald Trump has been well documented by multiple media outlets over the last several months, so I won’t belabor it yet again. Suffice to say that I am disappointed that he is our party’s nominee. With a bumper sticker approach to policy, his bombastic tone reflects the traits of a bully, not an American president and statesman. If he cannot unite Republicans, how can he unite America? I simply cannot endorse him.
Nielsen’s DHS appointment was additionally cheered by former Bush official Frances Townsend, with the D.C. establishment figure telling the New York Times that Nielsen is “competent.”
“She is tough as nails, competent and has rightly earned the president’s respect,” Townsend said.
In 2013, Townsend welcomed the failed effort to give amnesty to millions of illegal aliens — known as the “Gang of Eight” amnesty bill — saying the open borders plan was in-line with the Bush administration’s goals on immigration.
“This is a redux of the Bush effort and the underlying principles,” Townsend told the Daily Beast at the time.
Nielsen has no record of working specifically on immigration-related issues, despite Trump making pro-American immigration reforms the main theme of his administration. The yet-to-be-confirmed DHS head also does not hold any clear record when it comes to supporting initiatives that reduce legal immigration and limit foreign guest worker programs in order to give wage and competitive relief to America’s working-class and middle-class workforce.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
Illegal Immigrant Accused of Running over Man in Drunk Hit-and-Run
An illegal immigrant is now facing felony charges after allegedly running over a Raleigh, North Carolina, man in a hit-and-run car accident while intoxicated.
Carlos Edilberto Flores-Benitez, 27, allegedly ran over a man while he was drinking and driving, police and eyewitnesses say, according to WNCN. Police reports claim the illegal immigrant hit the man at an intersection and then immediately sped off from the scene.
When police responded, Flores-Benitez was cornered into his vehicle by eyewitnesses who reportedly watched the incident.
In their police report, officers said the victim suffered “serious injuries, but he’s not gonna die.”
Flores-Benitez faces a felony hit-and-run felony charge and a drunk driving charge. Should he be released from prison at any time, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is expected to deport him back to his native country.
The car crash by Flores-Benitez is the latest crime from an individual who entered the U.S. illegally.
This week, Breitbart Texas reported first on a 19-year-old illegal immigrant and protectee of the federal Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program–created by President Obama–who is accused of murdering a teenage girl in Greenville, South Carolina.
Daniel De Jesus Rangel Sherrer, who has been able to remain in the U.S. because of DACA, is accused of murdering 18-year-old Diana Martinez-Gonzalez in a secluded, wooded area.
Sherrer is now facing first-degree murder charges. More than 2,100 illegal alien DACA recipients were kicked from the program for crimes and gang affiliations.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart Texas. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
Billionaire Mexicans tell their poor to JUMP U.S. OPEN
BORDERS and LOOT THE STUPID GRINGO… and loot they do!
Billions of dollars are sucked out of America from Mexico’s looting!
THE MEXICAN INVASION of AMERICA’S OPEN and UNDEFENDED BORDERS
One in every eleven persons born in Mexico has gone to the U.S. The National Review reported that in 2014 $1.87 billion was spent on incarcerating illegal immigrant criminals….Now add hundreds of billions for welfare and remittances! MICHAEL BARGO, Jr…… for the AMERICAN THINKER.COM
Donald Trump: Prototypes for the Wall ‘Looking Really Good’
President Donald Trump updated supporters about the wall during an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity on Wednesday.
“Right now, we’ve built five prototypes,” he explained. “They are going up, and some are already finished, and I will say they are really looking good.”
After Trump issued an executive order to the Department of Homeland Security to begin building “a physical wall” on the southern border, officials responded by requesting prototypes for the best kind of border security.
Construction for the prototypes began in September for solid wall models and barriers made of “other materials.” According to DHS officials, the prototypes will help officials choose the best kind of infrastructure for different areas on the border.
The U.S. Customs and Border Protection has released videos of some of the prototypes under construction:
When asked if the wall would be see-through, Trump referred to the prototypes.
“We’ll see,” he said.
He confirmed that he wanted to work out a DACA deal with Democrats but that funding the wall was a big part of any agreement.
“I fully understand it, but if we are going to do something, we have to get something in return, and what I want is tremendous border regulation. I want the wall, and we’re going to get other things,” he said.
Illegal Alien Accused of Murdering Teen Girl Was in DACA Program
An illegal alien accused of murdering a teenage girl in Greenville County, South Carolina, was shielded from deportation as he was a beneficiary of the Obama-created DACA amnesty program.
Daniel De Jesus Rangel Sherrer, 19, was one of the nearly 800,000 illegal aliens shielded from deportation and given a work permit under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) confirmed to Breitbart Texas.
Sherrer, as Breitbart News reported, was charged in connection with the murder of 18-year-old Diana Martinez-Gonzalez after she was found shot to death in a wooded area in the town of Easley, South Carolina.
During a press conference, Master Deputy Ryan Flood said the DACA recipient confessed to a deputy about his alleged murder of Martinez-Gonzalez, a high school student.
Sherrer allegedly murdered the girl in the wooded area because she had spread false rumors about him, the illegal alien told deputies. Police say the DACA recipient had also held another teenage girl against her will, but that she escaped the scene.
Sherrer is now facing first-degree murder charges and should he be released from prison at any time, he will be deported.
Under DACA, created by Obama in 2012, hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens were prevented from being deported by receiving temporary amnesty in the U.S.
President Trump’s administration, via Attorney General Jeff Sessions, announced that the program will officially end in March 2018, though the Republican establishment and Democrats are pushing to give permanent amnesty to the recipients.
Most recently, Ivanka Trump called DACA recipients “innocent people”, Breitbart Newsreported.
More than 2,100 illegal alien DACA recipients were kicked from the program for crimes and gang affiliations.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart Texas. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
HOW “CHEAP” IS ALL THAT INVADING “CHEAP” LABOR?
Natalio Vitervo-Vasquez was deported twice but returned to provide “cheap” labor. He can’t read or write and raped his 10-year-old daughter.
Illegal Aliens Escalate Amnesty Demands, Claim Racism
Top Democrats and business allies invited reporters to a Capitol Hill event to watch illegal immigrants demand amnesty and smear Republicans as racist, in Spanish and broken English.
“I’m here representing all the immigrant mothers like myself, will not allow the government to tear down our sons’ and daughters’ dreams while they try to separate our families,” said Lenka Mendoza, an unskilled illegal alien who has been living in the United States for 17 years since the year President Geoge W. Bush was elected. She continued, using a translator, saying:
The president does not care about our children and our families. Trump and his government supposed priorities are nothing else but an anti-immigrant and white-supremacist agenda that don’t solve anything … need clean act now.”
Mendoza was welcomed to the podium by Todd Schulte, a Democratic political activist who is president of FWD.us, a lobbying group formed by Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Venture Capitalists and software CEOs. Nine of the group’s 15 founders are investors who would gain from cheaper white-collar labor and a larger population of customers in the United States.
Schulte hosted the event to showcase Democrats’ opposition to President Trump’s new immigration principles, which balance business’ demands for more workers and customers against Americans’ worries that they and their children will be unfairly outsourced, sidelined and ignored amid mass immigration.
In his October 8 letter to Congress, Trump said:
These findings outline reforms that must be included as part of any legislation addressing the status of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients. Without these reforms, illegal immigration and chain migration, which severely and unfairly burden American workers and taxpayers, will continue without end.Immigration reform must create more jobs, higher wages, and greater security for Americans — now and for future generations. The reforms outlined in the enclosure are necessary to ensure prosperity, opportunity, and safety for every member of our national family.
Instead of urging compromise, Schulte’s speakers upped their demands, saying they want an amnesty for young ‘dreamer’ illegals plus an amnesty for their parents, to be delivered immediately and without any compromises, such as the improved border defenses sought by a supermajority of Americans.
The illegals were invited to speak alongside leadership speakers at the event, including the House Democrats’ leader, Rep. Nancy Pelosi — who described Trump’s immigration proposals as “trash” — and the chairwoman of the Democrats’ Hispanic caucus.
The escalating demands and aggressive rhetoric from Schulte’s illegals were much sharperthan the prior soft-spoken claims by Democratic leaders who say they want to protect ‘dreamers’ from deportation. That soft, poll-tested language has been damaged by simple questions from reporters who have shown the bigger-than-expected scale, cost and demographic impact of what started out as supposedly modest demand to save 690,000 DACA illegals from repatriation.
The new language from Mendoza included a claim that immigration-enforcement officers of “terrorizing” people.
“Congress can solve today the young people’s situation without using them as an excuse to deport their mothers or spending more money terrorizing people that live near the border,” said Mendoza, an unskilled migrant who cleans houses for a living.
“Many people think ending DACA or approving the Dream Act will only affect young people, but this is not true. This is something that effects all of us – mothers, our families and all of our communities,” Mendoza said.
A second illegal, Ingrid Vaca, said she arrived in the United States from Bolivia in 2000. “I came to this country with dreams to protect my sons and to give them a better future,” she said in heavily accented English, adding: I would not let anything stand in their way.”
Vaca continued:
DACA away was taken away by Trump and his racist advisors, Jeff Sessions and Steven Miller … We will not let racist men negotiate with our kids’ lives … We will not allow our families to be broken up … A mother’s love is stronger than the racists from the White House.
The escalated demands from the illegal aliens are compatible with Schulte’s goals, which primarily include a defeat of the popular RAISE Act, authorized by Goerge Sen. David Perdue and Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton.
The RAISE Act is a problem for Schulte’s investors because it would halve the inflow of new customers and workers, and –worse — it would prevent the investors from pushing Congress to pass the so-called “staple” green card proposal.
The proposed “staple” visa program would allow foreign students at U.S. universities to receive a green card stapled to their graduate degree. It is very popular among business groups because it would create a huge wave of salary-cutting white-collar competition in the skilled job sectors where young Americans hope to earn a good living. The salary-cutting competition would be intensified by the government’s offer of the very valuable prize of citizenship to foreign graduates who take jobs sought by the 800,000 Americans who graduate from college each year with skilled degrees in business and medicine, engineering, architecture and science, technology, math and chemical engineering.
But Schulte’s investors won’t get their staple proposal — or any increase in white-collar H-1B outsourcing — if Trump and the voters pressure Democrats to accept Trump’s popularimmigration principles in exchange for a limited amnesty.
The third illegal alien introduced by Schulte was Luis Condorimay, who migrated to the United States from Peru at age 13 and earned a 2016 degree in chemical engineering.
An amnesty for just younger illegals is unacceptable if it does not also include their parents, he insisted. “This is just not something I can do. Would you accept a law where you protect yourself … but hurt your father and mother?”
He also spoke against any border and enforcement upgrades, and described the illegal-alien communities as the victims:
There are politicians in power right now who want to deport my father and my mother, who want to separate me from my little sister. Those politicians are the same ones who killed DACA and put the lives of immigrants on the line. They want now to use my life and the life of my sister, who also has DACA, as a bargaining chip to get a wall built on the Southern border and to militarize our border, to increase the number of immigrants agents in our cities and continue to terrorize and separate our families. They say they have heart for us, they say they understand our pain, but all they really want to do is hurt our families and continue to sperate us as they have done for the past many years … I ask you all here today to put yourself in our shoes, just for one moment: Haven’t we suffered enough already?”
“We need [amnesty] now, we need it right now because too many families have already been separated,” he said.
Four million Americans turn 18 each year and begin looking for good jobs in the free market.
But business groups have used their political power to tilt the labor market in their favor, via the federal policy of importing 1 million consumers and workers each year. The government also hands out almost 3 million short-term work permits to foreign workers. These permits include roughly 330,000 one-year OPT permits for foreign graduates of U.S. colleges, roughly 200,000 three-year H-1B visas for foreign white-collar professionals, and 400,000 two-year permits to DACA illegals. Universities employ roughly 100,000 foreign guest workers.
That Washington-imposed economic policy of mass-immigration floods the market with foreign labor, spikes profits and Wall Street values by cutting salaries for manual and skilled labor offered by blue-collar and white-collar employees. It also drives up real estate prices, widens wealth-gaps, reduces high-tech investment, increases state and local tax burdens, hurts kids’ schools and college education, pushes Americans away from high-tech careers, and sidelines at least 5 million marginalized Americans and their families, including many who are now struggling with opioid addictions.
The cheap-labor policy has also reduced investment and job creation in many interior states because the coastal cities have a surplus of imported labor. For example, almost 27 percent of zip codes in Missouri had fewer jobs or businesses in 2015 than in 2000, according to a new report by the Economic Innovation Group. In Kansas, almost 29 percent of zip codes had fewer jobs and businesses in 2015 compared to 2000, which was a two-decade period of massive cheap-labor immigration.
Americans tell pollsters that they strongly oppose amnesties and cheap-labor immigration, even as most Americans also want to favor legal immigrants, and many sympathize with illegals.
Because of the successful cheap-labor strategy, wages for men have remained flat since 1973, and a growing percentage of the nation’s annual income is shifting to investors and away from employees.
“Prosecutors say the girl, who was 11-years-old at the time, went to a medical center where it was determined she was pregnant. Officials say she would have conceived the child at ten years of age.”
ILLEGALS & WELFARE
70% OF ILLEGALS GET WELFARE!
“According to the Centers for Immigration Studies, April '11, at least 70% of Mexican illegal alien families receive some type of welfare in the US!!! cis.org”
CIS
So when cities across the country declare that they will NOT be sanctuary, guess where ALL the illegals, criminals, gang members fleeing ICE will go???? straight to your welcoming city. So ironically the people fighting for sanctuary city status, may have an unprecedented crime wave to deal with along with the additional expense.
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$17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies.
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$12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of English.
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$22 billion is spent on (AFDC) welfare to illegal aliens each year.
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$2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs such as (SNAP) food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens.
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$3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens.
30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens. Does not include local jails and State Prisons.
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2012 illegal aliens sent home $62 BILLION in remittances back to their countries of origin. This is why Mexico is getting involved in our politics.
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$200 Billion Dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused by the illegal aliens.
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Nearly One Million Sex Crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants In The United States.
Eight 'MS-13 gang members sold cocaine and marijuana, murdered a rival gang leader, and extorted illegal businesses to get cash which was sent to El-Salvador'
- Eight alleged MS-13 gang members are being charged with murder, racketeering, extortion of business owners, and selling drugs and weapons
- The eight men, whose ages range from 18 to 22, are alleged to be members of the so-called ‘Sailors Clique’ of MS-13
- The suspects are alleged to have taken part in four murders, extortions, and drug and gun trafficking in Maryland from 2015 to 2017
- Authorities allege that ‘Sailors Clique’ extorted money from the owners of illegal businesses and sent the money back to MS-13 leaders in El-Salvador
Rolando Aristides Juarez-Vasquez, 22, of Hyattsville, Maryland is being charged with gang-related activities. He is one of eight suspects named in a federal indictment
Eight alleged MS-13 gang members are being charged with murder, racketeering, extortion of business owners, and selling drugs and weapons, it was reported on Thursday.
The eight men, whose ages range from 18 to 22, are alleged to be members of the so-called ‘Sailors Clique’ of MS-13, the Central America-based criminal outfit.
The suspects are alleged to have taken part in four murders, extortions, and drug and gun trafficking in Maryland from 2015 to 2017, according to WJLA-TV.
The eight men have been identified as Carlos Roberto Cruz, 20, from Beltsville, Maryland; Kevin Alexis Hernandez-Guevara, 20, of Landover Hills; Rolando Aristides Juarez-Vasquez, 22, of Hyattsville; Jeffry Rodriguez, 21, of Beltsville; Junior Noe Alvarado-Requeno, 20, of Landover; Michael Eduardo Contreras, 22, of Silver Spring; Luis Fernando Orellana-Estrada, 18, of Hyatsville; and Donald Roberto Mendez-Lopez, 18, of Hyattsville.
Authorities allege that ‘Sailors Clique’ extorted money from the owners of illegal businesses and sent the money back to MS-13 leaders in El-Salvador.
The suspects are also alleged to have sold marijuana and cocaine in Langley Park.
Alvarado-Requino, Tejada-Cruz, Hernandez-Guevara, and Juarez-Vasquez face a maximum sentence of life in prison, according to the Justice Department.
Led by Alvarado-Requeno, on June 16, 2016 members of the clique murdered an individual believed to be a member of the rival 18th Street gang in Gaithersburg, Maryland, according to the indictment.
On March 27, 2017, Contreras directed Sailors Clique members to go to Lynchburg in Bedford County, Virginia and murder a victim, according to the indictment.
Rodriguez, Contreras, Orellana-Estrada and Mendez-Lopez face a maximum sentence of twenty years in prison for ‘conspiring to participate in a racketeering enterprise.’
Tejada-Cruz and Hernandez-Guevara also face a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison for conspiracy to commit murder in aid of racketeering, the Justice Department said.
The eight men, whose ages range from 18 to 22, are alleged to be members of the so-called ‘Sailors Clique’ of MS-13, the Central America-based criminal outfit. Police above question and detain a member of MS-13 in Langley Park, Maryland, in this 2006 file photo
‘Orellana-Estrada and Mendez-Lopez also face a maximum of twenty years in prison for conspiring to interfere with interstate commerce by extortion,’ according to the indictment.
Contreras is also alleged to have dealt drugs. He faces an additional 20 years behind bars.
Orellana-Estrada and Mendez-Lopez are charged with conspiracy to interfere with interstate commerce by extortion, a crime that could land them 20 years behind bars.
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San Diego Aims to Ban ‘Free Mooring’ to Eliminate Abandoned Boats by Mexican Smugglers
San Diego Lifeguards are proposing a time limit for boaters who wish to anchor off San Diego’s North Island in order to resolve the abandoned boat crisis caused mostly by Mexican smugglers, bringing drugs and people into the U.S. illegally.
The San Diego Tribune reports:
Drug smugglers, people trying to avoid homelessness and boat owners who can’t afford maintenance costs have been more frequently abandoning vessels in the sometimes choppy waters, lifeguard and Navy officials say.The boats often break apart during rainstorms or high surf, sometimes emitting fuel and hazardous materials into the ocean and onto the beach. Demolition and clean-up costs can also be significant when boats wash ashore.Sixty-one abandoned vessels have sunk, been beached or broken apart in the last seven years, with 21 of those incidents happening since January, officials said.City lifeguards are proposing a new law that would limit anchoring in the area to two hours maximum, which would help prevent the problem but allow enough time for boaters who anchor there to fish, hunt for lobsters or snorkel.“We really believe this will help go a long way in preventing these types of problems with our environment and these types of clean-ups,” Lifeguard Chief Rick Wurts said. “It’s important to note we are not asking for it to be a ‘no anchorage’ area at all because a lot of people like to go down there.”
The proposed law, which would eliminate one of the last free places to anchor or moor a boat in the San Diego area, is further complicated by complex jurisdictional boundaries controlled by the Navy, the city and the port of San Diego.
The burden to clean up and remove the damaged boat falls mostly on the Navy—because the boats wash up onto the shore of North Island Naval Air Station—who reportedly says the cost to remove and dispose of each vessel is between $2,500 and $50,000.
The city of San Diego, which has jurisdiction over the waters off the military base, require the new law in order to issue tickets to vessels there because there are currently no laws prohibiting anchorage in the Pacific Ocean, Wurts reportedly told the Tribune.
On occasion, vessels will break apart and leak fuel into the water, causing an expensive hazmat clean up. Sometimes it’s a California regulation that prevents taking action. For part of the year, this type of work is prohibited by an environmental law put in place to protect a bird called the California least tern.
Some boats are abandoned by those on the verge of homeless, who’ve tried living on their boat, but could not sustain the dock rent.
Those abandoned by drug smugglers, usually get removed quickly by U.S. Customs and Border Enforcement because they can be used as evidence in smuggling cases.
The abandoned boat crisis is adding to international tensions as San Diego is left unreimbursed for cleaning up unwanted pollution–reminiscent of the hundreds of millions of gallons of raw sewage that crossed the border illegally and contaminated San Diego beaches earlier this year.
Tim Donnelly is a former California State Assemblyman and Author, currently on a book tour for his new book: Patriot Not Politician: Win or Go Homeless. He also ran for governor in 2014.
JEFF SESSION’S LONG BATTLE FOR THE AMERICAN WORKER He is the only one in the country that has consistently spoken out for the AMERICAN WORKER!
Sessions should keep dragging Trump out of his amnesty closet and build the wall against NARCOMEX!
Jeff Sessions Calls Out the Asylum Racket, Demands Reform from Congress
In a Thursday address, Attorney General Jeff Sessions took aim at the ballooning burden of asylum claims on the American immigration review system.
Days after the White House included the asylum system in its immigration reform priorities, Sessions spoke about fraud and abuse in what he called America’s “generous asylum policy,” at the headquarters of the Executive Office of Immigration Review (EOIR) in Falls Church, Virginia, just outside of Washington, DC. “[T]his system is currently subject to rampant abuse and fraud. And as this system becomes overloaded with fake claims, it cannot deal effectively with just claims. The surge in trials, hearings, appeals, bond proceedings has been overwhelming,” he said in his prepared remarks.
Sessions went on to describe a once functional system that, under the stewardship of President Barack Obama’s Department of Homeland Security, became a loophole through which countless illegals have made their home in the United States while EOIR’s immigration courtrooms are swamped in litigation. As he related, the single greatest change came in 2009, when the Obama administration issued a directive to release into the United States, instead of detain, asylum claimants who merely made an initial credible claim of fear from returning to their home countries.
“The system is being gamed,” Sessions said. “The credible fear process was intended to be a lifeline for persons facing serious persecution. But it has become an easy ticket to illegal entry into the United States.”
As Breitbart News reported extensively over the last few years, aliens aware of the Obama-era policy, especially unaccompanied minors, turn themselves in by the thousand, knowing that they stand a good chance of simply being released pending later adjudication. “Almost anyone at all can call themselves an asylum-seeker and get in; it’s a global joke,” Kenneth Palinkas, president of a union representing U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officers said in 2015. “It’s not border security if anyone can recite the magic words and get waved right on in. Those who arrived in the 2014 border run are still here, often living on US support and even applying for US jobs.”
National Public Radio’s This American Life, in their own reporting from the border this January, provided an anecdote of the workings of the asylum system:
So the girl who said the gangs were after her, she probably wouldn’t get asylum. But she is entitled to a hearing to see. So she’ll be taken to a detention center, processed, and eventually released. She’ll be assigned a court date, but because the system is so backed up, that date can be more than six years from now. And during that time, [Border Patrol agent] Chris [Cabrera] says, she and the others can disappear into America, get work permits. The kids will enter school. They’ll start a life.Lots of people don’t show up for their court date. They join the 11 million undocumented people living in this country.
The attorney general put stark numerical reality to these reports on the wave of asylum seekers Thursday, saying:
Here are the shocking statistics: in 2009, DHS conducted more than 5,000 credible fear reviews. By 2016, that number had increased to 94,000. The number of these aliens placed in removal proceedings went from fewer than 4,000 in 2009 to more than 73,000 by 2016—nearly a 19-fold increase—overwhelming the system and leaving those with just claims buried.The increase has been especially pronounced and abused at the border. From 2009 to 2016, the credible fear claims at the border went from approximately 3,000 cases to more than 69,000.All told the Executive Office for Immigration Review has over 600,000 cases pending—tripled from 2009.
Human smugglers and open-borders NGOs know the law well, and those claiming asylum have internalized the “script” that triggers an initial determination of a credible fear. The attorney general also cited immigration lawyers as a major source of this abuse, saying, “Dirty immigration lawyers who are encouraging their otherwise unlawfully present clients to make false claims of asylum providing them with the magic words needed to trigger the credible fear process.”
Breitbart News reported, in June, on organized efforts by the immigration bar to shield as many asylum seekers as possible from deportation. Efforts like these have been aided for years by what Sessions called “case law that has expanded the concept of asylum well beyond Congressional intent.”
Sometimes, Sessions noted, immigration lawyers veer into criminality. “As of March 2014, a joint fraud investigation led by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, resulted in charges against 30 defendants, including 8 attorneys, for their alleged participation in immigration fraud schemes,” he said.
Sessions explained:
Our asylum laws are meant to protect those who because of characteristics like their race, religion, nationality, or political opinions cannot find protection in their home countries. They were never intended to provide asylum to all those who fear generalized violence, crime, personal vendettas, or a lack of job prospects. Yet, vague, insubstantial, and subjective claims have swamped our system.
Sessions called out the current system on its strikingly high approval rates. “DHS found a credible fear in 88 percent of claims adjudicated. That means an alien entering the United States illegally has an 88 percent chance to avoid expedited removal simply by claiming a fear of return,” he said. “But even more telling, half of those that pass that screening—the very people who say they came here seeking asylum—never even file an asylum application once they are in the United States.”
Final adjudication of the claims found credible by DHS is a major part of EOIR’s caseload. “Denying an asylum application is difficult to prove—and so it seldom happens,” Sessions bemoaned. “That’s why there’s a common, fatalistic refrain you’ll hear from immigration judges and immigration enforcement that ‘the case isn’t over until the alien wins.'”
In response, Sessions reiterated his endorsement of President Trump’s immigration priorities and called on Congress to pass legislation that includes “significant asylum reform, swift border returns, and enhanced interior enforcement.” He added:
We can impose and enforce penalties for baseless or fraudulent asylum applications and expand the use of expedited removal. We can elevate the threshold standard of proof in credible fear interviews. We can expand the ability to return asylum seekers to safe third countries. We can close loopholes and clarify our asylum laws to ensure that they help those they were intended to help.
The attorney general’s speech was well received among anti-mass migration groups. Dale L. Wilcox, executive director and general counsel of the Immigration Reform Law Institute, a group that works to combat asylum fraud, told Breitbart News:
Attorney General Sessions accurately described the loopholes, fraud and general attitude of permissiveness that has characterized our immigration system for too long. We applaud the efforts of the Attorney General and the administration to change course and develop an immigration policy that is primarily focused on the best interests of America and its lawful citizens.
Some immigration lawyers, however, reacted with outrage, particularly at Sessions’s use of the term “dirty immigration lawyers.”
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“The greatest criminal threat to the daily lives of American citizens are the Mexican drug cartels.”
“Mexican drug cartels are the “other” terrorist threat to America. Militant Islamists have the goal of destroying the United States. Mexican drug cartels are now accomplishing that mission – from within, every day, in virtually every community across this country.” JUDICIALWATCH
Overall, in the 2017 Fiscal Year, officials revealed that a record-breaking 455,000 pounds plus of drugs had already been seized. In 2016, that number amounted to 443,000 pounds. The 2017 haul is worth an estimated $6.1 billion – BREITBART – JEFF SESSION’S DRUG BUST ON SAN DIEGO