The second paragraph describes the horrific consequences of the previous administration immigration policy.

 

House Judiciary finds Biden’s temporary protected status expansions were ‘de facto mass amnesty’

By Steven Richards justthenews.com 3-4-25

Many of the 1.4 million recipients of the special TPS designation were illegally paroled into the country, the committee found.

The House Judiciary Committee says in a report released Tuesday the Biden administration’s substantial expansion of Temporary Protected Status for immigrants, primarily from Venezuela and Haiti, was in fact “de facto amnesty.” 

“What was intended by Congress to be a temporary status has become, over time, a permanent, automatically renewed designation, with some countries being designated for TPS for decades despite changed country conditions,” the committee said in a press release. 

“The Biden-Harris Administration vastly expanded this de facto amnesty to hundreds of thousands of new aliens, many of whom are in the country illegally and who entered the country during the Biden-Harris border crisis.” 

The committee found there are more than 1.4 million aliens from 16 different countries granted TPS as of late January, just over 1 million of which were added since the beginning of the administration. 

Just the News reported in December the Biden administration’s liberal use of the policy led to 240% surge of foreign nationals protected from deportation and granted interim legal status in the United States. The new data show that at the end of the administration the surge had grown by about 340%. 

Migrants from Venezuela made up about half of all TPS recipients under the Biden administration, the Judiciary committee found. The country, which has experienced an emigration crisis under the leadership of strongman Nicolas Maduro and a stagnating economy, was designated for TPS under the Biden administration in 2021 and again in 2023.  

The committee found that more than 95% of all Venezuelan TPS recipients were “illegally paroled into the country, entered the country without inspection, provided the U.S. government with little or no information at all about the nature of their entry into the country, or remain in the U.S. having filed an application to claim, but who are statistically unlikely to qualify for, asylum.” 

A similar pattern emerged with Haitian immigrants, who make up a quarter of all TPS recipients currently in the country. More than 91% of these recipients had also been illegally paroled into the country under similar conditions. 

You can read the Judiciary Committee report below: 

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After taking office, President Biden extended TPS protections to people from more than 17 countries, including those in geopolitical hotspots such as Lebanon, Syria and Ukraine along with others that suffer poverty and instability. 

He also restored protections for immigrants from many countries removed from the list by the Trump administration, which previously deemed that conditions in those countries were not sufficient to warrant inclusion in the program.

The 17 countries on the list are: Afghanistan, Burma, Cameroon, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Haiti, Honduras, Lebanon, Nepal, Nicaragua, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Ukraine, Venezuela and Yemen. 

The administration’s use of TPS was seen as a way to act on accomplishing progressive immigration priorities, especially after a Democratic trifecta government failed to pass Biden’s proposed immigration reforms in 2021, Just the News previously reported. 

“It’s something that they can do without congressional approval,” then-Senator Bob Menendez, D-N.J., said of expanding TPS. 

“They could reauthorize those categories and expand on it,” he said, according to Roll Call. “So that would be a way of administratively helping a large number of people.”

 

Cartels thriving in trafficking people, drugs, crime and violence are feeling the heat from the 'new Sheriff in town'.

 

Mexico's cartels in a pants-soiling panic over Trump

By Monica Showalter www.americanthinker.com

President Trump is beating the living hell out of Mexico's cartels and they're crying 'uncle' to the New York Times.

According to today's Times:

One cartel leader says he’s trying to figure out how to protect his family in case the American military strikes inside Mexico. Another says he’s already gone into hiding, rarely leaving his home. Two young men who produce fentanyl for the cartel say they have shut down all their drug labs.

A barrage of arrests, drug seizures and lab busts by the Mexican authorities in recent months has struck the behemoth Sinaloa Cartel, according to Mexican officials and interviews with six cartel operatives, forcing at least some of its leaders to scale back on fentanyl production in Sinaloa state, their stronghold.

The cartels have sown terror across Mexico and caused untold damage in the United States. But here in Culiacán, the state capital, the dynamic seems to be shifting, at least for now. Cartel operatives say they’ve had to move labs to other areas of the country or temporarily shut down production.

“You can’t be calm, you can’t even sleep, because you don’t know when they’ll catch you,” said one high-ranking member of the Sinaloa Cartel who, like other cartel operatives, spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of capture.

“The most important thing now is to survive,” he added, his hands trembling.

Hey, I hope they were trembling.

I've seen cartel videos of these dirtbags running truck tires over a live, screaming, kidnapped man's head. I've read about the cartel's pozoleros, or stewmakers (don't ask), and seen news photos of headless bodies dangling from bridges. I've read about schoolchildren treated to dismembered bodies in their school yards and human heads used as bowling balls on disco floors. Every now and then, the cartels go on a car burning, or a house-burning, spree in Mexico's north. The last time I was in Tijuana, the border had no lines -- because a sack of human heads were found by cops the day earlier.

The trembling was the idea. While this thug sleeps with one eye open, millions of Mexicans are getting their first good night's rest in at least four years.

There have been signs of it coming: A few days ago, I wrote about the astonishment in Tijuana where locals couldn't find any sign of cartel activity -- no illegals, no drugs, no shakedowns, no shootouts. A local had this to say:

Now we're reading about a full-scale terror meltdown among the world's most hideous criminals.

Trump knew what he was doing and can now gloat about his astonishing and instaneous success. The Times should be singing his praises for it, but they've decided to report sob stories instead. Yet it all was carefully planned out, the work of thoughtful people who were able to shut down the scourge of Mexico in maybe six weeks' work.

The open border has been shut down to illegal migrant and fentanyl trafficking, cutting off a vital cash stream for the cartels.

Mexican cartels have been declared international terrorist organizations, putting them under increased surveillance and subject to death from the sky at any moment of our choosing, as the cartels know very well.

Using tariffs as leverage, Trump gave Mexico 30 days to clean up its act, and as a result, Mexican troops are being trained by Green Berets on how to hose the cartel rats' nests out.

Mexico has rapidly dispatched 10,000 troops to control the border further.

The Times reports that this happened: (Click link to view tweet)

The country’s law enforcement seized nearly as much fentanyl in the last five months as it did in the previous year. Ms. Sheinbaum’s administration says it has made nearly 900 arrests in Sinaloa alone since October.

The fear is real and the place is looking like a USAID dismantling: (Click link to view tweet)

“Criminal groups have not felt this level of pressure in such a long time,” said Jaime López, a security analyst based in Mexico City.

In interviews, cartel operatives agreed. Some said they were selling off property and firing unessential personnel to make up for lost income from the dent in the fentanyl trade. Others said they were investing money in advanced equipment to detect American government drones, which the United States flew into Mexico during the Biden and Obama administrations as well.

Criminal organizations in Mexico have a long history of surviving efforts to dismantle them, or simply splintering off into new groups. But several operatives said that for the first time in years, they genuinely feared arrest or death at the hands of the authorities.

The Times mentions the big one, extraditions of drug lords, of which about two dozen have happened, but doesn't seem to grasp the significance of that one on the cartel state of mind.

In 1996, Gabriel Garcia Marquez wrote "News of a Kidnapping, "a masterly book about the impact of extraditions on organized crime (at the time, led by Pablo Escobar's Medellin cartel) and how it drove them absolutely crazy, driving them into launching into a series of murderous kidnappings against Colombia's elites. It contained no politics of his lefty kind and was the best book he ever wrote. 

They are scared to death of that.

Trump had to have known this. He put out this tweet to outline the scope of devastation he's wrought on these monsters: 

As they cringe and cower, the rest of us can rejoice.  Turns out this was doable all along, and Mexico didn't have to suffer through the depredations of these beasts. It just took Trump's courage and competence to do it. Score a big one for Trump.

 

Conditions at our southern border with Mexico have changed drastically. We must defend our borders, a country is not a country with open borders.

 

Amid Trump crackdown, illegal border crossings plunge to levels not seen in decades

By Camilo Montoya-Galvez March 1, 2025 cbsnews.com

Washington, D.C. — The number of migrants crossing the U.S. southern border illegally in President Trump's first full month in office plunged to a level not seen in at least 25 years, according to preliminary government data obtained by CBS News.

Last month, Border Patrol recorded about 8,450 apprehensions of migrants who crossed into the country unlawfully between official entry points along the U.S.-Mexico border, the statistics show.

On some days during a record spike in illegal crossings under the Biden administration, Border Patrol recorded more than 8,000 apprehensions in a single day.

February's total, which could be adjusted when the government officially publishes the statistics, would be the lowest monthly apprehensions tally recorded by Border Patrol since at least fiscal year 2000, the last period with public monthly data. The final tallies usually don't deviate much from the preliminary figures.

Over the past 25 years, the only time monthly apprehensions came close to the level recorded in February was in April 2017, when Border Patrol apprehended 11,000 migrants at the southwest border, agency data show.

While monthly data before fiscal year 2000 is not publicly available, the last time Border Patrol averaged roughly 8,000 apprehensions per month over a year was in fiscal year 1968, according to historical statistics.

Illegal crossings along the U.S. southern border have been trending downward over the past year, including under the Biden administration, after spiking to an all-time high in late 2023.

They first dropped in early 2024 after Mexican officials expanded efforts to stop migrants from reaching the U.S. border and then fell further in the summer following former President Biden's move to sharply restrict access to the asylum system.

But the reduction in illegal immigration has been precipitous since Mr. Trump's inauguration.

In January, Border Patrol agents at the Mexican border recorded 29,000 apprehensions, down 38% from 47,000 in December. The drop from January to February was even more pronounced, amounting to a roughly 70% decrease.

Trump administration officials have credited their sweeping, government-wide immigration crackdown for the dramatic decrease in unlawful crossings.

At the U.S.-Mexico border, the Trump administration has empowered federal officials to swiftly deport migrants without hearing their asylum claims, under the premise that the country is facing an "invasion."

U.S. law says migrants on American soil generally have the right to claim asylum to delay or halt their deportation. Trump administration officials have argued the system has been systematically abused by smugglers and economic migrants, who don't qualify for asylum.

Mr. Trump has also directed the American military to help with immigration enforcement, deploying thousands of additional troops to the southern border and tasking military planes with deporting migrants.

While Biden also moved to curtail asylum during his last year in office, Mr. Trump's unprecedented actions are far more restrictive. 

Unlike the Biden administration, for example, the Trump administration is not processing, in any significant capacity, asylum-seekers at official border entry points. In fact, a Biden-era system that facilitated that processing through a government app was quickly terminated.

The Trump administration is also considering adding another layer to its restrictions at the border, making plans to invoke a public health law known as Title 42 to summarily expel migrants on the grounds that they could spread diseases like tuberculosis.

Whether migrant flows continue dropping, plateau or increase in the coming weeks and months remains unclear. Historically, migrant arrivals at the southern border have increased in the springtime.

While its border strategy has yielded quick results, the Trump administration's efforts in the U.S. interior, where the president has promised to conduct the largest deportation operation in American history, have encountered significant obstacles.

Top Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials have been reassigned in recent weeks amid frustrations that the agency is not carrying out sufficient arrests and deportations. 

ICE's detention capacity has also been stretched thin. As of Friday, ICE detention centers were at 117% capacity, with the agency detaining more than 45,000 migrants, 20,000 of whom were first apprehended at the southern border, according to internal government data.

 

The Constitution of the United States is our founding document - it is a road map we all must follow - its importance must be re-newed!

 

Master Thieves Stole the Constitution

By J.B. Shurk www.americanthinker.com

Everyone has a favorite adventure novel or movie in which a daring thief swaps something of immense value with something terribly fake.  A forged painting hangs in lieu of the original on a museum wall.  A bag of sand takes the place of a bag of jewels inside a pressure-sensitive safe.  Lead bars are substituted for gold bullion in Fort Knox. 

The American people are the victims of a similar kind of heist.  Over the last century, master thieves have stolen their freedoms, representative government, and constitutional protections.  Cheap knockoffs have replaced priceless American treasures.

The U.S. Constitution makes no mention of the Central Intelligence Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Environmental Protection Agency, or the Internal Revenue Service.  It says nothing at all about the hundreds of other administrative agencies and regulatory bodies that compose the federal bureaucracy.  On the contrary, the Constitution is a blueprint for a small government with limited powers.  Those powers are explicitly enumerated, while all other powers are explicitly reserved for the American people and the individual states. 

This is not an accident.  The Founders understood that powerful central governments are more dangerous than powerful foreign invaders.  The latter can be confronted and repelled, whereas the former operate in the shadows and destroy a nation from within.  The Constitution is specifically designed to protect Americans from faceless bureaucrats snooping on their affairs, regulating their lives, and punishing them for contesting the whims of government agents.  How incredibly strange it is, then, to watch cable news shows lamenting President Trump’s efforts to dismantle that vast administrative state in D.C. today.  Twenty-first-century “journalists” are more concerned with protecting an unconstitutional bureaucracy than protecting the American people from regulatory despots and cubicle kings.

After President Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton in 2016, The Washington Post reclaimed the slogan “Democracy Dies in Darkness,” a not-so-subtle rebuke of the new president.  The Post’s implication was that President Trump would govern in secrecy while curtailing freedom of the press.  Just the opposite occurred.  Trump held regular press conferences, engaged with reporters at all hours of the day, opened up White House meetings to news crews, and constantly sparred with ideological opponents on social media.  Far from stifling press freedoms or threatening dissent, President Trump invigorated both.  Ironically, it was not the president who curbed the free speech of others, but America’s most powerful social media companies that quickly banned his accounts and censored his messages (as well as those of his supporters).  If “democracy dies in darkness,” Twitter, Facebook, and Google dealt the deadly blow.

But there is something even more diabolically twisted about the Post’s inane posturing.  If “democracy” is understood as the people’s control over their system of government, and if the people’s control over their government requires enough light for them to see what is going on, then anything remotely resembling “democracy” in America died long ago.  

The CIA and a couple dozen other intelligence agencies conduct foreign policy in absolute secret.  Black budgets hide how taxpayer dollars are spent.  Intelligence Community chiefs influence international relations in unknown ways.  Faceless spies foment rebellions, topple foreign governments, and execute consequential operations without ever consulting the American people, let alone asking for their permission.  This is the definition of civic darkness.

Most corporate news “reporters” and credentialed members of the federal bureaucracy would insist that powerful spy organizations operating in total darkness are absolutely necessary in the modern world.  Perhaps that is so, or perhaps it is far easier for the federal government to do what it wants all over the world when what it does is kept secret from the American people.  Perhaps it is easier for mainstream “journalists” to remain relevant when they act as mouthpieces for and assets of the Intelligence Community.  What is clear, though, is that American voters have absolutely no control over the direction of their government when their government hides its actions from the public.

The most powerful people in America’s permanent government have spent the last few years claiming that Russia must be defeated in Ukraine.  Why?  Because the Russians are bad and Vladimir Putin is authoritarian, of course!  Because freedom must be defended and Ukraine’s borders must be secured!  Perhaps such trite arguments would have been convincing during the Cold War, but the world has changed considerably over the last thirty years.  Why should Americans defend Ukraine’s recently constructed borders when the federal government and the United Nations have encouraged tens of millions of illegal aliens to disregard America’s borders?  Why should Americans fight to protect Ukraine’s freedoms when the Bill of Rights has been under sustained attack in the United States?  

It’s difficult for the Establishment to persuade Americans to view Putin as an existential threat to their safety when most of the Establishment is right now in bed with the Chinese Communist Party.  If Vladimir Putin is a murderous dictator, then so is Xi Jinping.  The Chinese president tortures Christians, throws dissidents in labor camps, and is arguably guilty of genocide.  Why should Russia’s threats to human liberty be a cause for war, when China’s threats to human liberty receive a global shrug?  Such double-standards strike the American people as disturbingly odd.

Maybe there are other reasons.  Maybe the United States operates bioweapons labs in Ukraine, as has been alleged.  Maybe Ukraine’s rare earth metals are crucial for America’s economic future.  Maybe the European Union and U.S.-NATO are desperate to control trade routes from Asia through the Black Sea.  But if there are other, more salient reasons for the U.S. to tiptoe toward WWIII by fighting the Russians in Ukraine, the American people have been kept entirely in the dark.  How can citizens make good decisions when their government’s foreign policies are shrouded in secrecy?  They can’t. 

Are there matters of national security that any competent government must keep secret — even from citizens in a “democracy”?  Probably.  But after being led into war under false pretenses far too many times, the American people are rightly skeptical when the news media and the federal bureaucracy join hands and cheer for bloodshed.

If the federal government kept Americans in the dark primarily during times of war, perhaps such anti-democratic behavior could be grudgingly accepted as temporarily necessary.  But the problem is far worse than that.  Just as the Intelligence Community insists that it alone has the expertise to conduct foreign affairs, the various appendages of the labyrinthine administrative state all claim to possess sufficient expertise to justify bureaucratic decision-making irrespective of the American people’s wishes.  

The Environmental Protection Agency knows what’s best for your land.  The Department of Education knows what’s best for your children.  The Department of Health and Human Services knows what’s best for your body.  Should you disagree with their “experts,” the Department of Homeland Security is eager to censor your social media messages as “disinformation.”  Should you decide to defend your family and property from government intrusion, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives is ready to commandeer both.  The Transportation Security Administration keeps a naughty list of citizens whose luggage must always be tossed.  The Federal Bureau of Investigation loves to organize pre-dawn raids of citizens who too publicly oppose government overreach.  Unelected government bureaucrats advise citizens which parts of the Bill of Rights remain in effect.

However else this system of government is described, it cannot accurately be called “representative,” “constitutional,” or “democratic.”  It is not of the people, by the people, or for the people.  It is of, by, and for the bureaucrats.  It is a system that operates in secrecy and justifies its secrecy as the prerogative of “experts.”  It looks nothing like the U.S. Constitution.  It is a cheap and unimpressive forgery.