Hilton: Biden is an 'utterly mediocre machine-politician, surrounded by amateurs'
10,000 migrants waiting to cross border
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3aVoh4CylY
Texas AG slams Biden on border crisis, saying 'he created this' and 'gave that incentive'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofkqfnxNe_8
Ingraham: Biden 'flooding America' as thousands of Afghans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGMrd8zV5_
Hannity: Biden clearly lied
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mtLvYnIPFA
Joe Biden's Susan Rice: Alejandro Mayorkas
It's one thing for doddering Joe Biden to utter something inchoate about the border crisis he himself created, but quite another when a sane person comes out to explain and justify the same senile fact-free gibberings as something normal.
Which brings us to Homeland Security chief Alejandro Mayorkas, who was sent out by the White House to do the Sunday talks, in what's obviously the same role that Susan Rice played in the Benghazi days of 2012. He's the designated liar.
Here he is, on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace, via YouTube:
Here he is on CNN, with Jake Tapper, via YouTube:
While he's unflappable, he isn't quite as good a liar as Rice was, given that he laid out a lot of damning facts, calmly and coolly, apparently in the vain hope that his demeanor would entice the press to simply glide on by with those facts as something normal.
To wit, we learned that contrary to what the Biden administration told us earlier about "mass deportations," more than 10,000 illegal border crossers, many at that squalid encampment in Del Rio, Texas, have not all been deported back to Haiti (as the administration claimed earlier). They've been released into the U.S., some with court dates, some with requests to get court dates, all of whom are free to move about the country.
"Approximately, I think it's about ten thousand or so, twelve thousand," Mayorkas told "Fox News Sunday."
"It could be even higher," Mayorkas said. "The number that are returned could be even higher. What we do is we follow the law as Congress has passed it."
He justifies it as simply following the law, effectively converting the Border Patrol into an escort service for tens of thousands of illegal border crossers, with the occasional one picked out for deportation photos to presumably keep the Sunday talks and discontented independent voters driving Biden's poll numbers down happy.
The numbers that Mayorkas said were returned came to about 3,000 thus far, but he made sure to say that number could be higher. Question: If 12,000 have already been released into the interior of the U.S., where is he going to get the 'higher' number of migrants to send back, supposedly on Title 42 COVID concerns?
The released migrants of course have no COVID concerns to worry about. We learn that none of other 12,000, or 14,000 or however many it may be, have been tested for COVID - (or measles, leprosy, leishmaniasis, mumps, tuberculosis, malaria or the whole host tropical diseases they may be bringing in with them) - as Mayorkas sent them on their way into the U.S. interior on other grounds. Masks for your two year-old, proof of vaxx from you as you try to buy groceries or ride a plane, but no testing at all for unvetted foreign nationals entering the country illegally in search the best benefit packages.
Mayorkas kept justifying it as following the law, on the grounds that all 12,000 of them, most of them previously classed as refugees from 2010 and settled in reasonably decent countries such as Chile and Brazil, are in dire need of asylum and each should be free to make his or her case.
Wallace pointed out that some 30,000 more were in the pipeline for this kind of 'asylum' processing, and the good result the first batch of asylum-seekers got, entering the U.S. illegally and being allowed to stay, certainly would serve to notify the others. According to Gallup, some 158 million people worldwide are interested in moving to the United States, so the pipeline may be very long, but that instant relief, instant papers, and instant escort service on the spot from the Border Patrol now, ultimately led by Mayorkas, certainly should make illegal entry more attractive than legal entry, particularly for people with few skills, low education, zero knowledge of the English language, or a criminal record or two.
The Border Patrol, see, is an escort service, he pretty well said. Asked about the "patently false" as Jake Tapper put it, narrative about Border Patrol agents on horses using "whips" (which ignorant reporters confused with split reins used in rough roadless terrain to keep horses from strangling on brush) to supposedly beat migrants illegally entering the country, Mayorkas was particularly bad. The Border Patrol agents, he suggested to Wallace, were "individual persons" acting in their own capacity rather than standard agents acting according to their training. He made gushy comments praising the Border Patrol as a whole, but these guys, he effectively explained, were bad apples, kind of like Derek Chauvin.
He got worse when he was asked by both Tapper and Wallace about how these agents now under professional investigation could expect to be judged fairly given that Joe Biden had already declared, Queen of Hearts-style, that "those people will pay." He refused to answer Tapper's question as to who ordered the agents to the river crossing where illegals were pouring into the U.S., and then said the only purpose for the mounted patrols was to "gather information and sometimes help people." Apparently, they were supposed to help the foreign nationals illegally entering our country in, instead of protect the border.
Mayorkas demonstrated that he was one cool, slippery character, someone who packages the wide open border as normal now and something to get used to, He repeatedly downplayed the extent of the crisis even as both Wallace and Tapper tried to bring the surge in numbers up. He admitted that more than tens of thousands were let in, not sent back, and then insisted that the Border Patrol was now a migrant escort service.
Then in his contentment, he declared the immigration system "broken" as if he were not the guy who broke it.
What kind of a smooth liar and charlatan is this? He's obviously the designated liar, the spin master, the normalizer of the crazy. What a valuable guy he is for Joe Biden. And what a disaster for the country.
Chris Hedges | NAFTA Was CRIMINAL!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-104JMiZes&list=WL&index=5
Chris Hedges | NAFTA, Clinton, and Obama BETRAYED Americans... and Joe Biden was right there with the worst of them!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qryblALiqOI
Biden defended the wealthy in his speech to the donors but begged them to be aware of wealth inequality
There’s some ‘serious regret’ over the election of Joe Biden
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDIkThKurio
Prof. Wolff on The Capitalist Mind: Sicker & Stranger Than You Think
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZA5-doeUswI
Housing & Rent Price Bubble Surged To The Highest Level In 45 Years: Get Ready For A Housing Crash
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPXj-g0f8bo
10,000 migrants waiting to cross border
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3aVoh4CylY
Texas AG slams Biden on border crisis, saying 'he created this' and 'gave that incentive'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofkqfnxNe_8
Ingraham: Biden 'flooding America' as thousands of Afghans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGMrd8zV5_
Hannity: Biden clearly lied
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mtLvYnIPFA
Tucker: You don't see this everyday, in fact you never see it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OmWkozn_iQ
DHS Sec Alejandro Mayorkas Dodges, Ducks Questions on Rising Migrant Wave
President Joe Biden’s border security chief, Alejandro Mayorkas, is ducking and dodging questions about his responsibility for spiking the migrant flow into the United States.
“Hasn’t this administration created a magnet?” asked Fox News host Chris Wallace. “Haven’t you given them a reason to believe there’s a reasonable chance if they come into this country, they’ll end up being released into the country and have months, or perhaps years, to stay [and work] here?”
“Chris, this is nothing new,” responded Mayorkas, who is the head of the Department of Homeland Security. “We’ve seen this type of irregular migration, many, many times throughout the years.”
“Are you at all concerned the [release of more than 12,000 Haitian migrants into the United States] will serve as a magnet for more migrants to come?” Chuck Todd asked Mayorkas on NBC’s Meet the Press.
Haitian migrants, part of a group of over 10,000 people staying in an encampment on the U.S. side of the border, cross the Rio Grande river to get food and water in Mexico, after another crossing point was closed near the Acuna Del Rio International Bridge in Del Rio, Texas on September 19, 2021. (Paul Ratje/AFP via Getty Images)
“Oh, I don’t think that is the case at all,” Mayorkas replied. “In fact, 8000 Haitians returned to Mexico over the past week.”
“Do you think that’s because we’re sending people back to Haiti” Todd responded quickly.
“I can’t speak for them,” said Mayorkas, and he then tried he shift the blame to supposed foolishness of the migrants.
But I do think they made that journey — which we admonished them not to make, to not put their lives, their funds in the hands of smugglers who exploit them.
Mayorkas has repeatedly tried to blame foolish migrants for the migration spike. But the migrants diligently use their cellphones to identify and exploit Mayorkas’ border loopholes as they successfully migrate into U.S. jobs and homes.
With backup from White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki, Mayorkas also dodged questions from ill-prepared reporters at a Friday, September 24, press conference at the White House.
One reporter asked:
If this administration were to take a more permissive stance toward that [wider] definition [of asylum], could this be — what we’ve just experienced in the last several weeks — just the first of many similar instances to occur in this country on the border?
Mayorkas responded with bafflegab that hinted that he will accept even more migrants:
So, we determine the standards to apply in a [asylum] claim of persecution according to the principles that a government should have both domestically and in the international architecture with the treatment of individuals who are fleeing persecution by reason of their membership in a particular social group. It is not a tool of deterrence to define what a “particular social group” means.
Jen Psaki then blocked any follow–up questions by calling on another reporter to ask a question.
Several minutes later, another reporter asked: “How much responsibility do you, does the administration take for these situations continuing to, kind of, pop up in various places?”
Haitian migrants use a dam to cross to and from the United States from Mexico, Friday, Sept. 17, 2021, in Del Rio, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
The White House transcript reads:
SECRETARY MAYORKAS: So if you’re — if you’re addressing the situation in Del Rio, I will tell you that it is unprecedented for us to see that number of people arrive in one discrete point along the border in such a compacted period of time. That is unprecedented.
We have the Chief of the Border Patrol, Raul Ortiz, is, I think, a 30-year veteran and he has not seen that before. And what we do when we see something that is unprecedented is we respond, and respond we did.
MS. PSAKI: Steve [a different report, please ask a question]
When dealing with the media, Mayorkas adopts a calm and passive demeanor, smiles frequently, and uses his familiarity with the very complex immigration law to dodge questions from ill-prepared journalists and half-hearted GOP legislators.
But Mayorkas’ off-camera behavior is far more aggressive, according to testimony in a November 2010 letter to DHS from Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA):
Unfortunately, the evidence suggests that Director Mayorkas is fostering an environment that pressures employees to approve as many applications as possible and condones retaliation against those who dissent.
According to the USCIS employees:
During a recent visit to the CSC, Director Mayorkas became “visibly agitated” when advised that the employees were interested in learning more about fraud detection efforts. Mayorkas asked, “Why would you be focusing on that instead of approvals.” One witness stated that “his message was offensive to a lot of officers who are trained to detect fraud.”
On CNN’s Sunday show, Mayorkas did not even have to dodge questions about his mostly-open border. Instead, host Jake Tapper cooperated with Mayorkas by spotlighting the claim that border agents abuse migrants at the Del Rio landing:
Mayorkas: Jake, I think it’s quite clear that what the images suggest. horrified the American public … What those images suggest, what they appeared to portray, was horrifying …
Tapper: That’s the thing. Some of the initial descriptions of those images were just patently false. There is now video out there that provides more context. Having seen the video, are you certain that there was actually wrongdoing?
Mayorkas: I am going to let those investigators make that determination. And then that determination will drive the outcome of the investigation.
Mayorkas repeatedly brought up the claims that his horse-mounted deputies abused migrants to help him deflect questions about this role in encouraging migration.
On Friday’s press conference, for example, Mayorkas said:
But first, I want to make one important point. In the midst of meeting these challenges, we — our entire nation — saw horrifying images that do not reflect who we are, who we aspire to be, or the integrity and values of our truly heroic personnel in the Department of Homeland Security.
On Sunday, he was eager to talk about the issue with Todd at NBC, saying: “I think the entire American public correctly and necessarily were horrified by what the images suggested … They conjured up such a dark past that we have not entirely put behind us.”
On Fox, however, Wallace minimized mention of the horse claim, and tried to keep the focus on the administration’s welcome for migrants.
Mayorkas is a pro-migration zealot.
“It is identity that has to serve as the foundation of our approach to the difficult immigration issues we confront,” Mayorkas said in a 2016 speech to the Migration Policy Institute:
We have to give thought to the fundamental and foundational question of who we are as a country, and who we should be, and how we answer that question on the subject of immigration should be our guidepost in traveling through and managing the very, very difficult and sensitive and too often divisive challenges that we face.
Americans’ homeland is “a nation that always has been and forever will remain a Nation of Immigrants,” Mayorkas declared in 2013, echoing a 2018 video by Joe Biden.
A September poll showed that most Americans give failing grades to the media’s immigration coverage.
At Fort Bliss and Fort McCoy, Afghan Refugees Are Acting Like Afghans
What did anyone expect?
They didn’t leave Afghanistan very long ago, and so it is understandable that some of the newly arrived Afghan evacuees would be acting as if they were still there. But some recent incidents once again spotlight the fact that to bring in large numbers of people with a radically different culture and sharply divergent standards of behavior is unwise, and is only going to mean strife in America’s future.
El Paso’s KFOX14 reported Friday that “officials with Fort Bliss said a female soldier was assaulted by a group of Afghan refugees who are being housed at the Doña Ana Complex in New Mexico.” Officials at Fort Bliss issued a statement saying the usual blather: “We can confirm a female service member supporting Operation Allies Welcome reported being assaulted on Sept. 19 by a small group of male evacuees at the Doña Ana Complex in New Mexico. We take the allegation seriously and appropriately referred the matter to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The safety and well-being of our service members, as well as all of those on our installations, is paramount. We immediately provided appropriate care, counseling and support to the service member. Task Force-Bliss is also implementing additional security measures to include increased health and safety patrols, additional lighting, and enforcement of the buddy system at the Dona Ana Complex. We will cooperate fully with the FBI and will continue to ensure the service member reporting this assault is fully supported.”
Great. But health and safety patrols might not be all that is necessary. What may be needed is a thoroughgoing evaluation of the values, attitudes, and assumptions of the Afghan refugees. That is clear from another recent incident in Fort McCoy, Wisconsin, involving two other Afghans, Bahrullah Noori and Mohammad Haroon Imaad.
The Justice Department announced Wednesday that a federal grand jury in Wisconsin charged Noori with “attempting to engage in a sexual act with a minor using force against that person, and with three counts of engaging in a sexual act with a minor, with one count alleging the use of force.” Imaad was charged with “assaulting his spouse by strangling and suffocating her.”
The Justice Department said nothing about how both men, as well as the fellow at Fort Bliss, were just following religious and cultural norms that other Afghan refugees are likely to follow as well, or about the implications of that fact for the entire Afghan refugee resettlement project.
Noori’s victims, according to the indictment, “had not attained the age of 16 years and were at least four years younger than the defendant,” who is 20. No one in the establishment media will dare to talk about it, but the fact is that in the culture in which Noori was raised, an unmarried girl who is 16 is getting a bit long in the tooth.
And it’s not just Afghanistan: child marriage has abundant attestation in Islamic tradition and law. Turkey’s directorate of religious affairs (Diyanet) said in January 2018 that under Islamic law, girls as young as nine can marry. Ishaq Akintola, professor of Islamic Eschatology and Director of Muslim Rights Concern, Nigeria, said in 2016: “Islam has no age barrier in marriage and Muslims have no apology for those who refuse to accept this.” Dr. Abd Al-Hamid Al-‘Ubeidi, Iraqi expert on Islamic law, said in 2008: “There is no minimum marriage age for either men or women in Islamic law. The law in many countries permits girls to marry only from the age of 18. This is arbitrary legislation, not Islamic law.”
Dr. Salih bin Fawzan, prominent cleric and member of Saudi Arabia’s highest religious council, declared in 2014 that there is no minimum age for marriage in Islamic law at all, and that girls can be married “even if they are in the cradle.” Pakistan’s Council of Islamic Ideology has ruled that “Islam does not forbid marriage of young children.”
These authorities say these things because hadiths that Muslims consider authentic record that Muhammad’s favorite wife, Aisha, was six when Muhammad wedded her and nine when he consummated the marriage: “The Prophet wrote the (marriage contract) with Aisha while she was six years old and consummated his marriage with her while she was nine years old and she remained with him for nine years (i.e. till his death)” (Bukhari 7.62.88).
Marrying young girls was not all that unusual for its time, but because in Islam Muhammad is the supreme example of conduct (cf. Qur’an 33:21), he is considered exemplary in this unto today.
And regarding spousal abuse, the Qur’an teaches that men are superior to women and should beat those from whom they “fear disobedience”: “Men have authority over women because Allah has made the one superior to the other, and because they spend their wealth to maintain them. Good women are obedient. They guard their unseen parts because Allah has guarded them. As for those from whom you fear disobedience, admonish them and send them to beds apart and beat them.” (4:34)
Muhammad’s child bride, Aisha, says in a hadith that Muhammad “struck me on the chest which caused me pain, and then said: ‘Did you think that Allah and His Apostle would deal unjustly with you?’” (Sahih Muslim 2127) Another hadith states: “Rifa`a divorced his wife whereupon AbdurRahman bin Az-Zubair Al-Qurazi married her. Aisha said that the lady (came), wearing a green veil (and complained to her (Aisha) of her husband and showed her a green spot on her skin caused by beating). It was the habit of ladies to support each other, so when Allah’s Messenger came, Aisha said, ‘I have not seen any woman suffering as much as the believing women. Look! Her skin is greener than her clothes!’” (Sahih Bukhari 7.77.5825)
In light of all this, no one should be surprised that these three evacuees, fresh from Afghanistan’s deeply Islamic culture, should be caught in America behaving like Afghans. The larger question is whether it is wise to endanger women and girls by bringing into the country large numbers of people among whom is an unknowable number who think the same way that Bahrullah Noori, Mohammad Haroon Imaad, and their countryman at Fort Bliss do. But that question will, of course, not be asked. To ask it would be “Islamophobic.”
Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch and a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He is author of 23 books including many bestsellers, such as The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades), The Truth About Muhammad and The History of Jihad. His latest book is The Critical Qur’an. Follow him on Twitter here. Like him on Facebook here.
DHS Secretary on Illegal Border Crossings: 'So, I Wouldn't Call It a Flood'
(CNSNews.com) - Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Sunday rejected the suggestion that the Biden administration is incentivizing foreigners to cross into the United States illegally by allowing so many of them to stay here.
Mayorkas also corrected "Fox News Sunday" host Chris Wallace, who said the situation is worse now than it was under Trump: "The statistics of your own department show that the flood of people coming illegally across the border has gotten worse under the Biden demonstration," Wallace said.
"So, I wouldn't call it a flood, if I may," Mayorkas responded.
"What would you call it?" Wallace asked him:
"But we -- we have seen large numbers of individuals encountered at our border making a claim for asylum, for humanitarian relief, which is a statute, which is a law of the United States that individuals can make a claim, a fear of persecution by reason of their membership in a particular social group, Mayorkas said. "That's what the law provides.
"This -- we are certainly seeing a large number here in this year, but in 2019, we saw a large number. In 2014, in 2010. This is nothing new. It spans many, many years. It spans different administrations of both parties, and it speaks to the need for legislative reform."
Wallace pointed to the shocking images of some 15,000 Haitians camped under a bridge in Del Rio, Texas last week, waiting for Border Patrol Agents to apprehend them. "Question, why didn't you stop them?" Wallace asked.
"So, we encountered them at the border. That's where we encountered them, Chris. And you know what? We saw indeed a large number of people cross at one particular part of the border in a short period of time. And what did we do? We surged our resources, we surged our personnel and --"
Wallace interrupted: "Why didn't -- why didn't you stop them from coming into the country?"
"We -- we did," Mayorkas claimed, contradicting the images Americans saw last week on television: "We encountered them, they gathered -- they assembled in that one location in Del Rio, Texas, and we applied the laws. We applied the public health law under the CDC's authority, and we applied immigration law."
Wallace tried again: "My question is, why did you allow them in the country in the first place? Why didn't you build -- forgive me, a wall or a fence to stop them from walking -- this flood of people coming across the dam, it looks like a highway that allows them to cross the Rio Grande."
"It is the policy of this administration. We do not agree with the building of the wall. The law provides that individuals can make a claim for humanitarian relief. That is actually one of our proudest traditions."
Of the 30,000 Haitian migrants who did indeed "flood" into Del Rio since September 9, Mayorkas said "approximately" 12,000 already have been released into the United States and another 5,000 are still waiting to see if they can stay here or return to Haiti.
"So, are we talking about a total of 12,000, or could it be even higher?" Wallace asked:
"It could -- it could be even higher,” Mayorkas said. “The number that are returned could be even higher. What we do is we follow the law as Congress has passed it.
"If, in fact, someone is not expelled under the public health authority of the Centers for Disease Control, then they are placed in immigration enforcement proceedings. They have an opportunity to make their claim for relief to a judge as the law requires."
Wallace noted that many of those people will miss their immigration court hearings and will end up staying in the United States, some permanently.
Mayorkas said those who flout the enforcement guidelines "will be removed."
"And do you remove all of them, or some of them disappear into the country?" Wallace asked:
"Well, we -- it is our intention to remove them, that is what our policies are, and we deploy our enforcement resources according to certain priorities to ensure the safety and security of the American people."
Asylum-seekers ‘most certainly’ are welcome in U.S.
Mayorkas told CNN's "State of the Union" that asylum-seekers are welcome in the United States:
Host Jake Tapper asked him, "Do you think that asylum seekers who are fleeing violence, fleeing political instability, fleeing natural disasters, are they welcome in the United States?"
"They most certainly are," Mayorkas said. "Remember, it is very important to remember that the Title 42 authority is a public health authority, in light of the pandemic. It is not an immigration policy, nor is it an immigration policy that we would embrace.
“We are rebuilding our immigration system. We are rebuilding humanitarian, safe and orderly pathways for individuals to make their claims here in the United States. We are also applying the law. In this case, it is a public health law to protect the American public, communities and the migrants themselves."
Tapper asked Mayorkas to clarify: "Mr. Secretary, did I just hear you say that, if Title 42, I believe it's called, the -- which allows -- it's the health initiative, health imperative that allows (CDC) to expel individuals because of COVID...So, if the Biden administration rescinded it...that would be fine with you?"
"Yes, so, the CDC makes its determination, as experts, on behalf of the public's well-being from a health perspective. If they determine that the public health imperative no longer exists, and Title 42, which is a statute, is a law need not be applied to protect people, then it will not be applied any longer.
"And we will -- and we will proceed accordingly."
Right now, Title 42 is all that is keeping some illegal immigrants out of the country.
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