Saturday, February 6, 2021

CALIFORNIA - THE ONE PARTY MELTDOWN STATE

 

Exclusive: Trump Allies Look to Grenell for Potential California Governor Bid as Newsom Recall Gains Momentum

Former Director of National Intelligence Ric Grenell speaks to the news media during a press conference by members of Donald J. Trump for President, Inc., outside Clark County Election Department on November 5, 2020, in North Las Vegas. (Photo by Ronda Churchill / AFP) (Photo by RONDA CHURCHILL/AFP via Getty …
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It’s still not clear yet if California’s Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom will even face a recall election this year, but if he does, allies of former President Donald Trump are abuzz about one potential candidate: former acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell.

All eyes in Trump-world are on Grenell, who served as U.S. ambassador to Germany before Trump appointed him the first-ever openly gay cabinet member in U.S. history when he ran the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI).

“I think what you just pointed out with leadership in Texas and what Matt Gaetz has pointed out about leadership in Florida, that’s what California needs,” Grenell said in an appearance alongside Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) on Sean Hannity’s Fox News program this week. “We are dying to have somebody who listens to the science. We have Gov. Gavin Newsom who shut down the beaches. Now, this is not part of science. We have a governor who plays politics. But we also have a state that is completely run by one party. If you want to have the insiders from one political party, and the well-connected constantly get what they want, then you have to keep electing the same people over and over and that’s what we have in California. I think Gov. Abbott is exactly right. We need more freedom and we certainly shouldn’t be shutting down churches or beaches.”

In response to those comments, Hannity asked Grenell if he was announcing running for governor of California — noting that if he did run, he would have “mine and Matt Gaetz’s endorsement.”

“That’ll kill him,” Gaetz joked, because California is such a deep blue state, to which Hannity said, “that’s probably true — I’ll oppose you if needed, I’ll do whatever you want.”

Grenell laughed and then didn’t give a clear answer on if he is looking at it, instead saying that any Republican who runs for governor in California would have a “tough time.” Gaetz then compared such an uphill battle to Grenell’s quest during the Trump administration against “Spygate,” the scandal whereby officials from former President Barack Obama’s administration spied on President Trump’s 2016 campaign setting up what became the Russia scandal, on which Grenell declassified documents. Gaetz said he believes if Grenell ran, he could win. Hannity said he “seconds the notion” that Grenell could win, but as the music came on and the segment was ending, Hannity did not press him further on whether he would run.

Gaetz later tweeted the slightly-longer-than-two-minute video, with text accompanying it pushing Grenell again to run for governor:

While this made-for-TV moment did not answer the ultimate question, sources familiar with the matter say Grenell is definitely considering a run for the governor’s mansion if a recall election is triggered this year — and that a recall fight could be the best way for a Republican, especially one this close to Trump, to get into the governor’s mansion in California with just a plurality of the vote. What’s more, some of the hardest core backers of Trump told Breitbart News that they are all waiting on Grenell to figure out how to handle the future of California, one of the most deeply blue states in the last several years, which has not elected a Republican statewide in a very long time.

First and foremost, to even make this a possibility, the recall effort of Newsom would need to actually happen. Petitioners need to, by March 17, gather nearly 1.5 million verified signatures. Currently, a month and a half out, they are very close, with the latest reports this week putting the number of signatures at more than 1.4 million already.

Then, after that, assuming it happens, authorities in California would schedule a two-question ballot. The first question would be on whether voters want to recall Newsom. For that to succeed, it would need to garner a majority — 50 percent plus one vote — backing recalling Newsom. After that, if the first question on the recall ballot succeeds, it would set up the second question on the ballot: which candidate people want to replace Newsom.

The complicated process has played out in recent history in California before, and it led to the last time a Republican — actor Arnold Schwarzenegger — was elected governor. Schwarzenegger would of course go on to win reelection, but it was the recall of Democrat Gov. Gray Davis that cleared the way for him into the governor’s mansion.

Sal Russo, a GOP strategist who worked on the Davis recall effort and previously served as an aide to then-Gov. Ronald Reagan in the 1970s before later founding the Tea Party Express, told Breitbart News that the conditions for recalling Newsom — and replacing him with a Republican — are certainly there.

Russo compared the successful Davis recall to an unsuccessful effort to recall Democrat Gov. Jerry Brown in his first stint in the governor’s mansion in the late 1970s early 1980s. “What we found out was that before people would support a recall, they needed some evidence of misfeasance as well as malfeasance and that policy disagreements are not enough — you couldn’t get over the hump just because you disagreed with a governor,” Russo said in a phone interview. “You had to find some kind of wrongdoing, either malicious wrongdoing like some evidence of malfeasance or something where you really just screwed something up not just because you disagreed on their policy but because they just were not a competent manager of the state of California.”

In the failed Brown recall effort, the Democrat known as “Moonbeam” and who would later come back after Schwarzenegger had a disagreement with California farmers over whether to spray a certain chemical. That was not enough to get the job done. But in the case of Davis, there were sufficient political conditions to remove him because of his mishandling of California’s energy crisis.

“The Public Utilities Commission which was dominated by Gray Davis appointments at the time, they went to Gray and said, ‘we have to raise utility rates, that’s the only way you will beat this spike in prices,’” Russo said. “Gray said, ‘I know you’re right, but I don’t want to do that until I’m reelected so keep prices low and we’ll have to weather the storm.’ Well, that turned out worse. It was a disaster and there was clear malfeasance on his part where he knew the right thing to do and chose not to do it for his own political advancement. The second thing he did, which created some ire among the public, was when he was running for reelection, he campaigned up and down the state saying we needed to spend more money on this or that — he promised more money to everybody. Gray, I knew he had been briefed by his own Department of Finance that the state was in dire financial straits and we were going to have a huge budget deficit next year, and we had to cut and there was no place you could increase spending. Gray knew that, ignored that for the campaign, and promised everybody these increases in spending on everything he couldn’t deliver. So you have another great misfeasance example to go with Gray Davis. Those are essential elements to be successful.”

Newsom’s severe mishandling of the coronavirus pandemic may fit the bill of what Russo is talking about. He has locked the state down more so perhaps than any other state save New York, the nation’s original epicenter, closing churches, schools, restaurants, and more. But then Newsom was pictured eating at French Laundry, an upscale restaurant and one of the most expensive in the state, in close proximity to other elite guests dining with him. Russo said the optics of that moment — him pushing crushing restrictions from Sacramento on everyone else statewide and resisting for whatever reason scientific data supporting reopening schools and the economy all while not following his own guidelines — could be enough to drive Californians of all political stripes to oppose him in a recall effort.

What’s more, Newsom’s approval rating has now dipped below 50 percent — down to just 46 percent who approve of his performance while a plurality of 48 percent disapprove of him — according to the latest survey from Berkeley IGS. That poll, conducted from Jan. 23 to Jan. 29, surveyed 10,357 registered voters in California and has a margin of error of two percent. But it represents what the pollsters say is a significant shift against Newsom in just a year when in early 2020, he was enjoying majority approval. “These results should provide a strong warning to the Governor,” Berkeley IGS co-director Eric Shickler said in a release. “If the recall election does go forward, the state’s response to the pandemic needs to be seen as more successful for the Governor than it is now for him to be confident of the election outcome.”

The tricky part for Democrats in California is if the recall goes forward as it appears it probably will, and then Newsom falters and does not win a majority, is that on that second question on the ballot, if a majority elects to recall Newsom only a plurality is necessary to replace him. So, barring clear discipline from highly ambitious California Democrats — many of whom believe they are the rightful candidate next in line for the governor’s mansion should Newsom fall — a split ticket is likely and someone could theoretically win the governor’s mansion on the recall with a strong plurality perhaps as low as 30 percent.

That is where the Republicans, especially Trump supporters, are excited about the potential of a surprise Grenell candidate. The erstwhile and energetic former Trump aide, who has a commanding national profile, would be able to fundraise aggressively both in state and from national donors connected to Trump. Sources familiar with the matter told Breitbart News that should Grenell pull the trigger on a campaign, expect former President Trump to be personally involved in an aggressive way helping Grenell’s bid including but not limited to campaign appearances in California for him and fundraising for him.

That notion is backed by the many former Trump aides who spoke with Breitbart News, some on record and some on background, confirming the hype in Trump-world about the possibility of a perfect storm of a Democrat mess in California tilting perhaps the bluest state in the union into the GOP column for at least the rest of Newsom’s term. Some, like former Trump White House and campaign official Steven Cheung — who was part of the 2003 Davis recall effort — were less specific about Grenell but nonetheless optimistic about the possibilities in the Golden State.

“We have seen how failed leadership can lead to economic catastrophe and Californians leaving every single day,” Cheung told Breitbart News. “In a recall election, the candidate with America First bonafides and the breadth of experience to stand up to the establishment will ultimately win. In 2020, over six million Californians voted Republican and that level of intensity cannot be overstated as they will play a huge role in recalling Gov. Newsom.”

But others are very upfront about the excitement around Grenell in particular. “California’s problems are no longer about politics or policies,” Katrina Pierson, a former Trump campaign senior adviser, told Breitbart News. “When Gavin Newsom is not breaking his own rules at fancy restaurants, he has been asleep at the wheel and has failed at his basic duty: governing. He deserves to be recalled, but California can’t afford another career politician. Like many supporters of President Trump, if there is a recall election, I am holding out hope that Ric Grenell takes on this challenge. He is someone who will get the job done and stand true to his conservative principles.”

Andy Surabian, another former Trump White House and campaign adviser who is also the spokesman for the former president’s eldest son Donald Trump Jr., added praise for Grenell in a statement to Breitbart News.

“Ric is uniquely positioned to run and win should the recall of Gavin Newsom be successful as it appears it will be,” Surabian, who’s also a close ally of Grenell, said. “He’s the only potential candidate on the Republican side with the ability to raise the funds necessary to be competitive, galvanize former President Trump’s conservative-populist base and also be able to appeal to socially moderate Republicans and independents across the Golden State.”

A former adviser to the Trump Victory Finance Committee added that Grenell would be “the only person” who could pull off a statewide campaign in California as a Republican, making clear that the party — at least the dominant Trump lane — would unify behind him.

“It’s a Herculean task to run as a Republican statewide in California — it’s not just a large state, but a very expensive state to advertise in,” the former Trump Victory Finance Committee adviser told Breitbart News. “Ric Grenell is the only person who can both galvanize President Trump’s MAGA movement and raise the money necessary to win in a recall scenario. I am getting calls daily asking if Ric will run. There’s millions of dollars on the sidelines right now, ready for Ric to get in.”

The Rubin Report‘s Dave Rubin also spoke highly of Grenell in a recent NewsMax interview on the matter:

Grenell would likely have big Second Amendment community support in California, too. Daniel Genter, the co-chair of Sportsmen for Trump in 2020 and a Los Angeles resident who donated more than $500,000 to the Trump reelection effort in 2020 per Federal Election Commission records, sang Grenell’s praises too saying that everyone in Trump-world is waiting on the former president’s spy chief to decide what he is going to do.

“As a Co-Chair of Sportsmen for Trump, I have campaigned and invested in advancing the America First agenda here in California and across the nation,” Genter told Breitbart News. “With this recall closing in, I am waiting to see what Ric Grenell decides. I hope he runs because California would benefit from someone who is willing to tackle tough challenges, which Ric has done throughout his career.”

Chuck Michel, the president of the California Rifle & Pistol Association, which is very active in the state, told Breitbart News he hopes Grenell runs too.

“Ric Grenell would be great for California,” Michel said. “I don’t know what he’s doing or planning, but I do know the MAGA crowd is waiting on the sidelines, hoping he runs. It would be a complete game changer if he stepped into this race.”

While it remains to be seen at this stage what happens next, if Grenell runs he could end up just getting the people who voted for Trump in the 2020 presidential election in California to vote for him and winning the race depending on how the field shakes out. Democrats may have multiple candidates on that second ballot question that could seriously split their coalition, and without Trump in the White House to unify them, the ambition from different elements of the party from the establishment to the hard left to moderates and special interest type candidates likely to run too, Russo says the conditions for that perfect storm that could lead to a Trump-like Republican wining could happen.

“This is going to be a bitter thing with the Democrats,” Russo told Breitbart News. “First of all, there are multiple people — Democratic officeholders — that need a path to go someplace. So, ‘why should Joe get to go when I wanted to go?’ You have the prospect of having multiple Democrats and that’s the killer. It could be a killer for Republicans too if there’s too many serious candidates in the race. But clearly, it’s an opportunity for a Republican to win with 30 percent of the vote. That would not be an unheard of alternative. So, can Republicans win? Of course they can. The dynamics would need to continue to improve, as they have, and they have a path to get there but it’s not there yet. We don’t know who’s going to actually file as a Republican or who’s actually going to file as a Democrat. The Democrat question may be the bigger one because if you have a viable Democrat, it makes it a lot easier for Democrats who are fed up with Newsom — although the poll numbers show not that many Democrats are — you give them a safe haven. But without that candidate, you don’t have a safe haven and you encourage people in the Democrat Party to stick with the incumbent and not venture out with candidates none of whom they find appealing.”

U.S.-Mexico Top 10 Cartel ‘Most Wanted’ List Gets Update

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Authorities on both sides of the border updated a regional list of the top 10 wanted cartel figures responsible for most of the violence and smuggling activities in recent months. The list includes Gulf Cartel and Cartel Del Noreste-Los Zetas members.

The list is a joint effort by authorities on both sides of the border that has helped lead to the captures of several cartel operators.

Known as the Se Busca campaign, the list is a joint effort between the U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the Tamaulipas State Police.

The updated list features the current regional leader for the Cartel Del Noreste faction of Los Zetas, Juan Gerardo “El Huevo” Trevino, who authorities say is responsible for multiple shootouts and atrocities as part of his turf war.

The list features other figures, including the leader of the Reynosa faction of the Gulf Cartel Cesar “El Primito” Morfin. Under El Primito’s leadership, the Gulf Cartel continues to control all the drug and human smuggling activities from Reynosa to Miguel Aleman and most of the Rio Grande Valley. In recent months, the drug boss has, however, seen his power and influence start to fade due to constant fighting with the Matamoros faction of the Gulf Cartel and the CDN-Los Zetas.

The list features two commanders for the Gulf Cartel in Reynosa that were reported on exclusively by Breitbart Texas in 2019 for leading human smuggling operations. Known as “La Mimi” and “La Mierda,” Hector Sanchez Rivera and brother Ernesto are responsible for most of the violence in Reynosa.

Missing from the list is the leader of the Matamoros faction of the Gulf Cartel, Evaristo “El Vaquero” Cruz, responsible for numerous shootouts and disappearances. He also made recent headlines for being able to deliver toys, gifts, food, and supplies to needy families during holidays. It remains unclear why El Vaquero was removed from Se Busca. The Tamaulipas government still offers a cash reward for his capture.

The complete list includes:

1) Juan Gerardo Treviño-Chavez aka “El Huevo”

2) Humberto Alejandro URIBE-Mendoza aka “Soruyo”

3) Ernesto SANCHEZ-Rivera aka “M22” or “Cuate”

4) Pablo Misael RAMOS-Lara aka “El Pantera” or “El Mezqui”

5) Hector SANCHEZ-Rivera aka “La Mimi, El Cuate, M1”

6) Cesar MORFIN-Morfin aka “El Primito”

7) Alvaro Noe Morfin Morfin aka “R-8”

8) Jose Martin Cardenas-Garcia aka “Chiwilly”

9) Agustin Ordorica-Lopez

10) Carlos Roel COLLAZO-Rodriguez aka “Chuy 7” or “Chuy Sierra” or “Collazo”

Ildefonso Ortiz is an award-winning journalist with Breitbart Texas. He co-founded Breitbart Texas’ Cartel Chronicles project with Brandon Darby and senior Breitbart management. You can follow him on Twitter and on Facebook. He can be contacted at Iortiz@breitbart.com

Brandon Darby is the managing director and editor-in-chief of Breitbart Texas. He co-founded Breitbart Texas’ Cartel Chronicles project with Ildefonso Ortiz and senior Breitbart management. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook. He can be contacted at bdarby@breitbart.com.     

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Capitol Police Chief: U.S. Capitol Needs ‘Permanent’ Wall to Protect Congress

WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 16: The U.S. Capitol is seen behind a fence with razor wire during sunrise on January 16, 2021 in Washington, DC. After last week's riots at the U.S. Capitol Building, the FBI has warned of additional threats in the nation's capital and in all 50 states. …
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The United States Capitol needs a “permanent” security wall around it to protect members of Congress, Acting U.S. Capitol Police (USCP) Chief Yogananda Pittman says.

In a statement on Thursday, Pittman said the security at the Capitol building must include a “permanent fencing” barrier — a similar barrier to the one halted by President Joe Biden’s administration at the U.S.-Mexico border.

“As I noted earlier this week, even before September 11, 2001, security experts argued that more needed to be done to protect the U.S. Capitol,” Pittman said in a statement. “In fact, a 2006 security assessment specifically recommended the installation of a permanent perimeter fence around the Capitol.”

“In light of recent events, I can unequivocally say that vast improvements to the physical security infrastructure must be made to include permanent fencing, and the availability of ready, back-up forces in close proximity to the Capitol,” Pittman continued.

Fencing with barbed wire at the top has been surrounding the Capitol for weeks now, as Breitbart News noted, to protect Biden during his January 20 inaugural ceremonies. Other barriers have gone up around Washington, DC, to keep the public out of particular areas.

Last week, Biden halted the construction of security barriers at the U.S.-Mexico border. In an executive order, Biden called the construction project “a waste of money” and “not a serious policy solution.”

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

Biden Kills 5K Construction Jobs by Canceling Border Wall, Says Former CBP Commissioner

Crews construct a section of border wall in San Bernardino National Wildlife Refuge, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020, in Douglas, Ariz. Construction of the border wall, mostly in government owned wildlife refuges and Indigenous territory, has led to environmental damage and the scarring of unique desert and mountain landscapes that conservationists …
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President Joe Biden’s order to cancel the building of new border wall systems authorized by Congress will kill about 5,000 construction jobs, according to the most recent former head of U.S. Customs and Border Protection. In addition, it will cost other earners in the steel, concrete, and technology industries who supply project materials.

In response to the cancellation of border wall systems contracted by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), former Commissioner Morgan told Breitbart News that Biden’s order will cost Americans about 5,000 high-paying jobs.

“Conservatively, it’s going to cost about 5,000 jobs — construction workers — right now,” Morgan said in an exclusive interview. “It’s gonna cost them their livelihood.”

The former commissioner said it is not just these construction jobs that will be hit by Biden’s executive order signed on his first day in office. He said union members in the steel industry that produce the bollards will be impacted.

“Now, keep in mind, they’re going to be paid for what they produced so far,” he explained. “But for the 350 miles that Congress funded for construction, all that goes out the window.”

“So all the work that they were counting on, you know, the money they are counting on to feed their families and pay their mortgage, all that goes out the window,” Morgan continued.

In addition to the steel production, the border wall systems also include lighting, state-of-the-art surveillance technology, and all access road construction. Those who produce all of these will be impacted as well, he stated.

Morgan said there are other costs in canceling the projects. Those include reversing the projects that have started but are not completed.

“Right now, we have about 270,000 tons of steel bollard fencing that have been produced but not put in place,” the commissioner said. “Think about that. We are not only going to have to pay the contractors for that, but then we’re gonna have to pay the additional money to either destroy it, which is unconscionable, or store it.”

Additionally, Morgan said we will have to undo the partially completed projects.

“Let’s say a ditch has been dug to lay rebar,” he said. “We are actually going to have to pay the contractor to pull out the rebar and fill the ditch back in the way it was.”

“Conservatively,” Commissioner Morgan concluded, “we’re looking at costing taxpayers billions of dollars.”

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 Sunday-morning talk show, What’s Your Point? Follow him on Twitter @BobPriceBBTX, Parler @BobPrice, and Facebook.

EXCLUSIVE: Mexican Border State Taxi Drivers Again Face Cartel Work or Death

Cartel Murder
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The fierce cartel turf war in northern Mexico is turning taxi drivers into targets as criminal organizations force commercial motorists into their ranks–or else. Tamaulipas is again seeing a spike in taxi driver murders as factions of the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas fight for control of the region.

The trend focuses in Ciudad Victoria, the capital of Tamaulipas. Since the beginning of 2021, there were more than a dozen attacks with minimal information released by state officials. Organized crime members are forcing taxi drivers to work as distributors or lookouts, or face torture and death. No primary cartels are taking public credit, however.

Both are believed responsible for most of the violence in the state. The fighting in Ciudad Victoria has manifested itself primarily by targeted killings and abductions.

The trend of killing taxi drivers began in mid-January when gunmen passed themselves off as clients and shot a driver based out of the Walmart in the Adelita’s neighborhood. The gunmen shot the victim twice on the head with a .40 caliber pistol and fled the scene.

On January 18, a similar case took place in the Casa Blanca neighborhood when a gunman broke into a house and killed the intended victim with a rifle.

On January 19, another gunman broke into a house in the Enrique Cardenas neighborhood and shot a 32-year-old taxi driver. The victim survived the attack.

On January 20, a gunman on a motorcycle shot and killed a driver in the Pajaritos neighborhood.

Several more cases have been noted in recent days, despite the claims by officials that crime is decreasing.

Editor’s Note: Breitbart Texas traveled to the Mexican States of Tamaulipas, Coahuila, and Nuevo León to recruit citizen journalists willing to risk their lives and expose the cartels silencing their communities.  The writers would face certain death at the hands of the various cartels that operate in those areas including the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas if a pseudonym were not used. Breitbart Texas’ Cartel Chronicles are published in both English and in their original Spanish. This article was written by “Francisco Morales” from Tamaulipas. 

164 Migrants Apprehended in Texas Human Smuggling Stash Houses near Border

Laredo Human Smuggling Stash House -- U.S. Border Patrol/Laredo Sector
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Border Patrol agents in two Texas border sectors apprehended more than 160 migrants who were being held in human smuggling stash houses. The apprehensions took place in the Laredo and Rio Grande Valley Sectors.

Rio Grande Valley Sector agents received information about a suspected stash house in Roma, Texas, on January 26, according to information obtained from Border Patrol officials. The agents teamed up with Starr County Sheriff’s Office deputies to investigate.

As the law enforcement team arrived at the house, the migrants fled from the property. A search of the area led to the arrest of 59 illegal immigrants, officials stated. One of the migrants sustained an ankle injury while attempting to jump a fence.

Doctors at a nearby hospital treated the man and reported he also tested positive for COVID-19, officials stated.

Later that day, Hidalgo County Sheriff’s Office deputies contacted Weslaco Station Border Patrol agents and requested assistance in the border community of Donna, Texas. Deputies reported receiving a 911 call from someone inside the home. Agents arrived and conducted an investigation that led to the arrests of 41, the report continues. Agents conducted an immigration interview and identified the migrants as having come to the U.S. from Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, and Nicaragua.

Up the border in the Laredo Sector, agents teamed up with the Webb County Constables Office Precinct 3, the Laredo Police Department, and Homeland Security Investigations to shut down three human smuggling stash house operations, also on January 26.

Law enforcement sources obtained information about people being held against their will in stash houses. The law enforcement team moved in and found migrants from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Mexico. The agents also arrested a U.S. citizen who served as the “caretaker” of the illegal immigrants. Officials said none of the migrants wore any kind of personal protection equipment to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

In total, the Laredo Sector agents arrested 64 migrants.

This brought the one day total from these two sectors to 164 arrests in human smuggling stash houses. These represent migrants who managed to cross the unsecured border undetected and were smuggled into these stash houses to await transportation further inland.

Laredo officials report stash house apprehensions account for only about 4 percent of all migrant arrests in the sector.

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 Sunday-morning talk show, What’s Your Point? Follow him on Twitter @BobPriceBBTX, Parler @BobPrice, and Facebook.

MOST ESTIMATES ARE THAT ONLY 1 IN 8 INVADING UNREGISTERED DEMS ARE EVER CAUGHT. THE REST MAKE IT TO OUR JOBS, WELFARE LINES AND VOTING BOOTHS WITH ONLY A MEXICAN FLAG IN THEIR POCKETS.

“In truth, we do not know exactly how many people cross the border unlawfully and evade immigration authorities,” the researchers note. “We can only estimate these figures based on how many individuals U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement believe slip through their detection.”


MEXIFORNIA IS THE DEMOCRAT-CONTROLLED STATE WITH THE HIGHEST TAXES AND THE MOST ILLEGALS. 


"If the racist "Sensenbrenner Legislation" passes the US Senate, there is no doubt that a massive civil disobedience movement will emerge. Eventually labor unions can merge with the immigrant civil rights and "Immigrant Sanctuary" movements (UNIDOus) to enable us to either form a political party or to do heavy duty reforming of the existing Democratic Party. The final steps is to elect our OWN governors of all the states within Aztlan (formerly the United States)." 


Study: 14.5M Illegal Aliens Living in U.S., Costing Americans $134B a Year



Joe Biden Considers Abolishing Most ICE Detention of Criminal Illegal Aliens

FLORENCE, AZ - FEBRUARY 28: Immigrant detainees walk through the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), detention facility on February 28, 2013 in Florence, Arizona. With the possibility of federal budget sequestration, ICE released 303 immigration detainees in the last week from detention facilities throughout Arizona. More than 2,000 immigration detainees …
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President Joe Biden is considering ending most Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention of criminal illegal aliens, according to a report.

On Tuesday, billed as a “racial equity” agenda, Biden announced that he would instruct the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to end its contracts with privately-managed prisons that hold more than 14,000 convicts — nearly all of which are foreign nationals.

In addition, the open borders lobby is urging Biden to end ICE’s contracts with privately-managed detention facilities which hold the overwhelming majority of criminal illegal aliens for the agency. Sources close to the Biden administration said the idea is being floated around the White House.

Politico reports:

President Joe Biden is considering an executive order to phase out government contracts with private immigrant detention facilities, multiple sources with knowledge of the process say. But he has no immediate plans to issue such an order and the White House would only say that it “will take additional action in the future relating to the detention of undocumented immigrants.”
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Two advocates told POLITICO that, as of Tuesday, they did not believe an order would ultimately materialize. The White House plans to roll out other immigration-related executive actions later this week. In a briefing on Tuesday, Susan Rice, the director of Biden’s domestic policy council, said that the order pertaining to private prisons is “silent on what may or may not transpire with ICE facilities.” [Emphasis added]

Currently, more than 14,000 detainees are in ICE custody.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is pushing the Biden administration to sign such an executive order, writing in a post that “we must include ending for-profit immigrant detention & examine the use of for-profit services that squeeze families of the incarcerated in public prisons, too.”

According to the most recent totals provided to Breitbart News, more than 80 percent of illegal aliens in ICE detention are held in privately-managed facilities. Their abolishment would mean less detention space for ICE and in return would force fewer arrests and a drop-off in deportations.

Already, Biden has signed executive orders to relax interior immigration enforcement and halt deportations of all illegal aliens, unless they are convicted of aggravated felonies. The deportation order has been stopped by a federal judge after Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit.

Biden’s order, which came in the form of a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) memo, mandates that ICE agents only arrest illegal aliens who have been convicted of aggravated felonies, are known or suspected terrorists, or those apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border after November 1, 2020.

Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) Director of Policy Jessica Vaughan notes that the Biden order means that ICE can only arrest, detain, and deport “at most” about 15 percent of the nation’s illegal alien population.

“This is the part that is enticing more migrants to the border,” Vaughan wrote in a post.

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

15 Migrants Arrested in Human Smuggling Attempt on California Coast

Human smuggling boat found on California beach. (Photo: U.S. Customs and Border Protection)
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CBP Air and Marine Operations agents assisted other law enforcement agencies in apprehending 15 migrants after a boat landing on the coast of California.

A multi-agency effort ended with the arrest of 15 migrants being smuggled in a small boat off the coast of California, according to information obtained from U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials.

A U.S. Coast Guard maritime patrol aircraft spotted a panga-style vessel that made landfall near Goleta, California. The group began to scatter once they reached the beach.

Border Patrol agents and ICE Homeland Security Investigations agents — including members of the Los Angeles Border Enforcement Security Taskforce — arrived on the scene and began a search for the fleeing migrants.

The search concluded with the successful arrest of 15 migrants. An immigration interview identified the migrants as ten adult males, one juvenile male, and four adult females. Officials reported two of the men were Venezuelan nationals. The others were all identified as Mexican nationals. All 15 had no documents for legally being present in the United States, officials stated.

The multi-agency operation included CBP Air and Marine Operations and Office of Field Operations agents and officers in addition to the agencies mentioned above. Local police officers assisted in the operation by providing perimeter security.

Border Patrol agents transported all 15 migrants to the station for processing and removal under Title 42 Coronavirus protection protocols from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

This protocol, which leads to about 90 percent of migrants being removed within about two hours remains in place during the Biden administration — so far — CBP officials told Breitbart Texas.

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 Sunday-morning talk show, What’s Your Point? Follow him on Twitter @BobPriceBBTX, Parler @BobPrice, and Facebook.

WHAT IF WE USED THIS $134 BILLION TO OFFER FREE EDUCATION TO AMERICANS SO HIGH TECH WOULDN'T HAVE AN EXCUES TO BOATLOAD IN MILLIONS OF CHINESE AND INDIAN TECH WORKERS? 

 BIDEN CRONY MARK ZUCKERBERG IS AN ADVOCATE FOR OPEN BORDERS, NO CAP ON IMPORTING CHEAP TECH WORKERS AND A MAJOR DONOR TO THE MEXICAN FASCIST PARTY OF UNIDOus.

Study: 14.5M Illegal Aliens Living in U.S., Costing Americans $134B a Year

PIEDRAS NEGRAS, MEXICO - FEBRUARY 08: Migrants, most of whom are part of a recently arrived caravan, stand in line for breakfast at a migrant hostel as they wait to apply for asylum into the United States on February 07, 2019 in Piedras Negras, Mexico. The hostel is holding approximately …
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Roughly 14.5 million illegal aliens live across the United States, costing American taxpayers about $134 billion every year, a new study reveals.

An annual study released by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) finds that the illegal alien population in the U.S. has grown by at least 200,000 since 2019 and has cost taxpayers an additional $2 billion since last year.

Though the number of illegal aliens in the U.S. has increased, the FAIR study states that growth among the illegal alien population has slowed over the last year because of the Chinese coronavirus crisis and because of former President Donald Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” policy, which stopped the practice of border crossers being released into the interior of the country.

“As many as 60 percent of all new illegal aliens in any given year are those who have overstayed visas,” FAIR researchers write. “Thanks to a timely travel freeze implemented by the Trump administration to stop the spread of the virus, far fewer people entered the United States in recent months, so far fewer people had the opportunity to overstay their visas.”

The growth of the illegal alien population and its fiscal burden on taxpayers has been enormous over the last decade, though. In 2010, for instance, FAIR estimated the illegal alien population stood at just over 11 million, indicating a more than 31 percent increase in the population in just ten years.

(Federation for American Immigration Reform)

(Federation for American Immigration Reform)

The study found that most illegal aliens in the U.S. tend to live near the southern border or in states that offer expansive sanctuary protections that shield them from arrest and deportation by federal immigration officials.

“The ten states with the largest estimated illegal alien populations account for just under three-fourths (71%) of the national illegal alien total,” the study states.

Most significantly, the study details the federal government’s ineffectiveness to properly count the illegal alien population — including the annual total of those who illegally cross U.S. borders and visa overstays.

“In truth, we do not know exactly how many people cross the border unlawfully and evade immigration authorities,” the researchers note. “We can only estimate these figures based on how many individuals U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement believe slip through their detection.”

The study comes as President Joe Biden is easing interior immigration enforcement by only prioritizing the arrest and detainment of those convicted of felonies and seeks a halt to deportations for at least 100 days.

Biden has also proposed an amnesty for nearly the entire illegal alien population, a policy that would add millions of foreign nationals to the U.S. labor market at a time of mass unemployment where 18 million Americans remain jobless.

Every year, the U.S. gives green cards to about 1.2 million legal immigrants and another 1.4 million visas to foreign nationals. The nation’s mass legal immigration process is in addition to hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens who successfully crossed the border or overstay their visas annually.

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