Sunday, December 10, 2023

CLOWN AL GORE IS STILL AT IT! - Gore: Global Mental Health Crisis Due to Young People Worried About Climate - BUT THEY'RE NOT WORRIED ABOUT LIVING UNDER A FOREIGN OCCUPATION? HAVE A PRESIDENNT WHO IS A FOREIGN AGENT? OPEN BORDERS WITH NARCOMEX? HAVING TO GIVE THEIR JOB TO A 'CHEAP' LABOR ILLEGALS WHOSE ANCHOR BABIES HE WILL END UP PAYING FOR?

HAVE YOU EVER SEEN A DEM POL OPEN THEIR FAT MOUTH AND NOT LIE THROUGH THEIR BRIBES SUCKING TEETH???



Gore: Global Mental Health Crisis Due to Young People Worried About Climate

Former Vice President Al Gore said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that there was a global mental health crisis because young people look at we are not yet solving the climate crisis.

Anchor Jake Tapper said, “It does look like the 2024 election will come down to President Biden versus former President Trump, and I’m wondering what you think the world would look like under President Trump being re-elected, which is a possibility, not only when it comes to the climate but also when it comes to democracy.”

Gore said, “Well, I saw the other day where he pledged to be a dictator on day one, and you kind of wonder what it will take for people to believe him when he tells us who he is. And, you know, the solution to political despair is political action. And for those in the Republican Party and in the Democratic Party and Independents who love American democracy and who want to preserve our capacity to govern ourselves and solve our problems, now is the time to get active.”

He added, “There is a mental health crisis around the world. I think that one of the main reasons for that is that young people look at the fact that we are not yet solving the climate crisis or dealing with some of the other challenges. We heard the word thrown around polycrisis. Well, solving the climate crisis is a poly-solution. We know what we need to do, and we have the means to do it, and we have to make sure that we make the right political choices in our democracy to enable ourselves to make the right choices.”

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Joe Biden and his supporters have a really hard time telling the truth about his economic results

We continually hear from Joe Biden, and everyone else in his entourage, that he inherited a disastrous economy and his great policies turned everything around.

However, the truth is… the economy started roaring back after the government closures for COVID. See below, from Reuters:

U.S. recession ended in April 2020, making it shortest on record

The U.S. recession touched off by the coronavirus lasted only two months, ending with a low point reached in April 2020 after the start of a sharp drop in economic activity in March of that year, the U.S. Business Cycle Dating Committee announced Monday.

So why do so many continue to repeat the lie?

The answer? To intentionally mislead the public that Trump’s policies were the problem.

The third quarter of 2020 achieved the greatest growth on record (35.3%), yet according to Biden and his minions, he inherited a “disaster.”

Biden falsely says that job growth is much faster during his term than Trump’s—but here is the record of seasonally-adjusted nonfarm jobs from statistics compiled by the Department of Labor:

Data arranged by author.

In March 2020, the economy was intentionally destroyed because “experts” like Anthony Fauci and others said the economy must close, and Trump was sold a bunch of lies under the pretense of “science.”

The result was that around 22.4 million jobs were destroyed by government edicts. Within two months, Trump and other Republicans, like Abbott and Desantis, were striving to reopen over the objections of Fauci and bureaucrats; Republicans were accused of wanting to kill “grandma.” Democrat governors in California, New York, Illinois, and elsewhere kept their foot on the brake and kept schools and businesses closed, as they falsely said it was based on science. They just love big government.

As a result of the reopenings, jobs and the economy began to rapidly come back and by the end of Trump’s term, over thirteen million of the 21 million jobs lost had been regained. The economy grew over 1.5 million jobs per month during his last eight months of his tenure.

Think how much faster the jobs would have come back if Democrat run states hadn’t worked so hard to keep schools closed and maintained severe restrictions on businesses?

So Biden inherited a soaring economy, and threw more money at it by claiming it was a disaster. Despite all the government money, it took Biden 16 months to get the additional eight million jobs back—another way to look at it is that the economy replaced jobs at the rate of 500,000 per month, or one third the rate of job growth under Trump.

Yet Biden regurgitates the lie that job growth was much faster under him than Trump and says his policies are responsible. Give me a break.

Instead of the media telling the truth, most of its “journalists” just repeat the lie! They should stop pretending they are honest reporters of the truth and admit they are just Democrat campaign workers.

Then Biden falsely says that black and Hispanic unemployment rates are the lowest ever. The facts are that at October 2019, 2 years and 8 months into Trump’s term, the unemployment rate for blacks was 5.6%, and the rate among Hispanics was at 4.2%. At the same point in Biden’s term, October of 2023, the black unemployment rate was 5.8%, and the Hispanic rate was 4.8%. (Again, this data comes from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.)

Biden should be credited for taking a thriving economy with inflation below 2%, and destroying it, causing inflation to soar to over 9% due to his energy and big spending government policies.

Biden now takes credit for bringing the inflation rate increase to three or four percent; but the rate of growth slowed because people couldn’t afford inflation that high, not because of any of his policies.

Of course the same media who lies about Biden’s economic results continues its cover-up for Biden by saying there is no evidence he was involved with Hunter in his kickback and shell company scheme, or that he benefited from it, no matter how much evidence they are shown.

So remember, when you are going to the polls, vote for a person who gave you peace, prosperity, and low inflation, and who loves the private sector, or vote for the person who gave you wars and who believes government is the solution to everything. The choice is easy.

Also remember, if they get rid of the incompetent, corrupt, congenital liar Biden and replace him with any other Democrat, you will get the same radical big government policies that will intentionally destroy our great country.

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50,000 Migrants Apprehended at Southern Border in December’s First Week

1st week of December Apprehensions (Breitbart Texas and U.S. Border Patrol)
Breitbart Texas and U.S. Border Patrol

Border Patrol agents working the nine southwest border sectors apprehended more than 50,000 migrants during the first week of December, according to unofficial Border Patrol reports obtained by Breitbart Texas. The Del Rio and Tucson Sectors lead the list with the most apprehensions.

According to unofficial Border Patrol reports reviewed by Breitbart Texas, agents assigned to the southwest border apprehended just over 50,000 migrants during the first seven days of December. This follows a total of at least 379,000 apprehended in October and November. If the December average daily apprehension rate of more than 7,000 migrants continues, the agency could apprehend nearly 224,000 migrants by the end of the month.

The numbers reflected in the seven-day report reviewed by Breitbart Texas may not include additional migrants who surrendered to agents in the Del Rio and Tucson Sectors but were not processed by the time of that day’s report. The adjusted numbers will be reported by U.S. Customs and Border Protection in the December Southwest Land Border Encounters report, which will be released in mid-January.

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The Del Rio Sector appears to have the most significant number of reported apprehensions during the seven-day period. Reviewed reports and a post by Del Rio Sector Acting Chief Patrol Agent Juan Bernal bring the apprehension total to just under 20,000 migrants during the first week of December.

The Tucson Sector reports the apprehension of just under 19,000 migrants for this period.

In the Del Rio Sector, apprehended migrants are mostly from Venezuela. This is in contrast with the Tucson Sectors reports of migrants traveling from as far away as Pakistan, the Middle East, the People’s Republic of China, Ecuador, and several West African nations, Breitbart Texas’ Randy Clark reported.

Bob Price is the Breitbart Texas-Border team’s associate editor and senior news contributor. 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. He also serves as president of Blue Wonder Gun Care ProductsFollow him on Twitter @BobPriceBBTX.

JOE BIDEN   -  THERE IS NO GREATER ENEMY TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, AMERICA'S BORDERS AND AMERICAN DEMOCRACY. PUT THE FUKER IN PRISON, THROW AWAY THE KEYS!

We need to secure our borders to make sure that we know who is in this country … this is taking away resources that we desperately need to take care of our own citizens. [Emphasis added]

Joe Biden has instituted an “open border policy that has drawn millions into the United States by breaking the law,” Gingrich notes in his hard-hitting essay.


AND WHY NOT THE GUY WHO PUT MAYORKAS ON THE OPEN BORDERS DOCTRINE: JOE BIDEN!

The time has come to hold Mayorkas accountable

As Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas continues to treat Congress and the American people with contempt, it’s far past time for the secretary to finally face some consequences for his actions.

Mayorkas narrowly escaped becoming the second cabinet official in U.S. history to be impeached when eight Republicans voted with all House Democrats last month to refer Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s impeachment resolution to the House Homeland Security Committee. Some members who voted against the impeachment resolution indicated that they would ultimately support impeaching Mayorkas, but would like to see a more thorough investigation completed before moving forward.

Mayorkas, like any cabinet official facing impeachment for high crimes and misdemeanors, of course, deserves due process. Yet, more than 10 months into the 118th Congress, and over a year since former Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy vowed an impeachment inquiry was imminent, there has been no inquiry, and no timetable put forward for impeachment.

The case against Mayorkas is extensive and damning. Since he has been in charge of DHS, the department responsible for securing the U.S. border, millions of illegal aliens have crossed the border, shattering all the wrong records. Just Tuesday, 12,000 foreign nationals crossed into the U.S. illegally, hitting an all-time record for a single day. Mayorkas and other leading Biden administration officials have worked to systematically destroy America’s operational control over its border, while violating the Immigration and Nationality Act, and flagrantly disregarding their Constitutional responsibility to protect the U.S. from invasion. Mayorkas has demonized and demoralized Border Patrol agents, siding with anti-borders conspiracy theorists over his own agents.

He has put the national security of the U.S. at grave risk, allowing a record number of suspected terrorists to cross the border. Every step of the way, Mayorkas has prioritized his destructive anti-borders ideology over his responsibilities under the law. The case for his impeachment and removal is clear, but one person who doesn’t seem to be concerned is Mayorkas himself.

Anyone who pays attention to the comings and goings on Capitol Hill has seen Mayorkas strut around the Capitol with a smirk, while refusing to answer basic questions from members of Congress. The secretary has refused to provide members of Congress with data on the number of illegal aliens who have entered the country on his watch, including the number of those with ties to terrorist organizations. He has used Congressional testimony to engage in sparring matches with members of Congress attempting to perform oversight of his department.

All in all, Mayorkas acts like someone who believes he’s untouchable, someone who believes he will never be held accountable for his attacks on America’s sovereignty and its rule of law. It will be up to Congress to prove him wrong.

At the end of the day, Congress is the only institution that has the authority to hold Mayorkas and other Biden administration officials accountable for the crisis at the Southern border. There are two mechanisms through which Congress can enact accountability. One of them is impeachment and the other is through the power of the purse. So far in the 118th Congress, neither option has been used.  This needs to change soon.

Two-thirds of the American people disapprove of the Biden administration’s handling of the border, according to a recent Fox News poll. Congress must act as the voice of the American people and begin holding Mayorkas and his cronies accountable for all the damage they have wrought. This starts – but does not end – with relegating Mayorkas to historical infamy by making him just the second cabinet official in U.S. history to be impeached.

Mayorkas and his allies will cry foul, and accuse Congress of using impeachment as a tool to express policy disagreements, but they will be wrong. Securing the border is not a matter of policy, but is the most essential responsibility the federal government holds. It is a requirement under both the Constitution and federal law. Congress cannot allow a precedent to be set that allows bad actors like Mayorkas to open up the border and then brush it aside as a typical policy disagreement. Impeachment is a messy process, but the alternative is doing nothing as the U.S. continues down the path of lawlessness and chaos.

After years of debate, tough talk, and hearings, it’s time for Congress to hold America’s worst cabinet secretary accountable. It’s time to impeach Alejandro Mayorkas.

William J. Davis is a communications associate for the Immigration Reform Law Institute, a public interest law firm working to defend the rights and interests of the American people from the negative effects of mass migration.

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Sen. Steve Daines: Joe Biden Siphoning Healthcare from Military Veterans to Serve Illegal Aliens

CIUDAD JUAREZ , MEXICO - DECEMBER 05: Hundreds of migrants, predominantly from Venezuela, cross the Rio Grande with the intention of seeking humanitarian asylum by crossing the border between Mexico and the United States in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico on December 05, 2023. Upon reaching the Rio Grande, they encountered a …
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Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT) says President Joe Biden is siphoning Veterans Affairs healthcare resources away from the nation’s military veterans to serve illegal aliens arriving at the United States-Mexico border.

The statements from Daines come as Fox News’s Adam Shaw reported this week that the Concerned Veterans for America group is urging Congress and federal investigators to look into the Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) arrangement with the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).

During a press conference on Dec. 5, Daines said the report about the VA possibly servicing illegal aliens instead of veterans is just “one more story to build on why we need to solve the problem on the southern border.”

Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT) directs a question about limiting abortions to Xavier Becerra, nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services, at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Finance Committee on Capitol Hill February 24, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Michael Reynolds-Pool/Getty Images)

Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT) directs a question about limiting abortions to Xavier Becerra, nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services, at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Finance Committee on Capitol Hill February 24, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Michael Reynolds-Pool/Getty Images)

“We just learned that [Veterans Affairs] health care resources, the VA, are being used to facilitate healthcare to illegal migrants,” Daines said:

Veterans have a hard enough time getting the care that they need and now they have to compete with illegal immigrants? This will not fix the border crisis. Biden’s border crisis puts illegal immigrants first, it puts our veterans last. You know in Montana we have the second highest per capita veteran population in the United States. This is a disservice to all those who have said sacrificed and served our country. [Emphasis added]

Last year, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas seemingly confirmed to Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-IA) that the agency was looking at using VA healthcare resources at the southern border.

Reports from the House Homeland Security Committee, chaired by Rep. Mark Green (R-TN), have shown that Medicaid costs for emergency services for illegal aliens cost American taxpayers more than $7 billion in Fiscal Year 2021 and more than $5.4 billion in Fiscal Year 2022.

Annually, Americans are forced to subsidize medical care for illegal aliens to the tune of $18.5 billion. In 2021, Americans footed the bill for more than $316 million in medical care for illegal aliens who were detained by ICE.

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

Long Island Official: Illegal Aliens Burglarizing New Yorkers to Pay Back Mexican Drug Cartels

@CeFaanKim via Twitter
@CeFaanKim via Twitter

An official from Long Island, New York, says “organized gangs” are making their way through the United States-Mexico border on President Joe Biden’s watch and exacerbating crime in many American communities.

During a House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Emergency Management and Technology hearing this week, Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman (R) said communities and law enforcement agencies on Long Island are feeling the impact of illegal immigration.

We have seen an increase in crime, basically because you have these organized gangs that are part of the drug cartels from Mexico and other countries who have come to the metropolitan area,” Blakeman detailed:

They’re residing primarily in New York City and they do cross-border crime … I think common sense people realize that the problem is that we don’t know who’s coming in. We can’t control the numbers and they are committing crimes. [Emphasis added]

They are also creating burdens on our young people that are devastating. In the United States, over 65,000 young people have overdosed on fentanyl. Where is it coming from? It’s coming from south of the border and many of it is coming from Chinese nationals. I read today that there were 24,000 Chinese nationals that were detained at the border. Those are the ones that were detained. How many got through? [Emphasis added]

We need to secure our borders to make sure that we know who is in this country … this is taking away resources that we desperately need to take care of our own citizens. [Emphasis added]

Blakeman said Nassau County law enforcement has seen a rise in illegal aliens committing residential and commercial burglaries. Their goal, Blakeman testified, is to pay back the Mexican drug cartels that helped smuggle them into the U.S. in the first place.

Figures from 2021 show that the cartels earned a record $13 billion from human smuggling and trafficking, alone. In 2022, the cartels earned another $13 billion from such smuggling. Compare those profits to 2018, when the cartels made $500 million off illegal immigration to the U.S.

“Some of the patterns that we’ve found on the burglaries of residential and commercial properties have been done by migrants who came here through the current migrant policy,” Blakeman said.

“They’ve come here owing the cartels a great deal of money to transport them over the border, and if they don’t pay that money, I’ve been told that their families would be seriously harmed if not killed in their native country,” he continued. “Therefore they need quick money and they need to get it fast so they’re engaging in all kinds of crimes — burglary, shoplifting.”

As a result, Blakeman said law enforcement is overwhelmed:

It has become a burden on our police department. And I just want to supplement, what happens in New York City has an effect also in Nassau County. We send hundreds of thousands of people into New York City each day from Nassau County. So if there’s a diminution in the ranks of the firefighters or the police officers, it presents a safety problem for Nassau county residents. Many of the firefighters and cops live in Nassau County, so it’s a problem for us as well as New York City. [Emphasis added]

Last year, three illegal aliens — along with a fourth suspect born in the U.S. but who spent most of his life in Colombia — were arrested and charged in Nassau County after having allegedly burglarized 20 to 30 homes in Long Island.

The three illegal aliens had arrived at the U.S.-Mexico border under Biden and subsequently been released into the nation’s interior.

Every month, the Biden administration is estimated to be releasing more than 60,000 illegal aliens into the U.S. interior, though little is known about their nationalities, whereabouts, and if they have ultimately secured asylum.

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) said he estimates that Biden has welcomed about six million illegal aliens in less than three years. That figure includes those released by the Department of Homeland Security and those who successfully crossed the border.

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


NYC Mayor Eric Adams’ Approval Hits Record Low Amid Budget Cuts to Afford Illegal Immigration Surge

UNITED STATES -November 21: Mayor Eric Adams flanked by City Commissioners is pictured during his week off topic press conference at City Hall Blue Room, Tuesday November 21, 2023. During the press conference Adams discussed recent budget cuts, the migrants crisis and recent raids by the FBI to persons connected …
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Approval for New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) has hit a record low amid budget cuts on New Yorkers to afford waves of continued illegal immigration, a new Quinnipiac Poll shows.

The poll finds that just 28 percent of registered voters in New York City approve of the job Adams is doing as mayor, while 58 percent disapprove. Black voters are the only demographic group to show favorability for Adams, as 48 percent approve of him while 38 percent disapprove.

Meanwhile, 61 percent of white voters, 65 percent of Hispanic voters, and 60 percent of Asian voters disapprove of the job Adams is doing as mayor, as well as 69 percent of swing voters, 49 percent of Democrats, and 68 percent of Republicans.

According to the pollsters, “This is the lowest job approval rating for a New York City mayor since Quinnipiac University began polling New York City registered voters in 1996” with former Mayor Michael Bloomberg (I) previously holding the lowest approval rating on record in July 2003, when only 31 percent of New Yorkers approved of him.

The poll comes soon after Adams announced that New Yorkers would see five percent budget cuts across the board in city services as waves of illegal immigration costs local taxpayers billions.

According to the Quinnipiac poll, 66 percent of New Yorkers oppose Adams’ budget cuts and 66 percent of New Yorkers oppose the way Adams is handling illegal immigration. Crime is another weak spot for Adams ,as 6-in-10 New Yorkers oppose the way he has handled the city’s rise in violent crime.

Recent footage taken by a local citizen journalist in New York City showed border crossers and illegal aliens sleeping on the streets in freezing temperatures. Also this week, a brawl broke out among migrant men across from one of Adams’ many migrant hotels.

Months ago, Adams projected that New Yorkers will be forced to subsidize $12 billion in costs associated with illegal immigration by the end of next year.

According to Adams, New York City has a whopping $7.1 billion budget shortfall because of illegal immigration over the last nearly two years. Adams, as well as other sanctuary city mayors, has pleaded with Biden for a $5 billion bailout, but the White House has yet to make any such move.

The poll surveyed nearly 1,300 New York City registered voters from Nov. 30 through Dec. 4. The poll has a margin of error of +/- 2.7 percentage points.

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

Newt Gingrich Slams Biden’s ‘Illegal Immigration Policy’ Crushing the Nation

Newt Gingrich, former speaker of the US House of Representatives, speaks during the America First Policy Institute's America First Agenda summit in Washington, D.C., US, on Monday, July 25, 2022. The non-profit think tank was formed last year by former cabinet members and top officials in the Trump administration to …
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Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich warned Wednesday that President Joe Biden’s “illegal immigration policy” is undermining and damaging the United States.

Joe Biden has instituted an “open border policy that has drawn millions into the United States by breaking the law,” Gingrich notes in his hard-hitting essay.

In the article, Gingrich insists that we should never discuss the current illegal immigration mess “without putting its architect’s name on it,” and that architect is none other than the current president.

President Joe Biden meets Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, Mexico's president (not pictured) in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, Tuesday, July 12, 2022. INSET: U.S.-Mexico border (Chris Kleponis/Sipa/Bloomberg/Eric Thayer for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

President Joe Biden meets Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, Mexico’s president (not pictured) in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, Tuesday, July 12, 2022. // INSET: U.S.-Mexico border (Chris Kleponis/Sipa/Bloomberg/Eric Thayer for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

In the end, it is wholly Biden’s illegal immigration policy that is causing the problem, and “the people illegally crossing the border are Biden’s illegal immigrants,” Gingrich states.

The question is not academic or semantic, he contends, because “the ongoing border disaster is taking resources away from Americans and legal immigrants and giving them to people who have broken the law to get into the country illegally.”

Left-wing “propaganda outlets” fail to connect the dots for their viewers, he writes, because they know that the Biden illegal immigration policy is deliberate and “amazingly effective” from a leftist standpoint.

More people illegally flooding into the country “means more government spending and redistribution of resources,” Gingrich asserts, and, if allowed to continue, will mean “more voters who will be dependent on the government.”

Central American migrants, part of a caravan hoping to reach the U.S. border, move on the road in Escuintla, Chiapas State, Mexico (AP Photo/Moises Castillo).

It is a fever dream of progressives for the “Big Government Socialists” to give illegal immigrants legal status or simply the right to vote, he adds.

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The policy has real-world consequences for the many Americans who are being pushed aside for Biden’s illegal immigrants.

In the world of the left, Biden’s illegal immigrants deserve better treatment than Korean War veterans in their nineties or the families of American veterans and active-duty servicemembers, he notes.

Government policy has been converting senior living facilities citizens into migrant shelters with private rooms and meal services, he writes, citing a Department of Social Services (DSS) spokesman.

“Similar shifts of resources from Americans to Biden’s illegal immigrants are occurring across the country,” he observes.

Republicans need to take a page from the left’s playbook and learn how to “identify and highlight sympathetic figures” if they are going to defeat the Biden illegal immigration policy in the public sphere, he urges.

This entails harnessing the moving testimonies of parents impoverished by the Biden illegal immigration policy, legal immigrants punished for obeying the law and working hard, and mayors of major cities forced to transfer precious resources from education, public safety, sanitation, and other services “to take care of Biden’s illegal immigrants.”

Whereas President Donald Trump had the border remarkably under control, Biden has created a border disaster that should be “a major issue in the 2024 election at every level,” Gingrich writes.


Durbin: I’ll Try to Include Legalizing DACA Recipients in Talks over ‘Overwhelmed’ Border

On Wednesday’s broadcast of “PBS NewsHour,” Senate Majority Whip Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) stated that “we are being overwhelmed at our border” and there need to be border policy changes, and that it’s “a serious mistake” that giving protection to DACA recipients isn’t part of the negotiations and “If I get a chance to be part of this immigration negotiation, and I hope I will, I will definitely include that request.”

Co-host Amna Nawaz asked, “We hear[d] President Biden say earlier he’s open to significant changes on border policy. Do you share that view?”

Durbin answered, “Yes, I do. Let’s be open-minded about it. I don’t want to do something that is inconsistent with our country’s values, but I recognize the obvious, we are being overwhelmed at our border by people seeking to come into the United States. We have got to adjust the standards that are used at the border in a reasonable, humane way, but we’ve got to be open to change, Democrats, as well as Republicans.”

Nawaz then asked, “So, what are some of those changes you’d be willing to compromise on that you weren’t before? Would they be tightening asylum rules, for example?”

Durbin responded, “I’d take a look at the asylum language standards, but I’d be very careful, because there are people who are genuinely escaping situations where their lives are in danger, and we don’t want to ignore that possibility. But I also want to make sure that we have a system that makes sense. If I told you the countries that are producing immigrants at our border in the south of the United States, you would be amazed, thousands coming from places like Uzbekistan. You think to yourself, that is not what I expect to hear. What is happening is an obvious move from around the world to use the United States as a refuge.”

Nawaz then asked, “I should ask you too, as part of those talks, what about the DREAMers, those DACA recipients who were brought to the U.S. as children? You have said that you will fight for them repeatedly, but they were not included in these last rounds of talks. What’s your message to them today?”

Durbin answered, “Well, I can just tell you, I think that’s a serious mistake. I have been fighting for these DREAMers for over 20 years since I introduced the legislation. These young people, 800,000 of them or more, should be part of America’s future. And we have to do everything we can to make that happen. If I get a chance to be part of this immigration negotiation, and I hope I will, I will definitely include that request.”

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AND WHY NOT THE GUY WHO PUT MAYORKAS ON THE OPEN BORDERS DOCTRINE: JOE BIDEN!

The time has come to hold Mayorkas accountable

As Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas continues to treat Congress and the American people with contempt, it’s far past time for the secretary to finally face some consequences for his actions.

Mayorkas narrowly escaped becoming the second cabinet official in U.S. history to be impeached when eight Republicans voted with all House Democrats last month to refer Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s impeachment resolution to the House Homeland Security Committee. Some members who voted against the impeachment resolution indicated that they would ultimately support impeaching Mayorkas, but would like to see a more thorough investigation completed before moving forward.

Mayorkas, like any cabinet official facing impeachment for high crimes and misdemeanors, of course, deserves due process. Yet, more than 10 months into the 118th Congress, and over a year since former Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy vowed an impeachment inquiry was imminent, there has been no inquiry, and no timetable put forward for impeachment.

The case against Mayorkas is extensive and damning. Since he has been in charge of DHS, the department responsible for securing the U.S. border, millions of illegal aliens have crossed the border, shattering all the wrong records. Just Tuesday, 12,000 foreign nationals crossed into the U.S. illegally, hitting an all-time record for a single day. Mayorkas and other leading Biden administration officials have worked to systematically destroy America’s operational control over its border, while violating the Immigration and Nationality Act, and flagrantly disregarding their Constitutional responsibility to protect the U.S. from invasion. Mayorkas has demonized and demoralized Border Patrol agents, siding with anti-borders conspiracy theorists over his own agents.

He has put the national security of the U.S. at grave risk, allowing a record number of suspected terrorists to cross the border. Every step of the way, Mayorkas has prioritized his destructive anti-borders ideology over his responsibilities under the law. The case for his impeachment and removal is clear, but one person who doesn’t seem to be concerned is Mayorkas himself.

Anyone who pays attention to the comings and goings on Capitol Hill has seen Mayorkas strut around the Capitol with a smirk, while refusing to answer basic questions from members of Congress. The secretary has refused to provide members of Congress with data on the number of illegal aliens who have entered the country on his watch, including the number of those with ties to terrorist organizations. He has used Congressional testimony to engage in sparring matches with members of Congress attempting to perform oversight of his department.

All in all, Mayorkas acts like someone who believes he’s untouchable, someone who believes he will never be held accountable for his attacks on America’s sovereignty and its rule of law. It will be up to Congress to prove him wrong.

At the end of the day, Congress is the only institution that has the authority to hold Mayorkas and other Biden administration officials accountable for the crisis at the Southern border. There are two mechanisms through which Congress can enact accountability. One of them is impeachment and the other is through the power of the purse. So far in the 118th Congress, neither option has been used.  This needs to change soon.

Two-thirds of the American people disapprove of the Biden administration’s handling of the border, according to a recent Fox News poll. Congress must act as the voice of the American people and begin holding Mayorkas and his cronies accountable for all the damage they have wrought. This starts – but does not end – with relegating Mayorkas to historical infamy by making him just the second cabinet official in U.S. history to be impeached.

Mayorkas and his allies will cry foul, and accuse Congress of using impeachment as a tool to express policy disagreements, but they will be wrong. Securing the border is not a matter of policy, but is the most essential responsibility the federal government holds. It is a requirement under both the Constitution and federal law. Congress cannot allow a precedent to be set that allows bad actors like Mayorkas to open up the border and then brush it aside as a typical policy disagreement. Impeachment is a messy process, but the alternative is doing nothing as the U.S. continues down the path of lawlessness and chaos.

After years of debate, tough talk, and hearings, it’s time for Congress to hold America’s worst cabinet secretary accountable. It’s time to impeach Alejandro Mayorkas.

William J. Davis is a communications associate for the Immigration Reform Law Institute, a public interest law firm working to defend the rights and interests of the American people from the negative effects of mass migration.

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Mexican government officials are twisting facts in an attempt to downplay the raging cartel violence spreading throughout the border state of Tamaulipas. In the most recent incident, public officials are hiding a large-scale attack on law enforcement by cartel gunmen and the use of explosives by passing it off as a scuffle between drug gangs.


U.S. Coast Guard Intercepted 18,000 Pounds of Cocaine in November

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The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) intercepted more than 18,000 pounds of cocaine — worth $239 million — in six separate drug busts in November, officials announced Wednesday.

The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Waesche offloaded “approximately 18,219 pounds of cocaine, with an estimated street value of more than $239 million,” in San Diego, California, the USCG said in a news release.

The offload was cumulative of several “suspected drug smuggling vessel interdictions or events” off the coasts of Mexico and Central and South America in November, with the largest find occurring on November 20.

USCG officials reported that they intercepted a “self-propelled semi-submersible (SPSS) carrying more than 5,500 pounds of cocaine” that day, making it the first SPSS interdiction in the Eastern Pacific since 2020. 

The other interceptions occurred on November 7, 15, 16, 23, and 24. 

Four of the six drug busts were made by the Waesche, while Cutter Active made the other two. 

Capt. Robert Mohr, commanding officer of the Waesche, said:

All four of our interdictions on this patrol are crucial to the Coast Guard’s efforts to keep illicit drugs off the streets, but our last interdiction of a semi-submersible vessel was noteworthy since it was the first semi-submersible interdicted in the Eastern Pacific in over three years.

Capt. Mohr expressed his gratitude to his crew members, saying, “They overcame multiple challenges with collective hard work, ingenuity, and positive attitudes to keep us in pursuit of these cartels and their dangerous drugs.”

“A successful patrol like this one is rewarding and leads to better retention and recruiting efforts because everybody feels a sense of accomplishment,” he added.

The Waesche is one of four “Legend-class national security cutters” homeported in Alameda, California, making it one of the largest active patrol cutter boats of the USCG. 

Outfitted with technology for command, communication, surveillance, and more, these types of ships are “afloat operational-level headquarters for complex law enforcement and national security missions involving multiple Coast Guard and partner agency participation,” the press release said.

“The significance of keeping this much cocaine from reaching our shores and streets is, no doubt, life-changing,” said U.S. Attorney Tara McGrath. “Without these 9 tons of cocaine on American streets, fewer people will have access to this toxic poison, and hundreds of millions of dollars will not make it into cartel coffers.”

She went on to thank the crew of the Waesche and the entire USCG “for protecting our nation from the devastation, violence, and addiction that cocaine brings to our communities.”


Mexican President Wrongly Claimed Mass Murder Victims Were Buying Drugs

June 12, 2023 in Mexico City, Mexico: President of Mexico Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador speaks during the morning conference in front of reporters at the national palace on June 12, 2023 in Mexico City, Mexico. (Photo credit should read Carlos Santiago / Eyepix Group/Future Publishing via Getty Images)
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A state attorney general in Mexico revealed that the five medical students kidnapped and murdered by cartel gunmen were not involved in the drug trade and were simply spending time in a water park. The information contradicts previous claims by Mexico’s president, who tried to divert attention from the mass killing by claiming the victims were trying to buy drugs.

On Friday, Guanajuato Attorney General Carlos Zamarripa Aguirre revealed the mass killing was not tied to the street distribution of drugs and that the victims were “good people.”

The public official said that Mexico’s president was mistaken in claiming that the five victims were trying to buy drugs, adding that his staff was in charge of the investigation and knew firsthand the details. He said President Lopez Obrador read off the wrong information from notecards given to him by his staff.

Zamarripa said that the students were having fun at a local waterpark when a group of men took them. Later that evening, their bodies were discovered not far from the university campus.

Earlier this week, Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador had tried to dismiss the case by claiming that the victims were trying to buy drugs.

“It was because of the consumption they went to buy from someone selling drugs in a turf belonging to another group,” Lopes Obrador said this week, claiming that there wasn’t a problem of drug consumption in other states, and that is what they wanted to avoid.

During his term, Lopez Obrador has been harshly criticized for his refusal to fight drug cartels in a strategy known as hugs, not bullets (abrazos no balazos).

The case began on Sunday in the city of Celaya, Guanajuato, when authorities found a vehicle with five bodies inside. The victims all showed “signs of violence” and had been shot execution style.

The bodies were later determined to be five medical students from a local university who had been spending time at a local waterpark nearby. University officials have since issued various statements expressing their outrage and claiming that the students were not tied to any illegal activities. According to Mexico’s El Universal, during the week, hundreds of students have taken to the streets to peacefully protest the mass killing and demand answers in the latest of several mass killings of innocent students in recent years.

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.   


EXCLUSIVE, GRAPHIC: Cartel Gunmen Killed Two Border State Cops in Mexico While Targeting Corrupt Official

Three members of the Mexican army keep watch in the residential Anahuac neighborhood in Monterrey, Nuevo León state, Mexico on Feb. 5, 2012, after clashes between a group of gunmen and Mexican army. Photo: Julio Cesar Aguilar/AFP/Getty Images
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The recent killing of two border state police officers is directly linked to an attempt to murder a corrupt law enforcement official who has been working for a rival cartel. Cartel gunmen previously called out that official on cartel banners, Breitbart Texas reported at the time.

A group of gunmen suspected of working for the Cartel Del Noreste faction of Los Zetas shot and killed Hector Osvaldo Juarez Juarez and Antonio de Jesus García Vargas. The targeted killing took place in the western part of Ciudad Mante, Tamaulipas. Both men were 35 years old, and were tactical police officers in Tamaulipas.

The two officers were filling up their vehicle at a gas station when the gunmen surprised them with AK-47s and fled before additional police forces could respond.

The two officers had been assigned as a security detail to the state police coordinator for Ciudad Mante Alfredo Escobedo Marin, who is believed to have been the intended target.

Breitbart Texas first reported on Escobedo Marin in 2021, when several cartel banners surfaced where the CDN-Los Zetas accused him of working with the Gulf Cartel. In the allegations at the time, the cartel claimed that Escobedo Marin had arrested cartel gunmen and turned them over to the Gulf Cartel.

After being exposed as a corrupt lawman, Escobedo Marin got a judge to issue an injunction to keep the Tamaulipas government from firing him. Due to the court order, authorities have since placed the public official under armed security.

The CDN-Los Zetas once controlled Ciudad Mante, but have since lost control of the city. As Breitbart Texas reported, the Gulf Cartel has carried out several extortion operations in Ciudad Mante while government officials benefited.

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.     

EXCLUSIVE: Mexican Government Twisting Facts to Downplay Cartel Violence, Explosives

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Mexican government officials are twisting facts in an attempt to downplay the raging cartel violence spreading throughout the border state of Tamaulipas. In the most recent incident, public officials are hiding a large-scale attack on law enforcement by cartel gunmen and the use of explosives by passing it off as a scuffle between drug gangs.

The incident took place early on Monday morning in the downtown area of Llera, Tamaulipas, where a group of Gulf Cartel gunmen clashed with state police forces. The large-scale shootout spread terror throughout the rural city, prompting school officials to cancel classes. During the clash, authorities killed one gunman, seized two cartel vehicles, and had several police cars damaged. Exclusive information obtained by Breitbart Texas points to military forces having to be sent out due to the presence of explosives in the area.

Through their official accounts, Tamaulipas state officials claimed that authorities were responding to a scuffle between armed civilians. A second post pointed to the seizure of a vehicle. In the aftermath, officials refused to release any additional information.

Breitbart Texas obtained exclusive access to communication between Mexican military forces, revealing an attack on police in Llera. One of the guards of the police building was the one who called for help. Military forces noted the presence of something listed only as “explosive material.”

Near the scene of the shootout, authorities found the body of 21-year-old Juan Diego Bocanegra Gonzalez — a cartel gunman who was wearing body armor and carrying a rifle. It remains unclear how many gunmen took part in the shootout.

The case points to an ongoing strategy by the Tamaulipas government to minimize the raging violence spreading through most of the state. As Breitbart Texas reported, top officials with the Tamaulipas government have favored particular drug cartels in exchange for campaign funds and political support.

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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