Last night, I watched a documentary about the Gestapo. It occurred to me that it used the same tactics as the bumbling joke that currently occupies the Bully Pulpit and his minions. I did some research to substantiate my thoughts.
History
The Geheime Staatspolizei, abbreviated Gestapo, was the official secret police of Nazi Germany. It was created by Hermann Göring in 1933 by combining various political police agencies of Prussia into one organization. On April 20, 1934, oversight passed to Heinrich Himmler, the head of the Schutzstaffel (the SS, originally Hitler’s personal body guard), who was also appointed chief of German police by Hitler in 1936.
Tactics
The Gestapo’s power focused upon Hitler’s political opponents through lies, atrocities, and reprisals. It often made up facts against political opponents in order to achieve its objectives. Those political opponents included people deemed dangerous to Nazi policies and politics. They could arrest and imprison anyone and always assumed that their targets were guilty. Once arrested, people found it difficult to prove their innocence.
The Gestapo crushed opposition through actions, both legal and illegal, such as fear and intimidation. It operated without any civil or criminal restraints. Propaganda, which included censoring the media, kept the majority of the population in line.
Sound familiar?
The Department of Justice
I begin with Attorney General Merrick Garland’s lie about DOJ investigators being nonpartisan. He said, “Justice Department prosecutors are nonpartisan. They don’t allow partisan considerations to play any role in their determinations.” To Scott Pelley’s question, “And this is not peculiar to the Trump investigations?,” Garland responded, “This is the rule for all investigations.”
The DOJ today is increasingly motivated by partisanship. The PATRIOT Act laws were designed to fight terrorism. But they have been transformed into tools by which the DOJ keeps constant tabs on law-abiding Americans and threatens to disrupt their lives if they dare act contrary to Joe Biden.
Republican lawmakers blasted Biden over the weaponization of the DOJ after it charged former president Donald Trump over his handling of classified documents. Yet it has not charged Biden after a similar investigation yielded classified documents at his Delaware home.
Wrote Danielle Wallace of Fox News, “The DOJ turned a blind eye to blatant violations of 18 US Code §1507 — the provision that prohibits people from protesting at the homes of Supreme Court justices. By not prosecuting them, the Biden administration legitimized the protests last spring.”
Barack Obama weaponized the Deep State , the massive unelected bureaucracies that represent the “big” in big government, in an effort to transform America into a socialist nation. Joe Biden has taken it one step farther by empowering the Deep State to crush his political opponents. Who could have dreamed 20 years ago that Gestapo tactics would rule the USA?
Biden has compared Americans who disagree with him to racists and terrorists. According to a report ordered by Biden, domestic political extremism is “the most urgent terrorism threat the United States faces today.” His DOJ has labeled parents as domestic terrorists if they oppose the teaching of Critical Race Theory in schools, as well as Catholics who protest at abortion facilities.
Garland delivered his most ridiculous lie when he claimed that the DOJ doesn’t prosecute many Antifa pro-life pregnancy attacks because they happen at night. Said Garland to Senator Mike Hill (R-Utah), “there are many more prosecutions [of pro-life groups]. ... But that is generally because those actions are taken with photography at the time, during the daylight, and seeing the person who did it is quite easy.”
The Federal Bureau of Investigation
The FBI uses Gestapo tactics . It has assumed vast investigatory powers and vast discretion to determine who is a political enemy of Biden and the Democrat party. These are not tactics used by constitutional republics, where the rule of law and the rights of the public reign supreme. They are the tactics of an authoritarian organization, where secret police control the populace through intimidation, fear, and official lawlessness on behalf of Biden’s sycophants. It’s the FBI that does the dirty work of ensuring compliance , keeping tabs on potential dissidents, and punishing those who dare to challenge him.
You would think the FBI would concentrate its effort to stem the tide of rising crime and violence. But no! Biden’s DOJ has focused the FBI’s attention on cracking down on “domestic terrorists,” on conservative parents concerned about their children being indoctrinated in public schools, on Republicans who questioned the validity of the 2020 presidential election, and on those who didn’t accede to COVID-19 mandates.
Drawing a card directly from the Gestapo playbook, numerous FBI agents have said that bureau leadership is pressuring agents to create domestic terrorism cases by labeling individuals as “white supremacists.” The agents say agency heads “have already determined that White supremacy is a problem” and has established a policy to prioritize racially motivated domestic extremism.
Under Biden, the FBI has become the embodiment of how power, once acquired, is easily corrupted and abused.
The Internal Revenue Service
The Tea Party, a national grassroots movement, emerged in 2009 in cities across the U.S. to fight then-president Obama’s spending agenda and government takeover of American health care. Bureaucrats at the IRS noticed and stopped it. In 2016, three years after the IRS admitted that it gave extra scrutiny to conservative groups, it released a list of targeted organizations. Sixty groups on the list had the word “tea” in their name, 33 had “patriot,” eight referred to the Constitution, and 13 had “912,” the title of a conservative movement, in their names. Another 26 group names referred to “liberty.” The list raises questions such as how wide the IRS’s net was when it went after nonprofit groups for unusual scrutiny.
ProPublica, a progressive investigative journalism group, published in 2021 an article to “expose” how some wealthy Americans exploit the tax code to pay less in taxes. About the article, Charles Cooke of National Review wrote , “There are only a few ways in which the information ProPublica examined could have made it onto the internet. It could have been leaked by someone who works for — or with — the IRS. ... Or it could have been surreptitiously released by a member of Congress or a Biden administration staffer. Whichever one of these happened, the conclusion must be the same: We cannot trust the IRS. ” (Emphasis mine.)
As Betsy McCaughey of Real Clear Politics wrote , “[the IRS’s] magnified clout will be used to muzzle and punish political critics. That’s a serious blow to our freedom.”
Bottom Line: With every passing day, the Biden bunch borrows yet another tactic from the Gestapo: secret police, courts, and agencies; surveillance; lies; censorship; intimidation; harassment; entrapment; indoctrination; and indefinite detention. Biden’s weaponization of the DOJ, the FBI, and the IRS, which should be completely non-partisan and non-bia sed, is an assault on our civilization. The problem is, “The MSM won’t point it out!”
Image: Gage Skidmore via Flickr , CC BY-SA 2.0 .
Joe Biden is decompensating in public and confused, naked, and stoned in private
We all know, of course, that Joe Biden is not the man calling the shots in the White House. However, even with a shadow government, it would be nice if the man who is the “front” for that government was a splendid actor, projecting leadership like Bill Pullman in Independence Day or even (if you’re a leftist) Martin Sheen in The West Wing . However, we don’t live in the “good” version of a shadow government. Instead, we have Joe Biden, who is increasingly incoherent in public and, in private, is allegedly running around naked and stoned.
Two videos recently emerged of Biden sounding like Grandpa Simpson , only worse. First, while touting his “Bidenomics” plan, which has seen Americans growing increasingly poor, Biden struggled badly with the teleprompter:
We’re used to these epic battles, but tell me if that isn’t worse than the ones that characterized his first year in office. Of course, we’ll just be told that’s because Joe’s a stutterer. Oh, and probably dyslexic. And maybe he has some other cognitive disorder that has nothing to do with either intelligence or senility.
But how does one explain away this video, which has Biden trying to tell us why guns are so evil that the government should be justified in seizing them?
For those of you who missed that, what he said was:
The idea, if you were driving your automobile here and you left in the key… And then in the parking lot, you left the key in the ignition, and the kid came up and jumped in and stole it, and they got in the crash, you’re liable civilly.
Why, in God’s name, do people not have to lock up their firearm? Why is that not a requirement? All these mass murders. Not, not this weekend, but have them because people have picked up kids and grabbed stuff off of counters…off of them. Anyway, I don’t want to... I get back and… We need to ban assault weapons, high-capacity magazines.
Huh? Cutting through the Grandpa Simpson-esque communication skills, cars are not protected under the Second Amendment, and a weapon guaranteed for our self-defense against government and other predators is useless if locked away. In other words, he’s not only incoherent, to the extent there’s a thread of reason in there, it’s unconstitutional and irrational.
That’s the public Joe Biden. A man propped up by TelePrompters, his wife, and various aides who hover anxiously, waiting to pull him off the stage and herd out reporters before he says anything that is a substantive problem (such as acknowledging that Xi Jinping is, in fact, a dictator).
But what if it turns out that the private Joe Biden is even worse? Tucker Carlson interviewed Alex Jones, who says that a White House source who is a Secret Service agent tells him that Biden is barely sentient in the White House, as well as giving in completely to exhibitionism (the same thing that saw him shower with his daughter and skinny-dip in front of female Secret Service agents ) (beginning at 1:18:33):
He is completely out of his mind. He wanders around—for the entire two-and-half years but it’s getting worse—naked in the White House. And in the middle of the night, doesn’t know who he is. They have to give him a bunch of drugs, a bunch of amphetamines in the morning, and then they’ve got to drug him at night. Sometimes he’s got to go…he’ll, like, be out for the morning for a while, but then he comes back out at night for a ball. That’s when there’s a real problem.
Tucker quickly corroborated what Alex Jones said:
He is on drugs. I have established that. And I know someone who witnessed it. I’m not guessing at this. I know someone personally who witnessed him taking amphetamines, and this was, this was during the 2016…2020 election.
I believe what Alex Jones and Tucker are saying because it’s entirely consistent with what we see in public and know about Biden’s history. Regarding the drugs, I’ve long thought that the refusal to release the visitor logs from Biden’s Delaware homes isn’t because he’s hiding visits from Chinese bagmen. Instead, it’s because the visitors are doctors charged with keeping him functional.
In many ways, there is no greater insult to the American people than the fact that the Deep State doesn’t even pretend to have a statesman at the helm. Instead, in the ultimate nose-thumbing at the voters, it’s put into place a demented old man and said, “Salute him. He’s your president.”
Image: An aged Joe Biden by AI (which pretty much looks like the real Joe Biden).
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
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
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 .
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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 David Peinado/Anadolu/Drew Angerer/Getty Images 2:26
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)
“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 4:17
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 Luiz C. Ribeiro for NY Daily News via Getty Images 2:57
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 .
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)
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
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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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