Texas Celebrates Taking Control Of Island From The Cartels

Texas Celebrates Taking Island Back From Cartel After Military Operation – Newsweek, 2024/02/21

Texas officials are celebrating the seizure of an island near the United States-Mexico border described as a “safe haven” for cartel drugs and weapons.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced Friday that work has begun on an 80-acre military facility to provide some 1,800 soldiers to better defend the southern border from illegal migrants, extending along the Rio Grande and six miles south to Shelby Park. The plan was mocked on Tuesday by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who called it “politicking” and not a “serious” response to record levels of illegal immigration.

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The island, situated across a stretch of land in the Rio Grande in Texas’ Starr County, was secured by the Texas National Guard and Department of Public Safety last November. It was a site of automatic gunfire and continuous violence, she said.

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“They had literally a safe haven to stash weapons, drugs and people,” said Buckingham, a former state senator who was elected to her current position in 2022. “Tons and tons of migrants coming across.”

Texas officials also discovered explosive devices and weapons illegal in the U.S., as well as a “massive amount of drugs that could kill every man, woman or child a couple times over.” She was referring to fentanyl.

Good to hear.

Enough fentanyl to kill everyone a couple of times over… wow.

An Estimated 7.2 Million Illegal Migrants Have Entered The Country On President Biden’s Watch

7.2M illegals entered the US under Biden admin, an amount greater than population of 36 states – Yahoo/Fox News, 2024/02/20

Nearly 7.3 million migrants have illegally crossed the southwest border under President Biden’s watch, a number greater than the population of 36 individual states, a Fox News analysis finds.

That figure comes from U.S. Customs and Border Protection, which has already reported 961,537 border encounters in the current fiscal year, which runs from October through September. If the current pace of illegal immigration does not slow down, fiscal year 2024 will break last year’s record of 2,475,669 southwest border encounters — a number that by itself exceeds the population of New Mexico, a border state.

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“This unprecedented surge in illegal immigration isn’t an accident. It is the result of deliberate policy choices by the Biden administration,” said Eric Ruark, Director of Research for Numbers USA, a nonprofit that advocates for immigration restrictions.

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Biden has called on Congress to pass new laws he claims would let him solve the border crisis. He endorsed a bipartisan deal in the Senate that included an “emergency border authority” to mandate Title 42-style expulsions of migrants when migration levels exceed 5,000 a day over a seven-day rolling average. It would have also limited the window for people to apply for asylum, provided immediate work permits for asylum seekers and funded a massive increase in staffing at the border and more immigration judges.

But conservatives tanked the deal in the Senate after House Republicans declared it a non-starter. They argued the bill would have normalized record-high levels of illegal immigration and said Biden currently has all the authority he needs to reenact Trump’s policies and secure the border.

Let’s be honest… this is an invasion. I assume this is being done for electoral purposes… sort of like a denial-of-service attack on a network server where the server is flooded with requests and normal operation is cut off.

New York: Illegal Migrants Quietly Collecting Taxpayer Welfare Funds

Thousands of migrants in NY quietly collecting ‘welfare’ through Hochul rule change – NY Post, 2024/02/10

The Hochul administration is quietly using taxpayer dollars to gift cash payments to thousands of migrants who don’t qualify for typical welfare assistance, The Post has learned.

The cash windfall was made possible by the state Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance modifying its “Safety Net Assistance” program’s eligibility rules in May to include non-citizens with pending applications for legal asylum status.

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SNA is a state program similar to welfare, and it has historically provided cash payments to needy New Yorkers who don’t qualify for conventional public assistance, including single adults, childless couples, and families of persons abusing alcohol and drugs.

Recipients typically get monthly checks totaling hundreds of dollars and must only use the money to help pay rent and utility costs or purchase clothing or other necessities.

The rule change is the latest in a long list of moves by the city and state to roll out the welcome mat for migrants – including Mayor Adams’ new $53 million pilot program to supply migrant families with pre-paid credit cards to purchase food and baby supplies, critics said.

Let’s think about what’s going on here – aside from the obvious observation that the tax payers are getting clobbered funding this illegal activity.

Gov. Abbott of Texas has been sending illegal migrants by bus to New York, Chicago, and other areas. There has been numerous public complaints, primarily by NYC Mayor Adams, that Abbott needs to stop sending the illegals to his area. However, it hasn’t stopped New York from funding the illegals with cash and benefits.

On the one hand, many locals are upset at the city for how the illegal migrants are benefiting more than the taxpayers are benefiting – and they should be upset.

On the other hand, flooding the illegal migrants with cash and benefits will make it more difficult to remove them as time progresses – which is what government Democrats want for their votes (not necessarily to make their lives better). Is Abbott part of the problem here?

Can A President Unilaterally Close The Border?

The answer is yes when certain conditions are met. No laws need to be passed. It can be a matter of the President and the Department of Homeland Security. A short write-up was done by the Congressional Research Service back in 2019. I assume this is still valid unless and laws were changed since then.

Can the President Close the Border? Relevant Laws and Considerations – Congressional Research Service, 2019/04/12

Does the executive branch have authority to “close” the southern border?

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Little federal case law addresses these questions. Although recent media articles discuss at least four occasions when past presidents have restricted operations at ports of entry on the southern border, those executive measures apparently did not prompt legal challenges that required federal courts to assess the Executive’s authority for the measures. The measures taken on at least one of the occasions covered in the articles—the aftermath of President Kennedy’s assassination in 1963—may have constituted a full closure of ports of entry on the southern border for much of the afternoon and evening of November 22, 1963. On another occasion, President Reagan ordered the closure of nine ports of entry “for a matter of days” after the abduction of a Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent in Mexico in 1985. On two other occasions—President Nixon’s “Operation Intercept” in 1969 and President George W. Bush’s post-9/11 measures—the restrictions consisted primarily of extensive inspections that brought border traffic to a standstill, according to the reports.

Federal statutes grant the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) general authority over operations to secure the border and specific authority to close temporarily “any . . . port of entry” when necessary to protect national interests. Other statutes give the President broad authority to suspend the entry of non U.S. citizens. Together, these statutes probably authorize a range of targeted executive measures to close a port of entry or to restrict operations at some ports, at least in some circumstances.

Lawsuits would likely accompany any attempt of a Republican president to close the border, but as mentioned above – it has been done four times in the past.

ActBlue Using Donations To Help Free Illegal Immigrants Who Can’t Post Bail

Dem Fundraising Platform ActBlue Is Processing Donations For A Bail Fund For Illegal Immigrants – Reason, 2023/02/22

The Democratic fundraising platform ActBlue is processing donations for a bail fund seeking to help free illegal immigrants from detention, according to the fund’s donation page.

Donations for the Black Immigrant Bail Fund are processed by ActBlue charities, according to the bail fund’s donation page. The fund’s website is soliciting donations to “help liberate” 111 Mauritanians “from a racist system that penalizes people in search of safety.”

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Illegal immigrants can be granted the option to bond out of detention custody by an immigration judge, who assesses possible threats they could pose to public safety and if they’re considered to be a flight risk, according to ICE. Bonds can be posted by U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents, law firms and non-profit organizations.

Democrats continue to support certain lawless behavior.

Hamas Spokesperson Handled Asylum Claims… Put On Leave For Pro-Hamas Social Media Posts

The U.S. Gov’t Hired A Pro-Hamas PLO Spokeswoman To Handle Asylum Claims – The Daily Wire, 2023/10/18

The U.S. immigration enforcement agency hired a former spokeswoman for the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) and put her in a position to determine who gets to come into the country as an immigrant or “asylum seeker.” Now the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officer is repeatedly posting pictures of Hamas terrorists parachuting in with guns and writing, “F*** Israel and any Jew who supports Israel,” a Daily Wire investigation found.

Nejwa Ali worked in 2016 and 2017 as a public affairs officer for the Palestinian Delegation to the U.S., which according to its own website, served as the “PLO office in D.C.” That office was expelled from the country by the Trump administration, but Ali landed on her feet, according to a screenshot of her LinkedIn profile, securing a job at DHS as an “Asylum Officer,” where she was tasked with “applying immigration laws and regulations to asylum applications.”

This January, she moved over to being an Adjudication Officer for the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS). People with that job, according to the agency, “analyze new or amended legislation and policy, prepare written reports of findings, and review and make determinations on cases for immigration benefits.”

Though Ali’s job at DHS included vetting people to make sure they were not a threat to the country before letting them in, it’s not clear that anyone from the agency vetted her. That her primary allegiance was to the Palestinians, not the United States, was evident from her social media profiles, where she posts as “Falastine Mi Amor.”

She wasn’t fired… she was placed on leave. She probably has a hand in the people here participating in these pro-Hamas rallies that have been taking place. Much more at the link.

Video Resurfaces Where Haitian Man Agreed To Pay Him To Cross The Southern Border

Unearthed video: Haitian migrant speaks out, says UN paid him to illegally invade our border… – Revolver News, 2023/10/09

A couple of years ago, a startling video featuring a Haitian migrant who alleged that the UN had paid him to cross the border circulated, but it went largely unnoticed by the public. However, as Biden’s border crisis continues at unprecedented levels, the video has resurfaced, and this time, it has captured significantly more attention.

The video is at posted on X below. Apparently he is complaining because he never got paid.

🚨🚨🚨 This Man Claims That The United Nations Is Paying People To Cross The Border. He Says He Has Received Money Directly Into His Bank Account ‼️

“This is footage of a US-bound Haitian in Tapachula, Mexico complaining that the UN failed to make its payment to him and now his… pic.twitter.com/MIXIn1HH2O

— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) October 7, 2023

Biden Brigade Robbing Wealthy Homes In Detroit Suburbs

‘Transnational gangs’ conduct ‘high-end burglaries’ in Oakland County, sheriff says – The Detroit News, 2023/09/29

Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard called Friday for tighter border security as his office works with multiple agencies to intercept the efforts of “transnational gangs” involved in “high-end burglaries,” prowling across Oakland county and throughout the nation.

The sheriff detailed at a press conference what officials have learned about the burglaries that have ravaged Michigan’s second most populous county, resulting in what Bouchard described as the loss of “hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars” worth of merchandise.

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“These are transnational gangs that are involved in this that come from South America, looking to do burglaries and violate our communities, not just in Oakland County but across America,” Bouchard said.

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Gangs members, according to Bouchard, have been cited from countries such as Chile, Colombia, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Peru, Guatemala, Honduras and Venezuela.

The Biden Brigade is my term for these “transnational gangs” – otherwise known as illegal aliens – that have been wreaking havoc in this country due to the Biden Administration’s lack of border enforcement.

DHS Loses Track Of 177,000 Illegal Migrants

DHS has lost track of 177,000 migrants inside the U.S. – NBC News, 2023/09/11

The internal watchdog for the Department of Homeland Security found the agency has a limited ability to track migrants once they are released inside the United States, noting that during a 17-month period 177,000 address records for new arrivals were either blank or contained nonexistent or nonresidential locations.

More than 1 million migrants were released inside the U.S. pending their immigration hearings from March 2021 to August 2022, according to a new report from the DHS Office of Inspector General. Of those migrants’ records, more than 54,000 were blank, while the rest were either invalid or not legitimate residential locations.

Some of the locations that were used more than 50 times during a six-month period included a restaurant in Maryland, a bus station in Georgia, a car dealership in New Jersey and a church in Illinois.

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In response to the inspector general’s report and recommendations, DHS said it had no need to implement a program to validate addresses on migrant intake forms. “The burden is on the noncitizen to provide a valid address,” the report said in summarizing DHS’ response.

What kind of law enforcement agency depends on offenders to turn themselves in? Answer – it is not operating as a law enforcement agency – so who cares.

Counterfeit Prescription Pills Contributing To Overdose Deaths

Overdose Deaths From Counterfeit Pills Increasing – Newsmax, 2023/09/01

A growing number of overdose deaths in the United States involve counterfeit pills, health officials reported Thursday.

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The drugs are made to look like prescription opioids or stimulants to treat ADHD. About 75% were made to look like oxycodone, the researchers said.

Most were transported to this country from Mexico, “infiltrating drug markets in western U.S. states,” the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency said in a public safety alert issued two years ago. The alert warned of fake prescription pills laced with fentanyl and methamphetamine. In 2021 alone, law enforcement seized more than 9.5 million pills, a steep increase.

In the latest study, about two out of five overdose deaths were caused by illicitly manufactured fentanyl.

For some reason, this latest uptick in COVID is getting more attention than these drug overdose deaths – which at are record highs. Fentanyl is being produced in China, transported through Mexico and through our open borders. I would call this an act of war on China’s part and many in the U.S. government seem to be complicit.

Brazilian Convicted Of 11 Counts Of Murder Nabbed In New Hampshire

Boston ICE agents catch Brazilian illegal immigrant wanted for 11 murders – MSN/Boston Herald, 2023/08/16

One of the world’s most wanted illegal immigrants who escaped a 275-year prison sentence in his native Brazil has been busted by Boston ICE agents.

Antonio Jose De Abreu Vidal Filho, 29, was caught in Rye, N.H., on Monday, immigration officials tell the Herald.

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The former Brazilian military police officer was sentenced for 11 murders after defecting, Brazilian newspaper El Globo reported. He had already in the U.S. with his family when a jury found him guilty of 11 murders, the paper wrote.

He was one of four military police officers sentenced to more than 1,000 years in prison, collectively, for what was called the “Curio Massacre” in Brazil. An appeal was expected, the defendants’ lawyers said.

It would be nice to have a border in place to block these people from entering, but I have been told having an actual border reflects white supremacy. Give me a break.

The official ICE notice is here.

ERO Boston arrests former Brazilian military police officer convicted of multiple murders in 2015 Brazil massacre – Immigration and Customs Enforcement, 2023/08/16

18 Month Investigation Into International Drug Trade Links Honduras To San Francisco

We get a record number of drug overdose deaths. Honduras community gets money to build mansions.

DHS Admits Many Illegal Aliens Have Vanished

Vanishing act: DHS admits that 40% of catch-and-release migrants disappeared – Washington Times, 2023/07/18

Immigration and Customs Enforcement failed to deliver immigration court summonses to more than 80% of illegal immigrants caught and released under the Biden administration’s “parole” program just before the end of the Title 42 pandemic border policy, according to statistics that the government submitted to a federal judge.

The migrants were released on “parole” and given 60 days to check in with ICE.

More than 40% of the migrants never checked in at all.

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The migrants were among those caught in the days leading up to the May 11 termination of the Title 42 pandemic border expulsion authority. Expecting an overwhelming rush at the border, the Border Patrol announced that it would use “parole” to catch and release people rather than fully processing them and issuing court summonses.

The 2,572 in question were processed for parole before Title 42 ended but weren’t released until after the expiration.

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ICE said that of the 2,572 released, 1,507 checked in by July 10, which was the deadline. A check-in could include showing up in person, logging into the online system or sending a letter.

Of the 1,507, just 464 were issued a notice to appear.

That means 2,108 people — 82% of the catch-and-release population — still haven’t been entered into the immigration court docket.

What do you do when people responsible for law and order – don’t do law and order? Elections have consequences.

Enough Fentanyl To Kill The Population Of Chicago

Border Patrol Agents Seized Enough Fentanyl in Single Weekend to Kill Entire Population of Chicago – Washington Free Beacon, 2023/05/08

$3.6 million worth of cocaine. Nearly a million dollars worth of heroin. And enough fentanyl to kill 2.75 million people—more than the entire population of Chicago.

That’s what law enforcement seized on the southern border over the weekend, as hundreds of thousands of immigrants gather in Mexico to prepare to flood the United States this week.

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Although the Biden administration routinely touts the amount of fentanyl law enforcement seizes, the number of lethal overdoses in the United States is at a record high. Experts believe the amount of narcotics caught traveling through the southern border represents a small fraction of what ultimately makes it into the nation’s interior.

In the past 72 hours from May 8th, here’s the list.

• 26,382 Apprehensions
• 7,399 Approx. Gotaways
• 164 lbs. Marijuana
• 83 lbs. Meth
• 66 lbs. Cocaine
• 11 lbs. Fentanyl
• 5 lbs. Heroin
• $12,200 Siezed
• 1 Firearm
• 3 Sex Offenders
• 1 Wanted Felon
• 1 Gang Member

The Biden Administration Adds Last Minute Restriction To Ramp Up Border Deportations

I usually don’t do news that is the huge story that everyone else is convering. But what the Biden Administration has done at the last minute in this whole Title 42, border fiasco has me shaking my head. It’s going to be a mess – and it’s a mess that they want to happen.

U.S. finalizes asylum restriction to ramp up border deportations once Title 42 lapses – CBS News, 2023/05/10

The Biden administration has finalized a sweeping restriction on asylum that it plans to use to ramp up swift deportations of migrants who cross the U.S.-Mexico border after the Title 42 pandemic-era emergency policy sunsets on Thursday, according to internal documents obtained by CBS News.

Hundreds of U.S. asylum officers were trained on how to enforce the restriction on Tuesday and the regulation was published on Wednesday, less than 48 hours before Title 42 is set to expire.

They already knew they were going to do this at the last minute because they had trained people how to enforce these regulations.

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The regulation, which is expected to be challenged in federal court, will be a dramatic shift in asylum policy, disqualifying migrants from U.S. protection if they fail to request refugee status in another country, such as Mexico, on their journey to the southern border.

The rule also represents a major pivot by President Biden, a Democrat who campaigned on restoring access to the U.S. asylum system after numerous Trump administration rules made it more difficult for migrants to secure refuge on American soil. In fact, the regulation published Wednesday resembles a Trump-era policy struck down in federal court that Mr. Biden decried in 2020.

Basically if people just left their country for America without filing the proper papers in their home country, they will be deported, and banned for 5 years in entering the country. It almost seems like they want a reaction from these people trying to enter the country. Or they want to create a crisis… another crisis.

All normal people can do is monitor the created chaos from this administration. I also suggest prayer To God through Jesus Christ.

NYC Mayor Adams Says $1B Spent On Immigrants

‘State of emergency’: Adams says NYC migrant influx to cost city $1B – NY Post, 2022/10/07

New York City Mayor Eric Adams declared a state of emergency Friday over the influx of migrants into the Big Apple and estimated it will cost $1 billion to provide them with shelter space and social services.

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“We are in a crisis situation,” Adams said. “This is a humanitarian crisis that started with violence and instability in South America, and it’s being accelerated by American political dynamics.

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Adams rattled off statistics to bolster his dire warnings:
– More than 61,000 people are now in city shelters, a near-record that officials say they will shortly exceed.
– Officials are renting rooms in more than 40 hotels across the city to try and keep up with the influx.
– Arriving families have enrolled 5,500 new students in New York City’s public schools, a jump from the previous tally of 3,200.

My math tells me that spending $1 billion dollars on 61,000 immigrants comes to $16,393 per immigrant. That’s a lot per person. I don’t think governors Abbott and DeSantis have bussed that many people there. There are probably locals there just getting in on the handouts.

First Busload Of Illegal Immigrants Arrive In DC From Texas

The statement was made earlier that the governor would do this, and he followed through.

First Bus of Illegal Immigrants From Texas Arrives in Nation’s Capital – Townhall, 2022/04/13

…the Biden administration did not take Gov. Abbott seriously when he announced his plan to send some of the illegal immigrants flooding his state to D.C. and now it seems Abbott has called the White House’s bluff.

“I’m not aware of what authority the governor would be doing that under I think it’s pretty clear this is a publicity stunt,” Psaki said. “I know that the governor of Texas or any state does not have the legal authority to get on a bus,” she added scoffingly.

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More buses and some flights to D.C. are also planned by Abbott in the days ahead as officials in Texas and other border states brace for an even larger surge of illegal immigrants when the Biden administration allows Title 42 to expire next month.

I’m not aware of what authority the federal government has to allow people to stream into the country illegally.

Man Who Drew Swastikas In DC Is A Mexican Citizen With A Long Criminal History

Man who drew Union Station swastikas is twice-deported criminal – Washington Examiner, 2022/02/02

A man arrested last week for vandalizing Washington’s Union Station with swastika symbols is a Mexican citizen with a 15-year criminal history who has been deported twice but still does not meet Biden administration standards for arrest or removal.

Geraldo Pando, 34, was arrested on Jan. 28 and charged with the display of certain emblems and defacing private/public property for drawing the Nazi symbol on the exterior walls of the train station, just blocks from the U.S. Capitol.

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Arrest records obtained exclusively by the Washington Examiner reveal that Pando had an extensive, 35-page criminal history in Colorado before he arrived in the District of Columbia recently. Despite his record, Immigration and Customs Enforcement did not attempt to take him into federal custody after his Union Station arrest so that he could face deportation proceedings in court, instead allowing him to remain in the United States.

Pando had also been detained and arrested a week prior to the Union Station incident for vandalizing the U.S. Capitol Police headquarters, according to a senior Senate aide familiar with Pando’s run-ins with federal, state, and local law enforcement. Capitol Police released him because ICE did not ask that he be detained until he could be transferred into federal custody. Capitol Police and ICE did not respond to requests for comment.

I bet someone paid him to do it.

This is a Mexican who has been deported twice with an extensive rap sheet… why would he care about painting a swastika? Doesn’t make sense to me…

And then he was released… ridiculous.

The TSA Allows Arrest Warrants For Illegal Aliens To Be Used As Identification

What is this nonsense?

Arrest Warrants Count As ID For Illegal Migrants At Airport Security, TSA Says – The Daily Caller, 2022/01/18

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) disclosed to a congressional office that illegal migrants flying without proper identification can use an arrest warrant as an alternate form of identification when presenting to airport security, according to a letter the Daily Caller News Foundation exclusively obtained.

Responding to Republican Texas Rep. Lance Gooden’s Dec. 15 inquiry about illegal migrants flying across the country, TSA Administrator David Pekoske explained that certain Department of Homeland Security (DHS) documents may be considered acceptable forms of alternate identification for non-citizens, including a “Warrant for Arrest of Alien” and a “Warrant of Removal/Deportation.”

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TSA said it relies on agencies such as CBP or U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which issue the documents to migrants, to verify that the name on the document used as alternate identification “is the person whom the person claims to be.”

Apparently, the TSA has now backtracked on this process.

TSA Backtracks on Allowing Illegal Immigrants to Use Arrest Warrants as ID to Fly – NTD News, 2022/01/22

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) on Friday acknowledged it was allowing illegal immigrants to present arrest warrants as identification to get on airplanes but said it was ending the practice.

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Later in the day, though, the same spokesman indicated the policy had been changed.

“To confirm the identity of an individual and ensure they are not on the no-fly list or pose a known threat to public safety or national security, TSA verifies the identity of every traveler before they are permitted to enter the secure area of an airport. Noncitizens without a standard form of identification may instead present certain DHS-issued forms to a TSA officer. These forms are civil immigration violation documents, do not include criminal arrest warrants, and are not indicative of a threat to public safety or national security,” he said.

So let’s unpack what’s going on. The federal government has been allowing illegal aliens into the country, and then flying them all over the country in the dead of night.

Biden Administration Quietly Flies Illegal Immigrants to New York in Middle of Night: Report – Yahoo News, 2021/10/19

Military Using Laughlin AFB to Secretly Fly Illegal Aliens Around the Country – Redoubt News, 2021/07/17

Planeloads of Illegal Immigrant Minors Relocated Around U.S. in Middle of the Night – Judicial Watch – 2021/05/21

This policy of allowing arrest warrants as IDs probably links directly to what’s going on here, rather than what’s going on at major U.S. airports (probably with some exceptions). The TSA made a statement that APPEARS to be a change in policy – but it really isn’t. The spokesman mentions no fly lists and entry into secure areas of airports. The issue is arrest warrants, not people on “no fly lists”. Those are two different things altogether. Also, these flights in the middle of the night have nothing to do with secure areas of regular U.S. airports. He doesn’t mention any policy changing… he just issues a clarification of what the policy is. So nothing has nothing has changed, and the practice will still continue.

On the other hand, I still need to take off my shoes, and I need to wear a mask during the entirety of the airport and flight process or I will be in trouble.  Awesome

Afghan Refugee Traveling To The U.S. Had Explosive Material In Luggage

Afghan refugee stopped on U.S.-bound flight with explosive materials, but terrorism not suspected – Just The News, 2021/09/07

A male Afghan refugee who was departing the Ramstein Air Base in Germany for the United States was detained Monday after it was discovered during pre-flight screening that he had blasting caps and other explosives materials in his carry-on luggage, three U.S. officials told Just the News.

The man, who was born in the early 1990s and an Afghan citizen, was working as contractor for the U.S. government when he was evacuated, and officials believe the materials were related to his work and not terrorism, officials said.

Nonetheless, the man was placed on a restricted list and prevented from traveling to the U.S., according to a Transportation Security Administration summary of the incident obtained by Just the News.

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Screeners, including a member of the German military assisting the U.S. at the Air Force base in Germany, found five blasting caps, one igniter switch, a “def cord” and one shock tube when the refugee was apprehended late Monday morning German time, according to officials and the TSA summary report.

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The incident occurred the same day Secretary of State Antony Blinken acknowledged many Afghan refugees were not fully vetted before they were evacuated from their country to U.S. bases elsewhere.

Let me get this straight… an Afghan as part of his contractor work, would bring along blasting caps, an igniter switch, a detonating cord, and shock tubes… and he was held from coming here… yet he was not suspected of terrorism.

Smuggling Migrants Is a $6 Billion Dollar Industry

DHS: Cartels earn up to $6 billion a year from smuggling migrants – Washington Times, 2021/08/04

Smuggling migrants into the U.S. earns cartels and others involved in the practice as much as $6 billion a year, a senior Homeland Security official told Congress.

That staggering figure is much higher than other public estimates, though experts said they wouldn’t be surprised if the actual amount were higher still.

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Smugglers know how to negotiate the harsh terrain and arrange passage through the approaches to the U.S. border, and most migrants end up paying for the service, helping fuel the underground economy, John Condon, acting assistant director of international operations at ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations, told Congress.

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The Times’ database found Mexicans paying from $3,600 to $18,000 to enter the U.S. in June, though $8,000 to $9,000 was a typical rate. Migrants from the key Central American countries paid from $4,500 to $30,000, with the typical payment coming to between $9,000 and $10,000.

That doesn’t include extra cash to pay for food along the way or, in many cases, a final release fee smugglers charge the migrants’ families — which can add on thousands of dollars.

Where are these poor migrants getting the money from?

Drug Cartels Emboldened With Weak Border Policy

Fentanyl seizures at U.S. southern border rise dramatically – NBC News, 2021/06/29

Federal agents in this section of the southern border say they’ve seen a staggering 4,000 percent increase in fentanyl seizures over the last three years.

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In 2018, the Border Patrol in the El Paso sector found just one pound of fentanyl outside ports of entry. In 2019, two pounds. In 2020, nine.

During the 2021 fiscal year, agents have found 41 pounds so far – a dramatic rise that experts attribute to the increasing role in drug cartels producing the illicit drug themselves with raw materials from China.

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According to the Drug Enforcement Administration, two milligrams of fentanyl can be lethal, depending on a person’s body size. One kilogram of fentanyl has the potential to kill 500,000 people. A kilogram is roughly 2.2 pounds.

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Meth seizures away from ports of entry are also up 85 percent so far this fiscal year.

Drug cartels are emboldened with a weak border policy. Who wins? Everyone in the drug supply chain, including China.

Video: The Administration Allowing Migrant Children To Undergo Abuse, Rape, Disease

Video of the day – everyone needs to watch this.

Video includes undercover footage inside these migrant tents.

Reminder – the Administration said that there is no crisis at the border. All things are normal. This is what they want.

Biden Administration Quietly Released An App For Asylum Seekers

Exclusive: Biden has quietly deployed an app for asylum seekers. Privacy experts are worried – LA Times, 2021/06/04

In recent weeks, U.S. border officials have taken an unprecedented step, quietly deploying a new app, CBP One, which relies on controversial facial recognition, geolocation and cloud technology to collect, process and store sensitive information on asylum seekers before they enter the United States, according to three privacy-impact assessments conducted by the Homeland Security Department and experts who reviewed them for The Times.
 
The DHS’ internal assessments describe the app as necessary because border officials cannot “process all individuals at once” who are seeking protection in the United States but have been forced back into Mexico under Trump-era policies that Biden has largely kept.
 
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But several experts who reviewed the privacy assessments said that the Customs and Border Protection app raises alarms about unchecked data collection and surveillance by the government on vulnerable migrants who have little choice but to consent.
 
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The DHS has signaled that its authority to use the app in this way may be tenuous, and some privacy risks remain unresolved, according to the privacy assessments, which are required by law. In early May, CBP sought and received “emergency” approval from the Office of Management and Budget to use the app to collect advance information on undocumented individuals, bypassing the public comment and notification process that’s required before launching new programs.
 
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With CBP One, organizations such as the United Nations refugee agency send to CBP photographs of asylum seekers they’ve identified, and the app uses facial recognition to compare those pictures to those in the existing gallery.
 
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Chris Boian, a spokesman for UNHCR, declined to comment on the record about how the refugee agency is using the app.

Interesting… let’s summarize. They have secretly created this app to quickly process asylum seekers. They took a shortcut and did not offer this up for public comments. Privacy is obviously not a priority. The United Nations has access to this data. And there is much more in the article.

Illegal Immigrant Children Flown To Tennessee On Overnight Flights

Late-night flights carrying migrant children arrive in Chattanooga – WRCB Chattanooga, 2021/05/20

Chattanooga’s Wilson Air Center is receiving planes carrying migrant children who are being bused to multiple southeastern cities during overnight hours.

Channel 3 obtained video of one of those planes arriving Friday, May 14 shortly before 1:30 a.m.

A second video, shared with Channel 3, shows more children arriving late Saturday night. According to the source who provided the video, a third plane carrying children arrived Friday afternoon. Flight records confirm that a fourth plane arrived early Wednesday morning, May 19.

The video obtained by Channel 3, shows children who appear to be in their early teens carrying matching bags. The children then boarded buses, which were staged on the runway. Two of the four buses seen in the video are owned by Coast to Coast Tours of East Point, Georgia.

According to a Coast-to-Coast employee, the buses were dispatched to Chattanooga as part of a contract with the United States Department of Defense. The employee says this was the first time the company had been asked to pick up migrant children in Chattanooga. In the past, the company’s drivers have traveled to Mobile, Alabama, and Atlanta to transport children, according to the employee.

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Brittany Faith, an immigration attorney at Grant Konvalinka & Harrison, P.C. in Chattanooga and the board chair of La Paz told Channel 3 in April the space would house all-male children, likely teenagers.

That program is being managed by the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) within the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), an operational division of HHS. The building being used in Chattanooga is owned by Redemptions to the Nations Church and was leased to the Baptiste Group, a non-profit that provides unification services for children displaced from their families.

I need to figure out what the purpose of this is. Is it future elections? Is it trafficking? They are doing this in the dark of night.