With illegal immigrants flooding into the United States in unprecedented numbers–New York is receiving up to 2,000 a week with no place to put them–the mainstream media has ignored the crisis, leaving many Americans in the dark about what’s actually happening at the southern border.
Reporting from Eagle Pass just southwest of the Rio Grande, independent journalist Todd Bensman described a chaotic scene as Texas authorities turn away migrants only to see them reappear when they locate U.S. border agents who immediately take them into custody. Once on American soil, they are released with instructions to follow up with their asylum claims at a later date, most likely years in the future.
Now in America, the immigrants are shuttled to cities across the country at taxpayer expense and are provided with all the benefits afforded U.S. citizens, and then some, including cell phones and legal representation. This is President Joe Biden’s border policy, and it is tearing the nation apart.
“Sanctuary Cities” such as New York are overwhelmed and are spending billions of dollars to care for the migrants. Mayor Eric Adams has run out of room and is housing them in school gymnasiums and airport buildings. Fifty percent of the Big Apple’s hotel rooms are filled with immigrants, and Gov. Kathy Hochul is looking to house them in college dormitories and anywhere else she can find without eliciting a huge community backlash. Attempts by Adams to shuttle them to the suburbs are being rebuffed by officials who argue that local taxpayers shouldn’t be asked to foot the bill for services that are already falling short for the homeless, veterans, and others already on the street. In response, the mayor sued them.
Adams pointed to a billion-dollar hole in his latest budget, which he calls the “asylum seekers federal shortfall” as Washington has not been forthcoming with adequate funds. In desperation, Adams has notified migrant adults without children that they will have to leave the city’s shelters and printed flyers warning that New York City cannot deliver on the promises of sanctuary made to those heading north. Border agents have been instructed by Biden officials not to distribute them.
Democrats, Liberals and the Progressives who support Biden turn a blind eye to the situation, and the mainstream media ignores it. Anyone who questions what is going on is attacked as a racist or xenophobe. Silicone Valley aggressively scrubs dissenting opinions from the Internet and Social Media, and those speaking out are routinely de-platformed. Those with courage continue to say what it is: The Biden open border strategy is a massive vote harvesting scheme designed to bring in new voters dependent on the government. Those providing these services will collect their votes; those who oppose them will be painted as evil.
Reporting on his podcast, “Law and Border,” journalist Ben Bergquam posts videos of the trail through Panama that immigrants use to come north to the United States. He shows piles of trash containing used condoms and children’s underwear. Turning to the camera, he lets President Biden and Homeland Security Director Alejandro Mayorkas have it. “This is what your open-door policy is bringing us. It’s all a fraud; it’s treason. The question is when is America going to have enough?”
Bensmen is one of the few journalists at the border reporting the truth. President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, the nation’s “Border Czar,” won’t go down there. His report appeared in Britain’s Daily Mail, the world’s largest news outlet since the mainstream media in America won’t touch it. Bensman describes the scene as “nothing short of an absurd civil war of sorts pitting two American forces, one controlled by Texas and the other by Washington D.C., against each other.”
According to Bensmen, the U.S. Border Patrol leased a private pecan farm, at taxpayer expense, to accommodate illegal immigrants entering the country at Eagle Pass. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott responded by dispatching officers to barricade the farm's gate and destroy a ramp leading migrants up from the river. The Daily Mail’s headline for the story reads: “The wasteful, ludicrous conflict pits two American forces against each other and it's a glimpse into a truly dysfunctional border crisis.”
“Just outside the property's fence, however–between the river and the farm–Texas DPS authorities stand guard and bristle with frustration,” Bensman reports. “Why?”
'It seems that U.S. Border Patrol is letting migrants in and we're doing our part in order to keep them out,” Texas State Highway Patrol Sgt. Rene Cordova said. He pointed to the fortifications they've built to stop migrants from crossing onto the Urbinas' farm, which Border Patrol just as quickly tore down. It also wasn't helpful that the Urbinas, Bensman notes, dug the ramp down to the river to make the steep bank more accessible.
Gov. Abbott sent state troopers to occupy the Urbinas' land on the grounds that criminal activity was taking place. He ordered the ramp bulldozed, strung rows of barbed wire across the property, and planted a large sign that threatens a fine and reads: “You cannot pass here.” When the state discovered that the gates had been breached, the Department of Public Safety chained them shut and piled dirt high on both sides of the opening. Down at the river, dozens of migrants blocked by DPS officers cooled themselves in the shallow waters, Bensman reported. Still more swim back to Piedras Negras on the Mexican side of the border. They're all biding their time–looking for an opening in the Texas defenses or a friendly U.S. Border Patrol agent to give them a hand.
“Privately, because they're not authorized to speak, some Border Patrol agents tell me they abhor having to escort illegal aliens into the country,” Bensman said. “But they're following orders. One young, dripping-wet Venezuelan man confirmed it all to me. 'They [Texas Department of Public Safety officers] won't let us pass,' he says. So, his group will walk several hundred yards upriver to a spot where they heard that the green uniformed 'American immigracion' officers might be found. 'Over there, Border Patrol will take you so we can try and get asylum because we're poor and we're wanting a better life,' he said, squishing away in soggy sneakers.”
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United States/Mexico border visit in January in El Paso with
President Joe Biden, Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, and Representatives Veronica Escobar, Vicente Gonzalez and Henry Cuellar. Congressman Henry Cuellar
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The state has similarly denuded thousands of yards of riverbank downriver from Eagle Pass, bulldozing access roads and stationing camouflaged National Guard personnel and DPS officers along it. And, most recently, Gov. Abbott ordered a thousand feet of marine barrier, featuring large spinning buoys and a submerged net hanging below, to be installed in the Rio Grande to prevent swimmers from crossing. Texas boats, helicopters, military equipment, drones, and police invited from other states such as Florida, give the scene the feel of a multi-layered military bulwark.
“But no matter what obstacle–physical and otherwise–Texas erects, Border Patrol attempts to undermine them,” Bensman said. “In one instance, more than 100 Venezuelans, Cubans and Colombians hike thousands of yards to a point beyond the barbed wire and patrols, where Border Patrol vehicles were waiting. The immigrants crossed the river and, as I watch, they are escorted into transport vans. Texas state troopers on ATVs and in highway patrol vehicles can only observe. By the time the immigrants are beyond the state's wire, especially if they are in Border Patrol's custody, the officers are powerless to do much of anything.”