America Faces No Greater Threat Than Joe Biden and the Democrat Party. Their Assault to Our Borders Is As Great As Their Assault to Free Speech and Free Elections
Monday, February 20, 2023
JOE BIDEN AND ALEJANDRO MAYORKAS ORCHESTRATE THE BIGGEST INVASION IN THE HISTORY OF MANKIND
Date: Tuesday, February 21, 2023 at 9:30 a.m. EST Location: National Press Club, 529 14th Street NW, Washington, DC Stream:Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter.
The Center for Immigration Studies will host a panel discussion on February 21 featuring three reporters who have covered the border crisis from the frontlines. Their on-the-ground field reporting in Central America, Mexico, and along the U.S.-Mexico border – far from Washington, D.C. – reflects the stories and actions of the primary sources: the migrants, law enforcement, and the residents impacted by the millions of foreign nationals coming to America.
The conversation will be centered around a new book, “OVERRUN: How Joe Biden Unleashed the Greatest Border Crisis in U.S. History”, authored by Todd Bensman – the Center’s Texas-based Senior National Security Fellow and a former counterterrorism intelligence practitioner and journalist. Bensman writes, “Unfortunately, a fog of fierce partisanship in the media obscures that fact that the border crisis is even happening, as well as basic truths Americans desperately need to know about this historic event.”
Bensman will be joined by Chuck Holton, a freelance correspondent who resides in Panama and has reported extensively on immigration throughout South and Central America and Mexico and Charlotte Cuthbertson, a senior reporter for the Epoch Times who covers the Texas border while living in a small border town.
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Panelists:
Todd Bensman, the Center's Texas-based Senior National Security Fellow and author of “Overrun: How Joe Biden Unleashed the Greatest Border Crisis in U.S. History” and “America’s Covert Border War: The Untold Story of the Nation’s Battle to Prevent Jihadist Infiltration”. Prior to joining CIS, Bensman led homeland security intelligence efforts for nine years in the public sector. Bensman’s body of work with policy and intelligence operations is founded on more than 20 years of experience as an award-winning journalist covering national security topics, with particular focus on the Texas border.
Chuck Holton, the author of seven books, is a freelance correspondent and an award winning war reporter. He resides in Panama, where he has written extensively on the migration foot trails through the Darien Gap jungle and on migration throughout Mexico and South America. He reports for the Christian Broadcasting Network and has a video podcast entitled, “The Hot Zone with Chuck Holton”.
Charlotte Cuthbertson, a senior reporter for the Epoch Times who covers the Texas border. For the past two years, Charlotte has lived on the border, where she has witnessed the crisis firsthand. She has seen and analyzed the struggle law enforcement and EMS face in dealing with human smuggling – the topic of her upcoming documentary.
Mark Krikorian (Moderator), is the Center’s Executive Director.
39 More Migrants Die on Mayorkas’ Secret Highway to the U.S. Border
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A busload of at least 39 adult and child migrants were killed in Panama on a migration path created — and indirectly funded — by President Joe Biden’s homeland security chief, Alejandro Mayorkas.
“Accidents happen in Panama …, [but] his hand is on it,” said Todd Bensman, an immigration analyst who has traveled widely through Central America.
In 2021 and 2022, many migrants died on the Darien Gap jungle trail in Panama because they were trying to reach President Joe Biden’s welcome for migrants.
But once a few establishment media outlets sketched out the huge death toll, “Mayorkas did away with tacit, hands-off approval [by the United States], and overtly forced this [safer migration] policy on the Panamanians,” said Bensman, who works for the Center for Immigration Studies.
Mayorkas’ new boat, trail, and bus route reduced the death toll in the mountains among Venezuelan, Haitian, Columbians, Ecuadoreans, and many other national groups. But his pathway gets little publicity, even though it is extracting many more poor migrants for use in the U.S. service economy.
In April 2022, Mayorkas tweeted his inspection of the safer route that he persuaded the Panamanian government to build, despite its desire to minimize the number of migrants moving through its territory.
American diplomacy with Panama followed these stories, culminating in the April signing of a Bilateral Arrangement on Migration and Protection agreement to “improve migration management” by DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and Secretary of State Antony Blinken. The agreement is short on specifics, but during the preliminary shuttle diplomacy in February, Panama suddenly established a new sea route by allowing smuggling vessels from Colombia, full of U.S.-bound immigrants, to land much further northwest up the Caribbean coast on Panamanian territory, which Panamanian coast guard vessels had previously blocked. Immigrants landing make their way to the community of Canaan Membrillo. Another route opened up on the Pacific side of Panama to the community of Jaque.
The route to civilization in Panama from the new landings is only a two- or three-day trip over easier terrain through Kuna tribal territory, compared to the old 10-day trek through Embera tribal lands.
The overall trek from South America to Mexico is maintained by numerous pro-migration groups, aid stations, and national border patrol agencies, many of whom get funding from the U.S.-funded Institute of Migrati0n and business donors.
Mayorkas’ 39 deaths on February 15 add more bodies to the record death toll created by Biden, Mayorkas, and their progressives deputies.
Mayorkas admits that many parents and children have died trying to reach the United States during Biden’s first two years in office — but he blames former President Trump, migrants, and federal law for the deaths.
“We have seen too much tragedy in the oceans of the Atlantic,” as people use boats to reach the United States from Haiti and Cuba, he told a press conference in Miami, Florida on January 30. “We have seen a loss of life — we’ve seen loved ones lose children and family members,” said Mayorkas.
“The movement of people around the hemisphere is extraordinary –everyone understands the challenge,” Mayorkas told CNN’s Chris Wallace on February 19. President Donald Trump and the coronavirus crash have caused “pent-up demand to leave a country,” he claimed, adding that dangled U.S. jobs and GOP criticism of his policies have also spurred migration.
A mother pauses to put back on dry socks and shoes after crossing a river in the Darien Gap in route to the United States on October 07, 2021 near Acandi, Colombia. (John Moore/Getty)
When asked, migrants talk about Biden’s dead.
“There were two images of his treacherous journey north that he couldn’t get out of his head,” Albinson Linares from Telemundo.com said about a Venezuelan migrant named Johan Torres:
The first was how a [migrant] person who resisted a robbery in Mexico was killed with a machete; the other happened in the [Panama] jungle, when he saw a man leave behind his young daughter, waist-deep in mud.
“He left her there, lying in the mud and crying. And I couldn’t do anything because I was dying of exhaustion. But I can’t forget that,” he said with tears in his eyes.
“More than 1,238 lives have been lost during migration in the [north, central and south] Americas in 2021, among them at least 51 children,” said a 2022 statement by the Institute of Migration. “At least 728 of these deaths occurred on the United States-Mexico border crossing, making this the deadliest land crossing in the world,” said the IOM statement.
Mayorkas’ death toll is also playing a part in the GOP effort to impeach Mayorkas.
“The humanitarian crisis this administration created is killing people in record numbers,” said Tom Homan, a former acting chief of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, told Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) at the impeachment event on February 8. Homan continued:
It’s not just migrants but U.S. citizens. That needs to be the overshadow of why this administration needs to be held accountable and [why] the secretary needs to be impeached … Massive amounts of people are dying — not just migrants — but U.S. citizens too.
On February 16, House Speaker Rep. Kevin McCarthy cited Mayorkas’ death toll as he slammed the administration’s border policies.
A border rancher’s “family has found 14 dead bodies on his ranch in just the last couple of years. Those are human bodies. He tells the story of his grandson smelling the body that is different from a dead cow. Why is that happening? Because of the administration’s policies that is allowing it to happen.
The establishment U.S. media reported the 39 bus deaths, but downplayed Mayorkas’ role in creating this easier and wider pathway for more foreign migrants seeking to get into Americans’ workplaces and housing.
“If you are forcing people to take these buses, you are responsible for whatever happens in them,” said Juan Pappier, the acting deputy director at the migration advocacy and support group, Human Rights Watch. The bus deaths expose the “reckless and careless migration policies by Panamanian authorities who simply want the migrants to go away,” Pappier said.
Pappier knew the route was risky for migrants, yet did not blow the whistle on the semi-secret migration path. “When I visited this region, we saw that these buses carried more people than permitted and made long journeys without breaks. There have been similar accidents in the past, with numerous injured,” Pappier tweeted on February 15.
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Mayorkas’s desire for cooperation with Mexico on migration also shields Mexico from U.S. diplomatic pressure that could curb the cartels’ drug distribution business. The business is killing 100,000 Americans each year — including many sons and daughters of the Americans who welcomed Mayorkas in 1960.
As for Catholic Charities' attitude toward parishioners with this concern, well, the Catholic Charities website effectively declares that they are all racists and xenophobes, not people with concern about the agency's incentivization and enabling of illegal immigration on an industrial scale, or the breakdown of rule of law in this country, or the enabling of cartel human traffic and profits.
San Diego's Catholic leadership must be getting an earful from the faithful on its illegal migrant-enabling operations
At Mass late yesterday, I was kind of astonished at the video played to encourage support from the Annual Catholic Appeal, the San Diego Diocese's annual fundraising effort for the good works it does around its Church mission.
They played this Church-produced video for the local parishioners (which can also be found here):
At the 2:33 minute point of the 4:27-minute video, the narrator stated this:
The agency welcomes and assists newly arrived immigrants and refugees, primarily women and children. They are legally in the country and need a helping hand, to reach their final destination or to settle in the region.
That curious disclaimer about the migrants being "legally" in the country, implicitly all of them, stated right up front with emphasis, seemed to be a new one, and certainly was a departure from the usual pitches about it being a good thing to help the poor and welcome the stranger, which no believing Catholic opposes.
Why did they bring up the legal status of the migrants in the pitch? Obviously, they were attempting to tell that to the parishioners, whom they were pleading with to donate money.
I have not seen that argument before from the Church, but I certainly have heard it from open-borders activists. "Legal immigrants," they shriek, because Joe Biden, after all, has let them in under his catch-and-release policy, permitting all comers to enter the country so long as they say they are claiming asylum.
That's not exactly legal as most people would recognize it, particularly since it involves an illegal border crossing. After that, the illegal border crossers/asylum seekers "need" assistance to get to their final destinations, as the Catholic Charities group says it provides, which rather suggests that yes, indeed they are helping out today's border surgers as part of the vast migrant pipeline to America which has done so much to profit and empower Mexican cartels.
That would be the same pipeline of NGOs which coach migrants in what to say in order to dishonestly be able to claim asylum even if they have no legitimate basis, which most don't.
That's what bothers Americans, the fact that Catholic Charities and a vast network of government-funded NGOs are becoming handmaidens to the Mexican cartels so that they can make the cartels rich from migrant "crossing fees," and Mexico, our neighbor to the south, a living hell, which seems to have already begun. The cartels wouldn't be able to do it without that vast network of NGOs there assisting them every step of the way.
That's what the video seemed to try to assuage which obviously means that they are getting phone calls from angry parishioners, upset at this distorted interpretation of the law about legal immigrants.
More to the point, they have probably seen funds witheld as a result of this Catholic Charities migrant activity, enough for them to insert in that line about all these migrants they are helping being legal migrants, as if they wouldn't dream of helping an illegal one -- which they actually should do and would have to do if any person needed food, water or bodily needs served, as described in the Bible. Why did they bring up 'legal'?
We can accept that they have adopted that Biden stance as their definition of legal so that they can justify what they are doing to the people they want money from.
But the whole thing seemed like a gaslight to donors. For one thing, it was a remarkably short statement on their migrant work given the size of that operation they run as compared to many of the others they featured in the video. Maybe they didn't want anyone to think about this too closely.
It also seemed a little misleading since the local Catholic Charities website says it focuses on getting legal status for the illegal border crossers, with the justification that migrants "need" these services same as they need food and water and shelter. The latter are all legitimate charity functions described in the Bible under the corporal works of mercy -- feed the hungry, slake the thirsty, give clothing to the naked, visit the imprisoned, but I didn't hear the part about Jesus saying hand out the U.S. green cards to those who break U.S. border law, let alone demand U.S. citizenship as an entitlement. Aid, after all, can be given to the poor in their own countries and you can bet that if it were, it would go a whole lot further than it does here in the states (assuming it doesn't go to consultants and other useless chiselers).
What are the services Catholic Charities of San Diego offers to immigrants?
OUR PROGRAM PROCESSES THE FOLLOWING IMMIGRATION APPLICATIONS AT NOMINAL FEES:
Adjustment of Status
Family Visa Petitions
Consular Processing
Domestic Violence Cases (VAWA)
Fee Waivers
Legal Permanent Resident Card Renewal
Affidavit of Support
T and U Visas
Travel Document
Employment Authorization
Citizenship and Naturalization
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals – DACA
FOIA Requests
Removal Defense
Non-Detained Clients
Detained Clients in San Diego and Imperial Counties
Bond Hearings
Unaccompanied Minors
Which right there means they aren't here legally, as the aid video says.
Some of those activities in fact look mighty unpopular with the public, such as halting deportations of child rapists or drunk drivers or muggers or killers, all of whom fight deportation, but who are being deported for good reason. Deportations, of course, rarely happen under Biden, only the truly bad cases get deported any more, so who are they helping? As for helping each illegal border crosser claim asylum, well the Fresno Catholic Charities branch points out that most are here because they live in bad neighborhoods, want to join someone here (who may be here illegally, too) or above all, come for economic reasons:
The majority of the immigrants that abandon their native country are fleeing in search of safety, family reunification, and/or economic opportunities.
Which makes the asylum claims fundamentally dishonest, and any operation to create phony asylum claims fundamentally dishonest.
That puts parishioners who are inclined to give to the annual appeal in a bind -- they want to support the good works of the annual fund, but they know that there's a part of it that they abhor, wouldn't pay for if they could help it, and view as antithetical to their faith because the official Catechism of the Catholic Church commands the faithful to obey the laws of their country. How does one donate to that appeal other than to write on the check that "no money for incentivizing illegal immigration" which they won't pay attention to anyway?
It sounds like some just said no.
As for Catholic Charities' attitude toward parishioners with this concern, well, the Catholic Charities website effectively declares that they are all racists and xenophobes, not people with concern about the agency's incentivization and enabling of illegal immigration on an industrial scale, or the breakdown of rule of law in this country, or the enabling of cartel human traffic and profits. They have a whole page on that disrespectful claim, with "so why are some people so scared of the stranger" as the nut graf, as if five million unvetted illegal immigrants couldn't possibly include a bad one, and opposition to illegal immigration is all based on "fear" instead of valid concerns about what's going on right now. There are no valid concerns to these guys, anyone opposed to illegal immigration is just a Trumpy racist, and the agency is simply refusing to address what the problem is because it's easier to smear opponents -- although they are canny enough to know that emphasizing legal status suggests some interest in rule of law.
Bottom line here is that they are trying to spin their message, and we can see what they are doing. I'm not saying people shouldn't donate to the appeal as most of the work done is good work, but they do need to keep the pressure up on the migrant-enabling branch of Church operations as that has little to do with the authentic charity works seen elsewhere within the Church's good works. As the video demonstrates, they're hearing from at least some of them.
The 1950s “Nation of Immigrants” narrative is more important than Congress’s laws, according to Alexandro Mayorkas, who is President Joe Biden’s pro-migration border chief.
“Our goal is to achieve operational control of the border, to do everything that we can to support our personnel with the resources, the technology, the policies that really advance the security of the border, and do not come at the cost of the values of our country,” Mayorkas said in an interview with CNN’s Chris Wallace, on the cable TV show, Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace.”
“The law needs to be changed if it does not either meet our highest ideals or actually proves to be functional in the service of those ideals,” said Mayorkas, a lawyer who has opened many loopholes to smuggle more economic migrants into Americans’ economy and society.
“I’m not going to resign,” Mayorkas said in response to a question about congressional GOP calls for his impeachment. “There’s a tremendous amount of work to do, and we are doing it and I’m incredibly proud to do it,” he said.
Mayorkas made his “Nation of Immigrants” claims when Wallace pressed him to justify his repeated claim that “the border is secure” amid the movement of roughly 3.5 million migrants — including at least 1.2 million unidentified “gotaways” — through the southern border.
“What does ‘secure’ mean to you?” Wallace asked.
Mayorkas responded:
There is not a common definition of that. If one looks at [Congress’s 2006] statutory definition, the literal interpretation of the statutory language, if one person successfully evades law enforcement at the border, then we have breached the security of the border … Our goal is to achieve operational control of the border, to do everything that we can to support our personnel with the resources, the technology, the policies, that really advance the security of the border, and do not come at the cost of the values of our country. I say that because in the prior [Donald Trump] administration, policies were promulgated or passed that did not hew to the values that we hold dear.
The federal government defined border security in a 2006 law, as “the prevention of all unlawful entries into the United States, including entries by terrorists, other unlawful aliens, instruments of terrorism, narcotics, and other contraband.”
Mayorkas then explained “the values we hold dear” which he says trump the 2006 law:
We, in the United States, have tremendous pride in our country as a country, a place of refuge. We are a nation of immigrants. We are also a nation of laws. Those laws provide for humanitarian relief for those who qualify. They also provide that individuals who do not qualify will be removed. That’s how we do our work at the Department of Homeland Security.
But polls show Americans oppose Mayorkas’s “Nation of Immigrants” justification for ignoring the nation’s border laws.
That opposition is rising as Americans learn how Mayorkas’s vague “values of our country” claim actually transfers the economic value of their work over to wealthy coastal investors and Wall Street.
“In 1985, it took 39.7 weeks of work each year to pay for these [middle-class basics], giving families plenty of room to enjoy other consumer goods and luxuries,” said a Washington Postop-ed by Henry Olsen:
But today, it takes 62.1 weeks of work to cover the same expenses. In other words, about 40 years ago, the median American family could enjoy a middle-class life on one earner’s paycheck. Today, it takes two.
For example, Mayorkas has released millions of migrants into the U.S. economy to compete for the jobs and housing needed by Americans, despite federal laws that require the detention of asylum seekers and the exclusion of economic migrants. He has used his bureaucratic authority to expand the inflow of foreign graduates into the investors’ Fortune 500 jobs that are needed by U.S. graduates, despite the glaring damage done to U.S. innovation, salaries, and housing.
Mayorkas cited his Romanian-born mother who fled from the Nazis’ Jewish genocide to Cuba during World War II. In 1960, she and her Cuban-born husband and children were welcomed by optimistic Americans when the couple fled Cuban communism to the United States. He told Wallace:
My parents instilled in me the profound meaning of displacement, the yearning to give one’s children a better life than what the life one has had, [and] the fragility of life. And so I understand deeply the plight of individuals who will leave their homes, whether they flee persecution or aspire to a better life. We, in the United States, have tremendous pride in our country as a place of refuge. We are a nation of immigrants.
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My mother, given the tragedy that she lived through — her father lost everybody except the sister in the Holocaust — she understood that every day is a new life. The world did not have the privilege of recognizing the beauty of my parents. And through the work I do, I hope I can communicate that in some way.
Other media accounts back up the empathy-with-migrants theme. “Mayorkas, 61, is a former federal prosecutor, not a liberal activist, but he brings a deep sympathy for immigrants rooted in his own family’s extraordinary journey to the United States, his backers say,” the Washington Postreported in 2021, adding:
Through his Romanian-born mother, whose relatives were murdered by the Nazis, Mayorkas discovered the horrors that can unfold when refugees cannot flee to safety, friends and former colleagues say. Through his Cuban-born father, he learned someone can love a country and still feel compelled to leave it forever.
Mayorkas has repeatedly declared his support for migrants over the children and grandchildren of the Americans who welcomed him in 1960.
“It is all about achieving equity [between Americans and foreigners], which is really the core founding principle of our country,” Mayorkas declared at a 2022 meeting hosted by Al Sharpton’s National Action Network.
“We are building an immigration system that is designed to ensure due process, respect human dignity, and promote equity,” Mayorkas tweeted in August 2021, as he sketched out his plans for easy-asylum rules that would encourage a mass migration of poor job-seekers into Americans’ homeland.
“Justice is our priority,” Mayorkas declared at a November 2021 Senate hearing, adding, “That includes securing our border and providing relief to those [migrants] who qualify for it under our laws.”
“I am, to a great extent, aligned with the expectations” of the immigrant community, Mayorkas told an audience at the Aspen Institute on July 2022.
Mayorkas’s desire for cooperation with Mexico on migration also shields Mexico from U.S. diplomatic pressure that could curb the cartels’ drug distribution business. The business is killing 100,000 Americans each year — including many sons and daughters 0f the Americans who welcomed Mayorkas in 1960.
Wallace is a former host of Fox News who quit because of the network’s conditional pro-Trump coverage.
His Mayorkas interview provided a much better portrayal of Mayorkas than the credulous coverage provided by pro-migration establishment media outlets, such as the New York Times. But Wallace’s interview ignored the huge death toll of Mayorkas’s migrants, and the economic and pocketbook damage caused by Mayorkas’s motives and pro-establishment policies.
The federal government has long operated an unpopular economic policy of Extraction Migration. This colonialism-like policyextracts vast amounts of human resources fromimpoverishedcountries and uses the imported workers, renters, and consumers to grow Wall Street and the economy.
The migrant inflow has successfullyforced down Americans’ wages and alsoboosted rentsandhousing prices. The influx has also pushed many native-born Americans out of careers in a wide variety of business sectors and contributed to therising death rateof poor Americans.
The population inflow alsoreduces the politicalcloutof native-born Americans, because it allows elites to divorce themselves fromthe needsandinterestsof ordinary Americans.
A 54 percent majority of Americans say Biden is allowing a southern border invasion, according toan August 2022 pollcommissioned by the left-of-center National Public Radio (NPR). The 54 percent “Invasion” majority included 76 percent of Republicans, 46 percent of independents, and even 40 percent of Democrats.
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