The number of migrant children in custody along the U.S. southern border has tripled in the past two weeks to a record 3,250, with nearly half held past the legal limit.

Because of the surge, the Biden administration has allowed child migrant centers to expand their capacity to 100% and are searching for new shelters across the country. Officials projected 13,000 child migrants will cross into the U.S. in May alone.

So, what’s the Biden administration’s plan to stop the influx?

Nothing in the short-term – his administration is laughably blaming climate change and hurricanes for the increase in numbers, not his ending catch and release, halting deportations, stopping construction on the border wall, and terminating the Trump-era remain in Mexico policy. In the long term, President Biden wants Congress to fund his $4 billion immigration plan.

Yes, that’s correct – President Biden wants $4 billion in taxpayer money to help pay for his immigration mistakes. Instead of using the money to build a wall, or increase border security, it will be dedicated to providing funding to El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras to help them decrease poverty, corruption, and violence in their home countries.

Source: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/mar/10/biden-wants-you-pay-his-self-inflicted-border-cris/

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“This pandemic has not slowed the construction of the border wall system. In fact, we’re increasing the pace of construction,” Acting CBP Commissioner Mark Morgan said. “COVID-19 should be a wake-up call for all Americans that border security is national security. Preventing and slowing down the introduction of a deadly virus into the U.S. from outside our borders is exactly why border security matters, and why the wall matters.”

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Morgan said that 182 miles of the wall have been built so far, as the administration tries to meet its goal of completing 450 miles by the end of the year, after years of battling in Congress and the courts for funding. It’s a significant jump in a few months — the administration marked the 100th mile built in January and surpassed 150 miles last month.

“Border security is national security and the border wall system is a priority in protecting the American people. We’ve been consistent about our need for a wall, and we are full steam ahead on its construction,” he said, in written responses to questions from Fox News.

While much of that construction has been in places where there were already existing structures, officials have been keen to point out that there is a big difference between this wall and the old landing-mat style structures that could easily be driven or climbed over.

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“Keep in mind that a comprehensive border wall system is not just a physical structure, but it also includes more roads for Border Patrol enforcement, and ever-evolving technology like cameras and sensors — equipment that is vital for confronting the unique and diverse threats we face, including pandemics,” Morgan said.

Source: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/border-wall-construction-has-sped-up-amid-coronavirus

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The decision, which split the bench along ideological lines, allows the administration to move ahead with plans to use military funds to replace existing fencing in California, Arizona, and New Mexico.

The conservative justices on the court ruled in favor of the administration. Liberal justices Elena Kagan, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Sonia Sotomayor dissented. And Justice Stephen Breyer issued a split opinion, agreeing in part with both sides.

The president celebrated the ruling on Twitter: “Wow! Big VICTORY on the Wall. The United States Supreme Court overturns lower court injunction, allows Southern Border Wall to proceed. Big WIN for Border Security and the Rule of Law!”

“We are pleased that the Supreme Court recognized that the lower courts should not have halted construction of walls on the southern border,” Justice Department spokesperson Alexei Woltornist said in a statement. “We will continue to vigorously defend the Administration’s efforts to protect our Nation.”

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which opposes the funding for the wall, vowed to keep fighting.

“This is not over,” said Dror Ladin, a staff attorney with the ACLU’s National Security Project. “We will be asking the federal appeals court to expedite the ongoing appeals proceeding to halt the irreversible and imminent damage from Trump’s border wall. Border communities, the environment, and our Constitution’s separation of powers will be permanently harmed should Trump get away with pillaging military funds for a xenophobic border wall Congress denied.”

The ruling means the Trump administration can tap the funds and begin work covered by four contracts it has awarded.

A trial court initially froze the funds in May and an appeals court kept that freeze in place earlier this month. The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to take up the issue.

Earlier this month, a divided three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco agreed with a lower-court ruling that prevented the government from tapping Defense Department counterdrug money to build high-priority sections of the planned wall in the three aforementioned states.

At stake are billions of dollars in funding that would allow Trump to make progress on a major 2016 campaign promise heading into his race for a second term.

Trump declared a national emergency after losing a funding fight with the Democrat-led House that resulted in a 35-day government shutdown. Congress agreed to spend nearly $1.4 billion on barriers in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley, the busiest corridor for illegal crossings, an amount well below the $5.7 billion the president had sought.

Trump grudgingly accepted the money but declared the emergency in order to tap up to $8.1 billion for wall construction. That amount includes $3.6 billion from military construction funds, $2.5 billion from Defense Department counterdrug activities and $600 million from the Treasury Department’s asset forfeiture fund.

Fox News’ Shannon Bream and Bill Mears and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Source: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/supreme-court-paves-way-for-trump-administration-to-use-military-funds-for-border-wall

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House Democrats officially filed their lawsuit Friday afternoon challenging President Trump’s plans to shift money to build his border wall, demanding federal judges step in and referee between the two sides.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had teased the move earlier this week, and the 45-page lawsuit filed in federal district court in Washington, D.C., follows up on her threat.

The case challenges two different transfers of money Mr. Trump announced earlier this year: $2.5 billion from a Pentagon drug interdiction fund and $3.6 billion Mr. Trump said he could move after declaring a national emergency, flexing powers under a 1976 law.

“The administration’s actions here demonstrate a shocking disregard for the Appropriations Clause, which protects Congress’s ‘exclusive power over the federal purse,’” the House says in its lawsuit.

Mrs. Pelosi and her colleagues said they had only approved $1.375 billion this year for “barrier construction” — they specifically avoided calling it a “wall” — and they said any additional money the president tries to spent is unconstitutional.

The House argues that Mr. Trump undercut his own national emergency declaration when he said he could have built the wall over a longer period of time, “but I’d rather do it much faster.

The case does not appear to challenge another $601 million Mr. Trump is transferring from the Treasury Forfeiture Fund for wall construction.

A number of environmental groups and Democrat-led states have already sued to try to stop the wall, in federal courtrooms from Washington, D.C., to Texas to California.

Each of those cases is still in its infancy, though plaintiffs have argued there is some urgency after the government already announced the first $1 billion transfer of money into the drug interdiction fund to be used for wall construction.

The premise of House Democrats’ lawsuit is similar to one filed by Republicans when they controlled the House and President Obama was in office. Mr. Obama spent money on an Obamacare program despite Congress zeroing out that funding in its spending bills.

That case resulted in an early ruling in favor of the GOP, but the case was ultimately settled once Mr. Trump took over from Mr. Obama.

The Trump administration says this case is different because Congress explicitly gave the president expansive spending powers in the Emergencies Act. And the Emergencies Act already gives Congress a way to rein in the president on its own, by passing a resolution disapproving of the emergency.

Congress attempted to use that power, but was unable to overcome Mr. Trump’s veto.

Legal analysts say the fact that Congress tried but failed to use its own legislative tools could work against Mrs. Pelosi’s legal case in the courts.

Source: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/apr/5/nancy-pelosi-files-lawsuit-block-trump-border-wall/

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The fencing, which will be 18 feet high, is to be erected in the Yuma and El Paso sectors, the statement read. The Pentagon’s announcement was notable. A reporter from the New York Times tweeted that it is the first time the funds will be transferred under section 284 for the border wall.

Section 284 allows the Pentagon to “construct roads and fences and to install lighting to block drug-smuggling corridors across international boundaries of the United States in support of counter-narcotic activities of Federal law enforcement agencies,” the statement read.

The Pentagon’s announcement was made as Trump nears a victory over Democrats as the House tries to override his first veto, a vote that seems certain to fail and allow his declaration to stand. The vote, which is set for Tuesday, would keep the border emergency intact, which for now, would allow the president to shift an additional $3.6 billion from military construction projects to work on a barrier along the southwest boundary.

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WASHINGTON — Democrats who have railed against President Donald Trump’s national emergency as a manufactured crisis are facing a political dilemma as border apprehensions have spiked and are on pace for the highest level since 2008.

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It is Friday afternoon and as we’ve learned, big news often drops sometime in the evening.   There will probably be something that should have been addressed in the update, but was intentionally kept until the evening for whatever strategic reason. That may be the case, but there’s no shortage of matters that deserve attention.   Sometimes we wish there were. We’ll probably hear that they’ve REALLY got Trump, for sure this time.   That’ll probably be it.

You may remember the information relayed a couple of weeks ago, about the man behind the curtain in EU leadership.   His name is Martin Selmayer, as was relayed in our last monthly letter.   An article this week suggests that the Brexit “formula,” rejected by the British Parliament, was written in Berlin!   No wonder the thing left all manner of European rules in place.   No wonder that Prime Minister Theresa May was unable to renegotiate, even around the margins, with European leaders.   They couldn’t change the terms of the agreement anyway.   The terms were apparently laid out behind the scenes by someone with authority.

There’s no way we can tell you how this comes out.   The possibility of a “hard Brexit” at the end of this month still exists.   If Britain pulls the plug with no agreements in place, chances are the EU will make it as difficult as possible.   That’s the concern, that Britain will suffer in trade, travel and that English citizens living and working in Europe will find things they took for granted impossible. The British Parliament is due to hold another vote on the Brexit plan it already shot down, apparently with minor changes that do nothing to address the big problems that led to its demise last time.  There’s also the possibility of another delay.   We’ll see.

 Phony “hate crimes” are still being manufactured regularly.   Nobody seems to learn their lesson.   There are at least TWO more this week alone.   Mainstream outlets report these incidents (or false reports) soberly, even when they’re wildly suspicious. It just goes to show you the media can no longer be relied upon for accurate reporting, and will undoubtedly mislead the public with their analysis.   The most irritating aspect of this is that there apparently is a sizable audience for Fake News. While we turn it off in disgust, there are at least a couple million who hang on every word.   They probably even stay put for the commercials!

You’re doubtless aware that recent records are being shattered for the sheer numbers walking into the United States.   Since the vast majority are now “other than Mexicans,” they can’t be deported back across the border thanks to laws that congress thinks are just fine. Detention centers are bursting at the seams and thousands of people are being released into society. There’s no hope for the situation unless it’s made nearly impossible by some kind of barrier.   Meanwhile, the United States is an economic playground for whoever is willing to cough up enough cash for the smugglers.

The good news this week, if it actually sticks, is that the President is going to require universities to allow FREE SPEECH on their campuses if they expect to continue receiving Federal funding.   It’s unbelievable that universities were the one’s that went to wild extremes to claim their right to free speech.   Apparently it was only socialist/communist/anti-American speech they wanted to promote. Since radical socialist dogma has taken hold, they’ve allowed conservative speakers to be verbally and physically threatened.   They’ve promoted “safe-places” and declared themselves “sanctuaries” from everything that might “offend” socialist snow-flakes.

The other thing that will undoubtedly bring a wave of lawsuits and feigned outrage on your favorite mainstream outlet, is that the President says Planned Parenthood is going to have to physically separate facilities that render all those benign tests and treatments from those that provide the “services” for which they are best known.

Not to reiterate so much that has come before, but have you noticed that famous people and politicians swap positions and arguments at the drop of a hat?   It used to be that the anti-American contingent was anti-war at all costs, and you’ve heard the arguments that began in the 60’s.   Lately everyone’s hair catches fire at any hint of bringing our troops home from Syria.   Or Afghanistan. They say in all seriousness that it’s proof the President has lost his mind.   Question the continued necessity of NATO, now some 23 nations that predominantly rely on the U. S. for their defense?   Many have not lived up to their financial obligations.   Maybe that never occurred to anybody who’s called upon to call the President crazy, but it might be that he’s playing to another audience for strategic reasons.   Same goes for statements regarding North Korea and Kim Jong-un.   And for that matter, Russia! These wretched TV panels, sometimes eight or more at a time, want to diagram every sentence so they can claim, “He lied again!”   They’re not on the up and up, and we know it.

One more thing. The Royal Palace has denied in the strongest terms the report last week that Prince Harry and Meghan intend to raise their baby as “gender-neutral.”   Hard to know what’s gone on behind the scenes.   We hope it was more of the disinformation to which we’ve become accustomed.

Mark

PS: We just received copies of the new TCW.   It’s being mailed out directly from the (out of state) printer and should be in your mailbox presently.   Our thanks go out to all who make it possible for us to publish that magazine and all the other material that we continue to supply to a public that rarely encounters truth.

Source: http://www.intercontinentalcog.org/fridayupdates.php

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