Biden-Harris have let in at the very least 4 million of these, counting the minimum estimate of gotaways who have overwhelmed the ridiculous system and the known parolees. The largest standing army in the world is China's at 2 million.
Nearly three million foreign nationals illegally entered or attempted entry into the U.S. in fiscal 2024, according todatapublished by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
The total reported nationwide was 2,901,142, with 198,929 reported at the northern border and 2,135,005 reported at the southwest border.
The data includes Border Patrol apprehensions between ports of entry, CBP encounters at ports of entry, and Office of Field Operations apprehensions nationwide.
CBP’s fiscal 2024 data, which covers Oct. 1, 2023, through Sept. 1, 2024, is the second highest reported under the Biden-Harris administration and second highest in U.S. history.
The highest total reported in U.S. history was more than 3.2 million in fiscal 2023, followed by fiscal 2024, fiscal 2022’s more than 2.76 million and fiscal 2021’s 1.95 million.
When subtracting the first three months of fiscal 2021, which occurred during the Trump administration, the number drops to 1,684,116.
No other administration has reported totals as high as these.
Combined, CBP apprehension/encounter data under the Biden-Harris administration totals 10,552,984.
This total excludes more than 2 million who illegally entered and evaded capture, known as gotaways.
CBP does not publicly report gotaway data.
The Center Square first reported gotaway data in 2021 after receiving it from a Border Patrol agent.
Retired CBP officials say the number is higher because gotaway data is underreported by about 20%.
The total also excludes 1,383,000 inadmissables released into the U.S. through two parole programs created by Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
This includes more than 852,000 illegal foreign nationals processed and released into the country through the CBP One App and more than 531,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans deemed inadmissible and released into the country through the CHNV parole program, according toCBP data. ...
The parole total also excludes the number of illegal foreign
nationals released into the country through at least another 10 programs
Mayorkas created. Federal judges ruled the parole programs are illegal;
House Republicans cited them as examples of illegal actions for which they impeached Mayorkas in February. ...
Under the Biden-Harris administration, a record 518,524 illegal border crossers were reported at the northern border, excluding gotaways, the highest in U.S. history.
Some of the most vulnerable Democratic senators in this election are using the closing stretch to boast about their ties to former President Trump.
Why it matters: Even
candidates in presidential battlegrounds are now featuring Trump cameos
in campaign ads — as Democrats up and down the ballot run to the middle.
The trend comes as split-ticket voting declines, making it more likely that a Senate candidate's fate will be tied to their state's presidential results. ...
What they're saying: "These Senate Democrats all
voted to impeach President Trump twice, so it is surprising that they
are now running ads praising his work as President," NRSC communications
director Mike Berg told Axios in a statement.
It is upsetting for this unqualified justice to contribute to the general air of distrust for our republican institutions which already provide adequate mechanisms for the removal of political offenders through the political means of impeachment, the 25th Amendment, and defeat at the polling booth.
It is an administration replete with lawless officials who have
abused their authority to the detriment of the people of the United
States.
President Joe Biden should be at the very top of the list for impeachment ...
Attorney General Merrick Garland has overseen the systemic persecution of the Biden administration’s political opponents ...
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s impeachment case begins with his
dereliction of duty when he failed to inform the White House when he was
incapacitated by a medical procedure. Under Austin’s watch, the
Pentagon has also blatantly disregarded the Hyde Amendment and is
facilitating the procurement of abortions for servicewomen using
taxpayer funds. ...
With a Democratic-controlled Senate, these impeachments will not be
successful in removing these officials from power, but that is not the
point. As Democrats set the standard in 2019, impeachment is now an
exercise of partisan political power, and it should be treated as such. ...
Furthermore, it would also have the strategic effect of jamming the
schedule of the Democratic-controlled Senate. If the upper chamber were
forced to contend with numerous impeachment trials, it would have less
time to vote on judicial nominations and billions of dollars in foreign
aid.
House Republicans have impeached Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas
in a contentious vote Tuesday evening, making the Biden administration
official the first Cabinet member to be removed in nearly 150 years. ...
Three Republicans joined all Democrats in rejecting the articles of
impeachment: Reps. Ken Buck (R-CO), Mike Gallagher (R-WI), and Tom
McClintock (R-CA). They were the same three as last week’s failed vote,
but the return of Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) from cancer
treatment tipped the math against Mayorkas on Tuesday. ...
Since Biden took office, more than 7.5 million illegal immigrants
have been encountered attempting to enter the United States, and 6
million of that figure entered illegally between ports of entry,
according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection data.
The Biden figure far exceeds the number of illegal immigrants
encountered during the Trump administration’s four years and the Obama
administration’s eight years combined.
Under Biden, millions of migrants — in a move that has no precedent in
recent history — have been released into the country under a haphazard
presumption of asylum eligibility and led down a hazy legal pathway. Others have been admitted under different programs that lack any clear or permanent path to citizenship. Dealing with the legal fallout from the Biden administration’s decision
to release millions of migrants into the country will be the real
challenge. ...
The most recent statistics available are from November, when the immigration court backlog reached a record-breaking 3 million pending cases, up from 2 million cases a year earlier. Some migrants may have to wait a decade
for a court date. Although the Biden administration has hired more
judges over the past three years, the Transactional Records Access
Clearinghouse at Syracuse reports that “more judges and higher case
closures per judge have still not been able to keep pace with the flow
of incoming cases.”
Under anarcho-tyranny, government fails to enforce the laws and perform
the functions it has a legitimate duty to enforce and perform, while it
invents laws and functions it has no legitimate duty or valid reason to
make or carry out. ... While one characteristic of anarcho-tyranny is its propensity to criminalize
and punish the innocent and the law-abiding while refusing to punish the
criminals, another is its refusal to enforce the laws it has already
enacted and to enact more laws that have no effect on real crime and
that further criminalize the innocent or restrict their rights. ... Under anarcho-tyranny, the state creates a problem (which sometimes
actually has some connection to reality), declares an emergency or
crisis—the drug war, drug emergency areas, the carjacking crisis,
Islamic fundamentalism—and then exploits that problem as an instrument
by which it continues to enhance its power, though neither the fake
problem it exploits nor the real problem that exists is affected.
Fox News correspondent David Spunt has the latest on the first son's refusal to testify on 'Special Report.'
The assistant U.S. attorney who was accused oflimiting questionsrelated to President Biden during the federal investigation into Hunter Biden is no longer employed by the Justice Department, Fox News has learned.
Lesley Wolf, who served as an assistant U.S. attorney in the U.S. Attorney's Office in Delaware, is no longer with the DOJ, according to a source familiar with the situation.
The source said Wolf had longstanding plans to leave the Department of Justice and did so weeks ago.
Wolf, who IRS whistleblowers claimed slow-walked the Hunter Biden investigation, is sitting for a transcribed interview before the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday morning.
Specifically, IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley alleged that Wolf worked to "limit" questioning related to President Biden and apparent references to Biden as "dad" or "the big guy."
This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.
Brooke Singman is a Fox News Digital politics reporter. You can reach her at Brooke.Singman@Fox.com or @BrookeSingman on Twitter.
WASHINGTON — The former federal prosecutor who allegedly shielded President Biden and his son Hunter
during a criminal investigation testified 79 times to Congress that she
was “not authorized” by the Justice Department to answer questions
about the case, according to a transcript reviewed by The Post.
Former Delaware Assistant US Attorney Lesley Wolf repeatedly cited a
five-page authorization letter from Associate Deputy Attorney General Bradley Weinsheimer as she refused to answer questions during a House Judiciary Committee deposition last week.
Weinsheimer’s Dec. 12 letter, also reviewed by The Post, says: “[T]he
Department generally does not authorize congressional testimony from
line-level personnel, especially relating to an ongoing investigation
with charges pending in court. The Department has declined to do so in
connection with this matter.”
Wolf’s dozens of refusals to answer questions — just one day after the full House voted to authorize an impeachment inquiry
into President Biden — frustrated attempts to firm up the storyline
involving what whistleblowers say was a sweeping cover-up by Wolf and
colleagues to protect the Biden family.
A
former federal prosecutor who allegedly shielded President Biden and
his son Hunter during a criminal investigation testified that she was
“not authorized” to answer questions about her actions, according to a
transcript. AP
The near-blanket rejection of questions follows pressure from House
Republicans on the administration to allow witness testimony and could
bolster GOP arguments that the White House is obstructing the inquiry,
which itself could form an article of impeachment.
Two IRS agents who worked on the long-running tax fraud investigation
into Hunter Biden, which focused on his foreign income from countries
such as China and Ukraine, alleged in prior testimony to House
committees that Wolf tipped off the first son’s lawyers to investigative
steps and forbade inquiries into Joe Biden, even when communications
mentioned him.
Wolf served on the squad of prosecutors that signed off on a
probation-only plea deal in June for the first son on tax and gun
charges, which fell apart the following month under scrutiny from a federal judge.
Lesley
Wolf (above) repeatedly cited a five-page authorization letter from
Bradley Weinsheimer as she refused to answer questions during a House
Judiciary Committee deposition. Fedbar.org
IRS supervisor Gary Shapley, who oversaw the Hunter Biden
investigation for three years, and case agent Joseph Ziegler, who worked
on the inquiry for five years, made a series of specific claims against
Wolf, which she did not refute in her testimony.
Tax investigators learned in December 2020 that Wolf “reached out to
Hunter Biden’s defense counsel and told them” about investigators’ plans
to search a northern Virginia storage unit that contained business
records, “circumventing our chance to get to evidence from potentially
being destroyed, manipulated or concealed,” Ziegler testified in July.
Shapley testified that investigators were months earlier barred from
searching a guest house at Joe Biden’s Wilmington, Del., home, where
Hunter often stayed.
Wolf’s
refusals to answer questions come one day after the full House voted to
authorize an impeachment inquiry into President Biden. REUTERS
Shapley said that on Sept. 3, 2020, “Wolf told us there was more than
enough probable cause for the physical search warrant there, but the
question was whether the juice was worth the squeeze.”
Wolf also allegedly objected during a meeting on Dec. 3, 2020, to questioning a key Biden family associate, Rob Walker, about the president.
“Wolf interjected and said she did not want to ask about the big guy
and stated she did not want to ask questions about ‘dad,’” he said.
“When multiple people in the room spoke up and objected that we had
to ask, she responded, there’s no specific criminality to that line of
questioning. This upset the FBI, too,” Shapley testified.
Wolf served as a key point person for the investigation, serving under Delaware US Attorney David Weiss.
The whistleblowers accused Weiss’ office of giving Hunter Biden’s
legal team advance knowledge of a planned interview attempt in late
2020, scuttling a planned approach, and said prosecutors didn’t pass
along a paid FBI informant’s tip that Joe and Hunter Biden received $10 million in bribes from Ukrainian energy company Burisma,
which paid Hunter a salary of up to $1 million to serve on its board
beginning in 2014 when his vice president dad led US policy toward the
country.
Wolf allegedly instructed FBI agents in August 2020 to remove
references to Joe Biden from a search warrant affidavit, writing,
“Someone needs to redraft [the affidavit] … There should be nothing
about Political Figure 1 in here,” according to an email released by the Ways & Means Committee.
“That email, I think, is super important because it’s a one-off
example in writing of the constant concern of following investigative
leads that might lead to Joe Biden,” Ziegler said last week in a Fox
News interview.
“The FBI agents who drafted that affidavit, they believed that they
had sufficient evidence — probable cause — to support including
Political Figure 1 in that affidavit,” said the self-identified Democrat.
IRS supervisor Gary Shapley (not pictured) oversaw the Hunter Biden investigation for three years. REUTERS
“That related to [Ukrainian energy company] Burisma, access to Joe
Biden and access to the administration and there was ample evidence that
was included in that affidavit that’s supported including Political
Figure 1. That has a waterfall effect on the investigation because those
emails that we’re searching for might not come through to the team.”
Shapley and Ziegler said they were not allowed to get cellphone
geolocation data that could have proved Joe Biden was with his son in
July 2017 when Hunter sent a threatening text message to a Chinese government-linked businessman saying, “I am sitting here with my father,” and warning of retribution.
Within 10 days of that message, $5.1 million flowed to accounts
linked to Hunter and first brother James Biden from CEFC China Energy —
after a tranche of $1 million earlier that year, less than two months
after Biden left office as vice president.
Internal
Revenue Service whistleblowers Joseph Ziegler and Gary Shapley testify
in the House Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing
about alleged meddling in the Justice Department’s investigation of
Hunter Biden. REUTERS
A May 2017 email penciled in Joe Biden, referred to as the “big guy,” for a 10% cut from CEFC dealings.
The IRS whistleblowers say that — in addition to preferential
treatment for Joe and Hunter Biden — Attorney General Merrick Garland
misled Congress under oath about Weiss’ ability to independently bring
criminal charges against Hunter Biden.
Biden-appointed US attorneys in Los Angeles and Washington have
confirmed in testimony that they declined to partner with Weiss, who in
August was elevated by Garland to be a special counsel, allowing him to bring charges independently outside of Delaware.
The DOJ didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment about Wolf’s testimony.
VEGA ALTA, Puerto Rico — The blinds were drawn at a handsome villa in an oceanfront gated community on the northern coast of this Caribbean island. Inside, a woman’s voice could be heard calling out “Ken” — but no one answered the door.
Records show this is the tropical refuge of Kenneth J. Chesebro, a lawyer who allegedly marshaled supporters of President Donald Trump to pose as electors in states won by Joe Biden in 2020, creating a pretext for Vice President Mike Pence to delay counting or disregard valid electoral college votes on Jan. 6, 2021. ...
The successful appellate lawyer studied at Harvard University under Laurence Tribe, the preeminent legal scholar who advised congressional Democrats on both of Trump’s impeachments. Chesebro continued working with Tribe for about 20 years, on wide-ranging litigation involving class-action claims and punitive damages. ...
Tribe called Chesebro “the brains” behind the fake electoral scheme. “If the pressure campaign on Pence had worked,” Tribe said, Chesebro and Eastman “would have generated a successful coup.”
When Obama nominated that guy for the Supreme Court, it was like throwing a Molotov Cocktail at it.
The federal prosecutor tasked with investigating Hunter Biden told at least six witnesses last
year that he lacked authority to charge the first son outside Delaware
and was denied special counsel status, according to an IRS whistleblower
— and now the House Judiciary Committee wants to talk to them.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said Sunday that Republicans
will launch an impeachment inquiry into Garland if Shapley’s account is
corroborated.
". . . there was no 302, which is the type of document that many of us use on
criminal defense work. It is essentially the record created in criminal
cases by FBI agents. So this was treated as a very informal interview."
"The fact is that by November 2nd, they had found highly classified
documents," Turley said. "They did not know how many more existed. They
did know that these documents likely had been transferred more than
once, and that they had been out there for probably six years. So in the
midst of all of that, according to the 'Wall Street Journal,' they were
offered the opportunity to search the Biden residence. Now, why on
Earth would the FBI not take that opportunity? I mean, what is the
possible reason for saying, no, we're really not inclined to do that.
You're embarrassing us. You, you go ahead and do it. It's bizarre. And
so not only did they allow uncleared lawyers to look for highly
classified information, but those lawyers then continue to find them
over 60 days and the FBI doesn't seem to have done a thing."
Representative Tim Waltz of Florida [LOL: NYT has Democrat Tim Walz, Minnesota Governor, on the brain; the actual name is Republican US Rep. Michael Waltz, who ran unopposed in FL-6 and was re-elected in 2022; the newspaper of record smdh]
A COVID-19 emergency excuse is even less persuasive today than it was when Pelosi last year said Biden doesn't have the authority to cancel the loans.
This will be stopped by the courts, same as Biden's illegal vaccine mandate for the private sector was stopped.
Still waiting, however, for the courts to reverse the illegal deprivation of the former president of access to his own papers.
So don't hold your breath.
This out of control and senile old man Joe Biden should be impeached and removed from office.
US Department of Education, Office of the General Counsel, January 12, 2021, here:
All federal student loan programs administered by the Department are funded through
annual Congressional appropriations drawn from the Treasury. These appropriations are conditioned
on the Department’s faithful execution of the laws authorizing that loans be made available to eligible
borrowers and then repaid or collected. See 20 U.S.C. §§ 1077a, 1078, 1078-3, 1078-6, 1078-7, 1080,
1080a, 1082, 1083, 1085, 1087e, 1087-1, 1087gg, 1091b, 1092b, 1092c, 1095a, 1098e. Although
Congress could enact legislation authorizing the Department to provide blanket or mass cancellation,
compromise, discharge, or forgiveness of student loan principal balances, and/or to materially modify
repayment amounts or terms, it has not done so. See 20 U.S.C. §§ 1077-10 – 1077-12, 1087e(f),
1087e(h), 1087ee, 1091b, 1098d. Rather, Congress has explicitly authorized cancellation,
compromise, discharge, or forgiveness, and/or material modifications to repayment amounts or terms
only in very limited circumstances. See, e.g., 20 U.S.C. §§ 1087e(f), 1087e(h), 1094(b)(3), 1098aa, et
seq. ...
Title IV’s plain text and
statutory scheme, and controlling interpretative canons, compel us to conclude Congress appropriated
funds for student loans with the expectation that such loans would be repaid except in very specific
circumstances.
The
Presidential Records Act became effective in 1981, at the start of
Ronald Reagan’s
presidency. It established a unique statutory scheme, balancing
the needs of the government, former presidents and history. The law
declares presidential records to be public property and provides that
“the Archivist of the United States shall assume responsibility for the
custody, control, and preservation of, and access to, the Presidential
records.”
The
PRA lays out detailed requirements for how the archivist is to
administer the records, handle privilege claims, make the records
public, and impose restrictions on access. Notably, it doesn’t address
the process by which a former president’s records are physically to be
turned over to the archivist, or set any deadline, leaving this matter
to be negotiated between the archivist and the former president. The PRA explicitly guarantees a former president continuing access to
his papers. Those papers must ultimately be made public, but in the
meantime ... the PRA
establishes restrictions on access to a former president’s records,
including a five-year restriction on access applicable to everyone
(including the sitting president, absent a showing of need), which can
be extended until the records have been properly reviewed and processed.
Before leaving office, a president can restrict access to certain
materials for up to 12 years. ...
In
making a former president’s records available to him, the PRA doesn’t
distinguish between materials that are and aren’t classified. That was a
deliberate choice by Congress, as the existence of highly classified
materials at the White House was a given long before 1978, and the
statute specifically contemplates that classified materials will be
present—making this a basis on which a president can impose a 12-year
moratorium on public access.
Only two of the 10 House Republicans who supported Trump’s impeachment after the Jan. 6 insurrection are expected back in Congress next year. Rep. Jaime Herrera-Beutler, R-Wash., whoconceded defeatafter her Tuesday primary, was the latest to fall. Leading Trump antagonist Rep.Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., is at risk of joining her next week.
