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[0] The Biden administration now admits that thousands of Haitian migrants are being released into the country, all without COVID testing and without a solid way to track them.
[1] We'll look at surprising new admissions from the administration about the border crisis that have local and state officials sounding the alarm.
[2] There's total chaos, and the Biden administration, they need to up their game big time.
[3] I'm John Bickley with Georgia Howell.
[4] It's Monday, September 27th, and this is Morning Wire.
[5] New crime data.
[6] from the FBI shows that 2020 saw the largest murder increase on record.
[7] Which parts of the country were hardest hit?
[8] And what are experts blaming for the dramatic rise and homicides?
[9] And a massive global music festival featuring music stars including Billy Elish and celebrities like Prince Harry and Megan Markle took place this weekend.
[10] But did it meet its lofty goals of defeating poverty, demanding equity, and protecting the planet?
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[21] As an illegal immigration crisis continues to unfold at the southern border, the Biden administration is facing heavy criticism over a surge of migrants from Haiti and for where those migrants are ending up.
[22] Here to discuss as Daily Wires, Ian Howarth.
[23] So, Ian, we've had some new developments on this crisis over the weekend.
[24] What do we need to know?
[25] Well, first, Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, admitted on Sunday that as many as 12 ,000 illegal migrants have been released into the country, just in the past.
[26] few weeks alone.
[27] Well, first, how many have been released into the U .S.?
[28] They're released on conditions, and approximately, I think it's about 10 ,000 or so, 12 ,000 have been released.
[29] Yes.
[30] Mayorkas then said that the number of migrants released into the country could increase.
[31] So this is a major admission here.
[32] We had on Congressman Tony Gonzalez last week, and he'd said he'd heard unconfirmed reports of 10 ,000 Haitian migrants being released into the country.
[33] But now we're finding out it's actually probably.
[34] more.
[35] Have we learned any more about what led to the massive surge in Del Rio?
[36] Yeah, the surge of thousands of Haitian migrants occurred after a social media post claimed that the U .S. border in this region was open.
[37] The surge took the Biden administration totally off guard, with border patrol agents having to be quickly relocated.
[38] Texas Governor Greg Abbott said that the Biden administration had, quote, abandoned any pretense of securing the border.
[39] The only thing that they've shown is an incapability of dealing with this crisis candidly in a way where they pretend it doesn't even exist.
[40] And we're here to tell you, it exists.
[41] It's total chaos.
[42] And the battle between the Biden administration and Governor Abbott only continues to rage, with things worsening after President Biden joined those pushing a false narrative that Border Patrol agents were whipping migrants at the border.
[43] To see people treat it like they did, horses barely running them over and people being strapped, it's outrageous.
[44] I promise you, those people will pay.
[45] They will be.
[46] an investigation underway now, and there will be consequences.
[47] Governor Abbott responded to these threats, promising these border patrol agents that they would have a job in Texas.
[48] I will hire you to help Texas secure our border.
[49] And then another person facing huge pressure for the ongoing crisis is White House Press Secretary Jen Saki.
[50] On Friday, she claimed that it would not be constructive for the president to visit the border.
[51] Then Saki tried to blame Republicans for failing to offer solutions.
[52] There are a lot of Republicans out there giving speeches about how outrage they are about the situation at the border, not many who are putting forward solutions or steps that we could take.
[53] So we're a little tired of the speeches.
[54] We'd like to partner on solutions and working together to address this problem that has not been partisan in the past.
[55] And of course, we shouldn't forget that while the Biden administration continues to claim that ending COVID -19 is a priority, Secretary Mayorkas also admitted that the thousands of migrants at the border were not tested for COVID -19.
[56] So there's still no testing going on at the border.
[57] Correct, no testing.
[58] He also admitted that they didn't even know if anyone was sick with COVID -19 in these camps, and with many of these people being released into the country, it's becoming difficult to reconcile the Biden administration's rhetoric when it comes to COVID -19 and immigration policy.
[59] Definitely some major questions still to answer for the Biden administration.
[60] Thanks for the update, Ian.
[61] No problem.
[62] Daily Wires, Ian Howarth.
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[68] New data from the FBI shows that in 2020, the United States experienced the largest spike in murders since recordkeeping began over six decades.
[69] ago.
[70] According to the Federal Uniform Crime Report, 2020 marked a 29 % increase in murders compared to 2019.
[71] Here were the details as Daily Wire Managing Editor Cabot Phillips.
[72] So Cabot, give us some more context for these numbers.
[73] Yeah, so every year the FBI compiles crime data from every state and issues a definitive report that kind of serves as a final snapshot of the year from a criminal standpoint.
[74] Right.
[75] And it found that in 2020, there were around 21 ,500 murders.
[76] That's 5 ,000 more than the year before.
[77] The previous record for a one -year murder spike like this was 12%.
[78] Okay.
[79] So this year's 29 % increase is two and a half times larger than any on record.
[80] Now, murder rates do often change from year to year, but experts say a spike like this is completely unprecedented.
[81] Almost three times the number increase here.
[82] Yeah.
[83] Did we see any specific trends?
[84] What did the data tell us here?
[85] Well, one interesting note was that the spike wasn't isolated to one specific area.
[86] Every single region in the country saw at least a 20 % murder increase.
[87] A lot of people hear about a story like this and they see a spike and assume it's just in the big cities.
[88] But that's not true.
[89] If you look at the data, mid -sized cities with a population between $100 ,000 and $250 ,000, actually saw the highest increase with a 40 % spike.
[90] Really?
[91] Yeah.
[92] And even smaller cities with populations under $25 ,000 saw a 24 % spike.
[93] So this really was felt across the board.
[94] It wasn't isolated in any one particular type of spike.
[95] city.
[96] So small cities, middle -sized cities, big cities, all of them, all of them impacted.
[97] Yep.
[98] Do we have any sense of what caused this spike?
[99] So there are a few theories.
[100] It kind of depends on who you ask.
[101] To start, the one that people on both sides agree played at least some role is unemployment.
[102] So typically areas with higher unemployment do experience more crime.
[103] Sure.
[104] And unemployment was up across the country during the lockdowns.
[105] The disagreements come when you start talking about what other factors played a role.
[106] So many on the left, have blamed the fact that millions of Americans purchased firearms for the first time during the pandemic.
[107] They say that increased gun ownership, along with the stress of lockdowns, caused the spike.
[108] Those on the right, as you can imagine, see it differently.
[109] They tend to think the increase in gun ownership was more of a response to increased crime, not a cause of it.
[110] They say the biggest factor here was the defund the police movement.
[111] We all remember that rallying cry during the summer of 2020.
[112] And many cities did just that, pulling funding from police departments and cutting back on the number of officers on the street.
[113] Right.
[114] We've tracked some of that.
[115] Yeah.
[116] And a lot of people on the right say that they think that played a huge role.
[117] So can you unpack that more for us?
[118] Do we have a clear correlation between defund the police and the rising crime numbers?
[119] Some of the data does say yes.
[120] Obviously, murder was up everywhere, but the data does show that it was up even more in many of the cities that pulled funding from police departments.
[121] Austin, Texas, for example, they implemented the largest police budget cuts in the country.
[122] and in 2020, they saw a 55 % increase in murders.
[123] 55.
[124] Yeah, that's almost double the national average of 29.
[125] New York City, they did the same, cutting a billion dollars from their police budget, and in 2020, murders were up 40 % there.
[126] Portland, which a lot of people kind of associate as the epicenter of the defund the police movement, they sliced millions from their police budget and saw a 52 % increase in murders.
[127] I actually spoke to one police officer there who told me the city dissolved a gun violence team and that officers have been stepping down and retiring, quitting at record numbers.
[128] And that's a trend that if you actually look at the data, you can see happening nationwide.
[129] Yeah, there seems to be a pretty clear pattern there.
[130] Cabot, thanks for the reporting.
[131] Absolutely.
[132] Daily Wire Managing Editor Cabot Phillips.
[133] A massive music festival for charity took place in major cities across the world this weekend, including New York, London, Sydney, and Paris.
[134] The ninth annual Global Citizen Concert was one of the largest events of its kind, with major artists like Elton John, Lizzo, and Coldplay performing.
[135] But some are criticizing the concert for lacking clarity about its purpose.
[136] Here to explain what this concert was and some of the response it's received is Daily Wire Entertainment reporter Megan Basham.
[137] So Megan, I was reading about the global citizen concert and it seems to have somewhat scattered goals.
[138] What are the organizers saying their mission is?
[139] You know, I'll be honest, given how broad their stated platform is, it reminded me a little bit of that episode of Seinfeld where George invents a charity called The Human Fund, and he says its purpose is to provide money for people.
[140] Because when you go to the global citizen website, that's kind of what it felt like.
[141] They're just all over the map on their purpose.
[142] They say they want to achieve three things.
[143] So one, defeat poverty, two, demand equity, and three, protect the plan.
[144] small things.
[145] So there are portions of the site dedicated to everything from reading racially diverse books, to planting trees, to distributing COVID vaccines.
[146] To be honest, even some of the music media seem to be rolling their eyes a little bit at the broadness of this year's platform.
[147] For example, a Rolling Stone review published Sunday called it a Save the World pep talk.
[148] Now, did anyone talk specifics?
[149] I mean, what actions do they want people to take?
[150] Yeah, a few people did.
[151] Prince Harry and Megan Markle were there, and they spoke about the need for pharmaceutical companies to waive intellectual property rights and share information about vaccines with poor nations.
[152] And I would say they were the most on message of anyone who presented.
[153] Billy Eilish talked about her hopes that Congress will pass a climate change bill.
[154] New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio took the stage to talk about climate change too.
[155] But in that case, I don't think the crowd likely heard him because he was greeted by a pretty loud chorus.
[156] of booze.
[157] So there were some specifics.
[158] They just weren't unified.
[159] And the organizers freely admit they're not trying to fundraise here, just raise awareness.
[160] So to that end, the tickets were free.
[161] And they say their strategy is that massive turnouts at these concerts will prove to political and business leaders around the world that people do really want to see bold action on these issues.
[162] Or they want to go to a free concert.
[163] Right.
[164] There is that.
[165] And I do think that was demonstrated by the fact that once some of those major headliners performed, at that point, the crowds began exiting.
[166] In New York, Billy Eilish must have been the big draw because once she was finished, a lot of people left.
[167] And do we expect anything concrete to come out of this event?
[168] You know, I doubt it because, as I said, I think they're suffering from message dilution.
[169] When you look back at concerts like Live Aid and Farm Aid in the 80s, those did have some success at raising awareness.
[170] Live Aid, which was, like this event, a global concert that took place in multiple cities around the world, well, it was raising money and demanding action on the famine in Ethiopia.
[171] Now, Farm Aid, too, had a very specific purpose to help save American family farms.
[172] And in both of those cases, the concerts did fundraise, so I think that probably helped them in achieving some success.
[173] I'll be honest, it was hard for me as a reporter to find any consistent coherent message.
[174] So I'm not sure the casual observer is going to be able to pick up on one.
[175] Fair enough.
[176] Megan, thanks for reporting.
[177] Always good to be here.
[178] That's Daily Wire Entertainment reporter Megan Basham.
[179] Other stories we're tracking this week, the Taliban has returned to its gruesome tactic of publicly displaying the bodies of dead citizens.
[180] In the city of Harat, Afghanistan on Saturday, the Taliban brought the bodies of four alleged criminals to a central square, then hanged one of the bodies from a crane.
[181] The other three were moved to different parts of the city for public display.
[182] Center -right control of Germany appears to have come to an end.
[183] German Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union is projected to lose control of the government to the left -wing Social Democratic Party as a result of Sunday's national election.
[184] And four Pennsylvania teenagers have been charged with plotting an attack on a high school outside of Scranton in 2024 on the 25th anniversary of the Columbine shooting.
[185] Those charge include a 15 -year -old girl and a 15 -year -old boy, as well as two unnamed teens.
[186] According to the girl's mother, the female teen was, quote, obsessed with Columbine.
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