Letter to the Honorable Mark Green, Chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee
On the mythology of desperation, the ethic of expediency, and other “migration” atrocities from the Darién Gap and beyond. Opinion.
Dear Chairman Green:
I congratulate and commend you for taking leadership in the vitally important matter of investigating the causes, costs and consequences of the border crisis. There is no greater issue touching the rule of law and our national security than the catastrophic failure of the Biden administration to honor its mandates under Article II Section 3, and Article IV Section 4, of the Constitution of the United States.
On social media I introduce myself as an independent and politically-unaffiliated legal observer. In that capacity I have experienced, and have been witnessing others undergo, the devastating realization that our homeland security is being methodically undermined from within. I am regularly contacted by officers and employees of CBP, ICE, HSI, and others who have questions about the legality of DHS Secretary Mayorkas’ actions and policies, and I am asked what can be done. I explain that I only observe and report.
Many Americans, including current and former federal employees, are unaware of the oversight role of Congress and believe the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Justice, and President Biden are completely unchecked. I have also heard from would-be whistleblowers who had contacted their senators and representatives during the previous Congress, but they felt their concerns had been ignored. “They were not interested,” is what I continue to hear.
Since House leadership changed in January, I have tried to direct these American patriots to trusted Republican members of the House of Representatives, and to the appropriate committees, so that their concerns and information will reach receptive ears. It is my firmly held belief that while we are living in a time of crisis, we must continue to expose, to bear witness, and to document this administration’s crimes in the hope that they may be redressed at some future date — if only in the reckoning of history.
On 1 February 2022, the House Freedom Caucus held an unofficial, off-the-record hearing about the border crisis (“FreedomWorks hearing”).1 A full transcript of this hearing is enclosed. Although a plethora of official hearings (for which I thank the House Republicans) have been held during the current session of Congress, this unofficial hearing from the last session contains vital testimony from Todd Bensman about the United Nations’ involvement in perpetuating the crisis that must not be overlooked. Mr. Bensman, former counterterrorism intelligence manager for the Texas Department of Public Safety, further expands on the UN evidence in Chapter 11 of his book, Overrun.2 This hearing is truly extraordinary in that members of the House of Representatives were not permitted by Speaker Pelosi to hold an official hearing or even to use a room in the House to host a panel.
Article II, Section 3 “Take Care” clause: The President … shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed.
In light of the Supreme Court’s recent opinion in U.S. v. Texas,3 declining to address ICE’s radical law enforcement prioritization policies found in Secretary Mayorkas’ “Guidelines for the Enforcement of Civil Immigration Law,”4 I hope the committee’s investigation will take extra care to examine the impact of these policies on the rule of law, and the Article II Section 3 implications. The secretary’s “Guidelines” instruct ICE officers “in no uncertain terms to ignore congressional mandates regarding the arrest and detention of criminal aliens and aliens ordered removed.”5
By disposing of the Texas ICE case on the threshold issue of the plaintiff states’ standing, the Court avoided having to decide the merits of the states’ legal challenge. The SCOTUS majority, in their blind reliance on history and precedent, make the fatal error of assuming that Secretary Mayorkas is acting in good faith in his exercise of discretion. But the Court’s reliance on precedent and on misguided assumptions are folly in light of the realities — both at the southern border and within the interior of the United States. As Mayorkas himself has said many times, we are experiencing an “unprecedented” state of affairs.
Unfortunately, eight members of the Supreme Court failed to recognize the importance of the rule of law, and to understand how the “thin blue line” of law enforcement protects order from succumbing to chaos. Arguably, the one thing that permits human beings to live together in a civilized society is our common respect for law and order that can only come with the predictable application of the law. By declining to rule on the merits and refusing to review ICE’s enforcement policies, the Court has turned a blind eye to the profound erosion both of the public trust — and of the rule of law itself — that the Biden administration has effected.
The security impact of this policy is abundantly evident. Ransford Perry, a convicted child sex offender and Jamaican national who had been ordered deported and who lost his final deportation appeal in 2021, was not deported under the ICE Guidelines. New charges were announced on July 2 against Perry for sex offenses against another minor.6 Examples like this are far too numerous to list here. The Center for Immigration Studies’ National Security Vetting Failures Database documents “preventable federal government vetting failures that enabled entries of foreign nationals who threatened and harmed American national interests and public safety,”7 and is a testament to the failure of DHS to perform its fundamental remit. Moreover, the prohibition of enforcement measures compounds the problem of the open border. In the words of immigration law consultant Nolan Rappaport, “the fact that non immigrant visitors are not being put in removal proceedings has only become a magnet for more illegal immigration.”8
Whether the U.S. v. Texas decision signals that eight members of the U.S. Supreme Court are willing participants in DHS’s decisions to flout the rule of law, and in the Biden administration’s deconstruction of our Constitutional Republic in favor of anarcho-tyranny — one can only speculate. I therefore implore the Committee to fully investigate the DHS-ICE “Guidelines” and address their implications.
Article IV, Section 4 “Invasion” clause: The United States “shall protect each [State in this Union] against invasion”
There should be no debate over whether the Constitution requires an actual “invasion” in order for the protections of the Invasion Clause to be triggered. Any such argument would be positively absurd. The founders — and every sovereign nation in history, by definition — must recognize the necessity of border security to defend its territorial integrity. The plain language of the clause states the United States “shall protect … against invasion,” not “shall rush to respond to an invasion after it occurs.” Such an imagined argument becomes even more ridiculous when we remember the events of September 11, 2001, and the rationale for the very invention of the Department of Homeland Security itself. Invasion or not, Biden’s DHS has not been making a good faith effort to secure the border as required under the Department’s statutory remit;9 the Secure Fences Act of 2006; and Article IV Section 4.
In direct violation of the Article IV Section 4 mandate, Biden campaigned on an “open border” platform and promised, “there will not be another foot of wall constructed on my administration.”10 On his first day in office, Biden ordered an immediate halt to border wall construction and reallocated $2 billion to other projects.11 Only recently, grudgingly, and after great public outcry, has DHS resumed border wall construction near Yuma, Arizona, where gaps stood wide open — and where building materials had languished unused12 — for the first two years of the Biden administration.13 Meanwhile in Texas, the state has reached deep into its own pockets to secure the border, and contemplates spending up to $22 billion to complete wall construction promised and initiated by the Trump administration.14
This affirmative decision to allow gaps to stand open has, inevitably, emboldened cartel traffickers and foreign agents.15 In addition, the gross abuse of asylum combined with parole has created a state of chaos within DHS. In a recent op-ed, Mark Krikorian of the Center for Immigration Studies explains that dispensing with mandatory detention for those who seek asylum is an “executive usurpation” of Congress’ power to decide who enters the country and who remains.16 The basis of all the illegal entries “is something called ‘parole’”:
In the immigration context, parole is a narrow authority Congress gave the president to let in the occasional foreigner who has no right to be here in exceptional, temporary circumstances — a medical crisis, for example, or the need to testify at a trial. The Biden administration has abused this circumscribed power to create his own immigration system, untethered to the laws passed by Congress.17
In March, the federal district court in Florida v. U.S.A held that DHS’s “Parole Plus Alternatives to Detention” policy was unlawful and ordered it vacated.18 The response from DHS has been to create new parole programs and to funnel illegal immigrants into new “lawful pathways” via airports19 and through the use of the CBP One appointment scheduling app.20
The recent report from DHS’s Office of Inspector General21 catalogs a volume of errors made by multiple agencies that led to the release of an unnamed immigrant who is on a terror watchlist. This report illustrates the veritable collapse of homeland security functions. As Mr. Bensman notes, “The OIG report is unique in addressing a national security threat caused by President Biden’s mass migration crisis that few Americans, pundits, or national security experts acknowledge as real. The crisis has broken records, including the apprehension of more than 200 aliens on the FBI Terror Watchlist since 2020, and continues into its third year.”22 We must acknowledge that this collapse is the feature — not the bug — of Mayorkas’ DHS.
But behind the deconstructed border wall and failing security functions, a deeper examination of Biden “migration” policies in the global context reveals executive orders, internal memos and international compacts whose terms appear to directly violate both the “Take Care” clause and the “Invasion” clause. The Committee must undertake a thorough understanding of the Biden administration’s participation in the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration; the Los Angeles Declaration on Migration; and the activities of Secretary Mayorkas and Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Panama and throughout the region.
Executive Orders of February 2021 (EO 14010, 14011, 14012, 14013)
A series of four Executive Orders handed down in early February 2021 require close reading in order to understand the deceptive, duplicitous nature of the language used, and to see how the invocation of such lofty ideals as “the Nation’s highest values” obscures the underlying violations of the rule of law and our national security. The first is EO 10410, titled Creating a Comprehensive Regional Framework To Address the Causes of Migration, To Manage Migration Throughout North and Central America, and To Provide Safe and Orderly Processing of Asylum Seekers at the United States Border (“Framework”).23 The title alone reveals an epistemic grounding within a mythical paradigm in which spontaneous trans-continental human “migration” exists to be “managed” within a “regional framework.” Any objective review of the facts, in the light of common sense, tells us this paradigm is a fictional narrative.
The Framework asserts the United States “will enhance lawful pathways for migration to this country and will restore and strengthen our own asylum system, which has been badly damaged by policies enacted over the last four years that contravened our values and caused needless human suffering.”24 Certainly the “migration” of groups of people from one locale to another has occurred throughout human history. But in the postmodern era, the word “migration” has been reinvented and paired with the mainly fictional impetus of “climate change” in order to pave the way for mythical “lawful pathways” that are neither lawful nor literal. This rhetoric invokes the image of physical paths, trails, yellow brick roads that lead to — and through — our borders. But such pathways do not exist in the physical realm, and metaphorical “lawful pathways” require, well, lawfulness. The executive branch, however, does not write laws, and so to purport to create linguistic “lawful pathways” out of thin air — while simultaneously subverting the laws of the United States — is a clear abuse of executive power.
The Framework’s complaint that the “asylum system” had been “badly damaged” by the previous administration can only be valid if one believes asylum should be treated as an open invitation for “migrants.” It is asylum itself that is being manipulated and abused by the Biden administration in order to manufacture “lawful pathways” where none exist. Prioritizing “support for expanding pathways,” facilitating “access” and enhancing “processing efficiency” should be read as clear intent to undermine the lawful immigration process. Further, the Framework’s plea for a “Root Causes Strategy”25 to “identify and prioritize actions to address the underlying factors leading to migration in the region” is utterly moot; since “migration” does not exist, any hunt for its “root causes” can only be a fool’s errand.26
The Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (Compact)
A December 2021 statement27 announcing the United States’ adoption of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (Compact) reiterates the support for “humane migration” and the futile search for “root causes,” while noting that international migration is impacted by “climate change” and “is an inherently transnational phenomenon that no State can or should address alone.” Acknowledging that the Compact is not legally binding, the statement supports the development of “welcoming strategies that promote integration, inclusion, citizenship” and the “full participation by migrants, including refugees, in our civic life.”28 It is clear from this statement the intention was always to create “lawful pathways” not only to entry, but to U.S. citizenship.
While extolling the Biden administration’s commitment to “safe, orderly and humane migration,” the State Department explicitly limits the scope of this commitment where the wellbeing of children and protection of human life are concerned.
[T]he [Compact] makes reference to the principle, derived from Article 3 of the Convention of the Rights of the Child (CRC), which provides that the best interests of the child must be “a primary consideration” in all actions concerning children. The United States is not a party to the CRC. While the United States strongly supports child protection and takes into account the best interests of the child in certain immigration actions, it is not always a “primary consideration” in the immigration context.29
The statement also underscores that “the ‘right to life’ enshrined in Article 6 of the International Covenant on Civil Political Rights (ICCPR) does not encompass a positive duty to protect life in the face of all possible external threats.” In its embrace of the Compact, the State Department thus goes out of its way to articulate a preference for efficient “migration” (with the ultimate goal of U.S. citizenship) over the wellbeing of children and over the protection of human life.
The presence of children at the border and the incentives for bringing children to the border must be thoroughly understood. In light of a recent New York Times report30 on child trafficking facilitated by transnational criminal organizations (“cartels”), we can dispense with the assumptions that DHS policies are benign, and that Mayorkas acts in good faith. According to Tara Rodas, a Department of Health and Human Services whistleblower who testified before U.S. Congress concerning the federal government’s role in facilitating child trafficking, many unaccompanied alien children placed with “sponsors” are held in debt bondage and enslaved.31 Aaron Stevenson, a whistleblower who had worked for Customs and Immigration Services before moving to Homeland Security Investigations, detailed for Project Veritas how federal agencies hand off children to NGOs with no oversight, and to sponsors who may be known gang members, some with active deportation orders.32
A statewide grand jury first convened in June 2022 in Florida — whose investigation is still ongoing — found that DHS and the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR)’s management of unaccompanied children’s transport and release is “facilitating the forced migration, sale and abuse” of children.33 The investigation was prompted by locals who reported mysterious flights filled with children, arriving at night, at Jacksonville International Airport. Over 70 airplanes transporting thousands of unaccompanied minors arrived over a six-month period in 2021.34 One of the passengers, who had claimed to be a minor, was 24-year old Yery Noel Medina Ulloa who would later brutally murder his sponsor.35 ORR’s release of children to unvetted adult sponsors was described by the Grand Jury as a process that “exposes children to horrifying health conditions, constant criminal threat, labor and sex trafficking, robbery, rape and other experiences not done justice by mere words.”36
The Grand Jury’s statement concerning the value placed on child welfare stands in stark contrast to that of the Compact.
If any resident of Florida exposed U.S.-born children to this process, they would be justifiably arrested for child neglect or worse. We do not think children should be less-protected simply because they were born outside our borders and brought here by a government agency.37
The Grand Jury explains that the process for UACs is different from that of bone fide refugee children: “though similarly situated, Unaccompanied Refugee minors undergo a different process and have a different legal situation.”38 The haphazard screening, referral and placement process for these unaccompanied alien children — without DNA testing39 and with nominal effort to reunite children with their families — is inhumane and unacceptable by any standard.
The manifestation of this ethic of expediency40 and its prioritization above child welfare and even over human lives is all too evident in the reckless, compassionless distribution of tens of thousands of unaccompanied alien children to inadequately vetted individuals,41 and in the administration’s unabashed cooperation with the UN in the Northern Triangle, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, and throughout the western hemisphere — and perhaps beyond — to facilitate the illicit movement of people through Central America via the deadly Darién Gap.
Collaborative Migration Management Strategy (July 2021) (“Migration Strategy”)
As directed by EO 14010, the office of National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan prepared a Migration Strategy policy document addressing “the humanitarian situation in the Northern Triangle (El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras).”42 A “Root Causes Strategy” study was ordered separately, and evidence backing the supposed “root causes” does not appear in the Migration Strategy, which purports to “identif[y] and prioritize[] actions to strengthen cooperative efforts to manage safe, orderly and humane migration in North and Central America, in line with our Nation’s highest values….”43 The Migration Strategy cites “acute needs” in the Northern Triangle “given the COVID-19 pandemic, November 2020 hurricanes, and prolonged droughts,” but makes no attempt to make a case for why “migration” should be part of a strategy to address these “acute” (not chronic) humanitarian needs.44 The “desired end state” as defined by the Migration Strategy has nothing to do with curtailing illegal immigration into the United States:
This Strategy does not seek to end migration. To the contrary — human mobility is part of the fabric and tradition of Central and North America. Instead, the Migration Strategy envisions that migration within and through Mexico and Central America would be by choice, and that fewer people would feel compelled to make that choice. It envisions more legal pathways available for those who choose to leave. If individuals must flee, they would have options to seek protection within their own countries, within the region, or in the United States.45
The preposterous assumption that “migration” to the United States is the natural and inevitable end result of “acute needs” within the Northern Triangle is belied by the “Strategic Objectives” laid out in the Migration Strategy, including “support third country labor migration programs that facilitate equitable access to work opportunities.”46 The Migration Strategy also aims to “coordinate migration messaging campaigns to share accurate and timely information about migration laws and policies and counter mis- and disinformation”47 — messaging which, in fact, has served to incentivize rather than stem illegal immigration to the U.S.
Moreover, far from discouraging the movement of people through Central America, the Migration Strategy includes working with international organizations and governments to support the establishment of “Migration Resource Centers” (MRCs):
These facilities will focus on protection screening, services for people in need of protection, and referrals to protection or other lawful migration pathways…. Fixed location and mobile MRCs will be strategically located to benefit communities at risk of displacement, those with high levels of emigration, and in major transit hubs.48
Obviously, removing barriers to illegal immigration by providing resources along the route serves to encourage, rather than discourage, illicit transit. The Strategy goes on to expound on how securing international borders “with humane border management policies and practices” is essential to “managing migration within the region.”49 Clearly this is not a border security plan; this is a roadmap for an invasion. Fulfillment of the Strategy led the Biden administration to award $260 million50 in humanitarian aid to the Northern Triangle states to “support programs that reduce food insecurity for the most vulnerable, support survivors and those at risk of gender-based violence and children in need of protection, help households to restore their livelihoods, and provide safe drinking water for poor families.”51 While those causes are noble, Judicial Watch is mistaken in critiquing this as a “failed effort to curb irregular migration” — in fact, the Migration Strategy was never meant to curb illegal immigration at all.
The 2022 UN-IOM Ministerial Conference on Migration and Protection, and the U.S.-Panama Bilateral Arrangement on Migration and Protection
In April 2022 Secretaries Mayorkas’ and Blinken traveled to Panama to meet with representatives of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) “to discuss regional coordination in managing irregular migration.”
Secretary Mayorkas joined Foreign Ministers, Ministers of Security, and Ministers of Defense from North, Central, and South America, as well as multilateral development banks, UNHCR, UNICEF, IOM, and other organizations to discuss the importance of a regional approach to managing migration and regional responsibility sharing.…
Secretary Mayorkas addressed the need to coordinate at a regional level to stem irregular migration flows through enhanced prevention and enforcement efforts; create viable legal pathways; address root causes and invest in the stabilization of communities that need it most; foster legitimate trade and travel to help economies prosper; screen and repatriate those who do not qualify for relief; and combat transnational crime.52
The prime movers of the current illegal immigration crisis are, by now, thoroughly documented and well understood to be the collapse of border security at the U.S.-Mexico border brought about by “alternatives to detention” — parole and related policies that facilitate entry.53 Deceptive rhetoric from the Secretary concerning “irregular migration flows” and “hemispheric challenges” contribute to the treatment of the unlawful movement of people across borders as though it were, in the words of Panamanian Foreign Minister Erika Mouynes, an “unstoppable phenomenon.”54 This is, of course, an absurd statement that flies in the face of facts and common sense. The notion of human “migration” is, itself, both dehumanizing and erroneous. Modern humans — in the absence of war, natural disaster or massive political upheaval — do not “migrate,” like flocks of birds or herds of cattle. People make decisions based on their calculations of risks and rewards. Biden policies have practically eliminated the risk of repatriation, making the enticing reward of entering the United States an inevitability.
Moreover, to describe the DHS-created crisis in terms of “migration” seeks to remove agency and responsibility from the United States and its policies, making the U.S. border a passive victim of an unstoppable phenomenon — as though “migration” were a force of nature, a “hemispheric challenge” to be (absurdly) anticipated and endured — rather than resisted or prevented through secure borders and application of the law.
The committee should therefore examine the involvement of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, the IOM, the Red Cross, and the “multilateral development banks” (identified in a speech by Secretary Blinken as “the World Bank, … the Andean Development Corporation, the Central American Bank for Economic Integration, the Inter-American Development Bank, and the International Monetary Fund”)55 in order to understand the role of the UN and other foreign influences over the Biden administration. The introduction of “migration” rhetoric serves a subversive agenda — one that is obviously beyond the remit of the Department of Homeland Security.56
In addition, a Judicial Watch investigation reported that during Mayorkas’ August 2021 visit to the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas, ostensibly to support local efforts to control illegal immigration and secure the gaps, Mayorkas met in a private session with a number of George Soros and Open Society-connected “open borders” activist groups.57
For a fuller understanding of how asylum seekers transit to, and through, Central America, and to better comprehend the heartbreaking truths of the Darién Gap, we have the work of investigative journalists Todd Bensman, Michael Yon, Oscar Ramirez, Chuck Holton, Anthony Rubin, and Ben Bergquam who have all, jointly and separately, made multiple trips to and through the Darién Gap, reported on the camps and services available on the “migration trail,” and interviewed asylum seekers. 58
Mr. Bensman explained to the FreedomWorks panel that at migrant camps in Mexico, psychological services were offered for those who had been previously refused asylum in Mexico (which they sought on their path to U.S. entry) on the basis of failing their credible fear interviews. He explained that the psychologists were there to help asylum seekers retrieve repressed memories of trauma, so that they could make a second attempt.59 Mr. Bensman also revealed to the panel that he had seen pamphlets from the UN-IOM and UN High Commissioner on Refugees, detailing instructions for “migrants” on how to successfully evade the law.60
More recent research trips by Mr. Yon and others have uncovered further evidence of the UN’s presence on the migration trail in Colombia and Central America, including UN-IOM branded “rape kits” containing condoms, a whistle, and “morning after pills” that are directly funded by the U.S. Department of State.61 The horrific reality of sexual violence in the Darién Gap is documented in a video interview with a rape survivor named Justy who details being trapped, along with her family, at the migrant camp. “If I can’t come up with $40 per person I can’t leave,” she said. “One comes with a dream but one has to live through something very different.”62 In addition to the ubiquitous threat of violence in the Gap, on his most recent trip in early May Mr. Yon reported the presence in the camps of malaria, dengue, chagas, chikungunya, scabies, antibiotic-resistant tuberculosis and other diseases.63
The attempt to somehow normalize and sanitize the victimization of women and children on the “migration trail” is utterly abhorrent. Yet the UN and NGOs rationalize and mythologize this violence by asserting that these people allow themselves to be victimized for a chance at reaching the United States because whatever horrors they are fleeing from in their home countries must be far worse. But according to Mr. Bensman, who has interviewed hundreds of “migrants,” the majority indicate they are coming for economic reasons. The evidence is clear that DHS’s “humanitarian” parole program is entirely a fiction.64
DHS Plan for Southwest Border Security and Preparedness (“Plan”)
In April 2022, expecting Biden to lift the Title 42 public health order imminently (though it actually remained in effect until May 12, 2023), Secretary Mayorkas issued an elaborate 20-page memo (Plan) detailing “a comprehensive and deliberate strategy to secure our borders and build a safe, orderly, and humane immigration system.”65
When the Title 42 public health order is lifted, we anticipate migration levels will increase, as smugglers will seek to take advantage of and profit from vulnerable migrants. The increase in migration being experienced by the United States is consistent with larger global trends….66
Mayorkas uses the term “encounters” to quantify the asylum-seekers at the border, trumpeting “how DHS is leading the execution of a whole-of-government plan to prepare for and manage increased encounters of noncitizens,” creating an impression that he intends to head off and deny entry to the “record number of noncitizens trying to enter the United States multiple times.”67 This phrasing suggests that the same individuals are encountered, rebuffed, and encountered again, creating high numbers of “encounters” of people who are ultimately turned away. But of course, in DHS parlance, “encounters” does not refer to those denied entry.
Mayorkas’ duplicitous language places emphasis on “processing efficiency,” with expediency as an end in itself. The stated goals are to “surg[e] resources”:
To “support border operations”;
“Increase processing efficiency” and “streamline[] processing” to “further facilitate safe and orderly inspection of noncitizens”; and,
“Increase[] civilian processing personnel” to “perform those [processing] functions” and enhance “processing efficiency.”68
Of course, “processing” refers not to a factory assembly line, but to Mayorkas’ digitized, dehumanized system of introducing illegal aliens — including unaccompanied children — into the United States as rapidly and efficiently as possible.
The Plan takes credit for accomplishments DHS has not achieved, while complaining about problems it does not have. Mayorkas claims DHS and other federal agencies:
“intensified our [cartel] disruption efforts, marshaling the largest surge of resources and disruptive activities against human smuggling networks in recent memory”;
“established a new intelligence unit to coordinate and strengthen the capability for early warning of migrant movements”; and,
“are sending a clear message … to counteract misinformation from smugglers.”69
The Committee’s investigation will reveal that those statements are farcical. Mayorkas’ claims are smoke and mirrors behind which the mass migration scheme hides.
Respecting “sending a clear message,” the role of pro-migration propaganda in Latin America needs to be understood. Soros-backed groups such as La Alianza Americas lobby in the U.S. in favor of open borders and mass migration from Latin American countries to the United States, using Spanish-language news media to advance their cause.
La Alianza Americas, una red multiétnica y multirracial conformada por 56 organizaciones de base en 18 estados que luchan por políticas equitativas … agregó que como organización les preocupa que las medidas tomadas frente a la migración se queden en la frontera, ya que consideran que es un abordaje insuficiente. (Alianza Americas, a multi-ethnic and multi-racial network made up of 56 grassroots organizations in 18 countries that fight for equitable policies … are concerned that the measures taken against migration remain at the border, since they consider that an insufficient approach.)70
I became aware of La Alianza Americas when the group filed a lawsuit against Governor Ron DeSantis for transporting a group of illegal immigrants from Texas to Massachusetts. News reports revealed the group received nearly $1.4 million from Soros nonprofits between 2016 and 2020.71
Such groups are active in the United States as well. During a trip to El Paso in January, New York City Mayor Eric Adams pointed out the failure of the Biden administration to clarify the U.S. position on illegal immigration. He expressed his dismay with pro-“migration” groups and their propaganda, stating:
There are websites advertising that [in] New York City basically streets are paved with gold, that there is automatic employment, that you are automatically going to be living in a hotel. There’s a conversation among those who are … asylum seekers and migrants who are given the false impression that, if you come to New York City, everything is fine.72
Advocacy groups also enforce their paradigm through bombastic rhetoric. As response and counterpoint to Adams’ position, Politico reported that immigrant advocacy group Make the Road New York criticized Adams for bemoaning the expense of accommodating asylum seekers, and demanded Mayor Adams must do more for illegal immigrants. According to their website, Make the Road New York — Se Hace Camino Nueva York — is a large advocacy group affiliated with The Center for Popular Democracy, another Soros-backed group. Referring to the migrants as “New Yorkers,” Make the Road New York’s Co-Executive Director Jose Lopez boldly and outrageously stated:
The absolute last thing New York City needs is Mayor Adams grandstanding on the border while New Yorkers are struggling. Instead of trying to play ‘national political figure,’ the mayor should be in our city, focused on solving the real problems facing New Yorkers — including the need for truly affordable housing, tackling homelessness, and ensuring that everyone, regardless of their immigration status, has access to the services they need.73
This is alarming rhetoric coming from a foreign lobbying group. The speaker, through his language and tone, assumes a great deal of authority that he does not have. He positions himself as the voice of all of New York, openly castigating Mayor Adams for failing to address the needs of “New Yorkers.” He names a litany of needs, finally mentioning “regardless of immigration status” almost as an afterthought. But Jose Lopez does not speak for New Yorkers — he speaks for Soros. And we can count on left-leaning publications like Politico to find counterpoint voices to represent not only the progressive agenda, but to amplify it far beyond its due.
The collapse of the southern border is part of a much bigger picture. In the wake of a 2016 leak of Open Society Foundation emails – a document dump that was widely ignored by the progressive news media – an op-ed in the Jerusalem Post pointed to the vastness of Soros’ funding network of so-called “grassroots” progressive groups and underlined the “megalomaniacal nature of Soros’ philanthropic project.”
On the surface, the vast number of groups and people he supports seem unrelated…. But the fact is that Soros-backed projects share basic common attributes. They all work to weaken the ability of national and local authorities in Western democracies to uphold the laws and values of their nations and communities.
They all work to hinder free markets, whether those markets are financial, ideological, political or scientific. They do so in the name of democracy, human rights, economic, racial and sexual justice and other lofty terms.
In other words, their goal is to subvert Western democracies and make it impossible for governments to maintain order or for societies to retain their unique identities and values.74
Mayorkas complains that DHS is “operating within a fundamentally broken immigration system” that was “not built to manage the current levels and types of migratory flows that we are experiencing.”75 Obviously, breaking the system was the intention all along. “There are a lot of smart people back there,” Col. Steven McCraw, Executive Director of the Texas Department of Public Safety and Director of Texas Homeland Security, testified before Congress. “It would be impossible not to know what to do. This is not rocket science.”76
Mayorkas’ dissembling does not stop with his duplicitous use of language. DHS agencies have flagrantly manipulated and withheld data in order to mislead the public and stymie congressional oversight.77 At the start of the 118th Congress, Mayorkas’ attempt to block senior Border Patrol chiefs from testifying before Congress was more evidence of a “political smokescreen … erected around the chaos at the southern border.”78
In his own numerous appearances before Congress, Mayorkas has appeared oblivious to facts concerning the dangers of human “migration” through Central America and Mexico. Yet the Plan, authored and signed by Secretary Mayorkas himself, reveals his own understanding of the dangerous journey and of the threats to human life. He concludes with the mythology of desperation.
Movements into and through Mexico are often facilitated by numerous human smuggling organizations that exploit them for profit, and involve crossing inhospitable jungles, rugged mountains, and raging rivers, often with small children in tow. Upon reaching the border area, noncitizens seeking to enter the United States without going through the [official Ports of Entry] pay cartels to guide them along the final miles of the journey. This cartel-controlled movement of people across the border is a billion-dollar criminal enterprise. The cartels wilfully place noncitizens in danger during their journey. Tragically, a significant number of individuals perish along the way. The depth of suffering these migrants are willing to endure speaks to the desperation they feel about their prospects in their home countries.79
Mayorkas has firsthand knowledge of the Darién, having visited at least twice. After his most recent trip to the region in April 2023 for a meeting with officials from Panama and Colombia “to address one of the most pressing issues in the region: irregular migration,” a Trilateral Joint Statement was issued by DHS announcing a “coordinated sixty-day campaign” to “end the illicit movement of people and goods through the Darién” and “open new lawful and flexible pathways for tens of thousands of migrants and refugees as an alternative to irregular migration.”80 Of course, no actions have been taken to end the illicit transit.
Mayorkas explicitly blames the cartels for increased “migration levels” as “smugglers will seek to take advantage of and profit from vulnerable migrants.”81 But as we know, Biden policies consistently motivate, rather than discourage, “migration”. The Plan should be carefully scrutinized as evidence not of the six pillar, whole-of-government “border security plan” it purports to be, but as evidence of a coordinated scheme — involving the State Department (DOS), Defense Department (DOD), Justice Department (DOJ), Health and Human Services (HHS), and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) — to undermine the rule of law and to facilitate invasion.82 Specifically, the Plan outlines:
The role of DOD to “provide, as needed, rapid contracting support for air and ground transportation, as well as land for the establishment of temporary facilities for migrant processing and lodging for housing federal employees near the Southwest Border”;
The role of DOJ to provide “transportation support and law enforcement personnel from the Bureau of Prisons and U.S. Marshals Service”; and,
ODNI “is providing intelligence coordination and support to strengthen the capability for early warning of migrant surges at the Southwest Border.”83
A more conspiratorial mind than mine might look for evidence that this scheme does not originate with President Biden, but more likely has its origins in the Obama administration or earlier.84
On 6 July 2023 journalist Oscar Ramirez shared, via livestream, a testimonial message about what he witnessed firsthand during his nine trips to the Darién Gap. Mr. Ramirez recorded himself, sitting in his car, as he reflected. The video, titled “Is there child abuse in the caravans in the Darién Gap?” has since been removed from YouTube, but I memorialized some of his comments. According to Mr. Ramirez:
In nine caravans, there was not one time I did not witness abuse.
We have a human crisis. These international organizations are aiding and abetting this human misery to continue.
In Necoclí, Colombia, they were giving out rape kits. You will have a whistle, you will have a condom, and you will have Plan B pills. This is what the United Nations is giving out before you enter the Darién Gap. This is unbelievable….
There have been a lot of migrants incapable of making it out. They have drowned, migrants have lost their kids, then later they hung themselves out of desperation and depression. It is horrible.
When you walk with them, and talk with them, and witness these continuing circumstances as they are happening, you ask — why? Why does nobody do something to stop this child abuse, to stop this abuse toward women, and to stop the abuse towards migrants because this is human misery.85
When we know the truth about these abuses, how can we stand by and allow them to continue? The people have said: No. In the words of the Florida Grand Jury:
We understand that one of the typical defenses of this process is that only a small number of children fall prey to any of these misfortunes. To that we say two things: (1) this is a false trope, presented either by those who are utterly ignorant of reality or those who would see the current conditions continue — the number and percentage of [children] experiencing problematic scenarios is not small by any stretch; and (2) even one such easily preventable case is unacceptable.86
On behalf of the investigative journalists and whistleblowers who have come forward to bear witness and present their evidence, I now appeal to the United States Congress to acknowledge and address these heartbreaking atrocities. These acts are being performed in the name of the people of the United States; this an unacceptable state of affairs.
Los Angeles Declaration on Migration and Protection (“Declaration”)
The non-binding Los Angeles Declaration, signed in June 2022 by President Biden and 20 other signatory nations in the Western hemisphere, is a commitment to coordinated “management” and expansion of “migration,” without discussion of whether those “migrants” qualify for bona fide refugee status under international law. Expanding “legal pathways” is one of the four “pillars” of the Declaration, but the Biden administration has circumvented Congress in order to create those (illegal) “pathways”. As a result, the Declaration makes no distinction between those who would legitimately qualify for refugee status under U.S. law, versus those who merely seek a better life with more opportunities.
A “Fact Sheet” summarizing the Declaration includes:
Pillar II: Legal Pathways and Protection Expanding legal pathways for protection and opportunity is at the heart of efforts to humanely address irregular migration in the Americas. The goal is to change the way people migrate. Countries in the region have strategically pegged priority legal pathway programs with the primary reasons for migrating: (1) jobs; (2) protection; and (3) family reunification (emphasis in original).87
As Bensman and others have documented, the overwhelming majority of “asylum seekers” at our border are seeking better jobs and better opportunities, as well as hoping to reunite with family or bring family members later. The United States’ commitment to improving “the efficiency and fairness of asylum at the border,” as explicitly outlined in the Declaration, is beyond the constitutionally-granted powers of the executive branch to rewrite.88
Despite the catastrophic failures of the Biden administration to uphold constitutionally mandated and essential functions of government, Mayorkas continues to take victory laps. Just last month, at the June 2023 ministerial meeting of the Los Angeles Declaration, hosted by the World Bank in Washington, DC, Mayorkas delivered remarks reiterating the Biden administration’s immigration mantra:
We are nations of immigrants, and we are nations of laws. We are keeping people across our hemisphere safe, and doing so while living up to our values and obligations.
The progress we are making together, for our region, for our countries, and for our people is promising and speaks of a better future.89
Conspicuously absent from Mayorkas’ rhetoric is any mention of the United States, or any concern for the negative impacts of illegal immigration. His focus is on the region, the hemisphere, and “our people”: “This administration has overseen the largest expansion of safe, legal migration pathways to our country in decades, even as we have strengthened enforcement of our immigration laws in a manner that protects asylum and related protections for those who need it.”90
We must not forget that the administration’s policies have also disintegrated border security in the north. “Now we are seeing an 800 percent plus increase” in illegal crossings, Ronald Vitiello, former acting director of ICE, told Newsmax in February. “The same conditions that force agents to be off the line doing processing, caring for people who are lost in the snow and in the tundra, and that distracts them from seizing drugs, from arresting criminals, saving people from human trafficking. It’s because of the policies of this administration.”91 Vitiello refutes the notion that the Biden administration inherited a broken system.
They were handed a border that had 45-year lows in activity of illegal migration across the southwest border. The gotaway numbers were lower, the human trafficking and the deaths were lower, the number of terrorist database watchlist hits were lower, and now it’s out of control in every category. He’s broken every single record … and he has to deny it because otherwise he would admit this failure and give them more ammunition for the House Republicans to arrange an impeachment hearing.92
Mark Morgan, former acting Border Patrol Commissioner, pointed out that pulling agents and resources from the northern border to help the southern border opened up opportunities for transnational criminal organizations to exploit. “The cartels don’t just operate in Mexico along our southern border. They operate [throughout] the entire world, including Canada…. It’s exactly the same cartels that are pushing threats across our southern border.”93
During a February 2023 trip to the Polish-Ukrainian border, Secretary Mayorkas told the international news media that protecting borders and deterrence is the strongest message that could be sent to a potential aggressor.94 To say this statement adds insult to injury might unduly diminish the utter absurdity of the Secretary and the bad faith of the Biden administration.
We might consider the reasons for the UN-IOM to route human beings through the Darién Gap. From Mr. Yon’s reporting, it is my understanding that people from all over the world begin their transit through Panama by flying first to Quito, because Ecuador does not require an entry visa (at least, this was the case in March and April). Therefore, an earnest search for “root causes” might involve diplomacy with the state of Ecuador. My most cynical theory is that the Darién Gap and its horrors are a requirement in order to bolster the mythology of desperation. This entire playbook requires a cover story to explain why the immigrants are coming here, and the reason must be compelling enough to excuse their vast numbers. What reason could be more compelling than some unspoken, unimaginable horror that is necessarily worse than walking the Darién Gap? In mathematical terms, the unspoken horror from which they flee necessarily must exceed the horrors of the journey.
If we can no longer rely on the federal government to apply the law, the very reasons for existing as a federation of states evaporate. Without predictable and reliable execution and enforcement of laws, what need have we for a federal legislature? Without meaningful judicial review, what need have we for a federal courts system? To be ruled exclusively by a federal executive (a chaotic one at that) — without meaningful checks on executive power — is the very definition of authoritarian rule. The curtain has been pulled back; we now see clearly that the legislative and judicial functions of our federal government are, under the Biden administration, little more than charades.
On a personal note, I would like to affirm that you and I both live in a world that is based — deeply rooted — in objective truth, bedrock principles of the United States Constitution, and Webster’s Dictionary. We do not live in a world, or in a nation, that abuses language in order to reshape the world. You and I do not exist in a world in which a justice of the United States Supreme Court may be excused for refusing to define the word, “woman.” We are on rocky ground, not shifting sands.
The Democrats and mainstream media will attempt to portray this investigation as political retaliation for the impeachments of President Trump. They will attempt to shift the focus away from the subject matter at hand. I beg you not to allow the name of President Trump to be used by the Democrats to steal the focus of your investigation or to steer you off course. Please be reminded that President Trump and his troubles are irrelevant to the lost children and to the humanitarian disaster created by the present administration, and the national security nightmare which must be laid squarely at the feet of President Biden, Secretary Mayorkas, Secretary Blinken and others in the present administration.
Again, I thank you and the Committee most wholeheartedly for your attention to the international humanitarian crisis caused by the Biden-Harris regime and Secretary Mayorkas.
Sincerely,
Amy Suzanne Martin, MA JD
“House Freedom Caucus FreedomWorks Congressional Hearing on the Border Crisis.” 1 February 2022. Video: Fb.watch/kUJaADhMCy
Bensman, Todd. Overrun: How Joe Biden Unleashed the Greatest Border Crisis in U.S. History. Post Hill Press, 2023. [“An online UN document titled ‘IOM Emergency Manual’ (since removed from the internet but not before I screen-shot it) said the program did indeed hand out ‘debit cards’ along with e-wallets, as well as bank transfers, mobile transfers, paper vouchers, e-vouchers, and, my personal favorite, ‘cash in envelopes.’” p. 247]
Supreme Court of the United States. U.S. v. Texas, docket no. 22-58, slip op. 899 U.S. ___ (Jun. 23, 2023).
United States, Immigration and Customs Enforcement. “Guidelines for the Enforcement of Civil Immigration Law.” 30 September 2021. Available: https://www.ice.gov/doclib/news/guidelines-civilimmigrationlaw.pdf
Fishman, George. “The Supreme Court Declares DHS Can Ignore Congressional Enforcement Mandates.” 29 June 2023. Center for Immigration Studies. Available: https://cis.org/Fishman/Supreme-Court-Declares-DHS-Can-Ignore-Congressional-Enforcement-Mandates
Dinan, Stephen. “ICE Released a Repeat Child Sex Offender Who Is Now Accused of Raping a 13-Year-Old Girl.” Washington Times, 11 July 2023.
Bensman, Todd. “Learning from Our Mistakes: About the National Security Vetting Failures Database.” Center for Immigration Studies, 8 March 2023. Available: https://cis.org/Report/Learning-Our-Mistakes
Rappaport, Nolan. “How Alejandro Mayorkas is shielding almost a million deportable immigrants from removal.” The Hill, 7 July 2023.
Pub.L. 107-296 (see, e.g., Sec. 402: “The Secretary … shall be responsible for … preventing the entry of terrorists and the instruments of terrorism into the United States.”)
Quoted in Mallory, Brook. “Biden Administration Quietly Fills In Half The Gaps In Border Wall.” One America News Network, 11 July 2023.
Montoya-Galvez, Camilo. “Biden returns $2 billion in funds Trump had diverted from Pentagon to use for border wall.” CBS News, 11 June 2021.
Testimony of Russell Johnson. FreedomWorks hearing (at 21:00).
Klepp, Adam. “Yuma wall gap construction set to finish as Title 42 ends.” KYMA News, 8 May 2023.
Giaritelli, Anna. “Wall of waste: States spend billions of dollars on border crisis after unbuilt Trump wall.” Washington Examiner, 13 July 2023.
See, e.g., Michael Yon [@michael_yon] with Anthony Rubin. “Border Dangers.” Twitter. 31 May 2023. Available: https://twitter.com/michael_yon/status/1663955185767682050?s=61
Krikorian, Mark. “Turning Immigration Law on Its Head.” The American Conservative, 13 July 2023.
Ibid.
U.S. District Court, Northern District of Florida, Pensacola Div. Florida v. U.S.A., 8 March 2023. Available: http://legacy.myfloridalegal.com/webfiles.nsf/WF/GPEY-CPQPAB/$file/final%20order.pdf (The Florida court also found DHS’s “Non-Detention Policy” would also be unlawful and subject to vacatur if it were a justiciable “final agency action” — which the court held it was not).
Dinan, Stephen. “Illegal immigrants stream into airports as Biden plans kick in.” The Washington Times, 11 June 2023.
Dinan, Stephen. “DHS opens wider door for illegal immigrants to schedule their arrival.” The Washington Times, 30 June 2023.
Cuffari, Joseph V. CBP Released a Migrant on a Terrorist Watchlist, and ICE Faced Information Sharing Challenges Planning and Conducting the Arrest. U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Office of the Inspector General. 28 June 2023. Available: https://cis.org/sites/default/files/2023-07/OIG-23-31-Jun23-Redacted.pdf
Bensman, Todd. “Government Report Faults Border Crisis for Premature Release of Suspected Terrorist.” Center for Immigration Studies, 5 July 2023. Available: https://cis.org/Bensman/Government-Report-Faults-Border-Crisis-Premature-Release-Suspected-Terrorist
U.S. Executive Office of the President [Joseph R. Biden]. Executive Order 14010: Creating a Comprehensive Regional Framework To Address the Causes of Migration, To Manage Migration Throughout North and Central America, and To Provide Safe and Orderly Processing of Asylum Seekers at the United States Border. 2 Feb. 2021. Federal Register, Vol. 86. No. 23, 5 Feb. 2021, pp. 8267-8271.
Ibid.
“Framework,” Sec. 2.
Bensman, Todd. “‘Root Causes’ Aren’t Behind Migrant Surge — It’s Open Borders.” New York Post, 13 October 2022.
U.S. Department of State. “Revised National Statement of the United States of America on the Adoption of the Global Compact for Safe Orderly and Regular Migration.” 17 December 2021. Available: https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/GCM.pdf
Ibid.
Ibid.
Dreier, Hannah. “Alone and Exploited, Migrant Children Work Brutal Jobs Across the U.S.” New York Times, 25 February 2023. (Dreier’s two-part exposé, while groundbreaking, whitewashes the facts concerning child trafficking by failing to report on sex trafficking and the role of the cartels.)
The Biden Border Crisis: Exploitation of Unaccompanied Alien Children. 118th Congress (2023) (testimony of Tara Lee Rodas).
Project Veritas. “DHS Insider Who Exposed ‘Reasonable Fear’ Migrant Asylum Loophole Goes PUBLIC.” 18 October 2021.
Blankley, Bethany. “Florida Grand Jury Report Released Over Investigation Into Unaccompanied Minors Released Into U.S. by Biden.” The Center Square, 3 Apr 2023.
Ibid.
Donlevy, Katherine & Jack Morphet. “Migrant posing as minor who killed father of four that took him in gets 60 years in prison.” New York Post, 3 March 2023.
Supreme Court of Florida. Third Presentment of the Twenty-First Statewide Grand Jury Regarding Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC).” Case No. SC22-796, 29 March 2023, p. 2. Available: https://justthenews.com/sites/default/files/2023-04/3rd%20Presentment%20of%2021st%20SWGJ.pdf
Ibid. p.1. (emphasis added).
Ibid. p.1. fn.1. (emphasis in original).
Ibid. p.5.
See Katz, Stephen B. “The Ethic of Expediency: Classical Rhetoric, Technology, and the Holocaust.” College English, Vol. 54, No. 3 (Mar., 1992), pp. 255-275. Available: https://www.jstor.org/stable/378062
Shaw, Adam. “Whistleblower to tell House that US govt is 'middleman' in multibillion dollar migrant child trafficking op.” FoxNews.com, 25 April 2023.
National Security Counsel. [President Biden]. Collaborative Migration Management Strategy. July 2021.
Ibid. p.3.
Ibid. p.7.
Ibid. p.5.
Ibid. p.6.
Ibid.
Ibid. p.8.
Ibid. p.11.
Judicial Watch. “U.S. Gives Central America $260 Mil in Humanitarian Aid in Failed Effort to Curb ‘Irregular Migration’.” 28 February 2023. Available: https://www.judicialwatch.org/us-gives-central-america-260-mil/
United States Agency for International Development (USAID). “United States Announces Additional $42.5 Million in Humanitarian Assistance for the People of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras.” 15 February 2023. Available: https://www.usaid.gov/news-information/press-releases/feb-15-2023-united-states-announces-additional-425-million-humanitarian-assistance-people-el-salvador-guatemala-and-honduras
U.S. Department of Homeland Security. “Readout of Secretary Mayorkas’ Trip to Panama.” 20 April 2022. Available: https://www.dhs.gov/news/2022/04/20/readout-secretary-mayorkass-trip-panama
Arthur, Andrew R. “What’s Biden Doing with Migrants at the Ports of Entry?” Center for Immigration Studies, 30 May 2023. Available: https://cis.org/Arthur/Whats-Biden-Doing-Migrants-Ports-Entry
“Readout.”
United States, Department of Homeland Security. “Secretary Mayorkas Delivers Remarks at a Joint Media Availability with Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken, Panamanian Foreign Minister Erika Mouynes, and Panamanian Public Security Minister Juan Manuel Pino Forero.” (21 April 2022). Available: https://www.dhs.gov/news/2022/04/21/secretary-mayorkas-delivers-remarks-joint-media-availability-secretary-state-antony
A deeper look into the history of the United States’ relationship with the UN with respect to population management may reveal US policy interests have actually recruited the UN to carry water in the same way DHS has recruited NGOs. See: National Security Study Memorandum 200: Implications of Worldwide Population Growth for U.S. Security and Overseas Interests (“NSSM 200”) (“Kissinger Report”). 10 December 1974. https://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/Pcaab500.pdf
Judicial Watch. “Mayorkas Secretly Met with Soros-Funded Groups During Border Trip to Address Migrant Crisis.” 13 September 2022. https://www.judicialwatch.org/mayorkas-border-trip/
See, e.g., Bensman, Todd. “Mass Migration Through Panama’s Darien Gap Destroying an Indigenous Tribe – and Human Rights Organizations Don’t Care.” Center for Immigration Studies, 13 December 2021; Michael Yon, “Panama’s Darién Gap.” Panel Discussion. 9 December 2021. Available: Mass Migration Through Panama’s Darien Gap Destroying an Indigenous Tribe – and Human Rights Organizations Don’t Care; Chuck Holton, “'It Is Human Torture, and They're Abusing People': The Brutal Smuggling Game Along the Darien Gap.” CBN News. 9 March 2023; Chuck Holton [@RangerHolton], “Many Migrants Drowned This Week in the Darién Gap.” Twitter, 17 May 2023. Available: https://twitter.com/rangerholton/status/1659006159221821448?s=61; Anthony Rubin [@RealMuckraker], “The Darién Gap Mass Migration Pipeline Exposed.” Twitter, 10 May 2023. Available: https://twitter.com/realmuckraker/status/1656433239412834304?s=61
FreedomWorks hearing, p. 10; see also, Todd Bensman. “Bensman Testifies before the House Freedom Caucus on the Mass Migration Crisis at the Southern Border February 1, 2022.” Available: https://www.toddbensman.com/the-hero-texas-cop-who-killed-the-two-garland-isis-terrorists/
Ibid.
See, e.g. Frost, Darrell. “US Taxpayers Fund Condoms and Contraceptives for Migrants in Colombia.” Texas Scorecard. 8 March 2023. (“IOM’s website acknowledges that their reference and orientation points in Colombia are operated with funding from the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM).”)
Yon, Michael. “Biden’s Trail of Tears: Raped in Darien Gap.” (Interview with Justy P.) 21 May 2023. Available: https://michaelyon.locals.com/post/4036976/bidens-trail-of-tears
Yon. “Make pandemic great again.” Twitter, 1 May 2023. Available: https://twitter.com/michael_yon/status/1653028154468978694?s=61
Bensman, Todd. “Video: U.S. Enabling Mass Asylum and Humanitarian Permit Fraud at the Southern Border.” 3 May 2023. Video: https://youtu.be/OS0cK8bPcSk
Mayorkas, Alejandro N. “DHS Plan for Southwest Border Security and Preparedness.” Memorandum. U.S. Department of Homeland Security. 26 April 2022. Available: https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/2022-04/22_0426_dhs-plan-southwest-border-security-preparedness.pdf
Ibid. p. 1, par. 4.
Ibid. p. 2, par. 1.
Ibid. p. 2.
Ibid. p. 3,
See “Alianza Americas señala de insuficientes las medidas migratorias anunciadas por EE.UU,” Contrapunto El Salvador, 6 January 2023. (My apologies for the poor translation). Available: https://www.contrapunto.com.sv/alianza-americas-senala-de-insuficientes-las-medidas-migratorias-anunciadas-por-ee-uu/
Chasmar, Jessica & Joe Schoffstall. “Activists suing DeSantis over Martha’s Vineyard flights received over $1.3M from George Soros network.” FoxNews.com, 21 September 2022. Available: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/activists-suing-desantis-marthas-vineyard-flights-received-1-3m-george-soros-network
Anuta, Joe. “From Texas border, New York mayor vows to pressure U.S. government over migrants.” Politico, 15 January 2023.
Ibid.
Glick, Caroline B. “Our World: Soros’s campaign of global chaos.” Jerusalem Post, 22 August 2016.
Ibid.
U.S. Congress, hearing of the House Homeland Security Committee. “Failure By Design: Examining Secretary Mayorkas’ Border Crisis,” 15 March 2023 (testimony of Steven C. McCraw at timestamp 3:07:00). Available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Z1ETzh3AUA
Bensman, Todd. “Biden’s Border Crisis Is As Bad As Ever, His Admin Is Just Better At Hiding It.” The Federalist, 26 June 2023.
Dinan, Stephen. “DHS Blocks Border Patrol Chiefs from Testifying to Congress.” The Washington Times, 27 January 2023.
Mayorkas “Plan,” p. 6, par. 4.
United States, Department of Homeland Security. “Trilateral Joint Statement.” 11 April 2023. Available: https://www.dhs.gov/news/2023/04/11/trilateral-joint-statement; see also, Colombia, “Comunicado Conjunto de los Ministros de Relaciones Exteriores de la República de Colombia y la República de Panamá al cierre de la Reunión Trilateral Colombia – Panamá – Estados Unidos sobre Migración Irregular y Seguridad Fronteriza.” 14 February 2023. Available: https://www.cancilleria.gov.co/newsroom/news/comunicado-conjunto-ministros-relaciones-exteriores-republica-colombia-republica-0
Mayorkas “Plan,” p. 6.
Ibid. (see pp. 9-20).
Ibid. p. 9.
See, e.g., Haney, Philip & Art Moore. See Something Say Nothing. Resolute Press, 2016; Piccolo, Jason. Out of the Shadows. Nexus Resolve, 2019; Todd Bensman, America’s Covert Border War. Post Hill Press, 2021.
Wexler, Kim [@KimWexlerMAJD]. “Is there child abuse in the caravans in the Darién Gap?” Twitter, 6 June 2023, https://twitter.com/KimWexlerMAJD/status/1677082561191854084?s=20 (citing Oscar “El Blue” Ramirez).
Supreme Court of Florida. Third Presentment, p. 5.
United States [President Biden]. “Fact Sheet: The Los Angeles Declaration on Migration and Protection U.S. Government and Foreign Deliverables.” 10 June 2022. Available: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/06/10/fact-sheet-the-los-angeles-declaration-on-migration-and-protection-u-s-government-and-foreign-partner-deliverables/
Ibid.
United States, Department of Homeland Security. “Secretary Mayorkas Remarks at Ministerial Meeting on the Los Angeles Declaration on Migration and Protection.” 23 June 2023. Available: https://www.dhs.gov/news/2023/06/23/secretary-mayorkas-remarks-ministerial-meeting-los-angeles-declaration-migration
Ibid.
Wells, Nicole. “Ronald Vitiello to Newsmax: Migrant Surge at Northern Border Caused by Biden’s Policies.” Newsmax, 21 February 2023.
Ibid.
Fitzgerald, Sandy. “Mark Morgan to Newsmax: Cartels Pushing Migrants Through Northern Border.” Newsmax, 22 February 2023.
“U.S. will continue to help Ukraine says U.S. homeland security secretary.” The First News, 16 February 2023.