THE DOCTRINE OF THE N.A.F.T.A. GLOBALIST DEMOCRATS IS TO SERVE THE BILLIONAIRE CLASS WITH ENDLESS WAVES OF INVADING 'CHEAP' LABOR SUBSIDIZED WITH WELFARE FUNDED BY TAXES ON MIDDLE AMERICA.
In many speeches, Mayorkas says he is building a mass migration system to deliver workers to wealthy employers and investors and “equity” to poor foreigners. The nation’s border laws are subordinate to elites’ opinion about “the values of our country,” Mayorkas claims.
No one, would credit Old Joe with being insightful or perceptive. He’s a desperately corrupt, apparatchik acting in the service of malevolent anti-American forces, and so that leaves us the other option: all this has been carefully planned. The Russian Collusion hoax didn’t work, the Ukraine phone call didn’t work, even the fake Jan. 6 “insurrection” didn’t, in the second impeachment proceeding, accomplish its purpose of ensuring that Trump couldn’t become president again. ROBERT SPENCER
Tulsi Gabbard's Message To President Biden: "Don't tell us, show us"
The federal government spent so much more than the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) had expected in Fiscal Year 2023 that the CBO’s projection set a record for inaccuracy, the agency reports in a new analysis.
In “The Accuracy of CBO’s Budget Projections for Fiscal Year 2023,” released on December 15, the CBO compares its May 2022 budget projections for FY2023 (updated them to include the estimated effects of influences like subsequently-enacted legislation) to the final results for the fiscal year, which ended on September 30.
Adjustments made since CBO’s May 2022 budget projections for FY2023 increased revenues by $26 billion (or 0.5 percent), but increased its projections of outlays even more (by $40 billion, or 0.7 percent).
The analysis finds that the Biden Administration spent far more, and took in much less, than the CBO had projected in FY2023:
The Biden Administration spent $0.6 trillion more than the CBO’s FY2023 projection of $5.9 trillion.
The 9 percent excess spending was more than four times the average absolute error of 2 percent in outlay projections for 1993 to 2022.
Federal revenue was $0.5 trillion less than the CBO’s projection of $4.9 trillion for FY2023.
The 11% revenue shortfall was roughly twice the average absolute error of CBO’s revenue projections for 1983 to 2022 (about six percent).
As a result of the underestimation of spending and the overestimation of revenue, “CBO’s deficit projection of $1.0 trillion for 2023 was $1.0 trillion less than the actual amount.”
That difference was equal to 3.9 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP)—more than three-and-a-half times the average absolute error of 1.1 percent of GDP in the agency’s deficit projections from 1985 through 2022.
Misestimates in three categories accounted for nearly three-fourths of the difference between the projected and actual deficit:
Overestimation of receipts from individual income taxes (accounting for 38 percent of that total difference),
Underestimation of net interest expenditures (21 percent), and
Underestimation of spending for higher education (14 percent).
“The errors in CBO’s projections of revenues and outlays in 2023 were larger than the average absolute errors in the agency’s projections for previous years,” CBO reports.
However, the size of the errors wasn’t just “larger than the average” – some projections were so far off that they set records:
CBO underestimated total outlays in 2023 by 9 percent—the largest error in a projection of total outlays that the agency has recorded.
CBO underestimated mandatory outlays in 2023 by 10 percent – the second-largest error on record.
CBO overestimated discretionary spending in 2023 by 4 percent—the largest error in a projection of such spending that the agency has recorded.
The agency’s projection of receipts from all non-corporate income tax revenue sources exceeded the actual amount by 27 percent—an error larger than any of those in its projections of such receipts for 1983 to 2022.
CBO overestimated individual income tax revenues in 2023 by 18 percent—a larger error than most of the errors in projections of such receipts for 1983 to 2022.
Effects of the Supreme Court’s June 2023 decision prohibiting the Biden Administration’s planned cancellation of outstanding student loans were excluded from the review analysis.
Nonetheless, the CBO does note that, by thwarting Biden’s unconstitutional loan-forgiveness scheme, the Supreme Court decision reduced the deficit by $333 billion in Fiscal Year 2023:
“In June 2023, the Supreme Court barred the Administration from implementing its forgiveness plan. Thus, in August 2023, the Administration recorded a $333 billion reduction in outlays for the student loan program. That action reduced the 2023 deficit.”
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Arizona Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate Kari Lake told Breitbart News editor-in-chief Alex Marlow that fentanyl coming across the United States’ “wide open border” is a “weapon of mass destruction.”
“One of the most horrifying things about that wide open border is the fentanyl pouring across,” Lake told Marlow at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest conference in Phoenix, Arizona, last week.
“It doesn’t stay in Arizona,” the Senate candidate added of fentanyl. “It comes through Arizona, it takes mere hours for it to get to other states, and now in every state we’re seeing a record number of young people dying from fentanyl poisoning. Not overdoses, poisoning.”
FILE – In this April 26, 2018, file photo, a man lies on the sidewalk beside a recyclable trash bin in San Francisco. A record 621 people died of drug overdoses in San Francisco so far this year, a staggering number that far outpaces the 173 deaths from COVID-19 the city has seen thus far. The crisis fueled by the powerful painkiller fentanyl could have been far worse if it wasn’t for the nearly 3,000 times Narcan was used from January to the beginning of November to save someone from the brink of death, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Saturday, Dec. 19, 2020. (Ben Margot, File / AP Photo)
“I met one mother who said, ‘My daughter took half of what she thought was a Xanax pill, and was dead.’ A half of any pill should not kill you. It’s enough to kill you, and we’ve got wake up,” Lake said. “Finally, the Democrats are at least starting to say the word, but they’re part of the problem.”
Lake went on to say that she “recognized the border is the number one issue years ago, when I started running for office, because I was talking to so many people who were seeing people pour across.”
“I was a journalist before this, a broadcast journalist for 30 years. I covered Arizona for 27 years, and that entire time I saw politicians come and go, and talk about the border — and they didn’t do anything about it. They got elected and did nothing,” she said.
“The first one that ever talked about it and did something was Donald Trump,” Lake continued. “I saw how our border became secure. For the first time, me living here and covering this state in 27 years.”
“And one day one Joe Biden came in and pulled that back,” she added. “There’s no words to describe it.”
The number of convicted criminal illegal aliens arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents dropped by 41 percent in Fiscal Year 2023 compared to the total arrested in Fiscal Year 2019 under then-President Donald Trump.
In Fiscal Year 2023, which represents the second full fiscal year in which Biden was president, ICE agents arrested nearly 171,000 illegal aliens, fewer than 32 percent of whom were convicted criminals.
For comparison, in Fiscal Year 2019 — which was Trump’s second full fiscal year as president — more than 64 percent of all of the 143,000 illegal aliens arrested by ICE agents were convicted criminals.
The data suggests that Biden’s ICE is arresting about 41 percent fewer convicted criminal illegal aliens compared to when Trump was in office. Also, those convicted of crimes make up a far smaller percentage of the total number of illegal aliens agents are arresting within a year.
ICE Annual Report 2023
Likewise, ICE agents arrested a little more than 20,000 illegal aliens with pending criminal charges against them in Fiscal Year 2023. In comparison, ICE agents, in Fiscal Year 2019, arrested more than 31,000 illegal aliens with pending criminal charges — indicating a 35-percent drop.
At-large arrests of convicted criminal illegal aliens, which primarily take place when ICE agents go into a community intending to make a targeted arrest, have similarly been slashed in more than half compared to Fiscal Year 2019.
While ICE agents made at-large arrests of nearly 20,000 convicted criminal illegal aliens in Fiscal Year 2019, just about 9,700 at-large arrests of convicted criminal illegal aliens were made in Fiscal Year 2023.
Among those at-large arrests in Fiscal Year 2023, illegal aliens with more than 1,300 convictions for homicide, 926 convictions for kidnapping, more than 3,000 convictions for sexual assault, and nearly 27,000 convictions for drunk driving were arrested by ICE agents.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
Arizona Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate Kari Lake told Breitbart News editor-in-chief Alex Marlow that fentanyl coming across the United States’ “wide open border” is a “weapon of mass destruction.”
“One of the most horrifying things about that wide open border is the fentanyl pouring across,” Lake told Marlow at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest conference in Phoenix, Arizona, last week.
“It doesn’t stay in Arizona,” the Senate candidate added of fentanyl. “It comes through Arizona, it takes mere hours for it to get to other states, and now in every state we’re seeing a record number of young people dying from fentanyl poisoning. Not overdoses, poisoning.”
FILE – In this April 26, 2018, file photo, a man lies on the sidewalk beside a recyclable trash bin in San Francisco. A record 621 people died of drug overdoses in San Francisco so far this year, a staggering number that far outpaces the 173 deaths from COVID-19 the city has seen thus far. The crisis fueled by the powerful painkiller fentanyl could have been far worse if it wasn’t for the nearly 3,000 times Narcan was used from January to the beginning of November to save someone from the brink of death, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Saturday, Dec. 19, 2020. (Ben Margot, File / AP Photo)
“I met one mother who said, ‘My daughter took half of what she thought was a Xanax pill, and was dead.’ A half of any pill should not kill you. It’s enough to kill you, and we’ve got wake up,” Lake said. “Finally, the Democrats are at least starting to say the word, but they’re part of the problem.”
Lake went on to say that she “recognized the border is the number one issue years ago, when I started running for office, because I was talking to so many people who were seeing people pour across.”
“I was a journalist before this, a broadcast journalist for 30 years. I covered Arizona for 27 years, and that entire time I saw politicians come and go, and talk about the border — and they didn’t do anything about it. They got elected and did nothing,” she said.
“The first one that ever talked about it and did something was Donald Trump,” Lake continued. “I saw how our border became secure. For the first time, me living here and covering this state in 27 years.”
“And one day one Joe Biden came in and pulled that back,” she added. “There’s no words to describe it.”
Accomplice to Cartel Crime: How Biden and Mayorkas’ Open Border Has Advanced Cartel Crime Statement of Jessica M. Vaughan before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Homeland Security Excerpt:The mass migration crisis instigated by the Biden administration’s misguided immigration policies has caused incalculable harm to American communities, to the integrity of our immigration system, and, tragically, to many of the migrants themselves. While there are a number of beneficiaries of these policies, including employers seeking cheap, exploitable workers; NGOs who are awarded huge contracts to provide services to migrants; and politicians who welcome the addition of non-citizen constituents to their districts, to name a few, the biggest winners under the Biden-Mayorkas policies are the criminal cartels and other transnational criminal organizations who are reaping profits on a nearly unimaginable scale. Link to full written testimony
A Mexican politician previously exposed in videos having breakfast with a local cartel boss is now planning to run for a seat in Mexico’s Senate. Despite being the target of police investigations for her alleged ties to organized crime, the politician publicly claimed that any negative press about her is a political attack because she is a woman.
Norma Otilia Ocampo, the mayor of Chilpancingo, Guerrero, requested leave from her post this week to run for a federal senate seat under the Morena Party, Mexico’s Proceso reported. The political move comes as Chilpancingo has become one of the most violent cities in the war-torn state of Guerrero, where various cartels continue to fight for control of lucrative drug production areas and drug trade routes into Mexico. Morena is the ruling party in Mexico, founded by President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
The Mexican president has claimed that the war on drugs is over and has been harshly criticized for refusing to use police forces to fight drug cartels. During Lopez Obrador’s term, violence has skyrocketed in Mexico, and several Morena politicians have been tied to drug cartels.
According to Proceso, on June 24, unknown cartel gunmen dumped seven bodies with a cartel message addressed to “Norma Otilia” Ocampo asking about a second breakfast meeting that had been promised after she sought out organized crime leaders. At the time, Ocampo had denied having met with anyone and asked for a police investigation.
However, in early July, Ocampo made national headlines when a surveillance video from a local restaurant captured her having a breakfast meeting with one of the leaders of a criminal organization known as Los Ardillos. In the first video and a second video of the same meeting leaked days later, Ocampo can be seen talking to the drug boss about her political career and how they can help each other, Breitbart Texas reported.
Ocampo claimed that the “edited” videos and the negative press against her are because she is a female. Since her arrival to Chilpancingo, the city has seen a dramatic rise in cartel murders, kidnappings, and extortions.
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.
Mexican President Awards Medal to Cartel-Linked Army General, Mocks DEA
Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador presented a medal to a cartel-connected Army general who spent time in a U.S. jail awaiting trial on drug charges. The general was ultimately turned over to Mexico, where he was released.
President Lopez Obrador visited Mexico’s Military College this week for their 200-aniversary celebration. During the visit, the president awarded a medal to General Salvador Cienfuegos, a former secretary of defense for Mexico and a former director of the military academy that hosted the event. Lopez Obrador did not give speeches during the ceremony but defended his actions the following day.
On Thursday morning, Lopez Obrador defended the controversial ceremony, claiming that Cienfuegos had been absolved of all criminal allegations and that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration had fabricated the case against him in revenge for Mexico not giving free rein to U.S. agents inside the country.
“We were able to ascertain that it was revenge, and there were no elements,” Lopez Obrador said during his morning news conference. “Then, the DEA people were left very upset, and they wanted a Mexican army; the Mexican armed forces weakened sitting on the bench of the accused so they could do as they please in Mexico like (Former Mexican President Felipe) Calderon allowed them to.”
As Breitbart Texas reported, U.S. federal agents arrested Salvador Cienfuegos in 2020 on drug trafficking charges stemming from a criminal indictment. Court documents identified Cienfuegos as “The Godfather” and detailed his close working relationship with various drug cartels, particularly the Beltran Leyva cartel remnants.
However, in 2021, in a very controversial move that came after much diplomatic wrangling, the U.S. Department of Justice dismissed the case against Cienfuegos so Mexico could prosecute him first. However, just hours after arriving in Mexico, authorities in Mexico released him. Soon after, the Mexican prosecutors dismissed all charges against him. As Breitbart Texas reported, months later, Lopez Obrador published court documents and classified evidence that was shared with Mexico through diplomatic channels. At the time, the president claimed the information showed that Cienfuegos was innocent.
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.
“L.P. Contreras” from Breitbart Texas’ Cartel Chronicles contributed to this report.