Kevin’s Trip to the Border

Dear All,

Last week, I spent four days with Operation Burning Edge to get a boots on the ground look at the immigration crisis on the country’s southern border.  Traveling between Boca Chica and McAllen, Texas, in the Rio Grande Valley (RGV), I was fortunate to have dozens of conversations with border patrol agents, members of the Texas National Guard, activists, ranchers, elected officials, journalists and average Americans.

I watched as agents apprehended illegal aliens and learned the border patrol’s RGV sector apprehends roughly 20,000 illegal aliens a week and the resources to capture, process, adjudicate and deport them, don’t exist. Confidentially, I was told we can do little more than release these immigrants to volunteer agencies (VOLAG) such as Catholic Charities with a notice to appear in court years from now.

I left Texas more convinced than ever the border crisis is self-inflicted and the result of a conscious decision, as well as deliberate actions by what I term the “Immigration Industrial Complex”, to radically increase the U.S. population, alter its economic base, and unravel its social cohesion.

In the videos below, I take aim at the U.S. Council of Catholic Bishops and its surrogate, Catholic Charities, who are paid by federal and even state and local governments to help relocate migrants.  I also provide information which should help bring the southern border crisis into better focus that includes a deep dive into the numbers by Joe Guzzardi. In closing, as bleak as things may appear, I’ve seen recent evidence  suggesting things are getting ready to change, and for the better.
In Solidarity.

The Problem with NGOs and Volunteer Agencies

Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Wilmington, Delaware just received a state grant to provide legal services for “eligible” Afghan arrivals. This is yet another example of the term “Immigration Industrial Complex. If the “eligible Afghans” now living in the U.S. were working so closely with our armed forces over the past twenty years, and in positions of trust and confidence, why do they now require legal assistance with “. . . the replacement or correction of immigration documents, interpretation services, translation of documents into a client’s preferred language, physically filling out relevant forms, and securing fee waivers for forms.”?

At best there are no more than 18,000 interpreters, drivers, engineers, security guards and embassy clerks who should be eligible for and granted a U.S. Special Immigrant Visa. But thanks to the Biden administration’s irresponsible and haphazard withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan, we now have upwards of 70,000 Afghans looking to enter the U.S.

 

 

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At the Migrant Center
in San Antonio, Texas

Kevin Lynn interview with George Rodriguez at Catholic Charities/USCCB Migrant Center, San Antonio

We toured a Catholic Charities/USCCB migrant Center with radio host George Rodriguez, who is also a blogger, author, a frequent contributor to Fox News and a constitutional conservative American of Mexican descent.

We learned a lot about the impact Biden's border policies are having on the citizens of San Antonio and greater Texas.
 

In Front of the Migrant Center
in McAllen, Texas

Kevin Lynn Interviews Rio Grande Valley Resident and Activist Taylor Cramer

At the TX southern border, I met McAllen, Texas, resident and activist, Taylor Cramer of Operation Burning Edge. He acted as our guide in the Rio Grande Valley and brought us to areas where we encountered illegal aliens crossing into the United States and the Catholic Charities migrant center in McAllen.

 

Michael Voris of Church Militant – on Defunding USCCB
Speech At National Press Club

My recording of a prayer protest at the U.S. Catholic Conference of Bishops (USCCB) headquarters in Washington DC and a press conference in which activists called for defunding the USCCB. Watch Now
Michael Voris, founder and President of St. Michael's Media / Church Militant outlines the reasons the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and other faith based volunteer agencies that grift off resettling migrants must be defunded. Go to video 

 
 

Kevin Lynn at city council meeting on
the impact of unbridled immigration

“Lead by example” was drummed into me while a cadet at Kemper Military College. Watch as I read my city council the riot act for giving $250,000 in funds earmarked for local needs to Church World Services for relocating more immigrants to my city. 

 
 
 

 FEELING THE PAIN 
 

The Solution for Canada is Not More Immigration

Much like U.S. citizens, Canadians are suffering from job insecurity and high rates of inflation and finding it harder to get critical services. What’s the Trudeau administration’s solution? More immigration! Canada is on track to bring in a record number of immigrants this year. Read on: Immigration to Canada On Track To Set New Record In 2023
 

Wall Street Silver has been posting videos of Canadians getting kicked in the teeth by rising costs and lack of job opportunities. Canada is on track to bring in a record number of immigrants this year.

Cost of living crisis is pushing people to the edge. People feel trapped, and hopeless, not knowing what to do to get out of this situation. Canada is broken
 
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Canadian woman is considering leaving because life is not affordable in Ontario. She is asking "What are the pros & cons of living in America?"
 
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This is raw and real, it's the middle class that's getting hit hard. This lady makes $34/hr and can't even survive in Canada.
 
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The Numbers: Canada Immigration to Set an All New Record Canada on track to welcome many more new permanent residents than the annual target set in new immigration levels plan for 2023-2025 based on the latest data as of March 2023.

 

  CITIES IN STRESS 
 

Has the Massive Wave of Immigration Hit Its High-Water Mark?

Cities are buckling under the pressure of immigration as these articles indicate:​​​​​

America’s cities are buckling under the pressure of massive waves of immigration and even the staunchest democrats are beginning to push back. As bleak as things may seem, it’s possible we’ve witnessed the high-water mark. The consequences of our failed policy are no longer affecting just the cities along the southern border. Many of the large Democratic Party run cities across the U.S. are now victim.

A while back we popularized the term “not employment ready” on Twitter, meaning many of the country’s new arrivals lack the skills, experience and qualifications to get jobs and have resorted to begging and worse. It seems we were spot on.


curbed.com
The Candy Sellers
Each day, the men in the family look for work as day laborers and the women and children go to the subway, selling candy on the trains and platforms from ten in the morning until 6:30 in the evening. They arrange their items neatly in variety-pack boxes —  — priced at $2 apiece.
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BostonHerald.com

NYC’s Adams vindicates immigration hawks
Adams is calling on the federal government to declare a national emergency to ease the financial crisis the city is facing as it struggles to accommodate thousands of arriving migrants.
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Interview with Mickey Kaus –
America's Institutional collapse Problem

We had the opportunity to sit down with author and political pundit Mickey Kaus and partake in a wide ranging discussion on issues pertaining to our failing institutions, meritocracy, economic stagnation, immigration, and politicians.  
 

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Kevin Lynn Interviewed by
Ann Vandersteel in Texas

Last week while touring our southern border as part of Operation Burning Edge, Kevin lynn, Executive Director of IfSPP had a chance to sit down with journalist Ann Vanderseel in McCallen, TX and discuss not only border but a range of topics that included employment visa abuse.

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