BORDER
NEWS WATCH SPECIAL EDITIONS - 1/2019
1/5/2019 BORDER NEWS
WATCH SPECIAL EDITION
US Congress
Failing to Put
Your (Appropriations) Money Where Your Mouth Is
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Opinion
Immigration among
the top concerns in 2019, poll shows
Americans want
border security, and the numbers show it
Letter: Better
ways to secure the border
Letter to the
Editor: Reader supports building the border wal
2020 Democrats
are making the same immigration mistake as Hillary Clinton
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The "Wall"
A Wall is a Wall is a Wall…
Contract awarded for
construction of California border wall
Trump's 'Operation Hold the Line' on the Border Wall
Trump's wall:
How much has been built so far?
'If I Come to
Your Home, Do You Want Me to Knock or Climb Through the Window?' Border Patrol
Agents Defend Shutdown
Trump With
Border Patrol, ICE Officials: ‘Without a Wall, You Cannot Have Border Security’
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GoFundMe Accounts
Man creates Go Fund Me
account for border tunnels
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DHS
‘Poorly Written’ Human
Trafficking Law, Court Cases Are Roots of Border Crisis, Says DHS
Pentagon asked
for more help, concertina wire, on border
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DoS
State
Department Announces New Public-Private Foreign Assistance Partnership for
Southern Mexico and Central America: Will it be effective and taint-free?
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USCIS
No
Billion-Dollar Immigration Slush Fund? It Already Exists
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Border
Patrol
Coast Guard
Medical Teams to Assist Border Patrol
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SIAs
Security report
focuses on Special Interest Aliens ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Samaritans
GV-Sahuarita group aids asylum-seekers in Tucson
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Illegal Immigration Policy
Best of 2018: 10 Immigration
Reads to Prepare for 2019
Trump
Administration Immigration Accomplishments
Trump's border wall would
stop less than half of illegal immigration in the U.S.
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lllegal Immigration
After years of
Trump’s dire warnings, a ‘crisis’ has hit the border but generates little urgency
AP FACT CHECK:
Visa overstays outpace border crossings _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Fox
News on Immigration
IMMIGRATION
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Illegal
Immigrants
Migrants’
Remittances to Mexico, Central America Jump to $53 Billion in 2018
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Sureno Gang
The Mexican Mafia affiliates
known for murder, extortion and drug trafficking: How the Surenos
gang tied to the California 'cop killer' has grown into one of the most feared
criminal enterprises in the US
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Central American Migrants
Mexico closes border shelter
for migrant caravan sparking protests
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Humanitarian
BorderLinks trip inspires locals
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VISAS
AP FACT CHECK:
Visa overstays outpace border crossings
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DACA
DACA Illegal Aliens Surged
Hispanic Vote, Flipping GOP Counties Blue ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
California
California and
Los Angeles County to Remove 1.5 Million Inactive Voters from Voter Rolls –
Settle Judicial Watch Federal Lawsuit ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
El
Chapo
El Chapo
trial: VZN confirms DEA nexus with Sinaloa Cartel
Sinaloa Cartel Heir Testified
Vicente Fox’s Chief Bodyguard Worked for Them
4 Takeaways So Far From the
US Trial Against ‘El Chapo’
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Cartels
EXCLUSIVE — Narco-Terrorist Threatens to Bomb Mexican Border State
Police HQ
Mexican Police Arrest Cartel Hitman for Execution of Border State Cops
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Politics
Trump's
'Operation Hold the Line' on the Border Wall
Trump With
Border Patrol, ICE Officials: ‘Without a Wall, You Cannot Have Border Security’
Trump’s migrant
deterrence strategy sees overcrowding, health threats and hundreds released on
city streets at US-Mexico border
FACT CHECK:
Mexico is not paying for the border wall, despite what Trump says
DACA Illegal Aliens Surged
Hispanic Vote, Flipping GOP Counties Blue
CNN Suggests
Trump to Blame for Illegals Attacking Border Patrol
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GOM
Mexico's
president to raise pay, boost economy along border so residents will have no
reason to cross into U.S.
Cartels, Mexican Military
Clash in Border City Before Presidential Visit
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Selected Incidents
Decorated US Special Forces
veteran confesses to attempting to smuggle 40kg of cocaine from Colombia
Suspected drug
tunnel discovered in Nogales, Sonora
Cochise County
Sheriff Dannels Makes Drug Bust
Border Patrol:
Migrant in distress atop snowy mountain rescued by agents
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Books
Double Wide ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Insight Crime News
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From ICE Acting
Director Homan:
Excerpt from: https://www.numbersusa.com/blog/blame-congress-rapid-rise-illegal-border-crossings
REFORM THE TRAFFICKING VICTIMS PROTECTION REAUTHORIZATION ACT (TVPRA) -- Commonly referred to as the William Wilberforce Act, TVPRA prohibits Border Patrol from quickly removing unaccompanied children from non-contiguous countries who attempt to cross the border illegally. UACs from Mexico and Canada can be quickly returned once Border Patrol is able to determine that they're not victims of human trafficking. But for minors from countries outside of Mexico and Canada, minors must be turned over to Health and Human Services, allowing them to stay in the country indefinitely.
REFORM THE ASYLUM PROCESS -- Under existing law, anyone apprehended at the border who makes a credible fear claim that passes the initial screening is released. Since 2008, there's been a 1700% spike in the number of credible fear claims made at the Southern border, and 80% pass the credible fear screening. However, only 20% of those who pass the credible fear screening are granted asylum by a federal judge.
MANDATE E-VERIFY -- Foreign nationals cross the border illegally because they can obtain jobs in the U.S. Homan said requiring all employers to use E-Verify would discourage most illegal immigration to the United States and dramatically reduce the number of illegal border crossings.
END SANCTUARY CITIES -- At last count, more than 300 sanctuary jurisdictions exist across the country, including California which recently passed legislation making it a sanctuary state. Jurisdictions that protect illegal aliens from removal encourages illegal border crossings because illegal aliens know they have hundreds of safe-havens to choose from once they get here.
TERMINATE FLORES AGREEMENT -- The spike in the apprehension of family units is a result of the Flores Agreement, which restricts the period of time that Border Patrol can detain family units. The Flores Agreement encourages illegal border crossers to cross with children, knowing that Border Patrol has to release them after a certain period of time. If BP were able to hold family units until their court date, family units would be less likely to cross the border illegally.
All of Homan's policy recommendations are included in Rep. Bob Goodlatte's H.R. 4760, the Securing America's Future Act, but not surprisingly, none are part of the ongoing DACA amnesty negotiations between House Republicans.
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Opinion
ICE and Ignorance
Each year we make
the journey from Arizona to our lake cabin in the north woods of
Wisconsin. During the last trip I was shaken from my boredom by flashing
red lights in my rear view mirror. The look on my wife’s face was a reminder
this wasn’t a new experience. As the officer approached, I kept my hands on the
steering wheel until he asked for my license and insurance card. Before
he went to his car, I motioned toward my handgun mounted partly hidden but
within reach. He smiled, nodded his head, returned to his car and soon returned
with my documents but no speeding ticket. While thanking him for his
service as a law officer I was stunned by him thanking me for “carrying.” His
words were spoken as he walked away. As close as I recall he said, “We’re
going to need you as much as you’ll need us.” Additional words weren’t
needed; I’d heard them before. Our nation is rapidly approaching the precipice
of a monumental conflict between two factions of its citizens. The
balance of this column is one of many reasons the Sheriff and I agreed a
symbolic match has been lit by the leftist.
In my last column,
“Can we survive the divide” I wrote about the rise of Progressive politics from
raw Communism as promoted by Saul Alinsky’s and his
book “Rules for Radicals.” Progressivism / Socialism is the genesis of
today’s Leftist activities. The failing of Hillary Clinton’s guaranteed
presidency destroyed the leftist plans and threw them into an uncontrollable
rage against anything pro President Trump. There is even a name for this,
“Trump Derangement Syndrome”, Childlike they could not accept defeat and began
attacking the President and anything Conservative.
ICE is a powerful
protector and defender of our nation, however, it not as well known as other
branches of government. It was carefully assembled after the 911 tragedy
to better protect us from expected terrorist attacks. Their activities have
been expanded greatly where needed. With a decade of involvement in the
Nogales Border Patrol Station as a member of the Citizen’s Advisory Board, I
know the incredible importance of the ICE agency. Following is a very recent
update of various types of duties and successes ICE performs to protect our
nation.
If ICE had not
been active, 981,000 pounds of the deadliest drugs would still be on our
streets. If ICE had not been charged with checking visas, over 800,000
individuals would not have been refused entry and stopped at our border. The
protection of our citizens and country must come first. 900 children
would still be in the hands of sex traffickers if ICE hadn’t searched and found
them. 2,000 sex predators would be on our streets. More than 10,000 children
would still be in the hands of foreign criminal organizations or still locked
in semi-trailers or automobile trunks desperately trying to survive. Without
ICE and DNA technology, 900 of 2,500 children would still be with an adult,
possibly an unknown adult, posing as a parent. There are many other ICE challenges
such as apprehending illegal aliens who have somehow made it past the limits of
the Border Patrol Agents.
If those wishing
to come to our country, why would they not go directly to a port of
entry? Many are U.S. Citizens who have gone to Mexico, where they
committed crimes, and are trying to return back to the USA, their homeland,
In a year’s tally
it is not unusual for more than seventy different countries to be represented
by ICE apprehensions of their citizens crossing illegally. Russians, Chinese,
Iranians and Syrians are just a few.
The MS-13 criminal
gang members from El Salvador cross our borders to start deadly gangs. These
bloodthirsty criminals literally butcher innocent citizens, especially young
children for no apparent reason. Select ICE agents are assigned to these
killers.
Criminals
regularly attempt to cross with children posing as family members. Later
it’s found that the children have been forced to swallow balloons containing
drugs, and will often turn them into child prostitutes.
One of the most
common reasons for crossing our border are pregnant women who are near the time
for birth so their children will become American citizens under the 14th
amendment to the Constitution. Of course that permits them to claim benefits
from our country. Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the
deadliest drug lord in history is now in our maximum security prison. No more
than a few years earlier his wife flew to California, gave birth to twins and
returned to her home in Mexico. We must attempt to understand why two of
El Chapo’s children were born and became citizens
because of our misinterpretation of an amendment to our Constitution. The
added amendment was primarily included for freed slaves to be included as U.S.
Citizens.
Those who are
uninformed are certain President Trump created the separation of children from
their parents by himself. Actually the President followed the law.
President Clinton happily signed the law sent to him from Congress in 1996.
That law separates children from parents who had entered the country
illegally. President Bush used the law as well. President Obama followed
suit enforcing the same law throughout his terms in office. Of course
thousands of illegal aliens came across during those years.
I had the
opportunity to visit one of the centers when a great number of children from
numerous countries reunited with parents. ICE and the Border Patrol worked as
expeditiously as possible to aid and attend to everyone’s needs. Contrary
to the leftist’s propaganda, “cages” is a terrible stretch of the imagination.
Large areas were divided by link fences very much like those used around tennis
courts. They were separated from other groups for obvious reasons. In one
particular case TV’s were brought in and wired so everyone could watch with
some enjoyment. I was told the TV’s in most cases were brought from the
agents homes.
Looking back to
the previous terms of Clinton, Bush and Obama where was the gnashing of teeth,
where were the hateful chants and more specific, where were the moronic threats
from leftist politicians who would threaten to abolish ICE? Of course none
of that occurred until President Trump came to office.
When I see
children and childlike adults carrying ABOLISH ICE placards during a
protest it causes me to wonder if the ability to read or think somehow avoided
them. Personally I can’t imagine anyone waving a placard that displays so
clearly one’s ignorance.
President Reagan
had a similar opinion of childish liberals. “The trouble with our Liberal
friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that
isn’t so.”
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.
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An applicant for asylum has the burden to demonstrate that he or she is eligible for that protection. To satisfy that burden, the applicant must prove that he or she is a refugee. A “refugee” is a person outside of his or her country of nationality or habitual residence who is “unable or unwilling” to return to that country “because of persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion.”
The Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) allows immigration officers — rather than judges — to order the deportation of arriving aliens who are inadmissible because of fraud or misrepresentation, because they have no documentation (like a passport or a visa) that would allow them to be admitted, or because they entered illegally and are apprehended within 100 miles of the border and 14 days of entry.
If an alien in expedited removal asserts a fear of persecution, the arresting officer will refer the alien to an asylum officer for a “credible fear interview”. If the asylum officer determines that the alien has a credible fear, the alien is placed in removal proceedings before an immigration judge, where the alien can file his or her application for asylum. Under the INA, the term “‘credible fear of persecution’ means that there is a significant possibility, taking into account the credibility of the statements made by the alien in support of the alien’s claim and such other facts as are known to the officer, that the alien could establish eligibility for asylum under section 208.” This is a very low standard, and credible fear is found in 75 to 90 percent of all cases in which an alien claims credible fear.
“Bond” is the term used in immigration for the release of an alien pending removal proceedings or removal. Aliens can be released on their own recognizance, or on a minimum bond of $1,500. Bond can be granted by either an immigration judge or U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
“Parole” is the term used in immigration for the release of an arriving alien. It can only be granted by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Again, DHS can release an alien on parole on his or her own recognizance, or for a sum of money as bond.
An alien under the age of 18 who enters the United States or is apprehended by DHS who does not have a parent or guardian in the United States. Under section 462 of the Homeland Security Act (2002), UACs must be turned over to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), not DHS, for detention.
Modified the rules governing the detention of unaccompanied alien children (UACs). Under the TVPRA, UACs must be turned over to HHS within 48 hours of detention by DHS, or identification as a UAC, and “promptly placed in the least restrictive setting that is in the best interest of the child,” generally meaning release to a family member or friend.
An agreement between the then-Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) and a class of alien minors in 1997, which is currently overseen by Judge Dolly Gee of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. In 2016, it was read to create a presumption in favor of the release of all alien minors, even those alien minors who arrive with their parents.
Agency of the Department of Justice (DOJ) with jurisdiction over the immigration courts and the Board of immigration appeals (BIA).
Courts with primary jurisdiction over removal proceedings. Immigration judges in these courts determine removability, set bond where they have jurisdiction, and can adjudicate applications for relief from removal, including asylum.
Cases that have been pending before the immigration courts for more than one year. The backlog more than doubled from FYs 2006 through 2015, primarily due to declining numbers of cases completed per year. There were 437,000 pending cases at the start of FY 2015, when the median pending time was 404 days.
Appellate tribunal with jurisdiction over appeals from immigration courts. Most aliens have a right to appeal immigration court decisions to the BIA.
Topics:
Immigration Courts, Asylum
Fact Sheet
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Southwest Border Tour, Spring 2019: Hosted by the Center for
Immigration Studies
Read Accounts
and View Pictures of Past Tours:
Unrest in the Rio Grande
Valley
Diligence on a Changing
Canadian Border
Constant Activity on the
California Border
Holding Steady in West Texas
A Washington Narrative Meets
Reality
Sunshine, Saguaros, and
Smugglers
Reflections from the Border
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Brandon Darby
BRANDON DARBY: Propaganda About Border in
Play, Mostly from Mainstream Media
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US Congress
Michigan GOP
congressman votes with Democrats despite support for border wall
Cracks
Appearing on Both Sides of Border Wall Impasse in Congress
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Opinion
Brother of
Slain Officer Ronil Singh Travels to Border with
Trump, Speaks Out Against ‘Illegal Immigrants’
Immigration Update:Voters Don't Think Government's Doing Enough to Stop
Illegal Immigration
Trump intends
on delivering on border security
Why we need to
trade the 'wall' for the 'door': COLUMN
We need a
‘smart fence’
Letter: Our border is in
crisis, plain and simple
Courts could
resolve wall impasse and end shutdown
If we chip in,
we can buy a border wall for $55
Border crisis
dictates (un)civil discourse
How Americans
see illegal immigration, the border wall and political compromise
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Opinion Polls
Poll Finds 79%
of Registered Voters Believe Illegal Immigration a Problem
Voters See
Border Wall As Effective But No Emergency
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The "Wall"
Can A Wall Pay for Itself? An
Update
Border fence
build-up has long history in San Diego
Past projects
show border wall building is complex, costly
'Not a Good
Answer': Privacy Advocates Reject Democratic Proposal for 'Technological Wall'
With Expanded Border Surveillance
WATCH: Border Agent
Explains to Trump Why a Wall Won't Solve Problems at the U.S.-Mexico Border
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The
"Wall": Israel
Here's another
border wall getting high marks
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The
"Wall": A National Emergency ?
Here's what
would happen if Trump declared a national emergency to build his border wall
Trump's threat
of national emergency declaration explained
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The "Wall": Fact Check
Fact Check:
Trump goes wall to wall on the wall
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DHS
Border Wall Fight Rages, DHS
Numbers Show Over 60,000 Enforcement Actions In December
‘Poorly Written’ Human
Trafficking Law, Court Cases Are Roots of Border Crisis, Says DHS
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The "Notice to Appear"
Supreme Court ruling has
'wide ramifications' here for border-crossing cases
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DoS
State
Department Announces New Public-Private Foreign Assistance Partnership for
Southern Mexico and Central America: Will it be effective and taint-free?
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USCIS
No
Billion-Dollar Immigration Slush Fund? It Already Exists
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Border
Patrol
Border Patrol
Tells Trump Many Illegally Cross Border Who AREN’T Latin American
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Border Patrol Museum
US Border
Patrol Museum opens a world on the evolving agency
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FOX News on Immigration
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Pima County Sheriff
Pima County
Sheriff on New York Times podcast: Border crisis is real
16 arrested in
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Terrorism
Terrorists and
the southern border: Myth and reality
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Illegal Immigration Policy
Trump Claims
There Is a Crisis at the Border. What’s the Reality?
Why we need to
trade the 'wall' for the 'door': COLUMN
Deaths of 2
children in immigration custody highlight language barriers along the border
Unfounded myths used to
justify policies of exclusion: Lancet
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Southwestern
Border Sheriffs
Southwest Sheriffs: “We Must
Secure Our Southern Border With Mexico”
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SIAs
Migrants from Terrorist
Nations Try to Enter U.S. Via Mexico at Record Rates—300% Hike in Bangladeshis
in Texas Alone
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Smuggling
In 2018, U.S.
Customs and Border Protection agents seized 2,400lbs of fentanyl
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Judicial
Supreme Court ruling has
'wide ramifications' here for border-crossing cases
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Central American Migrants
11/2018: Ami Horowitz: The Truth Behind the Caravan
New migrant caravan in
Honduras expected to head to US border: 'We're looking for refuge' ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Canada
Forget
Mexico: Democrats turn focus to porous Canadian border
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VISAS
AP FACT CHECK:
Visa overstays outpace border crossings
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Gangs
DHS: Two NY MS-13 Stabbing
Suspects Exploited Unaccompanied Minor Loophole to Enter U.S.
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California
NEW CALIFORNIA
GOVERNOR DOUBLES DOWN ON SANCTUARY STATE STATUS
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El
Chapo
Traffickers at
the El Chapo trial say drugs aren't smuggled through
open parts of the border
El Chapo
Trial: "There is no code of silence among narcos"
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Cartels
29 Facts About the Border and
Mexican Cartels You Need to Know
The tentacles of the Mexican
cartels in the United States
GRAPHIC — 30 Killed in
Mexican Cartel Clashes in Two Days near Texas
GRAPHIC: Mexican Cartel
Gunmen Castrate, Murder Rivals
Grisly Mexican
Gang Battle Near US Border Leaves 21 Dead
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Politics
Pres. Trump Urges Congress to
Fund Border Security
Congressional
Democrats are wobbling most on the wall
Kyrsten Sinema and Martha McSally divided on Trump's border wall
The Latest: No
movement in settling record-long shutdown
Fact-checking
Trump's address to the nation: President claims 'growing' crisis on southern
border
POTUS is right, and he needs to hold the line: It’s
About Immigration
CRISIS ON THE
BORDER
WATCH: Dem Rep.
Breaks From Democratic Talking Points On Border Wall
Excerpt from above: "Congress come
forward saying that it wouldn't work and it's stupid, when not only do we have
the people who are actually in charge of border
security saying it
would work and it's not stupid, we can see that it already does work in places
where there is a wall?"
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GOM
Mexican Police Arrest Two
Sinaloa Cartel Smugglers near U.S. Border
Mexican Police
Halt Human Smugglers’ Attempts to Cut Border Fence in California __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Selected Incidents
Amid border
wall debate, third drug tunnel found in less than a month along Arizona border
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Howard
Buffett
Border Cowboys: Howard
Buffett Is a Perfect Fit With Cochise County’s Legacy of Vigilantism
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Books
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Insight Crime News
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The following was excerpted from: Breitbart
News See: https://www.breitbart.com/border/2019/01/08/29-facts-about-the-border-and-mexican-cartels-you-need-to-know/
1) No one is proposing a wall between all of Mexico and the U.S.—the U.S. southern border is approximately 2,000 miles. The discussion is about 1,000 miles of physical barriers in regions that are heavily controlled by drug cartels.
2) The Texas border is about 1,200 miles of the approximately 2,000 miles of the total southern border. Most of that border is the Rio Grande, a river which varies in intensity with respect to currents.
3) Mexico has numerous states under the direct influence of drug cartels that have standing armies with access to RPGs, armored vehicles, artillery, and explosives. Most of Mexico has military forces patrolling streets to deal with cartel paramilitary forces.
4) The most violent drug cartels operate south of the Texas border. Factions of Los Zetas and the Gulf Cartel routinely allow their violence to spill over to the average person.
5) The border city of Tijuana has some of the highest murder statistics in all of Mexico. Despite record-setting figures, most of the victims tend to be tied to drug trafficking.
6) Border cities south of Texas like Reynosa, Tamaulipas, have much lower murder rates than Tijuana. Despite the difference, average citizens are often touched by cartels including shootouts, kidnappings, and other violent activities.
7) Most of the efforts by drug cartels to control migration happens South of the Texas border. Criminal organizations like the Reynosa faction of the Gulf Cartel profit more from human smuggling than drug trafficking.
8) The majority of tunnels are found on the Arizona and California borders. The tunnels are generally discovered in areas where there are population centers on both sides of the border and a wall or fence is already in place. Few have been found in Texas, where there is a river.
9) Most tunnels are discovered thanks to informants; law enforcement technology has rarely been successful in locating border tunnels.
10) Most of the border does not have a drug tunnel problem. They are typically found in Douglas and Nogales, Arizona, as well as Mexicali, San Diego/San Isidro, California.
11) Cartels
spend a lot of money building a tunnel–only to be discovered shortly after.
12)
Claims by Democrats about the low crime rates in El Paso are an example of
walls working. In areas with considerable border barriers such as El Paso, the
regional criminal groups turn more professional and shy away from illegal
immigration to traffic harder drugs through ports of entry.
14) A partially secured border is more deadly than an open or well-secured one. Previous administrations put barriers south of most cities in Arizona and California to funnel illicit traffic into areas that were easier to manage or too desolate to cross. This led to a spike in deaths since the desire of people to reach the U.S. pushes them to more remote and dangerous areas
15) Human smuggling and illegal immigration will continue to be a problem until economic opportunities improve in Mexico and in Central America.
16) Mexican transnational criminal groups and their leaders have grown beyond the size and power of the American mafia from Prohibition Era and Al Capone. Cartels are integrated into the Mexican political culture and bureaucracy. Legalization would not stop them.
17) The decriminalization of marijuana and the production of higher quality plants in the U.S. versus Mexico had a series of unspoken consequences. After marijuana from Mexico was not able to compete with U.S.-grown plants, some cartels shifted their model more toward human smuggling–becoming a factor in the 2014 migrant crisis and the current one at the U.S. border.
18) After marijuana decriminalization in the U.S., cartels shifted to increase their cultivation of poppies and the production of black tar heroin. In order to compete with the Asian product, cartels use fentanyl–playing a role in the current opioid overdose epidemic.
19) The U.S. State Department influences how hard authorities crack down on cartels. U.S. agencies have been told to “measure their law enforcement priorities with the State Department’s diplomatic concerns.”
20) A cartel’s power in Mexico comes not from kingpins, but from politicians, financiers, lawyers, and money launderers. U.S. authorities and diplomats routinely focus on kingpins such as “El Chapo” and his lieutenants, but never go after the rest of the circle.
21) The state of Tamaulipas, directly south of Texas, has two former governors currently indicted for their alleged roles in helping cartels. One remains in Mexico, while the other is in U.S. custody awaiting trial.
22) U.S. diplomats are negotiating and playing along with the same Mexican politicians that protect cartels, in the interest of trade and diplomacy.
23) Certain factions of drug cartels have crossed the line into terrorism and should classified as such. The designation would change the way the U.S. alienates them from banks, financial resources, and politicians. Other cartels would be forced to tone down their actions or risk similar consequences.
24) Worries of Middle Eastern terrorists crossing the southwestern border are at times mitigated by cartel members who are informants for U.S. agencies that enjoy handsome incentives to turn people in.
25) The more likely scenario for terrorism deals with people flying into Canada and then entering the U.S. with visas. Most people on the terror watch list who try to enter the U.S. across the southern border are Somalis or Kurds.
26) Certain organizations like Los Zetas and the Gulf Cartel present more of an imminent threat than foreign terrorists entering through the southern border.
27) Mexico’s ongoing cartel violence and drug war has led to more murders and disappearances than some international wars. Mexico has suffered more than 250,000 homicides and at least 30,000 disappearances since 2009.
28) Up to 70 percent of the women and girls from Central America who come through Mexico to the U.S. are sexually assaulted en route. Most women who leave Central America for the U.S. have the expectation of facing multiple abuses at the hands of cartel-connected human smugglers.
29) The State Department keeps U.S. law enforcement from being more aggressive against cartels. The State Department has everything to do with how law enforcement and intelligence agencies operate in Mexico–and any effort to secure the border without addressing the Department’s timidity in Mexico will likely fail or be less successful than it otherwise could be.
Ildefonso Ortiz is an award-winning journalist with Breitbart Texas. He co-founded the Cartel Chronicles project
with Brandon Darby and Stephen K. Bannon. You can follow him
on Twitter and on Facebook. He can be contacted
at Iortiz@breitbart.com.
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From ICE Acting
Director Homan:
Excerpt from: https://www.numbersusa.com/blog/blame-congress-rapid-rise-illegal-border-crossings
REFORM THE TRAFFICKING VICTIMS PROTECTION REAUTHORIZATION ACT (TVPRA) -- Commonly referred to as the William Wilberforce Act, TVPRA prohibits Border Patrol from quickly removing unaccompanied children from non-contiguous countries who attempt to cross the border illegally. UACs from Mexico and Canada can be quickly returned once Border Patrol is able to determine that they're not victims of human trafficking. But for minors from countries outside of Mexico and Canada, minors must be turned over to Health and Human Services, allowing them to stay in the country indefinitely.
REFORM THE ASYLUM PROCESS -- Under existing law, anyone apprehended at the border who makes a credible fear claim that passes the initial screening is released. Since 2008, there's been a 1700% spike in the number of credible fear claims made at the Southern border, and 80% pass the credible fear screening. However, only 20% of those who pass the credible fear screening are granted asylum by a federal judge.
MANDATE E-VERIFY -- Foreign nationals cross the border illegally because they can obtain jobs in the U.S. Homan said requiring all employers to use E-Verify would discourage most illegal immigration to the United States and dramatically reduce the number of illegal border crossings.
END SANCTUARY CITIES -- At last count, more than 300 sanctuary jurisdictions exist across the country, including California which recently passed legislation making it a sanctuary state. Jurisdictions that protect illegal aliens from removal encourages illegal border crossings because illegal aliens know they have hundreds of safe-havens to choose from once they get here.
TERMINATE FLORES AGREEMENT -- The spike in the apprehension of family units is a result of the Flores Agreement, which restricts the period of time that Border Patrol can detain family units. The Flores Agreement encourages illegal border crossers to cross with children, knowing that Border Patrol has to release them after a certain period of time. If BP were able to hold family units until their court date, family units would be less likely to cross the border illegally.
All of Homan's policy recommendations are included in Rep. Bob Goodlatte's H.R. 4760, the Securing America's Future Act, but not surprisingly, none are part of the ongoing DACA amnesty negotiations between House Republicans.
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Mexico
Here’s How Mexico Treats Illegal Immigrants
Authored by: Matt Palumbo
While combating illegal immigration has long been a bipartisan issue, the so-called anti-Trump “resistance” has decided that guilt tripping anyone who supports a sensible immigration policy is a viable political strategy. We’ve all heard the arguments; that opposing illegal immigration is preventing people from “just looking for a better life,” or over the past few months, is “separating families.” And of course there’s the most common insult, that enforcing immigration laws is “racist.”
But are America’s immigration laws, or our treatment of illegal immigrants uniquely awful?
To answer that question, let’s examine the situation in another nation: Mexico.
Mexico Rejects More Asylum Requests than the U.S.
Speaking of the rise in asylum request rejections under Trump, a writer at the American-Statesman noted a “dramatic” change. They write, “Immigration judges, who are employed by the Justice Department and not the judicial branch like other federal judges, rejected 61.8 percent of asylum cases decided in 2017, the highest denial rate since 2005.”
Meanwhile in Mexico, nearly 90 percent of asylum requests are denied (and the figures are similarly high for other Latin American countries, such as El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala).
Mexico Regulates Immigration Based on Race
I only bring this up, because for all the rhetoric about Trump’s supposed racism or disdain for certain immigrants, there is one country that does regulate their immigration flows by race, and that’s the country Trump is most accused of being racist against.
In Article 37 of Mexico’s General Law of Population, we learn that their Department of the Interior shall be able to deny foreigners entry into Mexico, if, among other reasons, they may disrupt the “domestic demographic equilibrium.” Additionally, Article 37 also states that immigrants can be removed if they’re detrimental to “economic or national interests.”
Mexico Deports More Central American Illegal Immigrants than the United States
In July 2014, former Mexican president, Enrique Peña Nieto and former president of Guatemala Otto Pérez Molina, announced the start of a migration security project called Plan Frontera Sur (Southern Border Plan). The U.S. has committed at least $100 million towards this plan to help aid Mexican border security, because it’s mutually beneficial. Both Mexico and the U.S. want to keep out Central American illegal immigrants (and they have to pass through Mexico to reach the U.S.)..
Since Plan Frontera Sur, Mexico has deported more central American illegal immigrants than we have in the U.S. Even CNN had to acknowledge that:
According to statistics from the US and Mexican governments compiled by the nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute, Mexico in 2015 apprehended tens of thousands more Central Americans in its country than the US did at its border, and in 2015 and 2016 it deported roughly twice as many Central Americans as the US did.Since migrant children are the hot-button topic in the American immigration debate currently; In 2014 there were 18,169 migrant children were deported from Mexico, and 8,350 deported to Central America the year before. From January 2015 to July 2016, 39,751 unaccompanied minors were put in the custody of Mexican authorities.
A report this year from Amnesty International concluded that “Mexican migration authorities are routinely turning back thousands of people from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala to their countries without considering the risk to their life and security upon return, in many cases violating international and domestic law by doing so.”
Mexico Has Their Own Southern Border – and Invisible Wall
For us much as Donald Trump is criticized by the political class in Mexico for wanting to beef up security on the U.S.-Mexico border, as previously mentioned, Mexico has accepted our help in enforcing their immigration laws on their own southern border with Guatemala. While they don’t have a literal border fence, they do have checkpoints, patrols, raids, etc. According to NPR:
Rather than amassing troops on its
border with Guatemala, Mexico stations migration agents, local and federal
police, soldiers and marines to create a kind of containment zone in Chiapas
state. With roving checkpoints and raids, Mexican migration agents have formed
a formidable deportation force.
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14 killed in shooting attacks in
Mexican border city
Read more at:
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Vaughan, he identified five actions that Congress can take to end the surge
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An applicant for asylum has the burden to demonstrate that he or she is eligible for that protection. To satisfy that burden, the applicant must prove that he or she is a refugee. A “refugee” is a person outside of his or her country of nationality or habitual residence who is “unable or unwilling” to return to that country “because of persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion.”
The Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) allows immigration officers — rather than judges — to order the deportation of arriving aliens who are inadmissible because of fraud or misrepresentation, because they have no documentation (like a passport or a visa) that would allow them to be admitted, or because they entered illegally and are apprehended within 100 miles of the border and 14 days of entry.
If an alien in expedited removal asserts a fear of persecution, the arresting officer will refer the alien to an asylum officer for a “credible fear interview”. If the asylum officer determines that the alien has a credible fear, the alien is placed in removal proceedings before an immigration judge, where the alien can file his or her application for asylum. Under the INA, the term “‘credible fear of persecution’ means that there is a significant possibility, taking into account the credibility of the statements made by the alien in support of the alien’s claim and such other facts as are known to the officer, that the alien could establish eligibility for asylum under section 208.” This is a very low standard, and credible fear is found in 75 to 90 percent of all cases in which an alien claims credible fear.
“Bond” is the term used in immigration for the release of an alien pending removal proceedings or removal. Aliens can be released on their own recognizance, or on a minimum bond of $1,500. Bond can be granted by either an immigration judge or U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
“Parole” is the term used in immigration for the release of an arriving alien. It can only be granted by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Again, DHS can release an alien on parole on his or her own recognizance, or for a sum of money as bond.
An alien under the age of 18 who enters the United States or is apprehended by DHS who does not have a parent or guardian in the United States. Under section 462 of the Homeland Security Act (2002), UACs must be turned over to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), not DHS, for detention.
Modified the rules governing the detention of unaccompanied alien children (UACs). Under the TVPRA, UACs must be turned over to HHS within 48 hours of detention by DHS, or identification as a UAC, and “promptly placed in the least restrictive setting that is in the best interest of the child,” generally meaning release to a family member or friend.
An agreement between the then-Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) and a class of alien minors in 1997, which is currently overseen by Judge Dolly Gee of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. In 2016, it was read to create a presumption in favor of the release of all alien minors, even those alien minors who arrive with their parents.
Agency of the Department of Justice (DOJ) with jurisdiction over the immigration courts and the Board of immigration appeals (BIA).
Courts with primary jurisdiction over removal proceedings. Immigration judges in these courts determine removability, set bond where they have jurisdiction, and can adjudicate applications for relief from removal, including asylum.
Cases that have been pending before the immigration courts for more than one year. The backlog more than doubled from FYs 2006 through 2015, primarily due to declining numbers of cases completed per year. There were 437,000 pending cases at the start of FY 2015, when the median pending time was 404 days.
Appellate tribunal with jurisdiction over appeals from immigration courts. Most aliens have a right to appeal immigration court decisions to the BIA.
Topics:
Immigration Courts, Asylum
Fact Sheet
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Southwest Border Tour, Spring
2019: Hosted by the Center for Immigration Studies
Read Accounts
and View Pictures of Past Tours:
Unrest in the Rio Grande
Valley
Diligence on a Changing
Canadian Border
Constant Activity on the
California Border
Holding Steady in West Texas
A Washington Narrative Meets
Reality
Sunshine, Saguaros, and
Smugglers
Reflections from the Border
End of 1/13/2019 BORDER
NEWS WATCH SPECIAL EDITION
1/18/2019 BORDER NEWS
WATCH SPECIAL EDITION
US Congress
Gang of
Bipartisan Senators Working on Immigration Compromise
House
Homeland Security Chairman Says ‘No’ Bill to Abolish ICE Will Be Brought
Through Committee
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Opinion
Terrorists and the southern border: Myth and reality
Let's Have a
Real Immigration Debate
Allen
West: Illegal Immigration Is a Threat to Our Sovereign Nation
Illegal
immigration and socialist strategy
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Opinion Polls
Half of Likely
Voters Think Government Is Doing Too Little to Stop Illegal Immigration
Poll Finds
79% of Registered Voters Believe Illegal Immigration a Problem __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Former ICE Director Homan
'The Caravans Aren't Going to Stop': Homan
Says Build the Wall, Close the Loopholes ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The "Wall"
El
Chapo trial shows why a wall won’t stop drugs from
crossing the US-Mexico border
Trump's threat of national emergency declaration explained
Trump
Right: Wall Building Is Big Business. Why? They Work
The
Constitution and the Use of the National Emergencies Act to Build the Border
Wall
Why
Democrats Oppose The Wall: Trump Will Actually Build It
Texas
sheriff: To hell with the wall right now
Trump
claims walls work, but the discovery of border tunnels says otherwise
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Border
Perspective
What
is life really like in border country, where Trump wants his wall? ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
CBP
CBP, Yuma Hospital Busy
With Illegal Alien Medical Issues
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ICE Website
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Border Patrol
Tucson
Border Patrol sector to get a new chief ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
287(g) Program
Urban
Sheriffs Quitting ICE’s 287(g) Program; Rural
Sheriffs Joining It
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The "Notice to Appear"
Supreme
Court ruling has 'wide ramifications' here for border-crossing cases
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DoS
State
Department Announces New Public-Private Foreign Assistance Partnership for
Southern Mexico and Central America: Will it be effective and taint-free?
State
Dep't Approved 8,482 Child Bride Requests
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USCIS
USCIS Should Take a Stand
Against Child Marriage
No
Billion-Dollar Immigration Slush Fund? It Already Exists
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Government Shutdown
Government
shutdown leads to nearly 43,000 canceled immigration hearings ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Illegal Immigration Policy
America's
Immigration Policy Needs an Overhaul
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Illegal
Immigration
Border
apprehensions increased in 2018 – especially for migrant families
For
Seventh Consecutive Year Visa Overstays Exceeded Illegal Border Crossings
Migrants
from Terrorist Nations Try to Enter U.S. Via Mexico at Record Rates—300% Hike
in Bangladeshis in Texas Alone
BP: Large
group of migrants crosses into New Mexico, immediately request medical care
Found at the
Border: Prayer Rugs, Illegal-alien Skeletons
Asians Now
Outpace Mexicans In Terms of Undocumented Growth
“Crisis” of
Seriously Ill Migrants Slams Border Patrol — TB, Pneumonia, Influenza,
Parasites
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FOX News on
Immigration
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Immigration
Fraud
Feds: Sonoran mayor, a convicted drug smuggler, used fraudulent
US passport for years
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Central American Migrants
Largest
single group of migrants ever tunnels under border wall in Arizona, says Border
Protection
Mexicans Fed
Up With “Migrant Caravans.” The Latest, 2,000 Strong, Has Stormed Into
Guatemala
Two
Paragraphs in the New York Times Prove Trump Right. But I'm not sure
they realize it
WATCH:
Guatemalan Cops Fire Tear Gas to Contain New Migrant Caravan
What happens
when the caravan gets to Mexico?
11/2018: Ami Horowitz: The Truth
Behind the Caravan
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UACs
Unaccompanied
Minors Housed by Feds Up 450 Percent After DACA
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Smuggling: Tunnels
As Trump
pushes for a wall, authorities keep finding drug tunnels under the U.S.-Mexico
border
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Judicial
Legality
of leaving water in 'veritable cemetery' questioned at Tucson border-aid trial
Supreme
Court ruling has 'wide ramifications' here for border-crossing cases
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U.S. Census
Federal
Judge Rules That Commerce Dept. Must Remove Citizenship Question From Census ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
No More Deaths
No More
Deaths volunteers begin trial among tensions with border authorities
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Gangs
Get MS-13
out of our schools
Immigration
loophole allows MS-13 gang members to go free
Illegal
Immigrants Who Stabbed Classmate “Previously Confirmed as MS-13 Gang Members”
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El Chapo
El Chapo Gave Bribe to AMLO’s 2006
Presidential Campaign, Says Court Brief
El
Chapo trial shows why a wall won’t stop drugs from
crossing the US-Mexico border
El
Chapo’s ‘right-hand, left-hand man’ describes the
boss’ jungle hideouts
El Chapo Trial: Chapo is on the
witness list says defense
El Chapo Trial: Cifuentes testifies
Enrique Pena Nieto received 100M from Chapo
El Chapo Trial: Mexican attorneys appeal to AMLO and supreme court to annul Chapo's
NYC extradition
El Chapo Trial: "There is no code of silence among narcos"
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Cartels
Fragmentation:
The Violent Tailspin of Mexico’s Dominant Cartels
Two Sinaloa
Cartel Smugglers Caught near U.S. with Weapons Cache
Grisly
Cartel Murders Spread in Mexican Border State near Arizona
From the
Archives: Child Sicarios
The
tentacles of the Mexican cartels in the United States
Mexican Cop
Allegedly Busted Smuggling Meth, Heroin into U.S.
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Huachicoleros
"Before,
as a policeman, I earned $270 a month. Now, with the fuel, I can get up to
$50,000"
Puebla/Central
de Abasto de Huixcolotla:
Federal Police Officer Killed by Presumed Huachicoleros
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Politics
President
Trump Did Not 'Manufacture' a Crisis at the Border; He Inherited One
See
Jim Chilton at 31 minute marker : President Trump Delivers Remarks at the
American Farm Bureau Federation's 100th Annual Convention
Sen.
Graham: 'The Real Damage Is a Broken Border,' Not a Partial Shutdown
Trump:
Human Traffickers With Bound and Gagged Women ‘Don’t Go Through Checkpoints'
WATCH:
Dem Rep. Breaks From Democratic Talking Points On Border Wall
Excerpt from above: "Congress come
forward saying that it wouldn't work and it's stupid, when not only do we have
the people who are actually in charge of border
security saying it
would work and it's not stupid, we can see that it already does work in places
where there is a wall?"
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GOM
El Chapo Gave Bribe to AMLO’s 2006
Presidential Campaign, Says Court Brief
Security
force deployment surge to protect Mexican oil infrastructure likely to reduce
ability to protect other assets
Tamaulipas:
Between the State, Crime and the Border __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Selected Incidents
North
Carolina Jail Releases Illegal Alien Charged with Murder
Brewster
County Deputies arrest 5 Mexican citizens, recover over 280 lbs of marijuana
Largest
Group Of Illegal Aliens Enters Yuma Sector
Previously
Deported Illegal Immigrant Accused of Sexually Assaulting Child
Illegal
immigrants from Romania, apprehended by US border patrols while trying to enter
from Mexico
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New
Mexico
Border
rancher: 'We’ve found prayer rugs out here. It’s unreal' _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Arizona
Effort
to make Tucson a "sanctuary City" conflicts with state law, city
attorney says
Arizona
sheriff wants Trump to put foot down on border security
Arizona
Border Area Ranchers Issue Invite To Pelosi, “We’ll Send A Plane”
Milstead, After
White House Event, Says Wall Needed For Border ‘Crisis’
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Utah
The Utah
National Guard has built walls along the Mexican border. The job helped shape
the immigration views of some
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Texas
Why
We Need Mexico
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California
Illegal
Aliens tell of ballot-harvesting in California to flip the House blue
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Political
Stunts
Conservative
Activist Jumps Pelosi's Fence With Illegal Aliens to Prove a Vital Point
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Books
Double Wide
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Insight Crime News
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The following was excerpted from: Breitbart
News See: https://www.breitbart.com/border/2019/01/08/29-facts-about-the-border-and-mexican-cartels-you-need-to-know/
1) No one is proposing a wall between all of Mexico and the U.S.—the U.S. southern border is approximately 2,000 miles. The discussion is about 1,000 miles of physical barriers in regions that are heavily controlled by drug cartels.
2) The Texas border is about 1,200 miles of the approximately 2,000 miles of the total southern border. Most of that border is the Rio Grande, a river which varies in intensity with respect to currents.
3) Mexico has numerous states under the direct influence of drug cartels that have standing armies with access to RPGs, armored vehicles, artillery, and explosives. Most of Mexico has military forces patrolling streets to deal with cartel paramilitary forces.
4) The most violent drug cartels operate south of the Texas border. Factions of Los Zetas and the Gulf Cartel routinely allow their violence to spill over to the average person.
5) The border city of Tijuana has some of the highest murder statistics in all of Mexico. Despite record-setting figures, most of the victims tend to be tied to drug trafficking.
6) Border cities south of Texas like Reynosa, Tamaulipas, have much lower murder rates than Tijuana. Despite the difference, average citizens are often touched by cartels including shootouts, kidnappings, and other violent activities.
7) Most of the efforts by drug cartels to control migration happens South of the Texas border. Criminal organizations like the Reynosa faction of the Gulf Cartel profit more from human smuggling than drug trafficking.
8) The majority of tunnels are found on the Arizona and California borders. The tunnels are generally discovered in areas where there are population centers on both sides of the border and a wall or fence is already in place. Few have been found in Texas, where there is a river.
9) Most tunnels are discovered thanks to informants; law enforcement technology has rarely been successful in locating border tunnels.
10) Most of the border does not have a drug tunnel problem. They are typically found in Douglas and Nogales, Arizona, as well as Mexicali, San Diego/San Isidro, California.
11) Cartels
spend a lot of money building a tunnel–only to be discovered shortly after.
12)
Claims by Democrats about the low crime rates in El Paso are an example of
walls working. In areas with considerable border barriers such as El Paso, the
regional criminal groups turn more professional and shy away from illegal
immigration to traffic harder drugs through ports of entry.
14) A partially secured border is more deadly than an open or well-secured one. Previous administrations put barriers south of most cities in Arizona and California to funnel illicit traffic into areas that were easier to manage or too desolate to cross. This led to a spike in deaths since the desire of people to reach the U.S. pushes them to more remote and dangerous areas
15) Human smuggling and illegal immigration will continue to be a problem until economic opportunities improve in Mexico and in Central America.
16) Mexican transnational criminal groups and their leaders have grown beyond the size and power of the American mafia from Prohibition Era and Al Capone. Cartels are integrated into the Mexican political culture and bureaucracy. Legalization would not stop them.
17) The decriminalization of marijuana and the production of higher quality plants in the U.S. versus Mexico had a series of unspoken consequences. After marijuana from Mexico was not able to compete with U.S.-grown plants, some cartels shifted their model more toward human smuggling–becoming a factor in the 2014 migrant crisis and the current one at the U.S. border.
18) After marijuana decriminalization in the U.S., cartels shifted to increase their cultivation of poppies and the production of black tar heroin. In order to compete with the Asian product, cartels use fentanyl–playing a role in the current opioid overdose epidemic.
19) The U.S. State Department influences how hard authorities crack down on cartels. U.S. agencies have been told to “measure their law enforcement priorities with the State Department’s diplomatic concerns.”
20) A cartel’s power in Mexico comes not from kingpins, but from politicians, financiers, lawyers, and money launderers. U.S. authorities and diplomats routinely focus on kingpins such as “El Chapo” and his lieutenants, but never go after the rest of the circle.
21) The state of Tamaulipas, directly south of Texas, has two former governors currently indicted for their alleged roles in helping cartels. One remains in Mexico, while the other is in U.S. custody awaiting trial.
22) U.S. diplomats are negotiating and playing along with the same Mexican politicians that protect cartels, in the interest of trade and diplomacy.
23) Certain factions of drug cartels have crossed the line into terrorism and should classified as such. The designation would change the way the U.S. alienates them from banks, financial resources, and politicians. Other cartels would be forced to tone down their actions or risk similar consequences.
24) Worries of Middle Eastern terrorists crossing the southwestern border are at times mitigated by cartel members who are informants for U.S. agencies that enjoy handsome incentives to turn people in.
25) The more likely scenario for terrorism deals with people flying into Canada and then entering the U.S. with visas. Most people on the terror watch list who try to enter the U.S. across the southern border are Somalis or Kurds.
26) Certain organizations like Los Zetas and the Gulf Cartel present more of an imminent threat than foreign terrorists entering through the southern border.
27) Mexico’s ongoing cartel violence and drug war has led to more murders and disappearances than some international wars. Mexico has suffered more than 250,000 homicides and at least 30,000 disappearances since 2009.
28) Up to 70 percent of the women and girls from Central America who come through Mexico to the U.S. are sexually assaulted en route. Most women who leave Central America for the U.S. have the expectation of facing multiple abuses at the hands of cartel-connected human smugglers.
29) The State Department keeps U.S. law enforcement from being more aggressive against cartels. The State Department has everything to do with how law enforcement and intelligence agencies operate in Mexico–and any effort to secure the border without addressing the Department’s timidity in Mexico will likely fail or be less successful than it otherwise could be.
Ildefonso Ortiz is an award-winning journalist with Breitbart Texas. He co-founded the Cartel Chronicles
project with Brandon Darby and Stephen K. Bannon. You can follow him
on Twitter and on Facebook. He can be contacted
at Iortiz@breitbart.com.
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From ICE Acting
Director Homan:
Excerpt from: https://www.numbersusa.com/blog/blame-congress-rapid-rise-illegal-border-crossings
REFORM THE TRAFFICKING VICTIMS PROTECTION REAUTHORIZATION ACT (TVPRA) -- Commonly referred to as the William Wilberforce Act, TVPRA prohibits Border Patrol from quickly removing unaccompanied children from non-contiguous countries who attempt to cross the border illegally. UACs from Mexico and Canada can be quickly returned once Border Patrol is able to determine that they're not victims of human trafficking. But for minors from countries outside of Mexico and Canada, minors must be turned over to Health and Human Services, allowing them to stay in the country indefinitely.
REFORM THE ASYLUM PROCESS -- Under existing law, anyone apprehended at the border who makes a credible fear claim that passes the initial screening is released. Since 2008, there's been a 1700% spike in the number of credible fear claims made at the Southern border, and 80% pass the credible fear screening. However, only 20% of those who pass the credible fear screening are granted asylum by a federal judge.
MANDATE E-VERIFY -- Foreign nationals cross the border illegally because they can obtain jobs in the U.S. Homan said requiring all employers to use E-Verify would discourage most illegal immigration to the United States and dramatically reduce the number of illegal border crossings.
END SANCTUARY CITIES -- At last count, more than 300 sanctuary jurisdictions exist across the country, including California which recently passed legislation making it a sanctuary state. Jurisdictions that protect illegal aliens from removal encourages illegal border crossings because illegal aliens know they have hundreds of safe-havens to choose from once they get here.
TERMINATE FLORES AGREEMENT -- The spike in the apprehension of family units is a result of the Flores Agreement, which restricts the period of time that Border Patrol can detain family units. The Flores Agreement encourages illegal border crossers to cross with children, knowing that Border Patrol has to release them after a certain period of time. If BP were able to hold family units until their court date, family units would be less likely to cross the border illegally.
All of Homan's policy recommendations are included in Rep. Bob Goodlatte's H.R. 4760, the Securing America's Future Act, but not surprisingly, none are part of the ongoing DACA amnesty negotiations between House Republicans.
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.
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An applicant for asylum has the burden to demonstrate that he or she is eligible for that protection. To satisfy that burden, the applicant must prove that he or she is a refugee. A “refugee” is a person outside of his or her country of nationality or habitual residence who is “unable or unwilling” to return to that country “because of persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion.”
The Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) allows immigration officers — rather than judges — to order the deportation of arriving aliens who are inadmissible because of fraud or misrepresentation, because they have no documentation (like a passport or a visa) that would allow them to be admitted, or because they entered illegally and are apprehended within 100 miles of the border and 14 days of entry.
If an alien in expedited removal asserts a fear of persecution, the arresting officer will refer the alien to an asylum officer for a “credible fear interview”. If the asylum officer determines that the alien has a credible fear, the alien is placed in removal proceedings before an immigration judge, where the alien can file his or her application for asylum. Under the INA, the term “‘credible fear of persecution’ means that there is a significant possibility, taking into account the credibility of the statements made by the alien in support of the alien’s claim and such other facts as are known to the officer, that the alien could establish eligibility for asylum under section 208.” This is a very low standard, and credible fear is found in 75 to 90 percent of all cases in which an alien claims credible fear.
“Bond” is the term used in immigration for the release of an alien pending removal proceedings or removal. Aliens can be released on their own recognizance, or on a minimum bond of $1,500. Bond can be granted by either an immigration judge or U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
“Parole” is the term used in immigration for the release of an arriving alien. It can only be granted by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Again, DHS can release an alien on parole on his or her own recognizance, or for a sum of money as bond.
An alien under the age of 18 who enters the United States or is apprehended by DHS who does not have a parent or guardian in the United States. Under section 462 of the Homeland Security Act (2002), UACs must be turned over to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), not DHS, for detention.
Modified the rules governing the detention of unaccompanied alien children (UACs). Under the TVPRA, UACs must be turned over to HHS within 48 hours of detention by DHS, or identification as a UAC, and “promptly placed in the least restrictive setting that is in the best interest of the child,” generally meaning release to a family member or friend.
An agreement between the then-Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) and a class of alien minors in 1997, which is currently overseen by Judge Dolly Gee of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. In 2016, it was read to create a presumption in favor of the release of all alien minors, even those alien minors who arrive with their parents.
Agency of the Department of Justice (DOJ) with jurisdiction over the immigration courts and the Board of immigration appeals (BIA).
Courts with primary jurisdiction over removal proceedings. Immigration judges in these courts determine removability, set bond where they have jurisdiction, and can adjudicate applications for relief from removal, including asylum.
Cases that have been pending before the immigration courts for more than one year. The backlog more than doubled from FYs 2006 through 2015, primarily due to declining numbers of cases completed per year. There were 437,000 pending cases at the start of FY 2015, when the median pending time was 404 days.
Appellate tribunal with jurisdiction over appeals from immigration courts. Most aliens have a right to appeal immigration court decisions to the BIA.
Topics:
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2019: Hosted by the Center for Immigration Studies
Read Accounts
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Valley
Diligence on a Changing
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A Washington Narrative Meets
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Smugglers
Reflections from the Border
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US Congress
How
Can Congress Address the Current Border Crisis?
House
Democrats to Offer Border Funding Bill
Government
Reopening Puts Onus on Democrats to Negotiate Immigration Enforcement in Good
Faith, Says FAIR
Senate
Blocks DACA-for-Wall Proposal from a Floor Vote
A
Baker's Dozen of Senators Did Not Vote along Party Lines on the Wall
Pres. Trump
Offers Amnesty for Border Wall Trade
Rep. Zoe
Lofgren & Sen. Dianne Feinstein Introduce Ag Amnesty Bill
McSally at border in Nogales:
'No opportunity to vote yet' on gov't shutdown
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Opinion
O'Conor: Barrier alone not
enough to solve border crisis
Who's
in charge here?
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Opinion Polls
Polls Show
Voters Are Divided About 'The Wall,' United in Opposition to Illegal
Immigration, Strongly Favor Cuts to Legal Immigration ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The "Wall"
Walls
Work. Just Ask This Community College on the Southern Border
We do need a
wall for many reasons
How
the Wall Became America's Dividing Line
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Border Perspective
Across
Mexico border from safe El Paso, violence surges in Juárez
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DHS
DHS
reinstating 300 furloughed employees to carry out critical tasks
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ICE Website
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Border Patrol
Border
Agents Help Mexican Police Bust Human Smuggling Stash House
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Border Patrol Union
Border
Patrol union chief: New Trump administration policy is 'incentivizing illegal
immigration'
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Border Security Technology
Portable
ultrasound scanner identifies underage victims, border-crossers
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Asylum
US
to begin returning asylum-seekers to Mexico
US
to begin sending asylum seekers to Mexico for duration of
immigration proceedings
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DEA
Ex-DEA
agent gets probation for selling ARs to ‘members of a
drug trafficking organization’ on border
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USCIS
DHS
reinstating 300 furloughed employees to carry out critical tasks
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DoS
U.S. Combats
Child Marriage Abroad, Grants Thousands of Spousal Visas for Immigrant Kids
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Terrorism
Case
of terror suspect caught sneaking into U.S. roils immigration debate
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Illegal Immigration Policy
Guestworker Programs Remain Open
to Countries with High Overstay Rates
Report
Shows Poor Immigrant Integration Outcomes Worldwide
Mexicans are
paying in blood for our Central American amnesty policies
Reformers Worry DACA Work Permit Amnesty-for-Wall
Funding will Encourage More Caravans
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Illegal
Immigration: Bert Corona
Bert
Corona: Father of the Illegal Immigration Movement
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FOX News on
Immigration
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Illegal
Immigration
WATCH:
People in Mexico Hurl Rocks at Border Patrol Agents After Illegal Crossing
110 Migrants
Climbing Outdated Border Fence Caught on Camera ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Tunnels
Border
Patrol agents have discovered at least 230 cross-border tunnels since 1990
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Birthright Citizenship
Michael
Schaller: The contested origins of birthright citizenship
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Central American Migrants
53 Large
Group Migrant Border Crossings Already Occurred in 2019, Say Feds
Report:
“Migrant Caravan” Now 5,600 Strong; Criminals Along for the March North
Mexico
Made It Easier for Migrant Caravan to Get to US
Video Shows
376 Central Americans Illegally Entering US From Mexico
11/2018: Ami Horowitz: The Truth
Behind the Caravan
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UACs
Mexicans are
paying in blood for our Central American amnesty policies
New
Reports Reveal Trump Administration Did Develop a Policy to Separate Families
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Families
Mexicans are
paying in blood for our Central American amnesty policies
Families
keep trying to cross border, wall or no wall
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Judicial
Conveyor
Belt Justice: An Inside Look at Immigration Courts
No More
Deaths volunteers found guilty for water drops in
protected wilderness
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DACA
Mexicans are
paying in blood for our Central American amnesty policies
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No More Deaths
No More
Deaths volunteers found guilty for water drops in protected wilderness
4
Humanitarian Aid Volunteers Convicted for Leaving Food and Water to Help
Migrants at Refuge
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Gangs
Secure
Borders Protect Immigrant Communities
Yuma
Sector BP agents arrest convicted felon, gang member
Illegal
Immigrants Who Stabbed Classmate “Previously Confirmed as MS-13 Gang Members”
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El Chapo
El Chapo Trial: Government submits verdict sheets
El Chapo Trial: "He was still attempting to breathe and
that's how we dumped him in the hole and buried him"
El Chapo Trial: Emma sits stone-faced as Damaso
Lopez Nunez implicates her in tunnel escape
READ:
El Chapo Traffickers Used Legal Points of Entry, Sea
Routes, and Secret Tunnels to Smuggle Drugs Into the United States
10
of the most shocking twists and turns of El Chapo’s
drug-trafficking trial, so far
Chapo Guzman's mistress
tells of tunnel escape with 'naked' drug lord as Mexican forces swooped
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GOM
Juárez Reinforces Six Police
Stations After Mexican Cartel Attacks
Across
Mexico border from safe El Paso, violence surges in Juárez
Border
Agents Help Mexican Police Bust Human Smuggling Stash House
Mexico
screening for criminals in latest migrant caravan; Salvadoran gang member
wanted in murder is nabbed
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Selected Incidents
Yuma
Sector BP agents arrest convicted felon, gang member
Motive
unclear in Nevada slayings Trump thrust in spotlight
llegal immigrant linked to
Nevada killing spree was from El Salvador, according to ICE
Creepy
video shows illegals climbing smuggler’s ladder,
entering Yuma Sector
306
migrants apprehended near Lordsburg; migrant discovered with flesh-eating
bacteria
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New
Mexico
Cartels
Reopen Old Migrant Routes Through Arizona, New Mexico
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Arizona
Cartels
Reopen Old Migrant Routes Through Arizona, New Mexico
Drug
Smuggling, Theft, Violence: Uneasy Ranchers Worry about Rising Crime on the
Arizona-Mexico Border
US
ranchers near Mexico weigh in on border wall, shutdown talks
Drug
Smuggling, Theft, Violence: Uneasy Ranchers Worry about Rising Crime on the
Arizona-Mexico Border
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Texas
Texas
Border Sheriffs: There is No Crisis and We Don’t Want Trump’s Wall
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California
Illegal
Aliens tell of ballot-harvesting in California to flip the House blue
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Trump
unveils new slogan for border wall
New
Reports Reveal Trump Administration Did Develop a Policy to Separate Families
There's
Never Been a Better Time to Bribe TSA and CBP Officers Than During President Trump's Shutdown
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The following was excerpted from: Breitbart
News See: https://www.breitbart.com/border/2019/01/08/29-facts-about-the-border-and-mexican-cartels-you-need-to-know/
1) No one is proposing a wall between all of Mexico and the U.S.—the U.S. southern border is approximately 2,000 miles. The discussion is about 1,000 miles of physical barriers in regions that are heavily controlled by drug cartels.
2) The Texas border is about 1,200 miles of the approximately 2,000 miles of the total southern border. Most of that border is the Rio Grande, a river which varies in intensity with respect to currents.
3) Mexico has numerous states under the direct influence of drug cartels that have standing armies with access to RPGs, armored vehicles, artillery, and explosives. Most of Mexico has military forces patrolling streets to deal with cartel paramilitary forces.
4) The most violent drug cartels operate south of the Texas border. Factions of Los Zetas and the Gulf Cartel routinely allow their violence to spill over to the average person.
5) The border city of Tijuana has some of the highest murder statistics in all of Mexico. Despite record-setting figures, most of the victims tend to be tied to drug trafficking.
6) Border cities south of Texas like Reynosa, Tamaulipas, have much lower murder rates than Tijuana. Despite the difference, average citizens are often touched by cartels including shootouts, kidnappings, and other violent activities.
7) Most of the efforts by drug cartels to control migration happens South of the Texas border. Criminal organizations like the Reynosa faction of the Gulf Cartel profit more from human smuggling than drug trafficking.
8) The majority of tunnels are found on the Arizona and California borders. The tunnels are generally discovered in areas where there are population centers on both sides of the border and a wall or fence is already in place. Few have been found in Texas, where there is a river.
9) Most tunnels are discovered thanks to informants; law enforcement technology has rarely been successful in locating border tunnels.
10) Most of the border does not have a drug tunnel problem. They are typically found in Douglas and Nogales, Arizona, as well as Mexicali, San Diego/San Isidro, California.
11) Cartels
spend a lot of money building a tunnel–only to be discovered shortly after.
12)
Claims by Democrats about the low crime rates in El Paso are an example of
walls working. In areas with considerable border barriers such as El Paso, the
regional criminal groups turn more professional and shy away from illegal
immigration to traffic harder drugs through ports of entry.
14) A partially secured border is more deadly than an open or well-secured one. Previous administrations put barriers south of most cities in Arizona and California to funnel illicit traffic into areas that were easier to manage or too desolate to cross. This led to a spike in deaths since the desire of people to reach the U.S. pushes them to more remote and dangerous areas
15) Human smuggling and illegal immigration will continue to be a problem until economic opportunities improve in Mexico and in Central America.
16) Mexican transnational criminal groups and their leaders have grown beyond the size and power of the American mafia from Prohibition Era and Al Capone. Cartels are integrated into the Mexican political culture and bureaucracy. Legalization would not stop them.
17) The decriminalization of marijuana and the production of higher quality plants in the U.S. versus Mexico had a series of unspoken consequences. After marijuana from Mexico was not able to compete with U.S.-grown plants, some cartels shifted their model more toward human smuggling–becoming a factor in the 2014 migrant crisis and the current one at the U.S. border.
18) After marijuana decriminalization in the U.S., cartels shifted to increase their cultivation of poppies and the production of black tar heroin. In order to compete with the Asian product, cartels use fentanyl–playing a role in the current opioid overdose epidemic.
19) The U.S. State Department influences how hard authorities crack down on cartels. U.S. agencies have been told to “measure their law enforcement priorities with the State Department’s diplomatic concerns.”
20) A cartel’s power in Mexico comes not from kingpins, but from politicians, financiers, lawyers, and money launderers. U.S. authorities and diplomats routinely focus on kingpins such as “El Chapo” and his lieutenants, but never go after the rest of the circle.
21) The state of Tamaulipas, directly south of Texas, has two former governors currently indicted for their alleged roles in helping cartels. One remains in Mexico, while the other is in U.S. custody awaiting trial.
22) U.S. diplomats are negotiating and playing along with the same Mexican politicians that protect cartels, in the interest of trade and diplomacy.
23) Certain factions of drug cartels have crossed the line into terrorism and should classified as such. The designation would change the way the U.S. alienates them from banks, financial resources, and politicians. Other cartels would be forced to tone down their actions or risk similar consequences.
24) Worries of Middle Eastern terrorists crossing the southwestern border are at times mitigated by cartel members who are informants for U.S. agencies that enjoy handsome incentives to turn people in.
25) The more likely scenario for terrorism deals with people flying into Canada and then entering the U.S. with visas. Most people on the terror watch list who try to enter the U.S. across the southern border are Somalis or Kurds.
26) Certain organizations like Los Zetas and the Gulf Cartel present more of an imminent threat than foreign terrorists entering through the southern border.
27) Mexico’s ongoing cartel violence and drug war has led to more murders and disappearances than some international wars. Mexico has suffered more than 250,000 homicides and at least 30,000 disappearances since 2009.
28) Up to 70 percent of the women and girls from Central America who come through Mexico to the U.S. are sexually assaulted en route. Most women who leave Central America for the U.S. have the expectation of facing multiple abuses at the hands of cartel-connected human smugglers.
29) The State Department keeps U.S. law enforcement from being more aggressive against cartels. The State Department has everything to do with how law enforcement and intelligence agencies operate in Mexico–and any effort to secure the border without addressing the Department’s timidity in Mexico will likely fail or be less successful than it otherwise could be.
Ildefonso Ortiz is an award-winning journalist with Breitbart Texas. He co-founded the Cartel Chronicles
project with Brandon Darby and Stephen K. Bannon. You can follow him
on Twitter and on Facebook. He can be contacted
at Iortiz@breitbart.com.
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From ICE Acting Director
Homan:
Excerpt from: https://www.numbersusa.com/blog/blame-congress-rapid-rise-illegal-border-crossings
REFORM THE TRAFFICKING VICTIMS PROTECTION REAUTHORIZATION ACT (TVPRA) -- Commonly referred to as the William Wilberforce Act, TVPRA prohibits Border Patrol from quickly removing unaccompanied children from non-contiguous countries who attempt to cross the border illegally. UACs from Mexico and Canada can be quickly returned once Border Patrol is able to determine that they're not victims of human trafficking. But for minors from countries outside of Mexico and Canada, minors must be turned over to Health and Human Services, allowing them to stay in the country indefinitely.
REFORM THE ASYLUM PROCESS -- Under existing law, anyone apprehended at the border who makes a credible fear claim that passes the initial screening is released. Since 2008, there's been a 1700% spike in the number of credible fear claims made at the Southern border, and 80% pass the credible fear screening. However, only 20% of those who pass the credible fear screening are granted asylum by a federal judge.
MANDATE E-VERIFY -- Foreign nationals cross the border illegally because they can obtain jobs in the U.S. Homan said requiring all employers to use E-Verify would discourage most illegal immigration to the United States and dramatically reduce the number of illegal border crossings.
END SANCTUARY CITIES -- At last count, more than 300 sanctuary jurisdictions exist across the country, including California which recently passed legislation making it a sanctuary state. Jurisdictions that protect illegal aliens from removal encourages illegal border crossings because illegal aliens know they have hundreds of safe-havens to choose from once they get here.
TERMINATE FLORES AGREEMENT -- The spike in the apprehension of family units is a result of the Flores Agreement, which restricts the period of time that Border Patrol can detain family units. The Flores Agreement encourages illegal border crossers to cross with children, knowing that Border Patrol has to release them after a certain period of time. If BP were able to hold family units until their court date, family units would be less likely to cross the border illegally.
All of Homan's policy recommendations are included in Rep. Bob Goodlatte's H.R. 4760, the Securing America's Future Act, but not surprisingly, none are part of the ongoing DACA amnesty negotiations between House Republicans.
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Mexico
Here’s How Mexico Treats Illegal
Immigrants
Authored by: Matt Palumbo
While combating illegal immigration has long been a bipartisan issue, the so-called anti-Trump “resistance” has decided that guilt tripping anyone who supports a sensible immigration policy is a viable political strategy. We’ve all heard the arguments; that opposing illegal immigration is preventing people from “just looking for a better life,” or over the past few months, is “separating families.” And of course there’s the most common insult, that enforcing immigration laws is “racist.”
But are America’s immigration laws, or our treatment of illegal immigrants uniquely awful?
To answer that question, let’s examine the situation in another nation: Mexico.
Mexico Rejects More Asylum Requests than the U.S.
Speaking of the rise in asylum request rejections under Trump, a writer at the American-Statesman noted a “dramatic” change. They write, “Immigration judges, who are employed by the Justice Department and not the judicial branch like other federal judges, rejected 61.8 percent of asylum cases decided in 2017, the highest denial rate since 2005.”
Meanwhile in Mexico, nearly 90 percent of asylum requests are denied (and the figures are similarly high for other Latin American countries, such as El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala).
Mexico Regulates Immigration Based on Race
I only bring this up, because for all the rhetoric about Trump’s supposed racism or disdain for certain immigrants, there is one country that does regulate their immigration flows by race, and that’s the country Trump is most accused of being racist against.
In Article 37 of Mexico’s General Law of Population, we learn that their Department of the Interior shall be able to deny foreigners entry into Mexico, if, among other reasons, they may disrupt the “domestic demographic equilibrium.” Additionally, Article 37 also states that immigrants can be removed if they’re detrimental to “economic or national interests.”
Mexico Deports More Central American Illegal Immigrants than the United States
In July 2014, former Mexican president, Enrique Peña Nieto and former president of Guatemala Otto Pérez Molina, announced the start of a migration security project called Plan Frontera Sur (Southern Border Plan). The U.S. has committed at least $100 million towards this plan to help aid Mexican border security, because it’s mutually beneficial. Both Mexico and the U.S. want to keep out Central American illegal immigrants (and they have to pass through Mexico to reach the U.S.)..
Since Plan Frontera Sur, Mexico has deported more central American illegal immigrants than we have in the U.S. Even CNN had to acknowledge that:
According to statistics from the US and Mexican governments compiled by the nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute, Mexico in 2015 apprehended tens of thousands more Central Americans in its country than the US did at its border, and in 2015 and 2016 it deported roughly twice as many Central Americans as the US did.Since migrant children are the hot-button topic in the American immigration debate currently; In 2014 there were 18,169 migrant children were deported from Mexico, and 8,350 deported to Central America the year before. From January 2015 to July 2016, 39,751 unaccompanied minors were put in the custody of Mexican authorities.
A report this year from Amnesty International concluded that “Mexican migration authorities are routinely turning back thousands of people from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala to their countries without considering the risk to their life and security upon return, in many cases violating international and domestic law by doing so.”
Mexico Has Their Own Southern Border – and Invisible Wall
For us much as Donald Trump is criticized by the political class in Mexico for wanting to beef up security on the U.S.-Mexico border, as previously mentioned, Mexico has accepted our help in enforcing their immigration laws on their own southern border with Guatemala. While they don’t have a literal border fence, they do have checkpoints, patrols, raids, etc. According to NPR:
Rather than amassing troops on its
border with Guatemala, Mexico stations migration agents, local and federal
police, soldiers and marines to create a kind of containment zone in Chiapas
state. With roving checkpoints and raids, Mexican migration agents have formed
a formidable deportation force.
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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.
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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
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An applicant for asylum has the burden to demonstrate that he or she is eligible for that protection. To satisfy that burden, the applicant must prove that he or she is a refugee. A “refugee” is a person outside of his or her country of nationality or habitual residence who is “unable or unwilling” to return to that country “because of persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion.”
The Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) allows immigration officers — rather than judges — to order the deportation of arriving aliens who are inadmissible because of fraud or misrepresentation, because they have no documentation (like a passport or a visa) that would allow them to be admitted, or because they entered illegally and are apprehended within 100 miles of the border and 14 days of entry.
If an alien in expedited removal asserts a fear of persecution, the arresting officer will refer the alien to an asylum officer for a “credible fear interview”. If the asylum officer determines that the alien has a credible fear, the alien is placed in removal proceedings before an immigration judge, where the alien can file his or her application for asylum. Under the INA, the term “‘credible fear of persecution’ means that there is a significant possibility, taking into account the credibility of the statements made by the alien in support of the alien’s claim and such other facts as are known to the officer, that the alien could establish eligibility for asylum under section 208.” This is a very low standard, and credible fear is found in 75 to 90 percent of all cases in which an alien claims credible fear.
“Bond” is the term used in immigration for the release of an alien pending removal proceedings or removal. Aliens can be released on their own recognizance, or on a minimum bond of $1,500. Bond can be granted by either an immigration judge or U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
“Parole” is the term used in immigration for the release of an arriving alien. It can only be granted by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Again, DHS can release an alien on parole on his or her own recognizance, or for a sum of money as bond.
An alien under the age of 18 who enters the United States or is apprehended by DHS who does not have a parent or guardian in the United States. Under section 462 of the Homeland Security Act (2002), UACs must be turned over to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), not DHS, for detention.
Modified the rules governing the detention of unaccompanied alien children (UACs). Under the TVPRA, UACs must be turned over to HHS within 48 hours of detention by DHS, or identification as a UAC, and “promptly placed in the least restrictive setting that is in the best interest of the child,” generally meaning release to a family member or friend.
An agreement between the then-Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) and a class of alien minors in 1997, which is currently overseen by Judge Dolly Gee of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. In 2016, it was read to create a presumption in favor of the release of all alien minors, even those alien minors who arrive with their parents.
Agency of the Department of Justice (DOJ) with jurisdiction over the immigration courts and the Board of immigration appeals (BIA).
Courts with primary jurisdiction over removal proceedings. Immigration judges in these courts determine removability, set bond where they have jurisdiction, and can adjudicate applications for relief from removal, including asylum.
Cases that have been pending before the immigration courts for more than one year. The backlog more than doubled from FYs 2006 through 2015, primarily due to declining numbers of cases completed per year. There were 437,000 pending cases at the start of FY 2015, when the median pending time was 404 days.
Appellate tribunal with jurisdiction over appeals from immigration courts. Most aliens have a right to appeal immigration court decisions to the BIA.
Topics:
Immigration Courts, Asylum
Fact Sheet
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Southwest Border Tour, Spring 2019: Hosted by the Center for
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