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 ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Insight Crime News
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·         Guatemala President Announces End of CICIG’s Mandate

·         All Hands on Deck to Hide Jimmy Morales’ ‘Ghost Flight’

·         Jail Time for LatAm Officials Won’t Kick FIFA Corruption Problem

·         How Brazil’s Presidential Candidates Would Tackle Deepening Insecurity

·         New Criminal Group Runs Fuel Smuggling at Colombia-Venezuela Border

·         Guatemala Powerbroker Withdraws US Asylum Plea To Face Criminal Charges

·         Mexico’s Proposed Institutional Reforms Unlikely to Yield Change in Security

·         Coca Crops and Their Prices Grew in Bolivia in 2017: UNODC Report

·         InSight Crime Podcast: The Good Student

·         Who Controls Colombia’s Enduring Heroin Trade

·         Shifting Ex-FARC Mafia Alliances Fuel Colombia Criminal Shakeup


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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 9/2/2018 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
M
exican 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 ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Insight Crime News
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·         5 Ways the MS13 Launders Money

·         The CICIG Head’s Rocky Road out of Guatemala: A Timeline

·         Ambiguous US Response Leaves Guatemala Justice in Limbo

·         Guatemala Authorities Bar Entry to CICIG Commissioner

·         Is the FARC Political Experiment Dead in the Water?

·         Security Crisis Stains Peña Nieto’s Legacy in Mexico

·         Nicaragua Becoming Regional Safe Haven for LatAm Fugitives

·         Guatemala President Announces End of CICIG’s Mandate

·         All Hands on Deck to Hide Jimmy Morales’ ‘Ghost Flight’

·         How Brazil’s Presidential Candidates Would Tackle Deepening Insecurity

·         New Criminal Group Runs Fuel Smuggling at Colombia-Venezuela Border


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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 ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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
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Drug Smuggling
Freeport Texas Prison: $18 Million worth of Coke in Donated Bananas
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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
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Border
Football, Not Just Fútbol, Is Taking Root In Mexico, Especially Along The Border
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Naco, Arizona
Mexican Sewage Prompts Cochise County Supervisors To Declare State Of Emergency
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California
California DMV Gives Illegal Voters a Surge
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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
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HuachicolerosBlood and Oil: Mexico's Drug Cartels and the Gasoline Industry
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Terrorism
Al-Shabaab Terrorist Lives in Arizona 4 Years after U.S. Grants Refugee Status
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US/MX Cooperation

U.S. and Mexican authorities initiate campaign to battle binational crime
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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
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Politics
Under Trump administration, number of Mexican immigrants drop
Germany: Anti-Immigration Party Surges in Popularity
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Cartels

Gunmen wearing mariachi garb kill 5, wound 8 in Mexico City
Mexican Border State Mayor-Elect Critically Wounded by Presumed Cartel Gunman
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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
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Book
Double Wide ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Insight Crime News
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·         5 Creative Ways Drug Traffickers Evade Authorities

·         Can Governments Deter Violence Committed by Crime Groups?

·         Mexico’s Proposed Institutional Reforms Unlikely to Yield Change in Security

·         Suspension of Entire Local Police Force Shows Depth of Mexico Corruption

·         Multi-Country Effort Sinks International Drug Trafficking Network

·         Massive Mexico Methamphetamine Seizure Reflects Market Shifts

·         Are Mexico Crime Groups Fueling Rise in US Overdose Deaths?

·         US-Mexico ‘Action Plan’ Thinks Big, but Impact May Be Small


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Mexico

Here’s How Mexico Treats Illegal Immigrants

Authored by: Matt Palumbo

While combating illegal immigration has long been a bipartisan issue, the so-called anti-Trump “resistance” has decided that guilt tripping anyone who supports a sensible immigration policy is a viable political strategy. We’ve all heard the arguments; that opposing illegal immigration is preventing people from “just looking for a better life,” or over the past few months, is “separating families.” And of course there’s the most common insult, that enforcing immigration laws is “racist.”

But are America’s immigration laws, or our treatment of illegal immigrants uniquely awful?

To answer that question, let’s examine the situation in another nation: Mexico.

Mexico Rejects More Asylum Requests than the U.S. 

Speaking of the rise in asylum request rejections under Trump, a writer at the American-Statesman noted a “dramatic” change. They write, “Immigration judges, who are employed by the Justice Department and not the judicial branch like other federal judges, rejected 61.8 percent of asylum cases decided in 2017, the highest denial rate since 2005.”

Meanwhile in Mexico, nearly 90 percent of asylum requests are denied (and the figures are similarly high for other Latin American countries, such as El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala).

Mexico Regulates Immigration Based on Race

I only bring this up, because for all the rhetoric about Trump’s supposed racism or disdain for certain immigrants, there is one country that does regulate their immigration flows by race, and that’s the country Trump is most accused of being racist against.

In Article 37 of Mexico’s General Law of Population, we learn that their Department of the Interior shall be able to deny foreigners entry into Mexico, if, among other reasons, they may disrupt the “domestic demographic equilibrium.” Additionally, Article 37 also states that immigrants can be removed if they’re detrimental to “economic or national interests.”

Mexico Deports More Central American Illegal Immigrants than the United States

In July 2014, former Mexican president, Enrique Peña Nieto and former president of Guatemala Otto Pérez Molina, announced the start of a migration security project called Plan Frontera Sur (Southern Border Plan). The U.S. has committed at least $100 million towards this plan to help aid Mexican border security, because it’s mutually beneficial. Both Mexico and the U.S. want to keep out Central American illegal immigrants (and they have to pass through Mexico to reach the U.S.)..

Since Plan Frontera Sur, Mexico has deported more central American illegal immigrants than we have in the U.S. Even CNN had to acknowledge that:

According to statistics from the US and Mexican governments compiled by the nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute, Mexico in 2015 apprehended tens of thousands more Central Americans in its country than the US did at its border, and in 2015 and 2016 it deported roughly twice as many Central Americans as the US did.Since migrant children are the hot-button topic in the American immigration debate currently; In 2014 there were 18,169 migrant children were deported from Mexico, and 8,350 deported to Central America the year before. From January 2015 to July 2016, 39,751 unaccompanied minors were put in the custody of Mexican authorities.

A report this year from Amnesty International concluded that “Mexican migration authorities are routinely turning back thousands of people from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala to their countries without considering the risk to their life and security upon return, in many cases violating international and domestic law by doing so.”

Mexico Has Their Own Southern Border – and Invisible Wall

For us much as Donald Trump is criticized by the political class in Mexico for wanting to beef up security on the U.S.-Mexico border, as previously mentioned, Mexico has accepted our help in enforcing their immigration laws on their own southern border with Guatemala. While they don’t have a literal border fence, they do have checkpoints, patrols, raids, etc. According to NPR:

Rather than amassing troops on its border with Guatemala, Mexico stations migration agents, local and federal police, soldiers and marines to create a kind of containment zone in Chiapas state. With roving checkpoints and raids, Mexican migration agents have formed a formidable deportation force.
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

14 killed in shooting attacks in Mexican border city

Read more at:
//economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/64717234.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_cam____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________In Homan's conversation with CIS's Jessica Vaughan, he identified five actions that Congress can take to end the surge of illegal border crossings.


From ICE Acting Director Homan:

Excerpt from:
https://www.numbersusa.com/blog/blame-congress-rapid-rise-illegal-border-crossings

REFORM THE TRAFFICKING VICTIMS PROTECTION REAUTHORIZATION ACT (TVPRA) -- Commonly referred to as the William Wilberforce Act, TVPRA prohibits Border Patrol from quickly removing unaccompanied children from non-contiguous countries who attempt to cross the border illegally. UACs from Mexico and Canada can be quickly returned once Border Patrol is able to determine that they're not victims of human trafficking. But for minors from countries outside of Mexico and Canada, minors must be turned over to Health and Human Services, allowing them to stay in the country indefinitely.

REFORM THE ASYLUM PROCESS -- Under existing law, anyone apprehended at the border who makes a credible fear claim that passes the initial screening is released. Since 2008, there's been a 1700% spike in the number of credible fear claims made at the Southern border, and 80% pass the credible fear screening. However, only 20% of those who pass the credible fear screening are granted asylum by a federal judge.

MANDATE E-VERIFY -- Foreign nationals cross the border illegally because they can obtain jobs in the U.S. Homan said requiring all employers to use E-Verify would discourage most illegal immigration to the United States and dramatically reduce the number of illegal border crossings.

END SANCTUARY CITIES -- At last count, more than 300 sanctuary jurisdictions exist across the country, including California which recently passed legislation making it a sanctuary state. Jurisdictions that protect illegal aliens from removal encourages illegal border crossings because illegal aliens know they have hundreds of safe-havens to choose from once they get here.

TERMINATE FLORES AGREEMENT -- The spike in the apprehension of family units is a result of the Flores Agreement, which restricts the period of time that Border Patrol can detain family units. The Flores Agreement encourages illegal border crossers to cross with children, knowing that Border Patrol has to release them after a certain period of time. If BP were able to hold family units until their court date, family units would be less likely to cross the border illegally.

All of Homan's policy recommendations are included in Rep. Bob Goodlatte's H.R. 4760, the Securing America's Future Act, but not surprisingly, none are part of the ongoing DACA amnesty negotiations between House Republicans.

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NEW BOOK by Judicial Watch's Tom Fitton: Clean House: Exposing Our Government's Secrets and Lies

Judicial Watch: Open Records Laws and Resources ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Leo Banks is a Tucson-based reporter who covers border-related issues.

New Book
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A novel by
Leo W Banks

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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


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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

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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
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

·         US Sanctions on Venezuela First Lady Solidify Country’s Mafia State Status

·         Disbanding Municipal Police Unlikely to Improve Mexico Security Crisis

·         Curbing Homicides: What Works and What Doesn’t

·         Ayotzinapa: What Four Years of Impunity Say About Security In Mexico

·         US ‘Call to Action’ on Drugs Shows Slipping Global Leadership Role

·         Notebooks and Plea Deals: New Weapons Against Corruption in Argentina?

·         The Mexico Crime Bosses Peña Nieto’s Government Toppled

·         4 Consequences of Morales’ War With the CICIG in Guatemala

·         Legislation Challenges Efforts to Reduce Bolivia Female Prison Population

·         3 Reasons Why the Monos Trial in Argentina Matters


____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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