"It Was A massive, Large Scale Program To Import As Many Illegals As Possible"

Bits and pieces keep coming out about the Biden mass immigration program. Over the weekend, Musk and one of his DOGE associates, Antonio Gracias, outlined a new piece of the overall picture at a rally in Green Bay, WI. This is a less-than-ideal forum -- I certainly hope Musk and DOGE are working on an organized, authoritative written report of their findings. Up to now, most of the insights we've been seeing have been over programs that bypassed the border by recruiting "refugees" in their home countries and flying them in via the CHNV and TPS programs, which I'll update in tomorrow's post.

The Musk-Gracias presentation in Green Bay focused on the border itself. There doesn't seem to be a single, complete transcript; the best I've found is from Beege Welborn at Red State, but annoyingly typical of Salem Media writers, she doesn't provide a link to the full transcript if it exists, and frankly, I have a hard time taking seriously anyone who goes by Beege. I doubt if this is on her birth certificate. (Reminds me of a junior higfh school classmate who went by "Dubby". She became a doctor, I doubt if she still uses that name.)

Anyhow, Gracias's remarks are highly informative:

GRACIAS: "In 2021, 270,000 non-citizens got social security numbers. In 2024, 2.1M non-citizens got social security numbers. We went in to find fraud and found this by accident.

. . . If I hadn't seen this myself, I'm not sure I believed it. I went through it myself and mapped it. And Elon is right. This is true. The defaults in the system from social security to all of the benefit programs have been set to max inclusion, MAX PAY for these people and minimum collection.

We found 1.3 million of them already on Medicaid as an example. We've gone through on every benefit program we went through, we found groups from this particular group of people, this 5.5 million people in those benefit programs.

And then what was really, really disturbing us was why we're asking ourselves why. So we actually just took a sample and looked at voter registration records and we found people here registered to vote in this population. Yes.

Who did vote? We found some by sampling that ACTUALLY DID VOTE.

We have referred them to prosecution at the Homeland Security Investigation Service. Yeah. Already, already. That is already happening right now. The truly disturbing thing though, I just want you to know this, a truly disturbing thing to me, and the darkest thing about this, to me, the voter fraud is terrible.”

This piece at Real Clear Politics has later passages from Gracias's transcript with more specific information on how the illegals are processed through the system:

I talked to Border Patrol myself. Elon was there too. I went to Laredo and Brownsville; Elon went to Eagle Pass. You walk up to a Border Patrol officer and tell them you want to come in. They have a couple of choices: they could charge you with a misdemeanor or felony under [8 U.S.C. §] 1325, or they can make it an administrative offense, like a parking ticket basically. They were told to do that -- to make it an administrative offense under the last administration.

Then you walk across the border. They do what’s called a "release on your own recognizance" and give you an NTA, a notice to appear, to appear at a judge. The wait times on judges are like, average, six years. Look at Grok, you’ll see it on immigration judges. There’s only 700 of them; this is 5.5 million people, okay?

So what happens then? Once you’re in the country and you’ve got asylum through one of these pathways—and we’ve mapped the whole thing out—you can apply for a work document. You file a 765; it’s the work form. You get this form called the 766—that’s the authorization—and then the Social Security Administration automatically sends you your Social Security number in the mail. No interview, no ID.

Musk then summed up the main point:

So it’s really if you create a massive financial incentive for people to come to the United States illegally, then that’s what they will do. It would be strange—it would be odd if that didn’t happen.

So the really the thing that actually has the Democrats losing their mind, by far, the real reason for these attacks and sort of the burning of the cars and everything is that we’re going to turn off the payments to illegals.

Because I mean, because that’s not the deal. It’s simply not right. And look at that thing with the Roosevelt Hotel and like the luxury hotels in New York where the Federal Emergency Management Agency funds were being used to house illegals in luxury hotels in New York that the average American can’t afford. And they were given a welcome package and ten thousand dollars debit cards and everything else. Like, it’s super real.

I mean, it’s like a—I think it’s the biggest voter fraud thing in history by far. And moreover, if left unchecked, it would have succeeded.

Pieces of the whole program and its objectives are gradually coming out in almost a stream of consciousness. First, we heard about the Haitians, then the Venezuelans and the Tren de Aragua, and we've heard in little bits about how these programs were facilitated by nine- and ten-figure grants to faith-based NGOs, whicn designated "sponsors" to find the unvetted immigrants housing, training, Engliah classes, jobs, and cars, which somehow turned into highly profitable schemes for slumlords and sweatshop employers.

But this was just the part of the overall program that bypassed the border. Now we're starting to learn what actually happens at the border itself. And we've already seen that the same NGOs were facilitating that humanitarian crisis on the border:

The American Red Cross and other non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have come under fire from some Republicans who allege they are helping migrants cross the southern border into the U.S.

Rep. Chip Roy, a Republican from Texas, wrote on social media that NGOs "are FACILITATING illegal immigration to the U.S., like the International Committee Red Cross, providing maps and information about traveling to the southern border."

In another post on X, formerly Twitter, Roy said the International Committee of the Red Cross was "not even hiding it—its website has U.S.-bound migration maps for 2023 in DIFFERENT LANGUAGES!"

And the NGOs were working with the human traffickers who brought the migrants to the border. They wouldn't have been there for the NGOs without them. Gracias points this out:

Because what you don’t understand, people don’t know, Americans need to know, that’s why I’m here, is that human traffickers made thirteen to fifteen billion dollars off of this. Okay? That’s the money that’s going around the world, moving people around the world to our borders because of these incentives. How does it work? What happens?

If you’re in Africa and you’re in South America, you’ve got to walk up through Mexico and through here South America. Who do you pay? You pay the narcos. You pay the traffickers.

And we found, we were told by ICE, it’s between twenty thousand dollars and five hundred dollars depending on they pick you up to walk across all those countries and get all the way up to the border. Where does that money go? It goes to the cartels. It goes to human traffickers.

The Biden policies, which funded the NGOs that ran the migrant camps at the border, provided benefits to the migrants and facilitated their entry, created a demand for the traffickers' services, with which the faith-based NGOs were complicit. The traffickers provided them with the migrants that were the reason for their lucrative government funding.

In tomorrow's post, I'll have more to say about the faith-based NGO activities at the border and the efficiency with which the Trump administration has knocked the legs off that stool.