CORONAVIRUS: PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP INVOKES EMERGENCY POWERS
AT THE WHITE HOUSE
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It appears that illegal aliens present in the United States now and still crossing the border will prevail in their fight to stay in the country.The reason? Sheer numbers. More than one million illegals have deportation orders but won’t be leaving anytime soon, says Matt Albence, acting chief of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.ICE is so overwhelmed that removing illegals who jumped the border during the invasion of the last two years will take nearly a century-and-a-half, he told a House committee on Wednesday.Sheer Numbers The numbers are beyond staggering, Albence told the House Appropriations Committee on Wednesday in his prepared testimony:Even if no surge occurs along the border, the effects of the enormous number of illegal entries over the last two years will reverberate for years to come. Today, ICE’s non-detained Docket includes a record 3.3 million cases, a steep increase from 2.6 million in FY 2018 and 2.4 million in FY 2017, with over a million of these aliens having already received final orders of removal. The Department of Justice’s Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) issued roughly 181,000 final orders of removal in FY 2019 and approximately 70,000 final orders of removal in just the first quarter of FY 2020. As numbers continue to climb, they will further outpace ICE’s ability to conduct its work identifying, apprehending, and detaining this staggering number prior to effecting removal.ICE detains just 1.5 percent of illegal aliens, he said, and frighteningly enough, his testimony suggests that those with removal orders have nothing to fear:Without additional resources to actually effectuate a judge’s removal orders, we will have an immigration enforcement and court system in which billions of dollars a year are spent to obtain orders, that are not worth the paper they are written on — with the exception of a small percentage, and mainly those who have come to ICE’s attention through the criminal justice system.Albence said that ICE arrested 2,500 noncriminal fugitives last year, the Washington Times reported about his testimony. “If we do that, based on just the numbers that came in the last two years, it would take us about 140 years to clear up that backlog.”Noting that just 10 percent of asylum claims are approved, which means 90 percent are phony, Albence told the committee that illegals know they won’t be detained, a complaint border officials have made for more than a year, particularly during last year’s surge. That deluge peaked at more than 140,000 for May.“So this is not about asylum, this is about the release,” Albence said, Fox reported. “Most of these individuals want to come here because they know regardless if they get a removal order, regardless if they show up to court, if they don’t have a detention bed at the time the removal order is issued, the likelihood of them actually being removed from the country is nil.”Indeed, it even goes beyond that, two border officials said last year. Illegals want to be apprehended because they know they’ll be released, and then can disappear. Ninety percent of the “family units” caught at the border, a significant number of which aren’t families anyway, don’t show up for asylum hearings, a Senate committee learned last year.Most of the illegals are poor illiterates from Central America’s Northern Triangle of Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador.Backlog in Immigration Courts Apart from the backlog at ICE, immigration courts face 1,101,061 unadjudicated removal cases, the TRACImmigration website at Syracuse University reports.Nearly half of those — 484,774 — are in three states: California, with 180,663; Texas, with 172,999; and New York, with 131,112.The number of cases now clogging the immigration courts has more than doubled, with an increase of 113.4 percent since fiscal 2016 when they faced 516,031.The figure has increased 43.3 percent since fiscal 2018, TRAC reports. The backlog then was 768,257.Last year’s total was 1,023,767, which was 33 percent more than fiscal 2018.Neither the backlogs at ICE nor in the immigration courts are a surprise given what border agents have faced in the last few years.In fiscal 2018, they bagged 521,090 illegals, Customs and Border Protection data show. Last year, the figure jumped to 977,509 — again, thanks to the “migration” waves that peaked in May at 144,116.Apart from President Trump reinstating something akin to President Dwight Eisenhower’s Operation Wetback, a mass deportation carried out regardless of lawsuits from the Left and their sympathetic judges, the illegal immigrants will be here forever.
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China’s Foreign Ministry spokesman has sensationally blamed the U.S. Army for starting the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan.The day after President Donald Trump shut down travel from European countries for 30 days, Zhao Lijian made the outlandish assertion that the U.S. itself was responsible for starting the pandemic.“It might be US army who brought the epidemic to Wuhan,” tweeted Lijian, adding “Be transparent! Make public your data! US owe us an explanation!”2/2 CDC was caught on the spot. When did patient zero begin in US? How many people are infected? What are the names of the hospitals? It might be US army who brought the epidemic to Wuhan. Be transparent! Make public your data! US owe us an explanation! pic.twitter.com/vYNZRFPWo3— Lijian Zhao 赵立坚 (@zlj517) March 12, 2020His tweet included the testimony of CDC Director Robert Redfield to the House Oversight Committee, in which Redfield revealed that early COVID-19 cases in the United States were initially mistaken for regular influenza.“CDC was caught on the spot. When did patient zero begin in US? How many people are infected? What are the names of the hospitals?” asked Lijian.1/2 CDC Director Robert Redfield admitted some Americans who seemingly died from influenza were tested positive for novel #coronavirus in the posthumous diagnosis, during the House Oversight Committee Wednesday. #COVID19 pic.twitter.com/vYNZRFPWo3— Lijian Zhao 赵立坚 (@zlj517) March 12, 2020“So it appears the official Chinese party line is now that the virus originated in the United States!” comments Zero Hedge.Apparently, Lijian has a history of making outrageous claims but this one probably tops them all.Whether or not the ruling Communist Party echoes his sentiments remains to be seen.
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Tucker: The Media Has Sided With Communist
China to Blame America For the Coronavirus
Their highest priority is approval from Beijing.BY PAUL JOSEPH WATSONrepublished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:Tucker Carlson savaged the mainstream media during his show last night for siding with Communist China to blame America for the coronavirus.“This pandemic came out of China and it came out of China for a reason,” said the Fox News host. “It’s a country where government officials deliberately covered up the early stages of the virus when it could have been stopped before it spread out of control.”Noting that China controls 96 per cent of antibiotics and is threatening to cut off drug exports to the U.S., Carlson charged that Beijing “is now trying to hide the reality of where coronavirus came from” and worse, blaming the virus on America.Carlson then referenced tweets yesterday by China’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian, who claimed, “It might be US army who brought the epidemic to Wuhan.”When asked to distanced itself from Lijian, Beijing refused to do so.Lijian also slammed people for linking the virus to China, a narrative which has now been picked up by the mainstream media as people like CNN’s Jim Acosta insist it’s “xenophobic” to say the virus came from China (despite the fact that it did).“Amazingly though, it was just two months ago…that Acosta himself was sending tweets about the “Wuhan coronavirus,” he hadn’t yet received his orders from Jeff Zucker who receives his orders from China,” pointed out Carlson.“Keep in mind, these are the people, the Chinese leadership, that our media class has allied with, has sucked up to for years, made every excuse for endlessly even when China blamed the United States for a plague they unleashed, even when the Chinese government threatened to murder our citizens by cutting off drugs, our media continued to take their side,” said the Fox News host.Tucker then played a clip of Joe Biden claiming it was “misinformation” and “xenophobia” to label COVID-19 a “foreign virus” and blaming the Trump administration for its outbreak in the U.S.“So it’s our fault,” said Carlson. “Just to be clear, describing a virus from Wuhan as the ‘Wuhan virus’ is not xenophobia, it’s accuracy and anyone who says otherwise is lying and probably for a reason.”“For our ruling class the highest priority of all is now and always ‘wokeness’ – that and approval from Beijing – tells you everything about them,” concluded Carlson.Tucker also pointed out that according to a report by scientists at the South China University of Technology in Guangzhou, “the killer coronavirus probably originated from a laboratory in Wuhan” as a result of a researcher being infected by an animal and then spreading the virus outside the facility.One of the laboratories named in the report which was conducting research on bat coronavirus was located just 280 meters from the site of the Wuhan meat market.“Anyone who raises that theory on American television is attacked as a conspiracy monger,” said Carlson, despite the fact that the claim comes from “Chinese researchers making an evidence-based argument about the origin of this virus.”