BORDER
NEWS WATCH SPECIAL EDITIONS - 8/2019
8/17/2019 BORDER NEWS
WATCH SPECIAL EDITION
Opinion
Sheriff
Lewis: Trump's border wall essential to stop illegal drugs, keep Americans safe
Why Mexico’s
Development Plan Will Not Reduce Migration from Central America
Senators:
Abolishing ICE would worsen child smuggling and other US-Mexico border problems
Here's why
Gov. Wolf should send the PA National Guard to the Mexico border: Rep. Grove
Matt
O'Brien: No, Trump's new Green Card rules are not un-American, anti-immigrant
or unlawful
Can an Illegal
Foreign Worker Payroll Scheme Be Less Harmful than a Legal One?
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Opinion Polls
Poll: Swing
Voters Hugely Oppose 2020 Democrats Promising More Immigration
Almost
three-quarters of Americans want undocumented immigrants to be able to legally
stay in the US
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US
Congress
Asylum
‘Rocket Dockets’ Confront Some Speed Bumps
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Border Patrol
28 Migrants,
Including Infant, Rescued After Abandoned in Border River by Smuggler
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ICE
Investigators
believe five poultry companies violated immigration law, search warrants say
Largest US
Immigration Operation in a Decade Nets 680 Arrests
Mandatory
E-Verify AND Prosecution of Criminal Employers Key to Ending Illegal
Immigration
How To
Understand Trump's Immigration Raids
Americans
Apply for Jobs at Koch Foods After ICE Raid
Illegal
Aliens Are Caught — Then Released Into U.S. Interior
Americans
Clueless About Border Invasion, Illegals Dumped Into the Heartland
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Border Security Technology
Immigration
Enforcement Expanding Its Use of Mass Surveillance
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USCIS: Public Charge
Does the
Public Charge Rule Deny Citizenship?
Public
Charge 101
Trump Admin.
Updates 'Public Charge' Rule to Better Protect U.S. Taxpayers
13 States
File Lawsuit Over Trump 'Public Charge' Rule
Matt
O'Brien: No, Trump's new Green Card rules are not un-American, anti-immigrant
or unlawful
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Border Perspective
Update on
President Trump's 'Remain in Mexico' Policy: While some go home, others crash
the border and run
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Human Smuggling Perspective
Coyotes earn
a living smuggling migrants to the U.S. Not right now, one says
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Illegal Immigration Perspective
Border
Arrests Continue to Drop in July
Update on
President Trump's 'Remain in Mexico' Policy: While some go home, others crash
the border and run
The Most
Prosecuted Federal Offense in America: A Primer on the Criminalization of
Border Crossing
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Immigration: US Policy Changes
Trump
administration credits Mexico with decline in apprehensions at the border
Update on
President Trump's 'Remain in Mexico' Policy: While some go home, others crash
the border and run
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Illegal
Immigration: Releases into US
Trump-Mexico
Deal Cuts Release of Illegal Aliens into U.S. by 70 Percent
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Illegal
Immigration: Deports
Mexico
Deports Record Number of Central Americans
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Asylum
Why Mexico’s
Development Plan Will Not Reduce Migration from Central America
Asylum
claims spike among Mexicans fleeing drug war
Somalis
Welcomed as Refugees by Obama Charged with Terrorism in Arizona
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Asylum Perspective
Asylum
‘Rocket Dockets’ Confront Some Speed Bumps
Asylum-Seeking
Migrants Pushed Farther South into Mexico, Left to Fend for Themselves
More than
900 Children – 170 Under the Age of 5 -- Separated from Their Families at the
Border
Across the
border from El Paso, tens of thousands trapped in fear hoping to win US asylum
Facility
housing up to 430 undocumented immigrant children eyed for Inland Empire
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Gun Smuggling
How A
Texas-Based Smuggler Sent ‘Weapons Of War’ To A Mexican Drug Cartel
Illegal
border crossing: How U.S. guns wind up in Canada and Mexico
Mexico says
guns from the US kill tens of thousands of Mexicans a year
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Protests
Google
employees protest against border agency contract
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Terrorism
Mexico
detains US 'Islamist' at migrant center ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Judicial
ACLU Sues
Over Trump Expansion of Fast-Track Deportation Process
Federal
court issues split decision on latest asylum restrictions, allowing them to
continue in Texas and New Mexico
California
sues Trump over ‘public charge’ rule denying green cards to immigrants
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GOM
Mexican
Border State Governor Draws Line in Sand After Los Zetas Invasion
City Police
Force in Mexican Border State Arrested for Protecting Drug Cartels
Mexican
Officials Downplay Los Zetas Chasing Border State Cops Out of Cartel’s
Territory
For Mexico,
Drugs And Crime Erasing Free Trade Gains
Mexico
Deports Record Number of Central Americans
Mexico
detains US 'Islamist' at migrant center
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Cartels
Video:
Gunfire Erupts As Los Zetas Cartel Seeks New Turf near Texas Border
Sinaloa
Cartel Operative Captured near Arizona Border
EXCLUSIVE:
Two Mexican Ex-Soldiers Accused of 13 Border State Cartel Murders
Borderland Beat
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Politics
Trump Admin.
Aims To Shift Money To ICE Amid Border Crisis
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Selected Incidents
Border pimp
busted for smuggling women and girls from Mexico for sex: prosecutors
Border
Patrol Stops Human Smuggling Attempts in IB, National City and Mission Bay
Five U.S.
Citizen Human Smugglers Arrested near Arizona Border
Mesa man
accused of smuggling 1,600 pounds of marijuana at border
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American Educational
Disadvantage
Opportunity
Cost: Pricing Americans Out of the Market for Educational Opportunity
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ICE
Most Wanted List
CBP Website
ICE Website
FOX News on Immigration
Borderland Beat
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Insight Crime News
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Archive
How Can Congress Address the Current Border
Crisis?
20 Times Breitbart Reported on Migrant Deaths During
Obama-Biden Years and No One Cared
The United States Loses $150 Billion Annually
in Remittances
Eliminating Per-Country Caps Would Be a
Disaster
The Other Border Crisis
Release of Illegal Aliens into U.S. Drops 65 Percent Since
Trump-Mexico Deal
Report: Fewer Illegals Will Cross the Border in June. But
the Invasion Will Continue
100K Illegals Got Away From Border Agents
Illegal immigrants learn a trick to sneak in: Dress like
drug smugglers Mexico Sends Almost 15,000 Troops to US-Mexico Border to
Curb Illegal Immigration
Mexico says it has deployed 15,000 forces in the north to
halt U.S.-bound migration
Acting DHS Chief Says All Illegal Border Crossers Being
Released
Agents confront challenging border dynamics
Tucson Border Patrol Agents Confront Challenging Border
Dynamics
Lessons From The Border’s Volatile History.
Trump admin program sends asylum-seekers to await claims in
Mexico, despite fears of violence: report
Migrants rush to enter Mexico ahead of security crackdown
demanded by Trump
Deal Or Not, Mexico Can’t Stop The Border Crisis On Its Own
At Mexico’s southern border, migrants feel the
pinch of a crackdown spurred by U.S.Recent Agreement With Mexico Will Alleviate Border Crisis,
but Further Reforms Needed for Long-Term Solution
Trump’s hardball tactics could implode Mexico’s
immigration systemDemocrats Continue To Undermine Efforts To End
Border Crisis
Is Mexico doing more than Congress to help with the crisis
at the border?
House Republicans: DHS Failed to Implement Available
Border Fixes
How
Can Congress Address the Current Border Crisis ?
Deal Or Not, Mexico Can’t Stop The Border Crisis On Its Own
As Illegal Immigration Skyrockets, The Border Crisis Spins
Out Of Control
What’s behind the spike in immigrants at the
border
Illegal Aliens Are Caught — Then Released Into U.S. Interior
5 facts about illegal immigration in the U.S. A Growing Border Crisis: A report from Arizona
What's It Gonna Be...A Welfare State or Open
Borders?
Americans Clueless About Border Invasion, Illegals
Dumped Into the Heartland
What a real border crisis looks like, in a
chart
Understanding
Trump's Mexico Tariffs: A Reader's Digest Of 9 Important Points On The Border
Crisis
Explainer:
How does the situation on the U.S.-Mexico border compare with the past?
How
the U.S. and Mexico could find common ground on immigration
Why
Trump’s math on immigration is all wrong, in 7 charts
Remittances
Key to Central American Economies: Incentivizing the departure of their
nationals?
In
the Era of Split-Screen Views of the Border, Each Side Has Its Story, and the
Political Implications Are Enormous The Conservative
Hispanic army that’s fighting hard for President Trump
Ninth
Circuit Hands Trump a Win on 'Return to Mexico: The court still misses a major
point
Appeals
Court Rules Trump Administration Can Keep Sending Asylum-Seekers To Mexico
Appeals
court: Trump can make asylum seekers wait in Mexico
Illegal
Aliens Are Caught — Then Released Into U.S. Interior
Border
Patrol chief warns of more releases of migrant families into communities
Rising cost
of migrant health care is straining charities, Border Patrol
YOUR
questions answered by Center for Immigration Studies
Why US Aid
Cuts to Central America Will Help Organized Crime
A
Growing Border Crisis:A report from Arizona
US
Corruption List Highlights Northern Triangle Presidents’ Criminal Ties
Talking
Points Suggest E-Verify Is Part of the President’s New Immigration Plan: The
key that shuts off the jobs magnet
What’s
to Fear About Social Security’s No-Match Letters?
How Can
Congress Address the Current Border Crisis?
Radio
ads offer to 'help out' migrants trying to enter US, Border Patrol official
says
Why
Immigrants Who Overstay U.S. Visas Are So Difficult To Track
2019 Border
Tour Videos
Transnational
Organized Crime and National Security
Government
Releasing Sick Illegals in American Communities
Illegal-alien
Invasion Crisis Not Just at the Border
A Bipartisan
Panel Reports Alarming Findings on the Border Crisis
Expand
Expedited Removal, Mr. President
Can
the President Shut Down the Border?
Buttressing
The Border – On Both Sides
History
of U.S. Immigration
The History of
the Flores Settlement: How a 1997 agreement cracked open our detention
laws
Cannabis Effects
Marijuana,
Mental Illness, and Violence ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
New Books
Our 50-State Border Crisis by Howard G.
Buffett
also see:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/our-50-state-border-crisis-howard-buffett/1127331052
https://www.amazon.com/Our-50-State-Border-Crisis-Epidemic-ebook/dp/B074M6FT8F
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/howard-g-buffett/our-50-state-border-crisis/Books
Double Wide
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The following was excerpted from: Breitbart News See: https://www.breitbart.com/border/2019/01/08/29-facts-about-the-border-and-mexican-cartels-you-need-to-know/
1) No one is proposing a wall between all of Mexico and the U.S.—the U.S. southern border is approximately 2,000 miles. The discussion is about 1,000 miles of physical barriers in regions that are heavily controlled by drug cartels.
2) The Texas border is about 1,200 miles of the approximately 2,000 miles of the total southern border. Most of that border is the Rio Grande, a river which varies in intensity with respect to currents.
3) Mexico has numerous states under the direct influence of drug cartels that have standing armies with access to RPGs, armored vehicles, artillery, and explosives. Most of Mexico has military forces patrolling streets to deal with cartel paramilitary forces.
4) The most violent drug cartels operate south of the Texas border. Factions of Los Zetas and the Gulf Cartel routinely allow their violence to spill over to the average person.
5) The border city of Tijuana has some of the highest murder statistics in all of Mexico. Despite record-setting figures, most of the victims tend to be tied to drug trafficking.
6) Border cities south of Texas like Reynosa, Tamaulipas, have much lower murder rates than Tijuana. Despite the difference, average citizens are often touched by cartels including shootouts, kidnappings, and other violent activities.
7) Most of the efforts by drug cartels to control migration happens South of the Texas border. Criminal organizations like the Reynosa faction of the Gulf Cartel profit more from human smuggling than drug trafficking.
8) The majority of tunnels are found on the Arizona and California borders. The tunnels are generally discovered in areas where there are population centers on both sides of the border and a wall or fence is already in place. Few have been found in Texas, where there is a river.
9) Most tunnels are discovered thanks to informants; law enforcement technology has rarely been successful in locating border tunnels.
10) Most of the border does not have a drug tunnel problem. They are typically found in Douglas and Nogales, Arizona, as well as Mexicali, San Diego/San Isidro, California.
11)
Cartels spend a lot of money building a tunnel–only to be discovered shortly
after.
12) Claims by Democrats about the low crime rates in
El Paso are an example of walls working. In areas with considerable border
barriers such as El Paso, the regional criminal groups turn more professional
and shy away from illegal immigration to traffic harder drugs through ports of
entry.
14) A partially secured border is more deadly than an open or well-secured one. Previous administrations put barriers south of most cities in Arizona and California to funnel illicit traffic into areas that were easier to manage or too desolate to cross. This led to a spike in deaths since the desire of people to reach the U.S. pushes them to more remote and dangerous areas
15) Human smuggling and illegal immigration will continue to be a problem until economic opportunities improve in Mexico and in Central America.
16) Mexican transnational criminal groups and their leaders have grown beyond the size and power of the American mafia from Prohibition Era and Al Capone. Cartels are integrated into the Mexican political culture and bureaucracy. Legalization would not stop them.
17) The decriminalization of marijuana and the production of higher quality plants in the U.S. versus Mexico had a series of unspoken consequences. After marijuana from Mexico was not able to compete with U.S.-grown plants, some cartels shifted their model more toward human smuggling–becoming a factor in the 2014 migrant crisis and the current one at the U.S. border.
18) After marijuana decriminalization in the U.S., cartels shifted to increase their cultivation of poppies and the production of black tar heroin. In order to compete with the Asian product, cartels use fentanyl–playing a role in the current opioid overdose epidemic.
19) The U.S. State Department influences how hard authorities crack down on cartels. U.S. agencies have been told to “measure their law enforcement priorities with the State Department’s diplomatic concerns.”
20) A cartel’s power in Mexico comes not from kingpins, but from politicians, financiers, lawyers, and money launderers. U.S. authorities and diplomats routinely focus on kingpins such as “El Chapo” and his lieutenants, but never go after the rest of the circle.
21) The state of Tamaulipas, directly south of Texas, has two former governors currently indicted for their alleged roles in helping cartels. One remains in Mexico, while the other is in U.S. custody awaiting trial.
22) U.S. diplomats are negotiating and playing along with the same Mexican politicians that protect cartels, in the interest of trade and diplomacy.
23) Certain factions of drug cartels have crossed the line into terrorism and should classified as such. The designation would change the way the U.S. alienates them from banks, financial resources, and politicians. Other cartels would be forced to tone down their actions or risk similar consequences.
24) Worries of Middle Eastern terrorists crossing the southwestern border are at times mitigated by cartel members who are informants for U.S. agencies that enjoy handsome incentives to turn people in.
25) The more likely scenario for terrorism deals with people flying into Canada and then entering the U.S. with visas. Most people on the terror watch list who try to enter the U.S. across the southern border are Somalis or Kurds.
26) Certain organizations like Los Zetas and the Gulf Cartel present more of an imminent threat than foreign terrorists entering through the southern border.
27) Mexico’s ongoing cartel violence and drug war has led to more murders and disappearances than some international wars. Mexico has suffered more than 250,000 homicides and at least 30,000 disappearances since 2009.
28) Up to 70 percent of the women and girls from Central America who come through Mexico to the U.S. are sexually assaulted en route. Most women who leave Central America for the U.S. have the expectation of facing multiple abuses at the hands of cartel-connected human smugglers.
29) The State Department keeps U.S. law enforcement from being more aggressive against cartels. The State Department has everything to do with how law enforcement and intelligence agencies operate in Mexico–and any effort to secure the border without addressing the Department’s timidity in Mexico will likely fail or be less successful than it otherwise could be.
Ildefonso Ortiz is an award-winning journalist
with Breitbart Texas. He co-founded the Cartel Chronicles project with Brandon
Darby and Stephen K. Bannon. You can follow him on Twitter and on Facebook. He can be contacted at Iortiz@breitbart.com.
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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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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:
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Vaughan, he identified five actions that Congress can take to end the surge
of illegal border crossings.
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An applicant for asylum has the burden to demonstrate that he or she is eligible for that protection. To satisfy that burden, the applicant must prove that he or she is a refugee. A “refugee” is a person outside of his or her country of nationality or habitual residence who is “unable or unwilling” to return to that country “because of persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion.”
The Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) allows immigration officers — rather than judges — to order the deportation of arriving aliens who are inadmissible because of fraud or misrepresentation, because they have no documentation (like a passport or a visa) that would allow them to be admitted, or because they entered illegally and are apprehended within 100 miles of the border and 14 days of entry.
If an alien in expedited removal asserts a fear of persecution, the arresting officer will refer the alien to an asylum officer for a “credible fear interview”. If the asylum officer determines that the alien has a credible fear, the alien is placed in removal proceedings before an immigration judge, where the alien can file his or her application for asylum. Under the INA, the term “‘credible fear of persecution’ means that there is a significant possibility, taking into account the credibility of the statements made by the alien in support of the alien’s claim and such other facts as are known to the officer, that the alien could establish eligibility for asylum under section 208.” This is a very low standard, and credible fear is found in 75 to 90 percent of all cases in which an alien claims credible fear.
“Bond” is the term used in immigration for the release of an alien pending removal proceedings or removal. Aliens can be released on their own recognizance, or on a minimum bond of $1,500. Bond can be granted by either an immigration judge or U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
“Parole” is the term used in immigration for the release of an arriving alien. It can only be granted by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Again, DHS can release an alien on parole on his or her own recognizance, or for a sum of money as bond.
An alien under the age of 18 who enters the United States or is apprehended by DHS who does not have a parent or guardian in the United States. Under section 462 of the Homeland Security Act (2002), UACs must be turned over to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), not DHS, for detention.
Modified the rules governing the detention of unaccompanied alien children (UACs). Under the TVPRA, UACs must be turned over to HHS within 48 hours of detention by DHS, or identification as a UAC, and “promptly placed in the least restrictive setting that is in the best interest of the child,” generally meaning release to a family member or friend.
An agreement between the then-Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) and a class of alien minors in 1997, which is currently overseen by Judge Dolly Gee of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. In 2016, it was read to create a presumption in favor of the release of all alien minors, even those alien minors who arrive with their parents.
Agency of the Department of Justice (DOJ) with jurisdiction over the immigration courts and the Board of immigration appeals (BIA).
Courts with primary jurisdiction over removal proceedings. Immigration judges in these courts determine removability, set bond where they have jurisdiction, and can adjudicate applications for relief from removal, including asylum.
Cases that have been pending before the immigration courts for more than one year. The backlog more than doubled from FYs 2006 through 2015, primarily due to declining numbers of cases completed per year. There were 437,000 pending cases at the start of FY 2015, when the median pending time was 404 days.
Appellate tribunal with jurisdiction over appeals from immigration courts. Most aliens have a right to appeal immigration court decisions to the BIA.
Topics:
Immigration Courts, Asylum
Fact Sheet
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Southwest Border Tour, Spring
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
End of 8/17/2019 BORDER
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8/25/2019 BORDER NEWS
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Opinion
Public
information campaigns work alongside walls, guns, and prisons to enforce the
US-Mexico border.
Mandatory
E-Verify AND Prosecution of Criminal Employers Key to Ending Illegal
Immigration
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Opinion Polls
Poll: Swing
Voters Hugely Oppose 2020 Democrats Promising More Immigration
Almost
three-quarters of Americans want undocumented immigrants to be able to legally
stay in the US
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US
Congress
What I saw
during my trip to the border
McSally,
Sinema, Grijalva, Schweikert, Kirkpatrick, O’Halleran Urge Trump To Nix
Inspection Facility Plans
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DHS
Encampment of International Migrants in Mexico Reminds that
Homeland Security Must Vet as Ever More Arrive
'He's not an
Obama guy': Jeh Johnson defends embattled acting DHS Secretary Kevin McAleenan
Top
Spokesperson Was Fired After Trump Outrage Over Poor ICE Raids Media Coverage –
and After More Fury Another Just Quit
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Border Patrol
Previously
Deported Sex Offender Arrested By Border Patrol In Eastern Arizona
CBP seizes
over 820 pounds of marijuana from 11 illegal aliens near Arivaca
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ICE
Trump Admin.
to Expand Detention Times Through New Regulation
Trump Admin.
Aims To Shift Money To ICE Amid Border Crisis
Illegal
Aliens Are Caught — Then Released Into U.S. Interior
Americans
Clueless About Border Invasion, Illegals Dumped Into the Heartland
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Ignoring
ICE Detainers: Alien Arrests Followed by Release
Sheriff
Keeps Campaign Promise to Protect Illegal Immigrants, Releases Violent
Offenders
Illegal
Aliens Released from Local Custody Commit More Crimes—Honduran Freed 10 Times
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The 'Wall'
Construction
begins on border wall funded by $2.8 billion allowed by SCOTUS decision last
month
Construction
on Arizona replacement border barrier begins
Trump administration
begins to replace existing border barriers in Arizona using military funds
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USCIS: Public Charge
USCIS
Toughens Path to Work Permits for People 'Paroled' into U.S.
Does the
Public Charge Rule Deny Citizenship?
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Border Perspective
Congress,
Judges, the Media, and Everyone Else Needs to Read this Bipartisan Report
Before Opining on the Border
Trump admin
to consider allowing local governments to veto refugee resettlement
Update on
President Trump's 'Remain in Mexico' Policy: While some go home, others crash
the border and run
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Flores Settlement Agreement
Finally, a
Final Rule to Fix the Flores Loophole: But there are hurdles ahead
Why Trump
wants to detain immigrant children longer
FAIR
Applauds Trump Administration on Closing Flores Loophole
Flores
Settlement Agreement
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Human Smuggling
Yuma Border
Patrol Agents Thwart Human Smuggling Attempts, 16 Arrested
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Drug Smuggling
A $25B US
counter-drug smuggling operation quietly thrives far south of the border
Agent:
Arizona's spike in seized fentanyl pills 'alarming'
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Illegal Immigration Perspective
On the
border, officials see dividends from Trump’s deal with Mexico ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Immigration:
US Policy Changes
Encampment
of International Migrants in Mexico Reminds that Homeland Security Must Vet as
Ever More Arrive
Trump admin
to consider allowing local governments to veto refugee resettlement
On the
border, officials see dividends from Trump’s deal with Mexico
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Counter Drug Smuggling
Ops
A $25B US
counter-drug smuggling operation quietly thrives far south of the border
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Illegal
Immigration: Alien Arrests
Justice Dept
stunner: 200% jump in non-citizen arrests
Justice: 64%
of Federal Arrests are Non-citizens, a 200% Increase from 1998
DOJ: Feds
Arrested More Mexican Nationals than Americans in 2018
Previously
Deported Sex Offender Arrested By Border Patrol In Eastern Arizona
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Asylum
How more and
more Indians are illegally entering the US to seek asylum
Trump admin
to consider allowing local governments to veto refugee resettlement
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Asylum Perspective
New
temporary migrant holding facility opens this week at the border to relieve
overcrowding amid 'immigration crisis'
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Sanctuary:
Tucson
Gov.
Ducey: Tucson voters should reject 'sanctuary city' ballot proposal
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Panama Conference
US-Central
America talks focus on drug, migrant trafficking ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Judicial
ACLU Sues
Over Trump Expansion of Fast-Track Deportation Process
Federal
court issues split decision on latest asylum restrictions, allowing them to
continue in Texas and New Mexico
California
sues Trump over ‘public charge’ rule denying green cards to immigrants
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Mexican
Journalist Murder
11th Mexican
Journalist Murdered In 2019
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GOM
Mexican
bishop says criminal groups ‘seeking an exit,’ urges dialogue ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Cartels
Cartel
‘soldiers’ divvy up migrant smuggling trade in El Paso region
Mexican
Border State Offers Cash for New Gulf Cartel Leader
Borderland Beat
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Politics
Trump
Administration Immigration Accomplishments
NumbersUSA
Supports Trump Admin. Efforts to Close Immigration Loopholes
'He's not an
Obama guy': Jeh Johnson defends embattled acting DHS Secretary Kevin McAleenan
Top
Spokesperson Was Fired After Trump Outrage Over Poor ICE Raids Media Coverage –
and After More Fury Another Just Quit
Rich part of
Washington, D.C. goes tooth-and-claw to prevent new child-migrant shelter in
its neighborhood _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Selected Incidents
CBP seizes
over 820 pounds of marijuana from 11 illegal aliens near Arivaca
Man with
Oregon arrest warrant caught smuggling 820 pounds of marijuana, CBP says
Border
Patrol nabs nearly 200 Central American migrants near New Mexico port of entry
Yuma Border
Patrol Agents Thwart Human Smuggling Attempts, 16 Arrested
Previously
Deported Sex Offender Arrested By Border Patrol In Eastern Arizona
GRAPHIC:
Remains of Two Dead Migrants Found on Texas Ranches near Border
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ICE
Most Wanted List
CBP Website
ICE Website
FOX News on Immigration
Borderland Beat
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Insight Crime News
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Archive
How Can Congress Address the Current Border
Crisis?
20 Times Breitbart Reported on Migrant Deaths During
Obama-Biden Years and No One Cared
The United States Loses $150 Billion Annually
in Remittances
Eliminating Per-Country Caps Would Be a
Disaster
The Other Border Crisis
Release of Illegal Aliens into U.S. Drops 65 Percent Since
Trump-Mexico Deal
Report: Fewer Illegals Will Cross the Border in June. But
the Invasion Will Continue
100K Illegals Got Away From Border Agents
Illegal immigrants learn a trick to sneak in: Dress like
drug smugglers Mexico Sends Almost 15,000 Troops to US-Mexico Border to
Curb Illegal Immigration
Mexico says it has deployed 15,000 forces in the north to
halt U.S.-bound migration
Acting DHS Chief Says All Illegal Border Crossers Being
Released
Agents confront challenging border dynamics
Tucson Border Patrol Agents Confront Challenging Border
Dynamics
Lessons From The Border’s Volatile History.
Trump admin program sends asylum-seekers to await claims in
Mexico, despite fears of violence: report
Migrants rush to enter Mexico ahead of security crackdown
demanded by Trump
Deal Or Not, Mexico Can’t Stop The Border Crisis On Its Own
At Mexico’s southern border, migrants feel the
pinch of a crackdown spurred by U.S.
House Republicans: DHS Failed to Implement
Available Border Fixes
How
Can Congress Address the Current Border Crisis ?
Deal Or Not, Mexico Can’t Stop The Border Crisis On Its Own
As Illegal Immigration Skyrockets, The Border Crisis Spins
Out Of Control
What’s behind the spike in immigrants at the
border
Illegal Aliens Are Caught — Then Released Into U.S. Interior
5 facts about illegal immigration in the U.S. A Growing Border Crisis: A report from Arizona
What's It Gonna Be...A Welfare State or Open
Borders?
Americans Clueless About Border Invasion,
Illegals Dumped Into the Heartland
What a real border crisis looks like, in a chart
Understanding
Trump's Mexico Tariffs: A Reader's Digest Of 9 Important Points On The Border
Crisis
Explainer:
How does the situation on the U.S.-Mexico border compare with the past?
Remittances
Key to Central American Economies: Incentivizing the departure of their
nationals?
In
the Era of Split-Screen Views of the Border, Each Side Has Its Story, and the
Political Implications Are Enormous
The
Conservative Hispanic army that’s fighting hard for President Trump
Ninth
Circuit Hands Trump a Win on 'Return to Mexico: The court still misses a major
point
Appeals
Court Rules Trump Administration Can Keep Sending Asylum-Seekers To Mexico
Appeals
court: Trump can make asylum seekers wait in Mexico
Illegal
Aliens Are Caught — Then Released Into U.S. Interior
Border
Patrol chief warns of more releases of migrant families into communities
Rising cost
of migrant health care is straining charities, Border Patrol
YOUR
questions answered by Center for Immigration Studies
Why US Aid
Cuts to Central America Will Help Organized Crime
A
Growing Border Crisis:A report from Arizona
US
Corruption List Highlights Northern Triangle Presidents’ Criminal Ties
Talking
Points Suggest E-Verify Is Part of the President’s New Immigration Plan: The
key that shuts off the jobs magnet
What’s
to Fear About Social Security’s No-Match Letters?
How Can
Congress Address the Current Border Crisis?
Radio
ads offer to 'help out' migrants trying to enter US, Border Patrol official
says
Why
Immigrants Who Overstay U.S. Visas Are So Difficult To Track
2019 Border
Tour Videos
Transnational
Organized Crime and National Security
Government
Releasing Sick Illegals in American Communities
Illegal-alien
Invasion Crisis Not Just at the Border
A Bipartisan
Panel Reports Alarming Findings on the Border Crisis
Expand
Expedited Removal, Mr. President
Can
the President Shut Down the Border?
Buttressing
The Border – On Both Sides
History
of U.S. Immigration
The History of
the Flores Settlement: How a 1997 agreement cracked open our detention
laws
Cannabis Effects
Marijuana,
Mental Illness, and Violence ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
New Books
Our 50-State Border Crisis by Howard G.
Buffett
also see:
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https://www.amazon.com/Our-50-State-Border-Crisis-Epidemic-ebook/dp/B074M6FT8F
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The following was excerpted from: Breitbart News See: https://www.breitbart.com/border/2019/01/08/29-facts-about-the-border-and-mexican-cartels-you-need-to-know/
1) No one is proposing a wall between all of Mexico and the U.S.—the U.S. southern border is approximately 2,000 miles. The discussion is about 1,000 miles of physical barriers in regions that are heavily controlled by drug cartels.
2) The Texas border is about 1,200 miles of the approximately 2,000 miles of the total southern border. Most of that border is the Rio Grande, a river which varies in intensity with respect to currents.
3) Mexico has numerous states under the direct influence of drug cartels that have standing armies with access to RPGs, armored vehicles, artillery, and explosives. Most of Mexico has military forces patrolling streets to deal with cartel paramilitary forces.
4) The most violent drug cartels operate south of the Texas border. Factions of Los Zetas and the Gulf Cartel routinely allow their violence to spill over to the average person.
5) The border city of Tijuana has some of the highest murder statistics in all of Mexico. Despite record-setting figures, most of the victims tend to be tied to drug trafficking.
6) Border cities south of Texas like Reynosa, Tamaulipas, have much lower murder rates than Tijuana. Despite the difference, average citizens are often touched by cartels including shootouts, kidnappings, and other violent activities.
7) Most of the efforts by drug cartels to control migration happens South of the Texas border. Criminal organizations like the Reynosa faction of the Gulf Cartel profit more from human smuggling than drug trafficking.
8) The majority of tunnels are found on the Arizona and California borders. The tunnels are generally discovered in areas where there are population centers on both sides of the border and a wall or fence is already in place. Few have been found in Texas, where there is a river.
9) Most tunnels are discovered thanks to informants; law enforcement technology has rarely been successful in locating border tunnels.
10) Most of the border does not have a drug tunnel problem. They are typically found in Douglas and Nogales, Arizona, as well as Mexicali, San Diego/San Isidro, California.
11)
Cartels spend a lot of money building a tunnel–only to be discovered shortly
after.
12) Claims by Democrats about the low crime rates in
El Paso are an example of walls working. In areas with considerable border
barriers such as El Paso, the regional criminal groups turn more professional
and shy away from illegal immigration to traffic harder drugs through ports of
entry.
14) A partially secured border is more deadly than an open or well-secured one. Previous administrations put barriers south of most cities in Arizona and California to funnel illicit traffic into areas that were easier to manage or too desolate to cross. This led to a spike in deaths since the desire of people to reach the U.S. pushes them to more remote and dangerous areas
15) Human smuggling and illegal immigration will continue to be a problem until economic opportunities improve in Mexico and in Central America.
16) Mexican transnational criminal groups and their leaders have grown beyond the size and power of the American mafia from Prohibition Era and Al Capone. Cartels are integrated into the Mexican political culture and bureaucracy. Legalization would not stop them.
17) The decriminalization of marijuana and the production of higher quality plants in the U.S. versus Mexico had a series of unspoken consequences. After marijuana from Mexico was not able to compete with U.S.-grown plants, some cartels shifted their model more toward human smuggling–becoming a factor in the 2014 migrant crisis and the current one at the U.S. border.
18) After marijuana decriminalization in the U.S., cartels shifted to increase their cultivation of poppies and the production of black tar heroin. In order to compete with the Asian product, cartels use fentanyl–playing a role in the current opioid overdose epidemic.
19) The U.S. State Department influences how hard authorities crack down on cartels. U.S. agencies have been told to “measure their law enforcement priorities with the State Department’s diplomatic concerns.”
20) A cartel’s power in Mexico comes not from kingpins, but from politicians, financiers, lawyers, and money launderers. U.S. authorities and diplomats routinely focus on kingpins such as “El Chapo” and his lieutenants, but never go after the rest of the circle.
21) The state of Tamaulipas, directly south of Texas, has two former governors currently indicted for their alleged roles in helping cartels. One remains in Mexico, while the other is in U.S. custody awaiting trial.
22) U.S. diplomats are negotiating and playing along with the same Mexican politicians that protect cartels, in the interest of trade and diplomacy.
23) Certain factions of drug cartels have crossed the line into terrorism and should classified as such. The designation would change the way the U.S. alienates them from banks, financial resources, and politicians. Other cartels would be forced to tone down their actions or risk similar consequences.
24) Worries of Middle Eastern terrorists crossing the southwestern border are at times mitigated by cartel members who are informants for U.S. agencies that enjoy handsome incentives to turn people in.
25) The more likely scenario for terrorism deals with people flying into Canada and then entering the U.S. with visas. Most people on the terror watch list who try to enter the U.S. across the southern border are Somalis or Kurds.
26) Certain organizations like Los Zetas and the Gulf Cartel present more of an imminent threat than foreign terrorists entering through the southern border.
27) Mexico’s ongoing cartel violence and drug war has led to more murders and disappearances than some international wars. Mexico has suffered more than 250,000 homicides and at least 30,000 disappearances since 2009.
28) Up to 70 percent of the women and girls from Central America who come through Mexico to the U.S. are sexually assaulted en route. Most women who leave Central America for the U.S. have the expectation of facing multiple abuses at the hands of cartel-connected human smugglers.
29) The State Department keeps U.S. law enforcement from being more aggressive against cartels. The State Department has everything to do with how law enforcement and intelligence agencies operate in Mexico–and any effort to secure the border without addressing the Department’s timidity in Mexico will likely fail or be less successful than it otherwise could be.
Ildefonso Ortiz is an award-winning journalist
with Breitbart Texas. He co-founded the Cartel Chronicles project with Brandon
Darby and Stephen K. Bannon. You can follow him on Twitter and on Facebook. He can be contacted at Iortiz@breitbart.com.
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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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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:
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Vaughan, he identified five actions that Congress can take to end the surge
of illegal border crossings.
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An applicant for asylum has the burden to demonstrate that he or she is eligible for that protection. To satisfy that burden, the applicant must prove that he or she is a refugee. A “refugee” is a person outside of his or her country of nationality or habitual residence who is “unable or unwilling” to return to that country “because of persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion.”
The Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) allows immigration officers — rather than judges — to order the deportation of arriving aliens who are inadmissible because of fraud or misrepresentation, because they have no documentation (like a passport or a visa) that would allow them to be admitted, or because they entered illegally and are apprehended within 100 miles of the border and 14 days of entry.
If an alien in expedited removal asserts a fear of persecution, the arresting officer will refer the alien to an asylum officer for a “credible fear interview”. If the asylum officer determines that the alien has a credible fear, the alien is placed in removal proceedings before an immigration judge, where the alien can file his or her application for asylum. Under the INA, the term “‘credible fear of persecution’ means that there is a significant possibility, taking into account the credibility of the statements made by the alien in support of the alien’s claim and such other facts as are known to the officer, that the alien could establish eligibility for asylum under section 208.” This is a very low standard, and credible fear is found in 75 to 90 percent of all cases in which an alien claims credible fear.
“Bond” is the term used in immigration for the release of an alien pending removal proceedings or removal. Aliens can be released on their own recognizance, or on a minimum bond of $1,500. Bond can be granted by either an immigration judge or U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
“Parole” is the term used in immigration for the release of an arriving alien. It can only be granted by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Again, DHS can release an alien on parole on his or her own recognizance, or for a sum of money as bond.
An alien under the age of 18 who enters the United States or is apprehended by DHS who does not have a parent or guardian in the United States. Under section 462 of the Homeland Security Act (2002), UACs must be turned over to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), not DHS, for detention.
Modified the rules governing the detention of unaccompanied alien children (UACs). Under the TVPRA, UACs must be turned over to HHS within 48 hours of detention by DHS, or identification as a UAC, and “promptly placed in the least restrictive setting that is in the best interest of the child,” generally meaning release to a family member or friend.
An agreement between the then-Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) and a class of alien minors in 1997, which is currently overseen by Judge Dolly Gee of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. In 2016, it was read to create a presumption in favor of the release of all alien minors, even those alien minors who arrive with their parents.
Agency of the Department of Justice (DOJ) with jurisdiction over the immigration courts and the Board of immigration appeals (BIA).
Courts with primary jurisdiction over removal proceedings. Immigration judges in these courts determine removability, set bond where they have jurisdiction, and can adjudicate applications for relief from removal, including asylum.
Cases that have been pending before the immigration courts for more than one year. The backlog more than doubled from FYs 2006 through 2015, primarily due to declining numbers of cases completed per year. There were 437,000 pending cases at the start of FY 2015, when the median pending time was 404 days.
Appellate tribunal with jurisdiction over appeals from immigration courts. Most aliens have a right to appeal immigration court decisions to the BIA.
Topics:
Immigration Courts, Asylum
Fact Sheet
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Southwest Border Tour, Spring
2019: Hosted by the Center for Immigration Studies
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Valley
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Sunshine, Saguaros, and
Smugglers
Reflections from the Border
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