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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/faith-freedom-self-reliance/broken-border-biden-immigration-policies-spur-staggering-death-toll

Biden’s Broken Border is a five-part Washington Examiner series highlighting the border security records President Joe Biden has shattered in less than two years in office and the trickle-down effects that the crisis is having on the United States. Part One  looked at how Biden already broke the record for migrant apprehensions in 2022.  Part Two examined the dramatic shift in demographics of migrants crossing the border illegally. Part Three showed the consequences of children crossing the border alone in unprecedented numbers. Part Four, below, looks at the record number of migrants dying while attempting to enter the United States. And Part Five will examine the deadly fentanyl crisis that has rocked communities deep within the country.

More migrants have died attempting to cross the U.S.-Mexico border illegally under President Joe Biden than ever before — a catastrophic consequence of border policies that have pushed many through dangerous terrain as ports of entry have largely been closed for asylum-seekers .

Senior federal law enforcement officials at Border Patrol headquarters in Washington told the Washington Examiner they expect to surpass 800 bodies recovered at the southern border by the end of September, the conclusion of the government’s fiscal 2022 year.

“It’ll likely hit over 800 for FY22. I thought I would never see that number,” one official not authorized to speak with the media wrote in an email. “This administration does not care about dead Hispanics.”

Internal homeland security data obtained by the Washington Examiner show the government is aware of 746 deceased immigrants found in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California between last October and Sept. 6. Landowners and federal, state, and local police are typically the ones who make the discoveries.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/illegals-practice-law-in-new-mexico/

“It is “bizarre” that in New Mexico “you can be here illegally, subject to arrest and deportation, and yet at the same time, you could be representing as a lawyer another illegal alien who’s facing the same thing.”

New Mexico has become the latest state to welcome illegal aliens as attorneys.

In other words, those who are breaking U.S. law by their presence in the country, will now be allowed to practice law in the Land of Enchantment. These illegal-alien lawyers will now be allowed to try to prevent their fellow illegal aliens from being deported.

A lawyer is an officer of the court and should at a minimum not be a lawbreaker.

The new policy helps to blur the line between illegal aliens, lawfully present aliens, and U.S. citizens, which has long be a goal of the open-borders Left. The Left wants to devalue and abolish citizenship and what it means to be American, and confer all the benefits of being legal on people who are illegal – and it is succeeding.

The Left deliberately obscures the distinction between illegal aliens and people who immigrated lawfully to the United States. It is part of the leftist war not only on American values but on the English language.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/09/whos-using-whom-in-the-migrant-wars/

Martha’s Vineyard can endure a few minutes of embarrassment. Those dying in box trucks outside San Antonio don’t have the same luxury.

When 51 migrants died in an overheated box truck that was abandoned on Quintana Road, outside San Antonio, in late June, that got some serious news coverage. The Pope tweeted about it. It made section A, page 1 of the New York Times, though it was still below the fold, beneath stories on the failure of U.S. sanctions to stop the war in Ukraine, the legal cases resulting from the Dobbs decision that overturned Roe v. Wade, and another Supreme Court decision that allowed high-school football coaches to pray on school land.

By the next day, however, the January 6 hearings took up the Times’ entire front-page headline, and more stories about how women are suffering after Dobbs got second billing. The 51 dead migrants in a truck merited one sentence at the very bottom of the page — turn to A13, where you can also find stories on Serena Williams and a Bret Stephens opinion piece. Ho-hum.

All in all, the San Antonio tragedy got roughly equal news coverage with the 50 migrants flown by Republican governors to Martha’s Vineyard last week: The latter got one above-the-fold Times story on Friday, with many follow-ups in the days since. But unlike the San Antonio case, the Martha’s Vineyard kerfuffle has also aroused the Times opinion page, which is filling up with takes on the Republican governors’ “stunt.” Republicans are mean, they say, and their ploy failed, because the people of Martha’s Vineyard rallied by giving canned goods to the migrants — before the National Guard swiftly exfiltrated every single migrant off the island and onto a base.

Frankly, I think the stunt rather proved the point. When migrants arrive at Martha’s Vineyard, the rich liberals there can be crowned humanitarians for not deliberately starving them to death in the few minutes before the military whisks them away. Yet the very complaint that the Biden administration’s negligent border enforcement, inviting rhetoric, and contradictory executive orders are enticing thousands of people to live under a highway overpass in the Texas heat is considered racist. Violent encampments are for red states; blue states have the military to take care of their problems.

Many of the migrants interviewed by television reporters thanked Florida governor Ron DeSantis for sending them to Martha’s Vineyard. And why not? It’s far more comfortable than the camp sites near San Antonio or Del Rio. It has been alleged that DeSantis or his underlings may have fundamentally misled some of the migrants into boarding the flight. If that’s true, they need to be called onto the carpet for it; we shouldn’t use desperate people as political pawns.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/when-a-sanctuary-city-is-short-on-sanctuary/

Self-proclaimed “sanctuary city” Martha’s Vineyard, one of the richest and whitest communities in the country, has turned out to be not much of a sanctuary for the illegal aliens they claim to care so much about. Recently, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis sent 50 Venezuelan illegal aliens to the tony enclave, reasoning that if its citizens are serious about their compassion for migrants and their love of diversity, they’d jump at the chance to prove it by actually spending some money on them.

Instead, the town-fathers and citizens whined about the strain on their resources and the disorder caused by unvetted illegal aliens swarming their town. Then there’s the hysteria over relocating illegal border-crossers, something Biden’s Feds have been doing for months––an estimated 10,000 just to New York.

Martha’s Vineyard’s complaints are also particularly shameless, claiming a “housing crisis” in a community with thousands of empty rooms. Meanwhile, documentary film maker Ken Burns by implication called De Santis Hitler, and Hillary Clinton directly called him a “human trafficker.” Barack Obama, who frequently lectures “bitter clingers” about their xenophobia towards “people who are not like them,” owns a huge, 29-acre estate in Martha’s Vineyard that could easily accommodate all 50 Venezuelans.

Instead, the mayor called in the National Guard to ship all those “diverse” victims of callous Republicans to a military base on Cape Cod, an act of NIMBY Pharasism. Then the rich denizens of Martha’s Vineyard started a GoFundMe fundraiser to panhandle ordinary Americans for money to handle this “humanitarian crisis” that’s already been resolved simply by kicking the migrants out of town. The proceeds, however, will not go to the expelled migrants, but to “building up a reserve to assist situations like this in the future.”

But like most of the virtue-signaling Left, this playground of the economic elite has exposed itself as full of posers unwilling to actually do anything about their vaunted “principles”––a long tradition among Western leftists. The result is a morally preening political rhetoric that worsens problems like uncontrolled illegal immigration by proscribing obvious common-sense solutions such as upgrading border security, including building a wall; keeping those claiming asylum in Mexico; and Title 42, which allowed for increased expulsions.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/sep/17/blue-dog-democrat-says-harris-wrong-southern-borde/

Rep. Henry Cuellar said Saturday he disagreed with Vice President Kamala Harris‘s assessment that the southern border is secure, citing his border district’s experience with the influx of migrants into the United States.

The Texas Democrat cited the thousands of people that come across the border per day, as well as more than four million people reported as crossing the border in the past two years.

“The border is not secure, with all due respect to the VP,” Mr. Cuellar told CNN. “We get thousands of people along the border, at least 6 to 8 thousand people a day.”

The congressman added: “You’re talking about almost 4 plus, maybe 4.4. million individuals in two years. Iff you call that secure, I don’t know what secure is.”

Mr. Cuellar, a moderate, narrowly fended off a progressive primary challenger in a June runoff election.

Ms. Harris, who is in charge of overseeing the southern border, asserted that the border was secure in an interview with NBC’s Meet the Press last week.

The vice president also discussed the broken immigration system, which she said was exacerbated by the Trump administration.

“We have a secure border and that is a priority for any nation, including our administration,” Ms. Harris said.

Republicans have attacked the Biden administration over what they say are open border policies that have incentivized illegal immigrants entering the country.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/athena-thorne/2022/09/16/bidens-human-hot-potatoes-starting-to-turn-libs-on-one-another-n1630056

We’ve all been laughing our backsides off at the plight of the poor leftwing millionaires whose exclusive island enclave has been inundated with — the horror! — 50 of the millions of illegal aliens they’ve invited into our country. It was delicious to see tony Martha’s Vineyard caught up in the teeth of a Humanitarian Crisis!

Luckily, the plucky island folk were able to clear their walk-in closets of last season’s duds and bake an organic fair-trade casserole to bring to the church in which the “asylum seekers” had been contained. And pat themselves on the back for their exemplary humane response, naturally. Remember, they are much finer folk than those semi-fascist peasants in the red border states.

Local news outlets gushed over the liberal hospitality that was proudly on display. “After migrants arrived in Martha’s Vineyard, a community gathered to welcome them,” swooned WBUR. “On Martha’s Vineyard, another morning dawns as residents rally to help migrants,” sighed The Boston Globe (before surreptitiously changing the headline).

But that’s pretty much where the Vineyardians’ hospitality ended. Nary a waterfront mansion opened its doors to the poor huddled masses its inhabitants claimed to love and want. No doubt, more than one “No person is illegal” lawn sign was surreptitiously taken inside. Now, news has come that the unsightly brown people will soon be shunted off the hallowed island to a military base in Cape Cod and from there, perhaps Boston.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/09/desantis_made_politics_fun_again_when_he_sent_illegal_aliens_to_marthas_vineyard.html

“Saul Alinksy wrote his rules for a malevolent purpose, which was to turn America into a Marxist nation. That doesn’t mean, though, that his rules aren’t good techniques. Conservatives should use them whenever possible. ”

Rule 4 of Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals is “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.” Rule 5 is “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.” And Rule 6 is “A good tactic is one your people enjoy.” When Texas governor Greg Abbott finally decided to send to New York and Washington D.C. a small percentage of the illegal aliens pouring into Texas thanks to Biden’s lawless presidency, he was taking a page out of Alinsky’s book, and it was wonderful to see. However, when Ron DeSantis sent volunteer illegal aliens to Martha’s Vineyard, he raised the game to a new level.

Tucker Carlson pointed out in his monologue (see below) that Martha’s Vineyard is one of the richest and most aggressively Democrat regions in America. Its residents, from Barack Obama on down, had no problem with Biden destroying America’s southern border. They also thought it was fine when Biden placed the illegal immigrants who came flooding across the border onto planes and buses, and then, in the dark of night, shipped them out to Republican communities all over America.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-sanctuary-city-spectacle-migrants-busing-ron-desantis-marthas-vineyard-greg-abbott-florida-texas-border-11663366052?mod=opinion_lead_pos1

It’s hard to imagine a bigger spectacle of American political failure than this week’s histrionics over migrants. GOP Governors used political stunts to draw attention to the burden of handling runaway migration at the border, while Democrats pretended to be horrified and change the subject from their own border failures. Migrants have become political props for both parties.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey have been sending migrants to Democratic cities since May to make a political point about their struggles with unchecked migration. This week Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis escalated, as is his fashion, by flying about 50 Venezuelans to Martha’s Vineyard off the Massachusetts coast. Mr. Abbott then bused 100 foreign nationals to Vice President Kamala Harris’s residence in Washington.

President Barack Obama has a home on Martha’s Vineyard, while Ms. Harris said as recently as Sunday that the border is “secure” when everyone knows it isn’t. The GOP point was to make the political personal. The gambits are an attempt to get media attention to showcase the hypocrisy of Democrats who run “sanctuary cities” without bearing the costs of migration, and the Governors have certainly done that.

New York Mayor Eric Adams, who presides over eight million residents, said Wednesday that his city is “nearing its breaking point” after receiving about 10,000 migrants since May. Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker declared a state of emergency Wednesday and authorized National Guard troops to help out after a mere 500 migrants made it to Chicago. Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser has also declared an emergency.

Contrast those numbers with the more than 250,000 migrants who have arrived this year around Yuma, Ariz.—a city of about 100,000. Migrant apprehensions at the border are already at 1.9 million this fiscal year and will probably hit a record this month. These migrants descend on border states first, and cities like Del Rio, Uvalde and El Paso bear too much of the burden.

https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/highest-number-in-us-history-border-patrol-logs-8000-migrants-entering-us-each-day/

Immigration authorities are reporting the highest-ever daily number of migrants entering the United States along the southwest border, according to internal Department of Homeland Security communications reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon.

Border Patrol officers are logging roughly 8,000 migrant encounters a day, the highest daily number in U.S. history, the communications show. Such a massive surge in migrants has left agencies such as Customs and Border Protection scrambling to implement new processing systems.

The record number of migrant encounters highlights the little progress the Biden administration has made in solving the border crisis. The news comes as the White House blamed former president Donald Trump for the crisis earlier this week, accusing the previous administration of leaving President Joe Biden with a “broken” immigration system. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre defended the president and claimed the Biden administration is taking “unprecedented action” at the southern border. Those actions, according to the White House, include new border technology and anti-smuggling task forces.

https://stevecortes.substack.com/p/one-million-migrants-bidens-asylum

America’s asylum generosity has been weaponized by Joe Biden to facilitate a human tsunami of trespassers into our homeland. As the Daily Mail recently catalogued, a staggering 4.9 million uninvited, unvetted foreign nationals have broken into America because of Biden’s refusal to secure our border during his disastrous tenure.

Of those nearly 5 million illegals, fresh reporting from the New York Times details that 1 million of them entered under the guise of asylum, and now receive abundant benefits in America, funded by US taxpayers at a time of historic economic duress for US citizens.

That column in the NY Times, headlined “Biden Administration Has Admitted One Million Migrants to Await Hearings,” focused on asylum seekers settling into comfortable lives in Portland, Maine where they stay in hotels, enjoy taxpayer-funded meals, and send their children to local public schools without the burdens of paying local taxes.

This life of copious benefits can persist for years for such migrants, since the massive backlog of cases means that most uninvited migrants will “wait seven years on average before a decision on their case is reached,” according to the Times. That scenario begs the key question: do these migrants truly need and deserve American asylum, or are they overwhelmingly just economic migrants abusing the broken US immigration system?

To answer that question, the analysis of none other than President Barack Obama provides useful insight. As president he was queried about this issue as he met in the White House with the leaders of Latin American countries that sent masses of economic refugees to America seeking entry to the US under the false pretense of political asylum. Obama responded:

“Refugee status is not granted just based on economic need or because a family lives in a bad neighborhood or poverty.  It’s typically defined fairly narrowly — the state, for example, that was targeting political activists and they need to get out of the country for fear of prosecution or even death.”