Pre-Election Miracle? Illegal Border Crossings Miraculously Drop to Four-Year Low
US Customs and Border Patrol’s migrant encounter numbers along the southwestern border with Mexico have hit a four-year low, new figures suggest.
“In July, the Border Patrol recorded 56,408 encounters between ports of entry along the southwest border,” the agency said in a press release, referring to the border between Mexico and the US states of California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas.
CBP said its “operational statistics” for last month “show a significant decline in migrant encounters during the first full month after a Presidential Proclamation issued June 4, 2024 by President Biden to temporarily suspend the entry of certain noncitizens across the southern border.
US Border Patrol encounters in July were 32% lower than in June 2024 and were the lowest monthly total along the southwest border since September 2020.”
Last month’s figures are also “lower than in July 2019, and lower than the monthly average for all of 2019, the last comparable year prior to the pandemic,” the agency added.
Biden’s June proclamation moved to restrict asylum eligibility for illegal aliens entering the United States via the southern border, with some 92,000 individuals ejected from the US and sent to their home countries on 300+ repatriation flights – with removals ballooning to their highest level since 2010.
The proclamation came after years of increasingly harsh criticism of Biden’s border policy by Republicans, and fears among Democrats that the issue may cost them the White House in November.
A Fox News poll this week found that some 87% of would-be voters consider the situation at the southern border a serious concern, with 44% dubbing it an “emergency” and 43% a “major problem,” and the issue found to be a concern among all demographics, including among black Americans, Hispanics, women, and registered Democrats. Some 71% of respondents blamed the Biden administration for failure to enforce the border, with 57% also saying that former President Donald Trump and Senate Republicans deserve some of the blame for blocking legislation on comprehensive immigration reform.
The border crisis is tied with abortion at 14% as the second most important issue in this year’s election behind the economy (38%).
The Biden administration facilitated the crisis at the southern border almost immediately after entering office in 2021 by moving to repeal a series of hardline Trump-era immigration directives and vowing to scrap Trump’s signature border wall in favor of a digital “smart wall” which never materialized. An estimate earlier this year suggested that over 7.3 million illegal aliens had entered the United States since Biden took office in 2021.
After Biden announced last month that he would not be seeking a second term, Democratic nominee Kamala Harris’s campaign sought to distance the candidate from her status as the administration’s “border czar” – a title bestowed on her by US media in March of 2021. Harris’ handlers have gone to stupefying lengths to dismiss the “border czar” moniker, to the point where some media have released “fact check”-style articles assuring that Harris was never really a “border czar,” despite ample reporting from 3.5 years ago using the epithet to refer to her.
Donald Trump and his allies have dubbed the situation at the southern border a “disaster” and an “invasion” that could “destroy our country.” Some have also attacked those mainstream Republican lawmakers who voted for nearly $100 billion for wars earlier this year abroad while consciously ignoring the border crisis.
Tim Walz Caught in New Acts of Stolen Valor
US Has Lowest Life Expectancy among Wealthy English-speaking Countries
The US has the lowest national life expectancy among its wealthy English-speaking peers, according to a new study.
Researchers from Penn State University looked at mortality rates from 1990 to 2019 in the US, Canada, Ireland, the UK, Australia and New Zealand, and discovered that the US ranked last in terms of average life expectancy.
In the US, average life expectancy for men is 76.5, while for women it’s 81.5. In Australia, by contrast, men live five years longer than men in the US and women four years longer than women in the US.
There were clear regional differences across the US, with men and women in California and Hawaii living longer than the national average, but still not as long as Australians, whereas in the Southeast of the US, life expectancy was far below the US average. In the Southeast, men live to 69.3 years of age on average and women 72.6.
The researchers attribute the lower rates of life expectancy in the US to more young Americans dying from drug overdoses, murder, and car accidents than in other countries, and middle-aged Americans having higher rates of death from cardiovascular disease.
A recent study showed that opioid deaths alone in the US reduced life expectancy in 2022 by 0.67 years, for a total of 3.1 million lost years of life and 38 life years lost per individual death.
Harris Campaign Mandating COVID Vaxx
The Harris-Walz campaign is mandating up-to-date COVID-19 vaccinations for employees.
Listings for on-site and remote jobs with the campaign posted to kamalaharris.com feature a requirement for all employees to be “up to date” on vaccines.
“Harris for President requires all employees to be ‘up to date’ on COVID-19 vaccination status as prescribed by the CDC as a condition of employment, unless otherwise prohibited by applicable law,” the requirement states.
“If you seek a reasonable accommodation in relation to the campaign’s COVID-19 policy, you should speak to the HR Department prior to reporting to an office location.”
According to the Centres for Disease Control, “up to date” means having received at least one age-appropriate updated COVID-19 vaccine for under 65s. Over 65s must receive at least two doses.
The vaccine mandate for federal employees and contractors ended in May 2023, when the end of the COVID public-health emergency was declared.
In recent weeks, Kamala Harris’s running-mate, Tim Walz, has faced scrutiny for his policies as governor of Minnesota during the pandemic, which included setting up a so-called “snitch line” for citizens to alert the authorities about people flouting the rules.
Tim Walz poisoned low incomes families who desperately needed money and gave their children, who had zero risk of Covid, an experimental vaccine. pic.twitter.com/Mb3Gavsvz9
— Cernovich (@Cernovich) August 6, 2024
Walz also provided financial incentives of $200 for parents to have their children vaccinated.
Planned Parenthood To Offer Free Vasectomies & Abortions During DNC
Planned Parenthood will be offering free vasectomies and abortions during this years Democratic National Convention (DNC) According to The New York Times, Planned parenthood will set up a mobile health clinic “blocks away” from the […]
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Former Trump Advisor Claims Home Was Raided by FBI after He Criticized Biden
A former Trump advisor had his home raided by the FBI last week, in apparent retaliation for criticism of Biden’s Ukraine policy.
Russian-born Dimitri Simes claims his home in Virginia was raided by the FBI after he spoke out against “official policies” and “the deep state.” Mr Simes was not in the US at the time.
He told Sputnik News that the raid “clearly is an attempt to intimidate, not only somebody from Russia, but just anyone who goes against official policies and particularly against the deep state
“My suspicion is that instead of trying to get me to come to the United States and to interrogate me—or even to arrest me—their real purpose is to make sure that I would not come back,” said Simes.
Simes also had a bank account frozen that he uses to pay the mortgage on the property.
He claims he was not provided with any prior notification of the raid.
Simes linked the raid on his property in Huntly, to ongoing lawfare against Trump and key Trump supporters like Rudy Giuliani.
“A number of prominent Americans were subjected to searches or even put in jail, or made bankrupt,” he said.
“So, this is the way American law enforcement is working today? If somebody goes against the political mainstream, in particular against the Biden administration, the punishment may be very swift.”
Simes moved to the US from the USSR in the 1970s. He worked as an informal policy advisor for President Nixon before moving to the Center for the National Interest, where he worked for three decades.
He advised Trump’s 2016 campaign and was a person of interest in the Russia-collusion investigation headed by special counsel Robert Mueller. His name was mentioned 130 times in Mueller’s final report, but he and the Center for the National Interest were cleared of any wrongdoing.
Former Student: Walz Is “Maoist to the Core”
Kamala Harris’s running-mate Tim Walz is “Maoist to the core,” according to a student who accompanied the Minnesota Governor on one of his many trips to China.
“It was almost a daily revelation of how much he adores the communist regime,” the former student told Alpha News, when he described his trip to China with Walz. He asked to be referred to only as “Shad.”
Shad travelled to China with Walz in the summer of 1995, and spent several weeks there with him. They visited Tiananmen Square, trekked along the Great Wall of China, and visited a number of different areas of the country.
The former student says he was taken aback by Walz’s adoration of China and, in particular, its communist ideology.
“There was no doubt he was a true believer,” Shad said.
“I’ve been trying to tell people this for 30 years. Nobody wanted to listen.
“At night, we’d go out, we’d walk the street fairs. We’d be buying souvenirs and Tim was always buying the little red book. He said he gave them as gifts… I saw him buy at least a dozen on the trip.”
“It would be like in Germany and buying copies of Mein Kampf,” Walz’s former student added.
“If there was any doubt about what I’m saying just look at the policies enacted by his administration like the country’s worst abortion law, anti-free speech, the riots. He’s a Maoist to the core and should not be underestimated.”
Shad went on to tell Alpha News that “People need to have their eyes wide open.”
“The snitch hotline in Minnesota is straight out of CCP. Tim Walz is a very bright guy. None of this by accident.”
On Friday, James Comer, who leads the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, announced an investigation into Walz’s links to the CCP with a press release and a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray.
“The CCP has sought to destroy the United States through coordinated influence and infiltration campaigns that target every aspect of American life, including our own elected officials,” Comer said in the press release.
“Americans should be deeply concerned that Governor Walz, Kamala Harris’s vice-presidential running mate, has a longstanding and cozy relationship with China. Mr. Walz has visited China dozens of times, served as a fellow at a Chinese institution that maintains a devotion to the CCP, and spoke alongside the President of a Chinese organization the State Department exposed as a CCP effort to influence and co-opt local leaders. FBI briefers recently informed the Committee that the Bureau’s Foreign Influence Task Force investigates CCP activity that is similar to China’s engagement with Governor Walz. The American people deserve to fully understand how deep Governor Walz’s relationship with China goes.”
The press release goes on to detail how Walz began organizing school trips to China, funded by the CCP, in the early 1990s, and then set up a private company which organized annual trips to China, until being dissolved days before Walz entered Congress in 2007. Walz has visited China an estimated 30 times, and held various positions of influence with regard to US-China relations.
In his letter to FBI Director Wray, Comer asks for a variety of documents and information relating to Walz’s activities in and with regard to China, including about Chinese individuals and organizations and any warnings or guidance issued to Governor Walz about “subnational government officials engaging with the PRC, CCP, and the CCP’s proxies.”
Shad told Alpha News that he had sent a letter to the House Oversight Committee and also spoken to a member of James Comer’s staff.
In addition to questions about his longstanding ties to China and the CCP, Walz has faced scrutiny for his relationships with a radical pro-Hitler Muslim cleric in Minnesota and large amounts of funding provided by his administration to a Muslim group with links to Al Qaeda.