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A record number 235,478 illegal immigrants crossed the southern border in April of this year. The month of May broke that record with 239,416 encounters. June will likely set another record.

Since President Biden assumed office, illegal immigration has reached staggering highs. In FY 2021, law enforcement encountered 1.7 million migrants. In the first 8 months of FY 2022, over 1.5 million migrants were apprehended.

This record flow of illegal immigrants comes as no surprise. Within weeks of taking office, the Biden administration replaced every effective immigration measure with failed Obama-era policies.

President Biden is responsible for the crisis at the southern border.

As the top Republican of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, I released the report: Bidens Border Crisis: Examining Policies that Encourage Illegal Migration. In it, I outline how the Biden administration has fueled the immigration crisis and the steps it needs to take to secure the border.

Our border security is broken. We cannot continue the status quo.

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Report: President Biden is responsible for the crisis at the southern border - Jim Risch

Border Patrol agents didnt whip or strike Haitian migrants last year, a lengthy internal affairs investigation concluded Friday, but some agents did use excessive force by positioning their horses in the Rio Grande to try to keep the migrants from reaching the U.S.

Investigators largely faulted agency leaders, saying they lacked clear goals for dealing with the unprecedented incursion of 15,000 migrants who established a squatters camp on the American side of the river, then began to come and go freely from Mexico, challenging the integrity of the border.

Though all agents have been cleared of criminal charges, four have been recommended to face disciplinary action over their use of force and, in one case, for insulting language used against migrants. Those cases are still pending, officials said, and the agent remains on desk duty nearly 10 months after the incident, which drew international attention.

Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Chris Magnus said they showed discrimination and intolerance.

Its clear from the investigation that decisions made by some of the agencys leadership and the lack of appropriate policies and training all contributed to the incident. But there is no justification for the lack of actions of some of personnel, including unprofessional and deeply offensive conduct, Mr. Magnus said.

Images of the Sept. 19 incident showed horse-mounted agents riding through the water trying to corral migrants, with the horses reins swinging freely. That led some observers to say the migrants were being whipped.

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President Biden had said the migrants were strapped and Vice President Kamala Harris compared the treatment to the worst abuses of slavery. Mr. Biden had vowed the agents will pay.

The investigation by CBPs Office of Professional Responsibility reviewed extensive footage, including from a drone that they had flying overhead, spoke with witnesses and gathered accounts from the migrants themselves. They concluded nobody was actually struck with the reins, nor was anyone intentionally struck by the mounted agents.

There is no evidence that BPAs involved in this incident struck, intentionally or otherwise, any migrant with their reins, the investigation concluded.

Still, CBP said some of the agents should pay for the way they used their horses bodies to try to seal off the U.S. banks of the river. In one example investigators cited, an agent chased after a migrant and came perilously close to a young child in the water.

That agent also used insulting language against migrants, chastising men for appearing to shield themselves behind women, investigators said. The agent displayed an unprofessional manner, the probe concluded.

Even as they faulted the agents, investigators made clear they were put in an impossible situation by the unprecedented takeover of U.S. land by 15,000 illegal immigrants.

They streamed across the Rio Grande in September, overwhelming the Border Patrols ability to process them. The migrants set up a squatters camp in Del Rio, Texas, and demanded to be processed and released, as theyd seen the Biden administration do to hundreds of thousands of other migrants in the preceding months.

Border Patrol agents kept the migrants corralled but didnt have supplies, so they issued raffle-style tickets to the migrants to mark their place in the processing line, then stood by as people began to cross the Rio Grande freely to get food and drinks from the Mexican side.

Fridays investigation found Border Patrol leaders lacked a strategy for dealing with those already here, and for addressing those still streaming over.

The horse patrol agents were given only the slimmest of briefings before being sent out into the field.

And complicating matters was the presence of Texas law enforcement, which had its own goals of protecting Texans property and at some points blocking the river to try to prevent more people from coming.

Agents had been told not to interfere with those coming but were also told to assist the Texas Department of Public Safety in its missions. So when Texas authorities asked the Border Patrol for help to block migrants entry on Sept. 19, agents from the horse patrol were deployed.

They asked for guidance from their supervisor, who called up the chain of command but got no answer, and gave the go-ahead to help Texas authorities, investigators concluded.

First, the agents and state police troopers dispersed a crown already on the U.S. side, pushing them back toward the boundaries of the camp. Then the agents and troopers turned their attention to people coming across the river, some of whom were holding up their raffle-style tickets to show they had already been on the U.S. side and were merely returning with food.

As a result of a lack of command, control, and communications, [Horse Patrol Unit] personnel carried out an operation at the request of TXDPS which directly contravened USBP operational objectives and resulted in the unnecessary use of force against migrants who were attempting to reenter the United States with food, the investigation concluded. They did so with authorization from their supervisor who was unable to obtain additional guidance from higher in the USBP chain of command at the time of the request.

Investigators said even as illegal immigrants, those in the water were technically applicants for admission to the U.S. and using horses to try to block them amounted to unprofessional conduct and a wrongful use or threat of use of force.

Ultimately, it appears all the migrants who wanted to come made it across and the agents didnt actually block anyone, the probe concluded.

The Congressional Hispanic Caucus said the report showed agents threatened the lives of migrants, including children.

Caucus Chair Raul Ruiz, California Democrat, said there needs to be implementation of disciplinary measures.

But one former agent told The Washington Times the use of force case will be tough to stick.

He said horse patrols are frequently used as a deterrent factor, and its difficult to see how the agents presence was intended as anything else.

The four agents likely have several avenues of appeal ahead of them, and CBP officials declined to say any more about their situation other than that they remain on administrative duties.

In the immediate aftermath of the incident, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas appeared to give the agents involved a pass, saying they were trying to control their horses. But after a talking-to by the vice president, he changed his tone and said the images he saw were disturbing. He told Congress the investigation would be done in days.

Instead, the probe dragged for months, leaving critics within CBP and on Capitol Hill to suspect the agency was trying to orchestrate an adverse finding to fulfill Mr. Bidens pledge that would will pay.

Rep. John Katko, the top Republican on the House Homeland Security Committee, said the findings against the individual agents were a desperate attempt to justify Mr. Bidens demand that the agents pay for the incident.

Border Patrol agents are leaving in record numbers and experiencing devastating impacts on their mental health as a result of the Biden Border Crisis. This is not what they signed up for, the New York Republican said.

CBP officials said Friday they followed a normal process and insisted there was no interference from higher-ups.

Both the Homeland Security inspector general and the federal prosecutor in western Texas declined to pursue the case, which returned it to the Office of Public Responsibility. Officials said Friday they had been waiting on the federal prosecutor to make a decision, which happened in March, and they submitted their report to higher-ups in April.

Moving forward, Chief Magnus said he will maintain the horse-mounted units, but he said the agency will ponder restrictions on where and when they can be deployed.

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Border Patrol agents cleared of whipping illegal immigrants - Washington Times

The tragic suffocation deaths of 53 illegal border-crossers in a trailer truck in Texas are a horrific reminder that the Biden administrations open-border immigration policies continue to act as an irresistible magnet, pulling hundreds of thousands of migrants from countries around the world to risk life and limb in a dangerous journey to reach our porous southern frontier. The supply of would-be migrants is inexhaustible: people who put themselves and family members, sometimes even unaccompanied children, in the hands of criminal smugglers in order to claw their way into the developed world.

While they may be desperate, these illegal migrants still calculate their decision to travel based on the message they receive from the authorities in the destination country. And that message from the Biden administration is wholly irresponsible. Even in acknowledging the mass suffocation deaths, DHS Secretary Mayorkas, one of the chief architects of Bidens destructive immigration policies, still refuses to use his megaphone to tell people not to come because they will be turned back.

Unwilling to acknowledge any responsibility at all, Mayorkas tweeted: I am heartbroken by the tragic loss of life today and am praying for those still fighting for their lives. Far too many lives have been lost as individuals including families, women, and children take this dangerous journey. Mayorkas knows they take this dangerous journey because Bidens policies hold out the promise of gaining entry into the U.S.

In another era, genuine humanitarian voices on the left might have called out Mayorkass hypocrisy, but for those who want to harness open-border policies to remake the world, immigration, legal or illegal, is always rightregardless of how much it undermines the rule of law or disrupts families and communities, or, indeed, who dies along the way.

Instead of acknowledging responsibility for stoking clandestine immigration and the resulting chaos and death it causes, the Biden administration has gone full speed ahead, blurring the distinction between legal and illegal entry. As if current U.S. legal quotas, welcoming approximately one million annual immigrants, were not generous enough, many in the Biden administration are hell-bent on luring and admitting hundreds of thousands of clandestine migrants who have traveled on a dangerous journey to our southern border.

Once these migrants reach the border, the Biden administration twists existing federal statutes, using such schemes as catch and release and distorting concepts like public-interest parole, to allow them to remain in the country. It is more than sobering to see a president callously undermine due process, in effect telling lawful immigrants and their families in the U.S., who may have waited years for legal admission, that the rule of law in our country really does not matter.

Beyond their impact on the United States, another result of these lawless immigration policies is the emergence of massive international criminal-smuggling networks, which move people as chattel. It is not yet documented, but it is likely that during the Biden administration human smuggling has become even more profitable a criminal enterprise than illicit narcotics trafficking into the U.S. Such smuggling networks are responsible for countless unrecorded cases of human trafficking, extortion, disappearances, and death. Clandestine migration is not a victimless crime, and Mayorkas cannot pretend he bears no responsibility for these tragedies.

One lie often repeated about our globalized world is the claim that unrestrained immigration is not only desirable, but inevitable. But even a superficial comparison between Trump and Bidens border policies makes clear that a sustained and enforced message from the White House that the United States is not open to illegal migrants has far-reaching consequences.

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Deaths and disappearances of clandestine migrants in the Americas rose from 798 in the final year of the Trump administration to 1,248 in Bidens first year. These are non-partisan data compiled by the International Organization for Migrationno Trump allyon migrants worldwide moving into and across the Americas, most if not all of whom intend to enter the U.S. This increase in fatalities directly reflects migrants decisions to travel based on open-border policies Biden announced to the world upon his arrival in the White House.

If a president uses his bully pulpit and backs up his word with consequential border-security policies, his message will spread everywhere, from teeming cities in Pakistan to isolated hamlets in Ecuador. A truly humanitarian immigration policy would not lure desperate migrants to our border, but would convince them there is a legal process or no process at all. Secretary Mayorkas should explain why his broken heart does not move him to advocate for a change to Bidens anti-humanitarian immigration policies.

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Biden's Immigration Policies Are Killing People - The American Conservative

Austin, TX, July 6, 2022 Two men accused of smuggling 64 suspected illegal aliens 53 of whom died from dehydration, exhaustion, and other injuries are facing execution by lethal injection.

In a news release, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced charges last week against 45-year-old Homero Zamorano Jr. of Pasadena and 28-year-old Christian Martinez of Palestine.

Prosecutors filed a criminal complaint charging Zamorano with one count of alien smuggling resulting in death. Martinez faces one count of conspiracy to transport illegal aliens resulting in death.

The DOJ alleged that Zamorano and Martinez smuggled a total of 64 illegal aliens. First responders in San Antonio found 48 of them dead and took 16 survivors to the hospital, where an additional five victims died.

Federal agents arrested Zamorano at the scene of the crime, where he was observed hiding in the brush after attempting to abscond.

The dead include 22 Mexicans, seven Guatemalans, two Hondurans, and 17 individuals of unknown national origin, according to the DOJ.

The government stated that Laredo border patrol officials provided surveillance footage depicting the tractor-trailer in question crossing through an immigration checkpoint. The driver had on the same clothing Zamorano was wearing when San Antonio police officers arrested him, per the DOJ.

Police arrested Martinez in Palestine and the defendant appeared in Tyler for an initial appearance. However, the DOJ noted he would be taken to San Antonio for further proceedings.

The case is pending in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas. Two Mexican citizens connected to the deaths are also facing prison sentences on charges of possession of a weapon by an alien illegally in the U.S.

If convicted and sentenced to death, Zamorano and Martinez could be executed at the federal governments lethal injection chamber in Terre Haute, Indiana.

Only 16 federal prisoners have been put to death in recent decades, 13 of whom were executed during the final months of the Trump administration.

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U.S. Government Could Execute Two Men Accused of Smuggling 53 Illegal Aliens Who Died in San Antonio - The Texan

GENESEE COUNTY, MI -- Republicans have gained strength in their battle to unseat Dan Kildee from Congress thanks to redistricting but must decide next month who will be their standard-bearer against him in the general election in November.

Kildee, who has no opponent in the Aug. 2 Democratic primary, will face the winner of the three-candidate GOP field -- Paul Junge, Candice Miller and Matthew Seely.

Kildee and his three Republican challengers are running in the 8th congressional district, which was drawn as a result of redistricting thats been done on the local, state and federal levels following the results of the 2020 U.S. Census.

The new district includes much of Kildees current district, but adds parts of Midland County, including the city of Midland, which leans Republican.

Junge is a former criminal prosecutor who has worked in a family business, maintaining military family housing. He has served in the Department of Homeland Security and is a former investigative counsel for the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee.

Miller is a retired businesswoman who managed a petroleum company, serving as corporate board secretary.

Seely did not respond to a questionnaire from The League of Women Voters.

MLive and The Flint Journal in partnership with the LWV, are presenting the views of the candidates in contested primary elections through the VOTE411.org voter guide project.

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HEALTH CARE: What do you see as the federal governments role in health care? Given the COVID-19 pandemic, what are your concerns and plans regarding public health in the U.S.?

Junge: The goal is affordable and accessible healthcare and avoiding regulations that kick people off their healthcare plans. Government policies should allow small businesses the ability to better provide coverage for their employees, increase flexibility, empower patients and their doctors, and harness the private sectors ability to innovate and develop medications and cures.

Miller: I am for limited government. Government overreach has played a role in the pandemic and businesses and our kids have suffered. I will get our schools open and businesses thriving again!

ECONOMY: What federal policies do you support for a healthy economy and to help Americans without financial security improve their economic positions?

Junge: Families are being hit hard by the rising cost of goods and record high gas prices. We need to lower the tax burden on families and small businesses to help them afford the higher prices and to improve our economy. We need to stop the federal governments reckless spending that is driving up inflation. Additionally, we need to increase American energy production to lower gas prices. Empowering people rather than Washington DC politicians and bureaucrats will improve our economy and help people who are living paycheck-to-paycheck.

Miller: Again, I am for limited government. We need Government out of the way so businesses can compete in a global economy. The current 8th District is suffering from economic decline and we must invest in new jobs and lower taxes.

ELECTIONS: What federal policies do you support regarding elections, campaign funding and voting rights?

Junge: A photo ID should be required to vote, there needs to be strong signature verification for absentee ballots, and partisan balance among election observers is important. Voting is a fundamental right and the election process should be fair, secure, and efficient. The federal government should not be able to ban states from requiring a photo ID to vote or prevent other common sense security efforts.

Miller: I am pro-election integrity. I am for protecting our ballots and votes. One person equals one vote. No more Voter Fraud with Congresswoman Candice Miller!

SOCIAL JUSTICE: How would you address racial, economic, health and education inequities, including our countrys 16% of children and 10% of seniors living in poverty?

Junge: America needs to be the land of opportunity, which is accomplished by building a healthy economy, ensuring public safety, and providing a high-quality education for every child. We need to lean into our shared values of encouraging hard work, caring for our neighbors, investing and innovating, and leading the world in economic production and generosity.

Miller: Flint, Michigan and surrounding areas have witnessed the biggest decline due to Democratic polices. We need to invest locally and restore jobs by getting the Government out of the way to allow businesses to thrive. If we can bring jobs back to the 8th district, it will help our children and all families.

ENVIRONMENT & ENERGY: What policies do you support to meet U.S. energy needs while protecting our water, air and land for current and future generations?

Junge: There is no reason for the United States to be facing an energy crisis. We have the energy to sustain ourselves and we should promote Ultra Clean Coal (which reduces ash to 0.25% and Sulfur Dioxide to trace levels), nuclear energy (which does not release CO2 and is cost effective), oil, and natural gas. Granting energy exploration permits on Federal land and approving the Keystone pipeline brings down the price of distribution, creates jobs in the US & lowers gas prices. As energy investment and innovation grows, our environment becomes cleaner. Top priority is to harness American energy and make gas prices & utility bills more affordable.

Miller: We need to restore the infrastructure in Flint. All while stopping the government restrictions which cause a huge shortage of energy demands in our country. The EPA has too much power.

IMMIGRATION: What policies do you support relative to immigration to the U.S.?

Junge: There is a crisis at the border. We need to secure the border by building effective barriers and equipping border patrol. Additionally, we need to stop encouraging illegal immigration with handouts and other benefits. Legal immigration can help our economy and society, but uncontrolled illegal immigration leads to more crime, drugs, and lower wages.

Miller: I am 100% SECURE BORDERS! We need to continue to build a wall on the southern border to prevent illegal immigration. I am America First and support taking care of our own country and not those here illegally.

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