JOE BIDEN'S SABOTAGE OF HOMELAND SECURITY - Illegal immigration is also the ways and means by which illegal drugs enter the United States. Last year, 100,000 Americans, most of them young, died of overdoses, with two-thirds of these Americans succumbing to fentanyl that is produced in China and comes through Mexico. PATRICK BUCHANAN
2,000 members of Mexican National Guard sent to Tijuana to deal with cartel caused violence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2WpqRS7A5Q
Ordinary people are taking the law into their own hands to counter cartel threat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VqjAZhJobE
“Joe Biden is great on immigration. I guess depends on your perspective. If you’re a human trafficker, or drug dealer, or all those migrants wearing the Biden let us in shirts, you’d give him an A-plus, plus, but the American people would give him an F. The crisis we said our border was not only entirely predictable. It was predicted. I predicted it last fall that if you campaign all year long on open borders, amnesty, and health care for illegals, you’re going to get more migrants at the border. That’s exactly what’s happened every month since the election.” SEN. TOM COTTON
Biden, Crack Pipes and the China Link
Who actually benefits? And why?
Two weeks before Presidents' Day and two days before Abraham Lincoln's birthday, a conservative outlet exposed perhaps the most singularly idiotic decision since the Constitution mandated the Executive Branch.
On Feb. 7, the Washington Free Beacon reported that Joe Biden's Department of Health and Human Services made $29.25 million in grants available to government agencies and community groups to purchase syringes, fentanyl strips and "smoking kits'' -- also known as crack pipes -- for drug prevention programs. HHS's stated goal was to reduce the addicts' risk of contracting substance abuse disorders or sexually transmitted diseases.
In other words, the virtual president's "administration" wants to enable illicit drug use for the sake of public health.
"Unsafe smoking practices can lead to open sores, burns and cuts on the lips, and can increase the risk of infection among people who smoke drugs," HHS spokesman Chris Garrett told the Free Beacon. "Safe smoking kits have been identified to reduce the spread of disease."
Public outcry forced the HHS to reverse its course on crack pipes Feb. 9. Yet this play from the theater of the absurd contains a second act.
As the grant application stated, "priority populations for this program are underserved communities that are greatly impacted by" substance abuse disorders. "Underserved communities" include "Black, Latino, and Indigenous and Native American persons, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and other persons of color; members of religious minorities; lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) persons," among others, stated an executive order Biden signed on his first day in office.
In other words, furnishing drug paraphernalia to members of "underserved communities" is the new "anti-racism."
But the grant goes beyond "woke" propaganda or the virtual president's incompetence. It raises a frightening possibility that undergirds the turbulence engulfing this nation.
Illustrating that possibility is this question: Who actually benefits? Consider that question in the context of two of the biggest stories of the past year: Biden's refusal to control the border with Mexico and the United States' chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan.
The open border provides an open invitation for drug traffickers. More than three months into Biden's term, U.S. Customs and Border Protection reported seizing 6,494 pounds of fentanyl during the first seven months of fiscal year 2021. By comparison, agents confiscated 4,791 pounds in all of fiscal year 2020.
"When you talk about that amount, how many communities and people that will affect and how many deaths that will be associated with it, you can't even comprehend it just because it's not fathomable," said Dr. Darien Sutton, who prescribes fentanyl in micrograms as an emergency-room doctor. Two milligrams of fentanyl are fatal.
When fiscal 2021 ended, CBP had confiscated 11,201 pounds of fentanyl, 94.5 percent of it at the southern border. In just the first three months of fiscal 2022, which ended Dec. 31, agents seized 2,707 pounds, 90.5 percent at the border with Mexico.
Not surprisingly, China plays a paramount role in the problem.
China leads the world in fentanyl production. Chinese laboratories manufacture raw fentanyl and its components, then ship them to Mexico, where cartels engage in production and distribution. With 75 percent of customs seizures taking place at the border crossing between San Diego and Tijuana, cartels use human couriers called "mules" to bring fentanyl and other illegal drugs across rural areas of the unprotected southern border.
Investigative reporter Ben Westhoff travelled to China to learn how fentanyl was made. Posing undercover as a drug dealer, Westhoff visited two drug labs and made a breathtaking discovery.
"What I learned was that these companies making fentanyl and other dangerous drugs are subsidized by the government," Westhoff said. "So when they work in these suburban office parks, for example, the building, the costs for research and development, they have these development zones, they get export tax breaks." (Emphasis added)
Biden's immigration "policy" enables the collusion between China and the cartels. On his first day in office, Biden ended construction of President Donald Trump's border wall and rescinded Trump's expansion of domestic immigration enforcement.
Of the 64 executive actions Biden signed in his first 100 days in office, 12 concerned immigration, more than any other subject outside of COVID-19. Of those 12, 10 reversed Trump's policies.
Claire Gute from the Asia Pacific Media Center at Loyola Marymount University criticized Biden's failure to solve the problem.
"While Biden has promised to do something about the epidemic, his rhetoric is contradictory to his border policy decisions," Gute wrote. "The administration must control and monitor the borders to a much greater extent, which will reduce the amount of illegal drugs pouring into the Southern border from China.
"Securing the border is essential in protecting both Americans’ and immigrants’ lives from the illicit drugs that are ravaging communities. It should be a top priority for the Biden Administration to uphold its promise of ending the opioid crisis. Wasn’t that a major part of his campaign?"
China also might have played a pivotal role in Biden's demand for American troops to leave Afghanistan.
In August, FrontPage Magazine examined in detail the possibility that by ordering such an abrupt withdrawal, Biden deliberately helped China. His stubborn insistence disregarded warnings from Congress, the State Department and the military.
So how would China benefit? One way would be acquiring the sophisticated military equipment the Americans abandoned. The Chinese could study it to reverse engineer it or develop countermeasures.
More importantly, the Chinese would have unrestrained access to Afghanistan's mineral wealth. The country contains such raw materials as iron ore, gold, uranium, copper and rare earths, which are essential for consumer and military electronics. Before the Taliban filled the political void after the withdrawal, China had spent $62 billion on energy, communications and transportation infrastructure in Afghanistan through the Belt and Road Initiative.
Behind those two major news stories lie the suspicious activities involving Biden and his son, Hunter.
Those activities go beyond the financial arrangements with Chinese firms that benefited both men, with the elder Biden, known as "the big guy" in e-mails, getting a 10 percent kickback, as the New York Post reported in depth.
As FrontPage Magazine's Jamie Glazov explored, Peter Schweizer asserts that the Bidens received $31 million from Chinese business associates affiliated with the upper echelons of China’s intelligence agencies.
The Chinese government also made massive contributions to the University of Pennsylvania's Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement. In addition, numerous administration officials have links to China's government and Communist Party. They include Press Secretary Jen Psaki, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan and Secretary of State Anthony Blinken.
Meanwhile, Hunter Biden's lust for drugs and sex make him vulnerable. As FrontPage Magazine reported in May, a young Chinese operative, JiaQi Bao, used her role as his secretary, confidant and likely sexual liaison to influence and entrap him. Bao even used Biden to convince his father to run for President by providing opposition research against Trump.
Perhaps nothing describes the family's grifting better than the elder Biden's appearance at the Council on Foreign Relations, where he bragged with breathless arrogance about successfully intimidating a Ukrainian prosecutor investigating his son.
Combining those factors leads to even more disturbing questions.
Are members of the federal government being bribed or blackmailed by foreign parties and drug cartels? If so, how many? By whom? How often? For what?
If the assumptions behind those questions are true, they generate the most alarming question of all.
Are elected officials and unelected bureaucrats -- men and women who have sworn to uphold the Constitution -- willing to sacrifice every American on the altar of graft?
Joseph Hippolito is a freelance writer and a regular contributor to FrontPage Magazine. His commentaries have appeared in The Federalist, The Stream, Wall Street Journal, Jerusalem Post and National Post.
HIGHLY GRAPHIC IMAGES OF AMERICA UNDER LA RAZA MEX OCCUPATION
This is what America will look like with continued open borders with Narcomex. That is the agenda of the Globalist Democrat party for endless hordes of ‘cheap’ labor.
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2013/10/america-la-raza-mexicos-wide-open.html
Tom Cotton: If You’re a Human Trafficker or Drug Dealer — You’d Give Biden ‘an A-Plus’ on Immigration
Republicans, Biden, and the Border
At this point in the Biden presidency, he is a gift that keeps on giving to Republicans in 2022. From COVID-19 mandates to the Afghanistan and Ukraine debacles, the Biden administration has failed on so many fronts that Republicans have to choose which failure(s) to highlight ahead of the midterms.
Admittedly, it’s a really good problem to have. Historically speaking, Democrats were always bound to lose congressional seats this year, and it doesn’t help Democrats that dozens of Biden allies are retiring from Congress. Nor does it help that President Biden’s first-term failure keeps putting Democrats on the defensive. Republicans are now poised to flip control of Congress, behind overwhelming support from American voters who are fed up with the left-wing policies and identity politics of the Biden era.
But, to secure victory in 2022, Republicans cannot forget about immigration. With so much going on, the U.S. border crisis may get lost in the news shuffle, but not for lack of importance. To the contrary, the situation at the U.S.-Mexico border is the worst it’s been in decades. Crisis became the status quo shortly after President Biden’s election, and it’s not getting better.
Last year, Mexican border arrests hit a new record, with federal agents recording nearly two million apprehensions. About 20 percent of the illegal immigrants arrested were released into the United States to await hearings on their asylum applications. By the spring, Homeland Security officials are expecting as many as 9,000 border arrests per day -- a higher peak than even last year. Residents of Del Rio, Texas personally witness dozens of illegal immigrants crossing the Rio Grande every week.
In America, that is unacceptable. American citizens should not be forced to see illegal immigrants -- many of them armed and dangerous -- on their doorstep. They should be living in a country that respects its national sovereignty and defends its borders. The U.S.-Mexico border should be protected by those in power, starting at the top. Unfortunately, Biden’s border is more an imaginary line than anything else. As one visitor to Texas recently put it, “The southern border of the United States has become a suggestion, a line that vanishes a little more each day.”
Even more unfortunately, President Biden’s policy of choice is to keep the floodgates open. In recent weeks, the Biden administration has secretly transported countless migrants to Texas airports and boarded them on flights to different cities across the country. With illegal immigrants flying all over the country and in the dark of the night, the Department of Homeland Security has essentially turned into the “Department of Human Smuggling.”
Rather than punishing illegal immigrants for breaking the law, the federal government is subsidizing their lawlessness and setting them up to stay here indefinitely. Reward is taking the place of retribution, incentivizing future migrants to also break the law. Blessed with the Left’s open-borders agenda, why wouldn’t they?
Now is the time for American voters to punish Democrats in return. The “red wave” is coming in 2022, but only if Republicans keep exposing the utter travesty at the border. It’s no wonder that immigration is a top issue for the electorate, with only the economy considered more important (and for good reason, given inflation). Nearly 60 percent of Americans, including independents, disapprove of President Biden’s immigration agenda. Hispanic voters are among the Biden administration’s harshest critics.
Of course, immigration is not the only issue in 2022. After all, U.S. inflation is at seven percent (and counting). Republicans can and should assail the tax-and-spend policies that flooded the economic system with free money, making it more difficult for employers to find workers.
But overlooking the border crisis would be a lost opportunity for Republicans. It could just flip Congress in November.
Ted Harvey serves as chairman of the Committee to Defeat the President.
Image: US Border Patrol
AG Brnovich: Arizona Can Defend Itself from ‘Invasion’ by Cartels
Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich determined that the crimes committed by transnational cartels at the southern border constitute an “invasion,” which Arizona can defend itself from, according to a legal opinion issued on Monday.
Brnovich wrote:
The violence and lawlessness at the border caused by transnational cartels and gangs satisfies the definition of an “invasion” under the U.S. Constitution, and Arizona therefore has the power to defend itself from this invasion under the Governor’s authority as Commander-in-Chief. An actual invasion permits the State to engage in defensive actions within its own territory at or near its border.
Brnovich’s opinion argued the definition of “actually invaded” includes actions by “hostile non-state actors” and is not limited to hostile actions by foreign states.
Furthermore, the commonly understood meaning at the time of the word “invade” covers the activities of the transnational cartels and gangs at the border—they enter Arizona “in [a] hostile manner”; they “enter as an enemy, with a view to … plunder”; they “attack,” “assail,” and “assault”; and they “infringe,” “encroach on,” and “violate” Arizona.
His opinion relied on two constitutional clauses: Article I’s State Self-Defense Clause and Article IV’s Invasion Clause. The State-Self Defense Clause allows states to “engage in war” when “actually invaded, or in such imminent danger as will not admit of delay” without Congress’s approval. The Invasion Clause states the federal government “shall protect each [state] against invasion.”
Brnovich cited cartel involvement in drug smuggling, sex and human trafficking, and border violence as proof of the invasion at the southern border. “In 2021, the Cochise County Sheriff’s Office encountered 43,229 unauthorized aliens and 51 drug smugglers,” he wrote.
The Arizona Attorney General bolstered his argument with a quote from James Madison, who cited “Virginia using its militia to stop smugglers as an example of a valid exercise of the invasion power.”
“The principal activity of transnational cartels and gangs at the border is to smuggle people and drugs for profit,” he wrote. “Indeed, using the state militia to suppress smugglers was Madison’s paradigmatic example of a justified and Constitutional use of the state militia.”
Former Director Russ Vought of the White House Office of Management—a Cabinet-rank officer—and former Acting Deputy Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Ken Cuccinelli called on Arizona Governor Doug Ducey (R) to invoke the Invasion clause to secure Arizona’s border last October.
Republican Arizona state Rep. Jake Hoffman requested Brnovich’s legal opinion on whether cartel activity at the border constitutes an “invasion.”
Brnovich’s opinion made clear that the decision to act under these constitutional powers is left to Gov. Ducey.
Thus, while this Opinion has concluded that transnational cartel and gang activity in Arizona would meet the legal standard to justify exercise of the State’s power under the State Self-Defense Clause, only the Governor of the State of Arizona has the power to make a final determination that such exercise is justified.
After Brnovich issued his opinion, Cuccinelli again called on Ducey to invoke these powers. “Now we call on Gov. Doug Ducey to use this very clear legal and constitutional authority to protect the people of Arizona from the invasion they’re suffering through their southern border,” he told Fox News.
“It’s not enough for states like Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California to complain about Joe Biden’s failure to do his job, they have the authority to protect themselves,” Cuccinelli added.
In response to Brnovich’s opinion, a Ducey spokesperson called out DHS Secretary Mayorkas and noted that the governor deployed the National Guard to the border.
DHS Secretary Mayorkas admitted himself the border is the worst it’s been in over 20 years. He needs to be held accountable. This administration needs to be held accountable. They have totally failed to address this very real public safety and humanitarian crisis,” said Ducey’s communications director CJ Karamargin. He continued:
Arizona has and will continue to protect our communities with our National Guard, our Border Strike Force and in partnership with local law enforcement. For Attorney General Brnovich to imply the Guard is not on our border does them a serious disservice and shows that he fails to appreciate the commitment these men and women have to protecting Arizona.
Immigration officials apprehended more than 1.7 million migrants in fiscal year 2021 and encountered 178,840 in December alone.
Other attorneys general from border states are yet to issue their own analysis on this issue.
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