Tag: Illegal immigration

  • Homan on a Mole Hunt

    Homan on a Mole Hunt

    A week ago, ICE raided several locations in and around Aurora Colorado to mixed success. Several of the apartments and homes raided wound up being empty. It was suspected that the occupants – including several Tren de Aragua members – were tipped off by an insider.

    A similar thing happened on Friday during ICE raids in the Los Angeles area. Someone from either the FBI or ATF leaked parts of the operations plan to LA media outlets.

    Now, border and immigration Czar Tom Homan is on the hunt for the moles. Yesterday, he went on Fox and said those leaks are being investigated by an Inspector General and the person or people responsible will be fired and likely charged criminally. In the interview on Hannity, he said:

    “They [the DOJ] have opened up a criminal investigation and they have promised that not only this person lose their job and lose their pension, they’re going to go to jail, they’re going to criminally prosecute. So we’re all over it.”

    He went on to say the initial leads are pointing to the FBI as the source of the leak, and added that whoever it is will lose their job, pension, and will go to jail.

    These leaks go beyond mere criminality. They endanger everyone involved. I truly hope the first one identified gets hammered in court pour encourager les autres.

  • Stay Frosty Friends Chapter III

    Stay Frosty Friends Chapter III

    A couple of weeks ago I wrote about a group of Tajik illegals who crossed the southern border and then got arrested. They supposedly had ties to IS-KP – the Islamic State Khorasan province – an offshoot of ISIL.

    Welp, it turns out they aren’t the only illegals with ties to ISIL that have crossed the border lately. A NY Post report revealed that 400 illegal immigrants from southeast Asia have been slipped into our country over the southern border by an ISIL-affiliated human smuggling network. More than 50 of them have disappeared.

    The Department of Homeland Security has identified over 400 migrants who were brought to the US from Central Asia and other places by an ISIS-affiliated human smuggling network — and the whereabouts of more than 50 of them are unknown, according to an unsettling report.

    More than 150 of the migrants have been arrested, but the locations of another 50 remain unknown, three US officials told NBC News, adding that US Immigration and Customs Enforcement is looking to arrest those involved on immigration charges.

    Meanwhile, the least qualified individual to ever hold the position of DHS Secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas, claims there is no evidence that the missing illegals mean any harm to the US.

    I will be absolutely astonished if there isn’t some sort of terror attack between now and the election. Stay frosty friends. . .

  • Stay Frosty Friends Redux

    Stay Frosty Friends Redux

    Back in February I wrote an article about Arab illegals crossing the southern border wearing branded tactical gear.

    Welp, something similar just happened. This time it was 8 Tajiks. For those unaware, Tajikistan is a muslim majority former Soviet republic that borders Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan and the XinJiang province of China.

    As a bit of background, there have been more than 9 million encounters with illegal border crossers since 2021. Keep in mind, that number only goes up to the end of February 2024. I couldn’t quickly find the numbers for Q2 of this fiscal year, but rest assured it was in the 7 figure range.

    It seems the 8 were allowed entry after ‘vetting’ at the southern border. It just happens that all 8 have ties to ISIL-K (Islamic State Khorasan province).

    About In somewhat related news, about a month ago, a SOCOM colonel stationed at Ft. Bragg err Liberty shot and killed a Chechen illegal who had been prowling around his house and taking photos of his family. The entire story out of Carthage NC is bizarre from start to finish.

    It seems this is becoming a common occurrence, not the shooting, but the surveillance of US troops by foreign nationals. Maybe it’s time for the shootings to become a more common occurrence as well.

  • Illegal Immigrant Housing

    Illegal Immigrant Housing


    Headline and lead into an article in American Spectator is as follows:

    Liberals Want Americans to House Illegal Immigrants: Is Your Home Next?

    The Office of Global Michigan is encouraging “everyday Americans” to volunteer to house illegal immigrants and “make a difference by welcoming refugees from around the world.”  “Volunteers [are] needed” to “support refugee resettlement efforts in Michigan,” says the office’s website,…

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution

    Third Amendment to the United States Constitution

    No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.

    The Third Amendment (Amendment III) to the United States Constitution places restrictions on the quartering (the placement and/or sheltering) of soldiers in private homes without the owner’s consent, forbidding the practice in peacetime. The amendment is a response to the Quartering Acts passed by the Parliament of Great Britain during the buildup to the American Revolutionary War, which had allowed the British Army to lodge soldiers in public buildings.

    The Third Amendment was introduced in Congress in 1789 by James Madison as a part of the United States Bill of Rights, in response to Anti-Federalist objections to the new Constitution. Congress proposed the amendment to the states on September 28, 1789, and by December 15, 1791, the necessary three-quarters of the states had ratified it. Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson announced the adoption of the amendment on March 1, 1792.

    The amendment is one of the least controversial of the Constitution and is rarely litigated, with criminal justice writer Radley Balko calling it the “runt piglet” of the U.S. Constitution.[1] To date, it has never been the primary basis of a Supreme Court decision,[2][3][4] though it was the basis of the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit case Engblom v. Carey in 1982.

    Judicial interpretation

    The Third Amendment is among the least cited sections of the U.S. Constitution.[15] In the words of Encyclopædia Britannica, “as the history of the country progressed with little conflict on American soil, the amendment has had little occasion to be invoked.”[16] To date, no major Supreme Court decision has used the amendment as its primary basis.[3][4]

    The legal historian Tom W. Bell argued in 1993 that the quartering of American soldiers during the War of 1812 and American Civil War violated the Third Amendment, but this argument was never presented in court during either war. Following the Civil War, the Army compensated property owners for rent and damages, which may have preempted Third Amendment claims.[17]

    The Third Amendment has been invoked in a few instances as helping establish an implicit right to privacy in the Constitution.[18] Justice William O. Douglas used the amendment along with others in the Bill of Rights as a partial basis for the majority decision in Griswold v. Connecticut (1965),[19] which cited the Third Amendment as implying a belief that an individual’s home should be free from agents of the state.[18]

    In one of the seven opinions in Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer (1952), Justice Robert H. Jackson cited the Third Amendment as providing evidence of the Framers’ intent to constrain executive power even during wartime:[18]

    [t]hat military powers of the Commander in Chief were not to supersede representative government of internal affairs seems obvious from the Constitution and from elementary American history. Time out of mind, and even now in many parts of the world, a military commander can seize private housing to shelter his troops. Not so, however, in the United States, for the Third Amendment says … [E]ven in war time, his seizure of needed military housing must be authorized by Congress.[20]

    One of the few times a federal court was asked to invalidate a law or action on Third Amendment grounds was in Engblom v. Carey (1982).[21] In 1979, prison officials in New York organized a strike; they were evicted from their prison facility residences, which were reassigned to members of the National Guard who had temporarily taken their place as prison guards. The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled: (1) that the term owner in the Third Amendment includes tenants (paralleling similar cases regarding the Fourth Amendment, governing search and seizure), (2) National Guard troops are “soldiers” for purposes of the Third Amendment, and (3) that the Third Amendment is incorporated (applies to the states) by virtue of the Fourteenth Amendment.[22] The case was remanded to the district court, which dismissed it on the grounds that state officials could not have been aware of this interpretation.[23]

    In the most recent Third Amendment decision handed down by a federal court, on February 2, 2015, the United States District Court for the District of Nevada held in Mitchell v. City of Henderson that the Third Amendment does not apply to intrusions by municipal police officers as they are not soldiers.[24] For his claims under the Third Amendment, Mitchell had alleged that the police used his house as a lookout point.[25]

    In an earlier case, United States v. Valenzuela (1951),[26] the defendant asked that a federal rent-control law be struck down because it was “the incubator and hatchery of swarms of bureaucrats to be quartered as storm troopers upon the people in violation of Amendment III of the United States Constitution.”[27] The court declined his request. Later, in Jones v. United States Secretary of Defense (1972),[28] Army reservists unsuccessfully cited the Third Amendment as justification for refusing to march in a parade. Similar arguments in a variety of contexts have been denied in other cases.[29]

  • The View From Here

    The View From Here

    Featured image: The Pond at Old Forge NY.

    Let’s start in Florida, where it seems the DMV is no longer allowing changes to gender at local offices.

    https://twitter.com/AnnaForFlorida/status/1752324091208405306?s=20

    Look, I don’t care how you identify. Unless and until you force others to participate in your delusions it does not affect me in the least. If you identify as an attack helicopter, fine by me, but I’m not going to encourage your mental illness.

    Anyway, the only reason I included this item is so I could post this meme:

    When you try to register your Trans at the Florida DMV

    Representative Cori Bush, D-MO, is under criminal investigation. It seems the Justice Department (finally) took notice of the fact she was paying her husband $600k a year for ‘security services’. Never mind the fact that he is not licenced to do so, either in Missouri or DC. I should also point out that she was paying $500k a year for the same services to real security companies at the same time.

    https://twitter.com/JakeSherman/status/1752354747137368083?s=20

    Remember that Bush, a ‘Squad’ member, was a big part of the Defund the Police movement.


    The IDF pulled off an audacious raid yesterday. 10 members of YAMAM, the Israeli police CT unit, infiltrated a hospital in Jenin in the West Bank and took out 3 Hamas terrorists. The operators dressed in scrubs in order to get to Mohammad Jalamna and two others. Jalamna was responsible for communications with Hamas leadership and coordinating weapons deliveries. Jalamna was using the Jenin hospital as a secret base of operations as he was planning an infiltration attack akin to and inspired by the October 7 massacre.

    https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1752264390697419260?s=20

    The Feds finally got around to releasing the December numbers for Illegal border crossings and the total will shock you. There were more than 302,000 ‘encounters’ at the southern border. That’s 50,000 more than the prior month and sets an all time record. Fiscal year to date, there have been more than 785,000 encounters at the southern border.

    Nationwide encounters set a new record in December as well, topping 371,000 last month. That’s 15,000 more people than live in Cleveland, and 64,000 more than live in Cincinnati, all coming to the United States illegally in just one month.

    I put scare quotes around encounters as it’s a term of art that was coined by the Biden Administration. It’s defined as the total number of aliens apprehended by Border Patrol after entering illegally plus inadmissible aliens stopped by CBP officers in the agency’s Office of Field Operations (OFO) at the ports of entry.

    To say these numbers are unsustainable is a massive understatement. The lies and gas-lighting about the border coming from this administration has reached a fever pitch. Everyone involved needs to be impeached and removed.


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  • Inside Biden’s Nearly…

    Inside Biden’s Nearly…

    Inside Biden’s Nearly $1 Billion Migrant Housing Plan

    Free housing, medical care will only embolden illegal immigrants, former ICE officials say

    Joseph Simonson for free beacon.com

    Illegal migrants walk across the Rio Grande River / Getty Images

    The White House’s latest proposal aimed at fixing the border crisis is a nearly $1 billion program that provides housing, medical care, and legal services for migrants. 

    In a letter to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R., Calif.), the White House said the requested money would be used “to continue the progress made since the president implemented his border enforcement and management plan after the Title 42 public health order lifted.” That letter outlines a $759 million initiative for “community-based residential facilities … [with] medical care, legal programming, and other services through contracts, grants, or cooperative agreements with non-governmental organizations.” Any refugee, asylum seeker, or “other migrants” would be eligible to live at the facility.

    President Biden has presided over the worst border crisis in U.S. history with some five million migrants crossing the border illegally. The crisis has left blue cities like New York at their wit’s end. Mayor Eric Adams warned the Biden administration earlier this month that New York is at capacity, with migrants sleeping on sidewalks, and asked for more financial aid.

    The new housing program is part of a broader $40.1 billion supplementary spending package that includes arms for Ukraine and disaster relief, as well as $4 billion for immigration-related services. Critics such as former Immigration and Customs Enforcement acting director Thomas Homan say the program’s promise of free housing will only exacerbate the border crisis.

    “This proposal would be extremely expensive and would serve as yet another enticement, another magnet that will bring more families to our borders which will bring more harm to these families at the hands of criminal cartels who have sexually assaulted thousands of women and children,” said Homan. “The U.S. homeless population has exploded, and this administration wants to give this type of program to those who broke our laws rather than homeless heroes.”

    The White House’s proposal will likely face roadblocks on Capitol Hill. Lawmakers have previously scrutinized a number of the Department of Homeland Security’s detention programs, as well as the nonprofits it works with to implement them. In one instance, an outside partner tasked with implementing an alternative to detention programs called for the abolition of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

    Republicans have accused the Biden administration of prioritizing “catch and release” programs rather than enforcement and deportation. The new housing proposal appears to be par for the courts—enrolled migrants will be given the ability to “depart unsupervised during certain hours” without any tracking mechanism.

    “The Biden administration isn’t asking Congress for actual border security or enforcement funding but instead seeks to create a taxpayer-funded shelter system rather than true custodial detention,” said former senior executive and field office director at Immigrations and Customs Enforcement John Fabbricatore. 

    A source familiar with the “community-based residential facilities” program said Immigration and Customs Enforcement is looking to repurpose two unaccompanied children shelters in Pecos and Carrizo Springs, Texas, that are run by a contractor called Endeavors. House Republicans launched an investigation into that firm earlier this month after a former Biden transition official was caught on video admitting that he funneled government contracts to nonprofits such as Endeavors, where he previously worked, despite their lack of industry experience.

    “We continue to enforce U.S. immigration law, and to remove individuals and families without a legal basis to stay,” a Department of Homeland Security spokesman told the Washington Free Beacon. “As numbers fluctuate, this Administration is committed to treating families humanely as we process them for expedited removal. This supplemental package will allow DHS to fund temporary housing facilities and services to manage families through the immigration process quickly, and facilitate their removal for those who do not have a legal basis to stay.”

    The language used by the White House in its funding request is also raising eyebrows. Although Immigration and Customs Enforcement is chiefly tasked with the detainment and removal of illegal aliens, under President Joe Biden’s request, ICE would be able to use any amount of its funds for housing rather than law enforcement. At the discretion of DHS chief Alejandro Mayorkas, “any noncitizen may be housed in the community-based residential facilities,” the funding request states.

    “It is a brazen attempt to pivot ICE funding away from law enforcement and detention, which are critical components of the agency’s core mission,” said Fabbricatore, who now serves on the board of the National Immigration Center for Enforcement. “Efforts like this are also being driven by people inside the agency who were tapped by Secretary Mayorkas to abolish ICE from within.”

    Some Republicans have already objected to Biden’s supplemental funding request on the grounds that it groups disparate issues, such as the war in Ukraine, with border security. Republican senator Marco Rubio (Fla.) said “Biden is holding Floridians hostage, and other Americans hostage, by tying critical domestic disaster relief to foreign military aid.” Sen. J.D. Vance (R., Ohio) said that although he and Rubio “don’t always agree on Ukraine policy,” his comments were “absolutely right.”

    In the House, Republicans such as Rep. Chip Roy (Texas) have taken a hardline position against any more money for the Department of Homeland Security. Roy earlier this month circulated a letter to House Republicans objecting to any budget deal that did not include more money for border security.

    We have a multitude of homeless Veterans yet the focus is on those who violate our borders who are to be housed.😳😡

  • As Title 42 Expires, Officials Announce the Death of an Unaccompanied Migrant Child While in U.S. Custody

    As Title 42 Expires, Officials Announce the Death of an Unaccompanied Migrant Child While in U.S. Custody

    AP Photo/Julio Cortez

    Teri Christoph | RedState

    Grim news on this first day since the Title 42 policies controlling the borders expired: An unaccompanied migrant child has died while in the custody of the U.S. government.

    According to reports, 17-year-old Ángel Eduardo Maradiaga Espinoza died at a government shelter for unaccompanied minors in Safety Harbor, Florida. Enrique Reina, the Honduran secretary of foreign affairs, identified the child as a native of Honduras who arrived in the United States without a parent or guardian. Reina demanded an “exhaustive investigation” into Espinoza’s unexplained death.

    The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services confirmed the death in a statement, saying they are “deeply saddened by this tragic loss and our heart goes out to the family, with whom we are in touch.” The message goes on to say:

    As is standard practice for any situation involving the death of an unaccompanied child or a serious health outcome, HHS’ Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) Division of Health for Unaccompanied Children (DHUC) is reviewing all clinical details of this case, including all inpatient health care records. A medical examiner investigation is underway.

    The HHS is withholding information on the deceased migrant youth, citing safety concerns.

    Due to privacy and safety reasons, ORR cannot share further information on individual cases of children who have been in our care.

    While in ORR care, children have access to health care, legal services, translation services, and mental and behavioral health counselors and are able to connect with family through a phone call in a private area at a minimum of twice a week.

    Reporters who took part earlier today in a virtual call about the border were unable to get any answers about the death because they had to submit written questions in advance and administration officials on the call seemingly cherry-picked the topics they would willingly address. HHS finally released a statement acknowledging the boy’s passing, while providing very few details.

    In her daily briefing today, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said she was unaware if President Biden had been notified of the death that took place under his watch.

    https://twitter.com/PhilipWegmann/status/1657082699834613780?

    The issue of migrant child deaths while in U.S. custody was important to candidate Joe Biden back in 2019. His disgust was evident in this tweet:

    https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1131545449201061889?

    Senator Ted Cruz just yesterday highlighted the plight of migrant teenagers who are streaming over the border, saying boys, in particular, face unsure futures as the Biden administration deposits them around the country. Cruz rebuked members of the media who refuse to cover such stories and said they should “be ashamed.”

    Original Here

  • Malarkey-Immigration

    Malarkey-Immigration

    Anyone Not See This Coming?

    Own Worst Enemies
    With all their institutional advantages, the Left would be even more dangerous if they weren’t so doggone condescending. Thankfully, however, they’re bought-in on the aggravating misnomer that they’re not only more virtuous but also smarter than the average bear. As maddening as it is, their brazen arrogance is a blessing in disguise because it makes it easier to telegraph their shenanigans.

    Ulterior Motives
    Contrary to progressive belief, most of us have known for years that open borders was a dangerous DNC voter drive disguised in a humane costume. 

    Permanent Power in 2 Easy Steps
    Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton took to Twitter Thursday to remind us of Dems’ ulterior motives, first sharing a link to a border crisis story he captioned “Step 1” and then a link to an NYT op-ed championing illegals voting, which he captioned “Step 2.

    https://twitter.com/TomCottonAR/status/1420765509700792320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1420765510405435392%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es2_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpublish.twitter.com%2F%3Fquery%3Dhttps3A2F2Ftwitter.com2FTomCottonAR2Fstatus2F1420765510405435392widget%3DTweet

    We Can Still Hear You
    Maybe they think that saying the quiet parts aloud isn’t so bad when their heads are up their own arses. 

    They won’t blow their multi-pronged power play because they’re too radical. They’ll do themselves in because they’re hopelessly arrogant.

    In the past, immigrant citizens were prone to vote Democrat. The trend seems to have slowed down, as shown during the past several elections. 2020 was the biggest change. The percentage of immigrant citizens voting Republican significantly increased.

    FYI: I attempted several times to include the second portion of Senator Cotton’s tweet. Success was not mine. Following the referenced link should show you the entirety of his tweet.

  • Abbot Deploys Guard to Border

    Abbot Deploys Guard to Border

    Texas governor Greg Abbot announced the deployment of National Guard troops to the border on Saturday. The troops will participate in Operation Lone Star, a Texas DPS operation designed to limit the ability of smugglers and cartels to cross the border.

    Abbott issued the deployment order following a meeting with Texas DPS Director Colonel Steve McCraw. The two discussed strategies to increase safety and security along the border. The operation will integrate the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) with the National Guard, Abbott said. He is ordering the deployment of air, ground, marine, and tactical border security assets to high threat areas.

    “The crisis at our southern border continues to escalate because of Biden Administration policies that refuse to secure the border and invite illegal immigration,” said Governor Abbott. “Texas supports legal immigration but will not be an accomplice to the open border policies that cause, rather than prevent, a humanitarian crisis in our state and endanger the lives of Texans. We will surge the resources and law enforcement personnel needed to confront this crisis.”

    The deployment comes amid a drastic surge in illegal border crossings that began soon after President Biden took office. This increase pushed the White House to reopen the detention centers used to house migrants under the Trump administration.

    Rep. Henry Cueller (D-TX) noted that Border Patrol agents detained about 10,000 migrants in the Rio Grande Valley Sector during a seven-day period. “We are weeks, maybe even days, away from a crisis on the southern border. Inaction is simply not an option,” Cueller said in a written statement “Our country is currently unprepared to handle a surge in migrants in the middle of the pandemic.”

  • SCOTUS Rules on Immigration Challenge

    SCOTUS Rules on Immigration Challenge

    The Supreme court issued a 5-3 ruling in Pereida v. Wilkinson, a case about whether an immigrant living in the country without authorization can seek relief from deportation for a minor crime. The court ruled that the noncitizen bears the burden to prove he is eligible for relief.

    Clemente Pereida entered the United States without authorization nearly 25 years ago. In order to obtain employment at a cleaning company, Pereida allegedly presented a false Social Security card. He was subsequently convicted of a misdemeanor for attempting to commit the Nebraska crime labeled “criminal impersonation.” Pereida was sentenced to a fine of $100 and no jail time.

    Illegal aliens who have a long history in the United States and close U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident family members are eligible to apply for a benefit that would cancel their deportation based on hardship to these relatives. This benefit, however, is not available to individuals without immigration status who have been convicted of a “crime of moral turpitude” under section 240A(b)(1)(C) of the Immigration and Nationality Act.

    Nebraska’s criminal impersonation law includes several distinct offenses. Those versions that require intent to deceive are considered crimes involving moral turpitude under federal law and trigger immigration consequences. The other versions do not. Pereida’s criminal record, however, does not make clear which version of the offense he was convicted of.

    The government argued that the statutory burden of proof placed on the immigrant seeking relief applies to the provision covering disqualifying crimes, and because Pereida could not prove that he was not convicted of a crime of moral turpitude, he was ineligible for relief. Consequently, an immigration judge could not consider the hardship that his deportation would have on his U.S. citizen child. Pereida argued that this rule breaks with the court’s precedent on how to determine whether state criminal convictions trigger immigration consequences under federal law.

    Neil Gorsuch, authoring the majority opinion, wrote, “The Immigration and Nationality Act expressly requires individuals seeking relief from lawful removal orders to prove all aspects of their eligibility. That includes proving they do not stand convicted of a disqualifying criminal offense.”

    It has been part of American jurisprudence for many years that non-citizens do not enjoy all the same benefits as citizens. This ruling reaffirms that postiton.