BORDER
NEWS WATCH SPECIAL EDITIONS - 12/2018
12/7/2018 BORDER NEWS
WATCH SPECIAL EDITION
Opinions
Mexican Poll: 7 in 10
Negative About Caravan
Ken Cuccinelli:
Here's how Trump can be even more aggressive in protecting our border
OP-ED: Ensuring that jobs are
offered to American workers first
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US Congress
Sen. Inhofe Has
a Great Suggestion about Wall Funding
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DHS
Homeland
Security chief Nielsen has saved her job — for now
Trump now
praising Kirstjen Nielsen after border drama
Report:
Kirstjen Nielsen Could Remain DHS Secretary Despite Soaring Illegal Immigration
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Border
Patrol
Firm with $297 Million
Government Contract to Boost Border Patrol Hires Only 15 Agents
A Border Patrol
Media Officer Had To Remind His Agency Not To Describe Immigrants As
#CatchOfTheDay
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Lonnie
Scwartz
Border agent
Lonnie Swartz won't face a third trial in deadly shooting
U.S. Government
Drops Case Against Border Patrol Agent In Arizona
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DoS
US Issues New Travel Warning
for 5 States in Mexico
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DoJ
DOJ Charges Hotel with
Discrimination for not Hiring Immigrant in Fraud-Infested Asylum Program ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
ICE
Supplies low for shelters
helping migrants as holidays near
Nearly 60 detained in New
England immigration raids
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Immigration
Extreme anti-immigrant views
are now part of the mainstream political debate __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
VISAS
H-1B Proposal Increases
Preference for U.S.-Educated Foreign Workers
Republicans in Congress Cut a
Deal to Double H-2B Guest Workers
OP-ED: Ensuring that jobs are
offered to American workers first
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Illegal Immigration Policy
Border wall came at high cost
and low benefit to U.S. workers: Economists ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
lllegal
Immigration
Number of U.S. undocumented
immigrants falls to lowest number in a decade, new study finds
Illegal immigration
surges in Texas as feds focus on migrant caravan
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Birthright
Citizenship/Anchor Babies
Birth of
Migrant Anchor Baby Raises Birthright Citizenship Issue Again
Birthright
Citizenship as a Magnet ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Central
American Migrants
Mexico says it would deport
U.S. border-rushers
Were women and children or a
“mob” tear-gassed at U.S. border?
Over 400 Migrants Apprehended
Near El Paso
Dramatic video shows Central
American migrants crawl under Mexico border fence into San Diego as CBP reports
'slight uptick' in illegal crossings
Tired of waiting for asylum,
migrants from caravan breach U.S. border
After Pregnant
Caravaner Jumps Border, America Gives Her “A Big Reward
Birth of
Migrant Anchor Baby Raises Birthright Citizenship Issue Again
Obama Granted
Soros-Tied Group $310M to Help Migrants Avoid Deportation
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Asylum Claims
Asylum Denials Hit Record
High in FY2018
Federal judge blocks Trump
order limiting asylum
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Non-Citizen Welfare
63% of Non-Citizen Households
Receive Welfare
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DACA
Pres. Trump Says No DACA
Until After Court Review
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Tunnels
Report: Hezb'allah 'tunnel
terrorist' trained with Mexican cartels on US border
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US Military
Pentagon yet to sign off on
longer deployment of troops on Mexican border
Military troops
to remain at border through January, says Defense Secretary James Mattis
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Refugees/Asylum/Migrant Children
New proof surfaces that
family separation was about deterrence and punishment
About 4,000
migrants died or missing on way to US, AP finds
Supplies low for shelters
helping migrants as holidays near
Death of Guatemalan toddler
detained by ICE sparks $60 million legal claim
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NAFTA
Are The U.S.
And Mexico Still Amigos?
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US/MX
A Different Story Along the Border
Mexico’s new
president plans to work with U.S., Canada for migration crackdown
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Honduras
Honduran President’s Brother
Charged for Trafficking Tons of Drugs with Help of National Police &
Politicians
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El
Chapo
El Chapo Trial: U.S. does a U
turn with evidence attributed to Mochomo Beltran Leyva
El Chapo Trial: Update on
Emma's Cell-Gate and How Borderland Beat "enters the trial"
'El Chapo'
consort opens up about cartels' ruthlessness
El Chapo Trial: Chupeta admits
to 150 murders, some in the U.S. including a N.J. family
El Chapo Trial:coked out
captain hallucinates ghosts and Coast Guard, sinks ship with 20 Tons of Cocaine
El Chapo Trial: Rosero turned
himself in to U.S. authorities....but he wasn't wanted...till then
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Cartels
First Journalist of Dec
Murdered in Tépic, Nayarit
Hitmen of Familia Michoacán
Responsible for Attack on Guerrero Red Cross
Former Attorney for Los Zetas
Assassinated
Jalisco: 6 police agents
killed and 6 critically injured in CJNG ambush
CJNG Puebla Cleansing: 5
Assassinated in Possible Ambush
Chetumal, Q Roo: Plane
Abandoned with 1.4 Tons of Cocaine
Guanajuato in Flames: 19
Murdered in less than 24 Hours
CDN ambushed by CDG in Mier
Tamaulipas, 5 dead
Sierra Tarahumara: 4 Executed
w Heads Left in Coolers
Canadian executed in Mexico
City mall parking structure
FBI Offers
Reward For Info After Attack On U.S. Consulate In Mexico
Guadalajara: CJNG denies
accountability of U.S. Consulate attack
GRAPHIC —
Mexican Cartel Firefight Kills Five near Texas Border
GRAPHIC —
Cartel Boss Found Hanging in Mexican Border State Prison
CDN's "El Gafe" is
found hanged in Cd. Victoria prison, in what appears to be a retaliation for
Z12's murder
Watch: Mexican
Cartel’s Trash Leads to Discovery of Smuggling Routes on Arizona Border
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Opium
UNODC Report: Poppy
Cultivation up 21%
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GOM
Mexico’s new
president creates yet another national police force – but it will struggle to
stem the bloody crimewave
Mexico's new
president criticized for militarizing police
Mexico readies sale
of former president's luxurious plane
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Mexican
Military
450 Troops Ordered to
Chihuahua
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Politics
Will President
Trump Shut Down the Government for Lack of Border Wall Funds?
The Democrats’
Immoral Border Security Plan
FAIR Calls
Recent ADL Report a Thinly-Veiled Effort to Control What the Public Hears on
Immigration
Kinzinger: Pelosi is not
interested in fixing immigration
Trump's Blocking of Caravan
Appeals to Most Midterm Voters' Preference
Obama Granted
Soros-Tied Group $310M to Help Migrants Avoid Deportation
U.S. Subsidizes Soros Radical
Leftist Agenda Worldwide, New Judicial Watch Special Report Shows
Trump says the
US loses $250 billion on illegal immigration every year. We checked. It
doesn’t. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Selected Incidents
Over 400 Migrants Apprehended
Near El Paso
Border Patrol
Thwarts Smuggling Attempt, Detains 10 illegal aliens
CBP Arrests
MS-13 Gang Member in Arizona Headed to Los Angeles
Border Patrol
Agent Hospitalized Following Contact with Powdery Substance
120 Migrants
Caught at Central Arizona Border in One Day
Toddler injured
after being dropped from Arizona border fence
WATCH: Migrants
Land Boat on California Beach 100 Miles from Border
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Books
Double Wide ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Insight Crime News
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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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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.”
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.
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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
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End of 12/7/2018
BORDER NEWS WATCH SPECIAL EDITION
12/14/2018 BORDER NEWS
WATCH SPECIAL EDITION
Opinions
Commentary: Want to stop illegal immigration? Allow more legal
immigrants
OP-ED:
Ensuring that jobs are offered to American workers first ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
US Congress
Lawmakers oppose border wall
funding near Arizona bombing range
House Freedom
Caucus Looks to Plug Loopholes: A lame-duck Hail Mary?
Sens. Menendez, Rubio, Durbin and Leahy Introduce TPS Bill for
Venezuela
Immigration Newsmaker:
A Conversation with Rep. Bob Goodlatte
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The "Wall"
Re-Branding the Wall
Trump's border wall -- how much it will actually cost according
to a statistician
Why President
Trump's 'newly built walls' on US-Mexico border aren't new walls
Construction of
border walls exploding around the world, as Trump demands billions for barrier
at Mexico line
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DHS
DHS partners with United
Airlines to fight human trafficking
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CBP
CBP: Illegal
Families Crossing Border at a Rate That Will ‘More Than Double Last Year’s
Record Number
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CBP-OFO
Border Agents Fail to Delete
Personal Data of Travelers After Electronic Searches, Watchdog Says
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Border
Patrol
Border Patrol
Press Release Masks Aliens' Desperation — and Cluelessness
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USCIS
Claims of
Fear:CBP Southwest Border and Claims of Credible Fear Total
Apprehensions/Inadmissibles (FY2017 - FY2018)
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ICE
Worksite Enforcement Surged
in FY18
ICE arrested
170 immigrants seeking to sponsor migrant children
MASSIVE ICE
Bust Of Illegal Aliens Nabs Child Abusers, MS-13 Member, Internationally Wanted
Criminals
El Paso County Sheriff Can't
Honor ICE Hold on Inmates Eligle for Release, Judge Rules
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Immigration
Electronic
Barriers
Immigration Newsmaker: A Conversation with Rep. Bob Goodlatte
Acting AG Whitaker Promotes
'Lawful' Immigration __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Illegal Immigration Policy
Claims of Fear:CBP
Southwest Border and Claims of Credible Fear Total
Apprehensions/Inadmissibles (FY2017 - FY20188 Million People Are Working Illegally in the
U.S. Here’s Why That’s Unlikely to Change____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
lllegal
Immigration
Four U.S.-Bound Iranian
Migrants Underline National Security Concerns about Migration from Special
Interest Countries
US Border Crisis: 100,000
Illegal Immigrants in 60 Days
CBP: Illegal
Families Crossing Border at a Rate That Will ‘More Than Double Last Year’s
Record Number
Video Shows Teen Migrants
Severely Injured After Climbing AZ Border Wall
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E-Verify
Electronic
Barriers
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Illegal
Immigrants
'Unemployed For A Reason'?
When should policy give up on sidelined workers? ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Central
American Migrants
Media Buries Key Facts to
Conceal Migrant Health Threat—TB, Hepatitis, HIV
AMLO does a Trump
So Trump was right all along
about the criminals in the caravan...
DHS tells migrants to go home
after extortion attempt
The Caravan Is A Threat To
Americans In More Ways Than One
US Border Crisis: 100,000
Illegal Immigrants in 60 Days
Migrant Child Dies from
Dehydration, Fever, Shock in U.S. Custody as Border Agents Overwhelmed
Kosovan Joins Central
American Migrant Group Surrendering at Texas Border
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Terrorism
Have Terrorists Crossed Our
Border?
CIS in Panama
and Costa Rica: How America Filters Potential Terrorists in Distant Lands ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Pima County
ACLU: Cross-Certification
Used to Profile Immigrants
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DACA
DACA Amnesty
Would Render Border Wall Useless, Cost Americans $26B
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Judicial
Mexican
national Gets 11 Years For Smuggling Fentanyl into Texas
El Paso County Sheriff Can't
Honor ICE Hold on Inmates Eligle for Release, Judge Rules
9th Circuit Blocks Trump
Effort to Deny Asylum for Illegal Aliens
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USCG
USCG Brings in Lots of Weed
and Traffickers
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Refugees/Asylum/Migrant Children
Watch: Migrant Families Cross
Texas Border Seeking Asylum ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Arivaca
On the border, Trump's wall
pledge casts long shadow
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US/MX
Mexican president says he and
Trump discussed joint program on migration
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El
Chapo
Obama’s Mexican
Gunrunning Op Could Help Sinaloa Drug Lord’s Defense
Obama’s Mexican Gunrunning Op
Could Help Sinaloa Drug Lord’s Defense
El Chapo’s Cartel: Killings, Jealousy and
Shifting Alliances
El Chapo Trial: Chapo ran
"Cocaine Trains" to NYC, says Tirso Martinez
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Cartels
Magdalena, Sonora: Violent
Confrontation Leaves 2 Dead, Vehicles Burned
EXCLUSIVE:
Inside Look at the Arrest of a Mexican Cartel Boss Wanted by U.S.
Exclusive — Mexican Cartel
Boss to Be Extradited to U.S. for Role in Texas Assassination
Terror Continues it’s Reign
in Reynosa
San Jose, CA: Police Arrest 4
in Organized Crime Ring
3 prison guards killed after
hanging of el gafe
Honduran President’s Brother
Charged for Trafficking Tons of Drugs with Help of National Police &
Politicians
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Huachicoleros
50 Armed Huachicoleros Steal
Fuel in Chihuahua; Police Arrested
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GOM
AMLO does a Trump
Mexico Echoes
Trump’s Crackdown on Illegal Immigration — They’re Shutting Down Their Own
Southern Border
Mexico to Fight Illegal
Immigration by Closing Guatemala Border
Mexico is Finally Cooperating
in the Fight Against Illegal Immigration
Mexico pledges
$30 billion in development aid in part to deter migration
Mexico's solution to the
Border Crisis
Testimony: Mexico’s ‘narco’
crisis
Guerrero: Community Police
Take Over Security from Petatlán Municipal Police __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Selected Incidents
Smuggler packs
19 Migrants into Pick-up Truck Near Texas Border
Border Patrol
Near Ajo Encounter Large Groups Of Central Americans
240 Migrants
Apprehended in 48 Hours by One Border Patrol Station
2 Illegal
Teenage Girls Severely Injured After Falling Off Border Wall
Yuma Sector
Border Patrol Agents arrest 2 violent felons
Records:
Cellphone helped police track murder suspect to Mexican border
Remains of Two Migrants Discovered in Texas — 80 Miles from
Border
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MISCELLANEOUS
FBI Report: Human Trafficking in 2017 Crime in
the United States
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Books
Double Wide
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Insight Crime News
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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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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.”
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.
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WATCH SPECIAL EDITION
Southwest
Border Tour, Spring 2019: Hosted by the Center for Immigration Studies
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US Congress
How area
members of Congress voted
Ratcliffe: We need to take
border wall funding as far as we can until Republicans no longer have control
of the House
Sen. McConnell Introduces
7-Week Spending Bill
President Trump Backs Away
from Threat to Shut Down Government Over Wall Funding
Who are the Odd
Eight in the House That Crossed Party Lines on the Wall ?
House Passes Spending Bill
with Wall Funding as Shutdown Looms
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The "Wall"
Walls Save
Lives. Israel Has Proof
FAIR: Trump
Should Veto Any Spending Bill Without Wall Funding
President Trump Backs Away
from Threat to Shut Down Government Over Wall Funding
Devil in
details blocks agreement on Trump border wall -- or fence
BRILLIANT! Ted Cruz Calls For $14 Billion Seized From El Chapo
To Fund Border Wall
Ted Cruz Is
Right: Make El Chapo Pay for the Wall
We need Trump’s
border wall plus other measures to reduce illegal immigration
US Government
in partial shutdown after Trump unveils ‘beautiful’ border wall design
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GoFundMe
for the "Wall"
We The People
Will Fund The Wall
Meet the man
with Arizona ties who has raised $16 million for Trump's border wall
GoFundMe
account looks to buy 'ladders' to scale Trump's border wall
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DHS
From
accountability to medical care, critics cry for serious reform of border agency
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
DoS
State Department
Announces New Public-Private Foreign Assistance Partnership for Southern Mexico
and Central America: Will it be effective and taint-free?
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
USCIS
No
Billion-Dollar Immigration Slush Fund? It Already Exists
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Border
Patrol
Teen migrant
accused of hitting Arizona Border Patrol agent with rock
Border officer
pleads guilty to lying about citizenship
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
UltraLights
2 Chinese
illegally dropped off in US from Mexico via ultralight aircraft
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New Mexico
On remote New
Mexico border, a flood of migrants
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Immigration
Avoiding the
Quicksand of the Global Compact on Refugees __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Illegal Immigration Policy
New
DHS Policy will keep Asylum Seekers in Mexico
Immigration
Groups To Challenge Trump’s ‘Remain In Mexico’ Policy
New Asylum
policy could invite more illegal border crossings
New asylum
policy comes with few details, many questions ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
lllegal
Immigration
A Child's Death in the Boot
Heel: And the recriminations that have followed
Migrant Drowns in Rio Grande
River – No Border Barrier
A Talk with an Iranian
Migrant in Costa Rica en Route to the U.S. Border
An Interview
with a Bangladeshi in Costa Rica en Route to the U.S. Southwest Border
A Rare
Interview with a Pakistani Migrant in Costa Rica en Route to the U.S. Border
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VISAS
Disappointing New H-1B Rules:
A Bonanza for Employers
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Illegal
Immigrants
Fact check: how
much does illegal immigration cost the US?
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Pueblo Sin Fronteras
Group that escorts migrant
caravans draws more scrutiny
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Central
American Migrants
The Mexican Border as Refugee Camp
Asylum-Seekers to be Returned
to Mexico Pending Decision; Pompeo Foresees ‘Historic Drop in Illegal
Immigration’
Mexico is
unprepared for the deal it made with the US on asylum-seekers, immigration
chief says
Supreme Court
rejects Trump bid to enforce asylum crackdown
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Terrorism
Canada Gets Royal Assent to
Share Border Entry and Exit Data with the U.S. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
US/Canada
Canada Gets Royal Assent to
Share Border Entry and Exit Data with the U.S.
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Deports
Recalcitrant
Countries Accepting More Criminal Repatriates
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Judicial
Judge Sullivan Takes Control
of Asylum Law: A result Congress never intended
Supreme Court
rejects Trump bid to enforce asylum crackdown
Federal Judge Strikes Down
Sessions' 'Credible Fear' Ruling
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
US/CG
How US foreign policy in
Central America may have fueled the migrant crisis
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Refugees/Asylum/Migrant Children
United States | United States
Action To Confront Illegal Immigration
New DHS Policy will keep
Asylum Seekers in Mexico ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Arivaca
Off the
Frontlines, Veterans Find Purpose in Defending a Remote Arizona Border
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
US/MX
Sanders: ‘Sad
Day in America’ When Mexico Does More to Protect the Country Than Senate Dems
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
El
Chapo
Obama’s Mexican Gunrunning Op
Could Help Sinaloa Drug Lord’s Defense
BRILLIANT! Ted
Cruz Calls For $14 Billion Seized From El Chapo To Fund Border Wall
El Chapo's
7-year-old twin daughters attended his trial for the first time since it
started 6 weeks ago
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Cartels
WATCH: Cartel Gunman Throws Grenades
at U.S. Consulate in Mexico
EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS: Mexican
Coastal State Cartel Turf War Kills 10 in One Day
Mexican Cartel
Leaves Severed Head at Border State Newspaper’s Office
EXCLUSIVE:
Mexican Gulf Cartel Taunts Trump with Caricature on Dope Load
"La Mora" Detained
in Nuevo Leon, Being Extradited to the US
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Politics
No
Billion-Dollar Immigration Slush Fund? It Already Exists
Trump HUD Keeps Funding Obama
Plan to Revamp Slums, La Raza Group Gets Millions
Does Trump
think there are actual coyotes coming over the border?
Dem Rep.
Gutierrez berates Kirstjen Nielsen for 6 minutes, leaves room when she tries to
respond __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
GOM
SESNSP Report 2018: The
Bloodiest, Most Violent Year in Recent History
Juárez Forced to Re-Deploy
Military as Cartel War Rages on Border __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Selected Incidents
Ultralight
aircraft drops meth, getaway bike across US-Mexico border
306 Illegal
Aliens Surrender To Border Patrol Near Tucson
Illegal Alien
Assaults Border Patrol Agent
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Books
Double Wide
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Insight Crime News
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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.
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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.
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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.
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Double
Wide
A novel by Leo
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WATCH SPECIAL EDITION
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2019: Hosted by the Center for Immigration Studies
Read Accounts
and View Pictures of Past Tours:
Unrest in the Rio Grande
Valley
Diligence on a Changing
Canadian Border
Constant Activity on the
California Border
Holding Steady in West Texas
A Washington Narrative Meets
Reality
Sunshine, Saguaros, and
Smugglers
Reflections from the Border ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
US Congress
Border wall
impasse awaits senators returning to Washington
House Passes Spending Bill
with Wall Funding as Shutdown Looms
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Opinion
A wall is not
immigration reform
Immigration:
America as an 'attractive nuisance'
Nowrasteh:
US government is not financially or morally equipped to keep migrants detained
for long periods of time
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The "Wall"
Border Security
Is Far More Than A Wall
Here are 5 reasons Trump’s
border wall isn’t just a bad idea — it’s an embarrassing joke of a policy
Marijuana
Legalization Would Eliminate Drug Smuggling Better Than Trump’s Wall
Sheriff: Border
Fence Helped Cut Crime in Yuma by 91 Percent
President
Lopez-Obrador and the wall
Walls Save
Lives. Israel Has Proof
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
GoFundMe
for the "Wall"
Go fund the wall
We The People
Will Fund The Wall
Meet the man
with Arizona ties who has raised $16 million for Trump's border wall
GoFundMe
account looks to buy 'ladders' to scale Trump's border wall
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
DHS
Sec. Nielsen: Border Systems
Pushed to "Breaking Point"
Open Borders’ Advocates Are
Pushing Immigration System to ‘Breaking Point,’ Says DHS
Nielsen to travel to border to review deaths of migrant
children
Department Of
Homeland Security Promises Changes To Protect Migrant Children
DHS chief slams
immigration system in wake of 2nd migrant child death, orders more medical
exams of kids in custody
Why the unique
medical needs of children aren’t met at border detention centers
New policy will
return some immigrants to Mexico during processing
Shunting asylum
seekers to Mexico doesn’t absolve the U.S. of its duty to them
DHS Secretary:
Migrants Must Await Immigration Court Decision in Mexico
Trump meeting
with DHS chief Kirstjen Nielsen on border security amid government shutdown
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
DoS
State
Department Announces New Public-Private Foreign Assistance Partnership for
Southern Mexico and Central America: Will it be effective and taint-free?
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
USCIS
No
Billion-Dollar Immigration Slush Fund? It Already Exists
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
CBP
CBP Releases
Timeline In Guatemalan Boy’s Death ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
ICE
Report: ICE Released Almost
600 Asylum Seekers in El Paso
ICE keeps dropping off
busloads of migrants at Phoenix-area churches
Christmas Gift
From ICE: More Murderers Deported
More migrants
left by ICE in Downtown El Paso on Christmas; 2,000 expected by week's end
ICE drops off
large group of migrants at El Paso bus terminal, police say
Hundreds more
migrants may be released in El Paso on Christmas, officials say ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Tucson
Arizona Man
Finds Girl's Wish List From Across the Border ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
HUD
Trump HUD Keeps Funding Obama
Plan to Revamp Slums, La Raza Group Gets Millions ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Illegal Immigration Policy
Best of 2018: 10 Immigration
Reads to Prepare for 2019
FAIR: Trump Should Veto Any
Spending Bill Without Wall Funding
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
lllegal
Immigration
CBP: 2018 record year for
Bangladeshis at US/Mexico border
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Cocaine/Fentanyl
DEA Warns of Deadly Fentanyl
Laced Cocaine Ahead of New Year's Celebrations
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Marijuana
Marijuana
Legalization Would Eliminate Drug Smuggling Better Than Trump’s Wall
Marijuana
Legalization Means Safer Borders And Less Smuggling, Study Shows
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Drug
Smuggling
At the Border: 18 of the
Biggest Busts of 2018
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Illegal
Immigrants
Illegal immigrant arrested in
the murder of California police officer Ronil Singh had been previously
arrested for DUI
Video: Panama and Costa Rica
Governments Are Doing Smugglers' Job for Them
'We've seen
this coming': Why migrant children are dying in Border Patrol custody
How the Border Wall is Dividing the Country
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California
California Police Officer
Killed by Alleged Illegal Alien Was a Legal Immigrant
Illegal immigrant arrested in
the murder of California police officer Ronil Singh had been previously
arrested for DUI
Surenos street gang tied to
accused California cop killer has history of murder, extortion, trafficking
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Central American Migrants
Local shelter now housing
migrants needs donations
New Migrant Caravan? 15,000
Hondurans Are Expected to Arrive in Mexico in Coming Days, Reports Say
US says 2nd
Guatemalan child dies in immigration custody
Migrant caravans stall on
border with no leaders and little hope
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Pueblo Sin Fronteras
Group that escorts migrant
caravans to U.S. border draws scrutiny
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Refugees/Asylum/Migrant Children
ICE keeps dropping off
busloads of migrants at Phoenix-area churches
Border Patrol Kicked, Punched
Migrant Children, Threatened Some With Sexual Abuse, ACLU Alleges
Cuts In Refugee Admission Defended As Necessary, Decried As
‘Disastrous’
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Merida Initiative
10 Years of the Mérida
Initiative: Violence and Corruption ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Ultralights
'Disturbing' new tactics:
Mexican cartels use ultralight aircraft to smuggle illegals into U.S. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Deports
Recalcitrant
Countries Accepting More Criminal Repatriates
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Judicial
Lawless Judge Strikes Down
Trump's Asylum Policy
Local Media Ignore
Immigration Status of Convicted Killer
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VISA Waiver Program: Malta
Pitfalls of the Visa Waiver
Program
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DACA
A Year After Its Supposed
Demise, DACA Renewals Struggle Along
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Worksite Enforcement
Constant Reports of a Worker
Shortage That Isn't
What Happened to Worksite
Enforcement?: History of failed immigration reform looms over today's debate
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AMLO
President
Lopez-Obrador and the wall
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Yuma County Sheriff Leon Wilmot
Sheriff: Border
Fence Helped Cut Crime in Yuma by 91 Percent ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
El
Chapo
4 Takeaways So Far From the
US Trial Against ‘El Chapo’
Obama’s Mexican Gunrunning Op
Could Help Sinaloa Drug Lord’s Defense
BRILLIANT! Ted
Cruz Calls For $14 Billion Seized From El Chapo To Fund Border Wall
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Cartels
GRAPHIC — Cancun Wraps 2018
with At Least 540 Homicides
Two Mexican Cartel Gunmen
Killed in Rolling Shootout near Texas Border
EXCLUSIVE —
Mexican Cartel Gunmen Shoot Five at Bakery Christmas Party
Baja, Ca: Decapitations and
"Entambados" and "Encobijadas"
Shooting in Acapulco leaves
Five Dead and One Wounded
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Politics
President Issues Border
Closure Threat as Shutdown Continues With No End in Sight
Thanks,
Schumer! Get ready for a newer and bigger Central American migrant caravan
Chuck Schumer
speaks with forked tongue on illegal immigration
Trump threatens
to boycott Democrats' bills over border wall fight
No
Billion-Dollar Immigration Slush Fund? It Already Exists
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GOM
What’s Standing in the Way of
Police Reform in Mexico?
Elite Mexican Cartel-Hunting
Cop Dies in Border State Ambush
Seven Mexican
Customs Agents Busted in Arms Smuggling Investigation
Mexico 2018: New Records of
Homicides will be Set
SESNSP Report 2018: The Bloodiest,
Most Violent Year in Recent History
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Selected Incidents
Gang Members,
Sex Offenders Arrested near Border in Texas and Arizona
Hundreds more
migrants may be released in El Paso on Christmas, officials say
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Insight Crime News
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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.
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.
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