Rep. Wesley Hunt (R-TX) made it clear that he had no patience left for anyone who attempted to make every issue into a divide along racial lines.
Hunt delivered his remarks during Wednesday&#8217;s hearing on <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/terror-watch-list-arrests-at-southern-border-soar-under-biden-administration/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">border security</a>, taking particular issue with President Joe Biden&#8217;s administration for labeling Republicans as &#8220;racists&#8221; because they objected to <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/desantis-shreds-biden-over-bidens-border-crisis-this-is-an-intentional-policy-rooted-in-an-open-borders-ideology/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">open border policies</a>.
&#8220;Last time I checked, I’ve been black for a long time. I’ve been a minority for a long time,&#8221; Hunt tweeted along with a clip of his remarks. &#8220;Am I racist for calling what’s happening at the southern border, an invasion? No. I’m a Congressman who is tired of this administration using racism as a scapegoat for everything.&#8221;
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Last time I checked, I’ve been black for a long time. I’ve been a minority for a long time. Am I racist for calling what’s happening at the southern border, an invasion? No. I’m a Congressman who is tired of this administration using racism as a scapegoat for everything. -WPH <a href="https://t.co/HbTkEMw5Ks">pic.twitter.com/HbTkEMw5Ks</a>
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&#8220;This is actually not about race. This is an issue on public safety,&#8221; Hunt said, adding that his concerns about the amount of deadly fentanyl that was crossing the southern border had nothing to do with race.
&#8220;Fentanyl doesn&#8217;t care where you&#8217;re from,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Fentanyl doesn&#8217;t care about race. Fentanyl kills indiscriminately.&#8221;
Hunt then pivoted to address how <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/migrant-tsunami-will-worsen-due-to-title-42-rollback-former-trump-and-biden-border-patrol-chief-says/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">border policies</a> had changed since Biden had taken office — conceding first that there had been problems prior to Biden&#8217;s arrival but then pointing out how much worse the situation at the U.S.-Mexico border had become under his watch.
Part of the problem, he explained, was the Biden administration&#8217;s penchant for using race &#8220;as a scapegoat for everything.&#8221;
&#8220;As somebody that wants to make sure that we do attack racist issues when they do occur, we can&#8217;t be the boy who cried wolf and blame racism all the time,&#8221; Hunt added. &#8220;I am here to hold this administration accountable to understand that there are issues of race that need to be addressed — and sir, this ain&#8217;t one of them.&#8221;
Hunt expounded on the topic further during a Thursday appearance on Fox News.
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House Judiciary Committee Holds Hearing On Border Crisis

‘I’ve Been Black For A Long Time’: Wesley Hunt Torches Biden Admin For Making Everything About Race

Congressman Wesley Hunt Torches Biden Admin For Making Everything About Race

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Border Crisis

Congress

Joe Biden

Racism

U.S.

The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/biden-administration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Biden administration</a> has reportedly caved to the new Republican-controlled Congress and will allow top Border Patrol chiefs to testify in a hearing next week.
The agents are expected to attend a House Committee on Oversight and Accountability hearing titled, “On The Front Lines of the Border Crisis: A Hearing with Chief Patrol Agents,” where they will share details about what is happening on the U.S. southern border.
House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-KY) thanked Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas in a <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Letter-to-Secretary-Mayorkas-Accepting-Witnesses.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> on Tuesday for allowing the agents to testify, a move that was not really optional as Comer was prepared to issue subpoenas to compel their testimonies.
&#8220;The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) initially sought to prevent Congress from hearing invaluable testimony from Chief Patrol Agents, believing that DHS’s internal protocols superseded Congressional oversight prerogatives,&#8221; Comer said. &#8220;I am pleased that the DHS is no longer taking such a position, and will make available as witnesses Chief Patrol Agent Gloria Chavez, Rio Grande Valley Sector and Chief Patrol Agent John Modlin, Tucson Sector.&#8221;
&#8220;These two law enforcement professionals also serve as Lead Field Coordinators for the border regions that collectively include Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California,&#8221; Comer added. &#8220;I look forward to their attendance at the February 7, 2023 hearing.&#8221;
In a <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/release/comer-to-hold-hearing-on-bidens-border-crisis-with-u-s-border-patrol-agents/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a>, Comer slammed the Biden administration&#8217;s border policies and vowed to hold the administration accountable.
“The Biden Administration’s radical open borders policies have ignited the worst border crisis in American history. Starting on day one in office, President Biden and his administration rolled back deterrent focused policies, halted the construction of the border wall, gutted interior enforcement, pushed amnesty for illegal immigrants – all of which have made it difficult for U.S. Border Patrol agents to secure the border,” said Comer. “Next week, we will hear firsthand from the Border Patrol about this humanitarian and national security crisis. Oversight Republicans are committed to holding the Biden Administration accountable for its dereliction of duty and look forward to hearing testimony from those on the ground battling this crisis.”

James Comer

Biden Admin Caves To New Republican Congress, Will Allow Border Patrol Chiefs To Testify

Biden Administration

Executive

Illegal Immigration

Politics

Texas Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/greg-abbott" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Greg Abbott</a> announced this week that he has created a new position in his administration to battle President Joe Biden&#8217;s continued illegal immigration crisis on the U.S. southern border.
The announcement comes after U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) had 251,487 <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-admin-shatters-all-time-record-for-number-of-illegal-alien-encounters-on-southern-border" target="_blank" rel="noopener">encounters</a> with illegal aliens last month, the highest number ever recorded in U.S. history.
Last month’s numbers, combined with the first two months of fiscal year 2023 — October and November — put the U.S. on track to have more than 2.87 million illegal alien encounters on the U.S. southern border this year.
December’s numbers mean that the Biden administration has now experienced ten straight months of 200,000+ illegal alien encounters per month on the southern border.
&#8220;For nearly two years, the State of Texas has taken unprecedented, historic action under Operation Lone Star in response to the Biden Administration&#8217;s refusal to secure the border,&#8221; <a href="https://gov.texas.gov/news/post/governor-abbott-announces-new-texas-border-czar" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Abbott. &#8220;To continue doing what no other state in the history of our country has done to secure the border, I hired Mike Banks as the State of Texas&#8217; first-ever Border Czar.&#8221;
&#8220;As an award-winning Border Patrol Agent, with decades of federal law enforcement and border security experience, Mike is the perfect choice to oversee Texas&#8217; fight against the surge of illegal immigration, lethal drugs, and deadly weapons flowing into our state and nation,&#8221; Abbott continued. &#8220;I have no doubt that Mike&#8217;s strong record of leadership and wealth of experience will provide Texans—and Americans—the level of border security expertise they deserve from a proper Border Czar.&#8221;
Banks said, &#8220;Protecting our nation’s border is something I have dedicated the last 23 years of my life to, and I am very passionate about it. I look forward to strengthening our relationships with law enforcement partners and the community, leveraging all that we can to further protect our great state of Texas and the United States.&#8221;
The New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/01/30/texas-names-border-czar-who-wants-to-make-state/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a> that when Banks was asked what his role was, he responded, “For me, the #1 priority is to make the State of Texas the least desirable place for illegal immigration to cross.&#8221;

Greg Abbott

Abbott Creates New Border Czar To Accelerate Border Wall Construction, Make State ‘Least Desirable Place For Illegal Immigration’

Immigration

Texas

Two New York GOP leaders are calling for answers from the Biden administration over secretly transporting migrants across the U.S. after dozens of Columbian immigrants have moved to the upstate community of Jamestown.
Republican Reps. Claudia Tenney and Elise Stefanik expressed their concern in a Wednesday letter that was co-signed by fellow New York GOP Congressmen Nick Langworthy, Michael Lawler, and Marc Molinaro.
“We write following reports that your administration is actively settling migrants in Upstate New York communities,&#8221; the <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/01/26/reps-tenney-stefanik-demand-biden-answer-for-ny-migrant-surge/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a>, obtained by the New York Post, stated.
“[W]e wish to express our outrage at the secrecy with which your administration has and continues to carry out these national relocation operations,” the lawmakers wrote. “This unprecedented influx of migrants into the United States is an obvious sign of your administration’s failed policies at the Southern Border.”
The letter cited a report of more than 30 Columbian migrants living in the city of Jamestown, a community of just over 28,000 people. The Western New York town is 285 miles from New York City.
Earlier this month, Republican Chautauqua County Executive P.J. Wendel expressed his concern over the relocation of migrants in Jamestown, seeking support from Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul.
“Even if it’s 100 families, our school districts are small,” Wendel <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/01/13/tiny-upstate-new-york-town-faced-with-nyc-like-migrant-influx/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “Those schools don’t have the resources. If they don’t have a Spanish teacher, what are they going to do?”
“It could be overwhelming for us because how are we supposed to be helping these people?” he added.
The letter to the Biden administration is seeking information on how the White House is monitoring the status and locations of the migrants they’ve relocated since January 2021. They are also requesting the destination of migrants that have been relocated to New York State since January 2021, among other demands.
Stefanik, the House Republican Conference chair, also blasted the Biden administration for &#8220;open border policies&#8221; she views as a threat to national security.
“Joe Biden’s open border policies have made every state a border state, and Far Left Albany Democrats’ radical agenda is exacerbating the impact of the Biden border crisis in New York,” Stefanik said last month, <a href="https://www.post-journal.com/news/new-york-news-apwire/2022/12/new-york-braces-for-more-asylum-seekers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to</a> The Post-Journal.
The letter comes as New York City Democratic Mayor Eric Adams has continued highlighting concerns over the migrant surge. The mayor has stated the influx could cost the city as much as $2 billion.
“With more than 41,000 asylum seekers arriving in New York City since last spring and nearly 28,000 asylum seekers currently in our care, our city is at its breaking point,” Adams <a href="https://www.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/050-23/mayor-adams-placement-new-humanitarian-emergency-response-relief-center" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a Saturday press release.
Adams also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nyc-to-house-migrants-at-cruise-ship-terminal-mayor-eric-adams-confirms" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> that New York City would temporarily house migrants at a cruise ship terminal.
In addition to migrants bused to New York from Texas, the Biden administration has reportedly flown migrants into the state. In July, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/aircraft-records-reveal-secret-migrant-flights-across-u-s" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> two flights had transported migrants to Westchester County. The migrants were reportedly shuttled from the flights on buses to other locations in New York.

New York migrants

New York GOP Leaders Demand Answers For Migrant Relocation In Upstate Town

Elise Stefanik

Migrants

New York

The newly minted GOP majority in the House of Representatives has a lot on its plate: a debt ceiling negotiation, investigations into COVID origins, not to mention President Biden, his son Hunter, and the cavalcade of classified documents that keep showing up everywhere the president has ever been. But one matter of urgent business should not get lost in the shuffle. The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/texas-house-republican-files-impeachment-articles-against-dhs-secretary-mayorkas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">impeachment</a> of Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas must be a top priority.
Democrats, and even some Republicans who disapprove of the admittedly drastic course of action, argue that the criticisms of Mayorkas are over policy, not over allegations of high crimes or misdemeanors. First of all, as we all remember quite well from the impeachments of Donald Trump, a “high crime or misdemeanor” is whatever Congress says it is, so what’s good for the goose is good for the gander. Even under more traditional definitions, however, Mayorkas’ shambolic tenure has more than risen to the needed level of negligence and dishonesty.
We can all agree that being bad at your job is neither a crime nor a misdemeanor, but performing your job with gross, glaring, and knowing negligence absolutely can be. This is especially true if the result of that negligence does severe harm to others, just ask <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/alec-baldwin-charged-with-involuntary-manslaughter-over-2021-rust-shooting" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alec Baldwin</a>.
Secretary Mayorkas has not simply performed poorly regarding his task to secure the southern border, he has simply <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/terror-watch-list-arrests-at-southern-border-soar-under-biden-administration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">refused to do it</a> at all.
How do we know this? We know it because he won’t even admit the border is not secure. In fiscal year 2022, migrant crossings reached a record and shocking, 2.76 million — one million higher than any previous year. And it’s not just human beings, some of whom are brutally trafficked, it is also deadly amounts of fentanyl fueling a crisis of overdoses from sea to drug-addled sea. But if you ask Mayorkas, or the White House for that matter, there is nothing to see here; the border is secure, and everything is working as planned. It’s the very definition of gross negligence.
That brings us to the lying. Telling this tall tale about a secure border to the press and the American people is dereliction of duty, but not a crime. Telling it to Congress, however, is an entirely different matter. Mayorkas has a legal duty to be honest with those in Congress tasked with his oversight. No reasonable person can conclude he has been. Instead he has at best deflected their questions and at worst lied straight to their often furious faces.
But of all his lies, of all his derelictions, there is one that stands out above all others as a clarion call for his impeachment. Another form of lying that crosses legal boundaries is slander, and in regard to his own border agents who were falsely accused of the racist whipping of Haitian migrants on horseback — he is absolutely guilty of that heinous act. For almost a year he maintained this vicious and malicious lie was true, he even punished the agents and it&#8217;s utterly despicable.
Mayorkas said he was “horrified,” and that the horses had been “weaponized.” But <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/email-shows-sec-mayorkas-was-alerted-migrants-were-not-whipped-by-border-patrol" target="_blank" rel="noopener">new emails</a> obtained by the Heritage Foundation show that Biden administration officials told him within days that he needed to clarify his remarks because reins are not whips. Not only did he fail to clarify the remarks, but he told Congress that an investigation would take place “in a matter of days, not weeks.” It took almost a year, and as it turned out there was no whipping, which was frankly obvious within hours of the incident when even the cameraman who took the footage said he saw no whipping.
Congress cannot allow our border agents to continue to work under a man who blatantly lies about them, who smears them as racist to advance his own political agenda. It’s an absolute disgrace and more than impeachable. From Biden’s document scandal to Mayorkas’ lies, this is clearly an administration that believes no rules apply to them, that they can do whatever they want with no consequence. Well, it&#8217;s time for some consequences.
Impeaching Mayorkas would not be a political stunt — in fact, it wouldn’t be political at all. It is the duty of Congress to remove officials in the executive branch for high crimes and misdemeanors when those misdeeds show that the official can no longer function in their role. Mayorkas has made Swiss cheese of a southern border that the Trump administration had brought under much greater control. This isn’t because of incompetence or laziness — it is intentional. Even the lies about the whipping were meant to deflect from his myriad failures. 
The time to act is now, and the action to take is impeachment. Republicans in the House must not be afraid to do their duty.
David Marcus is a columnist and author of &#8220;Charade: The Covid Lies That Crushed A Nation.&#8221;
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

DHS Secretary Mayorkas Appears Before House Appropriations Subcommittee

Gross Negligence: Why House Republicans Have More Than Enough To Impeach DHS Secretary Mayorkas

Alejandro Mayorkas

Department of Homeland Security

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Readers Pass

Four migrants bused to New York City from Texas were arrested for allegedly stealing more than $12,000 in items from Macy&#8217;s.
Wrallan Cabezas Meza, 19, Miguel Angel Rojas, 21, Rafael Rojas, 27, and Jose Garcia Escobar, 30, were detained after being tracked down by Nassau County Police. They allegedly drove away from the crime scene on January 9 in a 2006 BMW with a false license plate.
&#8220;All four defendants were charged with Grand Larceny in the 3rd Degree. Defendant Meza was issued multiple traffic citations,&#8221; the Nassau County Police Department said in a statement. &#8220;All four defendants were arraigned on Tuesday, January 10, 2023, at First District Court, 99 Main Street in Hempstead. Defendants Escobar and Rafael Rojas were released with no bail.&#8221;
The stolen items were reportedly returned to the Macy&#8217;s location at the Roosevelt Field Mall in East Garden City on Long Island.
&#8220;Here in Nassau County, our police department is going to be vigilant in making sure that anybody who commits a crime is tracked down, caught and arrested,&#8221; Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11669281/Migrants-bused-NYC-form-Texas-arrested-stealing-12K-Macys-store-Long-Island.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> during a Monday press conference.
The suspects told a Spanish-speaking Nassau County detective that they came to New York City on a bus from Texas, Detective Lt. Richard Lebrun <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/01/23/four-migrants-arrested-for-shoplifting-12k-from-ny-macys/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
The report did not indicate when the four men arrived in New York City. Meza reportedly crossed the U.S. southern border on July 4, 2022, with the other three men entering the country in September, according to Nassau County police.
Two of the men, Miguel and Rafael Rojas, had been living at the Westin Hotel, which is housing migrants, on West 57th Street in Manhattan since their arrival to the city, according to police.
The arrests of the four migrants were announced shortly after New York City Democratic Mayor Eric Adams visited the border in El Paso, Texas, earlier this month. Adams argues that more federal assistance is needed at the border and to help migrants entering his city.
The Daily Wire also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nyc-to-house-migrants-at-cruise-ship-terminal-mayor-eric-adams-confirms" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that Adams announced over the weekend that the city would temporarily house migrants at a cruise ship terminal to help handle the growing influx of asylum seekers. The mayor shared plans for the 1,000-person shelter at the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal in a press release on Saturday.
“With more than 41,000 asylum seekers arriving in New York City since last spring and nearly 28,000 asylum seekers currently in our care, our city is at its breaking point,” Adams <a href="https://www.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/050-23/mayor-adams-placement-new-humanitarian-emergency-response-relief-center" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
Texas has transported more than <a href="https://gov.texas.gov/news/post/operation-lone-star-disrupts-cartel-activity-along-bidens-open-border" target="_blank" rel="noopener">5,200 migrants</a> to New York City since August.
In addition, Texas has bused 9,100 migrants to the nation’s capital since April, more than 1,500 migrants to Chicago since August 31, and more than 890 migrants to Philadelphia since November 15.

Macy’s

Four Migrants Bused To NYC Arrested In $12K Theft From Macy’s

Eric Adams

Macy's

New York City

The number of people on the nation&#8217;s terror watch list who have been arrested at the southern border has soared under the Biden administration, according to a new report.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data jumped from just three arrests of individuals from the list at the border in 2020 to nearly 100 in 2022.
In 2023, a total of 38 individuals on the terror watch list have been arrested already at the southern border, pacing ahead of last&#8217;s year high of 98.
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Terror watchlist arrests at the southern border are surging under President Biden. 
FY’23: 38 (so far) FY’22: 98 FY’21: 15 FY’20: 3 FY’19: 0 FY’18: 6 FY’17: 2
Per CBP sources, there have been approximately 1.2 million *known* gotaways since Biden took office. <a href="https://twitter.com/FoxNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FoxNews</a>
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In 2021, Biden&#8217;s first year in office, 15 arrests of individuals from the terror watch list occurred at the southern border. While the number was five times higher than the last year under the Trump administration, the statistics have spiked since 2022.
During the four years under then-President Donald Trump, only 11 individuals from the terror watch list were arrested.
The high numbers under the Biden administration do not include an unknown number of &#8220;gotaways,&#8221; people who have eluded Border Patrol while entering the U.S. The CBP has estimated approximately 1.2 million gotaways under the Biden administration, though the exact number is unknown.
The report of increased terror watch list arrests at the southern border add to record numbers of migrants crossing into the U.S. in December. CBP had 251,487 <a href="https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/southwest-land-border-encounters" target="_blank" rel="noopener">encounters</a> with migrants last month, the highest number recorded the nation&#8217;s history.
As The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-admin-shatters-all-time-record-for-number-of-illegal-alien-encounters-on-southern-border" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>, last month’s numbers, combined with the first two months of fiscal year 2023 — October and November — put the U.S. on track to have more than 2.87 million illegal alien encounters on the U.S. southern border this year. December’s statistics also mark ten straight months of 200,000 or more migrant encounters per month on the nation&#8217;s southern border.
The Biden administration&#8217;s border crisis led Texas Rep. Pat Fallon (R) to file articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. Fallon introduced the articles of impeachment against Mayorkas in the House earlier this month.
“Since day one, Secretary Mayorkas’ policies have undermined law enforcement activities at our southern border,” Fallon said in a <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-republican-files-articles-impeachment-dhs-sec-mayorkas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> to Fox News. “From perjuring himself before Congress about maintaining operational control of the border to the infamous ‘whip-gate’ slander against our border patrol agents, Secretary Mayorkas has proven time and time again that he is unfit to lead the Department of Homeland Security.”
“His willful actions have eroded our immigration system, undermined border patrol morale, and jeopardized American national security. He has violated the law and it is time for him to go,” Fallon added.
In November, Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) called for Mayorkas to resign, hinting at the impeachment plan the GOP would pursue after taking back power of the House in January.
“If Secretary Mayorkas does not resign, House Republicans will investigate, every order, every action and every failure will determine whether we can begin impeachment inquiry,” McCarthy <a href="https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/3747161-mccarthy-calls-on-dhs-secretary-mayorkas-to-resign-threatens-impeachment-inquiry/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> during a press conference in El Paso, Texas.
Biden&#8217;s recent visit to El Paso coincided with an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/texas-gov-greg-abbott-blasts-bidens-border-visit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announcement</a> concerning migrants to allow 30,000 people per month from Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba, and Nicaragua to enter the U.S. The policy would also expand Title 42 expulsions to include all four countries.
Opponents argue that the changes provide no real solution to migrants crossing the border. The Biden plan instead switches the numbers around while failing to lower the number of overall migrants entering the U.S.

Southern border

Terror Watch List Arrests At Southern Border Soar Under Biden Administration

Terrorism

New York City will temporarily house migrants at a cruise ship terminal to help handle the growing influx of asylum seekers, according to Democratic Mayor Eric Adams.
Adams shared plans for the 1,000-person shelter at the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal in a press release on Saturday.
“With more than 41,000 asylum seekers arriving in New York City since last spring and nearly 28,000 asylum seekers currently in our care, our city is at its breaking point,” Adams <a href="https://www.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/050-23/mayor-adams-placement-new-humanitarian-emergency-response-relief-center" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
“We continue to surpass both our moral and legal obligations and meet the needs of people arriving in New York, but as the number of asylum seekers continues to grow, we are in serious need of support from both our state and federal governments. This fifth Humanitarian Emergency Response and Relief Center will provide approximately 1,000 asylum seekers with a place to stay, access support, and get to their final destination,&#8221; the mayor added.
Deputy Mayor for Public Safety Philip Banks III also noted that the addition of the shelter is the fifth Humanitarian Emergency Response and Relief Center.
“As the numbers and demographics shift, so does our approach. What remains is our focus on addressing their needs, providing them with critical services, and ensuring a foundation is there for them to begin building their new lives,&#8221; Banks said.
The city has already opened 77 hotels as emergency shelters, set up navigation centers to help migrants, and partnered to enroll children in public schools through Project Open Arms, among providing other forms of assistance.
Adams recently visited the southern border in El Paso, Texas, and declared a state of emergency last year over the surge in migrants. The mayor has repeatedly called for federal assistance, claiming that efforts have been blocked by Republicans.
“Just a few days ago, I was in El Paso to see for myself how the asylum seeker crisis is affecting our border states and our entire nation. What I saw was not a state problem or a city problem. It is a national problem, driven by global forces, impacting regular people,” Mr. Adams <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/18/nyregion/eric-adams-immigration-asylum.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a speech at the U.S. Conference of Mayors following his Texas trip.
“Every attempt to deal with immigration on a national level through legislation has been sabotaged, mostly by right-wing opposition. And cities are bearing the brunt of this failure,” he added.
Adams has also been a vocal opponent of Governor Doug Ducey (R-AZ) and Governor Greg Abbott (R-TX) busing migrants to faraway cities.
Ducey&#8217;s busing program ended when he left office on January 2. As of mid-December, his office <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/meetthepressblog/texas-ariz-governors-bussed-16000-migrants-north-rcna61270" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> it had sent 80 buses carrying 2,916 migrants to Washington, D.C.
Abbott&#8217;s busing plans have been more aggressive. Texas has transported more than 5,200 migrants to New York City since August.
In addition, Texas has bused 9,100 migrants to the nation&#8217;s capital since April, more than 1,500 migrants to Chicago since August 31, and more than 890 migrants to Philadelphia since November 15, <a href="https://gov.texas.gov/news/post/operation-lone-star-disrupts-cartel-activity-along-bidens-open-border" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to</a> the governor&#8217;s office.
The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-york-city-homeless-shelter-population-hits-record-numbers-following-influx-of-migrants" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that New York City’s homeless shelter population reached record levels in October, with more than 60,000 people in its shelter system.
“This is not an everyday homelessness crisis, but a humanitarian crisis that requires a different approach, and these humanitarian emergency response centers will take on a multitude of looks with the similarities that they will all help triage and provide immediate support to arriving asylum seekers. We will continue to respond with care and compassion as we deal with this humanitarian crisis made by human hands,” Adams <a href="https://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/741-22/mayor-adams-placement-family-focused-humanitarian-emergency-response-relief-center" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> at the time.

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President Joe Biden&#8217;s administration blamed Republicans for a historically bad month of illegal immigration on the U.S.-Mexico border last month, despite Democrats controlling the entire federal government and both chambers of Congress up until a few weeks ago.
The administration broke the all-time record for the number of illegal aliens encountered on the U.S.-Mexico border last month, according to newly released numbers by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) late Friday evening.
Federal officials had 251,487 <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-admin-shatters-all-time-record-for-number-of-illegal-alien-encounters-on-southern-border" target="_blank" rel="noopener">encounters</a> with illegal aliens last month on the southern border, the highest number ever recorded in U.S. history.
Last month’s numbers, combined with the first two months of fiscal year 2023 — October and November — put the U.S. on track to have more than 2.87 million illegal alien encounters on the U.S. southern border this year.
&#8220;Of course the numbers will be higher when Republican elected officials, like smugglers, falsely proclaim the border is open because of a court order to lift Title 42,&#8221; an administration official <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/over-quarter-million-migrant-encounters-december-alone-cbp-confirms">claimed</a> to Fox News. &#8220;Despite their misinformation, our border enforcement measures continue to hold strong with the number of Venezuelan nationals arriving at the border unlawfully continuing to drop dramatically.&#8221;
December’s numbers mean that the Biden administration has now experienced ten straight months of 200,000 plus illegal alien encounters per month on the southern border.
“A reminder, there have been approximately 1.2 million known gotaways at the southern border since President Biden took office,” Fox News reporter Bill Melugin tweeted. “The last several months have been around 70,000 per month, per CBP sources.”
“And those are only the *known* gotaways,” Melugin added.
Chad Wolf, the former Acting Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, slammed the numbers in a tweet. “The insanity, insecurity, and chaos continues,” Wolf said. “This admin has abolished any pretense of border security.”
Mark Morgan, former acting CBP commissioner and Heritage visiting fellow, <a href="https://www.heritage.org/press/under-biden-mayorkas-250000-border-encounters-business-usual-mark-morgan-tom-homan-lora-ries" target="_blank" rel="noopener">responded</a> to December&#8217;s numbers by calling it &#8220;a catastrophic crisis.&#8221;
“Secretary Mayorkas has been in his post for two years. He has presided over all this chaos and destruction, willfully implementing every single one of his boss’ open-borders policies,&#8221; Morgan added. &#8220;Those policies have abjectly failed, yet he continues to absurdly claim the opposite, even to the point of lying under oath before Congress. No sane person could look at the border and claim we’re on the right course.”
Tom Homan, former acting ICE director and Heritage visiting fellow, responded by saying that Biden was “the first president in my lifetime to intentionally un-secure the border.&#8221;
&#8220;By way of more than 90 executive orders, he undid the successful Trump-era policies that brought illegal immigration to a 40-year low and gave us the most secure border of our lifetimes,&#8221; Homan added. &#8220;This president and his team were warned what would happen if they got rid of those policies. They did it anyway, and you’re looking at the consequences.&#8221;
Homan noted the human toll that Biden&#8217;s border crisis is having on communities across the U.S., the nation&#8217;s law enforcement, and even those trying to come to the U.S. illegally.
“More Americans than ever dying from fentanyl flooding across the southwest border,&#8221; Homan said. &#8220;More women and children abused and sexually assaulted on the dangerous journey through Central America and Mexico. More migrants found dead on U.S. soil than ever. Record profits for the cartels as they traffic and smuggle historic numbers of drugs and people across the border. It’s inhumane. It’s a slap in the face to the men and women of the Border Patrol, who are absolutely overwhelmed, as well as to ICE agents who’ve been told they can’t detain or deport most of those who break our laws.”

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President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/biden-administration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden&#8217;s administration</a> broke the all-time record for the number of illegal aliens encountered on the U.S.-Mexico border last month, according to newly released numbers.
The administration released the numbers late Friday evening likely in hopes that the news of more than a quarter of a million encounters would get little coverage in the news media.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) had 251,487 <a href="https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/southwest-land-border-encounters" target="_blank" rel="noopener">encounters</a> with illegal aliens last month, the highest number ever recorded in U.S. history.
Last month&#8217;s numbers, combined with the first two months of fiscal year 2023 — October and November — put the U.S. on track to have more than 2.87 million illegal alien encounters on the U.S. southern border this year.
December&#8217;s numbers mean that the Biden administration has now experienced ten straight months of 200,000+ illegal alien encounters per month on the southern border.
&#8220;A reminder, there have been approximately 1.2 million known gotaways at the southern border since President Biden took office,&#8221; Fox News reporter Bill Melugin tweeted. &#8220;The last several months have been around 70,000 per month, per CBP sources.&#8221;
&#8220;And those are only the *known* gotaways,&#8221; Melugin added.
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A reminder, there have been approximately 1.2 million known gotaways at the southern border since President Biden took office. The last several months have been around 70,000 per month, per CBP sources. And those are only the *known* gotaways. <a href="https://twitter.com/FoxNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FoxNews</a>
&mdash; Bill Melugin (@BillFOXLA) <a href="https://twitter.com/BillFOXLA/status/1616605492884783104?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 21, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Chad Wolf, the former Acting Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, slammed the numbers in a tweet. &#8220;The insanity, insecurity, and chaos continues,&#8221; Wolf said. &#8220;This admin has abolished any pretense of border security.&#8221;
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) said that Biden was directly responsible for the crisis on the southern border.
&#8220;It’s no coincidence—Biden was sworn in 2 years ago today,&#8221; McCarthy said. &#8220;His policies have opened our border to more illegal crossings, more terrorism suspects, and more deadly fentanyl.&#8221;
The latest numbers from Biden&#8217;s border crisis are likely to turn up pressure on DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, who had articles of impeachment filed against him last week.
“Since day one, Secretary Mayorkas’ policies have undermined law enforcement activities at our southern border,”  Rep. Pat Fallon (R-TX) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/texas-house-republican-files-impeachment-articles-against-dhs-secretary-mayorkas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “From perjuring himself before Congress about maintaining operational control of the border to the infamous ‘whip-gate’ slander against our border patrol agents, Secretary Mayorkas has proven time and time again that he is unfit to lead the Department of Homeland Security.”
“His willful actions have eroded our immigration system, undermined border patrol morale, and jeopardized American national security. He has violated the law and it is time for him to go,” Fallon added.

Southern U.S. Border Sees Rise In Migrant Crossings As Title 42 Policy Is Set To Expire

Biden Admin Shatters All-Time Record For Number Of Illegal Alien Encounters On Southern Border

For the first time, migrants crossed from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mexico" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mexico</a> into the United States on Wednesday using a government-sponsored app that critics say could increase fraudulent asylum claims. 
Billed as a way to speed up the asylum process for those who made their way to America&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/southern-border" target="_blank" rel="noopener">southern border</a>, the CBP One mobile app allows those hoping to enter the U.S. via asylum to input their information into a pre-screening application to set up an appointment with a border official. 
It is unclear how or if the information entered is verified before the individual is released into the U.S., though the app does not guarantee entry. 
According to Reuters, the app is in <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/01/19/first-migrants-cross-into-u-s-from-mexico-using-mobile-app/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">high demand.</a> One Florida-bound Venezuelan told the outlet that he was “excited” to see his family after entering El Paso, Texas, using the app. 
Critics of the app process say it could be abused by individuals without legitimate asylum claims. 
“Instead of trying to stop an unprecedented flow of migrants, they’re encouraging even more fraudulent asylum claims, while finding innovative ways to process them en masse,” R.J. Hauman, of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/01/14/bidens-dhs-launches-mobile-app-allowing-migrants-schedule-appointments-southern-border-release-u-s/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Breitbart News. “If they wanted to actually end the crisis, the solution is simple: enforce our laws, don’t create an app to make circumventing them even easier.”
Hauman added that the new use of the app “is one of the most jaw-dropping examples of the Biden administration’s eagerness to let everyone in under the veil of legitimacy.”
U.S. Customs and Border Protection <a href="https://www.cbp.gov/about/mobile-apps-directory/cbpone">launched</a> the app in October 2020 during the Trump administration. Earlier this month, President Biden <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/01/05/fact-sheet-biden-harris-administration-announces-new-border-enforcement-actions/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> its rollout to “significantly reduce wait times and crowds at U.S. ports of entry and allow for safe, orderly, and humane processing.”
According to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the app is currently <a href="https://www.dhs.gov/news/2023/01/12/dhs-scheduling-system-safe-orderly-and-humane-border-processing-goes-live-cbp-onetm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">only available</a> for foreign nationals who have a humanitarian reason for entry due to the extension of Title 42, a COVID-related measure that allows migrants to be turned back based on health concerns. Individuals who apply through the app could still be rejected over Title 42. 
“Noncitizens utilizing CBP One must attest that they believe they meet certain identified vulnerability criteria and be prepared to substantiate this claim upon presentation at a POE [point of entry]. The application provides a safe and orderly way for certain noncitizens to present at POEs, unlike attempting to cross U.S. borders without authorization,” the agency explained. 
The rollout of the app comes as <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2023/01/13/monthly-encounters-with-migrants-at-u-s-mexico-border-remain-near-record-highs/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">monthly encounters</a> between Border Patrol and migrants at the border continue at almost record highs, as the border has seen a flood of crossings during the Biden administration.

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In defense of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/illegal-immigration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">illegal immigration</a>, liberals often argue that Latin Americans do the jobs that U.S. citizens simply don&#8217;t want to do. Those who make such claims typically wind up sounding racist, such as the time <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pelosi-slammed-for-remarks-about-immigrants-needing-to-pick-crops" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi (D-CA</a>) wondered who would pick the crops if not for illegal aliens.
Perhaps those Democrats were proven right on Tuesday. Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador just did the job that the liberal media apparently doesn&#8217;t want to do at all: Tell the truth about President Joe Biden&#8217;s abdication of border security.
During a joint appearance of the three North American countries, AMLO  — as Biden&#8217;s counterpart is known — thanked the U.S. president for not building one iota of wall along the southern border in stark contrast to his predecessors.
&#8220;President Biden, you are the first president of the United States in a very long time that has not built not even one meter of wall. And we thank you for that,&#8221; AMLO said, flanked by Biden and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Mexico City.
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WATCH: AMLO thanks Biden for being &quot;the first President of the United States in a very long time that has not built&#8230;not even one meter of (border) wall &#8230;. Although some might not like it- although the conservatives don&#39;t like it.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/XtPdj38aZv">pic.twitter.com/XtPdj38aZv</a>
&mdash; Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) <a href="https://twitter.com/BonillaJL/status/1612967727169142786?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 11, 2023</a></blockquote>
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It would appear AMLO is correct in that the Biden administration has not built any new wall. The U.S. has <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/biden-administration-fill-border-wall-gaps-yuma-arizona-rcna40567" target="_blank" rel="noopener">filled</a> in certain gaps in the existing wall since 2021, but on day one, Biden made it clear he thought the wall was a no-go in terms of solutions for the illegal immigration crisis.
&#8220;Like every nation, the United States has a right and a duty to secure its borders and protect its people against threats,&#8221; the president <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/01/20/proclamation-termination-of-emergency-with-respect-to-southern-border-of-united-states-and-redirection-of-funds-diverted-to-border-wall-construction/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in an executive order on January 20, 2021. &#8220;But building a massive wall that spans the entire southern border is not a serious policy solution.  It is a waste of money that diverts attention from genuine threats to our homeland security.&#8221;
After <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kamala-has-lost-her-gourd-veep-claims-border-is-secure-yet-blames-trump-for-crisis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">repealing</a> other key aspects of President Donald Trump&#8217;s immigration policy, Biden effectively created a tidal wave of illegal aliens flooding the southern border.
Curiously enough, after being harangued by conservatives for nearly two years, Biden visited the southern border for a photo op just this week.
&#8220;Our problems at the border didn’t arise overnight,&#8221; Biden claimed. &#8220;And they won’t be solved overnight. But, we can come together to fix this broken system. We can secure the border and fix the immigration process to be orderly, fair, safe, and humane.&#8221;
Of course, Biden essentially did create the illegal immigration crisis overnight on his first day in office.
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This photo-op explained: 
Biden &amp; CBP officers (who are demoralized because of him) 
next to a huge wall (built by a Republican) 
calling for unity (after calling Republicans semi fascist)
explaining how border problems aren&#39;t fixed overnight (while he created them overnight) <a href="https://t.co/YtwarDN5jk">https://t.co/YtwarDN5jk</a>
&mdash; Will O&#39;Grady (@WillOGrady61) <a href="https://twitter.com/WillOGrady61/status/1612494883444621313?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 9, 2023</a></blockquote>
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His latest solution for the problem is a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_0m8afXZSU" target="_blank" rel="noopener">smartphone app</a> that will help migrants file asylum claims. So, as others pointed out, it seems that the Biden administration doesn&#8217;t view the situation as one of national security or sovereignty but rather one of orderliness.
Biden — or, more precisely, whoever is calling the shots — thinks that this issue can be solved by streamlining the process for individuals to apply for asylum. Rather than cross the border, then apply for asylum, he wants men and women to use their phones and androids in their home countries and fill out an application.
It is pretty much the worst sales pitch of all time — a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/international-disorder-biden-is-a-remarkably-bad-negotiator-and-doesnt-understand-how-the-world-works" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hallmark</a> of the Biden administration.
What sounds better: Option A) Sitting in economic ruin as drug cartels wreak havoc in your village, waiting for an app to reload saying that you&#8217;ve been approved asylum admission into the U.S. — or not — and then having to shell out money to travel to the border anyway?
Or Option B) Making the trek to the border, knowing that, more likely than not, you can cross into America, declare asylum in the U.S., and be released into the interior for a better life where you <a href="https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/report-more-than-50-000-illegal-immigrants-released-into-u-s-dont-show-for-court/article_4b9b6024-7473-11ec-b15a-177112faad9b.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">may or may not</a> have to make a court appearance sometime down the road?
Option B is the better choice, obviously.
It should be noted that none of this should be considered a &#8220;failure.&#8221; This is all a choice by the Biden administration.
Democrats have made it abundantly clear that they believe illegal immigration is a good thing that benefits the country, and these men and women should be given amnesty.
These millions coming here are no different than your grandfather who hopped off the boat at Ellis Island, the leftist argument goes. Worse, Biden seems to fundamentally misunderstand what is happening.
Biden stated this week, &#8220;All of us have been immigrants&#8230;It&#8217;s not like people sit in their homes, cities, counties, and towns and say, &#8216;I have a great idea. Let&#8217;s sell everything we have. Give it to a coyote. Go through some jungles and a long path to the United States. Smuggle us across the border, drop us in the desert, and won&#8217;t that be fun in a country we don&#8217;t even speak the language?&#8221;
They might not say it&#8217;s fun, but that&#8217;s generally almost exactly what occurs.
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Biden: &quot;It&#39;s not like people sit in their homes and say &#39;I have a great idea. Lets sell everything we have. Give it to a coyote. Go through some jungles and a long path to the United States. Smuggle us across the border.&#39;&quot;
That is once again literally what is happening. <a href="https://t.co/9nZxZkNKpE">pic.twitter.com/9nZxZkNKpE</a>
&mdash; Greg Price (@greg_price11) <a href="https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1612957766615764997?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 10, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The thing is, the Left can&#8217;t outright admit that they don&#8217;t actually care about the issue.
So instead, they have to throw up window dressing on the topic to try and make it appear as if they&#8217;re concerned with border security.
In turn, the American people get a border visit replete with propaganda that would put the likes of Kim Jong Un to shame.
As president of the National Border Patrol Council Brand Judd explained, Biden saw a whole lot of nothing — to put it colloquially.
“He didn’t tour any facilities where migrants would have been. So he didn’t see anything. He did not see any of the chaos that he’s created, that he’s caused,” Judd <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/he-didnt-see-anything-border-patrol-union-president-rips-bidens-visit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “He didn’t get any more of an understanding [than] what he had before he went, and again, that’s politics. It was just optics. It was a photo shoot.”
It should be noted that one of the main beneficiaries of Biden&#8217;s border policies might very well be Mexican President AMLO.
Rather than deal with Trump — who insisted on and negotiated deals that kept illegal aliens in Mexico or their home countries — our south-of-the-border friend must be confident he can somewhat facilitate illegal aliens traveling to the U.S. southern border consequence-free thanks to Biden.
No wonder he felt so comfortable speaking the truth about the wall at Tuesday&#8217;s joint appearance.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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