OH, NO!!! - WHAT WILL JOE BIDEN DO FOR HIS CRONY MODERN SLAVER JEFF 'BEZOSHEAD' BEZOS? - GIVE HIM A FEW MILLION 'CHEAP' LABOR ILLEGALS??? - ‘Make Amazon Pay:’ Workers in 20 Countries Plan to Strike on Black Friday

Inside Jeff Bezos Mansions

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Jeff Bezos' $400 Million Flying Fox Yacht

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Inside Jeff Bezos' $21,000,000 Car Collection

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‘Make Amazon Pay:’ Workers in 20 Countries Plan to Strike on Black Friday

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LUCAS NOLAN

22 Nov 20215

3:29

Amazon employees in 20 countries are reportedly preparing to strike on Black Friday as part of a campaign titled “Make Amazon Pay.”

Business Insider reports that Amazon employees in 20 different countries are planning a mass strike on Black Friday, one of the busiest shopping days of the year, as part of the “Make Amazon Pay” campaign. The campaign includes a coalition of 70 organizations including Greenpeace, Oxfam, and Amazon Workers International.

Mural of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. (Thierry Ehrmann/Flickr)

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy (Isaac Brekken/AP)

The workers are demanding accountability from top executives who they believe are placing profits ahead of worker wellbeing. Individual workers “from oil refineries, to factories, to warehouses, to data centers, to corporate offices” are expected to take part in the walkout on November 26.

Make Amazon Pay wrote in a list of demands on its website: “The pandemic has exposed how Amazon places profits ahead of workers, society, and our planet. Amazon takes too much and gives back too little. It is time to Make Amazon Pay.”

The protests come as Amazon employees continue to complain of long hours, low pay, and strict performance review systems. Make Amazon Pay is demanding increased salaries, improved job security, and the suspension of the “harsh productivity and surveillance regime Amazon has used to squeeze workers.”

The group is also calling for a “pay back to society” which will include enhanced environmental sustainability efforts, increased transparency over the use of user data and privacy measures, and the immediate end of partnerships between Amazon and police forces and immigration authorities which are “institutionally racist.”

“Amazon is not alone in these bad practices but it sits at the heart of a failed system that drives the inequality, climate breakdown, and democratic decay that scar our age,” Make Amazon Pay wrote in its demands.

A company spokesperson told Business Insider that the company is “inventing and investing significantly” in several of the categories that the campaign is calling for action in, including climate efforts. The spokesperson said:

These groups represent a variety of interests, and while we are not perfect in any area, if you objectively look at what Amazon is doing in each one of these areas you’ll see that we do take our role and our impact very seriously.

Make Amazon Pay was formed in 2020 and has since helped to organize a number of strikes and protests against company policies. The campaign states on its website: “During the COVID-19 pandemic, Amazon became a trillion dollar corporation, with Bezos becoming the first person in history to amass $200 billion in personal wealth. Meanwhile, Amazon warehouse workers risked their lives as essential workers, and only briefly received an increase in pay.”

A video on the Make Amazon Pay website further states: “Amazon’s wealth has increased so much during the pandemic that its owners could pay all 1.3 million of its employees a $690,000 COVID bonus and still be as rich as they were in 2020.”

Read more at Business Insider here.

Lucas Nolan is a reporter for Breitbart News covering issues of free speech and online censorship. Follow him on Twitter @LucasNolan or contact via secure email at the address lucasnolan@protonmail.com

Deere workers denounce UAW “dirty tricks” operation to pass contract: “They’re criminal scumbags”

Marcus Day

6 hours ago

As 10,000 John Deere workers have begun to return to plants and warehouses in recent days following the shutdown of their five-week-long strike, anger has remained high at the United Auto Workers union, which used threats and intimidation in order to secure passage of its contract with the company.

The UAW declared that Deere’s “last, best and final offer” was ratified by 61 percent last Wednesday, marking the illegitimate outcome of an undemocratic process overseen by the union, which effectively forced workers to revote on a contract they had already rejected two weeks earlier.

Striking Deere workers ( UAW Local 838)

The UAW’s betrayal of the strike blocked Deere workers, for now, from pressing ahead at a particularly vulnerable point for the company. Confirming this, the financial news outlet Bloomberg wrote last week: “The strike had thrown several of Deere’s businesses into turmoil. Software engineers and computer programmers left their desks to assemble sprayers and combines in manufacturing plants instead. Serious delays in replacement parts threatened farmers, who rely on functional machines and speedy repairs at the peak of harvest. Used farm equipment prices were hitting record highs amid shortages.

“The strike was squeezing the company,” the article continued. “Last week it sent an email to gauge the interest of even more salaried information technology workers to volunteer in factories if the situation continued.”

Several workers at the company’s plants in Waterloo, Iowa, spoke to the WSWS Autoworker Newsletter about the UAW’s efforts to coerce them into voting “yes.” Waterloo has the largest concentration of Deere’s workers and was the center of opposition to each of the UAW-company deals, with workers at Local 838 voting to reject the final offer as well as all the earlier proposed agreements.

A veteran worker told the WSWS upon returning last week, “Work was VERY quiet. Not many folks are happy about being sold out and the dirty tactics by the union, both International and local.”

A skilled tradesman described the UAW’s efforts to intimidate workers into voting “yes” last Wednesday. “I can tell you that the day that I voted I was approached by several UAW stewards and such who did everything that they could to change my vote. Even trying to show me that one could make over $100,000 a year on this new contract once they retire.

“At one time I had five guys surrounding me to try to intimidate me into changing my vote,” he said. “Whenever I would give them a different viewpoint, they would call me a conspiracy theorist and say I was just being negative. By the end of this the last person stated just go vote no, you’re a loser and your vote won’t matter anyways. Like they knew it was a yes vote already.”

Such blatant voter intimidation efforts were not limited to Waterloo. At Local 281 in Davenport, the UAW elections chair responsible for overseeing the vote, Phil Gonterman, had stated on Facebook that he planned to use his position as an inspector to retaliate against those who opposed the contract, saying he would “f**k their lights out for every quality issue.” Another local official, 281 Vice President Brian Ripple, suggested on Facebook that Deere should outsource Waterloo’s work to Mexico.

The skilled trades worker said that although there was a mood of frustration and disappointment among those who had rejected the deal, workers who voted “yes” indicated they had done so not because they supported the contract, but because they felt as though they had no other choice: “Even some of the yes voters felt like they were forced to vote yes because they were convinced that this was the best that we could have gotten.”

He added that workers were galled upon returning to find that their toolboxes had been broken into during the strike, with equipment they had purchased, and other personal items stolen. “The company was stealing our tools and cutting our locks on our personal belongings while we were out on strike.”

A third worker at Waterloo said, “Some areas were laid off already on Friday from lack of parts, go figure!”

Referring to the changes to the CIPP pay-for-performance system, which the company added to its “last, best and final offer” after workers rejected its second tentative agreement with the UAW, he said, “That whole BS new CIPP plan won’t begin until January 31st, 2022! My guess is they will butcher the areas that have a high proficiency to pay the plans on the lower end.” As the WSWS has written, CIPP is a regressive scheme, widely hated by workers, which uses bumps in pay as a goad to spur on speedup and higher output.

“Some of the new language won’t be finalized until proofreading of the letters again,” he continued. “Long story short even though you might have a new language in some of the contract book, it will be the same old same old. My guess is tomorrow they will start cracking the whip, push push push!”

Workers at other Deere facilities besides those in Waterloo also voiced their disgust with the UAW. “Fourth quarter earnings come out soon and the union pushed it through before that happened,” a worker in Des Moines said. “I’m pretty sure they all rejoiced when it passed.”

“They’re criminal scumbags. There’s no solidarity from our union officials at our local—they are all for their little clique and if you aren’t in it, then too bad.”

Workers at the parts distribution center (PDC) in Milan, Illinois said that so many workers stayed home that Deere had canceled shifts over the weekend.

“Not many people have shown up at all,” one worker said. “So few have shown up that they canceled this weekend’s shifts.”

Another worker at PDC voiced her concern over the coming efforts to ramp up overtime. “I feel that we will be working overtime for a very long time. They said next Friday and Saturday will be voluntary, and after that it will be Mandatory Saturdays. They are behind on everything besides Flash [emergency orders] which have to go out every day.”

The company will undoubtedly seek to utilize every means at its disposable to speed up and compensate for lost production during the strike, which significantly disrupted its operations. Deere CEO John May said in a statement following Wednesday’s vote that management had “faith” that workers “will find new and better ways to improve our competitiveness” now that the contract is passed—in other words, produce even more wealth for Deere’s billionaire investors and Wall Street shareholders.

The coming struggles over speedup, overtime, and working conditions—and inevitably many other areas of the contract’s “fine print” left out of the UAW’s highlights—makes it all the more important that workers join and build the John Deere Workers Rank-and-File Committee. Throughout the struggle, the committee gave voice to workers’ demands to restore past concessions and win major wage increases, exposed the UAW and company’s lies and threats, and worked to mobilize support among workers in the US and internationally.

Deere workers: Join the Deere Workers Rank-and-File Committee to carry forward the fight! Email deerewrfc@gmail.com, or text (484) 514-9797 to find out more about getting involved.

Disgraced California Union Leader Keeps Board Seats After Arrest

Alma Hernández was charged with multiple counts of embezzlement and fraud

Alma Hernández / U.C. Berkeley

Patrick Hauf • October 18, 2021 2:20 pm

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A top California union boss with ties to prominent Democrats may still wage considerable influence in the state even after she was arrested on charges of embezzlement and tax fraud.

Alma Hernández stepped down as executive director of SEIU California last week after she and her husband were charged with multiple counts of fraud. But Hernández, under whose direction the union donated to Gov. Gavin Newsom (D.) and then-senator Kamala Harris, is still listed on the board for three state governing bodies, including the executive council for the California Labor Convention.

Jessica Millan Patterson, the chairwoman of the California Republican Party, said Democrats are likely to turn a blind eye to the charges because of their financial connections to unions.

"Unions are top political funders of the California Democrat Party, and allegations of felony corruption should be treated seriously and investigated fully," Patterson told the Washington Free Beacon. "We are disappointed but not surprised by these indictments and the fact that Democrat politicians are circling the wagons to protect their union benefactors. That's a clear signal to voters that their interests are secondary."

Hernández and her husband, Jose Moscoso, are charged with multiple counts of embezzlement, tax fraud, perjury, and failure to pay unemployment insurance taxes. California's attorney general alleges that the couple over a five-year span underreported their income by $1.4 million. The charges also say that Hernández in 2014 gave $11,000 from an SEIU-affiliated PAC to her husband to provide food for canvassers—a service he never provided. SEIU California is the largest union in the state, with nearly 600,000 members. Hernández led the union since 2016.

In addition to the executive council for the California Labor Convention, Hernández serves on the boards of the California Budget & Policy Center and Health Access California. None of the three groups responded to requests for comment on whether they will remove Hernández in response to the charges.

Under Hernández's leadership, SEIU California donated $6 million to Newsom's anti-recall effort this year. The union also contributed to Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra's 2018 attorney general campaign and Harris's 2016 Senate campaign. Neither Harris nor Becerra responded to requests on whether they will return the funds in light of the charges against Hernández.

Timothy Snowball, the California litigation counsel for the Freedom Foundation, said union bosses like Hernández have made a habit of using their positions of power to boost their influence and bank accounts. Snowball says this behavior begins with efforts to prevent rank-and-file workers from opting out of union dues.

"For decades, government unions like SEIU California have broken the law by taking public workers' money without their affirmative consent for their own political pet projects," Snowball told the Free Beacon. "Now we find out they are using that money to line their own pockets. What else will it take for the union rank and file to realize they are being used and abused?"

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R., Calif.) says congressional Democrats should abandon their latest pro-union legislation in light of Hernández's arrest. The PRO Act, which the Biden administration supports, would overturn right-to-work laws in 28 states that ban forced union dues as a term of employment.

McCarthy says the bill reveals the dangers of the cozy relationship between union bosses and Democratic leaders.

"While Democrats have been prioritizing union bosses over the needs of hardworking constituents, the Executive Director of California's biggest labor union has been allegedly committing tax fraud at the expense of American taxpayers," McCarthy told the Free Beacon. "I urge Democrats to stop pandering to corrupt union bosses by gutting workers' privacy through the PRO Union Bosses Act, and immediately denounce this behavior."

House Democrats in September proposed an addition in a $3.5 trillion reconciliation package that would allow a tax write-off on union dues that go toward political spending. Workers who opt out of those dues would still be taxed.

As Fed Contemplates a Move, Democratic States Lag Furthest in Jobs Recovery

A restaurant advertising jobs looks to attract workers in Oceanside, California, U.S., May 10, 2021. REUTERS/Mike Blake

Reuters • November 19, 2021 5:50 pm

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By Howard Schneider

WASHINGTON (Reuters)—Hopes to restore U.S. employment to its pre-pandemic level, an aim of the Federal Reserve and the Biden administration, now rest on a recovery of jobs in New England and California, a potentially troubling fact for the president's Democratic Party ahead of critical midterm elections and as the Fed plots a possible turn to tighter monetary policy.

Data released on Friday show that through October employment in states with Republican governors was close to 99 percent of what it was in February of 2020, while Democratic-led states lagged, at roughly 96 percent.

While state-level estimates can be volatile, particularly month to month, the apparently larger remaining job shortfall in Democratic-leaning areas echoes the choices—and political divisions—that emerged early in the pandemic. States in the Northeast and mid-Atlantic tended to impose stricter measures against the coronavirus and keep them in place longer, than Republican-led states in the South and West.

Employment fell more sharply in those areas, and the gap has remained even late in the recovery.

Recovery has come faster than many expected, but it remains uneven. Of 10 states that had more jobs in October of this year than in February 2020, seven had Republican governors and another six GOP-led states were within 1 percentage point of their pre-pandemic job level.

The level of jobs alone doesn't tell the full story, and on key measures like the overall employment-to-population ratio – considered a more complete measure of job market health than the unemployment rate – Republican strongholds like Texas and Florida remained well below levels seen before the pandemic crisis.

But the job level does pose a potential challenge for Biden, with important Democratic states like New York and California still 5 percent below the pre-pandemic peak, and political battlegrounds like Pennsylvania also lagging.

Until recently it seemed the Fed was intent on keeping monetary policy loose and borrowing costs easy for as long as it took to claw those jobs back.

That aim may now be in conflict with the Fed‘s other goal of stable prices, challenged by a run of inflation that is prompting central bank policymakers to discuss a faster move to tighter policy—which could slow job growth before areas central to Biden's political chances are able to catch up.

Those dynamics now appear as well to be central to Biden's decision on who to place at the top of the Fed. Current Chair Jerome Powell's term is expiring in February, and Biden is expected to make a decision within the next week on whether to reappoint him or replace him, most likely with Fed Governor Lael Brainard.

The high inflation rate, which has persisted longer than policymakers had anticipated, is damaging Biden's approval ratings and elevating the importance attached to his choice of central bank chief.

LAWLESS JOE BIDEN'S ASSAULT ON AMERICA'S BORDERS

TX AG on migrant caravan nearing border: 'We aren't able to keep track of them'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xq0lVYWaXr0

Poll: Over 6-in-10 Americans Oppose Biden’s $450K for Border Crossers

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JOHN BINDER

21 Nov 20210

3:11

A wide majority of Americans oppose a plan circulated by President Joe Biden’s administration to provide payouts of $450,000 to each border crosser subjected to former President Donald Trump’s “zero tolerance” policy, a new poll reveals.

Biden’s Departments of Justice (DOJ), Homeland Security (DHS), and Health and Human Services (HHS) are working to settle with a number of border crossers represented by the ACLU, who claim they have suffered trauma as a result of the zero tolerance policy.

As part of the settlement, attorneys with the DOJ, DHS, and HHS are considering a plan that would give each border crosser about $450,000 and family units about $1 million. The total cost of the payouts would reach $1 billion.

A CBS News/YouGov poll finds that 63 percent of American adults are opposed to providing $450,000 to border crossers — including nearly 4-in-10 Biden supporters, 64 percent of swing voters, and 92 percent of Republicans.

Meanwhile, just 37 percent of American adults said they support the payouts to border crossers. Democrats tend to support the payouts by a nearly 70 percent majority, while close to 4-in-10 said they oppose the payouts.

The nation’s white working class, a vital demographic with millions who remain unregistered to vote, said by a 74 percent majority that they oppose the payouts, while 67 percent of college-educated white Americans said the same.

As Breitbart News has noted, the $450,000 payouts to border crossers would far exceed the compensation provided to the victims of the September 11, 2001, Islamic terrorist attacks and of the Boston Marathon bombings.

The poll also showed that most Americans, about 57 percent, said Biden and the Democrats are “not tough enough” when it comes to national immigration policy. More than 6-in-10 swing voters said the same as well as 53 percent of Hispanic Americans.

When Americans were asked about border crossers’ motives for illegally trying to cross the United States-Mexico border, 53 percent said “most” believe that the Biden administration will apprehend them and then release them into the U.S. interior.

Current estimates based on DHS data reveal that anywhere from 530,000 to 600,000 illegal aliens have been released into the U.S. interior by the Biden administration from January to September.

While Americans are increasingly opposed to Biden’s mass immigration policies, his administration and elected Democrats are seeking to pass the largest amnesty for illegal aliens in American history that would allow millions to secure work permits and driver’s licenses while expanding legal immigration levels.

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

Media Hides Democrats’ ‘Historic’ Migration Expansion

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NEIL MUNRO

20 Nov 20210

6:37

The immigration expansions in the House-passed Build Back Better bill are “the most historic immigration reforms in more than thirty years” says an investor advocacy group.

But there is minimal coverage in the establishment media of the law that would legalize 6.5 million illegals and also add “millions” of migrant workers, consumers, and voters to Americans’ society, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

The “immigration provisions in the Build Back Better (BBB) Act would be the most historic immigration reforms in more than thirty years,” says a statement from FWD.us, a pro-investor advocacy group founded by Mark Zuckerberg.

The group inserted provisions in the bill that allow millions of foreign consumers and perhaps one million foreign graduates in U.S jobs to buy green cards above the annual caps. “These measures would provide long overdue relief to [contract-worker] families trapped in the backlogs, and … making the U.S. an even more attractive destination for highly skilled [job-seeking] people from around the world,” said FWD.us statement, which is now pushing the Senate to quickly pass the visa giveaway

The ‘historic” description is echoed by other groups.

The pro-business, FWD.us-backed Niskanen Center says “these provisions would be largest update to our immigration system in 30 years.”

The Congressional Budget Organization says the bill will allow “millions” of extra migrants to get legal status in the United States.

But coverage of the green-cards-for-cash provision has been minimal in the establishment media — even though the establishment’s reporters know that Senate Democrats are trying to push the expansions past the 50 GOP Senators and the Senate’s parliamentarian.

The minimal coverage is surprising because the reporters are members of the economic class that is most threatened by the cash-for-green-cards rule — house-buying, white-collar professionals who want to get their kids into good universities.

This fast-track process helps investors to do what they prefer: Sideline a generation of outspoken U.S. graduates by instead importing a vast supply of clever and subordinate foreigners who will rationally work as lower-wage, compliant, indentured employees to get their life-changing green cards.

But the silence also reflects the stealth strategy adopted by investors, progressives, and their elite lobbyists and networks of covertly-funded astroturf groups. This stealth strategy is a big shift from 2013 and 2014 when a $1 billion P.R. barrage by pro-migration groups failed to dent the public’s deep and rational opposition to easier migration l0w-wage workers.

So, in 2021, the Associated Press November 19 coverage of the legislation did not mention the green card expansion.

The Washington Post‘s November 19 article did not mention the green card expansion.

The New York Times’ main November 19 article on the House approval of the BBB bill suggested there were no migration provisions:

Democrats must also ensure that the entire plan adheres to the strict rules that govern the reconciliation process and force the removal of any provision that does not have a direct fiscal effect. Those rules have already forced the party to abandon a plan to provide a path to citizenship in the bill for undocumented immigrants.

A sidebar article, titled “Everything in the House Democrats’ Budget Bill,” includes this number-less passage: “Allows individuals to pay a fee to access green cards faster; makes unused family- and employment-based visas from past years available for use, among other changes”

Bloomberg included a mention of the green-cards-for-cash rule, but provided no estimate of the scale:

The bill would … allow some foreigners to fast-track applications to adjust to legal permanent resident status and sidestep some numerical limits on visas, including per-country caps that have left hundreds of thousands of Indians in limbo.

One of Bloomberg’s reporters, however, tweeted:

The legal immigration measures, meanwhile, are MAJOR. Would salvage unused green cards going back decades & allow people to fast-track status adjustments & skip per-country caps that have left hundreds of thousands of Indian nationals (& others) in limbo

Most 0f the bill’s supporters are downplaying the raised immigration numbers.

Indian-born Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) buried the migration expansions as the ninth bullet in her press release, as “humane immigration reform.”

The American Immigration Council, a spin-off of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, downplayed the change:

The immigration provisions included in the House’s budget reconciliation package could transform the lives of millions of immigrants and families across the country …. The House bill also includes critical improvements to our immigration system to help individuals and employers who have been stuck in limbo for far too long finally obtain the security of permanent status in the United States.

Sean McGarvey, the president of the North America’s Building Trades Unions (NABTU), touted the bill without mentioning the impact of the extra migration on U.S. construction workers:

This historic investment will take unprecedented steps forward by creating middle class jobs in the renewable energy sector, increasing labor protections and penalties for low road contractors and offering working families more access to pre-apprenticeship programs, affordable childcare, early childhood education programs and elder care.

Many polls show that labor migration is deeply unpopular because it damages ordinary Americans’ career opportunities, cuts their wages, and raises their rents. Migration also curbs Americans’ productivity, shrinks their political clout, widens regional wealth gaps, radicalizes their democratic, compromise-promoting civic culture, and allows elites to ignore despairing Americans at the bottom of society.

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.

Multinational-Operation Leads to Arrests of Venezuelan, Brazilian Migrants near California Border

File Photo: U.S. Border Patrol/Laredo Sector

BOB PRICE

20 Nov 20210

3:30

San Diego Sector Border Patrol agents and Mexican officials teamed up to disrupt a transnational smuggling operation. The investigation led to the arrest of smugglers and migrants on both sides of the California-Mexico border.

Between October 28 and November 9, Border Patrol agents apprehended five groups of migrants who illegally crossed the border from Mexico. The groups consisted mostly of migrants from Brazil and Venezuela, according to information obtained from San Diego Sector Border Patrol officials. The five groups ranged in size from 43 migrants to 93 migrants.

During the preceding week, agents interdicted three more smuggling operations leading to the apprehension of 67, 69, and 72 migrants respectively. Nearly all of the groups consisted of citizens of Venezuela and Brazil, officials stated.

Officials reported:

etween Oct. 28 and Nov. 9, agents encountered five groups, mostly from Brazil and Venezuela. The groups all entered the United States illegally and consisted of men, women, and children and were 43, 49, 73, 84 and 93 people in size.

On Oct. 27, agents observed a box truck dropping off a group of individuals on the southside of the international border fence. The group proceeded to enter the United States through a compromised drainage tube. Agents responded to the area and encountered 67 men, women, and children from both Brazil and Venezuela.

On Oct. 26, agents encountered two groups of migrants that illegally entered the United States through a compromised sewer grate. The first group consisted of 86 Brazilian nationals. A few hours later, the second group, consisting of 69 Brazilian nationals, was encountered at the same location. Both groups consisted of men, women, and children.

On Oct. 23, agents observed a group of migrants illegally enter the United States through a drainage tube three miles west of the San Ysidro Port of Entry. Agents responded to the area and encountered 72 men, women, and children. Every person in the group was determined to be from either Brazil or Venezuela.

Beginning on November 4, Border Patrol officials with the San Diego Sector Foreign Operations Branch worked with the government of Mexico to investigate the transnational human smuggling operation. The investigation led to the arrest of two Mexican smugglers and the rescue of 75 migrants from Brazil, Portugal, and Venezuela who were all locked inside a box truck in Mexico.

“Partnerships with the government of Mexico continue to play a vital role in combating smugglers who exploit individuals for monetary gain,” said Chief Patrol Agent Aaron Heitke.  “We thank them for their support and will continue our joint effort to bring these criminals to justice.”

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, Parler @BobPrice, and Facebook.