Thursday, March 16, 2023

JOE BIDEN AND THE NARCOMEX CARTELS - Over 200 Arrested in Connection with Sex Trafficking of Migrant Women

 

Over 200 Arrested in Connection with Sex Trafficking of Migrant Women

In this July 19, 2018, photo, Mentor Lisa Michelle tours The Refuge near Austin, Texas. The newly-opened Refuge Ranch is a 50-acre residential community of four-person cottages where girls ages 11 through 19 who have been sex-trafficked can rebuild their lives. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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Over 20 women who are believed to have been trafficked into the United States and forced into the sex trade were rescued in Polk County, Florida. 

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd noted that most of the women identified as victims of sex trafficking are Cuban and were trafficked across the Mexican border.

Judd added that the victims likely started as refugees before coming into contact with human smugglers, often referred to as “coyotes,” who help migrants enter the United States in exchange for a fee. He also noted that it is likely that they were told they would have to engage in prostitution to pay off debt.

Judd noted that the women were threatened with harm to their families back in their home countries if they did not comply with traffickers. A few of the women had arrived in the U.S. within the last 2 weeks, he also stated.

“The human trafficking victim is a very difficult victim to work with, because they are scared,” Sheriff Judd explained. 

He also explained that the migrants “told to us that they were paying off their transportation debt, that they were being smuggled into the United States to have sex, that their family at home was being threatened if they didn’t come here and … pay off the debts.” The women are “paying a ridiculous, horrible price,” he added.

Judd also explained that if the federal government truly sought to solve our illegal immigration crisis, they would halt the supply of new migrants:

We don’t do what we need to do … I suggest to you that what we are doing with the immigration issue today is simply this: It’s like you go home this evening, and [discover] ‘Oh my gosh, a pipe is broken and I’ve got water all over the floor.’

The federal government has got water all over the floor and they’re in there trying to mop it up. At least they say they are.

But at the same time, the pipe is still pumping more water onto the floor. The first thing you do if you go home this evening and find a pipe is broken and you’ve got water on the floor is — you go find the source and turn the valve off. Then you mop up and you fix the problem.

An elected official on the school board for San Diego’s Del Mar Union School District named Dr. Scott Wooden was one of the 200 arrests connected to the trafficking victims. Wooden, a molecular biologist who previously owned a massage parlor, allegedly attempted to solicit a prostitute for $200. 

Meanwhile, the Del Mar Union School District issued a statement, remarking, “We want to inform you that the Del Mar Union School District received notification that Scott Wooden has resigned from the District’s Governing Board of Trustees effective immediately.”

“The Board is currently exploring options to fill the vacancy. We will keep the community informed as the District moves through this process,” the statement also read.

Judd noted that the victims are being offered an opportunity to get connected with social services and receive help from non-profit organizations such as One More Child. Jodi Domangue, the head of the anti-trafficking unit of One More Child discussed sex trafficking, saying “It most often looks like generations of cyclical poverty and individuals who are desperate to have their needs met for survival,” 

Judd explained that they are continuing to investigate who smuggled the victims across the border. “We have caught the buyer and the seller,” he said before adding “That’s what we’ve done today. But we know the buyer and the seller is only the beginning of the chain. It’s not the end of the chain.”

Spencer Lindquist is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter @SpencerLndqst and reach out at slindquist@breitbart.com


Cartel Mass Killings, Kidnappings Plague Central Mexico

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Despite rhetoric by Mexico’s government about the country being safer than the U.S., once peaceful regions are now plagued by cartel violence. In recent days, the state of Guanajuato has suffered mass killings and mass kidnappings at the hands of cartels.

On Tuesday, authorities confirmed the disappearance of six women in Celaya who were traveling in the same vehicle. The six had been missing since March 7. Two days later, two other women were reported missing in a separate case. Despite multiple assurances from officials, the eight women remain missing. Also over the weekend, gunmen kidnapped a 36-year-old male businessman whose body was found two days later. State authorities claimed to have arrested a cell of gunmen in connection with the case, however, no new information has been released.

In a separate case, cartel gunmen stormed a bar called El Estadio in Apaseo El Alto, killing 10 patrons. The attack took place over the weekend. According to the Guanajuato Attorney General’s Office, initially, the gunmen shot 6 men and two women who died at the scene. Two others died at a local hospital. Mass shootings at bars in Guanajuato are on the rise as Cartel Jalisco New Generation (CJNG) and the remnants of Cartel Santa Rosa de Lima (CSRL) fight for control of local drug markets and business vulnerable to extortion.

As Breitbart Texas reported, gunmen from CSRL threatened to kill innocent victims late last year if businesses continued to pay protection or serve the interests of CJNG.

Editor’s Note: Breitbart Texas traveled to Mexico City and the states of Tamaulipas, Coahuila, and Nuevo León to recruit citizen journalists willing to risk their lives and expose the cartels silencing their communities.  The writers would face certain death at the hands of the various cartels that operate in those areas including the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas if a pseudonym were not used. Breitbart Texas’ Cartel Chronicles are published in both English and their original Spanish. This article was written by “E.F. Robles” from Jalisco. 

Three Migrant Children Abandoned by Smugglers on Texas Bank of Rio Grande

RGV Border Patrol agents find three unaccompanied migrant children near the Rio Grande. (U.S. Border Patrol/Rio Grande Valley Sector)
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Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol agents discovered three unaccompanied migrant children abandoned by human smugglers on the banks of the river that separates Mexico and Texas. The discoveries came in two separate incidents.

Rio Grande Valley Sector Chief Patrol Agent Gloria Chavez tweeted a photo on Wednesday of a young girl abandoned by human smugglers near Weslaco, Texas. The smugglers left the toddler alone and in the dark Tuesday night on the Texas bank of the Rio Grande.

One day earlier, Chavez tweeted another photo showing two children left on the Texas bank of the Rio Grande Monday night. Agents heard the eight-year-old girl calling for help after being abandoned by the human smuggling guide during a storm. The agents assigned to the Fort Brown Station near Brownsville, Texas, took possession of the brother and sister after Texas National Guard soldiers assigned to Operation Lone Star found them.

“Smuggling organizations continue to exploit children as a commodity!,” Chief Chavez stated. She reported that these children are part of the more than 25,000 unaccompanied migrant children found by agents so far this fiscal year.

Bob Price serves as associate editor and senior news contributor for the Breitbart Texas-Border team. He is an original member of the Breitbart Texas team. Price is a regular panelist on Fox 26 Houston’s What’s Your Point? Sunday-morning talk show. Follow him on Twitter @BobPriceBBTX.

Human Smugglers Abandon Migrant Family with 2 Infants on Texas Bank of Rio Grande

RGV Sector Chief Patrol Agent Gloria Chavez holds an infant who was abandoned with its family on the edge of the Rio Grande. (U.S. Border Patrol/Rio Grande Valley Sector)
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Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol agents found a migrant family with two infants abandoned by human smugglers along the Rio Grande riverbank. RGV Sector Chief Patrol Agent Gloria Chavez witnessed the rescue.

U.S. Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz tweeted a video showing agents from the RGV Sector rescuing a family abandoned in the dark along the Texas bank of the Rio Grande on March 9. The migrant family included two infants, Ortiz reported.

RGV Sector Chief Chavez witnessed the rescue of the migrant family near the Roma, Texas, historic district.

“Earlier today we were patrolling right near the edge of the river where we encountered families with children,” Chaves reported. She said the families came from Honduras, Guatemala, and China.

“My most concern is for the unaccompanied children because they are little,” she continued. “I am concerned because they came [across] on a small raft. It was eight people.”

Chavez said the smuggling “guide” put the migrants and the children in a very dangerous situation.

“It’s very easy to fall off that raft,” she explained, “especially for children.”

Chavez reported that the Rio Grande Valley Sector agents have had more than 121,000 migrant encounters so far this fiscal year. The new fiscal year began on October 1, 2022. She said 37,000 of those occurred in the Rio Grande City Station area of responsibility.

In addition to the migrants apprehended, more than 27,000 more migrants are classified as known got-aways, according to an unofficial Border Patrol report obtained by Breitbart Texas.

Bob Price serves as associate editor and senior news contributor for the Breitbart Texas-Border team. He is an original member of the Breitbart Texas team. Price is a regular panelist on Fox 26 Houston’s What’s Your Point? Sunday-morning talk show. Follow him on Twitter @BobPriceBBTX.

1,000 Migrants Storm El Paso International Bridge in Attempt to Enter U.S.

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A source within U.S. Customs and Border Protection says a group of nearly 1,000 frustrated migrants attempted to force their way into the United States at the Paso de Norte International Bridge in El Paso. The group of mostly single adult migrants forced their way past Mexican immigration authorities and attempted to breach the United States Port of Entry by force on Sunday afternoon.

The source, not authorized to speak to the media, told Breitbart Texas that CBP officers staffing the U.S. side of the bridge prevented the group from entering the city of El Paso. The large migrant group has been pushed back into Mexico and was somewhat dispersed at press time.

The source believes the group may attempt a breach at another international bridge in the area, namely the Stanton-Lerdo facility located on Stanton Street in El Paso. The source says the migrants are likely frustrated by the increased application of the CDC Title 42 Emergency COVID-19 order. The Title 42 order was recently expanded by the Biden administration to include the immediate expulsion of Venezuelan, Cuban, and Nicaraguan migrants.

Video published by the City of El Paso shows the bridge being closed on Sunday afternoon with barricades and CPB officers standing guard:

Screenshot of Paso Del Norte International Bridge Sunday afternoon following a group of 1,000 migrants attempting to force their way into the U.S. (Video Screenshot, City of El Paso)

Screenshot of Paso Del Norte International Bridge Sunday afternoon following a group of 1,000 migrants attempting to force their way into the U.S. (Video Screenshot, City of El Paso)

The increased application of the emergency rule reduced crossings along the southwest border in recent months and forced migrants to wait in Mexico for the rule to expire or to turn to cartel smugglers and finance a more surreptitious, dangerous, and expensive journey into the United States.

Before the enhanced application of the Title 42 authority that sees migrants quickly expelled to Mexico or their home country, most migrants crossing in large groups were quickly released to pursue asylum claims in the United States. According to CBP, the rule will expire in May and will be replaced by an immigration enforcement measure that will subject migrants who fail to apply for asylum in a third country to expedited removal and imposes a five-year ban on re-entry to the United States as a consequence.

As reported by Breitbart Texas, the Border Patrol’s El Paso Sector led the nation in migrant apprehensions with nearly 56,000 apprehensions in December prior to President Joe Biden visiting the sector in January. As a result of the enhanced application of the Title 42 COVID-19 authority imposed shortly after the president’s visit, migrant apprehensions in the Sector dropped by more than 40% to 31,900 in February.

It is unknown if any migrants attempting to breach the Paso Del Norte International Port of Entry were arrested during the event by U.S. or Mexican authorities. A request for information from Customs and Border Protection remains pending as of press time.

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.

THE BORDERS, LIKE THE LAWS, DO NOT APPLY TO BRIBES SUCKER GAMER LAWYER JOE BIDEN OR HIS CUBAN, GAMER LAWYER MAYORKAS!

PROFILE OF A SOCIOPATH GAMER LAWYER:

JOE BIDEN is known as a serial liar, a "public servant" who has somehow managed to accrue tremendous wealth, a race-baiting opportunist, Catholic-in-name-only, and a bought-and-paid-for politician in bed with criminal cartels and foreign foes.  In another era, Joe Biden would have been run out of his country much the same way Benedict Arnold was two and a half centuries ago; in an era when integrity, honor, fortitude, fidelity, and grit have been jettisoned for immorality, unscrupulousness, weakness, betrayal, and craven pliability, however, he is elevated to king sleazeball in a city drowning in sleaze. JB SHURK



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"If you see the pictures, if you see the video, it looks like a third world country. The crime is off the charts. We have people getting murdered at marijuana grows." My guest today is Jeremiah LaRue, Sheriff of Siskiyou County. In a previous episode, we have covered how cartels taking over land in his county and grow massive illegal marijuana. Today, we will dive deeper to find out what’s happening in Northern California. And why the illegal grows have been out of control.

Mexican President Says He’ll Campaign Against GOP if it Presses For Military Action Against Cartels

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Mexican President Andres Manuel López Obrador. (Photo by Alfredo Estrella / AFP via Getty Images)
Mexican President Andres Manuel López Obrador. (Photo by Alfredo Estrella / AFP via Getty Images)

(CNSNews.com) – Taking aim at GOP lawmakers pushing for military action against Mexican drug cartels, President Andres Manuel López Obrador said Thursday that if the drive continues he will call on Mexican and Hispanic voters in the U.S. not to support the Republican Party.

One of the lawmakers involved advised López Obrador to “get a grip” and said he should be campaigning against the cartels murdering his people, rather than against those wanting to help.

“We are not going to allow any foreign government to intervene, much less the armed forces of a foreign government to intervene in our territory,” the Mexican president said during a press conference. “We are not a protectorate of the United States, nor a colony of the United States.”

The fentanyl crisis has prompted several Republican-led proposals to have the U.S. government designate the Mexican cartels as foreign terrorist organizations (FTOs), and use military assets against them. Proponents say they aren’t calling for U.S. troops to be deployed on the ground, but for the use of cyber, drones, and other capabilities against gangs responsible for the drugs that are killing tens of thousands of Americans each year.

The deaths of two Americans kidnapped in northeastern Mexico has fueled the calls.

But López Obrador said they amount to an attack on Mexican sovereignty, and laid out his planned response:

President Biden and Mexican President Andres Manuel López Obrador at the National Palace in Mexico City in January. (Photo by Nicolas Asfouri / AFP via Getty Images)
President Biden and Mexican President Andres Manuel López Obrador at the National Palace in Mexico City in January. (Photo by Nicolas Asfouri / AFP via Getty Images)

“Starting today we are going to launch an information campaign for Mexicans who live and work in the United States, and for all Hispanics, to inform them of what we are doing in Mexico, and how this initiative by the Republicans, in addition to being irresponsible, is an offense against the people of Mexico, a lack of respect for our independence, our sovereignty,” he said.

“And if they do not change their attitude and think that they are going to use Mexico for their propaganda, electoral, and political purposes, we are going to call for them not to vote for that party, because it is interventionist, inhumane, hypocritical, and corrupt.”

 

Among those responding to López Obrador’s remarks was Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas), one of the lawmakers pressing for military action against the cartels.

“The President of Mexico said today he would campaign against me & anyone who wants to target the cartels,” he tweeted.

“1. Bring it. Lol. 2. Get a grip. You should be campaigning against the cartels who are MURDERING your own people, not the Americans who want to help eradicate them.”

Earlier this week, after news broke that two of four Americans kidnapped last Friday had been killed, Crenshaw tweeted, “It’s time we authorize military force against them. Are you listening, [López Obrador]? We would love for you to be a partner. Help us help you.”

The cartel-focused congressional initiatives include a resolution introduced in January by Crenshaw and Rep. Mike Waltz (R-Fla.), granting Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) to target specified cartels facilitating the fentanyl crisis.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) – from whose state the kidnapped and murdered Americans came – joined Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) at a press conference this week outlining plans for legislation that would designate the cartels as FTOs, and then “give the military the authority to go after these organizations wherever they exist.”

“Not to invade Mexico. Not to shoot Mexican airplanes down,” Graham said. “But to destroy drug labs that are poisoning Americans.”

A US Customs and Border Protection agent searches an automobile for contraband at the San Ysidro Port of Entry in California. (Photo by SANDY HUFFAKER/AFP via Getty Images)
A US Customs and Border Protection agent searches an automobile for contraband at the San Ysidro Port of Entry in California. (Photo by SANDY HUFFAKER/AFP via Getty Images)

Sens. Roger Marshall (R-Kansas) and Rick Scott (Fla.) on Wednesday reintroduced their Drug Cartel Terrorist Designation Act, previously proposed last September, that would designate four specified Mexican cartels as FTOs.

The designation would make it a crime to knowingly provide “material support or resources” to the cartels to enter the U.S., ban entry into the U.S. to any foreign citizen linked to the cartels, and authorize the Treasury Department to freeze cartels’ assets and block transactions.

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Wednesday that FTO designations for the cartels “would not grant us any additional authorities that we don’t really have at this time.” 

The Crenshaw-Waltz and Marshall-Scott measures both name the cartels they want targeted. Both lists include the Sinaloa and Jalisco New Generation cartels, which have been linked to the production of most of the fentanyl coming across the southwest border.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 71,238 Americans died in fentanyl overdoses in 2021.

In his press conference remarks on Thursday, López Obrador denied that fentanyl is produced or consumed in Mexico, characterizing the situation in the U.S. as a result of an inadequate law enforcement response and social problems.

“Why don’t they fight the distribution of fentanyl in the United States, the cartels in the United States that are in charge of distributing fentanyl and more thoroughly?” he asked. “Why don’t you take care of your youth? Why don’t they address their serious problem of social decomposition?”

See also:

American Deaths in Mexico Fuel Calls For US to Start Treating Cartels as Terrorist Targets (Mar. 8, 2023)

WH: Designating Mexican Drug Cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations ‘Would Not Grant Us Any Additional Authorities That We Don’t Really Have’ (Mar. 8, 2023)

Texas Takes Matters Into Own Hands, Moves To Make Illegal Immigration a State Felony

Lawmakers say they can no longer wait for Biden to enforce immigration law

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Texas state Republicans are pushing legislation to make illegal entry from Mexico a felony, a move that comes as Texas lawmakers accuse the Biden administration of leaving border states to fend for themselves against the immigration crisis.

The bill from Republican state representative Matt Schaefer would also create a "Border Protection Unit," a larger state border patrol team to address the surge in migrants, Fox News reported. The bill must pass the legislature before the end of May to become law.

The Border Protection Unit would be headed by a governor-appointed unit chief, who could recruit a militia of civilians without felony convictions to "participate in unit operations and functions." Illegal immigrants who are arrested could face up to 10 years in prison and thousands of dollars in fines.

"Right now we can use all the help and any help at all that we can get, because we're being overrun down here and on the borders," said Zavala County sheriff Eusevio Salinas.

The proposed bill comes after Texas Republicans pressed the Biden administration to reimburse the state for its efforts to tackle the border crisis through Operation Lone Star.

"Texas has been forced by this administration to go it alone when it comes to securing our border," said U.S. representative Pat Fallon (R., Texas) in a statement. "Operation Lone Star has been a critical tool in stemming the tide of illegal immigration, but we cannot do it by ourselves."

The U.S. Border Patrol has experienced nearly 800,000 migrant encounters so far in fiscal year 2023.

"The Legislature, acting with the governor, has the solemn duty to protect and defend the citizens of Texas," the proposed bill reads. "Texas is in such imminent danger as will not admit of delay."

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The Border Crisis and Violent Crime


By Jason Richwine

American Greatness, 
Excerpt: Despite advocates’ repeated insistence that illegal immigrants do not threaten public safety, the evidence is not so clear. In fact, some data out of Texas suggest that illegal immigrants are convicted of homicide and sexual assault at higher rates than the state average.

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The Sinaloa Cartel and Cartel Jalisco New Generation are the main suppliers and producers of fentanyl. The drug has become extremely popular because it is cheap to produce and lets traffickers cut their loads several times while maintaining potency. However, due to its extreme potency and limited dilution in lab settings, overdoses are common.

Last November, Crenshaw introduced the Declaring War on the Cartels Act, featuring increased criminal penalties for criminal cartels’ activities and the targeting of their finances, with provision for seized assets to be directed to Customs and Border Protection, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, and the DEA.

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1,000 Migrants Storm El Paso International Bridge in Attempt to Enter U.S.

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A source within U.S. Customs and Border Protection says a group of nearly 1,000 frustrated migrants attempted to force their way into the United States at the Paso de Norte International Bridge in El Paso. The group of mostly single adult migrants forced their way past Mexican immigration authorities and attempted to breach the United States Port of Entry by force on Sunday afternoon.

The source, not authorized to speak to the media, told Breitbart Texas that CBP officers staffing the U.S. side of the bridge prevented the group from entering the city of El Paso. The large migrant group has been pushed back into Mexico and was somewhat dispersed at press time.

The source believes the group may attempt a breach at another international bridge in the area, namely the Stanton-Lerdo facility located on Stanton Street in El Paso. The source says the migrants are likely frustrated by the increased application of the CDC Title 42 Emergency COVID-19 order. The Title 42 order was recently expanded by the Biden administration to include the immediate expulsion of Venezuelan, Cuban, and Nicaraguan migrants.

Video published by the City of El Paso shows the bridge being closed on Sunday afternoon with barricades and CPB officers standing guard:

Screenshot of Paso Del Norte International Bridge Sunday afternoon following a group of 1,000 migrants attempting to force their way into the U.S. (Video Screenshot, City of El Paso)

Screenshot of Paso Del Norte International Bridge Sunday afternoon following a group of 1,000 migrants attempting to force their way into the U.S. (Video Screenshot, City of El Paso)

The increased application of the emergency rule reduced crossings along the southwest border in recent months and forced migrants to wait in Mexico for the rule to expire or to turn to cartel smugglers and finance a more surreptitious, dangerous, and expensive journey into the United States.

Before the enhanced application of the Title 42 authority that sees migrants quickly expelled to Mexico or their home country, most migrants crossing in large groups were quickly released to pursue asylum claims in the United States. According to CBP, the rule will expire in May and will be replaced by an immigration enforcement measure that will subject migrants who fail to apply for asylum in a third country to expedited removal and imposes a five-year ban on re-entry to the United States as a consequence.

As reported by Breitbart Texas, the Border Patrol’s El Paso Sector led the nation in migrant apprehensions with nearly 56,000 apprehensions in December prior to President Joe Biden visiting the sector in January. As a result of the enhanced application of the Title 42 COVID-19 authority imposed shortly after the president’s visit, migrant apprehensions in the Sector dropped by more than 40% to 31,900 in February.

It is unknown if any migrants attempting to breach the Paso Del Norte International Port of Entry were arrested during the event by U.S. or Mexican authorities. A request for information from Customs and Border Protection remains pending as of press time.

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.

Texas Files Bills to Remove Migrants Crossing Border, Stiff Prison Terms for Re-Entry
CIUDAD JUAREZ, MEXICO - DECEMBER 20: Texas National Guard troops block immigrants from entering a high-traffic border crossing area along Rio Grande in El Paso, Texas on December 20, 2022 as viewed from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Texas Governor Greg Abbott ordered 400 troops to the U.S.-Mexico border in El Paso, …
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The Texas Legislature is set to push the limits of the State’s authority to enforce immigration laws and increase border security. Two bills filed this session provide for the removal of migrants illegally entering the U.S. between ports of entry and call for stiff prison sentences for re-entering after removal.

A Texas Legislator filed a bill aimed at expanding the State’s authority to remove migrants who illegally cross the border between ports of entry and return them to Mexico. A bill filed in the Texas Senate provides stiff penalties for illegally re-entering Texas after being removed.

Texas State Representative Matt Schaffer (R-Tyler) filed House Bill 20 on March 10. The bill calls for the creation of a new law enforcement department called the “Border Protection Unit” (BPU).

The bill grants the BPU officers (commissioned law enforcement officers) the authority to “deter and repel” migrants attempting to illegally enter the State of Texas outside of a port of entry. It also allows BPU officers to “return aliens to Mexico who have been observed actually crossing the Mexican Border illegally, and were apprehended or detained in the immediate vicinity of the border.”

These powers are granted “to the extent consistent with the United States and Texas constitutions and federal immigration laws,” the bill states.

Schaffer’s bill is one of seven border security bills identified by House Speaker Dade Phelan as legislative priorities for the House on Friday. In a statement released by the speaker, Phelan’s staff wrote:

The Border Protection Unit would be headquartered along the border and prioritize the recruitment of individuals who are either residents of or have significant experience with border communities to staff the operation. In doing so, Texas National Guard soldiers, state troopers and game wardens that have been deployed along the border for weeks or months at a time would eventually be sent back home, returning them to their own core missions and communities.

The bill also allows for the use of “non-lethal force” to deter migrants from illegally crossing the border.

In the Texas Senate, Senator Brian Birdwell (R-Granbury) filed Senate Bill 2424 on Friday. The bill relates to the “creation of the criminal offense of improper entry from [a] foreign nation.”

The bill would make entering Texas by a person who is not a citizen or national of the United States outside of a location designated by United States immigration officials as a port of entry a state criminal offense. The initial offense would be a Class A misdemeanor. Penalties in Texas provide for up to one year in county jail and a fine of put to $4,000.

The bill provides for penalty enhancements up to and including a sentence of 25 years to life in prison for persons who illegally re-enter the state after being removed with various criminal convictions. The offense is a felony of the first degree if the migrant re-enters after having received a conviction for a first-degree felony or higher.

“Sen. Brian Birdwell has filed SB 2424 so the State of Texas is empowered to truly protect our border, as the Federal Government has completely abdicated its constitutional responsibility,” Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick said in a written statement on Friday.

“Sen. Birdwell’s bill creates a new state crime for entering Texas illegally. SB 2424 authorizes Texas law enforcement to arrest and prosecute all people who cross the border illegally anywhere in Texas,” Patrick continued. “Punishment starts with up to 1 year in jail for a first-time offender, two years in state jail for a second-time offender, and up to life in prison for convicted felons who illegally cross the border.”

The bills filed are expected to receive priority consideration after Governor Greg Abbott declared border security to be an emergency item during his State-of-the-State address in February.

“Texans are furious about the lawlessness caused by Biden’s open border policies,” Abbott said during the address, “and they should be.

“Doing more to secure our border is an emergency item this session,” the Texas governor declared. “I look forward to working with Senator Birdwell and Representative Guillen to get this done.”

During the first five months of Fiscal Year 2023, which began on October 1, 2022, Border Patrol agents apprehended nearly 560,000 migrants in the five Texas-based border sectors, according to an unofficial Border Patrol report obtained by Breitbart Texas. In addition, more than 199,000 more are classified by Border Patrol as “known got-aways,” another Border Patrol report reveals.

This brings the total of known border crossers in the Rio Grande Valley, Laredo, Del Rio, Big Bend, and El Paso Sectors to more than three-quarters of a million migrants, the reports show.

Bob Price serves as associate editor and senior news contributor for the Breitbart Texas-Border team. He is an original member of the Breitbart Texas team. Price is a regular panelist on Fox 26 Houston’s What’s Your Point? Sunday-morning talk show. Follow him on Twitter @BobPriceBBTX.


Human Smugglers Abandon Migrant Family with 2 Infants on Texas Bank of Rio Grande

RGV Sector Chief Patrol Agent Gloria Chavez holds an infant who was abandoned with its family on the edge of the Rio Grande. (U.S. Border Patrol/Rio Grande Valley Sector)
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Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol agents found a migrant family with two infants abandoned by human smugglers along the Rio Grande riverbank. RGV Sector Chief Patrol Agent Gloria Chavez witnessed the rescue.

U.S. Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz tweeted a video showing agents from the RGV Sector rescuing a family abandoned in the dark along the Texas bank of the Rio Grande on March 9. The migrant family included two infants, Ortiz reported.

RGV Sector Chief Chavez witnessed the rescue of the migrant family near the Roma, Texas, historic district.

“Earlier today we were patrolling right near the edge of the river where we encountered families with children,” Chaves reported. She said the families came from Honduras, Guatemala, and China.

“My most concern is for the unaccompanied children because they are little,” she continued. “I am concerned because they came [across] on a small raft. It was eight people.”

Chavez said the smuggling “guide” put the migrants and the children in a very dangerous situation.

“It’s very easy to fall off that raft,” she explained, “especially for children.”

Chavez reported that the Rio Grande Valley Sector agents have had more than 121,000 migrant encounters so far this fiscal year. The new fiscal year began on October 1, 2022. She said 37,000 of those occurred in the Rio Grande City Station area of responsibility.

In addition to the migrants apprehended, more than 27,000 more migrants are classified as known got-aways, according to an unofficial Border Patrol report obtained by Breitbart Texas.

Bob Price serves as associate editor and senior news contributor for the Breitbart Texas-Border team. He is an original member of the Breitbart Texas team. Price is a regular panelist on Fox 26 Houston’s What’s Your Point? Sunday-morning talk show. Follow him on Twitter @BobPriceBBTX.


Huge Surge in Migrant Smuggling Reported by Texas County near Border

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Law enforcement officers in Zavala County, Texas, report a serious uptick in organized migrant smuggling activity on county roads and highways in recent weeks. In just five days last week, Zavala County Sheriff’s Office deputies interdicted 23 separate smuggling ventures attempting to move migrants through the county to reach the interior of the United States.

The small law enforcement department in this county located just 30 miles from the Rio Grande border with Mexico stopped six vehicles found to contain migrants on one single day last week. The vehicle stops often involve high-speed pursuits, stolen vehicles, property damage, and according to local law enforcement officials most concerning, the frequent presence of loaded weapons within reach of the human smugglers. The smuggling attempts involved more than 100 suspected migrants, some of whom managed to escape arrest by running from pursuing deputies onto private ranches.

Smugglers vehicle crashes on private ranch to escape pursuing deputies.

A human smuggler’s vehicle crashes on a private ranch to escape pursuing deputies.

Zavala County Sheriff’s Office Chief Deputy Ricardo Rios told Breitbart Texas his deputies have responded to the increasing number of human smuggling incidents while trying to continue to meet their primary law enforcement obligation of keeping the county’s residents safe by responding to local calls for service.

Rios told Breitbart several of the smuggling ventures thwarted last week involved stolen vehicles from surrounding cities. Smugglers often steal vehicles from larger metropolitan areas such as San Antonio and Houston and immediately travel to the border region to transport the migrants away from the border.

Steering column damage caused by smugglers during vehicle theft

Steering column damage caused by smugglers during vehicle theft

Zavala County is a challenging environment for the deputies patrolling the myriad of roadways, including numerous farm-to-market roads that allow smugglers easy egress from the border region. Two pursuits during the past week involved migrant smugglers crashing their vehicles into innocent motorists.

Smuggler’s vehicle crashes into innocent motorist after pursuit.

The chief deputy reported that several incidents involved vehicles driving cross country to avoid interdiction while destroying private ranch fences along their way. He said their greatest concern is public safety. As the smugglers more often choose to flee from authorities rather than yield to the deputy’s emergency lights, the risk of injury to the public and the migrants rises.

In January, as reported by Breitbart Texas, two migrants died after a vehicle accident occurred on a bridge in Zavala County near Uvalde. The deceased migrants survived the crash but later died after jumping from the bridge as they fled from law enforcement authorities. Four other migrants survived the nearly 40-foot fall but suffered extensive injuries.

Smuggler's weapon confiscated by Zavala County deputy.

A smuggler’s pistol confiscated by a Zavala County sheriff’s deputy.

Rios says his department works to aggressively investigate each case and prosecute under current Texas law. Drivers are routinely charged under a Texas statute for Smuggling of Persons.  The statute currently is at a minimum, a third-degree felony and carries fines up to $10,000 and a prison term between two and ten years.

As reported by Breitbart Texas, Governor Greg Abbott has asked Texas legislators to increase the criminal penalties for human smuggling in hopes of creating a stronger deterrent to the illegal activity many communities are experiencing. Pending legislation proposed by Texas House Representative Ryan Guillen (R-Rio Grande City) currently under consideration may do exactly that.

House Bill 800 introduced by Rep. Guillen increases penalties under Texas law for human smuggling by raising the mandatory minimum sentence for a conviction under the current statute to ten years in prison.

The bill would also require a minimum of five years in prison for persons convicted of operating a stash house used to facilitate human trafficking or drug smuggling. A person under this provision could also be charged with a third-degree felony punishable by up to ten years for any additional offenses committed.

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.

PROFILE OF A SOCIOPATH GAMER LAWYER:

JOE BIDEN is known as a serial liar, a "public servant" who has somehow managed to accrue tremendous wealth, a race-baiting opportunist, Catholic-in-name-only, and a bought-and-paid-for politician in bed with criminal cartels and foreign foes.  In another era, Joe Biden would have been run out of his country much the same way Benedict Arnold was two and a half centuries ago; in an era when integrity, honor, fortitude, fidelity, and grit have been jettisoned for immorality, unscrupulousness, weakness, betrayal, and craven pliability, however, he is elevated to king sleazeball in a city drowning in sleaze. JB SHURK

Previously Deported Illegal Alien Indicted for Allegedly Murdering, Dismembering Woman and Her Son

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A previously deported illegal alien has been indicted for allegedly murdering a woman and her young son and dismembering their bodies, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall (R) said.

As Breitbart News reported in August of last year, 37-year-old illegal alien José Paulino Pascual-Reyes of Mexico is accused of murdering 34-year-old Sandra Vazquez Ceja and her 14-year-old son, Omar Gallegos Vazquez, as well as keeping her 12-year-old daughter captive in Dadeville, Alabama.

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency confirmed that Pascual-Reyes was deported in 2014 under the Obama administration but later re-entered the United States via the southern border at an unknown date.

In an announcement this week, Marshall said Pascual-Reyes has been hit with an 11-count indictment — including nine counts of capital murder for allegedly killing Ceja and her young son and two counts for allegedly abusing their corpses.

The indictment claims that Pascual-Reyes murdered Ceja and Vazquez while kidnapping and sexually assaulting the woman’s daughter, who was allegedly kept captive in the illegal alien’s residence until she was found walking on the side of a road in the small town.

Pascual-Reyes, the indictment alleges, then dismembered Ceja’s and Vazquez’s bodies.

If convicted of the charges, Pascual-Reyes faces the death penalty or a life sentence without the possibility of parole for each murder conviction. For allegedly abusing corpses, Pascual-Reyes faces one to 10 years in prison.

Ceja and her two children, Breitbart News reported, first arrived at the southern border in 2017 and were given parole to enter the United States by the Trump administration while awaiting an asylum court hearing. Though Ceja was dating Pascual-Reyes, he was not the father of her two children.

The 12-year-old girl, according to the Tallapoosa County Sheriff’s Office, was held captive by Pascual-Reyes for a week beginning on July 24 — tied to a bed in his Dadeville residence — but was able to escape by chewing off her restraints.

Police allege Pascual-Reyes did not kill the girl and was keeping her captive for the purpose of later sexually assaulting her. The girl, police said, suffered a blow to the head at the hands of Pascual-Reyes while she was held captive.

Ceja, police said, was smothered to death with a pillow by Pascual-Reyes while her son was allegedly beaten to death. The woman’s daughter ultimately led police to her mother and brother’s bodies at Pascual-Reyes’s residence.

Pascual-Reyes remains in Russell County Jail without bail.

John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here


We've all heard about the four Americans who ran into a cartel at the U.S.-Mexico border. It was two dead in Matamoros.  Shortly after, Senator Graham said we should "designate Mexican drug cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations and authorize the use of military force against them."

Then came a speech by President López-Obrador.  The first part was nationalism and totally expected:

"We are not going to allow any foreign government to intervene, much less a foreign government's armed forces," López Obrador told reporters during a press conference.

"We are not a protectorate of the United States, nor a colony of the United States," he added. "Mexico is a free, independent, sovereign state."

Honestly, that's exactly what you'd expect a president to say.  It's "putting America first à la mexicana."  What else is he supposed to say?

Then AMLO stepped in it big time.  He decided to jump into the U.S. political arena.  See for yourself:

"Starting today we are going to start an information campaign for Mexicans who live and work in the United States and for all Hispanics to inform them of what we are doing in Mexico and how this initiative by the Republicans, in addition to being irresponsible, is an offense against the people of Mexico, a lack of respect for our independence, our sovereignty," he said.

"And if they do not change their attitude and think that they are going to use Mexico for their propaganda, electoral, and political purposes, we are going to call for them not to vote for that party, because it is interventionist, inhumane, hypocritical, and corrupt," Lopez Obrador said, later adding that Mexico would be insisting that "not one vote" goes to Republicans from Mexicans and Hispanics.

That's beyond stupid. It is "estúpido," and other Spanish words that I can't post in a family-friendly website.  It would have been more productive if President López-Obrador had called on the Biden administration to take the border seriously and not make it easier for these criminal organizations to operate on both sides.

Hopefully, both sides can sit down and talk about the border crisis.  First, we consume.  Yes, we do.  We are the ones going into our pockets and buying the stuff.  Second, Mexico has a bigger problem, because these well financed and armed cartels represent a direct threat to the Mexican state.

Finally, I agree with designating these groups as terrorists.  They are terrorists.  Just check the Mexican news — every day, there is a story in Mexico about murders.

PS: Check out my blog for posts, podcasts, and videos.

Image: Andrés Manuel López Obrador.  Credit: Wikimedia Commons, public domain.


Already, Biden’s DHS is using a little-known parole program to mass-release hundreds of thousands of border crossers into the U.S. interior every month. At current estimates, the Biden administration has released 1.6 to two million border crossers into American communities since February 2021.


Large Migrant Group from 14 Nations Apprehended at Arizona Border

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Tucson Sector Border Patrol officials report the apprehension of a large migrant group who crossed the border near Lukeville, Arizona, on Monday. The group of 235 migrants consisted of citizens of 14 different nations and included children.

Tucson Sector Chief Patrol Agent John R. Modlin tweeted a photo of a large migrant group apprehended by Ajo Station agents.

Agents found the group while responding to 911 calls reporting the crossings near Lukeville on Monday, Modlin stated. The responding agents took 235 migrants into custody including single adults, family units, and children, the photo shows.

Modlin said the large group crossing required the response of several agents to process the large migrant group. Border Patrol defines a “large group” as 100 or more migrants in a single event.

Modlin also tweeted a three-day report showing the apprehension of 3,410 migrants. This could indicate an increase in the monthly migrant apprehensions for the Tucson Sector which averaged about 22,000 migrants per month for the first four months of the fiscal year. In February, Tucson Sector agents apprehended more than 23,500 migrants bringing the FY23 total to more than 112,300 migrants, according to an unofficial Border Patrol report reviewed by Breitbart Texas.

Bob Price serves as associate editor and senior news contributor for the Breitbart Texas-Border team. He is an original member of the Breitbart Texas team. Price is a regular panelist on Fox 26 Houston’s What’s Your Point? Sunday-morning talk show. Follow him on Twitter @BobPriceBBTX and Facebook.


Mexican President: Fentanyl is a U.S. Problem — ‘We Don’t Make It’

President Joe Biden is greeted by Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador as he arrives at the National Palace in Mexico City, Mexico, Monday, Jan. 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
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Mexico’s president blamed the U.S. for the fentanyl crisis as pressure mounts on his administration to stop cartels.

“They are doing this with a propagandist purpose,” Lopez Obrador (AMLO) said referring to calls by U.S. politicians for stronger actions against cartels. “They got this thing with fentanyl, that ‘it’s Mexico’s responsibility…’ Here, we don’t make fentanyl, nor consume it.”

The confrontational tone from AMLO comes as U.S. politicians increase pressure on Mexico and call for cartels to be designated as terrorist organizations. Some even float the idea of U.S. military actions.

The Mexican president said that while he feels bad for Americans suffering fentanyl overdoses, he asked why the U.S. does not do enough to fight distribution and target cartels domestically.

“Why don’t they take care of their young ones,” Lopez Obrador said. “Why don’t they take care of their social decomposition?”

The claims made by Lopez Obrador about Mexico not producing fentanyl go against information released by his own government. Military forces have raided clandestine labs where synthetic drugs including fentanyl are manufactured.

The Sinaloa Cartel and Cartel Jalisco New Generation are the main suppliers and producers of fentanyl. The drug has become extremely popular because it is cheap to produce and lets traffickers cut their loads several times while maintaining potency. However, due to its extreme potency and limited dilution in lab settings, overdoses are common.

Ildefonso Ortiz is an award-winning journalist with Breitbart Texas. He co-founded Breitbart Texas’ Cartel Chronicles project with Brandon Darby and senior Breitbart management. You can follow him on Twitter and on Facebook. He can be contacted at Iortiz@breitbart.com

Brandon Darby is the managing director and editor-in-chief of Breitbart Texas. He co-founded Breitbart Texas’ Cartel Chronicles project with Ildefonso Ortiz and senior Breitbart management. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook. He can be contacted at bdarby@breitbart.com.     


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Politico: Biden May OK Quasi-Amnesty for New Nicaraguan Migrants

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President Joe Biden intends to grant the quasi-amnesty gift of “Temporary Protected Status” (TPS) to the growing population of Nicaraguan migrants, per a Monday Politico report.

The Biden Administration’s plans for the move come amid “pressure from immigrant advocates and Democratic lawmakers,” Politico’s Maya Ward reported Monday, citing “three people familiar with” the situation.

“It’s not clear when the Department of Homeland Security [DHS] would roll out the policy, and plans were subject to change before final approval,” noted Ward. “The White House and DHS declined to comment.”

The TPS program grants temporary amnesty to 530,000 foreigners in the United States, as Breitbart News noted. The number does not include their U.S.-born children. The DHS reported that 4,250 Nicaraguans held quasi-amnesty status in 2021.

Last year border patrol agents had 163,876 encounters with Nicaraguan migrants, most of whom were allowed to seek asylum, CBS news reported.

“Biden has designated six new countries for TPS since taking office and redesignated six other nations, making an additional 712,000 U.S. immigrants eligible for the status,” Ward wrote, citing the Migration Policy Institute.

The DHS typically designates TPS for foreign nationals when they cannot arrive home safely due to circumstances in their native countries, such as war, environmental catastrophe, or different “extraordinary and temporary conditions,” the DHS notes. Nicaragua first gained the TPS in 1999 following the devastating Hurricane Mitch.

Congress created the system in 1990. Some presidents have abused the system “to quietly import and keep many foreign workers, renters, and consumers in the United States,” Breitbart News’s Neil Munro noted:

This TPS program policy is just one element of the federal Extraction Migration economic strategy. That strategy aids investors by cutting Americans’ wages and by boosting housing prices. It also pushes up inflation for a wide variety of goods, such as used autos and food.

[Former] President Donald Trump did not extend some of the TPS grants that had been repeatedly extended by prior presidents. The extensions were often granted long after the original disasters had been overcome. But Trump was stopped by lawsuits and Biden’s election.

Nicaragua was one of several countries where Trump did not extend the program.

In a February 23 letter, more than a dozen House Democrats called on Mayorkas to redesignate Nicaragua’s TPS status, citing the rule of President Daniel Ortega and his wife and now-vice president, Rosario Murillo.

“The increasingly totalitarian nature of the [Daniel Ortega/Rosario Murillo] regime and the brutal political repression Nicaraguans face in their daily lives exacerbate the urgent need for the Biden Administration to redesignate and extend TPS to Nicaragua,” wrote the Democrats, including Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Debbie Wasserman Schulz (D-FL), and Joaquin Castro (D-TX).

Additionally, 272 organizations directed a letter to Mayorkas early last month calling on him to grant TPS for Nicaraguans, as the Miami Herald reported.


                         LIE!
WH: ‘DHS Screens and Vets Every Individual Encountered at the Border’
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Migrants look at the Rio Grande, where people are crossing into the United States to seek asylum, in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico, on December 22, 2022. (Photo by VERONICA G. CARDENAS/AFP via Getty Images)

(CNSNews.com) - The White House on Tuesday addressed concerns that Mexican cartels responsible for the murder of two kidnapped Americans in Mexico could cross the southern border and enter the United States.

As CNSNews.com reported, four Americans were kidnapped and the bodies of two of them were found, according to Tamaulipas Gov. Américo Villarreal. The other two Americans were found alive, although one of them was injured. They were all kidnapped after crossing into Matamoros in Tamaulipas, Mexico, which has a level four State Department travel advisory warning.


“I should say this administration from day one has made sure as it relates to the safety, I know some folks have asked if we’re concerned about these individuals actually coming across the border and coming into the U.S., so DHS screens and vets every individual encountered at the border,” White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said when asked whether the U.S. needs to do more to tackle organized crime in Mexico.

“The president has secured record levels of funding for border security and management, including 23,000 border officials, which is a historic amount of border officials to help with the security process at the border, and we have stepped up coordination with government of Mexico to ensure security along our shared border,” the press secretary said.

“As you know, the president was recently in Mexico City. He met with — with AMLO to talk — that was one of the conversations that were had, that was part of the agenda, and so we’re going to continue to do that — those coordination, and — and we’re going to continue to do everything that we can to secure the border,” she said.

“These individuals were reportedly going across the border to Mexico for medical care. There are a lot of Americans who cross the southern border for medical care or for prescription drugs. What is the advice to those individuals? Should they avoid doing that?” a reporter asked.
 
“So I’m not going to speak specifically to — I know — I know it’s ongoing. I know there’s a lot of comments out there as to what these four individuals were going to do. So I would say the federal law enforcement has been in touch — has been, you know, doing — leading this investigation — clearly in touch with family members, and so I’m just going to be really careful on commenting why they were crossing the border,” the press secretary said, citing privacy concerns.

“But, again, I just laid out moments ago, when Michael was asking me the question about the Americans in Mexico or thinking about traveling to Mexico: The State Department puts out these alerts, has been — has tried — tries very hard to communicate what’s going on — this — their own safety — for their own safety in certain countries,” she said.

“And I would — I would make sure that if Americans are thinking about traveling to Mexico, that they certainly heed the call from the State Department. This particular area, as I just mentioned, is at Level 4, and so folks need to be really careful,” Jean-Pierre said.


AP Poll: 44 Percent Plurality of Americans Want Less Immigration

Tabu Henry Taylor (C) of Washington DC, and Mike Crowe (R) of Springfield, Virginia, join a handful of protesters from anti-amnesty groups, including New Yorkers for Immigration Control and Enforcement (NY ICE) and The Tea Party Immigration Coalition, to demonstrate in front of the U.S. Capitol building April 10, 2013 …
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A poll released Tuesday shows a 44 percent plurality of Americans want less immigration, up four points from a Gallup poll in mid-February.

The poll of 1,247 adults by the Associated Press and NORC at the University of Chicago shows that only 20 percent of Americans want immigration increased. “Only 11% of Republicans favor increased immigration, along with 27% of Democrats,” outlined the AP’s March 7 statement.

Sixty-five percent of Republicans want less migration, said the poll, which was conducted February 16-20.

Thirty-four percent of all Americans say the inflow should “remains the same as it is,” the poll said.

However, that “same as it is” number is likely inflated by the establishment media’s policy of hiding the huge migration numbers and the growing pocketbook damage to ordinary Americans.

The AP poll matches the rising public opposition to President Joe Biden’s business-backed policy of importing millions of legal, quasi-legal, and illegal migrants for jobs and homes that would otherwise go to better-paid Americans.

Only 28 percent of registered voters believe immigration has been positive for their local economy, and only 38 percent say immigration is good for the United States, according to an August 12-15 survey of 2,025 registered voters conducted for a pro-migration advocacy group.

By a factor of more than two to one, Americans agree companies “should raise wages and try harder to recruit Americans even if it causes the prices of their products to rise,” said a July 20-22 poll by YouGov.com.

Forty percent of Americans want less migration, up from 19 percent in January 2021, said the Gallup poll, released February 13. The 40 percent includes 71 percent of Republicans, 36 percent of independents, and 19 percent of Democrats, according to the poll, which did not describe the scale of Biden’s migration.

The pocket-book-driven shift in public opinion, however, is being dismissed by immigration advocates as merely a normal and temporary reaction to White House policies.

“The thermostatic bounce-back is disappointing, but not particularly surprising,” wrote Noah Smith, a fervent supporter of migration into Americans’ society. “Immigration has always been a core U.S. strength, but right now the country needs new recruits even more than we usually do,” he wrote on February 18.

Smith argued for more immigration because he claims it is needed to bolster high-tech innovation — and also to replace the absent American children who were not born amid a national decline in births:

We need immigrants is to keep our population young. Despite a very small post-pandemic uptick, the country’s total fertility rate has fallen well below the replacement level over the past decade and a half … the America fertility exceptionalism of the 1990s and early 2000s is now a thing of th’ he argued. e past.

Immigration “also increases fertility because immigrants tend to have more kids,” Smith claimed, even though the report he cited blames the fertility drop-off on federal economic policy:

“[When] you look at young adults — the people who are supposed to be having children — and they were not doing nearly as well,” said Guzzo [Karen Benjamin Guzzo, director of the Carolina Population Center]. They were facing all kinds of financial challenges: crushing student debt, a housing bubble that made securing a mortgage virtually impossible for some, jobs that weren’t rewarding or stable or the inability to move to cities where the job growth was [happening because of migration].

Since the 1990s, the federal government has allowed Wall Street to move millions of manufacturing jobs to cheap-labor countries, and to import millions of workers for low-wage labor in the U.S. consumer economy. The resulting cheap-labor bubble forced down Americans’ wages, shifted wealth and power to Wall Street — and likely reduced Americans’ ability to have the number of children they want.

So far, there is little evidence that the establishment wants to help American families have more kids.

“We have a population that is not reproducing on its own with the same level that it used to,” Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said at a press conference in November. “The only way [emphasis added] we’re going to have a great future in America is if we welcome and embrace immigrants, the dreamers and all of them,” he said.

Meanwhile, the GOP establishment does not try to win more voters by promising to reduce the pocketbook damage from migration.

Instead, it only uses the migration issue to spike base turnout in elections with ads about border chaos, illegal migration, and drugs.

Like many other migration advocates, Smith wants the establishment to make an immigration deal with the public. But his deal would merely be a card trick because it would simply import more legal migrants in place of fewer illegal migrants.

That kind of deal would allow the establishment to congratulate itself for boosting its stock-market wealth with more migrants — while doing nothing to raise the wages, productivity, and civic status of the many millions of ordinary Americans.

Unsurprisingly, those Americans are growing increasingly alarmed at the establishment’s visceral preference for foreigners over Americans.

The current wave of migrants adds up to a southern border invasion, according to an August 2022 poll commissioned by the left-of-center, taxpayer-supported National Public Radio (NPR). The 54 percent “Invasion” majority includes 76 percent of Republicans, 46 percent of independents, and even 40 percent of Democrats. Just 19 percent of all respondents — or one in five — said the term is false.

Extraction Migration

The federal government has long operated an unpopular economic policy of Extraction Migration. This colonialism-like policy extracts vast amounts of human resources from needy countries, reduces beneficial trade, and uses the imported workers, renters, and consumers to grow Wall Street and the economy.

The migrant inflow has successfully forced down Americans’ wages and also boosted rents and housing prices. The inflow has also pushed many native-born Americans out of careers in a wide variety of business sectors and contributed to the rising death rate of poor Americans.

The lethal policy also sucks jobs and wealth from heartland states by subsidizing coastal investors with a flood of low-wage workers, high-occupancy renters, and government-aided consumers.

The population inflow also reduces the political clout of native-born Americans, because it allows elites to divorce themselves from the needs and interests of ordinary Americans.

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WH Press Secretary on Whether Biden Would Use Military Against Mexican Cartels: ‘I’m Just Not Going to Get into the Military and How It’s Being Used’

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(CNSNews.com) - The White House refused to say Tuesday whether President Biden would consider using the U.S. military to disrupt cartel operations in Mexico.

This comes as Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) plans to unveil legislation on Wednesday to designate Mexican cartels as foreign terrorist organizations and to authorize the use of military force against them.


During an appearance on Fox News’ “Jesse Waters Primetime” on Monday, the senator said that if he were president, he would tell the Mexican government, “if you don't clean up your act, we're going to clean it up for you.”

When asked Wednesday whether President Biden would ever consider using the U.S. military to disrupt cartel operations, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said, “I’m just not going to get into the military and how it’s being used.” 

Fox News White House Correspondent Peter Doocy asked, “So cartels kill Americans on this side of the border with drugs, and now they’re killing Americans on the other side of the border with guns. Why is President Biden so comfortable with cartels operating so close to the U.S.?”

JEAN-PIERRE: Well, let’s be very clear.  Let me take on the drug part here because — since you brought this up. Because of the work that this president has done, because of what we’ve done specifically on fentanyl at the border, it’s at historic lows — historic levels that we have been able to record a number of personnel working to secure the border because of what we’ve been able to do, seizing that fentanyl. 

We’ve done it in a historic way. That’s because of what this president has done. I just talked about 23,000 federal agents that have been able to be — that we’ve been able to hire and put at the border to secure the border. 

On top of that, historic sanctions going after traffickers and other financiers are helping disrupt fentanyl supply chains throughout their flow to the U.S., and we’ll — we — we’re really expanded access to treatments like — that are saving lives, if you think about it, which prevent overdoses, expanding as — as are fentanyl test strips, and through the removal of the X-Waiver, anyone registered to prescribe controlled medications can now prescribe life-saving medication to treat addiction.

So, again, we are seizing fentanyl at record historic levels because of what the — because of the — of what the president has done to secure our border, and, look, we’ve also coordinated — made sure that we’re coordinated our — our relationship with Mexico to deal with what we’re seeing as it relates to violence, as relates to cartel.  

That is something — a relationship that we’ve continued to build with Mexico, an incredibly important partner. You saw that when he went down for the summit in Mexico City. So, the president is dedicated to this and is doing the work that we’re actually seeing at the border, again, when you — we think about fentanyl.

DOOCY: But to the violence aspect of it: Now Americans are being slaughtered. Would President Biden be taking the same approach if it was al Qaeda or ISIS operating just across the border from an American city?

JEAN-PIERRE: The president takes this very seriously. He takes this very seriously. The FBI and other agencies have been on top of this from day one, and so that’s what he’s going to continue to do. When it comes to Americans’ lives and when it comes to their — the safety of Americans, the president is always going to make sure that that is a top priority.

Murders of Americans in Mexico Fuel Calls for US to Treat Cartels as Terrorist Targets

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A convoy of Mexican National Guard and military vehicles transfer two Americans who survived a kidnapping ordeal to a border crossing between the Mexican city of Matamoros and Brownsville, Texas on Tuesday. Two Americans seized with them were killed. (Photo by STR/AFP via Getty Images)
A convoy of Mexican National Guard and military vehicles transfer two Americans who survived a kidnapping ordeal to a border crossing between the Mexican city of Matamoros and Brownsville, Texas on Tuesday. Two Americans seized with them were killed. (Photo by STR/AFP via Getty Images)

(CNSNews.com) – The murders of two kidnapped American citizens in Mexico are fueling calls in Congress for the U.S. government to designate cartels as terrorist organizations, paving the way for potential U.S. military action against them.

The two victims were among four Americans seized on Friday in Matamoros, across the border from Brownsville, Texas. The other two survived the ordeal and were handed over to U.S. authorities at a border crossing bridge on Tuesday morning.

Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas), who has introduced two pieces of legislation since November targeting the Mexican cartels, tweeted that despite the murders, “we still haven’t declared the cartels a military target.”

“It’s time we authorize military force against them,” he said. “Are you listening, [Mexican President Andres Manuel López Obrador]? We would love for you to be a partner. Help us help you.”

In January, Crenshaw and Rep. Mike Waltz (R-Fla.) introduced a resolution to create an Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) to target Mexican cartels facilitating the fentanyl crisis.

Waltz told “Fox & Friends First” on Tuesday that the cartels “have declared war on the United States.”

“They control our border. They are killing tens of thousands of American citizens. And we need to deploy every asset that we have – not just law-enforcement, but also military and intelligence – to dismantle them, to disrupt them, and to take them out.”

Waltz said he wasn’t arguing for U.S. military boots on the ground in Mexico.

“I’m talking about cyber, intelligence, drones, targeting. We begin disrupting their money, their supply chains, and targeting their leadership.”

“We cannot accept a narcostate that is completely ungoverned on our border that’s preying on American citizens,” he said. “These groups are more like ISIS than they are the mafia.”

“We need to be thinking about it differently. Just as al-Qaeda killed 3,000 Americans with their planes these cartels are killing 80,000 Americans a year with poison.”

Waltz was referring to annual deaths attributed to fentanyl, a synthetic opioid manufactured by the cartels using precursor chemicals from China.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) told Fox News on Monday that he planned to introduce legislation “to make certain Mexican drug cartels ‘foreign terrorist organizations’ under U.S. law and set the stage to use military force if necessary, to protect America from being poisoned by things coming out of Mexico.”

“I would tell the Mexican government if you don’t clean up your act, we’re going to clean it up for you,” he said.

‘Interventionism’

When Crenshaw and Waltz introduced their AUMF legislation in January, Crenshaw said it was time to start treating the cartels “like ISIS – because that is who they are.”

Waltz said an AUMF would give the president “sophisticated military cyber, intelligence, and surveillance resources to disrupt cartel operations that are endangering Americans.”

Mexican Defense Minister Luis Cresencio Sandoval, Tamaulipas State Governor Americo Villarreal, and Secretary of the Navy Jose Rafael Ojeda hold a press conference in the border city of Matamoros on Tuesday, following the deaths of two of four Americans kidnapped in the cartel-dominated state. (Photo by Alfredo Estrella / AFP via Getty Images)
Mexican Defense Minister Luis Cresencio Sandoval, Tamaulipas State Governor Americo Villarreal, and Secretary of the Navy Jose Rafael Ojeda hold a press conference in the border city of Matamoros on Tuesday, following the deaths of two of four Americans kidnapped in the cartel-dominated state. (Photo by Alfredo Estrella / AFP via Getty Images)

The legislation specifically named nine Mexican cartels, including the Sinaloa and Jalisco New Generation cartels which reportedly account for most of the fentanyl being pushed across the border.

Another of those named, the Gulf cartel, is the dominant group in Tamaulipas state, where the Americans were kidnapped and killed. (Tamaulipas is one of six Mexican states classified by the State Department as a “do not travel” area, due to crime and kidnapping.)

López Obrador has objected to the AUMF legislation and accused the two lawmakers, both combat veterans, of wanting to invade his country. (Crenshaw is a former U.S. Navy SEAL, Waltz a former U.S. Army Green Beret.)

He said Crenshaw and Waltz “want to use military force to intervene in the public life of our country, to invade it under the pretext of fighting terrorist drug traffickers. We must reject these claims of interventionism.”

Reacting to the Mexican president’s criticism, Crenshaw said in a series of tweets earlier this week he was glad López Obrador was “finally taking notice,” and asked him, “how would you feel if an American gang was poisoning 70,000 Mexicans every year with fentanyl?”

“All we want is to finally take on the powerful criminal elements that terrorize the Mexican people, pay off and threaten Mexican politicians, and poison Americans,” he said. “You’re against that, Mr. President? Who do you represent? The cartels or the people?”

Asked on Tuesday about calls for terror designation for the cartels, State Department spokesman Ned Price said designations have already been made “consistent with the authorities that we as a government have” – alluding to sanctions under a 2021 executive order targeting the global illicit drug trade

“But we are always going to look at every tool that is, by law or any other authority available to us, to attempt to work with our Mexican partners to crack down on what is a threat to Mexicans and to Americans alike,” he said.

Asked if the administration was then open to terrorist designationsPrice replied, “We have designated these groups as appropriate. We are always going to continue to do what is most effective and what is available to us to hold these groups accountable.”

At a press conference, Attorney General Merrick Garland acknowledged that Mexican cartels “are responsible for the deaths of Americans.”

“The DEA [Drug Enforcement Administration] and the FBI are doing everything possible to dismantle and disrupt and ultimately prosecute the leaders of the cartels and the entire networks that they depend on,” he said.

Last November, Crenshaw introduced the Declaring War on the Cartels Act, featuring increased criminal penalties for criminal cartels’ activities and the targeting of their finances, with provision for seized assets to be directed to Customs and Border Protection, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, and the DEA.

The measure also provides for sanctions against foreign governments found to have provided resources to cartels, or that “permit, or fail to take adequate measures to prevent, transnational criminal cartel activity within their territory.”


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