BORDER
NEWS WATCH SPECIAL EDITIONS - 8/2018
8/4/2018 BORDER NEWS
WATCH SPECIAL EDITION
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Fast
and Furious
Suspect In
Border Patrol Agent's 2010 Murder Arraigned In Tucson
Mexican Accused
of Murdering Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry Extradited to Face Justice in U.S.
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Cochise County Sheriff Mark Dannels
Cochise
County sheriff appointed to Homeland Security border security advisory group
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Opinion
Is
Illegal Immigration Moral?
COMMENTARY:
Porous Mexico border has stumped multiple U.S. presidents
Looking
Beyond the Border to Stem Flow of Illegal Immigrants
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US Congress
Sens. Grassley, Tillis, and Cruz
Urge Congress to Amend Flores Agreement
Republicans Vote to Gut Enforcement, Increase Foreign
Workers ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The
"Wall"
Trump
Says Construction of Wall on US Border With Mexico Already Started
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Border Patrol
Border
Patrol Agent Assaulted by Mexican Migrant at Border
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ICE
DHS
Official on What Would Happen If Dems DO Abolish ICE
MS-13
Gang Members, Child Sex Offenders Caught Near U.S.-Mexico Border
6 workers at
Mexican restaurant in Marshfield arrested by ICE, manager says
Portland
Mayor Under Fire After Anti-ICE Mob Threatens Workers
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UACs
Sens.
Grassley, Tillis, and Cruz Urge Congress to Amend
Flores Agreement
Migrant
Salvadoran boy who was held in Kingston reunited with his mother
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Immigration
Georgia
Columnist: Candidates Mislead Voters by Ignoring Economic Costs
Mexico
Can’t Handle Your Tired, Poor, and Huddled Masses
Rising
numbers of Central Americans look for a foothold in Tijuana
Memorial
in Mexico 1st step to atone for border travesty
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Border Crime
Mexico
is Not Sending Its Murderers: Homicide Rates on the Mexican Border
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Illegal Immigration
Busy Month
for Illegal Immigrants Committing Heinous Crimes
Media
Roundup: 'Oversight of Immigration Enforcement and Family Unification Efforts'
Watch
as ICE Official Explains to Dem Senator How Illegal Entry Breaks U.S. Law
Migrant
Deaths Along U.S.-Mexico Border Reach 200
Illegal
Immigration Now Far More Dangerous Than Five Years Ago
Memorial
in Mexico 1st step to atone for border travesty
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Illegal Immigration: Yemen
Jordanian
Man Arrested for Smuggling Illegal Aliens From Yemen Across the U.S.-Mexico
Border
Arab Living
in Mexico Smuggles 6 Yemenis into U.S. Via Southern Border
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Visas
Corporate Employers Seem to Expect to Win 100% of the Time on
H-1B Issues
High-Skill
Immigrants in Low-Skill Jobs
Study: 'Hire
American' Executive Order Increased H-1B Visa Denials
DOJ & DOL to Crack Down on Employers That Discriminate Against
American Workers
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Smuggling
Smugglers
Pack Unaccompanied Minor, MS-13 Member in Tractor-Trailer
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Sanctuaries
9th Circuit
Rules Sanctuary City Funding Limits Unconstitutional
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Judicial
Mexican
National going to prison for smuggling 53 illegal aliens in tractor trailer
Jury
finds Hisaias Lopez not guilty in death of off-duty
Border Patrol Agent Isaac Morales
Massive
court filing says illegal immigrant families suffered from U.S. food, chill,
disease ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Arivaca
Harassment
in Arivaca: Issues With Restraining Orders in Rural
Areas
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Deports
How
can the federal government reunify kids with deported parents? First step: Find
them.
6 workers at
Mexican
restaurant in Marshfield arrested by ICE, manager says
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US Army
Decorated
soldier discharged from Army over immigration status
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Mexican Military
EXCLUSIVE —
Weapons Supply Line from Texas to Mexico City Revealed After Bust ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
DACA
Judge bosses
Trump, rules DACA must continue
New
Report Shows Government Gave DACA Protection to
Thousands of Criminals
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Gangs
Gang
Membership and the Latest Flores Order
Sureños Gang Member Busted
for Alleged Human Smuggling in Arizona
MS-13
Gang Members, Child Sex Offenders Caught Near U.S.-Mexico Border
Three FBI
Fugitive MS-13 Leaders Captured in Tijuana
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Mexican Politics
The
U.S. Should Work with Mexico to Stem Central American Migration
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Cartels
Puerto
Vallarta Jalisco: CDG's El 16 aka Pantera
16 captured, a federal government priority
Los Aztecas leader "El Genio"
executed in prison, 25 retaliation murders in 20 hrs
11 found
murdered in Juarez, likely in revenge for the killing of "El Genio"
EXCLUSIVE —
Weapons Supply Line from Texas to Mexico City Revealed After Bust
Gunmen Kill 5 at Cancun Private
Party
Cartel
Gunmen Ambush Mexican Police near Texas Border — Escape Capture
Mexican
Cartel Stash House Raid Reveals Propaganda Campaign Directed at UN
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Politics
Georgia Columnist:
Candidates Mislead Voters by Ignoring Economic Costs
Pres. Trump
Calls for End to Chain Migration & Visa Lottery
Lib
media worry about crime wave in Mexico 'caused' by America
Portland
Mayor Under Fire After Anti-ICE Mob Threatens Workers
Pence,
DHS chief met by pro-immigrant protesters in New York
Trump:
Government Shutdown of No Concern in Immigration Dispute
President
Trump Again Threatens a Shutdown Over Border Security Issues
Legislators
fight back against San Francisco’s effort to remove citizenship as requirement
for voting
States
Sue to Keep Federal Taxpayer Money Despite Sanctuary Policies
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Selected Incidents
Ports
and Border: Multiple smugglers caught with drugs in body cavities
El Centro
Sector Border Patrol Arrests 28th Sex Offender in 2018
Border
Patrol Rescues 3 Migrants Abandoned by Smugglers in South Texas
Border
Patrol Caught Two Teenage Sisters Smuggling Immigrants in Arizona
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Book
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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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 8/4/2018 BORDER
NEWS WATCH SPECIAL EDITION
8/11/2018 BORDER NEWS
WATCH SPECIAL EDITION
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Fast and Furious
Extradited
suspect pleads not guilty in border agent slaying
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Hillsdale College
Does
Diversity Really Unite Us? Citizenship and Immigration
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Obama and Immigration
President
Obama's Record of Dismantling Immigration Enforcement
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Opinion
2013:
Should illegal immigrants become citizens? Let’s ask the founding fathers
2015: Immigration
and the Values of Our Founding Fathers
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The
"Wall"
Hollywood
Star, Immigrant Antonio Sabato, Jr.: I Support
Trump’s Border Wall
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DHS
Homeland
Security Secretary to Visit North Dakota Amid Drone Smuggling Concerns
DHS Report:
Almost 702,000 Visa Overstays in FY 2017
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Border Patrol
Border
Patrol Agent Attacked By Six Illegal Immigrants — One In Custody
Border
Patrol agent who earned $56 an hour pleads guilty to falsifying time cards
Appeals
court rules that family of slain Mexican teen can sue Border Patrol agent
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ICE
17
people federally indicted in Nebraska ICE operation
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UACs
Unaccompanied
Minors Illegally Crossing Border Down 23 Percent in July
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Refugees
Refugee
Resettlement Is Costly
'Private'
Refugee Resettlement Agencies Mostly Funded by the Government
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Immigration
Immigration
Won't Save Social Security, No Matter How Many Charts Vox
Puts On Its Website
Judge orders
plaintiffs in immigration lawsuit to file motion for fees and costs
Venezuelan
Migration Continues to Grow
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DOJ/DOL
DOJ & DOL to Crack Down on Employers That Discriminate Against
American Workers
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Illegal Immigration
India
nationals illegally crossing the US-Mexico border in record numbers, pay
smugglers up to $25G
Mexican
citizen previously deported with long rap sheet arrested in US for 10th time
Photos:
Google Maps Capture Illegal Immigrants Entering Texas from Mexico
More
Than 700,000 Foreigners Overstayed Visas Last Year
Migration
over Southwest border decreases 7 percent in July
Immigration
Arrests Drop at Mexican Border for Second Straight Month
July Arrests
of Migrant Families at Border Up 173 Percent over 2017
Illegal
Border Crossings Drop for Second Month Following ‘Zero Tolerance’
Scorching
Desert Prompts 911 Calls To Border Patrol For Help
Border
crossers in Tucson face longer prison terms under new policy
More
than 37,000 Cubans face deportation orders
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DACA
Judge Orders
DACA Restart
AG Sessions
Criticizes Federal Judge for Ordering DACA Restart
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OTM Apprehensions
Bangladeshi
Migrant Apprehensions in Laredo Sector Top 500 in 2018
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USCIS
Millions to
Help Immigrants “Foster a Sense of Belonging and Attachment” to U.S.
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Lonnie Schwartz case
Appeals
court: mother of slain Mexican teen can sue U.S. government
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VISAS
An EB-5
Dispute, with Something Old and Something New ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Judicial
Judge Hears
Testimony in Texas-Led DACA Case
Judge
Orders Trump: Help ACLU Give Legal aid to Deported Migrants
Clinton-Appointed
Judge Blocks Deportation of 8 Asylum Seekers – Suggests AG Sessions Could be
Held in Contempt
Media
Roundup: 'Oversight of Immigration Enforcement and Family Unification Efforts'
9th Circuit
Rules Sanctuary City Funding Limits Unconstitutional
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Laredo Texas
Inside The
Texas Border Town That Funnels Half Of All U.S.-Mexico Trade
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Deports
What
happens to deportees back in Mexico? One group is offering a hand
More
than 37,000 Cubans face deportation orders
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DOS: Sonora Travel Advisory
U.S.
Prohibits Employee Travel to Tourist Parts of Mexican Border State
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Mexican Crime
Police
choppers thump over Mexico City as drug crime rises
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Border Terrorism
ISIS
Militant Quietly Released after FBI Intervention Surfaces in Minimum Security
Jail
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Border Crime
Alleged
Mexican Drug Trafficking Gang Busted in Arizona
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Gangs
News
outlets slammed for video humanizing MS-13 members, downplaying threat
Two MS-13
Members Busted in Texas near Border
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AMLO
No
secret service protection, Mexico’s president-elect Obrador
wants an unarmed army
AMLO Changes Course on
Mexican Security After Record Bloodshed
Mexico
President-Elect Condemns U.S. Border Wall, Donald Trump Militarization Threats
Juarez
murders reach nearly 200 a month as Mexico’s next president prepares to face
the violence ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
GOM
Brother of
Top Mexican Border State Prosecutor Busted for Drug Shipment
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Cartels
Graphic —
New Cartel Surfaces in Fight for Mexican Coastal State
26 Murdered
in Day in El Paso-Juárez Metro Area
Mexican
Authorities Find 5 Murder Victims near California Border
Southern
California drug raids net nearly two dozen people, thousands of pounds of
narcotics
U.S.
Airlines Cutting Routes to Mexican Resorts amid Cartel Violence
11
found killed in Mexico border town ahead of president-elect's visit
Top Gulf
Cartel Commander Found Hiding in Mexican Beach Resort Town
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Politics
Trump Admin
Names First Female Border Patrol Chief
Lawmaker
wants to pay for Trump's wall by canceling $2,000 of foreign aid to Mexico for
EVERY illegal immigrant who crosses the border
Does
Trump Have What It Takes to Win on Immigration?
Nancy
Pelosi: Voting for Democrats Gives ‘Leverage’ to Illegal Aliens
President
Trump can solve the immigration crisis with legislation that died in 2013
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Selected Incidents
Yuma
Sector Border Patrol Agents arrest convicted rapist for second time in five
months
Woman,
81, busted smuggling $870G of heroin across US-Mexico border, cops say
‘Unfathomable’:
Police say undocumented immigrant killed Lancaster man
Border
Patrol Arrests Fugitive Eritrean Sex Offender Attempting to Enter Daycare
Smuggler
Uses EMS Vehicle to Sneak Illegal Immigrants Through Texas Checkpoint
11
found killed in Mexico border town ahead of president-elect's visit
Yuma Sector
Busts Child Rapist for Illegal Re-Entry – 2nd Time Since March
New Relief
Effort Records First Saved Migrant Lives in South Texas
Migrant
Death Toll Continues to Rise Under Open Border Policies
Canine
sniffs out illegal migrants
Border
agents seize marijuana in 'Boot Heel' region of southwestern New Mexico-Arizona
border
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Book
Double Wide
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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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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 8/11/2018 BORDER
NEWS WATCH SPECIAL EDITION
8/19/2018 BORDER NEWS
WATCH SPECIAL EDITION
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US
Congress
GOP
bill would let asylum seekers apply in Mexico, in bid to ease immigration court
backlog
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DHS
Exclusive:
Senators ask DHS to crack down on alleged coerced labor in immigrant detention
centers
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Border Patrol
Border
Patrol Agents Rescue Migrant in Rio Grande River
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ICE
Report: ICE
Reopening Deportation Cases Suspended Under Obama
Criminal
Illegal Alien Wanted for Homicide Deported to El Salvador
ICE
arrests 45 illegal immigrants in Houston area
Fury, praise
for collaboration between federal agencies to target immigrants
ICE
agents set ‘trap’ for immigrants seeking legal residency
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UACs
US
government still holds 565 immigrant children
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Refugees
What
Thirteen Months Hiding from Immigration Officials Inside a Durham Religious
Facility Has Taught Jose Chicas
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Immigration
GAO
report determines most visas denied in 2017 not due to executive action
Remember how
Brazil, Ecuador and Peru condemned Arizona over illegal immigration?
Book
Review: ‘Undocumented Lives: The Untold Story of Mexican Migration’ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Arizona
Militias
Hide and seek:Border
vigilantes, and the wall they might be watching
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Illegal Immigration
Harvard/Tufts
Study Makes Unsubstantiated Claims About Immigration and U.S. Health Care Costs
A
new sighting on U.S.-Mexico border
Report:
Rising Number of Indian Nationals Crossing SW Border Illegally
Media
Ignores Crisis Of Indian Illegal Immigrants
20
Bangladeshi Nationals Arrested After Crossing Mexican Border into Texas
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Deports
Does
the First Amendment Provide 'Sanctuary' from Removal for Immigration Law
Violations? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Sanctuaries
Brevard
County, Florida Adopts Anti-Sanctuary Policy
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OTM Smuggling
REPORT:
Smuggling Of Aliens From Terrorism-Prone Nations Across The Southern Border
Should Be Part Of The Immigration Debate
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USCIS
Event: A
Conversation with Francis Cissna
Fury, praise
for collaboration between federal agencies to target immigrants
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Drug Smuggling
California
Border Patrol Agents Log Record-Breaking Fentanyl Seizures
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Judicial
DACA Restart
Expected to Cause Surge, Delay Legal-Immigrant Benefits
Ex-ICE
agent gets 3 years for pay-to-stay immigration scam
Border
inspector, former ICE agent face felony cases in California
Ex-attorney gets 37 months in prison for bribery, fraud
Texas Woman
Gets Prison Time for Biting CBP Officer
Irony: Jeff
Sessions Seemingly Hates Mexicans But Loves Mexican Food
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Guaymas Sonora
Mexican
Security Forces Deploy to More Tourist Beaches
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Human Smuggling
Using data
analytics to target human smugglers
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Mexican Military
Guanajuato:
Fierce clash between SEDENA Mexican Army against CJNG hitmen
Watch: Mexican
Navy Chases Cocaine-Filled Speedboat near Acapulco
Mexican
armed forces deliver new textbooks to rural schools across the country
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Border Terrorism
ISIS
Militant Quietly Released after FBI Intervention Surfaces in Minimum Security
Jail
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Border Crime
670 U.S.
Fugitives Captured in Baja California over Five Years
Nearly
All Criminal Foreigners in U.S. Are from Central, South America
The
number of jailed foreigners—and the cost of incarcerating them—fell before
Trump took office: Study
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
AMLO
Mexico’s new president has a radical plan to end the drug war
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
US/MX
Trump
and Mexico Need Each Other
US,
Mexico announce new strategies on cartels
U.S.
and Mexico to announce joint plan to fight drug cartels
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
GOM
50 Tons of
Methamphetamine Seized in Drug Lab Raid in Mexico
Ex-Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo discusses NAFTA, 'failed'
war on drugs in El Paso
Mexican
Border State Cops Tie Texas Teen to Cartel Carjacking Team
Mexico
Increases Financial Reward for Intel on Dangerous Cartel Boss
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Cartels
Mexican
Marina seize drug lab with 50 tons of the synthetic drug crystal belonging to
El Mayo
4 Killed 9
injured during attacks at 6 Monterrey bars
Reynosa:
Shootout and chase ends with 6 killed
Mexico
Increases Financial Reward for Intel on Dangerous Cartel Boss
GRAPHIC: Top
Cartel Boss Escapes as Bodyguards Fight off Mexican Military
Are
Mexico Crime Groups Fueling Rise in US Overdose Deaths?
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Politics
Candidate
running as 'Trump Democrat' slams president, backs citizenship for illegal
immigrants
Democratic
Senators Demand Deported Immigrant Parents' Return To Children In US
With 539
Immigrant Children Still in Government Custody, California Senators Join
Colleagues Calling on DHS Sec. Nielsen to Take Immediate Steps to Reunify
Families
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Selected Incidents
Two Days,
Two Pursuits, Eight Migrants and Two Smugglers in Custody
Deported
Child Sex Offender Arrested After Re-Entering Arizona
Fleeing
Human Smuggler Attempts to Run Over Border Patrol Agent
Willcox BP agents arrest
three near Whetstone ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Book
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
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8/25/2018 BORDER NEWS
WATCH SPECIAL EDITION
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US Congress
ICE
Union Endorses Senate Resolution Supporting ICE
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Border Patrol
Border Patrol Has a Problem
With Women
Aerial transport aids border security
effort
Border Patrol Agents Rescue 8 Migrants,
Fellow Agent during Heat Wave
Mexican Man Rescued By Border Patrol
Agents, National Guard Aircrew
Border
Patrol Agents Find Deceased Migrant, Rescue Two Others
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
ICE
Report:
ICE Reopening Deportation Cases Suspended Under Obama
Penzone Maintains “Consistent” Position On ICE,
4 Arrested
Bean Station ICE raid: Slaughterhouse
owner fined $41K for unsafe working conditions
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Border Security Technology
Using data analytics to target human
smugglers
Facial recognition technology catches
impostor trying to enter US illegally at airport, officials say
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
VISAS
EB-5
Program Continues to Spew Garbage Behind It
DHS
Rule Rescinding Work Permits for H-1B Spouses Expected Soon
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Refugees
Analyst: Refugees Go on Welfare, Cost
More Than They Contribute
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Immigration
Why We Vet and Inspect Foreign Nationals
Of
Course Immigration Status Is Relevant, But It’s Not A License To Discriminate
Support
for Immigration Reduction at a Forty-Year Peak in Canada
NPR's
lazy, creeping supply-and-demand denialism
Harvard/Tufts
Study Makes Unsubstantiated Claims About Immigration and U.S. Health Care Costs
When The U.S. Government Tried To Replace Migrant Farmworkers With High Schoolers
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
E-Verify
E-Verify
Still the Most Effective Way to Deter Illegal Immigration
Eligibility Check Failed Mollie Tibbetts
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Illegal Immigration
EXCLUSIVE
— Graphic Photos Show Brutal Consequences of Open Border on Rural Texas County
Mexican smuggler who's helped tens of thousands of
immigrants cross the border into the US illegally for up to $5,000 per person
reveals his secrets
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
DACA
DACA Restart Expected to Cause Surge, Delay Legal-Immigrant
Benefits
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Animal Smuggling
Endangered at
the Border
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Judicial
Feds charge 19 noncitizens with
illegally voting in 2016
Man shot fleeing through Nogales port
sentenced to 27 months for striking CBP officers
ACLU, Illegal Alien Dismiss Class Action
Lawsuit Against Coconino County Sheriff
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
DOS
Travel advisory issued for Mexico due to
violent crime
U.S.
Renews Mexico Travel Advisory After Bodies Are Dumped in Cancun Streets
U.S.
issues advisory after 8 murders in Cancun area
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Mexican Military
Mexican
Marina seize 725 Keys of Coke off the coast of Acapulco, Guerrero
Mexican
Navy scores another hit in Sinaloa, 10 tons of synthetic drug ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________=_________
Canada
Support
for Immigration Reduction at a Forty-Year Peak in Canada
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Mollie Tibbetts
EDITORIAL: Ignore Trump and listen to a
grieving aunt: ‘Evil comes in every color’
Why do we keep calling illegal
immigrants 'undocumented' in Mollie Tibbetts murder
and other crimes?
Mollie Tibbetts
Murder: Does Illegal Immigration Really Boost Crime?
Two Young Women Murdered; Two Illegals Suspected
Mollie Tibbetts,
R.I.P.
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Lonnie Schwartz
BP Agent shooting trial: Lawyers urge a
move to Phoenix
Both sides in border agent's retrial
seek wider questioning of prospective jurors ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
California
California Demands Trump, Congress
Apologize to Illegal Aliens
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
AMLO
AMLO has plans to make his country safer – but could they
make things worse?
Mexico's president-elect thanks Trump
for holding off on the insults lately
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
GOM
Mexico's
new security secretary favors marijuana legalization
Guerrero
Congress approves decriminalization of poppy cultivation
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Cartels
They
were burned at the hands of CJNG, now the mother of
baby "Tadeo" is dead from her wounds
Mexican
Soccer Player Killed in Cartel Attack near Texas Border
'El Mencho'
dethrones 'El Chapo' as the most wanted drug lord
Gunmen
Attempt Rescue of Gulf Cartel Lieutenant from Mexican Border City Court
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Politics
Here's the terrible secret about why
Democrats did a complete 180 on illegal immigration and border security
Of
Course Immigration Status Is Relevant, But It’s Not A License To Discriminate
Texas Democratic Candidates Push To Decriminalize
Illegally Crossing The Border
ICE
Union Endorses Senate Resolution Supporting ICE
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Selected Incidents
Woman breaks multiple bones jumping from border fence
National Guard Helps Border Patrol Rescue Unconscious
Migrant in Desert
Drug Tunnel to Mexico Found in a KFC Kitchen
One Ton of Fentanyl, Meth Seized in Mexican Beach Town
Cuban National, U.S. Citizen Nabbed For Smuggling
Tombstone High Locked Down After Illegal Aliens Bail From
Smuggler’s Vehicle
Details Emerge On Tombstone High School
Lock Down, Illegal Aliens Arrests
Yuma Border Patrol Agents Seize
Narcotics Worth Over $145K
Port of San Luis Agents Arrest
24-Year-Old Woman With Meth
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Santa Cruz County
It's ‘full-on mosquito season’ in Santa
Cruz County
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Nogales
IOI
Repairs to damaged wash bank begin
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Book
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.
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.
===============================================================================================================================================================================
The Current "Wall" Images
========================================================================================================================================================
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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
8/25/2018 BORDER NEWS WATCH SPECIAL EDITION