GAMER LAWYER JOE BIDEN AND GAMER LAWYER MAYORKAS - Biden’s border plan lets everyone in — but hides it from the public

 

Commentary Biden’s border plan lets everyone in — but hides it from the public By Mark Krikorian New York Post, April 26, 2022 Excerpt: A surge in crossings at the border is OK with Biden and his people; what they fear is how it will look to the public: the additional disorder, the crowding in holding centers, the news photos like those of Haitians camped under the bridge in Del Rio, Texas, last fall. It’s a political problem, not a policy one. Title 42 Isn’t Going Anywhere, but Why Are Republicans Helping Biden? By Mark Krikorian National Review, April 20, 2022 Excerpt: The Democratic Party establishment has become alarmingly radical on immigration in recent years, even before Trump. Continuing Republican support for Title 42 merely helps the Biden administration hide that radicalism from voters. The Republicans’ goal should not be muddling through on immigration, in hopes that today’s historic disaster at the border doesn’t turn into tomorrow’s biblical mega-disaster. Instead, what’s needed is political clarity, in order to either force a reversal of Biden’s radical approach to immigration, or expose it and let the voters render their judgment. Biden’s Relaxed New Border Rules Mean Baltimore Residents Would Qualify for Asylum By Andrew R. Arthur New York Post, April 29, 2022  Excerpt: In 2018, Donald Trump’s attorney general, Jeff Sessions, applied existing law to set standards migrants must meet to receive asylum. Shortly after he took office, Biden’s new AG, Merrick Garland, erased those standards and expanded asylum eligibility to cover victims of the sorts of gang violence that plagues numerous crime-ridden US cities. Biden Exploits Ukraine Crisis to Circumvent U.S. Immigration Law By Robert Law Townhall, April 29, 2022 Excerpt: Russia invaded Ukraine about two months ago, resulting in millions of Ukrainians fleeing to escape the war. Neighboring countries have responded admirably, opening their borders and offering refuge. That is what true humanitarian immigration relief looks like. In contrast, the Biden administration is exploiting Americans’ sympathies for the Ukrainian people to permanently resettle over 100,000 of them in the United States in violation of our immigration laws.

Congressional Testimony Hearing: Oversight of Federal Efforts to Combat Human Trafficking Statement of Jessica Vaughan U.S. House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security, April 27, 2022 Excerpt: Human trafficking is a horrific crime that our society must strive to eradicate. In his update to the National Action Plan to Combat Human Trafficking last December, President Biden declared his commitment to “keeping the fight to end human trafficking at the forefront of our national security agenda.” Yet at the same time, the President has instigated a historic collapse of border security and immigration enforcement that has actually invited and facilitated human trafficking in numerous forms . . . Link to full written testimony

Podcast Buying a Green Card Just Got More Expensive Host: Mark Krikorian Guests: George Fishman and David North Parsing Immigration Policy, Episode 51 Mexican Border States Cry 'Uncle', Cut Immigration Deals with Texas Host: Mark Krikorian Guest: Todd Bensman Parsing Immigration Policy, Episode 50

Featured Blog Posts Gallup: 60 Percent of Americans Are Concerned About Illegal Immigration By Jon Feere A plurality of Democrats may not be bothered by the prospect of 2.5 million illegal migrants at the Southwest border this year, but their votes alone will not be sufficient to ensure Democratic control of the House and Senate come January. 42 Skiddo: Is the Biden Administration Expelling Border Security? By George Fishman CDC recognizes that the Termination of the ... [Title 42] Order will lead to an increase in the number of noncitizens [read: illegal aliens] being processed in DHS facilities which could result in overcrowding in congregate settings. Nearly 1.06 Million CBP Encounters at Southwest Border Thus Far in FY 2022 By Andrew R. Arthur The president may indeed have a border plan. It’s just one that focuses on the interests of the migrants themselves — not on the consequences of unrestrained illegal migration on our national security and sovereignty, or on the illegality that follows in its wake. Huge Marriage-Related Immigration Fraud Ring Exposed by the Government By David North Unfortunately, and again this is a pattern, those indicted did not include any of the bribed citizens or the bribing aliens, just the middlemen. Whether any of the alien bribers will be deported cannot be known at this time.

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Donate  JOE BIDEN: AMERICA’S DRUG DEALER!  https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2022/05/joe-biden-americas-drug-dealer-but-then.html From April 2020 to April 2021, more than 100,000 Americans died from drug overdoses, according to data from the National Center for Health Statistics. An overwhelming majority of those deaths came from opioids, and fentanyl smuggling has surged at the southern border since the start of Joe Biden's presidency. Joseph Simonson and Collin Anderson  Mayorkas Confirms 42 People on Terror Watch List Are Here Illegally: 'We've Got Our Hands on It' By Susan Jones | May 2, 2022 | 8:37am EDT         Migrants attempting to cross illegally into the U.S. from Mexico are later detained by U.S. Customs and Border Protection in San Luis, Arizona. (Photo by Nick Ut/Getty Images) (CNSNews.com) - At a recent hearing of the House Judiciary Committee, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas apparently did not know if 42 illegal aliens on the terrorist watch list or the no-fly list had been released into the country. He promised to provide Republican Rep. Jim Jordan "the data," which was not at his fingertips. By Sunday, Mayorkas had it figured out, telling "Fox News Sunday": "Oh, so yes, and I did not want to speak -- misspeak in response to Ranking Member Jordan's question, because we know where those 42 individuals are, on the TSDB, the terrorist screening database. "Let me share with you what happens. They can be removed. They can be placed into custody for criminal prosecution. They could be cooperating in a law enforcement investigation, and I don't intend to provide that data publicly if it's law enforcement sensitive. "But we know where those 42 are, and I did not want to speak with respect to the disposition of each and every one of them. But we know where they are, and we've got our hands on it." Mayorkas said Americans "shouldn't be worried about the 42. We've got -- we've got a handle on it, and when I say, Bret, it's not the Department of Homeland Security alone. It's the Federal Bureau of Investigation. It's our entire enforcement and intelligence enterprise." Mayorkas said the Homeland Security Department, which includes U.S. Customs and Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs enforcement, is not just "letting people loose and just letting them come in." Host Bret Baier asked Mayorkas if he knows how many illegal aliens encountered at the southwest border have been released since Biden took office. Eventually, Mayorkas agreed that the number is at least 836,000 since Biden became president, but first he wanted to define the word "release." "Do you know what release means, Bret?" Mayorkas asked: "Because release doesn't mean just let go into the United States. It means, if we do not detain individuals, they're placed on alternatives to detention, and they are in immigration enforcement proceedings. And if they do not appear for their immigration enforcement proceedings, they are a priority for enforcement action. That's what we're speaking about." Mayorkas said "just over 86 percent" of people released with notices to appear actually show up. "OK," said Baier: "So the numbers are that -- according to the U.S. district court which you submitted -- the DHS has directly released at least 836,000 aliens into the United States since January 21st. Then, you add the...207,000 unaccompanied alien children, UACs, and then your Border Patrol estimate, somewhere from 200,000 to 400,000 got-aways, in other words, encounters that...evade apprehension.” "And got-aways have been a challenge...from the beginning," Mayorkas interrupted. "But that matches your numbers roughly?" Baier asked. "I believe so," Mayorkas said. Mayorkas also agreed that if Title 42, the COVID public health measure, is lifted on May 23 as the Biden administration has planned, the surge of illegal immigration will severely strain the system, which is why -- precisely why, Bret, we've been planning since September of 2021 for the eventual end of Title 42, an authority that the CDC exclusively controls." Mayorkas is calling for Congress to pass immigration reform as a solution to the overwhelmed border. In the meantime, in the Fiscal Year 2023 budget, "we asked for more resources, more personnel, more technology." Host Baier asked Mayorkas to "name one thing that would help you deport more illegal immigrants that Congress can do?" "What we are talking about when we talk about legislation is building the orderly legal pathways for people to obtain relief under our laws," Mayorkas said. That would include the cooperation of other countries in Central and South America. As Mayorkas told CNN on Sunday, the Biden administration is calling for "a regional approach to what is a regional challenge. "And we need countries to the south to manage their borders. This is not a phenomenon that the United States experiences alone. There are 1.8 million Venezuelans in Colombia. The Nicaraguans comprise almost 2 percent of the population in the small country of Costa Rica. "We're seeing migration because of challenges that are not restricted to this area. They are global." Mayorkas: ‘The Cartels Spread Disinformation That Title 42 Does Not Apply to Haitians’ By Melanie Arter | May 2, 2022 | 12:57pm EDT         Haitians cross the Rio Grande towards the US under the watch of US Border Patrol, after Mexican police and National Institute of Migration officials blocked the Mexican side of the border at Parque Ecologico Braulio Fernandez in Ciudad Acuna, Coahuila state, Mexico on September 23, 2021. (Photo by PAUL RATJE/AFP via Getty Images) (CNSNews.com) - DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Sunday that the disinformation spread by cartels is a magnet for illegal immigrants coming to the United States, not the process of releasing those with asylum claims into the United States and allowing them to settle into whatever city they want to while they wait for those claims to be heard by an immigration judge. One example of disinformation that the cartels spread was that Title 42 does not apply to Haitians, the secretary said. “The cartels spread disinformation that Title 42 does not apply to the Haitians, and that prompts potentially Haitians to try to come to the United States and what do we do? U.S. Customs and border protection - phenomenal enforcement agency - goes on Creole language stations and communicates that Title 42 does apply to Haitians,” Mayorkas told “Fox News Sunday.” The secretary said that DHS is “not letting people loose, and just letting them come in.”  “You have a process, but that whole process and eventually someone settles in whatever city they're looking to get to is a magnet for more illegal immigration or not?” Fox News host Bret Baier asked. MAYORKAS:  I'm sorry, I don't.  BAIER: The people who come in, and they get to whatever city they want to.  MAYORKAS: I’ll share with you Bret what is a magnet. What is a magnet is the misinformation that the cartels spread to individuals in different countries about what our laws are and what our policies are. That is a magnet, and that is why we counter that.  BAIER: Speaking of misinformation we learned that DHS’s disinformation governance board was coming out and we saw immediate concerns about free speech. You understand some of this pushback?   MAYORKAS:  There’s no question, Bret, that we could have done a better job in communicating what it does, and let me share with you what this department of homeland security does and has been doing for years throughout the past administration included. We address disinformation that presents a security threat to the homeland, disinformation from Russia, from China, from Iran, from the cartels.  I’ll give you a real-life example. The cartels spread disinformation that Title 42 does not apply to the Haitians, and that prompts potentially Haitians to try to come to the United States and what do we do? U.S. Customs and border protection - phenomenal enforcement agency - goes on Creole language stations and communicates that title 42 does apply to Haitians.  BAIER:  So it sounds a little bit like the global engagement center at the state department, so a little redundant, but here’s the problem–  This is a working– Bret, I really need to clarify. This is a working group that takes best practices to make sure that in addressing disinformation that presents a threat to the homeland that our work does not infringe on free speech, does not infringe on civil rights, civil liberties, It's not about speech. It's about the connectivity to violence. That is what we need to address. An individual has the free-speech right to spew anti-Semetic rhetoric. What they don't have the right to do is take hostages in a synagogue, and that’s where we get involved.  BAIER: So the president’s pick to lead this is Nina Jankowicz. She’s taking heat for tweets and comments about major news stories - the Hunter Biden laptop, others. The laptop story obviously was blocked from social media outlets, because it was called Russian propaganda until it wasn’t, so do you really think that Jankowicz is anywhere near objective enough for this particular job?    MAYORKAS: Yes I do, and by the way, highly regarded a subject matter expert, and I don't question her objectivity. There are people in the department who have a diverse range of views and they’re incredibly dedicated to mission. We’re not the opinion police. She has testified before Congress a number of times. She’s recognized as a tremendous authority and we’re very fortunate to have her.  BAIER:  Was the Steele dossier disinformation?    MAYORKAS: It’s not for me to opine on that. BAIER: Americans are generally wary of anything that suggests censorship.  MAYORKAS: That’s exactly why we set up this working group to make sure that our work to address a real threat to the homeland, the threat posed by Russian disinformation, the threat posed by Chinese disinformation, by Iranian disinformation, the work that we do does not infringe on people's right of free speech.  That's why this working group was set up, and we will do a better job of communicating about that, and I'm looking forward to testifying before the United States Senate on Wednesday.