Mark Morgan Calls Out Hypocrisy of Corporate Media’s Silence Over New Photos of ‘Kids in Cages’

The Biden administration is holding migrant children in cages and the leftist media is silent. “Where Is the mainstream media? Where is their outrage right now?,” Mark Morgan, former acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, asks.  

Morgan, who is also a visiting fellow at The Heritage Foundation, confirmed Monday to The Daily Signal that Newsmax border correspondent Jaeson Jones shared the photos with him. An anonymous source took the photos Thursday at a migrant detention center operated by the Border Patrol in the Rio Grande Valley sector in Texas. (The Daily Signal is Heritage’s multimedia news organization.)

Morgan described Jones as a “good friend,” noting that the two work together at Newsmax, where Morgan is a contributor.  

One photo that Jones shared on Twitter, Morgan said, shows a group of unaccompanied migrant children from various countries.  

A second image, which includes a child sleeping on the ground, shows a group of Chinese children, Morgan said.

Morgan said it was confirmed “through source information, people [Jones] talked to, they confirmed that they were all, in fact, minors.”

Border Patrol agents are placing children in holding facilities because processing centers are overcrowded, Morgan said, noting that “segregating out the unaccompanied children is actually the right thing to do, the safe thing to do.”

“You do not want unaccompanied minors … in the general population area with single, adult men,” he said.

When the Trump administration used similar holding facilties for unaccompanied minors who crossed into the U.S., corporate media ran headlines such as “Trump migrant separation policy: Children ‘in cages’ in Texas” (BBC) or “Trump and Biden’s debate over kids in cages underscores the stark choice facing Americans” (NBC News). One image that went viral showed Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., crying outside a Texas detention center for migrant children.  

“Look, when Border Patrol facilities are overrun, they’re overcrowded because of this administration’s policies. You can’t blame Border Patrol for doing everything they can to deal with what this administration has forced them to deal with,” Morgan said.

And “the issue is the hypocrisy,” he added. “Because where is AOC and her white pants and her crocodile tears? Where’s everybody that was yelling out ‘kids in cages?’”  

Morgan pointed out that the holding facilities actually were first used before Trump, during the Obama administration.  

Since President Joe Biden took office in January 2021, U.S. Customs and order Protection reports that agents have encountered about 5 million illegal aliens at the southern border. Since the start of fiscal year 2023 on Oct. 1, the agency has encountered a record 1.2 million illegal migrants.

The Center for Immigration Studies estimates that since Biden became president, about 1.3 million illegal aliens successfully have evaded the Border Patrol and are “gotaways.”  

The surge of illegal aliens crossing the southern border into the U.S. is expected to increase when the public health measure known as Title 42 expires. Title 42, set in place by the Trump administration during the COVID-19 pandemic, has allowed the Border Patrol to quickly expel some illegal aliens from the country.

When the nation’s public health emergency ends May 11 as scheduled, Title 42 also will be lifted, triggering an expected surge of migrants at the border.   

https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/05/01/mark-morgan-calls-out-hypocrisy-of-corporate-medias-silence-over-new-photos-of-kids-in-cages

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New busloads of migrants arrive in NYC from Texas

Two fresh busloads of migrants rolled into New York City after being shipped in by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Wednesday — as the number of asylum seekers arriving in the Big Apple continued to surge.

The first bus — carrying 41 migrants, including 15 kids — arrived at Manhattan’s Port Authority terminal at about 7 a.m. from the US border town of Laredo, Texas, migrant advocates told The Post.

A second busload of asylum seekers, which carried 27 adults and 23 children from the same Texas town, pulled into the station just after 1:30 p.m.

The buses were sent to the Big Apple by Abbott, his office confirmed Wednesday – just days after Mayor Eric Adams said the Lone Star state would be ramping up how many migrants it would ship to the sanctuary city.   

“What Gov. Abbott is doing is clearly shameful,” Manuel Castro, Commissioner of the NYC Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs, said after greeting the migrants as they hopped off the buses.  “He is using children, migrants to make political points.”

The latest influx came as Adams and Gov. Kathy Hochul both continued to insist Wednesday they were powerless to stop the flow of migrants into the city, which has so far topped 59,400 over the last year.

Roughly 1,100 asylum seekers arrived in the city over a four-day stretch last week between Wednesday, April 26 and Sunday, April 30, the latest City Hall figures show.

“It calls for a federal solution. Absolutely calls for a federal solution. And the mayor is doing the best he can,” said Hochul when asked about the new busloads of migrants after an unrelated press conference with the mayor.

“It’s really been a real challenge.”

Adams has repeatedly accused the Biden administration of turning its back on the city and last week called on the Federal Emergency Management Agency to stop other states from shipping migrants here.

Hizzoner also made the explosive allegation this week that Abbott, who is white, was trying to “hurt black-run cities” by shipping migrants to NYC, a charge Castro reiterated Wednesday.

“He’s also targeting cities that are led by African-American mayors, and that’s just disgraceful, but what’s disappointing is that the federal government is allowing this to happen,” Castro said.

His claim comes even though El Paso Mayor Oscar Leeser, who is a Democrat and of Mexican descent, has shipped more than twice the number of migrants to the Big Apple and Chicago.  Also, Abbot has sent migrants to places such as Philadelphia, whose mayor, Jim Kenney, is white.

https://nypost.com/2023/05/03/new-migrant-buses-arrive-in-nyc-from-texas/

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Repeatedly Deported Illegal Murders Five

An intentional invasion of our southern border has been welcomed and enabled by Joe Biden's administration. Democrats are politically invested in the results of millions of migrants making their way to the U.S., and they are increasingly ideologically committed to the idea that a national border is fundamentally unfair and wrong.

Sometimes the people illegally crossing our border do other illegal things, sometimes horrific things.

Such was the case with Francisco Oropesa, the Mexican national accused of murdering five of his neighbors in Texas Friday night after they asked him to stop firing his gun because of a sleeping baby. They called police and were assured help was on the way, but not before Oropeza reloaded and headed for their house.

"I never thought that he would shoot," said Wilson Garcia, whose wife and son were murdered. Oropesa also tried to shoot Garcia but missed. "Then he went room to room, looking for people."

Sonia Argentina Guzman (25), Diana Velazquez Alvarado (21), Julisa Molina Rivera (31), Jose Jonathan Casarez (18), and Daniel Enrique Laso (8) were all shot in the head execution style. Two of the women shielded three young children who survived. All five were from Honduras, though their legal status is unclear.

What is clear is that Oropesa was here illegally this time, and he'd been deported as many as five times previously. As we go to press, American authorities are still searching for him, with a combined $80,000 reward for tips leading to his apprehension. He's considered armed and dangerous.

As for that open border, 87% of Americans know exactly where to put the blame: on the federal government.

U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents encountered nearly three million illegals in 2022. No one knows how many they didn't encounter, and no one seems to know where they end up whether they escaped detection or were caught and released.

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told Congress two weeks ago that the border is "secure." Meanwhile, he's telling the news media that it's Congress's fault that the border is not secure.

"Within the constraints of a broken immigration system, we are doing so much," he insisted. "We have got to fix it," he added. "We need legislative reform."

Mayorkas and others in the administration have also repeatedly blamed Donald Trump for "breaking" the border. That's a lie, of course — Trump secured the border, and Biden's first order of business was undoing as much of that as he could.

So, what of legislative reform? Republicans are working on what's being called the "strongest border security package" on record. "We're going to bring a border security package and pass it through this House of Representatives," said House Majority Leader Steve Scalise. "And we challenge President Biden to work with us to solve this problem."

Good luck with that.

In fact, Scalise still has some work to do with his fellow Republicans. Dan Crenshaw, for one, isn't happy that the current legislation "doesn't talk about the cartels," and he's a "no" until it does. "So the people who have operational control of the border, the people who are killing 80,000 Americans a year by trafficking fentanyl through the border, are completely unaddressed in this bill."

Republican strategists are no doubt using that disagreement to leverage a bill that's as strong as possible — or at least we'd like to hope they are. But Mayorkas's blame-shifting notwithstanding, we also don't have an administration that wants a secure border. Biden, Mayorkas, and "border czar" Kamala Harris just want you to think they're doing everything they can.

Voters will have a choice next year between continued humanitarian crisis and murderous mayhem brought by Joe Biden's open border or any number of Republican candidates who believe that a secure border is a fundamental responsibility of a presidential administration.

How many more innocent people have to die before that choice becomes a bit easier?

https://patriotpost.us/articles/96936-repeatedly-deported-illegal-murders-five-2023-05-01

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Over 90% of Democrats and Republicans Blame the Federal Government for the Border Crisis

A recent poll found that nearly 90 percent of American voters blame the federal government for the ongoing border crisis.

According to a Trafalgar Group for Convention of States Action poll, 91.4 percent of Republicans say the Biden Administration is at fault for the high surge of illegal migrants at the border. In comparison, 82.9 percent of Democrats and 84.5 percent of Independents agree that the government is responsible.

President of Convention of States Action Mark Meckler said he has never seen a poll where the only difference between Republicans and Democrats is a few points.

"I've never seen a poll like this — 87% of the American public blames the federal government for the problem at the border," Meckler said on the John Solomon Reports podcast. "What was most interesting is you dig into ... the crosstabs — all the Democrats, breakdowns by age, party, race — what you saw was no difference within a few points across the board. "So it's almost 90% of people blame the federal government. And they expect that the states are going to have to fix it. They don't believe that the federal government will fix the problem."

Additionally, over half of the respondents— 53.4 percent— said they have little to no confidence the federal government is willing to or will be able to fix the ongoing issue at the border.

The poll comes as Chicago announced it is facing a humanitarian crisis amid a renewed surge of illegal migrants flooding the city.

Chicago city officials said they would soon have to spend $53 million from the city's budget surplus to care for the nearly 81,000 migrants who have already made their way to Chicago.

The city is preparing for even more illegal migrants to arrive once Title 42 ends on May 11. Officials said it would cost Chicago $124.8 million to care for the migrants between January and June, leaving Chicago financial officials no choice but to ask the City Council to earmark an additional $53 million from the city's surplus to cover the costs.

https://townhall.com//tipsheet/saraharnold/2023/04/30/majority-of-voters-blame-federal-government-for-border-crisis-n2622642

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El Paso to issue new state of emergency as border facilities hit capacity ahead of Title 42 expiration

El Paso, Texas will declare a new state of emergency on Monday as border facilities have reached capacity due to migrants flooding in from Mexico before Title 42 expires on May 11.

Mayor Oscar Leeser warned that his border city could buckle under the pressure of thousands of migrants seeking aid, with more expected to come as the US ends the federal pandemic-era policy which has allowed officials to kick millions of people back to Mexico.

Leeser said the declaration, which would likely last 30 days, will call on additional US government aid to provide shelters for the asylum seekers, as well as security for the whole community.

The city has already received $22.5 million from the feds.

“The reason we’re declaring a state of emergency is to make sure we can stand up and prepare for May 11,” Leeser said during a news conference Sunday. “To make sure we have public shelters, public housing… and two schools in place.”

This will be the second time in six months that an emergency has been declared in the beleaguered city, with recent local data showing more than 1,000 people a day are arriving at the border.

Officials predict 10,000 to 12,000 migrants will try to seek asylum at the border on May 11, with the volume expected to rise, Leeser said.

Leeser, who has long bemoaned the crisis at the US-Mexico border, added that El Paso would not be providing permanent homes to the migrants, and that the shelters would be temporary as the city helps asylum seekers reach their intended destination.

El Paso has made headlines over its busing program — with thousands of migrants sent to the north, including New York City, over the past year — much to the headache of Mayor Eric Adams, who condemned the program.

US Customs and Border Protection said that as of Saturday, more than 20,500 migrants were in custody along the southern border, with nearly 7,000 caught in the Rio Grande Valley sector alone.

There have been about 7,000 daily encounters in late April, with CBP officials warning that the number will rise in the coming weeks.

Along with the need for aid, Leeser called on the government to make serious changes to America’s immigration and border laws to curb the flood of migrants coming though the southern border.

“There’s no endgame to this, and we can’t continue as a city or as a country without the federal government changing federal laws.,” Leeser said. “The process right now is broken and it has not been fixed for many, many years.”     

El Paso’s declaration comes as the border town of Brownsville, Texas, issued its own emergency, with Border Patrol Chief for the Rio Grande Valley Sector Gloria Chavez saying the city has seen over 15,000 Venezuelans arriving in the last eight days, CNN reports.

Like Leeser, Brownsville commissioner for District 1 Nurith Galonsky Pizana said the city will do its best to help the migrants transition through the town to reach their intended destination.

“These migrants who are making their way through Brownsville, they are not here to stay,” Galonsky Pizana said earlier this week. “They have a final destination outside of Brownsville, and we will manage this with due process as these individuals seek asylum.”

Although it seems counterintuitive for the migrants to try and cross the border illegally or seek asylum while Title 42 is still in place, it likely comes from a fear that it’ll be harder to get into the US once the policy expires.

With Title 42 gone, the US will revert to its decades-old protocols that were set up during mass migration in the US, including legal ramifications for people who repeatedly try to cross illegally.

https://nypost.com/2023/04/30/el-paso-to-issue-new-state-of-emergency-as-border-facilities-hit-capacity/

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Court Backlogs Allow Migrants to Live and Work for 10 Years in U.S.

U.S. immigration offices have become so overwhelmed with processing migrants for court that some some asylum-seekers who crossed the border at Mexico may be waiting a decade before they even get a date to see a judge.

The backlog stems from a change made two months after President Joe Biden took office, when Border Patrol agents began now-defunct practice of quickly releasing immigrants on parole. They were given instructions to report to a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office at their final destination to be processed for court — work previously done by the Border Patrol.

The change prevented the kind of massive overcrowding of holding cells in 2019, when some migrants stood on toilets for room to breathe. But the cost became evident as ICE officers tasked with issuing court papers couldn’t keep pace.

Offices in some cities are now telling migrants to come back years from now, and the extra work has strained ICE’s capacity for its traditional work of enforcing immigration laws in the U.S. interior.

“We’re being stretched to the limit,” said Jamison Matuszewski, director of enforcement and removal operations in San Diego.

As for migrants, waits to get a court date vary. In New York, ICE told asylum-seekers this month to return in March 2033, U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, a Texas Democrat, said at a recent hearing. In nine other cities — San Antonio; Miramar, Florida; Los Angeles; Jacksonville, Florida; Milwaukee; Chicago; Washington; Denver; and Mount Laurel, New Jersey — the wait is until March 2027.

Until then, the migrants in question won’t even get an initial court appearance on the books, though they can live and work in the U.S. After that, their case will work its way through the U.S. immigrant courts — a process that takes about four years amid a backlog that reached 2.1 million cases in January, up from about 600,000 in 2017.

“The asylum system is in dire need of reform from top to bottom,” Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told reporters last week when asked about the waits for a court notice.

Tae Johnson, ICE’s acting director, told lawmakers the agency wants to use online interviews to help cut the 10-year waits and that he wants congressional authority to issue court orders electronically. He also said more funding would go a long way toward “quickly eliminating” the backlog.

Dozens, sometimes hundreds, of people show up at ICE offices seeking answers. A recent Government Accountability Office report mentioned one office — city unnamed — that saw 300 to 500 recent immigrants appear some days, mostly without appointments.

“The lines outside the building are just massive,” said Camille Mackler, executive director of Immigrant ARC, a coalition of legal service providers in New York. “People are lining up the night before. It’s been chaos.”

https://apnews.com/article/immigration-courts-wait-54bb5f7c18c4c37c6ca7f28231ff0edf

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Border Crisis Milestone: 2 Million Illegals Released into U.S.

A new analysis by the Center for Immigration Studies reveals that the number of illegal migrants released into the United States by the Biden administration’s catch-and-release policies has now passed the 2 million mark.

The milestone of 2 million illegal-immigrant releases is calculated from publicly available data and is a conservative figure. A complete accounting of the number of releases would include certain data which the administration has hidden from the public, such as the number of migrants released by CBP’s Office of Field Operations after June 30, 2022, or aliens transferred by CBP at the Southwest border to ICE and released after that date.

An additional 1.4 million aliens have illegally entered the country after having been detected, but not apprehended, by the Border Patrol, so-called “got-aways”.

These policies have not only allowed these illegal migrants to enter the United States, but have also encouraged an untold number of additional migrants to make the dangerous journey to the Southwest border.

Andrew Arthur, the Center’s resident fellow in law and policy and author of the posting, notes that “the United States is now in unchartered waters, allowing entry to more illegal aliens than legal immigrants; in all of FY 2021 and FY2022, DHS gave out only about 1.76 million new green cards to lawful immigrants.”

Arthur continued, “As Barbara Jordan, civil rights icon and former chairwoman of President Clinton’s bipartisan U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform, said in 1994, ‘If we cannot control illegal immigration, we cannot sustain our national interest in legal immigration. Those who come here illegally, and those who hire them, will destroy the credibility of our immigration policies and their implementation. In the course of that, I fear, they will destroy our commitment to immigration itself.’ That’s exactly what’s happening in the United States today.”

President Biden’s refusal to disclose total figures on migrant releases at the Southwest border makes it difficult to get a full accounting of the number of illegal migrants who have been released into the United States. Most of the publicly available information on Biden administration’s migrant releases comes from a court order in Texas v. Biden, a case filed by the states of Texas and Missouri in April 2021 to force DHS to re-implement the Trump-era Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP better known as Remain in Mexico).

The judge in that case required DHS to file monthly reports with the court disclosing the total number of migrants released by DHS at the Southwest border. After that order was lifted, the Biden administration refused to voluntarily disclose information on the hundreds of thousands of illegal migrants released by OFO and ICE, although Border Patrol does publish monthly statistics on its Southwest border releases.

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