Governor Abbott Deserves much credit for spreading the the illegal alien invasion to other States. It helped wake the country to the horrific plight of this national tragedy.

 

NewsNation’s Chris Stirewalt Says Trump Owes ‘Big Wet Kiss’ To Texas Gov on Election Night for Spreading ‘Pain’ of Migrant Crisis

Zachary LeemanNov 6th, 2024 mediaite.com

NewsNation’s Chris Stirewalt said former President Donald Trump owes a “big wet kiss” to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) if he ends up winning the presidential election.

During election night coverage for NewsNation, Stirewalt argued results have shown that the southern border and migrant-related issues negatively impacted Democrats. Chris Cuomo noted Vice President Kamala Harris has the worst performance of any Democrat since 1988. Harris still won the race with her pulling 55.7% of the vote to Trump’s 44.3%, according to AP results.

“What is the message from the results in New York City if the progressive agenda was something seen as desirable with her getting the lowest number we’ve seen since 1988?” he asked Stirewalt.

Stirewalt argued there are a “million things” behind that number, but it’s likely mostly to due with Abbott spreading the “pain” of the migrant crisis by busing thousands of illegal immigrants to blue cities like New York and Chicago. Abbott long said the move was in response to what he feels is a lackluster federal response to the southern border. Abbott began busing migrants in 2023.

“Donald Trump, if he does win this election, should send a big wet kiss over to Greg Abbott, the governor of Texas,” Stirewalt said, “who innovated the idea of dumping migrants into New York City and Chicago and big cities all over the country, and he made it a problem for those other people. Instead of it being localized in Texas, he made sure to spread the pain around.”

Watch above via NewsNation.

 

We need manufacturing back in the USA! Tariffs were a basic form of national income, not printing money and debt.

 

Trump Promises Tariffs On All Products From Mexico Until It Curbs Flow Of Migrants Into U.S.

By  Zach Jewell Nov 4, 2024 DailyWire.com

https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-promises-tariffs-on-all-products-from-mexico-until-it-curbs-flow-of-migrants-into-u-s

 "It's Only Got a 100% Chance of Working"

On the last day of his campaign before Election Day, former President Donald Trump promised to place a 25% tariff on every product from Mexico unless the country stops the flow of migrants illegally crossing the U.S. southern border.

Trump unveiled the new policy on Monday to a crowd of supporters in North Carolina, an important battleground state, saying the tariff has a “100%” chance of working. While most of the tariff plans Trump has previously touted on the campaign trail focus on rejuvenating American manufacturing, his promise on Monday centered on addressing the border crisis that has skyrocketed under the Biden-Harris administration, another top issue of the former president’s campaign.

Trump said that “on day one or sooner,” he will inform Mexico’s new president, Claudia Sheinbaum, that if Mexico doesn’t “stop this onslaught of criminals and drugs coming into our country, I’m going to immediately impose a 25% tariff on everything they send into the United States of America.”

“And it’s only got a 100% chance of working,” Trump added. “Because if that doesn’t work, I’ll make it 50 [percent]. And if that doesn’t work, I’ll make it 75 [percent] for the tough guys. I’ll make it 100 [percent]. And at some point, they’ll have so many soldiers on their southern border, you know, their southern border is where they come in.”

In September while speaking at a town hall event in Flint, Michigan, Trump vowed to put a 200% tariff on vehicles manufactured outside of the U.S., saying he wants to bring more car manufacturing back to places like Flint and Detroit.

 “They think they’re going to make their cars there and they’re going to sell them across our line and we’re going to take them and we’re not going to charge them tax. We’re going to charge them. I’m telling you right now, we’re putting a 200% tariff on them, which means they’re unsellable,” Trump said.

“And then you wonder why I get shot at,” he added. “You know, only consequential presidents get shot at. … But you have to do what you have to do. You have to be brave. Otherwise, you’re not going to have a country left.”

 

It is extremely questionable as to the efforts of NGO's and government agencies actions in caring for these UAC's.

 

What Happens to Unaccompanied Alien Children?

By Wendi Strauch Mahoney www.americanthinker.com

Last Tuesday, James O’Keefe highlighted whistleblower and contract specialist for the General Services Administration (GSA) Clarissa Rippee.  Rippee agreed to expose an alleged taxpayer-funded $347-million contract that transports alien unaccompanied children (UACs) from the border.  She came forward because she felt that UACs, including infants, were being treated like “commodities.”  O’Keefe alleges that it’s a “big-money business.”

Ripee was courageous to step forward.  In this case, it added a human dimension to previously exposed information.  The fact is that NGOs have long been using tax dollars to do the bidding of DHS and USCIS at the border.

The Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) often leads in exposing issues like this one.  In March 2024, the CIS’s Andrew Arthur used the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to obtain a 113-page, $404-million contract between the federal government “and a private entity to transport unaccompanied alien children (UACs) from shelters run by the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR).”

I have written extensively on the Biden-Harris open borders crisis.  The flood of illegal aliens, including countless unaccompanied minors often victimized by the carelessness of this administration.  The agreements between NGOs and our government to transport them are but one example of the way these innocents may be placed in harm’s way.

As CIS explains, the federal government farms out the transportation of young children from the border using NGOs and private contractors.  The report indicates some effort to properly vet the escorts who transport the children.  However, it seems that there is much less rigorous vetting of the sponsors who receive them.

According to Arthur, the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (HSA) changed the way minors were handled at the border by “abolish[ing] the former INS and dispers[ing] its enforcement and adjudication responsibilities across various agencies.”  Arthur also states that, with “no debate,” Democrats gave ORR, with “no experience in sheltering children,” the responsibility for housing minors.

Later in 2008, the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act (TVPRA), added to DHS mandates the transportation of UACs “from non-contiguous countries to ORR within 72 hours, nearly all for placement with sponsors in the United States,” according to Arthur. As a result, the “number and percentage of UACs apprehended at the border from non-contiguous countries has skyrocketed ever since.”

Reporting in June 2023 from the Congressional Research Service shows massive increases in UACs at the southwest border since FY2009.  UAC apprehensions skyrocketed when Biden took office in 2021.  UACs “consistently exceeded 8,500 per month, higher than any period since CBP began publishing UC [UAC] statistics,” according to the report.

 

It is all too common for parents or guardians in the U.S. and abroad to pay smugglers to bring their children to the U.S.  In many cases, these sponsors are “unlawful permanent residents” in the U.S.  They are here illegally, sheltering UACs while in hiding — not exactly the best prescription for keeping children safe.

NGOs also play a huge role in sheltering minors and, in some cases, are responsible for abusing them.  In July, I wrote a piece for Freedom Forever exposing allegations of ongoing “sexual abuse and harassment of minors” by employees of an NGO, Southwest Key Programs, Inc.  The article exposed that “Southwest Key operates 29 shelters that provide temporary housing for UACs in Texas, Arizona, and California, making it the largest housing provider for UACs in the U.S.”  The DOJ filed a lawsuit against Southwest Key in July 2024.

Once unaccompanied minors leave those shelters, they may be placed with “unvetted sponsors.”  The Trump administration mandated DNA testing of those accompanying minors and sponsors to “prove they were a family unit.”  Biden did away with the practice in 2023.

Then, in August, I wrote another article on the real-world consequences of Biden’s border policies, including the brutal murders of American citizens by illegal aliens.  Another issue highlighted in the same article centered on how poor the vetting is by our government of U.S.-based sponsors.

Quoting CIS’s research, it seems the Biden administration was “‘cutting corners’ when vetting sponsors.”  I reported at the time that there were “up to 140,000” UACs with whom the HHS’s ORR [had] lost contact.”  And according to the Judiciary’s Aug. 12, 2024 interim report, an “astonishing 420,000 [UACs] [had been] released to sponsors.”

According to CIS, the Trump administration had a more “robust process” for the vetting of sponsors, but the Biden administration allegedly does not.  Part of that is because of the unprecedented numbers of illegals crossing the border.  There is simply no way for DHS, ICE, or the Border Patrol to properly vet and process them all.  CIS writes,

The Biden administration is under pressure to speed those children out of HHS custody, but doing so risks cutting corners when it comes to its vetting of sponsors and their household members.

Unfortunately, ORR has a history of failure to properly protect children and vet sponsors.  A 2016 Senate subcommittee report exposes ORR’s failure to protect UACs “from trafficking and other abuses.”  The Senate investigation found “systemic deficiencies in HHS’s UAC placement process.”  The subcommittee reviewed case files and found,

HHS does not adequately vet sponsors to ensure that they are willing and able to provide proper care and support to any child—much less children as vulnerable as UACs. Nor does HHS ensure that UACs receive needed services after placement. In fact, HHS claims it is not responsible for a UAC at all once it releases such a child from federal custody to a sponsor. Rather, HHS believes that after release of a UAC’s care is in the purview of local authorities. By the time local authorities become involved, however, it can be too late.

Finally, in an article I wrote in September, I discussed a report obtained in August by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) that exposed “massive fraud in the application process” used by sponsors of aliens seeking parole under the Cuban-Haitian-Nicaragua-Venezuela (CHNV) program.  The document exposed thousands of fraudulently completed applications.  The fraudulent information included but was not limited to

• the use of fake Social Security numbers,
• fake addresses,
• multiple sponsors applying from a single property,
• identical responses used “by over 10,000 applicants,”
• multiple uses of one sponsor’s phone number,
• emails being used repeatedly, and
• suspicious data changes.

Those transporting UACs may well be the last to see these children safe and alive.  My best guess is that the sponsors for UACs are no better vetted than are the ones for the CHNV program.

Rippee was right to come forward.  It is scary to think that NGOs are allowed to transport and hand off children, in some cases, to poorly vetted sponsors.  Children should enter and settle in the U.S. with their families, not with faceless NGOs.  As it stands now, many children are powerless to challenge the process and arguably in harm’s way.

 

An outstanding report from CIS Journalist Todd Bensman about the horrific illegal alien invasion of our southern border!

 

Mexico Is Holding Back A Massive Wave Of Illegal Immigrants That Will Break After The Election

By: Todd Bensman October 31, 2024 thefederalist.com

TAPACHULA, Mexico – A tip led me to 40 kilometers north of this down-at-heel border city, by rental car, until I spotted the unmistakable sight: a 1,000-strong caravan of migrants marching by foot along Mexico Highway 200 for hundreds of yards.

Men, women, children, and babies bobbed and weaved together in an elongated, colorful human pack. I spent the day walking among and interviewing them, the only reporter there.

Just the week before, a 2,000-strong migrant caravan from Tapachula did catch some fleeting American media attention, and next came a massive third one marching out of Tapachula which became a full-scale U.S. news story as the American presidential election campaigns draw to their climactic Nov. 5 end, with illegal immigration a top issue in the election’s outcome.

American news media are warning that migrant caravans are about to start crashing over the U.S. border, but in my interviews, I discovered that story was totally, wildly wrong.

For starters, none of these caravans ever intend to reach the American border because that is not their main purpose — at least not until after the U.S. election. They are not autonomous upstart rebel movements like caravans of old. Rather, the Mexican government seems to have facilitated them and has provided military and police escorts so that their participants can safely reach their true destinations, which again, is not the American border.

The underlying story that spawned these caravans begins in December 2023, conveniently right at Christmastime, when most reporters and editors would be sipping eggnog around their homefires.

That was when President Joe Biden called his Mexican counterpart and struck a deal, then sent his most senior lieutenants to Mexico to work out the details of what remains a highly mysterious grand diplomatic bargain.

Caged Cities

The deal was to have Mexico deploy 32,500 troops to the U.S. border to round up untold thousands of intending border crossers from the northern precincts and force-ship them – “internal deportation” by planes and buses – thousands of miles to Mexico’s southern provinces and entrap them in cities like Tapachula in Chiapas State and Villahermosa in Tabasco State, behind militarized roadblocks.

Mexico closed off most of its freight trains to migrant-free riders, bulldozed northern camps, and patrolled relentlessly for more deportee targets, as I was perhaps the first and only in the nation to report on Jan. 17.

The most likely purpose of these interactions besides the officially provided explanation about “ongoing efforts to manage migratory flows” and “additional enforcement actions urgently needed?” Best guess: to spare the Democratic presidential candidate the damaging political spectacle of mass border crossings for the duration of the coming political campaign season that was sure to feature illegal immigration as a key issue.

Indeed, illegal border crossings immediately plummeted from an embarrassing record-breaking 12,000-14,000 per day in November and December 2023 to about 3,000 or 4,000 per day before January was even over.

U.S. media have been sipping eggnog ever since, while hundreds of thousands of immigrants stacked up in the caged cities of Mexico’s deep south month after month after month, although “60 Minutes” finally broke from the boozy pack to run a story about it in late March.

Even the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s just-released 2025 Homeland Threat Assessment admits the huge declines in illegal border crossings since December 2023 is largely to “increased Mexican enforcement efforts.”

So what does any of this have to do with migrant caravans that are now suddenly appearing 10 months later?

Hellscape Tapachula and Population Transfers

My interviews with those in the caravans and those planning to join new ones during a weeklong visit to Tapachula, as well as with government officials, police, and Mexican troops lay it out.

Tapachula was bursting at the seams with an entrapped, growing population being deported into it from the north and with an estimated 500-1,500 new foreigners entering every day from Guatemala on the south.

The misery index skyrocketed for both the immigrants and the city’s residents and managers as money-less people unable to advance north for months returned home, or begged, hustled for coins and food, slept in public spaces, and waited for Mexican asylum permits or American parole on the CBP-One mobile phone apps that never seemed to materialize quickly enough.

Tapachula became a hellscape.

No one really knows how many people stacked up, but local shelter managers in Tapachula told me they had filled up long ago. The publisher of Noticia De Tapachula, the daily newspaper, told me 150,000 immigrants were in town at any given time, a 40 percent increase in the city’s normal population of 350,000. Only a few months into the Mexican operations, 20,000 immigrants had been internally deported to Villahermosa, a number that must be many times that by now for the city of 340,000.

I’ve visited Tapachula five times over the last decade and have never seen it so packed. Southern Mexico must almost certainly be bulging to dangerous proportions with many hundreds of thousands of foreign nationals aching to break free toward the American border.

But the American presidential campaigns were still ongoing, and Mexico’s central government had to hold the line somehow while relieving the pressure cookers of its caged cities. It was untenable.

Mexico’s chosen relief strategy was to issue short-distance city transfer travel permits that would allow thousands to leave the jobless, denuded, crime-riddled hellscape of Tapachula for less beaten southern cities, still in Chiapas or in neighboring states.

I spent time at two different roadside areas where federal immigration officers would call out names from the crowd, who would board buses that delivered them to other regional cities in Chiapas – but NOT beyond them and rarely beyond Mexico City, although camps even there are overflowing.

For most, venturing north of Mexico City still risks a one-way ticket back to these hellscapes, a truly deterring prospect.

Fear of Trump Brings on the Caravans

Mexico is struggling to maintain its end of the bargain for a particular reason right now. Countless immigrants in the caravan I followed and back in Tapachula explained that they were feeling desperate to cross before Donald Trump wins the election and closes the border to all immigrants, as the Republican candidate has repeatedly promised. They’re pouring in from Guatemala and pushing hard against the Mexican cordon, hoping for a breakdown.

The Mexican government’s bus transfer program does not seem to be keeping up with fear and tension driving immigrants to cross in at what Mexico’s foreign minister recently said has now reached 7,000 per day.

And so, the Mexican government saw caravans as a way to move people far faster than the inter-city bus transfer program I observed in action. This explains why the Mexican military and police are escorting the caravans, rather than blocking them.

Their destinations are other regional towns and cities — not the US border. The soldiers and police will not let the caravans go beyond middle Mexico.

Every caravan traveler I spoke to understood that it would deliver most to Tuxtla, Chiapas, and some thought they may try on their own to make it to Mexico City. But no one was willing to chance deportation back to hellscape Tapachula to venture beyond.

Mexico is still trying to hold up its end of the bargain, at least until Nov. 5, even though some are starting to slip through in greater numbers and reaching the Texas city of Eagle Pass, for instance.

At least not until the American election.

After that, all bets are off on caravans to the border no matter who wins.

If Trump or Harris wins, Mexico might well consider that it more than satisfied its obligation to the current White House occupant and open the floodgates wide. If it’s Trump, perhaps Americans could expect a massive tidal wave of caravans for the 10 weeks before Inauguration Day.

If it’s Harris, perhaps the massive tidal wave can go on for the next four years, much like the last four.