BORDER
NEWS WATCH SPECIAL EDITIONS - 9/2018
9/2/2018 BORDER NEWS
WATCH SPECIAL EDITION
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Opinion Polls
Voters Say
Illegal Immigration A Big Concern But Question Those Who Raise It
Bye-Bye,
NAFTA: Voters Think New Deal with Mexico Better for U.S.
Immigration
Update
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Border Patrol
Border
Patrol names new deputy chief
Border
Patrol Agent Assaulted near South Texas Border
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Borstar
Border
Patrol office created to rescue agents in distress now mostly rescues migrants ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
ICE
Another
California Courthouse Arrest, More Phony Outrage
ICE Conducts
Criminal Investigation at North Texas Company
A Veteran
ICE Agent, Disillusioned with the Trump Era, Speaks Out
Immigration
raid targeting employer near Paris nets 160 suspected undocumented workers
ICE Detains 160 Alleged Aliens at Texas Worksite
Portland
Mayor Denies Assistance to ICE, Violates City’s Equal Protection Policy
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Terrorism
Terrorist
Infiltration Threat at the Southwest Border: The national security gap in
America’s immigration enforcement debate
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Humanitarian
Feds
allow Mexican woman to visit dying husband in Tucson
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Refugees
Refugee
and Asylum Adjudication Needs a 'Devil's Advocate'
Somali
Refugees Busted in Tucson
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Immigration
Donald
Trump on Immigration: Everything You Should Know
Two
Immediate Actions Can Be Taken to Manage Migration Better
Star
Opinion: Mandatory immigration bans hurt US families
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Illegal Immigration
PHOTOS:
Large Groups of Families, Unaccompanied Minors Continue to Cross into South
Texas
Feds:
Immigrants smuggled through train tunnel into Detroit
High
profits and misery meet at door of smugglers’ stash houses
Somali
Refugees Busted in Tucson
Bangladeshi
Border Apprehensions in Texas Tripled over 2017
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DACA
Judge Hanen
Says DACA Likely Illegal
Judge Finds
DACA Violates the APA, but Denies Preliminary Injunction
Request to
end DACA from multiple states denied by federal judge
DACA
Recipient Arrested for Alleged Human Smuggling in Texas
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TPS
Temporary
Protected Status re-registration for Somali refugees now open
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Judicial
Mexican man
deported 4 times sentenced for illegally entering US again
Rio
Rico Man Sentenced For Smuggling Ammunition
Court
Agrees Man Could Face Torture, Death If Returned To El Salvador
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DOS
U.S. State
Department issues travel advisory for parts of Sonora, Mexico
US
Revoking Passports Near Mexico Border Over 'Citizenship Fraud' - Reports
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Texas
Texas won’t
use taxpayer funds to educate illegal immigrants held at the border
CBP
Apprehend Illegal’s from 10 Different Countries Including 28 Unaccompanied
Children On The Texas Border, Ports
Weekly
Blotter: From rescues to seizures, Border Patrol agents continue to experience
high activity throughout the Rio Grande Valley
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Temporary
Workers
CIS Report
Dispels Myth of 'Jobs Americans Won't Do'
DHS Rule
Rescinding Work Permits for H-1B Spouses Expected Soon
More H-1B
visas are going to U.S. tech companies. That is bad news.
Seasonal
Businesses Use Exchange Visitor Program as Labor Pool
Washington
Growers Using Record Number of H-2A Foreign Workers
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Pima County
As
fight over federal border security grant unfolds, Pima County Sheriff's office
spends funds
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California
Another
California Courthouse Arrest, More Phony Outrage
Gavin
Newsom Vows Universal Healthcare for All of California’s Illegal Immigrants
California
craziness: Congress may have to stop state from giving 'free' health care to
illegal immigrants
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Gangs
MS-13
Member, Child Sex Predators Arrested at Arizona Border
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Mollie
Tibbetts
Mexican flag
flies proudly over town where illegal alien killed Mollie Tibbetts
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Mexican News Media
Reporter
murdered, the third reporter in Cancun killed in 2 months
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Mexican Military
Mexican
Soldiers Seize Four Tons of Meth, Lab near California Border
Mexico:
6 civilians, soldier dead in Guerrero state shootout
Border
Patrol Agents Find Deceased Migrant, Rescue Two Others
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Mexico
Mexico
unable to cope with kidnapping epidemic
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AMLO
Mexico's
AMLO says army still needed to fight crime
Mexico’s
Proposed Institutional Reforms Unlikely to Yield Change in Security
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GOM
Mexican
Police Seize 350 Pounds of Meth During Raid on Drug Lab in Tijuana
Top Cartel
Lieutenant Captured in Central Mexico
Mexican
Cartel Boss Offers $100K for Assassination of Breitbart Texas Writer—Arrested
Within Days
Mexico
rejects Trump claim it will ‘easily’ pay for border wall after new trade deal
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Cartels
Reporter
murdered, the third reporter in Cancun killed in 2 months
Formerly
Allied El Paso-Juárez Metro Area Cartel Operatives
Mexican
Cartel Gunmen Kidnap Baby near Border Bridge to Texas
Mexico:
6 civilians, soldier dead in Guerrero state shootout
Cartel Boss
Tied to Kidnappings, Executions Busted in Mexican Border State
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Politics
Democrats
calling for ICE to be abolished include Kirsten Gillibrand, Elizabeth Warren
and others
Dem rep
warns immigration officers following 'illegal' Trump orders: 'You will not be
safe'
Mexican
president offers belated explanation for 2016 invite to Trump
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Selected Incidents
Migrant
Rappels into U.S. — Nearly Drowns in Irrigation Canal
BP, Deputy
Working Operation Stonegarden Finds Body Of Missing Man
CBP Officers
Seize Dangerous Drugs At Port Of San Luis
Truck Loaded
With Marijuana Stopped By CBP
Drugs and
Human Smugglers Busted at Arizona Checkpoints, Says Border Patrol
Georgia
deputies arrested in Mexico for bringing weapons across border for safety,
officials say
A Clean
Media Miss: The Murder of San Antonio College Student Jared Vargas by an
Illegal Immigrant
BP Agents
Arrest Previously Deported MS-13 Gang Member
Yuma Sector
Border Patrol Agents Thwart Drug, Human Smuggling Attempts
2 US Teens
Arrested For Smuggling 2 Mexican Teens
Previously
Deported Child Sex Offender Arrested By Border Patrol Agents
Douglas man
flees Willcox Border Patrol agents near Sunizona
Border Patrol
Agent Assaulted near South Texas Border
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NAFTA
NAFTA
details sketchy, but ag looks OK
U.S.
and Mexico strike preliminary accord on NAFTA, but will Canada agree?
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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
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Leo Banks is a Tucson-based reporter who covers border-related issues.
New Book
Double
Wide
A novel by Leo
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BORDER NEWS WATCH SPECIAL EDITION
9/10/2018 BORDER NEWS
WATCH SPECIAL EDITION
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The "Wall"
A Video Reminder of Why We Need a Wall
25 Straight Minutes Of Illegal Aliens Crossing Into US
Through Arizona Ranch
A Video Reminder of Why We Need a Wall
Build that wall: Arizona rancher supports Trump's campaign by
sharing a 25-minute video of armed ...
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Chuck Norris
U.S. borders
and ports: 7 clear and present dangers
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DHS
Proposed
Rule Would Allow Joint Detention of Migrant Parents, Children
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Border Patrol
Shooter
opens fire on Border Patrol agent in San Ysidro
Assaults
on ICE, Border Patrol surge as illegal immigrants get more violent
Border
Patrol Agents Assist In Vehicle Rollover Accident
Border
Patrol Agents Rescue 55 Migrants from Hot Tractor-Trailer in Texas
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ICE
ICE Arrests,
Removals Continue Upward Trend
ICE
Operation in Midwest Nets 364 in One Month
ICE Arrests
364 Illegal Aliens In One Operation, Including Thieves, Drug Dealers and Child
Rapists
78
migrants arrested in ICE operation in Arizona, 19 in Phoenix drop house bust
146
Illegal Aliens Arrested in Ohio Meatpacking Raid, 13 Used Fake IDs
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Terrorism
The
First Border-Crosser to Attack in North America
ISIS
militant cooperated with Juarez drug cartel near El Paso; Now in minimum
security U.S. prison
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Amnesty
2014:
Defining Amnesty for the Factually Impaired
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Immigration
Is the U.S. the Best Place for Central American Migrants and
Refugees?
There Are No
Jobs Americans Won’t Do
Yes,
America Benefits From All Immigration—Legal and Illegal
Job Figures
Show Americans Still Want to Work
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Illegal Immigration
25 Straight
Minutes Of Illegal Aliens Crossing Into US Through Arizona Ranch
A Video
Reminder of Why We Need a Wall
Build that
wall: Arizona rancher supports Trump's campaign by sharing a 25-minute video of
armed ... ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Human Smuggling
Somali
Smuggler Brought at Least 50 Migrants to the TX, CA Borders
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VISAS
Analyzing
the New Visa Overstay Report
A
Refreshingly Stiff Civil Penalty in the Vermont EB-5 Case
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Texas
More
Migrants from Terrorist Nation Enter Texas Via Mexico This Week
Texas
Sheriff Seizes Guns, Roosters in Suspected Cartel-Connected Meth House
Texas
sheriff: Illegal immigrant 'destroyed' two police dogs during chase
Two tracking
dogs killed during search for undocumented immigrants
55 undocumented
immigrants rescued from inside 100 degree tractor-trailer
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Pima County
Supervisors
vote to refuse Operation Stonegarden border funds
Sharon
Bronson: Don't saddle our deputies with Stonegarden baggage
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California
23,000
California DMV voter-registration fails, and we're not supposed to worry about
illegals voting
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Gangs
25 MS-13
Members Busted for Murder, Drug Trafficking in California
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HuachicolerosBlood
and Oil: Mexico's Drug Cartels and the Gasoline Industry
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Mexican Military
Mexican
Armed Forces Against Drug Cartels
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AMLO
Hugs
Not Bullets: How Mexico’s Next President Wants To End The Drug War
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GOM
My Most Memorable Narco
Video: Creel Chihuahua, 2010
Mexican
State Cops Stop 119 Central American Migrants Headed to Texas Border
Cops Capture
217 Central American Migrants Along Mexican Border State Dirt Roads
Mexican
president blames state, local police for crime surge
Mexican Cops
Find 166 Bodies in Cartel Killing Field
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Gangs
Massive
MS-13 Bust in California
25 MS-13
Members Busted for Murder, Drug Trafficking in California ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Cartels
My Most
Memorable Narco Video: Creel Chihuahua, 2010
Cancun:
Hitman video footage from security camera
Juárez
Cártel sicario, extradited to the U.S. facing murder charges for the killing of
a drug thief
WATCH:
Mexican Border City Cartel Gun Battle Catches Motorists by Surprise
Mexican Cops
Find 166 Bodies in Cartel Killing Field
Cartel-Connected
Illegal Alien Murders 2 Adults, Baby In Arizona, Kidnaps 2 Kids, Report Says
Illegal
Immigrant Fled to Mexico After Murdering Pregnant Wife, Say Arizona Police
Cartel
Commander Killed After Kidnapping Mexican Governor’s Cousin
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Selected Incidents
Border
Patrol halts human smuggling attempt
55 undocumented
immigrants rescued from inside 100 degree tractor-trailer
Hereford
Woman Accused of Smuggling 2 Mexican Men Into US
Sierra Vista
Woman Caught Smuggling 6 Illegal Aliens In Jetta
Armed Rio
Rico Mom Takes Kids For Illegal Alien Smuggling Jaunt
Tucson Human
Smuggler Nabbed At Border Patrol Immigration Checkpoint
Border
Patrol Agents Assist In Vehicle Rollover Accident
Multiple
Smuggling Attempts Stopped At Yuma Immigration Checkpoints
Border
Patrol Agents Arrest Group of 163 Migrants in Arizona Desert
Two tracking
dogs killed during search for undocumented immigrants
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AZ tax cheat admits guilt: aided illegals file fake claims
September 7, 2018
The daily newspaper reports that according to court records, Elias Bermudez has pleaded guilty to preparing false tax returns. The open borders newspaper blandly refers to him as an “Arizona immigrant-rights activist.”
Investigative reporter Linda Bentley, writing for the Sonoran News covered Bermudez’ indictment in October 2017. Her comprehensive report covers specifics relating to the crime and penalties a conviction carries.
Bermudez, founder of the deceptively titled, Immigrants Without Borders and owner of El Centro de Ayuda (The Help Center), was indicted on 27 counts of aiding in the preparation of false tax returns. He is accused of advising clients to claim unqualified dependents living in Mexico in order to gain $1,000 Child Tax Credit deductions per child.
Bermudez also operates El Centro de Progreso tax preparation in Phoenix and Tucson.
This shocking exposé (video also follows post) by Indiana TV 13 is from 2013, but obviously our south of the border neighbors, are still honing their fraudulent schemes, using phony documents and false income to claim tax credits for children who do not live in the United States and are not even children of the filers. The reporter detailed that that the cost to American citizen taxpayers was $4.2 billion yearly, involving 2 million unqualified illegals getting massive tax credits. Those numbers have undoubtedly increased in the five years since this report was filed. The newscaster reports the IRS is aware of the enormous loophole, but the agency claims congress needs to address it.
This
astronomically priced fraud should be a major concern of Arizona U.S.
Congressmen Raul Grajalva (D-CD3) and Ruben Gallego (D-CD 7), who both represent
Hispanic heavy districts. They have been silent on the subject, as has Democrat
gubernatorial candidate David Garcia. It’s time for the Republicans to boldly
take on this outrageous scam. We elected them to represent us. That includes
protecting our hard-earned tax dollars.
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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 9/10/2018 BORDER
NEWS WATCH SPECIAL EDITION
9/22/2018 BORDER NEWS
WATCH SPECIAL EDITION
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The "Wall"
Families Rally For Border Enforcement, As Trump Eases Wall
Demands
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DHS
DHS
Sec. Nielsen Swears in New Homeland Security Advisory Council Members
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CBP
CBP
head: Border Patrol holding cells not kept freezing cold, despite renewed
complaints
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Border Patrol
Two
Border Patrol Agents Assaulted at Texas Border
Deported
Mexican fires shots across border into US Border Patrol agent’s vehicle
This
Border Patrol Agent Resigned After Changing His Mind About Immigration
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Border Patrol Agent Misconduct
The
Border Patrol Serial Killer Is Part of a Long, Troubled History
Officials:
Border Patrol agent accused of serial murders in Laredo prepared for a shootout
with police
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UACs
Nearly
80 percent of households that take in unaccompanied minors already have illegal
immigrants, ICE official says
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ICE
ICE: Vast
Majority of UAC Sponsors are Illegal Aliens or Already House Them
ICE
arrested immigrants who tried to collect separated undocumented children
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DOJ
AG Sessions
Announces 50% Increase in Immigration Judges
Attorney
General Restricts Judges' Discretion to Terminate Deportation Cases
Colombian
drug gang kingpin charged with multi-million dollar cocaine plot after
extradition to US
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Illegal Immigration
Shocker:
Study shows the number of illegals double what was previously thought
New Estimate
of 22 Million Illegal Immigrants Is Not Plausible
9
people, including immigrants in U.S illegally, die in Arizona crash
Arizona
Border Patrol Agents Arrest Hundreds of Immigrants Trying to Enter the US
Illegally
27
people suspected of entering U.S. illegally by boat arrested days after 26
similar arrests
Border
Patrol agents encounter another large group of immigrants in the desert
121
immigrants surrender to Border Patrol agents near Lukeville
Number of Illegal
Migrant Families Apprehended at US-Mexico Border Rises
Family
arrivals surge at US-Mexico border in August
US-Mexico
border apprehensions spike past 45,000 in August
Illegal
Migrant Family Crossings Rival Former Surges
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Human Smuggling
Border
Patrol apprehends 26 people in smuggling incidents 24 hours apart
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Drug
Smuggling
Freeport
Texas Prison: $18 Million worth of Coke in Donated Bananas
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Immigration Fraud
Study: Over
39 Million SSN 'No-Matches' Over Four-Year Period
“Immigrant-Rights”
Activist Pleads Guilty To Tax Fraud
AZ
tax cheat admits guilt: aided illegals file fake claims
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
E-Verify
RIDE Program
Three States
Join E-Verify RIDE Program
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Refugees/Asylum
Trump
Administration Reduces Refugee Resettlement Cap to 30,000
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Jim Chilton
Revealed:
Mexican Drug Cartel Members Use This Simple Trick To Evade Border Patrol
N4T
Investigators: Border Apprehension
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Opinion
Trump
Has It Backward: Many Migrants Are Victims of Crime
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Pima County
Pima
Rejection Of Stonegarden Grant Creates “Soft Zone” For Cartels
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Border
Football,
Not Just Fútbol, Is Taking Root In Mexico, Especially Along The Border
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Naco,
Arizona
Mexican
Sewage Prompts Cochise County Supervisors To Declare State Of Emergency
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
California
California
DMV Gives Illegal Voters a Surge
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Chain
Migration
New York
Times demonstrates chain migration and dismisses debate with a bogus bromide
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Humanitarian
Justice
Department Attempts to Suppress Evidence That the Border Patrol Targeted
Humanitarian Volunteers
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
HuachicolerosBlood
and Oil: Mexico's Drug Cartels and the Gasoline Industry
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Terrorism
Al-Shabaab
Terrorist Lives in Arizona 4 Years after U.S. Grants Refugee Status
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
US/MX Cooperation
U.S.
and Mexican authorities initiate campaign to battle binational crime
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
GOM
U.S.
Proposes to Help Fund Mexico's Immigration Enforcement Efforts
U.S. Plans to
Pay Mexico to Deport Unauthorized Immigrants there
Sierras of
Guerrero: Schools and Hospital Closed Due to Insecurity
On other
side of border, Mexico detaining thousands of migrant children
Border
Report: Mexico's Role in Cross-Border Drug Prosecutions
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Politics
Under
Trump administration, number of Mexican immigrants drop
Germany:
Anti-Immigration Party Surges in Popularity
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Cartels
Gunmen
wearing mariachi garb kill 5, wound 8 in Mexico City
Mexican
Border State Mayor-Elect Critically Wounded by Presumed Cartel Gunman
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Selected Incidents
Fentanyl
Smuggler Nabbed By Nogales CBP Officers
Deported
Mexican fires shots across border into US Border Patrol agent’s vehicle
Convicted
Murderer Arrested By Yuma Border Patrol Agents
Operation
Stonegarden Team Finds Illegal Alien In Storm Drain _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Naco Arizona
Mexican
Sewage Pouring Into Naco Arizona Area
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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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US Congress
House advances bill to improve pay
structure for border patrol agents
Bill seeks to assist law enforcement
with drug-control efforts
House Rightfully Condemns Illegal Voting
But Refuses to Fund Border Wall, Says FAIR
Don’t Leave Immigration Out of Our
Environmental Laws
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Opinion
Editorial: Enforce Immigration Laws
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The "Wall"
US begins building part of Donald
Trump's border wall with Mexico in Texas
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
DHS
DHS Rule Would Deny Green Cards To
Immigrants Who Took Public Benefits
Trump administration diverts nearly a
half-billion dollars to migrant children in custody
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
CBP
Audit: CBP Not Protecting Information
Gleaned From Its Drones
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Border Patrol
Border Patrol Launches Operation Blazing
Sands In California Desert
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Border Patrol Agent Misconduct
BP agent charged for starting 47K fire
in Santa Rita Mountains
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
ICE
2-state ICE operation nets 105 arrests
over 10-day period
ICE arrests 98 people in Texas and
Oklahoma for 'immigrant violations,' other crimes
ICE
Conducts Enforcement Actions in Los Angeles, North Texas, Oklahoma and
Wisconsin
Carlos Rueda is suing ICE and the U.S.
Department of Homeland Security for $750,000 for battery, assault and false
imprisonment
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Illegal Immigration
New
projections warn of a much-more-congested future if immigration policies aren't
changed.
REPORT: Yale Study Says ‘Illegal’
Population Possibly ‘TRIPLE' Previous Estimates
MIT Study: The Number Of Illegal
Immigrants Could Be Double Previous Estimates
Illegals on the Double
Yale study finds U.S. illegal alien
population ‘substantially larger’ than previous estimates
New Estimate of 22 Million Illegal
Immigrants Is Not Plausible
Mexican cartel forces 2,000 migrants to
cross border, turn themselves in to create diversion to smuggle drugs
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Judicial
Mexican man awaiting bail hearing on
drug smuggling charges
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Immigration
Don’t Leave Immigration Out of Our
Environmental Laws
U.S. Immigrant Population Hit Record
43.7 Million in 2016
New
projections warn of a much-more-congested future if immigration policies aren't
changed.
2017: Chain Migration
Proposed Public Charge Rule: Few Will Be
Barred, Billions Will Be Saved
In Little Saigon, strong support for
Trump's war on illegal immigration collides with other realities
Mexicans Leaving in Droves – and Not
Just Because of ICE
Mexico's next leader isn't likely to
give on migration
New Estimate of 22 Million Illegal
Immigrants Is Not Plausible
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
E-Verify
Florida
Commission Approves E-Verify Mandate for County Contracts
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Refugees/Asylum/Migrant
Children
A Lower Refugee Resettlement Ceiling but
Probable Higher Admissions for FY 2019
Trump administration diverts nearly a
half-billion dollars to migrant children in custody
Administration transfers funding from
infectious disease response to unaccompanied alien children program
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Deports
Attorney
General Restricts Judges' Discretion to Terminate Deportation Cases
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Border
N4T Investigators: Cocaine more
available and cheaper than ever
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
California
California
Judge Rules State Sanctuary Law Unconstitutional
California
governor vetoes bills to let noncitizens serve on boards, block immigration
arrests in courthouses _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Texas
Texas Border Apprehensions Include
Several Convicted/Charged Child Molesters, Rape Of A Child With Force And $9.5M
In Narcotics
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Sanctuaries
Sanctuary
State California: Six-Time Deported Illegal Alien Accused of Killing Three Men
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Terrorism
Terrorist Travel to the United States
Southern Border
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
GOM
Disbanding Municipal Police Unlikely to Improve Mexico
Security Crisis
Mexican Authorities Disarm Acapulco
Police Amid Corruption Inquiry
In Mexico's shale patch, cartel violence
scares off drillers
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Politics
A Liar and an Unregistered Foreign Agent
Demand Control of the Immigration Policy Debate
President
to U.N.: Unaccountable International Organizations Should Not Control Migration
In Little Saigon, strong support for
Trump's war on illegal immigration collides with other realities
AG
Sessions Leads Implementation of Pres. Trump's Immigration Agenda
Trump
Administration Plans to Enforce Public Charge Law
Public Charge 10
Proposed Public Charge Rule: Few Will Be
Barred, Billions Will Be Saved
2017: Chain Migration
Administration transfers funding from
infectious disease response to unaccompanied alien children program
Don’t Leave Immigration Out of Our
Environmental Laws
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Cartels
What Happens When a Major Mexican Cartel
Leader Falls?
The Coming Crime Wars
GTO:
CJNG and Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel Pemex pipeline war reaches 671 executions in
7 months
Sinaloa
Leader "EL Cuate" captured in Parral
Puebla:
PGR agents killed in shootout with Mexican fugitive wanted for U.S. murder
Mexican cartel forces 2,000 migrants to
cross border, turn themselves in to create diversion to smuggle drugs
In Mexico's shale patch, cartel violence
scares off drillers
How
a Brooklyn Gang May Have Gotten Crazy Rich Dealing for El Chapo
Mexican
Cartel Gunmen Dump Murdered Marines in Cancun
Mexican
Cops Find 38 Human Body Fragments in Clandestine Gravesite near Texas
GRAPHIC
— Cartel Gunmen Target Law Enforcement in Mexican Border State Capital Turf
Fight
Mexican
Cartel Tunnel Discovered at California Border
Narco
Tunnel and Half a Ton of Hard Drugs Seized
Ramon
Gallardo “El Gato” Campista Assassinated in Sinaloa
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Selected Incidents
Border Patrol agents arrest 264
immigrants near Arizona border
2 Migrants Abandoned In Desert Rescued
By DPS, BP
Nogales Teens Caught Smuggling People In
Trunk
Previously Deported Rapist From El
Salvador Arrested By Yuma Border Patrol Agents
Laredo Border Patrol Agents Arrest 18
Bangladeshi Migrants in Week
Douglas Man Arrested For Heroin, Crack
Dealing
Border Patrol arrests two people
suspected of smuggling undocumented immigrants
Previously
Deported Convicted Sex Offender Arrested By Border Patrol Agents
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Human
Smuggling
Eight arrested in La Jolla smuggling attempt
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Drug Smuggling
5 Creative Ways Drug Traffickers Evade Authorities
Liquid
Meth Flowing from Tainted Drinks _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ AMLO
Lower
taxes, cheaper gas: What do the Mexican president-elect's policies mean for the
border?
Mexico's next leader isn't likely to
give on migration
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Other
FBI Releases 2017 Crime Statistics
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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 9/28/2018 BORDER
NEWS WATCH SPECIAL EDITION