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Houston, Texas, is one of the rare, nice big cities left in this country. A little hot in the summer, but great people, very pretty neighborhoods and a lot going on. Thanks to the energy sector, biotech and aerospace, Houston has an enormous and still robust economy. It is hardly some dying mill town in the Northeast or the Upper Midwest. Your kids might want to move to Houston someday, maybe after college. It's not Baltimore.

But all of a sudden Houston, Texas is starting to look a little more like Baltimore. Crime in Houston has gotten scary. The murder rate there has risen by more than 50% in just the last year. It's bad. Here's a local news report:

MATTHEW SEEDORFF, KRIV REPORTER: A deadly start to the year across Houston. Police investing at least 41 homicides through 24 days. So far this year Houston has more murders than New York City, Los Angeles, even Chicago.

DOUGLAS GRIFFITH, HOUSTON POLICE OFFICERS UNION PRESIDENT: Its one of those things where Im fearful just for my family to go out of the house.

MATTHEW SEEDORFF, KRIV REPORTER: The president of the Houston Police Officers union frustrated.

DOUGLAS GRIFFITH, HOUSTON POLICE OFFICERS UNION PRESIDENT: If it keeps up this pace we are going to be well over 500 murders this year.

I'm fearful just for my family to go outside the house. As you heard, that was the president of the police union in Houston, so he would know. It's amazing this is happening in all places in Houston, and what's so telling about this crime wave is how recently it began.

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Murders in Houston started to spike in a big way after Joe Biden became president. Why is that exactly? Very simple answer: Joe Biden opened the southern border. Texas shares more than 1,200 miles of border with Mexico. There is a brutal cartel war underway in Mexico right now. It's been going on for a long time. Many of the combatants in that war have now moved north into Texas. They brought drugs with them. They've also brought machine guns.

Migrants are seen at the Rio Grande near the Del Rio-Acuna Port of Entry in Del Rio, Texas. (nternational Bridge, whPhoto by Charlie C. Peebles/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

This fall, a felon opened fire on Houston police officers with a fully automatic rifle. You hear a lot about assault weapons. But the truth is authorities don't see fully automatic weapon weapons very often. They are heavily regulated, and typically they're owned by collectors.

But automatic weapons are very common in war zones, and there is a war in Mexico. So, with no border in place, the cartels are bringing their armaments here. There are firefights in Houston.

POLICE OFFICER:It's Houston police. Let's do this the easy (gunshots in the background).

That's automatic weapons, fire. It sounds like Syria or Mexico, but it's an apartment complex in Houston, Texas. We could go on if you know anybody who lives in Houston. Call and ask, How has your city changed recently? And they'll tell you. Open borders did this, Houston didn't do it to itself, this was done to Houston and not just to Houston, to so many places across this country where millions of illegal aliens have flooded in during Joe Biden's presidency.

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On Monday, for example, more than 100 illegal Haitian migrants landed in the Florida Keys in a single boat. Instances like this are no longer uncommon in the state of Florida. The world is coming to America's shores. Why? Because they're fully aware that the Biden administration is rewarding foreign nationals for violating our federal immigration law. It is an invasion.

Huge numbers of Americans are dying as a result of that invasion. 100,000 dead last year of drug addicts. Most were killed by fentanyl that is trucked in from Mexico across open borders. Long term, there are massive labor market disruptions, there is evaporating social cohesion and so on. The costs of this have been beyond calculating, and this is exactly why no sane country opens its borders ever, ever, anywhere.

What Joe Biden is doing right now has never been done, and it's about to get much worse. We're not guessing. Currently, a Trump era regulation called Title 42 allows the Border Patrol to turn illegal migrants back to Mexico on the grounds that there's a pandemic in progress, so we probably shouldn't let millions of people infected with COVID move here without permission. Seems sensible. But according to Democrats, this rule is racist because it might slow the human wave of migration. So for months, they've been demanding that the Biden administration suspend this rule.

SEN. CHUCK SCHUMER: Iurge President Biden and Secretary Mallorca's to immediately put a stop to these expulsions and to end this Title 42 policy at our southern border. We cannot continue these hateful and xenophobic Trump policies.

REP. SHEILA JACKSON LEE: In addition, a relic, Title 42, exists. It is a relic of the Trump administration. It was created to be mean-spirited. Title 42, I ask for a suspension of it.

SEN. ALEX PADILLA: I urge the Biden administration and my colleagues to remember the refugees who are waiting at our border, kept out by the cruel and unnecessary Title 42 policy.

SEN. BOB MENENDEZ: Look, Title 42 is being used in a way that I think is indiscriminate and that violates the basic essence of our law. But this process that the Biden administration has continued from the Trump administration in my mind is really inexcusable.

So, your kid has to wear a mask in school, but illegal aliens get to come here with no restrictions at all, despite the fact they may be infected with COVID because otherwise you're a racist.

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That's the case they were making, and so finally, inevitably, the Biden administration has caved. Turns out even trying to maintain basic public health standards is unacceptable if it gets in the way of increasing mass immigration. Title 42 is being nullified.

A similar rule you should know will still apply to you. American citizens are not exempt to this day. You as a citizen are not allowed to return to the United States without permission from the CDC. Rochelle Walensky will sign off on that. So coming back to the country you were born in is no longer your birthright. But illegal aliens now face no barriers at all. And of course, they know it. Everyone knows it. It's not their fault. It's our president's fault.

Migrants, many from Haiti, are seen at an encampment along the Del Rio International Bridge near the Rio Grande. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

According to Axios, "U.S. intelligence officials are privately bracing for a massive influx of more than 170,000 migrants at the Mexico border" now that Title 42 is ending.

So the wave grows, the total transformation of this country accelerates. So we've been very passive in the face of this, people make grumpy noises about it, no one's done anything. How should we respond?

Well, the same way we respond to any other invasion. With the U.S. military. That's why countries have militaries to stop invasions, and this would not be a hard invasion to stop. Our military could seal the border with Mexico in days. That would save American lives. It would restore order. And it would end the invasion.

Does that sound crazy like a misuse of the U.S. military? Well, keep in mind that Nancy Pelosi called in the US.. military to protect her from Trump voters at the U.S. Capitol. She treated our soldiers like her personal security detail.

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And then, of course, at this very moment, we are sending thousands of American troops and billions in military American military hardware to Eastern Europe to help Ukrainians restore their borders. So the obvious question is: Why not here? Why not take America's safety, your family's safety, as seriously as Nancy Pelosi takes her own safety?

That seems like a fair question. Probably not Russian disinformation. Probably an honest question. We spoke to Rep. Maria Salazar in Miami last night, and we asked that question of her. She refused to answer.

TUCKER: I just can't help notice the contrast between your desire to send MiGs to Ukraine to preserve its borders, but not here. Should we send the U.S. military to the Mexican border, since you have admitted that tens of millions of people have come here illegally, that our borders are porous? They're not defended, they're open. Should we send the U.S. military to the Mexican border?

SALAZAR: That is why I have created a whole plan, so we can really seal the border, because you know what? My community, the ones that I represent

TUCKER: Would you call for sending

SALAZAR: Let me finish. Let me finish

TUCKER: Do you represent America, if I could say?

TUCKER: I'm asking question of borders. All of us are appalled by the violation of Ukraine's borders. You don't seem as appalled by the violation of our borders by tens of millions of people. So let me ask you for the third time.

SALAZAR: Sure, I do. That's a misrepresentation.

TUCKER: You support military equipment -- okay, then, would you support the U.S. military securing the United States border tonight or on the same timetable as sending MiGs to Ukraine? How about that?

SALAZAR: That's hypothetical again.

Oh, it's hypothetical. I've got a plan, right? How many plans have you heard about from Republicans for, say, the past twenty-five years? Many, many, many.

To restate this is a highly dangerous situation that the Biden administration has placed our country in. Mexico, whatever its merits, is in the middle of a war, not a new war, a war that has raged on for more than a decade, a war that has likely killed more than 100,000 people so far.

There are videos of trucks burning in the town of Nuevo Laredo. That's just feet from the U.S. border in the state of Texas. The video is the aftermath with three hour gun battle between cartels and government forces. The situation there is so chaotic that the trucks just burn in the middle of the road. No one comes to put out the fires to restore order to arrest anyone.

So that's not a law enforcement action. That's a war. That's what wars are like. A few years ago, the Sinaloa cartel used heavy machine guns and armored vehicles to win a pitched battle against the Mexican military. That's a war, a civil war. Feet from our border. That's the country Joe Biden opened our border to. It's insanity.

And yet somehow our Congress cannot be bothered to notice this, any of it, even as millions stream across. Murder victims in Houston, apparently don't have influential social media accounts, so Kevin McCarthy doesn't know that they exist. And that's a shame because when he sees that on Tik Tok, he acts.

Here's McCarthy demanding we send military equipment across the world to stop the invasion of another country:

KEVIN MCCARTHY:We think about what President Biden should do. I think there's a bipartisan movement right here. Provide them the MiGs, provide them the planes where they can create a no-fly zone, provide them the armament that they need to continue to fight a war that they did not create.

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So McCarthy says of the Ukrainians, it's a war they didn't create, and that is certainly true. The Ukrainians did not create that war. The Ukrainians did not invade their own country. But we didnt either. We didn't invade our own country. Very few Americans wanted to open our border to a narco state in the middle of a drug war. Joe Biden did that to us.

And no one cares. So maybe we need our own Zelensky to get the world's attention and stop the invasion of America. Who will that be?

This article is adapted from Tucker Carlson's opening commentary on the March 17, 2022 edition of "Tucker Carlson Tonight."

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The number of migrants caught crossing the southern border illegally rose in February as single adult Mexicans poured into the country at their highest rate in years, according to new Homeland Security data released Tuesday.

All told, Customs and Border Protection tallied 164,973 encounters with unauthorized migrants last month, up about 7% compared to January.

CBP Commissioner Chris Magnus called the increase which works out to more than 10,000 additional people in February, a shortened month a slight uptick.

Of those caught, 71,210 were Mexican. Thats up more than 40% compared to just a couple of months ago.

Mr. Magnus said the majority of people caught at the border were quickly expelled under the pandemic health emergency order that the Trump administration implemented and which the Biden administration has kept largely in place.

Among the worrying signs in the data was the number of migrant children traveling without parents. The Border Patrol reported catching 11,810, a 37% increase over January, reversing what had been one of the few bright spots on the border.

Agents caught about 25,000 parents and children traveling as families, down about half compared to December.

Other yardsticks of border security also trended in the wrong direction, with heroin seizures spiking 173% in February. Cocaine seizures were up 83%, and methamphetamine seizures rose 97%. But fentanyl, which has been shattering records, actually dropped 21%.

Authorities say increases in people and drugs being seized means more people and drugs are getting through.

Sen. Rob Portman, the top Republican on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, said he was alarmed by the trend line.

He was worried by the surge in drugtrafficking, which is costing a record number of lives.

This crisis is a direct result of the Biden administrations policy choices, Mr. Portman said.

The Border Patrol has tallied nearly 2.2 million arrests at the southern border since President Biden took office.

By contrast, during the same 13-month period in President Trumps term, agents recorded only about 272,000 arrests.

And before Mr. Biden, it had been 15 years since the U.S. last recorded even a single month with more than 150,000 apprehensions. February marked the 12th straight month of CBP encounters exceeding 150,000.

RJ Hauman, head of government relations at the Federation for American Immigration Reform, said the Biden administration has made mass illegal migration the new normal.

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Progressive House Democrats are calling on President Biden to take a number of executive actions relating to immigration, including expanding protections from deportation, ending the Title 42 public health order, and limiting detention for those who come into the country illegally.

The Congressional Progressive Caucus issued a list of recommendations for executive actions for Biden to take on everything from healthcare to student loans, as much of their agenda has been stalled with a slim House majority and a 50-50 Senate that frequently requires 60 votes to pass legislation.

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Democrats made multiple attempts last year to pass sweeping immigration measures, including amnesty for millions of illegal immigrants already in the country. Those efforts failed last year, and activists and progressives are instead turning their focus to the executive branch.

The agenda gives a list of 18 countries that it recommends for either Temporary Protected Status (TPS) or Deferred Enforced Departure (DED) -- which grants protection from deportation to nationals from countries hit by either armed ongoing conflict, environmental disasters or "extraordinary and temporary conditions.

The U.S. Capitol Dome is silhouetted against the rising sun, Friday, April 30, 2021 in Washington. (AP Photo/J. David Ake) (AP Photo/J. David Ake)

Many of those are already listed for TPS, but the recommendations would add Mexico and Guatemala -- El Salvador and Honduras are already designated -- meaning that nationals from some of the top sources of illegal immigration across the southern border would be protected from deportation. It would also add Ethiopia, Mauritania and Cameroon.

The caucus also calls for the removal of "nonpriority cases" from the immigration court backlog, additional government-funded legal counsel, and the end of expedited removal proceedings.

The Democrats also urge the White House to stop further use of private detention facilities, and instead focus on "alternatives to detention" run by "non-profit community-based organizations."

They also call for the end of Title 42 public health protections which have been used by both the Trump and Biden administrations to remove illegal immigrants at the border due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Top Democrats including Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-NY, have also called for such a move -- despite fears it will lead to a new surge in migrants at the border.

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The progressives also call for the end of the Trump-era "Remain-in-Mexico" policy which keeps migrants in Mexico for their hearings. The Biden administration ended the program, but was forced to restore it by court order until it can end it via a different route. However, only a relatively small number of border crossers have been enrolled in the program so far.

The list also includes measures to "redress the harms" of the Trump-era travel restrictions on high-risk countries by allowing those rejected under the restrictions -- dubbed a "Muslim ban" by critics -- to "secure status, obtain lost green cards, and secure other basic services without additional burdens."

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Separately, the lawmakers urge Biden to issue regulations to raise wage standards and labor safeguards for the H-2B seasonal worker and H-1B skilled worker programs. Both Democrats and Republicans have raised concerns that those programs are often abused by companies to bring in foreign nationals, so they can be underpaid and exploited.

The calls by the progressive caucus come as the administration is gearing up for a potential surge in migrants at the southern border, particularly if it does end Title 42 as it is reported to be considering. DHS this week put out a call for volunteers as officials say they are dealing with "large numbers" of migrants at the border.

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Former Ohio GOP Chair Jane Timken is vowing to be Trump tough on illegal immigration and drug smugglers in a new ad for her U.S. Senate campaign.

Ms. Timken says in the 30-second Crackdown adthat on President Bidens watch illegal immigrants and drug cartels are flooding Ohio with heroin and fentanyl.

Now opioid deaths are surging again, she tells viewers. As the real Trump conservative I will fight to finish this wall, secure this board and crack down on the drug cartels.

The ad captures Ms. Timken standing at the U.S.-Mexico border wall and features a video clip of former President Donald Trump at a rally praising her as unbelievable.

I approve this message because Im Trump tough, she says.

Ms. Timken has the support of retiring Sen. Rob Portman and is hoping to land the endorsement of Mr. Trump, who has been a focal point of the GOP nomination race.

Ms. Timken is playing catch-up in the contest, according to a Fox News survey of likely GOP primary voters released this month. It showed businessman Mike Gibbons, with 22% support, and former Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel, with 20%, leading the pack.

Author J.D. Vance is running third, with 11%, followed by Ms. Timken, with 9%, and state Sen. Matt Dolan, with 7%.

The Ohio primary election is May 3.

The winner of the GOP contest is expected to face off against Democratic Rep. Tim Ryan in Novembers general election.

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As we sink under the deluge of Pillen and Herbster ads, at least a couple of sizable questions are inescapable. One, why are these two who seek the GOP gubernatorial nomination so intent on scaring Republican primary voters about immigration? Two, will the demagoguery on this non-issue be rewarded by voters?

Even a cursory glance at a map confirms Nebraskas geographical position hundreds of miles removed from any national border. The most minimal familiarity with the Constitution of the United States and concepts of federalism confirms the federal governments sole authority to determine and enforce immigration laws. And candidates scaremongering on this issue can only be interpreted to mean that the Biden administrations purported failures related to immigration are not being adequately redressed by Nebraskas current governor, something Pete Ricketts would surely dispute vigorously.

What, pray tell, do these two seeking to be our next state chief executive think they are going to do: build a big, beautiful wall circling our states borders? How will the gates at the ends of Interstate 80 and I-76 work, and will there be a tunnel for the water flowing through the canal to be built to bring South Platte River water into Nebraska?

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The absurdity of what these candidates assert is as laughable as the cartoonlike posturing dominating their ads, but the pervasiveness of the sloganeering suggests that there must be something legitimate about it. There isnt. State governments have zero authority to legislate or enforce national immigration law. Even the most authoritarian governor has no role based in law on issues of immigration. Any wisdom that could be gleaned from experiences of governors whose states are near a national border has no application to Nebraska, firmly ensconced midcountry.

Well, there is crime, right? Wrong. In a study of crimes committed in 2018 in Texas, the only state that maintains immigration status records of those who are arrested, the illegal immigrant conviction rate was 782 per 100,000 illegal immigrants, 535 per 100,000 legal immigrants, and 1,422 per 100,000 native-born Americans. Illegal immigrants had a conviction rate 45% less than native-born citizens, and legal immigrants conviction rate was about one-third of that of native-born citizens. Other studies on the topic widely confirm the conclusion: Native-born Americans commit crimes at much higher rates than either legal or illegal immigrants.

Here in Nebraska, we are experiencing historically low unemployment rates. Employers simply cannot find enough people to do the work that is here to be done now. The same conditions exist regionally and, to varying degrees, across our country. And our national birth rate is insufficient to replenish the labor supply.

In the three decades plus of my legal practice, I have had the pleasure of representing scores of immigrants. In my 56 years plus of life, I have been blessed to know hundreds of immigrants, including my paternal grandmother. Generally speaking, my experience is that immigrants are as hardworking, family loving, law abiding, taxpaying and American dreaming as we who had the good fortune to be born in this country.

So just who are these immigrants that we are supposed to be so afraid of? Where are the facts that support the assertion that this is a problem in Nebraska? Or is it just that many immigrants do not speak, look and worship the way we do? Herbsters and Pillens insistence that immigrants are some sort of boogeymen to be feared, persecuted and deported is as erroneous as it is offensive.

We need workers. Immigration must be part of the solution. But elected federal office holders have refused, for decades and across Republican and Democrat administrations alike, to seriously address immigration policy. In the meantime, candidates even for offices that have nothing to do with immigration, like governorships disingenuously raise immigration as some sinister proposition, a scare-tactic point of divisiveness, only driving deeper the wedge of deceit on this issue that cries out for thoughtful resolution.

What if voters quit rewarding candidates who defame immigrants and use the issue only to seek political advantage? What progress might be made if Republican primary voters reject Pillen and Herbster and instead select Brett Lindstrom? What will it say about Republican primary voters if they dont?

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