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JOE BIDEN - ILLEGALS FIRST! - Biden Gives Up on Mandatory Vaccines for Migrants
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
SOUTHMOST, Texas—The Biden administration appears to have abandoned its effort to ensure all migrants apprehended by immigration authorities are inoculated against COVID-19, just a month after the White House said vaccines would be mandatory.
According to several individuals familiar with the matter, some of whom requested anonymity to speak candidly, Border Patrol officials in the Rio Grande Valley are exempting migrants from such countries as Guatemala, Haiti, and Mexico from vaccine mandates. And migrants from Nicaragua, Cuba, and Venezuela must only receive one dose of the vaccine before they are released into the U.S. interior.
DHS in March issued a directive that some migrants in seven U.S. regions, including the Rio Grande Valley, must receive COVID-19 vaccinations or be placed into expedited deportation proceedings, the New York Times reported. That policy appears to have been scrapped—or at least modified—in favor of a voluntary vaccination program of one shot.
"It depends on the shift, to be honest," said one individual familiar with the matter. "You talk to guys who work around midnight, and they're not vaccinating anyone. It's really more of an optional policy."
A spokesman for Customs and Border Protection declined to comment.
The initial vaccination plan was widely seen as President Joe Biden's response to critics who allege his administration acted hypocritically when it implemented employer-based vaccine mandates without similar conditions for migrants who wish to enter the country. Scrapping that vaccination plan comes as DHS officials prepare for a surge in migrants following Biden's repeal of Title 42—a federal law that allows for the accelerated removal of migrants during a public health crisis—and as his Department of Justice fights in court to maintain a transportation mask mandate.
Outside the Rio Grande Valley, one Border Patrol Officer stationed in Arizona said he had never heard of any mandatory vaccination policy.
"We're getting steamrolled out here by the thousands," the officer said. "No, we are not vaccinating people."
At the Catholic Charities Humanitarian Respite Center in McAllen, Texas, hundreds of migrants from around the world pass through each day to receive health care, food, and other forms of assistance before they make their way farther into the U.S. interior. According to Sister Norma Pimentel, who runs the shelter, she works every day to persuade migrants to get the vaccine.
"The county set up a vaccination clinic right here," she told the Washington Free Beacon. "We push migrants to take it and say, ‘Look, you can't go anywhere without one.' But, you know, it's up to them really."
The Biden administration's public messaging on the issue has changed as well. Last month, the White House announced a policy expanding vaccinations of migrants of the southern border. Nowhere in that announcement, however, did the Biden administration say such vaccinations were mandatory.
"DHS has also been providing the COVID-19 vaccines to noncitizens in ICE custody since summer 2021," the announcement reads. "Beginning March 28, 2022, DHS expanded those efforts to cover migrants in CBP custody, so as to further safeguard public health and ensure the safety of border communities, the workforce, and migrants."
CBP has also not implemented COVID-19 testing policy for migrants, even though a September 2021 DHS inspector general report blasted the Biden administration for putting "its workforce, support staff, communities, and migrants at greater risk of contracting the virus." That lack of policy means the burden falls on charities, such as Pimentel's, to provide COVID-19 tests.
While left-wing activist groups such as Oxfam America have said people in Latin America "have access to vaccines," many Latin American countries have extremely low vaccination rates.
Guatemala, for example, has just over 36 percent of its population fully vaccinated, according to the vaccination tracking organization Our World in Data. The same organization found that just 1.1 percent of Haiti's population is fully vaccinated.
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(CNSNews.com) - "Mr. Secretary, are you testifying as you sit here today that the southwest border is secure?" Rep. Michael Guest (R-Miss.) asked Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Wednesday.
"Yes, I am," Mayorkas said. "And we are continuing to work to make it more secure."
Illegal immigration is breaking records under President Joe Biden, but Mayorkas cast doubt on the numbers:
Exclusive — Rebecca Kleefisch: Epidemic Number of Overdoses in Wisconsin Is ‘Owed Directly’ to Border Crisis
Former Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch (R) vowed during an interview with Breitbart News Saturday to put more police officers on the streets of Wisconsin to help combat a rise in drug overdoses if she is elected governor.
Kleefisch spoke specifically about fentanyl, a highly potent opioid that is manufactured illegally, primarily in Mexico and China, and is a leading cause of overdose deaths in the United States.
“Fentanyl is coming across our border in a way we have never seen in our lifetimes,” said Kleefisch, who served as lieutenant governor of Wisconsin alongside Gov. Scott Walker (R) for two terms until 2019. During that time, Kleefisch was appointed cochair of the governor’s task force on opioid abuse.
“Fentanyl is one of the most dangerous drugs, and it is a killer,” Kleefisch asserted. “The epidemic number of overdoses that we see across Wisconsin is owed directly to the crisis at our border.”
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Drug overdoses are on the rise in the United States, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data. More than 100,000 overdose deaths occurred in a 12-month period through November of last year, and synthetic opioids, which include fentanyl, contributed to most of those deaths, or about 80,000 of them.
In another indication of the growing danger of fentanyl, U.S. Customs and Border Protection seized 11,201 pounds of the powerful drug at the border in fiscal year (FY) 2021, which is more than double the amount seized in FY 2020 and about four times the amount seized in FY 2019. FY 2022 is on pace with last year’s surge, showing seizures of 5,310 pounds in its first six months.
A display of the fentanyl and meth that was seized by CBP officers over the weekend at the Nogales Port of Entry is shown during a press conference, January 31, 2019, in Nogales, Arizona. (Mamta Popat/Arizona Daily Star via AP)
Law enforcement officials, Kleefisch said, have informed her “that 95 percent of our illicit drugs in Wisconsin are coming up over that border, and those drugs are killing our friends and neighbors. … Our cities all have a problem with drugs, and those drug cartels pass those drugs up over the Mexican border to our American drug gangs, go through our freeway systems, which leads directly to the people of Wisconsin. We’ve got to shut this down.”
Kleefisch, who is hoping to unseat Gov. Tony Evers (D) in this year’s midterms, said she is “law enforcement’s choice for governor.”
Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers addresses a joint session of the legislature in the Assembly chambers during the governor’s State of the State speech in Madison. (AP Photo/Andy Manis)
The Wisconsin Republican noted the weighty endorsements she has received from the law enforcement sector, including from the Milwaukee Police Association, the Kenosha Police Association, the Wisconsin Fraternal Order of Police, and more than half of the state’s sheriffs.
In terms of her action plan, Kleefisch said southern border control is a priority. “You do it by just going around the federal government, by doing what the Republican governors are doing,” she said, adding she would join onto the newly formed American Governor’s Border Strike Force with most other Republican governors if she were elected to office.
Kleefisch said she would also bolster police presence in the Badger State by adding 1,000 more officers to the state’s police force.
“Even after you shut down that type of drug trade, you need to shut down the selling of drugs. You need to shut down the human trafficking where it’s already happening and where it’s spreading,” Kleefisch said. “That means we need more cops on the streets.”
Kleefisch’s comments on tackling drug abuse come as she has made the broader issue of crime a focus of her campaign. Her positions stand in contrast to those of Evers, who gained a reputation in 2020 for sympathizing with Black Lives Matter protesters and rioters, some of whom pushed aggressive anti-police sentiments and ravaged Wisconsin’s small city of Kenosha.
“Tony Evers’ rhetoric has discouraged people who stand on the thin blue line every single day,” Kleefisch said. She added that Evers “would rather pander to far fringes of the woke left than he would protect the communities of the state of Wisconsin.”
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