'Whatever You Do, We're Coming': Coyotes Heckle Senators at the Border

Eighteen Republican Senators decided to see for themselves what was happening at the border so they took a little excursion to Texas, visiting several border facilities run by the Border Patrol.

The trip to the border became necessary because the Biden administration has imposed a near-total news blackout on what’s happening there. The administration flunkie who was escorting the senators even asked that the lawmakers delete any pictures, a request echoed by border officials. Not surprisingly, the GOP senators refused to comply.

Indiana Senator Mike Braun described some of what he saw.

Washington Examiner:

Those photos showed children as young as 3 years old jammed into the facilities that Braun described as the worst situation for migrants in 20 years. He earlier provided Secrets with a video of migrants being held by the dozens under a bridge.

In a debriefing of the tour, Braun said that one of the first stops was with border agents at the edge of the Rio Grande, where illegal immigrants typically cross. There, he said, the “coyotes,” who charge $4,000 to $20,000 to get migrants across, heckled the group in Spanish.

“All of a sudden to hear from the other side of the river taunting from the smugglers and coyotes, most of it in Spanish, telling the border guards that whatever you do, we’re coming,” said Braun. “That kind of hit home in such an anecdotal way because it is one story that kind of is a metaphor for what’s happening all up and down the border,” he added.

“A big welcome sign was put out,” said Braun. “I think it was a political blunder.”

Sen. Ted Cruz describes seeing “cage after cage after cage” of children.

The Biden administration has made a big show of telling would-be migrants to stay away, that the law was the law and they would be deported if they showed up at the border. But the reality is far different.

CBS News:

U.S. agents in south Texas are not expelling Central American families with children younger than seven years of age to Mexico, according to a senior Border Patrol official who requested anonymity during a call with reporters Friday. Some of the migrant families encountered in south Texas are being flown to other Border Patrol sectors, like El Paso, and sent to Mexico from there, the official confirmed.

“We’re still leveraging Title 42 in other areas,” the Border Patrol official said, referring to the expulsions policy, which was first authorized by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in March 2020.

Mr. Biden and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials have said that while they would like to expel most Central American families to Mexico under the Title 42 public health authority, Mexican authorities in the state of Tamaulipas, across from the Rio Grande Valley, are not accepting young children traveling with parents.

According to the Customs and Border Patrol, 86 percent of families processed at the border were allowed into the U.S without being deported. There were 6,000 apprehensions at the border on Thursday and virtually none of them were sent back.

Biden looked into the cameras during his press conference and said “nothing has changed” at the border. That was a lie. He said most people were being deported. That was a lie. He said the surge in unaccompanied minors at the border was normal. He lied. He’s allowing the release of illegal aliens into the country without giving them a court date. And he’s allowing unvetted sponsors to take children from border facilities.

Biden is getting away with his lies because, in addition to the media being in his pocket, he’s preventing any bad news from leaking out by muzzling the press.

Biden can improve the situation immensely by reimposing some Trump-era policies. But he better do it quickly. If the border isn’t already out of control, it soon will be.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2021/03/28/whatever-you-do-were-coming-coyotes-heckle-senators-at-the-border-n1435510

Biden Administration Will Give Media Access to Border Facilities: Psaki

The White House on Sunday confirmed it would allow members of the media to access border facilities that are being used to house unaccompanied minors along the U.S.-Mexico border.

In an interview on Fox News, White House press secretary Psaki faced questions about the lack of access to border facilities in the midst of a surge of illegal immigration. She said that President Joe Biden is “absolutely committed” to allowing reporters and photographers near the facilities.

“We are committed to allowing cameras into Border Patrol facilities,” she added, responding to a claim from Fox News’ Chris Wallace that Biden’s administration is being “less transparent than the Trump administration.”

“We want to provide access into the Border Patrol facilities,” Psaki said. “We are mindful that we are in the middle of the pandemic, we want to keep the kids safe, we want to keep the staff safe.”

Psaki did not say when media members would be given access to the Border Patrol facilities.

“What we’re really talking about is children, and we’re handling that in the most humane … way,” Psaki continued. She said of unaccompanied minors who were held by Border Patrol and [Health and Human Services]: “It does not mean they get to stay in the United States, it means their cases are adjudicated.”

Psaki further stated that the Biden administration is trying to “take a different approach than the last administration,” in how unaccompanied minors—children who unlawfully enter the country without an adult—are being handled along the border.

This month, several members of the media complained that they were denied access to the border. Among them, Getty photographer John Moore described the lack of access as “unprecedented” and called on the Biden administration to resume access to the facilities.

“I respectfully ask US Customs and Border Protection to stop blocking media access to their border operations,” Moore wrote earlier this month. “I have photographed CBP under Bush, Obama and Trump but now—zero access is granted to media. These long lens images taken from the Mexican side.”

Republicans have said that Biden’s policies, including a slew of immigration-executive orders, has led to a spike in illegal immigration, while Biden—during his first news conference last week—said the surge appears to be routine and suggested it is comparable to previous years.

However, the policies have led to a sharp increase in illegal crossings at the border, with over 100,000 recorded in February alone, experts have told The Epoch Times. The influx of unaccompanied minors, in particular, has prompted federal officials to open or convert at least eight facilities to hold them, including three convention centers.

Former President Donald Trump voiced his disapproval for Biden’s policies over the weekend, saying he might possibly visit the border in the future.

https://www.ntd.com/biden-administration-will-give-media-access-to-border-facilities-psaki_588510.html

Defense contractor pleads guilty to sharing classified info with person linked to Hezbollah

WASHINGTON — A woman who worked as a contract linguist for the U.S. military in Iraq pleaded guilty Friday to sharing classified information with a romantic interest linked to the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah.

Mariam Taha Thompson was arrested last year in an espionage case that investigators said put the lives of American military members and confidential sources at risk and represented a significant breach of classified information.

Thompson, 63 and formerly of Rochester, Minnesota, pleaded guilty to a single count of delivering national defense information to aid a foreign government. She admitted as part of a deal that she shared the names of U.S. government assets with a Lebanese man with connections to Hezbollah.

Assistant Attorney General John Demers, the Justice Department’s top national security official, said in a statement that the actions represented “a disgraceful personal and professional betrayal of country and colleagues.”

Sentencing was scheduled for June 23. A lawyer for Thompson, who faces up to life in prison, did not immediately return a phone message seeking comment.

Thompson began communicating with the man, whom she never met in person, in 2017 after being connected via social media by a family member, and she ultimately developed a romantic interest in him, prosecutors said.

After a January 2020 U.S. strike that killed Iran’s top general, Qassem Soleimani, the Lebanese man — who is not named in court papers — asked Thompson to provide “them” with information about the human assets that had helped the U.S. target Soleimani.

Investigators say Thompson accessed dozens of files about human sources, including their names, photographs, background information and operational cables that described the information they had gathered. She agreed to provide the classified information to the man; officials say she had planned to marry him, and was afraid he would end her relationship if she did not cooperate.

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2021/03/28/defense-contractor-pleads-guilty-to-sharing-classified-info-with-person-linked-to-hezbollah/

Russia likely to achieve herd immunity against COVID-19 by late summer, says Putin

In order to make this happen, some 70% of adult population should get the jab, the president stressed

MOSCOW, March 28. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin expects that herd immunity against COVID-19 in Russia will be developed by the end of summer.

In an interview with Moscow. Kremlin. Putin program on Rossiya-1 TV channel, answering a question when the pandemic restrictions in Russia could be lifted and the country would return to a normal life, the president assured that "this will happen."

He recommended to "listen to specialists" who say that restrictions could be lifted "after herd immunity is developed."

"In order to make this happen, some 70% of adult population should get the jab. If [mass vaccination] goes at the same pace as now, I believe that in summer, by the end of summer we will achieve, we should achieve this figure," the president stressed.

Three vaccines against COVID-19 have been registered in Russia. The first vaccine registered in the country and in the world is Sputnik V, developed by the Gamaleya Center of Russia’s Health Ministry. It was certified on August 11, 2020. EpiVacCorona by the Vector State Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology of the consumer rights watchdog was registered in October 2020. The third vaccine CoviVac by the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Chumakov Center was authorized by the Health Ministry in February.

Russia launched mass vaccination against COVID-19 in January 2021. According to the latest data, more than 6 mln Russians have received one vaccine dose and more than 4 mln of them have taken two doses.

https://tass.com/society/1271221

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