Friday, May 7, 2021

LAWYER JOE BIDEN'S CROOKED LYING LAWYER BUD ANDREW CUOMO FEELS THE HEAT - MAY HAVE TO GO OUT AND GROPE A FEW WOMEN

 

GOP Senators Ask Finance Committee to Investigate NY Gov. Cuomo’s Handling of Nursing Homes During Pandemic

In this file photo, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo speaks during a COVID-19 briefing on July 6, 2020 in New York City. (David Dee Delgado/Getty Images)
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Six Republican senators have sent a letter to the Senate Finance Committee asking for a congressional investigation into how New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo handled nursing homes during the coronavirus pandemic and the steep death toll in those institutions.

Sens. Ben Sasse, (R-NE), Chuck Grassley (R-IA), John Thune (R-SD), Tim Scott (R-SC), John Barrasso (R-WY), and James Lankford (R-OK) signed the letter addressed to Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D-OR).

The letter said, in part:

We ask that you open an investigation and hold a committee hearing on New York’s cover-up of nursing home deaths. Transparency and accountability are not partisan aims and must be taken seriously by this committee.

Governor Cuomo’s administration reportedly knew that over 9,000 nursing home residents had died of COVID-19 by May 2020 — approximately 35 percent of the state’s total COVID-19 deaths. However, Governor Cuomo’s administration publicly claimed that just 21 percent of the COVID deaths were in nursing homes. This is horrifying and unacceptable.

While we appreciate the hearing this committee held in March on the issue of COVID-19 nursing home oversight and the investigation that the U.S. attorney in Brooklyn and the FBI have opened into the action of the Cuomo administration more must be done.

The Law 360 website reported on the development:

In remarks to reporters on Wednesday, Cuomo, a Democrat, dismissed the call for an investigation as Republicans playing politics, saying they had politicized the COVID-19 pandemic since the beginning.

“They were in denial of COVID,” Cuomo said. “You had the president of the United States who said it wasn’t a problem. It was going to go away. We’re going to reopen by April. He wanted to blame the Democratic governors for COVID.”

Cuomo adviser Richard Azzopardi told Law360 the GOP senators’ bid for an investigation is an “unserious political charade.”

Law 360 reported Cuomo is also facing an impeachment investigation by the New York State Assembly on allegations of sexual harassment — charges he denies — and the handling of nursing home deaths.

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JOE BIDEN - OUR ECONOMY IS MOVING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION TO SERVE MY CRONIES ON WALL STREET AND OUR BORDERS WIDE OPEN TO FILL MILLIONS OF 'CHEAP' LABOR JOBS

 

Joe Biden Defiant in Face of Grim Economic Report: ‘Our Economy is Moving in the Right Direction’

US President Joe Biden pauses as he speaks about the April jobs report in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on May 7, 2021. - The US economy gained just 266,000 jobs in April and the unemployment rate increased slightly to 6.1 percent, the Labor Department …
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President Joe Biden was defiant in reaction to the grim jobs and unemployment report released Friday.

“Today there is more evidence that our economy is moving in the right direction, but it’s clear we have a long way to go,” he said.

The president dismissed media commentary pointing out the disparity between the estimated job creation numbers and the jobs actually created in April.

“Listening to commentators today as I was getting dressed, you might think that we should be disappointed,” Biden said with a chuckle.

Unemployment rose to 6.1 percent in April, the report noted, the first time unemployment increased since April 2020 when the coronavirus pandemic began. Although analysts had expected up to a million jobs created in April, only 266,000 jobs were actually reported.

Biden stressed that the report was actually good news.

“Quite frankly, we’re moving more rapidly than I thought we would,” he said, arguing he always felt the recovery would be a “marathon” not a “sprint.”

Republicans questioned Biden’s decision to send expanded $300 a week checks to unemployed Americans until September 2021, arguing it was keeping workers on the sidelines during the pandemic.

But Biden said the economic news only proved the checks were necessary

“This is progress,” Biden continued. “And it’s a testament to our new strategy of growing this economy from the bottom up and the middle out.”

Biden also defended his call for $6 trillion in spending and dramatic tax hikes on businesses and the wealthy to boost the economy.

“The American people are counting on us. So, let’s get it done,” he said.

U.S. Chamber of Commerce Calls For End of Additional $300 Weekly Unemployment Benefits After Joe Biden’s Poor Jobs Report

SAN FRANCISCO, CA - JULY 08: A 'now hiring' sign is posted outside of a Ross Dress for Less store on July 8, 2016 in San Francisco, California. According to the the U.S. Labor Department, employment growth surged with 287,000 added jobs in June. The unemployment rate inched up to …
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The U.S. Chamber of Commerce called on Congress Friday to terminate the additional $300 weekly unemployment benefits after Joe Biden’s poor April jobs report.

The Chamber’s Chief Policy Officer Neil Bradley stated in a release:

The disappointing jobs report makes it clear that paying people not to work is dampening what should be a stronger jobs market. We need a comprehensive approach to dealing with our workforce issues and the very real threat unfilled positions poses to our economic recovery from the pandemic. One step policymakers should take now is ending the $300 weekly supplemental unemployment benefit. Based on the Chamber’s analysis, the $300 benefit results in approximately one in four recipients taking home more in unemployment than they earned working.

Breitbart News’s John Carney reported that the April numbers could reflect less hiring by “enhanced unemployment benefits,” as numerous businesses say “they cannot hire enough workers to fill positions because of the government’s enhanced unemployment benefits program.”

South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster (R) echoed the Chamber’s concerns in a Thursday statement:

This labor shortage is being created in large part by the supplemental unemployment payments that the federal government provides claimants on top of their state unemployment benefits. What was intended to be a short-term financial assistance for the vulnerable and displaced during the height of the pandemic has turned into a dangerous federal entitlement, incentivizing and paying workers to stay at home rather than encouraging them to return to the workplace.

The reaction to the Chamber’s demand to end the extra weekly benefits of $300 varied on Twitter:

Carney also wrote, “the U.S. economy added just 266,000 jobs in April and the unemployment rate ticked up to 6.1 percent, the Labor Department said in its monthly labor assessment Friday, smashing expectations.”


Carney: Why Businesses Might Not Raise Wages Despite Labor Shortage

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When businesses complain they cannot find enough workers to fill open positions, the standard response is that they should raise wages to make working for them more attractive.

That might not work now.

In fact, many employers are likely to hold off on wage hikes even if that means their payrolls expand more slowly than they would like.

That’s because many business owners believe that enhanced unemployment benefits, which pay an extra $300 per week, are creating a labor shortage. But that labor shortage is likely to be temporary because the American Rescue Act, passed in March, extended the enhanced benefits only through September.

That means that it is likely that in just a few months, there will be millions of more Americans willing to work for less than they will work for today.

It’s not people do not want to work or do not understand that in the long-run they are better off employed than on the dole. It’s just that right now, the enhanced unemployment benefits pay so much that workers rationally choose to take the higher income for a few more months, quite reasonably expecting they will be able to find work when the enhancement expires.

Jobless benefits in some states top $20 per hour. Indeed, in Washington state out-of-work residents can receive as much as $28 per hour. An employer seeking to get someone getting paid that much not to work not only has to offer more—she has to offer a lot more. Many people will quite rationally choose to not have to do any work at all for a few months while getting $17 per hour than work for $20 per hour. The enhancements have raised what economists call the “reservation wage”—the amount it takes to get someone to give up an hour of their leisure—beyond what many businesses can afford to pay.

Someone getting the maximum benefit in Iowa, for example, is receiving the equivalent of close to $20 per hour. That’s amounts to an annual salary of around $41,000. For a lot of people, that’s enough not just to get by but to live well. It’s $10,000 over the median income in Iowa. At that level of unemployed income, for many people the “reservation wage” becomes almost infinite. There’s almost nothing you can do to get someone getting that much money back to work—except lower the benefits.

Remember, ultimately what controls wages is the ability and willingness of consumers to pay for the final product, whether that is a car or a meal in a restaurant. If labor is so scarce that an employer would lose money hiring at the going rate, the job will remain vacant.

So why not raise wages temporarily to bring on new workers? That’s harder than it sounds. In the first place, many businesses cannot, as a practical matter, raise wages only for new workers. A pay hike to attract sidelined workers typically must be given to the entire payroll.

More importantly, wages are sticky. Employers find it very difficult to lower wages for workers. Doing so often prompts workers to leave for other jobs and can kill employee morale. That’s probably especially true if workers are hired at one wage in the spring and told in the fall that they’re getting a pay cut.

In other words, in a situation where the labor supply is temporarily and artificially depressed by government policy, many businesses will choose to wait it out rather than irrevocably raise labor costs.

The result is that enhanced jobless benefits are likely to depress employment without raising wages for workers.

 

Hence the Biden administration has moved to set up a state-sponsored industrial police force, based on the trade unions, to carry out an organised suppression of the working class in the interests of finance capital.

Rampant Wall Street speculation: The fever chart of a terminally diseased system

Over the past year, the global financial system, above all Wall Street, has been in the grip of a speculative mania, the like of which has never been seen before in economic history. Two questions therefore immediately arise: how has this situation come about and what are its implications?

In March 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic began to make its effects felt and workers undertook wildcat strikes and walkouts to demand health measures to protect their lives and those of their families, the financial markets plunged.

In this Oct. 14, 2020 file photo, pedestrians pass the New York Stock Exchange in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)

Wall Street was concerned that any effective health measures to contain the spread of the pandemic would result in a collapse in the bloated price of financial assets, above all stocks, that had been boosted by the trillions of dollars poured into the financial system by the US Federal Reserve and other central banks following the crash of 2008.

The US government and the Fed rode once again to the rescue of Wall Street. The Trump administration organised a multi-billion-dollar bailout of the corporations under the CARES Act while the Fed stepped in to provide trillions of dollars of support for all areas of the financial system, including for the first time the purchase of stocks.

Since then, on the back of this $4 trillion intervention and rising, as the Fed continues to purchase financial assets at the rate of more than $1.4 trillion a year, the world has seen an unprecedented orgy of financial speculation.

Wall Street’s main stock index, the S&P 500, has risen by some 88 percent since its March 2020 lows, reaching record highs on multiple occasions throughout the past year. Margin debt, used to finance the speculation in shares, has reached record levels, and the yield on the lowest-rated corporate junk bonds—barely one step away from default—has fallen to historic lows.

But the most egregious expression of the speculation has been the rise of the cryptocurrency market. Over the past year the most prominent cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, has risen by 600 percent, rising from about $7,000 per bitcoin to $54,000, reaching a high of $65,000 in the middle of last month.

Last month Coinbase, a trading exchange for cryptocurrencies, launched itself on Wall Street with a floatation that put its market value at $85 billion, compared to its valuation of $8 billion in 2018, exceeding that of some of the world’s major banks and the valuation of the NASDAQ exchange on which it was launched.

However, in recent days, even the level of bitcoin speculation has been put in the shade by another cryptocurrency, Dogecoin.

It was created in 2013 as a joke. Whereas the promoters of Bitcoin insist that it has some intrinsic value because it may be used to organise financial transactions without the intervention of a bank or some other third party via a blockchain ledger system, no such claims are made for Dogecoin.

Despite being worthless, Dogecoin has risen in price 11,000 percent this year alone. This week its market value reached $87 billion compared to $315 million a year ago. And as one cryptocurrency enjoys a rapid rise, speculators start a search for the next “big thing.”

The Dogecoin phenomenon is not an isolated event. It seems to be an expression of what could be described as a new operating principle in the world of speculation—the more worthless the so-called asset, the higher its price.

A little sandwich shop in Paulsboro, New Jersey, with sales of just $13,976, has made financial news after it was revealed that its parent company, Hometown International, achieved a market valuation of $100 million last month. Two of its biggest shareholders are Duke and Vanderbilt universities.

The rise of Dogecoin also reveals the high-level intervention of hedge funds and other financial institutions seeking to take advantage of its price momentum.

Then there is the case of non-fungible tokens (NFTs). These are images of pieces of art, a sports photo, or even a tweet—the first ever tweet issued by Twitter founder Jack Dorsey was sold as an NFT for $2.9 million—that are stored on a blockchain ledger. They are like a collector’s item but are not stored physically but digitally.

The class dynamics of this speculative orgy, fuelled by the endless supply of virtually free money by the Fed, are revealed in the escalation of the wealth of the world’s billionaires.

In the last year, as COVID-19 brought untold pain, suffering and economic distress for billions of the world’s people, the combined wealth of the global billionaires rose by 60 percent, from $8 trillion to $13.1 trillion. The number of billionaires rose by 660 to 2,775—the highest rate of increase and the largest number ever.

In the US, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and Tesla CEO Elon Musk have wealth of $177 billion and $151 billion respectively.

The speculative frenzy has extended into the broader economy. The prices of major industrial commodities, such as steel, lumber, copper, and soybeans, which feed into inflation for workers and consumers, are rapidly rising.

But the financial authorities, having created this frenzy by the endless outflow of cheap money since the crash of 2008 and the near collapse of March 2020, are caught in a trap of their own making. They fear that any move to try to bring it under control, with even a slight tightening of the financial spigots, will set off a financial crisis.

The extreme nervousness over such an outcome was revealed earlier this week when US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, a former Fed chief, raised the prospect that the central bank may have to tighten interest rates at some point. Almost immediately, fearing market reaction, she walked back the comment saying she was neither advocating nor predicting a rise in rates.

The incident has cast a revealing light on one of the most significant developments in the US—the open advocacy of unionisation of the workforce by the Biden administration.

Last month in an executive order, Biden created a “White House Task Force on Worker Organizing and Empowerment” which includes as members Yellen, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. The “empowerment” of government-sponsored unions takes place under the direction of cabinet officials responsible for military operations, economic policy and domestic repression.

The administration is fearful that the pent-up anger in the working class over the pandemic and the enrichment of the financial oligarchy at the expense of hundreds of thousands of lives, will be further fuelled by the escalation of inflation, leading to an uncontrolled eruption of the class struggle that will come into headlong conflict with the institutions of the capitalist state.

In times past, the Fed would have moved to contain such an upsurge by lifting interest rates and inducing a recession. But that road is now fraught with danger because even a relatively small increase threatens to bring down the speculative financial house of cards.

Hence the Biden administration has moved to set up a state-sponsored industrial police force, based on the trade unions, to carry out an organised suppression of the working class in the interests of finance capital.

The rampant speculation of the past year and the accelerated siphoning of wealth to the upper levels of society amid death and economic devastation must be the occasion for the drawing up by the working class of a balance sheet of the experiences through which it has passed.

There is no prospect for reform of the present capitalist socio-economic order towards meeting social need—the illusion peddled by the Democrats and their ardent supporters in the pseudo-left organisations. The past year has demonstrated that everything in society—including the very right to life itself—is subordinated to the insatiable demands of finance capital.

The present speculative bubble, like all others before it, is destined to burst. The financial oligarchs have already prepared their exit plans and golden parachutes as they have done in the past. The working class, however, has no escape. The collapse will bring an even greater economic disaster on top of what has already taken place.

The only viable, realistic solution to the terminal disease that has gripped the capitalist socio-economic order is the fight for a socialist program to wrest the commanding heights of the economy and its financial system out of the hands of the present-day ruling class and begin the economic reconstruction of society to meet social needs.

 There are about 10,000 people associated with MS-13 in the United States.... Joe Biden wants to know if they're registered to vote Democrat for more?

David Limbaugh: Time for 'Moderate' Dems to Stand Up to Biden at the Border

 By David Limbaugh | May 7, 2021 | 10:26am EDT

 

Migrants from Central America make a run for it after crossing into the United States from Mexico on April 29, 2021 near Yuma, Ariz. (Photo credit: Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)
Migrants from Central America make a run for it after crossing into the United States from Mexico on April 29, 2021 near Yuma, Ariz. (Photo credit: Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)

Everyone knows President Joe Biden ran as a moderate and is governing as a leftist radical, yet we see little evidence of Democrats, including the liberal media, breaking ranks from him. Why?

I've previously written about the lack of Democrats' dissent from their party's undeniable extremism and have always been met with the response that they don't dissent because there are no longer any moderate Democrats. Yet when I talk to my Democratic friends, they vehemently deny that they personally are extremists. Are they? Or might they just as well be?

Rank-and-file Democrats can no longer blame their rank partisanship and extremism on Donald Trump, who is no longer president. It's past time for them — and never-Trump Republicans, for that matter — to answer for Biden's disastrous policies.

Let's look at Biden's border debacle as one of many flagrant examples of raging Democratic and media hypocrisy, for they're giving Biden a complete pass and even defending him on the very policies for which they berated Trump.

Biden wholly owns this border train wreck, though he disingenuously continues to blame Trump. Trump's border policies were working. We had seen major progress in sealing the border; fewer migrants were entering the United States and cartels were being stymied. But Democrats, wedded to their open-borders agenda and their faux compassion for illegal immigrants, castigated Trump as a racist and particularly zeroed in on his allegedly inhumane treatment of children. Now the cartels are flourishing, and our borders are being overrun. And we know all the hyperventilating over the children had nothing to do with any genuine concern for them but with demonizing and defeating Trump — and cynically promoting Democrats' policies to flood the borders with future Democratic voters.

We know this because the Biden administration is doing nothing to address this growing and dangerously out-of-control border situation. This crisis is a direct result of Biden's virtual invitation to migrants to come on up, his promises of amnesty and welfare for illegals, and his emasculation of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Purely for appearances' sake, as we now know, Biden put Vice President Kamala Harris in charge of this crisis, and she has done nothing except cackle when asked about her progress.

Border crossings by migrant children are way up. Children are being held, and Democrats are supplying misleading photos to dupe the public. U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar accused the Department of Homeland Security of trying to create the impression that the facility in Donna, Tex. was emptying out, when the youths held there were simply moved to a nearby location.

"All they're doing is, they're moving kids from one tent to the other and saying, 'Oh, they're not in the Border Patrol [custody],' but they're right next door," said Cuellar. This is a major scandal.

A few Democratic politicians are calling Biden out, but most Democratic officeholders, Democratic voters and liberal media outlets remain entirely silent or proactively deceitful about this travesty.

Democratic Sen. Kyrsten Sinema met with the Arizona National Guard and reported that the federal government is not doing enough to deal with the issue. She joined Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) in sending a letter to Biden to support Gov. Doug Ducey's request that the government reimburse Arizona for its expenses in deploying the Guard. Ducey had said: "It's become evidently clear that Arizona needs the National Guard, and the White House is aware of that. Yet, to this day, there has been no action from this administration, and it doesn't look like they are going to act any time soon. If this administration isn't going to do anything, then we will."

Don't overlook those charges: The White House is aware but has taken no action and is unlikely to take action.

Let's review. Democrats and the media savaged President Trump for his inhumane treatment of children, using photos of kids in cages during the Obama administration, no less. The border situation under Biden is worse in every respect, from cartels to the inhumane treatment of migrant children to the border being overrun to illegal migrants being shipped all over the nation and in some cases becoming eligible for government handouts. But Biden denies the observable facts; his administration submits bogus photos to deceive the American people; he's ignoring border-state governors' requests for assistance; he pretends to empower Harris to address the problem and she does nothing; and the crisis continues to explode. Yet (most) Democrats and the media cover and thus enable this nightmare.

No self-respecting nation can long survive without protecting its borders, and yet one of our two major political parties and its media cohorts are deliberately fanning this dangerous flame in their quest for one-party rule. It would be bad enough if Democrats and the media were pursuing these abominable policies for misguided ideological reasons, but it's worse. This is about raw power and placing their party's interests above the national interest: They advocate open borders to paint themselves as loving and tolerant and tar Republicans as racists, and then they encourage millions of illegals to flood the borders to get sanctuary and welfare and be fast-tracked for amnesty — all to magically create millions of new Democratic voters.

Time for self-styled moderate Democrats to draw the line and prove me wrong.

David Limbaugh is a writer, author and attorney. His latest book is "Guilty by Reason of Insanity: Why the Democrats Must Not Win." Follow him on Twitter @davidlimbaugh and his website at www.davidlimbaugh.com.


Will Biden Ignore Both Bishops and Pew Research on Border Crisis?

 By Bill Donohue | May 6, 2021 | 12:43pm EDT

 

Joe Biden signs executive orders in the Oval Office. (Photo credit: JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)
President Joe Biden signs executive orders in the Oval Office. (Photo credit: JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

President Joe Biden is getting high marks for his overall performance, but if there is one issue that is dogging him, it is the crisis at the border. He even refuses to call it a crisis. Indeed, neither he nor his border-in-chief vice president has shown any interest in visiting the border. 

Two new surveys spell disaster for the president on this subject. The Pew Research Center poll found that almost 7 in 10 Americans say Biden is doing a bad job dealing with the increasing number of migrants who are crashing our border. Most want more staffing and resources made available to handle the throngs of people, often unaccompanied children, who are seeking asylum. The majority also favor improving the safety and sanitary conditions facing these people. 

The public knows that the situation is worse now than before. In fact, over the past year there has been a 20% increase in the share of Americans who say illegal immigration is a "very big" national problem. 

A poll by tippinsights (TIPP), commissioned by the National Sheriffs' Association, found that 55% of Americans think the border crisis is making matters worse for migrant women, many of whom are forced into indentured servitude and prostitution. Almost 6 in 10 say that the situation is increasing preventable migrant deaths. Half believe the southern border crisis is contributing to the spread of COVID. 

Since Biden took office, he has issued almost 100 executive orders on immigration, approximately half of which reversed initiatives taken by the Trump administration. According to Rep. Scott Franklin, "What's happening on our border is unprecedented. We are on track for more illegal border crossings in 2021 than any time in the past 15 years—perhaps ever."

Biden is not only out-of-step with the public; he is at odds with the bishops as well. 

The bishops along the border of the United States and northern Mexico released a joint statement last month saying, "Undoubtedly, nations have the right to maintain their borders. This is vital to their sovereignty and self-determination. At the same time, there is a shared responsibility of all nations to preserve human life and provide for safe, orderly, and humane immigration, including the right to asylum."

The Pew survey suggests that the public and these bishops are pretty much on the same page. We need to protect our borders and improve conditions for migrants. It is Biden who is out of sync.

A Lexis-Nexis search of Donald Trump and "we must protect our borders" turned up 884 instances where his name appeared with these words in a news story. A search of Joe Biden on this measure turned up one (that was over a year ago, and it was conditional in nature). 

We need to know why. Why is there such reluctance on the part of President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris to speak forthrightly about this issue? Why do they seemingly want to have more illegal aliens in our country? Moreover, Harris needs to stop with talk about "root causes." It is a dodge: If we treated every problem this way, it would be a prescription for paralysis.

At the very least, Harris needs to speak directly to those who are suffering, as well as to border patrol agents who are burdened by current policies. That, however, cannot be done from Washington, D.C.

Bill Donohue is president and CEO of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, the nation's largest Catholic civil rights organization. He was awarded his Ph.D. in sociology from New York University and is the author of eight books and many articles.

Texas Lt. Gov.: Biden Administration Concealing Real Situation at the Border

By Melanie Arter | May 6, 2021 | 7:00pm EDT

 

Central American migrants look through a border fence as a US Border PatRol agents stands guard near the El Chaparral border crossing in Tijuana, Baja California State, Mexico, on November 25, 2018. (Photo by GUILLERMO ARIAS/AFP via Getty Images)
Central American migrants look through a border fence as a US Border PatRol agents stands guard near the El Chaparral border crossing in Tijuana, Baja California State, Mexico, on November 25, 2018. (Photo by GUILLERMO ARIAS/AFP via Getty Images)

(CNSNews.com) - Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick accused the Biden administration on Thursday of concealing all the information about the border from the public.

“Well first of all, the Biden administration is totally concealing all information coming out from the border, all information. You just cannot get information at the state level or any level. I'm not even sure Joe Biden and Kamala Harris know what's going on, and Henry Cuellar and the Democrats in the valley have been bold and brave talking about this issue,” Patrick told Fox News’s “America’s Newsroom.”


“I've gone to the facility in San Antonio and yes, I walked in one room, and it was empty, but the next room had 1200 kids in it. You can take a photo of an empty room and say no one’s here or take a photo of what’s really happening. They talk about deportations are down, because they’re not sending anyone back. They’re letting everyone stay. The border has never been in worse shape, never more overrun, and America is in trouble with their policy,” he said.

The lieutenant governor warned that the Biden administration is enabling the cartels to force women and children into sex slavery and forced labor.

“You have more criminals in Texas, more criminals coming to states across America because many go through Texas to other states. Bill and Dana, what you have here is Texas, we're spending even more money than our normal $800 million in our budget to try to catch criminals. In the past we would catch them, turn them over. They would be deported,” Patrick said.

“Now we catch them, we turn them over and they let them go. ICE is handcuffed. The Biden administration is putting American lives at risk.and The biggest sin of all is they are enslaving people. We just had the stash house in Houston last week,” the lieutenant governor said.

“We found 90 people living in one house - a lot of women and a lot children in the sex trade, in work slavery because they’re sending money back to the cartels paying part of their fee to get here. So modern-day slavery is taking place at the hands of the Biden administration by enslaving these people to the cartels who come to America to work or are forced into child, sex or women in massage parlors and other places,” he said.

“This is all orchestrated. The Biden administration should know about it. They should stop modern-day slavery that's taking place,” Patrick said. 

“I’ve often looked back at history and said why did some countries do what in terms of part of the population in their country in this country and other countries and turn their back on them. Today, the Democrats are turning their back on children and women being enslaved and workers being enslaved in this country. They’re turning their back on them. It’s happening. We see it is every day,” he said.

“We know it’s happening. That stash house is a great example. They’re doing nothing about it, and who is speaking up for them? Republicans and some brave Democrats,” the lieutenant governor added.


MS-13 Member Pleads Guilty To Brutal Murder in Maryland

Dismantling the gang was a Trump administration priority

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A drug dealer and MS-13 member pleaded guilty in a Maryland federal court on Thursday to charges stemming from the brutal murder of a rival gangster just outside Washington, D.C.

Moises Alexis Reyes-Canales, known to fellow gang members as "Sicopita," admitted to his involvement with the 2016 stabbing death of Jose Hernandez-Portillo in a Maryland park, as well as MS-13’s broader criminal enterprise, which has a strong presence in the capital region.

Even as leaders of the Biden Justice Department publicly promise a break with Trump-era policies, Thursday’s plea is a sign some Trump-era objectives will remain in place. In 2017, former attorney general Jeff Sessions directed the elite organized crime unit that investigated Reyes-Canales’s case to make MS-13 a top priority. That directive came after former president Donald Trump signed an executive order creating a whole-of-government approach to "destroy" the transnational criminal syndicate.

According to the plea agreement, Reyes-Canales and several others lured Hernandez-Portillo to Quiet Waters Park in Maryland in March 2016. Members of the gang struck Hernandez-Portillo with "a branch or stick," then stabbed him repeatedly. He died on the scene and was buried in a shallow grave.

Apart from the 2016 murder, Reyes-Canales admitted to plotting and attempting to murder two other individuals thought to be rival gang members. The defendant and several other associates ambushed the pair in October 2016 on a street near Quiet Waters Park with firearms and machetes. At one point during the ambush, one of Reyes-Canales’s confidants commandeered a car and tried to run the victims over. The victims were transported to the University of Maryland’s Shock Trauma Center with grisly, life-threatening injuries. Both survived.

"The violence perpetrated by Reyes-Canales and his fellow MS-13 members was brutal and tragic and is totally unacceptable," said acting U.S. attorney Jonathan Lenzner. "We need the continued help of members of our communities in order to carry on our work against MS-13."

Reyes-Canales also admitted that he and three other associates sold marijuana throughout the region, the proceeds of which were used to buy narcotics, guns, and support other MS-13 members in the United States and El Salvador.

Though MS-13 has an international presence, it operates via loosely connected local affiliates called "cliques." The cliques regularly consult with one another to share resources, information, and advice. Court papers show Reyes-Canales is a member of the Hempstead clique, one of at least nine cliques at work in Maryland. Reyes-Canales received approval to murder Hernandez-Portillo from gang leaders, the plea agreement shows.

"Incarcerated clique leaders based in El Salvador regularly communicated and directed orders to Maryland-based cliques through phones smuggled into Salvadoran prisons," prosecutors wrote in court documents.

In general, the cliques raise revenue through extortion of legitimate businesses or "taxes" on illegitimate operators on their turf, such as drug dealers and brothels. For example, prosecutors accused Reyes-Canales of assaulting a marijuana dealer with a blunt object because he wasn’t kicking a portion of his proceeds to the clique.

The two charges Reyes-Canales pleaded guilty to are RICO conspiracy and use of a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence. The maximum penalties for both charges is life imprisonment, though he will likely receive a lesser sentence as a result of the plea.

The plea deal came less than three weeks before Reyes-Canales’s trial was set to begin. Motions to exclude evidence were due by May 14, with the trial scheduled to begin on May 24.

There are about 10,000 people associated with MS-13 in the United States.

The case is U.S. v. Reyes-Canales in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland.


180 Migrants Found in 3 Texas Stash Houses near Border

Laredo Sector agents find 180 migrants in three human smuggling stash houses on May 4. (Photo: U.S. Border Patrol/Laredo Sector)
Photo: U.S. Border Patrol/Laredo Sector
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Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended more than 180 migrants in three human smuggling stash houses. The arrests came in raids on three residences in the Laredo, Texas, area within hours of each other on May 4.

Laredo South Border Patrol Station agents and the Laredo Special Operations Detachment (SOD) teamed up with ICE Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents and Webb County Constables Office (WCCO) Precinct 2 deputies to investigate a possible human smuggling stash house located in central Laredo, according to information obtained from Laredo Sector Border Patrol officials.