WHICH IS THE GREATEST THREAT TO AMERICA? JOE BIDEN, RED CHINA, OR NARCOMEX?

MEXICO = DRUGS!

Desert towns in California have seen a dramatic increase of illegal marijuana plantations, operating through means of water theft, human trafficking, and violence.

How Foreign Drug Operations Are Taking Over California’s Desert Towns: Jorge Ventura

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YL86snd4dP8

THIS IS WHAT THE DEMOCRAT PARTY'S OPEN BORDERS 

HAS DONE TO CALIFORNIA!

This really is happening here in the Mojave Desert. There are huge pot Farms out here where water is very scarce. But the local residents unwittingly do contract work for them just to make money. Greed is everywhere. If you go to buy PVC pipe fittings at Home Depot or any other hardware store the non-english-speaking Chinese are in there grabbing it all up so they can water their pot in cheap "greenhouses". It's unbelievable what's happening in this country. 

14 Migrants Found Locked in Tractor-Trailer at Immigration Checkpoint in Texas near Border

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

BOB PRICE

13 Nov 20210

2:42

Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents found a group of migrants locked inside a tractor-trailer at an immigration checkpoint in South Texas. The migrants were locked inside the trailer with no means of escape in the event of a crash or abandonment by the human smugglers.

Laredo North Station Border Patrol agents assigned to the Interstate 35 immigration checkpoint on November 11 observed a tractor-trailer approaching for inspection in the primary commercial lane, according to information obtained from Laredo Sector Border Patrol officials.

 

Agents find 14 migrants locked inside a tractor trailer at the Interstate 35 immigration checkpoint. (Photo: U.S. Border Patrol/Laredo Sector)

During the initial inspection, a Border Patrol K-9 reacted to an odor it is trained to detect indicating the possible presence of drug or human cargo in the trailer, officials reported. The agents referred the driver to a secondary inspection area.

The agents searched the trailer and found 14 migrants locked inside the trailer. The migrants had no way of escaping from the trailer in the event that human smugglers abandoned them or if a crash occurred.

The agents processed the 14 migrants and identified them as citizens of Mexico and Guatemala, officials stated.  They also arrested the driver, a U.S. citizen.

“We also continue to work with other governments, to ensure we deliver a strong message that our borders are not open, and to facilitate the return of their citizens or those with legal status in other countries,” Laredo Sector officials said in a written statement.

Elsewhere in the sector, Border Patrol agents and a Texas Department of Public Safety trooper arrested a wanted fugitive as he attempted to cross through the immigration checkpoint on Highway 83, Chief Patrol Agent Matthew Hudak said in the tweet posted above.

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.

 

ICE Confirms They Allowed 78,000 Migrants to Enter the Country Illegally 

ISAAC GUZMAN/AFP via Getty Images

JORDAN DIXON-HAMILTON

12 Nov 20210

3:39

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced a plan to locate and begin proceedings against the 78,000 migrants the agency willfully let enter the country.

ICE will begin “Operation Horizon” on Monday, which is the agency’s plan to begin the deportation process for 78,000 migrants who the agency did not immediately process for deportation, according to a CBS report.

Typically, when migrants are not immediately deported or held in detention, they are released and regularly provided with “notices to appear.” These are notices for the migrant to appear in a court hearing to determine whether they must face deportation or remain in the country.

However, immigration officials stopped providing migrants with notices to appear in March of this year, citing a lack of resources and a massive influx of migrants crossing the border.

ICE’s data shows they apprehended over 1.7 million migrants during the fiscal year 2021, which ended in September. In addition, Syracuse University researchers found that immigration courts within the country had a backlog of 1,457,615 pending cases.

Instead of giving these migrants the formal Notice to Appear, officials gave them “notices to report.” Notices to report are different from notices to appear because they are less formal and do not begin an official court proceeding. Rather, these informal notices to report instruct the migrants to arrive at their closest ICE office within 60 days.

CBS reported on an internal government document regarding these notices, saying, “issuing a Notice to Appear takes between 60 and 90 minutes.”

According to CNBC, “as of September, CBP had released over 107,000 migrants with notices to report rather than formal notices to appear in court.” However, they added that close to 28 percent of the migrants did not report to ICE within the allotted 60-day grace period.

Under Operation Horizon, ICE will send legal documents to 78,000 migrants who were released into the country on “prosecutorial discretion.” Among these documents are notices to appear.

“U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is mailing charging documents to place noncitizens in removal proceedings who have been paroled or released under prosecutorial discretion by Customs and Border Protection (CBP),” the agency told CBS. “Noncitizens are being directed to their closest ICE Field Office and will be processed using the information collected by CBP as evidence of citizenship and removability.”

Once at the ICE field offices, ICE agents will review their case files, collect fingerprints, take photos, and “determine whether migrants will be fitted with ankle bracelets or enrolled in other programs designed to ensure their compliance with reporting requirements.”

Critics of the plan attack it over the possibility of mailing documents to incorrect addresses. Danilo Zak, National Immigration Forum policy and advocacy manager, said, “Down the line, several months or a year down the road, they could move to a completely different address and won’t even receive the ‘Notice to Appear’ in court.”

The agency promised to enforce these rules with sanctions against those who do not comply. “Action will be taken against those that do not appear consistent with the law and Department priorities,” ICE told CBS.

 

 

Wealth-X report: Billionaire wealth surged during pandemic

Trévon Austin

A new report from research firm Wealth-X found that the global COVID-19 pandemic has intensified the growth of social inequality and witnessed an unprecedented accumulation of wealth among the most privileged layers in society. For the first time in human history, the world had more than 3,000 billionaires in 2020.

This amounts to a 13.4 percent increase in billionaires since 2019, currently totaling 3,204 individuals, with a median wealth of $1.9 billion. Billionaires’ collective wealth swelled to $10 trillion, a 5.7 percent increase from 2019.

 

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

“Viewed in aggregate, the global pandemic delivered a windfall to billionaire wealth, boosted by the flood of monetary stimulus and swelling profits in key sectors that coined a new wave of younger, self-made billionaires,” the report said.

Billionaire wealth has increased steadily since 1990, but one-third of these wealth gains have occurred during the pandemic. US billionaire wealth increased nineteen-fold over the last 31 years, from an inflation adjusted $240 billion in 1990 to $4.7 trillion in 2021.

The parasitic growth in wealth was most pronounced in the United States, the center of world capitalism. The ranks of billionaires in all of North America grew by 17.5 percent from last year. In fact, North America’s 980 billionaires account for 30.6% of the world’s billionaires.

The US was the top billionaire country in 2020. According to a report from Americans for Tax Fairness (ATF) and the Institute for Policy Studies Program on Inequality (IPS), American billionaires have seen their collective wealth surge by 62 percent, approximately $1.8 billion, since March 18, 2020. Following North America, Asia saw its number of growing by 16.5%, for a grand total of 883. Asia’s billionaires saw their collective net worth grow to $2.6 trillion, a 7.5% increase.

The good fortune of this tiny layer of the world’s population over the past 18 months is all the more appalling when contrasted to the growing immiseration and impoverishment of billions of workers around the globe. As a few thousand billionaires amassed enormous sums of wealth, workers around the world lost $3.7 trillion in earnings during the pandemic, according to a report from the International Labor Organization (ILO).

The report estimated an 8.8 percent year-by-year decline in global working hours from 2019 to 2020, equivalent to 255 million full-time jobs. This is approximately four times greater than the recorded loss during the 2008-09 global financial crisis.

The lost working hours were due to massive cuts in working hours and unprecedented levels of job loss, impacting some 114 million people and their families. Significantly, 71 percent of these job losses came from “inactivity,” meaning at least 81 million people around the world left the labor market because they could not find work.

Women have been more adversely affected by the pandemic than men. Globally, employment losses for women stand at 5 percent, versus 3.9 percent for men. Women were much more likely than men to drop out of the labor market, most commonly due to childcare concerns. Younger workers have also been devastated. Employment fell by 8.7 percent among workers aged 15-24 years old, compared to 3.7 percent for adults. Generation Z, the oldest of whom is 23, has become the most unemployed generation and is on track to experience the same financial struggles as millennials.

In the US alone, the official poverty rate rose by 1.0 percent from 2019 to 2020, according to the US Census Bureau. The poverty rate grew to 11.4 percent, marking the first increase in the official poverty rate after five years of consecutive decline. In 2020, there were 37.2 million people in poverty, approximately 3.3 million more than in 2019.

At the same time, median household income in 2020 dropped by 2.9 percent from the previous year. This is the first statistically significant decline in median household income since 2011.

Over 86 million Americans have lost jobs, almost 38 million have been sickened by the virus, and over 675,000 have died from it. Between 2019 and 2020, the real median earnings of all workers fell by 1.2 percent. The total number of people reporting earnings decreased by about 3 million, while the number of full-time, year-round workers decreased by approximately 13.7 million.

The chief obstacle to solving the world’s burning social questions—whether the devastating impact of COVID-19 or the widespread growth of poverty—is the private profit interests of the capitalist ruling class. Every action these vultures have taken in response to the pandemic has been driven by the effort to protect the wealth and privileges of a few. To save lives and avert even further disaster, workers must fight for a policy based on the interests of the working class, the vast majority of society.