THE CENTER SQUARE—There were nearly 565,000 illegal border crossers reported in Arizona in fiscal year 2024, according to data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Arizona’s 378 miles of shared border with Mexico is staffed by CBP and Border Patrol agents in the sectors of Tucson and Yuma. The Tucson sector’s 262-mile shared border extends from the Yuma County line to the Arizona-New Mexico state line. The Yuma sector’s nearly 182,000 square miles of primarily desert terrain extends from Imperial Sand Dunes in California to the Yuma-Pima County line. The Tucson sector has historically been one of the busiest along the U.S.-Mexico border. In fiscal 2024, Border Patrol agents reported 463,567 illegal border crossers, according to the data. That’s the most of any sector along the southwest border during the federal government’s fiscal year, which runs from Oct. 1 through Sept. 30. The second-greatest number, nearly 325,000, was reported by Border Patrol agents in the San Diego sector, The Center Square reported. Tucson Office of Field Operations agents also reported 47,051 illegal border crossers in fiscal 2024, significantly less than San Diego OFO’s 183,890 over the same period. In CBP’s Yuma sector, Border Patrol agents reported 53,877 illegal border crossers. Because of the sector’s vast desert, large drifting sand dunes, mountainous terrain, ever-changing Colorado River, and temperatures exceeding 120 degrees, Border Patrol agents in Yuma often rescue illegal border crossers in distress. Combined, apprehensions in Arizona totaled at least 564,495 in fiscal 2024 excluding “gotaways,” those who illegally entered and evaded capture. Data for both sectors is consistent with nationwide data: the overwhelming majority of illegal border crossers are single adults coming from all over the world. In the Tucson sector’s Cochise County, Sheriff Mark Dannels says despite numerous requests, he’s never met with President Joe Biden or Vice President Kamala Harris the entire time they’ve been in office as his rural county has been pummeled with illegal border crossers and cartel-related crime. “My community’s frustrated over the last three and a half years with what we’ve dealt with … when it comes to crime and the policies that have failed this country, the policies [that] have failed our citizens, and the tragedies that my neighbors are addressing silently, because nobody’s listening,” said Dannels, who is also chairman of the National Sheriff’s Association for Border Security. Over a 31-month period, his office booked 3,762 people in the county jail for border-related crimes, Dannels said. “These are not immigration issues,” the sheriff said. “These are border-related crimes, with double-digit murders.” In an investigation led by the U.S. House Homeland Security Committee, Border Patrol chiefs in Arizona expressed concerns about gotaways and national security risks. Tucson Sector Chief John Modlin said, “When we make an arrest, we can then vet that person and find out, if they have a criminal history, if there are national security concerns. Gotaways are a public safety concern … potentially a national security concern.” “The smuggling organizations to our south are very well organized and resourceful,” Modlin said, referring to Mexican cartels. “Each and every person crossing through the Tucson sector must pay these criminal organizations. The migrants we encounter are completely outfitted in camouflage by the smuggling organizations before they cross. Most run from and fight our agents to avoid apprehension. Many are previously deported felons who know they are inadmissible to the United States and many pose a serious threat to our communities.” Modlin also expressed concerns about having to pull agents from other areas to deal with surges, a practice used across sectors, The Center Square reported. Yuma Sector Deputy Chief Dustin Caudle said the sector’s three interior checkpoints are critical for interdicting gotaways, but the majority of fiscal 2022 and most of fiscal 2023 those checkpoints were down, meaning the border was wide open and unmanned. As Border Patrol agents were inundated with surges of illegal border crossers and given time frames to process and release them into the country under Biden-Harris administration policies, background checks and vetting weren’t always performed and individuals on the terrorist watch list were released into the country, according to congressional investigations and Office of Inspector General reports. Americans living more than 2,600 miles away are also suffering consequences. Crimes committed in New England can be traced back to foreign nationals who illegally entered the country in Arizona, The Center Square reported. Despite ongoing challenges, federal, state, and local law enforcement agents in Arizona have seized a record amount of fentanyl in the past few years, enough to kill billions of people. Earlier this year, Customs and Border Protection agents seized half a ton of fentanyl at the Lukeville port of entry in the Tucson sector, the largest fentanyl seizure in CBP history. With 2 milligrams considered a lethal dose, and 22,696.2 lethal doses in a pound, agents seized more than 453 million lethal doses, enough to kill roughly the entire population of the U.S. and Mexico. Arizona parents who’ve lost children to fentanyl, such as Josephine Dunn, have called on the Arizona Legislature and Congress to act, The Center Square reported. As the Biden-Harris administration escalated flights of illegal foreign nationals into the country, Arizona’s border apprehensions were down in fiscal 2024 compared to the more than 775,000 reported in fiscal 2023, The Center Square first reported. Originally published by The Center Square. The post Arizona Saw About 565,000 Illegal Border Crossers in 1 Year appeared first on The Daily Signal.

If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. If anything – and that’s little comfort to those who expect “real news” from it, but the New York Times (NYT) – this, by any objective measure, former “newspaper of record” – has been consistent at least on one front: in pursuing its many professional fallacies. Namely, the New York Times has long chosen the path of supporting “the powers that be” – over truly trustworthy, and therefore independent journalism. And so, here we are once again – another election, another NYT last-minute push to make sure to look into one of the biggest news of the past election cycle – the way the current White House has allegedly (according to the US Congress committee investigating this) – no less than colluded with Big Tech to censor online speech. But NYT chooses to present it as no more than a now sidelined political ploy. Not only that – lawsuits like Murthy v. Missouri and their current status, are treated as having “abetted… falsehoods about election fraud.” The problem with the kind of “falsehoods” cited here, is that those in reality concern free speech, which NYT, its sponsors – those the paper sponsors – the lot – choose to disapprove of, on political grounds. Still, NYT is not happy about the way things at this time appear to stand on what is known as – again, through the US congressional investigation, as the Big Tech – (Big) Government collusion. The article attempts to delegitimize the legal push from a quite clear ideological and political point of view, as, “a concerted conservative legal and political campaign that went all the way to the Supreme Court.” And the resulting Supreme Court decision, according to the NYT, has “abetted the falsehoods” (anybody reading through the Twitter Files alone would have an almost “allergic” reaction to the premise of Murthy vs. Missouri being simplified – and misrepresented, some might say – in this way.) The point NYT tries to make with its “disinformation has never been worse” piece (NYT might as well at this point, critics could easily say, with these kinds of articles being talking about themselves) – is very clear. The claim is that it’s not free speech or democracy that suffers. No – it’s that researching the collusion “undercut government agencies, universities, and research organizations that once worked with the social media giants — especially Facebook and Twitter — to slow the spread of disinformation about voting.” If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The post NYT Criticizes Legal Efforts Against Big Tech and Biden-Harris Censorship as Abetting Election Fraud Claims appeared first on Reclaim The Net.

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More than any broadcast network newscast (aside from its evening counterpart, World News Tonight), ABC’s Good Morning America has circled the wagons on a daily basis for the Biden-Harris regime like their livelihoods depend on it. Wednesday saw them take it to another level by dismissing President Biden’s Tuesday night remarks that Trump “supporters” are “garbage” by lamenting “Republicans are seizing on what President Biden had to say.” ABC was so committed to the bit that they spent more time swooning over Kamala Harris’s January 6 speech (four minutes and five seconds) and either engaging in whataboutism or harping on the Puerto Rico “garbage” comment Sunday by pro-Trump comedian Tony Hinchliffe (two minutes and three seconds) than they did on Biden’s comments (one minute and four seconds). It’s as though ABC wants viewers to believe Hinchcliffe has more influence and power than the sitting President of the United States. Outside the time count, the opening tease set the table for ABC telling viewers to move along: ABC's 'Good Morning America' declares in a tease that "Republicans are trying to seize on something President Biden said," lamenting *they* are doing this after Kamala Harris provided a "sharp contrast" with Trump "speaking from the same spot" Trump did on January 6 pic.twitter.com/XOX1zaabTZ — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) October 30, 2024 Chief apple polisher Mary Bruce swooned over the rally in dark-blue Washington D.C. as “quite a scene” with Harris “speaking at the exact same site where Donald Trump addressed his supporters before they attacked the Capitol on January” and “urging Americans to stop pointing fingers, to start holding arms”: ABC's Mary Bruce with more apple-polishing for Kamala Harris, gushing it "was quite a scene last night" at the Ellipse as she "urged Americans to stop pointing fingers" and "start holding arms" by letting her "take the country in a new direction.". pic.twitter.com/IAIIc6UtIX — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) October 30, 2024 Bruce read one press release-like line after another, including proclamations that Harris “promis[es] to take the country in a new direction,” has plans Harris “argu[es]...would better serve working Americans,” and “be a president for all Americans.” This gave way to idolatrous Trump-hating correspondent Rachel Scott, who downplayed Biden’s smear of half the country to cheering it as him “going on the attack.” Instead, she tried to keep Hinchcliffe-gate alive: ABC's @RachelVScott downplays Biden calling Trump supporters "garbage": "Donald Trump's campaign has been trying to turn the page after a comedian at one of his rallies compared Puerto Rico to 'a floating island of garbage,' but this morning Republicans are seizing on what… pic.twitter.com/CMAUHk045x — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) October 30, 2024 Scott insisted Biden backtracked and thus there’s no there there, including some classic whataboutism that “Trump has repeatedly gone after voters who are supporting Harris” and “still hasn't denounced any of the sexist, racist, or vulgar remarks made by speakers at his rally”: ABC's @RachelVScott defends Biden, touting claims he never called Trump supporters "garbage" b/c Biden has "clarif[ied]" himself and....look at what Trump has said about Harris: "The White House says President Biden was referring to the comedian, but Republicans seizing on the… pic.twitter.com/4gkd5NB5LW — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) October 30, 2024 She even insisted the election could be lost for Trump because of this: “But that comedian wasn’t the only one onstage to use racist and sexist rhetoric. Some Republicans warning the damage could already be done.” Scott pointed to Nikki Haley’s latest jabs at the Trump campaign before closing with some fear-mongering about the future of the government bureaucracy: [Robert J. Kennedy Jr.] said if Trump wins the White House, he has promised him control over public agencies. Kennedy, of course, has pushed a range of conspiracy theories including about vaccines[.] To see the relevant ABC transcript from October 30, click here.