“Younger, sicker, quicker”: Doctors plead for vaccinations as US hospitals fill with young patients
As the Delta variant of coronavirus continues to overwhelm the globe, a growing number of young people in their twenties, thirties, and forties are being intubated and succumbing to the virus, particularly in the poorest states in the Southern United States where vaccination numbers are the lowest. The phrase now used by doctors to explain this new stage of the pandemic is “younger, sicker, quicker.”
With many states breaking infection records daily, Florida is the epicenter of the crisis in the South. On Saturday, Florida reported 23,903 new cases of COVID-19 in a 24-hour period, raising the state’s total number of cases to 2,725,450. The Florida Hospital Association reported a record high for the state's hospitalization rates, with 13,348 patients hospitalized as of Saturday.
According to figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), more than 80 percent of people between 65 to 74 are fully vaccinated, but the figure is less than half of that for ages 18 to 39. Across the South, cases are skyrocketing and the trends are toward a lower age group—particularly among those ages 18-49, who now make up 50 percent of all cases.
Doctors and healthcare staff throughout the region are pleading for the population to get vaccinated. Compared to an earlier time in the pandemic when the majority of deaths were among the elderly, health care staff are seeing large numbers of young people in the prime of lives, often parents with young children, succumbing to the virus.
Dr. Brytney Cobia of Grandview Medical Center in Birmingham, Alabama made an appeal in a Facebook post, stating that “One of the last things they do before being intubated is beg me for the vaccine,” Cobia wrote. “I take them by the hand and tell them I’m sorry, but it’s too late. A few days later, when I call the time of death, I hug [their] family members and tell them that the best way to honor your loved one is to get vaccinated and encourage everyone you know to do the same. “
In disbelief at their loss, Cobia stated that patients and their families explain to her the various reasons that discouraged them from taking a vaccine: “They tell me they didn’t know. They thought it was a hoax. They thought it was political. They thought that because they had a certain blood type or a certain skin color, they would not get as sick. They thought it was ‘just the flu.’ But they were wrong. And they wish they could go back. But cannot.”
Alabama and Mississippi have the lowest vaccination rates in the nation with only 35 percent of residents fully vaccinated against COVID-19, according to data from Johns Hopkins.
In another powerful statement, Dr. Michael Bolding at Arkansas’ premier Washington Regional Medical Center recently made an impassioned plea in a Facebook video to beg Arkansas residents to get vaccinated, describing the conditions faced in the hospitals. “Recently I’ve seen a dramatic rise in twenty-year-olds and thirty-year-olds, unvaccinated patients, who are not coming in to the ER requiring a little bit of oxygen and being hospitalized for a day or two, but younger healthier patients with no comorbidities ending up on ventilators, BiPAP, high flow oxygen and extremely sick.
“I have had to call multiple mothers and fathers of preschoolers in their 20s and 30s and tell them that their spouse may not survive this hospital stay. I cannot explain in words the fatigue that your local hospital providers have right now.
“What I really wish you could see, is to look into the eyes of a young father or a gentleman who knows that they may be short for this world because they didn’t get their vaccine, and the regret and remorse on their face—and fear. I can’t show you, I can’t describe, it will certainly be with me forever, but that look on a patient's face would be more motivating than anything to go ahead and get your vaccine if you have not already.”
Scott Harris, chief executive of the Alabama Department of Public Health told the Washington Post, “We find that there’s a lot of mistrust with messages that come from state government, from public health, in particular, from the media,” he said. “It’s just a multilayered problem. There’s just a lot of different people who have a lot of different reasons for not getting the vaccine. And it’s just hard to address them in a big way.”
In Tulsa, Oklahoma, Dr. Ryan Parker, chief of emergency medicine for Saint Francis Health System, told the Tulsa World, “I’ve had a lot of ‘I was going to wait and see what it did for other people,’ ‘(see) if other people had side effects,’ or ‘there are too many unknowns.’”
“My youngest patient is 20 years old. So 20s to 50s is a very common age group right now, which is very scary,” added Dr. Kamran Abbasi. “It breaks my heart. We’ve got people coming to the ER, and I’m admitting them to the hospital. They realize this is worse than they thought it was going to be—whatever perception they had of COVID was incorrect. Now they’re here and they feel horrible and they’re terrified.”
Dr. Mike Angelidis, chair of Saint Francis’ hospitalist services and chief of internal medicine, stressed, “There is so much ‘wait and see,’” and confusion about side effects with regards to the vaccine. “What I try to tell patients is that this is different than any other vaccine we’ve had in a lot of ways, and one of those ways is the widespread use of it. There is so much research and data on these vaccines. But they already have these ideas about it ... Where are they getting their information from, and why are they so scared? It’s very frustrating.”
In addition to the impassioned pleas from frontline doctors and healthcare workers, a growing number of parents who have lost their children are speaking out.
Christy Carpenter of Alabama lost her 28-year-old son Curt, who was also unvaccinated. She told the Washington Post that her family had not received the vaccine because they had concerns about how soon it was rolled out. She said her son was healthy prior to catching the virus, and that he initially believed the pandemic to be a “hoax.” She said his last words were: “This is not a hoax, this is real.”
In St. Louis, Missouri, Kimberle Jones lost her 37-year-old daughter Erica Thompson, who was a mother to three boys, ages 8, 11 and 17, now orphaned. “I just watched my baby slipping away from me every day,” Jones told KCRG News. Thompson was in the hospital for a total of 50 days. She died July 4. “The doctor basically called and told me that she got to go on the ventilator or she’s going to die,” Jones said.
“My daughter was not vaccinated and I really do believe, I really do believe had she been vaccinated that she’d still be here with me today,” Jones added.
Father of five, Michael Freedy, 39, contracted the virus after going on holiday with his fiancée Jessica DuPreez. He died in hospital, where he was placed on a ventilator, on Thursday. Freedy sent DuPreez a heartbreaking message before dying of COVID-19 in hospital: “I should have got that damn vaccine.” Freedy leaves behind five children—the youngest of them just 17 months old.
In Los Angeles, 34-year-old Stephen Harmon died last week from COVID-19 just weeks after expressing his opposition to taking the vaccine. Dr. Oren Friedman, who treats COVID-19 patients at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, told KCBS-TV the hospital has seen a tenfold increase in COVID-19 admissions, and that “Virtually every single person that is getting sick enough to be admitted to the hospital has not been vaccinated.”
“I can tell you that for the respiratory therapists and nurses and doctors that are having to go into rooms and take care of patients who are this sick at this stage—and to know that it’s preventable if people simply had taken the vaccine—it is an awful feeling of PTSD and frustration,” Friedman added.
The influx of young people admitted to hospitals includes not only adults, but large numbers of children, still too young to get vaccinated. For the week ending July 29, the American Academy of Pediatrics reported an 84 percent increase in new COVID-19 cases among children. Numerous hospitals have reported a large number of admissions of children and youth, with dozens in intensive care units and on ventilators.
The British medical journal The Lancet recently reported that 1.5 million children have been orphaned in the pandemic. The current deaths are even more tragic as the virus is cutting down young people and parents of young children in the prime of their life.
HOW MUCH HAS BIDEN'S ORCHESTRATED INVASION COST AMERICA TODATE?
Joe Biden’s Deputies Promise Border Crackdown — Plus More Pathways
President Joe Biden’s border officials are now declaring a crackdown on illegal migrants after choosing to admit roughly 700,000 economic migrants in seven months across the Mexican border.
“Any single adult who is apprehended along the Southwest border who has previously been apprehended and deported under Title 8 will be referred to prosecution,” said Manuel Padilla, chief of the U.S. Border Patrol’s operations directorate, said in the State Department’s Friday press conference.
If implemented, the policy would be a big but cosmetic shift in the welcome policy set by homeland security chief Alejandro Mayorkas. Currently, Mayorkas sends caught migrants back to Mexico so they can rest and try again. On July 11, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported:
Nearly everyone interviewed by the San Diego Union-Tribune shortly after being expelled to Tijuana said that they had tried crossing the border three or more times in recent weeks in hopes of getting in.
One man, who declined to be identified, said he’d lost count of how many times he tried. He tossed out a guess — 30.
Whatever the words, the actual impact of a promised crackdown will be measurable by early September when officials release the migration numbers for August. But the early results show little change.
For example, the administration made only three repatriation flights — with a total of roughly 300 people — back to Central American from July 30 to August 6. During that same period, roughly 40,000 people arrived at the border, and roughly 15,000 were admitted, according to media reports. That numbers suggest the administration’s crackdown is admitting to 50 migrants for each one they repatriate.
Under President Joe Biden, Mayorkas and his pro-migration deputies at the Department of Homeland Security have repeatedly misled Americans and have used their power to shape media coverage and to distort public understanding of the massive migration they have invited into the United States.
They have also opened up many new semi-legal loopholes in the nation’s borders. For example, Mayorkas recently declared that the six million Venezuelans who fled their home country for refuges in South America can now get U.S. residency and a work permit if they reach the United States by September 2022. Mayorkas has also offered work permits to 100,000 economic migrants from Haiti and to people from Hong Kong.
Moreover, Padilla repeated the administration’s policy of creating migration pathways — regardless of how many illegal migrants are deported from the border — alongside the 1 million people legally admitted by Congress each year:
Developing a just, orderly, and humane immigration system includes expanding the legal pathways of the United States and also discouraging irregular migration. Quite simply, what we want to discourage is irregular migration. Asylum and other avenues of legal migration must be readily available to those in need.
But there is some evidence that the administration will impose a crackdown, even if only for TV audiences and for domestic political advantage.
For example, the promised crackdown comes as migration continues to rise in the summer months of July and August when migrant inflow had dropped in prior years, and as Biden’s migration polls continued to drop.
Confusion seems to be the common unifying theme defining Biden’s attempts to close the porous Mexican border.
Further, a growing bulge of many African and Asian migrants are working their way north through Central America — and are being watched by millions of others who have yet to decide if the border will be open for them.
Moreover, the announcements were made by career officials, not by the pro-migrati0n staff installed by the pro-migration secretary of homeland security, Alejandro Mayorkas.
So far, Mayorkas has blocked very few of the global migrants at the border and has also sent very few of them home, encouraging millions of other potential migrants in South America, Asia, Africa, and India.
But even if the administration deports single adult migrants back to their homelands, Padilla left open many loopholes for other economic migrants to walk through Mayorkas’ border.
For example, Padilla said, “Anyone who does not have a legal basis under US law to be in the United States will be returned to their home countries and will not be allowed to stay here.” But an unlimited number of migrants can easily claim “a legal basis” by simply asking for asylum,” or by having a plausible claim to be aged 17 or younger.
Padilla also included the “legal basis” loophole when promising the repatriation of the mothers with children who are trying to join their illegal-migrant spouses who are now working in U.S. jobs:
Additionally, certain recently arrived families who cannot be deported or removed under Title 42, and who do not have a legal basis to remain in the United States, are subject to expedited deportation to their home country under the verification program. electronic nationality. Expedited deportation flights for certain families began on July 30 of this year. These flights have departed to El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, and these regular flights continue every week.
The Cuban-born Mayorkas is an immigration zealot who grew up, graduated, and worked in California as a prosecutor during the 1990s. Business groups back up his support for migration.
Overall, investors and business coalitions want to import more migrants — even impoverished, ill, aging, or criminal migrants — because the migrants spike consumer sales, boost rental rates, cut wages, minimize management hassles, and so raise profits and stock values. The migrants also serve as clients for Democrat-run welfare agencies, and eventually, as voters for Democratic candidates.
But migration damages ordinary Americans’ career opportunities, cuts their wages, raises their rents, curbs their productivity, shrinks their political clout, and fractures their open-minded, equality-promoting civic culture.
Amid Mayorkas’ inflow of migrants, the “median weekly earnings of the nation’s 113.6 million full-time wage and salary workers were $990 in the second quarter of 2021 … 1.2 percent lower than a year earlier,” Breitbart reported July 16.
The economic extraction of valuable consumers, renters, and workers from poor countries also helps move wealth — and social status — from heartland red states to the coastal blue states. The extraction policy also helps move wealth and status from GOP rural districts to Democrat cities within each state.
In general, legal and illegal migration moves 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.
The Biden Pay Cut: American Wage Gains Still Falling Short of Inflation
The July jobs report was the strongest in the history of the Biden administration — and yet real wages likely fell once again.
Average hourly earnings rose 0.4 percent in July. Compared with a year ago, average hourly wages were up 4.0 percent.
But those gains have likely been consumed by inflation. The consumer price index rose 0.9 percent in June and prices were up 5.4 percent from a year ago. So even a mild amount of inflation in July will mean that workers are still falling behind.
Conservative critics have described this as a stealth tax hike or a Biden pay cut.
“The mainstream media is celebrating President Biden’s supposedly strong jobs report but ignoring how it reveals falling real wages for American workers. Thanks to growing inflation due to Democrats’ reckless spending, workers are making less money this month,” said Alfredo Ortiz, president and CEO of the Job Creators Network. “This ‘Biden pay cut’ puts workers further behind. Democrats’ proposed several trillion dollars in additional spending threaten to hurt these ordinary Americans even more. Ignore the celebrating over the jobs report. The real story is falling wages and standards of living under Biden.”
This could explain why the workforce participation rate is not climbing even though wages are rising at a rapid pace, especially when compared to last summer, the inflation-adjusted average wage has gone negative in recent month.
One exception is leisure and hospitality, where the monthly gains have been very strong for several months running. These relatively low paying jobs have seen a big boost in compensation. Compared with February 2020, the last prepandemic month, wages are up 10 percent. Compared to a year ago, when much of the sector was still shut down, wages are up around 13 perent. On a monthly basis, wages rose 1.4 percent in July after shooting up 2.5 percent in June. So in this sector, at least, wages are rising faster than inflation.
The government will report the Consumer Price Index for July next week.
Infrastructure Bill Rewards Blue States for Driving Up Immigration Levels to U.S.
The so-called bipartisan “infrastructure” bill, backed by Senate Democrats and 18 Senate Republicans, would reward blue states with federal money for driving up immigration levels to the United States.
The bill, among other things, includes the Digital Equity Act that would help expand broadband to American communities that currently lack access to the internet.
Slipped into the legislation are provisions allocating federal funding based on the number of newly arrived immigrants in a state or region — a design that rewards blue states who tend to have the largest foreign-born populations in the nation.
As the legislation states, the Department of Commerce would set up a grant program to states to fund broadband expansion. The formula used for those grants is as follows:
50 percent of the total grant amount shall be based on the population of the eligible State in proportion to the total population of all eligible States.
25 percent of the total grant amount shall be based on the number of individuals in the eligible State who are members of covered populations in proportion to the total number of individuals in all eligible States who are members of covered populations.
25 percent of the total grant amount shall be based on the comparative lack of availability and adoption of broadband in the eligible State in proportion to the lack of availability and adoption of broadband of all eligible States…
Those considered part of the “covered populations” that a state’s grant money would be tied to — depending on how large this group is — newly arrived immigrants to the U.S. who speak little-to-no English.
The legislation defines these newly arrived immigrants as “individuals with a language barrier, including individuals who are English learners and have low levels of literacy.” Other groups in the “covered populations” include veterans, disabled Americans, nonwhite Americans, rural Americans, and incarcerated Americans.
The provision indicates blue states who help drive up immigration levels to the U.S. with generous public benefits, sanctuary policies, and concentrations of wealth with large income inequalities are set to benefit immensely from the legislation included in the bill.
California, for example, would be the primary winner of the legislation with a foreign-born population at about 24 percent, the highest in the nation. Behind California is Texas, with a foreign-born population of nearly 11 percent, Florida with a foreign-born population of 9.8 percent, and New York with a foreign-born population of 10 percent.
More importantly, the nation’s top 10 counties with the highest foreign-born populations are primarily deep blue areas controlled by Democrats including Los Angeles County, California; Miami-Dade County, Florida; Harris County, Texas; Cook County, Illinois; Queens County, New York; San Diego County, California; and Santa Clara County, California, among others.
These areas could be first in line to receive funding to expand broadband.
Meanwhile, red states and counties such as North Dakota, Idaho, South Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, Arkansas, Missouri, South Carolina, Nebraska, Kansas, Mississippi, Louisiana, West Virginia, and Kentucky would lose out on such funds to expand broadband potentially because none have significant foreign-born populations.
While Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN) has helped stall the bill in the Senate, 18 Senate Republicans voted with Democrats this weekend to advance the bill.
Those Senators include Roy Blunt (R-MO), John Hoeven (R-ND), Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Mike Crapo (R-ID), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Rob Portman (R-OH), Jim Risch (R-ID), Mitt Romney (R-UT), Thom Tillis (R-NC), Todd Young (R-IN), Chuck Grassley (R-IA), John Hoeven (R-ND), Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Susan Collins (R-ME), and Mike Rounds (R-SD).
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
Richard Wolff | The HISTORICAL ROOT of "Post-Modernism" & "Neo-Marxism"
Chris Hedges | Biden CANNOT HELP US —will cause FASCISM!
Chris Hedges WARNS OF Creeping Authoritarianism
Chris Hedges | The HORRIFIC State of the American Empire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXYsGuBdzM4
Chris Hedges | NAFTA, Clinton, and Obama BETRAYED Americans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qryblALiqOI
Chris Hedges | Wall Street Gambling
ALL LAWYERS ARE TRAINED LIARS!
“This is jaw-dropping. It’s just so brazen. Just like the Obama administration, the Biden administration is a lawless administration. He’s not faithfully executing the laws. He’s got an open border. He’s ignoring the Supreme Court ruling. He’s ignoring the Constitution. And yes … there’s the other side of the equation when it comes to rent. It’s called the person who owns the property, that has to keep it up, that has all the expenses of maintaining it. You know, they deserve rent payments, and of course, we have such levels of low unemployment in so many areas that have opened, that have remained opened up, money is sloshing around in this economy.”
Johnson said the decision to extend the moratorium is “jaw-dropping.” He added the Biden administration is “lawless” in the same way as former President Barack Obama’s administration by “ignoring the Constitution.”
Chris Hedges | Voting BIDEN was WRONG
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RjnohdjH5E
Joe Biden, the corrupt, unaccomplished 47-year career politician, with a reputation of having been a proud segregationist, an unabashed plagiarist and liar, a resolute tale-teller, and a serial flip-flopper, is pretending to head up a radical social-democratic ticket for President of the United States that includes as his running mate the ambitious, disagreeable junior senator from California: Kamala Harris.
Time to impeach Biden
After having appointed a special counsel, or in place of it, under 5 U.S. Code §1212 — Powers and functions of the Office of Special Counsel, specifically under (a) (aB), (a3), Congress must act to impeach this president for high crimes and misdemeanors, gross mismanagement, violating the nation's laws, and endangering the public health and safety of citizens.
(a) The Office of Special Counsel shall—
(1)
in accordance with section 1214(a) and other applicable provisions of this subchapter…
(B)
file a complaint or make recommendations for disciplinary action under section 1215;
(3)
receive, review, and, where appropriate, forward to the Attorney General or an agency head under section 1213, disclosures of violations of any law, rule, or regulation, or gross mismanagement ... an abuse of authority, or a substantial and specific danger to public health or safety[.]
Congress must begin impeachment proceedings against President Joe Biden, V.P. Kamala Harris, Attorney General Merrick B. Garland, and his deputies, who likely have knowledge of the events that squashed investigations into the nation's murderous governors.
The investigations should include the governors, secretaries of state, and attorneys general of New York and Michigan. Charges include, but are not limited to, obstruction of justice, abuse of authority, abuse of power, abuse of office, covering up criminal activity, conspiracy, and criminal self-dealing. Considering allegations of potential collusion among these individuals and associates to cover up crimes that resulted in the deaths of citizens, provisions of the RICO Act for fraud and conspiracy to commit fraud shall be attached.
Investigative subpoenas to the staffs of these politicians must be prepared immediately to protect the integrity of the nation's justice and political systems, primarily its national security to protect America's citizens from harm.
This administration's corruption of Department of Justice investigations into the COVID deaths of thousands of innocent Americans at the hands of negligent and profiteering Democrat governors is an unconscionable violation of the standards and norms of governance. The EOs and fraudulent reports signed by these governors were designed to keep them, and other Democrats allied with them, in power. These COVID deaths are the documented results of the official malfeasance, mismanagement, and self-aggrandizement of the Democrat politicians who had control of and misgoverned their respective health care systems. They placed their political interests first, the health, welfare, and lives of their citizens last.
Behind mismanaging their respective health care systems that wasted billions of taxpayer dollars while killing, rather than curing patients, these politicians opportunistically used the tragedy of the pandemic to campaign for themselves seeking higher office (the same assisted by partisan media soft money). Negligently having created the health care debacle to begin with, they avoided accountability for their lethal decisions.
These Democrats not only were committing criminal fraud against the people, but have blood on their hands.
Blocking investigations across several blue states is a criminal shirking of presidential responsibility and duty worthy of impeachment. Biden covered up for self-dealing Democrats Gretchen Whitmer and Andrew Cuomo, who deliberately, solely for political advantage, made choices to endanger their state's citizens, and then filed deceitful, fraudulent reports on the number of deaths. All for political advantage.
The civil rights of American citizens were first violated by Cuomo and Whitmer, whose negligence took their lives, and their survivor's civil rights were violated again by Biden's blocking the only path to accountability and justice.
Did these two governors actually murder their respective state's citizens?
RES IPSA LIQUITUR: The Facts Speak for Themselves.
Democrats involved in this scheme to cover up their associates' high crimes have faced no accountability for misdeeds that are real (as opposed to the fake impeachment of Donald Trump for Joe Biden's crimes in Ukraine and China).
This abuse of power, by and for Democrats only, sets double-standards as precedents for politicians on the public dole to freely continue their persistent criminal corruption and self-dealing.
18 USC §1503 OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE (REFERENCE)
Obstruction of Justice occurs when an investigation in process is obstructed by withholding information from ... or [having] ordered a subordinate to not proceed or dismiss a case.
Definition
18 USC §1503 defines "obstruction of justice" as an act that "corruptly or by threats or force, or by any threatening ... communication, influences, obstructs, or impedes, or endeavors to influence, obstruct, or impede, the due administration of justice."
Overview
Someone obstructs justice when that person has a specific intent to obstruct or interfere with a judicial proceeding. For a person to be convicted of obstructing justice, that person must not only have the specific intent to obstruct the proceeding, but that person must know (1) that a proceeding was actually pending at the time; and (2) there must be a connection between the endeavor to obstruct justice and the proceeding, and the person must have knowledge of this connection.
§ 1503 applies ... to federal judicial proceedings. Under 18 USC §1505 a defendant can be convicted of obstruction of justice by obstructing a pending proceeding before Congress or a federal administrative agency.
This president, as well as the former president who enacted a coup to save his broken legacy and destroy the pro-American legacy of his successor, has been corrupting the justice bureaucracy to benefit himself and his agenda of malfeasance and corruption.
ABUSE OF POWER/ABUSE OF OFFICE (REFERENCE)
§11.448 Abuse of office.
A person acting or purporting to act in an official capacity or taking advantage of such actual or purported capacity commits a misdemeanor if, knowing that his or her conduct is illegal, he or she denies or impedes another in the exercise of an investigation or enjoyment of any right, privilege, power or immunity.
Congress, state attorneys general, federal judges, America-first organizations with the resources to influence, GOP, take note: you have an obligation. You know what to do. Do it now!
Image: Gage Skidmore via Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Grassley: More MS-13 Gang Members Sneaking into U.S. Thanks to Biden
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) says illegal immigration totals suggest MS-13 Gang members are increasingly successfully crossing into the United States via the southern border as a result of President Joe Biden’s policies.
In a letter to the Department of Justice (DOJ), Grassley said that while illegal immigration has skyrocketed under Biden’s administration, the total number of known MS-13 Gang members apprehended trying to illegally cross into the U.S. has decreased significantly.
This, Grassley wrote, suggests more and more MS-13 Gang members are successfully crossing into the U.S. — sneaking past federal immigration officials in the process.
“Consequently, MS-13 may actually be an even bigger threat now than ever before, given CBP’s apparent failure or inability to accurately identify and apprehend MS-13 members amid the record-high numbers of people entering the US through the southern border right now,” Grassley wrote:
In the past four years, 2017-2020, Customs and Border Protection apprehended an average of 294 MS-13 gang-members a year. In those same years, 2017-2020, Customs and Border Protection found or arrested over 3 million illegal aliens, averaging about 750,000 people a year. This year however, with the increasingly open border between the US and Mexico, CBP has already encountered or arrested over 1.2 million illegal aliens, which represents a significant increase above previous years’ averages. [Emphasis added]
However, even though the total number of people illegally entering the United States has increased, CBP has only apprehended 71 MS-13 trying to enter the US this year, which represents a 75% decrease from previous years’ average. The obvious logical conclusion is that MS-13 members are successfully avoiding identification and sneaking past Border Patrol into the country, as agents focus their time and attention on dealing with unaccompanied children at the border or asylum seekers. In fact, one Border Patrol chief in Texas said exactly as much, stating that MS-13 members are using the high number of migrants entering the US to blend in and sneak past agents. [Emphasis added]
Yet, even if CBP is not catching all MS-13 members trying to sneak into the country, they are still catching some of them when they are able to successfully identify them. On April 13, 2021 Border Patrol agents arrested a female MS-13 member from El Salvador who was traveling with another undocumented alien who had previously been convicted of murder in Houston. Only a few weeks later, on April 27, 2021, agents also arrested an MS-13 member who was a convicted felon with an outstanding warrant near Yuma, Arizona. Additionally, here in the capital region, local police in Gaithersburg, Maryland arrested an MS-13 member after he lured a 15-year-old girl into an apartment and tried to rape her in May of this year. [Emphasis added]
Grassley asked DOJ officials to provide him with information on the Joint Task Force Vulcan (JTVF), created by the Trump administration to combat the MS-13 Gang.
“Does Joint Task Force Vulcan still exist,” Grassley wrote in questions. “If not, who made the decision to shutter JTFV? If JTFV does still exist, who is currently in charge of it? What was JTFV’s budget prior to President Biden’s inauguration? What is JTFV’s budget now (if JTFV still exists)?”
As Breitbart News recently exclusively reported, three illegal aliens were among nine MS-13 Gang members who were indicted late last month by federal prosecutors for multiple murders, kidnappings, and assaults in the Nashville, Tennessee, area.
One of the illegal aliens had been deported from the U.S. four times.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here
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