10,000 Illegal Immigrants Apprehended at Tucson Border Sector
On July 29, the Tucson, Arizona, Border Patrol announced it had apprehended 10,000 illegal immigrants in the past week—up by about 1,000 from the week before.
In a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, Tucson Sector Chief Patrol Agent John Modlin reported that his team apprehended 10,000 illegal immigrants and intercepted 21 human smuggling attempts in the Tucson border area.
Tucson agents made 11 seizures of narcotics, including six pounds of fentanyl and an equal amount of methamphetamine.
Border agents also seized three firearms.
The $83,000 worth of fentanyl pills were found by Nogales Station agents inside an abandoned backpack located underneath the rear seat of a passenger shuttle van during a secondary inspection.
Mr. Modlin also reported the rescue of 430 illegal immigrants who fell prey to the scorching summer heat of the Arizona desert. He posted a photo of a 45-year-old Guatemalan woman receiving medical attention in the wilderness at night.
The woman, who crossed the border in the Baboquivari Mountains on July 21, suffered from severe dehydration and a leg injury.
“After providing lifesaving aid, #BORSTAR agents litter-carried the woman through rigorous terrain to meet [Arizona Department of Public Safety] for an airlift to a hospital,” Mr. Modlin wrote on X.
“The unforgiving desert heat can be life-threatening,” Mr. Modlin said. “With temperatures soaring well above 100 degrees, it only takes minutes for heat exhaustion and dehydration to set in. Those attempting to cross the border illegally underestimate the intensity of the heat and vastness of the desert.”
“The dangers are real, do not cross,” he added.
On July 24, Border Patrol agents at Ajo Station encountered a group of 194 illegal immigrants, the chief wrote on July 28. “The group consisted of single adults and family units from 16 different nations.”
“Tucson Sector agents continue to respond to these large groups and work through the challenges they present,” he added.
The apprehension of 10,000 illegal immigrants in just one week indicates a steep increase in the influx at the Tucson Sector.
Last month, Tucson Sector agents apprehended a total of 24,360 migrants trying to cross the border illegally. The year-to-date total for the sector is 235,000 apprehensions, up 40,000 from the previous year, and significantly higher than the two years prior.
According to Breitbart Texas, the increased apprehensions in Arizona are partly due to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s Operation Lone Star, a border protection initiative that began in 2021 “to fill in the dangerous gaps created by President [Joe] Biden’s reckless open border policies,” according to the governor’s office.
The June Nationwide Encounters Report from U.S. Customs and Border Protection reported a drop in illegal immigrant apprehensions by more than 11 percent from the previous year.
“States like Arizona are following President Biden’s lead, allowing even more migrants to surge into our country while Texas is holding the line,” the governor’s press secretary told Breitbart.
“Increased apprehensions in border states west of Texas show our deterrence strategies are effective, as migrants choose to illegally cross in states that have left the door wide open for them.”
From NTD NewsReport: California Loses Nearly $350 Million to Migration Out-of-State
The State of California lost nearly $350 million in tax revenues in 2021 due to migration out of the state — a worrisome figure as the state contemplates a new deficit of $32 billion this year.
The real estate website MyEListing.com reported:
California ranks first among states experiencing the worst net negative tax income migration. With a staggering net loss of $343.2 million, the Golden State is witnessing an outflow of high-income earners.
Despite its numerous attractions, from the booming tech industry and world-class universities to beautiful landscapes and cultural richness, California’s high personal income tax rates seem discouraging for many high-wealth individuals. This, coupled with the state’s high cost of living, will likely fuel a wealth migration out of California.
These trends affect the state’s economy, especially the real estate and job markets. The departure of high-income earners can decrease demand for luxury real estate and potentially affect the commercial real estate sector. It also impacts job creation, as these high-income individuals often play a significant role in business expansion and entrepreneurial activities.
New York was second, losing $299.6 million; and Illinois was third, with a net loss of $141.7 million.
Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) has focused on attacking conservative states like Florida, but he is losing residents — and tax revenues to those states. MyEListing.com notes that Florida and Texas led all other states in “positive tax migration.” Arizona, currently governed by Democrats, was third.
Newsom enjoyed a budget surplus of nearly $100 billion last year, buoyed in part by federal coronavirus funds that were signed into law by President Joe Biden in 2021.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of the recent e-book, Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election. His recent book, RED NOVEMBER, tells the story of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary from a conservative perspective. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
Border czar Kamala Harris beclowns herself trying to answer a reporter's question about migrant surge
Border czar Kamala Harris had nothing but criticism for red-state governors who move illegal border crossers to sanctuary cities and states in order to take some of the social services burden off from their own states.
Here she was, explaining it all out to an ABC News correspondent:
The explanation was so bad RNC Research was using it as an entertainment tweet for the edification of their fellow Republicans.
ABC News Interviewer: Busloads of migrants have been dropped off right at your doorstep by some GOP red states. Despite those tactics, you do have Republicans who are largely making inroads with Latino voters, and there are many critics, some within your own party, who say that there are some within your own party, who say that there's more that your administration should be doing on the migration front. Do they have a point?
Kamala: So, first of all, let's agree that people should not ... be the pawns in a political game. Human beings, should not be treated as pawns, in a political game. What is happening in terms of sending these migrants, most of whom have flee (sic) great harm, and sending them across the country, for the sake of some political showmanship, is just irresponsible. If you want to deal with the problem, then, do it if you are a leader, by participating in the solution.
That sounds like gibberish, and based on what's intelligible from it, doesn't answer the reporter's question.
She laughably accuses Republican red-state governors with using the migrants as pawns, even though the trips to other states are entirely voluntary. As Nick Arama points out at RedState:
First, the Biden team has sent people all over the country, including flying them into Westchester, NY, in the dead of night. So they’re mad when states did what they were already doing? Harris didn’t seem to care when their administration was doing this. They didn’t care if border towns and other cities were being overwhelmed. They only started paying some attention after governors did things like this to draw attention to the magnitude of the problem and how overwhelmed they are.
So the hypocrisy here, in pointing out that others were doing what the Biden administration is already doing, is little short of breath-taking.
Harris also claimed that the migrants were fleeing great harm, which is nonsense, given that most of their asylum cases are rejected in immigration courts, and many migrants fail to show up to their appointments. Based on statements the migrants themselves have given to reporters, they are looking for a better life, with some having already obtained asylum in other countries and now simply country-shopping for bigger benefit packages and better paid jobs. Even that doesn't cover the waterfront, given that some are looking for better opportunities to commit crimes, if the numbers of arrests seen are any indication, and others still are looking for easier benefits without working at all. Harm? What is she talking about? Some of these guys are the actual harm-ers, making life hellish in places like Honduras and Venezuela and now moving on to the states to prey on our locals.
Lastly, she babbles something about "being part of the solution," which is strange and vaguely defined stuff. What's the solution everyone must bow down to?
In any case, that insulting statement about being the solution would be news to Democrats such as New York's mayor, Eric Adams, who has sought federal help for his migrant influx which has strained city resources. He's actually trying to find the solution in a way that Harris is not.
How, exactly, is Eric Adams supposed to be part of "the solution," other than by rolling over and taking it, when he can't get the administration's attention?
What Harris didn't do was address the ABC News reporter's actual questions -- about how the GOP is making inroads with Latino voters, for one, despite the GOP governor actions against illegal immigration, and the fact that now there are many Biden-Harris administration critics even from the Democrat side of the spectrum, mostly leading deep blue cities that are running out of resources fast, based on all the new migrant demands for services.
What is her solution?
Harris just seemed to recite a canned parody of an answer, as if distantly remembering it from some training session with her handlers, and not listening to what the reporter was asking.
No wonder she's a figure of fun. Not only does she not have the chops to solve the immigration crisis, she can't even answer simple questions about it.
More and more, it looks obvious that she's not ready for political, or any other, prime time.
Image: Twitter screen shot
BIDEN PARTNERS WITH MEXICO TO ORCHESTRATE ANOTHER MASSIVE MEX INVASION OF DEM VOTING ILLEGALS.
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2020/11/the-biden-amnesty-and-mexicos-planned.html
"Mexican president candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador called for mass immigration to the United States, declaring it a "human right". We will defend all the (Mexican) invaders in the American," Obrador said, adding that immigrants "must leave their towns and find a life, job, welfare, and free medical in the United States."
"Fox’s Tucker Carlson noted Thursday that Obrador has
previously proposed granting AMNESTY TO MEXICAN DRUG
CARTELS. “America is now Mexico’s social safety net, and that’s
a very good deal for the Mexican ruling class,” Carlson added."
"Many Americans forget is that our country is located against a socialist failed state that is promising to descend even further into chaos – not California, the other one. And the Mexicans, having reached the bottom of the hole they have dug for themselves, just chose to keep digging by electing a new leftist presidente who wants to surrender to the cartels and who thinks that Mexicans have some sort of “human right” to sneak into the U.S. and demographically reconquer it." KURT SCHLICHTER
As in 2016, Democrats advance a corrupt ruling-class candidate. Like the dead man Gary Ernst, Democrats want people to vote for Joe Biden so they can swap him out for Kamala Harris, already a beneficiary of voter fraud and with the exception of Xavier Becerra possibly the worst attorney general in California history.
Kamala Harris Urges Illegal Migrants to Help Elect Joe Bidenwrence Jackson / Biden
Sen. Kamala Harris promised Sunday to reduce detention space for migrants as she asked an illegal immigrant activist to help Joe Biden win the election.
BLOG EDITOR: WHY DIDN’T LAWYER KAMALA HARRIS TELL THE ILLEGAL TO GO HOME??? SHE’S THE ONE WHO AS ATTORNEY GENERAL OF CA DECLARED THAT NEARLY HALF THE MURDERS IN MEXIFORNIA ARE BY MEX GANGS!
“I’m undocumented … I can’t vote …What can we do during this election to help make sure that we get you elected?” asked Astrid Silva, who was brought into the United States as a child by her illegal migrant parents.
“You can tell people who can vote what life is like for you now, and what life can be like,” Vice President nominee Harris told the Nevada-based political organizer who runs the pro-amnesty Dream Big Nevada group, adding that:
We are committed to shutting down private detention centers and ending policies that have been about separating children from their parents at the border.
Harris’s comments may be a coded message to would-be illegal migrants and their supportive legal-immigrant relatives.
For example, if implemented, Harris’s promise to start “shutting down private detention centers” could cripple border enforcement. If the enforcement agency does not have commercial prisons to hold detainees prior to their asylum hearings, the agency would be forced to release waves of job-seeking migrants into the U.S. labor market.
Similarly, Harris’s promise to end “policies … about separating children” echoes the media-magnified demand by pro-migration activists that officials release migrant mothers and children when they cross the border. That demand would let migrant families freely travel to relatives — including their illegal migrant husbands and fathers — who are working illegally in the United States.
Last week in Nevada, I caught up with my friend @Astrid_NV, to discuss the Biden-Harris plan for immigration reform and how Dreamers can make a difference in this election.
If you're eligible to vote, show up at the ballot box for those who can't: https://t.co/VbrfuqVy9P. pic.twitter.com/knU2qFSYmn
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) November 1, 2020
Like Biden, Harris pushed the Cold War “Nation of Immigrants” claim, even though only about 10 percent of people in the United States are legal immigrants:
We want to have a president who understands we are a nation of immigrants. This is a country that was built and that has derived its strength from immigrants coming here over the generations.
Harris also tried to blur the legal and civic differences between illegal migrants, legal immigrants, and American citizens. For example, she told Silva:
Define who you are, and you tell the world who you are. Don’t let anybody ever put you in a box because they have a limited perspective on who can do what and who can be one.
[…]
We are all in this together. And so, chin up, shoulders back, right? We speak our truth and know that there will always be people applauding and supporting that even if you can’t see them at that one moment, know that there are so many of us who are supporting your leadership and the power of your voice. It’s really important.
Harris also claimed President Donald Trump vilified immigrants: “We’ve seen under the current president the kind of vitriol, the kind of hate, the vilification of immigrants in such a horrible way.”
But a Washington Post poll showed in April that Latinos are the strongest advocates for a near-total halt to legal immigration during the coronavirus epidemic and economic crash.
Biden’s 2020 plan promises to “reassert America’s commitment to asylum-seekers and refugees,” wipe out Trump’s asylum reforms, bar any deportations for 100 days, and end migration enforcement against illegal aliens unless they commit a felony.
Joe Biden’s asylum and open-border policies will destroy the American middle class by releasing millions of foreign migrants into the United States, Stephen Miller told reporters October 28. https://t.co/BaeLSIud7y
— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) October 28, 2020
Biden also wants to let companies import more visa workers, let mayors import temporary workers, and allow an unlimited flow of foreign graduates through U.S. universities into white-collar jobs. Biden would “exempt from any cap [the] recent graduates of Ph.D. programs in STEM fields.”
Biden also wants to accelerate the inflow of chain migration migrants and dramatically accelerate the inflow of poor refugees to at least 125,000 per year.
“The influx of low wage workers from all across the world will drive down incomes, drive down wages, deplete the middle class, bankrupt Social Security, bankrupt Medicare, bankrupt Medicaid, bankrupt federal entitlements, overcrowd schools, and overcrowd every hospital in the middle of a pandemic,” White House aide Stephen Miller told reporters on October 28.
“It is an assault on reason, it is an assault on law enforcement, and it’s an assault on the very idea of having a country, having a Republic,” Miller added. “This is not about left or right or Center. This is about between having a country, or not even having a country.
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