BORDER NEWS WATCH SPECIAL EDITIONS - 9/2019

9/1/2019 BORDER NEWS WATCH SPECIAL EDITION

ICE
Trump reallocates $155 million from FEMA disaster relief to fund ICE
Bruised by Trump but not mad: Ex-ICE chief Vitiello bounces back

Illegal Aliens Are Caught — Then Released Into U.S. Interior
Americans Clueless About Border Invasion, Illegals Dumped Into the Heartland
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
ICE-HSI
U.S.-Supported Brazilian Op Busts Smugglers Moving Migrants from Muslim-Majority Countries
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Ignoring ICE Detainers: Alien Arrests Followed by Release
ICE Spotlights Releases of Criminal Aliens as Governor Defends Sanctuary Policies
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
DOS Travel Advisories
Americans Warned to Avoid Visiting Tamaulipas Mexico
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The 'Wall'
Border wall rising near Lukeville
Construction begins on 30-foot border wall in fragile Arizona desert
Donald Trump’s border wall: how much has been built?
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
USCIS: Public Charge
Trump officials say children of some service members overseas will not get automatic citizenship
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Border Perspective
The southern border draws attention up north
What Ending the Flores Agreement on Detention of Immigrant Children Really Means
Media Reports Misrepresent Change in 'Deferred Action' Policy

Congress, Judges, the Media, and Everyone Else Needs to Read this Bipartisan Report Before Opining on the Border

Update on President Trump's 'Remain in Mexico' Policy: While some go home, others crash the border and run
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Flores Settlement Agreement
What Ending the Flores Agreement on Detention of Immigrant Children Really Means
California, 18 Other States, and D.C. Sue over Flores Regulation: My take: Insufferable, politically motivated, taxpayer-funded bloviation

Finally, a Final Rule to Fix the Flores Loophole: But there are hurdles ahead
Why Trump wants to detain immigrant children longer
FAIR Applauds Trump Administration on Closing Flores Loophole
Flores Settlement Agreement
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Human Smuggling
Somali National, Others, Arrested in Brazil for Trafficking Africans and Middle Easterners to US Border
U.S.-Supported Brazilian Op Busts Smugglers Moving Migrants from Muslim-Majority Countries
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Drug Smuggling
Major Fentanyl Shipment from China Seized in Mexico

A $25B US counter-drug smuggling operation quietly thrives far south of the border
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Drug Smuggling: Australia
1600 Pounds of Mexican Cartel Meth Seized in Australia
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Gun Smuggling
Lack of US Gun Control Provokes Record Bloodshed in Mexico
Guns from the United States kill tens of thousands of Mexicans a year
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Illegal Immigration Perspective
On the border, officials see dividends from Trump’s deal with Mexico ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Immigration: US Policy Changes
Thousands Returned to Mexico Under Trump Immigration Policy

Encampment of International Migrants in Mexico Reminds that Homeland Security Must Vet as Ever More Arrive
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Immigration: Ag Labor Trends
Can we solve the ag labor shortage?
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Illegal Immigration: MPP Policy
Thousands Returned to Mexico Under Trump Immigration Policy
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Illegal Aliens: Criminality
Illegal immigrants are nearly ten times as likely to commit a federal crime
Hans von Spakovsky: Crimes by illegal immigrants widespread across US – Sanctuaries shouldn’t shield them
Illegal-alien Sex Offenders, Traffickers Keep Feds Busy
Sex offenders, other criminals arrested at U.S. border
Five Rape Arrests Underscore the Hypocrisy of Sanctuary Policies
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Illegal Immigration: Releases into US
DHS Releasing More than 200 Illegal Aliens into the U.S. Every Day
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Illegal Immigration: Africans
African Migrants Stuck In Mexico Fight Authorities, Demand Passage To US: Report
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Asylum
Trump Administration Advances More Measures to Toughen Asylum Process
What Ending the Flores Agreement on Detention of Immigrant Children Really Means
Criminals Target Migrants In Mexico Seeking U.S. Asylum
Why migrant parents put their children at risk

Trump admin to consider allowing local governments to veto refugee resettlement
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Terrorism
Most-wanted American jihadist arrested in Mexico

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Sanctuary:
ICE Targets 'Sanctuary' Jurisdictions in Revised Bond Guidelines
Five Rape Arrests Underscore the Hypocrisy of Sanctuary Policies

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Sasabe Arizona
Nearly 250 migrants detained after BP encountering near Sasabe
Large Groups Of Migrants Enter U.S. Near Sasabe
LARGE GROUP OF 242 ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS SURRENDER IN ARIZONA
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Brazil
Brazil Facilitates Removal of its Nationals After U.S. Pressure
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
El Salvador
El Salvador busts alleged migrant smuggling network, nabs 25
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
New York City
Illegal Aliens Get Another Bite of Big Apple Welfare Benefits
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Maine
‘Welcoming’ Governor Digs Deeper Hole in Maine
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Judicial
Man gets 16 years for taking Mexican nationals hostages, other crimes
Mexican National Pleads Guilty To Capital Murder Of 10-Year-Old Girl But Will Not Face Death Penalty
Texas AG Goes To US Supreme Court In Support Of Ending DACA
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Guatemala
Incoming Guatemala President Opposes Safe 3rd Country Deal but Wants to Limit Emigration
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Honduras
Honduran president says country can't handle migrant backlog
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Empalme Sonora
Video: Horse Race Dispute Leaves Six Dead in Mexican Border State
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
GOM
Mexico president says 'doing well' on migration ahead of U.S. deadline
Major Fentanyl Shipment from China Seized in Mexico
Criminals Target Migrants In Mexico Seeking U.S. Asylum
Mexican Governor to AMLO: ‘Race Against Time’ to Fight Cartels
South Asian Migrants Detained in Mexico after a Four-Month Trek
Most-wanted American jihadist arrested in Mexico
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Mexico's Playa Bagdad
Mexico's Playa Bagdad mixes sun, sand and drug trafficking
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Cartels
VIDEO: Rival Cartels in Western Mexico Clash for Hours Before Authorities Arrive
GRAPHIC: Los Zetas Cartel Attacks Mexican Army Fort near Texas Border
Mexican Cartel-Linked Fentanyl Operation Busted in Delaware, Say Feds
Mexican Border State Chamber of Commerce: Send UN Peacekeepers
‘Gulf Cartel’ Attacked CBP Boat To Protect Secret Underwater Drug Pulley
Mexico’s new drug war may be worse than old one
'Horrendous': Bar arson attack one of Mexico's worst mass killings
Video: Horse Race Dispute Leaves Six Dead in Mexican Border State

Borderland Beat
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Politics: Joe Biden
Joe Biden Wants 2 Million More Immigrants a Year
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Politics
Green Left Weekly: War on the Mexican border: How did it happen?
NumbersUSA Supports Trump Admin. Efforts to Close Immigration Loopholes

Trump Administration Immigration Accomplishments

_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Selected Incidents
‘Gulf Cartel’ Attacked CBP Boat To Protect Secret Underwater Drug Pulley
Sex Offenders, Dangerous Criminals Apprehended Crossing into U.S.
Nearly 250 migrants detained after BP encountering near Sasabe
Spanish Teen Arriving at LAX Confesses to ‘Crime of Passion’ Killing in Mexico: Officials
'Horrendous': Bar arson attack one of Mexico's worst mass killings
Video: Horse Race Dispute Leaves Six Dead in Mexican Border State
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
ICE Most Wanted List
CBP Website
ICE Website
FOX News on Immigration
Borderland Beat
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Insight Crime News
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

· Lack of US Gun Control Provokes Record Bloodshed in Mexico

· Urabeños Leadership Under Mounting Pressure in Colombia

· Irapuato, Symbol of Rising Violence in Mexico’s Mid-Sized Cities

· Major Implications of Former FARC Leadership Returning to War

· In Rafael Correa’s Absence, Ecuador Goes After His Allies

· Narco-Tank: An Intimidation Tactic in Guerrero, Mexico?

· How an Ex-Mayor Could Bring Down the Honduras President

· Internal Strife Within the CJNG in Baja California, Mexico

· Venezuelan Megabanda Leader Reportedly Operating from Inside Colombia

· How Drug Traffickers Became Masters of Honduras’ Forests

· Corrupt Paraguay Officials Allow Thriving Contraband Market Into Brazil

· Top 3 Security Challenges Awaiting Guatemala’s President-Elect

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Archive
How Can Congress Address the Current Border Crisis?
20 Times Breitbart Reported on Migrant Deaths During Obama-Biden Years and No One Cared
The United States Loses $150 Billion Annually in Remittances
Eliminating Per-Country Caps Would Be a Disaster
The Other Border Crisis
Release of Illegal Aliens into U.S. Drops 65 Percent Since Trump-Mexico Deal
Report: Fewer Illegals Will Cross the Border in June. But the Invasion Will Continue
100K Illegals Got Away From Border Agents
Illegal immigrants learn a trick to sneak in: Dress like drug smugglers Mexico Sends Almost 15,000 Troops to US-Mexico Border to Curb Illegal Immigration
Mexico says it has deployed 15,000 forces in the north to halt U.S.-bound migration
Acting DHS Chief Says All Illegal Border Crossers Being Released
Agents confront challenging border dynamics
Tucson Border Patrol Agents Confront Challenging Border Dynamics
Lessons From The Border’s Volatile History.
Trump admin program sends asylum-seekers to await claims in Mexico, despite fears of violence: report
Migrants rush to enter Mexico ahead of security crackdown demanded by Trump
Deal Or Not, Mexico Can’t Stop The Border Crisis On Its Own
At Mexico’s southern border, migrants feel the pinch of a crackdown spurred by U.S.
House Republicans: DHS Failed to Implement Available Border Fixes

Letter Re above to the President Trump

How Can Congress Address the Current Border Crisis ?
Deal Or Not, Mexico Can’t Stop The Border Crisis On Its Own
As Illegal Immigration Skyrockets, The Border Crisis Spins Out Of Control
What’s behind the spike in immigrants at the border
Illegal Aliens Are Caught — Then Released Into U.S. Interior
5 facts about illegal immigration in the U.S. A Growing Border Crisis: A report from Arizona
What's It Gonna Be...A Welfare State or Open Borders?
Americans Clueless About Border Invasion, Illegals Dumped Into the Heartland
What a real border crisis looks like, in a chart

Understanding Trump's Mexico Tariffs: A Reader's Digest Of 9 Important Points On The Border Crisis

Explainer: How does the situation on the U.S.-Mexico border compare with the past?
Remittances Key to Central American Economies: Incentivizing the departure of their nationals?
In the Era of Split-Screen Views of the Border, Each Side Has Its Story, and the Political Implications Are Enormous
The Conservative Hispanic army that’s fighting hard for President Trump
Ninth Circuit Hands Trump a Win on 'Return to Mexico: The court still misses a major point
Appeals Court Rules Trump Administration Can Keep Sending Asylum-Seekers To Mexico
Appeals court: Trump can make asylum seekers wait in Mexico
Illegal Aliens Are Caught — Then Released Into U.S. Interior
Border Patrol chief warns of more releases of migrant families into communities
Rising cost of migrant health care is straining charities, Border Patrol
YOUR questions answered by Center for Immigration Studies
Why US Aid Cuts to Central America Will Help Organized Crime
A Growing Border Crisis:A report from Arizona
US Corruption List Highlights Northern Triangle Presidents’ Criminal Ties

Corruption Report to Congress

29 Facts About the Border and Mexican Cartels You Need to Know

As the debate about the construction of a wall and other border security issues, here are 29 facts that you need to know. The topics came up during the most recent episode of “Coffee with Scott Adams.” Brandon Darby, the Managing Editor for Breitbart’s Border and Cartel Chronicles, sat down with the famed creator of the Dilbert comics to discuss the intricacies of border security.

1) No one is proposing a wall between all of Mexico and the U.S.—the U.S. southern border is approximately 2,000 miles. The discussion is about 1,000 miles of physical barriers in regions that are heavily controlled by drug cartels.

2) The Texas border is about 1,200 miles of the approximately 2,000 miles of the total southern border. Most of that border is the Rio Grande, a river which varies in intensity with respect to currents.

3) Mexico has numerous states under the direct influence of drug cartels that have standing armies with access to RPGs, armored vehicles, artillery, and explosives. Most of Mexico has military forces patrolling streets to deal with cartel paramilitary forces.

4) The most violent drug cartels operate south of the Texas border. Factions of Los Zetas and the Gulf Cartel routinely allow their violence to spill over to the average person.

5) The border city of Tijuana has some of the highest murder statistics in all of Mexico. Despite record-setting figures, most of the victims tend to be tied to drug trafficking.

6) Border cities south of Texas like Reynosa, Tamaulipas, have much lower murder rates than Tijuana. Despite the difference, average citizens are often touched by cartels including shootouts, kidnappings, and other violent activities.

7) Most of the efforts by drug cartels to control migration happens South of the Texas border. Criminal organizations like the Reynosa faction of the Gulf Cartel profit more from human smuggling than drug trafficking.

8) The majority of tunnels are found on the Arizona and California borders. The tunnels are generally discovered in areas where there are population centers on both sides of the border and a wall or fence is already in place. Few have been found in Texas, where there is a river.

9) Most tunnels are discovered thanks to informants; law enforcement technology has rarely been successful in locating border tunnels.

10) Most of the border does not have a drug tunnel problem. They are typically found in Douglas and Nogales, Arizona, as well as Mexicali, San Diego/San Isidro, California.

11) Cartels spend a lot of money building a tunnel–only to be discovered shortly after.

12) Claims by Democrats about the low crime rates in El Paso are an example of walls working. In areas with considerable border barriers such as El Paso, the regional criminal groups turn more professional and shy away from illegal immigration to traffic harder drugs through ports of entry.

13) The presence of physical barriers in cities like El Paso has led to fewer people coming over the border to commit petty crimes or bring loads of drugs on their backs. The criminal organizations in the area shifted toward corrupting U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials to smuggle harder drugs.

14) A partially secured border is more deadly than an open or well-secured one. Previous administrations put barriers south of most cities in Arizona and California to funnel illicit traffic into areas that were easier to manage or too desolate to cross. This led to a spike in deaths since the desire of people to reach the U.S. pushes them to more remote and dangerous areas

15) Human smuggling and illegal immigration will continue to be a problem until economic opportunities improve in Mexico and in Central America.

16) Mexican transnational criminal groups and their leaders have grown beyond the size and power of the American mafia from Prohibition Era and Al Capone. Cartels are integrated into the Mexican political culture and bureaucracy. Legalization would not stop them.

17) The decriminalization of marijuana and the production of higher quality plants in the U.S. versus Mexico had a series of unspoken consequences. After marijuana from Mexico was not able to compete with U.S.-grown plants, some cartels shifted their model more toward human smuggling–becoming a factor in the 2014 migrant crisis and the current one at the U.S. border.

18) After marijuana decriminalization in the U.S., cartels shifted to increase their cultivation of poppies and the production of black tar heroin. In order to compete with the Asian product, cartels use fentanyl–playing a role in the current opioid overdose epidemic.

19) The U.S. State Department influences how hard authorities crack down on cartels. U.S. agencies have been told to “measure their law enforcement priorities with the State Department’s diplomatic concerns.”

20) A cartel’s power in Mexico comes not from kingpins, but from politicians, financiers, lawyers, and money launderers. U.S. authorities and diplomats routinely focus on kingpins such as “El Chapo” and his lieutenants, but never go after the rest of the circle.

21) The state of Tamaulipas, directly south of Texas, has two former governors currently indicted for their alleged roles in helping cartels. One remains in Mexico, while the other is in U.S. custody awaiting trial.

22) U.S. diplomats are negotiating and playing along with the same Mexican politicians that protect cartels, in the interest of trade and diplomacy.

23) Certain factions of drug cartels have crossed the line into terrorism and should classified as such. The designation would change the way the U.S. alienates them from banks, financial resources, and politicians. Other cartels would be forced to tone down their actions or risk similar consequences.

24) Worries of Middle Eastern terrorists crossing the southwestern border are at times mitigated by cartel members who are informants for U.S. agencies that enjoy handsome incentives to turn people in.

25) The more likely scenario for terrorism deals with people flying into Canada and then entering the U.S. with visas. Most people on the terror watch list who try to enter the U.S. across the southern border are Somalis or Kurds.

26) Certain organizations like Los Zetas and the Gulf Cartel present more of an imminent threat than foreign terrorists entering through the southern border.

27) Mexico’s ongoing cartel violence and drug war has led to more murders and disappearances than some international wars. Mexico has suffered more than 250,000 homicides and at least 30,000 disappearances since 2009.

28) Up to 70 percent of the women and girls from Central America who come through Mexico to the U.S. are sexually assaulted en route. Most women who leave Central America for the U.S. have the expectation of facing multiple abuses at the hands of cartel-connected human smugglers.

29) The State Department keeps U.S. law enforcement from being more aggressive against cartels. The State Department has everything to do with how law enforcement and intelligence agencies operate in Mexico–and any effort to secure the border without addressing the Department’s timidity in Mexico will likely fail or be less successful than it otherwise could be.

Ildefonso Ortiz is an award-winning journalist with Breitbart Texas. He co-founded the Cartel Chronicles project with Brandon Darby and Stephen K. Bannon. You can follow him on Twitter and on Facebook. He can be contacted at Iortiz@breitbart.com.
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

From ICE Acting Director Homan:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Mexico
Here’s How Mexico Treats Illegal Immigrants

Authored by: Matt Palumbo

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

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

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

Mexico Rejects More Asylum Requests than the U.S.

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

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

Mexico Regulates Immigration Based on Race

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

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

Mexico Deports More Central American Illegal Immigrants than the United States

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

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

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

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

Mexico Has Their Own Southern Border – and Invisible Wall

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

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

14 killed in shooting attacks in Mexican border city

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

===============================================================================================================================================================================

The Current "Wall" Images

========================================================================================================================================================

American Thinker
Borderland Beat
BREITBART TEXAS
Center for Immigration Studies
Drudge Report
FAIR (Federation for American Immigration Reform)
Fox News on Immigration
Homeland Preparedness News
Homeland Security News Wire
ICE Newsroom
INSIGHT CRIME
Insight Crime News
Judicial Watch: Corruption Chronicles
Numbers USA
ALIPAC
Blog del Narco (English)
BORDER NEWS WATCH WEBSITE ARCHIVES WITH UPDATES

Includes Human/Drug/Terrorist/Disease/Gun/Money Traffic Law Enforcement and Self-Defense Matters

InHomeland Security: Terror Threat Snapshot

___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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

Complimentary PDF copy: Clean House: Exposing Our Government's Secrets and Lies

See Pages 9-13 Re Reforming the Freedom of Information Act
See Pages 93-116 Re Fast and Furious
See pages 181-206 Re Immigration and Border Enforcement
See pages 222-226 Re Opening the Border to Terrorists

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

=================================================================================================================================================================================

Excerpt from CIS: https://cis.org/Fact-Sheet/Asylum-Removal-and-Immigration-Courts

Asylum

Definition:

An applicant for asylum has the burden to demonstrate that he or she is eligible for that protection. To satisfy that burden, the applicant must prove that he or she is a refugee. A “refugee” is a person outside of his or her country of nationality or habitual residence who is “unable or unwilling” to return to that country “because of persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion.”

Talking Points:

The number of asylum applications that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has received has increased significantly in recent years, from 56,912 in FY 2014, to 84,236 in FY 2015, to 115,888 in FY 2016, to 142,760 in FY 2017.
Due to its surreptitious nature, it is impossible to measure the extent of fraud in the asylum process. As Denise N. Slavin, then-vice president of the National Association of Immigration Judges, told the New York Times in 2011, however: “Fraud in immigration asylum is a huge issue and a major problem.” In perhaps the most substantive attempt to examine asylum fraud, USCIS’s Fraud Detection and National Security Directorate (FDNS) partially completed an asylum-based Benefits Fraud and Compliance Assessment (BFCA).
The asylum-based BFCA Program was designed “[t]o determine the scope and types of fraud, and the application and utility of existing fraud detection methods” and “[t]o identify weaknesses and vulnerabilities, and propose/undertake corrective action.” It consisted of a “random sampling of [239 out of 8,555] pending and completed (approved/referred) [affirmative asylum applications filed] with USCIS between May 1 and October 31, 2005.” Of those 239 cases, 29 (or 12 percent) were determined to be fraudulent; 12 of those 29 cases had already been granted. While 72 (or 30 percent) of the cases did not contain any “fraud indicators” (that is, inconsistencies, derogatory, or negative information), 138 (or 58 percent) “exhibited possible indicators of fraud,” not counting 27 additional cases (for a total of 69 percent) that had been referred because of fraud indicators for overseas verification requests, which had not been completed.

Expedited Removal

Definition:

The Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) allows immigration officers — rather than judges — to order the deportation of arriving aliens who are inadmissible because of fraud or misrepresentation, because they have no documentation (like a passport or a visa) that would allow them to be admitted, or because they entered illegally and are apprehended within 100 miles of the border and 14 days of entry.

Talking Point:

Expedited removal was intended to speed the process by which inadmissible aliens were removed from the United States. Unfortunately, as explained below, it is actually become a gateway by which aliens can gain entry into the United States.

Credible Fear

Definition:

If an alien in expedited removal asserts a fear of persecution, the arresting officer will refer the alien to an asylum officer for a “credible fear interview”. If the asylum officer determines that the alien has a credible fear, the alien is placed in removal proceedings before an immigration judge, where the alien can file his or her application for asylum. Under the INA, the term “‘credible fear of persecution’ means that there is a significant possibility, taking into account the credibility of the statements made by the alien in support of the alien’s claim and such other facts as are known to the officer, that the alien could establish eligibility for asylum under section 208.” This is a very low standard, and credible fear is found in 75 to 90 percent of all cases in which an alien claims credible fear.

Talking Points:

The credible fear process itself hinders asylum officers in making credibility determinations. Aliens in expedited removal are subject to mandatory detention until they are found to have a credible fear. Because of the large number of cases and the lack of detention space along the border, many aliens subject to expedited removal are sent to detention facilities throughout the country. Due to the distance between these facilities and the asylum offices, many of the credible fear interviews occur by telephone. Most of the aliens in these proceedings do not speak English, requiring the asylum officers to employ interpreters, many of whom also appear telephonically.
The high grant rate for credible fear suggests that the standards are too low. For example, the burdens of proof for asylum are low (i.e., an alien without documents can establish an asylum claim simply to his or her own testimony). Because the standard for finding credible fear is low, in light of the low evidentiary standards for asylum, it is not surprising that so many aliens are found to have credible fear.
Further, even an alien who cannot satisfy the standard for asylum, but who makes a plausible claim that he or she has been harmed, or may be harmed, is still generally referred to an immigration judge for an asylum application to determine whether the alien is eligible for protection under the Convention Against Torture (CAT). That simply requires that an alien show they’ve been subject to harm by or at the instigation of, or with the consent or acquiescence of, a government official or other person acting in an official capacity. Those determinations are left to the immigration court.
As a likely result of these factors, the number of credible fear reviews increased significantly, from 5,000 in 2009, to 94,000 in 2016. That number dipped to 78,564 in FY 2017; however, up to June 2018, there were already 73,283 credible fear claims made in FY 2018.
Prior to 2013, only 1 percent of arriving aliens claimed credible fear, whereas currently 10 percent make such claims. The attorney general has stated that half of those who pass credible fear screening never file an asylum application, however. ICE lacked detention space to hold all aliens who claimed credible fear in the past, and many were released for hearings that may occur years in the future. It is unclear whether DHS will be able to find sufficient space to detain aliens who are apprehended and are found to have credible fear pending a final decision on their applications for asylum, despite the department’s best efforts.

Bond

Definition:

“Bond” is the term used in immigration for the release of an alien pending removal proceedings or removal. Aliens can be released on their own recognizance, or on a minimum bond of $1,500. Bond can be granted by either an immigration judge or U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Parole

Definition:

“Parole” is the term used in immigration for the release of an arriving alien. It can only be granted by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Again, DHS can release an alien on parole on his or her own recognizance, or for a sum of money as bond.

Unaccompanied Alien Child (UAC)

Definition:

An alien under the age of 18 who enters the United States or is apprehended by DHS who does not have a parent or guardian in the United States. Under section 462 of the Homeland Security Act (2002), UACs must be turned over to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), not DHS, for detention.

Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 (TVPRA)

Definition:

Modified the rules governing the detention of unaccompanied alien children (UACs). Under the TVPRA, UACs must be turned over to HHS within 48 hours of detention by DHS, or identification as a UAC, and “promptly placed in the least restrictive setting that is in the best interest of the child,” generally meaning release to a family member or friend.

Talking Point:

The TVPRA distinguishes between UACs from “contiguous” countries (Canada and Mexico) and aliens who are nationals of “non-contiguous” countries. A UAC from a contiguous country can be returned if the alien has not been trafficked and does not have a credible fear. Under the TVPRA, however, “Other Than Mexicans” (OTMs) are to be transferred to the care and custody of HHS within 72 hours and placed in formal removal proceedings, even if they have not been “trafficked”. According to the Congressional Research Service (CRS): “ORR reported that children spent about 34 days on average in the program as of January 2016.” Between February 2014 and September 2015, 56,000 (80 percent) of the children were placed with sponsors illegally in the United States and an additional 700 were placed with sponsors in deportation proceedings. In FY 2014, according to CRS, most of the UACs who were released were placed with parents or legal guardians.

Flores Settlement Agreement

Definition:

An agreement between the then-Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) and a class of alien minors in 1997, which is currently overseen by Judge Dolly Gee of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. In 2016, it was read to create a presumption in favor of the release of all alien minors, even those alien minors who arrive with their parents.

Talking Points:

Under the Flores agreement, DHS can only detain alien minors for 20 days before releasing them to HHS, which places the minors in foster or shelter situations until they locate a sponsor. It encourages UACs to enter the United States illegally, and encourages the parents of UACs to hire smugglers to bring them to the United States. Further, it encourages people to bring their own children (or children whom they claim to be their own) when they make the perilous journey to the United States, thinking that it will make it more likely that they (the parents or purported parents) will be more likely to be released if they travel with children.
ICE explains: “While smugglers most often transport adult males, the number of women, children and family units seeking transport has increased dramatically in recent years. They often find themselves at risk for assault and abuse such as rape, beatings, kidnapping and robbery. Smugglers regularly overcrowd living and sleeping accommodations, and withhold food and water. In addition, individuals who are smuggled may be forced into human trafficking situations upon their arrival in the U.S. or their families may be extorted. Even knowing these dangers, the majority of people who travel with a smuggling organization do so voluntarily.”

Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR)

Definition:

Agency of the Department of Justice (DOJ) with jurisdiction over the immigration courts and the Board of immigration appeals (BIA).

Immigration Courts

Definition:

Courts with primary jurisdiction over removal proceedings. Immigration judges in these courts determine removability, set bond where they have jurisdiction, and can adjudicate applications for relief from removal, including asylum.

Talking Point:

The number of cases currently pending before the immigration courts is called the “caseload”. Through August 2018, there were 764,561 cases pending before the 395 immigration judges in 58 immigration courts throughout the nation, or almost 1,936 cases per immigration judge.

Backlog

Definition:

Cases that have been pending before the immigration courts for more than one year. The backlog more than doubled from FYs 2006 through 2015, primarily due to declining numbers of cases completed per year. There were 437,000 pending cases at the start of FY 2015, when the median pending time was 404 days.

Talking Points:

GAO has found that the immigration courts’ “case backlog — cases pending from previous years that remain open at the start of a new fiscal year — more than doubled from fiscal years [(FY)] 2006 through 2015 ... primarily due to declining cases completed per year.” The courts’ backlog increased from approximately 212,000 cases pending at the start of FY 2006, when the median pending time for those cases was 198 days, to 437,000 pending cases at the start of FY 2015, when the median pending time was 404 days.
“[C]ontinuances increased by 23 percent from [FY] 2006 to [FY] 2015,” and “immigration judge-related continuances increased by 54 percent from about 47,000 continuances issued in [FY] 2006 to approximately 72,000 continuances issued in [FY] 2015.” Department of Homeland Security (DHS) attorneys and others complained that the “frequent use of continuances [by immigration judges] resulted in delays and increased case lengths that contributed to the backlog.”
The number of cases the immigration courts “completed annually declined by 31 percent between [FY] 2006 and [FY] 2015 — from 287,000 cases completed in [FY] 2006 to about 199,000 completed in [FY] 2015”.
Total case completions declined, even though the number of immigration judges (IJs) increased 17 percent.
There are a number of reasons for the increase in the backlog:

Resources. There are too few judges and support staff to do the job adequately.
Increases in Benefits and Leave. IJs are government employees, and as they get more seniority, they receive more leave. This limits the amount of time that is spent hearing cases.
The “Surge”. The number of families and unaccompanied alien children (UACs) entering the United States began to increase in FY 2014.9 EOIR responded by “prioritizing” certain “cases involving migrants who had recently crossed the Southwest border and whom DHS had placed into removal proceedings.” This both swelled dockets and led to IJs being reassigned from already scheduled hearings. Those surge cases were also more complicated than cases involving single adult males, requiring more courtroom time (and continuances) per case.
Case Law. Recent federal court decisions have complicated IJs removal decisions, slowing proceedings and requiring additional continuances. In addition, recent decisions from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals have increased the number of aliens who are eligible for bond, requiring the scheduling of bond hearings and rescheduling of cases when aliens are released from custody.
Obama Administration Policies. Policies instituted in the last administration led to numerous continuances, as aliens sought counsel and applied for relief or discretionary closures, release, or termination based on those policies.
IJ Burnout. A crushing docket adds to the stress of being a judge, and as that stress rises, performance logically suffers. This, in turn, results in more reversals and remands, adding even more cases to the backlog.

Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA)

Definition:

Appellate tribunal with jurisdiction over appeals from immigration courts. Most aliens have a right to appeal immigration court decisions to the BIA.

Topics: Immigration Courts, Asylum

End of 9/1/2019 BORDER NEWS WATCH SPECIAL EDITION

9/11/2019 BORDER NEWS WATCH SPECIAL EDITION

Opinion
Let's Tax Illegal Aliens to Ease the Pressures on the Southern Border
How to Deal with Bahamians in U.S. Immigration Policy, Post-Dorian
Open Forum: Immigration: Five years later still a common-sense approach

The Media’s Willful Blindness

DHS ‘Reprograms’ Budgets as More Illegal Aliens Go Free _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

CBP
Migrant crossings at US border continue to decline: CBP chief
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Environmentalists sue over decision not to add Sonoran tortoise to endangered list
Fisher Border Wall El Paso, TX Extended Cut Version

The United States Loses $150 Billion Annually in Remittances

_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

B.C. men among 13 charged in massive cross-border drug ring

A $25B US counter-drug smuggling operation quietly thrives far south of the border
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Nogales POE Smuggling
'Despicable' drug-smuggling ring in Nogales roped in innocent drivers
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
US Military
Pentagon to keep 5,500 troops at Mexico border _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Gun Smuggling
Mexico to press U.S. on halting illegal flow of weapons - Ebrard
Lack of US Gun Control Provokes Record Bloodshed in Mexico
Man sentenced to 30 months for trying to smuggle assault-style rifles into Mexico

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Sanctuary:

· Narco-Planes Leave No Respite for Guatemala

· Wild West of Honduras: Home to Narcos and Their Politicians

· Gasoline Becomes Latest Black Market Commodity in Cuba

· Is Sonora the Swansong for Mexico’s Local Police Forces?

· Immigration Crackdowns Drive Cuban-on-Cuban Crime in South Mexico

· Peru’s Illegal Mining Hotspot Has Other Crimes to Worry About

· Rental Cars from Argentina Exchanged for Drugs on Bolivia Border

· 5 Takeaways from CICIG, Guatemala’s Anti-Corruption Experiment

· Duque Doubles Down on Colombia’s FARC Dissidents After Call to Arms

· Ex-FARC Mafia: Colombia’s Criminal Army Settling Down in Venezuela

· Paraguay Currency Exchanges Launder Vast Amounts of Brazil Drug Money

· China Fentanyl Ban Yet to Hamper Mexico’s Crime Groups

Letter Re above to the President Trump

Understanding Trump's Mexico Tariffs: A Reader's Digest Of 9 Important Points On The Border Crisis

Corruption Report to Congress