ILLEGALS FIRST!
Mayorkas Aide: U.S. Superpower Can’t Stop Economic Migration
The United States superpower cannot stop the global flow of poor economic migrants into the United States, says a top aide to border chief Alejandro Mayorkas.
But the U.S. can reduce illegal crossings by simply inviting the migrants to legally cross the border, regardless of the predictable economic and civic damage to Americans, according to Blas Nunez-Neto, the assistant secretary for policy at Mayorkas’s Department of Homeland Security,
Nunez-Neto told TheHill.com:
The bottom line is: When you look at what people go through to come here — these people that we’re encountering on the border now that have crossed the Darién jungle [in Panama] — if you go down and look at the Darién, you can’t believe the number of people that are transiting that area every day … It’s families with small kids. So if [they]’re willing to do that, there’s very little we can do at the border that’s going to stop people from coming if we don’t also give them the hope that there’s a legal way to come here.
Nunez-Neto’s agency was given $97 billion in taxpayer funds to stop illegal migration in 2022.
“The guy seems to have rejected the concept of American sovereignty by arguing that the American people have no choice but to allow millions of people to enter our country whenever they wish,” responded Jon Feere, a former top manager at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Feere told Breitbart News:
If he is unable to stop illegal immigration, then he’s in the wrong job … If a cruise ship’s captain is telling you “We’re probably going to run into a few more rocks and crash into a few more docks,” you probably wouldn’t want to keep them steering the ship. When a person tells you that they’re not going to be able to do their job, you probably don’t want to keep them on [the job] — assuming that you want the mission actually carried out
In practice, Mayorkas and Nunez-Neto are spending billions of dollars to encourage and help a huge migrant flood to overwhelm the U.S. border laws, Feere said:
There are many things the executive branch could do to discourage illegal immigration and to make it clear that phony asylum claims will not be tolerated. But they’re continuing to encourage more and more illegal immigration and then claiming the system is overwhelmed as if they don’t have some control over it.
On August 10, Biden asked for another $23 billion to defend Ukraine’s borders and roughly $3 billion to help more economic migrants get through the U.S. border and into the opportunities needed by Americans.
Mayorkas has repeatedly explained why he supports more migration: His migrant parents, his sympathy for migrants, his support for “equity” between Americans and foreigners, his willingness to put his priorities above the law, and the claimed “needs” of U.S. business — regardless of the cost to ordinary Americans, the impact on U.S. children, the drug epidemic, or Americans’ rational and legitimate opposition.
Nunez-Neto was born in Argentina, and also felt like an outsider in his U.S. society, telling TheHill:
For Nunez-Neto, his approach is influenced by his background as an immigrant himself, describing immigration both as essential and a process that’s become less orderly as Congress has failed to update laws to address shifting migration patterns.
He came to the U.S. from Argentina at age 9 with his mother, who worked at the Argentine Embassy in Washington — a move that left him as one of the only Hispanic children in his downtown D.C. school.
“That was kind of hard — the adjustment to the states was hard. … As a kid, it was tough, because after a while I felt like I didn’t belong in the U.S. and I didn’t belong in Argentina. I was kind of a mix. As an adult, I’ve come to appreciate that’s actually a strength, right? Because you have windows into different cultures and different societies that other people don’t. And I think that can be pretty powerful.”
“The Executive Branch should be run by people who are tireless advocates for enforcing the laws the American people put on the books,” responded Feere, adding:
We don’t need [agency administrators] who are going to question the immigration laws. We need people who are going to enforce them. All this hand-wringing over our laws is simply resulting in less enforcement. And that in and of itself is resulting in more illegal immigration, which our system is struggling to deal with. Simple enforcement under the rule of law would go a long way in discouraging illegal immigration, fraudulent asylum claims, visa overstayers, and so on, ut this administration has made every effort to reduce immigration enforcement in every way it can.
But Nunez-Neto claimed that “we are, in fact, enforcing the laws that Congress enacted.”
However, Mayorkas, Nunez-Neto, and their deputies are opening up many quasi-legal paths for illegal migrants, and ignoring the legal requirement to detain migrants until their asylum claims are decided. Instead, they quickly register and release the migrants so they can get jobs, pay off their huge smuggling debts, and encourage more migrants to head northwards.
In July, Nunez-Neto admitted that the cartels have expanded their ability to move indebted labor into the U.S. economy:
We are now seeing the drug cartels increasingly becoming a key player in not just collecting taxes for people who transit through their territory [in Northern Mexico] — which is what we saw historically — but actually moving people and becoming deeply involved in human smuggling, not just in Mexico, but throughout the region, including, you know, in [South America’s] Colombia and Darien [Gap] region.
Nunez-Neto also predicted more migration: “We fully believe we could see another [monthly] increase in migration,” Nunez-Neto told TheHill.
In late May and early June, The administration claimed a 70 percent decline in illegal migration because their new rules replaced the Title 42 border barrier. In June, the number jumped again as Mayorkas welcomed 130,000 illegals, alongside another 70,000 migrants admitted via his quasi-legal programs, and perhaps 50,000 “gotaways” who were not arrested at the border.
But Nunez-Neto then blamed the nation’s lax asylum laws for the rising wave of migrants, saying, “We hear a lot like, “You could just shut the border down, if you wanted to.” And that’s not true. We have laws that allow people to claim asylum at the border when they’re encountered.”
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Yet Nunez-Neto also admitted that most of the migrants are not eligible for asylum, for example, because they are migrating for economic gain: “We often talk about people at the border as asylum seekers, but the facts are that the majority of people we encounter are not eligible for asylum.”
Nonetheless, the migrants were admitted, said Nunez-Neto, because “we were very generous, and we wanted to err on the side of letting those people have their day in court.”
Feere responded:
Everyone understands that the majority of these people are not eligible for asylum. Yet the Biden administration continues to allow them [to pay smuggling debts], doesn’t detain them, and isn’t making any effort to deport them. In other words, they’ve effectively abolished not only our borders but also our asylum law.
Because at the end of it all, it doesn’t even matter [to Mayorkas or Nunez-Neto] whether a court rules against a person’s [asylum] case. Their position is that people should stay regardless and be rewarded with citizenship. They are amnesty advocates who don’t want to enforce laws.
Nunez Neto’s prediction of more migration “is an admission that their policies are doing nothing to stop illegal immigration,” said Feere. “They’re effectively admitting that what they’re doing is encouraging illegal immigration, which is the opposite of what the Executive Branch is supposed to be doing.”
TheHill.com is trusted by pro-migration advocates to favor pro-migration causes. For example, it described Nunez-Neto as a “mild-mannered policy wonk” and provided him with a flattering headline, “Meet the DHS official seeking a middle ground on the border.”
Black Democrats Hide from Voters Angry at Biden’s Migration
A top African American Democrat in New York is breaking from her party’s unpopular policy of openly delivering cheap migrant workers into Americans’ workplaces and homes throughout the state.
The Democrat is Letitia James, the state’s attorney general, and she is refusing to represent the Democrat governor in a lawsuit where a state judge wants to expand New York’s shelter-for-all homeless policy throughout the entire state.
New York Attorney General Letitia James on June 6, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
James has declined to say why she is dodging the lawsuit, which could expand state-wide the city’s “Right to Shelter” law. That law helps attract many migrants to shelters in New York City, so raising Americans’ rents and cutting their wages throughout the city.
If she opposed the shelter expansion, she would have antagonized the business-funded progressive groups that want more migrants. She would also antagonize the city’s black voters who are being displaced by the inflow of hard-working, indebted, and compliant migrants.
If she supported the shelter expansion, she would antagonize the many working-class and middle-class voters outside the city that supported in her 2019 — and may not support her in 2023 once more migrants arrive in their neighborhoods and workplaces.
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Nationwide, “the black elected official is in a precarious situation that they have caused for themselves,” Chicago activist Brian Mullins told Breitbart News, adding:
The black elected official is normally disconnected from the black poor — which is where the numbers in elections go — because they have aligned with the progressive left … [and] are more inclined to go along with [progressive immigration policies], even though it hurts their core base voters.
“We’re not stupid … We understand that the homeless in their eyes are the illegals, not us,” said Mullins, who is a board member of the Chicago-based Black Community Collaborative.
Biden’s migration was described as an “invasion” by a majority of Americans — 43 percent of blacks — in an August 2022 poll by National Public Radio. Forty percent of Democrats also see Biden’s migration as an invasion.
Black politicians, including far-left Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY), recognize the problem and are trying to zig-zag between their voters and the party’s united front of business groups and progressives. “We need leadership from President Biden,” Bowman said.
This strategy of dodging immigration politics has been followed by most black politicians since the 2008 election of pro-migration President Barack Obama.
The party conflict is most intense in Chicago, where the establishment is welcoming many migrants who will reduce the clout of African American voters and politicians in the city.
In New York, white Democrats are also being stressed by the arrival of 100,000 migrants. On August 12, for example, Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz asked New York City’s mayor to stop busing migrants to his county. That is a reversal for Poloncarz who earlier welcomed migrants.
Other New York counties, especially the GOP-led Rockland County, have taken stronger stands against the federal pipeline of wage-cutting, rent-spiking migrants.
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A growing number of Democrat politicians are claiming to protest Joe Biden’s policies of importing millions of migrants for the jobs needed by the Democrat party’s base of urban voters.
They include Mayor Adams in New York City, and Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healy (D), who has just declared a “State of Emergency” amid the inflow of migrants.
But the opposition is a combination of PR that is intended to mollify unhappy voters and crude appeals to Washington, DC, for more federal cash to subsidize the landlords and employers in their cities.
For example, both Adams and Healy say they support migration but just want more federal money and more work permits for the illegal migrants who were allowed into the United States to ask for asylum.
“Many of these families are migrants to Massachusetts, drawn here because we are and proudly have been a beacon to those in need,” Healey wrote in a letter to Biden’s pro-migration border chief, Alejandro Mayorkas. “These new arrivals desperately want to work,” she added, “and we have historic demand for workers across all industries.”
Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey (D). (Pat Greenhouse/The Boston Globe via Getty Images, File)
Politico reported:
“Democratic governors and mayors, mayors in Houston, Chicago, Los Angeles, here in New York, El Paso, Brownsville, all of the mayors have been saying that this is a national problem and we need national leadership,” [Adams] said at an unrelated press conference in Manhattan.
“We all should be talking about this in a very real way. And there was a moment that I felt, as though, was I the only one that was seeing this? … I was asking myself, are we the only ones that are seeing what’s happening to human beings?”
New York Mayor Eric Adams (D). (John Minchillo, File/AP)
In practice, most Democrat legislators support Biden’s cheap labor policy and align themselves with employers.
“There are so many jobs that they could be absorbed into our economy so easily,” New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) said in early August. “I can’t tell you how many people have said to me, ‘I need them in my North Country Lake Placid hotel, a restaurant over in Syracuse, a nursing home on Long Island.'”
But the investors, businesses, and progressives want even more migration throughout New York state.
On August 14, progressive groups sent a letter to Hochul demanding state-wide “resettlement” of Biden’s huge migrant flood:
What is needed more broadly is a comprehensive New York State statewide decompression and resettlement plan to address the situation as it continues to evolve.
Ordinary Americans need to push back on politicians — black and white — to curb migration that spikes rents and cuts wages, Mullins told Breitbart News.
“We’re not okay with you marginalizing American Freedmen [descendants of slaves] by giving us the same shit as people that illegally broke into the country,” he said, adding:
We need white America and black America to talk … [Establishment leaders] don’t want us to interact and talk because we can compare notes and say, “Hey, shit, all the MAGA people are just as [disadvantaged] up in America but we let the progressives bring race into the conversation. and so we’re back fighting about skin color even though our collective economic problems are the same.
“We really want to get that conversation going because I think the country has to have it and everybody’s ready,” he concluded.
Biden Asks Congress for Billions to Expand Illegal Migration
President Joe Biden’s deputies are asking the House GOP majority to fund new travel and housing programs for more economic migrants who are being encouraged to take opportunities needed by ordinary Americans.
The August 10 request for $3.3 billion funding “is not all designed to promote more illegal immigration, but most of it seems to be,” said Mark Krikorian, director of the Center for Immigration Studies, adding:
Which is why there’s resistance among a lot of Republicans to increased funding for [the department of] Homeland Security (DHS). If DHS was using the money to actually stop the flow of illegal aliens, Republicans will be falling all over themselves to vote for it. But that’s not what this administration wants to with the do extra money for DHS — they want to use it to speed up the arrival of people who have no right to be here.
The “border guard is turned into a Walmart greeter,” he said.
Migrants wait for a bus to take them to a processing center after turning themselves over to U.S. Border Patrol in Fronton, Texas on May 12, 2023. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)
Just before the release of the White House’s request, Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) and 14 other Texas GOP members urged the Republican majority to block funding for Biden’s migration programs:
Simply put, no member of Congress should agree to fund a federal agency at war with his state and people. We have a moral obligation to protect our states, our nation, and, importantly, the migrant children getting abused from the disaster transpiring at our southern border.
“No border security, no funding,” the letter said, amid the growing public opposition to the Democrats who are bringing migrants into New York, Chicago, California, Maine, and other Democrat-run districts.
Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX). (Win McNamee/Getty Images, file)
Many Republicans also oppose continued funding for the war, which is apparently stuck in a no-negotiation, high-casualty stalemate. The opposition is driven, in part, by the economic cost which is pushing government spending well above recently agreed spending targets.
The funding must be approved by the GOP members of the House appropriations committee, led by Rep. Kay Granger (R-TX).
Rep. Kay Granger (R-TX). (Samuel Corum/Getty Images, file)
So White House officials and the establishment media are portraying the extra migration spending as a gain for border security. For example, the New York Times wrote on August 10:
Mr. Biden sought to sweeten the pot by adding politically popular spending to the Ukraine aid. The supplemental appropriation request includes $12 billion for disaster relief, $4 billion for border security.
But the details show that most of the border spending is intended to bring in even more economic migrants — not to keep them out.
Up to $800 million is intended to fund new migrant pathways from Colombia, Guatemala, Costa Rica, and Ecuador into U.S. communities. These “Safe Mobility Offices” are intended to offer a safer and cheaper route for African, European, and Asian economic migrants who are seeking to break into the United States.
A growing number of global migrants fly into Ecuador or Columbia before starting their trek to the Texas border. This growing flow of illegals skews the nation’s economy in favor of investors, Wall Street, and the coastal states.
The request also asks for an extra $714 million for Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, which was created to deport illegal migrants. But the request also asks for permission to move funding around in the agency — so that funding can be used for the housing program that would shelter migrants while they take the U.S. jobs they need to pay off smuggling debts. The program would also provide illegal migrants with free legal advice on how to slip through the immigration rules that were enacted to protect Americans from illegal migrants.
The request also asks for an additional $600 million for the Federal Emergency Management Agency. That agency funds many of the transport networks and shelters that migrants use as they displace locals from jobs in New York, Chicago, and other cities.
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The extra support money would likely help minimize and hide the local political and economic damage of Biden’s migration in Democrat-run cities.
Biden has already imported at least 6 million migrants for economic purposes in less than three years. That strategy has helped investors by inflating real estate prices and reducing Americans’ wages.
Biden’s huge inflow includes roughly 2 million legal migrants, 3.5 million illegal and quasi-legal migrants allowed through the southern border, roughly 1.6 million “gotaways” who sneaked over the border, plus hundreds of thousands of migrants who have refused to go home when their legal visas expire.
Biden’s massive inflow has enriched the smuggling cartels and encouraged them to expand their human-smuggling business to South America and overseas. For example, the cartels have expanded to control the migrant pathways in Panama and Columbia that were built up by Biden’s pro-migration border chief, Alejandro Mayorkas.
The budget request shows how the lawyers in Biden’s DHS have reversed the meaning of the nation’s immigration laws, which Congress passed to protect Americans from mass migration, said Krikorian, adding:
What they’re doing here is they’re keeping the same word “order” and “border control” and “border enforcement” and “secure border” …. they’re just inverting the meaning. For them, a “secure border” is one that actually facilitates illegal immigration.
Some GOP politicians are already pushing back against the August 10 request, which also asks for $24 billion for the war in Ukraine and $12 billion for domestic disaster recovery.
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Republicans can reject the new spending request and trade the Ukraine spending in exchange for compliance with the nation’s border laws, a senior Republican aide told Breitbart News. “It’s a courage question — the opportunity only matters if Republicans actually fund some backbone and pick the kind of fight the American people elected them for,” the aide said.
The August 10 spending request says:
The Administration requests additional resources to continue to manage the Southwest border safely and effectively … The Administration has [reduced illegal migration] in a safe, orderly, and humane manner, in part by pairing increased access to legal pathways with new consequences for those who fail to use them.
The request asks for up to $800 million to drain even more Ukrainian migrants from the nation that is relying on more than $100 billion in U.S. aid to expel the Russian military from its eastern districts. The U.S. government has already extracted more than 250,000 Ukrainians to serve as workers, consumers, and renters in U.S. society. The funding will offer Ukrainians cash aid, healthcare, legal advice, English-language lessons, and job training so they can compete for the jobs sought by Americans.
U.S. President Joe Biden (R) welcomes President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky to the White House on December 21, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
The requests ask for permission to shift ICE deportation funds to pay progressive groups to house migrants in New York and elsewhere:
This request would authorize the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to use appropriated funding to allow for refugees, asylum seekers, or other migrants to be housed in community-based residential facilities, depart unsupervised during certain hours, and be provided medical care, legal programming, and other services through contracts, grants, or cooperative agreements with non-governmental organizations.
The funds for the new migrant pathways would be added to the Department of State’s budget:
This request would provide $26 million to the Diplomatic Programs account within the Department of State … This request would provide $532 million to the Migration and Refugee Assistance account within the Department of State. Funds would be used to address humanitarian needs in the Western Hemisphere in order to provide safe options for forcibly displaced migrants to settle and rebuild their lives in Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, and other host countries … Funds would also be used to expand protection through refugee resettlement from the region to the United States and other countries, including through the establishment of Safe Mobility Offices, which provide protection screening and increase access to lawful pathway options to migrants where they are.
This request would provide $250 million to the Department of State for economic support and assistance …. [including] $50 million would be used to support foreign government repatriation operations of individuals deemed ineligible for refugee or other protected statuses; $50 million would be used to incentivize sustained cooperation from partner countries hosting Safe Mobility Offices; and $150 million would be used to expand migrant integration support to target communities, access to labor pathway mechanisms, and engagement with the private sector and multilateral partners to spur greater investment in integration initiatives.
The request also asks for $1.5 billion to help speed up the flow of migrants through U.S. borders:
Of the amounts provided, $203 million would support border management operations by CBP, including for soft-sided facilities, migrant transportation, and medical care requirements. This request also includes $606 million for CBP to reimburse the Department of Defense for border security support along the Southwest border … This request would provide $759 million to the Operations and Support account within the U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement bureau in the Department of Homeland Security. Of this amount, $714 million would be used to respond to migration surges along the Southwest border and related activities.
The document also asks for $800 million to counter the flow of drugs that are being delivered by the cartels.
The drug inflow is often hidden among the rush of Biden’s migrants, whose desperation to pay off smuggling debts enables employers to underpay and discard the Americans who end up as drug addicts.
Migration — and especially, labor migration — is unpopular among Republican and swing voters. A 54 percent majority of Americans say Biden is allowing a southern border invasion, according to an August 2022 poll commissioned by the left-of-center National Public Radio (NPR). The 54 percent “invasion” majority included 76 percent of Republicans, 46 percent of independents, and even 40 percent of Democrats.
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