https://townhall.com/tipsheet/timothymeads/2019/07/01/illegal-alien-indicted-in-arizona-the-drugsare-enough-to-kill-thousands-of-people-n2549254
As the
opioid epidemic continues to ravage families across America, authorities in
Mesa, Arizona have arrested two individuals, including one illegal immigrant,
on charges "of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute fentanyl
and possession with intent to distribute fentanyl."
The Toledo Blade reports
that the U.S. District Court in Toledo indicted Felipe Penuelas-Rodriguez, 50,
and Reyna Trejo, 30, in late June after the pair were arrested after
authorities discovered the two were attempting to distribute enough fentanyl to
kill at least 500,000 individuals.
Penuelas-Rodriguez and Trejo were both arrested in June
"with approximately one kilogram of fentanyl, as well as approximately
2,100 pills that tested positive for fentanyl."
While running background checks, authorities discovered that
Penuelas-Rodrguez is an illegal alien.
“The drugs seized are enough to kill thousands of people,” U.S.
Attorney Justin Herdman said in a statement. “The fentanyl pills stamped to
look like prescription painkillers are another reminder that there are no safe
drugs available on the street.”
While it is unclear where these laced pills originated, the narcotics
confiscation follows a similar pattern across America. In February 2019, the
United States Drug Enforcement Agency issued a press
release after a similar, albeit much larger, drug bust occurred
in New York City.
“These arrests highlight a growing trend in illicit street drugs
which increases the risk of drug overdose,” DEA Special Agent in Charge Ray
Donovan said the time. “Traffickers are mass producing pseudo-pharmaceutical
pills made of heroin, fentanyl and other illicit drugs in makeshift
laboratories throughout New York City. These pills attract users because they
are more convenient and less conspicuous; but users should beware because they
are unregulated and lethal. DEA and our law enforcement partners are committed
to removing such threats and arresting drug dealers, traffickers and
manufacturers.”
“If you take ‘prescription’ pills that did not
come directly from a pharmacy, you are risking your life,” Special Narcotics
Prosecutor Bridget G Brennan added.
Both men in the Arizona case have pleaded not guilty. The case
will be heard by Judge James Carr.
Ann Coulter: Surprise! That 'cheap'
immigrant labor costs us a lot
BY ANN COULTER,
OPINION CONTRIBUTOR
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We could pay for
every idiotic boondoggle proposed by the 300 Democratic presidential candidates
if the current president would simply keep his central campaign promise to
build a border wall and deport illegal aliens. (Back off — “illegal alien”
is the term used in federal law.)
BLOG: JUDICIAL WATCH ESTIMATES THAT THE INVASION COST US $135 BILLION JUST IN WELFARE. THIS DOES NOT INCLUDE THE MEXICAN CRIME TIDAL WAVE OR $50 BILLION IN REMITTANCES.
A 2017 study by
the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) found that illegal aliens
cost the American taxpayer — on net — $116 billion a year.
That’s pretty
high, but the actual number is more likely triple that.
Straight out of
the chute, FAIR assumes that there are only 12.5 million illegal
immigrants in the country, approximately the same number we’ve been told
for the last 15 years as we impotently watched hundreds of thousands more
stream across our border, year after year after year.
The 12 million
figure is based on the self-reports of illegal aliens to U.S. census
questionnaires. (Hello! I’m from the federal government. Did
you break the law to enter our country? Now tell the truth! We have
no way of knowing the answer, and if you say yes, you could be subjecting
yourself to immediate deportation.)
BLOG: NOW DO THE MATH!
More serious
studies put the number considerably higher. At the low end, a Massachusetts
Institute of Technology and Yale study last year put the number of illegals
at 22 million. Yet Bear Stearns investment bank had
it at 20 million back in 2005, and Pulitzer Prize-winning
investigative reporters Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele
reported in 2004 that 3 million illegals were crossing each
year — so
simple math would put it at well over 60 million today.
So, right there,
the FAIR study underestimates the tab for illegal immigration by at least a
factor of three, meaning the real cost is about $350 billion a
year. That’s triple what Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s (D-Mass.) free college tuition plan
will cost in a decade.
I don’t mean to
bash FAIR. It’s sweet how immigration restrictionists always bend over
backward to be impartial. But their circumspection doesn’t mean the rest of us
have to ignore reality.
Journalists’
usual method of determining the cost of “unauthorized entries” — as they
say — is to phone some fanatically pro-illegal immigration group, such as
Cato or CASA, and get a quote sneering at anyone else’s estimate of the costs.
In a deeply
investigated 2017 Washington Post article, for example, the Post cited the
“belief” that illegal aliens “drain government resources.” Without looking
at any facts or figures, the reporter disputed that “belief” with a quote from
Cathryn Ann Paul of CASA: "It's a myth that people who are undocumented
don't pay taxes."
So there you
have it! Cathryn Ann Paul says it’s a “myth.” Now let’s move on to
the vibrant diversity being gifted to us by illegal aliens.
Earlier this
year, The New York Times mocked President Trump’s tweet saying illegal immigration costs "250 Billion
Dollars a year" by quoting big-business shill Alex Nowrasteh of the Cato
Institute: "There's no basis to any of those numbers about the
fiscal cost." Am I doing OK, Mr. Koch?
The Times
further explained that Trump’s figure “did not take into account the economic
benefits of undocumented immigrants” — for example, the surprisingly affordable
maids of some reporters.
Randy Capps of
the Migration Policy Institute told the Times that studies of the cost of
illegal immigration count only the costs or only the benefits. “They tend to
talk past each other, unfortunately,” he said.
BLOG: THE TAX-FREE MEXICAN ECONOMY IN LOS ANGELES COUNTY ALONE IS ESTIMATED TO BE IN EXCESS OF $2 BILLION YEARLY. THIS SAME COUNTY HANDS ANCHOR BABY BREEDERS MORE THAN $1 BILLION YEARLY IN WELFARE.
Well, the FAIR
study counted both. For every dollar illegal immigrants pay in taxes —
fees, Social Security withholding taxes, fuel surcharges, sales and property taxes
— they collect $7 in government benefits: schooling, English as a second
language classes, hospital costs, school lunch programs, Medicaid births,
police resources and so on.
A few years ago,
the Heritage Foundation’s Robert Rector looked at the winners and losers under
our government redistribution system and found that in 2010, households headed
by illegal immigrants received $14,387 more in government
services than they paid in taxes.
Legal immigrant
households also were big winners, receiving $4,344 more in government services
than they paid in taxes. (Our government does a fantastic job
deciding who can immigrate here.)
Only with
nonimmigrant households does the government almost break even, doling out a
mere $310 more in benefits than those households pay in taxes. (Surprise!
The deficit is on track to hit $1 trillion next year.)
Like FAIR
estimates, Rector’s study accepted the U.S. Census Bureau’s allegation that
we’ve had the same number of illegal aliens in this country since the beginning
of the Bush administration. Also like the FAIR study, Rector’s examination
counted only the obvious costs imposed on us by illegal immigrants —
things such as health care, education, fire and police protection, parks,
roads, and bridges.
But there are all sorts of costs that no one ever counts. What about
Americans’ lost wages to illegal immigrants who are
willing to work for $7 an hour? Even if
they don’t apply for unemployment insurance,
how do we count the cost of suicide, opioid
addiction or other anti-social behavior?
Why not count
the lost wages themselves? We want to know the cost-benefit ratio to those
already here, not to the new total that includes the illegal immigrants.
If it's a net negative to those already here — well, that's the point.
And what was the
tab of illegal immigration to the family of Kate Steinle, the young woman shot
dead by an illegal immigrant in San Francisco in 2015? There were obvious,
tragic costs, of course — but there also are hidden costs, such as the lost
productivity of the people close to Kate for years to come, the additional
police presence around the San Francisco pier where she was killed and the
reduction in tourist dollars.
We hear about
the great largesse bestowed upon us by illegal immigrants all day
long. The only hidden benefits are the warm feelings of self-righteousness
that the CASA spokesman gets when bleating about illegals and the happiness
that cheap servants bring to the top 10 percent.
In Maine,
overdose deaths from opioids, mostly Mexican heroin, have skyrocketed in the last
decade, up from an already catastrophic 100 to 200 deaths per year to more than
double that — 418 in 2018. What is the cost of the state legislature
spending weeks debating a bill to provide heroin addicts with Narcan? The cost
of more crime and more police?
This isn’t to
gratuitously mention the fact that completely unvetted,
self-chosen illegal immigrants can, in fact, be rapists, drug dealers and
cop-killers. It is to say that no analysis of illegal immigration’s cost
can ever capture the full price.
Ann Coulter is a lawyer, a syndicated columnist and
conservative commentator, and the author of 13 New York Times bestsellers. The
most recent, “Resistance Is Futile! How the
Trump-Hating Left Lost Its Collective Mind,” was published in 2018.
Illegal Alien, Girlfriend Accused of Murdering Woman and Her Two Children
1:19
An illegal alien, with the help of his girlfriend, allegedly murdered his ex-wife and her two children, according to North Carolina authorities.
Areli Aguirre Avilez, a 30-year-old illegal alien from Mexico, and his 16-year-old girlfriend allegedly murdered his ex-wife, 38-year-old Maria Calderon, and her two children, 11-year-old Angel Pacheco and 12-year-old America Pacheco, according to the Alexander County Sheriff’s Office, as reported by the Associated Press.
Police said Avilez and his girlfriend murdered Calderon by driving over her with a vehicle and then allegedly dumped her body in the Catawba River in North Carolina.
The illegal alien, police said, shot Calderon’s young children, Angel and America, to death and left them in their home that was then set on fire.
Aside from the accused murders, Avilez has been indicted on statutory rape, arson, and violating a domestic violence order charges. His 16-year-old girlfriend has been charged with murder and arson.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart Texas. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
Friends of ALIPAC,
While we are extending our fundraising deadline by 24 hours, only 48 hours remain for you to decide if ALIPAC will continue to fight Amnesty and illegal immigration beyond this point. (By Midnight Monday, July 1, 2019.) Please step forward to rally to us in these final moments at--
https://www.alipac.us/donations/
We have fought hard and efficiently on your behalf, and are so thankful for each of you who have sacrificed time and/or funds in 2019 to help ALIPAC fight to save every job, tax resource, election, and American life we can from this invasion.
We have raised only $12,082 of the $15,000 we must raise for ALIPAC to fight onward beyond this point!
Sen. Graham's Amnesty bill is expected to come at us next week, so please rally to us in these final 48 hours by contributing at least $10, but preferably $25, $50, $100, $200, $500, or $1,000+ to help ALIPAC meet the costs of running a national organization.
48 hours left to help at--
https://www.alipac.us/donations/
William Gheen and The ALIPAC Team
PS: This is a hard deadline. We either raise the remaining $3,000, or we have to bow out. The decision is yours. If you want a hard-hitting national organization fighting against illegal immigration and Amnesty, now is the time to support us at--
https://www.alipac.us/donations/F
Friends of ALIPAC,
While we are extending our fundraising deadline by 24 hours, only 48 hours remain for you to decide if ALIPAC will continue to fight Amnesty and illegal immigration beyond this point. (By Midnight Monday, July 1, 2019.) Please step forward to rally to us in these final moments at--
https://www.alipac.us/donations/
We have fought hard and efficiently on your behalf, and are so thankful for each of you who have sacrificed time and/or funds in 2019 to help ALIPAC fight to save every job, tax resource, election, and American life we can from this invasion.
We have raised only $12,082 of the $15,000 we must raise for ALIPAC to fight onward beyond this point!
Sen. Graham's Amnesty bill is expected to come at us next week, so please rally to us in these final 48 hours by contributing at least $10, but preferably $25, $50, $100, $200, $500, or $1,000+ to help ALIPAC meet the costs of running a national organization.
48 hours left to help at--
https://www.alipac.us/donations/
William Gheen and The ALIPAC Team
PS: This is a hard deadline. We either raise the remaining $3,000, or we have to bow out. The decision is yours. If you want a hard-hitting national organization fighting against illegal immigration and Amnesty, now is the time to support us at--
https://www.alipac.us/donations/F
Massive Migrant Crossings Lead to Another Shelter Opening in Arizona
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Border Patrol officials in the Yuma Sector announced the building of an additional temporary migrant shelter in response to “sustained large volumes of family units in the Arizona sector. Sector officials opened the new shelter for tours late last week.
Border Patrol officials began construction of a new family shelter in the Yuma Sector” on June 15 in response to the strain on resources and facilities” due to the continuing unprecedented numbers of migrant families illegally crossing the border in southwestern Arizona, according to a statement obtained by Breitbart News. The shelter became available for tours on June 28 and is expected to begin housing migrants soon.
The shelter is reported to be similar in design to other temporary facilities located in Donna and El Paso, Texas. It is expected to hold up to 500 migrant families and unaccompanied minors.
“The temporary, soft-sided facility will accommodate up to 500 individuals in U.S. Border Patrol custody while they await transfer to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services-Office of Refugee Resettlement,” officials said in a written statement. “The temporary structures are weatherproof and climate-controlled for eating, sleeping, and personal hygiene.”
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) awarded a contract valued at just under $15 million to build the facilities. This includes showers, toilets, and syncs, officials reported. It also includes the perimeter monitoring equipment, office space, lockers, security, power, HVAC services, food, snacks, water, and custodial services, CBP officials stated.
Construction on the project began just over two weeks ago and is part of the Border Patrol’s effort to secure the border and meet the humanitarian needs of the current border crisis. During the month of May, Yuma Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended 42,225 family units. This is up from 8,775 in May 2017 — a 381 percent increase, according to the May Southwest Border Migration Report.
Additionally, Yuma Sector agents apprehended nearly 6,000 unaccompanied minors and nearly 6,500 single adults.
Bob Price serves as associate editor and senior political news contributor for the Breitbart Border team. He is an original member of the Breitbart Texas team. Follow him on Twitter @BobPriceBBTX and Face book.
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