While Europe deals with the consequences of a Middle Eastern invasion brought on by the terrible decisions of its ostensible leaders, the United States continues to see an influx of illegal immigrants from Central America. Despite the Obama administration’s assertions that the flow of unaccompanied minors has abated, OTMs continue to pore across the border, according to newly released Border Patrol statistics.

Of course, once they are here they will benefit from the free legal advice of radical open borders advocacy groups-mostly funded through the expropriation of wealth from American citizens-who excel at coaching their new charges on how to scam the American government. Judicial Watch has a startling report on this practice in their Corruption Chronicles, which I highly recommend reading, if only to see how much this administration has eviscerated immigration enforcement on the federal level.

Naturally, this imposed chaos is accompanied by the President’s willful disregard for separation of powers, reflected in a series of actions-detailed here-which try to enact by executive fiat what could not be done through the proper legislative channels. The scope of this presidency’s abuse of power is broad, but in no arena is it as flagrant is in the realm of immigration law.  January 20, 2017 can’t come soon enough, as far as I’m concerned.

Most of you have probably already heard the news, but for those of you who are unaware, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld Judge Hanen’s injunction against President Obama’s clearly unconstitutional, unlawful fiat legalizing 5+ million illegal aliens. This is a decisive, albeit temporary, victory for those of us who believe in the rule of law and application of it to a group which has exploited the political and legal process to the hilt.

Unsurprisingly, the Obama administration intends to appeal this decision. It is also, according to reports, considering placing a woman who was responsible for San Francisco’s lethal sanctuary city policy in charge of the Border Patrol. You couldn’t make this stuff up if you tried, folks. Get the pitchforks ready!

Kudos to the Newshour for highlighting the threats posed to America from the unsecured stretch of land in America’s southwest as well as the Rio Grande Valley, which has become a pipeline for illegal immigration from Mexico. The growth of criminal insurgents from south of the border is another issue that needs to be highlighted, as in Ioan Grillo’s magisterial work about Mexico’s global criminal syndicates, El Narco. 

After listening to Gary Thrasher, it’s not hard to figure out why the morale of American Border Patrol agents is at an all-time low. You can read a transcript of his interview on the Newshour’s website. 

There’s nothing that defines this administration as much as its lack of transparency, and its handling of immigration policy is no exception to this rule. Which is why we recommend reading the account by the Center for Investigative Reporting of James F. Tomsheck’s explosive allegations regarding corruption within the bureaucracy of U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Of particular interest to our readers is the complicity of pro-amnesty Obama flunky David Aguilar, the current head of CBP, in perpetuating this deplorable situation.

The fact that the man entrusted with facilitating the President’s unlawful amnesty would disregard clear violations in his agency is not surprising, nor is the lack of responsiveness to these credible allegations. In fact, in an unprecedented move, the majority of the federal government’s inspectors general have sent a letter to Congress asking it to help them deal with this administration’s continued obstruction of their investigations into government corruption and potential criminality.

As Jonatan Turley has pointed out repeatedly, this White House is conducting its affairs in the manner of  an imperial presidency. And, as we all know, the divine right of kings does not allow for oversight, let alone scrutiny into the actions of a sovereign. Someone needs to remind the President that we live in a constitutional republic.

For a more detailed explanation of his grand deception, I recommend reading Jessica Vaughan’s CIS backgrounder  exploring this administration’s manipulated deportation statistics.  Mark Krikorian exposed the big lie as early as 2010 in a devastating monograph, How Obama Is Transforming America Through Immigration, which I also highly recommend for those  of you seeking some transparency on this matter. 

 Hat tip: NY ICE

NY ICE acquitted itself ably during the national day of protest against the President’s lawless immigration policies earlier this month. You can see the results for yourself by visiting the recent items section of NY ICE’s website. You can also view video footage from the event by visiting the Epstein Rocks channel on Youtube. Joanna Marzullo, founder and president of New York ICE, provides a summary below the fold.

August 2, 2014, New York, NY. NY ICE contributed to the National Day of Demonstrations against the recent illegal alien flood.

Special thanks and Credit to Pamela Hall for much of the videos and [hotos!  For the complete Flickr set, please view this photo set. 

This past week saw the first American victim of the best and brightest Barack Obama has welcomed into the warm embrace of the United States. We now have confirmed reports that a Border Patrol officer has contracted scabies from the unaccompanied minors he was tending to, rather than performing his job, i.e. protecting the American public. If a contagious skin disease isn’t enough to sour you on the stream of Central Americans being distributed throughout the United States, how do you feel about a potential tuberculosis outbreak? Not deterred by the wasting disease? How about a nice influenza epidemic?

Yes, that’s right. There are now recorded cases of the H1N1 virus among our newest batch of undocumented citizens, much to the consternation of open borders demagogues like Ruben Navarette, who have been reassuring a skeptical public for the past month that fears of disease were merely the hyperbolic bogeymen of xenophobic, right wing racists. After all, who would have suspected that severely dehydrated, malnourished children traveling in large groups from third world countries which host a bevy of tropical illnesses, and which have poor public health systems, could be a vector for disease?! You would need to be a virtual Nostradamus to have predicted that this sort of untrammeled mass immigration from developing nations would have negative repercussions for the American public.

Rest assured though, there’s absolutely no chance that these isolated incidents will turn into a deadly pandemic. After all, when was the last time that a grand social experiment had catastrophically negative consequences?

The mendacity of our current administration is at times stunning, even for those of us who should by now have become inured to the lies regurgitated by the Obama administration and its factotums for the better part of two terms. The disavowals by La Raza graduate Cecilia Munoz and village idiot Joe Biden notwithstanding, the systematic emigration of unaccompanied minors from their homelands to the southwestern United States is nothing if not a ploy designed by those in power to destroy whatever prophylactic measures the government currently takes to prevent the complete dissolution of our nation’s system of border controls. 

-You need look no further than ICE itself, whose bureaucrats acknowledge that a contract request to escort these youths was publicly advertised as early as the beginning of this year to realize how fatuous the current administration’s protestations of innocence are. The fact that this crisis is completely and utterly contrived seems not to have dissuaded the usual suspects in the mainstream  news media from putting the most appealing face on what has become an untrammeled invasion. Perhaps predictably, the fact that those tasked with protecting our nation’s security are now the functional equivalent of babysitters to carriers of lethal, communicable diseases has only exacerbated the existing tendency among press outlets to treat every breakdown of public order and security risk as a vessel for the classic illegal immigrant sob story.

-That the public is being largely denied pertinent information about the risks posed by these cherubic children-or a rational debate over whether surviving custodians/parents are practicing child abuse by forcing them to make a potentially lethal, 120+ mile trek through the Mexican desert-should come as no surprise. While concerned citizens might be surprised to learn that many of these “unaccompanied minors” are in fact vicious gang members, the fact that this tidbit is being overlooked by every single national broadcast network is nothing new when it comes to immigration coverage, unfortunately. Even the question of whether these individuals are being released into the care of human traffickers is probably not going to be raised by reporters invested in the wholesale erasure of American sovereignty.

-What galls, however, is the deafening silence by the fourth estate regarding the manipulation of access to the detainment cells and way stations, including military bases, housing these uninvited guests from Central America. Naturally, any critics of this administration’s  calculatedly disastrous immigration policy are being denied entry to the facilities housing the latest cohort of illegal aliens, as Arizona Speaker Andy Tobin learned recently. Likewise, any reporters seeking to engage in journalism-not merely act as stenographers for LULAC or the ACLU-are obstructed from practicing their craft, even as the Border Patrol officers who would seek to assist them are threatened with prosecution by their superiors, a la Fast and Furious. Thus, the freedom of information whose death the press routinely sheds crocodile tears for ends, not with a bang, and barely a whimper from the credentialed hypocrites.

-In contrast to the brick wall greeting those few genuinely patriotic lawmakers and intrepid journalists seeking the truth, the Spanish-speaking subjects of so many glowing personal interest stories over the past month are being provided with the best in legal representation that your tax dollars can buy. Someone should inform President Obama and his sidekick that these star-studded legal teams are promising their clients amnesty, which is open to them through a variety of means, including the notoriously porous refugee resettlement program.

-These unaccompanied aliens-and presumably, the adults who are assisting their perilous voyage north-are acting upon an entirely rational, understandable impulse. Namely, to leave behind a third world life of desperate poverty and lack of security in order to live in a, relatively speaking, prosperous and safe environment-one in which attempts to circumscribe their access to any welfare program will be met with howls of rage by indignant, open borders fanatics. They’re doing so because they have concluded that they will not be deported to their countries of origin, and despite the disingenuous protestations to the contrary by this administration and its apparatchiks, this is a largely accurate assessment of the situation, as columnist Ross Douthat has pointed out in the pages of the New York Times.

News & Notes

-Perhaps predictably, the political earthquake that vaporized Eric Cantor’s future career arc  doesn’t seem to have reached the denizens of Capitol Hill, K Street, or the White House. Valerie Jarrett’s recent comments about Rupert Murdoch and Dave Brat only serve to underscore the cosmic disconnect between those who make their living manipulating the political process in order to serve their financial and political interests and the people throughout the country laboring to sate their avarice. Unfortunately, just as we seem to be stuck with Murdoch, there is no prospect of Ms. Jarrett returning to Iran any time in the near future. GOP mega-donor Sheldon Adelson, unlike his Australian counterpart, was actually born in the United States, therefore should presumably have a deeper attachment to American sovereignty and the quality of life of this nation’s citizens. Unfortunately, as Breitbart reports, that is simply not the case.

-One group that passionately detests the United States-at least, as it’s currently constituted-is the National Council of La Raza. Shockingly, they seem to have drawn all the wrong conclusions from Eric Cantor’s epic primary defeat, demonstrating yet again the utter futility of hispandering in  hopes of garnering that ever-elusive, much-heralded latino vote. One man who does not tailor his message in order to appeal to segmented ethnic groups is the gubernatorial candidate Tom Tancredo, a man whose praises we have sung repeatedly on this website. Of course, the open borders elites who control the GOP machinery despise Congressman Tancredo, which is all the more reason registered Republicans in the state of Colorado should go out and vote for him in today’s primary.

And with that important admonition, we conclude today’s Daily Rattle.

Here’s the latest press release from the National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers addressing the Obama administration’s directive restricting the use of deadly force by Border Patrol agents.

National Association of

Former Border Patrol Officers, Inc.

P.O. Box 2012

Brunswick, GA 31521-2012

Chairman

George (Zack) Taylor

Vice-Chairman

Jeffery L. Everly

Directors

G. Alan Ferguson

Gene Wood

Mike Cronin

Bob Stille

David Ward

Ted L. Bader

Secretary/Treasurer

Robert M. Trent

March 24, 2014

PRESS RELEASE

This Press Release is an advisory to the American people from the National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers relating to the use of force by Border Patrol Agents.

America is the target of tremendous levels of political deception being foisted on her by the administration, the media and those with a financial, political or strategic interest in making our country less secure. Among these carefully crafted deceptions is the false notion that Border Patrol Agents use deadly force indiscriminately.

The border of the United States is an increasingly dangerous place. The U.S. Border Patrol is a thin green line that diligently attempts to protect the American heartland from transnational criminals such as Manuel Plancarte Gaspar, and prevent people such as Lorenzo Paez Calles,  both citizens of Mexico, from impacting American society.

As the United States Border Patrol continues to successfully interrupt transnational criminal activity along the border, those same criminals continue to accelerate the violence by initiating well planned assaults with rocks, automobiles, firearms and other weapons. Since 2007, there have been over 6,000 assaults against Border Patrol agents resulting in numerous injuries including the murders of three Agents. Carefully ignored are the facts that both governmental and non governmental entities inside the United States continue to do the bidding of these transnational criminals by discrediting those who disrupt cross border criminal activity aimed at American citizens.

This media campaign is an intentional weakening of America’s defenses through political deception. Those supporting this campaign are working to destroy America.

Sincerely,

/s/

Zack Taylor

Chairman

National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers, Inc.

nafbpo@nafbpo.org

Our paramount mission is to contribute to the security and stability of the United States.

To that end, we shall propose and be advocates for immigration laws and policies that we believe serve those national interests, and we will oppose those that do not.

Congress continues its annual month-long hibernation, but that doesn’t mean you have to slumber. The drive by open borders lobbyists never ceases, which means that we’ll have to work even more furiously to thwart their plans. Tea Party Patriots has provided an invaluable guide delineating just how you can hold your congressmen accountable for his or her actions. The DREAMers have already claimed a scalp down in Florida; it’s time that we got to work asserting our rights as American citizens and demanding that our voices be heard. 

It’s time that the immigration debate ceased being a monologue.