Important Takeaways:
- Thousands of migrants could be released en masse onto the streets in days, causing chaos in southern border communities as support funding dries up, say officials.
- Local governments and nonprofits in the region have long worked with U.S. border officials to take migrants to sites such as Casa Alitas, a Catholic-run shelter for migrant families in Tucson, Arizona, or the Regional Center for Border Health in Yuma.
- The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) disburses funds from the Shelter and Services Program to entities providing shelter, food, transportation, and support to people who have been processed and released from custody while awaiting the outcome of immigration proceedings. But that federal funding will run out on March 31.
- The migrant releases and reduction in adequate shelter will sow more disorder at the border, said Diego Piña Lopez, the executive director of Pima County’s Casa Alitas—which is expected to stop most operations soon due to lack of federal funding
- “I think that’s going to lead to a lot of chaos, and a lot more cost across the board for folks to get services, as many of the people coming through leave fairly quickly here,” Piña Lopez told The Arizona Republic.
- Pima County Administrator Jan Lesher said the county cannot afford the roughly $1 million per week that previously would have been covered by federal funds to keep migrants off the streets in border communities.
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Important Takeaways:
- EU “Suicide Pact” Threatens to Flood Continent With 75 Million More Migrants
- Severe penalties for countries that refuse to take them.
- The EU has passed a migration pact dubbed “the suicide of Europe” which could lead to the continent being flooded with as many as 75 million new migrants.
- Because cultural enrichment and diversity is “our greatest strength,” countries that try to maintain their national identity without being subsumed by migrants will be hit with severe financial penalties.
- Marine Le Pen, the leader of National Rally’s parliamentary wing, previously said the pact would lead to “the suicide of Europe,” adding that it was a deal with the devil and represents an “organized plan of submersion of Europe and the nations which compose it.”
- Member states will be forced to accept migrants or pay a massive financial penalty of €25,000 per migrant.
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Important Takeaways:
- 151K Migrants Apprehended Last Month in 2 Border Sectors — Shatters Prior Records
- Border Patrol agents in the Tucson and Del Rio Sectors apprehended approximately 151,000 migrants who illegally crossed the border between ports of entry during the month of December, according to unofficial reports reviewed by Breitbart Texas. The reported apprehensions shatter prior records for both sectors.
- Agents in the Tucson Sector broke a record going back to the Clinton administration with the apprehension of approximately 80,000 migrants in December. Del Rio Sector agents also obliterated a record set just over a year ago with the apprehension of approximately 71,000 migrants.
- The prior record for migrant apprehensions in the Tucson Sector was set in March 2000 when agents encountered 76,245 migrants, according to U.S. Border Patrol Encounter Reports. The December report of approximately 80,000 migrants beats that record by nearly five percent.
- During the first three months of Fiscal Year 2024, which began on October 1, Border Patrol agents in the nine southwest sectors apprehended 673,000 migrants who illegally crossed the border between ports of entry.
- During the past 12 months, Border Patrol agents apprehended more than 2,132,000 migrants. Since President Joe Biden’s first full month in office (February 2021) agents apprehended nearly 6.4 million migrants. These numbers do not include known or unknown got-aways.
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Important Takeaways:
- Border Patrol agents assigned to the nine southwest Border Patrol sectors apprehended at least 29,000 migrants who illegally crossed the border between ports of entry between December 22 and 25, according to unofficial Border Patrol reports obtained by Breitbart Texas.
- On Thursday, December 21, agents apprehended at least 9,000 more migrants. This brought the total for the last five days to at least 38,000 migrant apprehensions.
- The numbers included in these reports are likely understating the true number of apprehensions as migrants who are kept camping in outdoor detention areas along the border’s edge are not counted until they are processed into Border Patrol shelters, law enforcement sources previously told Breitbart.
- The Tucson Sector remained at the hot spot along the U.S.-Mexico border. Tucson agents apprehended at least 12,250 migrants during the five-day period. This was just slightly ahead of the nearly 12,000 migrants apprehended in the Del Rio Sector
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Important Takeaways:
- What Happens When You Add Millions Of Desperate Immigrants To A Nation That Has Already Become A Powder Keg?
- At this moment, the United States is conducting a massive social experiment. We have thrown our borders wide open and we are allowing vast hordes of extremely desperate illegal immigrants into this country every single day. We are doing this even though our nation is already a powder keg that could erupt at literally any moment.
- The truth is that we are literally committing national suicide.
- Transnational gangs from South America have been systematically robbing homes as far north as Michigan, and the sheriff of Oakland County says that this has been happening all over the nation…
- And thousands of additional illegal immigrants come pouring over the border with each passing day.
- On Monday, U.S. officials encountered more illegal immigrants at the border than they ever have before…
- Needless to say, many Republicans in Congress are fed up with this administration.
- US Congressman Tony Gonzales tweeted a video showing a sea of migrants waiting under a bridge in Eagle Pass, the community he represents, waiting to be processed by US Border Patrol.
- ‘14,000+ crossed ILLEGALLY yesterday & 26,000+ already in custody – the HIGHEST in US history,’ the Republican posted online.
- Christmas Day will be WORSE. President Biden has abandoned border communities like mine.’
- This nation is already a powder keg, and we keep adding more illegal immigrants to the equation with each passing day.
- This story is going to end very badly, but most of you already knew that.
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Important Takeaways:
- 121K Migrants Apprehended in 15 Days Along Southwest Border — 11K more Got Away
- Border Patrol agents assigned to the southwest U.S. border with Mexico apprehended approximately 121,000 migrants during the first 15 days of December, according to unofficial Border Patrol reports reviewed by Breitbart Texas. Another 11,000 migrants are listed as “got-aways.
- Since October 1, the start of FY24, agents have documented approximately 70,000 migrant got-aways. However, U.S. Customs and Border Protection does not regularly release official numbers.
- The Biden administration’s response to the yet-again surging number of apprehended migrants was to close legal ports of entry in Lukeville, Arizona, and Eagle Pass, Texas. In addition, the administration announced the closing of a major railway border crossing in Eagle Pass over the weekend.
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Important Takeaways:
- Chicago is so unpleasant migrants are fleeing BACK to Venezuela after being dumped in shelters and refused jobs, with 20,700 border crossers so-far bussed to Dem-run ‘sanctuary city’
- Since August last year, 20,700 migrants have arrived in Chicago from Texas. The Lone Star State’s Governor Greg Abbott sent migrants to Chicago and other Democrat-run cities because of their proud status as ‘sanctuary cities.’ They offer enhanced protection against detention or deportation for undocumented migrants.
- Now, Illinois’ harsh winters, lack of migrant infrastructure, and ambivalent support from locals has made many people, who undertook the harsh US-Mexico border journey, actually turn around and go back home.
- Michael Castejon, 39, told the Chicago Tribune: ‘The American Dream doesn’t exist anymore. There’s nothing here for us.’
- ‘We didn’t know things would be this hard. I thought the process was faster,’ he said about the job permit situation in Chicago.
- The city is also notorious for violent crime, with migrants forced to sleep in public more vulnerable to attack than most.
- At least 40 people in the last month have left Chicago’s 1st District station to either move back home or elsewhere in the States, with the help of Catholic Charities of Chicago.
- While most hail from Venezuela, they come from all over the world, including Africa, Europe and the Middle East.
- The city has allocated $4 million to help migrants find temporary housing, and the state has contributed another $38 million.
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Important Takeaways:
- According to a source within CBP, Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended a single group of migrants that crossed the U.S./Mexico border into San Miguel, Arizona. An initial headcount at the crossing scene on Saturday showed the group consisted of 1,200 migrants from across the globe. Saturday’s group is one of two large groups of more than 1,000 migrants to cross the border near San Miguel since November 1
- “There’s just no more room at the inn to hold them and no mechanism in place to remove them to their home country fast enough — we’re overwhelmed,” the source emphasized. In all, more than 2,000 migrants were apprehended within the Tucson Sector by Saturday’s end.
- Since October 1, more than 60,000 migrants have poured into the United States in the Tucson Sector
- The total value of the contract for the facility built in 2021 was more than $100 million. Due to capacity issues and a migrant surge that has only worsened, the source says the monthly operational costs have nearly doubled since the expansion project.
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Important Takeaways:
- Two Million Migrants Apprehended at Southwest Border for 2nd Straight Year
- In September, the last month of the fiscal year, Border Patrol agents apprehended just over 218,000 migrants, unofficial reports revealed. This brought the total for the year to approximately 2,045,000 migrant apprehensions. In addition, Border Patrol officials classified an additional 664,000 migrants as known got-aways.
- In contrast, during President Donald Trump’s last full fiscal year in office, agents apprehended only 400,651. During the last two months alone, agents apprehended 399,000 migrants.
- The two million migrant apprehensions do not include migrants who entered the country through the CBP One app and other immigration blanket parole programs not authorized by Congress.
- Following the end of Title 42 on May 11, the Biden administration relished in a brief decline in migrant apprehensions along the border. In June, agents apprehended 99,543 migrants.
- Since the low point in June, apprehensions jumped approximately 119 percent to September’s 218,000.
- The El Paso Sector finished the year in first place with the apprehension of more than 426,000 migrants. Del Rio finished the year in second place with the arrest of nearly 400,000 migrants. The Tucson, Rio Grande Valley, and San Diego Sectors rounded out the top five with 374,000, 338,000, and 230,000 respectively.
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Important Takeaways:
- Every step through the jungle, there is money to be made.
- The boat ride to reach the rainforest: $40. A guide on the treacherous route once you start walking: $170. A porter to carry your backpack over the muddy mountains: $100. A plate of chicken and rice after arduous climbing: $10. Special, all-inclusive packages to make the perilous slog faster and more bearable, with tents, boots and other necessities: $500, or more.
- Hundreds of thousands of migrants are now pouring through a sliver of jungle known as the Darién Gap, the only land route to the United States from South America
- But the windfall here at the edge of the continent is simply too big to pass up, and the entrepreneurs behind the migrant gold rush are…politicians, prominent businessmen and elected leaders
- The crush of migrants willing to risk everything to make it to the United States is “the best thing that could have happened” to a poor town
- The migration business as the only profitable industry in a place that “didn’t have a defined economy before
- More than 360,000 people have already crossed the jungle in 2023, according to the Panamanian government, surpassing last year’s almost unthinkable record of nearly 250,000
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