During President Joe Biden&#8217;s tenure in the Oval Office, the United States has experienced a truly gargantuan surge in illegal immigration along its southern border.
Since Biden&#8217;s inauguration in January 2021, over <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dozens-of-attorneys-general-call-on-congress-to-give-them-power-to-enforce-immigration-laws" target="_blank" rel="noopener">7 million people</a> have illegally crossed the southern border, and the number of border encounters reported by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-records-highest-illegal-alien-encounters-in-history-for-september-over-8-million-total-for-biden-era" target="_blank" rel="noopener">has increased</a> every year Biden has been in office. Fiscal Years 2021 and 2o22 saw 1,734,686 and 2,378,944 encounters, respectively, while Fiscal Year 2023 recorded the highest number of annual encounters in U.S. history — 2,475,669. September alone saw nearly 270,000 encounters, the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/migrant-encounters-at-border-last-month-mark-highest-october-on-record" target="_blank" rel="noopener">highest number</a> of monthly encounters ever reported.
Democratic <a href="https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/01/29/remarks-president-comprehensive-immigration-reform" target="_blank" rel="noopener">politicians</a>, <a href="https://www.americanprogress.org/article/immigration-is-changing-the-political-landscape-in-key-states/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">activists</a>, and the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/27/us/biden-undocumented-immigrants-citizenship.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">mainstream media</a> have repeatedly claimed over the last decade that the number of illegal immigrants currently residing in the United States is close to 11 million, despite several surges in border crossings over the years. A report from the House Homeland Security Committee <a href="https://homeland.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Phase4Report.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published</a> on November 13 estimated that there are actually as many as 29 million illegal immigrants currently in the country.
Coinciding with the unprecedented border numbers, former president and current GOP frontrunner Donald Trump has expanded on his immigration agenda, promising to crack down on illegal border crossings if he is returned to the White House. A critical element of this updated agenda is his call for mass deportations of illegal immigrants already residing within the nation&#8217;s borders, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/11/us/politics/trump-2025-immigration-agenda.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the New York Times.
To achieve this, Trump has said that we would use certain laws, including the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, to expedite the removal of illegal immigrants without the need for due process hearings. He has also said he would reallocate personnel from other federal agencies as well as deputize local law enforcement and National Guard units to aid ICE in the deportation efforts.
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Biden&#8217;s 2024 campaign has <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-campaign-goes-on-offensive-immigration-decries-trump-plans/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hurled</a> a bevy of insults at Trump&#8217;s plan for mass deportations, calling it &#8220;scary,&#8221; &#8220;an affront&#8221; to the Constitution, &#8220;racist,&#8221; and &#8220;cruel.&#8221; The Biden administration has on numerous occasions dismissed the idea of mass deportations as a possible solution to illegal immigration, either by arguing the option is too cruel or too impractical.
During arguments before the Supreme Court regarding a case related to Biden&#8217;s deportation policy in November 2022, the administration&#8217;s lawyer <a href="https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2022/11/29/justices-consider-biden-deportation-policy-states-right-to-challenge" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that it would be &#8220;impossible&#8221; to deport 11 million illegal immigrants, much less the up to 29 million estimated by the House Homeland Security Committee.
In February 2023, Biden himself <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/biden-no-mass-deportations-of-illegal-immigrants" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that he would not &#8220;consider&#8221; using mass deportations to remove illegal immigrants after Title 42, a health order authorizing border officials to immediately expel migrants without processing, expired.
&#8220;Reports that we are considering mass deportations of non-Mexicans to Mexico are false,&#8221; DHS spokeswoman Marsha Catron Espinosa <a href="https://twitter.com/MCatronDHS/status/1623732738896404489?s=20&amp;t=ZK9jXQCspp5t-tCi5NUccg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a>.
The administration&#8217;s conviction that mass deportations would be &#8220;impossible&#8221; ignores one simple fact — it&#8217;s been done before. Not only has it been done before, but it was highly successful. The administration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower was able to deport over a million Mexican nationals in only a few months in 1954.
In fact, Trump referenced Eisenhower&#8217;s deportation program during a September rally in Iowa — “Following the Eisenhower model, we will carry out the largest domestic deportation operation in American history.&#8221;
The origin of the illegal immigration problem the U.S. faced in the early 1950s can be traced back to the Bracero Program. The United States&#8217; mobilization during World War II caused acute labor shortages in the agricultural industry as men either went to fight overseas or moved to the city to get more lucrative jobs in factories producing supplies for the war effort.
In response to the shortages, the Roosevelt administration signed an agreement with Mexico in August 1942 that allowed Mexican workers to enter the country legally and work on American farms in states along the southern border. Tens of thousands, under strict conditions, were allowed to get a permit to work on American farms before returning to Mexico. Over 150,000 Mexicans participated in the Bracero Program during World War II. However, the demand for cheap labor in the U.S. was far too large to be satiated by the Bracero Program, and many farmers <a href="https://history.house.gov/Exhibitions-and-Publications/HAIC/Historical-Essays/Separate-Interests/Depression-War-Civil-Rights/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">began hiring</a> laborers who had failed to get a Bracero permit and had crossed over illegally instead.
Illegal immigration steadily grew during the war and began to surge in the late 1940s. Whereas there were only a little over 11,000 <a href="https://www.wilsoncenter.org/article/mexican-braceros-and-us-farm-workers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">apprehensions</a> by the Border Patrol in 1942, there were over 288,000 in 1949.
By 1951, President Harry Truman&#8217;s Commission on Migratory Labor <a href="https://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=3&amp;psid=599" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that illegal immigration along the southern border had &#8220;reached entirely new levels in the past seven years. The number of deportations and voluntary departures has continuously mounted each year, from twenty-nine thousand in 1944 to 565,000 in 1950. In its newly achieved proportions, it is virtually an invasion.&#8221;
The Commission&#8217;s report estimated that nearly half of the nation&#8217;s migratory farm labor force was made up of illegal immigrants. The number of border apprehensions grew rapidly under Truman, but a determined, organized effort to expel illegal immigrants from states in the Southwest didn&#8217;t materialize until Eisenhower took office in 1953.
After an investigation into the effects of illegal immigration in southern California, Attorney General Herbert Brownwell Jr. <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Operation-Wetback" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lobbied</a> Congress to enact sanctions against those who hired illegal immigrants. While Congress did not act on Brownwell&#8217;s recommendations, the Eisenhower administration drew up plans for a deportation operation.
The commissioner general for the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), Gen. Joseph Swing, announced the implementation of &#8220;Operation Wetback,&#8221; a military-style campaign designed to round up large numbers of illegal immigrants and deport them back to Mexico. The operation began in June 1954 in California and Arizona, but it soon expanded to other states along the southern border. While the Border Patrol managed to capture tens of thousands of illegal immigrants for deportation, many more <a href="https://history.house.gov/Exhibitions-and-Publications/HAIC/Historical-Essays/Separate-Interests/Depression-War-Civil-Rights/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">crossed back</a> into Mexico of their own accord after hearing of the operation.
By the fall of 1954, the operation wound down to a lack of funding for the INS. Despite lasting only a few months, the operation managed to deport around 1.1 million illegal immigrants, <a href="https://www.factcheck.org/2010/07/hoover-truman-ike-mass-deporters/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the INS&#8217;s report.
In its 1955 <a href="https://archive.org/details/annualreportofim1955unit/page/15/mode/1up?view=theater&amp;q=secured" target="_blank" rel="noopener">annual report</a>, the INS claimed, &#8220;The so-called &#8216;wetback&#8217; problem no longer exists. The decline in the number of &#8216;wetbacks&#8217; found in the United States, even after concentrated and vigorous enforcement efforts were pursued throughout the year, reveals that this is no longer, as in the past, a problem in border control. The border has been secured.&#8221;
In the following years, apprehensions at the southern border shrank dramatically, never reaching more than 100,000 per year between 1956 and 1964, according to a 1980 <a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.31951d00817043c&amp;view=1up&amp;seq=41" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> by the Congressional Research Service. The number of border apprehensions began to grow once more after the end of the Bracero program in 1964 and the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/09/25/how-a-1965-immigration-reform-created-illegal-immigration/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">passage</a> of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, spearheaded by Democratic Sen. Ted Kennedy. However, border apprehensions did not return to over 1 million per year until 1977.
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Over a million Mexican nationals were reportedly sent back to Mexico in only a few months in the middle of 1954 by a Border Patrol that was a fraction of the size of the modern agency. Biden and others in the Democratic Party (as well as a fair amount of voices in the Republican Party) decry ideas of mass deportation as impractical, but the results of the Eisenhower administration&#8217;s efforts nearly 70 years ago show that the lack of political will, rather than a lack of manpower or resources, is the main obstacle to securing the southern border.

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The five Republican presidential candidates who attended Wednesday night&#8217;s third GOP primary debate in Miami outlined their plans to stop the millions of people <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/illegal-immigration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">illegally</a> coming into the U.S. and the flow of fentanyl that is killing tens of thousands of Americans per year.
Each of the candidates was asked about the topic during the second half of the debate after co-moderator Hugh Hewitt highlighted the problems, including illegal immigration, terrorists coming across the border, and the flow of drugs onto U.S. streets.
Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) said that the southern border needed to be closed and that it would take approximately $15 billion to secure it through various means.
&#8220;For $10 billion, we could close our southern border,&#8221; he said. &#8220;For an additional $5 billion, we could use the currently available military technology to surveil our southern border to stop fentanyl from crossing our border. I’ve already led on legislation that would sanction the Mexican cartels. If you remember the path, the precursors come from China, then they are manufactured in Mexican labs, and then the Mexican cartels bring them across our border. By sanctioning their accounts and eliminating their cash, we starve them of what they need.&#8221;
Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie said that the U.S. needed to &#8220;beef up what our law enforcement has in terms of technology&#8221; at the ports of entry into the U.S. to detect people smuggling in drugs.
&#8220;On day one, I would sign an executive order that would send the National Guard to partner with Customs and Border Patrol, both at ports of entry and at the open ports of our border,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Customs and Border Patrol agents are overwhelmed. There’s 200,000 encounters a month over the last 11 months. We simply do not have the man and woman power at the border to be able to deal with it. And so dealing with both law enforcement, and you’re right, we have done this, we can do this, but we got to give them the tools to do it and technology is one of the biggest tools that we don’t have enough of at the ports of entry.&#8221;
He said that he would also focus on lowering the demand for drugs in the U.S. by getting people mental health treatment and treating drug addiction as a disease.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said that he will declare a national emergency on his first day in office and he will send the U.S. Military to the southern border.
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&#8220;I’m going to stop the invasion cold. I am going to deport people who came illegally, and I’m even going to build the border wall and have Mexico pay for it like Donald Trump promised,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We’re going to impose fees on the remittances that foreign workers send to foreign countries. We’ll raise billions of dollars, I’ll build a wall. But we are going to designate the cartels to be Foreign Terrorist Organizations or something similar to that, and we’re going to authorize the use of deadly force. We’re going to have maritime operations to interdict precursor chemicals going into Mexico. But I’ll tell you this, if someone in the drug cartels is sneaking fentanyl across the border when I’m president, that’s going to be the last thing they do. We’re going to shoot them stone cold dead.&#8221;
Former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley also highlighted the devastation that the fentanyl crisis has caused in the U.S. and said that she would end trade relations with China until it stops.
&#8220;The second thing is we’ll send special operations in to take out the cartels,&#8221; she said. &#8220;We need to go to where they’re distributing it, where the supply centers are, and take them out. We’ll put 25,000 more Border Patrol and ICE agents on the ground and let them do their job. We will defund sanctuary cities. We will go back to the Remain in Mexico policy so that everybody stays in Mexico and they never get here in the first place.&#8221;
She also added that she believes the U.S. needed to focus more on treating people with mental health and addiction problems.
Vivek Ramaswamy said that he agreed with how DeSantis talked about the issue and that the issue was not even about people overdosing, it was about them being poisoned, which DeSantis said that he agreed with.
&#8220;If you put that fentanyl in a Big Mac, we would not call that an overdose. You’d call it what it is. It’s closer to bio-terrorism,&#8221; he said, adding that the U.S. needed to build a wall on the southern and northern border.
He also talked about the importance of destroying tunnels that cartels use to smuggle people and drugs into the U.S.
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The FBI seized more than 220 pounds of drugs in Massachusetts last week in a massive drug bust — believed to be the most drugs ever found in a single spot in New England.
The FBI task force found 10 million doses of drugs with a street value of $8 million during a search on November 1 in Lynn just north of Boston, the Justice Department <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/over-220-pounds-suspected-controlled-substances-seized-including-pills-shaped-resemble-heart#:~:text=The%20seizure%20included%20nine%20kilograms,be%20upwards%20of%20%248%20million." target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a press release Monday. The stash included eight million doses of fentanyl and methamphetamine laced pills and powder.
Among the drugs were 20 pounds of pink, heart-shaped, fentanyl-laced pills that were &#8220;pressed to look like candy,&#8221; the Justice Department said.
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Authorities also found brown rock and powder-like substances, which tested positive for cocaine and other drugs, and counterfeit Adderall pills believed to contain methamphetamines.
Three men were arrested in connection with allegedly running the &#8220;large-scale drug trafficking organization,&#8221; authorities said.
A 25-year-old man, Emilio Garcia, also known as &#8220;6&#8221; and a 33-year-old man, Sebastien Bejin, also known as Bash, were each charged with two counts, including possession of controlled substances with intent to distribute. A third 40-year-old man, Deiby Felix, was charged with just one count of possession of controlled substances with intent to distribute.
If convicted, the men face up to 20 years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000 for each charge.
They are scheduled to appear in court on November 13.
FBI Director Christopher Wray said that the seizure &#8220;saved lives in communities throughout Massachusetts.&#8221;
“Not only was this seizure one of the largest in the history of Massachusetts, but some of the pills were created to look like candy, potentially presenting an enormous risk to children,&#8221; Wray said.
The number of doses is greater than the number of people living in Massachusetts, said Acting U.S. Attorney Joshua S. Levy for the District of Massachusetts.
“The fact that we now are seeing fentanyl-laced pills pressed to resemble candy only underscores the urgency of this fentanyl crisis,” Levy said.
Fentanyl, a synthetic opioid that is cheap to make and easily transported, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/portland-sees-biggest-fentanyl-bust-in-sheriffs-office-history">is about</a> 50 times more potent than heroin and 100 times more potent than morphine. Because it is often cut with other drugs, users may often be unaware that they are consuming the powerful substance, which can be deadly even in small doses.
As little as two milligrams of fentanyl weighing the same as a few grains of salt can cause a fatal overdose, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/portland-sees-biggest-fentanyl-bust-in-sheriffs-office-history">according</a> to the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA).
Fentanyl has been on the rise in the U.S. for years. In a public safety alert, the DEA <a href="https://www.dea.gov/alert/dea-laboratory-testing-reveals-6-out-10-fentanyl-laced-fake-prescription-pills-now-contain#:~:text=It%20is%20a%20highly%20addictive,considered%20a%20potentially%20deadly%20dose." target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that six out of ten fentanyl pills the agency tests contain a potentially lethal dose.
In 2022, more than two-thirds of the 107,081 drug overdose deaths involved synthetic opioids, mostly illegal fentanyl, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

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A huge caravan of about 5,000 <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/illegal-immigration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">migrants</a> has started moving north toward the U.S. on foot from Mexico&#8217;s southern border.
The enormous group started making its way north on Monday, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/large-migrant-caravan-sets-off-us-southern-mexico-2023-10-30/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to organizers and officials, walking in a long line along the highway. Migrants in the caravan hail from Cuba, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, and Venezuela, one organizer said.
Police <a href="https://apnews.com/article/mexico-migrant-caravan-us-border-tapachula-visas-e2bd75d87981508b494fe691b6890d06" target="_blank" rel="noopener">escorted</a> the migrants at certain points, sometimes making sure they did not block the highway and sometimes preventing them from hitching rides.
They planned to spend the night in the town of Huehuetan, about 16 miles north of their starting point.
The migrants reported that they were tired of waiting for visas in the city of Tapachula near the Guatemalan border, where Mexico&#8217;s main migrant processing center is located, the Associated Press <a href="https://apnews.com/article/mexico-migrant-caravan-us-border-tapachula-visas-e2bd75d87981508b494fe691b6890d06" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Waits can stretch up to months as Mexico&#8217;s immigration system scrambles to process the droves of migrants waiting at its border.
A smaller migrant caravans in 2018 sparked many more headlines, but the current caravan is less shocking after thousands of migrants have flooded the southern U.S. border in recent months. The 2018 caravan <a href="https://www.vox.com/2018/10/24/18010340/caravan-trump-border-honduras-mexico" target="_blank" rel="noopener">had</a> between 4,000 and 5,000 migrants.
Many of the Venezuelan migrants are fleeing an economic crisis in Venezuela.
Last month, Mexico&#8217;s president <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mexicos-president-says-10000-migrants-a-day-heading-to-u-s-border" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that about ten thousand migrants are heading to the U.S. border on a daily basis.
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Meanwhile, the migrant crisis at the border has been ramping up in recent months, and U.S. border authorities have struggled to handle the huge influx of people crossing illegally.
In September, a record nearly 270,000 migrants crossed the southern border into the U.S., the highest monthly total ever, <a href="https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/national-media-release/cbp-releases-september-2023-monthly-update#:~:text=CBP%27s%20total%20encounters%20along%20the,put%20their%20lives%20in%20peril." target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
Some border communities are so impacted by the problem that they have sent migrants up north.
The Democratic mayor of El Paso, Texas, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democratic-el-paso-mayor-charters-five-buses-to-take-migrants-to-new-york-chicago-denver">said</a> in September that the city has reached “a breaking point” and chartered five buses to take migrants to New York, Chicago, and Denver.
Up north, major cities are battling the migrant crisis as they attempt to shelter the thousands of people arriving weekly.
New York City is struggling to metabolize <a href="https://www.fox5ny.com/news/house-democrats-migrant-crisis-tour-interrupted-by-protesters-outside-roosevelt-hotel#" target="_blank" rel="noopener">more than</a> 130,000 migrants who have shown up in the city since last spring, nearly 60,000 of whom are still being housed on the city’s dime.
The city has already <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-york-city-migrant-crisis-approaches-breaking-point-with-disorderly-migrants-shelter-space" target="_blank" rel="noopener">spent</a> more than $1.2 billion on the migrants and is projected to spend up to $5 billion.
Chicago has been scrambling to respond to a migrant crisis before the cold winter months arrive. The country’s third-largest city has <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/08/us/politics/gop-migrants-blue-cities.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">experienced</a> an influx of about 20,000 migrants recently, many from Venezuela, and has already spent at least $250 million on the issue.

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The man long suspected of being behind the 2005 disappearance of Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway is expected to reveal details of her death as part of a plea agreement with prosecutors.
Joran van der Sloot, who was 17 when Holloway went missing on the island nation of Aruba, is expected to plead guilty to attempting to extort money from Holloway’s mother, NBC News <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/suspect-natalee-holloway-disappearance-reveal-details-death-plea-deal-rcna120612?cid=sm_npd_nn_fb_ma&amp;_branch_match_id=1133745504221936325&amp;utm_source=facebook&amp;utm_campaign=NBC%20News&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;_branch_referrer=H4sIAAAAAAAAA8soKSkottLXz0tKzkstL9ZLLCjQy8nMy9aP8qnwraoyzolwSQIAU0Yq9iQAAAA%3D" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Part of that plea agreement requires him to reveal how Holloway died, her family’s attorney, John Q. Kelly, <a href="https://www.today.com/video/joran-van-der-sloot-to-plead-guilty-in-natalee-holloway-extortion-plot-195674181870" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> the outlet.
“It [the plea agreement] was conditioned upon Mr. van der Sloot revealing details of how Natalee died and how her body was disposed of,” Kelly said.
Neither federal prosecutors nor van der Sloot’s attorney have confirmed the plea agreement.
Van der Sloot is <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/prime-suspect-in-natalee-holloways-disappearance-fighting-extradition-to-u-s?utm_source=partner&amp;utm_campaign=conservnewsd" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accused of extorting money</a> from Holloway’s mother by offering to tell her where her daughter’s body was. The alleged information he provided turned out to be false.
Van der Sloot <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/suspect-in-natalee-holloway-disappearance-extradited-to-u-s-on-extortion-charges" target="_blank" rel="noopener">was extradited</a> to the U.S. earlier this year from Peru, where he was serving 28 years for the 2010 murder of 21-year-old Stephany Flores. An additional 18 years was added to his sentence this January for trafficking cocaine while in prison.
At the end of March 2010, two months before he murdered Flores, van der Sloot allegedly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/suspect-in-natalee-holloway-disappearance-being-extradited-to-the-united-states-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">contacted</a> a legal representative of Holloway’s mother, Beth. Van der Sloot said he would tell Beth where her daughter’s body was and what led to her death if she paid him $25,000 upfront and an additional $225,000 later. Kelly, the legal representative, went to Aruba to meet with van der Sloot and gave him $100, after which Kelly reported the encounter to the FBI. A sting operation was set up to catch van der Sloot, who accepted a $15,000 wire transfer to his bank account and a cash payment of $10,000, all of which was recorded by undercover investigators.
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In exchange for the money, van der Sloot told Kelly that his father – a judge – buried Holloway’s body in the foundation of a house. When authorities checked his story, they learned the house hadn’t even been built when Holloway disappeared. Van der Sloot eventually emailed Kelly to admit that he lied.
Instead of arresting van der Sloot then, the FBI allowed him to take the $25,000 and leave for Bogotá, Colombia. He wouldn’t be indicted on the charges for another month, and it wouldn’t be until 2014 that the Peruvian government announced van der Sloot would be extradited to the U.S. to face those charges – in 2023.
Holloway’s body has never been found. Van der Sloot was the last person to see her alive, but neither he nor anyone else has been directly charged for her disappearance.

Joran Van der Sloot

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Joran Van Der Sloot To Share Details Of Natalee Holloway's Death In Plea Agreement, Attorney Says

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Murder

One of the most powerful drug cartels in history that is responsible for the majority of fentanyl coming into the United States has reportedly banned the production and sale of the illicit drug amid increased political pressure.
The Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/world/americas/mexican-sinaloa-cartels-message-to-members-stop-making-fentanyl-or-die-b96d3e09">reported</a> that cartel operatives that the newspaper interviewed said the Sinaloa Cartel was &#8220;prohibiting the production and trafficking of the illegal opioid in its territory after coming under increasing pressure from U.S. law enforcement.&#8221;
The alleged order came from the sons of notorious Mexican drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, the former head of the Sinaloa Cartel, who is in a supermax prison in Colorado.
The cartel hopes to &#8220;evade pressure from U.S. law enforcement,&#8221; the newspaper reported, which comes as deaths from the drug have skyrocketed over the last decade.
One U.S. official that the newspaper spoke to described the move as a public relations campaign, saying the cartel would not stop producing fentanyl.
“In the aggregate it won’t mean anything” the official said. “They think if they do this, they won’t take as much heat.”
The report said the Biden administration was pressuring the Mexican government — which is often aligned with the cartels — to do more to dismantle the operations, especially the Sinaloa Cartel.
Various cartel operatives that the Journal spoke to said that they had ceased production of fentanyl because the cartel had started killing anyone still involved in producing or trafficking the drug.
The organization hung banners in various areas throughout the state of Sinaloa warning cartel members that if they were involved with fentanyl, they would be killed. Similar banners were allegedly found in other Mexican states like Tijuana and Sonora.
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Other operatives said that the cartel was hoping by leaving the fentanyl business that U.S. authorities would focus their resources on going after the Jalisco New Generation Cartel.
Some of the cartel members interviewed by the Journal said they quit because they could either no longer get the precursor chemicals needed to make the drug, or because they found other cartel members who had been shot to death and who had fentanyl pills thrown all over them. The paper noted that about a dozen people believed to be involved with the cartels have been kidnapped or gone missing over the last two weeks—all believed to be involved with fentanyl production.
“We believe these kidnappings and disappearances are linked to the ban on fentanyl because their relatives haven’t presented formal complaints to authorities,” he said. “These people are very scared.”
Even if the ban is real, U.S. officials said the supply of fentanyl was so great that it would likely be months before officials see a reduction of the drug on U.S. streets. The cartel will likely increase exports of cocaine, meth, and heroin to compensate for any reduced cash flow from the ban on fentanyl sales.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mexico" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mexico&#8217;s</a> leftist president said late this week that the Biden administration told him that they do not want to a build a border wall in between the U.S. and Mexico and that news reports this week that the administration was resuming construction of the wall in Texas was about publicity.
Department of Homeland Security Secretary <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/alejandro-mayorkas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alejandro Mayorkas</a> announced on the U.S. Federal Register this week that the situation on the southern border makes it “necessary to waive certain laws, regulations, and other legal requirements” in order to ensure the expeditious construction of “physical barriers and roads in the vicinity of the border of the United States in order to prevent unlawful entries into the United States.”
The announcement named multiple areas within the Border Patrol’s Rio Grande Valley Sector that are areas of “high illegal entry” that the administration has designated as “project areas.”
President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/10/06/andres-manuel-lopez-obrador-us-does-not-want-to-build-border-wall/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> at a press conference that the announcement was “pure publicity,” which came as top U.S. officials, including Secretary of State Antony Blinken, visited Mexico on Thursday.
AMLO <a href="https://mexiconewsdaily.com/politics/amlo-calls-plan-to-expand-border-wall-a-backward-step/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">blamed</a> &#8220;far right political groups in the United States&#8221; for making illegal immigration a top political issue in the U.S., and blamed Republicans for “acting very irresponsibly.”
&#8220;This authorization for the construction of the wall is a step backward,&#8221; he claimed. &#8220;It doesn’t solve the problem. It doesn’t solve the problem. We have to address the causes.&#8221;
Biden <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-on-his-admin-waiving-laws-to-build-border-wall-i-cant-stop-that" target="_blank" rel="noopener">responded</a> to the news that the administration was going to be building sections of border wall in South Texas by saying that there was nothing he could do to stop it.
“On the border wall, the border wall when money was appropriated for the border wall, I tried to get them to reappropriate, to redirect that money,” Biden said. “They didn’t, they wouldn’t. And in the meantime, there’s nothing under the law other than they have to use the money for whatever it’s appropriated. I can’t stop that.”
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When asked if he believes that border walls work, Biden responded: “No.”

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Mexico’s AMLO: Biden Admin Building Border Wall Is ‘Pure Publicity,’ U.S. Told Us They Don’t Want It

Mexico’s AMLO: Biden Admin Building Border Wall Is ‘Pure Publicity,’ U.S. Told Us They Don't Want It

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

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Ten thousand migrants are heading to the U.S. border on a daily basis, Mexico&#8217;s president said this week.
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador made the remarks Monday, saying the thousands of migrants making their way north through his country often hail from other countries, the Associated Press <a href="https://apnews.com/article/mexico-migrants-us-border-sanctions-6b9f0cab3afec8680154e7fb9a5e5f82" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
About 6,000 migrants a day have come into Mexico from Guatemala in the last week, contributing to the surge at the U.S. border, Obrador said.
Obrador criticized the U.S. for economic sanctions on Cuba and Venezuela, saying the sanctions are contributing to the stream of migrants heading to America. Many of the migrants currently arriving at the southern border are fleeing economic and political upheaval in Venezuela.
Last week, the Mexican president also criticized the U.S. for giving large amounts of aid to Ukraine, saying the U.S. could instead invest in developing the poor Latin American countries from which many migrants come.
“They don’t do anything,” Obrador said of the U.S. on Friday.
“It’s more, a lot more, what they authorize for the war in Ukraine than what they give to help with poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean,” the Mexican president said.
Meanwhile, the migrant crisis at the border has been ramping up in recent months, and U.S. border authorities have struggled to handle the huge influx of people crossing illegally.
In August, there were nearly 233,000 migrant encounters at the southern border, the highest August on record, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/migrant-numbers-break-another-record-under-biden-southern-border-hit-new-surge" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. That number marks a jump from under 184,000 encounters border authorities saw in July.
Last month’s numbers are also a significant rise from August a year ago, when there were only 204,000 migrant encounters. September’s numbers are already tens of thousands of encounters <a href="https://apnews.com/article/immigration-texas-california-border-asylum-seekers-314698bfb5644be8f8f6085ebe9b9b98" target="_blank" rel="noopener">higher</a> than last year as well.
Some border communities are so impacted by the problem that they have sent migrants up north.
The Democratic mayor of El Paso, Texas <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democratic-el-paso-mayor-charters-five-buses-to-take-migrants-to-new-york-chicago-denver">said</a> last month that the city has reached “a breaking point” chartered five buses to take migrants to New York, Chicago, and Denver over the weekend.
El Paso was seeing more than 2,000 migrants per day last month, pushing the border city’s shelters and resources past capacity.
Up north, major cities are battling the migrant crisis as they attempt to shelter the thousands of people arriving weekly.
New York City is struggling to metabolize <a href="https://www.fox5ny.com/news/house-democrats-migrant-crisis-tour-interrupted-by-protesters-outside-roosevelt-hotel#" target="_blank" rel="noopener">more than</a> 113,000 migrants who have shown up in the city since last spring, nearly 60,000 of whom are still being housed on the city’s dime.
The city has already <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-york-city-migrant-crisis-approaches-breaking-point-with-disorderly-migrants-shelter-space" target="_blank" rel="noopener">spent</a> more than $1.2 billion on the migrants and is projected to spend up to $5 billion.
“This issue will destroy New York City,” Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat, <a href="https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/09/11/esuh-s11.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> last month. “We’re getting 10,000 migrants a month. … Every community in this city is going to be impacted.”
Chicago has been scrambling to respond to a migrant crisis before the cold winter months arrive. The country’s third-largest city has <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/08/us/politics/gop-migrants-blue-cities.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">experienced</a> an influx of about 14,000 migrants recently, many from Venezuela, and has already spent at least $250 million on the issue.

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Mexico’s President Says 10,000 Migrants A Day Heading To US Border

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A man who has been on the run for the past 32 years after being convicted of attempted murder has finally been captured in Mexico.
Greg Lawson, 63, could be seen laughing as he was handcuffed and returned to U.S. soil, the New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/09/21/greg-lawson-captured-in-mexico-after-32-years-on-run/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. He has spent half his life on the run.
The FBI has been searching for Lawson since 1991, and has chased down numerous leads over the past three decades across the United States, though the bureau had long suspected he had fled to Mexico. Then, earlier this month, the FBI’s office in New Orleans received a tip that Lawson was, indeed, in Mexico. Shreveport agents as well as those in Mexico coordinated with FBI Headquarters and the Mexican immigration authorities to locate Lawson and take him into custody. He was arrested on September 19 in Huatulco, Mexico, and deported for immigration violations.
“We want to thank our partners and the public in this case, who never gave up hope that justice could be served for Mr. Lawson’s victim,” Douglas A. Williams Jr., special agent in charge of FBI New Orleans, said in <a href="https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field-offices/neworleans/news/tip-to-fbi-ends-32-year-long-manhunt" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a statement</a>. “There is no doubt that Mr. Lawson might still be in the wind if our partners in Mexico had not been willing to deal with this so swiftly.”
When he was 31 years old, Lawson attempted to run his childhood friend Seth Garlington’s car off the road. The two ended up in a gas station parking lot and a shootout ensued. Garlington survived his injuries and Lawson was convicted, but he didn’t stick around to hear the verdict. He fled and his truck was found just a block away from where the trial was held at the Claiborne Parish Courthouse. For 32 years, he remained on the run. In 2007, the FBI started offering a $10,000 reward for information on his whereabouts, KTBS <a href="https://www.ktbs.com/news/bienville-parish-man-on-the-run-for-32-years-back-in-custody/article_012a7df2-57fe-11ee-8846-b3a978b92c53.html?utm_campaign=blox&amp;utm_source=facebook&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;fbclid=IwAR1qumX4aukDfTehfhYgjqipkOsVwJXioYrEtXTk5Xac_swnTRWjmzJdP_Q" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
Lawson came from a prominent family in Bienville Parish, and allegedly had gotten away with other crimes due to his family’s influence.
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On Wednesday afternoon, Bienville sheriff’s deputies went to Houston, Texas, to pick up Lawson at the airport. From there, they will take him to the Claiborne Parish Detention Center.

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The former Navy pilot who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-10-most-incredible-exchanges-from-the-house-uap-hearing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">testified</a> in front of U.S. Congress during the much-anticipated hearing on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) over the summer called the display of two so-called non-human alien corpses in a Mexican congressional hearing &#8220;a huge step backwards for this issue.&#8221;
Mexico&#8217;s Congress made global headlines on Tuesday after alleged experts who study extraterrestrials unveiled 1,000-year-old &#8220;alien corpses&#8221; nestled in a glass display during its first hearing on UFOs.
But Ryan Graves, the former Navy pilot and Americans for Safe Aerospace executive director who appeared in the first U.S. congressional public hearing investigating reported military encounters with alleged crafts of non-human origins since the 1960s, said in an X-post following the hearing that the spectacle &#8220;disappointed&#8221; him.
&#8220;After the U.S. Congressional UFO hearing, I accepted an invitation to testify before the Mexican Congress hoping to keep up the momentum of government interest in pilot experiences with UAP,&#8221; Graves said. &#8220;Unfortunately, yesterday&#8217;s demonstration was a huge step backwards for this issue.&#8221;
&#8220;My testimony centered on sharing my experience and the UAP reports I hear from commercial and military aircrew through ASA&#8217;s witness program. I will continue to raise awareness of UAP as an urgent matter of aerospace safety, national security, and science, but I am deeply disappointed by this unsubstantiated stunt.&#8221;
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Graves was one of three witnesses who addressed the House Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs during the hearing on UAPs in late July. He was joined by Retired Navy Commander David Fravor and decorated military veteran and intelligence official-turned-whistleblower David Grusch.
During sworn testimony before Congress, Grusch, an Air Force veteran and former National Geospatial Intelligence Agency member, said he is aware of where the U.S. government is allegedly covertly keeping UAPs.
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Grusch claimed he knows the &#8220;exact locations&#8221; based on interviews of &#8220;over 40 witnesses over four years&#8221; when asked about UFOs, the popular term used to describe UAPs. Though Grusch declared that he was limited in what he could disclose publicly, he stated that the locations had been provided to the Intelligence Community Inspector General (ICIG) and &#8220;some&#8221; to the congressional intelligence panels.
The Department of Defense released a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-ufo-hearing-is-over-whats-next" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> insisting that its All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), which has been tasked with investigating UFOs, &#8220;has not discovered any verifiable information to substantiate claims that any programs regarding the possession or reverse-engineering of extraterrestrial materials have existed in the past or exist currently.&#8221; In addition, AARO Director Sean Kirkpatrick said the hearing was &#8220;insulting&#8221; to members of his team.
Mexico held a similar hearing on Tuesday that featured Mexican journalist and ufologist Jaime Maussan, who testified under oath that the creatures recovered near Peru&#8217;s ancient Nazca Lines were &#8220;non-human beings that are not part of our terrestrial evolution,&#8221; according to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/journalist-presents-mexican-congress-alleged-non-human-alien-corpses-ufo-hearing-not-alone" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News</a>.
Maussan also reportedly said that Autonomous National University of Mexico researchers analyzed two corpses that were approximately 1,000 years old.
&#8220;These aren&#8217;t beings that were found after a UFO wreckage,&#8221; Maussan said. &#8220;They were found in diatom mines and were later fossilized.&#8221;
&#8220;Whether they are aliens or not, we don&#8217;t know, but they were intelligent, and they lived with us,&#8221; he added. &#8220;They should rewrite history.… We are not alone in this vast universe. We should embrace this reality.&#8221;
The Independent <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/alien-corpses-in-mexico-found-congress-ufo-b2411144.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that Maussan has previously made claims of &#8220;alien&#8221; discoveries that have since been debunked, including five mummies found in Peru in 2017 that turned out to be the remains of human children.
Peruvian Culture Minister Leslie Urteaga told <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/alien-bodies-presented-mexican-congress-panned-stunt-2023-09-14/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Reuters</a> that South America&#8217;s scientific institutions have not identified the remains displayed during the Mexico&#8217;s UFO hearing as non-human and said that the Ministry of Culture has filed a criminal complaint against Maussan and his associates.
&#8220;I am going to ask for information to see what has happened &#8230; about the removal of pre-Hispanic objects, because I understand they are part of pre-Hispanic bone remains,&#8221; she said.
Maussan told the outlet on Thursday that his claims have not been countered.
&#8220;What they want is to take away the force that this discovery has, but only with testimonies, with questioning and without a single piece of evidence,&#8221; Maussan said. &#8220;We have been doing investigations for years&#8230; they want to come here to investigate with just talk.&#8221;

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UFO Whistleblower 'Disappointed' With Mexico's Display Of 'Non-Human Alien Corpses'

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Thousands of parents in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mexico" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mexico</a> took to the streets last week to burn education materials that featured “Marxist-communist” indoctrination from the country&#8217;s department of education.
The Financial Times <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/69bf7312-c593-4b76-8b62-a29fd2c5346b" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that one of the officials behind the push to indoctrinate children in Mexico was &#8220;a former Venezuelan government official.&#8221;
The books were woke, filled with &#8220;hard-to-follow material full of errors, a lack of basic language and mathematical exercises and irrelevant or highly age-inappropriate content.&#8221;
The books were so controversial that some governors in the country have refused to distribute them as they demonize capitalism and neoliberalism.
Fox News <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/09/03/mexican-parents-burn-textbooks-infected-with-virus-of-communism-in-fiery-protest-against-gender-ideology/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that at least 12,000 parents in southern Mexico attended the protest where the Marxist books were burned.
So far, more than 112,000 parent signatures have been submitted demanding that the government stop distributing the books.
The material has faced backlash even in Mexican news media.
“Mexico is at risk from a virus that people thought was eradicated — the communist virus,” Mexican news anchor Javier Alatorre said in front of a backdrop of a hammer and sickle with the country&#8217;s education officials. “They want to condemn Mexico to poverty, mediocrity, and hatred.”
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Mexican officials installed a remnant of the Berlin wall near the U.S. southern border last month to teach &#8220;a lesson&#8221; about knocking down walls and building bridges.
The historic concrete slab right was placed next to the border wall in Tijuana – across from San Diego – with a message that seemed to advocate for allowing more illegal immigrants refuge in the United States. The move comes as <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/01/us/politics/migrant-families-border-biden.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">record numbers</a> of families crossed the U.S.-Mexico border illegally in August and as critics say President Joe Biden’s immigration policies have caused the “<a href="https://oversight.house.gov/landing/bidens-border-crisis/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Biden Border Crisis</a>.” 
&#8220;May this be a lesson to build a society that knocks down walls and builds bridges,” a plaque by the base of the Berlin Wall relic <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/mexico-places-piece-berlin-wall-near-us-border-may-this-be-lesson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reads</a>. 
Montserrat Caballero, the mayor of Tijuana, Mexico, and Marcelo Ebrard, a former Mexican foreign secretary, are the two individuals behind its placement, according to Fox News. Caballero is the one who penned the open-borders message, the outlet reports. 
In mid-August, after a ceremony unveiling the remnant of the Berlin wall, Caballero posted, “We are a government that believes more in building bridges, than walls that are useless,” according to a translated version of her Instagram <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/Cv5lWtDufcZ/?hl=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">post</a>. 
Los Angeles-based producer Marcos Cline-Marquez helped bring the 3-ton piece of wall to Friendship Park, San Diego-based KPBS <a href="https://www.kpbs.org/news/border-immigration/2023/08/21/part-of-berlin-wall-finds-new-home-in-tijuana" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> in August. Initially, the plan was reportedly to present it to President Donald Trump while he was still in office, but the White House declined. 
“You draw parallels between the Berlin Wall, a wall that was built to divide not protect, and the wall on our southern border,” Cline-Marquez said. Caballero had similar sentiments, acknowledging that while the “social and political conflict is different than the Berlin Wall” it’s still “a wall at the end of the day.” 
Caballero did concede that the U.S. has a right to enforce its border, even as she claimed the border wall represents “violence,” “family separation,” and “division.” 
As Mexican officials are denouncing the wall and even some Americans are advocating for open borders, the U.S. arrested 91,000 illegal immigrants who crossed the border as families in August – a record high, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/01/us/politics/migrant-families-border-biden.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to The New York Times. Many are released into the U.S. awaiting court dates. In July, U.S. Customs and Border Protection reported 183,503 encounters with illegal immigrants, Fox News reported. 
Since President Biden took office in 2021, at least 6.2 million illegal immigrant encounters have been recorded – resulting in more than two million migrants being released into the U.S., <a href="https://www.heritage.org/crime-and-justice/commentary/increased-illegal-immigration-brings-increased-crime-almost-23-federal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the Heritage Foundation.
Despite signing an executive order stopping the construction of a new border wall, Biden is finishing small projects that had previously been contracted out. This includes replacing the border wall on the Tijuana-San Diego section, the Associated Press <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/03/berlin-wall-relic-mexico-border-as-biden-adds-barriers-00113844" target="_blank" rel="noopener">notes</a>. 
Many pieces of the Berlin Wall have been placed in various locations across the world, including hotels, schools, and parks, the outlet notes.

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Mexican Officials Place Slab Of Berlin Wall Near U.S. Southern Border To Teach ‘Lesson’ About Knocking Down Walls

Mexican Officials Place Slab Of Berlin Wall Near U.S. Southern Border To Teach 'Lesson' About Knocking Down Walls

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