X owner <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/elon-musk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elon Musk</a> announced this week that he will travel to the U.S.-Mexico border with a member of Congress to survey the catastrophe that has been unleashed by President Joe Biden&#8217;s policies.
The illegal immigration crisis on the southern border is one of the top political issues that Musk cares about, as he frequently comments about it online and draws attention to it by amplifying posts to his nearly 160 million followers on X.
Musk made the announcement while responding to a video that was originally posted by Fox News correspondent Griff Jenkins.
&#8220;FOX News sources capture stunning new video of hundreds more of migrants making their way on top of trains, some waving a Venezuelan flag, en route to the US border in Eagle Pass, TX,&#8221; Jenkins wrote.
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Musk responded: &#8220;I spoke with Rep Tony Gonzales tonight – he confirmed that it is a serious issue. They are being overwhelmed by unprecedented numbers – just hit an all-time high and still growing!&#8221;
&#8220;Am going to visit Eagle Pass later this week to see what’s going on for myself,&#8221; he added.
Musk&#8217;s visit to the U.S. border comes as Biden still has not gone to see the dire situation that has erupted under his leadership.
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In August, U.S. Customs and Border Protection had a total of <a href="https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/national-media-release/cbp-releases-august-2023-monthly-update#:~:text=DHS%20has%20removed%20or%20returned,border%20in%20August%20were%20232%2C972." target="_blank" rel="noopener">232,972 encounters</a> with illegal aliens at the southern border, an increase of about 50,000 from the previous month.
The high number of crossings have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mayor-blames-biden-for-illegal-alien-crisis-theyre-coming-in-without-any-consequence-whatsoever" target="_blank" rel="noopener">continued into September</a>, with tens of thousands of illegal immigrants coming through Eagle Pass, Texas, triggering the mayor to declare an emergency. The Biden administration, which has sued to stop Texas from erecting a water barrier in the Rio Grande to deter illegal crossings, has also been accused of cutting razor wire put up by Texas in Eagle Pass to secure the border.
At the same time as crossings remain high, the Biden administration has <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/09/21/biden-secretly-has-let-221456-migrants-fly-into-the-us-in-past-year/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> flown over 200,000 illegal immigrants to airports throughout the U.S. and the administration continues to <a href="https://www.usda.gov/media/press-releases/2023/09/22/usda-launches-program-support-agricultural-employers-and?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=govdelivery" target="_blank" rel="noopener">push for more legal immigration</a> from countries where many of the illegal immigrants are currently coming from.
Leif Le Mahieu contributed to this report.

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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and 17 state attorneys general sued Amazon on Tuesday for allegedly using &#8220;interlocking and anticompetitive and unfair&#8221; strategies to maintain its monopolistic power over current and future rivals.
&#8220;Amazon&#8217;s actions allow it to stop rivals and sellers from lowering prices, degrade quality for shoppers, overcharge sellers, stifle innovation, and prevent rivals from fairly competing against Amazon,&#8221; the agency and its state partners said in a <a href="https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2023/09/ftc-sues-amazon-illegally-maintaining-monopoly-power" target="_blank" rel="noopener">news release</a>.
The complaint alleges that Amazon&#8217;s &#8220;far-reaching schemes&#8221; impact hundreds of billion dollars in retail sales yearly for businesses by stifling competition on price, product selection, and quality while simultaneously preventing rival companies from gaining shoppers and sellers on a massive scale. According to the agency, Amazon&#8217;s &#8220;anticompetitive&#8221; conduct occurs in two markets — the online superstore market that serves shoppers and the market for online marketplace services purchased by sellers.
John Newman, deputy director of the FTC’s bureau of competition, said the case could potentially &#8220;do so much good for so many people.”
Federal officials announced the major federal lawsuit — led by FTC Chair Lina Khan — after the agency voted 3-0 to move forward with the charges in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington.
Khan, a Democrat appointed by President Joe Biden, <a href="https://www.axios.com/2023/09/26/ftc-amazon-monopoly-lawsuit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> garnered attention as a law student at Yale University when she published an influential antitrust and competition law essay targeting Amazon&#8217;s business practices. But rumors of the FTC going after the online retail giant have been circulating since the Trump administration.
&#8220;The complaint sets forth detailed allegations noting how Amazon is now exploiting its monopoly power to enrich itself while raising prices and degrading service for the tens of millions of American families who shop on its platform and the hundreds of thousands of businesses that rely on Amazon to reach them,&#8221; Khan said in a news release.
If successful, the American multinational technology company faces restructuring fundamental business operations that would &#8220;pry loose its monopolistic control to restore competition,&#8221; according to the FTC.
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David Zapolsky, senior vice president of Amazon&#8217;s global public policy and general counsel, <a href="https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/amazon-response-to-ftc-antitrust-lawsuit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">responded</a> to the suit on Tuesday, saying the federal agency &#8220;is wrong on the facts and the law&#8221; and has &#8220;radically departed&#8221; from its original purpose to enforce federal consumer protection laws and antitrust laws.
&#8220;The practices the FTC is challenging have helped to spur competition and innovation across the retail industry, and have produced greater selection, lower prices, and faster delivery speeds for Amazon customers and greater opportunity for the many businesses that sell in Amazon&#8217;s store,&#8221; Zapolsky said. &#8220;If the FTC gets its way, the result would be fewer products to choose from, higher prices, slower deliveries for consumers, and reduced options for small businesses—the opposite of what antitrust law is designed to do.&#8221;

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The Democratic mayor of El Paso, Texas says the city has reached &#8220;a breaking point&#8221; with floods of migrants coming in every day and said the city chartered five buses to take migrants to New York, Chicago, and Denver over the weekend.
El Paso is seeing more than 2,000 migrants per day, pushing the border city&#8217;s shelters and resources past capacity. The new migrants are <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/el-paso-texas-at-breaking-point-migrants-flood-border-mayor-says-2023-09-23/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> mostly Venezuelans.
&#8220;The city of El Paso only has so many resources and we have come to &#8230; a breaking point right now,&#8221; Mayor Oscar Leeser, a Democrat, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/el-paso-texas-at-breaking-point-migrants-flood-border-mayor-says-2023-09-23/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> at a press conference on Saturday.
El Paso chartered five buses to send migrants to New York, Chicago, and Denver on Saturday, Leeser said.
Previously, the Republican governors of Texas and Florida who sent migrants to blue cities were skewered by Democrats, who <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/16/migrants-marthas-vineyard-desantis-biden-democrats-criticism#:~:text=Joe%20Biden%20has%20accused%20Ron,move%20is%20also%20under%20scrutiny." target="_blank" rel="noopener">accused</a> them of “playing politics with people’s lives.”
However, El Paso&#8217;s mayor said the migrants his city put on buses were traveling voluntarily to the cities of their choice.
The migrant crisis at the border has been ramping up in recent weeks.
In August, there were nearly 233,000 migrant encounters at the southern border, the highest August on record, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/migrant-numbers-break-another-record-under-biden-southern-border-hit-new-surge" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. That number marks a jump from under 184,000 encounters in July.
Last month&#8217;s numbers are also a significant rise from August a year ago, when there were only 204,000 migrant encounters. September&#8217;s numbers are already tens of thousands of encounters <a href="https://apnews.com/article/immigration-texas-california-border-asylum-seekers-314698bfb5644be8f8f6085ebe9b9b98" target="_blank" rel="noopener">higher</a> than last year as well.
Meanwhile, several major cities, particularly New York and Chicago, have been struggling with a migrant crisis as tens of thousands of newcomers show up on their doorstep.
New York City is struggling to metabolize <a href="https://www.fox5ny.com/news/house-democrats-migrant-crisis-tour-interrupted-by-protesters-outside-roosevelt-hotel#" target="_blank" rel="noopener">more than</a> 113,000 migrants who have shown up in the city since last spring, nearly 60,000 of whom are still being housed on the city’s dime.
The city has already <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-york-city-migrant-crisis-approaches-breaking-point-with-disorderly-migrants-shelter-space" target="_blank" rel="noopener">spent</a> more than $1.2 billion on the migrants and is projected to spend up to $5 billion.
The situation has sparked tension between New York’s Democratic leaders and the Biden administration, with the governor and mayor calling for more federal help with the migrant crisis.
Biden’s Department of Homeland Security has since given New York City $140 million in federal funding to address the migrant crisis, but Mayor Eric Adams has said it would take more aid to get the situation under control.
Chicago is also facing a migrant crisis and is struggling to find long-term solutions. The country’s third-largest city has <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/08/us/politics/gop-migrants-blue-cities.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">seen</a> an influx of about 13,500 migrants recently and has already spent at least $250 million on the issue.
Mayor Brandon Johnson <a href="https://abc7chicago.com/chicago-mayor-brandon-johnson-migrants-news-migrant-plan/13752467/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">detailed</a> his plan for massive migrant tents earlier this month.
Last week, Chicago officials inked a $29.4 million deal with with a private security firm to build, staff, and operate the huge tents, which must be able to house between 250 and 1,400 migrants.
The federal government has already given Chicago and Illinois <a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2023/5/5/23713285/chicago-state-of-illinois-get-8-5-million-in-federal-migrant-grants-asked-for-up-to-191-million" target="_blank" rel="noopener">at least</a> $8.5 million for the migrant crisis.
In Denver, migrants have also arrived by the hundreds in recent weeks. Denver has <a href="https://www.axios.com/local/denver/2023/08/23/denver-increase-migrant-arrivals-august" target="_blank" rel="noopener">spent</a> at least $23 million on recent migrant arrivals.

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The Biden administration has again broken records at the border as illegal crossings jumped to new highs in August, according to new statistics released by Customs and Border Protection.
In August 2023, CBP had a total of <a href="https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/nationwide-encounters" target="_blank" rel="noopener">304,162 encounters</a> at the nation’s borders, a new monthly record, while border agents had <a href="https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/national-media-release/cbp-releases-august-2023-monthly-update#:~:text=DHS%20has%20removed%20or%20returned,border%20in%20August%20were%20232%2C972." target="_blank" rel="noopener">232,972 encounters</a> at the southern border, an increase of about 50,000 from the previous month. 
“CBP remains vigilant in the face of ruthless smugglers and transnational criminal organizations who exploit vulnerable migrants, the same criminal organizations trafficking in lethal drugs that harm our communities,” said acting CBP Commissioner Troy Miller. “Our operational tempo along the border has increased in response to increased encounters, and we remain squarely focused on our broader security mission and enforcing U.S. immigration laws.”
Miller claimed that the CBP was processing more individuals for “expedited removal than ever before,” a statement that would seem to contradict data indicating that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/deportations-have-dropped-90-percent-with-biden-in-office" target="_blank" rel="noopener">deportations have plummeted</a> under Biden. 
The high number of crossings have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mayor-blames-biden-for-illegal-alien-crisis-theyre-coming-in-without-any-consequence-whatsoever" target="_blank" rel="noopener">continued into September</a>, with tens of thousands of illegal immigrants coming through Eagle Pass, Texas, triggering the mayor to declare an emergency. The Biden administration, which has sued to stop Texas from erecting a water barrier in the Rio Grande to deter illegal crossings, has also been accused of cutting razor wire put up by Texas in Eagle Pass to secure the border. 
Dan Stein, the president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), a group that advocates for border security, said that the Biden admin’s policies were to blame for the record crossings.
&#8220;It is a disaster created and perpetuated by the policies of the Biden administration. President Biden has not taken historic action to secure the border. He has taken illegal actions of historic proportions to throw open the borders,” he said in a <a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/fair-august-border-encounters-highest-on-record-administration-insists-it-has-taken-historic-action-to-secure-the-border-301936717.html#:~:text=%22In%20total%2C%20there%20were%20304%2C162,increase%20of%2050%2C000%20over%20July." target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a>. 
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&#8220;With onset of fall, and a push by the administration and its open-borders allies to ignore federal statutes and grant work authorization to migrants more quickly, the dubious record set in August will be short-lived. Preliminary data indicate that the numbers in September will be even higher and will continue to grow until the administration decides to stop incentivizing mass illegal immigration and begins honoring its constitutional responsibility to enforce the border and our immigration laws,” he added. 
At the same time as crossings remain high, the Biden administration has <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/09/21/biden-secretly-has-let-221456-migrants-fly-into-the-us-in-past-year/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> flown over 200,000 illegal immigrants to airports throughout the U.S. and the administration continues to <a href="https://www.usda.gov/media/press-releases/2023/09/22/usda-launches-program-support-agricultural-employers-and?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=govdelivery" target="_blank" rel="noopener">push for more legal immigration</a> from countries where many of the illegal immigrants are currently coming from.

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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/biden-administration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Biden administration</a> declined to comment Friday on the federal corruption charges against Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ), even as other top Democrats have started pressuring him to resign.
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-jersey-democrat-sen-bob-menendez-indicted-on-bribery-charges" target="_blank" rel="noopener">indictment</a> says that Menendez and his wife had a corrupt relationship with New Jersey businessmen Wael Hana, Jose Uribe, and Fred Daibes, who allegedly gave the senator bribes worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. According to the DOJ, the bribes were intended to protect the businessmen and to benefit Egypt.
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was asked at a press conference if the White House knew about the indictment before it was made public and if they believe that Menendez should resign.
&#8220;So, a couple of things. I’m going to be really careful here — this is a — and not comment, because this is an active matter,&#8221; she said. &#8220;We learned about this just like all of you. But again, this is active matter, so I’m not going to comment.&#8221;
When repeatedly asked if he should resign, all she would say was, &#8220;I’m not going to comment.&#8221;
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A reporter later asked Jean-Pierre what message it would send to the rest of the world if Menendez was allowed to remain as the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. Menendez was forced to step down from the role due to Senate Democrat bylaws that require leaders to step down if they are charged with a felony.
&#8220;So, I believe, from some of your reporting, I think there’s discussions happening about his next steps — the senator’s next steps. So, I leave it to the leadership of the Senate and certainly lead it — leave that to the senator’s office,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I have to be really careful because it is, indeed, an ongoing matter. And so, I cannot comment on this. But as far as his leadership role in the Senate, that is something for Senate leadership to speak to.&#8221;
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She said that she wanted to be &#8220;very, very clear about this,&#8221; that President Joe Biden was &#8220;not going to get involved.&#8221;

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Ukraine doesn’t have to worry about a potential U.S. government shutdown affecting the flow of cash, weapons, and military equipment to its country after the Pentagon exempted Ukrainian operations from the possible shutdown. 
As lawmakers on Capitol Hill attempt to work out a deal to avoid a government shutdown, a Department of Defense spokesman told <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/21/pentagon-exempts-ukraine-operations-from-shutdown-00117482#:~:text=The%20Pentagon%20will%20exempt%20its,to%20a%20Defense%20Department%20spokesperson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">POLITICO</a> Thursday that the Pentagon will ensure its Ukraine operations such as training and weapons shipments to President Volodymyr Zelensky’s forces continue even if the U.S. government shuts down. In previous government shutdowns, only military activities deemed to be essential to national security continued normal operations, the outlet reported. 
“Operation Atlantic Resolve is an excepted activity under a government lapse in appropriations,” DOD spokesman Chris Sherwood said of the continued U.S. assistance to Ukraine. 
The statement from the DOD was a reversal of what it <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/19/us-shutdown-ukraine-weapons-training-00116727" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> just two days prior when it worried that a government shutdown could interrupt the “delivery of defense articles, services and/or military education and training” to Ukraine. 
While support and aid to Ukraine would continue to flow during a shutdown, the potential shutdown could affect the already deficient security at the U.S. southern border, the <a href="https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2023/09/22/a-government-shutdown-could-weaken-border-security-republicans-say-it-cant-get-worse/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dallas Morning News</a> reported. During the last government shutdown in 2019, essential Border Patrol agents continued to work, but it delayed important maintenance and repairs that “had a serious impact on law enforcement officer operations and safety … including those responsible for border security,” according to a report from the Senate permanent subcommittee on investigations.  
The possibility of border security being affected by a shutdown didn’t bother some Republicans, who say that a government shutdown couldn’t make the border crisis any worse than it has already been under President Joe Biden. 
“The border has been wide open since Joe Biden took office, which is why shutting down a government that doesn’t protect its borders is not something I’m losing any sleep over,” Rep. Lance Gooden, (R-TX) said, according to the Dallas Morning News. 
Daily border crossings have reached an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/daily-border-numbers-near-all-time-high" target="_blank" rel="noopener">all-time high</a> with around 9,000 illegal immigrants coming into the U.S. every day between last Friday through Monday. 
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Democrats in Congress, who have been largely quiet on addressing illegal immigrants flowing through the southern border, are now pointing to the ongoing border crisis as a reason for Republicans to come to an agreement on a spending bill.
According to Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX), a government shutdown “will jeopardize our country in more ways than one.”
“One of the biggest impacts specifically for Texans is border security,” Crockett added. “Unlike the Republicans, I actually had a conversation with Customs and Border Protection officers to talk about the impact of the shutdown and the strain that it produces on their families.” 
Republicans in the House so far have not reached an agreement on avoiding a shutdown as some members of the most conservative wing of the caucus have held out on approving an appropriations bill in an attempt to force the federal government to improve security at the southern border. The Republican holdouts, which include Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, have frustrated House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) who <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4204236-mccarthy-drops-f-bomb-to-gop-members-venting-frustration-about-spending-battle/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> he has not “heard one complaint by any member of what’s wrong with this bill.” Taylor Greene flipped her vote on the appropriations bill to &#8220;no&#8221; over the further funding of Ukraine while the U.S. border crisis continues. 
&#8220;Our country is being invaded by the thousands every damn day and our Department of Defense does nothing. Our Defense bill should not fund our DOD for blood money for the Ukraine war, that’s why I’m a NO,&#8221; the congresswoman said. &#8220;What did we get out of Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan?” 
Congress has until the end of next week to pass an appropriations bill and avoid a shutdown.

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Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) responded this week to a Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/inside-colony-ridge-the-fastest-growing-development-in-the-u-s-is-a-magnet-for-illegal-immigrants" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> about a land developer in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/texas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Texas</a> who has created an expansive settlement north of Houston where thousands of illegal immigrants are believed to have settled, saying that Democrats &#8220;must stop&#8221; creating the incentives that are causing the problem.
Located in Liberty County, Texas, near the small town of Plum Grove, the Colony Ridge development is a sprawling community that, based on an analysis of publicly available information, is now over 60 square miles and nearly the size of the nation’s capital, Washington, D.C. Its population is estimated to be anywhere between 50,000 to 75,000, and it is growing rapidly thanks to a marketing plan targeted at Texas’ Hispanic population.
Barrasso, who is the third-ranking member in the Senate Republican leadership as Chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, highlighted the piece in post on X, formerly known as Twitter.
&#8220;Joe Biden surrendered our Southern Border to illegal immigration and set up a welcome wagon for criminals, gangs and drug dealers,&#8221; said Barrasso. &#8220;Democrats must stop the incentives that fuel this crisis and secure the border.&#8221;
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Joe Biden surrendered our Southern Border to illegal immigration and set up a welcome wagon for criminals, gangs and drug dealers. 
Democrats must stop the incentives that fuel this crisis and secure the border. <a href="https://t.co/rjgYvrPGeH">https://t.co/rjgYvrPGeH</a>
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The Daily Wire surveyed the development by helicopter to assess the true extent of its growth. The flight began in the wealthy Woodlands neighborhood, but it was only minutes before the designer homes and pools gave way to half-built homes, dilapidated trailers, and heaps of trash.
Houses on the ground fly the flags of foreign countries and many homes display their addresses on spray painted pieces of plywood. Many structures, some of which are not hooked up to running water, were under construction, while others were unfinished, but didn’t appear to be actively getting worked on. At least one plot of land didn’t have any structures at all, just a tent in the corner, nestled between shrubs. Stray dogs without collars could be seen trotting along the side of the underdeveloped streets.
Barrasso slammed that Biden administration during press conference with Senate Republicans this week, saying that President Joe Biden &#8220;has surrendered our southern border to drug dealers, criminal cartels, and gang members.&#8221;
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&#8220;We&#8217;re still awaiting numbers from last month, but it looks like it&#8217;s going to be an all-time high record-breaking month of over a quarter of a million illegal immigrants coming into the United States,&#8221; he said. &#8220;They get here and then they vanish. That&#8217;s what we are dealing with in the United States today.&#8221;
Barrasso said that the Mexican cartels are making billions of dollars smuggling illegal aliens and illicit drugs into the U.S.
&#8220;Criminals are coming from all around the world, Africa, the Middle East, and China,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It used to be that border states and border cities were some places in Texas or some places in Arizona — no, not anymore. The city council in Chicago and the mayor of New York City have actually said that their own cities are being destroyed by the illegal immigrants who continue to come. And remember, these are sanctuary cities.&#8221;
&#8220;Fentanyl is a major killer all across the United States,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;And what does our incompetent president and the Democrats in the Senate do? They keep their heads buried in the sand and as we&#8217;ve just heard from Senator Haggerty, now they want to defund ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement. What do they want to do with the money? They want to set up a Welcome Wagon, to set up housing and services for those folks.&#8221;
&#8220;Republicans have a much better idea, it&#8217;s Secure The Border Act of 2023,&#8221; he said. &#8220;That legislation includes the technology, the manpower and the physical barrier that we need. That&#8217;s what we need to do to protect our communities, provide safety in America, and actually secure our border.&#8221;
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Billion-dollar cartels are flooding our border with illegal immigrants &amp; deadly drugs that are affecting our entire country. Instead of stopping them, <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeBiden?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JoeBiden</a> wants to defund <a href="https://twitter.com/ICEgov?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ICEgov</a> &amp; set up a welcome wagon for them. Republicans will continue to fight to secure our border. <a href="https://t.co/lBSuCdB2xK">pic.twitter.com/lBSuCdB2xK</a>
&mdash; Sen. John Barrasso (@SenJohnBarrasso) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenJohnBarrasso/status/1704566594121134096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 20, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Texas Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/greg-abbott" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Greg Abbott</a> shared a video on social media this week showing President Joe Biden&#8217;s Border Patrol cutting razor wire that the state of Texas had placed alongside on the Rio Grande to stop illegal aliens from flooding into the country.
&#8220;Texas installed razor wire in Eagle Pass to stop illegal crossings,&#8221; the governor wrote on Twitter. &#8220;Today the Biden Admin CUT that wire, opening the floodgates to illegal immigrants.&#8221;
&#8220;I immediately deployed more Texas National Guard to repel illegal crossings &amp; install more razor wire,&#8221; he added.
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Texas installed razor wire in Eagle Pass to stop illegal crossings.
Today the Biden Admin CUT that wire, opening the floodgates to illegal immigrants.
I immediately deployed more Texas National Guard to repel illegal crossings &amp; install more razor wire. <a href="https://t.co/eMtLS8Z6WI">pic.twitter.com/eMtLS8Z6WI</a>
&mdash; Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) <a href="https://twitter.com/GregAbbott_TX/status/1704614936218149361?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 20, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Texas Border Czar Mike Banks posted a video on Thursday showing Texas National Guard soldiers were on the ground in Eagle Pass replacing the razor wire that the Biden Administration cut.
&#8220;Texas will continue to install more razor wire and fortify the border against illegal crossings,&#8221; Abbott said. &#8220;We will not back down.&#8221;
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Texas National Guard soldiers are on the ground in Eagle Pass replacing razor wire the Biden Admin cut yesterday. 
Texas will NEVER give up on our efforts to secure the border.<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/OperationLoneStar?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#OperationLoneStar</a> <a href="https://t.co/yBywlBa8iv">pic.twitter.com/yBywlBa8iv</a>
&mdash; Mike Banks (@TexasBorderCzar) <a href="https://twitter.com/TexasBorderCzar/status/1704915671828537437?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 21, 2023</a></blockquote>
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NewsNation <a href="https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/immigration/border-coverage/texas-mayor-resources-migrants/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that 4,000 illegal aliens stormed the area on Wednesday and that at one point the line stretched five miles long and went into Mexico.
The Democratic mayor of Eagle Pass, Mayor Rolando Salinas, issued a local disaster declaration to provide additional resources to help deal with the crisis.
“There has been a situation the last couple of days where we have gotten an influx of immigrants crossing through Eagle Pass. And it has taken a toll on our local resources,” said Salinas. “I’ve been getting a lot of calls from our constituents, and they get worried — they see a lot of a lot of people in our community.”
Salinas told CNN on Thursday that the crisis was &#8220;unacceptable&#8221; and that he has not heard from anyone in the Biden administration.
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“I haven’t heard from anyone in the administration,&#8221; he said. &#8220;No one has bothered to call me.”
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Mayor Rolando Salinas from Eagle Pass, TX on <a href="https://twitter.com/CNN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CNN</a> says the current crisis at the border is “unacceptable.”
“I haven’t heard from anyone in the administration. No one has bothered to call me.”
&mdash; Meridith McGraw (@meridithmcgraw) <a href="https://twitter.com/meridithmcgraw/status/1705002871148753231?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 21, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The Biden administration has yet to release official immigration totals for the month of August, but <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/daily-border-numbers-near-all-time-high" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports</a> suggest numbers are climbing back to the peak in May. From Friday to Monday, an average of 9,000 immigrants a day reportedly crossed the southern border. On Monday alone, over 9,700 immigrants were reportedly caught or processed crossing the southern border illegally and through ports of entry.
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NEW: Per CBP sources, in the last 24 hours, Border Patrol apprehended over 8,000 illegal immigrants, &amp; when combined w/ CBP ports of entry, there were a staggering 9,700+ migrant encounters across the border in one day. Highest day on record was 10,000+ in May before T42 ended.
&mdash; Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) <a href="https://twitter.com/BillMelugin_/status/1704123809610002919?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 19, 2023</a></blockquote>
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NEW: Past four days (Fri-Mon) total migrant encounters at the SW border (BP+OFO) exceeded 35k at an average of nearly 9,000 per day per CBP sources. Exact count: 35,573 encounters / 8,893 daily average&#8230; This does NOT include Known Gotaways <a href="https://twitter.com/FoxNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FoxNews</a>
&mdash; Griff Jenkins (@GriffJenkins) <a href="https://twitter.com/GriffJenkins/status/1704120360235405366?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 19, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Neither total includes got-aways, leaving the real number of immigrants who entered the country almost certainly higher. The record for daily crossings was set back in May before the repeal of Title 42 — roughly above 10,000 a day.
Tim Pearce contributed to this report.

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Police said they found women&#8217;s designer clothes allegedly stolen by former Biden official Sam Brinton while executing a search warrant at his home in May.
The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Police Department said Tuesday that law enforcement found and returned the clothes to their owner, Tanzanian fashion designer Asya Khamsin, who accused Brinton of wearing her designs in public. Khamsin reported her bag containing the clothing articles missing at Ronald Reagan National Airport in 2018.
&#8220;The MWAA Police Department can confirm we returned the victim’s property and police retained photos of the evidence for prosecution,&#8221; MWAA spokesperson Crystal Nosal <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/police-find-female-designers-stolen-clothes-ex-biden-official-sam-brintons-home" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Fox News in a statement.
&#8220;The case is still under adjudication and we cannot release more detailed information,&#8221; the police spokesperson added.
In May, MWAA police officers executed a search warrant relating to the clothing case at Brinton&#8217;s Maryland home.
Brinton, a disgraced &#8220;non-binary&#8221; former Biden administration nuclear energy official, has been arrested multiple times for stealing women’s luggage at airports.
The 35-year-old, who uses they/them pronouns, attracted attention for being one of the federal government’s first &#8220;non-binary&#8221; officials, but he was fired in December from the Office of Nuclear Energy at the Department of Energy.
Brinton was also charged with stealing a woman’s Vera Bradley suitcase from a Minneapolis Airport in September last year and another woman’s suitcase from a Las Vegas airport in July last year. Those suitcases and their contents had a combined value of more than $9,000, according to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/former-biden-official-sam-brintons-mug-shot-released-bail-set-15000" target="_blank" rel="noopener">police</a> and court <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-non-binary-nuclear-official-charged-stealing-womans-luggage-airport" target="_blank" rel="noopener">documents</a>.
Brinton escaped jail time in both of the previous luggage theft cases.
In the Minneapolis case, Brinton was <a href="https://www.fox9.com/news/fmr-doe-official-who-took-luggage-from-msp-enters-diversion" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ordered</a> to undergo a mental health evaluation, write a letter of apology to the victim, return the stolen property, and perform three days of community service. In the Las Vegas case, Brinton <a href="https://www.fox9.com/news/fmr-doe-official-who-took-luggage-from-msp-enters-diversion" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pled</a> no contest and was given a 180-day suspended sentence and ordered to pay $3,670 in restitution.
Brinton was <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/non-binary-ex-biden-official-sam-brinton-arrested-again-fugitive-justice" target="_blank" rel="noopener">arrested</a> a third time on May 17, the same day police searched his home, in connection with the designer clothes case. He was charged with felony grand larceny. The preliminary hearing in that case has been delayed until December.
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Khamsin, the designer, went public with her allegations against Brinton earlier this year, saying she saw photographs in news articles of Brinton wearing her custom designer clothes.
&#8220;I saw the images. Those were my custom designs, which were lost in that bag in 2018,&#8221; Khamsin <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/police-find-female-designers-stolen-clothes-ex-biden-official-sam-brintons-home" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Fox News in February. &#8220;He wore my clothes, which was stolen.&#8221;
Khamsin said she had flown to Washington, D.C., for an event where her clothing was set to be on display, but when her designs went missing, she was not able to show them. She filed reports with the police and Delta Air Lines, but they were not immediately able to recover her bag.
However, when she saw the photographs of Brinton wearing her designs, Khamsin filed a police report in Houston, where she lives with her husband. Houston police <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/houston-police-refer-investigation-ex-biden-staffer-sam-brinton-alleged-airport-luggage-theft-fbi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> they referred the case to the FBI.
Khamsin filed a civil lawsuit against Brinton on Friday.

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A group of New York Democrats are calling for a tax hike on the wealthy to help pay for New York&#8217;s migrant crisis.
The group of 20 New York Democrats, including Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), <a href="https://www.fox5ny.com/news/nyc-migrant-crisis-state-lawmakers-pitch-tax-hike" target="_blank" rel="noopener">released</a> a statement on Monday blasting the government&#8217;s response to the migrant crisis and pitching a litany of measures that the city, state, and federal government can take to help.
Several of the <a href="https://twitter.com/JabariBrisport" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lawmakers</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/JuliaCarmel__" target="_blank" rel="noopener">self-identify</a> as Democratic socialists.
One proposal the group put forth is to increase state taxes on the top 5% of New Yorkers and have that money go towards homeless and migrant services.
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Twenty legislators across New York, including myself, released a statement today regarding our city &amp; state&#39;s failed policy response to recent immigrants and asylum seekers: <a href="https://t.co/eysrA0J3AR">pic.twitter.com/eysrA0J3AR</a>
&mdash; Julia Salazar (@JuliaCarmel__) <a href="https://twitter.com/JuliaCarmel__/status/1703743737594040660?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 18, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;I would absolutely be over the moon if they call back a special session to raise taxes on the rich,&#8221; <a href="https://www.fox5ny.com/news/nyc-migrant-crisis-state-lawmakers-pitch-tax-hike" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> state Senator Jabari Brisport, who represents part of Brooklyn.
&#8220;New York is the most unequal state with the most billionaires in it, and they do not pay what they owe to the rest of us in New York,&#8221; Brisport said. &#8220;So raising their taxes to fund social services for all New Yorkers.&#8221;
The 20 Democrats also called for forcing New York&#8217;s counties to take in and house migrants by expanding the right-to-shelter mandate statewide.
At least four New York counties have issued executive orders blocking the new migrants from being placed in their communities. The counties are suing New York City for attempting to resettle migrants in their areas.
Yet another proposal from the group is to dip into New York&#8217;s economic uncertainties fund, which currently holds more than $13 billion.
New York City is struggling to metabolize <a href="https://www.fox5ny.com/news/house-democrats-migrant-crisis-tour-interrupted-by-protesters-outside-roosevelt-hotel#" target="_blank" rel="noopener">more than</a> 113,000 migrants who have shown up in the city since last spring, nearly 60,000 of whom are still being housed on the city’s dime.
The city has already <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-york-city-migrant-crisis-approaches-breaking-point-with-disorderly-migrants-shelter-space" target="_blank" rel="noopener">spent</a> more than $1.2 billion on the migrants and is projected to spend up to $5 billion.
“This issue will destroy New York City,” Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat, <a href="https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/09/11/esuh-s11.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> this month. “We’re getting 10,000 migrants a month. … Every community in this city is going to be impacted.”
The situation has sparked tension between New York&#8217;s Democratic leaders and the Biden administration, with the governor and mayor calling for more federal help with the migrant crisis.
Biden’s Department of Homeland Security has since given New York City $140 million in federal funding to address the migrant crisis, but Adams has said it would take more aid to get the situation under control.
Migrants are also causing <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-york-city-migrant-crisis-approaches-breaking-point-with-disorderly-migrants-shelter-space" target="_blank" rel="noopener">other headaches</a> for New York besides overcrowding the emergency shelter system — some have caused public disturbances. Meanwhile, business owners in Manhattan say their businesses suffer significantly due to the chaos spilling onto the streets from hotels used as migrant shelters. Migrants have been spotted drinking and using drugs inside the hotels as well.
Meanwhile, New Yorkers are getting more frustrated.
More than four in ten New York state residents — 41% — said they support a border wall spanning the entire length of the country’s southern border with Mexico, <a href="https://scri.siena.edu/2023/09/12/majorities-support-using-federal-properties-to-shelter-migrants-easier-work-authorizations-comprehensive-immigration-reform-oppose-border-wall-50-41/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to a Siena College Poll released earlier this month.
Even in deep blue New York City, 38% of city dwellers said they would support a border wall, the poll found.

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Gas prices in some Southern California counties have skyrocketed to an average of over $6 a gallon, the first time they have been this high in nearly a year.
As of Tuesday, the average gas price of regular gasoline in Los Angeles and Orange counties was more than $6 a gallon — $6.027 in Los Angeles County and $6.022 in Orange County, <a href="https://abc7.com/gas-prices-la-county-refinery-problems/13800035/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to data from the AAA and Oil Price Information Service.
It is the first time the price has topped $6 since October last year.
Both Southern California counties have seen average gas prices spike more than a dollar over the last two months. The average cost in Ventura County is $6 a gallon, while prices average $5.947 in San Diego County.
According to AAA, three California counties that border Nevada also average more than $6 a gallon: Alpine ($6.999), Mono ($6.508), and Inyo ($6.143).
Several factors have contributed to rising gas prices, including OPEC countries like Saudi Arabia <a href="https://apnews.com/article/opec-oil-prices-saudi-arabia-russia-8d70999cb8258aebc3edbfdfcae278b7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">slashing</a> oil production earlier this summer. The Saudis cut oil production by one million barrels per day starting in July, which caused crude oil prices to jump.
&#8220;Oil costs are putting upward pressure on pump prices, but the rise is tempered by much lower demand,&#8221; <a href="https://www.foxla.com/news/california-gas-prices-continue-to-skyrocket" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Andrew Gross, an AAA national public relations manager.
&#8220;The slide in people fueling up is typical, with schools back in session, the days getting shorter, and the weather less pleasant. But the usual decline in pump prices is being stymied for now by these high oil costs,&#8221; Gross said.
The national gas price average is currently $3.88 a gallon, 20.3 cents higher than a year ago. The national average hit a record $5.016 a gallon in late June last year.
The Biden administration this week touted gas prices falling from that peak.
“If you look at what we’ve been able to do from last summer to this summer — lowering gas prices by a dollar twenty cents, that is because of the work that this administration has done,” White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/13/business/biden-gas-prices-inflation.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> this month.
Over the last year, the administration has repeatedly taken credit for the occasional dip in gas prices even as prices remained high and Americans struggled to keep up with the cost.
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A year ago in September, President Biden claimed that the average gas price was below $2.99 in 41 states and the District of Columbia. In fact, the average gas price at the time was only under $3.99, not $2.99.
After news outlets pointed out the error, the White House <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/23/politics/fact-check-biden-gas-prices-unemployment-rate/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">corrected</a> the official transcript of Biden’s remarks to read the correct figure of $3.99.
&#8220;I&#8217;m going to get those gas prices down again, I promise you,&#8221; Biden <a href="https://www.axios.com/2023/09/14/oil-prices-chart-forecast-inflation-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> last week.
Critics have <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/biden-dragged-touting-gas-price-drop-americans-struggle-make-ends-meet-what-planet-on" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called on</a> Biden to take responsibility when gas prices rise, but the administration has not been eager to do so. Some have also pointed out that the national average gas price the day before Biden took office was $2.38, <a href="https://newsroom.aaa.com/2021/01/new-year-sees-gas-prices-steadily-increase/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to AAA, over a dollar less than Thursday’s $3.83 average.
Meanwhile, gas prices were the <a href="https://www.axios.com/2023/09/14/oil-prices-chart-forecast-inflation-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">leading cause</a> of August&#8217;s 0.6% jump in inflation.
With election season kicking into gear, gas prices will likely be featured more prominently in the political conversation, especially the question of whether the Biden administration plays a role in keeping prices high.

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America&#8217;s gross national debt surpassed $33 trillion for the first time in U.S. history on Monday as Washington, D.C., faces a potential government shutdown over federal spending.
Data reportedly published by the Treasury Department showed the national debt — which measures how much the federal government owes security holders — hit $33.04 trillion, just months after it eclipsed $32 trillion in mid-June.
Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, said in a <a href="https://www.crfb.org/press-releases/national-debt-reaches-33-trillion-adds-1-trillion-debt-3-months" target="_blank" rel="noopener">news release</a> that the latest numbers reached &#8220;a new milestone that no one will be proud of.&#8221;
&#8220;Debt held by the public, meanwhile, recently surpassed $26 trillion,&#8221; MacGuineas said. &#8220;We are becoming numb to these huge numbers, but it doesn&#8217;t make them any less dangerous.&#8221;
The Congressional Budget Office confirmed last week that the underlying deficit would likely double from last fiscal year to this one, according to MacGuineas. The office reportedly <a href="https://fortune.com/2023/09/18/janet-yellen-national-debt/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">warned</a> in June that high interest rates and rising national debt could make net interest payments spike to 6.7% of GDP by 2053, according to Fortune.
&#8220;Instead of hearing about solutions, we hear promises of which programs our leaders are unwilling to touch and which taxes they are unwilling to raise,&#8221; she said. &#8220;That kind of talk is not only pandering, but it&#8217;s also downright irresponsible when we have a mess like this on our hands.&#8221;
The announcement comes as House Republicans proposed a short-term plan on Sunday that would temporarily fund the government through October 31 to avoid a shutdown and impose an 8% spending cut on federal agencies, excluding defense funding, veterans affairs, and disaster relief, <a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/us-national-debt-hits-33t-first-time-history" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to Fox Business.
But the measure received opposition from fellow GOP lawmakers while Democrats are unlikely to support it.
Michael A. Peterson, the chief executive of the budget watchdog group Peter G. Peterson Foundation, raised the alarm of a looming federal crisis.
&#8220;As we have seen with recent growth in inflation and interest rates, the cost of debt can mount suddenly and rapidly,&#8221; Peterson said, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/18/us/politics/us-national-debt.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to The New York Times. &#8220;With more than $10 trillion of interest costs over the next decade, this compounding fiscal cycle will only continue to do damage to our kids and grandkids.&#8221;
Mark Spitznagel, founder of the hedge fund Universa Investments, told Fortune in August that we&#8217;re living through the &#8220;greatest credit bubble in human history&#8221; after warning of a potential impact from the debt increase.
&#8220;We&#8217;ve never seen anything like this level of total debt and leverage in the system,&#8221; Spitznagel said. &#8220;It&#8217;s an experiment. But we know that credit bubbles have to pop. We don&#8217;t know when, but we know they have to.&#8221;
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/18/first-on-cnbc-cnbc-transcript-united-states-treasury-secretary-janet-yellen-speaks-with-cnbcs-sara-eisen-on-squawk-on-the-street-today.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> CNBC on Monday that she isn&#8217;t worried about the staggering debt, claiming that the net interest as a share of GDP remains under control by the federal government.
&#8220;And even with the rise we have seen in interest rates, that remains at a very reasonable level,&#8221; Yellen said, admitting that U.S. officials need to be careful about spending going forward in order to stay on this &#8220;sustainable course.&#8221;
&#8220;Certainly, greater deficit reduction is possible,&#8221; she added. &#8220;The President has proposed a series of measures that would reduce our deficits over time while investing in the economy, and this is something we need to do going forward.&#8221;
President Joe Biden <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-signs-bill-to-increase-debt-ceiling-avoid-federal-default" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed</a> the Fiscal Responsibility Act in June that will suspend the debt limit until January 2025 and implement restraints on spending that the Congressional Budget Office estimated would reduce budget deficits by $1.5 trillion over the next decade.

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