Spain's illegal immigration invasion is a definite likeness to the Biden southern border fiaco.

 

Spain’s Migrant Invasion Mirrors Biden’s Southern Border

Emmy Griffin patriotpost.us 8-4-26

Tens of thousands of Moroccan migrants flooded into Ceuta in a perfect storm of bad socialist policies and bad international relations.

Late last week, Spain experienced a coordinated border invasion of its territory of Ceuta, one of two parts of the European Union that border an African nation — Morocco. Ceuta is home to 84,000 people.

Around 60,000 Moroccan migrants, most of them military-aged men, entered Ceuta by swimming across the water. Seventy-two people died either by drowning or by being crushed in the surge at the border. This mass migration into Spanish territory was a perfect storm of bad socialist policy and bad diplomatic relations.

Spain has some of the worst immigration policies in the EU. Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is a creature of the far Left and takes the worst side of every international issue. In the Israel-Gaza war, for example, he is pro-Hamas. In the Iran war, he is pro-IRGC. And to solve Spain’s fertility issue (the birth rate there is 1.42 children per woman), Sánchez wants to import more people from the third world.

Sound familiar?

Last December, Sánchez was also responsible for issuing Spain’s seventh mass amnesty in 40 years as a counterprotest against “MAGA-style leaders.” His government estimated there would be 500,000 applicants — they were woefully wrong. Spain was buried under more than a million applications.

This amnesty, combined with last month’s Spanish Supreme Court ruling declaring that migrants who cross into Spain by sea will not be immediately deported, was the impetus for Ceuta’s current situation.

According to Spain’s Ministry of the Interior, the “court ruling encouraged the flow of undocumented migrants, mostly young people.” However, last week’s invasion didn’t happen in a vacuum. Migrants from Morocco want to escape economic hardship, yes, but the mass exodus was likely a political setup by Morocco’s government.

In late July, Sánchez visited Algeria and declared that it was a particularly important strategic partner. Well, Morocco and Algeria are rival North African countries that are constantly striving to be top dog. In Morocco’s eyes, Spain’s declaration that Algeria was strategically important meant that Morocco was less important. So, Morocco decided to prove just how important it is to Spain’s sovereignty. According to some of the migrants, they were encouraged to cross the border by social media rumors, and Moroccan authorities had the gates wide open, beckoning people through.

The immigration crisis has reached a breaking point, and Ceuta’s mayor-president, Juan Jesús Vivas, has called on Madrid for aid. Sánchez did send some support but is refusing to call the invasion an emergency. He also visited Ceuta on Saturday. Stores shuttered their doors, and residents huddled in their houses — except for those protesting Sánchez.

To help close the border, Spain put out 1,600 feet of floating border wall. So far, 48,000 of the 60,000 migrants have returned to Morocco, and Sánchez has sent help to round up those who refuse to leave.

Other EU countries are alarmed at what Spain’s lax laws have allowed to happen: an emergency meeting to discuss border security will occur today, and Italy has taken the preemptive measure of closing off its borders to people coming from Spain for the next month — a move that Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni made clear was “an extraordinary measure, adopted to safeguard national security and prevent possible repercussions for our nation.”

Sánchez, of course, blames the EU for overreacting, and his government officials have gone so far as to blame President Donald Trump and Israel. In other words, Spain’s far-left party has no accountability.

Sound familiar?

As other have noted, this invasion mirrors the U.S. southern border under President Joe Biden, and it will again if a likeminded Democrat takes office in 2028. Like the increasingly communist Democrat Party, Sánchez cares more about importing future voters to keep him in power than he cares about the people who elected him to serve them.

Mass illegal immigration and refusing to enforce immigration law are recipes for misery and disaster. For those desperate souls trying to cross the border illegally, the price is hardship, exploitation, abuse, and even death. And for those on the receiving end, the price is chaos in the streets, crime, and volatile living situations. It’s a zero-sum game for the people whom politicians use as pawns in their power plays.

 

Thank Heaven, ICE continues to do its job, despite Democrat outrage!

 

Leftist Rags Decry ICE Arresting Illegals at Airports

Emmy Griffin patriotpost.us 8-4-26

While The Gray Lady and WaPo are upset about it, the uptick in arrests of illegal aliens boarding domestic flights is a coup for the Trump administration.

Both The New York Times and The Washington Post are hyperventilating because Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents are arresting illegal aliens at airports, which they claim is a newfangled alliance between the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and ICE.

ICE agents arresting illegal aliens at airports is not a new phenomenon, but the current level of arrests is.

According to the Times and WaPo, the individuals who are being arrested as they attempt to board domestic flights have either overstayed their visas, are in the process of renewing their visas, or recently married an American citizen and have not yet established permanent residency. Of course, the left-leaning agitprops neglected to mention that a significant number of these arrestees have criminal records and/or are a threat to national security.

Criminals and potential terrorists don’t garner Leftmedia sympathy; it’s the au pair or the honeymooning newlyweds who get attention. This helps spread the long-running leftist narrative: Visa enforcement should be handled not with the heavy hand of ICE but with kid gloves.

For leftists, “people with expired visas” are not lawbreakers. Cesar Vargas, New York’s first illegal immigrant attorney, said in 2018 that arresting someone who has overstayed their visa is like arresting someone for a parking ticket: It’s a civil offense, not a criminal one, so it shouldn’t be treated as a crime worthy of police intervention. Interestingly, Vargas married an American citizen and is no longer “undocumented.”

Had visa enforcement been strictly policed, several of the 9/11 hijackers would never have boarded those planes. Evoking the 9/11 Islamist attack is inconsequential to leftists, however, because they want to harp on today’s narrative of oppressors vs. oppressed. Therefore, they sniff out immigration lawyers who can attest that the shift by ICE and TSA under the Trump administration is much more intense than they have experienced.

The New York Times elaborated:

Shannon Shepherd, an immigration lawyer who is vice chair for the Chicago chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, said she and other lawyers were revising longstanding advice about domestic air travel.

“Before, I was saying, ‘As long as you have an ID, you can travel domestically,’” Ms. Shepherd said. “Now I am turning around and saying, ‘If you are in the process of changing status, avoid any travel.’”

This likely means that the Biden administration was not arresting people for traveling with an expired visa, not that the immigration laws are new. “This administration is working diligently to ensure that aliens in our country illegally can no longer fly unless it is out of our country to self-deport,” the Department of Homeland Security said in a statement.

Reading between the lines, this shift marks something much more interesting.

First, it means that Border Patrol has staunched the flow of illegal aliens crossing the border. President Donald Trump did this without Congress having to enact any more laws. Remember when Joe Biden’s administration claimed that it couldn’t close the border because it didn’t have the authority and because the U.S. didn’t have the right laws in place?

Second, it means that ICE’s boots-on-the-ground measures have been successful — notwithstanding the violent and angry protests by leftists in blue states like Minnesota.

Third, it means that ICE is fine-tuning its efforts. There have been an immense number of self-deportations, and those being detained now are likely the holdouts.

Despite pushback from anti-ICE protesters across the country, the Trump administration’s deportation efforts have been a roaring success, even if that narrative won’t get splashed across the front pages of The New York Times and The Washington Post. Their griping is a victory flag for the American people.

 

Borders mean absolutely nothing to illegal alien invaders! A Nation's immigration laws, rules and regulations mean absolutely nothing to illegal alien invaders.

 

ICE faults Biden-era policies for third illegal entry by man convicted in Marine's 2017 killing

Does deportation work? A man convicted in the death of a 21-year-old Marine was removed from the country twice before and retruned anyway, only to go and kill a U.S, Marine.

By Ashe Short justthenews.com 8-3-26

An illegal immigrant who was deported twice and on his third illegal entry, was convicted of an automotive offense that killed a U.S. Marine is in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody and heading toward a third deportation.

Martin Martinez-Ballinas, 38, a Mexican national, has entered the U.S. illegally on three separate occasions. He is now in ICE custody after being held in federal prison at Fort Dix, New Jersey, ICE reported.

“Martinez-Ballinas repeatedly and flagrantly disregarded the laws of the United States and faces deportation for the third time,” Enforcement and Removal Operations Newark Acting Field Office Director Arthur J. Wilson, Jr. said in a statement. 

"A complete lack of respect for human life and our legal system": ICE says

“His conviction for an automotive offense that resulted in the tragic loss of a U.S. Marine in 2017 demonstrates a complete lack of respect for human life and our legal system. Anyone who believes violations of U.S. immigration law are trivial or inconsequential should take note: Federal offenses carry serious consequences, and we will continue to enforce the law to protect our communities and honor those who serve our nation.”

In 2017, Martinez-Ballinas was convicted of a hit-and-run in Maryland that took the life of 21-year-old U.S. Marine James Ray Walden III, The New York Post reported. Walden’s father told “The Will Cain Show” on Fox News that Martinez-Ballinas was driving without a license or insurance when he crossed into oncoming traffic and struck the young Marine’s motorcycle head on.

“My son was 21 years old. He was just starting his life,” Walden said. “He was in the Marine Corps. He worked for intel. He worked for the National Security Agency as a crypto analyst, basically Jimmy Spide with a computer.”

Revolving door of illegal entry on Biden's watch

After serving three years for the death of Walden’s son, Martinez-Ballinas was deported in 2020, but was caught attempting to illegally re-enter the U.S. the following year. He was sentenced to 15 months in prison for unlawful entry.

Martinez-Ballinas was again deported in October 2022, but again re-entered the U.S. in 2023, the Department of Justice reported at the time. For that offense, he was sentenced to 37 months in federal prison, followed by one year of supervised release. He is now in ICE custody pending deportation. ICE blamed the Biden administration for Martinez-Ballinas’ third illegal crossing.

As part of its border enforcement priorities, the Trump administration started Operation Take Back America, a nationwide initiative to remove illegal immigrants and end cartels and transnational crime organizations. Most recently, the Southern District of Texas charged 263 people, including 227 illegal immigrants, with immigration and border security crimes between July 24 and 30, the DOJ said in a press release.

Not an isolated incident

In Sioux City, Iowa, Democratic Republic of the Congo native Lopez Munongo Makengo, age 36, was convicted of unlawful possession of identification documents and unlawful use of those documents. Makengo had previously won the Diversity Visa lottery, a program that allows up to 55,000 permanent resident green cards be made available annually via random selection. People from countries with low rates of immigration to the U.S. can enter the lottery and receive a Diversity Visa. Makengo, however, was found to have lied on his application to the lottery, failing to disclose that he had a child even though he swore under oath that his statements on the application were true. Makengo faces up to 5 years in prison, a $250,000 fine, and up to 3 years supervised release following imprisonment. Makengo’s case is also part of Operation Take Back America.

 

Afterall, many illegal aliens residing in the USA are visa overstays.

 

US finalizes visa bond program aimed at reducing overstays

The permanent rule follows a pilot program launched in 2025.

By Nicholas Ballasy justthenews.com 8-1-26

The Trump administration is making permanent a visa bond requirement that could compel certain foreign visitors to put down thousands of dollars before entering the United States.

Under a State Department rule taking effect Aug. 3, consular officers will have the authority to require applicants from 50 countries, most of them in Africa, to post refundable bonds of as much as $20,000 when applying for B-1 business or B-2 tourist visas. The policy is intended to discourage travelers from remaining in the United States after their visas expire.

The permanent rule follows a pilot program launched in 2025. It raises the maximum bond amount from $15,000 to $20,000 and eliminates the previous $5,000 minimum bond option, Reuters reported.

Administration officials have argued that the bond requirement is an effective way to reduce visa overstays and strengthen immigration enforcement. Critics, however, contend the policy could make it prohibitively expensive for many legitimate travelers, particularly those seeking to visit family members, attend business meetings, or travel for tourism.

The visa bond is refundable if travelers comply with the terms of their visas and depart the United States as required.