THE DOCTRINE OF THE N.A.F.T.A. GLOBALIST DEMOCRATS IS TO SERVE THE BILLIONAIRE CLASS WITH ENDLESS WAVES OF INVADING 'CHEAP' LABOR SUBSIDIZED WITH WELFARE FUNDED BY TAXES ON MIDDLE AMERICA.
In many speeches, Mayorkas says he is building a mass migration system to deliver workers to wealthy employers and investors and “equity” to poor foreigners. The nation’s border laws are subordinate to elites’ opinion about “the values of our country,” Mayorkas claims.
U.S. Border Patrol agents in the Rio Grande Valley Sector reported apprehending nearly 7,000 migrants in a single week who illegally crossed the border from Mexico into Texas.
The Rio Grande Valley (RGV) Sector is ground zero for the influx of migrants illegally crossing the border between ports of entry. The sector accounts for the largest percentage of all migrant apprehensions for all of the migrants apprehended in the nine southwest Border Patrol sectors, according to information provided by Border Patrol officials.
On Wednesday alone, RGV Sector agents apprehended more than 1,300 migrants — marking the second time in as many weeks this milestone has been achieved, officials stated.
Reports indicate that a majority of the migrants apprehended in the RGV sector are family units and unaccompanied minors from Central and South America. The massive number of apprehensions and the associated time required for Border Patrol agents to process and medically clear each of these migrants greatly impacts the sector’s resources normally utilized for carrying out the border security mission of the region.
During the first four months of Fiscal Year 2017, RGV agents apprehended 77,549 migrants who illegally crossed the border between ports of entry, according to the January Southwest Border Migration Report. This represents an average of 630 migrants apprehended per day. It also accounts for nearly 40 percent of all migrants apprehended in the nine southwest border sectors since October 1, 2018.
So far this fiscal year, RGV agents apprehended 43,588 Family Unit Aliens (FMUA) and 8,685 Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC). This represents an increase of 180 percent and 34 percent respectively over the same period in FY2018.
Nationally, Border Patrol agents apprehended 99,901 FMUAs and 20,123 UAC in the nine southwest Border Patrol sectors, officials reported. The families mostly originated from Guatemala (50,593) — followed by Honduras (36,009), El Salvador (9,146), and Mexico (883). Minors also mostly came from Guatemala (9,522) — followed by Honduras (4,833), Mexico (3,007), and El Salvador (2,292).
“At the current rate, the Rio Grande Valley Sector is on pace to reach 240,000 apprehensions for this fiscal year,” officials said in a written statement.
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 Facebook.
Agents assigned to the Eagle Pass Border Patrol Station encountered a large group of migrant families and unaccompanied minors after they illegally crossed the border from Mexico.
Del Rio Sector agents patrolling near the small border community of Quemado, Texas, on Monday encountered a group of 90 migrants who had just crossed the Rio Grande River from Mexico. Border Patrol officials reported that the migrants were all Honduran nationals. Many of the group were women and children. Officials said the children ranged from one to 17 years of age.
The group surrendered to the agents without incident, officials reported. The agents arranged for a transport bus and took the migrants to the Eagle Pass Station for processing and a biometric background investigation.
“Although groups of this size, until recently, have been uncommon in the Del Rio area, our agents are encountering larger groups of immigrants with women and young children,” Del Rio Sector Acting Chief Patrol Agent Matthew J. Hudak said in a written statement. “Our highest priority will always be the safety of all people involved, no matter the situation. However, it is a criminal offense to enter the United States at a place other than a designated port of entry. Those who choose to enter illegally will be arrested and handled accordingly.”
Officials said that one of the women reported abdominal pain. She told the agents she was pregnant. The agents rushed her to the Duncan Regional Medical Center where she went into labor and gave birth.
Eagle Pass is the scene where 1,700 mostly Honduran caravan migrants gathered across the river in Piedras Negras to await an opportunity to request asylum in the U.S. Earlier this month, Breitbart News reported that a group of the migrants attempted to rush the border and illegally cross into Texas.
Mexican officials began shutting down some of the shelters for the caravan migrants last week. Officials said many of the migrants moved to west Sonora and Chihuahua where they hoped to cross in the El Paso area. About 300 migrants remain in the Piedras Negras area, officials stated.
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 Facebook.
Murders On Texas Soil Linked to Mexico’s Gulf Cartel, Says FBI
McALLEN, Texas – Federal authorities are offering a reward for a man tied to Mexico’s Gulf Cartel for his alleged roles in various murders, kidnappings, and home invasions in South Texas. The fugitive, believed to be in Mexico, is also wanted on various trafficking charges for reportedly moving drugs from the Texas border to Fort Wayne, Indiana.
This week, the FBI announced a $25,000 reward for information leading to the capture of 47-year-old Juan Alberto “A-1” Mendez, a man described as an associate of the Gulf Cartel. He is involved in a large-scale racketeering indictment. Mendez is considered a high-risk fugitive still working with the criminal organization.
“We have reason to believe that Mr. Mendez is could be in Playa Del Carmen, Cancun, Monterrey, or Reynosa,” FBI Special Agent in Charge Chris Combs told Breitbart News, adding that the reward is also available to individuals in Mexico. “Someone out there knows where he is, we hope that this gives them 25,000 reasons to call the FBI.”
Mendez, a native of Mission, Texas, and an alleged member of the Gulf Cartel appeared on the FBI’s radar in 2015 as part of a racketeering investigation into the Tri-City Bomber gang (TCB), Combs said during the interview. At the time, Mendez owned a trucking business and investigators believe he used it to move large quantities of marijuana, cocaine, and heroin to Indiana and other areas.
“He may be involved in the trucking business in Mexico or he may also own a nightclub,” Combs said.
The criminal indictment alleges that Mendez personally ordered the murder of a man in the Rio Grande Valley on September 24, 2013. The indictment also alleges that Mendez ordered the kidnapping and subsequent murder of another man on April 25, 2014, also in South Texas.
The indictment linked various members of the TCB to numerous home invasions where gunmen searched for drugs and cash, at times assaulting or killing those inside. While not mentioned in the indictment, there have been various cases where gunmen raided the wrong house and injured innocent victims.
Ildefonso Ortiz is an award-winning journalist with Breitbart Texas. He co-founded the Cartel Chronicles project with Brandon Darby and Stephen K. Bannon.You can follow him on Twitter and on Facebook. He can be contacted at Iortiz@breitbart.com.
MEXIFORNIA: The Globalist Democrat Party’s Vision of America
Migrant enclaves already are at the top of the U.S. lists for bad places to live - 10 of the 50 worst places in America to live according to this list are in California, and all of them are famous for their illegal populations. MONICA SHOWALTER
California—not Mississippi, New Mexico, or West Virginia—has the highest poverty rate in the United States. According to the Census Bureau’s Supplemental Poverty Measure—which accounts for the cost of housing, food, utilities, and clothing, and which includes noncash government assistance as a form of income—nearly one out of four Californians is poor. Kerry Jackson
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California’s de facto status as a one-party state lies at the heart of its poverty problem. With a permanent majority in the state senate and the assembly, a prolonged dominance in the executive branch, and a weak opposition, California Democrats have long been free to indulge blue-state ideology while paying little or no political price. The state’s poverty problem is unlikely to improve while policymakers remain unwilling to unleash the engines of economic prosperity that drove California to its golden years. Kerry Jackson
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As Breitbart News reported, if chain migration is not ended — as President Donald Trump has demanded — the U.S. electorate will forever be changed, with between seven to eight million new foreign-born individuals being eligible to vote because of chain migration, and overall, an additional 15 million new foreign-born voters.
No Justice for Taxpaying Americans By Howie Carr But the real double standard kicks in when the undocumented Democrat gets to the courtroom. A taxpaying American can only dream of the kid-gloves treatment these Third World fiends get.
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Illegal aliens continue overwhelming the state, draining California’s already depleted public services while endangering our lives, the rule of law, and public safety for all citizens.Arthur Schaper
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The costs of illegal immigration are being carefully hidden by Democrats. MONICA SHOWALTER
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The Federation for American Immigration Reform estimates that California spends $22 billion on government services for illegal aliens, including welfare, education, Medicaid, and criminal justice system costs. STEVEN BALDWIN
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Heather Mac Donald of the Manhattan Institute has testified before a Congressional committee that in 2004, 95% of all outstanding warrants for murder in Los Angeles were for illegal aliens; in 2000, 23% of all Los Angeles County jail inmates were illegal aliens and that in 1995, 60% of Los Angeles’s largest street gang, the 18th Street gang, were illegal aliens.
BILLONAIRE BETO “BETOMATIC” O’ROURKE PROCLAIMS AMNESTY FOR 40 MILLION INVADING “UNREGISTERED” DEMOCRAT VOTING ILLEGALS.
No word on America’s homeless, housing or jobs crisis for Legals!
UPDATE ON BILLIONAIRE BETOMATIC’S ASSAULT ON AMERICA’S BORDERS AND CULTURE
Beto’s solution to the wall issue: let the rest of Mexico jump our open borders and vote democrat for more and no wall will be needed!
IS BETOMATIC A CLONE OF BANKSTER-OWNED BARACK OBAMA, THE LA RAZA SUPREMACIST WHO SURRENDERED OUR BORDERS FOR 8 YEARS AS HE AND HOLDER SERVICED THEIR CRONY CRIMINAL BANKSTERS.
“Our entire crony capitalist system, Democrat and Republican alike, has become a kleptocracy approaching par with third-world hell-holes. This is the way a great country is raided by its elite.” – Karen McQuillan AMERICAN THINKER.com
Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) warned of “real murderers” entering America across its “extremely porous” southern border in a Monday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow.
Scalise said, “President Trump made a signature piece of his campaign to finally secure the border. He’s not only campaigned on it, but the American people get what’s going on. There’s a real crisis. I see it all the time. People are dying. It’s not just the drugs and the human trafficking. There are real murderers that come across the border.”
Scalise noted, “Last week, in Lake Charles, Louisiana, there was a guy picked up. He had already been here illegally convicted of sex crimes against children [and] served his time. We deported him in 2016. He somehow came across the border — who knows when and what he’s done since then? — but they literally just picked him up again, last week. The border’s completely porous. We’ve got to secure it.”
LISTEN:
Scalise recalled recent negotiations on Capitol Hill regarding appropriations for border security funding.
“We were able to get some money,” explained Scalise. “Clearly not the full amount that the House passed when the Republicans were in charge — $5.7 billion — but we got $1.3 billion for the president to build new wall. There were some things that were important to finally open up some areas of the Rio Grande where — think about this, how ridiculous this is — the federal law said you can’t build wall where our border agents said we needed it the most. Those limitations finally got removed, but at the end of the day, now the president says he has issued an emergency declaration.”
Scalise continued, “Nancy Pelosi, this week, is going to bring legislation to try to block the president from being able to issue the emergency declaration. Nancy Pelosi went to the border this weekend and said there’s no crisis. How do you tell all those families who — every single week in America — we see people dying from people that are here illegally? And we see the crisis at the border.”
“We have a legal system of immigration,” added Scalise. “We need to get back to the rule of law, and respect the fact that you can come here legally. There’s a right way to do it. But if you just pour across the border whether it’s to bring drugs or to do harm to people, we’ve got to finally secure the border. I applaud President Trump for following through on his commitment to secure the border.”
Marlow remarked, “There’s no real constituency who wants an open border aside from the super-elite who fund some elements of the Republican Party and much of the Democratic Party, and that’s really all there is. The public doesn’t want an open border, and it seems like this is a huge opportunity for the right to really seize the mantle of law and order and to protect the American worker and the American citizen.”
Scalise responded, “You’re exactly right. When you talk to people, whatever they feel on different parts of immigration, whether it’s DACA [or] the interior loopholes that we need to close, right now the secretary of homeland security, if somebody comes to America illegally and commits a major crime, after they serve the time, depending on where they’re from, the secretary of homeland security has to get permission from the country they’re from to send them back. How ridiculous is that?”
Scalise went on, “These are the problems we have, but regardless of where you feel on all the other issues, just having border security is very popular even amongst Democrats, even amongst those who came to the country legally, because they followed the rules to come here. Some people wait over ten years to become a legal American citizen. What does it say to them, when you can literally have a felon who was deported in 2016 for abusing children somehow makes his way back into America? And it happens all the time.”
Marlow stated “This is a big myth that a bunch of legal immigrants want more illegal immigrants. It’s just not true.”
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Steinle’s
murderer, Jose Zarate and been deported 5xs!
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"While walking with her father on a pier
in San Francisco in 2015, Steinle was shot by the illegal alien. Steinle
pleaded with her father to not let her die, but she soon passed in her father’s
arms."
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In the last two years, ICE officers made
266,000 arrests of aliens with criminal records, including those charged or
convicted of 100,000 assaults, 30,000 s ex crimes, and 4,000 violent k illings.
Over the years, thousands of Americans have been brutally k illed by those who
illegally entered our country, and thousands more lives will be lost if we
don't act right now.
Exclusive–California Refused 5.6K Requests to Turn over Criminal Illegal Aliens to Federal Officials
The sanctuary state of California refused 5,600 requests by federal immigration officials over two years to turn over criminal illegal aliens, state data finds.
In an exclusive interview with SiriusXM Patriot’s Breitbart News Tonight, Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI) Executive Director Dale Wilcox revealed that within a 27-month period, the state of California had failed to honor about 5,600 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainers which are the holds ICE agents file to local jails and police to request that an illegal alien be turned over to them for arrest and deportation.
Of these 5,600 failed ICE detainers, more than 3,400 were lodged against an illegal alien who had been classified “level 1” and “level 2” offenders — meaning that these illegal aliens had been charged with crimes like homicide, kidnapping, sexual assault, robbery, aggravated assault, drugs, and fraud.
“The bottom line is, sanctuary cities are neither humane or compassionate,” Wilcox told Breitbart News Tonight. “They’re dangerous policies that cost Americans lives … what will it take for these anti-borders politicians to wake up and put the safety and security of their citizens, their legal residents before the interests of criminal aliens.”
About 250 of the ICE detainers not honored had been filed to Napa County and Sonoma County law enforcement officials. These two California counties had sanctuary city policies before the state’s statewide sanctuary policy.
The 5,600 failed requests by ICE to have criminal illegal aliens turned over to them came before California enacted their statewide sanctuary policy, where all local jails and counties are prohibited from cooperating with federal immigration officials.
IRLI researchers said records after the passage of California’s sanctuary state policy are likely to show an increased number of cases where local jails and law enforcement officials refused to turn criminal illegal aliens over to ICE.
In a specific case, most recently, Wilcox noted that Napa County, California deputy Riley Jarecki was nearly killed by three-time deported illegal alien Javier Hernandez-Morales during a traffic stop after local officials refused to turn him over to ICE agents for deportation.
“Its own deputy almost got killed as a result of its refusal to honor ICE detainer requests,” Wilcox said. “And this individual had been deported three times in the past … so they say there’s no need emergency or need for a wall, this criminal alien is just walking back into the country.”
ICE had requested four separate times that Hernandez-Morales be turned over to them to be arrested and deported back to Mexico. Three of the detainers were placed with the Napa Couty Sheriff’s Department and one was placed with the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Department. None of the ICE detainers were honored.
Wilcox said Americans’ lives are being put at risk in sanctuary cities and sanctuary states like California, all so that Democrats are able to import potential voters.
“With the Democrats, it’s about potential, future voters,” Wilcox said. “They have an interest in bringing in new voters so that they can win elections. That’s what that’s all about. I mean, 10 years ago, Democrats weren’t out preaching sanctuary cities and open borders, that just wasn’t their party platform. They’ve swallowed this belief that if you want to stay in power, if you want to win future elections, more voters and diverse voters is the way to go.”
“Sanctuary cities are dangerous. They’re not humane, they’re not compassionate,” Wilcox continued. “People are dying. It’s senseless and avoidable deaths. There’s no excuse for politicians to sell out their constituency for potential, future voters.”
Listen to Wilcox’s full interview here:
THE STAGGERING COST OF THE WELFARE STATE
MEXICO AND THE LA RAZA SUPREMACY DEMOCRAT PARTY HAVE BUILT BORDER to OPEN
BORDER’
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 the Heritage
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.
AMERICAN
POVERTY and the LA RAZA MEXICAN WELFARE STATE on AMERICA’S BACKS.
FACTS ON THE “REAL LATINO AMERICA” IN MEXICO’S SECOND LARGEST
CITY OF LOS ANGELES:
(these are highly DATED stats)
This is another "fact" spun from the 2004 op-ed by
Heather Mac Donald, whose article refers to a single Los Angeles gang and the
conjecture of an unnamed federal prosecutor.
1."40% of all workers in L.A. County are working for cash and
not paying taxes. . . . This is because they are predominantly illegal
immigrants working without a green card." The Mexican tax-free economy in
Los Angeles County is estimated to be in excess of $2 billion dollars a year.
2."95% of warrants for murder in Los Angeles are for illegal
aliens . . . "
3."75% of people on the most wanted list in Los Angeles are
illegal aliens."
4."Over 2/3 of all births in Los Angeles County are to
illegal alien Mexicans on Medi-Cal, whose births were paid for by
taxpayers." The County of Los Angeles hands Mexico’s anchor baby breeders
more than a BILLION DOLLARS a year in welfare.
5."Nearly 35% of all inmates in California detention centers
are Mexican nationals here illegally." California has the largest and most
expensive prison system in the country. Half the inmates are now Mexicans. Half
the murders in California are by Mexican gangs.
6.Over 300,000 illegal aliens in Los Angeles County are living in
garages.
7. "The
FBI reports half of all gang members in Los Angeles are most likely illegal
aliens from south of the border."
8. "Nearly 60% of all occupants
of HUD properties are illegal."
immigrants.
9. 21 radio stations in L. A. are
Spanish speaking.
10. In L. A.
County 5.1 million people speak English, 3.9 million speak Spanish.
THE NEW PRIVILEGED CLASS: Illegals
(unregistered democrats)!
This is why you work From Jan - May
paying taxes to the government ....with the rest of the calendar year is money
for you and your family.
Take, for example, an illegal alien
with a wife and five children. He takes a job for $5.00 or 6.00/hour. At that
wage, with six dependents, he pays no income tax, yet at the end of the year,
if he files an Income Tax Return, with his fake Social Security number, he gets
an "earned income credit" of up to $3,200..... free.
He qualifies for Section 8 housing
and subsidized rent.
He qualifies for food stamps.
He qualifies for free (no
deductible, no co-pay) health care.
His children get free breakfasts
and lunches at school.
He requires bilingual teachers and
books.
He qualifies for relief from high
energy bills.
If they are or become, aged, blind
or disabled, they qualify for SSI.
Once qualified for SSI they can
qualify for Medicare. All of this is at (our) taxpayer's expense.
He doesn't worry about car
insurance, life insurance, or homeowners insurance.
Taxpayers provide Spanish language
signs, bulletins and printed material.
He and his family receive the
equivalent of $20.00 to $30.00/hour in benefits.
Working Americans are lucky to have
$5.00 or $6.00/hour left after Paying their bills and his.
The American taxpayers also pay for
increased crime, graffiti and trash clean-up.
MEXICO
INVADES, OCCUPIES, PLUNDERS AND VOTED DEM FOR MORE!
There is also financial
and political carnage perpetrated against our nation:
(FIGURES ARE HIGHLY DATED AND GOING UP EVERY WAVE OF INVASION)
1. $11 Billion to $22 Billion is spent on welfare to illegal immigrants each
year by state governments (CALIFORNIA SPENDS $30 BILLION PER YEAR IN SOCIAL
SERVICES TO ILLEGALS. LOS ANGELES COUNTY CHIPS IN A BILLION PER YEAR FOR THE LA
RAZA ANCHOR BABY BREEDERS).
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2. $22 Billion dollars a year is spent on food Assistance programs such as
food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal immigrants.
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3. $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal immigrants.
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4. $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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5. $17 Billion dollars a year is spent for Education for the American-born
Children of illegal immigrants, known as Anchor babies.
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6. $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal immigrants.
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7. 30% percent of all Federal Prison Inmates are illegal immigrants. Nearly
half the inmates in CA are Mexicans.
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8. $130 Billion Dollars a year is spent on Illegal immigrants for Welfare &
Social Services by the American taxpayers.
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9. $400 Billion dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused by the
illegal immigrants.
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10. In 2006, illegal immigrants sent home $45 BILLION in remittances to their
Countries of origin.
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11. The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One million sex crimes
committed By Illegal Immigrants In The United States.
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12. From $40 to $60 billion hauled back to
Mexico from heroin sales!
JOE LEGAL v
LA RAZA JOSE ILLEGAL (registered Democrat voter)…
Which do you think has it much, much, much better in America’s
open borders?
You should know! Your taxes are
paying for his anchor baby welfare even as Jose Illegals enjoys a tax-free
underground economy. Hey, Jose voted Democrat for more!
7K Migrants Apprehended in One Week in Texas Border Sector
U.S. Border Patrol agents in the Rio Grande Valley Sector reported apprehending nearly 7,000 migrants in a single week who illegally crossed the border from Mexico into Texas.
The Rio Grande Valley (RGV) Sector is ground zero for the influx of migrants illegally crossing the border between ports of entry. The sector accounts for the largest percentage of all migrant apprehensions for all of the migrants apprehended in the nine southwest Border Patrol sectors, according to information provided by Border Patrol officials.
On Wednesday alone, RGV Sector agents apprehended more than 1,300 migrants — marking the second time in as many weeks this milestone has been achieved, officials stated.
Reports indicate that a majority of the migrants apprehended in the RGV sector are family units and unaccompanied minors from Central and South America. The massive number of apprehensions and the associated time required for Border Patrol agents to process and medically clear each of these migrants greatly impacts the sector’s resources normally utilized for carrying out the border security mission of the region.
During the first four months of Fiscal Year 2017, RGV agents apprehended 77,549 migrants who illegally crossed the border between ports of entry, according to the January Southwest Border Migration Report. This represents an average of 630 migrants apprehended per day. It also accounts for nearly 40 percent of all migrants apprehended in the nine southwest border sectors since October 1, 2018.
So far this fiscal year, RGV agents apprehended 43,588 Family Unit Aliens (FMUA) and 8,685 Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC). This represents an increase of 180 percent and 34 percent respectively over the same period in FY2018.
Nationally, Border Patrol agents apprehended 99,901 FMUAs and 20,123 UAC in the nine southwest Border Patrol sectors, officials reported. The families mostly originated from Guatemala (50,593) — followed by Honduras (36,009), El Salvador (9,146), and Mexico (883). Minors also mostly came from Guatemala (9,522) — followed by Honduras (4,833), Mexico (3,007), and El Salvador (2,292).
“At the current rate, the Rio Grande Valley Sector is on pace to reach 240,000 apprehensions for this fiscal year,” officials said in a written statement.
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 Facebook.
Agents assigned to the Eagle Pass Border Patrol Station encountered a large group of migrant families and unaccompanied minors after they illegally crossed the border from Mexico.
Del Rio Sector agents patrolling near the small border community of Quemado, Texas, on Monday encountered a group of 90 migrants who had just crossed the Rio Grande River from Mexico. Border Patrol officials reported that the migrants were all Honduran nationals. Many of the group were women and children. Officials said the children ranged from one to 17 years of age.
The group surrendered to the agents without incident, officials reported. The agents arranged for a transport bus and took the migrants to the Eagle Pass Station for processing and a biometric background investigation.
“Although groups of this size, until recently, have been uncommon in the Del Rio area, our agents are encountering larger groups of immigrants with women and young children,” Del Rio Sector Acting Chief Patrol Agent Matthew J. Hudak said in a written statement. “Our highest priority will always be the safety of all people involved, no matter the situation. However, it is a criminal offense to enter the United States at a place other than a designated port of entry. Those who choose to enter illegally will be arrested and handled accordingly.”
Officials said that one of the women reported abdominal pain. She told the agents she was pregnant. The agents rushed her to the Duncan Regional Medical Center where she went into labor and gave birth.
Eagle Pass is the scene where 1,700 mostly Honduran caravan migrants gathered across the river in Piedras Negras to await an opportunity to request asylum in the U.S. Earlier this month, Breitbart News reported that a group of the migrants attempted to rush the border and illegally cross into Texas.
Mexican officials began shutting down some of the shelters for the caravan migrants last week. Officials said many of the migrants moved to west Sonora and Chihuahua where they hoped to cross in the El Paso area. About 300 migrants remain in the Piedras Negras area, officials stated.
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 Facebook.
Murders On Texas Soil Linked to Mexico’s Gulf Cartel, Says FBI
McALLEN, Texas – Federal authorities are offering a reward for a man tied to Mexico’s Gulf Cartel for his alleged roles in various murders, kidnappings, and home invasions in South Texas. The fugitive, believed to be in Mexico, is also wanted on various trafficking charges for reportedly moving drugs from the Texas border to Fort Wayne, Indiana.
This week, the FBI announced a $25,000 reward for information leading to the capture of 47-year-old Juan Alberto “A-1” Mendez, a man described as an associate of the Gulf Cartel. He is involved in a large-scale racketeering indictment. Mendez is considered a high-risk fugitive still working with the criminal organization.
“We have reason to believe that Mr. Mendez is could be in Playa Del Carmen, Cancun, Monterrey, or Reynosa,” FBI Special Agent in Charge Chris Combs told Breitbart News, adding that the reward is also available to individuals in Mexico. “Someone out there knows where he is, we hope that this gives them 25,000 reasons to call the FBI.”
Mendez, a native of Mission, Texas, and an alleged member of the Gulf Cartel appeared on the FBI’s radar in 2015 as part of a racketeering investigation into the Tri-City Bomber gang (TCB), Combs said during the interview. At the time, Mendez owned a trucking business and investigators believe he used it to move large quantities of marijuana, cocaine, and heroin to Indiana and other areas.
“He may be involved in the trucking business in Mexico or he may also own a nightclub,” Combs said.
The criminal indictment alleges that Mendez personally ordered the murder of a man in the Rio Grande Valley on September 24, 2013. The indictment also alleges that Mendez ordered the kidnapping and subsequent murder of another man on April 25, 2014, also in South Texas.
The indictment linked various members of the TCB to numerous home invasions where gunmen searched for drugs and cash, at times assaulting or killing those inside. While not mentioned in the indictment, there have been various cases where gunmen raided the wrong house and injured innocent victims.
Ildefonso Ortiz is an award-winning journalist with Breitbart Texas. He co-founded the Cartel Chronicles project with Brandon Darby and Stephen K. Bannon.You can follow him on Twitter and on Facebook. He can be contacted at Iortiz@breitbart.com.
MEXIFORNIA: The Globalist Democrat Party’s Vision of America
Migrant enclaves already are at the top of the U.S. lists for bad places to live - 10 of the 50 worst places in America to live according to this list are in California, and all of them are famous for their illegal populations. MONICA SHOWALTER
California—not Mississippi, New Mexico, or West Virginia—has the highest poverty rate in the United States. According to the Census Bureau’s Supplemental Poverty Measure—which accounts for the cost of housing, food, utilities, and clothing, and which includes noncash government assistance as a form of income—nearly one out of four Californians is poor. Kerry Jackson
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California’s de facto status as a one-party state lies at the heart of its poverty problem. With a permanent majority in the state senate and the assembly, a prolonged dominance in the executive branch, and a weak opposition, California Democrats have long been free to indulge blue-state ideology while paying little or no political price. The state’s poverty problem is unlikely to improve while policymakers remain unwilling to unleash the engines of economic prosperity that drove California to its golden years. Kerry Jackson
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As Breitbart News reported, if chain migration is not ended — as President Donald Trump has demanded — the U.S. electorate will forever be changed, with between seven to eight million new foreign-born individuals being eligible to vote because of chain migration, and overall, an additional 15 million new foreign-born voters.
No Justice for Taxpaying Americans By Howie Carr But the real double standard kicks in when the undocumented Democrat gets to the courtroom. A taxpaying American can only dream of the kid-gloves treatment these Third World fiends get.
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Illegal aliens continue overwhelming the state, draining California’s already depleted public services while endangering our lives, the rule of law, and public safety for all citizens.Arthur Schaper
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The costs of illegal immigration are being carefully hidden by Democrats. MONICA SHOWALTER
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The Federation for American Immigration Reform estimates that California spends $22 billion on government services for illegal aliens, including welfare, education, Medicaid, and criminal justice system costs. STEVEN BALDWIN
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Heather Mac Donald of the Manhattan Institute has testified before a Congressional committee that in 2004, 95% of all outstanding warrants for murder in Los Angeles were for illegal aliens; in 2000, 23% of all Los Angeles County jail inmates were illegal aliens and that in 1995, 60% of Los Angeles’s largest street gang, the 18th Street gang, were illegal aliens.
BILLONAIRE BETO “BETOMATIC” O’ROURKE PROCLAIMS AMNESTY FOR 40 MILLION INVADING “UNREGISTERED” DEMOCRAT VOTING ILLEGALS.
No word on America’s homeless, housing or jobs crisis for Legals!
UPDATE ON BILLIONAIRE BETOMATIC’S ASSAULT ON AMERICA’S BORDERS AND CULTURE
Beto’s solution to the wall issue: let the rest of Mexico jump our open borders and vote democrat for more and no wall will be needed!
IS BETOMATIC A CLONE OF BANKSTER-OWNED BARACK OBAMA, THE LA RAZA SUPREMACIST WHO SURRENDERED OUR BORDERS FOR 8 YEARS AS HE AND HOLDER SERVICED THEIR CRONY CRIMINAL BANKSTERS.
“Our entire crony capitalist system, Democrat and Republican alike, has become a kleptocracy approaching par with third-world hell-holes. This is the way a great country is raided by its elite.” – Karen McQuillan AMERICAN THINKER.com
Californians brag that their state is the world's fifth-largest economy.
They talk as reverentially of Silicon Valley companies Apple, Facebook and
Google as the ancient Greeks did of their Olympian gods.
Hollywood and universities such as Caltech, Stanford and Berkeley are
cited as permanent proof of the intellectual, aesthetic and technological
dominance of West Coast culture.
Californians also see their progressive, one-party state as a neo-socialist
model for a nation moving hard to the left.
But how long will they retain such confidence?
California's 40 million residents depend on less than one-percent of the
state's taxpayers to pay nearly half of the state income tax, which for
California's highest tier of earners tops out at the nation's highest rate of
13.3 percent.
In other words, California cannot afford to lose even a few thousand of
its wealthiest individual taxpayers. But a new federal tax law now caps
deductions for state and local taxes at $10,000 -- a radical change that
promises to cost many high-earning taxpayers tens of thousands of dollars.
If even a few thousand of the state's one-percent flee to nearby no-tax
states such as Nevada or Texas, California could face a devastating shortfall
in annual income.
During the 2011-16 California drought, politicians and experts claimed
that global warming had permanently altered the climate, and that snow and rain
would become increasingly rare in California. As a result, long-planned
low-elevation reservoirs, designed to store water during exceptionally wet
years, were considered all but useless and thus were never built.
Then, in 2016 and 2017, California received record snow and rainfall --
and the windfall of millions of acre-feet of runoff was mostly let out to sea.
Nothing since has been learned.
California has again been experiencing rain and cold that could approach
seasonal records. The state has been soaked by some 18 trillion gallons of rain
in February alone. With still no effort to expand California's water-storage
capacity, millions of acre-feet of runoff are once again cascading out to sea
(and may be sorely missed next year).
The inability to build reservoirs is especially tragic given that the
state's high-speed-rail project has gobbled up more than $5 billion in funds
without a single foot of track laid. The total cost soared from an original $40
billion promise to a projected $77 billion. To his credit, newly elected Gov.
Gavin Newsom, fearing a budget catastrophe, canceled the statewide project
while allowing a few miles of the quarter-built Central Valley "track to
nowhere" to be finished.
For years, high-speed rail has drained the state budget of transportation
funds that might have easily updated nightmarish stretches of the Central
Valley's Highway 99, or ensured that the nearby ossified Amtrak line became a
modern two-track line.
California
politicians vie with each other to prove their open-borders bona fides in an
effort to appeal to the estimated 27 percent of Californians who were not born
in the United States.
But
the health, educational and legal costs associated with massive illegal
immigration are squeezing the budget. About a third of the California budget
goes to the state's Medicare program, Medi-Cal. Half the state's births are
funded by Medi-Cal, and in nearly a third of those state-funded births, the
mother is an undocumented immigrant.
California is facing a perfect storm of
homelessness. Its labyrinth of zoning and building regulations discourages
low-cost housing. Its generous welfare benefits, non-enforcement of vagrancy
and public health laws, and moderate climate draw in the homeless. Nearly
one-third of the nation's welfare recipients live in the state, and nearly one
in five live below the poverty line.
The result is that tens of thousands of
people live on the streets and sidewalks of the state's major cities, where
primeval diseases such as typhus have reappeared.
California's progressive government seems
clueless how to deal with these issues, given that solutions such as low-cost
housing and strict enforcement of health codes are seen as either too expensive
or politically incorrect.
In sum, California has no margin for error.
Spiraling entitlements, unwieldy pension costs, money wasted on high-speed
rail, inadequate water storage and delivery, and lax immigration policies were
formerly tolerable only because about 150,000 Californians paid huge but
federally deductible state income taxes.
No more. Californians may have once derided the state's one-percent as
selfish rich people. Now, they are praying that these heavily burdened
taxpayers stay put and are willing to pay far more than what they had paid
before.
That is the only way California can continue to spend money on projects
that have not led to safe roads, plentiful water, good schools and safe
streets.
A California reckoning is on the horizon, and it may not be pretty.
"This is the flip side (of) tax the rich, tax the
rich, tax the rich. The rich leave, and now what do you do?" said New York
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo on Feb. 4.
After the Trump tax cut went into effect one year ago, we
predicted that the Trump tax reform would supercharge the national economy but
could cause big financial problems for the five highest-tax states: California,
Connecticut, Illinois, New Jersey and New York.
The capping of the state and local tax deduction at $10,000
raised the highest effective state tax rates by about 66 percent (for example,
in New York City and California, the rate on millionaires rose from about 8
percent to 13.3 percent). In New Jersey, the highest rate has risen from 7.5
percent to 12.75 percent. Now, we have Andrew Cuomo conceding that the trend of
rich people moving out of New York has caused the loss of $2.3 billion of tax
revenue in Albany's coffers. Cuomo called this tax change
"diabolical." We think it was a matter of tax fairness. No longer do
residents of low-tax states have to pay higher federal taxes to support the
blob of excessive state/local spending and pensions in the blue states.
As we predicted, the wealthy are fleeing these five
states. The new United Van Lines data were just released that are a good proxy
for where Americans are moving to and from. Guess what four states had the
highest percentage of leavers in 2018: 1) New Jersey, 2) Illinois, 3)
Connecticut and 4) New York. Even California had more Americans pack up and leave
than enter.
Ironically, liberals like Cuomo who argued for years that
businesses don't make location decisions based on taxes in their states are now
forced to admit that the cap on the state and local tax deduction (which
primarily affects the richest 1 percent) is depleting their state coffers. The
rich change their residence by moving for at least 183 days of the year to low
taxers such as Arizona, Florida, Tennessee, Texas and Utah.
We advised Cuomo and other blue state governors to
immediately cut their tax rates if they wanted to remain even semi-competitive
with low-tax states. They are doing the opposite. Connecticut, Illinois and New
Jersey have led the nation in tax increases on the rich over the last three
years, while "progressives" have cheered them on.
Last year, legislators in Trenton went on a taxing spree,
raising the income tax on those making more than $5 million a year to 10.75
percent -- now the third-highest in the country -- and then enacting a health
care individual mandate tax on workers, a corporate rate increase and an option
for localities to impose a payroll tax on businesses. And they are still short
of cash. Idiotically, these tax hikes were passed after the cap on state and
local tax deductions was enacted, thus pouring gasoline on their fiscal fires.
How has this worked out for them?
In addition to New York's fiscal woes, the deficit in
Illinois is pegged at $2.8 billion (with a $7.8 billion backlog of unpaid
bills), and Connecticut faces a two-year $4 billion shortfall despite three tax
increases in five years. New Jersey has a $500 million deficit this year (even
after the biggest tax hike in the state's history) and Moody's predicts that
gap will widen to $3 billion over the next five years. This is all happening at
a time when most states have healthy and unexpected surplus revenues due to the
Trump economic boom and the historic decline in unemployment.
A Pew study published late last year on which states are
bleeding the most red ink ranked New Jersey worst, Illinois second worst and
Connecticut seventh worst. New York was also in the bottom 10.
Let us state this loud and clear in the hopes that
lawmakers in state capitals across the country are paying attention: The three
states that have raised their taxes the most now have the worst fiscal outlook.
Worst of all, things don't look like they are going to
get better in any of these states. Last fall, Connecticut, Illinois and New
Jersey voters elected mega-rich Democratic Govs. Ned Lamont, J.B. Pritzker and
Phil Murphy, who have promised to sock it to the rich -- the ones who haven't
yet left. In Illinois, Pritzker would eliminate the state's constitutionally
protected flat tax so that he can raise the income tax on the rich by as much
as 50 percent. After raising income taxes three times in the last five years,
Connecticut's legislature now wants to raise the sales tax rate. No one in any
of these progressive states even dares utter the words tax cut. In just one
decade, New York lost 1.3 million net residents; Illinois 717,000, New Jersey
516,000 and Connecticut 176,000. California has lost 929,000.
There is also a useful warning for the soak-the-rich
crowd of progressives in Washington. If a rise in the state tax rate from 8
percent to 13 percent can have this big and immediate negative impact, think of
the economic carnage from doubling of the federal tax rate from 37 percent to
70 percent as some want to do. The wealthy would relocate their wealth and
income in low-tax havens like Hong Kong, the Cayman Islands and Ireland. That
would do wonders for the middle class living in those countries.
We are sticking with our warnings from last year. If the
four states of the Apocalypse -- Connecticut, Illinois, New Jersey and New York
-- do not reverse their taxing ways and choose to keep making things worse,
these once very rich and prosperous states will see thousands more rich
taxpayers leave. The politicians in these four states just don't seem to
understand math. A soak-the-rich tax rate of 8 percent, 10 percent or even 13
percent on income of zero yields zero income when the wealthy leave the state.
Cuomo was right: The bleak outlook for the four states of apocalypse is
"as serious as a heart attack."
California—not
Mississippi, New Mexico, or West Virginia—has the highest poverty rate in the
United States. According to the Census Bureau’s Supplemental Poverty
Measure—which accounts for the cost of housing, food, utilities, and clothing,
and which includes noncash government assistance as a form of income—nearly one
out of four Californians is poor. Given robust job growth in the state and the
prosperity generated by several industries, especially the supercharged tech
sector, the question arises as to why California has so many poor people,
especially when the state’s per-capita GDP increased roughly twice as much as
the U.S. average over the five years ending in 2016 (12.5 percent, compared
with 6.27 percent).
It’s not
as if California policymakers have neglected to wage war on poverty. Sacramento
and local governments have spent massive amounts in the cause, for decades now.
Myriad state and municipal benefit programs overlap with one another; in some
cases, individuals with incomes 200 percent above the poverty line receive
benefits, according to the California Policy Center. California state and local
governments spent nearly $958 billion from 1992 through 2015 on public welfare
programs, including cash-assistance payments, vendor payments, and “other
public welfare,” according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Unfortunately,
California, with 12 percent of the American population, is home today to
roughly one in three of the nation’s welfare recipients. The generous spending,
then, has not only failed to decrease poverty; it actually seems to have made
it worse.
In the
late 1980s and early 1990s, some states—principally Wisconsin, Michigan, and
Virginia—initiated welfare reform, as did the federal government under
President Bill Clinton and the Republican Congress. The common thread of the
reformed welfare programs was strong work requirements placed on aid
recipients. These overhauls were widely recognized as a big success, as welfare
rolls plummeted and millions of former aid recipients entered the workforce.
The state and local bureaucracies that implement California’s antipoverty
programs, however, have resisted pro-work reforms. In fact, California
recipients of state aid receive a disproportionately large share of it in
no-strings-attached cash disbursements. It’s as if welfare reform passed
California by, leaving a dependency trap in place. Immigrants are falling into
it: 55 percent of immigrant families in the state get some kind of means-tested
benefits, compared with just 30 percent of natives, according to City Journal contributing editor Kay S. Hymowitz.
Self-interest
in the social-services community may be at work here. If California’s poverty
rate should ever be substantially reduced by getting the typical welfare client
back into the workforce, many bureaucrats could lose their jobs. As economist
William A. Niskanen explained back in 1971, public agencies seek to maximize
their budgets, through which they acquire increased power, status, comfort, and
job security. In order to keep growing its budget, and hence its power, a
welfare bureaucracy has an incentive to expand its “customer” base—to ensure
that the welfare rolls remain full and, ideally, growing. With 883,000
full-time-equivalent state and local employees in 2014, according to Governing, California has an enormous bureaucracy—a unionized,
public-sector workforce that exercises tremendous power through voting and
lobbying. Many work in social services.
Further
contributing to the poverty problem is California’s housing crisis.
Californians spent more than one-third of their incomes on housing in 2014, the
third-highest rate in the country. A shortage of housing has driven prices ever
higher, far above income increases. And that shortage is a direct outgrowth of
misguided policies. “Counties and local governments have imposed restrictive
land-use regulations that drove up the price of land and dwellings,” explains
analyst Wendell Cox. “Middle income households have been forced to accept lower
standards of living while the less fortunate have been driven into poverty by
the high cost of housing.” The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA),
passed in 1971, is one example; it can add $1 million to the cost of completing
a housing development, says Todd Williams, an Oakland attorney who chairs the
Wendel Rosen Black & Dean land-use group. CEQA costs have been known to
shut down entire home-building projects. CEQA reform would help increase
housing supply, but there’s no real movement to change the law.
Extensive
environmental regulations aimed at reducing carbon-dioxide emissions make
energy more expensive, also hurting the poor. On some estimates, California
energy costs are as much as 50 percent higher than the national average.
Jonathan A. Lesser of Continental Economics, author of a 2015 Manhattan
Institute study, “Less Carbon, Higher Prices,” found that “in 2012, nearly 1
million California households faced ‘energy poverty’—defined as energy
expenditures exceeding 10 percent of household income. In certain California
counties, the rate of energy poverty was as high as 15 percent of all
households.” A Pacific Research Institute study by Wayne Winegarden found that
the rate could exceed 17 percent of median income in some areas. “The impacts
on the poorest households are not only the largest,” states Winegarden. “They
are clearly unaffordable.”
Looking
to help poor and low-income residents, California lawmakers recently passed a
measure raising the minimum wage from $10 an hour to $15 an hour by 2022—but a
higher minimum wage will do nothing for the 60 percent of Californians who live
in poverty and don’t have jobs, and studies suggest that it will likely cause
many who do have jobs to lose them. A Harvard study found evidence that “higher
minimum wages increase overall exit rates for restaurants” in the Bay Area,
where more than a dozen cities and counties, including San Francisco, have
changed their minimum-wage ordinances in the last five years. “Estimates
suggest that a one-dollar increase in the minimum wage leads to a 14 percent
increase in the likelihood of exit for a 3.5-star restaurant (which is the
median rating),” the report says. These restaurants are a significant source of
employment for low-skilled and entry-level workers.
Apparently
content with futile poverty policies, Sacramento lawmakers can turn their
attention to what historian Victor Davis Hanson aptly describes as a fixation on
“remaking the world.” The political class wants to build a costly and needless
high-speed rail system; talks of secession from a United States presided over
by Donald Trump; hired former attorney general Eric Holder to “resist” Trump’s
agenda; enacted the first state-level cap-and-trade regime; established
California as a “sanctuary state” for illegal immigrants; banned plastic bags,
threatening the jobs of thousands of workers involved in their manufacture; and
is consumed by its dedication to “California values.” All this only reinforces
the rest of America’s perception of an out-of-touch Left Coast, to the
disservice of millions of Californians whose values are more traditional,
including many of the state’s poor residents.
California’s
de facto status as a one-party state lies at the heart of its poverty problem.
With a permanent majority in the state senate and the assembly, a prolonged
dominance in the executive branch, and a weak opposition, California Democrats
have long been free to indulge blue-state ideology while paying little or no
political price. The state’s poverty problem is unlikely to improve while
policymakers remain unwilling to unleash the engines of economic prosperity
that drove California to its golden years.
Kerry Jackson is the Pacific Research Institute’s fellow in
California studie
ADD CHAIN MIGRATION
WHEREBY THE ILLEGALS GET TO BRING UP THE REST OF THEIR FAMILY AND THEN DO THE
MATH!
Ready for the next 5
million illegals getting ready to enter the U.S. in 2019?
Gallup put out a poll last
week, finding that five million Latin Americans plan to cross into the U.S.
this year alone. And the total number who plan to enter the U.S., either this
year, or later, is 42 million. The U.S. admits a million legal
immigrants each year from all countries. This new survey
shows that at least four million of that five million are
planning to enter illegally, most likely by crossing the border. That's a human
tide.
And the case for President
Trump declaring an emergency and building a wall instead of bargaining with an
unwilling Congress convinced there's no crisis has just gotten that much
stronger.
So
this means roughly 120 million would like to migrate somewhere.
The
next question Gallup asked was, "Where would you like to move?"
Of
those who want to leave their Latin American country permanently, 35% said they want to go to the
United States.
The Gallup analytics estimate is that 42
million want to come to the U.S.
That is one hell of a big
number, particularly since much of the data suggest that the U.S. already
houses some 30 million illegal immigrants. Four or five million more will
increase the illegal population by 12% to 17% in just one year, something that
will make assimilation for migrants already here in migrant enclaves that
much harder. Migrant enclaves already are at the top of the U.S. lists for
bad places to live - 10 of the 50 worst places in America to live according
to this
list are in California, and all of them are famous for their
illegal populations. The newcomers will need social
services, given that most will not have the requisite language,
education or skills to succeed here. Many will be unwed mothers, which
ensures even here that they will be assimilating into the underclass. The
cost to taxpayers to feed, house, educate, medically treat and jail the
newcomers will run into billions.
And sure enough, the
Border Patrol does say that illegal border crossings are up, way up,
and hitting
record numbers, according to the Washington Post. The human tide has started.
Gallup's CEO does ask an
intelligent question in the wake of this new reality:
Most
U.S. citizens like me just want to know the plan. What is the 10-year plan? How
many, exactly whom and what skills will they bring? What do we want? Answer
these questions, and the current discussion can be resolved.
Keep
in mind that it's not only 330 million Americans who are wondering -- so are 42
million seekers from Latin America.
I can add that Latin America
isn't the only place where people are contemplating entering the U.S.
illegally. The African and Asian continents are also loaded with aspiring
illegal immigrants.
Democrats, of course are
never going to answer that question.
But it needs answering,
because the human waves are coming.
Gallup didn't ask Latin
Americans why they might be planning to come now in such great
numbers this year, but it's pretty obvious that one answer is that there is an
ongoing border wall debate, and the talk just keeps going.
So long as the U.S. is
enmired in Democrats' blockage of any funds for a border wall, yet the talk
goes on of building, the message to illegal migrants is to move. Get in before
the wall gets built while the Democrats are still arguing. This is the window.
Don't wait for the border wall to get built. Get in under the wire.
That very dynamic is a good
argument for why President Trump should just skip the shenanigans with the
Democrats, declare an emergency, and build the wall. The longer this drags
on the more the human waves are going to build. And as Gallup reports, we're
looking at a tsunami.
CALIFORNIA'S POPULATION
TO DOUBLE from ILLEGALS along with their CRIME RATES!
Times Staff Writers
July 10, 2007
Over the next
half-century, California's population will explode by nearly 75%, and Riverside
will surpass its bigger neighbors to become the second most populous county
after Los Angeles, according to state Department of Finance projections
released Monday. California will near the 60-million mark in 2050, the study
found, raising questions about how the state will look and function and where
all the people and their cars will go. Dueling visions pit the iconic
California building block of ranch house, big yard and two-car garage against
more dense, high-rise development. But whether sprawl or skyscrapers win the
day, the Golden State will probably be a far different and more complex place
than it is today, as people live longer and Latinos become the dominant ethnic
group, eclipsing all others combined. Some critics forecast disaster if
gridlock and environmental impacts are not averted. Others see a possible
economic boon, particularly for retailers and service industries with an eye on
the state as a burgeoning market. "It's opportunity with baggage,"
said Jack Kyser, chief economist for the Los Angeles County Economic
Development Corp., in "a country masquerading as a state. "Other
demographers argue that the huge population increase the state predicts will
occur only if officials complete major improvements to roads and other public
infrastructure. Without that investment, they say, some Californians would flee
the state. If the finance department's calculations hold, California's
population will rise from 34.1 million in 2000 to 59.5 million at the
mid-century point, about the same number of people as Italy has today. And its
projected growth rate in those 50 years will outstrip the national rate —
nearly 75% compared with less than 50% projected by the federal government.
That could translate to increased political clout in Washington, D.C. Southern
California's population is projected to grow at a rate of more than 60%,
according to the new state figures, reaching 31.6 million by mid-century.
That's an increase of 12.1 million over just seven counties. L.A. County alone
will top 13 million by 2050, an increase of almost 3.5 million residents. And
Riverside County — long among the fastest-growing in the state — will triple in
population to 4.7 million by mid-century. Riverside County will add 3.1 million
people, according to the new state figures, eclipsing Orange and San Diego to
become the second most populous in the state. With less expensive housing than
the coast, Riverside County has grown by more than 472,000 residents since
2000, according to state estimates. No matter how much local governments build
in the way of public works and how many new jobs are attracted to the region —
minimizing the need for long commutes — Housing figures that growth will still
overwhelm the area's roads. USC Professor Genevieve Giuliano, an expert on land
use and transportation, would probably agree. Such massive growth, if it occurs,
she said, will require huge investment in the state's highways, schools, and
energy and sewer systems at a "very formidable cost."If those things
aren't built, Giuliano questioned whether the projected population increases
will occur. "Sooner or later, the region will not be competitive and the
growth is not going to happen," she said.If major problems like traffic
congestion and housing costs aren't addressed, Giuliano warned, the middle
class is going to exit California, leaving behind very high-income and very
low-income residents. "It's a political question," said Martin Wachs,
a transportation expert at the Rand Corp. in Santa Monica. "Do we have the
will, the consensus, the willingness to pay? If we did, I think we could manage
the growth. "The numbers released Monday underscore most demographers'
view that the state's population is pushing east, from both Los Angeles and the
Bay Area, to counties such as Riverside and San Bernardino as well as half a
dozen or so smaller Central Valley counties. Sutter County, for example, is
expected to be the fastest-growing on a percentage basis between 2000 and 2050,
jumping 255% to a population of 282,894 , the state said. Kern County is
expected to see its population more than triple to 2.1 million by mid-century.
In Southern California, San Diego County is projected to grow by almost 1.7
million residents and Orange County by 1.1 million. Even Ventura County — where
voters have imposed some limits on urban sprawl — will see its population jump
62% to more than 1.2 million if the projections hold. The Department of Finance
releases long-term population projections every three years. Between the last
two reports, number crunchers have taken a more detailed look at California's
statistics and taken into account the likelihood that people will live longer,
said chief demographer Mary Heim. The result? The latest numbers figure the
state will be much more crowded than earlier estimates (by nearly 5 million)
and that it will take a bit longer than previously thought for Latinos to
become the majority of California's population: 2042, not 2038. The figures
show that the majority
of California's growth
will be in the Latino population, said
Dowell Myers, a professor
of urban planning and demography
at USC, adding that
"68% of the growth this decade will be
Latino, 75% next and 80%
after that."That should be a wake-up call for voting Californians, Myers
said, pointing out a critical disparity. Though the state's growth is young and
Latino, the majority of voters will be older and white — at least for the next
decade." The future of the state is Latino growth," Myers said.
"We'd sure better invest in them and get them up to speed. Older white
voters don't see it that way. They don't realize that someone has to replace
them in the work force, pay for their benefits and buy their house."
Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) warned of “real murderers” entering America across its “extremely porous” southern border in a Monday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow.
Scalise said, “President Trump made a signature piece of his campaign to finally secure the border. He’s not only campaigned on it, but the American people get what’s going on. There’s a real crisis. I see it all the time. People are dying. It’s not just the drugs and the human trafficking. There are real murderers that come across the border.”
Scalise noted, “Last week, in Lake Charles, Louisiana, there was a guy picked up. He had already been here illegally convicted of sex crimes against children [and] served his time. We deported him in 2016. He somehow came across the border — who knows when and what he’s done since then? — but they literally just picked him up again, last week. The border’s completely porous. We’ve got to secure it.”
LISTEN:
Scalise recalled recent negotiations on Capitol Hill regarding appropriations for border security funding.
“We were able to get some money,” explained Scalise. “Clearly not the full amount that the House passed when the Republicans were in charge — $5.7 billion — but we got $1.3 billion for the president to build new wall. There were some things that were important to finally open up some areas of the Rio Grande where — think about this, how ridiculous this is — the federal law said you can’t build wall where our border agents said we needed it the most. Those limitations finally got removed, but at the end of the day, now the president says he has issued an emergency declaration.”
Scalise continued, “Nancy Pelosi, this week, is going to bring legislation to try to block the president from being able to issue the emergency declaration. Nancy Pelosi went to the border this weekend and said there’s no crisis. How do you tell all those families who — every single week in America — we see people dying from people that are here illegally? And we see the crisis at the border.”
“We have a legal system of immigration,” added Scalise. “We need to get back to the rule of law, and respect the fact that you can come here legally. There’s a right way to do it. But if you just pour across the border whether it’s to bring drugs or to do harm to people, we’ve got to finally secure the border. I applaud President Trump for following through on his commitment to secure the border.”
Marlow remarked, “There’s no real constituency who wants an open border aside from the super-elite who fund some elements of the Republican Party and much of the Democratic Party, and that’s really all there is. The public doesn’t want an open border, and it seems like this is a huge opportunity for the right to really seize the mantle of law and order and to protect the American worker and the American citizen.”
Scalise responded, “You’re exactly right. When you talk to people, whatever they feel on different parts of immigration, whether it’s DACA [or] the interior loopholes that we need to close, right now the secretary of homeland security, if somebody comes to America illegally and commits a major crime, after they serve the time, depending on where they’re from, the secretary of homeland security has to get permission from the country they’re from to send them back. How ridiculous is that?”
Scalise went on, “These are the problems we have, but regardless of where you feel on all the other issues, just having border security is very popular even amongst Democrats, even amongst those who came to the country legally, because they followed the rules to come here. Some people wait over ten years to become a legal American citizen. What does it say to them, when you can literally have a felon who was deported in 2016 for abusing children somehow makes his way back into America? And it happens all the time.”
Marlow stated “This is a big myth that a bunch of legal immigrants want more illegal immigrants. It’s just not true.”
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