Laura Ingraham @IngrahamAngle
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Ron DeSantis points out the irony: 'Arab countries, often vocal supporters of Palestinian Arabs, aren't accepting them as refugees. They're concerned about their own countries. Why can't US elites share the same concern?' #IngrahamAngle 🤔

8:05 PM · Oct 17, 2023 //

Moonmad
18 hours ago
It's simple, Palestinians terrorists in the past used the host country as a base for their actions and often fought and undermined the Jordanian and Egyptian government. Look at Lebanon they started a civil war there and the current government is too weak to get rid of them so they try to manage them. It would be the same as bringing int he Mexican Cartels and have them start agitating in Texas. Oh wait we're in the process of doing that.

If New York millionaire Democrats paid half as much attention to border policy as illegal immigrants do, maybe they’d grasp what’s going on at the border, and why. Maybe they could then start to make sense of the anger and frustration of working- and middle-class residents of their cities, who increasingly show up at public meetings to express outrage at the migrant crisis.

What was the justification when immigration policy preferences of less than 10% of the electorate dominated 90% of the electorate for decades from the early 1960s to the late 1990s, and even today, dominates with more than 75% opposing increased immigration?

Source:  US Department of Homeland Security

It must have been an overwhelmingly obvious justification for that 10% -- so obvious that the 90% could be discounted as ignorant if not xenophobic rubes, unworthy of anything remotely resembling consent of the governed, normally considered the overriding human right in any significant dispute.  That human right was tossed out the window for some reason.

What was that reason?

The reason most frequently trotted out during this era was that "diversity is our greatest strength" and that the "greatness" attributed to the United States was "diverse" because it was a "nation of immigrants".

OK, that sounds good, but what was the support for this assertion -- support that must have been so overwhelmingly intense and urgent, even if obvious to only an "educated" elite, as to justify throwing out the most fundamental of all human rights for decades in, not just the US, but in all of European derived governments -- in a policy that most believe to cause irreversible changes?

Whatever that support might have been, the most comprehensive academic study of the actual results of that massive violation of human rights supported the opposite conclusion: //

Let's look at the long term, not in terms of anecdotal polemics, but in terms of statistics: A large number of operationally defined data points comparing "diversity" and "human development" in the world maps (see below), of these. Superficially, what we see is that in areas with the highest "diversity" we find the lowest "human development". At the other extreme, such as Scandinavia with its very low "diversity", we see the highest "human development" (Norway was ranked #1 in "human development" by the UN).

But this is a relatively superficial view of these maps. With a closer reading for what might be called "long term" effects, we see that in the places with the longest history of "diversity", such as sub-Saharan Africa, there is not only the highest "diversity" but the lowest "human development". Moreover, the apparent exceptions in places like the US and Canada were, until recently, so lacking in "diversity" that the attitudes of men in those prior eras, by today's standards, are considered "white nationalist" if not "white supremacist" or even "Nazi".

In south Texas, in the places where D.C. bureaucrats never go, the ordinary people are acutely sensitive to the issues at stake. Mere weeks back my colleagues met with ranchers in Starr County, Texas — remote, rural, and hard up on the Rio Grande — and one of those ranchers, a man who has encountered armed traffickers from Mexico on his own property more than once, asked about exactly this. He was a U.S. Army veteran who defended his country at war, he said, so why won’t the United States defend him?

He’s asking the right question. Washington, D.C., is giving the wrong answer. The good question and its bad answer illuminate what’s really at stake in the buoy-barrier case, which is — as is so often true — about things far beyond itself. Every American citizen in every American community has a legitimate expectation that his government will not attack his way of life, and will not side with foreign powers against him.

The Biden regime does both. In understanding what it means, we hear echoes of Thomas Jefferson’s distress from two centuries back: “This momentous question, like a fire bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at once as the knell of the Union.” But the Union is not done yet. The question is whether the regime in D.C. will succeed in rendering it a tool for our repression — or Texas will succeed in returning it to its founding purpose.

The question is open. All we can say for sure is that if the Biden regime fights for Mexico, it is Texas, now, that fights for America.

While Justice Kavanaugh’s majority opinion only runs 17 pages, Justice Alito’s dissent clocks in at 28 pages. He opens with his sharp disagreement with the majority, noting:

The Court holds Texas lacks standing to challenge a federal policy that inflicts substantial harm on the State and its residents by releasing illegal aliens with criminal convictions for serious crimes. In order to reach this conclusion, the Court brushes aside a major precedent that directly controls the standing question, refuses to apply our established test for standing, disregards factual findings made by the District Court after a trial, and holds that the only limit on the power of a President to disobey a law like the important provision at issue is Congress’s power to employ the weapons of inter-branch warfare—withholding funds, impeachment and removal, etc. I would not blaze this unfortunate trail. I would simply apply settled law, which leads ineluctably to the conclusion that Texas has standing. //

Alito concludes by cautioning against the continued expansion of executive power and chiding the majority for shirking its duty:

This sweeping Executive Power endorsed by today’s decision may at first be warmly received by champions of a strong Presidential power, but if Presidents can expand their powers as far as they can manage in a test of strength with Congress, presumably Congress can cut executive power as much as it can manage by wielding the formidable weapons at its disposal. That is not what the Constitution envisions.

I end with one final observation. The majority suggests that its decision rebuffs an effort to convince us to “‘usurp’” the authority of the other branches, but that is not true. Ante, at 3. We exercise the power conferred by Article III of the Constitution, and we must be vigilant not to exceed the limits of our constitutional role. But when we have jurisdiction, we have a “virtually unflagging obligation” to exercise that authority. Colorado River Water Conservation Dist. v. United States, 424 U. S. 800, 817 (1976). Because the majority shuns that duty, I must respectfully dissent.

underscoring the humanitarian crisis that ensues when hundreds of thousands of illegals are allowed unfettered access to the country. And it’s not pretty, particularly for the children:

And when those kids cross, the teenage boys who owe thousands of dollars to the cartels? The Biden administration flies them to every city in America. They fly them to Kansas. And there, those teenage boys are forced to work for the Mexican cartels, committing crimes to pay off the money they owe. If they don’t pay it off, they’ll murder their families. And, I’ll tell you, as bad as the boys have it, the girls have it worse. There are thousands upon thousands of teenage girls trapped in sex slavery. And, yet, for those of you in the media that don’t report on that, you should be ashamed.

These are the things the left won’t talk about — and Teddy Roosevelt cosplaying “reporters” won’t investigate — because it paints a very bleak portrait of how radical leftist policies destroy countries. //

Blue State Deplorable
6 hours ago
Illegal immigration has increased dramatically since the end of the Trump administration. In 2020, there were 458,000 illegal crossings (not counting gotaways). Even in a bad year like 2019, there were “only” around 820,000. Compare those numbers with 2022 under the Biden administration in which nearly 2.8 million crossed illegally. This year alone, we are on course to exceed 3 million. These are just simple facts which the propaganda media conveniently choose to ignore.

But the current border crisis is not a COVID crisis. And courts should not be in the business of perpetuating administrative edicts designed for one emergency only because elected officials have failed to address a different emergency. We are a court of law, not policymakersers of last resort. //

While acknowledging the dire threat to America in the current uncontrolled immigration across our southern border, we should all be opposed to using public health edicts for other policy goals. I thought we all learned that lesson over the last two years, but it may bear repeating. Likewise, we should be horrified that a policy based on an expired emergency is not only being used but is one of the few effective tools in combatting illegal immigration. It really isn’t possible to oppose DACA, which is based on a memorandum from a Secretary of Homeland Security who left office nearly a decade ago, and support Title 42.

I think Justice Gorsuch is correct. The Supreme Court is using this case as a vehicle to define the degree to which states have an interest in immigration law. So to that extent, it may be a victory.

But, as Justice Gorsuch also notes, the courts should not be forced into policymaking roles. As conservatives, we’ve opposed this consistently when the courts get involved in making up voting laws and the boundaries of congressional districts. Keeping Title 42 in place is wrong because the reason for the regulation has expired. It is wrong because it insulates Congress and the Biden White House from their failure to address the illegal immigration crisis. It is wrong to have the courts dragged into doing what the Legislative and Executive Branches will not do.

Storage containers are being used to fill gaps along the border in Yuma, Arizona. Credit: Doug Ducey/Twitter //

That took……. 3 days: //

In the fiscal year 2022, the Yuma sector has seen 259,895 migrant encounters, according to Customs and Border Patrol data. This high figure is reflective of a broader trend across the Southwest, which has had 1.8 million encounters in total since September 2021, surpassing the previous fiscal year.

Sorry, but there is nothing routine about 240,000 illegal migrants crossing the border in a month. That’s a city the size of Buffalo or Toledo.

It’s an exponential increase since Joe Biden dismantled Trump-era border protections. Illegal crossings quadrupled in his first two months. And he has 29 months left.

His administration has become efficient at hustling illegal immigrants from the border and out to the rest of the country so as to avoid the bad optics of 3 million illegal border crossings in their first 16 months (to May).

Charter planes from airlines such as World Atlantic, iAero, Avelo and new entrants Omni and Canada’s GlobalX fly daily from border airports such as Harlingen and El Paso, Texas, or Yuma, Ariz., to a town near you.

Luke Rosiak at The Daily Wire has just compiled data on nearly three dozen charter planes believed to have been deployed to move illegal migrants in a conveyer-belt operation in the dead of night to small airports as far afield as California, Iowa, Tennessee, Ohio, Georgia, Florida and New York. //

I’ve watched illegal migrants get off these flights in White Plains and a significant number look to be in their late teens to early 20s. The youngest might be 16. Most are male — the cheap-labor demographic.

But even if you take the Biden administration’s word that they are all minors, then authorities are negligent about their welfare.

We have seen them picked up in buses that hurtle down Westchester highways at reckless speeds.

We have seen them dropped off after midnight at service areas off the New Jersey Turnpike, where no one checks the bona fides of the so-called sponsors who come to pick them up.

We have seen them dropped off at affordable-housing complexes in Yonkers and The Bronx, with no chaperones outside to ensure their safety.

The administration and agencies have stonewalled The Post’s efforts to report on this migrant-dispersal operation. They moved planes to the other side of the tarmac at White Plains to stop us photographing them. The charter buses from J&F Tours covered over their logos.

But it doesn’t take much to stop Biden’s butlers at NPR from reporting one of the biggest abuses of power in this country.

The deaths of children and teachers in the Uvalde school shooting are directly linked to the Biden Border Invasion.

There has been little mention in corporate media that the school district in the small town of Uvalde, Texas, has been locked down at least 48 times this year due to law enforcement pursuits of illegal aliens and human smugglers.

Where is the FBI? How many lockdowns does a school district have to go through until the federal government realizes there is something majorly wrong here?

The politicized FBI spends untold resources fishing into the lives of anyone with the last name Trump and anyone who went to DC on January 6th, but a school that has been locked down dozens of times over the course of a few months is of no concern.

The FBI is now investigating the police response to the shooting in Uvalde. Where were they when the school was under threat dozens of times in recent months?

The Justice Department recently paid out $127.5 million to Parkland families because they ignored the threat until after children died in that 2018 school shooting.

The corporate media glossed over that story just as they have barely mentioned the fact that the Uvalde school district lives in a state of persistent lockdown from border threats.

Neither of those stories fit the leftist narrative that Second Amendment supporters and their guns are to blame for shootings so the corporate media has little need to report them.

In fact, the FBI has repeatedly ignored threats to American children and the corporate media is ignoring this corruption because the DOJ targets the political enemies of the leftist media. //

What we know now about the events leading up to the Uvalde shooting is that students, teachers, and staff had become desensitized and clearly shrugged off the lockdown as another border threat not related to the school.

Teachers and staff at Robb Elementary had been trained and had a detailed plan to protect from threats like a school shooter, but the school was locked down so frequently that lockdowns had become a sort of joke. //

If the private schools around DC or in the Hamptons were locked down 48 times in just a few months, you know that something would have been done.

Instead, this majority Hispanic school district full of legal immigrants and American citizens was ignored because they are lower-class citizens in the minds of the leftist elite. //

Joe Biden and his handlers threw open our borders and children died because Uvalde is being overrun and the citizens of that town became desensitized to deadly threats. The FBI is complicit in the deaths of these children because the only “punishment” they receive is an order to payout millions of taxpayer dollars to those whose children they allowed to die.

Worse, this invasion and subsequent shooting leaves a perfect blueprint for the next copycat shooter.

If we really want to stop shootings, our borders must be secure, our Justice Department must be cleaned out, and the evil left must be stopped.

On July 24, as I reported, we had already paid out $2 billion not to build the wall.

Earlier this month, they canceled the contracts — in the middle of a border crisis — and this is what they are spending the money on instead.

The unspent cash that Congress allocated for wall construction will be spent on environmental projects — including “biological, cultural, and natural resource surveys” in the border region — instead, according to the statement. //

According to the NY Post, Department of Homeland Security money to the tune of $456,548 — almost half a million dollars — was shelled out to a Delaware construction company to build fencing around Biden’s beach house in Rehoboth Beach. It’s listed on USAspending.gov, which tracks federal spending. The project started on September 21 and is expected to be completed by December 31.

Biden not only gets a wall, but the Secret Service has created a checkpoint to get past an intersection on the way to the home and they’ve also created “security zones” in the Lewes-Rehoboth Canal and Atlantic Ocean, not to mention frequent restrictions on the airspace in the area. I’m sure that’s not at all bothersome to the neighbors.

Meanwhile, while Biden is safe with his wall, the Border Patrol revealed that we had the highest number of people entering illegally across the southern border since 1986 — 35 years ago — with 1.7 million migrants. It’s anticipated that 400,000 will enter illegally this month. //

Insider Paper
@TheInsiderPaper
NEW: Texas AG sues Biden administration, demands continuation of border wall construction, "Let's Go Brandon. We'll see you in court!"
2:14 PM · Oct 22, 2021

Former Border Patrol Chief Rodney Scott revealed on Tuesday that the Biden administration is paying contractors not to build a wall on the southern U.S. border and that “for a while, it was almost $5 million a day between DOD and DHS.”

In an exclusive interview with Fox News’s Bret Baier, Scott said that after Joe Biden assumed the White House, he issued a presidential proclamation that paused U.S. border projects for 60 days. Now more than 250 days since the inauguration and thanks to the Biden administration, Scott says many of those projects are still on hold despite contractors still being paid and having the materials to work on border security.

According to Scott, all that remains of former President Donald Trump’s border wall efforts are “stacks and stacks” of panels, “hundreds of miles of fiber-optic cabling,” and “hundreds of cameras” that are just “sitting there.”

“There’s no action being taken,” Scott explained. And despite Border Patrol telling the Biden White House in briefings that the border would suffer “unmitigable disaster” if Trump’s policies end, the Democrat administration’s position is simply, “We’re not building more wall.”

“There’s no conversation. There’s no adult dialogue, if you will. It’s just a black-and-white decision. The administration said we’re not doing it, so we’re not doing it,” Scott continued. “And that money is just trickling away to those contractors for not doing work each day.” //

Before Biden ousted him from his law enforcement role on the border, Scott witnessed people caught from 150 different countries coming through Mexico to try to reach the United States.

President Joe Biden’s migrant crisis has resulted in at least hundreds of deaths.

Recent reports indicate that a significant number of migrants attempting to make the journey to the southern border have died along the way. The issue is migrants attempting to make it to the southern border by walking through the Darien Gap, which CBS News describes as “a 60-mile stretch of lawless jungle.” //

Jessica Vaughan, policy director for the Center for Immigration Studies said the administration and the groups encouraging more migration to the southern border “should be ashamed of what is happening.” She told Breitbart News:

Biden’s policy is so wrong, not only in the sense of the law, but morally wrong, because his policies are motivating people across the globe to turn over their life savings and put themselves and their children in the hands of a criminal smuggling organization, to take a very dangerous track through jungles, over danger dangerous bodies of water, breaking the laws of multiple countries on the way, putting themselves at risk for extortion, assault, and many other forms of harm. //

A State Department official in July told Breitbart News:

In Panama, through our international organization partners, the United States provides basic humanitarian aid to asylum seekers, refugees, and vulnerable migrants, and supports efforts to increase access to local services.

Yamiche Alcindor
@Yamiche
🚨NBC: As it scrambles to deal w/ Haitian migrants at the border, the Biden administration is seeking a private contractor to operate a migrant detention facility at Guantanamo Bay w/ a requirement that some of the guards speak Spanish & Haitian Creole.
Biden admin seeks contractor to run migrant detention facility at Gitmo
nbcnews.com //

A little-known immigrant holding facility on the base has a capacity of 120 people, the records say, and it “will have an estimated daily population of 20 people,” according to a solicitation for bids issued Friday by the Department of Homeland Security.

This is clearly not meant to do anything to help with the current surge of illegal immigration at the border. 120 people is a drop in the bucket and won’t make a dent. That’s why I suspect this is just a stopover for repatriation flights or perhaps very high-risk detainees.

Bill Melugin
@BillFOXLA
BREAKING: After @GregAbbott_TX surged @TxDPS troopers into Del Rio, it appears that illegal migrants crossings at the river have come to a halt for now. DPS tells me hundreds of their troopers are now there to provide security and a physical deterrent.
Courtesy: TX DPS
@FoxNews //

Greg Abbott
@GregAbbott_TX
The Texas Department of Public Safety is in full force along the border around the Del Rio area.

They have built a barricade with their squad cars and State Troopers.

The National Guard is working with them to secure the border.

⁦@TxDPS⁩ ⁦@TexasGuard //

Bill Melugin
@BillFOXLA
I’m now on the U.S. side of the Rio Grande where thousands of migrants crossed illegally into Del Rio today. The migrants left piles of trash, and the area has now been secured with barbed wire by Texas DPS. The flow of migrants has stopped & DPS is here in force. @FoxNews //

Texas DPS
@TxDPS
DPS Troopers and @TexasGuard remain on the scene in Del Rio to monitor the #bordercrisis. Thanks to @GovAbbott’s leadership and support from the #txlege, #OperationLoneStar allows Texas to step up where the federal government has failed to #securetheborder.

Curtis Houck
@CurtisHouck
AMAZING -- Since the Biden administration has kicked @BillFoxLA and his team out from flying Fox News's drones along the U.S./Mexico border in Del Rio, TX, local law enforcement decided to get him a helicopter to hop in and go check things out to continue reporting.

.@BillFOXLA on what Joe Biden DOESN'T want you to see: Border Patrol sources "tell me that this situation is 'out-of-control.' They need help. They say there aren't even enough porta-potties or food or anything...It looks like a large refugee camp."

.@BillFOXLA: "It is incredible to see this perspective up here. We hear the administration saying the border is closed. There's extremely progress being made. This doesn't not look like a closed border...This is hundreds of people streaming in...Pretty remarkable footage."

Bill Melugin
@BillFOXLA
BREAKING: FAA has cleared @FoxNews to fly our drones to fly in the restricted airspace around the international bridge in Del Rio.

Eric Schmitt
@Eric_Schmitt
🚨Breaking: By a 6-3 vote the Supreme Court agrees with Missouri and Texas — Joe Biden’s reversal of President Trump’s Migrant Protection Proticalls or the ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy was illegal — the policy is back in effect. #BidenBorderCrisis #SCOTUS #Winning
7:37 PM · Aug 24, 2021

Bear in mind, this isn’t a full decision on the merits — this is merely a ruling that Judge Kacsmaryk’s Order will not be stayed pending the appeal on the merits. The net effect is that the Remain in Mexico policy is back in effect, unless and until the Biden Administration wins an appeal on the merits. (Note, that in today’s Order, Justice Alito found that the Administration failed to demonstrate a likelihood of success on the merits, though nothing is set in stone until the appeals process is complete.) And that, indeed, is a big win.

due to COVID and Trump ending the catch-and-release program, illegal crossings hit an all-time low in 2020. Then Biden sent the Bat-signal, and the cartels – who likely saw a huge drop in revenue because they were unable to get their normal quantities of drugs and people across a much less populated border – are looking to make up for a loss of revenue. So the coyotes (yes, liberals, the word is “coyote”) evangelize throughout Mexico and Central America about how easy it is to get into the United States and recruit clients they’ll eventually treat worse than animals, using them to smuggle drugs into the country, or as sex slaves, as indentured servants at illegal marijuana grows, or simply pack them so tightly into vehicles that there’s barely room to breathe.

The coyotes’ concern isn’t with ensuring that these items of inventory (that’s really what the people are to them) are breathing when they get to the United States. Dead or alive, the family owes them the money. The smuggled are expendable; if one needs to be pushed off the top of a 30′ border wall and paralyzed or killed to create a distraction, so be it. If they lose one van full of people due to a crash, well, that’s just the price of doing business. The cartels are probably more upset at the loss of the van involved since it’s an income-producing asset. If it’s regularly carting 30 people over the border, that’s $300,000 a trip. //

Wednesday’s crash was the third mass casualty vehicle accident involving illegal immigrants this year. In Imperial County, California, 13 illegal immigrants died in a fiery crash on March 1. Border Patrol sources told Fox News that coyotes jammed 25 illegal immigrants into a Ford Expedition, which has a seating capacity of eight and drove into the US through a hole that cartels had cut through a portion of an old section of border fencing:

The left weaponized mass migration to turn California into a one-party state. Now, the Democratic Party is working to subject the rest of the country to the same fate through open borders and amnesty.

“Welcome to El Paso, welcome to my community,” Escobar said, beaming. “To the new Ellis Island. To the capital of the border.” //

"The New Ellis Island." Democrats aren't even hiding it anymore. They're inviting people to come illegally and continuing the Biden administration trend of America Last. //

No, this situation isn’t Ellis Island. Ellis Island was how immigrants actually came legally to the East Coast at a point in our history. They had to go through a process with rules. They went through medical and legal checks to determine if they were acceptable, so you wouldn’t get known criminals or terrorists and that people coming in didn’t have any communicable diseases. Now people are flooding the border in such numbers, people encountered are often simply being released, during a pandemic, without any testing or any evaluation at all.

Plus, what is she saying to those illegal aliens and potential illegal aliens who might see those remarks? Hey, it’s great, come on in! What happened to discouraging people to enter illegally? The bottom line is this is really what they are about, not discouraging the illegality or cutting the flow. Escobar gives away the real game – Democrats think this is all just great. //

Mark Walker
@RepMarkWalker
Ellis Island denied criminals. The Biden-Harris border is enriching them.