youngwilliam Loc: Deep in the heart

Same is said for you.

martsiva

YOU point out where any MAGAs are longing for war!!! All YOU do is constantly lie!!

Nick Nicholson Loc: Florida, USA

Oh, I'll put my IQ up againt yours any day. When somone like trump says he will negotiate himself a third presidency, I believe him. When he talks about spilled blood, he is encouraging the idiots supporting his to do exactly that, just as they did on January 6 as a result of his urging. If anyone is failoing to understand what trump is all about, it is the people supporting him. He is that evil and selfish. And way too many people in this forum have no abiloity to see through the history of what the congress has done to America by steadily holdiing down wages and marching toward communism. Learn from history and avoid destroying America.

martsiva

Youve told us plenty about you!!You want a list???

youngwilliam Loc: Deep in the heart

More senseless fear mongering based in ELWNJ opinions. I bet your fun at parties.

Nick Nicholson Loc: Florida, USA

Continue being the fool. Do you have any concept of what has happened in this nation over the last 55 years? Probably not. I suggest you read some history about how multiple nations have become communist. And not one has ever become communist as a result of social programs. Nope. They all became communist because of uncontrolled capitalism. Every single one. Just like what has been happening here snce about 1969.

RandyBrian Loc: Texas

Not facts at all. Unsupported opinions of a leftwing fanatic in denial of the facts.
But I wish you will, and hope you live long enough to eat crow when Trump wins and turns America to the RIGHT.

Big Kahuna

What BLM and Antifa have done to our country can be categorized as bloodbaths. Trump was referring to bloodbaths that also occurred in communist takeovers in the USSR, China, North Korea, Cuba, Vietnam, and Venezuela. Those were true bloodbaths but yet your party wants to implement communism in the U.S. You demorats all appear to be terrorists and corrupt liars. Our country is an terrible shape with the demorat party in power. These are fearful times indeed.

RandyBrian Loc: Texas

So much educated 'reasoning' and orderly 'logic' to do so little but trying to justify a steaming pile of Democrat 'rationalization'.
If only you would put that same effort into actually THINKING and seeking the TRUTH rather than trying to justify your emotional reactions based on a history of false liberal ideology.

Nick Nicholson Loc: Florida, USA

Not at all. The hate comes from the MAGAs who support a lying cheating greedy politician with no morals and who violates laws regularly. The hate is directed at those of us who actually want America to thrive. And based on our extensive studies and education, especially about history, You are supporting the destruiction of America's democracy.

Big Kahuna

You are almost 80 and still have no morals. What a wasted life.

Big Kahuna

Nick is politicking for Czar of Bribem's propaganda wing of his speech Enforcement Bureau. His head is further up Bribem's butt than Mad Merrick's is.

Nick Nicholson Loc: Florida, USA

We have been to the RIGHT over most of the last 55 years. And what it has brought us is more poverty, crime, lowered standards of living for the working class, more racism, more anti anyone different, loss of a woman's autonomy opver her own body, worse health care, violating the separation of church and state in the constitution. For 55 years, our economic status of our workers has decreased due to the wealthy taking more and more of the total wealth of this nation. Wages are up in that period about 10 percent as of 2018. And the paychecks of the top 10 percent went up around 300 percent. Want to debate facts instead of ignorant rants and name calling like a 6 year old? I'll put mu IQ up against yours any time.

martsiva

You truly DO lack comprehension skills!! He was talking about the auto industry!!

Blade_Runner Loc: DARK SIDE OF THE MOON

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 Border

December 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 transcribed 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 illegal aliens 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 selections of the transcripts released by the Committee, these senior agents also describe how the numbers of illegal aliens crossing the border is truly historic, how mass release of illegal aliens function as a pull factor, and the recent phenomenon of illegal aliens 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 illegal aliens, criminals, suspected terrorists, and deadly fentanyl 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 immigration laws 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 fentanyl 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 illegal aliens 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, transport, and release these illegal aliens into the country.

The cartels continue to use mass groups of illegal aliens 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 transcribed interviews throughout the spring and summer.

The report also documents how transnational 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 transnational 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 illegal aliens into the country on parole rather than detaining or removing them, have facilitated the business model of cartels and other transnational 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 fentanyl into the United States. In the hearing, witnesses confirmed that TCOs in Mexico are successfully smuggling mass quantities of deadly, illicit fentanyl past Border Patrol agents and CBP officers and into the United States. Not only are cartels smuggling on land, but they are now trafficking fentanyl 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.