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Schumer, Zuckerberg Lobby Use Horse Videos to Denounce Title 42 Migration Barrier

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Pro-amnesty Democrats and their pro-migration corporate allies are exploiting the media uproar over horse-mounted officers at the border to demand even easier migration into the U.S. economy.

“We’ve all seen these horrible images coming from our southern border … Images of Haitian migrants being hit with whips and other forms of physical violence is completely unacceptable,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said in a September 21 floor speech — just one day after he insisted that employers need more migrants.

“The images turn your stomach — it must be stopped, this kind of violence,” he continued, just before demanding the anti-epidemic 2020 Title 42 border rules be lifted to let migrants enter the United States:

So I urge President [Joe] Biden and Secretary [Alejandro] Mayorkas to immediately put a stop to these expulsions, and to end this Title 42 policy at our southern border. We cannot continue these hateful and xenophobic Trump policies that disregard our refugee laws. We must allow asylum seekers to present their claims at our ports of entry, and be afforded due process [in the United States]… the horrible treatment of these innocent people who have come to the border must stop immediately.

According to NBC News:

The Department of Homeland Security document also said the DHS Office of Professional Responsibility, the agency’s internal watchdog, is investigating an incident in which a Border Patrol agent on horseback in Del Rio, Texas, grabbed a Haitian migrant by the shirt.

Many of the Haitian migrants have trekked up from the Darian Gap jungle in Panama, where many migrants are killed or raped by bandits.

In 2021, almost one million migrants have been turned away at the border by the Title 42 rules established by President Donald Trump in 2020. Without the rule, Biden’s deputies would have likely allowed them into the United States, where they would have pressured down wages, pushed up rent, and crowded the K-12 schools needed by the children of blue-collar Americans.

Nonetheless, Biden’s deputies are expected to allow roughly two million migrants — including many of the Haitian border crossers — into the United States in 2021. The inflow will deliver one migrant for every two Americans born during the year.

The videos are “deeply troubling, including the inappropriate use of what appear to be whips by Border Patrol officers on horseback to intimidate migrants,” said a September 30 statement by House Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi. “Any acts of aggression or violence cannot be tolerated and must be investigated.”

“What I saw depicted about those individuals on horseback treating human beings the way they were, was horrible,” Vice President Kamala Harris said Tuesday.

“If [border agents] cannot physically detain or deter illegal aliens, you are ceding the immigration laws to the individual illegal alien,” countered Robert Law, the director of regulatory affairs and policy for the Center for Immigration Studies.

By denouncing border officers’ routine enforcement of the nation’s popular border curbs, “you’re turning Border Patrol agents into the equivalent of Walmart greeters, or as tourist guides directing the illegal aliens on their way into the interior of the country.” he told Breitbart News.

The horse controversy is intended to distract the public from the obvious chaos caused by Biden’s loose border policies, Law said:

The entire thing is completely manufactured and it’s orchestrated … [by] this perverse coalition of anti-borders left and cheap-labor right who all work off at the same talking points and they go on the same cable shows, and they get written about the same media outlets, and they repeat the same lie over and over and over and over again.

The pro-migration progressives are eager to lash the U.S. border officers, Law said, even as they also cover up the deaths, rapes, and harms caused to the migrants during their long treks to the side-doors that leftists are opening at the U.S. border:

They would rather criticize the hardworking, patriotic career Border Patrol agents than ever say something negative about the cartels and the coyotes who are involved in this very dangerous and very cruel, [migrant-]smuggling operation … Those [border agents] are being portrayed today as the villain, not the cartels and the coyotes who are smuggling these people for exorbitant fees, and are using them as a distraction mechanism to flood our country with drugs that are killing many thousands Americans.

The Democratic politicians’ statements match the language and demands pushed by Mark Zuckerberg’s FWD.us advocacy group for West Coast investors. The group is pushing for greater immigration of migrant consumers, workers, and renters.

“The horrible treatment of Haitians and other predominantly Black people seeking asylum—including the awful violence inflicted upon them by Federal agents … is an urgent failure that demands immediate action,” said a September 20 statement FWD.us. The statement continued:

Title 42 was wrong in 2020. It is wrong today in 2021—and it is wrong for the Biden administration to appeal the decision declaring Title 42 last week and use this as a pretext for ramping up deportation flights of thousands of Haitians seeking asylum.

Zuckerberg’s FWD.us is funding many pro-migration and pro-amnesty groups around the United States. It is also playing the leading role in pushing the Senate to include multiple amnesties in the pending $3.5 trillion budget bill. That plan was damaged September 19 when the Senate’s debate referee, the parliamentarian, ruled that the amnesties cannot be included in a budget bill.

The FWD.us membership of West Coast investors is pushing for the amnesty because they stand to gain from more cheap labor, government-aided consumers, and room-sharing renters. The network has funded many astroturf campaigns, urged Democrats not to talk about the economic impact of migration, and manipulated and steered coverage by the TV networks and the print media.

The establishment’s media is protecting Biden because his border policies make the establishment look bad, said Law.

They are using the border enforcement videos “to help shift the narrative,” from the chaotic Haitian landing, he said. “You cannot distinguish the talking points of a liberal politician or a cheap labor business guy on cable news from what you see in a lot of [journalists’] print articles … They’re all on the same team.”

Many polls show that labor migration is deeply unpopular because it damages ordinary Americans’ career opportunities, cuts their wages, and raises their rents. Migration also curbs their productivity, shrinks their political clout, widens regional wealth gaps, and wrecks their democratic, compromise-promoting civic culture.

For many years, a wide variety of pollsters have shown deep and broad opposition to labor migration and the inflow of temporary contract workers into jobs sought by young U.S. graduates. This pocketbook opposition is multiracial, cross-sex, non-racist, class-based, bipartisan,  rational, persistent, and recognizes the solidarity Americans owe to each other.

Jim Banks Calls on Republicans to Oppose ‘Fake Infrastructure Deal’

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House Republican Study Committee (RSC) Chairman Jim Banks (R-IN) told Breitbart News during a press conference Tuesday that Republicans should oppose the “fake” $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill.

Democrat leadership said that the House will vote on the $1.2 trillion so-called bipartisan infrastructure bill, otherwise known as the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, on September 27. The bill, which faced significant opposition from Senate conservatives, passed with the help of 19 Senate Republicans in August.

Axios reported Monday that Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) might rely on House moderate Republicans to pass the legislation, as many progressive Democrats may oppose the bill. Politico reported that House Republican leadership expects fewer than a dozen House Republicans to vote for the bill. Many House GOP moderates could likely vote against the bill, as House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) oppose it.

A House GOP leadership aide told Breitbart News that the only Republicans that could potentially support the bill would be moderates, but that would largely depend on whether the larger $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill passes. The aide said many GOP moderates would not vote for this bill if the reconciliation bill passes.

A senior House GOP aide told Breitbart News that it remains doubtful Democrats have the votes to pass it within their own party, which could likely lead to the bill’s demise. The aide said:

The vote on BIF [bipartisan infrastructure bill] is another classic case of ‘Dems in Disarray.’ The bottom line is that this is a bad bill for America, and Democrats are in complete and utter chaos right now. They are operating under the ‘no plan’ plan, and they haven’t proven they even have the votes on their side to get it across the finish line. The House could see the BIF sink like the Titanic.

During a press conference Tuesday, Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN), the Republican Study Committee (RSC) chairman, told Breitbart News that having Republicans vote for the bipartisan infrastructure bill would only help Democrats ahead of the contentious 2022 midterm elections. He predicted that a “single-digit” number of House Republicans would vote for the bipartisan infrastructure bill.

Banks described the bill as a “fake infrastructure deal” and contended Republicans largely oppose the bill.

Banks pointed Breitbart News to an Axios article in which Democrat National Committee Chairman Jaime Harrison said if Democrats pass their infrastructure bills, they could say, “It’s very simple. Two words: Democrats deliver.”

The RSC has long messaged against the bipartisan infrastructure bill, highlighting how it spends only $110 billion of its $1.2 trillion on infrastructure, advances the climate change agenda, and pushes Critical Race Theory (CRT):

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) found that the bill would add $256 billion to the deficit, and the Penn-Wharton Budget Model said the bill would add no “significant” level of economic growth.

The bipartisan infrastructure would also advance leftist priorities by:

  • Defines “gender identity” as a protected class.
  • Doles out “digital equity” grants partly based on racial or ethnic minority status.
  • State-mandated carbon reduction program
  • Contains funding for “zero-emission vehicles”
  • Addresses “over-the-road bus tolling equity”
  • Contains the word “equity” 64 times
  • Provides roughly $2.5 billion to help the U.S. government expand the border processing stations used by migrants from poor Central American nations and other regions around the world.

Notably, the so-called bipartisan infrastructure bill does not contain any sizable conservative victories.

The legislation calls for a study to review the potential impact of revoking the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline, even though it does not restore the job-creating project. The bill also has billions of dollars for border crossings and zero dollars for a border wall.

During the press conference, Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) said that the $3.5 trillion infrastructure bill and the bipartisan infrastructure bill are inherently linked because President Joe Biden and a group of Senate Republicans and Democrats struck a deal to craft the bipartisan bill.

Donalds said:

You can’t decouple these two bills. The only reason this infrastructure bill even exists is because the deal that was cut in the White House and in the Senate, and frankly, amongst the House majority was that it’s coupled with this $3.5 trillion budget bill, so they’re together, they’re never separate because y’all know like we know if the infrastructure bill dies, the budget rec[conciliation bill] dies and vice versa.

He added, “We’re being told this is bipartisan because we had four Republicans and four Democrat senators negotiate with the White House.”

Sean Moran is a congressional reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter @SeanMoran3.

Commissioner: U.S. Civil Rights Report May Encourage Minorities to View Medical Professionals as Racist

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The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (USCCR) released a report Wednesday that stated the federal government should intervene to end “racial disparities” in maternal health caused by systemic racism, a claim at least one commissioner states could encourage minorities to view medical professionals as racist and “hostile.”

The report, which was sent to President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), claims black women in the United States “are three to four times more likely to die from pregnancy-related complications than white women in the U.S.”

Additionally, the report makes the assertion that “Native American women are more than two times more likely to die from pregnancy-related complications than white women in the U.S.”

“These disparities have become more severe over the last thirty years,” the report claims.

Norma V. Cantú, USCCR chair, said in a press statement:

At the federal level, efforts can be made to improve hospital quality, particularly for women of color if maternal health disparities are to be eliminated. Improvements in safety culture are linked with improved maternal health outcomes. One recommendation for improving safety in maternal healthcare is to implement standardized care practices across hospitals and health systems and to standardize data collection systems.

The Commission reports it held a virtual briefing in November 2020, during which it heard the testimony of various government officials, service providers, and women who claim to have experienced discrimination in health care during pregnancy. USCCR stated it reviewed public comments as well and conducted its own independent research of studies focused on racial disparities in maternal health outcomes.

In its letter to Biden, Harris, and Pelosi, USCCR wrote:

Taken together, the information the Commission reviewed underscores the many contributing factors to racial disparities in maternal health and outcomes. These disparities have become more severe over the last thirty years, with the rates of Black maternal mortality increasing since with 1990s. Social determinants of health, access and quality of healthcare, and bias all play a significant role in outcomes. Crucially, even controlling for wealth and education levels does not eliminate the disparity in outcomes. As attention of these disparities increases, so does the focus on the stark statistical disparities by decisionmakers and the public. Currently, data show that the large majority of maternal deaths are preventable, increasing the urgency for reliable, consistent statistical data. There are several proposed responses to these disparities which our report explores.

Several commissioners, however, delivered dissenting statements, including Commissioner Gail L. Heriot, who wrote, “Alas, like many of our Commission reports, this one is a disappointment.”

She proceeded to make the effort to “sort out fact from fiction,” including the issue she asserts is the “most serious,” that of the “repeated allegation” that “’racism’ is what’s causing racial disparities in maternal mortality.”

“This allegation … will not help us reduce maternal deaths,” the commissioner said. “Instead, it will encourage racial minority mothers to view medical professionals as hostile or even malicious. That is much more likely to make things worse than better.”

Heriot elaborated on the point that “it is unlikely that American women are dying in childbirth today at rates 50% higher than they did a generation ago.”

“If the rate of maternal mortality were indeed up 50%, that would be alarming,” Heriot asserted. “But this is unlikely. All or nearly all of this alleged increase appears to be an artifact of changes in how the United States keeps track of maternal mortality.”

The commissioner noted the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) observed that, at the start of the 20th century, six to nine women in the U.S. died of pregnancy-related complications for every 1,000 births. However, by 1997, that rate “declined almost 99% to less than 0.1 reported deaths per 1000 live births.”

“Let me restate it,” Heriot stressed. “Maternal death declined almost 99% over the course of the 20th century. That’s not just improvement. It’s a medical triumph.”

She agreed it is nevertheless “fair” to ask why maternal mortality rates have not declined or have “stalled,” if, in fact, the data are correct:

A significant part of the answer might be that in recent decades more Americans have become obese, and more obesity means more hypertension and more diabetes, both of which lead to higher maternal mortality rates. Another part of the answer might be that a higher percentage of births are to women over 40, and maternal mortality rates for women over 40 have always been much higher than those for younger mothers.

Heriot also noted that, if the claim that systemic racism is to account for differing maternal mortality rates in the nation, the expectation is the same would be true for all minority races, “not just African Americans and American Indian/Alaska Natives.”

“But the facts are otherwise,” she wrote. “The pregnancy-related mortality rates for Hispanic and very likely for Asian American mothers are lower than the rates for whites [sic].”

“It is counterproductive to divert attention away from the factors that lead to maternal mortality with vague claims of racism,” Heriot warned. “We should not be trying to cause African American and other minority mothers to view the medical profession with unwarranted suspicion.”

GOP Slams Democrats for Defunding Israel’s Iron Dome: They 'Capitulate to the Antisemitic Influence'

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Republicans slammed Democrats on Tuesday for defunding Israel’s Iron Dome within a government funding bill after several radical Democrats threatened to vote against the funding bill due to signing a resolution this summer to block arms sales to Israel.

The Democrat-controlled Congress must pass a funding bill and also suspend the debt limit within days to stop a government shutdown when current government funds dry up at the end of this month. The measure has little chance of passing the Senate, where Democrats need ten Republican votes.

The removal of the funds for the Iron Dome speaks to the panicked mood of the Democrat leadership over enacting President Joe Biden’s massive tax and spending proposals. Therefore, the White House suggested Tuesday Biden approves of defunding the Iron Dome.

Rep. Jody Hice (R-GA) tweeted the Democrats caved to the radical left just after President Biden promised to help protect Israel from terrorism. “Speaker Pelosi JUST caved to the socialists and yanked funding for Israel’s Iron Dome from the government funding CR bill. Dems can’t even keep a promise for 24 hours,” Hice said.

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) tweeted the far-left has shown their true colors by defending Hamas. “The radical left shows their blatant disregard for supporting our ally Israel and Israel’s right to defend itself against Hamas terrorists,” she stated.

Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) tweeted that antisemitic influence is controlling the Democrat Party. “While Dems capitulate to the antisemitic influence of their radical members, Republicans will always stand with Israel,” he said.

Rep. Randy Feenstra (R-IA) tweeted that Biden contradicted himself by proclaiming Israel to be an ally while allowing his party to abandon Israel. “President Biden proclaimed to our allies that ‘America is back,’ but since then he has abandoned Americans & allies in Afghanistan, weakened our relationship with France, and now his Party has let down Israel — our closest ally in the Middle East,” he said.

Richard Grenell, former President Donald Trump’s director of national intelligence, tweeted that Democrats are abandoning Israel.

Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) said Pelosi has capitulated to the far-left, which will further endanger Israel. “This will put Israel in danger & will further embolden countries that wish to see Israel wiped off the face of the Earth,” he tweeted. 

America Rising PAC tweeted the Democrats’ decision is consistent with their past treatment of American allies. “Over the past few weeks, Democrats have repeatedly left our closest allies out to dry,” they said.

House Republicans Twitter handle suggested House Democrats prefer Islamic terrorists over Israel. “House Democrats choose radical Islamic terrorists over our ally Israel,” the group said.

Follow Wendell Husebø on Twitter @WendellHusebø.

Dem Rep. Dean: Ted Cruz, Rand Paul Need to Testify Before January 6 Select Committee

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Representative Madeleine Dean (D-PA) said Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that Sens Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Rand Paul (R-KY) needed to testify before the House Select Committee investigating the January 6 Capitol riot.

Referencing a New York Times report on a Trump administration internal memo detailing possible plans in the days after the 2020 presidential election, anchor Nicolle Wallace said, “I want to read a tweet from Adam Kinzinger who is one of those rare Republicans who lives in reality with us and the rest of the reality adhering Americans. He tweeted this, ‘This memo outlines a coup. Maybe Ted Cruz or Rand Paul can do our bidding? Rand and Ted are the go-to options for doing their overthrow.’”

Wallace added, “I wonder if you think the committee should hear from Ted Cruz and Rand Paul?”

Dean said, “Oh, I certainly do. I have long thought that anybody that had any interest or anything to do with what happened on January 6th, any communication with the president, with the president’s legal teams should absolutely be before the committee to let us know their role, to let us know what they know. This reporting will go a long way to offer some insights, but the committee has power of subpoena and gathering more. I want to say all the more reason why we have to move forward with a bill that was introduced today protecting our democracy because our democracy needs restored faith. This is what I’ve been worried about, the last two years when I was in Congress, and Trump was in the White House — that the erosion of our faith and our democracy was perpetuated by Donald Trump, aided and abetted by other elected leaders and appointed folks such agency the attorney general of the United States. We have to do what is necessary to protect our democracy and to restore our citizens’ faith in our democracy. So, that’s why I’m proud to be part of Protecting Our Democracy as original co-sponsor of the bill.”

Follow Pam Key on Twitter @pamkeyNEN