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Opinion
ICE
and Ignorance
Each year we make the journey from
Arizona to our lake cabin in the north woods of Wisconsin. During the
last trip I was shaken from my boredom by flashing red lights in my rear view
mirror. The look on my wife’s face was a reminder this wasn’t a new experience.
As the officer approached, I kept my hands on the steering wheel until he asked
for my license and insurance card. Before he went to his car, I motioned
toward my handgun mounted partly hidden but within reach. He smiled, nodded his
head, returned to his car and soon returned with my documents but no speeding
ticket. While thanking him for his service as a law officer I was stunned
by him thanking me for “carrying.” His words were spoken as he walked
away. As close as I recall he said, “We’re going to need you as much as
you’ll need us.” Additional words weren’t needed; I’d heard them before.
Our nation is rapidly approaching the precipice of a monumental conflict
between two factions of its citizens. The balance of this column is one
of many reasons the Sheriff and I agreed a symbolic match has been lit by the
leftist.
In my last column, “Can we survive
the divide” I wrote about the rise of Progressive politics from raw Communism
as promoted by Saul Alinsky’s and his book “Rules for Radicals.”
Progressivism / Socialism is the genesis of today’s Leftist activities. The
failing of Hillary Clinton’s guaranteed presidency destroyed the leftist plans
and threw them into an uncontrollable rage against anything pro President
Trump. There is even a name for this, “Trump Derangement Syndrome”, Childlike
they could not accept defeat and began attacking the President and anything Conservative.
ICE is a powerful protector and
defender of our nation, however, it not as well known as other branches of
government. It was carefully assembled after the 911 tragedy to better
protect us from expected terrorist attacks. Their activities have been expanded
greatly where needed. With a decade of involvement in the Nogales Border
Patrol Station as a member of the Citizen’s Advisory Board, I know the
incredible importance of the ICE agency. Following is a very recent update of
various types of duties and successes ICE performs to protect our nation.
If ICE had not been active, 981,000
pounds of the deadliest drugs would still be on our streets. If ICE had
not been charged with checking visas, over 800,000 individuals would not have
been refused entry and stopped at our border. The protection of our citizens
and country must come first. 900 children would still be in the hands of
sex traffickers if ICE hadn’t searched and found them. 2,000 sex predators
would be on our streets. More than 10,000 children would still be in the hands
of foreign criminal organizations or still locked in semi-trailers or
automobile trunks desperately trying to survive. Without ICE and DNA
technology, 900 of 2,500 children would still be with an adult, possibly an unknown
adult, posing as a parent. There are many other ICE challenges such as
apprehending illegal aliens who have somehow made it past the limits of the
Border Patrol Agents.
If those wishing to come to our
country, why would they not go directly to a port of entry? Many are U.S.
Citizens who have gone to Mexico, where they committed crimes, and are trying
to return back to the USA, their homeland,
In a year’s tally it is not unusual
for more than seventy different countries to be represented by ICE
apprehensions of their citizens crossing illegally. Russians, Chinese, Iranians
and Syrians are just a few.
The MS-13 criminal gang members from
El Salvador cross our borders to start deadly gangs. These bloodthirsty
criminals literally butcher innocent citizens, especially young children for no
apparent reason. Select ICE agents are assigned to these killers.
Criminals regularly attempt to cross
with children posing as family members. Later it’s found that the
children have been forced to swallow balloons containing drugs, and will often
turn them into child prostitutes.
One of the most common reasons for
crossing our border are pregnant women who are near the time for birth so their
children will become American citizens under the 14th amendment to
the Constitution. Of course that permits them to claim benefits from our
country. Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the deadliest drug lord in history is now
in our maximum security prison. No more than a few years earlier his wife flew
to California, gave birth to twins and returned to her home in Mexico. We
must attempt to understand why two of El Chapo’s children were born and became
citizens because of our misinterpretation of an amendment to our
Constitution. The added amendment was primarily included for freed slaves
to be included as U.S. Citizens.
Those who are uninformed are certain
President Trump created the separation of children from their parents by
himself. Actually the President followed the law. President Clinton
happily signed the law sent to him from Congress in 1996. That law separates
children from parents who had entered the country illegally. President
Bush used the law as well. President Obama followed suit enforcing the same law
throughout his terms in office. Of course thousands of illegal aliens
came across during those years.
I had the opportunity to visit
one of the centers when a great number of children from numerous countries
reunited with parents. ICE and the Border Patrol worked as expeditiously as
possible to aid and attend to everyone’s needs. Contrary to the leftist’s
propaganda, “cages” is a terrible stretch of the imagination. Large areas were
divided by link fences very much like those used around tennis courts. They
were separated from other groups for obvious reasons. In one particular case
TV’s were brought in and wired so everyone could watch with some
enjoyment. I was told the TV’s in most cases were brought from the agents
homes.
Looking back to the previous terms
of Clinton, Bush and Obama where was the gnashing of teeth, where were the
hateful chants and more specific, where were the moronic threats from leftist
politicians who would threaten to abolish ICE? Of course none of that
occurred until President Trump came to office.
When I see children and childlike
adults carrying ABOLISH ICE placards during a protest it causes me to
wonder if the ability to read or think somehow avoided them. Personally I can’t
imagine anyone waving a placard that displays so clearly one’s ignorance.
President Reagan had a similar
opinion of childish liberals. “The trouble with our Liberal friends is not
that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.”
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US Congress
Rep. Bob Goodlatte's
H.R. 4760, the Securing America's Future Act
Rep. Bob
Goodlatte's H.R. 4760, the Securing America's Future Act: Failed in the US
House
H.R.
4760: Securing America’s Future Act of 2018: Summary
H.R.4760:
Securing America's Future Act of 2018
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DHS
Texas
A&M picked to lead consortium on cross-border screening defense
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CBP
Watchdog: US unprepared for 'zero tolerance'
immigration
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Border Patrol
PCSO
aids Tucson border patrol
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Border Patrol Agent Misconduct
Border
Patrol agent to get probation for Arizona wildfire
Judge:
Border Patrol agent's manslaughter retrial stays in Tucson
DA:
BP agent used service gun in killings
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ICE
Defeating
ICE Hold Requests: APPENDIX 1
Report: ICE
Targeting Fraudulent Asylees for Deportation
Sanctuary
State: ICE Arrests 150 Criminal, Previously Deported Illegal Aliens Across
California
ICE Conducts
Enforcement Actions in Los Angeles, North Texas, Oklahoma and Wisconsin
Former
ICE Supervisor: 'A Broken System' Led to Release of Illegal Immigrant Charged
in Mass. Murder
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Illegal Immigration
Open
Borders ‘Absolutely’ Risk Terrorism, Says Border Patrol Sector Chief
‘Illegal
Indian migration into U.S. on the rise’
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Judicial
Leader
of gun-running ring gets 10 years in prison
Judge
Blocks Trump From Killing Protections for 300,000 Immigrants
Judge
Takes “Temporary” Out of Temporary Protected Status, Eroding Program’s Purpose
Federal
Judge Blocks Trump Administration's Termination of TPS
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Immigration
Trump
administration: After decline, U.S. citizenship numbers are rising
New
projections warn of a much-more-congested future if immigration policies aren't
changed.
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Arivaca,
AZ
Here
is the latest Arizona news from The Associated Press at 9:40 p.m. MST
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Refugees/Asylum/Migrant
Children
'I wrote so
many ridiculous cases' - Tales from the asylum mills
Migrant
Families, Minors Crossing AZ Border Nearly Doubles 2017 Reports
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Texas
Texas
agents seeing surge of families crossing border after controversial
zero-tolerance policy ends
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Border
10
Photographers Who Have Told the Story of the U.S.–Mexico Border
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Arizona
Water
levels drop, but tribal officials remain concerned Arizona dam could fail
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Huachicoleros
Huachicoleo
Triangulo Rojo: CJNG Fights "Los Bukanas" for Control
Mexico’s
Lucrative Oil Theft Industry Fueling Increased Criminal Violence
Fuel Thieves
May be Set Free with GPS Monitoring Devices
Los Zetas
Become Corporate Narcos
Jan - June
2018: ARTF Reports 1800 Train Robberies ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Mexico
Tending
Deep Wounds in Mexico
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Mexican
Marines
Mexico’s
marines, sent to protect border city from cartel violence, now are implicated
in disappearances
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GOM
Arsenal
seized in Badiraguato, Sinaloa
Mexico and
the Lessons from a Human Rights Catastrophe: The Militarization of Public
Security
GRAPHIC —
Central Mexican State Government Downplays Body Counts After Cartel Shootouts
Mexican
Police Seize 8K Fentanyl Pills at Tijuana Airport
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Politics
Pence
to address second security conference with Mexico and Central American leaders
Read more here: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/article219480050.html#storylink=cpy
Trump
administration: After decline, U.S. citizenship numbers are rising
Anti-Trump,
Far-Left California Judge Shows Why Judicial Nominations Matter ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Cartels
SEPT 2018:
Second Bloodiest Month of the Sexennium
Chapo's
Mexican attorney released from prison, "Mastermind" of tunnel escape
Cartel Narco
Cocktails that Kill
Laredo
Texas: Auto theft ring stopped, shipped vehicles to Mexico to conduct cartel
crimes
The Freedom
of the CJNG
Narco
Corrido Videos: El Chapo, El Mayo, Caro and more
VIDEO:
Terror in the Streets of Guaymas, Sonora
Police Shot
in Hermosillo, Sonora / Suspects in Custody
Cartel
Gunmen Kill 5 Policemen in Popular Mexican Tourist City
Fugitive
Mexican Cartel Queen ‘La Muñeca’ Extradited to Texas
Mexico
cartel caught smuggling $4.5 MILLION worth of ‘Spider-Man’ meth over US border
Cartel
Hitman Deported from Texas to Face Trial in Mexican Border State
"El
Gordo": Arrested While Stealing Beer
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Selected Incidents
Mexican
woman arrested in Nogales for smuggling meth
Previously
Deported Illegal Alien Allegedly Murders 5 After Mistakenly Released
Man
in country illegally rescued after becoming trapped in water-filled drainpipe
164 Migrants
Arrested in 5 Hours at Arizona Border
164
Migrants Arrested in 5 Hours at Arizona Border
DACA Recipient
Busted for Allegedly Smuggling Nearly 20 Pounds of Meth
Border
patrol agents arrest rapist, convicted kidnapper
12
Migrants Found in Dangerous Human Smuggling Incidents
4
arrested on suspicion of smuggling marijuana near Gila Bend
Border
Patrol Agents Rescue 10 Stranded Migrants on River Island
Another
Journalist Murdered in Mexico: 15th in 2018
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Other
FBI
Releases 2017 Crime Statistics
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Books
Melting Pot
Or Civil War: Reihan Salam sees an immigration system at odds with our
egalitarian ideals
Double Wide
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Insight Crime News
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Mexico
Here’s How Mexico Treats Illegal Immigrants
Authored by: Matt Palumbo
While combating illegal immigration has long been a bipartisan issue, the so-called anti-Trump “resistance” has decided that guilt tripping anyone who supports a sensible immigration policy is a viable political strategy. We’ve all heard the arguments; that opposing illegal immigration is preventing people from “just looking for a better life,” or over the past few months, is “separating families.” And of course there’s the most common insult, that enforcing immigration laws is “racist.”
But are America’s immigration laws, or our treatment of illegal immigrants uniquely awful?
To answer that question, let’s examine the situation in another nation: Mexico.
Mexico Rejects More Asylum Requests than the U.S.
Speaking of the rise in asylum request rejections under Trump, a writer at the American-Statesman noted a “dramatic” change. They write, “Immigration judges, who are employed by the Justice Department and not the judicial branch like other federal judges, rejected 61.8 percent of asylum cases decided in 2017, the highest denial rate since 2005.”
Meanwhile in Mexico, nearly 90 percent of asylum requests are denied (and the figures are similarly high for other Latin American countries, such as El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala).
Mexico Regulates Immigration Based on Race
I only bring this up, because for all the rhetoric about Trump’s supposed racism or disdain for certain immigrants, there is one country that does regulate their immigration flows by race, and that’s the country Trump is most accused of being racist against.
In Article 37 of Mexico’s General Law of Population, we learn that their Department of the Interior shall be able to deny foreigners entry into Mexico, if, among other reasons, they may disrupt the “domestic demographic equilibrium.” Additionally, Article 37 also states that immigrants can be removed if they’re detrimental to “economic or national interests.”
Mexico Deports More Central American Illegal Immigrants than the United States
In July 2014, former Mexican president, Enrique Peña Nieto and former president of Guatemala Otto Pérez Molina, announced the start of a migration security project called Plan Frontera Sur (Southern Border Plan). The U.S. has committed at least $100 million towards this plan to help aid Mexican border security, because it’s mutually beneficial. Both Mexico and the U.S. want to keep out Central American illegal immigrants (and they have to pass through Mexico to reach the U.S.)..
Since Plan Frontera Sur, Mexico has deported more central American illegal immigrants than we have in the U.S. Even CNN had to acknowledge that:
According to statistics from the US and Mexican governments compiled by the nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute, Mexico in 2015 apprehended tens of thousands more Central Americans in its country than the US did at its border, and in 2015 and 2016 it deported roughly twice as many Central Americans as the US did.Since migrant children are the hot-button topic in the American immigration debate currently; In 2014 there were 18,169 migrant children were deported from Mexico, and 8,350 deported to Central America the year before. From January 2015 to July 2016, 39,751 unaccompanied minors were put in the custody of Mexican authorities.
A report this year from Amnesty International concluded that “Mexican migration authorities are routinely turning back thousands of people from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala to their countries without considering the risk to their life and security upon return, in many cases violating international and domestic law by doing so.”
Mexico Has Their Own Southern Border – and Invisible Wall
For us much as Donald Trump is criticized by the political class in Mexico for wanting to beef up security on the U.S.-Mexico border, as previously mentioned, Mexico has accepted our help in enforcing their immigration laws on their own southern border with Guatemala. While they don’t have a literal border fence, they do have checkpoints, patrols, raids, etc. According to NPR:
Rather than amassing troops on its
border with Guatemala, Mexico stations migration agents, local and federal
police, soldiers and marines to create a kind of containment zone in Chiapas
state. With roving checkpoints and raids, Mexican migration agents have formed
a formidable deportation force.
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14 killed in
shooting attacks in Mexican border city
Read
more at:
//economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/64717234.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_cam____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________In Homan's conversation with CIS's Jessica
Vaughan, he identified five actions that Congress can take to end the surge
of illegal border crossings.
From ICE Acting Director Homan:
Excerpt from: https://www.numbersusa.com/blog/blame-congress-rapid-rise-illegal-border-crossings
REFORM THE TRAFFICKING VICTIMS PROTECTION REAUTHORIZATION ACT (TVPRA) -- Commonly referred to as the William Wilberforce Act, TVPRA prohibits Border Patrol from quickly removing unaccompanied children from non-contiguous countries who attempt to cross the border illegally. UACs from Mexico and Canada can be quickly returned once Border Patrol is able to determine that they're not victims of human trafficking. But for minors from countries outside of Mexico and Canada, minors must be turned over to Health and Human Services, allowing them to stay in the country indefinitely.
REFORM THE ASYLUM PROCESS -- Under existing law, anyone apprehended at the border who makes a credible fear claim that passes the initial screening is released. Since 2008, there's been a 1700% spike in the number of credible fear claims made at the Southern border, and 80% pass the credible fear screening. However, only 20% of those who pass the credible fear screening are granted asylum by a federal judge.
MANDATE E-VERIFY -- Foreign nationals cross the border illegally because they can obtain jobs in the U.S. Homan said requiring all employers to use E-Verify would discourage most illegal immigration to the United States and dramatically reduce the number of illegal border crossings.
END SANCTUARY CITIES -- At last count, more than 300 sanctuary jurisdictions exist across the country, including California which recently passed legislation making it a sanctuary state. Jurisdictions that protect illegal aliens from removal encourages illegal border crossings because illegal aliens know they have hundreds of safe-havens to choose from once they get here.
TERMINATE FLORES AGREEMENT -- The spike in the apprehension of family units is a result of the Flores Agreement, which restricts the period of time that Border Patrol can detain family units. The Flores Agreement encourages illegal border crossers to cross with children, knowing that Border Patrol has to release them after a certain period of time. If BP were able to hold family units until their court date, family units would be less likely to cross the border illegally.
All of Homan's policy recommendations are included in Rep. Bob Goodlatte's H.R. 4760, the Securing America's Future Act, but not surprisingly, none are part of the ongoing DACA amnesty negotiations between House Republicans.
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Judicial Watch: Open Records Laws and Resources
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10/12/2018 BORDER NEWS
WATCH SPECIAL EDITION
Opinion Polls
Washington
Examiner: NUSA Poll Shows Support for Immigration Cuts
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US Congress
Breaking
down the proposed bill to fund the border wall
Senators
grill DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen over child detentions under
‘zero-tolerance’ policy at border
Give
Us The Wall: House GOP Plans Full Blown Legislative Assault On Illegal
Immigration
Lame Duck
Fight Planned Over Border Wall Funding
Rep.
Bob Goodlatte's H.R. 4760, the Securing America's Future Act
Rep.
Bob Goodlatte's H.R. 4760, the Securing America's Future Act: Failed in the US
House
H.R. 4760: Securing America’s Future Act of 2018: Summary
H.R.4760:
Securing America's Future Act of 2018
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Fast
and Furious
As
immigrants flow across US border, American guns go south
‘US Guns to
Mexico’ Report Feels like ‘Deja vu All Over Again’
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DHS
Senators
grill DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen over child detentions under
‘zero-tolerance’ policy at border
DHS
Begins Auditing H-2B Employers
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CBP
Border
Patrol: “Humanitarian Crisis” Is “Impacting Border Security”
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Border
Patrol
Illegal
Immigrant Allegedly Kicks Border Patrol Agent in Head During Arrest
MS-13 Gang
Member Apprehensions this Year up 244 Percent, Says Border Patrol Sector Chief
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Border Patrol Misconduct
Border
Patrol misconduct stats point to Texas
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Border
Tunnels
Tunnel
With Rail System is Found Under Mexico-California Border
Narco-Tunnel
on US-Mexico Border Points to Sinaloa Cartel
Border
Patrol busts El Centro stash house, investigates cross-border tunnel near
Jacumba
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Border
Border
Patrol Sector Chief: Wall Helped Turn ‘No-Man’s Land’ into ‘Shopping Mall’ ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
ICE
Abrupt
release of hundreds of migrants in Phoenix is 'start of dam breaking'
Tucson
church housing migrant families released by ICE
The
Curious Importance of How and When Hearing Requests Are Filed with ICE
Defeating ICE Hold Requests: APPENDIX 1
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USCIS
DACA
Applications Cost Legal Immigrants $316.5 Million Since 2015
DHS
Begins Auditing H-2B Employers
VAWA
Spousal Abuse Self-Petitions Revisited
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Illegal Immigration
Border
officials alarmed by migrants abandoned in the desert
Tucson
church housing migrant families released by ICE
Reducing
Illegal Migration in US to Ease Pressure on Healthcare System - Scholar
Undocumented
immigrant population roughly double current estimate
Former U.S.
officials challenge report linking terrorism, immigration
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Illegal Immigrant Births
Birthright
Citizenship for Illegal Aliens Costs Taxpayers $2.4 Billion
Births
to Legal and Illegal Immigrants in the U.S.
Shock
report: US paying more for illegal immigrant births than Trump’s wall
Americans
Are Paying More for Illegal Immigrant Births than Trump’s Border Wall, Report
Shows
Economic
impact of illegal immigrants in the United States
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Judicial
Should
'Taking Immediate Custody' Determine Whether the Government Can Detain Alien
Criminals Without Bond?
SCOTUS
to Decide when Mandatory Detention Applies
As
feds focused on detaining kids, border drug prosecutions plummeted
Mexican
Border State Governor Faces New Criminal Charges amid Texas Extradition
20
previously deported aliens charged with illegal re-entry
Trump
administration appeals ruling that immigrants can stay
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Immigration
Nearly One
in Seven U.S. Residents Are Now Immigrants
Immigration
in 5 charts: a 2018 midterm reportThe Truth
about the ‘Public Charge’ Immigration Rule
Births
to Legal and Illegal Immigrants in the U.S.
How
Trump's Immigration Policies Are Provoking Insecurity at the U.S.-Mexico Border
End
of Indian-American dream?
Hiring
highly educated immigrants leads to more innovation and better products
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Arivaca,
AZ
Armed
vigilantes bring unease to Arizona border town haunted by killing of girl, dad
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Sanctuaries
If
you really want ‘the rule of law,’ get rid of sanctuary cities and their
illegal drugs
Judge
Takes “Temporary” Out of Temporary Protected Status, Eroding Program’s Purpose
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Refugees/Asylum/Migrant
Children
Four
Solutions to the Family Border Crisis
AP
Investigation: Deported parents may lose kids to adoption
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Terrorism
Inspector
General Must Investigate Somali Terror Suspect
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Arpaio
Group
seeks migrants illegally detained by Arpaio's officers
Finding
victims of illegal Arpaio detentions in Mexico like finding 'needle in a
haystack'
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CIA
Two CIA
Agents Arrested by Minutemen while Crossing Mexican Border with 1300 Pounds of
Cocaine
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Gangs
Hamptons
millionaires build luxe panic rooms to hide from MS-13
MS-13
Gang Member Arrested By Border Patrol Agents
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Arizona
Water
levels drop, but tribal officials remain concerned Arizona dam could fail _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
California
California
DMV on Improperly Registering License Applicants, Including Aliens, to Vote:
Oops!
California
Border District Reverses Course on a Key Component of Operation Streamline
Did Los Angeles Lose a Community Policing Grant Because of Its Sanctuary
Policy?
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Texas
CBP
Apprehend Child Molester, MS-13 Gang Members And Seize $2.6M In Drugs On Texas
Border
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Mexico
'Mexicanes'
Message: Miami Rarely Thinks About Mexico – But That's Got To Change
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GOM
Arrest 'El
Juanelo', leader of CJNG in Guanajuato
Cartel
Gunmen Ambush State Cops Along Mexican Border Highway
El Rosario
BC: Another Half Ton of Hard Drugs Busted
4 US
Citizens Found Among the Dead in Jalisco's "Trailers of Death"
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Politics
Arizona
Senate election: Where Martha McSally and Kyrsten Sinema stand on border
security
US
asks Central America to do more on illegal immigration
Trump
administration appeals ruling that immigrants can stay
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Cartels
Video:
Shooting in the State of Mexico leaves 11 dead or injured
How Nemesio
"El Mencho" Oseguera Cervantes became capo
Cartel
Jalisco New Generation: Sicario "Selfie"....
Cartel
Gunmen Set Fiery Blockades in Mexican Border City
WATCH:
Residents Record Sound of Mexican Border City Cartel Gun Battle
Discovery of
6 bodies in Cd, Victoria, Tamaulipas
Video:
Veracruz thief steals handgun off executed man directly in front of Mexican
Marina [Navy]
Mexican
Beach Resort City Breaks All-Time Homicide Record
Cartel
Gunmen Dump Beheaded Man near Mexican Border City
Mexican
Cartel Kills Border State Cop in Wave of Targeted Attacks
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Selected Incidents
Remains
of 5 Deceased Migrants Found in Texas near Border
MS-13
Gang Member Arrested By Border Patrol Agents
Smugglers
arrested after fleeing CBP I-19 checkpoint
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Books
Double Wide
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Insight Crime News
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Mexico
Here’s How Mexico Treats Illegal Immigrants
Authored by: Matt Palumbo
While combating illegal immigration has long been a bipartisan issue, the so-called anti-Trump “resistance” has decided that guilt tripping anyone who supports a sensible immigration policy is a viable political strategy. We’ve all heard the arguments; that opposing illegal immigration is preventing people from “just looking for a better life,” or over the past few months, is “separating families.” And of course there’s the most common insult, that enforcing immigration laws is “racist.”
But are America’s immigration laws, or our treatment of illegal immigrants uniquely awful?
To answer that question, let’s examine the situation in another nation: Mexico.
Mexico Rejects More Asylum Requests than the U.S.
Speaking of the rise in asylum request rejections under Trump, a writer at the American-Statesman noted a “dramatic” change. They write, “Immigration judges, who are employed by the Justice Department and not the judicial branch like other federal judges, rejected 61.8 percent of asylum cases decided in 2017, the highest denial rate since 2005.”
Meanwhile in Mexico, nearly 90 percent of asylum requests are denied (and the figures are similarly high for other Latin American countries, such as El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala).
Mexico Regulates Immigration Based on Race
I only bring this up, because for all the rhetoric about Trump’s supposed racism or disdain for certain immigrants, there is one country that does regulate their immigration flows by race, and that’s the country Trump is most accused of being racist against.
In Article 37 of Mexico’s General Law of Population, we learn that their Department of the Interior shall be able to deny foreigners entry into Mexico, if, among other reasons, they may disrupt the “domestic demographic equilibrium.” Additionally, Article 37 also states that immigrants can be removed if they’re detrimental to “economic or national interests.”
Mexico Deports More Central American Illegal Immigrants than the United States
In July 2014, former Mexican president, Enrique Peña Nieto and former president of Guatemala Otto Pérez Molina, announced the start of a migration security project called Plan Frontera Sur (Southern Border Plan). The U.S. has committed at least $100 million towards this plan to help aid Mexican border security, because it’s mutually beneficial. Both Mexico and the U.S. want to keep out Central American illegal immigrants (and they have to pass through Mexico to reach the U.S.)..
Since Plan Frontera Sur, Mexico has deported more central American illegal immigrants than we have in the U.S. Even CNN had to acknowledge that:
According to statistics from the US and Mexican governments compiled by the nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute, Mexico in 2015 apprehended tens of thousands more Central Americans in its country than the US did at its border, and in 2015 and 2016 it deported roughly twice as many Central Americans as the US did.Since migrant children are the hot-button topic in the American immigration debate currently; In 2014 there were 18,169 migrant children were deported from Mexico, and 8,350 deported to Central America the year before. From January 2015 to July 2016, 39,751 unaccompanied minors were put in the custody of Mexican authorities.
A report this year from Amnesty International concluded that “Mexican migration authorities are routinely turning back thousands of people from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala to their countries without considering the risk to their life and security upon return, in many cases violating international and domestic law by doing so.”
Mexico Has Their Own Southern Border – and Invisible Wall
For us much as Donald Trump is criticized by the political class in Mexico for wanting to beef up security on the U.S.-Mexico border, as previously mentioned, Mexico has accepted our help in enforcing their immigration laws on their own southern border with Guatemala. While they don’t have a literal border fence, they do have checkpoints, patrols, raids, etc. According to NPR:
Rather than amassing troops on its
border with Guatemala, Mexico stations migration agents, local and federal
police, soldiers and marines to create a kind of containment zone in Chiapas
state. With roving checkpoints and raids, Mexican migration agents have formed
a formidable deportation force.
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
14 killed in
shooting attacks in Mexican border city
Read
more at:
//economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/64717234.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_cam____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________In Homan's conversation with CIS's Jessica
Vaughan, he identified five actions that Congress can take to end the surge
of illegal border crossings.
From ICE Acting Director Homan:
Excerpt from: https://www.numbersusa.com/blog/blame-congress-rapid-rise-illegal-border-crossings
REFORM THE TRAFFICKING VICTIMS PROTECTION REAUTHORIZATION ACT (TVPRA) -- Commonly referred to as the William Wilberforce Act, TVPRA prohibits Border Patrol from quickly removing unaccompanied children from non-contiguous countries who attempt to cross the border illegally. UACs from Mexico and Canada can be quickly returned once Border Patrol is able to determine that they're not victims of human trafficking. But for minors from countries outside of Mexico and Canada, minors must be turned over to Health and Human Services, allowing them to stay in the country indefinitely.
REFORM THE ASYLUM PROCESS -- Under existing law, anyone apprehended at the border who makes a credible fear claim that passes the initial screening is released. Since 2008, there's been a 1700% spike in the number of credible fear claims made at the Southern border, and 80% pass the credible fear screening. However, only 20% of those who pass the credible fear screening are granted asylum by a federal judge.
MANDATE E-VERIFY -- Foreign nationals cross the border illegally because they can obtain jobs in the U.S. Homan said requiring all employers to use E-Verify would discourage most illegal immigration to the United States and dramatically reduce the number of illegal border crossings.
END SANCTUARY CITIES -- At last count, more than 300 sanctuary jurisdictions exist across the country, including California which recently passed legislation making it a sanctuary state. Jurisdictions that protect illegal aliens from removal encourages illegal border crossings because illegal aliens know they have hundreds of safe-havens to choose from once they get here.
TERMINATE FLORES AGREEMENT -- The spike in the apprehension of family units is a result of the Flores Agreement, which restricts the period of time that Border Patrol can detain family units. The Flores Agreement encourages illegal border crossers to cross with children, knowing that Border Patrol has to release them after a certain period of time. If BP were able to hold family units until their court date, family units would be less likely to cross the border illegally.
All of Homan's policy recommendations are included in Rep. Bob Goodlatte's H.R. 4760, the Securing America's Future Act, but not surprisingly, none are part of the ongoing DACA amnesty negotiations between House Republicans.
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NEW BOOK by Judicial Watch's Tom Fitton: Clean House: Exposing Our Government's Secrets and Lies
Judicial
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Double
Wide
A novel by Leo
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10/12/2018 BORDER NEWS WATCH SPECIAL EDITION
10/23/2018 BORDER NEWS
WATCH SPECIAL EDITION
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Opinion Polls
Voters Say
Government Should Stop Hondurans At the Border
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Opinion
Illegal Immigrant Caravan:
Real Election Meddling by the Left
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
US Congress
Kevin McCarthy
Rolls Out Bill To Fully Fund Trump’s Border Wall, Cut Off Sanctuary Cities
A Brief Overview of H.R.
6657, the 'Fund and Complete the Border Wall Act'
Lame Duck Fight Planned Over
Border Wall Funding
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
DHS
Homeland
Security Warns Of 'Transnational Criminal Organizations' Exploiting Massive
Migrant Caravan
DHS Spox: Human
Smuggling ‘Is a $2.5 Billion a Year Industry’ for Mexican Cartels
DHS Secretary
Nielsen says facilities are 'out of space' due to huge increase in family
border crossings
Conservationists
sue DHS over ‘unconstitutional’ environmental waivers
DHS Releases Extensive Fall
Regulatory Agenda __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
CBP
Laredo sector
Border Patrol gets new interim chief
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Border
Patrol
DISILLUSIONED:
Why I Quit the Border Patrol
Introduction: BP Use of Force
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Border Patrol Agent Misconduct
Number of
Customs and Border Protection employees facing discipline fell in 2017
Swanton border patrol ranks
third fewest for disciplinary incidents
Immigrants face hurdles to
prove abuse by US agents
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
ICE
Sheriff: ICE Forced to
Quick-Release Migrant Families in Arizona
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Illegal Immigration
FY 18: 521,090 Apprehended,
Turned Away at SW Border
New numbers
show fresh jump in illegal immigration over southern border
Border Patrol
agents in the Yuma Sector continue to apprehend record levels of migrants
illegally crossing the border from Mexico.
Border Patrol
arrests record number of illegals crossing southern border
Sheriff: ICE Forced to
Quick-Release Migrant Families in Arizona
A Mexican Man's Fatal Journey
to Reclaim His American Life
President Trump Says Family
Separations May Deter Illegal Immigration
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Immigration
Migrant Caravan
Invasion USA:
Migrant Caravan Heads to U.S. — Just in Time for Midterms
At Least 400K Migrants
Crossed Border into U.S. this Year
Many
Californians Want Compassionate, But Legal Solution to Illegal Immigrations
30 days to be a family: Newly widowed mom exits US
with a hole in her heart
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Central American Migrants
Political Crossfire over the
Migrant Caravan Produces New Information on a Real Homeland Security Problem:
Within the caravan or not, Middle Easterners, Bangladeshis, et al. are smuggled
up through Latin America
Young Angry Men
& Gangbangers March Towards U.S. Yelling “Vamos Para Allá Trump!”
Here's how long
it takes to walk from Mexico's southern border to the US
Over 7K-Strong,
Migrant Caravan Pushes On; Still Far From US
Trump claims
Democrats could be funding migrant caravan as Pence blames 'leftist groups'
Honduran
Migrant Caravan Calling Trump's Bluff on Immigration Policy
Growing Invasion Force
Overwhelms Mexican Authorities – Approximately 10,000 Now Traveling through
Mexico to U.S. Southern Border….
Migrant caravan
reaches the Guatemala-Mexico border
Caravan Update: Trump
Threatens Funding, Countries React (Videos)
Trump Threatens
To Call Up Military To Close Southern Border
Trump threatens
to Cut Off Aid to Honduras Over Immigration Caravan
Mexican
government sends federal police to intercept caravan of U.S.-bound migrants
Mexico Deploys
Officers to Its Southern Border to Block Migrants Headed for US
Migrant Caravan
No. 2 Heads North, Trump Threatens to Cut Aid to Honduras
US, Mexico, Guatemala Reject
Honduran Migrant Caravan
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Refugees/Asylum/Migrant Children
Texas Shelters Overwhelmed
with Influx of Migrant Children
Smugglers may
be taking advantage of Trump’s policies as immigrant families again surge
across border
Tucson church
mobilizes volunteers to help surge of migrant families
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Illegal/Legal Immigrant Births
Births to Legal and Illegal Immigrants
in the U.S.
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Judicial
Attorney General Proposes to
Expand Immigration-Case Review Power
New ability to
post bond in illegal entry cases was undermining 'zero tolerance' policy. So
prosecutors changed tactics
Justice Dept. Plans Supreme
Court Appeal if 9th Circuit Doesn't Rule on DACA Injunction Soon
Convicted
Murderer Is First Arrest In Laredo's Se Busca Initiative
Mexican man who claims he was
forced into smuggling gets 37 months
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
DACA
Justice Dept. Plans Supreme
Court Appeal if 9th Circuit Doesn't Rule on DACA Injunction Soon
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Tunnels
Drugs, Guns,
and Slaves – Cartel Tunnels Thwart CA Border
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Tourism
The Resilience
of the American Vacation in Mexico
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Terrorism
100 ISIS
Terrorists Caught in Guatemala as Central American Caravan Heads to U.S.
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Terrorism: U.S.
What the New White House
'National Strategy for Counterterrorism' Says about U.S. Border Security
Excerpt: "...a key difference between this month's new counterterrorism
strategy and the last one is an emphatic acknowledgement that U.S. land borders
are vulnerable to infiltration by Islamist terrorists and should be made less
so. Indeed, one of the new strategy's primary four envisioned "end
states" is that "Our borders and all ports of entry into the United
States are secure against terrorist threats." Two priority actions of the
2018 "National Strategy for Counterterrorism" are to: "Enhance
Detection and Disruption of Terrorist Travel" and to "Secure Our
Borders From Terrorist Threats".
National Strategy for
Counterterroism
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
No More Deaths
No More Deaths
volunteer moves dismissal of human smuggling charges
Tucson court
cases could upend long-standing status quo for border aid
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Deports
What
is deportation?
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
California
2018:
Marijuana's Impact on California
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
AMLO
AMLO Renames Trade Pact as
“America First” Ad Campaign Opens
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Mexico
How the
Globalization of Mexican Business Helped Spread Crime
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Politics
Migrant Caravan Points Way to
GOP Midterm Success
Mid-Terms Media Roundup: The
past year of immigration punditry
That weird silence you get
from the Democrats on the Honduras caravan
Sens. Jeff
Flake, Jon Kyl want answers on migrant releases in Yuma
Trump threatens drastic
action on immigration in bid to energize GOP voter
President Trump Says Family
Separations May Deter Illegal Immigration
Hondurans Challenge President
Trump's Tough Immigration Stance With 'March of the Migrant' Event
Immigration Debate Heats Up
As Midterm Elections Approach
Historian Christopher
Browning Out of His Element When it Comes to U.S. Immigration Policy ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Cartels
Top Los Zetas Cartel
Commander Captured in Mexican Border State
GRAPHIC: Cartel Silences
Media After Murder of Former Mexican Border City Mayor
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Selected Incidents
Border Patrol
Agents Bust Armed Human Smuggler
Border Patrol
arrests alleged hitman in Indio
BORDER CHAOS:
Federal Agents Seize 150 POUNDS of Meth Along US-Mexico Border
2 Impostors
Arrested Trying to Enter Arizona Using Illegal Documents
Child Sex Offender Busted
After Crossing Arizona Border
Border Patrol
Agents Catch 2 Illegal Alien Sex Offenders in Arizona
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Mormons
vs Cartels in Chihuahua
Mexico: The LeBaróns, a
family fighting back against violence - YouTube
https://www.google.com/search?q=Mormon+Chihuahua+war&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b-1-ab
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Books
Double Wide
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Insight Crime News
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Mexico
Here’s How Mexico Treats Illegal
Immigrants
Authored by: Matt Palumbo
While combating illegal immigration has long been a bipartisan issue, the so-called anti-Trump “resistance” has decided that guilt tripping anyone who supports a sensible immigration policy is a viable political strategy. We’ve all heard the arguments; that opposing illegal immigration is preventing people from “just looking for a better life,” or over the past few months, is “separating families.” And of course there’s the most common insult, that enforcing immigration laws is “racist.”
But are America’s immigration laws, or our treatment of illegal immigrants uniquely awful?
To answer that question, let’s examine the situation in another nation: Mexico.
Mexico Rejects More Asylum Requests than the U.S.
Speaking of the rise in asylum request rejections under Trump, a writer at the American-Statesman noted a “dramatic” change. They write, “Immigration judges, who are employed by the Justice Department and not the judicial branch like other federal judges, rejected 61.8 percent of asylum cases decided in 2017, the highest denial rate since 2005.”
Meanwhile in Mexico, nearly 90 percent of asylum requests are denied (and the figures are similarly high for other Latin American countries, such as El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala).
Mexico Regulates Immigration Based on Race
I only bring this up, because for all the rhetoric about Trump’s supposed racism or disdain for certain immigrants, there is one country that does regulate their immigration flows by race, and that’s the country Trump is most accused of being racist against.
In Article 37 of Mexico’s General Law of Population, we learn that their Department of the Interior shall be able to deny foreigners entry into Mexico, if, among other reasons, they may disrupt the “domestic demographic equilibrium.” Additionally, Article 37 also states that immigrants can be removed if they’re detrimental to “economic or national interests.”
Mexico Deports More Central American Illegal Immigrants than the United States
In July 2014, former Mexican president, Enrique Peña Nieto and former president of Guatemala Otto Pérez Molina, announced the start of a migration security project called Plan Frontera Sur (Southern Border Plan). The U.S. has committed at least $100 million towards this plan to help aid Mexican border security, because it’s mutually beneficial. Both Mexico and the U.S. want to keep out Central American illegal immigrants (and they have to pass through Mexico to reach the U.S.)..
Since Plan Frontera Sur, Mexico has deported more central American illegal immigrants than we have in the U.S. Even CNN had to acknowledge that:
According to statistics from the US and Mexican governments compiled by the nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute, Mexico in 2015 apprehended tens of thousands more Central Americans in its country than the US did at its border, and in 2015 and 2016 it deported roughly twice as many Central Americans as the US did.Since migrant children are the hot-button topic in the American immigration debate currently; In 2014 there were 18,169 migrant children were deported from Mexico, and 8,350 deported to Central America the year before. From January 2015 to July 2016, 39,751 unaccompanied minors were put in the custody of Mexican authorities.
A report this year from Amnesty International concluded that “Mexican migration authorities are routinely turning back thousands of people from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala to their countries without considering the risk to their life and security upon return, in many cases violating international and domestic law by doing so.”
Mexico Has Their Own Southern Border – and Invisible Wall
For us much as Donald Trump is criticized by the political class in Mexico for wanting to beef up security on the U.S.-Mexico border, as previously mentioned, Mexico has accepted our help in enforcing their immigration laws on their own southern border with Guatemala. While they don’t have a literal border fence, they do have checkpoints, patrols, raids, etc. According to NPR:
Rather than amassing troops on its
border with Guatemala, Mexico stations migration agents, local and federal
police, soldiers and marines to create a kind of containment zone in Chiapas
state. With roving checkpoints and raids, Mexican migration agents have formed
a formidable deportation force.
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
14 killed in shooting attacks in
Mexican border city
Read more at:
//economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/64717234.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_cam____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________In Homan's conversation with CIS's Jessica
Vaughan, he identified five actions that Congress can take to end the surge
of illegal border crossings.
From ICE Acting Director Homan:
Excerpt from: https://www.numbersusa.com/blog/blame-congress-rapid-rise-illegal-border-crossings
REFORM THE TRAFFICKING VICTIMS PROTECTION REAUTHORIZATION ACT (TVPRA) -- Commonly referred to as the William Wilberforce Act, TVPRA prohibits Border Patrol from quickly removing unaccompanied children from non-contiguous countries who attempt to cross the border illegally. UACs from Mexico and Canada can be quickly returned once Border Patrol is able to determine that they're not victims of human trafficking. But for minors from countries outside of Mexico and Canada, minors must be turned over to Health and Human Services, allowing them to stay in the country indefinitely.
REFORM THE ASYLUM PROCESS -- Under existing law, anyone apprehended at the border who makes a credible fear claim that passes the initial screening is released. Since 2008, there's been a 1700% spike in the number of credible fear claims made at the Southern border, and 80% pass the credible fear screening. However, only 20% of those who pass the credible fear screening are granted asylum by a federal judge.
MANDATE E-VERIFY -- Foreign nationals cross the border illegally because they can obtain jobs in the U.S. Homan said requiring all employers to use E-Verify would discourage most illegal immigration to the United States and dramatically reduce the number of illegal border crossings.
END SANCTUARY CITIES -- At last count, more than 300 sanctuary jurisdictions exist across the country, including California which recently passed legislation making it a sanctuary state. Jurisdictions that protect illegal aliens from removal encourages illegal border crossings because illegal aliens know they have hundreds of safe-havens to choose from once they get here.
TERMINATE FLORES AGREEMENT -- The spike in the apprehension of family units is a result of the Flores Agreement, which restricts the period of time that Border Patrol can detain family units. The Flores Agreement encourages illegal border crossers to cross with children, knowing that Border Patrol has to release them after a certain period of time. If BP were able to hold family units until their court date, family units would be less likely to cross the border illegally.
All of Homan's policy recommendations are included in Rep. Bob Goodlatte's H.R. 4760, the Securing America's Future Act, but not surprisingly, none are part of the ongoing DACA amnesty negotiations between House Republicans.
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The Current "Wall" Images
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___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
NEW BOOK by Judicial Watch's Tom Fitton: Clean House: Exposing Our Government's Secrets and Lies
Judicial
Watch: Open Records Laws and Resources
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Leo Banks is a Tucson-based reporter who covers border-related issues.
New Book
Double
Wide
A novel by Leo
W Banks
End of 10/23/2018 BORDER NEWS WATCH SPECIAL EDITION
10/29/2018 BORDER NEWS WATCH SPECIAL EDITION
Opinion Poll
Voters Say Government
Should Stop Hondurans At the Border
Most Want Tightly
Controlled Borders
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The
"Wall
Section of Trump's border
wall unveiled in California as caravan advances north through Mexico
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
US Congress
How can
Congress Address the Current Border Crisis ?
A Brief Overview of H.R.
6657, the 'Fund and Complete the Border Wall Act'
Immigration Reducers in 16
Tight Races __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
DHS
DHS chief
Kirstjen Nielsen to migrant caravan: 'Do not come. You will not be allowed in'
More families
crossing illegally into Arizona and Texas, DHS officials say
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
CBP
Leaked CBP memo: U.S.
'well-prepared' for caravan traveling through Mexico
Report: Almost 400,000
migrants have crossed the U.S.-Mexico border in 2017
FY 18: 521,090 Apprehended,
Turned Away at SW Border
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Border
Patrol
National Border Patrol
Council: Caravan is an invasion
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Border Patrol Agent Misconduct
FBI: Arizona
Border Patrol agent paid smugglers $650K for cocaine while on duty
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
ICE
Shelters concerned by lack
of coordination after release of undocumented families
More
families crossing illegally into Arizona and Texas, DHS officials say
1.6 Million Foreign
Students in U.S. in 2017
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Immigration
White Americans see many
immigrants as “illegal” until proven otherwise: Study
The power of negative
thinking: why perceptions of immigration are resistant to facts
Hiring highly educated
immigrants leads to more innovation and better products
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Illegal Immigration Policy
Trump Can Close the Border, Former Federal Prosecutor
Says
The Threats Posed by the
Impending Invasion
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
lllegal
Immigration
FY 18: 521,090 Apprehended,
Turned Away at SW Border
Trump to Act on Border Tuesday, Radical Left Readies
Lawsuits
Trump Considers Closing
Southern Border to Migrants
Trump Can Close the Border,
Former Federal Prosecutor Says
Is the US in
an 'illegal' immigration crisis? Border patrol data suggests otherwise
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Refugee
Resettlement
Resettle with Caution:
National Security Concerns
Resettle with Caution:
State and Local Obstacles
Resettle with Caution:
Hidden Costs to Social Programs
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Central
American Migrants
Migrant Caravan
The Curious Fact Slipped
Into the Debunking Article
Stopping the Caravan
DHS chief Kirstjen
Nielsen to migrant caravan: 'Do not come. You will not be allowed in'
Violence as second caravan breaks through Mexican
border
Mexico Gives Temporary Permits to Caravan Migrants
Seeking Asylum
Migrants Not Stopping — Vow To Storm U.S. Southern
Border
Migrant caravan: Mexico offers temporary work permits
Declining Mexico’s offer to stay, migrants head to U.S.
Guatemalan Authorities
Rescue Group of Minors from Human Smugglers in Caravan
Migrant Invasion Force Doubles and Another From El
Salvador Starts
Another U.S.-bound caravan takes shape, this one from
El Salvador
The Open Border Activists Behind the Illegal Immigrant
Caravans
InfluenceWatch Podcast
Episode #47: Who’s Backing the Central American Caravans?
Guatemalan Authorities
Rescue Group of Minors from Human Smugglers in Caravan
“Elaborately Planned”
Caravan Brings Human Traffickers & Violent Gangbangers to Guatemala
Young Angry Men &
Gangbangers March Towards U.S. Yelling “Vamos Para Allá Trump!”
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
US Military
Some 5,200 US troops
deploying to southern border in response to migrant caravan ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Border
Militia
Militia offers to help stop caravan raise concern at
border ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Refugees/Asylum/Migrant Children
Rather than being an asylum
from persecution, we are bringing the persecution to the asylum
7/2018: Judicial Watch: New HHS
Documents Reveal that ‘Unaccompanied Alien Children’ Processed During Obama
Years Included Violent Criminals, Drug Smugglers, and Human Traffickers
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
DACA
DACA Illegal Alien: Latinos
Must Stop Trump in Midterm Elections, Vote for ‘Our Values and Needs’
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Illegal
Alien and Legal Immigrants
Births
to Legal and Illegal Immigrants in the U.S.
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Judicial
21 Convicted For Smuggling
Guns Into Mexico
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Drug
Smuggling
US Fentanyl Seizure
Suggests Evolving Mexican-Dominican Links
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
GOM
PGR Sonora and Tamps: More
Drugs Go Up in Smoke
Migrant caravan: Mexico
offers temporary work permits
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Politics
President Trump Weighing
Executive Action Options to Deal with Migrant Caravan
Democrats Using
Cloward-Piven as their Midterm Hail Mary Pass
Border Crisis Stumps Trump,
Data Depict Border Under Siege
Trump, Hungary’s Orban to Stand Alone Against Signing
Dangerous UN Migration Compact? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Selected Incidents
Border Patrol Finds 18
Migrants Packed in Refrigerated Trailer
Child Molester Stopped from
Illegally Re-Entering U.S.
Mesa Man Sentenced For Heroin Sales
Previously Deported Sex
Offender Arrested by Border Patrol
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Mormons
vs Cartels in Chihuahua
Mexico: The LeBaróns, a family fighting back against
violence - YouTube
https://www.google.com/search?q=Mormon+Chihuahua+war&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b-1-ab
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Books
Double Wide ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Insight Crime News
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Mexico
Here’s How Mexico Treats Illegal Immigrants
Authored
by: Matt Palumbo
While
combating illegal immigration has long been a bipartisan issue, the so-called
anti-Trump “resistance” has decided that guilt tripping anyone who supports a
sensible immigration policy is a viable political strategy. We’ve all heard the
arguments; that opposing illegal immigration is preventing people from “just
looking for a better life,” or over the past few months, is “separating
families.” And of course there’s the most common insult, that enforcing
immigration laws is “racist.”
But
are America’s immigration laws, or our treatment of illegal immigrants uniquely
awful?
To
answer that question, let’s examine the situation in another nation: Mexico.
Mexico Rejects More Asylum Requests than the U.S.
Meanwhile
in Mexico, nearly 90 percent of asylum requests are denied (and
the figures are similarly high for other Latin American countries, such as El
Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala).
Mexico Regulates Immigration Based on Race
In
Article 37 of Mexico’s General Law of Population, we
learn that their Department of the Interior shall be able to deny foreigners
entry into Mexico, if, among other reasons, they may disrupt the “domestic
demographic equilibrium.” Additionally, Article 37 also states that
immigrants can be removed if they’re detrimental to “economic or national
interests.”
Mexico Deports More Central American Illegal Immigrants
than the United States
Since Plan Frontera Sur, Mexico has deported more central American illegal immigrants than we have in the U.S. Even CNN had to acknowledge that:
According
to statistics from the US and Mexican governments compiled by the nonpartisan
Migration Policy Institute, Mexico in 2015 apprehended tens of thousands more
Central Americans in its country than the US did at its border, and in 2015 and
2016 it deported roughly twice as many Central Americans as the US did.Since
migrant children are the hot-button topic in the American immigration debate
currently; In 2014 there were 18,169 migrant children were deported
from Mexico, and 8,350 deported to Central
America the year before. From January 2015 to July 2016, 39,751 unaccompanied minors were
put in the custody of Mexican authorities.
A
report this year from Amnesty International concluded
that “Mexican migration authorities are routinely turning back thousands of
people from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala to their countries without
considering the risk to their life and security upon return, in many cases
violating international and domestic law by doing so.”
Mexico Has Their Own Southern Border – and Invisible Wall
Rather than amassing troops on its border
with Guatemala, Mexico stations migration agents, local and federal police,
soldiers and marines to create a kind of containment zone in Chiapas state.
With roving checkpoints and raids, Mexican migration agents have formed a
formidable deportation force.
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
14 killed in shooting attacks in
Mexican border city
Read more at:
//economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/64717234.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_cam____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________In Homan's conversation with CIS's Jessica
Vaughan, he identified five actions that Congress can take to end the surge
of illegal border crossings.
From ICE Acting Director Homan:
Excerpt from: https://www.numbersusa.com/blog/blame-congress-rapid-rise-illegal-border-crossings
REFORM THE TRAFFICKING VICTIMS PROTECTION REAUTHORIZATION ACT (TVPRA) -- Commonly referred to as the William Wilberforce Act, TVPRA prohibits Border Patrol from quickly removing unaccompanied children from non-contiguous countries who attempt to cross the border illegally. UACs from Mexico and Canada can be quickly returned once Border Patrol is able to determine that they're not victims of human trafficking. But for minors from countries outside of Mexico and Canada, minors must be turned over to Health and Human Services, allowing them to stay in the country indefinitely.
REFORM THE ASYLUM PROCESS -- Under existing law, anyone apprehended at the border who makes a credible fear claim that passes the initial screening is released. Since 2008, there's been a 1700% spike in the number of credible fear claims made at the Southern border, and 80% pass the credible fear screening. However, only 20% of those who pass the credible fear screening are granted asylum by a federal judge.
MANDATE E-VERIFY -- Foreign nationals cross the border illegally because they can obtain jobs in the U.S. Homan said requiring all employers to use E-Verify would discourage most illegal immigration to the United States and dramatically reduce the number of illegal border crossings.
END SANCTUARY CITIES -- At last count, more than 300 sanctuary jurisdictions exist across the country, including California which recently passed legislation making it a sanctuary state. Jurisdictions that protect illegal aliens from removal encourages illegal border crossings because illegal aliens know they have hundreds of safe-havens to choose from once they get here.
TERMINATE FLORES AGREEMENT -- The spike in the apprehension of family units is a result of the Flores Agreement, which restricts the period of time that Border Patrol can detain family units. The Flores Agreement encourages illegal border crossers to cross with children, knowing that Border Patrol has to release them after a certain period of time. If BP were able to hold family units until their court date, family units would be less likely to cross the border illegally.
All of Homan's policy recommendations are included in Rep. Bob Goodlatte's H.R. 4760, the Securing America's Future Act, but not surprisingly, none are part of the ongoing DACA amnesty negotiations between House Republicans.
===============================================================================================================================================================================
The Current "Wall" Images
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Leo Banks is a Tucson-based reporter who covers border-related issues.
New Book
Double Wide
A novel by Leo W Banks