[Free Beacon] On March 14, the day that Kevin McCarthy and 12 House Republicans went to Texas to visit the southern border, the El Paso Central Processing Center for migrants reached capacity. The Republicans heard heartbreaking stories of unaccompanied children, some less than six years old, crossing the border while holding hands. Border agents informed the congressmen that fentanyl traffickers are exploiting the surge in illegal immigration. One agent told John Katko, ranking member on the Homeland Security Committee, that a few of the apprehended migrants appear on the terrorist watch list. Border and immigration personnel are stretched thin. "They’ve never seen anything like this," McCarthy told me.
Indeed, Homeland Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas projects that the United States faces its largest surge in illegal immigration in two decades. He’s ordered FEMA to assist in taking care of the hundreds of unaccompanied minors who show up daily asking for asylum. Mayorkas and President Joe Biden insist that the previous administration is responsible for a crisis that emerged weeks after Donald Trump left the White House. They couldn’t be more wrong.
What’s happening on the southern border is the most preventable emergency in years. And Joe Biden created it. No matter how often he tells asylum seekers that now is not the time to enter the United States, migrants won’t listen. That’s because the policies he put into place incentivize the dangerous trek. At the same time, Biden has handed the Republicans an issue that will remain long after the $1,400 checks in the American Rescue Plan have been forgotten. And it hasn’t been 60 days since he took office.
Biden’s contradictory messaging won’t relieve the pressure on the border. Sure, he told George Stephanopoulos that his message to migrants is, "Don’t leave your town or city or community." Mayorkas echoed this sentiment in an interview with CBS. But then he added, "If they do, we will not expel that young child." That includes tens of thousands of teenagers who may be looking for jobs rather than fleeing persecution.
So the White House says stay put, but if you don’t and border patrol apprehends you, you’ll be housed, clothed, fed, and released if you are under 18. And by the way, we’re laying the groundwork for providing legal status and a path to citizenship for the millions of illegal immigrants already here. That’s not a stop light to border crossers. It’s a yellow light: Proceed with caution.
What did Biden expect? True, he’s maintained a Trump-era rule that allows for the swift removal of adults because of the coronavirus. But he exempted minors from the regulation, creating a massive loophole. And he’s torn up just about everything else that Trump did.
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The Dems create, thrive and profit on man-made crises. Rahm Emmanuel even said as much.
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Border agents informed the congressmen that fentanyl traffickers are exploiting the surge in illegal immigration.
You know damn well that people in our government are getting a cut. They need the illegal alien votes but they need the money too. I'd like to believe that most of them are Democrats but...
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/\ More people who come across, the more drug mules are able to infiltrate and come across as well. Double-bubble dividend, more cheap labor human trafficking and more illegal drugs for the urban commerce machine.
Both dividends benefit the democratic machine and their Hollywood and urban constituents.
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This is the extraordinary act of a political coup. Every act since then has been the rush to exploit the theft and the Jan6th fiasco of "insurrection" just allowed more lies and BS in the MSM for a bit. Our nation has been subverted by criminal fraud and now is institutionalizing changes that will alter it for good. Behind this you find the Marxists at the Kalorama Compound and the salting of the central federal government and big tech/MSM for years by the Community Organized and the Tehran Traitor.
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Glad you finally made it into the boat.
You have just experienced an Epiphany!
Congratulations, Epiphanies are rare,
Now that you know, be aware as to who you are really speaking with, they might not be who they seem to be.
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Our Republic is being stolen and trashed in front of our eyes. In broad daylight.
How do we stop this?
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[Town hall] Team Biden had their first big foreign policy test with China—and they failed. There’s no way to spin it. Even the liberal media is saying the whole meeting in Alaska devolved into anarchy. This meeting is supposedly the one that will determine if President Depends is going to meet with Xi Jinping. By how things turned out, I don’t think we should even consider it. Why embarrass the United States even more? Secretary of State Tony Blinken just exposed how weak we are in dealing with China. They know it. We got trashed on our own soil and from the looks of it, we didn’t really respond in any way, shape, or form. We got rolled in front of the cameras (via Daily Beast):
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We can only hope that the acrimony was real and not kabuki for the rubes. My suspicion for quite some time has been that Xi owns Biden and is calling all the shots.
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Awful.
Is the US translator the gal with K-Pop hair and wearing the Good Will jacket?
Abu, that was so bad image wise I am left wondering if Team Biden took the fall in the 2nd so there will be no more expectation of resisting Chinese wills.
Neither is a good outcome, but I'm going to side with real ass kicking, that Team Biden thought they would be treated as equals at the table, because Putin basically that Biden himself can go eat a d!c.
[Babylon Bee] Too close to the truth
So far, the Biden administration has had a much different style than the previous administration, having milder reactions to events and creating less news. President Joe Biden recently shared that his secret to keeping calm during a crisis is senility.
"I have no idea where I am or what’s going on," Biden told reporters, explaining how he could be so peaceful when so much was needed of him. "I don’t even know where I am right now or who you are. Are you the guys who are supposed to get me my pills? Where are my pills?"
White House staffers further expanded on how laid back Biden’s style is. "Sometimes you’ll tell him about some world event and he will panic, and it’s starting to look bad," said one staffer who wished to remain anonymous since Biden never remembers his name anyway, "but ten minutes later he’s forgotten all about it and is back to eating an ice cream cone and watching something on AMC. He’s unflappable. Because his brain is full of holes."
"Now I have to get going or I’m going to miss the train," Biden further related to reporters. An aide then came in and told Biden they needed a decision on the border crisis, to which Biden said, "What crisis? What’s this malarkey you’re talking about? And who are you? And why are you telling me this?" The aide then got frustrated and went off to figure things out himself.
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[FrontPage] Only an imminent 25th Amendment crisis and soldiers in the streets.
In the final months of the Trump administration, House Democrats universally voted to demand the unconstitutional use of the 25th Amendment to remove President Trump from office.
The 25th Amendment was meant to remove presidents who were unable to discharge their duties. President Trump was clearly able to do so, but Biden may be exactly the disastrous scenario that the 25th Amendment was created to avoid. And he may be its worst test case.
A basic problem with the Biden administration is that there really isn’t one. Like most journalists I use the term as a formality, but the White House site calls it the Biden-Harris Administration. It’s not unheard of for younger presidents like George W. Bush to lean on more experienced vice presidents, but a politician who spent 46 years in public office letting a newbie like Kamala Harris handle most of the phone calls with foreign leaders is the opposite of that scenario.
The Biden campaign has been open about Kamala Harris being trained to step into Biden’s shoes because it doesn’t expect him to run for reelection or even make it through one term.
Except that presidents aren’t supposed to run for office as figureheads or stalking horses.
Kamala Harris isn’t talking to foreign leaders because she has more experience, but because the guy whose job it is to do it isn’t up to anything challenging beyond some photo ops, stumbling through a teleprompter speech, and then a trip back home over the weekend.
Don’t ask him to hold a press conference or pull off an actual State of the Union address.
Obama was the teleprompter-in-chief, but Biden is also the telecommuter-in-chief.
Biden’s term will test the question of whether it’s better to have a bad president or no president.
Invented in China - The term is generally applied to the officials appointed through the imperial examination (educational accreditation) system. Which, now that I think about it, may explain why the party of the "educated" loves China so much.
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When it all goes bad (probably soon as unemployment is rising fast as well as gas prices and debt) the Dems will say we didn't win the election, we were just filling in during a period of uncertainty. It's the Orange Man's fault.
[Popular Mechanics] Even during these unprecedented times, manufacturers have been rolling out innovations in every category of tool. While we appreciate progress, it can sometimes make the decision about what to buy even more difficult, forcing you to guess whether a certain spec bump will make a noticeable difference, or whether a fancy new marketing name has some useful tech behind it. So we spent the past year mowing, sawing, hammering, drilling, and wrenching in the Pop Mech Test Zone, evaluating hundreds of tools to determine what’s actually worth your dollar and what is truly groundbreaking. During this process, we were pleasantly surprised to find that some of our existing favorites still outperform and are more helpful than the new stuff. And here they are, the 67 best tools, accessories, and pieces of workwear (both old and fresh) you can buy right now—with a book thrown in for good measure.
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Last I checked, Amazon doesn't manufacture much in the way of hard goods. It's common practice of rags like Propagandular Mischanics and most tech web sites to have commercial tie-ins with sellers like Amazon. Even some beloved (by some but not all) bloggers have such tie ins.
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Click bait crap article. I wonder how much Amazon pays these crap review web sites to push their products?
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Free Beacon] On March 14, the day that Kevin McCarthy and 12 House Republicans went to Texas to visit the southern border, the El Paso Central Processing Center for migrants reached capacity. The Republicans heard heartbreaking stories of unaccompanied children, some less than six years old, crossing the border while holding hands. Border agents informed the congressmen that fentanyl traffickers are exploiting the surge in illegal immigration. One agent told John Katko, ranking member on the Homeland Security Committee, that a few of the apprehended migrants appear on the terrorist watch list. Border and immigration personnel are stretched thin. "They’ve never seen anything like this," McCarthy told me.
[Babylon Bee] 
