THERE IS NO GREATER THREAT TO AMERICA, THE AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS, AMERICAN DEMOCRACY OR AMERICAN BORDERS THAN THE GLOBALIST DEMOCRAT PARTY, SERVANTS OF TECH BILLIONAIRES AND WALL STREET.
Those giveaways include an amnesty for 6.5 million, as well as new rules to help the Fortune 500 companies hire an uncapped number of foreign graduates, instead of American graduates, and a dramatic acceleration of chain migration into the United States, regardless of the damaging impact on Americans’ wages, families finances, and housing prices. The changes would have a big impact on Americans’ pocketbooks but would cost the federal government a small share of the spending plan.
Democrats Try to Revive Build Back Better Amnesty, Green Card Giveaway
Democrats and their business allies are trying to revive the huge immigration giveaways in President Joe Biden’s semi-defunct Build Back Better (BBB) spending plan.
The bill has been blocked by Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), who has repeatedly stated he opposes the $1.7 trillion spending plan because it will likely increase inflation.
But “Democratic lawmakers, lobbyists and experts at think tanks believe Manchin might be won over if the bill is revised to include fewer programs for a longer period of time,” the Hill.com reported December 23. The outlet continued:
“That is the way forward here,” said Ben Ritz, director of the Center for Funding America’s Future at the Progressive Policy Institute, who has advocated for a bill with fewer items.
“Most of the party is starting to come around to that,” Ritz added.
The Democrats’ left-wing group, the Congressional Progressive Caucus, also wants to overcome Manchin’s opposition.
The caucus “is calling on the President and all Democrats who believe in the need to Build Back Better for climate, care, immigrants, and those seeking economic dignity and opportunity to come together,” a December 22 statement by the Congressional Progressive Caucus said.
Progressives want the revived bill to include all the immigration giveaways in the $1.7 trillion draft bill.
Manchin has not announced any opposition to the immigration giveaways in the bill.
Those giveaways include an amnesty for 6.5 million, as well as new rules to help the Fortune 500 companies hire an uncapped number of foreign graduates, instead of American graduates, and a dramatic acceleration of chain migration into the United States, regardless of the damaging impact on Americans’ wages, families finances, and housing prices. The changes would have a big impact on Americans’ pocketbooks but would cost the federal government a small share of the spending plan.
But Democrats face a critical problem. The Senate’s parliamentarian has repeatedly excluded their amnesty plans for the 6.5 million illegals from the fast-track spending bill — and some Democrats do not want to pass the Fortune 500 giveaway without also passing the amnesty plan for migrants.
Media outlets that are allowed onto Capitol Hill have not asked the Democrats about their plan to escape this both-or-nothing dilemma.
Similarly, the approved media outlets have stayed silent about the Democrats’ plan to accelerate chain migration — even though it would deliver millions of new voters to Democrats while also providing millions of extra workers, consumers, and renters to the Democrats’ business allies.
Manchin reportedly approved a smaller spending bill before negotiations collapsed. But media coverage of the revived BBB plan is silent about his negotiations with the White House over the migration giveaways. For example, the Washington Post published a December 20 article about Manchin’s BBB priorities — but ignored the migration issue:
Manchin’s counteroffer, for instance, included funding universal pre-K for 10 years, rather than partially financing the measure for a few years. Manchin has long been public about his support for prekindergarten education.
On climate change, Manchin backed supporting a scaled-back version of what Democrats had sought — with spending between $500 billion and $600 billion.
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Manchin’s offer also included extending the Affordable Care Act expansion approved by Democrats earlier this year — a health-care measure that has been a top priority of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). The full scope of Manchin’s plan was not clear, and it remains possible it included other elements of Biden’s proposals.
The progressives group also wants Biden to use his agencies and federal regulations if Manchin and the Republican senators block the migration giveaways. The progressives’ statement continued:
The White House must continue to act on a parallel track by using the President’s incredibly powerful tool of executive action. The legislative approach, while essential, has no certainty of timing or results — and we simply cannot wait to deliver tangible relief to people that they can feel and will make a difference in their lives and livelihoods.
The U.S. government’s post-1986 bipartisan, economic policy of extracting migrants from poor countries is deeply unpopular because it damages ordinary Americans’ career opportunities, cuts their wages, and raises their housing costs.
The invited migration also curbs Americans’ productivity, shrinks their political clout, widens regional wealth gaps, radicalizes their democratic, compromise-promoting civic culture, and allows the elites to ignore despairing Americans at the bottom of society.
For many years, a wide variety of polls has 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 growing, multiracial, cross-sex, non-racist, class-based, bipartisan, rational, and persistent, and it recognizes the solidarity Americans owe to each other.
JOE BIDEN'S AMERICA: NO DAMNED LEGAL NEED APPLY
SO WHY GO TO COLLEGE?
The promises of reform by the Democrats have turned out to be utterly fraudulent, from the failure of Biden’s “Build Back Better” bill, which was gutted and ultimately killed, to the campaign promises of raising the minimum wage, free college and erasing student debt, and finally with the reinstatement of loan payments. Higher education is being made more and more a privilege afforded only to the upper class as workers and the poor are more and more priced out of it.
Analysis conducted last year reveal that 71 percent of tech workers in Silicon Valley are foreign-born, while the tech industry in the San Francisco, Oakland, and Hayward area is made up of 50 percent foreign-born tech workers.
Despite his Wall Street, big business, Big Tech, and billionaire donations, Biden has attempted to portray himself as a small-town fighter from Scranton, Pennsylvania
"This is how they will destroy America from within. The leftist billionaires who orchestrate these plans are wealthy. Those tasked with representing us in Congress will never be exposed to the cost of the invasion of millions of migrants. They have nothing but contempt for those of us who must endure the consequences of our communities being intruded upon by gang members, drug dealers and human traffickers. These people have no intention of becoming Americans; like the Democrats who welcome them, they have contempt for us." PATRICIA McCARTHY
Joe Biden is on record that illegals are “already Americans,” and under Alejandro Mayorkas, the Biden Department of Homeland Security is effectively the Department of Human Trafficking. John Fonte of the Hudson Institute makes a strong case that “operational control of the border is no longer in American hands,” and under the control of Mexican cartels. These are criminal organizations but behind the scenes, a more powerful dynamic is in play. Lloyd Billingsley
Likewise, the Biden-Harris plan for national immigration policy — which seeks to drive up legal and illegal immigration levels to their highest levels in decades — offers a flooded labor market with low wages for U.S. workers and increased bargaining power for big business that has long been supported by Wall Street. JOHN BINDER
By failures of border security, a lack of the enforcement of our immigration laws from within the interior of the United States and huge numbers of visas for high tech workers, the lives and livelihoods of Americans and their children, are being stolen by America’s corrupt political elite who are doing the bidding of those who provide them with huge “Campaign Contributions” (Orwellian euphemism for bribes) pursue legislation that is diametrically opposed to the best interests of America and Americans.
MICHAEL CUTLER
While Biden has vowed to flood the U.S. labor market with more foreign workers to compete against Americans for jobs, he has shied away from questions on whether he will eliminate tariffs on foreign imports that were imposed by Trump. Such elimination of tariffs would be a boon to multinational corporations that offshore their production and jobs overseas only to import their products back into the U.S. market, often with no penalties for doing so.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
90% OF THE EMPLOYEES OF BIDEN'S CRONY MARK ZUCKERBERG'S FACEBOOK WERE BORN IN INDIA!
Joe Biden Seeks Indian Votes with Amnesty, Work Permits for India’s Graduates
Joe Biden is promising to deliver more of India’s contract workers — plus an unlimited supply of tech graduates — to the small but growing Indian community in the United States.
“He will increase the number of visas offered for permanent, work-based immigration based on macroeconomic conditions and exempt from any cap recent graduates of Ph.D. programs in STEM fields,” says a new page on Biden’s campaign website. The page is titled “Joe Biden’s Agenda for the Indian American [sic] Community.”
Zuckerberg’s FWD.us Claims No Amnesty Ensures Midterm Defeat for Democrats
What the resumption of student loan repayments will mean for millions of young people
President Joe Biden announced Wednesday he is extending the pause on student loan payments until May 1.
The payments, which were set to restart on February 1, have been paused since the beginning of the pandemic. The temporary pause of student loan payments includes a freeze on loan repayments, interest accrual, as well as collections, garnishments and tax refund interceptions on defaulted loans.
The last extension of the freeze, started under the Trump administration in March 2020, was later provocatively called the “final” extension of the relief by the Biden administration.
White House officials have publicly insisted for months that student loan repayments would resume February 1, 2022, and that the administration’s high priority was a “smooth transition back into repayment” after the end of the moratorium. The three-month extension is a sign that the administration anticipates a colossal economic and social catastrophe to unfold over the next few months as the Omicron variant of COVID-19 spirals out of control.
The US Department of Education has taken no notice of the change in messaging, sending out mass emails to loan borrowers warning of the imminent return to student loan payment, as well as numerous tweets on the government’s Twitter account around this same theme.
Federal Student Aid Director Richard Cordray said in a tweet on December 20, “Higher ed partners: Encourage borrowers to prepare for federal student loan payments to begin after Jan. 31 by taking these six steps” linking to the Federal Student Aid website, with a graphic labeled “Preparing for the End of the Payment Pause.” One Twitter user remarked, referring to the graphic, which was winter-weather-clothing themed, “I see what you did with the graphic. People won’t be able to afford heat once loan repayments start, so you’re telling them to bundle up. Great advice.”
Another tweeted: “Thank god you used cute graphics to show that soon 40 million of us will be giving you hundreds of dollars a month that we don’t have.”
Outstanding student loan debt totals a staggering $1.75 trillion in the US, with the increase in debt outpacing GDP growth by six times. Over 43 million students and former students owe an average of $39,000. According to the Education Data Initiative, the debt accrued is $9,000 more than the average cost of a bachelor’s degree at a public university.
Sixty-five percent of college-educated American adults are still paying off student loans according to First Republic Bank. The government took in $70.3 billion from student loan programs in 2019 according to Slate, with $22.4 billion of this being from interest alone.
The resumption of student loan payments means that tens of millions of young people will soon be forced to restart debt payments in the midst of a surge in the pandemic fueled by the novel Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2, while real wages have decreased 1.9 percent in the last year alone, with inflation at its highest in four decades.
On top of this, most of the other remaining Trump-era protections, including the eviction moratorium, child tax credit and federal jobless aid have been eliminated, leaving those in debt more financially exposed than in 2020.
One post, simply stating, “My student loan payments will not be resuming after January 31 because I’m not going to pay them” on the r/antiwork subreddit of the popular social media platform Reddit, received 40,000 up-votes and thousands of posts expressing mass opposition to the restarting of loan payments.
One user responded to the post saying, “Same here. Me and my boyfriend are living paycheck to paycheck and it just feels so draining.”
Another response pointed to the obvious contradiction between the massive government bailouts of the financial elite and the suffering of millions of students: “It’s ridiculous we can bail out other countries and air lines and shit corporations but we just leave most people in huge debt. The colleges are rich enough, it needs to change.”
A remarkable number of users weighed the idea of moving to another country to evade loan payment.
Another commenter explained the limitations of the income-based repayments (IBR): “Income-based payments don’t help a lot of people because of how they calculate it. The federal poverty line is ridiculously low, and they haven’t properly adjusted it in years, so nearly everyone is paying more than they can afford—especially with inflation as bad as it is right now.”
Speaking to the wider poverty experienced by millions of young people, one user noted that they made $13 an hour working fast-food and could not keep up with their $90 monthly payments after other bills. The same user was making too much money to be accepted for food stamps despite “living off of ramen noodles and powdered lemonade the last couple days before each pay period.”
Many will be forced to choose between making medical payments, rent payments, food, utility and other necessary payments, and loan payments.
“This is how you know the true meaning of Covid. No student loans were forgiven no mortgages no Children’s school lunches. Literally nobody got a break or a help unless they were already rich. The elite benefited and got mad rich during Covid while shutting down every mom and pop and small time joint. This is the truth we must fight. The rich are our true enemy.”
Speaking to the widespread political disillusionment being produced by the restarting of loan payments, one student stated, “I’ve always just kept calling and deferring, waiting for a Bernie Sanders-esque hero to come and save us all from student debt lol. I take a couple classes whenever they say I will have to start paying, and that stops me from having to pay, and I get to learn stuff. Love that Joe PROMISED us he’d do something and then proceeded to be like lol jk … I was furious in that moment. Not that I trust politicians, Trump or Biden especially, but ... wow.”
Matt, a UC Berkeley graduate, told the WSWS, “I’m almost $30 thousand in debt and when Biden was elected I was ecstatic. I don’t agree with a lot of his positions but his promises to forgive student loan debt led me to believe I wouldn’t have this burden hanging over me. Now that the deferment on student loan payments is ending, I don’t know how I’ll be able to keep up with them. I work full time but I still am often paycheck to paycheck, and I’m concerned that my only options will be to default on my loans or keep deferring them and accumulate interest I won’t be able to pay.”
The government goes to great lengths to collect student debt, even withholding students’ degrees until payment is received. In addition, the official website on loan repayments threatens debtors with court charges, collection fees, attorney fees, and “other costs” if a debtor is in default. A young person who defaults on their loans also runs the risk of destroying their credit score, preventing those with outstanding debts from taking loans for cars, houses and other necessities. Defaulting also causes the entire unpaid balance and any interest owed to become immediately due, while losing eligibility for additional federal student aid.
A default, which takes place 270 days after a payment is due, can result in the garnishing of borrowers’ wages, Social Security checks, federal tax refunds and even disability benefits.
According to educationdata.org, as of July, 11.2 percent of adults with student loan debt reported being unable to make at least one payment that year-to-date, with 9 percent of students attending public institutions in 2020 being behind on loans. Twenty-three percent of borrowers with outstanding education debt have a credit card balance as well. With the restarting of loan payments, those who were already behind will be plunged further into debt, while many already on the brink will join the category.
The promises of reform by the Democrats have turned out to be utterly fraudulent, from the failure of Biden’s “Build Back Better” bill, which was gutted and ultimately killed, to the campaign promises of raising the minimum wage, free college and erasing student debt, and finally with the reinstatement of loan payments. Higher education is being made more and more a privilege afforded only to the upper class as workers and the poor are more and more priced out of it.
Wharton Study: Bidenflation Will Cost Families $3,500 This Year, Low-Incomes Hardest Hit
Bidenflation will cost families an additional $3,500 this year, impacting low-income families the hardest, a study released Wednesday showed.
According to the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School’s budget model, Americans on average will have to spend $3,500 more in 2021 to sustain their consumption of years past in 2019 and 2020.
The study also suggests low-income families will be disproportionally impacted. The study estimated lower-income families will have to spend seven percent more money to maintain their previous consumption patterns, while higher-income families will only have to spend six percent more.
“Lower-income groups spent relatively more on food, energy, and shelter, while higher-income groups spent relatively more on other commodities and services,” the study states.
Across the consumption basket of income groups, the bottom 20 percent of families saw the price of their consumption increase 6.8 percent, or $2,120.
The top five percent of income-earning families will only experience a 6.1 percent ($7,636) increase in consumption.
Meanwhile, the top five percent of income-earning families will only experience a 6.1 percent ($7,636) increase in consumption.
“Since higher-income groups had a bigger increase in expenditures in all categories, they also saw a bigger increase in total expenditure,” the study read. “However, because of variation in the composition of consumption bundles, we find that higher-income households had smaller percentage increases in their total expenditure.”
The Penn Wharton study comes after Bidenflation has reached a 40 year-high, increasing 6.8 percent from 2020. The cost of energy, food, housing, transpiration, vehicles, clothing, and hotels have all increased under President Biden.
Yet Americans do not have faith Biden will squash inflation. A Monday poll revealed 53 percent of Americans believe the economy, due to inflation, is becoming worse, while only 15 percent believe Biden is improving the economy:
Income doesn’t change the perception of inflation. Americans earning less than $50,000 were just as likely to say inflation is a very serious problem as those earning between $50,000 and $100,000 or those earning more than $100,000.
A Sunday poll showed a majority (56 percent) of voters do not think Biden is concerned about American families incurring massive price increases. The numbers among just Democrats are no more favorable. Only 48 percent of Democrats believe Biden is concerned about inflation.
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CBS: Cartels Succeed in Record Delivery of Youth, Child Migrants in 2021
President Joe Biden and his pro-migration progressives admitted at least 40,000 coyote-delivered, work-ready young male migrants in 2021 under the excuse of saving “unaccompanied alien children.”
“What the advocacy groups are saying is that open borders is ‘For the children,’ when in fact, they’re talking about [admitting] 17-year-old construction workers,” said Mark Krikorian, the director of the Center for Immigration Studies. “In other contexts, they’d call it the ‘White Savior Complex,'” he added.
The 2021 numbers were announced by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to a friendly CBS reporter:
The Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) shelter system received 122,000 migrant children [and youths] who were taken into U.S. custody without their parents in fiscal year 2021, an all-time high that shattered previous records, according to new government figures obtained by CBS News.
“The record number of shelter transfers was fueled by the unprecedented arrival of 147,000 unaccompanied children to the U.S.-Mexico border in fiscal year 2021, which ended in October,’ said CBS.
The government-aided labor trafficking was sketched in November 2020 by ProPublica, a left-wing, non-profit website:
“Honestly, I think almost everyone in the system knows that most of the teens are coming to work and send money back home,” said Maria Woltjen, executive director and founder of the Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights, a national organization that advocates for immigrant children in court. “They want to help their parents.”
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Some began to work when they were just 13 or 14, packing the candy you find by the supermarket register, cutting the slabs of raw meat that end up in your freezer and baking, in industrial ovens, the pastries you eat with your coffee. Garcia, who is 18 now, was 15 when he got his first job at an automotive parts factory.
The youth inflow adds to the other inflows of legal and illegal migrants, which total about 1.5 million in 2021, atop the population of roughly 45 million resident foreign-born people.
The nation’s huge and growing population of legal and illegal migrants helps to drive down Americans’ wages, reduce high-tech investment, push up housing prices, distort national politics, and give politicians an excuse to avoid difficult domestic problems, such as fentanyl deaths, low wages, expensive housing, poor productivity, and civic demolition.
The UAC catch-and-release loophole was inadvertently created by Congress’ Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008.
The 2008 law sought to protect trafficking victims, such as child prostitutes and child labor, while the traffickers were prosecuted. But it is now used by the cartels to deliver young workers to U.S.-based labor brokers and to deliver the children of illegal migrants to the parents’ addresses in the United States.
‘The stated intentions were honorable … if a 10-year-old kid is found wandering around near the border, we want to make sure that we deal with that kid properly,” said Krikorian. “The problem is that, like any of these policies, it’s immediately seized on by smugglers as an opportunity to get more illegal aliens of the United States.”
The migrants are not thinking about the progressives’ “For the children” pitch or U.S. laws, Krikorian said.
They’re simply using the system that we set up. They’re gaming the system that [Congress] put in place. It’s our responsibility to fix that. There’s no reason that unaccompanied minors shouldn’t be expeditiously sent home … Unless they’re lying about their age or lying about other things; how can you condemn them and not condemn the lawmakers and the advocacy groups that created these loopholes? It’s like criticizing somebody for using a tax shelter — as long as they’re not lying and breaking the law, the problem may be the tax shelter, not the person taking advantage of it.
The unspoken migration is bad for the sending countries, he added.
This is an issue that transcends the unaccompanied minors issue, but it’s not a viable development strategy to export your young people and hope that they send some money back. What kind of development is that? … The deadbeats aren’t leaving — it’s the ones who want to work and earn some money. I’m not saying we should strip-mine this [human] resource for us to use for ourselves — but if you’re in Guatemala, your young people with get-up-and-go should be staying to work, not getting up and going to the United States.
The young migrants are accompanied to the U.S. border by contract coyotes, who also pay off the cartels to get routine access to the border.
The coyotes hand off the youths and children to DHS agents at the border, who then pass the migrants to the HHS shelters. The shelter officials then transfer the migrants to the coyotes’ customers, who are labeled as “sponsors” by the HHS.
In 2019, 80,634 young migrants got across before Trump, and his deputies bypassed opposition from progressive judges and pro-migration groups. In 2020, Trump and his deputies allowed just 33,239 young migrants across the border, mostly very young children.
The 2021 inflow of 146,925 young migrants is double the 2019 number and almost five times the 2020 inflow.
Most of the children and youths from Mexico are sent back, but UACs from Central America are welcomed by Biden’s deputies.
In 2021, government officials welcomed 114,211 coyote-delivered Central American UAC migrants, almost seven times the 2020 inflow of 15,687 Central American UACs. Those nations provided 92 percent of the young migrants.
Most of the young migrants are being transported to their parents or relatives living illegally in the United States.
HHS reported; “In more than 80 percent of cases the child has a family member in the United States. In more than 40 percent of cases that family member is a parent or legal guardian.”
Democrats and Republicans in Congress barred Trump’s enforcement officials from deporting illegals who paid to get their children delivered.
The delivery of the children helps persuade resident adult illegals to stay working in the U.S. economy. Without the deliveries, many migrants would return home to their families.
The pipeline also reduces the burden and cost of illegal migration because strong adult migrants can sneak over the border, work for a year or two, and then order their children to be delivered via the government-cartel delivery system.
The UAC loophole is only for migrants younger than 18. Roughly one-third claim to be age 17. Almost four-in-ten claim to be aged 15 to 16. However, border agents are under pressure to accept whatever age is offered, giving the cartels an open door to maximize the number of migrants who pay transit fees on their way to a U.S. job.
One-third of the arriving young migrants are female; two-thirds are boys and men.
The government-backed cartel delivery service is so efficient that the illegal-migrant customers complain when their foreign children are not delivered fast enough.
“During the ten days that Andrea’s 6-year-old son, Juan, was held in government custody after crossing the southwest border with his grandmother, the Venezuelan mother who lives in California said she called government officials several times a day, trying to arrange his release,” said a Washington Post article from April 20. It continued:
“How can they do this to a child?” said Andrea, 37, who goes by her middle name and did not want her last name used because she did not want to jeopardize her asylum case. “He’s never been separated from his family.”
Pro-migration groups prefer to ignore the labor trafficking, the cartels’ role, and the economic damage to Americans. So the establishment media usually describe the massive inflow as a logistics problem, not as disruptive migration and economic turmoil. For example, CBS devoted much of its article to praising HHS for importing so many youths and children:
At the largest site, a tent complex inside the Fort Bliss Army base in Texas, migrant teens reported mental health distress, inadequate services and prolonged stays. Children there were constantly monitored for escape attempts, panic attacks and self-harm. After the conditions were publicly reported in June, HHS took remedial measures.
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More than 107,000 migrant children in HHS care were released to sponsors during fiscal year 2021, another record. The states with the highest number of placements were Texas, Florida, California and New York, which collectively received more than 45,000 unaccompanied children.
“The exploitation of this loophole is something that Congress never really was thinking about when they passed this legislation,” said Krikorian. “It was clearly a mistake — we’ve seen the consequences of it, and we need to fix it.”
Exclusive Photos: Smugglers Move Migrants into Texas on Christmas Eve
RIO GRANDE VALLEY, Texas — Cartel Smugglers continued their work on Christmas Eve moving more than 200 migrants across the Rio Grande in the Border Patrol’s busiest sector. As many celebrated the holidays on both sides of the border, the smugglers and Border Patrol agents engaged in what has become routine business on the southwest border.
Breitbart Texas traveled to several border towns in the Border Patrol’s Rio Grande Valley Sector and witnessed the interactions that did not take a break for Christmas. As residents attended mass on Friday evening, smugglers in Roma, Texas, ferried migrants across the Rio Grande in large groups consisting of family units, unaccompanied migrant children, and single adults.
Across the river in Miguel Aleman, Mexico, residents celebrated the holiday by lighting fireworks as church bells rang out. On a loudspeaker outside a Catholic church in the heart of downtown Roma, broadcast its celebratory mass into the streets and hymns could be heard for blocks. The city square, usually used as a rally point for migrants who surrender by the hundreds nightly was void of the usual activity.
On this night, smugglers chose to move the migrants to the north end of town near a residential neighborhood. Using inflatable rafts, the smugglers moved the migrants across the Rio Grande as fireworks lit the night sky on both sides of the border. The migrants, mostly Central American, walked through the brush and into a neighborhood in Roma to await transport.
Border Patrol agents sorted the apprehended groups by single adults, family units, and unaccompanied migrant children. As several Border Patrol agents retrieved basic biographical information from the migrants, others conducted pat-down searches for weapons and contraband. Other agents inventoried and bagged migrant property in what appeared to be a smooth, well-developed process.
Nearly 40 miles away, Border Patrol agents in La Joya carried out the same process. Breitbart Texas witnessed one large group march along a border road escorted by a Texas Department of Public Safety Highway Patrol trooper. The mostly Central American migrants, nearly 30 in total, walked from the river bottom to a city baseball park where Border Patrol agents waited.
With the same precision, a Border Patrol agent prepared the group for transport after determining the demographic composition of the migrants. Agents inventoried and tagged the property while waiting for migrant transport buses.
Along Texas Highway 83 that moves through multiple border cities in the Rio Grande Valley, Border Patrol agents moved into ranches and communities in search of migrants who are not voluntarily surrendering. Breitbart Texas observed the agents cordoning off neighborhoods and small ranches attempting to track migrants attempting to elude apprehension.
The migrants apprehended on this Christmas Eve will be taken to a soft-sided processing center nearby. Once processed, many of the family unit migrants with tender age children will ultimately be released. Border Patrol agents in the Rio Grande Valley Sector arrested more than 549,000 migrants in Fiscal Year 2021. More than 257,000 of those were classified as family unit members according to the Border Patrol.
Randy Clark is a 32-year veteran of the United States Border Patrol. Prior to his retirement, he served as the Division Chief for Law Enforcement Operations, directing operations for nine Border Patrol Stations within the Del Rio, Texas, Sector. Follow him on Twitter @RandyClarkBBTX.
Agents Find 6-Year-Old Migrant Caring for 1-Year-Old at Border
Border Patrol agents found a six-year-old unaccompanied migrant child safeguarding her one-year-old cousin on the bank of the Rio Grande. In a scene all too common this year, five total unaccompanied children were apprehended on Thursday morning near Del Rio, Texas.
Early in the day, agents located the six-year-old with her one-year-old cousin mixed into a group of 25 other unrelated migrants moving away from the river bottom. The unaccompanied children were in possession of handwritten notes showing phone numbers of relatives in the U.S. One had a copy of a birth certificate. One was age five.
As the morning progressed, agents intercepted a group of five additional migrants and discovered two were unaccompanied. Two siblings aged nine and seven were identified by their birth certificates and carried contact information for relatives.
The five children in the groups were all Honduran nationals and will be processed for transfer to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Once family members or sponsors in the United States are located, the children will be released.
The HHS released more than 5,000 unaccompanied migrant children to U.S. sponsors in November 2021. As of Wednesday, 12,613 were in federal custody and awaiting similar transfers.
According to HHS, nearly 400 unaccompanied migrant children were arrested and placed into CBP custody daily during the most recent 30-day period. The Border Patrol apprehended more than 140,000 unaccompanied migrant children in Fiscal Year 2021.
HHS estimates the cost to detain a child is $775 per day. In other long-term facilities, they indicate that cost to be approximately $275 per day. Based on these estimates and the number of UACs currently in custody, the cost to the American taxpayer stands at more than $3.4 million daily.
Randy Clark is a 32-year veteran of the United States Border Patrol. Prior to his retirement, he served as the Division Chief for Law Enforcement Operations, directing operations for nine Border Patrol Stations within the Del Rio, Texas, Sector. Follow him on Twitter @RandyClarkBBTX.
CBS: Cartels Succeed in Record Delivery of Youth, Child Migrants in 2021
President Joe Biden and his pro-migration progressives admitted at least 40,000 coyote-delivered, work-ready young male migrants in 2021 under the excuse of saving “unaccompanied alien children.”
“What the advocacy groups are saying is that open borders is ‘For the children,’ when in fact, they’re talking about [admitting] 17-year-old construction workers,” said Mark Krikorian, the director of the Center for Immigration Studies. “In other contexts, they’d call it the ‘White Savior Complex,'” he added.
The 2021 numbers were announced by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to a friendly CBS reporter:
The Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) shelter system received 122,000 migrant children [and youths] who were taken into U.S. custody without their parents in fiscal year 2021, an all-time high that shattered previous records, according to new government figures obtained by CBS News.
“The record number of shelter transfers was fueled by the unprecedented arrival of 147,000 unaccompanied children to the U.S.-Mexico border in fiscal year 2021, which ended in October,’ said CBS.
The government-aided labor trafficking was sketched in November 2020 by ProPublica, a left-wing, non-profit website:
“Honestly, I think almost everyone in the system knows that most of the teens are coming to work and send money back home,” said Maria Woltjen, executive director and founder of the Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights, a national organization that advocates for immigrant children in court. “They want to help their parents.”
[…]
Some began to work when they were just 13 or 14, packing the candy you find by the supermarket register, cutting the slabs of raw meat that end up in your freezer and baking, in industrial ovens, the pastries you eat with your coffee. Garcia, who is 18 now, was 15 when he got his first job at an automotive parts factory.
The youth inflow adds to the other inflows of legal and illegal migrants, which total about 1.5 million in 2021, atop the population of roughly 45 million resident foreign-born people.
The nation’s huge and growing population of legal and illegal migrants helps to drive down Americans’ wages, reduce high-tech investment, push up housing prices, distort national politics, and give politicians an excuse to avoid difficult domestic problems, such as fentanyl deaths, low wages, expensive housing, poor productivity, and civic demolition.
The UAC catch-and-release loophole was inadvertently created by Congress’ Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008.
The 2008 law sought to protect trafficking victims, such as child prostitutes and child labor, while the traffickers were prosecuted. But it is now used by the cartels to deliver young workers to U.S.-based labor brokers and to deliver the children of illegal migrants to the parents’ addresses in the United States.
‘The stated intentions were honorable … if a 10-year-old kid is found wandering around near the border, we want to make sure that we deal with that kid properly,” said Krikorian. “The problem is that, like any of these policies, it’s immediately seized on by smugglers as an opportunity to get more illegal aliens of the United States.”
The migrants are not thinking about the progressives’ “For the children” pitch or U.S. laws, Krikorian said.
They’re simply using the system that we set up. They’re gaming the system that [Congress] put in place. It’s our responsibility to fix that. There’s no reason that unaccompanied minors shouldn’t be expeditiously sent home … Unless they’re lying about their age or lying about other things; how can you condemn them and not condemn the lawmakers and the advocacy groups that created these loopholes? It’s like criticizing somebody for using a tax shelter — as long as they’re not lying and breaking the law, the problem may be the tax shelter, not the person taking advantage of it.
The unspoken migration is bad for the sending countries, he added.
This is an issue that transcends the unaccompanied minors issue, but it’s not a viable development strategy to export your young people and hope that they send some money back. What kind of development is that? … The deadbeats aren’t leaving — it’s the ones who want to work and earn some money. I’m not saying we should strip-mine this [human] resource for us to use for ourselves — but if you’re in Guatemala, your young people with get-up-and-go should be staying to work, not getting up and going to the United States.
The young migrants are accompanied to the U.S. border by contract coyotes, who also pay off the cartels to get routine access to the border.
The coyotes hand off the youths and children to DHS agents at the border, who then pass the migrants to the HHS shelters. The shelter officials then transfer the migrants to the coyotes’ customers, who are labeled as “sponsors” by the HHS.
In 2019, 80,634 young migrants got across before Trump, and his deputies bypassed opposition from progressive judges and pro-migration groups. In 2020, Trump and his deputies allowed just 33,239 young migrants across the border, mostly very young children.
The 2021 inflow of 146,925 young migrants is double the 2019 number and almost five times the 2020 inflow.
Most of the children and youths from Mexico are sent back, but UACs from Central America are welcomed by Biden’s deputies.
In 2021, government officials welcomed 114,211 coyote-delivered Central American UAC migrants, almost seven times the 2020 inflow of 15,687 Central American UACs. Those nations provided 92 percent of the young migrants.
Most of the young migrants are being transported to their parents or relatives living illegally in the United States.
HHS reported; “In more than 80 percent of cases the child has a family member in the United States. In more than 40 percent of cases that family member is a parent or legal guardian.”
Democrats and Republicans in Congress barred Trump’s enforcement officials from deporting illegals who paid to get their children delivered.
The delivery of the children helps persuade resident adult illegals to stay working in the U.S. economy. Without the deliveries, many migrants would return home to their families.
The pipeline also reduces the burden and cost of illegal migration because strong adult migrants can sneak over the border, work for a year or two, and then order their children to be delivered via the government-cartel delivery system.
The UAC loophole is only for migrants younger than 18. Roughly one-third claim to be age 17. Almost four-in-ten claim to be aged 15 to 16. However, border agents are under pressure to accept whatever age is offered, giving the cartels an open door to maximize the number of migrants who pay transit fees on their way to a U.S. job.
One-third of the arriving young migrants are female; two-thirds are boys and men.
The government-backed cartel delivery service is so efficient that the illegal-migrant customers complain when their foreign children are not delivered fast enough.
“During the ten days that Andrea’s 6-year-old son, Juan, was held in government custody after crossing the southwest border with his grandmother, the Venezuelan mother who lives in California said she called government officials several times a day, trying to arrange his release,” said a Washington Post article from April 20. It continued:
“How can they do this to a child?” said Andrea, 37, who goes by her middle name and did not want her last name used because she did not want to jeopardize her asylum case. “He’s never been separated from his family.”
Pro-migration groups prefer to ignore the labor trafficking, the cartels’ role, and the economic damage to Americans. So the establishment media usually describe the massive inflow as a logistics problem, not as disruptive migration and economic turmoil. For example, CBS devoted much of its article to praising HHS for importing so many youths and children:
At the largest site, a tent complex inside the Fort Bliss Army base in Texas, migrant teens reported mental health distress, inadequate services and prolonged stays. Children there were constantly monitored for escape attempts, panic attacks and self-harm. After the conditions were publicly reported in June, HHS took remedial measures.
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More than 107,000 migrant children in HHS care were released to sponsors during fiscal year 2021, another record. The states with the highest number of placements were Texas, Florida, California and New York, which collectively received more than 45,000 unaccompanied children.
“The exploitation of this loophole is something that Congress never really was thinking about when they passed this legislation,” said Krikorian. “It was clearly a mistake — we’ve seen the consequences of it, and we need to fix it.”
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