Mainstream Media Outlets Change Their Tune on Border Crisis Amid Illegal Immigration Surge

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Months after repeatedly dismissing and mocking President Trump’s claim of a national emergency at the Southern U.S. border, the mainstream media are grappling with reality, with no less than The New York Times declaring the border crisis at “breaking point.”

Yet as recently as February, a New York Times fact-checker of Trump’s State of the Union speech tweeted: “President Trump described illegal border crossings as a ‘urgent national crisis.’ This is false.” . . .

Fast forward, the same media outlets are now scrambling to accurately portray the border crisis, no longer fearing to quote top officials and their data, and declare that the southern border is at a “breaking point” amid a surge in the number of illegal immigrant crossings. . .

“The U.S. Immigration System May Have Reached a Breaking Point,” a New York Times story read Wednesday, detailing the unprecedented problems at the border. . .

This is a follow-up to another story in the Times from last month titled “Border at ‘Breaking Point’ as More Than 76,000 Unauthorized Migrants Cross in a Month” that cited the data that over 76,000 migrants crossed the border without authorization in February, the 11-year-high that put a strain on the border patrol resources. (Read more from “Mainstream Media Outlets Change Their Tune on Border Crisis Amid Illegal Immigration Surge” HERE)

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Ocasio-Cortez Defends Omar’s 9/11 Comments by Mocking War Hero Dan Crenshaw

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) rushed to the defense of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) on Thursday after a clip of Omar went viral this week that showed her describing the 9/11 terrorist attacks as “some people did something.”

Ocasio-Cortez defended Omar by making multiple false claims and by mocking Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX), who called out Omar for trivializing the 9/11 terror attacks.

The 29-year-old former bartender attacked Crenshaw, a decorated war hero, by suggesting that he was not fighting for the families of 9/11 victims and saying that he should “go do something” about terrorism. . .

Nothing that the New York Post or Crenshaw said used “completely out-of-context quotes” from Omar, they quoted her directly. . .

Ocasio-Cortez’s claim that Crenshaw refuses to support the bill is also a lie. The bill has not even been voted on in the House and just because Crenshaw is not a cosponsor does not prevent him from voting in favor of the bill when a vote is held on it. (Read more from “Ocasio-Cortez Defends Omar’s 9/11 Comments by Mocking War Hero Dan Crenshaw” HERE)

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Hillary Opened Her Mouth About MAGA and White Nationalism…and Crashed Right Into a Wall

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This is getting absolutely embarrassing, but Hillary Clinton does have a lot of free time on her hands. She went on a whine tour after her shocking 2016 loss. She set up a super PAC to help Democrats and fight the agenda of President Donald J. Trump. She may not be running again in 2020, but she’s still taking her swings at the Trump administration. They’re all so tiring, though they’re aimed at keeping the left-wingers rabid. A popular one is that the slogan “Make America Great Again” is a white nationalist war cry. It’s not. She even tweeted an article from The Huffington Post to make her point:

Okay, first of all, Bissonette is a crazy person. Second, is this nuts we’ve become? It’s a great slogan—and both Democrats and Republicans have used it. Ronald Reagan used it, as did Bill Clinton, which is why Hillary probably should’ve just shut up about this whole matter. Slick Willy used it a lot during his political career. Is he a racist, a far right-winger, or an extremist? Is he a white nationalist? No. Bill Clinton is often wrong, but he’s no white nationalist. Trump derangement syndrome has become so bad that anything related to the man is seen as a sign that this small, whacko fringe slice that happen to wear MAGA hats are mainstream. They’re not. They’re still losers and they’re still in the basement of politics. And they’re going to stay there. A huge slice of Democrats were members of the Ku Klux Klan. When are they going to be reamed out for backing a group that’s actually a white supremacist organization? And just like these loony toon groups, they’re small. The Klan’s membership today is less than 10,000. Everyone freak out! (Read more from “Hillary Opened Her Mouth About MAGA and White Nationalism…and Crashed Right Into a Wall” HERE)

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Kris Kobach’s Legal Expertise Offers Trump Homeland Security Solution

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President Trump is decrying federal judges who have routinely blocked his immigration reform agenda, as former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach is considered for the top position at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) precisely for his longtime legal expertise.

During conversations with the media on Tuesday, Trump slammed a recent decision by U.S. District Judge Richard Seeborg in San Francisco, California that blocks the administration’s implementation of the “Remain in Mexico” policy whereby border crossers and illegal aliens seeking asylum in the country are returned to Mexico until their court hearings.

“We have a judge that just ruled, incredibly, that he doesn’t want people staying in Mexico,” Trump said in the Oval Office. “Figure that one out. Nobody can believe these decisions we’re getting from the 9th Circuit. It’s a disgrace.”

Those frustrations with pro-migration attorneys and activist judges, insiders tell Breitbart News, are precisely the reason Kobach is uniquely fit to lead DHS considering his background of legal expertise on immigration dating back to the early days of President George W. Bush’s administration. . .

Kobach, they assert, can carry out the president’s initiatives, as he has championed mainstream immigration reforms like E-Verify, an Entry/Exit system, and a sustainable immigration court process. (Read more from “Kris Kobach’s Legal Expertise Offers Trump Homeland Security Solution” HERE)

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Twitter and Facebook Deny ‘Shadowbanning’ in Senate Hearing

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Representatives from both Twitter and Facebook denied engaging in “shadowbanning” in response to a question from Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) t0day, although Twitter’s representative went on to describe practices that mirrors the covert censorship almost exactly.

“Does Twitter or Facebook engage in shadowbans?” asked Sen. Cruz, during today’s Senate judiciary committee hearing on technological censorship.

Turning to Twitter’s representative, Sen. Cruz said “you testified before, or you acknowledged that Twitter will downgrade a comment to make it less visible. Does Twitter notify a person if their comment has been downgraded?”

“If we have signals indicating that a person is being a spammy, meaning they are using multiple accounts to do the same, if they are doing automated activity but we’re not 100 percent sure that they are breaking our rules, if they’re abusive then what we will do is make it harder for that content to be found in a couple of different places – one is in search results, and the other is in conversations — the replies.” . . .

“At no point, sir, is a person’s followers unable to find what that person has tweeted,” said the Twitter spokesman. (Read more from “Twitter and Facebook Deny ‘Shadowbanning’ in Senate Hearing” HERE)

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Ex-Obama Lawyer Expects to Be Indicted in Mueller-Related Case

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The legal team for former Obama White House lawyer Greg Craig say that they expect Craig to be indicted in the near future on charges related to work that he performed in 2012 for the Russia-aligned government of Ukraine.

“Mr. Craig has refused to accept a plea deal, and the matter could be presented to a grand jury for indictment as soon as Thursday, people familiar with the matter say,” The Wall Street Journal reported. “The people familiar with the situation say they believe Mr. Craig will be charged with making false statements to the Justice Department unit that oversees the activities of foreign agents, though other charges are possible.”

The case against the 74-year-old Democrat — who has served in senior legal positions under two Democrat presidents — originated from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.

“This case was thoroughly investigated by the SDNY and that office decided not to pursue charges against Mr. Craig,” Craig’s legal team said in a statement. “We expect an indictment by the DC US Attorney’s Office at the request of the National Security Division. Mr. Craig is not guilty of any charge and the government’s stubborn insistence on prosecuting Mr. Craig is a misguided abuse of prosecutorial discretion.” . . .

“Craig resigned from Skadden in April 2018 amid a building investigation into whether the firm’s lawyers failed to register as foreign lobbyists for their Ukraine engagement,” The Washington Post reported. “Prosecutors have been investigating whether Craig issued false statements to the Justice Department in 2013 as officials made inquiries to the firm about whether its work required public registration, people familiar with the case said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to describe the ongoing probe.” (Read more from “Ex-Obama Lawyer Expects to Be Indicted in Mueller-Related Case” HERE)

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Starr Admits He Omitted in FBI Report That Hillary Catalyzed Vince Foster’s Suicide

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According to Ronald Kessler, the author of “The First Family Detail,” which revolved around Secret Service agents working for various presidents, independent counsel Ken Starr omitted his conclusion that former First Lady Hillary Clinton had catalyzed the suicide of President Clinton’s Deputy White House Counsel Vince Foster in his final FBI report because Starr was mindful of Hillary Clinton’s feelings.

As Kessler writes in The Daily Mail, he asked Starr last weekend at the 2019 Annapolis Book Festival why Starr had not included that information in his FBI report. Kessler stated that Starr responded he “did not want to inflict further pain” on Hillary Clinton. Kessler wrote, “In interviews for my book The First Family Detail, the FBI agents who worked the case for Starr revealed the truth about Foster’s death when he shot himself at Fort Marcy Park along the Potomac River.”

Kessler noted, “FBI agents found that a week before Foster’s death, Hillary as First Lady held a meeting at the White House with Foster and other top aides to discuss her proposed health care legislation. Hillary violently disagreed with a legal objection Foster raised at the meeting and ridiculed him in front of his peers, former FBI agent Coy Copeland and former FBI supervisory agent Jim Clemente told me.”

Kessler quoted Copeland saying, “’Hillary put him down really, really bad in a pretty good-size meeting. She told him he didn’t get the picture, and he would always be a little hick town lawyer who was obviously not ready for the big time.” Kessler wrote that Clemente asserted that Hillary blamed Foster for the Clintons’ problems and said he had failed them. Clemente added, “Foster was profoundly depressed, but Hillary lambasting him was the final straw because she publicly embarrassed him in front of others … Hillary blamed him for failed nominations, claimed he had not vetted them properly, and said in front of his White House colleagues, ‘You’re not protecting us’ and ‘You have failed us.’ That was the final blow.” (Read more from “Starr Admits He Omitted in FBI Report That Hillary Catalyzed Vince Foster’s Suicide” HERE)

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ICE Arrests 123 Criminal Aliens in New Jersey

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There is a lot of focus in the political class about the effects of mass migration on the illegal immigrants themselves, but there is not much focus on the criminals we are letting in who harm Americans. To get a sense of the magnitude of the criminal alien problem in this country, consider that ICE just arrested 123 criminal aliens in one operation in New Jersey, a state where the local officials don’t readily hand over those charged with crimes to federal immigration officials.

On Monday, ICE announced it had completed a month-long operation in New Jersey to arrest 123 illegal aliens, of which “90 percent had prior criminal convictions and/or pending criminal charges.” The majority of those targeted were illegal aliens who were previously arrested or convicted for DUI. However, the criminal histories were vast and diverse.

“Some individuals also had arrests or convictions for sexual assault on a minor, child abuse, possession of narcotics, distribution of narcotics, fraud, criminal restraint, domestic violence, possession of a weapon, aggravated assault, resisting arrest, endangering the welfare of a child, fraud, promoting gambling, shoplifting, burglary, forgery and illegal reentry,” announced ICE in a press release.

Many of the individuals who had prior DUI offenses were also charged or convicted for other grave crimes, and some were also previously deported and re-entered illegally. For example, a 38-year-old previously deported Mexican national had a conviction for DUI and indecent assault of a minor. A 39-year-old Mexican national had a prior conviction for DUI plus endangering sexual contact with a minor. A 42-year-old previously deported Ecuadorian illegal alien had a prior conviction for criminal sexual contact and a recent arrest for DUI.

In December, New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal issued a directive banning law enforcement from, among other things, participating “in civil immigration enforcement operations conducted by ICE” and providing “ICE with access to state or local law enforcement resources, including equipment, office space, databases, or property, unless those resources are readily available to the public.” What this does, in effect, is keep ICE in the dark when most illegal aliens are arrested for DUI, drug trafficking, and even sexual assault.

Even those illegal aliens detained by local law enforcement in New Jersey “with violent or serious offenses – such as murder, rape, arson, assault, bias crimes, and domestic violence offenses,” may only be held for ICE until 11:59 p.m. of that day!

A spokesman for ICE-ERO (Enforcement and Removal Operations) in Newark told me that while none of these cases involved ICE detainers, “all 123 individuals were arrested by ICE without any assistance from the state or local authorities.” It is shocking that so many dangerous criminals who are arrested and even convicted for dangerous crimes like drug trafficking, DUI, and sexual assault on minors are not immediately turned over to ICE. Yet clearly, many of these individuals were allowed to remain in the state, despite previous deportations, because ICE was never notified. Aside from denying ICE detainers, sanctuary jurisdictions that fail to share databases and notification with ICE prevent the feds from even knowing about these people when they are arrested. If not for ICE taking the initiative to investigate and find these criminals, they would still be at large today.

While ICE tries to go it alone in interior enforcement, it is also hampered by the lack of border security. With our agents tied down dealing with bogus asylum claims, all of these individual criminal aliens who are being apprehended and deported by ICE have almost a free lane through the obscure parts of our border.

Just last Friday, Del Rio sector agents arrested a 47-year-old Honduran man attempting to cross in Eagle Pass who was previously convicted in Georgia for child molestation and was deported. Last Wednesday, a 34-year-old Mexican was indicted for re-entering after being deported years ago for “indecent liberty with a child.” He was only caught because Beaumont, Texas, police pulled him over for a traffic violation. Texas officials cooperated with ICE, but California officials never turned over Gustavo Arriaga, the murderer of police officer Ronil Singh, who was charged twice with DUI.

Last week, Tucson Border Patrol announced, “Last month, more than a dozen illegal aliens, who had committed heinous crimes in at least eight U.S. states were arrested by Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents as they tried to sneak back into the country.” Most of them were convicted for sexual crimes against minors. Also last week, a prior deported alien was arrested on 100 accounts of child pornography. Another illegal re-entrant was arrested last week in Fayetteville, North Carolina, for indecently touching an 11-year-old.

On March 24, 33-year-old Jorge Alberto Rios-Doblado, an illegal alien from Honduras who was twice deported, allegedly raped and strangled a Peruvian immigrant to death in Jersey City. Given the magnets to come to New Jersey and evade detection, one has to wonder how many more of these murders and sexual assaults will occur.

According to DHS, as of 2013, which was before most of the surge from Central America, there were an estimated two million criminal aliens at large in the country. The Senate has yet to bring a single piece of legislation to the floor dealing with sanctuary cities, criminal alien apprehensions, judicial defiance against immigration laws, or stiffening penalties against re-entrants (Kate’s Law). Yes, there is a national security crisis and a humanitarian crisis. But first and foremost, our government is responsible for solving the humanitarian crisis for Americans and legal immigrants living in this country before trying to solve the problems of Central Americans. (For more from the author of “ICE Arrests 123 Criminal Aliens in New Jersey” please click HERE)

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9 Shocking March Stats From the ‘System-Wide Emergency’ at the Border

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If the February border numbers were unprecedented, the March border numbers appear to be unfathomable. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has published the March border numbers, which reflect a “system-wide emergency” in the view of top border officials. “The impacts to legitimate trade and travel cannot be overstated,” said CBP Deputy Commissioner Robert E. Perez in a statement. “As this crisis continues to worsen, it undermines CBP’s ability to perform its dual mission of protecting our borders and facilitating legitimate trade and travel.”

Here are nine shocking statistics from the March data and the cumulative numbers of illegal aliens and family units crossing this fiscal year.

103,492: The total number of illegal aliens and inadmissible aliens apprehended at and between points of entry in the month of March. That is the highest monthly number since April 2007. But as former Border Patrol head Mark Morgan told the Senate Homeland Security Committee last week, last decade, “1/3 of those apprehended were repeat offenders so the realistic number of migrant apprehensions was well below what’s reflected.” As such, it’s likely that this month is at or near an all-time record.

1.2 million: How many in a year if March’s pace continues. But Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) predicts that with the weather getting warmer over the next few months and the incentives for illegal immigration unaddressed, the numbers will grow larger. The first week of April seems to indicate this.

$168-180 billion: The lifetime cost of 1.2 million illegal aliens per year, using the input and methodology of the Center for Immigration Studies’ Steven Camarota to calculate the cost of illegal aliens to the American taxpayer.

57,271: A record number of family unit apprehensions (number of people apprehended with family members) in March. That beats the record we just set last month by a whopping 40 percent. That is more than three times as large as the first Central American wave at the peak of the 2014 migration during Obama’s tenure. Even just the unaccompanied minors (who are often split off from family units for strategic reasons) totaled 9,398, which in its own right rivals all but the two busiest months of the 2014 UAC surge, which was without the family units.

189,584: The number of family unit apprehensions between points of entry for the first six months of fiscal year 2019. This far surpasses the numbers for any previous full year.

218,645: The number of family unit apprehensions between points of entry since Judge Dana Sabraw ruled last July that all parents or adults brought with children must be released with the children. During that last nine months, as many family units have been apprehended as in the previous 33 months.

4,647%: The percentage increase in monthly family unit apprehensions between points of entry since the low of the “Trump effect” in April 2017 through February 2019. There’s been a 370 percent increase in family units for the first half of this fiscal year compared with the first half of FY 2018.

422,334: The total number of illegal aliens and inadmissible immigrants, including single adults, who have been caught at our border. That is almost twice the rate of last year, which in itself was a dramatic increase from FY 2017.

104: The number of large groups, defined as 100 or more, coming in at once to surrender to border agents and shutting down their resources. There were 13 such groups in FY 2018, mainly in the latter part of the year when this phenomenon began. It was almost unheard of in previous years.

One of the surprising data points from this month is the surge in single adults in addition to family units. While two-thirds of the illegal immigrants were family units or unaccompanied minors, the number of single adults increased in raw numbers by 30 percent over February. This is likely the result of the family units filling up the detention centers to such a point that even the single adults are being released for a lack of space. This has likely incentivized even those who can’t find a child to use as a ticket into the country to make the trek and try their luck at the border.

Yesterday, I presented 10 ways to disincentivize the border flow. But it is self-evident that unless the administration changes tactics, we have not reached rock bottom at the border yet. (For more from the author of “9 shocking March stats from the ‘system-wide emergency’ at the border” please click HERE)

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Trump’s Border Wall Is Finally Happening

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By The Blaze. The Pentagon announced Monday that the first of contracts to build the border wall proposed by President Donald Trump have been awarded and construction will begin shortly. . .

The announcement named SLSCO Ltd., a company from Galveston, Texas, as the major recipient of $789 million for the construction of “border replacement wall” in Santa Teresa, New Mexico. The contract is to be completed by October 2020.

Barnard Construction Company from Montana was also awarded $187 million by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to construct “primary pedestrian wall replacement” in Yuma, Arizona. That project is also estimated to be completed by October 2020.

A spokesman for the Department of Defense told The Hill in a statement that “30-foot bollard fencing and a five-foot anti-climb plate” would be constructed in the Santa Teresa contract. For the Yuma contract, “18-foot bollard fencing and a five-foot anti-climb plate” would be constructed. (Read more from “Trump’s Border Wall Is Finally Happening” HERE)

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Pentagon Awards First Border Wall Contracts Using Diverted Funds

By CBS News. Mr. Trump visited the border and toured construction projects along the border last week. Lt. Gen. Todd Semonite, the head of the Army Corps of Engineers, predicted that by “around December of 2020, the total amount of money that we will have put in the ground in the last couple of years will be about 450 miles. That’s probably about $8 billion, in total about 33 different projects.”

The funding for the contracts announced Tuesday comes from $1 billion the Pentagon reprogrammed from counter-narcotics programs, which the Pentagon can accomplish without congressional approval or a national emergency declaration. The move has drawn blowback from members of Congress, with lawmakers saying it violates a longstanding understanding not to reprogram funds without congressional sign-off.

In February, Congress tried to block Mr. Trump’s declaration, with 12 Republicans joining all Democrats in the Senate in a rebuke to the president. However, the president vetoed the joint resolution blocking the national emergency, and the House did not have enough votes to override a veto. (Read more from “Pentagon Awards First Border Wall Contracts Using Diverted Funds” HERE)

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