Texas Border Video Showing Huge Migrant Surge Sparks MAGA Fury
By: Kate Plummer (Newsweek)
Well who is surprised?
S E E D E D C O N T E N T
By Kate Plummer FOLLOW
A video claiming to show a large group of migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border has sparked outrage among MAGA politicians and activists.
The video, posted by Fox News journalist Bill Melugin, shows a crowd of people standing together in groups. Melugin said the footage was shared to him by a contact from Eagle Pass, Texas, and that the people were migrants waiting to be processed by Border Patrol "after they crossed illegally today." Newsweek has emailed representatives from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection on Tuesday to comment on this story. We have as yet been unable to verify the circumstances of the footage.
Immigration and the border has emerged as a key political issue ahead of next year's presidential election, with President Joe Biden facing bipartisan backlash over soaring numbers of migrants entering the country. There were more than 2.475 million encounters at the southern border in the fiscal year 2023, an increase from about 2.378 million in fiscal year 2022, according to data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
Arizona Senate hopeful and former TV anchorKari Lake shared the video on X, formerly Twitter, and wrote, "Deadly, Destructive, Dead-end Democrat policies caused this," before adding: "Let's vote to put America first in November."
Deadly, Destructive, Dead-end Democrat policies caused this.
Let's vote to put America first in November. https://t.co/ZjARwXURkOhttps://t.co/6emPihNY4P
— Kari Lake (@KariLake) December 19, 2023
Republican Senator Ted Cruz posted: "This is outrageous. Democrats have allowed an invasion to go unchecked at our southern border.
"Every single Democrat politician is responsible for this. Hold them all accountable," Cruz added.
This is outrageous. Democrats have allowed an invasion to go unchecked at our southern border.
Every single Democrat politician is responsible for this. Hold them all accountable. https://t.co/jMwZWyHs7P
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) December 19, 2023
Monica Crowley, former assistant secretary of the Treasury, wrote: "The ongoing intentional destruction of America."
David Giglio, a Republican candidate for next year's House of Representatives elections, wrote: "Send them all back and implement a complete moratorium on all forms of immigration until the border is closed, the wall is finished, eVerify is the law of the land, and new system/process is put into place."
It comes as GOP frontrunner Donald Trump unveiled plans during a Nevada rally on Sunday to have federal law enforcement protect the southern border and relocate troops stationed overseas.
"I will shift massive portions of federal law enforcement to immigration enforcement, including parts of the DEA, ATF, FBI and DHS," Trump said in Reno. "And I will make clear that we must use any and all resources needed to stop the invasion of our country, including moving thousands of troops currently stationed overseas in countries that don't like us."
Meanwhile, in a New Hampshire rally on Saturday, Trump said immigrants are "poisoning the blood of our country," in comments that led Biden campaign spokesperson Ammar Moussa to accuse Trump of having "parroted Adolf Hitler." The former president has previously denied his rhetoric has anything to do with the German dictator.
On Monday, Texas enacted a law that will allow police officers to arrest those crossing the border, with punishments ranging from fines to jail time. It will come into effect in March 2024.
An aerial view of Texas National Guard troops watching over some of more than 1,000 immigrants who had crossed the Rio Grande overnight from Mexico on December 18, 2023 in Eagle Pass, Texas. MAGA figures reacted to a video purporting to show migrants crossing the Mexico-United States border.Photo by John Moore/Getty Images
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Liberal "ho-hum" policies in full action?
Shocking, thousands of illegals lined up for the Biden admin to release them into the country.
the reporting fits in with a discussion yesterday. It’s framed to make it seem like only MAGA could possibly take issue with this, knowing the word “maga” has a negative association moderates. It hopes to push the low information voter into accepting the situation and seeing any opposition as extremist.
the reality is, as a Gander at Twitter or a poll will tell you, non maga people also oppose open borders and the government conspiring with illegals to release them into the interior. The ultimate result is MAGA, when used by a progressive, is anyone who opposes open borders, tent cities and unlimited illegal migration.
Just another big batch of potential new voters for Biden and the liberal left.
But the border is secure and there is no problems.
After three years of Biden’s border policies:
BREAKING: Per CBP sources, there were more than 12,600 migrants encountered at the southern border in the last 24 hours, the highest single day total ever recorded. The true number is *significantly* higher because there are thousands still waiting to be processed in Eagle Pass and they do not count in the numbers until they are put into the computers.
I'm sure the left and liberals will claim this as a Biden Accomplishment.
For the simple minded labeling somebody "maga" is, somehow, their way of calling somebody "racist" or "facscist". Somehow they see it as a slur of some kind.
They’ve robbed another word of any actual meaning and just turned into another word meaning “someone who supports policies I don’t”
It seems they have to change a word or two a month so they have fresh names to call people that don't buy into the bullshit. I think starting to call mothers birth persons even made the few level headed democrats left say it was taking things too far. Thank God they stopped there, I would hate to have my kids call me "sperm donor".
think starting to call mothers birth persons even made the few level headed democrats left say it was taking things too far
Yeah, it seems like they've gotten away from that, except at the extremes.
If you think about it, MAGA could be a lib/dem/liv motto too. What better describes our friends on the left better than "Make America Go Away"?
Unfortunately, we currently don't have enough level headed democrats to put a halt to the nonsense that biological males are the same as biological females.
In the near future, we may be seeing women arrested in the United States for speaking the truth and nothing but the truth - males are not females .
Too many loons still running amok. My question is why are the multitudes of normal people letting them get away with it?
This nonsense again? What does it have to do with ANYTHING?
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Well we have educators getting fired for not using the correct pronouns.........................all bullshit. But, as we all know for a majority of liberals it is "feelings over intellect disguised as the latter".
They have moved so far from "follow the science" they can't even see it with a telescope.
I don't understand how no one noticed until there were enough men in government to make laws that made teaching children about sex in grade school of utmost importance.
Possibilities -
Politicians using .05 percent of men with gender dysphoria as a distraction from things they would prefer to keep out of the news?
Pedophiles, who hold positions of power, advancing their own agenda to gain "legal" access to children at very young ages in schools so they can groom them at young ages?
Pedophiles are drawn to occupations that require contact and authority over children so being a schoolteacher, a coach, a priest, or a clergyman are all optimal choices that usually coincide with parental trust.
But the framing can backfire in a big way. I mean, who really thought Trump could beat Clinton?
MAGA could come to mean someone to actually gives a damn about the country.
Democrats giving MAGA a negative connotation isn't surprising but, then, who believes Democrats any more? No, the people to watch are the neoliberal Reagan Republicans. They're trying to portray MAGA as a negative because they got theirs. As we've seen with Trump's first campaign, MAGA has to fight the Republican Party before it can fight Democrats.
Yep, Trump (and maybe the pandemic) broke politics. The unbiased liberal press doesn't know what to do. Those same polls paint a different picture about Biden's quagmires, too. And people don't think Bidenomics is working no matter what the unbiased liberal press tells them to believe.
yeah, I was alluding to that yesterday when John said Maga could never unite the country. It all depends on what "maga" means. The more it's used in the context it was in this story, the more likely that becomes. But it takes time for word's meanings to evolve, particularly among very casual followers of politics.
I think it's clear we aren't there yet, and my guess is Biden has polling that demonstrates a negative reaction to the term among low information voters. That would explain his compulsive use of it. So he and his media allies use it to signal that the reader should disapprove of the "Maga" position as partisan and extreme. Similar to how left wing media always frames a Democrats being caught doing something wrong as "Republicans pounce upon X news" or "conservatives seize." Saw it yesterday with the Democrats staffer getting caught making porn in the Senate conference rooms. Instead of headlining is that way, it becomes "conservatives media attacks staffer for." Any story that reflects negatively on Democrats has to be framed as Republicans creating a partisan issue.
Thus, instead of making this a story about record breaking numbers of illegal aliens entering the country, it's about Maga being mad about. It signals to casual readers that only extremists are bothered by record breaking illegal immigration.
Exactly. Keep in mind that the political need to define (or redefine) a grass roots movement is to get ahead of a perceived threat. Our political establishment depends upon two and only two political parties. Any sort of grass roots movement threatens the reliable status quo.
Don't ignore the motivation of money in the skewed reporting, too. The unbiased liberal press really does prostitute the truth just to make a buck.
Speaking of low information , how about no information? I posted a video last night of a guy with a big ole Trump MAGA hat on who thinks Jews are illegal immigrants. I have yet to see anyone with a MAGA hat on that knows what the fuck is going on. The reasonable MAGAs must lay low.
And I imagine you ran with that with a sweeping generalization claiming that is how they all act.
They need to be educated that this was used by Reagan and then Clinton.
I think some change the meaning of the phrase when Trump uses it. I am not sure why or how, I couldn't untwist the twisted logic.
“It hopes to push the low information voter into accepting the situation and seeing any opposition as extremist.”
And it’s working, from what i can tell. I see examples of it every day.
While immigration reform is the responsibility of Congress (which has failed for many years to address) this ignores the EO's and rules issued by this Administration from the very beginning that brought about these record numbers in border crossings. This is definitely an issue that will impact the election next year, I'm just not sure it will be the primary issue.
What does immigration reform even mean? Right now the Senate is negotiating over daily quotas. Do we open the border for 3,000 or 5,000 people illegally entering the country each day?
Maybe Congress is responsible for immigration reform. But the President is responsible for enforcing laws that are on the books. Congress is not supposed to be a rubber stamp for a lawless President. The type of reforms being talked about is how Glass-Steagall was repealed. Simply legalizing the criminal is not a true reform.
Another article about what is happening at the US/Mexico border and how it is halting rail traffic into the US.
The daily mail is the UK's version of the National Enquirer
LOL!
They closed the pass at Lukeville in order to move the agents to help out elsewhere. There's no time table to reopen that pass either. A lot of bitching as that was the primary point to exit the country to go to Rocky Point (Puerto Peñasco) in Mexico. From reports, Rocky Point is almost a ghost town now which is hard as that's a city that relies on tourism from the US.
Just to flush out post 4 a little bit.
Estimated cost of the closure is close to $200 million a day; and affects both the UP and BNSF.
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Luckily the Big 3 auto makers are down next week for the holiday. Who knows what their restart in the new year is going to look like. Hopefully the Brandon administration gets their act together and figures out a way to stop the illegals coming in on the trains from Mexico- w/o affecting the rail lines. Maybe force Mexico to actually not allow illegals to hop on trains heading north? That would be a start.
Way to go Brandon!