A group of mainly Republican-led states are seeking to get involved in the deliberations over <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/title-42" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Title 42</a> and want a federal judge to keep the border expulsion public health rule in place.
In a filing with the court on Monday night, fifteen state attorneys general requested to intervene in the case after federal Judge Emmet Sullivan of the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., <a href="http://dailywire.com/news/federal-judge-blocks-use-of-title-42-to-expel-migrants-at-border" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ruled</a> against Title 42 last week. The policy is set to expire on December 21, but the states want to see it prolonged.
The states requesting to intervene are Arizona, Louisiana, Alabama, Alaska, Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wyoming.
“Because invalidation of the Title 42 Orders will directly harm the States, they now seek to intervene to offer a defense of the Title 42 policy so that its validity can be resolved on the merits, rather than through strategic surrender,” the filing <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.225870/gov.uscourts.dcd.225870.168.0_1.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
“[B]order states like Arizona and Texas will face increased migrant flows and increasd [sic] releases of aliens if the Title 42 process is terminated. Those aliens will flow to other States, too,” it added, noting that “[w]herever those aliens end up, they will impose financial burdens on the States involuntarily hosting them.”
Title 42 was put in place during the COVID pandemic and allowed border officials to rapidly remove migrants from the country due to public health concerns. The Biden administration has <a href="https://www.axios.com/2022/11/22/republican-states-title-42-border-federal-court" target="_blank" rel="noopener">used</a> the policy even though it tried to get rid of it earlier this year. When Sullivan decided to get rid of the rule, the Biden administration did not challenge it, but <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/15-gop-states-ask-court-keep-trump-era-immigration-rule-title-42-rcna58315" target="_blank" rel="noopener">asked</a> for a temporary pause before it ended.
The states in the filing claimed that they have an interest in the decision to lift the order due to the effect of migrants coming into the United States. Border authorities have removed 2.4 million migrants <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/22/us/title-42-border-policy-republican-states.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">using</a> Title 42 since it went into effect.
“At bottom, the important issues in this case should be decided on the merits, rather than through surrender. A central issue in this case is the costs imposed on the States. Allowing intervention will ensure those interests are represented,” the filing noted.
The migrant crisis has been the center of national news in recent months, largely due to Republican Governors Greg Abbott and Ron DeSantis sending migrants to states and communities that claim to be welcoming of migrants. Abbott recently sent more migrants to Philadelphia and <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/philadelphia-bus-migrants-texas-border-security-initiative" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that his state has sent almost 8,400 migrants to Washington, D.C., over 3,800 to New York City, more than 1,200 to Chicago, and 100 to Philadelphia, as of Monday.

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House Minority Leader <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kevin-mccarthy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kevin McCarthy</a> (R-CA) said Tuesday that the incoming GOP House majority will investigate and potentially impeach Homeland Security Secretary <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/alejandro-mayorkas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alejandro Mayorkas</a> over his handling of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/southern-border" target="_blank" rel="noopener">U.S. southern border</a>.
McCarthy made the pledge in a press conference after leading a contingent of Republican House members in a visit to the U.S. southern border near El Paso, Texas. McCarthy is expected to become House speaker next year provided he can overcome internal resistance from conservative members of the House.
“[Mayorkas’s] actions have produced the greatest wave of illegal immigration in recorded history. Our country may never recover from Secretary Mayorkas’ dereliction of duty,” McCarthy said. “This is why, today, I am calling on the secretary to resign. He cannot and must not remain in that position.”
“If Secretary Mayorkas does not resign, House Republicans will investigate every order, every action, and every failure will determine whether we can begin impeachment inquiry,” he continued. “If secretary Mayorkas was in charge of any company, he would have been fired by now for the failures of what he has caused.”
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President Joe Biden’s administration <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-border-commissioner-resigns-following-termination-threats-from-biden-officials" target="_blank" rel="noopener">forced out</a> U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Chris Magnus earlier this month over the unprecedented crisis at the southern border. Illegal immigration across the U.S. southern border has set multiple records since Biden took office nearly two years ago.
Immigration authorities have recorded record-shattering numbers of migrant encounters along the U.S. southern border the past two years. In fiscal year 2021, the Department of Homeland Security <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mayorkas-maintains-dhs-plan-title-42-end-despite-fears-new-migrant-wave-southern-border" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recorded</a> about 1.7 million migrant encounters. In fiscal year 2022, that number increased to 2.3 million encounters. Those numbers do not include hundreds of thousands of “gotaways,” migrants who were observed crossing, but could not be apprehended, who entered the U.S. since Biden took office.
In addition to total migration numbers, immigration authorities have also seen a jump in known and suspected terrorists attempting to enter the U.S. In fiscal year 2022, authorities <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/nearly-100-fbi-terror-watch-list-suspects-caught-southern-border" target="_blank" rel="noopener">arrested</a> 98 people on the FBI’s terror watch list attempting to enter the U.S. through its southern border. Two years ago in fiscal year 2019, that number was zero.
Communities along the border have also faced a constant humanitarian crisis as shelters, cities, and federal authorities attempt to process and house the flood of people entering the U.S. A recent court order forcing the Biden administration to scrap Title 42 in roughly a month has raised concerns that the humanitarian crisis may worsen. Title 42 allows CBP agents to expel migrants back to Mexico without processing over COVID concerns.

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Sen. Mark <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mark-kelly" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kelly</a> (D-AZ) said during an <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/11/21/mark-kelly-interview-border-bipartisanship-strong-gop/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> with the Washington Post that members of his party are &#8220;not even close&#8221; to understanding the problems on the U.S. southern <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/southern-border" target="_blank" rel="noopener">border</a>.
&#8220;Absolutely not. Not even close,&#8221; the incumbent senator said when asked if members of his party understood &#8220;the complexity of the issue and the frustrations that people have.&#8221;
&#8220;When I first got to Washington, it didn’t take me long to realize that there are a lot of Democrats who don’t understand our southern border and a lot of Republicans who just want to talk about it. Don’t necessarily want to do anything about it, just want to use it politically. So my approach has been — to the extent that we could and can — to make progress on securing it, but also doing it in a way that’s in accordance with our ethics and our values, not to demonize people,&#8221; Kelly added.
In the interview published Monday, Kelly advocated a middle-of-the-road approach to border issues, saying he wants to secure the border but not in a way that would &#8220;demonize people.&#8221; He did not elaborate much further on how he would secure the border beyond, &#8220;We have to do more in border security. We have to do more in comprehensive immigration reform, especially &#8216;dreamers,&#8217; but also these visa programs. If you’re a farmer, especially in Southern Arizona, despite having a ready supply of eager workers, you don’t have the visas available and it’s a problem for them.&#8221;
The Department of Homeland Security recently <a href="https://www.fox4news.com/news/gov-greg-abbott-invokes-invasion-clauses-in-border-security-push">reported</a> that nearly 2.4 million immigrants had been detained on the U.S. southern border during the fiscal year ending in September. That number represented a 37% increase from the previous fiscal year. Additionally, Customs and Border Protection <a href="https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/southwest-land-border-encounters">announced</a> over 230,000 encounters with migrants at the southern border during October alone.
Last week, a federal judge in Washington, D.C., <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/federal-judge-blocks-use-of-title-42-to-expel-migrants-at-border">blocked</a> the further use of Title 42, which allows the government to deport migrants from the border in the interest of public health. Title 42 had been activated during the Trump administration to expel migrants entering the country during the COVID pandemic.
Kelly first entered the Senate after defeating Republican candidate Martha McSally in the race for the open Arizona seat previously held by the late John McCain. The senator is <a href="http://dailywire.com/news/breaking-democrat-incumbent-mark-kelly-defeats-republican-blake-masters-in-arizona-senate-race-projection">projected</a> to win his first full term after defeating Republican candidate Blake Masters by almost five points in the recent midterm election.
Compared to many others in the Democratic Party, Kelly has taken a relatively moderate stance on the border. He <a href="https://www.kelly.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/sen-kelly-and-colleagues-introduce-bipartisan-bill-to-raise-border-patrol-pay-create-border-patrol-reserve/">teamed</a> up with retiring Republican Ohio Sen. Rob Portman, fellow Democratic Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, and Republican Oklahoma Sen. James Lankford back in August to introduce a bill that would raise Border Patrol agents&#8217; pay as well as create a 2,500-agent border reserve force.
Kelly has also expressed his support for a pathway to citizenship for those protected under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), also known as &#8220;Dreamers.&#8221;
&#8220;DACA needs to be protected. But it doesn’t change the fact that Congress must act to provide Dreamers with the certainty of a clear pathway to citizenship,&#8221; Kelly <a href="https://twitter.com/senmarkkelly/status/1442561227008393224">tweeted</a> in September 2021.

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Sen. Mark Kelly Warns Democrats ‘Absolutely’ Do Not Understand Border Issues

Sen. Mark Kelly Warns Democrats 'Absolutely' Do Not Understand Border Issues

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The more things change, the more they stay the same.
In 1986, Senator <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/chuck-schumer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chuck Schumer</a> (D-NY) successfully <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1989/06/18/us/1986-amnesty-law-is-seen-as-failing-to-slow-alien-tide.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pushed for</a> amnesty for millions of illegal aliens, promising that doing so would help slow the tide of illegal immigration and support America&#8217;s dwindling workforce. It failed.
In 2022, a reinvigorated Schumer is demanding that the country yet again allow millions to stay in the country and become new citizens— despite breaking the law to get here.
&#8220;Now more than ever, we&#8217;re short of workers. We have a population that is not reproducing on its own with the same level that it used to,&#8221; the Senate Majority Leader said on Wednesday. &#8220;The only way we’re going to have a great future in America is if we welcome and embrace immigrants  — the DREAMers and all of them — cause our ultimate goal is to help the DREAMers but get a path to citizenship for all 11 million, or however many undocumented there are here.&#8221;
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Schumer: &quot;We have a population that is not reproducing on its own with the same level that it used to. The only way we’re going to have a great future is if we welcome immigrants… get a path to citizenship for all 11 million [illegal immigrants].” <a href="https://t.co/ag9XMQCvet">pic.twitter.com/ag9XMQCvet</a>
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The 11 million number is certainly outdated, but Democrats and their media ilk have used that figure for more than a decade.
Per a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/we-should-deport-pelosi-attacker-and-all-other-illegal-aliens" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2018 Yale study</a>, an estimated 22 million illegal aliens are living in the U.S. Under President Joe Biden&#8217;s watch, some project that 5.5 million have crossed the border.
There are other ways to encourage population growth. Tax incentives that benefit couples who marry and have children and other pro-natalist policies could help.
Yet it seems obvious that Democrats want to pass amnesty because they believe it would create a new class of voters for them.
Schumer and his gang are not alone. Some Republicans want a &#8220;pathway to citizenship&#8221; for illegal aliens as well — precisely because it would provide cheap labor.
As documented by Nate Hochman at <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/why-are-senate-republicans-pushing-amnesty-again/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">National Review</a>, Sens. Thom Tillis (R-NC) and John Cornyn (R-TX) have been in talks with Democratic leaders throughout 2022 to create some sort of bill that strengthens border security while passing amnesty.
That sort of deal was the exact sort of thing offered in 1986. Obviously, the plan wasn&#8217;t sufficient enough in solving open borders and is one of President Ronald Reagan&#8217;s greatest blights.
More than 30 years later, we&#8217;re now faced with an almost identical problem and identical solution.
As Hochman put it, &#8220;The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. It’s time for Tillis and Cornyn to prioritize their constituents over the Chamber of Commerce.&#8221;
Unfortunately for Americans who care about borders, re-elected GOP Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is already running headstrong into bipartisan efforts.
&#8220;My message to the administration &#8230;. let&#8217;s find some things between the 40-yard lines that we can agree on and do them,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And we did some of that this year: infrastructure, chips, school safety, mental health.&#8221;
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McConnell: &quot;My message to [Biden] is let&#39;s find some things between the 40 yard lines that we can agree on and we did some of that this year: infrastructure, chips, school safety, mental health.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/R10DWW1WIi">pic.twitter.com/R10DWW1WIi</a>
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While he stopped short of saying &#8220;pathway to citizenship,&#8221; it seems evident that amnesty would be included if a &#8220;bipartisan&#8221; group of officials can come up with a plan.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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No, Thanks: Schumer Wants Amnesty For ’11 Million Or However Many’ Illegal Aliens Are In The U.S.

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A federal judge blocked the use of Title 42, a rule mainly used to expel migrants at the nation&#8217;s southern border in the interest of public health.
Judge Emmet Sullivan of the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., said that the use of the Trump-era policy to turn away migrants under the Administrative Procedures Act was &#8220;arbitrary&#8221; in his Tuesday ruling.
“It is unreasonable for the CDC to assume that it can ignore the consequences of any actions it chooses to take in the pursuit of fulfilling its goals, particularly when those actions included the extraordinary decision to suspend the codified procedural and substantive rights of non-citizens seeking safe harbor,” Sullivan <a href="https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/field_document/opinion_-_huisha-huisha_v._mayorkas.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in the court opinion.
Title 42 was put into place in 2020 to prevent migrants from entering the nation during the COVID pandemic. The policy has since received strong attacks from a variety of organizations, as well as the Biden administration.
The ACLU and a group of other organizations sued to end the policy in July 2021, arguing that Title 42 was an unlawful interpretation of the Public Health Service Act.
The Biden administration also sought to end the policy earlier this year, but a response by GOP-led states sued to keep Title 42 in place. The latest ruling now requires the end of enforcing the practice unless a later ruling changes the decision.
The Biden administration has filed a motion asking the judge to let the order take effect in five weeks.
&#8220;The delay in implementation of the court’s order will allow the government to prepare for an orderly transition to new policies at the border. But to be clear, under the unopposed motion, Title 42 would remain in place for some period. During the period of this freeze, we will prepare for an orderly transition to new policies at the border,&#8221; the Department of Homeland Security said in a <a href="https://www.dhs.gov/news/2022/11/15/statement-dhs-decision-regarding-title-42" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a>.
The ruling comes after Customs and Border Protection (CBP) <a href="https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/southwest-land-border-encounters" target="_blank" rel="noopener">data</a> from Monday recorded 230,678 migrant encounters at the southern border in October. Many are concerned that the end of Title 42 would worsen Biden&#8217;s border crisis, as more than <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/15/immigration-judge-blocks-title-42-limits-00067083" target="_blank" rel="noopener">one million migrants have been expelled</a> since 2020 under the policy.
Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott blasted the decision in a statement on Twitter on Tuesday.
&#8220;Federal Judge blocks federal authorities from using Title 42,&#8221; Abbott tweeted. &#8220;This will further signal to cartels, human smugglers, &amp; illegal immigrants that the border is wide open—inciting more violence &amp; lawlessness. Disastrous.&#8221;
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Federal Judge blocks federal authorities from using Title 42.
This will further signal to cartels, human smugglers, &amp; illegal immigrants that the border is wide open—inciting more violence &amp; lawlessness.
Disastrous.<a href="https://t.co/IrK0jkvtGw">https://t.co/IrK0jkvtGw</a>
&mdash; Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) <a href="https://twitter.com/GregAbbott_TX/status/1592645614567051265?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 15, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Abbott also invoked the Invasion Clauses of the U.S.  and Texas Constitutions on Tuesday to authorize the state to better defend against invasion.
&#8220;While President Biden refuses to do his job and enforce the immigration laws enacted by Congress, the State of Texas is once again stepping up and taking unprecedented action to protect Americans and secure our southern border,&#8221; Abbott <a href="https://gov.texas.gov/news/post/governor-abbott-authorizes-texas-national-guard-texas-department-of-public-safety-to-return-illegal-immigrants-to-border" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a statement. &#8220;The cartels have become emboldened and enriched by President Biden&#8217;s open border policies, smuggling in record numbers of people, weapons, and deadly drugs like fentanyl.&#8221;

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Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) announced Tuesday that he invoked the Invasion Clauses of the U.S. and Texas Constitutions to deal with President Joe Biden&#8217;s (D) immigration crisis on the southern border.
The announcement comes after the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released new <a href="https://www.fox4news.com/news/gov-greg-abbott-invokes-invasion-clauses-in-border-security-push">numbers</a> showing that for Fiscal Year 2022, which ended in September, there were nearly 2.4 million illegal aliens detained on the U.S.-Mexico border.
&#8220;I invoked the Invasion Clauses of the U.S. &amp; Texas Constitutions to fully authorize Texas to take unprecedented measures to defend our state against an invasion,&#8221; Abbott said. &#8220;I&#8217;m using that constitutional authority, &amp; other authorization &amp; Executive Orders to keep our state &amp; country safe.&#8221;
Abbott announced the following steps that the state of Texas would take to address the problem:
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<li>Deploy the National Guard to safeguard the border, and to repel and turn back immigrants trying to cross the border illegally;</li>
<li>Deploy the Texas Dept. of Public Safety (DPS) to arrest and return immigrants to the border who crossed illegally, and to arrest illegal immigrants for criminal activity;</li>
<li>Build a wall in multiple counties on the border;</li>
<li>Deploy gun boats;</li>
<li>Designate Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations;</li>
<li>Enter into a compact with other states to secure the border;</li>
<li>Enter into agreements with foreign powers to enhance border security;</li>
<li>Provide resources for border counties to increase their efforts to respond to the &#8220;border invasion.&#8221;</li>
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I invoked the Invasion Clauses of the U.S. &amp; Texas Constitutions to fully authorize Texas to take unprecedented measures to defend our state against an invasion.
I&#39;m using that constitutional authority, &amp; other authorization &amp; Executive Orders to keep our state &amp; country safe: <a href="https://t.co/2Jt5HEMgp5">pic.twitter.com/2Jt5HEMgp5</a>
&mdash; Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) <a href="https://twitter.com/GregAbbott_TX/status/1592553350129909762?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 15, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Abbott&#8217;s announcement comes after he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/greg-abbott-wins-in-texas-projection">trounced</a> Democrat Robert Francis O&#8217;Rourke, often referred to as &#8220;Beto,&#8221; in last week&#8217;s midterm election by 11 points.
“I ran this campaign for the Texans who want safer streets,&#8221; Abbott said after winning. &#8220;For the homeowners burdened with skyrocketing property taxes. For the oil field workers who begged me to protect their livelihoods. For parents who want to choose the school that’s best for their child. For the ranchers and residents who pleaded for a secure border.&#8221;
&#8220;Texas must continue our unprecedented efforts to secure our border,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Tonight Texans sending a resounding message that we want to keep Texas the beacon of opportunity that we have provided for the past eight years.&#8221;
This report has been updated to include additional information.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/governor-abbott-to-the-biden-admin-if-they-will-not-go-to-the-border-were-taking-the-border-to-them">Governor Abbott To The Biden Admin: ‘If They Will Not Go To The Border, We’re Taking The Border To Them’</a>

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Officials in Philadelphia are preparing for a possible busload of migrants to arrive from Del Rio, Texas, this week.
It would mark Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott&#8217;s first time sending migrants to the &#8220;City of Brotherly Love&#8221; after months of buses arriving in Washington, D.C., New York, and Chicago.
&#8220;This information was relayed to us from a community partner organization as Texas officials have not coordinated with the city,&#8221; a city spokesperson <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/philadelphia-preparing-potential-bus-migrants-texas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Fox News Digital on Sunday. &#8220;We do not have an exact location of where the bus will disembark, nor do we have any specific information about those on board, nor do we know if other buses are planned.&#8221;
Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney, a Democrat, said the city would be ready whenever the expected migrants arrive.
“We were getting information from various advocacy sources that they were on their way, but we don’t know whether or not they’ve actually left,” Kenney said, <a href="https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/philadelphia-prepares-for-possible-migrant-bus-from-texas/3423282/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to</a> NBC 10 Philadelphia. “It’s like a 36-40 hour bus trip, so they could be coming any time tomorrow, Tuesday – but whatever day they come, we’ll welcome them with open arms.”
At least a dozen local organizations met on Saturday to prepare for the potential arrivals, the report added.
The Texas governor&#8217;s office has not yet responded to the reports regarding the potential bus to Philadelphia. It is also uncertain whether there are plans for additional buses to arrive in the city.
Abbott noted Thursday that Texas had bused almost 8,300 migrants to the nation&#8217;s capital since April. The latest statistics also reported more than 3,700 migrants had been sent to New York City since August 5, and over 1,200 migrants to Chicago since August 31.
In addition to Texas, Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, a Republican, has bused more than 2,000 migrants to Washington, D.C., as of October. The governor told reporters he plans to continue the program until he leaves office in January.
&#8220;The Biden administration is AWOL on the border, and they&#8217;re anti-wall. This is a dereliction of duty, and I will continue to do everything we can, including building our own wall and physical barrier. If Joe Biden and [Vice President] Kamala Harris won&#8217;t come to the border, I&#8217;m going to bring the border to them,&#8221; Ducey <a href="https://www.axios.com/local/phoenix/2022/10/05/arizona-governor-ducey-cotinue-busing-migrants-dc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis also made headlines for authorizing <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/desantis-shreds-claims-that-illegal-immigrants-were-falsely-lured-into-going-to-marthas-vineyard" target="_blank" rel="noopener">two flights of migrants</a> to Martha&#8217;s Vineyard.
“The one place in the country where we see virtually no law and order is at the southern border. And this is a crisis,” The Republican said following the action. “It’s now getting a little more attention.”
&#8220;And it’s a manufactured crisis because of Biden’s failed policies,” he added.

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The Biden administration is now offering abortion access to migrant youth, including transportation from states with abortion restrictions to other states where the procedure is legal.
The Department of Health and Human Services provided a memo to the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) regarding the new changes in a memo released on Thursday regarding the abortion services.
The <a href="https://www.acf.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/documents/orr/field-guidance-21.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">guidance</a> instructs all ORR care providers to make all “reasonable efforts” to help migrant minors access abortions upon request.
“This may involve transporting a minor to a state in which abortion is lawful and available if the minor is currently in a state in which abortion is not lawful or available,” the guidance reads.
The ORR&#8217;s guidance includes two areas of focus. First, the agency is instructed to place pregnant migrant minors in shelters in states where abortion access has not been banned.
Second, a pregnant minor in a shelter who requests an abortion in a state where it is illegal must be provided transportation to another state where the abortion is legal.
“We applaud ORR’s decision to place pregnant unaccompanied immigrant youth in states where they can access the full range of health care they may need, including abortion,&#8221; Brigitte Amiri, deputy director of the ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project, wrote in a <a href="https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/aclu-comment-new-orr-guidance-abortion-access-pregnant-unaccompanied-immigrant-youth" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a>.
Chelsey Youman, the national legislative advisor for the pro-life advocacy organization Human Coalition Action, blasted the change.
&#8220;What kind of message does this send to the rest of the world that we prioritize abortions instead of protection for immigrants?&#8221; Youman said in a <a href="https://www.christianpost.com/news/hhs-to-transport-migrant-minors-across-state-lines-for-abortions.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> to the Christian Post.
&#8220;These children need compassion, quality medical care, and support — but instead we’re offering abortion — paid for by taxpayers. The United States has the power to end human trafficking and provide real solutions to hurting communities along the border, instead the administration chooses neglect. Vulnerable immigrant populations deserve better,&#8221; she added.
The updated guidance is not the first move by the Biden administration to increase abortion access through federal actions.
The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/department-of-veterans-affairs-to-begin-offering-abortions-to-vets-even-in-states-where-it-is-banned" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> in September that the administration announced it would begin offering “abortion counseling” and abortions to veterans through the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) hospitals regardless of state law.
“As abortion bans come into force across the country, veterans in many States are no longer assured access to abortion services in their communities, even when those services are needed,” the <a href="https://www.va.gov/opa/pressrel/pressrelease.cfm?id=5820" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rule</a> said. “Unless VA removes its existing prohibitions on abortion-related care and makes clear that needed abortion-related care is authorized, these veterans will face serious threats to their life and health.”
Veteran Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough confirmed that one of the department&#8217;s medical centers performed its first abortion during testimony before the Veterans Affairs Committee in September.
“The principle that led us to take this step is our veteran patient safety,” McDonough <a href="https://www.civilbeat.org/2022/09/va-doctors-have-legal-protection-to-perform-abortions-secretary-says/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> during the hearing. “We take that very, very seriously and every decision we make flows from that principle.”

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Anna Paulina Luna was a standout in the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/republican-red-wave-stops-at-florida-as-initial-midterm-tallies-leave-house-senate-majorities-in-question" target="_blank" rel="noopener">red wave</a> that swept over Florida on Tuesday night, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/11/08/us/elections/results-florida-us-house-district-13.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">flipping</a> a blue seat in the 13th district by a healthy eight-point margin.
The 33-year-old firebrand conservative, who proudly coins herself an &#8220;outsider,&#8221; spoke to The Daily Wire about her candidacy, her background and views, and former President Donald Trump, who endorsed Luna, during part one of our two-part interview.
“I am only doing this because we’re in deep trouble right now,” Luna told us about her congressional run.
&#8220;Initially, I realized that the media was a huge problem, that they weren&#8217;t being forthcoming with the American people about really what was happening at the border with immigration,&#8221; she said. &#8220;If I wanted to change the national discussion, I would have to do it as a legislator. I had to help change the national narrative by doing that.&#8221;
Luna lost by five points against former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist when she first ran for the same seat in 2020, though the congresswoman-elect says she was expected to lose by 17 points that cycle.
&#8220;I realized when I ran the first time how bad the swamp really is,&#8221; she explained. &#8220;And so I understood that candidates like myself are not supposed to win. You know, I&#8217;m not from D.C. — I haven&#8217;t served as a lobbyist; I&#8217;m not an attorney — not that there&#8217;s anything wrong with attorneys, but there&#8217;s just &#8230; a lot of people that groom their entire lives to do this. And those are the ones who usually are at the Hill, and a lot of what happens at the Hill is not really connected to the American people.&#8221;
Asked if she had long-prepared or groomed herself for politics, Luna gave off a laugh and quipped, &#8220;I would&#8217;ve done a lot of things differently.&#8221;
&#8220;You don&#8217;t know how it really works, right? So, you&#8217;re supposed to drive this car, but you don&#8217;t really know how the car drives,&#8221; Luna said, when asked about a disadvantage she had as an outsider. &#8220;The best way I can put it is that, you know, I had to work three times as hard to raise all of my money, because most of my funding came from grassroots donations; my [average] donation being $13. &#8230; There&#8217;s just certain money I won&#8217;t take, and I&#8217;m very vocal about that. So, you know, they tried to starve you out, basically.&#8221;
Her win this time around came with a big ground-game. &#8220;I was out-spent two-to-one in the primary, and then out-spent 12 million-to-one in the general election,&#8221; Luna said. &#8220;So, despite having them both collectively spend over $15 million against me, I still won. And that’s because I had a very strong grassroots infrastructure.&#8221;
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Luna, who&#8217;s of Mexican and German descent, didn&#8217;t have the easiest upbringing. On a campaign page, the conservative <a href="https://www.voteannapaulina.com/meet-anna" target="_blank" rel="noopener">details</a> her parents, though never married, separating when Luna was a young girl. Luna&#8217;s father, who <a href="https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2022/01/12/father-of-congressional-candidate-anna-paulina-luna-dies-in-car-crash/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">died</a> in January, suffered from addiction and was out of the picture during her childhood.
&#8220;It does influence how I look at things, especially from a legislation perspective,&#8221; Luna said of her past experiences. &#8220;Everything from gun rights, to what&#8217;s happening with immigration, to welfare: I look at it through a certain lens because I&#8217;ve had this very abnormal upbringing.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;ll take gun rights for example,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;I survived an armed robbery, someone broke into my house while I was there; I had a gang shooting in one of the six high school campuses I attended. I never thought it was guns that were the problem, I thought it was people.&#8221;
&#8220;I grew up in California, so I was around a demographic of people who were largely involved in gang culture and targeted because of the fact that they were here illegally,&#8221; Luna said. &#8220;They&#8217;re forced to basically work in these shadows of society, and that&#8217;s not good for anyone. It hurts people on both sides.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m second-generation American,&#8221; Luna added. &#8220;My grandparents came here legally. &#8230; There&#8217;s a lot of good people that are waiting to come here and do it the right way. It&#8217;s just a different perspective, the way that I look at things.&#8221;
Luna had an unusual route to politics, too. She voted for the first time in 2016, for President Donald Trump &#8212; who would later endorse her for Florida-13. Before that, she wasn&#8217;t &#8220;politically awake,&#8221; yet. &#8220;I was raised in a Democrat household,&#8221; she told us.
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&#8220;What the media is trying to do is try to just say that I&#8217;m some influencer,&#8221; Luna told The Daily Wire. &#8220;The fact is, I&#8217;m a veteran.&#8221; Luna <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=TLGGDTNcqR2DlxYxMzExMjAyMg&amp;time_continue=3&amp;v=-lnkFDDg_zA&amp;feature=emb_title" target="_blank" rel="noopener">enlisted</a> in the U.S. Military at 19 years old. Her husband, too, is a veteran. &#8220;I got into a medical school program and turned it down to work with Turning Point USA. They don&#8217;t like to talk about that. They just like to try to say that I was a model on Instagram, which would have been a heck a lot easier path-wise.&#8221;
Luna was volunteering with a counter-trafficking organization and using her platform &#8220;to shed light on what&#8217;s happening with immigration and border security,&#8221; when TPUSA&#8217;s Charlie Kirk reached out to her about making a political turn, she explained. Luna chose to &#8220;take a chance&#8221; and go the political route to give others a voice, she said. If things didn&#8217;t work out, medical school wasn&#8217;t going anywhere.
At the time we spoke to Luna, Trump had launched numerous attacks against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R). Notably, both the GOP heavy-hitters backed Luna in her congressional run.
&#8220;I haven&#8217;t read any of [Trump&#8217;s comments],&#8221; Luna told us, asked directly about the attacks. &#8220;But what I can tell you is it&#8217;s very publicly known that President Trump supported me and I support him. And I haven&#8217;t heard that Governor DeSantis is running [in 2024], but you know, I&#8217;m a fan of Governor DeSantis, as well.&#8221;
Luna went on to defend Trump from attacks concerning midterm losses, too.
&#8220;I think it&#8217;s wrong for people to blame President Trump,&#8221; she told us. &#8220;And I say that as someone who has run a race as a candidate. I lost a race, then I won one, and I was grossly outspent and I worked really hard. And at the end of the day, real leadership — you have to remember President Trump is not in charge of running elections, okay? But at the end of the day, people have to accept responsibility for their failures, and those that are in charge leadership-wise have to accept responsibility for what has worked and what hasn&#8217;t worked.&#8221;
&#8220;What I can tell you is I hope to help candidates this next cycle set up a grassroots infrastructure so that they can secure their own wins,&#8221; Luna continued. &#8220;No one is going to ever give you Congress. You have to work for it, you have to earn it, regardless of what&#8217;s happening nationally, regardless of what&#8217;s happening financially. You have to be able to connect with your constituents in your districts and you can&#8217;t look to anyone else but yourself as to why your mission may or may not have failed.&#8221;
Can there be &#8220;MAGA&#8221; without Trump? Luna responded, &#8220;I think that President Trump is instrumental, and as you saw in the primaries, he&#8217;s instrumental in what it means to be &#8216;America First.&#8217; I think the biggest threat that we&#8217;re seeing in our country right now is those that claim to care about the American people, but that are really working on behalf of, for example, China. And we&#8217;re seeing that out of the Democrat party and the Biden administration. And so, what I look for in a leader and what I look for in my own staff are people that are true believers to the cause.&#8221;
&#8220;I think that President Trump has done an incredible job from a policy perspective, and I appreciate his support; I appreciate Governor DeSantis&#8217; support,&#8221; Luna added. &#8220;And I&#8217;ll leave it at that.&#8221;
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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/u-s-customs-and-border-protection">U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner</a> Chris Magnus resigned Saturday after top Biden administration officials threatened to fire the border chief if he refused to step down.
Magnus initially denied the resignation request from Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas, who said he would recommend President Joe Biden dismiss Magnus after losing confidence in leadership at the border. However, following an interview with<a href="https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2022-11-11/border-protection-commissioner-chris-magnus-say-he-has-been-asked-to-resign-but-refuses"> The Los Angeles Times,</a> where Magnus expressed a lack of justification to give notice, he complied with the bid from DHS officials. But he said his defiance of an order not to meet with border patrol chiefs in El Paso this week, and his refusal to extend a &#8220;retention&#8221; bonus for Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz, prompted Tuesday&#8217;s quit-or-be-fired ultimatum from Mayorkas.
&#8220;I resigned because I believe this decision provides me with the best path for advancing my commitment to professional, innovative, and community-engaged policing,&#8221; Magnus told <a href="https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2022-11-12/border-chief-resigns-after-being-told-to-leave">The Los Angeles Times</a>. &#8220;I appreciate having had this opportunity to serve and to work with many dedicated colleagues.&#8221;
Mayorkas reportedly thanked Magnus for his service in an email to the border patrol workforce, adding the agency would immediately report to deputy commissioner Troy Miller.
The White House confirmed Biden accepted the resignation letter from the leader of the nation&#8217;s largest enforcement agency, which employs more than 60,000 employees.
&#8220;President Biden appreciates Commissioner Magnus&#8217; nearly forty years of service and the contributions he made to police reform during his tenure as police chief in three U.S. cities,&#8221; said press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre in a statement to <a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/11/12/1136321045/customs-and-border-protection-chris-magnus-resigns-migrants#:~:text=Top%20U.S.%20border%20official%20Chris,a%20year%20on%20the%20job&amp;text=Chris%20Magnus%20during%20a%20Senate%20confirmation%20hearing%20in%20October%202021.,-Pool%2FGetty%20Images&amp;text=The%20head%20of%20U.S.%20Customs%20and%20Border%20Protection%20stepped%20down,apprehensions%20at%20the%20southern%20border.">NPR</a>. &#8220;The President thanks Mr. Magnus for his service at CBP and wishes him well.&#8221;
Magnus, confirmed last year as the first openly gay border commissioner, began facing mounting pressure from Biden administration officials after more than a dozen House Republican lawmakers called for his resignation.
According to a Politico <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/17/customs-border-protection-chris-magnus-00061963">report</a>, lawmakers accused Magnus of skipping White House events, falling asleep in meetings, preoccupying himself with the agency&#8217;s culture, and not doing enough to stem the flow of illegal immigrants under the Biden administration&#8217;s southern border crisis.
<a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/fair-analysis-4-9-million-illegal-aliens-have-crossed-our-borders-since-president-biden-took-office-301606980.html">The Federation for American Immigration Reform</a> estimated five million people had crossed the border since the Biden administration took office and reversed many of former President Donald Trump&#8217;s border security measures, such as Title 42, which empowered border patrol agents to prohibit migrants from entering the country if the removal would prevent contagious diseases from spreading.
Magnus called the pandemic-era policy &#8220;comes at a heavy cost to many asylum seekers&#8221; fleeing to the United States from failing communist regimes.
In the Politico report, Magnus allegedly called on an emergency meeting last year with Mayorkas and other senior DHS officials following a list of grievances blaming Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other agencies for the border crisis.
One of the five anonymous administration officials familiar with the meeting told Politico that Magnus wasn&#8217;t &#8220;in the game.&#8221;
&#8220;Every time there&#8217;s a meeting, and he&#8217;s in it,&#8221; the official said. &#8220;We&#8217;ll get to a conclusion, and Magnus will have some sidebar issue that he wants to raise, and we&#8217;re all like, &#8216;What the f*** is that about?'&#8221;
Magnus, however, denied the accusations to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/11/12/cbp-magnus-resigns/">The Washington Post</a>, adding he relocated to Washington, D.C. &#8220;because I care about this agency, its mission, and the goals of this Administration&#8221; rather than accepting the position as a resume builder.
Former Border Patrol chief Ron Vitiello, who led ICE under Trump, told The Los Angeles Times that the Biden administration has mishandled immigration policy, adding the publicity surrounding Magnus&#8217; resignation request has been counterproductive and that it&#8217;s &#8220;a distraction that takes away from the hard work they are doing and the crisis they are in.&#8221;
Magnus told The Los Angeles Times that officials did not initially invite him to border policy meetings but would later be involved in most key discussions.
John Sandweg, a former top Obama administration-era Homeland Security Department official, told The Los Angeles Times that Mayorkas does not want to be faced with other problems while the border has &#8220;raging issues&#8221; rather cultural reforms.
Magnus, whose career in law enforcement included stints in Michigan, North Dakota, and California, was police chief in Tucson, Arizona, when Biden officials tapped him to be commissioner.
 Hank Berrien contributed to this report.

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The U.S. Border Protection commissioner says he refused an order to resign from his beleaguered boss, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dereliction-of-duty-senators-cruz-graham-warn-mayorkas-of-impeachment-over-border-crisis/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas</a>, amid an unprecedented wave of illegal immigrants pouring across the Mexican border.
Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Chris Magnus, 62, had been accused of skipping White House events and falling asleep in meetings, according to a <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/17/customs-border-protection-chris-magnus-00061963" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Politico</a> report last month. But he told the <a href="https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2022-11-11/border-protection-commissioner-chris-magnus-say-he-has-been-asked-to-resign-but-refuses" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Los Angeles Times</a> it was his defiance of an order not to meet with border patrol chiefs in El Paso this week and his refusal to extend a “retention” bonus for Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz that prompted Tuesday&#8217;s quit-or-be-fired ultimatum from Mayorkas.
“After me making extensive attempts to reach [Mayorkas] and discuss the matter, I went to the (border patrol chiefs) meeting so I could engage with the chiefs on various issues and concerns,&#8221; Magnus said. &#8220;I also met with Chief Ortiz to see how we might best work together moving forward.”
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Magnus, whose career in law enforcement included stints in Michigan, North Dakota, and California, was police chief in Tucson, Arizona, when he was tapped a year ago to be commissioner of the CBP, a 60,000-person agency that oversees border security, trade and travel.
The Politico article painted Magnus as preoccupied with the agency&#8217;s culture and not doing enough to stem the flow of illegal immigrants. An estimated five million people have crossed the border since the Biden administration took office and reversed many of former President Trump&#8217;s border security measures, <a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/fair-analysis-4-9-million-illegal-aliens-have-crossed-our-borders-since-president-biden-took-office-301606980.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to the Federation for American Immigration Reform</a>.
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Magnus said Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security John Tien on Thursday reiterated Mayorkas’ demand, saying he would be fired within days if he did not quit. Magnus said he refused to leave the post of his own volition.
“I expressed to him that I felt there was no justification for me to resign when I still cared deeply about the work I was doing and felt that that work was focused on the things I was hired to do in the first place,” Magnus told the Times.
“I want to make this clear: I have no plans to resign as CBP Commissioner,” Magnus declared in a written statement, according to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/11/11/cbp-homeland-magnus-mayorkas/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Washington Post</a>. “I didn’t take this job as a resume builder. I came to Washington, DC — moved my family here — because I care about this agency, its mission, and the goals of this Administration.”
The Biden administration has declined to take responsibility for the border fiasco, blaming governments in Latin America for the influx, The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/09/19/us-border-patrol-arrests/?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=wp_main&amp;utm_medium=social" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
“Failing communist regimes in Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Cuba are driving a new wave of migration across the Western Hemisphere, including the recent increase in encounters at the southwest U.S. border,” Magnus offered as an excuse. “Those fleeing repressive regimes pose significant challenges for processing and removal.”
Compared to the eight years of the Obama presidency, the Biden administration comes off poorly regarding immigration. In the first 20 months after Biden was inaugurated, Border Patrol made 3,484,327 apprehensions of illegal immigrants, while 3,384,816 apprehensions were made in the eight fiscal years of  Obama’s term, as The Washington Examiner <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/fairness-justice/broken-border-illegal-immigration-arrests-under-biden-exceed-obamas-eight-years" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a>.

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If ever a case represented the insanity of America&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/illegal-immigration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">open borders</a> — especially <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/biden-administration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">President Joe Biden&#8217;s policies</a> — it is that of Mexican national Carlos Bartolo Rios — a previously deported Mexican national and convicted rapist who received less than a year and a half of jail time and allegedly re-entered the country less than 12 months after being removed.
Rios was recently nabbed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in North Charleston, South Carolina, <a href="https://www.postandcourier.com/news/feds-arrest-man-in-north-charleston-who-had-been-previously-deported-after-sex-crime/article_c797d77c-5535-11ed-87dc-6b2f6a37e140.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to The Post and Courier. The illegal immigrant was spotted on October 4 by the exact same ICE officer who had previously detained him in 2021, a source told the paper.
But Rios&#8217; problems with the law started far before the federal government ever got involved.
In 2019, a girl younger than 11 in Charleston told a school official that Rios, then 29, was sexually molesting her and showing her pornography. Rios was then arrested by Charleston County sheriff’s deputies and was indicted in 2020 by a grand jury on the charge of first-degree criminal sexual conduct with a minor younger than 11.
The charge would have carried a minimum sentence of 25 years in jail. Yet, for some reason, Rios was allowed to strike a deal.
Instead of getting sent to the slammer for a long time, he pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of third-degree criminal sexual conduct and dissemination of obscene material to a minor, in February 2021. &#8220;Solicitor Scarlett Wilson said evidential issues and concerns for the victim’s well-being led the prosecutor in the case to make a deal to avoid a trial,&#8221; The Post And Courier explained.
The Department of Homeland Security then took Rios into custody and deported him in March 2021. Sometime in 2021, he again crossed the U.S. border without permission, according to sources close to the investigation.
The local paper noted, &#8220;The source said ICE is unaware of any crimes Rios committed since his reentry. He is not listed on any state or national sex offender registries.&#8221;
Now, the Mexican national has been charged with a criminal complaint of unlawfully reentering the country after being previously removed following an aggravated felony conviction. Rios could be sentenced to up to 20 years in federal prison and a $250,000 fine, if he is found guilty.
Rather than assimilate into American culture, it would appear he never even bothered to learn English as he needed a court interpreter to understand the charges against him.
His case highlights the fact illegal immigration has been a multi-decade problem that has plagued both GOP and Democratic presidencies.
Biden&#8217;s new ICE policies instituted in 2021, however, ordered the agency to focus solely on illegal aliens who are arrested by police for violent crimes. Using resources to go after the most violent illegal aliens sounds good on paper until you realize that unless an illegal alien is arrested for a crime, then he or she won&#8217;t be targeted for deportation.
Because of that, it was a complete happenstance that the convicted rapist was apprehended by federal authorities this time around.
If Rios wasn&#8217;t so dumb as to return to the scene of his crimes, or if the ICE agent who previously detained him had not seen him on October 4, then it is possible that Rios would still be evading authorities.
Due to the lax enforcement of immigration law by the Biden administration, it is <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/isnt-this-an-invasion-venezuelan-nationals-carry-foreign-flag-charge-u-s-border-attack-agents" target="_blank" rel="noopener">estimated</a> that more than 5.5 million illegal aliens have entered the country since January 2021. Of those numbers, approximately 1.1 million of them are &#8220;gotaways&#8221; — such as Rios — who have come into the country completely undetected.
Unless those individuals are caught by police for other crimes, the Biden administration will not be deporting them anytime soon. So America&#8217;s open borders continue.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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