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jimnyc
03-17-2021, 12:22 PM
I said it would happen, but many many of us said so, far from just me. Democrats scoffed at the idea. And yet here we are.

Promises galore to run away from Trump's horrible policies leads to illegals galore rushing for the border.

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REPORT: 13K Unaccompanied Minors in Border Patrol Custody, Many for 5 Days

CBS News reports U.S. Border Patrol officials are holding more than 13,000 unaccompanied migrant children in custody along the Rio Grande. Many are being held for at least five days — well beyond the 72-hour legal limit.

CBS News Correspondent Mirey Villarreal reported from the Texas-Mexico border that officials are holding more than 13,000 unaccompanied alien children in Border Patrol facilities designed for adults. Many of the children are being held for at least five days. Courts previously imposed a limit of 72 hours on how long unaccompanied children could be held without being released to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Department of Health and Human Services.

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Breitbart’s Randy Clark first reported on the Biden Administration illegally holding these minors in jail cells built to hold adults beyond the 72-hour limit. “Despite the opening of a new facility in Carrizo Springs, Texas, Border Patrol facilities continue to experience overcrowding not seen since the 2019 migrant crisis,” Clark wrote.

While the Biden Administration calls the migrant surge a “challenging situation,” and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas says the situation is “under control,” local law enforcement officials in the Rio Grande Valley are calling it a “full-blown crisis,” Villarreal reported.

Rest - https://www.breitbart.com/border/2021/03/17/report-13k-unaccompanied-minors-in-border-patrol-custody-many-for-5-days/


Democrat Rep. Ro Khanna Accuses Biden Administration of Violating Human Rights of Minor Migrants

Citing a report he did not specifically name, Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) said over the weekend that minor migrants who are in the country illegally are being mistreated in facilities where they are being temporarily housed.

“I just read a report that some of the children don’t have food, they aren’t being able to shower, they’re being held for more than 72 hours without going to Office of Refugee Resettlement, they aren’t being given access to lawyers,” Khanna said in an interview on MSNBC’s This Week with Joshua Johnson.

“These are human rights violations,” Khanna said. “We need to expedite and make sure they’re allowed to apply for asylum. We need to expedite their reunification with families, and put them in a place that isn’t behind bars as unaccompanied minors and at least has food and proper shelter.”

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Newsweek reported that Khanna was interviewed because the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) may house migrant minors in NASA’s Moffett Field, which is located in a district Khanna represents:


Khanna said he told officials they needed to “meet a very high standard” to care for the children if Moffett Field was to be used. He also urged Congress to “fund the refugee resettlement places” to ensure children have access to “proper care” as they apply for asylum.

Rest - https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/03/16/democrat-rep-ro-khanna-accuses-biden-administration-violating-human-rights-minor-migrants/


The problem didn't exist there when Trump left office. Biden made major changes. Now look at the problem at the border. But...

Pelosi Says Joe Biden Blameless for Border Crisis: He’s ‘Not Quite Two Months’ in Office

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) admitted Wednesday there is a crisis at the southwest border, but exonerated President Joe Biden from any and all blame due to his short tenure of office.

“The president has been in office not quite two months,” Pelosi said during an appearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”

“They are addressing it and it will improve,” she said confidently, without offering any evidence to support her claim. She continued “we are all impatient” when it comes to unaccompanied children at the border.

“As far as the children are concerned, you can imagine me as a mother of five every minute that a parent is separated from a child to me is a crisis,” Pelosi said. “So we want this to move along expeditiously.”

Rest - https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/03/17/pelosi-says-joe-biden-blameless-for-border-crisis-hes-not-quite-two-months-in-office/


And now the shocker!

Chuck Todd Blames Biden Border Disaster on Republicans

Chuck Todd, the far-left moderator of Meet the Press, is desperately looking to prove his fealty to His Fraudulency Joe Biden by making a total fool of himself.

As we all know, prior to Biden being sworn in as president, the crises at our southern border were mostly solved. Among other things, between The Wall, a firm message of “don’t come here illegally,” a focus on deportations, and the notably brilliant “Remain in Mexico” policy, former President Donald Trump, without any help from Democrats, pretty much put an end to the ongoing southern border crises.

Then Joe Biden was sworn in and it all went to hell, and why wouldn’t it? In a cynical effort to change the demographics in Texas and Arizona, in a brazen effort to invite more Democrats into the country and offer up cheap, exploitable labor for his corporate cronies, Biden told every illegal alien, sex trafficker, and drug smuggler that the American border was now wide open. Come on in! We’ve stopped deporting! Claim asylum and you’ll be released into the American interior to do what you want until we overturn the filibuster and grant you citizenship and the right to vote!

Joe Biden and Joe Biden alone is why there is a disaster on the border right now, and this fact is not in dispute by anyone who takes pride in their intellectual honesty. This means Biden desperately needs gaslighting, left-wing, extremist liars to deflect on his behalf.

Well, lucky for Biden he has Chuck Todd, a broadcaster who is not at all interested in informing his viewers, but very interested in misleading them as a means to signal to the Biden White House that he will always be here to grab his ankles on their behalf.

Read the following and tell me I’m wrong [emphasis added by Newsbusters]:


Wanting to “dive into politics of this current moment,” Todd wailed: “…Republicans try to keep focus on a border emergency. In some ways they’ve sabotaged our immigration policy and this is why we’re here…” Despite Biden actually being in the White House, Todd singled out a top Trump aide for blame instead: “…look, this is an impossible situation in some ways, because in many ways, the asylum process was essentially destroyed by Stephen Miller, they sort of blew it up, and so it is an extra mess.”

Todd lamented that “it’s hard to look at Republicans in Congress and see that they’re willing to – that they want to solve this problem.” After briefly acknowledging that he has “watched both parties at times, duck a potential compromise because they think the politics will help them,” Todd targeted the GOP once again: “This is what it looks like now with Republicans, that they’re almost rooting for a problem so they can walk away from it.”

Rest - https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2021/03/17/nolte-chuck-todd-blames-biden-border-disaster-republicans/

jimnyc
03-17-2021, 02:42 PM
This is a pretty good read and take on things if you take the time to read it.

Even if you hate Trump, just read it, and understand that many many people were involved and made a lot of changes over time that really brought the border numbers down. It set a better groundwork for the future and how many illegals can get into our country.

Everything that was done and all the groundwork changed - Biden tossed away.

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How Trump Got Control of the Border

And how Biden created a crisis by throwing it all away.

In a few months, if it hasn’t already, President Trump’s legacy at the border is going to look much better even to skeptical observers.

As the Biden administration unwinds Trump policies, and a new migrant crisis builds, it is becoming increasingly clear that the Trump team arrived at an approach that, after fits and starts, worked.

Counter to the image of the administration taking a blunderbuss approach to everything related to immigration, the push at the border was a thoughtful, creative, and well-coordinated effort across government agencies and between sovereign countries.

It is worth revisiting because understanding how it came about and the reasons that it made such a difference underlines the mistakes that Biden is making now, no matter how much his officials and allies want to deny it and shift blame.

Many of Trump’s policy successes — tax cuts, deregulation, judges — came from adopting standard, off-the-shelf GOP policy. There is another category, though, of intractable issues or unexpected crises that were addressed by innovative problem-solving by officials unwilling to accept the conventional wisdom about what was possible.

The Abraham Accords and Operation Warp Speed, as well as other aspects of the pandemic response, fall into this category. So does the border, even if has been largely unappreciated.

Commentators who were willing to welcome Middle East peace and the rapid development of COVID vaccines, even if it meant giving credit to people they despised, were never going to find anything good to say about the Trump administration’s immigration hawks.

Obviously, department and agency heads such as Kevin McAleenan and Chad Wolf at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Mark Morgan at Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Ken Cuccinelli at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), and Mike Pompeo at State played a major part in the effort.

At the staff level, White House senior policy adviser Stephen Miller, who cut his teeth working for Senator Jeff Sessions, took a lead role. He mastered the intricacies of the law and the system and pushed relentlessly against bureaucratic and policy inertia.

Even though much of the bureaucracy was hostile, especially at HHS and the State Department, there were career officials at immigration agencies who welcomed, finally, a serious attempt to control the border and were constantly consulted, including at regular White House meetings. There was also a cadre of career officials at State who worked tirelessly to secure complicated agreements with Mexico (the Migrant Protection Protocols, or MPP) and Northern Triangle countries.

“We had in place a team of people,” says a former senior administration official, “who quietly underneath the radar were doing some of the most innovative, advanced, and thorough legal work in an environment of relentless litigation and endless media hostility to accomplish something that everybody said was impossible.”

The Law Wasn’t the Problem

As the migrant crisis of 2018–19 built, it became common to say (I wrote it many times myself) that only Congress could reverse the foolish policies and destructive court decisions that made it impossible to stop the tide of migrants coming into the country.

The key insight of the administration’s immigration hawks, though, was that the statutory authority already existed to establish order at the border. It was just that the laws providing crucial enforcement tools had never been used, or become encrusted over time with regulatory practices and judicial decisions that made the system balky and ultimately unworkable.

A former official familiar with the issue explains, “If you actually look at and read and understand our immigration laws, they provide for a fair amount of enforcement. These laws were passed, a lot of them in the Nineties; several of the significant bills and laws we relied upon were signed into law by Bill Clinton or supported in a bipartisan way.”

The administration’s hawks undertook a constant interrogation of the standard operating procedure: Why are we doing it this way? Is there a law? If not, why can’t we change? And if there are practical obstacles, what are ways to solve them?

What they usually found is that at the bottom of some suboptimal practice was a regulation, or agency guidance, or court edict, or unwritten rule, but very rarely a law.

A basic question that constantly came up was: Why could the U.S. send back migrants from Mexico with relative ease, yet basically couldn’t return migrants from countries a little farther south?

The administration found a way to effectively close the loopholes that accounted for this disparity and, in so doing, got the border under control even before the onset of the pandemic.

Rest - https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/03/how-trump-got-control-of-the-border/

jimnyc
03-17-2021, 03:04 PM
This started day one with the border, to censor anything and everything and no cameras or reporters allowed. :rolleyes: Transparency!

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Even MSNBC Admits: Biden Bars Media From Seeing 'Terrified' Children at Border

Question: How do you know things are really, really, bad at the border, and that the Biden administration is trying to cover it up? Answer: When even Yamiche Alcindor admits it.

On Wednesday's Morning Joe, it was PBS/MSNBC's Yamiche Alcindor, a normally-dependable Democrat supporter and Trump critic, describing children who are "crying and terrified" and "not let out for sunlight for days at a time." Alcindor stated that the Biden administration is preventing reporters from viewing the detention facilities or doing "ride-alongs" with border patrols, as was allowed under Trump.

Interviewed by Willie Geist, Alcindor began by echoing the White House line that they are "scrambling" to improve conditions. But she went on to acknowledge that even if the problem was "handed" to the Biden administration, it's now "happening on their watch."

Geist handled matters fairly, pointing out:

"If it had been the Trump administration, we'd be rightly outraged that they were blacking out information on a very important story. So does this suggest that they have something to hide at the border?"

Rest - https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/mark-finkelstein/2021/03/17/even-msnbc-admits-biden-bars-media-seeing-terrified-children

LongTermGuy
03-17-2021, 07:17 PM
...Joe Biden wants an "unrelenting stream of immigration" that will make "Caucasians like me"

the minority. And that's a "good thing":cuckoo:

****Someone please tell us where diversity has ever been a "Strength" for a nation?!!!

2015!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgrliuQW_-Q