Biden-Harris immigration programs let in 1.3M migrants including gang members, terror suspects

 Just five months before Luis Miguel Calzadilla-Rojas — a Venezuelan migrant and alleged Tren de Aragua gangbanger — was arrested after a shooting outside a probation office in Aurora, Colorado, he was welcomed into the US — thanks to a controversial immigration program launched by the Biden-Harris administration.

Calzadilla-Rojas entered the country using CBP One — an app that is designed to allow asylum seekers a legal pathway to entry into America.

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Luis Miguel Calzadilla-Rojas is one of 10 confirmed TdA gangbangers arrested by Aurora Police in recent months.Aurora PD

He’s just one of 1.3 million migrants who have come into the country through legal routes created by the Biden-Harris admin in less than two years.

The programs were created unilaterally, without Congressional approval or input.

Homeland Security sources tell The Post that there’s almost no vetting involved for most migrants, especially if their home countries — including Venezuela, Haiti and Cuba — refuse to cooperate with American law enforcement.

“It doesn’t surprise me that gang members get in so easily and frequently,” one source recently told The Post.

Calzadilla-Rojas isn’t the only one to slip through the very large cracks in the CBP One program.

Three suspected ISIS members from Tajikistan arrested by federal authorities in June had used the Biden-Harris app to enter the US, according to data the Department of Homeland Security provided to the House Judiciary Committee.

The program also allowed in two other suspected Tren de Aragua gang members who were busted in connection with an attempted murder in Aurora in late July.

The Biden-Harris administration introduced the CBP One app entry program in January 2023, which Biden claimed would help control the number of migrants crossing the border illegally.

Using the app, migrants can book appointment with immigration officials, who will review their requests to enter the US. They must be outside the US — usually just across the border in Mexico — to apply.

By giving would-be asylum seekers a pathway to legally enter the US, he argued at the time, they could be screened and would not have to avail themselves of cartels-backed people smugglers.

But critics — including Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton who sued over the policy — argued the Biden-Harris administration was “inviting illegal aliens to cross the border.”

And what followed was a massive surge in illegal border crossings with more than 2 million people surging into the US between February 2023 and April 2024— topping out at 117,000 in May of this year alone.

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For months, migrants have been allowed to enter the US legally using the CBP One phone app at the Paso del Norte International Bridge in El Paso, Texas.New York Post

Since January 2023, the app has allowed roughly 813,000 migrant to enter the US via ports of entry at the southern border.

The high demand for entry using CBP One has recently pushed the government of Mexico to begin busing migrants to the US border to help them reach their CBP One appointments more quickly.

Along with CBP One, the Biden administration has been allowing 30,000 Cuban, Haitian, Venezuelan and Nicaraguan migrants into the US via commercial flights. In total, 530,000 migrants have successfully arrived to the US on those flights.

The flight program recently had to be paused over massive amounts of fraud, but is currently back up and running.

Combined, the programs have allowed 1.3 million migrantsx into the US.

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Migrants are walked into Mexico after being deported by US authorities in El Paso, Texas.The Washington Post via Getty Images

While the entry programs continue to usher in thousands of migrants into the US each month, the Biden-Harris administration has been claiming success at the border. Illegal crossings have dropped to the lowest levels since Biden took office following new last-minute restrictions on asylum.

Following three years of record illegal crossings, Border Patrol encounters dropped to roughly 83,000 in June, 56,000 in July and 58,000 in August, per federal data.

“CBP continues to enforce the Securing the Border interim final rule and deliver strong consequences for illegal entry, and encounters between ports of entry remain at their lowest level in years,” The Biden administration’s acting chief of Customs and Border Protection, Troy Miller, said in a recent statement.

The controversial CBP One app has drawn the ire of Republicans arguing its legalizing migrants who have no legal claim to be in the US.

Former President Donald Trump recently pledged to “terminate the Kamala phone app for smuggling illegals (CBP One App).”

House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mark Green opened a hearing on the border Wednesday, calling the Biden-Harris administration’s entry programs a “shell-game” that is part of “a sleight of hand to skew the numbers.”

And critics say that recent arrests of gang members and terror suspects show that CBP One isn’t making the border any safer.

When Calzadilla-Rojas used the CBP One app, he entered the US at the Paso Del Norte port of entry in El Paso, Texas, in August 2023, Homeland Security sources said.

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The Arapahoe County Probation office is the site where gangbanger Luis Miguel Calzadilla Rojas allegedly engaged in a non-fatal shooting in Aurora, Colorado.Google Maps

Officers processing Calzadilla-Rojas ran required background checks, but didn’t find anything on him — likely because there is no information sharing between the US and Venezuela, sources said.

He was then allowed into the country as a parolee for a period of two years with the opportunity to argue for an extended stay at a court hearing in April 2026, sources added.

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Two boys stand on an apartment balcony, where anti-Tren de Aragua spray paint is seen on the building’s brick wall.Jeremy Sparig

But Calzadilla-Rojas would go on to be one of 10 members of the violent Venezuelan street gang nabbed in a Jan. 3 shooting in the migrant hotbed of Aurora, Colorado, in front of the Arapahoe County Probation Office, police said.

He has since been labeled by the Aurora Police Department as a “documented member of TdA.”

When he entered the US, Calzadilla-Rojas told the feds he would be living in Madison, Wisconsin. He was arrested nearly 1,000 miles away outside Denver — one of the Venezuelan gang’s biggest strongholds in the US.

https://nypost.com/2024/09/18/us-news/how-bidens-cbp-one-program-lets-in-gang-members-terror-suspects/

St. John’s U med students will work on eerily lifelike mannequins that ‘speak, sweat and cry’

 “They can do everything. Speak, sweat, cry, and blink,” said Simulations Director Christopher Naidu, who runs the simulation suites where mannequins sit in hospital beds.

In an exclusive tour with the Post, Naidu demonstrated how technicians control the mannequins’ vitals, speaking through a microphone to simulate a patient in respiratory distress from a back-door operating room.

A professor and student inside the simulation room could be seen on camera from Naidu’s monitor. The student-teacher pair were seen using a stethoscope to check the dummy’s vitals after it “complained of shortness of breath after a patellar surgery.”

The university has also hired agency actors that that will run through real-life scenarios with students beginning in October, acting out heart attacks, strokes and even mental health emergencies.

“Their vision really got put into the product,” said Lin Huang, a junior nursing student who began working with the real-life mannequins in one of the several skills and simulation labs in the past week.

Fellow junior nursing student Andrea Lin said the tools “makes it interesting for students.”

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Christopher Naidu demonstrated how technicians control the mannequins’ vitals, speaking through a microphone from a back door operating room.James Messerschmidt

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The 70,000-square-foot building began construction in early 2022 after President Rev. Brian Shanley decided to move forward with the project.James Messerschmidt

“Normally we would practice on each other, and we would assume that our patient or classmate was just a healthy adult,” Lin said. “But with the mannequins we can, like with real people, assume a lot of different sicknesses.”

The 70,000-square-foot building began construction in early 2022 after President Rev. Brian Shanley came into position in early 2021 and decided to move forward with the project after it was halted amid previous leadership changes.

The pricey building was funded through a combination of public and private grants, including a $5 million New York State Higher Education Capital Matching Grant, a $700,000 Empire State Development Grant and $1.25 million from the US Department of Health and Human Services.

More than $20 million in philanthropic support was also provided by alumni couple and longtime St. John’s benefactors Peter P. D’Angelo and Margaret LaRosa D’Angelo.

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“When I got here I thought this is a no-brainer,” President Rev. Brian Shanley said to the PostJames Messerschmidt

Its sustainability features include geothermal heating, rooftop solar panels and windows designed to reduce thermal loss.

“When I got here I thought this is a no-brainer,” Shanley said to the Post.

“We’re in a daunting higher-end moment right now and we think that healthcare is a really critical part of St Johns moving forward,” Shanley added. “And from a mission point of view, it’s right in our sweet spot.”

Shanley also noted it was important for the nursing, PA, and radiological science students to be able to work in the same building to simulate a real hospital, teaching students through a “team-led” approach.

Radiological science students could be found in fully functional X-ray rooms downstairs, where they will soon be able to practice technician work and collaborate with other students.

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Fully functional X-ray machines will soon be used by radiological students to practice technician work.James Messerschmidt

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VR stations will be used to look at the spatial arrangement of anatomy.James Messerschmidt

“I honestly was excited, I was like, ‘oh my gosh, a top-of-the-line room where I can actually shoot X-rays on?'” senior radiological student Susan said. “Before I could position a patient, but you dont always know what will come up on the image. So to actually see my work and have my teachers there to critique is amazing.”

Another component of the learning experience is Perspectus VR stations where students wear headsets and use controllers to dissect anatomy and CT scans to get a slower-paced understanding of the human body outside of simulation labs.

The VR experience was led by Associate Professor Jeanette Perron, who said she has excitedly brought many of her students to come to view the lab.

“We don’t live in a two-dimensional world. Exploring the body in three dimensions is the most hands-on way for our students to learn,” Perron said.

https://nypost.com/2024/09/18/us-news/st-johns-universitys-new-health-center-will-have-students-working-on-eerily-lifelike-mannequins-speak-sweat-cry-and-blink/

Democrats are the abortion radicals — but they’re hiding the gruesome truth

 Some truths are too terrible to accept.

America’s polarized political and media landscape allows partisans to exist in their own cloistered worlds, free from facts that might challenge their priors.

But no group is as insulated from reality as pro-choicers, who are invariably sheltered from the disturbing position on late-term abortion taken by its fanatical champions in the Democratic Party.

Donald Trump has repeatedly fallen victim to the establishment’s helicopter-parent treatment of this coddled cohort.

At last week’s presidential debate, for example, Trump painted an accurate if unfocused portrait of Democrats’ radicalism.

It started with his reference to former Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s infamous 2019 comments on a Virginia late-term abortion bill that was then being considered in the state legislature.

“[Northam] said the baby will be born and we will decide what to do with the baby. In other words, we’ll execute the baby,” recalled Trump.

“That’s not OK with me,” he continued.

Linsey Davis, ABC’s shameless moderator, punctuated Trump’s answer with everything but a snicker.

“There is no state in this country where it is legal to kill a baby after it’s born,” she proclaimed smugly.

The thing about being smug? You had better be right.

Trump was imprecise, but it was Davis who got it wrong. 

Abortionists might not be “executing” children born alive after botched abortions — but they do sometimes withhold care from them, effectively finishing the ghastly job they set out to accomplish.

This was the context of Northam’s comments, which came in defense of a bill allowing elective abortions for non-medical reasons through all nine months of pregnancy.

“When we talk about third-trimester abortions, these are done with the consent of obviously the mother, with the consent of the physician,” said Northam.

“And it’s done in cases where there may be severe deformities, there may be a fetus that’s non-viable.”

“If a mother is in labor, I can tell you exactly what would happen,” he added.

“The infant would be delivered. The infant would be kept comfortable. The infant would be resuscitated if that’s what the mother and the family desired, and then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother.”

Democrats and their media allies have used Northam’s claims about deformities and non-viable fetuses to argue that those are the only instances in which infants might have life-saving care withheld from them.

But that’s not what he or the bill he was campaigning for actually said.

No deformities or fatal conditions would have been required ahead of a “discussion” about whether to condemn a newborn to death.

Some states have laws that protect abortion survivors from monstrous zealots like Northam — but Democrats in Congress have repeatedly trotted out a series of absurd excuses to explain why they oppose the federal Born-Alive Survivors Protection Act.

Bear this in mind: The Born-Alive Act would do nothing to limit abortion.

Its only function would be to require proper medical care for abortion survivors —  and to penalize abortionists who purposefully allow living, breathing children to die in front of them, as has occurred in states like Minnesota.

Instead of asking Harris why she and her allies would oppose this common-sense measure, Davis opted for an erroneous “fact check” of Trump.

Harris insisted, “It’s insulting to the women of America” to suggest that anyone might carry a baby nearly to term and then seek an abortion.

Trump asked the obvious question Davis wouldn’t.

“Will she allow abortion in the eighth month, ninth month, seventh month?” he wondered aloud.

“Come on,” Harris answered.

But what she meant was, “Yes.”

It’s an affront, Harris huffed, to suggest that anyone might seek a late-term abortion . . . but it’s also essential to make them readily available.

And such abortions are not rare.

The pro-choice Guttmacher Institute has estimated about 1.3% of American abortions are carried out on unborn children who would have been viable outside the womb.

That means at least 13,000 gruesome late-term abortions were performed in the US in 2023, based on Guttmacher’s figures.

Roughly two-thirds of the country thinks all such abortions should be illegal, according to an NPR/PBS poll released last year.

Harris can bristle all she wants; she’s lucky Trump wasn’t even harsher in his indictment of such barbarism.

The Supreme Court’s consignment of Roe v. Wade to the ash heap of history was a boon to the pro-life movement, but what followed revealed the harsh truth that its activists had failed to win Americans’ hearts and minds.

Pro-life lawmakers must now persuade them — and contend with hard cases that test ideological preferences.

For them, the ongoing abortion debate is filled with tough decisions and unpalatable compromises.

But Democrats cannot blind themselves to the truth of their own party’s stance.

Pro-choicers must be made to grapple with their own hard cases — and must denounce the enthusiasts among them that go to the mat for atrocities while lying to the American people about it.

https://nypost.com/2024/09/18/opinion/democrats-are-the-abortion-radicals-but-they-hide-the-gruesome-truth/