Approximately 50 places of worship in New York City will house foreign nationals who have recently migrated to the United States. 
Each location will accommodate 19 single adult males starting in July, FOX5 <a href="https://www.fox5ny.com/news/nyc-migrant-crisis-houses-of-worship-host-migrants-july">reported</a>. The city expects almost 1,000 migrants will be sheltered in these places of worship by August. New York City will also open five daytime centers to provide the foreign nationals with legal assistance and other services. 
&#8220;It’s a first for the city, it’s the first for us,&#8221; Pastor Gilford Monrose, the executive director of the NYC Office of Faith-Based and Community Partnerships, remarked.
New York City will spend $85 a night to house each foreign national, plus additional costs like laundry services and security. A spokesperson for Democratic Mayor Eric Adams said it would cost roughly $125 per night for each migrant after factoring in all costs.  
&#8220;No matter what faith you practice, caring for those in need is part of every spiritual tradition,” said Adams. “I’m proud that through this new partnership with New York Disaster Interfaith Services, New York City’s faith community will be able to provide shelter to asylum seekers in need at houses of worship throughout the five boroughs.”
The city currently spends an average of $380 a day per migrant, for a total of $1.2 billion per year, for housing and other services. The costs are expected to more than double to $2.9 billion by next year. Monrose said using the places of worship would be “much more cost-effective” than the current strategy. 
It is unclear how long the houses of worship will be used to shelter foreign nationals, as each location has a different contract with the city.
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“We have the mission, we have the motivation, and we have the facilities to help,&#8221; Elim International Fellowship Archbishop Eugene Blount remarked in a statement to FOX5. Blount went on to explain, &#8220;The ministry building was originally a convent, so it was originally built to house people.” 
RELATED: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/send-migrants-to-the-cities-villages-towns-across-america-so-its-not-a-burden-on-nyc-mayor-says">Send Migrants To The &#8216;Cities, Villages, Towns&#8217; Across America So &#8216;It&#8217;s Not A Burden&#8217; On NYC, Mayor Says</a>
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Church Pews

50 New York City Places Of Worship Will House Foreign Nationals

Border

Border Crisis

Eric Adams

Illegal Immigration

Immigration

New York

New York City

Politics

Authorities in California are investigating who is behind the transportation of 16 migrants who ended up on the doorstep of a diocese in Sacramento Friday after being flown on a private charter jet from New Mexico. 
The Venezuelan and Colombian migrants entered the United States in El Paso and had been processed by American immigration officials with court dates for asylum claims, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/texas-migrants-flown-california-6bbd3a8a72b2a4438e1f5f163b12f780" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the Associated Press. After crossing, “individuals representing a private contractor” offered to get them to their final destination, said Eddie Carmona, campaign director for PICO California, a nonprofit that <a href="https://picocalifornia.org/who-we-are/">describes</a> itself as &#8220;spiritually-rooted individuals who take action for racial and economic justice in California.&#8221; From El Paso, the migrants were transported to New Mexico and then to California, ending up at the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sacramento. 
&#8220;They were lied to and intentionally deceived,&#8221; <a href="https://abc7news.com/sacramento-migrants-texas-california/13340619/">said</a> Carmona.
No politician or group has claimed responsibility for the transportation of the migrants, the Los Angeles Times <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-06-03/california-investigating-who-sent-16-migrants-from-texas-to-doorstep-of-sacramento-diocese" target="_blank" rel="noopener">notes</a>. California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom said he met with some migrants alongside California Democratic Attorney General Rob Bonta, who said authorities &#8220;can confirm these individuals were in possession of documentation purporting to be from the government of the State of Florida.”
“We are working closely with the Mayor’s office, along with local and nonprofit partners to ensure the people who have arrived are treated with respect and dignity, and get to their intended destination as they pursue their immigration cases,” Newsom said in a <a href="https://www.gov.ca.gov/2023/06/03/governor-newsom-statement-on-migrant-arrivals-in-california/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a>. 
“My Administration is also working with the California Department of Justice to investigate the circumstances around who paid for the group’s travel and whether the individuals orchestrating this trip misled anyone with false promises or have violated any criminal laws, including kidnapping,” Newsom added. 
While admitting he was still investigating and collecting evidence, Bonta suggested the incident could be “state-sanctioned kidnapping.&#8221; He added, &#8220;We must condemn the cruelty and hateful rhetoric of those &#8230; who refuse to recognize humanity.&#8221;  
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Today I met with over a dozen migrants who were brought to Sacramento by private plane, with no prior arrangement or care in place.
We are investigating the circumstances by which these individuals were brought to California. <a href="https://t.co/UXY2yKvKwl">pic.twitter.com/UXY2yKvKwl</a>
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“Human trafficking is not only despicable; it’s a felony,” Sacramento Democratic Mayor Darrell Steinberg said in a statement. “Whoever is behind this must answer the following: Is there anything more cruel than using scared human beings to score cheap political points?”
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<a href="https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/sacramento/migrants-dropped-off-at-diocese-of-sacramento/103-10705bec-da21-43d2-9318-344fcac46530" target="_blank" rel="noopener">According</a> to ABC 10, &#8220;The migrants did not know where they were and only had a backpack&#8217;s worth of belongings.&#8221; 
The L.A. Times notes a similar incident happened last year when eight Venezuelan migrants were transported from Texas to Sacramento. In that case, it was also unclear who paid for the flights.

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16 Migrants Transported On Charter Jet To Sacramento Diocese, Authorities Investigating

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Sacramento

Florida Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ron-desantis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ron DeSantis</a> said during a campaign stop in Iowa over the weekend that as President of the United States, he will shut down the southern border.
DeSantis made the remarks during Sen. Joni Ernst&#8217;s (R-IA) annual &#8220;Roast and Ride&#8221; event, where candidates get a chance to meet with voters who are very politically engaged and who participate in the state&#8217;s GOP presidential caucus.
All the major Republican presidential candidates attended the event except former President Donald Trump.
While speaking with voters, DeSantis addressed a variety of key issues that are important to Republican voters, including border security, the U.S. military, and wokeness.
&#8220;I&#8217;ve heard, as a Republican, talk about this southern border for years and years and years,&#8221; DeSantis said. &#8220;I will finally be the president to bring this issue to a conclusion. We will shut the border down.&#8221;
&#8220;We will build a border wall. We will end mass migration into this country,&#8221; DeSantis continued. &#8220;And we will hold the Mexican drug cartels accountable for the carnage they have unleashed on the American people.&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/RonDeSantis?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RonDeSantis</a> at today&#39;s Roast and Ride does not mince words about what&#39;s needed at the southern border. He will be the one to get it done.
&quot;I&#39;ve heard, as a Republican, talk about the southern border for years and years and years. I will FINALLY be the president to bring this… <a href="https://t.co/vW1ZSqDfHZ">pic.twitter.com/vW1ZSqDfHZ</a>
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DeSantis also addressed the issue of wokeness in the U.S. military, saying that if he becomes president, the military will go back to basics on his first day in office.
&#8220;I&#8217;m proud to have served in the United States Navy and done a tour in Iraq and the people I serve with were honorable, patriotic people,&#8221; DeSantis said. &#8220;For you veterans in the crowd, thank you for your service. I think all of us have a sense of pride and being able to wear the cloth of your country.&#8221;
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&#8220;But we&#8217;ve seen the military become politicized in recent years. You see woke agenda being imposed on it,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;On day one as commander-in-chief, I rip it all out. We&#8217;re getting the military back to basics. We&#8217;re going to improve morale, and we&#8217;re going to get people to want to join the military again.&#8221;
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DESANTIS on woke indoctrination in the military: 
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Ron DeSantis On The U.S. Border: Will Shut It Down, Build A Wall, End Mass Migration

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Ron DeSantis

Wayne King might have a window into America’s future, and he doesn’t like what he sees. King, a rancher with 8,000 acres in Texas’ Del Rio Border Patrol Sector, believes that Americans, especially those who live on the border, have been abandoned.
It doesn’t quite feel like you’re in Texas anymore when you enter King’s 8,000 acres. Rather than cows and sheep, the ranch boasts gazelle, wildebeest, and other exotic African game animals.
King, who leads African safari hunting tours on the ranch, has been forced to spend an increasing amount of time ensuring the wild African game doesn&#8217;t escape onto the highway, repairing fencing that’s been cut by illegal border crossers who come through the ranch.
While some hope to cross through the sprawling property undetected, others have become <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mommy-theres-bad-guys-at-my-window-border-patrol-wife-describes-dangers-chaos-on-southern-border" target="_blank" rel="noopener">emboldened</a>. King told The Daily Wire that one night, he was forced to grab his gun and prepare for the worst when 15 illegal aliens surrounded his house and began banging on the doors and windows.
In other instances, cameras on the property have captured images of suspected drug smugglers making their way through the land while armed with handguns and rifles. 
What makes the crisis sting isn’t just that it has gotten out of control, it&#8217;s that King doesn’t see any desire from the Biden administration to get it under control. &#8220;Everyone living here on the border is abandoned. Completely and totally abandoned,” he told The Daily Wire.
&#8220;We can cry for help all we want but we&#8217;re not going to get it,” King lamented. He describes the Biden administration’s approach to the border crisis in no uncertain terms, as &#8220;pure, unadulterated treason.”
Not far from King is Katie Hobbs and her husband Jim, ranchers who make their living feeding America with the watermelon and red onions they grow in the sandy loam soil along the floodplains of the Rio Grande. 
Every year they plant more than they harvest in anticipation of the illegal immigrants who take melons for the road as they make their way through the Hobbs property. But lost watermelons are the least of their worries. Hobbs has seen a lot during her 35 years of living on the border. 
One of their most jarring experiences came on Mother’s Day in 2021, when Kate’s husband <a href="https://news4sanantonio.com/news/local/five-immigrant-girls-found-on-their-own-along-the-texasmexico-border" target="_blank" rel="noopener">found five young girls</a>, one of whom was less than a year old, lying in the dirt not far from the edge of the river. Hobbs tells The Daily Wire “That was going to be a very hot day. We were probably looking at 110 degrees later that day.” She added “I don’t think they would have made it in the heat.”
But living on the border comes with danger, not just tragedy. The same paths used to transport their produce are also favorite routes of cartel drug smugglers. “As long as they ran their drugs at night, we didn’t have any problem,” Hobbs said before explaining “but then they started getting really aggressive and running them through the day.”
The situation only worsened from there. Hobbs told The Daily Wire that when they started intervening and calling authorities they got death threats. Illegal immigrants have become &#8220;emboldened,&#8221; she explained, with many now breaking America’s laws with impunity. 
But while some break our laws, others take advantage of them. One pregnant illegal immigrant crossed the border, came over Hobbs’ land, and made it into a cemetery about half a mile from the river where she gave birth. “There’s your new U.S. citizen right there,” Hobbs quipped.
Life on the border has gotten harder under the Biden administration. “Biden … invited the whole world to come,” Hobbs told The Daily Wire. “I looked at my husband and said the whole freaking world is fixing to come,” Hobbs said, recalling her reaction when Biden took office.
While a surge of Somali migrants came across her land during the Obama administration, Hobbs has since seen Mexicans, Venezuelans, Hondurans, Haitians, and Congolese illegally enter the country through her property. Other reports have found surging numbers of <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/06/biden-administration-russian-visas-00030648" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Russian</a> and <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/chinese-migrants-are-coming-us-foot-officials-say-rcna77244" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chinese</a> nationals also attempting to enter the United States.
But Hobbs told The Daily Wire that she could breathe easy for at least part of the Trump administration. “It was wonderful, I could just sigh a sigh of relief.” She lauded the former President’s efforts, remarking “Love him or hate him, he really took care of business down here.”
Although living on the border comes with great personal risk, Hobbs tells The Daily Wire that she’s most concerned about the future of the country. When asked what America would look like after 10 more years of rampant illegal immigration, Hobbs shot back without hesitation, replying “I don’t think we have that long.”
Hobbs believes that America is well on its way to becoming a third world country. She’s perhaps most concerned with the financial strain that illegal immigration places on America’s middle class. 
Current estimates have found that illegal immigration costs United States taxpayers approximately <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/taxpayers-shell-out-151-billion-each-year-due-to-illegal-immigration-analysis-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">$151 billion</a> every year. But despite the massive cost, Hobbs sees a clear political motivation for continuing the crisis. “It’s all about bringing in voters,” she asserted.
There is at least one policy, however, that Hobbs believes could make the crisis even worse and seal our country’s fate. Hobbs told The Daily Wire that if amnesty for illegal immigrants passes “It’s over.”
Living so close to the border has forced Hobbs, her husband, and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mommy-theres-bad-guys-at-my-window-border-patrol-wife-describes-dangers-chaos-on-southern-border" target="_blank" rel="noopener">others like them</a> to learn how to sense impending danger. “You just … develop an alert system, how the dogs bark, where the helicopters are, what does the traffic looks like … you learn to recognize all those things and put it together,” Hobbs stated matter of factly. “It becomes integral for survival,” she added. 
The experience is still foreign to many Americans, but Hobbs believes that if the illegal immigration crisis continues unabated, the rest of the country will be forced to live life with their head on a swivel too.
“They’ll find out soon enough. In their malls, when they’re out to get gas, when they’re jogging,” Hobbs cautioned. “I don’t want them to be afraid,” she added before lamenting “They&#8217;re going to have to learn to live more like us down here.”
Wayne King and Kate Hobbs&#8217; interviews will be featured in an upcoming mini-documentary from The Daily Wire, which will be posted on our <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@DailyWirePlus" target="_blank" rel="noopener">YouTube channel</a>.

Wayne King on Border

‘We’ve Been Abandoned’: Border Ranchers Recount Chaos On Southern Border

'We've Been Abandoned': Border Ranchers Recount Chaos On Southern Border

Biden Administration

Donald Trump

Readers Pass

Southern Border

Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita is leading an 18-state lawsuit against the Biden administration over its handling of the border crisis.
The <a href="https://content.govdelivery.com/attachments/INAG/2023/05/31/file_attachments/2513571/Lawful%20Pathways%20Filed%20Complaint.pdf">lawsuit</a> specifically focuses on a new policy called the “<a href="https://www.dhs.gov/news/2023/05/11/fact-sheet-circumvention-lawful-pathways-final-rule">Circumvention of Lawful Pathways</a>,” which the Department of Homeland Security says intends to “expand safe and orderly pathways for migrants to lawfully enter the United States.” The rule was put in place following the expiration of Title 42 in early May and led to a massive influx at the southern border that the Biden administration has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/border-app-releases-almost-80000-foreign-nationals-into-u-s-in-last-four-months">struggled</a> to contain.
The lawsuit argues that the policy, which is also referred to as the Circumvention Rule, does not attempt to resolve the border issue but rather “tries to define the problem away by re-characterizing what would be illegal crossings as ‘lawful pathways.&#8217;”
It also claims that the Circumvention Rule is “​​a half measure and a smoke screen” that is “riddled with exceptions” before going on to charge that “it is part of the Biden Administration’s broader effort to obfuscate the true situation at the Southwest Border.”
The lawsuit specifically charges that the purpose of the Circumvention Rule is to encourage “an increasing number of migrants’ to use the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/border-app-releases-almost-80000-foreign-nationals-into-u-s-in-last-four-months">CBP One app</a> to make bogus asylum claims, all while avoiding the bad optics of crowds of illegal aliens” lining up along the border.
“In a truly Orwellian twist, the federal government has depicted this latest measure as a tool for reducing illegal immigration,” Rokita said in a press release. &#8220;This new rule would make it even easier to illegally immigrate into the United States.”
Rokita also pointed out that the border has seen record numbers of illegal crossings.
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 “We&#8217;re now seeing more than 10,000 illegal border crossings occurring within some 24-hour periods,&#8221; he said. “These are the highest numbers ever, and a large portion of these people are hardened criminals and cartel members. We cannot long endure this kind of invasion.”
While the effort is being led by Rokita, the other states that have joined the lawsuit include Tennessee, North Dakota, Alaska, Mississippi, South Carolina, Arkansas, Florida, Idaho, Iowa, Kentucky, Virginia, New Hampshire, Utah, Wyoming, Montana, Missouri, and Oklahoma.
A recent <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hosting-migrants-poll-2023-05-21/">poll</a> from CBS News found that 63% of Americans disapprove of the Biden administration’s handling of the border, while 37% say they approve.

Illegal Border Crossing

Indiana Attorney General Leads 18-State Lawsuit Challenging Biden’s Border Policies

Indiana Attorney General Leads 18-State Lawsuit Challenging Biden's Border Policies

Courts

When it comes to immigration, President Joe Biden should take some advice from the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/catholic-church" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Roman Catholic Church</a>. In short, the Church does not support open borders and offers reasonable guidelines for how a wealthy country should handle foreigners seeking to cross the border — legally or not.
Under Biden, the U.S. border has become a sieve. Millions have flooded in and have since been dispersed throughout the country. Cities such as <a href="https://www.facebook.com/1435071773455316/posts/the-alert-also-warned-american-citizens-not-to-travel-to-russia-and-that-those-a/3311275439168264/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Portland, Maine,</a> and New York City end up shouldering the burden of this emergency. States such as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/youngkin-to-deploy-virginia-national-guard-troops-to-southern-border" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Virginia, Florida, Tennessee, and Texas</a> are forced to send National Guardsmen to the border to help secure it.
Meanwhile, the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ben-shapiro-reacts-to-debt-limit-deal-hits-both-democrats-and-republicans-over-spending-habits" target="_blank" rel="noopener">federal government remains trillions of dollars in debt</a>, its people are suffering from heavy inflation, and a <a href="https://www.fanniemae.com/research-and-insights/perspectives/us-housing-shortage" target="_blank" rel="noopener">housing crisis continues practically unabated</a>. Public schools are <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/the-biggest-bully-in-school-why-public-education-is-failing-in-america" target="_blank" rel="noopener">failing</a>. Opioids are <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ohio-democrat-senator-took-thousands-of-dollars-in-donations-from-pharma-companies-at-center-of-opioid-crisis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">killing thousands</a> every month. These problems and others that plague the United States have existed before Biden&#8217;s inauguration. All of them, in one way or another, are exacerbated by mass immigration.
Yet, in spite of the malaise, Democrats and soft Republicans argue that the U.S. has a moral obligation to welcome those who cross the border. They argue it will help us. In fact, Catholic politicians like former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi often <a href="https://pelosi.house.gov/news/press-releases/pelosi-remarks-at-the-national-hispanic-prayer-breakfast" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cite their faith in God</a> as why the U.S. should welcome in millions — even as millions of Americans struggle.
So what does the Church say? Per the Catechism of the Catholic Church, a <a href="https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/catechism/cat_view.cfm?recnum=6038" target="_blank" rel="noopener">book that summarizes</a> Church doctrine, &#8220;The more prosperous nations are obliged, to the extent they are able, to welcome the foreigner in search of the security and the means of livelihood which he cannot find in his country of origin.&#8221;
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2241 The more prosperous nations are obliged, to the extent they are able, to welcome the foreigner in search of the security and the means of livelihood which he…
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For the reasons listed above, as well as others, it can be argued that &#8220;the extent&#8221; to which the U.S. is able has already been met. Furthermore, the Church also allows countries to set standards, laws, and regulations regarding immigration.
&#8220;Political authorities, for the sake of the common good for which they are responsible, may make the exercise of the right to immigrate subject to various juridical conditions, especially with regard to the immigrants&#8217; duties toward their country of adoption,&#8221; the Church says.
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What constitutes the &#8220;common good?&#8221; Well, again, going off the Church, the common good is &#8220;the sum total of social conditions which allow people, either as groups or as individuals, to reach their fulfillment more fully and more easily.&#8221;
If allowed, mass legal and illegal immigration can hamper the ability of America&#8217;s poorest to &#8220;reach their fulfillment more fully and more easily&#8221; by <a href="https://cis.org/Report/Wages-Immigration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">driving down wages</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs1tPWgKVag" target="_blank" rel="noopener">driving up other costs</a>.
The Church also has requirements for immigrants who arrive in new countries as well.
&#8220;Immigrants are obliged to respect with gratitude the material and spiritual heritage of the country that receives them, to obey its laws, and to assist in carrying civic burdens,&#8221; the Church noted.
So, if your first act is breaking the law by crossing the border illegally — then you are not respecting America&#8217;s laws.
Of course, the U.S. has a separation of church and state. Not everything in the Catechism would constitute wise policy-making. Yet on the issue of immigration, it&#8217;s right on the money.
Conflating this problem is that many Catholic non-profits and non-governmental organizations are facilitating the illegal crossing. Those groups are often given taxpayer money to do so. As Lora Ries of the Heritage Foundation <a href="https://www.heritage.org/immigration/commentary/biden-shovels-millions-nonprofits-aid-his-open-border-schemes-congress-must" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a>, Congress must cut off that cash flow to help make a dent in illegal immigration. The Biden administration could also stop using these groups to effectively &#8220;smuggle illegal aliens the final miles of their journey.&#8221;
Unfortunately, there&#8217;s about as much of a chance of Biden becoming pro-life as there is Biden suddenly curbing immigration. God help us all.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

US President Joe Biden (C) steps out of Saint Joseph on the Brandywine Roman Catholic Church after attending mass in Wilmington, Delaware on October 8, 2022. design – 2023-05-31T171528.174

Just A Reminder, The Catholic Church Does Not Support Open Borders. It Has Pretty Reasonable Immigration Guidance.

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U.S. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/border-crisis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Border</a> Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz will retire from his career as a federal officer after serving in the U.S. government for three decades.
Ortiz made the official announcement in an email sent to staff on Tuesday.
&#8220;After a 32-year Border Patrol career spanning multiple Sectors, HQ tours, and overseas assignments in Afghanistan, I have decided to retire from federal service on June 30th,&#8221; he <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2023/05/30/border-patrol-chief-resign/">wrote</a>. &#8220;I have proudly served in the Armed Forces and across this country and enjoyed every opportunity I have had to work for and on behalf of the American people.&#8221;
Ortiz wrote that he can retire &#8220;at ease, knowing we have a tremendous uniformed and professional workforce, strong relationships with our union partners, and outstanding leaders who will continue to tirelessly advocate for you each day.&#8221;
&#8220;Throughout the years, my level of commitment to the mission and our great nation has never wavered,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Serving as your Chief has been one of the greatest honors and privileges I have had and please know I will always champion this agency, its mission, and the people who make the Border Patrol everything that it is.&#8221;
The announcement comes after years of the unrelenting border crisis that President Joe Biden unleashed on the U.S. southern border with a reversal of Trump-era policies that encouraged millions of migrants to enter the U.S. illegally.
Ortiz testified to Congress earlier this year that the Department of Homeland Security does not have operational control of the U.S. southern border under Biden, a claim that is directly at odds with a statement from DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
Ortiz made the remarks during a House Homeland Security Committee hearing in McAllen, Texas, in response to a question from Chairman Mark Green about security on the U.S.-Mexico border.
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“Does DHS have operational control of our entire border?” Green asked.
“No, sir,” Ortiz responded.
Behind Green was a poster board that showed that “operational control,” as defined by U.S. law, is “the prevention of all unlawful entries into the United States, including entries by terrorists, other unlawful aliens, instruments of terrorism, narcotics and other contraband.”
Green then played a video during the hearing showing Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) questioning Mayorkas last year over whether the U.S. had operational control of the southern border. “Yes, we do,” Mayorkas claimed. “Yes, we do.”
Green then asked Ortiz whether he thought Mayorkas was lying, to which Ortiz responded that operational control used to be how officials measured whether or not they were being successful. He said that their new strategy was “geared towards mission advantage.”
Ortiz again confirmed that DHS does not have operational control of the southern border, but, when pressed over whether Mayorkas was lying, Ortiz politely tried to sidestep the question in an apparent effort to not say anything negative about his boss.
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🚨🚨: Border Patrol chief Raul Ortiz just told <a href="https://twitter.com/RepMarkGreen?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepMarkGreen</a> that DHS *does not* have operational control of the southern border. 
This is huge, because Secretary Mayorkas recently said DHS did have operational control. Huge admission. <a href="https://t.co/rDezfonqST">pic.twitter.com/rDezfonqST</a>
&mdash; John Cooper (@thejcoop) <a href="https://twitter.com/thejcoop/status/1636016765065916416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 15, 2023</a></blockquote>
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It isn’t car crashes, it isn’t guns, and it isn&#8217;t suicide: Fentanyl poisoning is now the <a href="https://www.getsmartaboutdrugs.gov/media/dea-administrator-record-fentanyl-overdose-deaths" target="_blank" rel="noopener">leading cause</a> of death among Americans ages 18 to 45. It’s a statistic Janel Rodriguez has surely cited more times than she can count.
&#8220;Years ago, it was much safer, if still inadvisable, to experiment with drugs. You just can’t experiment anymore,&#8221; Rodriguez asserts. 
In August, Rodriguez and Brandon Dunn of Buda, Texas, lost their 15-year-old son Noah to fentanyl poisoning.
But Noah, an honor roll student and athlete from a Christian household, didn’t know the pill he took contained eight milligrams of fentanyl — equivalent to four lethal doses. Though it appeared to be Percocet, the pill did not contain any substance other than fentanyl. 
Rodriguez contends that in Noah’s tragic case, and in the cases of so many others, the word “overdose” simply doesn’t reflect the reality of the situation, nor the nature of the crisis.
Overdose, Rodriguez explained, is accurate only when someone takes too much of a drug they knowingly consume — not when they’re deceived into taking a substance they had no intention of ingesting.
One of her most cherished pictures of Noah is from the San Antonio riverwalk. It was taken in December 2019, as attested to by the Christmas tree in the background and the Johnson High School 2019-20 shirt he wore.
Dunn and Rodriguez loved how the picture showed off his smile. They chuckled while reminiscing because, unlike in more recent photos, he didn’t have a mask hanging around his neck thanks to COVID.
Rodriguez glowingly recounted the months leading up to her son’s passing, telling The Daily Wire that it was the best summer they’d had together.
She confided in us that months before losing her son, he’d experimented with an illegal drug for the first time. He spent several days in the ICU after having a bad reaction. “What happened? You promised us,” Rodriguez said, describing the pain and confusion that she grappled with in the wake of her loss.
Her pain, her grief, her sorrow, all of which can’t truly be expressed in words, was perhaps encapsulated most clearly when, between tears, she cried “I’d do anything for one last hug.”
Now, just nine months after their loss, Rodriguez and Dunn work to ensure that other parents never have to experience the grief they’ve had to endure. Through their non-profit organization, the <a href="https://www.forever15project.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Forever 15 Project</a>, the two raise awareness about the fentanyl crisis, warning of the dangers and ubiquity of the deadly drug that’s coming up through our southern border.
Dunn even <a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/mr.-brandon-dunn-testimony.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">testified</a> in front of the House Judiciary Committee Hearing on the Southern Border, pleading with lawmakers to secure the southern border. “This is not a topic that is usually addressed by us in our public speaking, interviews, or other media,” Dunn said of the border before remarking, it is the “elephant in the room that no one wants to address.”
“The United States government has simply not gone far enough in policing and shutting down the main route of this product into the country. That is via the southern border,” he added before asserting “This is not a political issue. It is about life and death.”
While <a href="https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/local-media-release/cbp-officers-make-history-record-breaking-fentanyl-and-meth-seizure#:~:text=CBP%20officers%20at%20the%20Andrade,fuel%20tank%20of%20a%20vehicle." target="_blank" rel="noopener">record breaking</a> fentanyl seizures have been made at points of entry along the southern border, Dunn points out that drug smugglers with any sense do everything they can to evade designated points of entry, which are manned by authorities. It is impossible to truly measure the amount of fentanyl that’s made it into America, Dunn argues. 
Back in Texas, the two are hard at work spreading awareness about the fentanyl crisis and make frequent presentations on the dangers of the drug at middle and high schools. 
Just before their sit-down interview with The Daily Wire, Dunn and Rodriguez were at a school giving the same presentation they have many times before, but this instance was especially heart wrenching. They’d been at Noah’s old high school. Presenting to the sophomores, Noah&#8217;s class, was the hardest. “Those were his friends,” she recalled.
The day before, she was at Noah’s middle school. “Noah was such a teacher’s pet,” Rodriguez recounted. “Every teacher, every coach, the principal, they came up to me and shared a memory about Noah.” She added, &#8220;Seeing his football coach bawling his eyes out was very touching.&#8221;
“It’s hard but it’s healing,” Rodriguez said of the presentations. The assemblies are working. Now, staff members in the Hays Consolidated Independent School District carry Narcan. “We’ve had at least 12 or so revived at school,” Dunn tells The Daily Wire.
But the true number of lives the Forever Fifteen Project has saved is undoubtedly much higher. “We’ll never know how many kids we stopped from taking a pill” or how many kids have declined or forfeited tainted drugs after hearing their presentation, Dunn remarked.
“Noah touched a lot of lives,” Rodriguez reminisced. In his memory, the two are touching and saving many others.
Janel Rodriguez’s and Brandon Dunn’s interviews will be featured in an upcoming mini-documentary from The Daily Wire, which will be posted on our <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@DailyWirePlus" target="_blank" rel="noopener">YouTube channel</a>.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/aoc-says-nyc-mayor-should-fund-community-violence-prevention-programs-over-raising-police-wages" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez</a> (D-NY) faced a handful of enraged constituents during a Friday night town hall in Queens. 
Some New Yorkers in attendance took issue with the congresswoman’s soft stance on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/reps-gooden-jordan-demand-answers-on-federal-funding-of-illegal-immigration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">illegal immigration</a>, raising the debt ceiling, and her support of seemingly endless U.S. funding for Ukraine. One man wearing a shirt with a Cuban flag on it and holding an American flag in his hand got up and walked toward the stage, shouting “American citizens before migrants!”
“Where are you on the migrant issue? You’re absent!” the man shouted as he was escorted out of the hall by security. Before being forced out of the room as most of the crowd booed him, the man got five more words in: “You’re a piece of s***!”
The second-term socialist Democrat laughed off the incident, but she received more pushback as the night went on. 
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“American Citizens Before Migrants!”- Heckler at AOC TOWNHALL in Corona Queens Gets Booed
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While discussing the ongoing debt-ceiling negotiations between the White House and Republican leadership, Ocasio-Cortez said, “We should eliminate the debt limit in the United States,” a remark met by a mixture of cheers and boos. One man in the audience expressed his frustration with the congresswoman’s comment by pointing out that she supports the U.S. sending billions of dollars to Ukraine. 
&#8220;$100 billion for Ukraine that you voted for!” he said. The man was met with shouts from someone else in the crowd who told him it wasn’t his turn to speak.
Another person at the town hall <a href="https://freedomnews.tv/2023/05/26/american-citizens-before-migrants-heckler-at-aoc-townhall-in-corona-queens-gets-booed/">held signs</a> that read: “America First: Vetted &amp; Legal Migrants Only” and “Stop Funding Ukraine.” Others displayed signs saying, “AOC Stop Crying” and “AOC An Obvious Criminal.” 
Ocasio-Cortez has faced angry people who have questioned her support of funding Ukraine in the past. In October, two people attending her town hall <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/you-are-being-rude-aoc-struggles-when-confronted-at-town-hall-about-war">confronted</a> her and accused her of supporting nuclear war.
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“Why are you playing with the lives of American citizens?” he pressed. “You’re playing with our lives!”
“You voted to mobilize and send money to Ukrainian Nazis,” Jose Vega yelled. “You’re a coward!”
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My friend <a href="https://twitter.com/Noggatone?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Noggatone</a> and I confronted Congresswoman <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AOC</a> on her support for Nuclear War and Ukrainian Nazis. I call her out for being a coward in the face of the party that will push us all into Nuclear war right now. Will she stand up like <a href="https://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TulsiGabbard</a> and fight for peace? <a href="https://t.co/aQiQvQSWIN">pic.twitter.com/aQiQvQSWIN</a>
&mdash; Jose Vega — Vote Diane Sare! (@JosBtrigga) <a href="https://twitter.com/JosBtrigga/status/1580364662419312641?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 13, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Congressmen <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jim-jordan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jim Jordan</a> (R-OH) and Lance Gooden (R-TX) issued a joint letter calling attention to the potential use of federal funds to enable illegal immigration into the United States.
The letter, which was issued to the National Board of FEMA’s Emergency Food and Shelter program, specifically points to the role of federally-funded NGOs in the immigration process.
“Since President Biden took office, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials have encountered over five million illegal aliens. This is a direct consequence of the Biden Administration’s policies,” a <a href="https://gooden.house.gov/2023/5/release-gooden-jordan-demand-transparency-from-united-way-in-the-midst-of-border-crisis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">press release</a> from Gooden states. 
It goes on to state, “nearly two million illegal aliens have been released into the U.S. in accordance with Department of Homeland Security (DHS) policy.” The press release also highlights the role of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) like United Way that receive federal grants and “reportedly use DHS grant funding through the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to provide aid to illegal aliens.”
Meanwhile, the letter points out that United Way and other NGO’s are “receiving millions of taxpayer dollars to provide free food, lodging, and transportation for illegal aliens across the U.S.”
Gooden asserted that the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mommy-theres-bad-guys-at-my-window-border-patrol-wife-describes-dangers-chaos-on-southern-border" target="_blank" rel="noopener">drastic surge</a> in illegal immigration is “fueled in part by NGOs like those on the EFSP National Board” before urging NGOs involved in immigration to “prioritize transparency and fiscal responsibility.”
“We will remain vigilant in our oversight of federal grants, to safeguard against any misuse of funds that could further exacerbate the current border crisis,” Gooden also stated.
In an earlier letter from Rep. Gooden, he stated, “Taxpayer-funded non-governmental organizations (NGO) play a disturbing role in the inflow and spread of illegal immigrants throughout the country.”
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“Not only do many of these NGOs receive millions in grant funding from the federal government, but they also receive substantial subsidies — all at the expense of the American taxpayer,” his May 23 letter adds. He also charged that many nonprofits act as “resettlement agencies to secretly transport and lodge undocumented migrants” by “bussing and flying illegal aliens to a destination of their choice and housing them in hotels.”
Recent reports have found that the Department of Health and Human Services spent approximately <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-spent-13-billion-sponsoring-unaccompanied-minors-since-2012" target="_blank" rel="noopener">$13 billion</a> sponsoring unaccompanied minors left at the southern border with Mexico since 2012.
Various NGOs tasked with caring for unaccompanied minors, including Southwest Key Programs and Baptist Child and Family Services, have received grants from the federal government. Despite the large sum spent on safeguarding children, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/25/us/unaccompanied-migrant-child-workers-exploitation.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports</a> indicate that as many as 85,000 unaccompanied minors have gone missing. 
Other reports have found that illegal immigration costs United States taxpayers approximately <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/taxpayers-shell-out-151-billion-each-year-due-to-illegal-immigration-analysis-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">$151 billion</a> every year.

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The United States has spent $13 billion sponsoring unaccompanied minors at the border since 2012, a new <a href="https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/us-spent-13-billion-sponsoring-unaccompanied?utm_source=post-email-title&amp;publication_id=775254&amp;post_id=123710810&amp;isFreemail=true&amp;utm_medium=email" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> based on Health and Human Services data reveals. 
U.S. Customs and Border Protection recorded more than 150,000 unaccompanied minor encounters at the southwest border in 2022 alone, a record high. The U.S. spent $2.1 billion sponsoring unaccompanied minors last year. The figure averages approximately $18,000 per minor encounter at the border, according to analysis by <a href="https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/us-spent-13-billion-sponsoring-unaccompanied?utm_source=post-email-title&amp;publication_id=775254&amp;post_id=123710810&amp;isFreemail=true&amp;utm_medium=email" target="_blank" rel="noopener">OpenTheBooks.com</a>.
&#8220;The chaos on America’s southern border has had unintended consequence – a human catastrophe hurting tens of thousands of unaccompanied, defenseless children,&#8221; wrote OpenTheBooks.com founder Adam Andrzejewski. &#8220;Despite generous taxpayer funding, the federal infrastructure to provide for these children and ensure their safety is woefully incompetent.&#8221;
The Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) <a href="https://www.acf.hhs.gov/orr/programs/ucs/about" target="_blank" rel="noopener">defines unaccompanied minors</a> as those who have “no lawful immigration status in the United States,” are “under 18 years of age,” and have “no parent or legal guardian in the United States or no parent or legal guardian in the United States is available to provide care and physical custody.”
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But despite the money spent sponsoring unaccompanied minors at the border, some reports indicate that as many as <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/25/us/unaccompanied-migrant-child-workers-exploitation.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare" target="_blank" rel="noopener">85,000 unaccompanied minors are missing</a> and unaccounted for by the federal government. 
ORR is responsible for “making and implementing placement decisions” and “ensuring that the interests of the child are considered in decisions related to care and custody.” The office also states that it is its duty to release unaccompanied minors to “qualified sponsors and family members who are determined to be capable of providing for the child&#8217;s physical and mental well-being.”
It also notes that unaccompanied minors are “especially vulnerable to human trafficking, exploitation, and abuse.”
The ORR also coordinates with several different care providers that they also fund. The office’s budget has increased substantially since 2017, when it gave out $950 million in grants. The budget for fiscal year 2023, meanwhile, is $2.7 billion. 
While most spending, $7.8 billion, took place in Texas, another $1.4 billion was spent in New York and $660 million in Florida. 
Southwest Key Programs, Baptist Child and Family Services, and Health and Human Services are among the entities that have received grants from the ORR.
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Meanwhile, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/25/us/unaccompanied-migrant-child-workers-exploitation.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports</a> have found that some unaccompanied minors have been forced to work dangerous food processing factory jobs in violation of child labor laws. A Florida Grand Jury report even <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/florida-grand-jury-accuses-biden-hhs-complete-abdication-responsibility-migrant-children-welfare" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accused</a> the Biden administration of “facilitating the forced migration, sale, and abuse of foreign children.” 
A report from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General also <a href="https://oig.hhs.gov/oas/reports/region6/62107003.asp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">blasted the agency</a> for not conducting background checks on employees and contractors responsible for the wellbeing of unaccompanied minors.

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An &#8220;unknown subject&#8221; dropped a 4-year-old boy while scaling a roughly 30-foot tall border barrier in San Diego, new surveillance footage reveals. 
The video, captured on Monday, then shows the person descending the barrier before joining the young child and another young migrant. Another adult migrant then comes down the wall to join the other three. 
Agents and emergency medical service arrived at the scene shortly after but reported hearing gunfire near their position while tending to the child, a tweet from the Chief of the U.S. Border Patrol Raul Ortiz explains. 
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A 4-year-old was dropped from the border barrier by an unknown subject in San Diego, Monday. Responding Agents and EMS providing first aid to the child also reported gunshots near their position while tending to the child. Remarkably, the child is ok! Do not trust smugglers! <a href="https://t.co/MlOp2qka72">pic.twitter.com/MlOp2qka72</a>
&mdash; Chief Raul Ortiz (@USBPChief) <a href="https://twitter.com/USBPChief/status/1660748066532610071?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 22, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The four migrants were told to take cover from gunfire as a Customs and Border Protection (CBP) helicopter rushed to the scene to provide air cover. Mexican law enforcement also responded to the incident, rushing to secure their side of the border where it was believed that the gunfire originated.
“Remarkably, the child is ok!” Ortiz wrote in his tweet sharing the video. He also warned migrants, “Do not trust smugglers.”
It has not yet been confirmed whether the two adult migrants are related to the children. The nationality of the migrants is also currently unknown.
CBP spokesperson Michael Scappechio <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/05/24/video-shows-smuggler-drop-4-year-old-from-top-of-30-foot-border-wall-in-san-diego/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">explained</a> that while attempts to climb over the border wall occur daily, it is uncommon for young children to be involved in such crossings.
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While these migrants were apprehended, it is unclear whether they will be released into the United States. 
Meanwhile, it is estimated that a staggering <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/05/15/1-5m-gotaways-have-slipped-into-the-us-under-biden-three-times-as-many-as-during-3-years-of-trump/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">1.5 million illegal migrant</a> gotaways have entered the United States since President Joe Biden took office in 2021. An estimated 415,000 total gotaways were reported for 2018, 2019, and 2020 under the Trump administration.
A recent <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hosting-migrants-poll-2023-05-21/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">poll from CBS News</a> found that only 37 % of Americans approve of Biden&#8217;s handling of the situation at the U.S. southern border, while 63% disapprove.

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