During his State-of-the-State address in February, Governor Abbott made securing the border an emergency item. The designation allows the Texas Legislature to prioritize bills related to this and pass them more quickly. The governor asked the legislature to create a ten-year-minimum sentence for anyone caught smuggling in Texas. He also asked the Legislature to enhance the penalty for operating stash houses to a third-degree felony.
Judicial Watch Sues Biden Administration for Records of Illegal Alien Who Ran Over and Killed U.S. Citizen
(CNSNews.com) -- A government watchdog group, Judicial Watch, is suing the Justice Department and State Department for extradition records of illegal alien Saul Chavez, who ran over and killed a U.S. citizen in 2011 but was then released from the Cook County Sheriff's Office and fled to Mexico. Chavez was extradited to the U.S. in December 2022.
The American killed by Chavez was William "Denny" McCann, the brother of Judicial Watch client Brian McCann.
“Denny McCann was killed by an illegal alien with a prior felony – and then that criminal was released and fled to Mexico as a result of Chicago’s lawless and deadly sanctuary policies,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton in a press release.
“And to make matters worse, the Biden administration is unlawfully hiding records about why it took over a decade to extradite from Mexico this murderous criminal," Fitton added.
In the lawsuit, filed with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on March 15, 2023, it states, "In June 2011, Saul Chavez ran over and killed William 'Denny' McCann, brother of Judicial Watch client Brian McCann. At the time, Chavez was an unlawfully present criminal alien and had just completed a two-year term of probation for a 2009 DUI conviction.
"Chavez was charged with felony aggravated driving under the influence but was released by the Cook County Sheriff's Office in November 2011 despite an U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainer. Chavez subsequently fled to Mexico, where he has been living since."
The extradition occurred on Dec. 9, 2022. On Feb. 1, 2023, Judicial Watch sent a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the Department of Justice, which referred it to the FBI.
The FBI then replied that it was denying the FOIA request because releasing records "concerning a third-party individual would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy, and could reasonably be expected to constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy."
Following a FOIA request to the State Department, Judicial Watch was told it could not respond because of "unusual circumstances." Judicial Watch was seeking extradition records and any "correspondence between the Office of the Legal Adviser and the U.S. Department of Justice, state and federal authorities in the U.S.,” as well as “copies of court records of the legal proceedings” and “committal documents, such as the extradition order, affidavit of waiver, legal briefs and hearing transcript, decision memo to the Secretary of State or to his or her Deputy, and the surrender warrant.”
Because State and DOJ denied the FOIA requests, Judicial Watch filed the lawsuit.
Back in July 2015 the brother of the victim, Brian McCann, testified before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee in a hearing entitled, “Oversight of the Administration’s Misdirected Immigration Enforcement Policies: Examining the Impact on Public Safety and Honoring the Victims.”
"Denny was crossing Kedzie Avenue on a marked crosswalk four years ago and was violently struck by a drunk driver who dragged Denny under his car for a block in an attempt to flee before Denny died," testified Brian McCann. "The family was notified by the Chicago Police and the killer was placed into custody and charged with aggravated DUI causing death.
"Two days later ICE issued a detainer because the young man was an illegal alien with a prior felony," said McCann. "The family was assured by the Cook County prosecutor that the defendant would not be allowed to post bail and be released."
He continued, "Three months later the Cook County Board passed the ordinance that effectively requires the sheriff to ignore detainers. During the intervening weeks after Denny’s violent death, Cook County President Toni Preckwinkle and former mayoral candidate and Commissioner Jesus Garcia pushed for the ordinance and rammed it through on September 7, 2011. Two months later the killer made bail and absconded to Mexico."
McCann recently said, “My family and I continue to seek justice for Denny. Now that he has been extradited from Mexico, we are one step closer. But, we still want to know: what took so long? With the help of Judicial Watch, we hope to find out."
In its press release on the McCann case, Judicial Watch noted that in a March 2021 lawsuit against the San Francisco Sheriff's sanctuary policy, it uncovered "that over 2,400 criminal illegal aliens were released under the department’s policy on communications with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) about criminal illegal aliens in the Sheriff’s custody."
Lawsuit: ‘Modern-Day Slavery’ Scheme Trafficked Foreign H-2A Visa Workers into Georgia Farm Jobs
A criminal network, along with a Georgia farm, is accused in a class action lawsuit of operating a labor trafficking scheme that federal prosecutors have called “modern-day slavery” that used the H-2A visa program to import foreign workers and force them into United States farm jobs.
The lawsuit, brought by three of the foreign H-2A visa workers who were allegedly trafficked, accuses Maria Leticia Patricio — the matriarch of what the Justice Department is calling the Patricio transnational criminal organization — and her associates Enrique Duque Tovar, Jose Carmen Duque Tovar, as well as Georgia-based MBR Farms of operating and being complicit in a $200 million labor trafficking scheme that started in at least 2015.
According to the lawsuit, Patricio and her associates recruited foreign nationals through the H-2A visa program that allows U.S. farms to hire an unlimited number of foreign workers every year for American agricultural jobs. As Breitbart News has chronicled, the program is often used to replace Americans and preserve the low cost of farm labor.
Among other claims, the lawsuit alleges that Patricio and her associates of requiring foreign H-2A visa workers to pay exorbitant fees to travel to the U.S., withholding their wages once they started work at MBR Farms, forcing them to live in squalor, and threatening them with deportation and violence if they called authorities.
The lawsuit alleges:
Upon arrival in Georgia, the Plaintiffs and other class members were housed in a motel. The motel appeared abandoned, with broken windows, dirty rooms, unkempt beds, and no hot water. They each shared a room with multiple other workers. The Plaintiffs and other class members each stayed in the motel for the first part of their stay in Georgia, some for only three days, but others for up to one month. [Emphasis added]
After moving out of the motel, the Plaintiffs and other class members were housed in four trailers in a small trailer park. One of the four trailers was empty. The trailers were also dirty and run down with no air conditioning or heat, and holes in the floor. The roofs leaked when it rained. There were rats and cockroaches. Each trailer housed between 15–18 workers, with only a single bathroom. Some of the trailers had no beds, so the workers were forced to sleep on the floor. In other trailers, the workers slept in bunk beds.
[Emphasis added]…
The Traffickers threatened or conspired to threaten the Plaintiffs and other class members with significant debt to prevent the Plaintiffs and other class members from leaving the Traffickers’ employment, in that the Traffickers would require the Plaintiffs and other class members to pay a certain amount of money to Traffickers to be released from the contract. Because the Traffickers did not pay the Plaintiffs and other class members all their earned wages, and because Plaintiffs and other class members had to pay for travel and recruitment expenses, Plaintiffs and other class members had little or no money while in Georgia. [Emphasis added]
Patricio and her associates “reaped more than $200 million from the illegal scheme,” the lawsuit claims, and allegedly laundered the money “through cash purchases of land, homes, vehicles, and businesses; through cash purchases of cashier’s checks; and by funneling millions of dollars through cash deposits made at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Tampa, Florida.”
Meanwhile, MBR Farms is accused of conspiring with Patricio and her associates.
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C-SPANThe class action lawsuit is the second to be brought against the Patricio transnational criminal organization for the alleged labor trafficking scheme.
In November 2021, as Breitbart News reported, 24 individuals were indicted by a federal grand jury for the scheme which prosecutors called “modern-day slavery.” Many of those indicted in the federal case are illegal aliens.
The case is Hernandez v. Patricio, No. 5:23-cv-00023 in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
Yet Another Study Shows How Migrants Transplant Their Culture
By Jason Richwine
Of course today’s immigrants will change the culture of the U.S. in the long run. This fact alone implies that policymakers should be cautious with accepting newcomers. Taxes go up and down, regulations come and go, but the consequences of immigration will extend far into the future.
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Cornyn: ‘4.8 million’ Migrants Have ‘Been Ushered Into’ the United States Under Biden
While Biden has vowed to flood the U.S. labor market with more foreign workers to compete against Americans for jobs, he has shied away from questions on whether he will eliminate tariffs on foreign imports that were imposed by Trump. Such elimination of tariffs would be a boon to multinational corporations that offshore their production and jobs overseas only to import their products back into the U.S. market, often with no penalties for doing so. Past 48 Hours… – 10,070 Apprehensions – 52 lbs. of Fentanyl – 38 lbs. of Ecstasy – 11 lbs. of Meth – 11 lbs. of Cocaine – $48,000 Seized – 20 Firearms – 5 Stolen Vehicles Recovered – 5 Sex Offenders – 4 Warrants – 1 Gang Member Significant numbers for just 2 days! The Border: 10,000 Apprehensions in 48 HoursAnd those are just the people who got caught. What was once known as the Southern border of the United States is essentially nonexistent in this time of Biden regime misrule, and so it was no surprise Wednesday when Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz tweeted some figures showing just how bad the border area has become: Past 48 Hours… – 10,070 Apprehensions – 52 lbs. of Fentanyl – 38 lbs. of Ecstasy – 11 lbs. of Meth – 11 lbs. of Cocaine – $48,000 Seized – 20 Firearms – 5 Stolen Vehicles Recovered – 5 Sex Offenders – 4 Warrants – 1 Gang Member Significant numbers for just 2 days! Indeed, and it was just business as usual for the border, although Ortiz didn’t mention the terrorists. It came to light last October that up to that point in 2022, the Border Patrol had caught at least 98 people at the border who are on terror watchlists. There is no indication that they’ve stopped coming since then. Terrorists can see what’s happening at the border as much as anyone else can; why shouldn’t they take advantage of the mess Old Joe has made? And those 98, of course, were just the ones who got caught. Fox News reported that “the number of migrant encounters at the U.S. southern border climbed to a record more than 227,000 during the month of September and more than 2.3 million for fiscal year 2022, according to data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection.” That data also shows that “there were 20 known or suspected terrorists arrested at the southern border in September, bringing the total terror watchlist arrests at the border for the fiscal year 2022 to 98. The number of terror watchlist arrests at the border for the last five years combined was 26.” What did Old Joe and his handlers say about this? Nothing, of course, because they weren’t challenged by the sycophantic Leftist propagandists we call “journalists.” And the administration had every reason to stonewall any inquiry, as nothing demonstrated the catastrophe that is the Biden regime’s handling of the border crisis more vividly than the entry of known terrorists into the United States. The terror risk involved in the open border has long been known. U.S. Customs and Border Protection reported as far back as Feb. 3, 2021 that “Yuma Sector Border Patrol agents arrested a group of 11 Iranian citizens who illegally crossed the border into the United States….Yuma Sector agents apprehended eight Iranian nationals in FY2020, compared to just 14 from all other border patrol sectors combined. So far in FY2021, Yuma Sector agents have apprehend [sic] 14 nationals from Iran.” Rep. John Katko (R-N.Y.) asserted in March 2021 that “individuals that they have on the watchlist for terrorism are now starting to exploit the southern border. We need to wake up.” Then in August 2021, former Border Patrol chief Rodney Scott warned that the Southern border was “a national security crisis,” with “TSDBs at a level we have never seen before. That’s a real threat.” In October, he said on Fox News that “we have terrorist threats we can’t get into in this type of a forum but they are real.” Yes, they are, and they’re entirely Biden’s handlers’ fault. Former Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Mark Morgan said Monday that border agents are “demoralized” with the border “wide open.” He added that “every aspect of our public health, safety, national security is being jeopardized.” Over 7,000 migrants cross the border every day as it is, and once Title 42, a Trump administration attempt to control the wave of migrants, is ended as Biden’s handlers plan to do next month, that number is expected to jump to 18,000 per day. Morgan observed that one group that is taking advantage of this is the drug cartels. “They know, because of this administration, our borders are wide open,” Morgan said. “We literally handed over operational control to the cartels. It’s way beyond the millions that have been smuggled in this country.” Not just terrorists, but drug cartels as well. The nightmare never ends. Make no mistake: this has all been done on purpose. The Biden administration, Morgan added, “opened our borders and intentionally created and facilitated a catastrophic crisis on the southwest border that we’ve never seen in our lifetime.” Why would they do such a thing? You know the answer. Morgan explained: “Their priorities [are] to get as many illegal aliens in this country because – it’s disgusting – but because they see a perceived political benefit.” The Left seems intent on destroying the country in pursuit of unchallenged political power within it. What kind of a country they’ll be ruling over once it is overrun with migrants and its economic power entirely outsourced or outpaced doesn’t seem to be a question that ever crosses their minds. How they’ll be able to pay for all their new welfare recipients once the American middle class is entirely taxed out of existence is also not a priority consideration for them. The only thing that matters is gaining and securing political power indefinitely. But this might easily become a Pyrrhic victory.  Robert SpencerRobert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch and a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He is author of 26 books including many bestsellers, such as The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades), The Truth About Muhammad and The History of Jihad. His latest books are The Critical Qur’an and The Sumter Gambit. Follow him on Twitter here. Like him on Facebook here. Reader InteractionsNY Times: U.S. Imports Poverty as Young Migrants Make Up 44% of Poor Children
 4:21 The United States, through mass illegal and legal immigration, is importing generations of poverty as the children of immigrants now account for 4-in-9 of all poor children living in the nation, the New York Times reveals. In a report detailing vast poverty rates among the children of illegal and legal immigrants, the Times notes that “more than 40 percent of the country’s poor children are children of immigrants.” Roughly 50 percent of those impoverished migrant youth are “anchor babies,” the term given to the U.S.-born children of illegal aliens as they are awarded birthright American citizenship despite their parents residing illegally in the nation. The data suggests that anchor babies account for 2-in-10 poor children in the U.S. “The solution is to stop importing poverty,” the Heritage Foundation’s Robert Rector told the Times, advocating for an overall reduction to legal immigration levels in addition to drastically cutting illegal immigration. The Times reports
Camarota’s research for the Center for Immigration Studies has routinely found widespread taxpayer-funded welfare use among illegal and legal immigrants. In 2019, for example, Camarota found that immigrant-headed households use nearly twice as much welfare as households headed by native-born Americans. Whereas 63 percent of households headed by immigrants, both illegal and legal, use some form of public welfare, just 35 percent of native-born households used welfare.  Chart via the Center for Immigration Studies Likewise, in 2021, Camarota again discovered that the majority of immigrant-headed households were using some form of welfare at much higher rates than native-born Americans. While 31 percent of immigrant-headed households are on food stamps, for instance, fewer than 20 percent of native-born households use the program. Though economist George Borjas has called the U.S. immigration system “the largest anti-poverty program in the world” at the expense of America’s working and middle class, President Joe Biden’s administration has lowered standards to ensure welfare-dependent foreign nationals can secure green cards. In 2022, the foreign-born population hit nearly 47 million — the largest immigrant population ever recorded by the Census Bureau. Further research shows that the nation’s overall immigration levels are driving 80 percent of all population growth. Since 1970, the nation’s foreign-born population has quintupled and since 1980, it has tripled in size. In 1990, the foreign-born population was just half of what it is today — with 1-in-7 U.S. residents having been born outside of the country. The majority of new arrivals come through the nation’s legal immigration system, which gives out about a million green cards annually as well as more than a million temporary work visas to take blue-collar jobs that would otherwise go to working and lower-middle class Americans. At current legal immigration levels, the Census Bureau projects that about 1-in-6 U.S. residents will be foreign-born by 2060, with the foreign-born population hitting a record 69 million. John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here. Josh Hawley: Biden’s ‘Concierge Service’ for Illegal Aliens Comes at Expense of Americans’ Jobs, WagesMan Kidnapped in Texas Home, Taken to Mexico by Cartel Gunmen, Remains MissingWHY HASN'T JOE BIDEN BEEN CHARGED???? Houston Teacher Charged with Smuggling Migrants near Border in Texas
4:56 HOUSTON, Texas — A Houston Independent School District teacher is facing multiple felony charges related to an incident near the Texas border where police say he attempted to smuggle four migrants into the U.S. interior. Police in Kinney County say they stopped Brandon Alexis Gracia for a traffic violation near Eagle Pass, Texas, early last week and found migrants attempting to hide inside the vehicle. Kinney County Sheriff Brad Coe told Fox 26 Houston that police stopped Gracia for a traffic violation near the Mexican border in Eagle Pass. Inside the vehicle police found four people ducking down to try and avoid detection. Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents arrived and identified the four people — two men and two women — as migrants who were illegally present in the United States, Coe stated. “The individuals were in the backseat laying down trying to conceal themselves,” Sheriff Coe explained. During processing, deputies from the Kenny County Sheriff’s Office found an identification card from Patrick Henry Middle School, Fox 26 reported. Houston Federation of Teachers Union officials confirmed to the local Fox affiliate that Gracia worked in HISD but was not a member of the union. HISD also confirmed the human smuggling suspect’s employment as a teacher. “What we’re gathering is he was contacted on social media, wanted to make some quick money, came to the border and picked up at a pre-determined location, and was headed back to Houston,” the Texas border county sheriff explained. He said smuggling groups make promises of payments between $1,000 and $5,000 per person smuggled. He said the payments are often not paid. Fox 26 reported:
A high percentage of human smuggling drivers arrested in Kinney County are from the Houston area, Sheriff Coe told Fox 26 earlier this month. The sheriff said that of the nearly 100 people arrested on human smuggling charges in February, 40 percent came from the Houston area. He again blamed social media recruitment. In March, Breitbart Texas interviewed Governor Greg Abbott regarding human smuggling from the Texas border into the U.S. interior. “To me, this is shocking,” Abbott began in the interview.” Texans are going on to Twitter or Tik Tok or whatever the case may be, and seeing advertisements by the cartels offering to pay them money to pick up illegal immigrants and transport them elsewhere in the state of Texas.” “And that’s a crime,” the governor continued. “But either it’s not being enforced or the punishment is not serious enough. So I want to mandatory ten years behind bars for anyone who is caught smuggling somebody in Texas.” During his State-of-the-State address in February, Governor Abbott made securing the border an emergency item. The designation allows the Texas Legislature to prioritize bills related to this and pass them more quickly. The governor asked the legislature to create a ten-year-minimum sentence for anyone caught smuggling in Texas. He also asked the Legislature to enhance the penalty for operating stash houses to a third-degree felony. Finally, if human smuggling or stash house operations occur in an area under a disaster declaration, the governor asked for enhanced penalties. 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. |
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