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Biden Campaign’s Jewish Engagement Director Tells Jews to Hide Their Judaism

Jewish Kippas (skullcaps) are seen on display at a store in downtown west Jerusalem, on January 15, 2016. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on January 14, addressed the situation of French Jews, by saying 'at the same time every Jew should know that they have a home in Israel and …
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Aaron Keyak, Jewish Engagement Director at Biden for President, said Friday, “take off your kippah (head covering) and hide your magen david (star of David)” if you fear for your life as a Jew.

Keyak’s comments follow a major increase in antisemitic incidents:

Jewish and non-Jewish Twitter users criticized Keyak’s recommendation to hide Jewish identity. One woman replied to Keyak, “I wore my Magen David today. It’s a little on the small side. I need a bigger one. And I do fear for my safety in the ‘current climate.'”

One man asked Keyak, “Should I hide my eyes to avoid being targeted for being Asian?”

Comparing Keyak’s statement to victim-blaming, another Twitter user said, “She was wearing an awfully short skirt….”

Breitbart News’ Joel Pollak encouraged self-defense over fear:

The Biden Administration passed executive orders in support of gun control. Keyak has made several comments online in support of gun control in the past:

Despite receiving backlash from his statement, Keyak doubled down on his position, saying, “It’s important that those who wear kippot (head coverings) don’t feel more pressure to put our lives in unnecessary actual danger.”

In September 2020, Keyak blamed former President Donald Trump for antisemitism in the United States, saying, “We know that Donald Trump’s use of antisemitic tropes has emboldened all those who hate Jews.”

Keyak still serves as the Jewish Engagement Director for Joe Biden for president, according to Bluelight Strategies, the company he c0founded.

President Joe Biden took days to condemn the rise in antisemitic attacks, only doing so on Monday.

As reported by Breitbart News, ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt said while his organization called out former President Donald Trump at times, “‘none of the people committing’ recent antisemitic attacks ‘were wearing MAGA hats,’ rather, ‘we have people waving Palestinian flags and then beating Jewish people.'”

Antisemitic incidents are on the rise globally. According to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), “During the two weeks of military conflict between Israel and Hamas in May 2021, antisemitic incidents in the U.S. reported to ADL increased by 63% compared to the two weeks before the fighting began, from 126 to 205, according to preliminary data.”

A Twitter analysis by the ADL revealed more than 17,000 tweets between May 7 and May 14, 2021, contained a variation of the phrase “Hitler was right.”

Recent antisemitic incidents reported by Breitbart News include a group in London yelling, “F*** the Jews,” and “Rape their daughters,” as well as a masked pro-Palestinian mob allegedly attacking Jewish diners in Los Angeles and a pro-Israel walk in Illinois being disrupted by protestors yelling “Kill the Jews.”

Mark Levin's Message to Dems: 'This Poison of Anti-Semitism Is Growing in Your Party'

By Susan Jones | May 26, 2021 | 7:41am EDT

 
 
Palestinian supporters rally in Los Angeles on May 15, 2021. (Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)
Palestinian supporters rally in Los Angeles on May 15, 2021. (Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)

(CNSNews.com) - "I want to address something very specifically to Joe Biden and his party," Mark Levin, host of Fox News Channel's "Life, Liberty and Levin," told Sean Hannity Tuesday night.

"This poison of anti-Semitism is growing in your party, and your silence isn't going to fix it."

Levin named Rep. Rashida Tlaib (of Palestinian descent) as an "out-of-the closet anti-Semite," and he mentioned her fellow leftists -- Reps. Omar, Ocasio-Cortez, Pressley and Bush and Sen. Bernie Sanders -- as members of "the hard Marxist, Hamas wing of the Democrat Party."

"The Democrats in the House of Representatives voted unanimously against sanctioning Hamas last week, during the time when Hamas was firing 4,000 missiles into Israel," Levin continued:

Now, Joe Biden sees this. He sees on TV individuals with antifa-like clothing, with the Palestinian flag chasing down Jews, in cities throughout this country, in cars, attacking Jews, organized like Black Lives Matter and antifa, beating Jews, graffiti on synagogues, including swastikas and so forth. We haven't seen anything like this in, I don't know -- ever.

The FBI says 60 percent of all anti-religious hate crimes is against Jews. The Jews are a tiny percentage of the population. What did Chuck Schumer say about this who's Jewish from New York? I didn't hear him say anything. If he said anything, he did it under his breath.

What did the Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi say about it? I didn't hear her say anything. If she did, it was under her breath.

Joe Biden had to be lobbied by liberal Jewish groups to do something on Friday and finally Saturday put out a statement.

What did the attorney general say? Nothing that I'm aware of. How about the cabinet secretary that runs Homeland Security, what did he say? Nothing that I heard of.

How about the FBI director who says white supremacy is the great danger in this country? Is he blind to what's taking place?

No, this is frightening and it's happening all over the world. But to be happening in the United States of America is absolutely appalling. And I blame the Democrat Party because the Democrat Party is stirring this stuff up. You have members of the Democrat Party that are tweeting things and putting things on Facebook that are absolutely bigoted and anti-Semitic, about Israel and the Jews.

It's a tiny little country. It's the only Jewish state on the face of the earth, and Arabs in Israel have more liberties, more due process rights, more property rights, more legal rights than Jews do in any country in any Muslim or Arab society, which means they have none.

So, this is quite appalling to me. And at the same time this is going on, you have Democrats embracing Black Lives Matter, which is a hate-America, Marxist, anarchist violent organization that also is anti-Semitic and backs the BDS [Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions] movement.

Levin's message to President Joe Biden:

"What the hell are you going to do about this? Our prior President Donald Trump was a strong supporter against anti-Semitism -- against anti-Semitism -- a strong supporter of the Jewish community. And what's going on in this country is a disgusting disgrace, that we've allowed these Marxist leftists and others to do what they're doing."

President Biden's comment on the recent anti-Semitism came in a Monday morning tweet, written by one of his aides -- Biden is not known as a tweeter: "The recent attacks on the Jewish community are despicable, and they must stop. I condemn this hateful behavior at home and abroad — it’s up to all of us to give hate no safe harbor," the Biden tweet said.

A short time later, House Speaker Pelosi (or someone tweeting for her) also condemned anti-Semitism, writing: "The recent spike in antisemitic attacks against Jews around the country and the world is horrific, heartbreaking & demands action. Antisemitism cannot be tolerated. We must come together as Americans to condemn and combat this appalling bigotry and hatred."

At the White House press briefing on Tuesday, Biden spokeswoman Jen Psaki was asked to discuss "how the administration is working with various stakeholders and outside groups" to try to curb the rise in anti-Semitic attacks and harassment:

The best Psaki could do was point to Biden's tweet:

Well, I will say that the President issued — we issued a tweet from the President — he issued a tweet yesterday conveying his concern about the anti-Semitic acts we’ve seen happen around the country.

This is something that he has spoken passionately out against — anti-Semitism — throughout his career, from one of his first — first speeches — just to take you in the time — time machine — as senator.  He condemned anti-Semitism from the Senate floor in May of 1973 in his — and, obviously, up to his vocal condemnation of the events at Charlottesville.

He recognizes this is a persistent evil that always deserves our attention and efforts.  We’ve been working in close and ongoing contact — we’ve been in close and ongoing contact, I should say, with the Jewish community to offer our support.  We’ve taken steps to confront anti-Semitic violence and hate crimes of any type, including by signing into law stronger hate crimes legislation just last week.

But we are also working to bolster safety and security of synagogues and other religiously affiliated facilities and organizations.  DHS has briefed security directors across the Jewish community in the United States and preparing — and is preparing a public awareness bulletin that will include security measures individuals and facilities can take.

So, we have an across-government effort that the President is quite focused on.

The reporter followed up: "Some Jewish groups are planning a day of action against anti-Semitism on May 27th, which is this Thursday. Do the president or the vice president have plans to make any remarks there or make virtual appearances?"

"I know that the President will be traveling on Thursday, and he’ll — in Ohio, and he’ll be delivering an economic speech," Psaki responded. "I can see if there’s anything more in scheduling plans to read out to all of you."


Sen. Hawley Introduces Resolution Condemning Anti-Semitism From Media, Elected Officials

By Julia Johnson | May 25, 2021 | 2:22pm EDT

 
 

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(CNS News) – On Tuesday, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) introduced a resolution “condemning hate and violence against Jews,” specifically from elected officials and the media who help to inspire much of the violence, according to the senator. This comes in the wake of surges of anti-Semitic violence in this country and in Europe.

The resolution also seeks to “denounce anti-Israel rhetoric” and reaffirm that Jews deserve both dignity and respect. 

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“The sickening rise in anti-Semitic attacks in the United States and around the world must end, along with the hateful anti-Israel rhetoric from politicians and the media that inspires the violence,” said Hawley. 

MSNBC published an article describing Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians as “ethnic cleansing.” Many other media outlets have painted the Israelis as the bad guys in the conflict.

The Anti-Defamation League reported an increase in anti-Semitic incidents in the United States last Thursday. They received 193 reports of “possible anti-Semitic incidents” in the week following the conflict between Israel and Palestine, compared to 131 the week prior. 

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The ADL also reportedly found 17,000 tweets containing the phrase “Hitler was right” or similar phrases in the days following the beginning of the conflict. 

Hawley’s resolution notes that, “pro-Palestinian protestors threatened, shoved, and threw fireworks at bystanders in the Diamond District of Midtown Manhattan, an area with many Jewish-owned businesses”; “a Member of Congress tweeted, ‘The Israeli military’s occupation continues. The blockade continues. The ethnic cleansing continues’”; “a Member of Congress described Israel in a tweet as an ‘apartheid state’”; and “convoys of trucks bearing Palestinian flags drove through London shouting through loudspeakers: “F*** the Jews,” “F*** their mothers,” “F*** their daughters,” and “Rape their daughters.”

According to Hawley’s press office, the resolution is supported by both the Republican Jewish Coalition and the Family Research Council

Cosponsoring the bill are Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), Sen. Mike Braun (R-Ind.), Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), Sen. Joni Ernst (R-La.), Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.), Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kansas.), Sen. Steve Daines (R-Mont.), Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Sen Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Sen. Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.), and Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.).


U.S. Commission: Afghan Extremist Groups Decimating Religious Minorities, Sikhs Face Near Extinction

By Ashlianna Kreiner | May 25, 2021 | 4:57pm EDT

 
 

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(CNS News) -- Extremist groups in Afghanistan, such as ISIS and the Taliban, are decimating religious minorities to the extent that the Sikh community faces near-extinction, according to the latest report by the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF). 

In addition, 3,035 civilians were killed in 2020, "with some of the most brutal attacks targeting religious minorities," reads the report, including an attack on a maternity hospital, which killed more than 20 people and two newborns.

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Due to the continued attacks on the religious minority in Afghanistan, the country has been “recommended for special watch list” by the USCIRF. The purpose of the Special Watch List (SWL) “designation is intended to focus the attention of U.S. policy-makers on the worst violators of religious freedom globally.” 

“In 2020, religious freedom conditions in Afghanistan continued to trend negatively amid the country’s ongoing political instability,” according to the report. The U.N. documented that there were 8,820 civilian casualties in 2020, among which 3,035 were killed. The Taliban were “responsible for 45 percent of the civilian casualties,” said the U.N.

Attacks by the Taliban or its proxy warriors, according to the USCIRF report, included a March attack on the gurdwara, a Sikh house of worship, in Kabul, which killed 25 Sikhs; a memorial service for Abdul Ali Mazari, which killed 32 people and wounded 50; two roadside bombings in Bamiyan, which killed 14 people; and an education institute in Shi’a Hazara, which killed “dozens of students.”

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“In May, terrorists attacked a maternity hospital in Dasht-eBarchi, a majority-Hazara neighborhood of Kabul,” reads the report. “The attack killed more than 20, including two newborns, causing Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières to end its longstanding activities and withdraw from the hospital.”

As a result of these continued persecutions, religious diversity in Afghanistan has declined. The population now is 99.7% Muslim – approximately 89.7% Sunni and 10% Shi’a. Islam is the official state religion and the legal system follows sharia, including penalties for blasphemy, apostasy and proselytizing. Apostasy is punishable by death.

There are a few Hindus, Sikhs, Baha’is, Christians, Buddhists, and Zoroastrians left in Afghanistan, and one known Jew.

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“Driven by societal discrimination influenced by extremists, Sikhs and Hindus are subject to harassment, including physical assaults, abduction, land grabbing, looting, and pressure to convert,” reported the USCIRF. “In addition to the incidents above, in June, insurgents reportedly kidnapped Sikh community leader Nidan Singh Sachdeva ….”

“The Hindu and Sikh population dropped from about 250,000 in the early 1990s to less than 1,000 in 2019,” states the report.  “After the 2020 Kabul gurdwara attack and kidnapping of Sachdeva, the number dropped to around 200, a near extinction of the once robust community.”

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The USCIRF recommends to the U.S. government that Afghanistan be put on the State Department’s Special Watch List (SWL) for “engaging in or tolerating severe violations of religious freedom pursuant to the International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA) and continue to designate the Taliban as an “entity of particular concern” (EPC) for engaging in systematic, ongoing, and egregious violations of religious freedom, as defined by IRFA.”

The USCIRF also advices that the U.S. incorporate freedom of religion in their peace negotiations with Afghanistan, address religious freedom concerns such as protection for places of worship, and help faith leaders and theologians to work together. 


The official report, 9/11 and  Terrorist Travel - Staff Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States provided this warning on page 98 under the title Immigration Benefits:

Terrorists in the 1990s, as well as the September 11 hijackers, needed to find a way to stay in or embed themselves in the United States if their operational plans were to come to fruition. As already discussed, this could be accomplished legally by marrying an American citizen, achieving temporary worker status, or applying for asylum after entering. In many cases, the act of filing for an immigration benefit sufficed to permit the alien to remain in the country until the petition was adjudicated. Terrorists were free to conduct surveillance, coordinate operations, obtain and receive funding, go to school and learn English, make contacts in the United States, acquire necessary materials, and execute an attack.


82 Migrants Packed in Stash House near Border in Texas

McAllen Station Border Patrol agents apprehend 82 migrants in an Edinburg, Texas, human smuggling stash house. (Photo: U.S. Border Patrol/Rio Grande Valley Sector)
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Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol agents recovered a group of 82 migrants packed into a single stash house on Monday. They recovered an additional 16 in a second house near the scene.

McAllen Station Border Patrol agents teamed up with state and local law enforcement agencies on Monday to disrupt a human smuggling operation in Edinburg, Texas, according to information provided by Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol officials. The raid led to the apprehension of migrants from four countries.

McAllen Station Border Patrol agents find filthy conditions in an Edinburg, Texas, human smuggling stash house. (Photo: U.S. Border Patrol/Rio Grande Valley Sector)

McAllen Station Border Patrol agents find filthy conditions in an Edinburg, Texas, human smuggling stash house. (Photo: U.S. Border Patrol/Rio Grande Valley Sector)

Border Patrol agents, Edinburg police officers, Hidalgo County Sheriff’s Office deputies, and troopers from the Texas Department of Public Safety received information about a house in Edinburg being utilized for storing migrants. Authorities arrived at the home and observed 21 people fleeing out the front door.

Photo: U.S. Border Patrol/Rio Grande Valley Sector

Photo: U.S. Border Patrol/Rio Grande Valley Sector

The law enforcement team stopped others from exiting and rounded up a total of 82 migrants identified as being illegally present in the United States, officials stated. The migrants included three unaccompanied migrant children.

Border Patrol agents conducted immigration interviews and identified the migrants as foreign nationals from El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico. The agents told the 82 migrants to a processing center. Officials did not find the human smuggler.

Photo: U.S. Border Patrol/Rio Grande Valley Sector

Photo: U.S. Border Patrol/Rio Grande Valley Sector

Later that evening McAllen Station agents received a request for assistance from McAllen Police Department officers after the officers encountered a suspected human smuggling stash house in their city. Agents arrived and found 16 migrants including one unaccompanied migrant child.

Officials reported the migrants as foreign nationals from El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico.

“Even with the spread of the COVID-19 virus, human smugglers continue to try these brazen attempts with zero regard for the lives they endanger nor to the health of the citizens of our great nation,” Border Patrol officials said in a written statement.

Bob Price serves as associate editor and senior news contributor for the Breitbart Texas-Border team. He is an original member of the Breitbart Texas team. Price is a regular panelist on Fox 26 Houston’s What’s Your Point? Sunday-morning talk show. Follow him on Twitter @BobPriceBBTX and Facebook.

Stop Jew-Hate: End Islamist Immigration

Filling American cities with anti-Semitic Muslim mobs.

 

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

In 2015, The Atlantic ran a cover story titled, "Is It Time for the Jews to Leave Europe?"

In 2021, the question is whether it’s time for the Jews to leave New York and Los Angeles.

The magazine cover story mentioned Malmo. Most stories about antisemitism in Europe reference the Swedish city whose Jewish population dropped from 3,000 to barely 800. Current estimates are that Malmo will have no Jews left by the end of the decade as its population flees Muslim mob violence, firebombings, and random assaults: including 100 aimed at its sole rabbi.

“I hear students shouting in the hallway about killing Jews,” a public school teacher described. Firebombs are routinely thrown at Jewish institutions. Mobs have torn down gates to try to smash their way inside. A Swedish journalist who conducted a hidden camera investigation of what happens to anyone visibly Jewish was harassed within moments of sitting down to eat.

Americans who wondered how this could happen in Europe are now seeing it at home.

There’s nothing confusing about ‘how’ or ‘why’. Or as a CBC article about Malmo gingerly put it, “Anti-Semitism in Malmö reveals flaws in Swedish immigration system”. There are equally big flaws in our immigration system and too many Jewish groups have wasted time on outreach instead of working toward immigration reform to stop the ‘Malmoization’ of New York and LA.

Estimates of the size of the Muslim population in the United States doubled since 9/11.

Islamists claim that there are over 750,000 Muslim settlers in New York City, making up around 9% of the population, and operating hundreds of mosques across the five boroughs. Those numbers may be overstated, but there’s no denying that there are far more Muslims now. And much of the growth has happened at the lower end leading to a large young male population.

The viral videos of antisemitic attacks by mobs of young Muslim men are the outcome.

Like many European cities, New York City now has a large, angry population of young Muslim men who are looking to lash out. And Jews are an easy target. When Waseem Awawdeh was arrested over a vicious assault on a Jewish accountant, he declared, “If I could do it again, I would do it again,” and then received a hero's welcome on his release.

New York City now hosts the largest Muslim population in the country. Los Angeles, the scene of more antisemitic mob attacks, hosts another of the country’s largest Muslim populations. Before 9/11, there were less than 100,000 Muslims in Los Angeles County. Even accounting for Islamist overestimates, the number has grown significantly.

Like NYC, LA is becoming ‘Malmoized’.

There are still enough Jews in both cities that the Democrat politicians offer token condemnations and ask the local police to make a few arrests. As the demographics continue to shift away from Jews and toward Muslims, they’ll react the way that Ilmar Reepalu, Malmo's former mayor did, when he blamed Israel for the antisemitic attacks on Jews by Muslims.

The AOC crowd already echoes this type of rhetoric on social media. And George Soros, who funds much of the American Left, had made this exact argument two decades ago. “Attitudes toward the Jewish community are influenced by the pro-Israel lobby’s success in suppressing divergent views,” the former Nazi collaborator had argued.

But that’s only to be expected of an antisemitic movement. American Jews however spent a generation watching European Jews being driven out and did little with that time. After all these years of consuming articles about the fate of the Jews of Paris, Berlin, and Malmo, they went on supporting mass Muslim migration because they were told it was the right thing to do.

When President Trump tried to implement a ban on travel from Muslim terror states, the ZOA became the only Jewish organization to file a Supreme Court brief in defense of the move.

The ADL signed on to every HIAS push against the move to protect Americans from Islamic terror, alongside anti-Israel groups like J Street, Soros' Bend the Arc, and T'ruah. HIAS, T’ruah, and Avodah, a feeder group for the anti-Israel movement funded by Steven Spielberg, showed up to a Linda Sarsour protest. Rallying for Muslim migration mattered more than antisemitism.

While Orthodox Jews stayed out of the protests, not counting Uri L’Tzedek, a component of the heretical leftist Yeshivat Chovevei Torah crowd, the Orthodox Union’s Nathan Diament put out a shameful statement comparing Syrian migrants to Jews fleeing the Nazi Holocaust.

Fortunately, the National Council of Young Israel took a stand, calling the obscene analogy “highly offensive to those Jews who survived Nazi persecution.”

As I wrote at the time, “when one of Diament’s migrants attacks Jews, they will not be able to say, ‘Our hands did not shed this blood and our eyes did not see it.’” Now the blood is being shed and the OU is co-signing letters calling for an antisemitism monitor as if the problem lies in a lack of monitoring rather than the inevitable crisis of Islamist immigration and demographics.

American Jews have followed the same failed strategy as European Jews.

"After two Muslim teenagers attempted to set fire to Malmo’s synagogue last March, HaCohen and Barakat telephoned their school principal, then visited the class the next day to discuss the incident. 'We did not point out the kids,' Barakat says, explaining they used the time to give a lesson about anti-Semitism, rather than punish them,” a Time Magazine article cheerfully notes.

The suicidal hobby of handing out lessons about antisemitism to synagogue burners continues.

Integrating the fight against antisemitism into broader leftist movements against bigotry has failed miserably because the central premise of intersectionality and anti-racism is that some people, privileged white people in general and Jews in particular, deserve to be hated.

The collapse of a liberal middle class into dueling Marxist and Fascist youth mobs is mainstreaming antisemitism in America the way that it already has in Europe. But the heavy lifting will still be done by young men whose parents came here from Iraq, Pakistan, or Gaza that we’ve seen assaulting random Jewish people in New York and Los Angeles.

The cries of “Kill Jews, Free Palestine” are not a horrid aberration: they’re the new normal.

The one thing that could have stopped this and perhaps still might would be for American Jews to be willing to say the unspeakable: that some people belong in this country and others don’t.

The idea that immigration should be a mutual social contract instead of a suicide pact is profoundly alien to everything that millions of Americans, Jews and Christians, have absorbed over the years. Beyond the Christian churches and HIAS which lobby to resettle more Islamists in America, much of the country is wedded to the idea that we must take anyone who comes.

But when we take anyone who comes, then we’re the ones who get taken for a ride.

While our streets are filled with the homeless and unemployed Americans are dying of drug overdoses at record rates, churches and temples lecture their parishioners on their moral duty to bring more Iraqis, Syrians, and Pakistanis to America. But 9/11 and the occasional terror attack in a major city are just the appetizers of Islamist demographic colonization.

The next stage, mob violence by what the European press carefully calls “angry youths”, is now underway in New York and Los Angeles. It won’t stop there. The era of the “lone wolf” Jihadi hasn’t ended yet, but the future of Islamic terror in America will be group attacks, like those in Bataclan in Paris, and more routine riots and mass assaults abetted by their leftist allies.

Jews in New York City are the easiest targets, but as the Swedes or the French could tell you, or the Poles and the Czechs, it rarely ends there.

Muslim violence isn’t a response to oppression or persecution. It’s a supremacist theological mission to colonize and subjugate non-Muslims as numerous Jihadis have told us at their trials.

We chose not to take them at their word.

Israel is not the issue. Just as Mohammed cartoons, a teddy bear with the wrong name, or false reports of a desecrated Koran were not the real issues at the heart of other Muslim rampages.

When thugs and terrorists want to beat and kill people, they can always find an excuse.

Listening to their excuses and taking them seriously is almost as dumb as visiting their countries or letting them inside your country long enough for them to kill you. If we want to survive, we’re going to have to stop being dumb. Otherwise we’ll learn to live and die like they do in Malmo.

It happened in Europe. Now it’s happening here.

If American Jews want to stop antisemitism, they need to stop importing it from the antisemitic capitals of the world. Really fighting antisemitism means fighting antisemitic immigration.

Or investing in bulletproof windows while educating synagogue burners about antisemitism.

Inside Hamas' Hate

A journey into the Heart of Darkness.

 

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There is ongoing incitement by the radical Muslims and their supporters against Israel using lies and deception. These actions are preparing their supporters to use and implement the concept of Jihad, to act against the Infidel in general, and against the Jews in particular.

Recently, there has been a confluence of several factors which gave the terror-supporting Iran and their proxy Hamas the miscalculated incentive to rally their oblivious supporters, and try to liquidate the state of Israel and gain power.

The initial excuse for the Arab confrontation in Jerusalem, was associated with two big lies:

1. "The Jews decides to evict innocent Palestinians from their homes in Jerusalem" - This is a lie. The fact is that this dispute is related to a long-standing refusal of four Arab squatter Families to pay rent to their Jewish landlords. This case was deliberated in the Israeli courts for many years and now it seems that the courts, that have already ruled to recognize the ownership of the Jews of these houses in the past, clarified that the Arab tenants refusal to pay rent is against the law. There is a pending Supreme Court decision which may decide that the squatters should be removed form these houses, which do not belong to them.

2. "The Israeli police decided to attack peaceful Muslim worshipers on Temple Mount" - This too is a lie. The fact is that following violence by some Radical Muslims and by few Radical Jews, Arab Palestinian agitators and Hamas supporters piled up fire bombs, firecrackers and rocks on the Temple Mount and in the Al Aqsa Mosque, and used them to attack the Jewish worshipers at the Western Wall Plaza, about 70 feet below them. The police had to go into the involved areas on Temple Mount, in order to stop these terror attacks and riots which spilled over also into other locations in Jerusalem and into other cities in Israel.

Hamas gave an ultimatum to Israel on May the 10th to leave the Temple Mount and the Sheikh Jarrah areas, and release by 6:00 pm all the Arab rioters that were caught and arrested by the Israeli police. Israel ignored this insane ultimatum, and Hamas started a massive assault on Jerusalem and other Israeli locations, launching multiple rockets from within their own civilian population, into the Israeli civilian population, in order to initiate and support a wider Jihad against Israel. They were hoping that it would involve even more of the brainwashed Israeli Arab Citizens and many of their international supporters around the world. Unfortunately, even many Media outlets fell prey for these maliciously calculated terror waves. Seeing civilian casualties is horrible, but when the casualties are caused by malicious calculation of a terror organization which planned to create this human disaster, it makes it even worse. Some of these casualties came despite the careful defensive Israeli efforts to stop the Hamas rocket launchers and the attempt to destroy the Hamas infrastructure which supported this terror effort. In addition, many Palestinian casualties were caused by the misfired rockets which were launched by Hamas, which were aimed at Israeli civilians, but hit their own population.

Encouraged, incited and financed by Iran, Qatar, Turkey and others, the Hamas Terror organization was emboldened also by the following additional contributing factors:

1. It seemed that the formation of the Israeli Government is complicated due to a variety of personal agendas of some of the people within the recently elected members to the Knesset. The assumption was that the Israeli Government is weak and that it can be exploited.

2. The Right and the Left leaning Israeli parties tried to negotiate a joint political venture with one of the anti Israeli Arab parties, a possibility of their participation in the creation the new Israeli Government coalition. This empowered some in the Arab rioters who were hoping to be able to eventually control the Israeli Government the way that the Hezbollah is controlling the Government of Lebanon. Others wanted to prevent any collaboration between Jews and Arabs, as they were hoping to continue to exploit the hostility between the Jews and the Arabs to their nefarious agendas.

3. The new American administration, which unfortunately includes some vicious anti-Israeli and anti- Jewish politicians, appeared to be very weak, as it gave in to the Arab Palestinians demands and allowed them to open their offices in Washington and sent them hundreds of millions of dollars, without conditioning this move on stopping incitement in their schools and all other communication outlets, stopping payments to terrorists and to their families, and dismantling their terror infrastructure.

In addition, the Americans have allowed transfer of billions of dollars to the Iranians, as they are trying to return to the irrational Iran Nuclear Deal. This move is despite the fact that Iran did not live up to any previous agreements, continued their effort to build nuclear weapons and continues to support terrorism all over the world and in particular in the Middle East.

The combination of these political moves gave the impression to Hamas and the Palestinian Authority, that the new American administration is less willing to support their long standing loyal ally, the state of Israel.

4. Hamas was very upset with the Palestinian Authority due to the fact that under the presidency of Abbas, they have canceled the recent elections. The self-serving corrupt Abbas and his cronies, who were elected to serve for four years, are still in office after more than 15 years. They were afraid that if they go for elections, Hamas would take over the leadership of the Palestinians and destroy the current Palestinian leadership, the way that they did in 2008 after the past elections in Gaza.

This opportunity is allowing the terror organization Hamas and its allies to try and show to their people that they are the real leaders of the Palestinians, and therefore, they should be the group in charge.

As of today, even after launching about 3500 rockets at Israeli civilians, Hamas and the Arab Israeli Rioters are miscalculating the resolve of the state of Israel to defend its citizens, to stop this wave of terrorism and to restore law and order, in the ancestral homeland of the Jewish people, to the benefit of all its citizens.

Hopefully, Hamas, the rioters and their supporters, will realize that their futile round of violence will not allow them to destroy Israel. Once they will realize that, hopefully, peaceful coexistence can be implemented, after stopping incitement and dismantling terror infrastructure, to the benefit of Jews, Arabs and all other peace-loving individuals.

Even Newsweek Can’t Ignore Immigration Crisis On Southern Border

A first step, hopefully, in reporting the truth?

 

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On May 13, 2021 Newsweek published an interesting article about an element of the immigration crisis, Asylum Seekers Dropped Off by Border Patrol Strain Resources of Arizona Border Towns.

Apparently even a leftist publication like Newsweek can no longer ignore the crisis on the southern border that was exponentially exacerbated by executive orders and policies of the Biden administration that have reversed many of the most successful policies and actions of the Trump administration that include the construction of the hotly contested border wall, the “Remain in Mexico” policy for aliens applying for political asylum and the curtailment of most immigration law enforcement activities carried out within the interior of the United States, essentially ordering beleaguered agents of ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) to stand down.

The Newsweek article, however, focused exclusively on the impact this human tsunami is having on small border town in the United States that lie along the U.S./Mexican border that are being overwhelmed by crush of aliens and on how this impacts the aliens. 

However, what must also be recognized is how this immigration crisis impacts the residents of these cities and their residents who have become the unwitting victims of the Biden immigration crisis.  (I believe in giving credit where credit is due!)

Of course the impact of illegal immigration may be most obvious in the numerous towns and cities that lie along the dangerous and highly problematic U.S./Mexican border but there are two additional issues that are largely being ignored by the complaint mainstream media so that most Americans still do not understand the profound impact that illegal immigration has on towns and cities across our vast nation.

First of all, most illegal aliens do not remain in those so-called “border towns” and “border cities” but quickly head to towns and cities across the entire United States.

Back in the late 1970’s When I was assigned to the Anti-Smuggling Unit at the New York District Office of the former INS my colleagues and I conducted surveillance of airline flights from the four states that lie along the southern U.S. border, particularly the “Red eye flights” so named because they flew during the night, carrying bleary-eyed passengers.

We frequently encountered illegal aliens who had boarded those airliners shortly after running the southern border.  Some of them were still wearing their filthy, mud-encrusted boots and clothing.  Not all  of these illegal aliens were from Mexico or even from Central America.  Some came from countries from around the world.

Second - we are a nation of not four but fifty “border states.”  Any state that lies along the northern as well as the southern borders are “border states” as are those states that have access to America’s 95,000 miles of coastline.  Finally, any state that has an international airport is also a “border state.”

For decades the open borders crowd maliciously and falsely castigated advocates for border security and effective but fair immigration law enforcement by referring to them as being “Anti-Immigrant,” “xenophobes,” “racists” and “haters.” 

Our immigration laws make absolutely no distinction about race, religion or ethnicity or that the purpose of our immigration laws is to prevent the entry and continued presence of aliens who pose a threat to public health, national security, public safety and the jobs and wages of Americans.

A review of 8 U.S. Code § 1182, a section of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), will readily confirm the importance and reasonableness of the purpose of our immigration laws, it enumerates the categories of aliens who are statutorily inadmissible.

There is nothing “Anti-Immigrant” about seeking to prevent criminals, terrorists or others who pose a threat from entering the United States just as it is not “Anti-Social" to be careful about who we allow into our homes.

While immigration has traditionally been portrayed as a single issue, in reality immigration is a singular issue that profoundly impacts nearly every challenge and threat facing America and Americans in this particularly difficult and, indeed, perilous era.

What is rarely, if ever reported, is how, ultimately, the flood of aliens into the United States impacts towns and cities across the entire United States undermining national security, public safety, public health and the jobs and wages of Americans while also having a negative impact on healthcare, education and other critical issues, not just for the hapless residents of the border towns discussed in the Newsweek article, but in towns and cities across the United States.

For example, in December 2007 the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) issued a report, The Impact of Unauthorized Immigrants on the Budgets of State and Local Governments that noted:

In terms of public education, unauthorized immigrants who are minors increase the overall number of students attending public schools, and they may also require more educational services than do native-born children because of a lack of proficiency in English. Analyses from several states indicate that the costs of educating students who did not speak English fluently were 20 percent to 40 percent higher than the costs incurred for native-born students.

Consider the impact that a torrent of foreign students has on the education of American children, particularly when many of these foreign students lack English language proficiency.

Schools are forced to spend more money to not only educate these foreign children but also provide special services such English as a Second Language training, thus cutting funding for other vital necessities such as Early Intervention and various therapists for children with learning disabilities.  Less money will be available for providing quality education for the students of American schools by, for example, upgrading labs, computers and other essential equipment and resources for American children who have already spent a hellish lost year as a result of the COVID-19 Pandemic that denied them access to their schools.

This, of course is never discussed in the media or by most politicians who, having taken campaign contributions from globalist organizations such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce are literally and figuratively indebted to those globalist entities.

Interior enforcement of our immigration laws is a critical element of what should be a coherent immigration program to enforce our laws and also to deter massive illegal immigration as I touched on briefly at the beginning of my commentary today.

As I noted in my recent article, Interior Enforcement And The Border Crisis:

On February 18, 2021 the Washington Post reported that a “Biden memo for ICE officers points to fewer deportations and strict oversight.” According to the Post, ICE agents “will need preapproval from a senior manager before trying to deport anyone who is not a recent border crosser, a national security threat or a criminal offender with an aggravated-felony conviction.” The Biden administration expects this policy “to result in a steep drop in immigration arrests and deportations.”

In other words, with a mere stroke of his pen, Biden has virtually eliminated the statutory authority that ICE agents have to make warrantless arrests of suspected illegal aliens. This sends a clear message to the agents, that anything they do can (and likely will) be used against them.

Furthermore so-called “sanctuary” policies implemented by numerous mayors and even some governors further undermine any remaining vestiges of interior enforcement and hence undermine national security and public safety. Sanctuary states now provide driver’s licenses to illegal aliens. New York state even went so far as to block ICE and Border Patrol access to its DMV database, Cuomo’s gift to ISIS, the drug cartels, and human traffickers.

As these hundreds of thousands of aliens are dispersed across the United States they will have little to fear if they fail to show up for immigration hearings.  Under Biden’s Executive Orders, illegal aliens may not be arrested unless there is an outstanding warrant for that alien and he/she has an extensive criminal history.

Not all of these aliens are from Latin America.  A significant number have come from countries fro around the world, including countries that have known affiliation with terrorism.  It is likely that among these aliens are criminals, fugitives, gang members and terrorists.

Meanwhile, while the Border Patrol is hamstrung caring for alien children, many aliens are evading the Border Patrol altogether and are so-called “Get Aways.”  There is absolutely no way of knowing who they are, where they are from, where they are headed or what their ultimate goals are.  This creates a national security / public safety nightmare.

The official report, 9/11 and  Terrorist Travel - Staff Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States provided this warning on page 98 under the title Immigration Benefits:

Terrorists in the 1990s, as well as the September 11 hijackers, needed to find a way to stay in or embed themselves in the United States if their operational plans were to come to fruition. As already discussed, this could be accomplished legally by marrying an American citizen, achieving temporary worker status, or applying for asylum after entering. In many cases, the act of filing for an immigration benefit sufficed to permit the alien to remain in the country until the petition was adjudicated. Terrorists were free to conduct surveillance, coordinate operations, obtain and receive funding, go to school and learn English, make contacts in the United States, acquire necessary materials, and execute an attack.

Perhaps now that Newsweek has been forced to begin to report on the immigration crisis, other supposed news organizations will follow and hopefully look further than the southern border. 

The Ministry of Truth was a key element of Orwell’s novel 1984 - but  it has no place in the United States of America.


Pakistani, Yemeni Nationals Arrested near Border in Southwest Texas

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EAGLE PASS, Texas — On Tuesday, Border Patrol agents arrested two special interest aliens from Pakistan and Yemen. Both were encountered shortly after their illegal entry during the early morning hours. The pair was taken to a nearby station for processing and interviews, according to a law enforcement source speaking on the condition of anonymity.

These arrests come after a similar interdiction of two special interest aliens earlier this month by the Zavala County Sheriff’s Office 40 miles from Eagle Pass in La Pryor, Texas. In that incident, two Pakistani nationals were encountered in a failed human smuggling attempt. The latest case has been referred to the FBI for further review.

The arrest of special interest aliens is not a common occurrence along the southwest border. The Department of Homeland Security listed 21 countries as “special interest” in 2018. According to a law enforcement source working for Customs and Border Protection, less than 1 percent of all apprehensions along the southwest border meet the definition.

According to the Department of Homeland Security: generally:

[G]enerally, a Special Interest Alien is a non-U.S. person who, based on an analysis of travel patterns, potentially poses a national security risk to the United States or its interests. Often such individuals or groups are employing travel patterns known or evaluated to possibly have a nexus to terrorism.  DHS analysis includes an examination of travel patterns, points of origin, and/or travel segments that are tied to current assessments of national and international threat environments.

This does not mean that all SIAs are “terrorists,” but rather that the travel and behavior of such individuals indicates a possible nexus to nefarious activity (including terrorism) and, at a minimum, provides indicators that necessitate heightened screening and further investigation. The term SIA does not indicate any specific derogatory information about the individual – and DHS has never indicated that the SIA designation means more than that.

Illegal border crossings are on the rise in Eagle Pass, part of the Del Rio Sector of the Border Patrol, which is experiencing levels of illegal migrant arrests that are the highest in history.

This case remains under investigation.

Randy Clark is a 32-year veteran of the United States Border Patrol.  Prior to his retirement, he served as the Division Chief for Law Enforcement Operations, directing operations for nine Border Patrol Stations within the Del Rio, Texas, Sector. Follow him on Twitter @RandyClarkBBTX.

Texas Man Pleads Guilty After 5 Migrants Die in Human Smuggling Police Chase

In this image tweeted by David Caltabiano of KABB/WOAI, a heavily damaged SUV is seen on Texas Highway 85 in Big Wells, Texas, after crashing while carrying more than a dozen people fleeing from Border Patrol agents, Sunday, June 17, 2018. (David Caltabiano/KABB/WOAI via AP)
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A Texas man from Eagle Pass pleaded guilty in federal court to a human smuggling attempt that led to the deaths of five migrants in June 2018. The smugglers packed 13 migrants into a Chevrolet Suburban and then fled from police. The pursuit ended in a fiery rollover crash as the pursuit entered the town of Big Wells.

Jorge Luis Monsivais, Jr., 23 of Eagle Pass, pleaded guilty on Monday while appearing before U.S. District Judge Alia Moses in Del Rio, Texas, on Monday for his role in the deaths of five migrants. The U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Texas reported Monsivais pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to transport illegal aliens resulting in death; one count of conspiracy to transport illegal aliens resulting in serious bodily injury; one count of conspiracy to harbor illegal aliens; one count of illegal alien transportation resulting in death; and one count of illegal alien transportation resulting in serious bodily injury.

The charges arose from a human smuggling incident on June 17, 2018, where Monsivais packed 13 migrants, including a juvenile migrant, into a 2007 Chevrolet Suburban and then fled from Border Patrol agents and police, Breitbart Texas reported. As the high-speed pursuit entered the town of Big Wells, Mondivais lost control and rolled the Suburban multiple times. The Suburban burst into flames.

Four people are reported to have died at the scene after being ejected from the Suburban when it rolled numerous times. Emergency medical teams transported nine people to hospitals for treatment of injuries they sustained in the crash. One of those people reportedly died on the way to the hospital, the DOJ stated.

The DOJ filed charges against Monsivais and four others in a few days later. The co-conspirators included:

  • The driver of the 2013 Tahoe, the second vehicle involved in the smuggling incident, 55-year-old Mexican citizen Marcial Gomez Santana;
  • 45-year-old Mexican citizen Mariela Reyna;
  • Marcial’s son, 21-year-old Rudy Gomez of Hockley, Texas; and
  • Marcial’s daughter, 19-year-old Johana Gomez of Houston, Texas.

All four of the co-defendants pleaded guilty in federal court in 2019, the DOJ stated.

On July 29, 2019, 58-year-old Mexican citizen Marcial Gomez Santana pleaded guilty to conspiracy to transport illegal aliens resulting in death; conspiracy to transport illegal aliens resulting in serious bodily injury; conspiracy to harbor illegal aliens; and harboring illegal aliens for private financial gain.  On August 20, 2019, Marcial’s son and daughter, 24-year-old Rudy Gomez of Hockley and 22-year-old Johana Gomez of Houston, along with 48-year-old Mexican citizen Mariela Reyna all pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to harbor illegal aliens.

These defendants will face sentencing in September 2021, officials stated. Gomez faces up to life in prison while the others face up to ten years in federal prison.

Monsivais also faces a life prison sentence. The date for his sentencing has not yet been announced. He has been held in federal custody since his arrest in June 2017.

Bob Price serves as associate editor and senior news contributor for the Breitbart Texas-Border team. He is an original member of the Breitbart Texas team. Price is a regular panelist on Fox 26 Houston’s What’s Your Point? Sunday-morning talk show. Follow him on Twitter @BobPriceBBTX and Facebook.

206 Migrants Apprehended in Single Group near Border in Texas

RGV agents apprehend 206 migrants in a single border crossing. (Photo: U.S. Border Patrol/Rio Grande Valley Sector)
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Rio Grande Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended a large group of migrants after they illegally crossed the border near Hidalgo, Texas.

Weslaco Station agents patrolling the border Sunday night received information about a large group crossing the Rio Grande near Hidalgo. Responding agents found 206 migrants who illegally entered the United States, according to information provided by Rio Grande Sector Border Patrol agents.

Agents identified 35 members of the group as unaccompanied migrant children. Another 164 were family units, officials stated. Only seven were identified as single adults who will likely be returned to Mexico under Title 42 Coronavirus protection protocols put in place by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention during the Trump administration.

Officials reported the migrants as citizens of “Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Belize, and United States.”

The agents transported the migrants to a Border Patrol facility for processing.

Rio Grande Sector agents continue to receive large groups of migrants illegally crossing the border. Earlier this month, McAllen Station agents apprehended groups of 132  and 107 migrants in a single weekend, Breitbart Texas reported.

Bob Price serves as associate editor and senior news contributor for the Breitbart Texas-Border team. He is an original member of the Breitbart Texas team. Price is a regular panelist on Fox 26 Houston’s What’s Your Point? Sunday-morning talk show. Follow him on Twitter @BobPriceBBTX and Facebook.



1,000 Migrants Apprehended in One Day in Single Texas Border Sector

Del Rio Sector agents set single-day record for migrant apprehensions. (Photo: U.S. Border Patrol/Del Rio Sector)
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Del Rio Sector agents set a new record for single-day migrant apprehensions on Thursday with the arrest of more than 1,000 migrants. The apprehensions came during the interdiction of 27 smuggling attempts in addition to arrests along the border.

Del Rio Sector Chief Patrol Agent Austin Skero tweeted the news of a record-setting apprehension of more than 1,000 migrants in a single day.

The chief said his agents also interdicted 27 human smuggling attempts and arrested three convicted sex offenders during the past 48 hours.

One day earlier, Skero tweeted images of a large group of migrants being apprehended near the Rio Grande. Border Patrol defines a “large group” as more than 100 migrants in a single crossing incident.

He said Del Rio Station agents see the bulk of the large group apprehensions and apprehended approximately 230 every day for the past 60 days.

So far this fiscal year, which began on October 1, 2020, Del Rio Sector agents apprehended 90,392 migrants — a 337 percent increase over the previous year’s 18,936.

Bob Price serves as associate editor and senior news contributor for the Breitbart Texas-Border team. He is an original member of the Breitbart Texas team. Price is a regular panelist on Fox 26 Houston’s What’s Your Point? Sunday-morning talk show. Follow him on Twitter @BobPriceBBTX and Facebook.



Migrant Apprehensions on Rise in Texas’ Most-Remote Sector

Border Patrol agents apprehend a large group of migrants marching through the Big Bend Sector desert. (Photo: U.S. Border Patrol/Big Bend Sector)
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Border Patrol agents in the Big Bend Sector are experiencing a dramatic increase in drug and human smuggling following the migrant surge that began in January. The sector is the most remote of the five Texas-based Border Patrol sectors.

Big Bend Sector Chief Patrol Agent Sean McGoffin tweeted a series of photos this week showing smuggling activity in the mountainous desert region near Presidio, Texas.

On May 17, Presidio Station agents teamed up with ICE Homeland Security Investigations and the Presidio Police Department to interdict multiple human smuggling stash houses and a vehicular smuggling attempt.

Photos tweeted on May 17 shot the rugged terrain and hot, dry condition where migrants march through the Chihuahua Desert.

So far this fiscal year, which began on October 1, 2020, Big Bend Sector agents apprehended 19,980 migrants who illegally crossed the border from Mexico. This is up from 4,070 the previous year — a 391 percent increase.

The majority of those apprehended are single adults (18,336). However, a concerning statistic is the 278 percent increase in the number of single minors. This jumped from 276 in FY20 to 601 this year to date.

The apprehensions sometimes carry far inland from the border as smugglers attempt to move migrants around interior immigration checkpoints. McGoffin tweeted photos last week of large groups of migrants apprehended near Van Horn, Texas.

Drug seizures by Border Patrol agents in this sector mainly revolve around marijuana. Human smugglers frequently make migrants carry backpacks filled with marijuana as they march through the desert, officials previously told Breitbart Texas.

So far this fiscal year, Big Bend Sector agents seized 15,403 pounds of marijuana. This compares to 24,399 for all of Fiscal Year 2020, CBP enforcement statistics reports indicate.

Bob Price serves as associate editor and senior news contributor for the Breitbart Texas-Border team. He is an original member of the Breitbart Texas team. Price is a regular panelist on Fox 26 Houston’s What’s Your Point? Sunday-morning talk show. Follow him on Twitter @BobPriceBBTX and Facebook.



Narcotics Push into South Texas Border Area amid 20-Year High in Illegal Migration

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The Rio Grande Valley Sector already leads the nation in apprehensions of unaccompanied migrant children (UACs), single adult aliens, and criminal aliens. Amid these trends, Mexican cartels are still pushing substantial quantities of drugs into the area.

On Monday, Border Patrol agents in concert with other local and federal agencies arrested 162 migrants in multiple stash houses throughout the Rio Grande Valley. To combat the problem, the Border Patrol is serving homeowners a notice that their property is being used for criminal activity which could lead to forfeiture proceedings.

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On the same day, agents in Weslaco, Texas, arrested 237 migrants in one group. They consisted of mostly family units and unaccompanied children. Rio Grande Valley Border Patrol agents say they interdicted 50 “large groups” illegally entering the United States this year. A large group is defined as 100 or more migrants.

In Fiscal Year 2021, agents in the Rio Grande Valley apprehended 221,115 migrants–compared to 49,971 over the same period in 2020. The spike means better profits for the Gulf Cartel, which tightly controls access and use of border crossings throughout the Valley.

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The cartel has not abandoned another staple commodity, narcotics. Over the past weekend, more than $200,000 in cocaine washed up along Padre Island. On Thursday, $500,000 in marijuana was seized in two separate smuggling events.

According to CBP, the Border Patrol is on pace to arrest more migrants this year than at any time in the previous two decades. The volume of unaccompanied migrant children and family units require hours of humanitarian care and deplete the time agents have to spend on patrol. This exacerbates any cohesive efforts to deny and disrupt cartel narcotics smuggling operations. The strain also increases the likelihood of migrants avoiding detection and apprehension.

Randy Clark is a 32-year veteran of the United States Border Patrol.  Prior to his retirement, he served as the Division Chief for Law Enforcement Operations, directing operations for nine Border Patrol Stations within the Del Rio, Texas, Sector. Follow him on Twitter @RandyClarkBBTX.

EXCLUSIVE: Mexican Immigration Agents Face Cartel Corruption Probe

Migrants returned from the United States to Mexico, are transferred to the facilities of the Mexican National Institute of Migration in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico, Monday. (Herika Martinez/AFP/Getty Images)
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Agents and high-ranking officials with Mexico’s National Immigration Institute are now the subjects of a federal corruption probe, tying them to human smuggling and trafficking activities. Some have already been quietly removed from their positions without arrests.

The case involves some of the highest immigration officials in the border state of Nuevo Leon. Known as the INM, Mexico’s National Immigration Institute is the sole entity tasked with issuing travel documents and enforcing immigration laws. However, agents in key border cities and states are working with criminal organizations and cartels to help facilitate the smuggling of migrants into Mexico and to the United States. In some cases, like in Tamaulipas, INM agents turned over deported migrants to cartels so they could be smuggled again or extorted.

Breitbart Texas exclusively obtained case files related to an investigation involving INM employees who returned a previously seized vehicle to a human smuggling organization. Authorities found the vehicle at a Tamaulipas crime scene where state police officers murdered and incinerated 19 individuals, including 16 Central American migrants. The vehicle was a Toyota Sequoia with license plate RKY-418-A, which was seized in December in Escobedo, Nuevo Leon.

Federal authorities identified eight, high-ranking officials and agents whom have since been removed from their positions.

During the investigation, which was ordered by Mexico’s Secretariat of the Interior, authorities also tied INM agents to illegally issued entry permits at two airports, migrant extortion schemes, and bribes for expediting immigration documents.

The officials named in the probe include the interim regional head of the INM Jesus Gilberto Rodriguez Garza, Operations Coordinator César Augusto López Vega, and INM agent Jesús Misael Rodríguez Chavarria. Those three were part of the inner circle of a former INM regional delegate Daniel Torres Cantú–who left his position to seek a political post.

As a result of the ongoing investigation, the INM National Commissioner removed several agents and supervisors and named retired Army General José de Jesús Barajas Santos as the regional leader for Nuevo Leon.

Ildefonso Ortiz is an award-winning journalist with Breitbart Texas. He co-founded Breitbart Texas’ Cartel Chronicles project with Brandon Darby and senior Breitbart management. You can follow him on Twitter and on Facebook. He can be contacted at Iortiz@breitbart.com

Brandon Darby is the managing director and editor-in-chief of Breitbart Texas. He co-founded Breitbart Texas’ Cartel Chronicles project with Ildefonso Ortiz and senior Breitbart management. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook. He can be contacted at bdarby@breitbart.com.     

Gerald “Tony” Aranda is an international journalist with more than 20 years of experience working in high-risk areas for print and broadcast news outlets investigating organized crime, corruption, and drug trafficking in the U.S. and Mexico.  In 2016, Gerald took up the pseudonym of “Tony” when he joined Breitbart Texas’ Cartel Chronicles project. Since then, he has come out of the shadows and become a contributing writer for Breitbart Texas.



Biden: It’s Essential ‘That Abbas be Recognized as Leader of the Palestinian People, Which He Is’

By Patrick Goodenough | May 24, 2021 | 4:39am EDT
 
 
Then-Vice President Joe Biden shakes hands with Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah in 2016. Abbas is in the 16th year of his four-year term.  (Photo by Abbas Momani/AFP via Getty Images)
Then-Vice President Joe Biden shakes hands with Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah in 2016. Abbas is in the 16th year of his four-year term. (Photo by Abbas Momani/AFP via Getty Images)

(CNSNews.com) – President Biden says he made clear while prodding the Israeli government towards a ceasefire with Hamas that it was essential “that [Mahmoud] Abbas be recognized as leader of the Palestinian people, which he is.”

The comment was jarring: Not only has Abbas’ legitimacy been significantly in question since his four-year term expired more than 12 years ago, but he recently announced yet another postponement of long-overdue elections in the territory he purports to lead.

The remark during a joint press conference on Friday evening with visiting South Korean President Moon Jae-in, drew no comment at the time.

Other comments, which drew more attention, included Biden’s assertion that he thinks his Democratic Party “still supports Israel,” and his declaration that until the region unequivocally acknowledges “the right of Israel to exist as an independent Jewish state, there will be no peace.”

Biden was asked what he had conveyed to Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in their discussions that led to the ceasefire that ended 11 days of hostilities between rocket-firing Hamas terrorists and the Israel Defense Forces.

After saying that he does not talk about his private negotiations, and indicating that Netanyahu has never broken his word to him, Biden continued.

“But what I’ve made clear is that it’s essential, it’s essential that the Palestinians in – on the West Bank be secured, that Abbas be recognized as a leader of the Palestinian people, which he is,” he said.

“Hamas is a terrorist organization,” Biden continued. “We’ve recognized that.”

 

Legislative polls in the Palestinian-controlled territory had been scheduled to take place on May 22, and elections for the executive branch on July 31. Abbas blamed Israel for his postponement decision, although analysts suspect it had more to do with his concerns about losing again to longstanding rival, Hamas.

A little over a week after the postponement, Hamas’ unleashed the first of what would become more than 4,000 rockets fired towards Israel.

The Gaza-based terrorist group claimed to be responding to fresh tensions over Jerusalem and the al-Aqsa mosque, but Israel’s foreign minister and others linked the eruption, at least in part, to internal Palestinian politics, and Hamas’ attempt to demonstrate that it – not Abbas’ Fatah faction – was the true leader.

 Shortly before Abbas called off the polls, State Department spokesman Ned Price reiterated that “the exercise of democratic elections is a matter for the Palestinian people and for the Palestinian leadership to determine.”

“We never dictate when it comes to elections, when it comes to the outcome of elections.”

Mahmoud Abbas speaks at the U.N. General Assembly in 2018. Abbas is now in the 16th year of his four-year term. (Photo by Stephanie Keith/Getty Images)
Mahmoud Abbas speaks at the U.N. General Assembly in 2018. Abbas is now in the 16th year of his four-year term. (Photo by Stephanie Keith/Getty Images)

Against that backdrop came Biden’s comment about Abbas “be recognized as leader of the Palestinian people, which he is.”

The last time Palestinians were allowed to vote, in 2006, Hamas beat Fatah by 44 to 41 percent, winning control of the Palestinian Legislative Council. Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was sworn in as prime minister.

Hamas refused to comply with conditions set down by the Mideast “Quartet” – the U.S., United Nations, European Union and Russia – that it renounce violence, recognize Israel’s right to exist, and be willing to abide by existing negotiated agreements with Israel.

As a result, international aid was suspended, prompting the Saudis to broker a Hamas-Fatah unity government deal in a bid to end the crisis. But months later, Hamas seized control of Hamas in violent clashes with Fatah.

The Iran-backed Islamist group has controlled the coastal enclave ever since, despite numerous negotiated attempts to end the Hamas-Fatah rift. The jurisdiction of the Abbas-led, Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority (P.A.) has been limited to parts of the West Bank.

For his part, Abbas had been elected in January 2005 to succeed Yasser Arafat, who died the previous November. As Abbas’ four-year term neared its end in January 2009, he issued a decree “extending” his tenure for one year.

But amid the ongoing Fatah-Hamas feud the January 2010 presidential elections were then postponed indefinitely, also by decree.

Abbas has remained in office ever since, continuing to call himself – and be referred to the United Nations as – “president of the State of Palestine,” a non-sovereign entity.

Despite his long-expired mandate, U.S. administration of both parties have continued to deal with him, although after President Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital in late 2017 the P.A. refused to cooperate with the U.S.

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Biden’s remark about Abbas, coming immediately before his reassertion that “Hamas is a terrorist organization,” appeared designed to draw a distinction between those Palestinian representatives with whom the U.S. can work, and those it shuns.

A similar pattern has been evident ever since Abbas’ election in 2005.  Under the peace agreements between the PLO and Israel known broadly as the Oslo accords, Abbas was not even meant to call himself “president,” but “chairman,” which had been Arafat’s official title.

“When Chairman Arafat enters the Gaza Strip and the Jericho Area, he will use the title ‘Chairman (Ra’is in Arabic) of the Palestinian Authority’ or ‘Chairman of the PLO,’ and will not use the title ‘President of Palestine,’” read part of the 1994 agreement that oversaw the exiled Arafat’s return to the disputed territories.

But soon after Abbas’ election, the U.S. shifted. In a January 2005 interview with CNN’s Larry King, outgoing Secretary of State Colin Powell called him “the President of the Palestinian Authority”, and when his successor, Condoleezza Rice, visited the region a month later she called him “President Abbas.”

The Israeli government continued to call him “chairman” until 2007, when Prime Minister Ehud Olmert began to call him “Mr. President” – again, in the context of drawing a distinction with Hamas.

“Olmert is trying to increase Abbas’ legitimacy, and that makes sense in light of the opposition he faces vis-a-vis Hamas,” commented a spokesman for Olmert’s predecessor, Ariel Sharon – who had studiously called Abbas “chairman.”

 

See also

‘Cynical Power Grab’: Internal Politics Seen As a Factor in Hamas Decision to Spark New Conflict (May 14, 2021)

Israel: Peace Not Possible Until Abbas, ‘In the 16th year of His Four-Year Term,’ Steps Down (Feb. 12, 2020)

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