TJKMO wrote:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/03/16/trump-immigrants-not-people/
Some immigrants are not People, trump stated in the same unhinged rant.
You are so naive.
Trump is correct, many of those so-called "immigrants" are subhuman cockroaches.
“Now Nobody Crosses Without Paying:” Senior Border Patrol Agents Describe Unprecedented Cartel Control at Southwest BorderDecember 14, 2023
WASHINGTON, D.C. —
Today, House Committee on Homeland Security Chairman Mark E. Green, MD (R-TN) issued the following statement after the Committee released additional portions of t***scribed interviews conducted with the U.S. Border Patrol agents responsible for the sectors along the Southwest border. In the interviews, Border Patrol leadership confirmed the unprecedented influence the criminal cartels wield at the Southwest border, detailed the numerous ways these groups take advantage of the chaos and anti-enforcement policies under Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, and described the abuses and atrocities committed by these organizations against individuals seeking to get to the Southwest border:“In these shocking transcripts, chief patrol agents not only shed a light on the unprecedented control exercised by the criminal cartels at our Southwest border, but they also confirmed that Americans are ‘living in the theater of engagement.’ This means that the policies of Secretary Mayorkas have ceded ground along our border to these heartless criminals and have allowed their malign activities to destabilize cities and towns across the country.
“From overwhelming Border Patrol agents with mass crossings to purposefully putting the lives of migrants—including children—in danger, these cartels will stop at nothing to smuggle criminals across the border and deadly drugs into our communities, all while abusing, trafficking, and profiting off of vulnerable individuals. Secretary Mayorkas’ refusal to enforce the law and remove incentives for illegal crossings is enabling the cartels’ booming business model. This is completely unacceptable. Homeland Republicans are committed to holding Secretary Mayorkas accountable for allowing criminal cartels with no respect for human life to control our border.”The House Committee on Homeland Security and the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability conducted interviews with eight chief patrol agents and one deputy chief patrol agent from April-September 2023 to acquire more information about operations in their sectors and how the crisis has impacted the safety and security of the United States. These interviews were part of the Committees’ ongoing investigation into the causes, costs, and consequences of the unprecedented crisis at America’s borders, and the role of Secretary Mayorkas in facilitating and maintaining this crisis.
In the second interim report as part of an ongoing investigation in Secretary Mayorkas’ handling of the crisis at the Southwest border, the Committee noted the testimony of other experienced law enforcement personnel and public officials who have described the historic levels of control now held by the criminal cartels. In February 2023, former Border Patrol Chief Rodney Scott told Congress the cartels “control the border today. And they control the border today under the Biden administration because of this mass migration to a level that they’ve never had.” Arizona
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema told one local radio station in May, “The cartels are incredibly well-resourced and they’re very strategic, so they’re pushing people through different parts of the border at different times with different prices for different purposes, and they’re controlling what’s happening on the southern border, not the United States government.”The cartels are also raking in historic profits from both drug and human smuggling, as well as human trafficking. As noted in the Committee’s report, the cartels were estimated to have made $13 billion in 2021 just off of human smuggling—and the number of individuals traveling through Mexico to the Southwest border has only increased since.
Earlier this year, Secretary Mayorkas admitted before the Senate Judiciary Committee that he was unaware of the method used by the cartels to overwhelm border agents in order to sneak aliens and drugs across the border—a tactic described by the chief patrol agents in these interviews—and he even admitted that he was unaware of their use of wristbands to keep track of the i*****l a***ns being smuggled and trafficked.
Despite Secretary Mayorkas’ false claims to have operational control of the Southwest border, in March 2023, then-Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz contradicted those statements, testifying before the Committee that DHS does not have operational control of our border, and that five of our nine Southwest border sectors are not secure.
In previous se******ns of the transcripts released by the Committee, these senior agents also describe how the numbers of i*****l a***ns crossing the border is truly historic, how mass release of i*****l a***ns function as a pull factor, and the recent phenomenon of i*****l a***ns turning themselves in to Border Patrol agents rather than evading arrest because they expect to be released.
Homeland Majority Releases Second Interim Report on How Secretary Mayorkas’ Open-Border Policies Have Empowered Cartels and Undermined National Security“The cartels’ operations at the border and in communities across the country have meant more crime, more families ripped apart by addiction, and more vulnerable people exploited and abused.”
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the House Committee on Homeland Security Majority, led by Chairman Mark E. Green, MD (R-TN), released its interim report on the second phase of the Committee’s comprehensive oversight investigation into the crisis at the Southwest border and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas’ dereliction of duty in handling the crisis. This report examines how cartels in Mexico have seized unprecedented control at the Southwest border to smuggle i*****l a***ns, criminals, suspected terrorists, and deadly f******l and other drugs into the United States, taking advantage of Mayorkas and President Joe Biden’s reckless open-border policies and their refusal to enforce i*********n l*ws passed by Congress.
“For more than two years, the chaos at the Southwest border caused by President Biden and Secretary Mayorkas’ reckless open-borders policies have endangered the lives and livelihoods of Americans across this country while also threatening our homeland security,” Chairman Green said. “This damning report emphasizes how Secretary Mayorkas’ refusal to enforce the laws passed by Congress have given cartels a historic business opportunity, allowing them to rake in billions of dollars from historic levels of human smuggling and trafficking, as well as the trafficking of deadly drugs like f******l into our communities. It’s time to stop subsidizing cartel crime. This secretary’s dereliction of duty is on full display in the cartels’ unprecedented control of the Southwest border and operations inside the United States. Homeland Republicans will keep working until we provide answers and accountability on behalf of the American people.”The report documents how the Biden-Mayorkas policies have encouraged millions of i*****l a***ns to make the journey to the Southwest border, representing a historic business opportunity for the cartels, who control the land routes to the border and demand payment in order to cross into the United States. Thousands of agents have been pulled off the border-security mission to process, t***sport, and release these i*****l a***ns into the country.
The cartels continue to use mass groups of i*****l a***ns to overwhelm Border Patrol agents in one location, and as those agents are responding, flood other groups of aliens, as well as narcotics, through the zones agents have vacated. This tactic was confirmed to Committee staff by multiple Border Patrol agents in t***scribed interviews throughout the spring and summer.
The report also documents how t***snational gangs like MS-13 are taking advantage of Mayorkas’ policies, the historic number of individuals on the terror watchlist that have been apprehended illegally crossing the Southwest border on Mayorkas’ watch, the release of potential national security threats into the United States by overworked law enforcement, and the shifting of federal law enforcement from their regular duties to assisting with the crisis at the Southwest border.
In the report, the Committee states,
“Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas’ open-borders policies have empowered and emboldened some of the most vicious, ruthless, and savage individuals and groups in the world. Whether it is t***snational criminal organizations (TCOs) like the cartels and human smuggling organizations in the Western Hemisphere, potential national security threats from countries who sponsor terrorism, or those coming from major state adversaries like China and Russia, the wide-open Southwest border has given America’s enemies all over the globe an opportunity to infiltrate the homeland—an opportunity too good to pass up.”To examine cartel control of the Southwest border, the Committee held a full Committee hearing in July 2023, in which Members received confirmation that Biden and Mayorkas’ reckless open-border policies, such as ending ‘Remain in Mexico,’ refusing to finish the border wall system, implementing mass catch and release, and releasing millions of i*****l a***ns into the country on parole rather than detaining or removing them, have facilitated the business model of cartels and other t***snational criminal groups operating at the Southwest border and increasingly throughout American communities.
In July, the Homeland Security Subcommittee on Border Security and Enforcement, led by Chairman Clay Higgins (R-LA), held a hearing with Biden administration witnesses to examine the role of TCOs, particularly Mexican drug cartels, in trafficking illicit f******l into the United States. In the hearing, witnesses confirmed that TCOs in Mexico are successfully smuggling mass quantities of deadly, illicit f******l past Border Patrol agents and CBP officers and into the United States. Not only are cartels smuggling on land, but they are now trafficking f******l and other drugs using Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), or drones, to do so.
In August, Chairman Green sent a letter to Mayorkas, in which he demanded answers on possible failures in intra-agency intelligence sharing following the secretary’s admission before the Senate Judiciary Committee that he was unaware of cartels’ use of wristbands to track those being smuggled across the Southwest border. The letter requested any communications, intelligence products, briefings, and media reports on the topic shared internally.