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More Than 500K Illegal Immigrants Crossed Southern Border Since Kamala Harris Named ‘Border Czar’

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Andrew Stiles • June 25, 2021 12:43 pm

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Vice President Kamala Harris finally visited the southern border, three months after being put in charge of solving the immigration crisis. In that time, more than half-a-million illegal immigrants were apprehended at the southern border.

Upon arriving in El Paso on Friday, the vice president continued to attack journalists for asking questions about why she waited so long to make the trip. "It's not my first trip, I've been to the border many times," Harris snapped, apparently referring to previous visits she made as a senator.

Since President Joe Biden made Harris his "border czar" on March 24, illegal immigrants have crossed the southern border at a record rate of nearly 180,000 per month, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

CBP agents apprehended 178,854 illegal immigrants at the southern border in April, which at the time was the highest monthly figure since April 2000. At least it was until the following month, when CBP agents apprehended 180,034 illegal immigrants attempting to enter the country.

When the CBP data for June is reported next month, the total number of illegal crossings since late March is likely to surpass 500,000, which would mark a tremendous increase compared with last year. During that same three-month period (April-June) in 2020, CBP apprehended just 73,392 illegal immigrants. The 2020 numbers were likely deflated due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but CBP reported just 146,210 illegal border crossings for that same three-month period in 2018, significantly below this year's figure.

Harris has come under fire for not taking the border crisis seriously. She has on several occasions laughed like a maniac in response to questions about her refusal to visit the border until now. During an interview with NBC's Lester Holt earlier this month, Harris falsely claimed "we've been to the border" and attacked the journalist for asking about it.

"This whole thing about the border. We've been to the border. We've been to the border," Harris said, contrary to the facts.

When Holt pointed out that she had not, in fact, been to the border, Harris lashed out in a manner unbecoming of an elected official. "I—and I haven't been to Europe. And I mean, I don't—I don't understand the point that you're making," Harris said.

The vice president's decision to finally visit the border is unlikely to silence Harris's critics who contend that she is a terrible politician who has no idea what she's doing.

Kamala’s Border Message: Humane, Orderly, Safe INVASION...THE LA RAZA HEROIN CARTELS HAVE PHONES OPEN TO ARRANGE FOR SMUGGLING.

 An amnesty would come as nearly 16 million remain jobless, all of whom want full-time jobs. Another 5.3 million Americans are underemployed but likewise, want full-time employment.

The Biden administration is failing big time with its

 inability to control illegal immigration, adding it to one

 of several issues that could doom Democrats if left

 unchecked. PAUL BEDARD

Two Armed Human Smugglers Arrested at California Border Interior Checkpoints

Photo: U.S. Border Patrol/San Diego Sector

BOB PRICE

27 Jun 202150

3:42

Yuma and San Diego Sector Border Patrol agents arrested two armed human smugglers in separate incidents. Both incidents took place at interior immigration checkpoints manned by Border Patrol agents.

Yuma Sector agents assigned to the Blythe Station observed a BMW sedan approaching the Highway 78 immigration checkpoint located northwest of Palo Verde, California, on Wednesday evening, according to information obtained from Border Patrol officials.

During an immigration inspection, the agents identified the two females in the back seat as Mexican nationals. Officials report the two as being illegally present in the United States.

The agents directed the driver, a 29-year-old U.S. citizen from Anaheim, California, to a secondary inspection station. A Border Patrol K-9 alerted to the possible presence of drugs. A search of the vehicle led to the discovery of 0.72 grams of heroin, four grams of methamphetamine, more than three grams of marijuana, ten pieces of drug paraphernalia, and a cache of potentially fake or stolen credit cards, officials stated.

The agents also found a loaded handgun with the markings filed off and a printer possibly used to create fraudulent documents, according to the press release.

The agents arrested the driver, seized the guns and drugs, and turned the case over to federal investigators. During a records check, the agents learned the and the front-seat passengers have multiple felony convictions for burglary and receiving stolen property, DUI/Hit and Run, and possession of dangerous drugs.

The agents also arrested the front-seat passenger for his role in the alleged human smuggling case.

A few days earlier, San Diego Sector agents assigned to the State Route 94 immigration checkpoint observed a flatbed truck loaded with a silver minivan approaching for inspection. The agents questioned the two men in the cab of the truck regarding their immigration status.

Another agent climbed onto the flatbed and looked inside the windows of the minivan. As the agent approached the rear of the vehicle he observed the silhouette of a human body.

The agent opened the rear door of the minivan and found four men hiding inside. The agent observed the four men sweating profusely due to the intense heat inside the van. The agent identified the four men as Mexican nationals illegally present in the U.S.

A search of the truck’s cabin revealed a loaded handgun inside a toolbox near the driver’s seat.

Officials contacted the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department who cited the driver for improper transportation of a loaded handgun. The agents transported the migrants to the station for processing and seized the minivan. They returned the tow truck to the towing company.

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.

GOP to Kamala: Talk to Americans on the Border

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NEIL MUNRO

25 Jun 2021124

5:07

Vice President Kamala Harris should break from her guided “drop-in” tour and instead, talk to the Americans who live along the border, says the chorus of GOP critics.

“After more than 3 months of complete failure, Kamala Harris’ brief border drop-in is not enough,” said a blast email from the Republican National Committee as it criticized Harris’ trip to safe, TV-ready, migrant-processing centers in El Paso, Texas.

But the GOP critics ignored the damage to American families being imposed by President Joe Biden’s half-open border migration policies. That economic and civic damage is overwhelmingly opposed by voters — but the GOP’s donor-friendly talking points instead emphasized Biden’s chaos, crisis, and crime all along the border.

The RNC memo continued:

She is still not listening to the Americans who need Biden to reverse course on the policies that created his deadly border crisis. Here are only a few of the people Harris should be listening to:

LaSalle County Constable Rene Maldonado on the rate of human smuggling: “It’s just been one after the other after the other…It’s not stopping.”

Border-town Sheriff Mark Dannels trying to protect his county amid Biden’s border crisis: “We’re losing all of our resources…they’ve been diverted to other assignments…the message is that this border’s open for business and you can come across and if you get across there will be no consequences, that’s the message we hear.”

Chaney McCollum, a Texas border-county resident: “I’ve never really been scared until now…I should not have to be put in a situation where I can’t leave my house. Normal people out here don’t lock their barns. Now, we do.”

The Heritage Foundation followed the same don’t-mention-wages formula as the RNC, with a press statement that mentioned “crisis” 18 times in a 747-word press release, ignoring the impact on American’s wages, housing, and work opportunities.

“While it’s certainly positive that she is taking this step, I am disappointed that she is not going to the Rio Grande Valley (RGV) – the very epicenter of this crisis,” said a statement from Chad Wolf, who served as acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security for President Donald Trump. “Instead, she is going to El Paso, a metropolitan area 800-1,000 miles away from the RGV. Hopefully, Harris’ trip will be a working visit, not just border security tourism.”

The GOP’s effort to dodge the jobs-and-wage impact of Biden’s migration was predicted by immigration reformers.

“They’re not talking about the effect on American jobs and American wages, and they certainly should be because that is definitely on everyone’s mind,”  Rosemary Jenks, the director of government relations at NumbersUSA, told Breitbart News in a June 24 interview.

“They’re just too afraid of making a broader critique of the Biden administration’s [pro-]migration policies,” added Mark Krikorian, the director of the Center for Immigration Studies.

The Republican Study Committee, headed by Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) has pushed a more populist line than GOP leaders.

Within the left and the Democrat Party, the Fortune 500 business groups that are funding the pro-amnesty campaign also want the media to ignore the economics and instead focus on the “humane, orderly and safe” transfer of migrant workers and consumers the United States.

For example, Mark Zuckerberg’s FWD.us advocacy group has repeatedly urged allies to focus on personal stories of migrants and to avoid mention of jobs and wages.

For many years, a wide variety of pollsters have shown deep and broad opposition to labor migration and the inflow of temporary contract workers into jobs sought by young U.S. graduates. This opposition is multiracial, cross-sex, non-racist, class-based, bipartisan, rational, persistent, and recognizes the solidarity Americans owe to each other.

The voter opposition to elite-backed economic migration coexists with support for legal immigrants and some sympathy for illegal migrants. But only a minority of Americans — mostly leftists — embrace the many skewed polls and articles pushing the 1950s’ corporate “Nation of Immigrants” claim.

The deep public opposition to labor migration is built on the widespread recognition that legal immigration, visa workers, and illegal migration undermine democratic self-government, fracture Americans’ society, move money away from Americans’ pocketbooks, and worsen living costs for American families.

Migration does move wealth from employees to employers, from families to investors, from young to old, from children to their parents, from homebuyers to investors, from technology to stoop labor, from red states to blue states, and from the central states to the coastal states such as New York.

Kamala’s Border Message: Humane, Orderly, Safe Migration

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NEIL MUNRO

25 Jun 2021479

8:58

Call it establishment theater: Vice President Kamala Harris is making a trip to the border to showcase the White House push for “a humane, orderly and safe immigration system.”

But the GOP leaders will likely take safe positions to shout about universally bad things — open borders, crisis, chaos, and drugs —  and to avoid the internal political donor vs. base fight that could help them promise the popular alternative of lower migration and higher wages.

“They’re not talking about the effect on American jobs and American wages, and they certainly should be because that is definitely on everyone’s mind,” said Rosemary Jenks, the director of government relations at NumbersUSA.

“They’re just too afraid of making a broader critique of the Biden administration’s [pro-]migration policies,” added Mark Krikorian, the director of the Center for Immigration Studies.

Any presidential or vice-presidential visit of this kind is a theatrical performance. That’s not even criticizing it. That’s just inevitably what it is … [But GOP leaders] are confining themselves to talking about how [President Joe] Biden is helping the cartels and is helping to put women and children in danger.

He is, in fact, doing those things, so that’s not an illegitimate critique or even a dishonest or tendentious critique. It’s just a partial critique, and you need to make a broader point if you’re going to lay the groundwork for legislative or policy changes in the future.

Democrats and their business allies touted their claims the day before her visit to the relatively quiet city of El Paso, which has long been protected by a border wall.

“She’s done a great job so far,” Biden said on June 24. “The reason why it’s important that she go down [is that] she’s now set up the criteria [for migration], having spoken with the President of Mexico and Guatemala [and], visited the region to know what we need to do.”

She will be accompanied by Alejandro Mayorkas, the pro-migration secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. He has far more authority over the border and migration rules than Harris. But they share many allies in the business-backed, max-migration left.  In a June speech, Mayorkas said his border agency will put the dignity of foreign migrants “foremost in our efforts.”

Mayorkas is now opening up many side doors in U.S. border law to help extract many economic migrants from poor countries and to also eventually provide them with green cards, regardless of the harm to Americans — or to the migrants and their homelands.

“Voters in battleground states overwhelmingly support President Biden and the Vice President’s approach to manage the border and migration and create a humane, orderly and safe immigration system,” said a Thursday press e-mailed by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s empire of amnesty advocates.

The favorable polling results, the groups claim, are “despite Republican attempts to distract the public with narratives about a ‘border crisis’ and ‘invasion,’ attacks against Vice President Harris, and photo ops centered at the border.”

The Democrats’ choice of words shows they do not want to reduce the growing wave of economic migrants — they simply want to manage the flow, said Krikorian.

“It is not ‘secure.’ It’s not ‘protect.’ It’s not ‘sovereignty,’ because they define success as the expeditious and comfortable processing of illegal immigrants into the United States,” he said, adding:

Vice President Harris’s [border] show will try to demonstrate that the administration is making progress in dealing with the border … [that]  the so-called unaccompanied minors are being delivered to their illegal immigrant relatives who paid to have them smuggled in the first place, more quickly and more expeditiously.

I pretty much guarantee you that one of the places she’s gonna go is a [government] shelter where the so-called unaccompanied so-called minors are kept until their parents can be located. The point will be to show that there are no cages … especially to her constituency, which is to say the media and the Democratic Party. Showing happy, smiling children is an important scene in this theatrical performance.

“I think the only message they can try to show is that they have everything under control,” added Jenks.

They will try to show that they’re managing the flow efficiently, they’re moving unaccompanied children from border patrol custody to HHS [Health and Human Services] custody and to their illegal-immigrant families very quickly. They’re doing it so very quickly. They’re moving family members onto buses and planes and trains just as fast as they possibly can, so everything’s fine.’

But, she added, Americans “don’t care about processing them quickly; they want them not here.”

“Americans want the border actually secured so that these people are not coming in,” Jenks said.

The FWD.us group has repeatedly urged allies to focus on personal stories of migrants and to avoid mention of jobs and wages. And most independent polls show majority public opposition to Biden’s loose border policies.

But, so far, GOP leaders have relied on their donor-approved chaos-crisis-and0-drugs messages while avoiding the family-oriented, wages-and-jobs messages that get strong emotional responses in polls.

Democrats are not concerned about protecting Americans from employers’ use of cheap migrants, or protecting Americans from housing spikes caused by migrants, because they really prefer a world where people are not contained by international borders, Krikorian said:

They believe if people want to move here, we don’t have a right to stop them. They say the idea of “Us” and “Them” dehumanizes them.

But even the benign, or I would say, the morally necessary concept of [national] belonging, is something that by definition would exclude those who don’t belong, [that] is something they cannot accept.

That is almost a litmus test view for the administration and for the modern Democratic Party establishment. When you ask them, “Okay, if you want to let in 5 million immigrants, what about number 5,000,001? That last guy is not a criminal, he’s not a murderer, and he just wants to move here. What are you willing to do to that guy [to stop him]?” And their answer is, “Nothing.”

Mayorkas’ “dignity” speech shows that he does not see himself as an American, Krikorian said.

He just does not consider himself to have any greater responsibility to his own country [than to other countries] …  It’s fundamentally contrary to the Constitution and to the idea of democratic governance, but it’s a consistent worldview. It is just not one that the people running a Republic have any business having.

The administration’s pro-migration policy is so extreme that the GOP can gain some voters even with a poor message, said Krikorian:

If Republicans are smart, they’ll say, you know, “Good for Harris to have visited the border because she is the Border Tsar. And, you know, it hasn’t gotten any better, and now it’s her responsibility.” So every time there’s another report of some tragedy at the border or another monthly statistics report, the Republican response should be, “What are you going to do about it, Madam Vice President?”

Each year, four million young Americans enter the workforce. Their government forces them to compete against a growing population of illegal migrants, against one million new legal immigrants, and also the resident workforce of roughly two million temporary guest workers.

For many years, a wide variety of pollsters have shown deep and broad opposition to labor migration and the inflow of temporary contract workers into jobs sought by young U.S. graduates. This opposition is multiracial, cross-sex, non-racist, class-based, bipartisan, rational, persistent, and recognizes the solidarity Americans owe to each other.

The voter opposition to elite-backed economic migration coexists with support for legal immigrants and some sympathy for illegal migrants. But only a minority of Americans — mostly leftists — embrace the many skewed polls and articles pushing the 1950’s corporate “Nation of Immigrants” claim.

The deep public opposition to labor migration is built on the widespread recognition that legal immigration, visa workers, and illegal migration undermine democratic self-government, fracture Americans’ society, move money away from Americans’ pocketbooks, and worsen living costs for American families.

Migration does move wealth from employees to employers, from families to investors, from young to old, from children to their parents, from homebuyers to investors, from technology to stoop labor, from red states to blue states, and from the central states to the coastal states such as New York

DHS Secretary Mayorkas Uses Border Visit to Tout Amnesty for Illegal Aliens

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JOHN BINDER

25 Jun 20212,932

3:04

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas used his visit to the United States-Mexico border with Vice President Kamala Harris to tout amnesty for illegal aliens.

On Friday, during a press conference in El Paso, Texas, alongside Harris, Mayorkas said he was “hopeful” that an amnesty for illegal aliens would be approved by Congress.

“I am hopeful that Congress will pass immigration reform to fix a system that everyone recognizes is broke and I am thankful for [Sen. Dick Durbin’s] years-long effort and championing this effort,” Mayorkas said.

Mayorkas also suggested that the role of DHS, under his and President Joe Biden’s direction, is “to build safe and legal pathways for people” to stay in the U.S. indefinitely — a stark contrast to former President Trump’s DHS, which sought to stem illegal immigration and drug trafficking.

The amnesty push by Mayorkas comes as Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) has said he is crafting amnesty legislation that would be sent off to Senate Democrats for negotiating.

In March, the Democrat-controlled House — with support from 30 House Republicans — passed H.R. 1603, known as the “Farm Workforce Modernization Act of 2021,” and H.R. 6, known as “American Dream and Promise Act of 2021.”

Together, the two plans would give amnesty to about 2.1 million illegal aliens working on U.S. farms and another 4.4 million Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)-enrolled and eligible illegal aliens and those with Temporary Protected Status (TPS).

Already, many Senate Democrats are seeking to slip an amnesty past Congress through a little-known “reconciliation” maneuver. Senate Budget Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is crafting a proposal that would include forcing American taxpayers to spend $150 billion on providing amnesty to millions of illegal aliens.

An amnesty would come as nearly 16 million remain jobless, all of whom want full-time jobs. Another 5.3 million Americans are underemployed but likewise, want full-time employment.

An analysis released this week by the Center for Immigration Studies revealed that amnesty for illegal aliens, which would immediately flood the U.S. labor market with millions of newly legalized foreign workers for whom employers can legally hire, would have a devastating impact on the nation’s ongoing unemployment problem.

Every year, 1.2 million legal immigrants are given green cards to permanently resettle in the U.S. In addition, 1.4 million foreign nationals are given visas to take American jobs while hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens enter the U.S. annually.

John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here. 

Biden's record on border, CRT, and crime are bombing with voters -poll

By Monica Showalter

Joe Biden, who campaigned for president as a moderate, and now governs as a far-left extremist in his fraudulently won election, has some death-knell polling numbers to concentrate his attention coming out.

According to Washington Examiner's Paul Bedard:

The Biden administration is failing big time with its inability to control illegal immigration, adding it to one of several issues that could doom Democrats if left unchecked.

In a new Harvard/Harris poll, an overwhelming 80% said that illegal immigration is a serious issue and one that needs more attention than what President Joe Biden or Vice President Kamala Harris are giving.

What’s more, 68% said that signals from Biden’s White House are encouraging illegal immigration, and 55% believe that former President Donald Trump’s border closing policies should have been left in place.

Add it to increasing voter concerns about inflation, taxes, and the critical race theory controversy, and this could be a summer of woe for Democrats. “These are not good numbers for Democrats,” said an adviser to House Republicans.

Harvard/Harris, it should be noted, is not run by conservatives. Apparently, they couldn't even push the poll into Joe's direction. All the garbage from Jen Psaki about Biden doing a good job on immigration, and the border surge being 'seasonal' is not being bought by voters. And the critical race theory is another loser with voters, as the various parent groups rise up against leftist school boards and demand the taught-hate be stopped around their kids in an unprecedented revolt.

It comes at a bad time for Biden as New York's mayoral race results slowly roll in and even the New York Times is blanching (emphasis mine):

Can progressives win broad numbers of the Black and brown voters they say their policies will benefit most?

That provocative question is one that a lot of Democrats find themselves asking after seeing the early results from New York City’s mayoral primary this past week.

In a contest that centered on crime and public safety, Eric Adams, who emerged as the leading Democrat, focused much of his message on denouncing progressive slogans and policies that he said threatened the lives of “Black and brown babies” and were being pushed by “a lot of young, white, affluent people.” A retired police captain and Brooklyn’s borough president, he rejected calls to defund the Police Department and pledged to expand its reach in the city.

Black and brown voters in Brooklyn and the Bronx flocked to his candidacy, awarding Mr. Adams with sizable leading margins in neighborhoods from Eastchester to East New York. Though the official winner may not be known for weeks because of the city’s new ranked-choice voting system, Mr. Adams holds a commanding edge in the race that will be difficult for his rivals to overcome.

That's not a vote of confidence in Joe Biden's crime policies, which are basically centered on gun control and blaming gun dealers for the hideous rash of violent crime brought on by leftists demonizing the police and Soros-funded prosecutors failing to prosecute.

The results are still out, but it's very likely that Adams will walk away with the mayoralty based on his tough, open, out-there, stance on stopping the crime from making New Yorkers' lives miserable. And since he's a Democrat, the cheat-machines were unlikely to have been operating in New York to suppress the conservative vote as they do in national elections, meaning, these voters are Democrats and this is what they are willing to vote for.

New Yorkers, who also elected Republican Rudolph Giuliani in 1993, back when New York was a crime-filled dump and Mick Jagger was out singing songs like "Shattered" about it, have always been fairly commonsensical about the need for order in the gargantuan city packed in a small place.

Even more significant, the Bronx and Brooklyn boroughs, which include part of openly socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's constituency, were the ones who put their feet down about the crime mess going on now and voted for law-and-order Adams, who has the additional benefit of being black, so nobody can call him a racist for championing law and order. He's bulletproof, and he says the right things. Better still, he's not an outsider; he knows how the city works so there will be no hanky-panky from bureaucrats running circles around him and, better still, he's old enough to remember how Giuliani effectively cleaned up the city earlier. All in all, there's a strong chance he's going to be a popular and effective mayor.

And presciently, he's sent a few darts Joe Biden's way, stating that he's the new face of the Democrat party, meaning, dinosaur Joe and his soft-on-crime socialist approach from his puppet-strings to some leftist force, is headed for the dustbin of history.

That's a lot of bad news for Biden, who's sought to swing the country as far left as is possible, in a hideous "re-set" of America and its ideals. The leftist garbage is going over like a lead balloon with voters, and though Biden and his roundheels sidekick, Kamala Harris, may still have some voter goodwill among voters, it won't take long for the policies to start sticking to them as they did in.

Bad times are ahead for the Biden agenda as polls like these -- by wide margins -- show huge voter discontent. The old fraud machine that got Joe elected might just find it mission-impossible to overcome it, particularly with Republican state legislatures tightening the screws on voter fraud. Expect Joe to get even crazier as he knows his political days with his far-left agenda are limited. Writing's on the wall for him

Wait, Kamala Harris Hardly Left the Airport for Her 'Border' Trip?

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Vice President Kamala Harris made her first trip to the U.S.-Mexico border Friday. She briefly left the El Paso airport to tour a Border Patrol station but did not make her way to the actual border. 

VP Harris not even going to the actual border. Just the airport and BP station - miles from the border. All on her way home to CA. This is theater. #BidenBorderCrisis pic.twitter.com/AieqRTuksH

— Lora Ries (@lora_ries) June 25, 2021

Well yeah. Going to the border in El Paso would mean a photo with the border wall behind her, so of course she isn’t going. https://t.co/CFijMIMWJH

— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) June 25, 2021

In January, the federal government finished 131 miles of new border wall, mandated by President Donald Trump, stretching from El Paso to New Mexico. 

The federal government has completed a total of 131 miles of border wall in the El Paso sector, the acting commissioner of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced in a media call on Tuesday.

"The border wall system proves its worth every day with every mile," said Acting Commissioner Mark Morgan. "We need to know who is coming into our country. The border wall helps us achieve that."

In 2019, El Paso was the epicenter of the migrant crisis, as ABC-7 reported extensively that year. On a weekly basis, thousands of migrants crossed into the region. Many of them declared asylum, telling agents they were fleeing violence from their home countries.

Morgan said the agency added almost 450 miles of border wall across the U.S.- Mexico border nationwide, with funding in place to build a total of almost 800 miles of system.

Harris's choice of El Paso was already absurd, given the illegal immigration crisis is at its peak in McAllen, which is nearly 800 miles away. 

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"Even if she goes to El Paso.. she's got to spend time with land owners, with stakeholders, with city and county officials.. and I hope she sits down with our brave men and women in green and in blue. " @RepCuellar ahead of VP Harris's trip to the border amid the migrant surge pic.twitter.com/FKQBU24DcL

— America's Newsroom (@AmericaNewsroom) June 24, 2021

Drug Cartels Utilize Makeshift Ferry to ‘Float-Over’ Drugs from Mexico to Texas

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RANDY CLARK

26 Jun 202179

3:33

Drug cartels operating in Mexico frequently employ creative means to smuggle narcotics across the border into the United States. One such method, unique to Texas’ Rio Grande Valley, is referred to by Border Patrol agents as a “Float-Over.”  The technique involves using a makeshift ferry to move an SUV or pick-up truck, pre-loaded with narcotics, across the Rio Grande River.

This tactic is rarely employed elsewhere along the southwest border. According to a source within the Border Patrol, the cartels are packing the vehicles with drugs in Mexico and driving them to the river. Once on the river’s bank, the vehicles are placed on a make-shift ferry — usually, a flatbed cargo trailer with no axles. The trailer is fitted with foam and empty barrels for buoyancy.

“It’s amazing to see how they crudely engineer the ‘ferry’ to handle the weight of the narcotics and vehicle and avoid capsizing in the current,” the Border Patrol source told Breitbart Texas. Speaking on the condition of anonymity, the source says the cartels employ the method in broad daylight. Having the vehicle fully loaded when it reaches the United States side of the river makes for a speedy getaway according to the source.

“Right now, there are plenty of field workers harvesting crops near the river. When the smugglers cross, they time their departure in an attempt to blend in with legitimate farm traffic,” the source added. The source believes the cartels are taking advantage of the surge in migrant crossings in the area, hoping to encounter fewer Border Patrol agents along the river.

On Thursday, Border Patrol agents in Brownsville, Texas, attempted to stop a vehicle leaving the border area. The vehicle, a white SUV, failed to yield and a pursuit back to the river ensued. In the end, the smugglers drove the vehicle into the river in what agents refer to as a “splashdown.” Agents discovered 29 large bundles of marijuana located in the partially submerged vehicle.

The estimated street value of the marijuana, which weighed 665 pounds, was more than half a million dollars. Shortly after the narcotics seizure, agents discovered the abandoned make-shift ferry used to shuttle the SUV across the river.

According to Border Patrol reports, the Rio Grande Valley Sector leads the nation in narcotics seizures. The Border Patrol managed to interdict more than 110,000 pounds of marijuana, 13,754 pounds of cocaine, more than 9,000 pounds of methamphetamine, 788 pounds of fentanyl, and more than 400 pounds of heroin nationwide this year.

The seizure totals are impressive considering the burden facing the agency. Processing and providing humanitarian care for thousands of migrants illegally entering the country per day has stretched resources to the breaking point. The Rio Grande Valley agents have seen migrant apprehensions top 2,000 per day recently according to the source.

“The cartels are involved in everything, and they are making a killing, but we are not giving up.” the source says.

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.