Thursday, May 18, 2023

JOE BIDEN'S BORDER TO OPEN BORDER INVASION OF AMERICA - Sanctuary City Chicago: Migrants Accused of Stabbing, Shoplifting While Living in Taxpayer-Funded Shelters

 

Sanctuary City Chicago: Migrants Accused of Stabbing, Shoplifting While Living in Taxpayer-Funded Shelters

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Three Venezuelan nationals have been charged with a series of crimes after having recently arrived, potentially on migrant buses, in the sanctuary city of Chicago, Illinois.

Elvis Diaz Betancourt, a 27-year-old Venezuelan national who arrived in Chicago four months ago, was arrested and charged with stabbing and critically injuring another Venezuelan man in one of the city’s migrant shelters.

According to prosecutors, Betancourt stabbed the man near his right hip during a fight outside of a nearby park. The man was stabbed so deeply that he said he could see his organs. Betancourt allegedly tried to stab the man again, this time in the back, but ran off as the man pleaded for help.

When police arrived on the scene, the man was rushed to a nearby hospital.

While having his bond set at $20,000, prosecutors said Betancourt had only recently arrived in Chicago and had been living at the migrant shelter for three months. His two children are still in Venezuela.

In a separate case, 34-year-old Anduesa Cormena of Venezuela and 22-year-old Yeiber Colmenarez of Venezuela were arrested by Chicago police earlier this month after allegedly trying to shoplift more than $1,300 worth of clothing from a Macy’s.

Both of the Venezuelan nationals have been living in the city’s migrant shelter at the former Wadsworth Elementary School in South Side, Chicago. The shelter is opposed by many of the area’s residents who are outraged that Mayor Brandon Johnson is spending taxpayer dollars to give housing to new arrivals as homeless Chicagoans live on the streets.

“These are individuals who’ve not been in the country very long,” the judge said, according to CWB Chicago. “You’re now telling me that they were arrested at Macy’s, committing a felony retail theft. So the court wants some idea of who is in front of me … one person has already indicated he’s using another name. So, who are these people? Who are these individuals?”

While Colmenarez had not yet been arrested in Chicago, prosecutors revealed that the shoplifting charge was the third arrest for Cormena, who has only lived in the city for three weeks.

Cormena was charged with misdemeanor battery on April 27 after hitting an individual at the migrant shelter and then later for allegedly shoplifting at a Nordstrom store. On both occasions, he was released from police custody.

Colmenarez was ordered to pay a $1,500 bail, while Cormena’s bail was set at $5,000. Since last August, more than 8,000 border crossers and illegal aliens have arrived in Chicago.

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

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS - MAY 15: Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson arrives with his family for his inauguration ceremony on May 15, 2023 in Chicago, Illinois. Johnson, a former school teacher and union organizer, replaces outgoing Mayor Lori Lightfoot. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
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Newly sworn-in Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (D) welcomed border crossers and illegal aliens to the sanctuary city in his inaugural address on Monday just as black Chicagoans protest illegal immigration flooding their neighborhoods.

Since August 2022, thousands of border crossers and illegal aliens have inundated Chicago — many arriving with illnesses like COVID-19 and without any ties to the city — spurring former Mayor Lori Lightfoot to declare a state of emergency last week.

Already, Chicago officials have opened police stations and abandoned schools to border crossers and illegal aliens, paid for by local taxpayers. Despite Lightfoot saying the city is at a “breaking point,” Johnson said there is more than enough room for border crossers and illegal aliens.

“We don’t want our story to be told that we were unable to house the unhoused or provide safe harbor for those who are seeking refuge here because enough room for everyone in the city of Chicago, whether you are seeking asylum or you are looking for a fully funded neighborhood,” Johnson said in his address.

The remarks sharply break from black Chicagoans who wield significant political power. Late last week, many attended a town hall meeting at the former South Shore High School where city officials want to house potentially hundreds of migrants.

“Looking at the numbers coming out of city hall and the state of Illinois, upwards of $150 million for six months,” one resident explained:

We believe that $150 million would have been, in some way, eligible to come into our community to help our crime problem, help our economic problem, and help with our housing issues. And as we’re all aware, black people are the largest number of homeless in Chicago so if you’re going to help anyone, help the current black homeless first. [Emphasis added]

At the town hall, one black Chicagoan held a sign that read “BUILD THE WALL 2024,” a sign of support for closing the United States-Mexico border to illegal immigration rather than President Joe Biden’s current approach of releasing tens of thousands of border crossers and illegal aliens into American communities every month.

Chicago residents are so fed up with illegal immigration that a group has filed a lawsuit against the city to stop them from housing border crossers and illegal aliens in the South Shore neighborhood.

“It is a slap in the face that we as citizens of the United States of America do not have the resources and support but you’re going to bring people who are not citizens here in our community, in our buildings that we pay taxes for that you took away from us,” one Chicago resident told local media.

“… at the end of the day, if Chicago can’t take care of its own, why should they take care of others? If the resources are given to others, why can’t the resources be given to us?” another Chicago resident asked.

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

Chicago’s Brandon Johnson: ‘Wicked,’ ‘Unconscionable’ for Texas to Send Border Crossers to Sanctuary Cities

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS - APRIL 07: Chicago Mayor-Elect Brandon Johnson (C) and Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker (R) speak to the press after a meeting in the governor's office on April 07, 2023 in Chicago, Illinois. Johnson is scheduled to be sworn in as Chicago's 57th mayor on May 15. (Photo by …
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Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (D) says it is “wicked” and “unconscionable” for Texas to bus thousands of border crossers and illegal aliens to the sanctuary city.

This week, on his first official day as mayor, Johnson visited border crossers and illegal aliens who are living inside city police stations on the ground.

During the visit, Johnson said politicians “that are using the lives of individuals as a way to score some political points with a certain segment of the population in this country,” in a veiled attack on Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R), who has bused thousands of border crossers and illegal aliens to Chicago and other sanctuary cities since mid-2022.

“It’s wicked, it’s unconscionable,” Johnson said of Abbott’s migrant busing operation.

During his inaugural address, Johnson seemingly welcomed waves of illegal immigration to Chicago just as the city’s black residents on the South Side have protested and are suing to protect their neighborhood from becoming a migrant dumping ground.

“Looking at the numbers coming out of city hall and the state of Illinois, upwards of $150 million for six months,” one Chicago resident explained.

“We believe that $150 million would have been, in some way, eligible to come into our community to help our crime problem, help our economic problem, and help with our housing issues,” he continued. “And as we’re all aware, black people are the largest number of homeless in Chicago, so if you’re going to help anyone, help the current black homeless first.”

Currently, city officials are considering housing border crossers and illegal aliens in Wilbur Wright College over the summer.

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

Exclusive – J.D. Vance: GOP Must Call Out Illegal Immigration as ‘Economic Warfare’ Against Working Americans

Senator Ron Johnson, a Republican from Wisconsin, from left, Senator Rick Scott, a Republican from Florida, and Senator JD Vance, a Republican from Ohio, during a news conference outside the US Capitol in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, May 3, 2023. Washington’s ability to avert a catastrophic US debt default …
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Republicans must be “hammering” away at illegal immigration as “economic warfare” against working- and middle-class Americans, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) told Breitbart News.

In an exclusive interview with SiriusXM Patriot’s Breitbart News Saturday, Vance called on Republicans to discuss illegal immigration as a fixture of “the cheap labor lobby” which seeks to inflate the United States labor market to drive down wages and employ an underclass of cheaper foreign workers with little-to-no bargaining power.

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“Republicans cannot stop hammering this stuff … we cannot ignore the cheap labor lobby is why we have this problem,” Vance said of the surge of illegal immigration that has occurred on Biden’s watch.

In addition to driving down wages and increasing foreign competition against Americans in the labor market, Vance said illegal immigration has a huge impact on housing prices as more demand means higher costs and bigger payouts for real estate developers and landlords.

“Think of the effects that this has on working Americans’ wages to have 10 million more people who shouldn’t be here competing for jobs,” Vance said. “Think about what this does for housing prices, when you have to house 10 million people that shouldn’t be here, that drives up the costs of housing when interest rates are already through the roof.”

“This is economic warfare and theft of the American dream from American citizens, that is the big problem here and that’s why we have to keep fighting it,” he continued.

Vance echoed that sentiment during an interview with Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow on the Charlie Kirk Show, detailing how Americans looking to buy their first home or move into a new property are put at a disadvantage as they are forced to compete for housing against a growing foreign population.

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“If you’ve gone to a hospital or emergency room and you’ve seen the wait times be way too long because there are a number of illegal aliens getting healthcare, you’re seeing the effects of Ohio being a border state,” Vance said.

“If you’ve tried to buy a house and you’ve seen the effects of skyrocketing housing costs and interest rates, you’re seeing the effects of Ohio as a border state because when you bring in 10 million people illegally, you’ve got to house them somewhere, and houses that should go to American citizens right now are going to people who should not be here in the first place,” he continued.

Vance said President Joe Biden and his Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas are “not even hiding” their intended goal anymore, noting remarks made last week where the agency head seemingly admitted that illegal immigration is a boon for business.

Meanwhile, labor market data has shown that Biden is growing the U.S. workforce by funneling millions of border crossers, illegal aliens, foreign visa workers, and legal immigrants into American jobs, while leaving millions of working- and middle-class Americans on the sidelines.

In the fourth quarter of 2022, for example, close to two million fewer native-born Americans were working in jobs compared to the same time in 2019, while two million foreign-born workers were added to the workforce.

A flooded labor market from mass immigration has had a devastating impact on working- and middle-class Americans, while redistributing billions in wealth to the top one percent of earners and big business. While creating an economy that tilts in favor of employers, the mass immigration economic model has helped keep wages stagnant for decades.

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


THERE IS NO GREATER THREAT TO AMERICA THAN 

JOE BIDEN!


Washington, D.C. (May 18, 2023) - A Center for Immigration Studies analysis of the recently released CBP statistics on Border Patrol apprehensions and CBP overall encounters at the Southwest border for the month of April show both surged last month even while Title 42 expulsions dropped. That does not bode well for the administration with Title 42 having some ended on May 11 just as “travel season” at the U.S.-Mexico line gears up. Expect some drop-off in apprehensions when the May numbers come out next month as illegal migrants — and more importantly their smugglers — are still trying to figure out all the loopholes in Biden’s latest border regime.

In April, Border Patrol agents at the Southwest border apprehended more than 182,000 illegal migrants. This represents a 12 percent increase in apprehensions over March, and a 40 percent increase over February — the month Biden lauded his immigration efforts at the State of the Union address.

Would-be migrants were enticed in part by the fact that Border Patrol apparently began ramping down Title 42 expulsions in April even before the CDC orders that guided that policy expired. Fewer than 72,000 apprehended migrants were expelled under Title 42 last month, 39.4 percent of the total; while more than 89,000 illegal entrants (55 percent of that month’s total) were expelled in March.

CBP encounters are the total of Border Patrol apprehensions and aliens deemed inadmissible at the ports of entry by CBP officers in the agency’s Office of Field Operations (OFO). In April, CBP officers and agents encountered more than 211,000 aliens at the Southwest border, the eighth-highest monthly total under the Biden administration, 29,000 of whom were deemed inadmissible at the ports.

The administration’s latest scheme to hide the ramifications of its border policies is to funnel would-be illegal migrants through the ports of entry by allowing them to schedule “interviews” with CBP officers using the CBP One app (which was originally designed to expedite lawful travel).

Recent reports have indicated that more than 99 percent of all the migrants who have received such interviews have been allowed to enter the United States — despite that fact, again, that (1) those migrants are inadmissible to the United States and (2) should therefore, by law, be detained.

Looking forward, keep an eye on the CBP OFO port encounter numbers, and expect them to jump to even higher levels. Some state attorney general will likely catch onto the CBP One app appointment and release scheme and sue to block it.

Don’t be surprised if monthly Border Patrol apprehension numbers either remain steady or decline slightly in May. The end of Title 42 has brought with it a great deal of uncertainty, and until the migrants — and the smugglers — figure out all the loopholes around Biden’s latest border regime, illegal entrants will be leery.


Previously Deported Accused Killer of 5 Honduran Migrants Appears in Texas Court

Accused mass murderer Francisco appears before 411th District Court Judge John Wells for a procedural hearing. Present were defense co-counsel Anthony Osso, Lisa Andrews and District Attorney Todd Dillon. (Bob Price/Breitbart Texas)
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COLDSPRING, Texas — The four-time deported Mexican national accused of murdering five of his neighbors appeared in a Texas court on Thursday. The man stands accused in the “execution-style” deaths of the five Honduran migrants — including an eight-year-old child.

Francisco Oropesa appeared on Wednesday morning before 411th District Court John Wells for a hearing on the status of the case. The accused killer is being held on a $7.5 million bond set previously by Judge Wells.

A large contingent of San Jacinto County Sheriff’s Office deputies escorted the suspect to provide security for the hearing and the suspect. The contingent included Sheriff Greg Capers who escorted the prisoner in and out of the courthouse.

San Jacinto County Sheriff Greg Capers escorts accused killer Francisco Oropesa from a hearing held on May 18 in the courthouse. (Bob Price/Breitbart Texas)

San Jacinto County Sheriff Greg Capers escorts accused killer Francisco Oropesa from a hearing held on May 18 in the courthouse. (Bob Price/Breitbart Texas)

Defense counsel Anthony Osso and Lisa Andrews ask San Jacinto County District Attorney Todd Dillon when they could expect discovery evidence so they can begin the detailed process of preparing Mr. Oropesa’s defense.

“You heard they (prosecutors) have 225 body-worn cameras (to review,), Osso told Breitbart Texas after exiting the courtroom. “Every officer involved in the investigation is obligated to record their involvement.”
“We obviously need to hone in on the actual crime scene itself and look at the evidence and see what it tells us,” Osso explained.

Co-counsel Andrews explained the district attorney’s office is still in the process of gathering and compiling the evidence. “We’re doing our own investigation and we need access to the discovery evidence.”

The defense team and DA Dillon worked through a timeline for when the San Jacinto County grand jury would hear evidence to return an indictment. The grand jury meets once a month in this rural Texas community.

Outside the courthouse in Coldspring, DA Dillon told reporters, “There is a lot of evidence that was generated about this.”

Both sides said they expect the grand jury to hear the evidence in the case in June or July. Judge Wells set the next court date for August 10.

Sheriff Capers previously told Breitbart Texas that a team of U.S. Marshal Deputies, Texas Department of Public Safety CID agents, and Border Patrol’s elite BORTAC agents found Francisco Oropesa near Cut & Shoot early Tuesday evening. The arrest brought to an end, the four-day manhunt for the four-time deported Mexican national.

The search for the man accused of murdering four of his neighbors, all Honduran migrants, began on Saturday morning when San Jacinto County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrived on the scene of the mass-casualty murder. Sheriff Capers told Breitbart in a phone interview Tuesday morning that his deputies arrived on the scene in less than 11 minutes.

ICE officials previously confirmed to Breitbart Texas that the man charged with the murders of the five Honduran migrants living next door to his house in Cleveland, Texas, is also a previously deported Mexican national with a criminal history in Texas.

Officials report that an immigration judge first ordered Francisco Oropeza Perez-Torres, 38, to be removed from the United States on March 19, 2009. ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations officers deported the migrant to Mexico later that month.

Subsequent to this, Oropeza illegally re-entered the U.S. and was removed, once again, in September 2009. He was removed two more times in January 2012 and July 2016.

In January 2012, a Texas court in Montgomery County (which neighbors San Jacinto County where the alleged murders took place) convicted the Mexican national of driving while intoxicated. The court sentenced him to an unreported period of incarceration.

Bob Price serves as associate editor and senior news contributor for the Breitbart Texas-Border team. He is an original member of the Breitbart Texas team. Price is a regular panelist on Fox 26 Houston’s What’s Your Point? Sunday-morning talk show. Follow him on Twitter @BobPriceBBTX.

 

The Threat Behind Biden’s Latest Lie

What happens when everyone who opposes the Left is labeled a white supremacist terrorist?

Old Joe Biden gave the commencement address at Howard University on Saturday, and as he has done so many times during his presidency, he stoked the flames of racial hatred, resentment, division, and mutual suspicion. That’s par for the course for this conscience-free, senescent corruptocrat, but his words at Howard had an ominous edge that all Americans should not fail to discern. Biden wasn’t just lying, as he always does. He was signaling future plans of his regime.

Biden repeated his frequently repeated lie that Donald Trump had called Nazis “fine people,” and also said: “But on the best days, enough of us have the guts and the hearts to st- — to stand up for the best in us. To choose love over hate, unity over disunion, progress over retreat.  To stand up against the poison of white supremacy, as I did in my Inaugural Address — to single it out as the most dangerous terrorist threat to our homeland is white supremacy. And I’m not saying this because I’m at a black HBCU.  I say it wherever I go.”

What’s a “Black HBCU,” Joe? “HBCU” stands for “Historically black colleges and universities,” so our alleged president, who is sharp as a tack and not at all in the throes of advanced dementia, was saying that he was speaking at a “black historically black college and university.” This ridiculous phrase could be the result of Joe’s speechwriter making lazy use of the acronym, but it’s more likely that Biden was going off-script and saying something incoherent. Again.

Old Joe lied yet again when he said that he repeats the lie that white supremacists constitute the nation’s biggest terror threat everywhere he goes, but he has indeed said it before. And not just Biden, but also Gestapo chief Merrick Garland, and the FBI have told us so, and they wouldn’t lie to us, now, would they? In November 2021, FBI and Homeland Security Department officials increased investigations of “domestic extremists,” reiterating the claim that they are today’s foremost terror threat. Yet no matter how often Biden and his henchmen repeat this, actual white supremacist terrorists in any significant numbers have been conspicuously lacking.

Ever so conveniently for Biden, no sooner had he uttered this false claim again at Howard on Saturday than a couple of hundred actual white supremacist terrorists miraculously materialized in Washington. All were young, physically fit men; not a single fat Nazi in the bunch. All wore the same blue shirt and khaki pants uniform, all with their faces covered, and once again, the feds showed no curiosity about who they are and made no attempt to determine where they came from or where they went. This clumsy false-flag operation was widely exposed and ridiculed on Twitter, but conservative writer Chris Brunet pointed out:

“What’s sad about this clip is that everyone here on my side of Twitter instantly knows this is a glowie/fed operation… pure theatre. But it is actually a really effective psyop, they keep doing it, because it works. Ask any normal person on the street, ask your mom, ask your sister, and they will be terrified of this clip and fall for it hook-line-and-sinker.”

The FBI has also been busy fashioning a white supremacist threat in other ways. Whistleblowers have revealed that Old Joe’s pure-as-the-driven-snow FBI has been hard at work pressuring agents to classify cases as “domestic violent extremism” (DVE) when they aren’t, and rewarding them when they do. That’s how you create a white supremacist terror threat.

This revelation came last year in a letter that Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) sent to FBI top dog Christopher Wray. Jordan stated that “from recent protected disclosures, we have learned that FBI officials are pressuring agents to reclassify cases as ‘domestic violent extremism’ even if the cases do not meet the criteria for such a classification.” This was no surprise. This is, after all, the same FBI that investigated angry parents who protested at school board meetings against the imposition of the woke agenda in public schools.

That’s the threat that was contained in Old Joe’s words at Howard. Old Joe said it plainly last September in his ominous red and black speech: “Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic.” The parents at the school board meetings were just the beginning. This regime aims to criminalize political dissent, and that will require demonizing and stigmatizing fully half of the electorate. Before too long it will be clear that when Biden claims that white supremacists are the biggest terror threat the nation faces, he means ordinary Americans who have never broken any law but who oppose his agenda. If everyone who opposes him is a white supremacist terrorist, then the nation has over a hundred million of them. Arrests and prosecutions on false pretenses will follow. That’s the threat that was contained in his words at Howard.

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Coyote-in-Chief

The illegal alien invasion is being run by the Biden administration.

Between Matamoros, Mexico and Brownsville, Texas lies the Rio Grande river. On one side is the Matamoros migrant camp where thousands of illegal invaders prep for the invasion with the aid of American open borders non-profit groups, squatting in their own filth, fighting, shaking each other down and starting fires like those that killed 40 male migrants. Across is America.

At 160 feet wide and only 2 feet deep, the invaders have little trouble making their way across. Despite the slur ‘wetback’, little actual swimming is usually required. Past proposals to widen and deepen the river so it’s a tenth of a mile and twenty feet deep would have been fairly expensive, but was shut down by open borders advocates who claim the invaders might drown.

In one week in April, some 15,000 illegal invaders traversed the river. The media regularly features dramatic photos of migrants crossing the Rio Grande and offers sympathetic portrayals of the invaders such as the New York Times story: “Desperate Migrants on the Border: ‘I Should Just Swim Across.” The coverage often describes these invasions as “sudden” or “unexpected”.

But there’s nothing sudden or unexpected about them. They’re the work of the Coyote-in-Chief.

The Center for Immigration Studies recently revealed that it was told by Mexican immigration officers that the river crossings were secretly coordinated with the Department of Homeland Security on Whatsapp so as to be able to expedite the release of the invaders into America.

CIS’s Todd Bensman described how, “Once the Americans felt they could take in more, they message the Mexicans that ‘they are ready to receive them.'” And then “the officers signal to the waiting crowd to go forward and, once they figure enough are in the water, they cut off the rest and push and cajole them back into line until the Americans signal they’re ready again.”

What appeared to be the epitome of illegal migration was actually being run by the government. The new ‘wetbacks’, much like the rest of the open border, was the policy of the White House.

Why keep the coordination secret? To maintain the fiction that the border is being policed.

Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas claimed that the “border is not open” after authorizing the mass release of illegal invaders without even the polite fiction of giving them a court date and a tracking app on their phone. DHS claimed that it had to release the migrants because at over 10,000 invaders a day, it didn’t even have the resources to do any kind of processing, but also claimed that the illegals being released had been “carefully vetted”.

The Biden administration claims with a straight face that it doesn’t have the resources to give migrants a court date or put a tracking app on their phone, let alone actually deal with their fake asylum claims, but that it does have the resources to have “carefully vetted” them. And that ought to tell you all you need to know about its standards for careful vetting.

When a Florida judge ordered DHS to stop just dumping illegals, Mayorkas denounced the ruling as “very harmful”. The harm it’s causing is to the Biden open borders agenda.

Parole or ‘Alternatives to Detention’ was already an illegal abuse of authority that turned border security into one massive coyote program. Mayorkas is protesting that requiring any standards for releasing illegals into the country is harmful. Speaking at the border, he offered a policy alternative that encompasses the larger agenda of the Coyote-in-Chief.

At the end of April, DHS announced that it would be working to open “regional processing centers” with the State Department to “significantly expand lawful pathways for protection” while targeting smugglers for enforcement. “The great thieves lead away the little thief,” Diogenes observed. On the border, the great coyotes are leading away the little coyotes.

While the little coyotes just want to make a few thousand dollars, the big coyotes want to fundamentally transform America. And so rather than securing the border, the Biden administration, Kamala, Blinken, Mayorkas, and all the big coyotes, are proposing to stop the uncontrolled border mass invasion by organizing it into a controlled mass invasion through the immigration system. But as we can see from the swimmers crossing the Rio Grande, what appears to be an uncontrolled mass invasion is actually a closely controlled invasion.

“Heads you get illegal migration, tails you also get illegal migration,” has always been the open borders scam. Amnesty, work permits and expanded refugee arrivals were all pitched as compromise alternatives that would control illegal immigration. While Republicans imagine that the invasion overwhelming not only Brownsville, but Chicago, New York City and D.C. will mobilize enforcement action, the Biden administration is using it for its own open borders agenda offering to take on the role of the coyotes to control the invasion.

Ending the invasion would be childishly easy. Nations have been controlling their borders for thousands of years. Preventing mobs from storming across is not some esoteric art, it’s the fundamental reason why we have a military. But the military, like CBP, is not allowed to do its job and secure the border. The troops are deployed at the border to provide additional “resources” and the thing that they’re providing resources for is expediting the release of illegal invaders.

Having turned CBP into coyotes, Biden also decided to turn the military into coyotes.

Open borders advocates claim that we need migrants “to do the jobs Americans won’t do.” Texas and Florida are proposing to do the job that the federal government won’t do.

H.B. 20 in Texas would create a protection force and criminalize crossing the border. The House bill makes trespassing into a felony while the Senate bill would hand out life sentences to previously convicted and deported felons trying to reenter the United States.

Such a law might have stopped Francisco Oropeza, who had been deported four times from the United States and then returned and killed 5 people, or Nicolas Jaimes-Hernandez, who shot 5 people, last year. The Biden administration can be expected to argue, much as Obama did when Arizona tried to enforce immigration laws, that it’s strictly a federal responsibility.

Since the disastrous Arizona v. United States Supreme Court ruling, the composition of the court has changed dramatically with three of the five justices who issued it no longer on the bench. Since then rulings, like those that upended Biden’s catch and release programs, recognized that states have a compelling interest in immigration policy and are harmed by open borders.

But Texas will still likely face an uphill battle. And not just legally. Any force it deploys will collide with Biden’s coyote forces. Last year, video showed Texas National Guard troops locking a gate to keep illegals out while Border Patrol personnel unlocked the gate to let the invaders in. Whatever Texas does to keep illegals out, the Biden administration will counter to let them in.

Such are the policies of the Coyote-in-Chief and his coyote secretaries and administrators.

The border isn’t in a “state of chaos” as even some conservatives argue, it’s a neatly executed plan that can look chaotic from the outside. But on the inside, much like the Rio Grande swimmers being waved through in coordination with Mexican authorities, it’s very orderly.

The deployment of immigration authorities, open borders activists, resettlers, reporters and the invaders themselves is going according to plan. The coyotes aren’t on the outside anymore, they’re on the inside. The illegal invasion isn’t coming from out there, but from in here.

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Open Border Catastrophe is the Cloward-Piven Plan to Destroy America That I Learned at Columbia U

Alongside my classmate, Barack Obama.

This open border disaster is not a “Johnny-come-lately” story. It is a plan that was created many decades ago by leftist radicals intent on destroying America.

I should know: I was there. I am a witness.

I am a blue-collar S.O.B. (son of a butcher) from the wrong side of the tracks: a poor, majority-black town on the Bronx borderline. I attended almost all-black middle school and high school in Mount Vernon, New York. After I graduated valedictorian, I was accepted at prestigious Ivy League Columbia University.

What I found there shocked me to the core.

Columbia University was filled with spoiled-brat “lucky sperm club” privileged white kids who were obsessed with hatred for America. These radical nutjobs bragged about being communists and Marxists. They bragged about their hatred of white people (even though they were white themselves). They bragged about hating rich people (even though they were from rich families themselves).

This was one gigantic guilt trip. My classmates hated themselves, their country, their parents, their wealth and most of all, their whiteness.

They talked all day long about their plans to bring America down; destroy the economy; bankrupt white businessmen; and create “equality and fairness” by turning America into a socialist/Marxist/communist country.

It’s important to note that one of my classmates at Columbia was Barack Obama.

My classmate Barack Obama and I graduated on the same day in spring of 1983. This very month is the 40th anniversary of our Columbia graduation.

These Columbia University radicals (and traitors) had a plan named Cloward-Piven. It was named after two Columbia University professors: the husband-and-wife team of Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven.

The plan was actually simple: get everyone possible in America on welfare, food stamps and a hundred other government welfare programs. Get so many on the government dole that the economy is overwhelmed, destroyed and collapses under the weight of the exploding national debt.

Basically, America goes bankrupt.

At this point, Americans would be in so much pain and so frightened that they would beg government to save them. And that is how they would “fundamentally change America forever.” Remember those words? They came out of the mouth of Barack Obama. He learned those words and this plan at Columbia.

Because of the collapse of the economy and society, Cloward and Piven believed America would be ready for socialism: bailouts, a permanent welfare state and a monthly universal-income check.

The goal? Equality, equity, social justice. Recognize those words? Everyone would be in the same boat — dependent on Big Brother for survival.

Look around. It’s all happening right now.

Except Cloward-Piven has been updated. It’s now 100% about the border. If you can’t get everyone in America on welfare to explode the debt, overwhelm the economy and collapse the country, open the border and invite the whole world in.

The world is filled with such terrible, miserable poverty that Americans can’t even imagine it. The poor in America are rich compared to the rest of the world. And that is why the whole world is coming. They know the border is open. The whole of Africa is coming. The whole Middle East is coming. China is sending millions of military-age males. Haiti is coming. Latin America is coming. Prisons are being emptied. An invasion of America is underway.

If you were poor… if you were starving… if you had nothing… if you were a criminal… if you were sick… if you were pregnant… if you had 10 kids… if you were a child with no future… wouldn’t you come to America?

Trust me; everyone is coming.

They all know the border is open. They know they get free money, and all kinds of welfare checks, cellphones, plane tickets wherever they want to go, free legal help, free school and free medical. Wouldn’t you come?

What if a hundred million come? What if a half-billion come? What if a billion come? There is nothing stopping them.

They will tip us into mass poverty, crisis, anarchy and a crime wave you can’t even imagine. They will bring disease. The schools and healthcare systems will collapse. The national debt will explode, the budget will be overwhelmed and the economy will collapse.

This is Cloward-Piven updated for 2023.

It all happened because Democrats (i.e., socialists, Marxists and communists) rigged and stole a presidential election. Then they banned even the mention of rigged and stolen elections — with the full cooperation of mainstream media and social media.

For the next two years they opened the border to let millions in. Now they’ve managed to end Title 42 for the final explosion that ends America and American exceptionalism forever.

Trust me, a brain-dead zombie puppet with diapers and dementia is not the brains behind this brilliant plan.

This is the Cloward-Piven plan that I learned at Columbia. And the man carrying it all out to perfection is the real president of the United States: Barack Obama. He is back for his third term to finish the job he started — to “fundamentally change America forever.”

And I would not be surprised if the next phase of the plan is to replace corrupt, mentally failing President Joe Biden with Michelle Obama in 2024. That would be Obama’s fourth term.

And the official end of America.

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The migrant inflow has successfully forced down Americans’ wages and also boosted rents and housing prices. The inflow has also pushed many native-born Americans out of careers in a wide variety of business sectors and contributed to the rising death rate of poor Americans.

The lethal policy also sucks jobs and wealth from heartland states by subsidizing coastal investors with a flood of low-wage workers, high-occupancy renters, and government-aided consumers.

The population inflow also reduces the political clout of native-born Americans, because the population replacement allows elites to divorce themselves from the needs and interests of ordinary Americans.


The result is that today there are upwards of 40 million illegal aliens in the country, with millions more crossing the border every year.

Like the gun data, the data on illegal aliens isn’t hard to understand. It’s pretty simple math. The phones alone that the Biden administration gives to illegals cost $360,000 every day while, in the aggregate, illegal aliens cost Americans $250 billion per year. To put that in perspective, the wall Trump wanted to build was estimated to have a price tag of under $25 billion.


The Cataclysm to Come

When nations die, they do so with surprising speed.  Ernest Hemingway made a similar observation when a person in his novel was asked how he went bankrupt, and his reply was, "Gradually, then suddenly."

Nations are built upon classical values — perseverance, self-reliance, and honor.  A great nation is one whose values have made it unusually prosperous.  In its latter days, the nation becomes hollowed out and burdened with a costly, top-heavy government.  The middle class is expected to provide generosity to the masses.  Over time, traditional values fade away, and everyone seeks to live off everyone else.

The United States shows aspects of a once great power past its prime.  It is socially and politically divided, aware of the necessity for changes, unable or unwilling to make them, and losing the conviction in the shared goals that earlier invigorated it.

The decay that started gradually decades ago is now metastasizing at warp speed.  The United States, ripped apart internally, has become ever less willing and able to lead internationally.  The doctrines that built the United States and Western civilization, assimilated from ancient cultures over thousands of years, are being methodically dissolved.  America is entering an uncharted, revolutionary time. The foundation of American life, abundant food, energy autonomy, a sound economy, sound education at all levels, and enforceable and equal application of the law, are eroding.

Our society is "fundamentally changing," and these changes are not for the better.  Hard-left fanatics have absorbed the Democrat party and are transforming the country with woke and equality-of-result agendas.  Prosperity and leisure have misled a complacent society into thinking the modern age no longer needs to worry about law and order.

As we recoil from spontaneous street violence and looting, Americans are coming to learn just how degraded the foundations of their society have become.  Criminals walk out with stolen merchandise without fear of the law or even the outrage of witnesses.  Defunding the police has discharged a torrent of criminals into the streets.  Downgrading felonies, no cash bail, and no jail time are spiking violent crime.  Lawlessness has become a political matter where race, ideology, and politics decide how the law will be enforced.

At the border, millions of people enter our country illegally.  Joe Biden is shamefully welcoming an unvetted third-world population into our country to dilute and displace native-born Americans.  No country can exist without a border, much less allow foreign crime cartels to control it while killing 100,000 citizens with drugs yearly.

The FBI is more likely to go after parents at school board meetings than those threatening the homes of Supreme Court justices.  CIA and FBI directors lie under oath without consequence.  They mislead the public and deceive Congress with stories of fake dossiers.  They contract private news organizations to censor stories they do not like and writers whom they fear.  And the IRS is weaponized against political opponents of the Democrats.

Possibly a million homeless people now live on our streets.  Our major cities are cesspools of human filth with open sewers, garbage-strewn streets, and drugged out drifters.

Grocery shelves are increasingly bare, and many food items are now beyond people's budgets.  Fuel costs are reaching record levels, new cars and homes are unaffordable, and inflation is at a 40-year high.  The necessary medicine of high interest rates to bring down inflation is nearly as painful as the inflation itself.

The federal government spends $1.29 for every dollar in tax revenues it receives, and a quarter of IRS revenues are now needed to cover interest payments on the debt.  Economic doom, market collapse, and bank runs are not far from people's minds.

China is leading BRICS countries to replace the dollar's standing as the world's reserve currency.  Any success they attain will lessen demand for dollars and possibly collapse the dollar's exchange rate.

Moreover, the Chinese Communist Party authorities think they have a chance to bolster their power and change the world order in their favor.  Because China's broad geopolitical interests are on the rise, a pressing question is how to check China's ambitions at a time of division and discord in America.  China's current foreign policy could not happen without its substantial military forces and three-decades-long economic growth, underwritten by its exports to America.

Sensing American weakness, the CCP may invade Taiwan before Joe Biden leaves office.  Are the American people willing to fight over Taiwan or freedom of navigation issues near Chinese-claimed islands?  What are we truly ready to fight for?  When that happens, are we prepared for economic devastation to the U.S. and the world?  Meanwhile, thousands of Chinese sleeper agents are crossing our open southern border to cause mayhem when called upon to do so.

Today's threat arises from a disintegrating world order.  More than at any other recent time, many dangerous intersecting events are happening at a time when the United States is unprepared to deal with them.

And it all culminates with the elections in November 2024.  Democrats can win only by cheating, and since they did it successfully in 2020, you can expect them to do it again.  While some election integrity measures have been increased in some states, almost nothing has been done anywhere to require open-source computer programming code of voting machines so we can be assured they are counting votes correctly.  Moreover, nothing has been done to prevent voting machines from being hacked to alter election outcomes.  At this point, the left has become brazenly indifferent as to whether anyone even knows of its cheating.  Court challenges almost always go the leftists' way.

Regardless of who is declared the winner, there will be unrest.  There could be a breakdown in civil order nationwide.  If the left loses, leftists will riot and loot in a replay of the 2020 BLM riots.  If the right loses, this will be a turning point, as we can't go on being lied to and threatened by the left.  Another stolen election will break our country.

The decay that began slowly long ago is now upon us in full force.  The only election historically comparable to 2024 was in 1860, and that one was followed by a civil war.  We must defend our freedom and our country and protect it with everything we have or lose it all.  We must be involved and understand that if we lose the election in 2024, America, as we know it, is over.  To save the nation, all constitutionally minded Americans must see the danger and gird themselves for what lies ahead.

Jeff Lukens is a West Point graduate, U.S. Army veteran, and conservative activist.  He can be reached at jplukens@hotmail.com.

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