President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has released thousands of border crossers into the United States interior without providing them with notices to appear before a federal immigration judge, a Texas Democrat says. In statements to Border Report’s Sandra Sanchez, Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) said DHS has released more than 15,300 border crossers into the U.S. interior without providing them the usual documents that give them a date on which to appear before a federal immigration judge. “Basically it’s just an honor system. It’s just an honor system that they are given and this is not the way it’s supposed to be,” Cuellar told Sanchez. This month, specifically, Cuellar said the Biden administration has been increasing its use of the practice of releasing border crossers without making clear if they will have to appear before a federal immigration judge. As Breitbart News has chronicled, since Biden ended the “Remain in Mexico” program and cancelled a series of cooperative asylum agreements with Central America, DHS has hugely revamped the Catch and Release program to where border crossers are apprehended and quickly released into the U.S. interior. Since taking office, for instance, the Biden administration has released nearly 42,000 border crossers into the U.S. interior. The overwhelming majority of border crossers are being released into Texas communities near sectors in the Rio Grande Valley, Del Rio, and El Paso, Texas. In addition, the Biden administration is releasing migrants into the U.S. interior who were enrolled in the Remain in Mexico program. The latest totals, obtained by Breitbart News, show that about 6,400 migrants enrolled in the program have been released into the U.S. interior. This month, a group of House Republicans has requested destination data from the Biden administration for border crossers traveling in the U.S. “We lack an adequate accounting of the nature and extent of this dispersing of ...
Jeffries: Nothing Wrong with Waters’ Chauvin Comments, ‘I Didn’t Hear’ Her Say She Thought It Was First-Degree Murder
On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “OutFront,” House Democratic Caucus Chair Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) said that Rep. Maxine Waters’ (D-CA) comments on the Derek Chauvin trial were in bounds and appropriate, but he “didn’t hear” her say that she thought Chauvin committed first-degree murder and that the first-degree murder statement was consistent “with the spirit of what Chairwoman Waters was trying to say.” Jeffries said, “That was an incredibly inappropriate statement by the judge, and I was actually shocked that he said it. Because there was nothing that Congresswoman Waters said that was out of bounds or inappropriate. In fact, she was leaning into language that had been used by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. when he talked about the importance of confrontation, and it was meant non-violent, direct action to confront bigotry, hatred, and injustice. And that was the spirit of what Chairwoman Waters was saying. And she in fact clarified and made that clear thereafter. And so, I was a little surprised that the judge saw fit to both deny, appropriately, the motion for a mistrial but then characterized her remarks.” Host Erin Burnett then asked Jeffries about Waters saying she thought the Floyd murder was first-degree murder. Jeffries responded, “I didn’t hear that comment being made.” And that the verdict wasn’t “inconsistent with the spirit of what Chairwoman Waters was trying to say. And again, my colleagues on the other side of the aisle really have no moral standing to criticize anything that any of us have to say when we are on the side of trying to elevate and lift up the principles of equal protection under the law, liberty, and justice for all. While, at the same time, they are fanning the flames of hatred, continuing to perpetrate the big lie, which is what fueled the violent insurrection and attack on the Capitol.” Follow Ian Hanchett on Twitter @IanHanchett ...
GOP House Members Accuse John Kerry of ‘Abuse of Power’ for Pressing Banks to Deny Funding for Fossil Fuel Entities
On the eve of Earth Day, 45 members of the U.S. House of Representatives delivered a letter to Special Presidential Envoy for Climate Change John Kerry accusing him of “abuse of power” for leaning on banks and other financial institutions to deny funding for fossil fuel-related entities in the name of fighting climate change. “We write to you to express concern with your decision, as reported in the press, to pressure U.S. banks to make radical, overly prescriptive commitments related to climate change that may not be in the best interest of their businesses, shareholders, employees or customers.1 Such pressure from a senior Administration official is a blatant abuse of power,” the letter said. “Your actions, and the broader actions of the Biden Administration on financial regulation, threaten to compromise the competitiveness of American financial institutions, ignore market demand in energy consumption, increase prices for consumers and kill American jobs.” The letter says, last year, 47 Republicans sent a letter to Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and Vice Chairman of Supervision Randal Quarles that outlined some of the methodological challenges of injecting climate change into financial supervision. “In that letter, we urged the Fed to take a measured, thoughtful and data-driven approach to their study of this topic, and not to be swayed by political forces or the ill-conceived actions of peer regulators in foreign jurisdictions,” the letter said. A “lack of historical data on the relationship between changing weather patterns and financial stress preclude inclusion of loosely defined climate change metrics in bank supervision or disclosure.” The letter noted that the Biden administration claimed climate change has led to an increase in costs to fight the damage from natural disasters. “This analysis ignores other potential contributors, such as poor zoning standards or increases in population density,” the letter said. “Climate change is a ...
MSNBC’s Wallace: Trying to Appeal to Trump’s Base Will Be the ‘Demise’ of GOP
MSNBC anchor Nicolle Wallace said Wednesday on her show “Deadline” that if Republican lawmakers only appeal to former President Donald Trump’s base, it will be the “demise” of the party. Wallace said, “New polling this week by former Trump National Security Adviser John Bolton shows exactly what he set out to prove that enthusiasm is waning for the former guy. People are not that into him anymore. Fear of him among the GOP is totally unfounded. From that poll, independents repelled by one thing, Donald Trump’s personality. 37% hold a positive view of Trump and 55% negative view of him. While President Biden with a net positive approval of 48% among those same independent voters, and 46% have an unfavorable account. That means Trump upside down 20 points. A twenty-point difference between the two men among independents.” She continued, “I think that the number among independents with a shrinking party registration among Republicans is perilous in national elections. I don’t think you can run someone who’s minus 20 among independents if you’ve got 29 to 25 is the drop in Republican registration just last year. That was pre-insurrection and pre what happened last night. The right lost their God-forsaken mind over the Chauvin verdict last night. Do you think that the calculation will be let’s try to harden? The calculation now seems to be let’s harden the 25%. You can’t win anything nationally with 25%.” She added, “I guess the larger point is to get beyond why do they do it. Right? Why is Hawley’s fist up? Why is Cruz a slave to the Trump base? We have always thought that they were slavish to Trump because of his power. So I think the power may not be a sort of optimistic view of where the party is heading. To the contrary, it may be a sort of omen for the sure end and demise of whatever remains because they see the world the way Donald Trump did. They didn’t run from reporters’ cameras when Trump was president because they didn’t want to comment. They ran from ...
DOJ to probe Minneapolis police
Attorney General Merrick Garland Merrick Garland Biden says Chauvin verdict is step forward in fight against racial injustice Senate confirms Biden's nominee for No. 2 official at DOJ Why Biden's gun policy doesn't go far enough MORE announced Wednesday morning that the Department of Justice (DOJ) will open an investigation into the policing practices of law enforcement in Minneapolis. The investigation comes a day after a jury in Minneapolis found former city police officer Derek Chauvin guilty of two counts of murder and one count of manslaughter in the death of George Floyd last May. “Although the state's prosecution was successful, I know that nothing can fill the void that the loved ones of George Floyd have felt since his death,” Garland said Wednesday morning. ADVERTISEMENT “Yesterday's verdict in the state criminal trial does not address potentially systemic policing issues in Minneapolis.” The DOJ under President Biden Joe Biden Biden overruled Blinken, top officials on initial refugee cap decision: report Suicide bombing hits Afghan security forces Jim Jordan, Val Demings get in shouting match about police during hearing MORE had been expected to use such "pattern or practice" investigations as the country grapples with police brutality, systemic racism and potential sweeping reforms. The move tees up greater federal oversight of local police departments, giving the DOJ an avenue to bring civil suits against police departments with a pattern of using excessive force or discriminatory practices against certain groups of people, such as people of color or people with disabilities. The result of such an investigation is often a consent decree that effectively gives the DOJ oversight of local police departments for years at a time. “I have been involved in the legal system in one way or another for most of my adult life. I know that justice is sometimes slow, sometimes elusive and sometimes ...
