Quote:EAGLE PASS, Texas — With just hours to go before the largest yet congressional visit arrives at the border in the small Texas town of Eagle Pass, a source within Customs and Border Protection tells Breitbart Texas what they will witness pales in comparison to the migrant surge and grossly overcrowded facilities experienced during the month of December. A nearby soft-sided processing facility designed to accommodate 1,000 migrants that has routinely held nearly 6,000 during the month is now holding less than 500.

According to the source, not authorized to speak to the media, the facility has been nearly emptied through daily migrant releases of nearly 1,500 daily into the small border community of Eagle Pass. At times, when non-government migrant shelters in the Del Rio Border Patrol Sector closed during the holidays or reached capacity, direct migrant releases onto the city streets were conducted to reduce the numbers.

The source says the once-filled temporary staging area where thousands of migrants were held in an outdoor setting near the Camino Real International Bridge II is mostly empty due to recent enforcement actions in Mexico that have temporarily stemmed the flow of migrants into the city.

“After the latest visit by DHS Secretary Mayorkas with Mexican government officials, buses and planes carrying migrants south from the border are having an impact, as are train operations ongoing in Monterrey that have reduced the flow of migrants that was unabated in December,” the source told Breitbart Texas.

The source believes the relief is only temporary as the migrants are not being sent back to their home countries in large numbers. Moving them south only delays their arrival to border cities where the migrants will likely attempt to enter the United States in a few short weeks, the source explained.

“In September, we experienced the same phenomenon after significant media coverage and visits by congressional delegations and celebrity CEO Elon Musk. Intervention by Mexico at the behest of our government slowed things down. But the traffic returned a few short months later,” the source emphasized.

The Congressional visit, which will include 60 legislators, including Speaker of the House Mike Johnson and local representative Tony Gonzales, is set for Wednesday afternoon. The delegation will receive an operational brief from Texas Department of Public Safety Director Colonel Steven McCraw and other state law enforcement officials prior to a scheduled press conference on the banks of the Rio Grande.

The source says Mexican authorities will likely make sure there is little to see while the legislators visit the immediate border area. In December, as reported by Breitbart Texas, more than 70,000 migrants made landfall in the Del Rio Sector. Most entries centered around Eagle Pass and the outdoor staging site near the Camino Real International Bridge. The record-breaking influx of migrants prompted Customs and Border Protection to shut down cross-border rail operations at Eagle Pass, the second busiest rail port of entry in the state of Texas.

Although the rail line has since re-opened, one of two official ports of entry into Mexico from Eagle Pass remains shut. The closure of the port has devastated local businesses that rely on legitimate travelers for income during the busy holiday season. Wait times to cross into Eagle Pass reached nearly 12 hours at one point during the Christmas and New Year’s holiday season.

The influx also resulted in a decision by Customs and Border Protection to shut down Border Patrol highway checkpoints, a critical tier in the agency’s border security strategy. The highway checkpoints serve as the last line of defense for the Border Patrol to detect human smuggling and other cross-border crimes such as fentanyl smuggling.

As reported by Breitbart Texas, the increase in crossings frustrated city leaders who felt the current administration was failing to respond adequately to their pleas for assistance. The city’s Mayor Rolando Salinas, a Democrat, took to social media earlier this month to express his frustration with the surge of migrants flooding into his city. Describing the constant flow of migrants into the city as an immigration disaster, Salinas chided Department of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas for visiting Uvalde, Texas — a city 60 miles away from the border region — but failing to visit one of the busiest migrant crossing spots in Eagle Pass during the visit.

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Yet the Mayor of Denver whines about all the migrants arriving but will not pinpoint the obvious reason it is happening due to political reasons. Same with the local media, whining about how this is straining the city's resources. During their report last night, TWO more buses with Texas plates arrive right behind them, which they pointed out.

I don't blame Texas or Abbott one bit. I blame Bitem and his un-American cronies. Like Mayorkas, who richly deserves impeachment.

(01-03-2024 04:08 PM)MileHighBronco Wrote:  Yet the Mayor of Denver whines about all the migrants arriving but will not pinpoint the obvious reason it is happening due to political reasons. Same with the local media, whining about how this is straining the city's resources. During their report last night, TWO more buses with Texas plates arrive right behind them, which they pointed out.

I don't blame Texas or Abbott one bit. I blame Bitem and his un-American cronies. Like Mayorkas, who richly deserves impeachment.

Biden Floods Small Wisconsin Town with 1,000 Migrants

Quote:President Joe Biden’s migration has flooded almost 1,000 poor Latino migrants into the poor college town of Whitewater, Wisconsin, according to a plea by the city’s police department.

“Their arrival has put great strains on our existing resources, ” says the letter to Biden by the city manager and police chief of the 15,000-person city:

Communicating with an immigrant population that generally speaks only Spanish has been a challenge we’ve worked to overcome by the use of costly translation software. We have found approximately three times the number of unlicensed drivers on our roadways compared to previous years. This occupies much of their time and takes away from our ability to serve in other aspects.

Our officers have also seen first-hand the terrible living conditions that many migrants are living in. We’ve seen a family living in a 10’x10’ shed in -10-degree temperatures. We’ve seen many over-occupied apartments that create non-familial living situations, which unfortunately has led to a number of situations involving juvenile victims of sexual assault.

We’ve also encountered a significant trust barrier between the immigrant population and law enforcement. In many cases this has led to individuals providing false documents and misleading our staff, which further increases our time involved in investigating cases. Finally, our law enforcement staff have responded to a number of serious crimes linked to immigrants in some manner including the death of an infant child, multiple sexual assaults, and a kidnapping.

“Our [police] department averaged 2,437 self-initiated traffic stops annually from 2010–2021 … in 2023, we are on pace for 1,246 [traffic stops],” said the letter, which is signed by police chief Daniel Meyer and city manager John Weidl.

The city is asking Biden to offset his damage with taxes from the nation’s taxpayers:

The impact of demographic change that we are seeing in Whitewater is acute. It is unique in Walworth County and even in the State of Wisconsin. If direct funding is not feasible, then I ask that you to consider creating a grant opportunity … This is a critical humanitarian issue, and our City needs government assistance in order to continue to serve our entire community properly.

Biden is eager to fund cosmetic fixes to civic damage in Wisconsin, partly because the funding will help him in the 2024 election and also help import even more migrants. In October, he asked Congress for $14 billion to accelerate his migration plan,

The plan is described by Republicans as a magnet for more migration. For example, the plan asks for roughly $800 million to import more migrants from South America via a network of “Safe Mobility Offices.”

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So far, GOP Senators have blocked the funding request because Biden’s deputies oppose any significant border reforms that would curb their planned inflow of more poor foreigners for jobs and homes needed by Americans in Wisconsin and other states.

The town was poor even before the arrival of Biden’s 1,000 Nicaraguan and Venezuelan migrants.

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“Whitewater also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 33.56% of its population below the federal poverty line,” according to NeighborhoodScout.com. Biden’s migrants will drive up housing costs, push down wages, and take jobs from the locals who are older, alienated, sicker, or damaged by drugs.

But Biden’s migration has also inflicted a crime wave on the city, which gets a “D” rating at CrimeGrade.com.

In November, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) met with local officials to spotlight the growing role of the drug cartels in the once-quiet town. WKOW.com reported:

The lawmakers were joined by law enforcement officials from both Whitewater and Walworth County to provide an analysis to community members on how the presence of drug cartels in rural areas is plaguing cities across the state. Whitewater Police officials confirmed they had documented nearly $250,000 was funneled through the City of Whitewater back to drug cartels over a four-month period.

After the meeting, Johnson posted a November 17 statement about the district’s problems:

The national media will pay attention to big cities like Chicago and New York but little mention is made of the challenges faced by smaller cities. The impact on Walworth County resources is devastating. Issues range from communication barriers, to overcrowded housing, to overburdened schools. And then there’s the criminal element bringing with it cocaine and fentanyl. Law enforcement says their drug arrests have traced a quarter million dollars from Whitewater directly back to drug cartels.

Whitewater is still a safe community, but the root cause of these issues is our nation’s wide open southern border.

In October, for example, KCRG.com reported that Yefferson Guzman Rodriguez was being sought by the police for allegedly kidnapping a woman:

The Whitewater Police Department indicated Guzman Rodriguez was reported to have held the victim, who was an acquaintance, for days and had allegedly pointed a gun at her head. Police Chief Dan Meyer said that she was not injured during that time.

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The police department also searched multiple other homes where people who knew Guzman Rodriguez, the statement noted. Whitewater Police Chief Dane Meyer stated most of the suspect’s family and friends are in the area; however, he does have ties to Milwaukee. They have been cooperative with helping find the teen, Meyer indicated.

Migration also threatens the city’s ability to help educate locals. Roughly half the kids in the city’s high school are already classified as poor, and roughly one-third are Hispanic.

The city also has a housing shortage that is being worsened by poverty and the arrival of migrants — much to the advantage of local landowners.

Whitewater’s problems match the migration-created problems in Chicago, New York, Denver, Boston, and Rockland County, just outside of New York City.

“We’re not just saying ‘We’re out of room’ as a sound bite — we’re out of room, literally,” Mayor Eric Adams said in a January 2 interview. “People are going to be eventually sleeping on the streets.”

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Biden’s economic policy of Extraction Migration has added at least four million workers to the nation’s workforce.

That flood is urged and welcomed by business groups because it cuts Americans’ blue-collar wages and white-collar salaries. It also reduces marketplace pressure to invest in productivity-boosting technology, heartland states, and overseas markets. and it reduces economic pressure on the federal government to deal with the drug and “Deaths of Despair” crises.

Biden’s easy-migration policies are deliberately adding the foreigners’ problems to the lengthening list of Americans’ problems — homelessness, low wages, a shrinking middle class, slowing innovation, declining blue-collar life expectancy, spreading poverty, the rising death toll from drugs, and the spreading alienation among young people.

In contrast, towns with few migrants see rising wages and corporate investment.

It’s a shell game. This administration’s Thimblerig.

This is nothing more than I big middle finger to Americans. The idiots in the White House believe the majority of Americans are as clueless as the morons who voted for this clown show back in 2020.

Whatever happens to the country between now and November 6th it deserves for ever trusting its future to this administration.

(01-03-2024 04:32 PM)CardinalJim Wrote:  It’s a shell game. This administration’s Thimblerig.

This is nothing more than I big middle finger to Americans. The idiots in the White House believe the majority of Americans are as clueless as the morons who voted for this clown show back in 2020.

Whatever happens to the country between now and November 6th it deserves for ever trusting its future to this administration.

Why in hell do they need to go there? It's symbolic and costly. They could watch any of the numerous cameras that clearly show the true scope of the invasion we are dutifully ignoring. And lets call it what it is, an invasion. Our way of life is under attack and half of us blithely stand by and do nothing while the other half cheers it on for reasons unknown to even themselves.