The immigration time bomb......

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December 21, 2022 is coming, but Brittney Griner....and Russian arms dealer, and anything else we can talk about......

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/some-1500-migrants-crossed-rio-grande-into-el-paso-sunday-witness-2022-12-12/

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico, Dec 12 (Reuters) - About 1,500 people crossed the Rio Grande overnight from Mexico into El Paso, Texas, a Reuters witness said on Monday, amid an increase in migrant arrivals in the area ahead of the expiry of a pandemic-era order that blocks them at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Some of the migrants were clutching bags in their arms and children on their back as they waded into the river to cross from Ciudad Juarez in Mexico into the United States, according to a Reuters witness who photographed the events.

The migrants who crossed on Sunday included a group of Nicaraguans who said they were freed by Mexican authorities after being kidnapped last week in the state of Durango.

Reuters spoke to seven Nicaraguans who said they were kidnapped. Some showed videos they filmed after being freed and had their phones returned to them, including images of the place where they said they were held.

After being released, Mexican authorities loaded some of the Nicaraguan migrants on buses and ferried them to Ciudad Juarez.

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11529519/Largest-migrant-caravan-HISTORY-illegally-crosses-Rio-Grande-El-Paso.html?fbclid=IwAR3HPBpKiscW8n7ZwBtOyssLr8Fi2JzZN1yilVKRtosaPGyRb46-rXcEudQ

Mexican authorities appeared to have assisted the illegal crossings, with images emerging of police escorting nearly 20 buses filled with migrants into Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, which is directly across the border from El Paso.

As the pandemic-era policy winds down just before Christmas, House Republicans warn in a letter obtained by DailyMail.com that the Biden administration's use of Air Marshals to assist along the border could put 'the lives and safety of airline passengers at risk' over the holidays. 

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So, the Biden administration still insists border is secure.......?  Yeah, those welded open "gates" are to allow water flow (in the desert?) during the monsoon season.....aaaaannnnnd migration of an endangered species of antelope.......Yeah, that's why we opened it up!  Yeah - that's the ticket!

https://nypost.com/2023/08/21/arizona-borders-open-floodgates-allow-thousands-into-us/

The door to America is wide open.

Thousands of migrants are flowing across the US border in Arizona every day — literally through open floodgates that have made the Tucson post the busiest point of illegal entry into the country, The Post has learned.

US officials have inexplicably welded open 114 massive gates along the Arizona border to allow water to flow freely during the annual monsoon season and for the migration of an endangered species of antelope, officials said.

But the move is also letting an average of 1,400 migrants from as far away as China casually walk into the country daily — with overwhelmed and outnumbered border agents practically helpless to stop them.

“We thought the agents were going to tell us something,” one Ecuadorean migrant said. “But we just walked in.”

Said another from Cuba: “It was so easy to get into the US.

“Nothing like our journey through Mexico. That part was hard,” she added. “I thought there was going to be more security.”

Video taken by The Post shows a group of around 50 migrants strolling through the opened gates and into the US, with nobody stopping or questioning them.

Smugglers are capitalizing on the floodgate blunder, driving migrants by the busload to the border and dropping them off as if they were casual tourists. Once across, they turn themselves in to border agents and say they are seeking asylum.

Border Patrol agents call them “give-ups.”

Last month, 42,561 migrants were encountered at the Tuscon border post, a huge jump over the June number of 27,294. Tuscon now tops traditionally busier border spots at El Paso and Laredo in Texas, where 24,352 and 26,627 border crossings, respectively, were reported in July.

“We haven’t seen this many migrants since about 2008,” said Adam Isacson, director for defense oversight at the advocacy group Washington Office on Latin America. “With the end of Title 42, in a way that nobody oversaw, it seems to come back to Tucson.

“What you’re seeing is a lot of large groups who want to turn themselves in,” Isacson said. “Tucson has also traditionally been where smugglers concentrate Mexicans and Central Americans who don’t want to be detected. Now they’re seeing 100 people at a time who are not running away.

“It’s really becoming an epicenter,” he said. “This is big.”

Each of the 114 gates in Arizona, which have been open for nearly two months, has 12-foot doors wide enough for a motorcycle to drive through. Smugglers drive busloads of migrants to the Mexican side of the border, where they get off and simply walk into the US.

Border Patrol sources said the call to open the gates came from several federal agencies, including the National Park Service and the International Boundary and Water Commission.

But because the monsoon season started late this year, they remained open for weeks before there was any rain — allowing migrants a dry path into the US.

“We tried to shut the gates but the order came down that we had to leave them open,” one source said. “You wouldn’t leave the front door of your house open in a bad neighborhood.”

The gates run along a 36-mile stretch near Lukeville, Arizona.

Unlike the largely South American migrants who have been nabbed crossing into Texas, the immigrants coming to Arizona are from throughout the globe, including India, Egypt and China.

And unlike many South American migrants, who are typically disheveled, exhausted and weary from a long and treacherous trek across the barren land, the migrants at Tuscon look more like vacation travelers.

Understaffed border agents can do little to stop the flood.

“Three nights ago, a big group of migrants were on the Mexican side,” one source said. “There were two agents on ATVs [all-terrain vehicles] and one line agent trying to stop them from entering. The agents blocked the gates with their quad [bikes]. The cartel guy just started pushing people.

“They rushed the agents. You had people climbing over quads. You had people pushing the agents. Not a single one got charged.”

The Border Patrol is severely understaffed. Agents from across the US were initially offered a $10,000 bonus to move to the remote town of Ajo, Arizona, to beef up the ranks.

The bonus was upped to $20,000 when only a handful of trainees applied.

 

“Everything changed since [President Biden] took over,” one source said. “This part of the border wall was built four years ago. Now we’re just letting people through.

“Brutal,” the source added. “No one wants to do this. They [the migrants] commit a federal crime, we charge them, they don’t get convicted. They don’t get sent back. They get a credible fear interview, they get an [asylum] court date years from now.

“We never hear anything more than that. The administration is not going to help us.”

 

 

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ARE YOU F-ING KIDDING ME?

the move ran afoul of the Finish It Act, featured in the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2024 demanding that the administration either use the materials for their original purpose or give them to border states.

https://nypost.com/2023/08/22/senate-republicans-demand-biden-halt-selling-border-wall-parts/

Republicans on the Senate Armed Services Committee are demanding the Biden administration cease auctioning off unused border wall components.

“We are deeply disappointed to learn that rather than using construction materials that were purchased to secure the southwest border for that purpose, the Department of Defense has begun auctioning these materials off for other purposes,” Republicans on the panel wrote to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin in a letter dated for Tuesday.

Republicans on the panel led by Ranking Member Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) stressed that the move ran afoul of the Finish It Act, featured in the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2024 demanding that the administration either use the materials for their original purpose or give them to border states.

The GOP group stressed that the move ran afoul of the Finish It Act, featured in the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2024 demanding that the administration either use the materials for their original purpose or give them to border states.

Last week, The Post reported that the administration was auctioning off material for the wall acquired under former President Donald Trump.

This included the auctioning off of 81 lots of steel “square structural tubes” for border barriers for about $2 million since April.

There were 13 additional lots set to be auctioned on Aug. 23 and Aug. 30.

Republicans on the panel demanded Austin halt those planned auctions to immediately investigate the matter, provide a full accounting of the border wall material disposed of and provide details about how much the department has paid for storage.

Austin has a Sept. 5 deadline to comply with their requests for information, and they expect him to cease planned auctions and investigate the matter immediately.

They further noted that they will “not consent” to a confirmation hearing for the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy until they receive an adequate response.

All 12 Republican members on the panel signed the letter.

“The Biden administration canceled border wall projects and left materials to rack up dust,” signer Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), said in a statement to The Post.

“As I have worked to hold him accountable for wasting taxpayer-funded parts and use them to actually secure our border — President Biden is shamelessly auctioning them off for pennies on the dollar!” she added.

“This is a clear signal he does not take border security seriously. President Biden cannot get away with subverting Congress’ work on this.”

As much as $300 million worth of border wall components have been left to rust since Biden ascended to the White House, Republicans have claimed.

Meanwhile, US Customs and Border Protection recorded a record-breaking 2.4 million encounters at the border in fiscal year 2022.

 

So far, there have been 1.97 million encounters at the border for fiscal year 2023, which ends at the beginning of October.

 

 

 

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How can anyone be surprised?  

https://nypost.com/2023/08/29/migrants-entered-us-with-help-of-smuggler-who-has-ties-to-isis-report/

The FBI is reportedly scrambling to find more than a dozen Uzbek nationals who sought asylum in the US earlier this year after intelligence officers discovered they traveled to the southern border with the help of a smuggler who has ties to ISIS.

Officials are working to “identify and assess” all of the individuals who gained entry into the country, National Security Council spokesman Adrienne Watson told CNN.

They are also scrutinizing a number of migrants as possible criminal threats, two unnamed federal officials told the news network. But authorities say no specific ISIS plot has been identified.

“There was no indication — and remains no indication — that any of the individuals facilitated by this network have a connection to a foreign terrorist organization, or are engaged in plotting a terrorist attack in the United States,” Watson stressed.

Authorities say the migrants requested asylum at the border with Mexico earlier this year and were screened by Homeland Security.

Nothing in any of the intelligence community’s databases raised any red flags, CNN reported, and they were all released into the US pending a court appearance.

It was only later that the FBI learned of a smuggling network helping Uzbeks into the US — which involved at least one individual with ties to ISIS.

The bureau began a nationwide search for the migrants, and also worked with Turkish authorities, who apprehended the smuggler and other members of the network, the report said.

It has since received more information from that unnamed smuggler to aid in the bureau’s investigation, officials said.

Ever since, Homeland Security has been detaining, vetting, and ultimately expediting the deportation of migrants who “fit the profile associated with individuals who were facilitated by this network,” Watson said.

The ISIS-linked smuggler is not believed to be a member of the terrorist organization, but is rather an independent contractor who has personal sympathies with the organization, the NSC rep said.

The intelligence community also says it is unlikely he was assisting the migrants at the behest of ISIS, and most are simply believed to be seeking a better life in the US.

But many have not yet been located, and more than 15 who have been tracked down are still under scrutiny as possible criminal threats.

The discovery of the ISIS-linked network has set off alarm bells in Washington, at a time when Republican presidential candidates harp on the security of the southern border.

An urgent classified intelligence report was circulated to President Biden’s top cabinet officials in their morning briefing book, CNN reported, and the revelation kicked off a slew of urgent meetings among top national security and administration officials.

Staff on key congressional committees have also been informed.

 

 

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NYC Mayor is complaining about 110,000 migrants out of the almost 5 million that have crossed the border since January, 2022.  He's asking for more money when he should be asking for the President to actually finish the border wall.  The border states governors are finally letting these sanctuary cities share the struggles the administration is choosing to ignore.....

https://nypost.com/2023/09/07/nyc-mayor-adams-says-migrant-crisis-will-destroy-the-city-during-town-hall/

Mayor Adams warns migrant crisis will ‘destroy’ NYC, rips Biden for failing to help.

“Started with a madman down in Texas who decided he wanted to bus people up to New York City.”

The first migrant-filled bus from Texas arrived at Midtown’s Port Authority on Aug. 5, 2022, and thousands more in the rest of the five boroughs in the following months.

“110,000 migrants we have to feed, clothe, house, educate the children, wash their laundry sheets, give them everything they need, health care,” Adams said.

Texas has sent over 13,000 migrants to New York, according to data shared by Abbott earlier this week.

The mayor said the Big Apple receives around 10,000 migrants a month, at first from Venezuela but then Ecuadorian nationals and Russian-speaking individuals came up from Mexico as time went on.

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SF doesn't think Mayor Adams is wrong.....but aware that this has been going on for decades in TX, AZ, CA & FL.  The phrase "The chickens have come home to roost" comes to mind.....But farmer Joe and his farmhand Kamala appear oblivious.....

https://nypost.com/2023/09/07/nycs-first-day-of-school-sees-influx-of-migrants/

The first day of classes kicked off in New York City on Thursday as schools grapple with the influx of migrant students, with some buildings turning away kids as 21,000 children seeking asylum inundated already jam-packed classrooms.

The line to get inside Newcomers High School in Long Island City stretched around the block early Thursday as frustrated teachers vented that the building had already hit capacity, pushing students at Gotham — a different school inside the building — to a facility across the street. 

“It’s a capacity issue,” a teacher told The Post. “They should have worked this out two days ago!”

Many of the migrant students were beaming and proudly wearing their Queens shelter IDs around their necks.

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So - the Biden administration seemed OK to put this person into the CIS even though they knew her background.  (yes - they knew her background.  You get a position like this without a background check)  Thanks Biden.

SF is left to wonder - how many terrorists was she able to let into the country?  Unless you think someone like her is actually trustworthy......

Kinda like BLM hiring someone with a Nazi affiliation......

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12647395/DHS-Nejwa-Ali-citizenship-leave-praising-hamas-israel-war.html

A Department of Homeland Security officer was put on leave after praising Hamas and sharing extremist content on social media - including one post where she wrote, 'F*** Israel ... we are ready for your downfall.' 

Nejwa Ali, 36, who joined the US Citizenship and Immigration Services in 2019 and held the position of an asylum officer, was placed on leave on Wednesday, following the revelation of her controversial history. 

She worked at assisting asylum seekers through the immigration process, before moving to Homeland Security earlier this year. 

Along with years of alarming social media posts, it was also revealed that she previously served as a spokesperson for the Palestinian Liberation Organization delegation in the US - a group once led by Yasser Arafat - which has been called a terrorist organization by US officials. 

In one recent post, Ali shared a disturbing image featuring paragliders armed with AK-47s with the caption 'Free Palestine,' glorifying the terrorists responsible for killing over 1,400 in Israel.

The Daily Wire exposed years of concerning posts made by Ali, including one in which she expressed disdain for what she referred to as 'Israeli and American privilege.' 

It's unclear how Ali was hired in the first place in government roles and the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) given her alarming previous posts and ties to the PLO. 

'USCIS strongly condemns antisemitism and the use of violent rhetoric in any form,' spokesperson Matthew Bourke told Newsweek. 'USCIS employees are held to high ethical standards both on and off duty, including their presence on social media. Any violation of these standards is taken seriously by the agency.' 

 The Daily Wire reached Ali who angrily replied when asked about her past. 

'That's none of your f****** business. Mind your business before I call the police. If I were you I'd respectfully hang up the phone right now,' she reportedly told the outlet.  

In her posts, Ali claimed all Israelis should be held accountable for their government's actions if they do not condemn Israel. 

'Israeli, American privilege is disgusting. When Israelis acknowledge the government and military are solely responsible for the attack. Period,' she wrote. 'I hold every Israeli accountable for their governments  actions, IF they do not speak against Israel.' 

Additionally, on October 9, Ali shared a post on Facebook titled 'How Nejwa wakes up,' along with a video captioned 'F*** Israel and any Jew that supports Israel.'

She featured a photo that declared, 'A nation that has nothing but Allah has everything it will ever need,' alongside an anti-Semitic caricature of a Jewish nose.

Along with years of alarming social media posts, it was also revealed that she previously served as a spokesperson for the Palestinian Liberation Organization delegation in the US - a group once led by Yasser Arafat - which has been called a terrorist organization by US officials 

Prior to her current position, Ali worked as a public affairs officer for the Palestinian Delegation to the US in 2016 and 2017, according to her LinkedIn profile. The delegation served as the 'PLO office in DC', its website says.

The Palestine Liberation Organization was once declared a terrorist group by various administrations. It was led by Yasser Arafat who became the face of the effort for Palestinian freedom for decades. 

When the DC PLO office was expelled by the Trump administration, Ali secured a job at DHS as an 'Asylum Officer,' where she was responsible for 'applying immigration laws and regulations to asylum applications.'

This year, she began working as an Adjudication Officer for the US Citizenship and Immigration Services, where she was tasked 'analyze new or amended legislation and policy, prepare written reports of findings, and review and make determinations on cases for immigration benefits.'

Ali's social media, including her Instagram, 'Falastine Mi Amor,' appears to have been deleted.