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It seems as though the Biden administration is taking two different approaches to illegal immigration when it comes to migrants coming to the U.S. by water versus by land via Mexico. According to a report Wednesday, the U.S. Coast Guard turned away more than 150 Cuban migrants at sea even while the administration has been admitting, and then turning loose, illegal migrants along the southwestern border by the hundreds of thousands.
“United States Coast Guard crews repatriated 162 Cubans to Cuba on Wednesday following interdictions off Florida’s coast,” reported the Tampa Free Press.
“According to U.S. Coast Guard 7th District Southeast, Key West watchstanders were notified of a migrant vessel on Saturday, at approximately 3 a.m., about 30 miles south of Key Colony Beach. But that was just the start,” the report continued, adding that over the next five days, the law enforcement sea service “was alerted and responded to twelve interdictions off the Florida coast.”
Coast Guard Lt. Miller said: “USCG, partner agency crews continue to patrol & stop illegal migration to the U.S. by sea. We will repatriate those stopped at sea to their country of origin or departure.”
Earlier this month, a former top adviser to then-President Donald Trump called President Biden’s policies resettling an inordinate amount of migrants who crossed illegally into the country was an impeachable offense.
During an interview on Fox News, Stephen Miller spoke about the “crisis” on America’s southern border.
“So there’s very little — I mean, you have an organization that is using the law to try and stop this. It’s happening in real-time, it’s been happening for six months without the knowledge of the 320 million American citizens whose country this is, but there is someone who can stop it, and that’s Greg Abbott, who’s the governor of Texas, who commands the Texas National Guard, and of course, it’s his border over which a lot of these people are coming. Why wouldn’t he shut the border tonight with Mexico and stop this?” host Tucker Carlson asked.
“Perhaps in the history of the world, in terms of the number of illegal border crossers being resettled into the interior of our country in violation of plain law,” said Miller.
“I would argue that the appropriate constitutional remedy is Article IV, Section 4, which says that the government clearly has the obligation to protect any state in this country against invasion and domestic violence. It does not say that that has to be in the form of a nation-state actor. In other words, the Constitution doesn’t say it has to be a state-led invasion. It’s any large-scale, unwelcome, uninvited entry into a country,” Miller added.
“That, or into a state. That would provide the constitutional predicate for exactly what you’re describing. I would also suggest it would provide the constitutional predicate for the Supreme Court, if they had the moral courage, to strike down this entire scheme, which is a blatant violation of our entire constitutional Republican form of government,” Miller continued.
“Let’s be very clear. When Joe Biden put his hand on the Bible and swore an oath to take care of the laws we faithfully executed, to uphold, protect, and defend the Constitution, and to ensure a Republican form of government to every state, he has violated every single one of those commitments. I will also add this: If that’s not an impeachable offense, I can’t imagine what would be,” he added.
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Also this month, reports noted that United States Air Marshals were planning to “mutiny” against an order from President Joe Biden to leave their posts aboard commercial flights and head to the U.S.-Mexico border.
Air Marshal National Council President David Londo told the Washington Examiner that dozens of marshals are vowing to directly disobey the order in protest. Biden’s White House ordered U.S. air marshals to the southern border given there’s a shortage of Border Patrol agents, which has fueled the immigration crisis.
“The rank and file air marshals are going to refuse to deploy and risk termination,” Londo said. “You’re almost going to have a mutiny of a federal agency, which is unheard of. Morale is so destroyed from this. I’ve never seen anything like this.”
