First, I want to say Happy Veterans Day and thank you to everyone who has served in uniform in the United States military. You are making a sacrifice, and you have made sacrifices none of the rest of us have made. We owe you our undying gratitude, particularly on Veterans Day. Thank you so much for fighting for this country, for defending this country, and for making everything we have possible.
Today, we have winning on the menu with two big Trump wins right off the bat.
Trump has now tapped Tom Homan as his new “border czar.” Tom Homan is, of course, the former acting ICE chief. In a social media post late on Sunday, Trump made his <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113462412414821782" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announcement</a>:
<blockquote>I am pleased to announce that the Former ICE Director, and stalwart on Border Control, Tom Homan, will be joining the Trump Administration, in charge of our Nation’s Borders (“The Border Czar”), including, but not limited to, the Southern Border, the Northern Border, all Maritime, and Aviation Security. I’ve known Tom for a long time, and there is nobody better at policing and controlling our Borders. Likewise, Tom Homan will be in charge of all Deportation of Illegal Aliens back to their Country of Origin. Congratulations to Tom. I have no doubt he will do a fantastic, and long awaited for, job.</blockquote>
Homan is somebody who really stands up for the principles of a closed border and for legal immigration. In October during an <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-mass-deportation-plan-cost-consequences-60-minutes-transcript/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview with 60 Minutes’</a> Cecilia Vega, Homan clarified his positioning on deportation:
<blockquote>Vega: We have seen one estimate that says it would cost $88 billion to deport a million people a year.
Homan: I don&#8217;t know if that&#8217;s accurate or not.
Vega: Is that what American taxpayers should expect?
Homan: What price do you put on national security? Is it worth it? 
Vega: Is there a way to carry out mass deportation without separating families?
Homan: Of course there is. Families can be deported together.</blockquote>
Trump is serious about deporting a large number of people, and Homan is the most serious person to act as “border czar.”
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In a hearing in 2019 before the Committee on Oversight and Reform, Homan <a href="https://congress.gov/116/meeting/house/109772/documents/HHRG-116-GO00-Transcript-20190712-U10.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">faced down</a> the venerable intellect, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in Congress:
<blockquote>Ocasio-Cortez: Mr. Homan, your name is on this. Is this correct?
Homan: Yes, I signed that memo.
Ocasio-Cortez: So you are the author of the family separation policy?
Homan: I am not the author of this memo.
Ocasio-Cortez: You’re not the author, but you signed the memo?
Homan: Yes, a zero-tolerance memo.
Ocasio-Cortez: So you provided the official recommendation to Secretary Nielsen on family—for the United States to pursue family separation?
Homan: I gave Secretary Nielsen numerous recommendations on how to secure the border and save lives.
Ocasio-Cortez: But it says here that you—you gave her numerous options, but the recommendation was option three, family separation.
Homan: What I’m saying, this is not the only paper where we had given the Secretary numerous options to secure the border and save lives.
Ocasio-Cortez: And so the recommendation — of the many that you recommended — you recommended family separation.
Homan: I recommended zero tolerance.
Ocasio-Cortez: Which includes family separation.
Homan: The same as it is with every U.S. citizen parent that gets arrested when they’re with a child.
Ocasio-Cortez: Zero tolerance was interpreted as the policy that separated children from their parents?
Homan: If I get arrested for DUI and I have a young child in the car, I’m going to be separated. When I was a police officer in New York and I arrested a father for domestic violence, I separated that father from—
Ocasio-Cortez: Mr. Homan, with all due respect, legal asylees are not charged with any crime.
Homan: When you’re in the country illegally, it’s a violation of eight United States Code 1325.
Ocasio-Cortez: Seeking asylum is legal.
Homan: If you want to seek asylum, go through the port of entry, do it the legal way. The Attorney General of the United States has made that clear.</blockquote>
That is the new border czar. Trump was not joking when he talked about closing the border and taking the issue of illegal immigration seriously.
Tom Homan as the “border czar” was not Trump&#8217;s only announced pick over the weekend. He also announced Rep. Elise Stefanik to his choice for the U.N. ambassador role.
That&#8217;s a great job. If you have to pick any job in the American government, U.N. ambassador is a fantastic job because you have a very nice apartment in New York City, and then you go over to the U.N., which is a repository of all human scum, and yell at dictators all day. It&#8217;s a pretty phenomenal job.
Stefanik happens to be an excellent candidate for this position. Just last December, she stood up to antisemitism on college campuses. In last year’s Committee on Education and the Workforce hearing on “Holding Campus Leaders Accountable and Confronting Antisemitism,” Stefanik <a href="https://stefanik.house.gov/2023/12/icymi-during-questions-from-stefanik-presidents-of-harvard-upenn-mit-refuse-to-condemn-calls-for-genocide-of-jews" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pressed</a> then-Harvard University President Claudine Gay, along with several other university heads, whether allowing antisemitic chants calling for the elimination of the state of Israel was, in fact, antisemitic:
<blockquote>Stefanik: I will ask you one more time. Does calling for the genocide of Jews violate Harvard&#8217;s rules of bullying and harassment? Yes or no?
Gay: Antisemitic rhetoric when it crosses into conduct, that amounts to bullying, harassment, intimidation, that is actionable conduct, and we do take action.
Stefanik: So the answer is yes. That calling for the genocide of Jews violates Harvard Code of Conduct. Correct?
Gay: Again, it depends on the context.
Stefanik: It does not depend on the context the answer is yes, and this is why you should resign. These are unacceptable answers across the board.</blockquote>
After this hearing — and after she was found to have plagiarized multiple works, including her dissertation — Gay ended up losing her job.
So, these are all excellent picks.
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Promise Kept! Trump Picks Hard Core Border Czar

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Morale among U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents has skyrocketed following Donald Trump&#8217;s landslide election victory last week, according to National Border Patrol Council President Paul Perez.
Trump made illegal immigration and border security central parts of his 2024 platform, promising to finish his southern border wall and conduct the largest deportation operation in U.S. history. Perez told <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/border-patrol-morale-through-roof-after-trumps-re-election-union-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News</a> in an interview on Monday that &#8220;morale is through the roof&#8221; among Border Patrol agents, adding, &#8220;We’ve received hundreds of calls, texts, emails, just saying how happy the agents are.&#8221;
&#8220;There are a lot of agents that had originally said that they would retire if President Trump did not win. And now those same agents are saying they&#8217;re going to hold back on their retirement because they want to serve under this administration again, because they know exactly how it was during this first administration, and they know this one&#8217;s going to be even better,&#8221; he continued.
The National Border Patrol Council, which represents around 16,000 members, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/border-patrol-union-urges-americans-to-vote-for-trump-to-end-the-chaos" target="_blank" rel="noopener">endorsed</a> Trump&#8217;s White House bid in October, with Perez warning, &#8220;If we allow Border Czar Harris to win this election, every city, every community in this great country, is going to go to hell. The untold millions of people, unvetted, who she has allowed into this country that are committing murders, rapes, robberies, burglaries, and every other crime will continue to put our country in peril.&#8221;
The Biden administration&#8217;s border policies led to around <a href="https://homeland.house.gov/2024/05/22/startling-stats-factsheet-biden-administration-on-track-to-reach-10-million-encounters-nationwide-before-end-of-fiscal-year/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">10 million encounters</a> along the southern border in less than four years. Numerous agents said they would resign if Vice President Kamala Harris won the election, with some <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/border-patrol-agents-warn-of-mass-resignations-if-kamala-harris-wins" target="_blank" rel="noopener">describing</a> working under the Biden-Harris administration as “four years in hell.”
Perez added that with another Trump presidency, CBP will likely have a larger pool of &#8220;recruits to choose from.&#8221;
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&#8220;We&#8217;ve always had a recruiting problem. And so right now, with President Trump coming into office, a lot of people are going to want to do this job,&#8221; he said. &#8220;A lot of people have shown interest previously, but they were hesitant to apply and work for the previous administration. So under Trump, we&#8217;re going to have a good amount of recruits to choose from.&#8221;
Trump has already taken action on preparing to carry out his immigration agenda, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-taps-tom-homan-to-be-new-border-czar?topStoryPosition=4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tapping</a> Tom Homan, the former acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, to serve as the new &#8220;border czar.&#8221; Homan has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/heres-what-trumps-incoming-border-czar-has-said-and-done-about-deportations-border-security?topStoryPosition=2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">promised</a> to carry out Trump&#8217;s large-scale deportation operation.
“I’ve known Tom for a long time, and there is nobody better at policing and controlling our Borders,” Trump wrote. “Likewise, Tom Homan will be in charge of all Deportation of Illegal Aliens back to their Country of Origin. Congratulations to Tom. I have no doubt he will do a fantastic, and long awaited for, job.”

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Border Patrol Morale ‘Through The Roof’ After Trump’s Victory, Union President Says

Border Patrol Morale 'Through The Roof' After Trump's Victory, Union President Says

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Illegal Immigration

Politics

According to a news report, members of the brutal Sinaloa drug cartel in Mexico have been &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13980989/mexican-cartels-border-patrol-agents-biden-harris-migrant-crisis.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">given permission&#8221;</a> to fire at U.S. Border Patrol agents.
An internal memo was transmitted to federal agents in the El Paso Sector warning the agents of the new danger, <a href="https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/immigration/border-coverage/drug-cartels-permission-shoot-border-patrol-agents/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NewsNation</a> reported. According to a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRocReYwhHI">report</a> broadcast on the outlet, &#8220;Mexican cartels have given permission to its members to shoot at U.S. agents at the border.&#8221;
The memo revealed that two days prior, shots had been fired at contractors working in the Eagle Pass area of Texas’ Del Rio Sector. The new problem has arisen following the internecine fighting among members of the cartel after cofounder Ismael &#8216;El Mayo&#8217; Zambada and Joaquín Guzmán López, the son of imprisoned Joaquín &#8220;El Chapo&#8221; Guzmán, were arrested by U.S. authorities on July 25.
“They fear no one anymore, especially U.S. law enforcement,” former Homeland Security Investigation agent Victor Avila told NewsNation. “They do have the resources and they do have the capability, and they will use them against us. &#8230; The No. 1 reason they fight for these plazas is because these plazas are the corridors to enter the United States, whether California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and that’s the major fight because the Sinaloa cartel has controlled that whole area.”
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Former President Donald Trump has his own blunt opinion about the problem at the border, recently saying, “We need a military operation. These people have become military. They’re very rich, have a lot of money. They’re among the richest people, probably in the world.”
“We have long heard from Border Control agents that they face increased risks in their frontline jobs,” Rep. Mark Green, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13980989/mexican-cartels-border-patrol-agents-biden-harris-migrant-crisis.html">stated</a>. “These reports are just further proof that the cartels will stop at nothing to take what they want. Our border patrol agents deserve policies that will make their jobs easier. Unfortunately Biden and Harris have given them the opposite.”
“People live in fear, schools are empty, young people are disappearing, the streets are empty at night,” Miguel Calderón, State Council on Public Safety general coordinator, said. “We have a social emergency on the horizon.”

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Drug Cartels ‘Given Permission’ To Shoot At Border Patrol Agents: Report

Drug Cartels 'Given Permission' To Shoot At Border Patrol Agents: Report

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/border-patrol" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Border Patrol</a> agents are threatening to leave their jobs and warning of a mass exodus from the law enforcement agency if Vice President Kamala Harris wins the presidency in November, saying that working under the Biden-Harris administration has been “four years in hell.”
The comments come as border security and illegal immigration have been ranked as some of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/americans-say-that-immigration-is-the-top-issue-facing-the-country-for-third-month-in-a-row">most important issues</a> on the minds of voters as the election draws near.
“I’m not doing this … again,” one anonymous agent said in an <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/10/15/us-news/border-patrol-agents-threaten-to-leave-if-kamala-harris-wins/">interview</a> with the New York Post, going on to describe working under the Biden-Harris administration as “four years in hell.” Another agent added that “lots of guys who can retire will go” if Harris wins, but that “if Trump wins, they’ll stay.”
“Under this administration, they’ve done everything they could to make our job as inefficient as possible,” one of the agents said of the Biden-Harris administration. “They can’t outwardly tell us not to do our job, but when you’re watching criminals come in and get released it sucks.”
The National Border Patrol Union recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/border-patrol-union-urges-americans-to-vote-for-trump-to-end-the-chaos">endorsed</a> Donald Trump for president, warning that “every city, every community in this great country, is going to go to hell” if Harris beats Trump in the November 5th election.
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Some of the illegal aliens who entered the United States under the Biden-Harris administration are now believed to have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/no-one-is-safe-mothers-of-illegal-alien-crime-victims-blast-kamala-border-policies">committed violent crimes</a>, including assaults, rapes, and murders, against American citizens.
Yuma Border Patrol Chief Chris Clem also commented on the current administration, saying that it has damaged morale among Border Patrol agents. “The morale has never been as low in the Border Patrol, but under the Biden-Harris administration and her current ads, acting like she’s pro-border security is just putting salt on an already gaping wound for the morale of border Border Patrol agents and law enforcement.”
Harris recently released an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kamala-harris-ad-features-trumps-border-wall-as-harris-pivots-on-immigration">advertisement</a> in which she markets herself as a “border state prosecutor,” with one shot even featuring an image of the border wall constructed under the Trump administration. Another advertisement stated that “Kamala Harris supports increasing the number of Border Patrol agents.”
Harris’ pivot on immigration comes as the Biden-Harris administration has presided over a historic increase in illegal immigration on both the southern and northern border. <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/2455010/illegal-border-crossers-total-over-10-million-since-biden-inauguration/">More than 10 million</a> people have crossed the border under the Biden-Harris administration, with an estimated <a href="https://cis.org/Arthur/Blockbuster-House-Report-Reveals-How-Badly-Bidens-Broken-Our-Immigration-System">1.7 million illegal immigrant gotaways recorded</a> since Biden was inaugurated in 2021.
There were a total of 415,000 reported gotaways for 2018, 2019, and 2020 during the Trump administration. Recent <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/majority-of-americans-say-kamala-harris-hasnt-clearly-explained-immigration-stance">polling</a> has found that a majority of voters do not believe that Vice President and Democratic candidate for president Kamala Harris has “clearly explained” her policy stances concerning illegal immigration.

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Border Patrol Agents Warn Of Mass Resignations If Kamala Harris Wins

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Immigration

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U.S. Customs and Border Protection

Former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> was endorsed by the official Border Patrol union on Sunday during a rally in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/arizona" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Arizona</a> as he rolled out a plan to hire thousands of additional agents and increase their pay. 
The National Border Patrol Council, which represents around 16,000 members, announced its backing of Trump as he spoke at a campaign rally in Prescott Valley on Sunday afternoon. The Border Patrol union has supported each of Trump’s three campaigns for the White House, saying that his policies would help end the illegal immigration crisis. 
During the rally, National Border Patrol Council President Paul Perez sharply criticized Vice President Kamala Harris over her role in the Biden administration’s immigration policy. 
&#8220;If we allow Border Czar Harris to win this election, every city, every community in this great country, is going to go to hell. The untold millions of people, unvetted, who she has allowed into this country that are committing murders, rapes, robberies, burglaries, and every other crime will continue to put our country in peril,” he said. “Only one man can fix that and that is Donald J. Trump. He has always stood with the men and women who protect this border.&#8221;
”This November we have a choice to make: continue the chaos, allow the criminal cartels to control the border, to allow drugs and fentanyl across our country or put an end to it once and for all,” he added. 
Trump said he was honored to receive the endorsement, saying they were heroes for protecting the border. 
“I will always stand with the incredible men and women of Border Patrol,” he said. “This is a group that really needs spirit because they&#8217;re protecting us, they&#8217;re protecting our lives, they&#8217;re protecting our country.”
If elected, Trump said he would hire 10,000 new Border Patrol agents, ask Congress to give a 10% raise to all agents, and offer a $10,000 retention and signing bonus. 
Earlier in the rally, which around 7,000 people attended, Trump said that he believed the border was the most important issue of the election. 
“What they’ve done to us on the border can never be forgiven,” he said. “They’re coming from prisons and jails, insane asylums, mental institutions, from Venezuela, from the Congo, all over. And she’s resettled them into your communities to prey upon innocent American people. If Kamala gets four more years, the entire country will be turned into a migrant camp, and that’s what happening.”
Polls show a close race between Trump and Harris in Arizona, with the former president having a 1.4% lead, <a href="https://election.dailywire.com/?_gl=1*1o29wl3*_gcl_au*Mzg4MjUzNzYyLjE3MjcyNjczMDI.*_ga*MjExMDc1MjEyMy4xNzE5NDkwOTk4*_ga_CZKR9ZYKJP*MTcyODkwODUyMy40NjAuMS4xNzI4OTA4NTI0LjU5LjAuMA.." target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to an average of 50 polls.

Donald Trump Campaigns For President In Arizona’s Prescott Valley

Border Patrol Union Urges Americans To Vote For Trump To End ‘The Chaos’

Arizona

<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/border-patrol" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Border Patrol</a> agents are sounding the alarm about increased child exploitation at the southern border, where children as young as 8 years old have been found drugged and “recycled” by smugglers.
In recent weeks, authorities have rescued numerous children at the border from smugglers, border patrol sources have told the <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/09/24/us-news/kids-are-being-drugged-and-trafficked-into-the-us-border-patrol/">New York Post</a>. 
In one instance, a woman traveling with two children, ages 8 and 11, was found to have drugged the minors with sleeping pills. The woman was not related to the children, though she tried to pose as their mother. The authentic birth certificates she showed authorities were not for the children she was traveling with. 
Border agents, in another case, rescued a child who had similarly been “heavily dosed with sleep aids to prevent him from talking” to authorities, the Post report says. Those traffickers had birth certificates for other children, too.
Agents say smugglers are using children numerous times, or “recycling&#8221; them, to pose as family units and try to gain entry to the U.S. 
One border patrol source told the Post that at the height of an immigration influx, they had to “let family units in.” He said after a while, agents noticed the same children cycling through, but with different “parents.”
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 “I hate thinking about it, because there were thousands of kids, and who knows where they all ended up,&#8221; the source said.
There have been <a href="https://www.borderreport.com/immigration/border-crime/cruz-says-wristbands-smugglers-use-to-track-migrants-are-like-leg-irons/">reports</a> for years about migrants wearing wristbands that correspond with how much money they owe cartels for helping them get to the US. Elected officials have highlighted this exploitation, specifically to children, and urged for increased border security.
“Along the southern border, you see thousands of these wristbands because the illegal immigrants wear them,&#8221; Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) <a href="https://x.com/TheThe1776/status/1640849576121991168/video/1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas last year, during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. 
&#8220;Every color corresponds to how many thousands of dollars they owe the cartels,&#8221; the senator continued. &#8220;You have turned these cartels into multibillion-dollar criminal organizations. And these are modern-day leg irons, because these are children being sold into sex slavery.”
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Senator Ted Cruz lashed out at Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas: “…What are these wrist bands? …These are modern day leg irons because these are children being sold in to Sex slavery and you don’t even know what they are… Do you know how many children have been sold into Sex… <a href="https://t.co/5v7JIVo7ky">pic.twitter.com/5v7JIVo7ky</a>
— ꪻꫝể ꪻꫝể (@TheThe1776) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheThe1776/status/1640849576121991168?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 28, 2023</a></blockquote>
The exploitation is happening to young migrants after the Biden-Harris administration is quickly placing them with sponsors, too. 
Muckraker <a href="https://x.com/realmuckraker/status/1838955113718722583" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> a video this week of first-hand accounts of young migrants who were placed with sponsors and suffered. One minor said her sponsor is forcing her to pay her $10,000 for taking her in. Another young female, who ended up temporarily homeless, described a similar experience.
“She would tell me that if I didn’t have money for rent, she would kick me out,&#8221; the minor said. &#8220;And to this day, she’s still charging me $4,000 for my trip from Honduras.”
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We tracked down some of the 320,000 illegal alien children lost by the Biden-Harris administration.
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Last year, it was initially reported that <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/release/hearing-wrap-up-orr-director-fails-to-answer-questions-about-85000-lost-unaccompanied-alien-children-flawed-vetting-of-sponsors-and-more%EF%BF%BC/">85,000 unaccompanied migrant children</a> were unaccounted for, or lost, by HHS. The number is currently estimated at 320,000.
Due to the migrant influx, the HHS Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) has been overwhelmed, and Republicans say the department is prioritizing the speedy release of migrant children over their safety, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrats-move-to-loosen-oversight-of-sponsors-that-take-and-often-lose-migrant-children" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Wire&#8217;s Luke Rosiak</a> reported.
Still, Senate Democrats are working to loosen oversight of child migrant sponsorship. Under the proposed “<a href="https://www.congress.gov/118/bills/s4393/BILLS-118s4393is.xml">Children’s Safe Welcome Act of 2024</a>,” HHS would have to make its decision about whether to release a child to a proposed sponsor within just seven days of receiving an application.

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Smugglers Are Increasingly Drugging And Exploiting Migrant Children At Souther Border: Report

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With more than 10 million illegal crossings recorded since President Biden and Vice President Harris took office, the southern border faces an unprecedented crisis.
In a new documentary, The Daily Wire’s Kassy Akiva shows the chaos firsthand.
Akiva embedded with Texas State troopers and toured the southern border by police cruiser, helicopter, and airboat. “Mexico’s Door,” now streaming on DailyWire+, brings viewers along for the ride, and highlights Texas’s ongoing efforts to protect the border after the Biden-Harris administration failed to do so.
While in Eagle Pass, Texas, Akiva met with a migrant whose wife gave birth just after swimming across the Rio Grande, a rancher who has lost hundreds of thousands of dollars because migrants keep cutting his fences, and members of the Texas National Guard and state law enforcement officers on the front lines of defending America’s border.
WATCH: Mexico&#8217;s Door: The Center of America&#8217;s Border Fight
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&#8216;Mexico’s Door&#8217; was filmed after Governor Greg Abbott ordered Texas state troopers and the Texas National Guard to secure the southern border under <a href="https://gov.texas.gov/operationlonestar">Operation Lone Star</a>.
Among the officers Akiva meets are Texas State Trooper Jacklyn Gooding, who patrols the border in search of human smugglers and illegal immigrants. Gooding recounts arresting a smuggler last April who was wanted for murder.
“It was a pursuit when I tried to stop the car initially, and we were able to capture the two individuals that were involved in the smuggling event, as well as all the undocumented individuals,” Gooding says. “The suspects were armed at the time: both of them had firearms, and the driver had an active warrant for murder out of Louisiana.”
<div id="attachment_696727" style="width: 1034px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-696727" class="size-large wp-image-696727" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/02/KassyOlivarezImmigrant_Still-1024x576.jpg" alt="Kassy Dillon and Lt. Chris Olivarez at the Texas-Mexico border speaking to a migrant" width="1024" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/02/KassyOlivarezImmigrant_Still-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/02/KassyOlivarezImmigrant_Still-300x169.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/02/KassyOlivarezImmigrant_Still-768x432.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/02/KassyOlivarezImmigrant_Still-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/02/KassyOlivarezImmigrant_Still-2048x1152.jpg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" />Reporter Kassy Akiva and Lt. Chris Olivarez speaking to a Venezuelan migrant who said his wife was taken by the National Guard to a hospital after going into labor. (Photo: The Daily Wire)</div>
Akiva encounters a Venezuelan migrant behind the razor wire fence who illegally swam across the Rio Grande while carrying a three-year-old. The migrant says the child belonged to his wife who went into labor and was transported to a hospital right after reaching the shore.
Lt. Chris Olivarez from the Texas Department of Public Safety tells Akiva pregnant mothers commonly wait to cross the border until they are about to go into labor, to ensure their children become citizens.
“To be that far in your pregnancy, they have to know more or less when she is going to give birth in order to cross on this side and cross here in the United States,” Olivarez says. “We see that a lot—where a lot of pregnant females who are coming across, they will wait, usually when they are about to give birth. Then they’ll cross into the United States and they’ll have the baby that same day. or they’ll have it right at the river as they are crossing.”
<div id="attachment_774387" style="width: 1034px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-774387" class="size-large wp-image-774387" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/08/Immigrant_03-1024x576.png" alt="" width="1024" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/08/Immigrant_03-1024x576.png 1024w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/08/Immigrant_03-300x169.png 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/08/Immigrant_03-768x432.png 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/08/Immigrant_03-1536x864.png 1536w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/08/Immigrant_03-2048x1152.png 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" />Migrants on the U.S. side of the Rio Grande after crossing illegally from Mexico. (Photo: The Daily Wire)</div>
Olivarez added that migrants also use children in hopes that the troopers will be more willing to assist them in entering the country.
“They use the children in those types of situations because they know there is a human side to us,” Olivarez said.
Olivarez takes Akiva through the 47-acre Shelby Park, which was a focal point in the struggle between Texas and the Biden-Harris administration before Abbott took control of the park, barring federal agents from entry.
Apprehensions of illegal migrants in the <a href="https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/southwest-land-border-encounters-by-component">Del Rio sector</a>, which includes Shelby Park, were at a high of 71,050 in December. It dropped to 16,710 in January when Abbott took control.
Thirteen Republican governors <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/republican-govs-back-texas-at-border-were-doing-the-job-of-the-federal-government">joined</a> Abbott at Shelby Park in February to support the governor’s ongoing feud with the Biden-Harris administration. Fourteen states have sent personnel to help Texas secure its border.
<div id="attachment_691383" style="width: 1034px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-691383" class="size-large wp-image-691383" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/02/ArticlePhoto-1024x576.jpg" alt="" width="1024" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/02/ArticlePhoto-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/02/ArticlePhoto-300x169.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/02/ArticlePhoto-768x432.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/02/ArticlePhoto-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/02/ArticlePhoto-2048x1152.jpg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" />Republican Governors join Texas Governor Greg Abbott for a briefing on the southern border / (Photo: The Daily Wire)</div>
Before the State of Texas controlled Shelby Park, the area saw about two thousand illegal border crossings a day, with many migrants swimming across the river and turning themselves in to Customs and Border Protection. But with Texas personnel on the scene, migrants are arrested for illegally trespassing into the park, told to swim back, or wait in hopes that border patrol picks them up. The area now averages about less than one encounter a week, according to Olivarez.
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Akiva takes an airboat tour of the Rio Grande with Florida and Texas state troopers, who say the border around the area of Eagle Pass averages about one drowning a day. Olivarez says Texas has stepped up the effort to prevent water crossings by putting up barriers, while the federal government has been reluctant to do so.
While on the boat, Akiva’s team spots a raft staged on the shore of the Mexican side of the Rio Grande, presumably to transport migrants. Mexican troops removed the raft after they were alerted by Texas law enforcement.
From a helicopter, Akiva spots hundreds of thousands of pieces of clothing that migrants take off after they finish their swim and place over the razor wire fences to avoid being cut while climbing over.
Akiva concludes her trip by meeting Texas rancher <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/border-crisis-texas-rancher-says-migrant-invasion-of-his-border-property-has-cost-him-400k">Wayne King</a>, who says he lost over $400,000 from migrants cutting thousands of holes in his fence, allowing his African and Indian exotic animals meant for recreational hunting to escape.
<div id="attachment_711217" style="width: 1034px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-711217" class="size-large wp-image-711217" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/03/wayne.00_44_59_17.Still004-1024x576.jpg" alt="" width="1024" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/03/wayne.00_44_59_17.Still004-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/03/wayne.00_44_59_17.Still004-300x169.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/03/wayne.00_44_59_17.Still004-768x432.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/03/wayne.00_44_59_17.Still004-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/03/wayne.00_44_59_17.Still004.jpg 1920w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" />Wayne King says local law enforcement has access to Tequesquite Ranch to arrest migrants for trespassing on private property. (Photo: The Daily Wire)</div>
“If they really wanted to do this right, why are they coming to my pastures?” King says. “Why are they destroying water troughs? Water lines, windmills, fences? Why are they doing that? Why don’t they just cross the bridge where they can get all of the government’s handouts and everything’s hunky dory?”
King, who lives in a house on the 8,200-acre ranch, says he’s been woken up by migrants in the middle of the night. He says he is “tickled to death” that Abbott has stepped up to secure the border.
“Abbott is doing his utmost best to protect us here on the border,” he says. “It’s just crazy. I mean, but what else do you want to call it when our state is trying to protect us, but yet our federal government is trying to stop the state from protecting us.”

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A prominent Brazilian conservative who was a senior aide to former president Jair Bolsonaro has been imprisoned without trial in the South American country for four months, justified by what appears to have been an error on a U.S. government website.
Lawyers for Filipe Martins, who considers himself a political prisoner of the left-wing Brazilian Supreme Court (STF), say the court is using the error on the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) website as proof to imprison him. Martins was arrested on February 8 at the order of STF Minister Alexandre de Moraes, who is using records showing travel to the United States — and the lack of corresponding Brazilian immigration records — as evidence that Martins defrauded the immigration system by leaving the country undetected.
According to the incorrect CBP travel history records used to keep Martins imprisoned obtained by The Daily Wire, there was a log of Filipe entering the United States with inconsistencies. But representatives of Martins, who served as the special adviser for international affairs to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/7-things-you-need-know-about-trump-brazil-who-kassy-dillon">Bolsonaro</a>, say he never left his country on the day being alleged. There is evidence showing he made Uber and food purchases in Brazil, and also that he took a domestic flight. 
The prolonged imprisonment comes as the STF faces widespread criticism for overstepping its authority to punish opponents. He has not yet been given a trial and remains imprisoned on the grounds that there is a risk he would flee the country, despite the correction. His lawyers say the government is holding him for political reasons.
“It has been widely known that de Moraes has been fearing the growth of conservatives,”  Martins’ attorney, Ana Barbara Schaffert, told The Daily Wire. “This extended, unfounded imprisonment indicates that they are trying to torture him into confessing to anything that fits their narrative, because there is nothing legally that can detain him in jail.”
A correction was made to the CBP I-94 website last week after Martins&#8217; defense team submitted additional documentation to officials to prove Martins did not travel to the United States on December 30, 2022, on a presidential flight with Bolsonaro before the inauguration of the next president, as is alleged. New I-94 records show that Martins&#8217; last entry to the U.S. was in September 2022, when he accompanied Bolsonaro to the U.N. General Assembly in New York.
<div id="attachment_751681" style="width: 690px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-751681" class="size-full wp-image-751681" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-17-at-9.34.15%E2%80%AFAM.png" alt="" width="680" height="450" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-17-at-9.34.15%E2%80%AFAM.png 680w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-17-at-9.34.15%E2%80%AFAM-300x199.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px" />An incorrect travel history was used by the Brazilian Supreme Court to show that Filipe Martins traveled to the U.S. on December 30, 2022. Martins&#8217; lawyers and an updated document from CBP dispute he ever left the country on that date.</div>
In a determination letter to Martins&#8217; lawyers, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security stated it conducted a review of the situation and “made any corrections to records that our inquiries determined were necessary.”
The lawyers say the update should lead to Filipe&#8217;s release.
“We finally have an official document that can be used as a legal basis that Martins never entered the United States on December 30, 2022,” Schaffert said. “We hope de Moraes takes this into account and releases Filipe immediately.”
<div id="attachment_751679" style="width: 894px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-751679" class="size-large wp-image-751679" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-17-at-9.34.55%E2%80%AFAM-884x576.png" alt="" width="884" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-17-at-9.34.55%E2%80%AFAM-884x576.png 884w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-17-at-9.34.55%E2%80%AFAM-300x196.png 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-17-at-9.34.55%E2%80%AFAM-768x501.png 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-17-at-9.34.55%E2%80%AFAM.png 1221w" sizes="(max-width: 884px) 100vw, 884px" />An updated document from the CBP shows Filipe Martins&#8217; last entry to the U.S. was in September 2022, despite accusations from the STF.</div>
Martins’ legal defense filed a petition for his release and is awaiting an official response.
De Moraes also used as evidence an outdated Microsoft Word file with a list of passengers for the December 30 presidential flight that had been updated numerous times, as well as a blog post speculating he “evaporated” from Brazil, according to Schaffert. 
“It was merely a draft of a supposed list, which would never be used as evidence for an arrest in any normal process,” Schaffert said.
Martins was a popular powerhouse in the Bolsonaro administration due to his youth, large social media following, and conservative and pro-American ideology. He was nicknamed the “Jared Kushner” of the Bolsonaro administration while in his previous diplomatic position, which led to a <a href="https://x.com/filgmartin/status/1167851207563628545">meeting wit</a><a href="https://x.com/filgmartin/status/1167851207563628545">h</a> former President Donald Trump in the Oval Office.
Martins is also being investigated by the STF for allegedly contributing to a document questioning the 2022 Brazilian presidential election that led to the return of socialist Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to power after serving a jail term for corruption.
This investigation was not cited as the official reason for Martins’ jailing, according to his lawyers.
Bolsonaro, who was president from January 2019 to December 2022, has been under investigation by the STF for making accusations of voting fraud, and his involvement in orchestrating riots on government buildings in January 2022. He is <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/brazil-bans-bolsonaro-from-holding-office-over-election-claims-energizing-his-base">currently barred</a> from holding or running for office in Brazil until 2030 for casting doubt on its electronic voting system in a meeting with diplomats at the presidential palace, the New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/30/world/americas/bolsonaro-brazil-banned-office.html">reported</a>. 
By using the power of his position, de Moraes has been on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/musk-vows-to-expose-corruption-from-brazils-dictator-who-launched-probes-for-not-restricting-free-speech">a mission</a> to crack down on conservatives and free speech in the country. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/22/world/americas/brazil-alexandre-de-moraes.html">The New York Times accused</a> de Moraes of using “a broad interpretation of the court’s powers” to “investigate and prosecute, as well as to silence on social media, anyone he deems a menace to Brazil’s institutions.” De Moraes also signaled to deputies that he fears conservatives will make gains in the Brazilian Congress in 2026, <a href="https://www.cnnbrasil.com.br/politica/moraes-sinaliza-preocupacao-com-bancada-conservadora-em-2026/">reported CNN Brazil.</a>
<div id="attachment_751053" style="width: 889px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-751053" class="size-large wp-image-751053" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/06/PHOTO-2024-06-14-15-48-07-879x576.jpg" alt="" width="879" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/06/PHOTO-2024-06-14-15-48-07-879x576.jpg 879w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/06/PHOTO-2024-06-14-15-48-07-300x197.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/06/PHOTO-2024-06-14-15-48-07-768x503.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/06/PHOTO-2024-06-14-15-48-07.jpg 1290w" sizes="(max-width: 879px) 100vw, 879px" />Filipe Martins and his wife Anelise Hauagge. (Photo: Instagram)</div>
De Moraes’ crusade led to a feud with billionaire Elon Musk after demanding the censorship and suspension of users on X accused of “fake news.”
“He demanded that X suspend accounts of people who raised corruption concerns while insisting that X pretend the suspension was for violating our terms of service!” <a href="https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1777517291736813695">Musk tweeted</a> in April. “We obey the laws of countries even if we disagree with them, but this required violating the laws of Brazil.”
De Moraes opened a probe into Musk for “disobedience” and waging a “disinformation campaign” against the court.
“The flagrant conduct of obstruction of Brazilian justice, incitement of crime, the public threat of disobedience of court orders and future lack of cooperation from the platform are facts that disrespect the sovereignty of Brazil,” de Moraes <a href="https://apnews.com/article/brazil-musk-x-supreme-court-investigation-a645757b95a66ee658832802908466ab">said</a>.
Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-probes-fbis-reported-role-in-brazils-crackdown-on-critics">demanded answers</a> last month after reports emerged suggesting the FBI assisted in cracking down on critics and journalists.
“In Brazil, news outlets have recently reported that the FBI, on behalf of the Brazilian government, reached out to two U.S. residents, including a journalist targeted in some of the censorship orders by Brazilian courts,” said Jordan’s letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray.
The STF did not respond to a request for comment.

Brazil’s Left-Wing Supreme Court Imprisons Prominent Conservative Based On U.S. Border Patrol Error

U.S. Border Patrol Error Leaves Former Bolsonaro’s = Adviser Imprisoned Without Trial By Left-Wing Brazil Court

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Border Patrol agents in Southern California are reportedly under orders to release “single adults” immigrating to the U.S. from the Eastern Hemisphere and classify them as “hard” or “very hard” to remove.
A memo sent to Border Patrol agents working in the San Diego sector, which has become a top illegal immigrant crossing, instructs officials to process and release single adults into the U.S. interior as NTA/OR, short for Notice to Appear/Release on Own Recognizance. The memo applies to all countries in the Eastern Hemisphere, which number more than 100, except for six: Uzbekistan, Russia, Tajikistan, Georgia, Moldova, and Kyrgyzstan, according to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/border-patrol-memo-tells-agents-key-sector-release-migrants-from-nearly-all-eastern-hemisphere-countries" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News</a>.
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Aspects of the memo were first reported by <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/3031941/border-agents-told-release-migrants-us-biden-asylum-ban/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Washington Examiner</a>. Last week, a senior Biden administration official told reporters that the government was making progress on managing immigration from the Eastern Hemisphere and expecting further advancement, a message contradicted by the memo pushed out to San Diego Sector immigration authorities.
“Extra-hemispheric migrants have always been a challenge. They will be subject to these rules, provisions,” the official told reporters last week, according to the Examiner. “We’ve also been working with governments all over the world to enhance our ability to repatriate individuals to countries that have historically been challenging. We have, for example, operated repatriation flights to India, to China, to Uzbekistan, to Mauritania, to Senegal over the last few months, and those are all countries that historically would have been much more challenging for us to return individuals to and we anticipate we will continue to enhance our ability to return migrants to the Eastern Hemisphere.”
“So, we do think that the rules measures will allow us to impose an immediate and fast consequence to migrants no matter what country they’re coming from,” the same official said.
The number of immigrants crossing into the U.S. through the San Diego Sector has <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/04/us/san-diego-migrants-california.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">exploded</a> recently to numbers not seen in the region since the 1990s when immigration roiled state politics. In April alone, 37,370 people crossed illegally into the U.S. through the sector. Immigrants from 98 different countries came through the sector.
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The rise in San Diego Sector immigration comes as Texas has taken steps on the state level to reduce illegal immigration into the state, measures that have been fought by the Biden administration. Republicans in Arizona are looking at similar steps, though the state is governed by Katie Hobbs, a Democrat.
The memo to San Diego Border Patrol was revealed after President Joe Biden signed an executive order last week in a move the administration said would crack down on illegal immigration. Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott said over the weekend that the order has done nothing to slow immigration into the country.
“There’s no slowing down of people crossing the border. In fact, it&#8217;s just accelerating. This is gaslighting our fellow Americans. When Biden gets up and says, ‘This is going to stop people from coming across the border,’ when he says, &#8216;It&#8217;s going to secure the border,&#8217; in fact, it is making illegal border crossings worse,” Abbott said, according to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/greg-abbott-biden-executive-order-illegal-border-crossings-worse-gaslighting-americans" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News</a>.

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President Joe Biden&#8217;s administration has instructed U.S. Border Patrol agents to release illegal aliens into the U.S. from all but six of the more than 100 countries in the Eastern Hemisphere rather than deport them.
The Washington Examiner obtained the memo that Border Patrol agents were given by Biden officials which comes immediately after Biden signed a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-signs-weak-executive-order-to-address-his-border-crisis-after-claiming-he-couldnt-do-it">weak executive order</a> on immigration last week that he claimed would shut down the border if it became overwhelmed — even though he had previously said that he couldn&#8217;t do it. Numerous officials, elected leaders, and security experts have warned that Biden&#8217;s executive order solves nothing and is little more than window dressing.
The instructions that Border Patrol agents were given &#8220;contradicts what senior Biden administration officials told reporters in a call on Tuesday would be the case for migrants from Eastern Hemisphere countries who traveled through multiple countries without seeking asylum in order to reach the U.S., referred to as extra-hemispheric migrants,&#8221; <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/3031941/border-agents-told-release-migrants-us-biden-asylum-ban/">said</a> Examiner border correspondent Anna Giaritelli.
The report quoted the Biden official as saying: “Extra-hemispheric migrants have always been a challenge. They will be subject to these rules, provisions. We’ve also been working with governments all over the world to enhance our ability to repatriate individuals to countries that have historically been challenging. We have, for example, operated repatriation flights to India, to China, to Uzbekistan, to Mauritania, to Senegal over the last few months, and those are all countries that historically would have been much more challenging for us to return individuals to and we anticipate we will continue to enhance our ability to return migrants to the Eastern Hemisphere.”
“So, we do think that the rules measures will allow us to impose an immediate and fast consequence to migrants no matter what country they’re coming from,” the official claimed.
The instructions the administration gave Border Patrol agents said that only individuals from Georgia, Moldova, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan will be referred for fast removal from the U.S. and not allowed to seek asylum.
Everyone else who enters from a country in the Eastern Hemisphere will be released into the U.S. and allowed to seek asylum.
The Eastern Hemisphere includes all of the Middle East, Asia, most of Africa, and most of Europe.
Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin said that the instructions amount to &#8220;mass catch &amp; release continues for illegal immigrants&#8221; as approximately 10 million have entered the U.S. under Biden.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/abbott-all-bidens-order-does-is-attract-and-invite-even-more-people-to-cross-the-border-illegally">Abbott: All Biden’s Order Does Is ‘Attract And Invite Even More People To Cross The Border Illegally’</a>

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A sheriff is accusing the federal government of victimizing Americans after an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/illegal-immigration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">illegal immigrant</a> was arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl in Florida.
Marvin Dionel Perez Lopez was accused by police earlier this month of forcing the girl into his van and sexually assaulting her in Lake Worth, Florida. He faces charges of kidnapping, sexually assaulting a minor, sexual assault of a victim under 12 years old, and resisting an officer without violence, <a href="https://cbs12.com/news/local/lake-worth-man-arrested-for-kidnapping-sexually-assaulting-minor-marvin-dionel-perez-lopez-white-van-k-9-unit-saturday-captive-florida-may-6-2024" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to CBS 12.
According to Palm Beach Police, Lopez, a Guatemalan national, illegally crossed into the United States in January where he was apprehended by Border Patrol. He was then released into the country with a court date four years into the future in 2027.
&#8220;Here&#8217;s a Guatemalan, who came into the country illegally, was stopped by [Border Patrol], released, and made his way to South Florida. And now he commits a crime where he held an 11-year-old girl against her will and sexually assaulted her,” Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw said.
“We grabbed him. He&#8217;s confessed to the crime. So he&#8217;s gonna get tried for a capital crime before he even remotely thinks he&#8217;s gonna get deported. He&#8217;s gonna do the time here first,&#8221; Bradshaw added. “The federal government is victimizing the people who live in this country by letting these people in here.”
The police report on the arrest said that the girl’s mother started banging on the van door causing Lopez to run away, CBS 12 reported. She later went to Lopez&#8217;s home and called the police after he reportedly asked for forgiveness. When police arrived to question him, they said he escaped out a window and ran into an alleyway before he was eventually arrested.
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As reports of violent crimes committed by illegal immigrants have continued to make headlines, Republicans have demanded that President Joe Biden close down the border.
Earlier this week, Jose Ibarra, the illegal immigrant accused of murdering 22-year-old nursing student Laken Riley, was officially <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/laken-riley-murder-suspect-indictment/story?id=110032937" target="_blank" rel="noopener">indicted</a> with felony murder and malice murder. Ibarra had been <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/man-arrested-for-murder-of-georgia-nursing-student-was-illegal-immigrant-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">released</a> into the United States after being apprehended illegally crossing the border in September 2022. Riley was out on a run on the campus of the University of Georgia when she was murdered. Ibarra was later arrested and accused of beating and choking her to death.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/border-patrol" target="_blank" rel="noopener">U.S. Border Patrol</a> agents reportedly came under fire this week while working on the southern border from gunmen operating inside Mexico.
Fox News correspondent Griff Jenkins said that U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) confirmed the Wednesday incident to the network.
The shots fired at Border Patrol agents from the Mexican side happened in the Ysleta area of the El Paso Sector, Jenkins posted on X. The incident, which did not yield any casualties, happened in the afternoon.
Federal law enforcement officials launched an investigation into the matter and described the incident as a &#8220;use of force&#8221; incident, meaning that Border Patrol agents returned fire.
&#8220;On May 8, 2024, Border Patrol agents assigned to the El Paso Sector were involved in a use of force incident while responding to reports of shots fired near the border in the Ysleta Station area of responsibility in Texas,&#8221; the statement said. &#8220;There are no reported injuries at this time. The incident is under review by Customs and Border Protection’s Office of Professional Responsibility.&#8221;
The FBI released a separate statement on Friday confirming that they are involved in investigating the shooting and are collecting evidence at the crime scene. 
“FBI El Paso was notified of the May 8th shooting that occurred by the Ysleta USBP Station – Lopez Gate,&#8221; the FBI said. &#8220;The FBI El Paso Violent Crime Task Force and the FBI Evidence Recovery Team were deployed to collect evidence at the crime scene. The FBI El Paso’s Violent Crime Task Force is working closely with the U.S. Custom and Border Protection’s Office of Professional Responsibility on this assault on a federal officer investigation. As this is an ongoing investigation, no further details may be given at this time.”
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BREAKING: CBP confirms to FOX News…
Shots were fired from the Mexican side at Border Patrol agents in the Ysleta area of the El Paso sector yesterday afternoon.
Fortunately, no agents were injured and there is an investigation underway. CBP calls it a “use of force” incident…
— Griff Jenkins (@GriffJenkins) <a href="https://twitter.com/GriffJenkins/status/1788731456467964066?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 10, 2024</a></blockquote>
The incident comes as the southern border has experienced catastrophic levels of illegal immigration because of President Joe Biden&#8217;s policies and reversal of former President Donald Trump&#8217;s immigration policies.
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In addition to more than 8 million illegal aliens coming into the U.S. under Biden, a number greater than the population of most U.S. states, numerous suspects on the FBI&#8217;s terrorist watchlist have also entered the country.
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