Since March, federal immigration officials have apprehended more than 633,000 border crossers and illegal aliens along the U.S.-Mexico border. In May, alone, more than 220,000 border crossers and illegal aliens were apprehended. This figure does not include the tens of thousands who successfully illegally entered the United States undetected.
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Mayorkas' Actions Speak Louder Than Words
Actions speak louder than words. In the realm of public policy, that axiom has never been more apparent than now, with regard to the disconnect between the Biden Administration’s words and its actions on the illegal immigration crisis on our southern border. With its words, it tries to appear as if it opposes illegal immigration; but with its actions, it sends a signal to the south that the border is wide open and migrants should make their way to points of entry as fast as they can.
It’s no wonder that south of the border, they’re not paying attention to the words that come out of the mouths of Biden Administration officials. Why should they, when they can instead just look at what’s actually happening on the border? When they do, what they see is a border that’s wide open.
Let’s be clear: the Biden Administration planned this from the beginning. Just hours after taking his hand off the Bible at his inauguration, Biden was signing executive orders and proclamations that reversed the previous administration’s harder-line (and more successful) immigration and border security policies – six on inauguration day alone. Among others, border wall construction funds were redirected, DACA was “preserved” and “fortified,” the state of emergency on the southern border was declared terminated, and “discriminatory” bans on entry into the U.S. were ended. Shortly thereafter, “catch and release” was reinstituted, and, even later, the Biden Administration announced its intent to rescind the use of Title 42 as a means to reject asylum seekers.
Moreover, Biden declared his support for the “U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021,” which advocates themselves proudly proclaim “would represent the most sweeping immigration reform legislation in decades and create the largest legalization program in U.S. history.” And when it comes to Democrats, whenever you read the word “legalization,” you can substitute the word “amnesty.”
South of the border, they noticed.
In the first 16 months of the Biden Administration, about 1.35 million illegal immigrants entered the United States, according to a new report from the Center for Immigration Studies.
Do the math. That’s about 85,000 illegal immigrants arriving every single month.
If illegal immigrants were to continue to come to the United States at that rate for the rest of Biden’s term, the U.S. would add more than 4 million illegal immigrants to its population.
The migration from the south is not over. In fact, it’s about to get worse. According to press accounts, there could soon be another 15,000 migrants arriving at our southern border.
As what could be the largest migrant caravan ever to approach the United States departed Tapachula, located on the Mexico-Guatemala border, Monday, one could only wonder – just what is it going to take to get the Biden Administration to comprehend the depth of its failure, and what will it do if and when it recognizes that it is its own policies that have created the crisis on the southern border?
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas mendaciously mouths the words. “The border is closed,” he said on the Sunday morning shows back in March of 2021, just weeks after taking office. “We are expelling families. We are expelling single adults.” More than a year later, he was repeating himself: “Do not come...our border is not open,” he told CNN’s Dana Bash on “State of the Union” on May 1, 2022.
But when everyone, and I mean everyone, understands that when Mayorkas speaks, all it means is that his lips are moving, and there is no correlation whatsoever between the sounds that come out of his mouth and the action he’s describing, it doesn’t matter how many times he goes on the Sunday shows to talk. All that matters is that everyone can see the reality of the results of his actions, not his words, and they correctly deduce that with him, it’s not so much the words that matter as the actions.
Mayorkas is a disaster as DHS secretary. Under his “leadership,” the agency is not doing its job. The border is not secure, illegal immigrants come across the border virtually at will, the cartels’ control of the border has been strengthened, and there is no end in sight.
With such a stunningly bad record – so bad it actually raises questions about whether or not he’s deliberately acting in contravention of the Constitution – it’s easy to see why so many are calling for Mayorkas’ impeachment, and it’s just as easy to see why Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) has introduced H.Res. 582, a resolution of impeachment to do just that.
Jenny Beth Martin is Honorary Chairman of Tea Party Patriots Action.
Female Migrant with Murder Conviction Found by Border Patrol in West Texas
A routine migrant smuggling case thwarted by the Border Patrol at a Laredo Sector Highway Checkpoint on Interstate 35 resulted in the arrest of Ingrid Morales-Rodriguez, a Mexican national over the past weekend. Agents discovered she had been convicted of accessory to commit 2nd degree murder in North Carolina in 2015. Rodriguez’ prior case involved two high-profile murders at the time.
Border Patrol agents first encountered Rodriguez on the evening of June 4, when the 32-year-old female was found hiding in the trunk of a car. A Border Patrol K-9 alerted agents to Rodriguez’ presence during an open-air sniff search. Criminal record checks on Rodriguez revealed a prior arrest and 2017 felony conviction for 2nd degree accessory to commit murder in Chatham County, North Carolina.
Rodriguez was sentenced to 75 to 102 months confinement for the accessory to commit murder conviction. Police believed Rodriguez and an accomplice murdered a man wanted in connection to another murder in Siler City, North Carolina, in 2015.
According to a local news report, Morales’ brush with the law began with the discovery of unidentified human remains in Liberty, North Carolina, in 2015. The remains were identified as Francisco Rivas-Galves, a 21-year-old male who had been reported missing six days earlier. At the time Galves went missing, he was named as a suspect in the disappearance and murder of Esau Abraham Brenes of Siler City.
The Randolph County Sheriff’s Office and the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigations looking into the death of Galves began to focus on two individuals, Ingrid Morales Rodriguez, a Mexican national, and Salvadoran Miguel Angel Munoz who were last seen with Galves on the night he went missing. Based on evidence collected, police theorized Munoz had shot Galves inside a vehicle where Rodriguez was a passenger and they disposed of the body near a rural road.
In May 2016, Ingrid Rodriguez and Miguel Angel Munoz were charged with the murder of Galves. In December 2017, Miguel Angel Munoz pled guilty to 2nd degree murder and Ingrid Rodriguez pled guilty to accessory to commit 2nd degree murder. Munoz was sentenced to 200-252 months. Ingrid Morales-Rodriguez deported to Mexico after completing her prison sentence.
At the time of the discovery of Galves’ remains, one Siler City family was seeking justice for the murder of family member Esau Abraham Brenes. Brenes had gone missing on October 3, 2015, after stopping to give a ride to three people in Siler City. Brenes’ remains were discovered three weeks later. Police determined that Brenes had been robbed, beaten, and shot to death by Galves.
Galves would go missing on the same day Brenes’ remains were discovered. Police arrested Arnold Jaramillo Lopez a 16-year-old accomplice of Galves, as a second suspect in the case. Jaramillo later pled guilty for his role in the Brenes murder and was sentenced to 24 to 31 years in prison.
The return of Rodriguez to the United States is a recent example serious criminal migrants apprehended by Border Patrol. Since June 1, Border Patrol agents have arrested four migrants, including Rodriguez, who have prior domestic convictions for manslaughter and murder.
A total of six migrants who are registered sex offenders were also arrested by Border Patrol in the same time frame. Their crimes included convictions for rape, sexual battery of a child, and lewd/lascivious acts with a child.
On Wednesday, Border Patrol agents in Yuma, Arizona, arrested a Jamaican national wanted for murder in College Point, New York. On the same day, a twice-deported Mexican national was arrested and found to have served seven years in prison for the 2008 attempted murder of a peace officer in California.
Randy Clark is a 32-year veteran of the United States Border Patrol. Prior to his retirement, he served as the Division Chief for Law Enforcement Operations, directing operations for nine Border Patrol Stations within the Del Rio, Texas, Sector. Follow him on Twitter @RandyClarkBBTX.
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