BORDER
NEWS WATCH SPECIAL EDITIONS - 3/2019
3/2/2019 BORDER NEWS
WATCH SPECIAL EDITION
US Congress
The House
has voted to block Trump's emergency order for a border wall. Here's what comes
next
House
Democrats to Introduce Expanded Dream Act
Sen. Grassley
Introduces Mandatory E-Verify Legislation
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Opinion Polls
Harvard/Harris
Poll: Nearly 3-in-5 Voters Say Border Walls are Effective
Polling
consistently finds Americans want legal immigration cut
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Former
National Security Officials Weigh In on President's Immigration Emergency
Declaration? Should We Care?
OP-ED: Make
E-Verify the Norm, Not the Exception
Lawmaker
deployed to border warns: Pulling out troops will lead to 'massive' illegal
immigration
Stop the
flow of illegal immigrants
Ex-Chicago FBI boss: DEA agent’s El Chapo book ‘fiction’ regarding key meeting
Texas
Sheriff Says Mexican Cartels at the Heart of Border Crisis
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The "Wall"
Amid
clouds of dust, border wall prototypes are demolished
The House has
voted to block Trump's emergency order for a border wall. Here's what comes
next
Border Walls
are Symbols of Failure
NPR
Accidentally Admits Border Fences Are Effective
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Border
Perspective
NPR
Accidentally Admits Border Fences Are Effective
Federal
Government Steps In to Contribute to Colorado River Crisis
Second-annual
Border BioBlitz to take place this weekend
Two Different Worlds
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Border
Patrol
Border
Patrol chief warns of 'dangerous new trend' in illegal immigration
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CBP Website
ICE Website
FOX News on Immigration
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California
California
refused 5,600 ICE requests to turn over criminal illegals
in 2016-2017 – report
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VISAS
702,000
Overstay Visa Nearly Two Decades after Terrorists Did it to Execute 9/11
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Flores/TVPRA
The History of
the Flores Settlement: How a 1997 agreement cracked open our detention
laws
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Judicial
Report:
US Army Soldiers Tried to Sell Weapons to Mexican Cartel
Douglas
border agent sentenced to probation for lying about informants
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Immigrant
Crime
How the
asylum invasion allows the cartels to flood us with criminals
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Workplace
Illegal
Aliens Arrested in Workplace Raid Sue Fed Agents for Racial Profiling
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Border
Patrol Museum Attacked
Border
Patrol Museum reopens after protest hits exhibits
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Illegal Alien Criminality
How the
asylum invasion allows the cartels to flood us with criminals
Fake Family
Units at the Border
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Immigration
Policy
Track the Progress of
President Donald Trump's Immigration Reform Campaign Promises
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Illegal
Immigration Policy
The History of
the Flores Settlement: How a 1997 agreement cracked open our detention
laws
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Illegal
Immigration
7K Migrants
Apprehended in One Week in Texas Border Sector
Nearly
200 illegal immigrants apprehended crossing border in New Mexico
Mexico's Dispersal of Latest
Caravan Simply Frees Migrants to Cross the U.S. Border Less Visibly
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Illegal
Aliens: US Support
Update: 'The
desert speaks': Faith communities gather at U.S.-Mexico border
Reflections
on Allegations of Migrant Minor Abuse
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Smuggling
Why the US Is Losing the
Fight against Sex-Traffickers
How white
supremacists are cashing in by smuggling illegal immigrants from Mexico
Sinaloa
Cartel Places Unwanted Surprise Inside New Ford Cars
Police Find
Meth Smuggled Through New Ford Cars Built In Mexico
Border
Patrol arrest six in failed smuggling attempt
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Immigration
Court
Skipping Court
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Cannabis
Effects
Marijuana, Mental Illness,
and Violence
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Military
National
Guard helps Border Patrol with 75 Apprehensions
Acting
Defense Secretary: DoD Will Recommend Border Security
Improvements to CBP
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Angel Families
EXCLUSIVE:
Angel Families Who Spoke To Acosta Express Their Frustration With The Media
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Central
American Migrants
Migrant
crisis sparks friction, strains resources in Mexican cities
Trump
administration prepares for "exponential" expansion to "Remain
in Mexico" program
VIDEO OF MEXICAN GOVERNMENT
ESCORTING BUS OF 1900 MIGRANTS TO DROP OFF AT US BORDER
Video of Mexican government
escorting bus of 1900 migrants to drop off at US border goes viral
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Asylum
How the
asylum invasion allows the cartels to flood us with criminals
If It Looks
Like An Invasion, It Probably Is
Migrant
crisis sparks friction, strains resources in Mexican cities
Trump
administration prepares for "exponential" expansion to "Remain
in Mexico" program
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El Chapo
El Chapo'
to seek new trial after juror admits breaking rules
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Gangs
Suspected MS-13 Gang Member
Murders Three Including Two Cops in Mexico
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Cartels
Migrants
Report Being Held at Gunpoint in Mexico by Cartel
Can
Mexican Cartels Be Designated Terrorist Organizations? Should They Be?
Cartel
Gunmen Ambush Mexican Border City Police Chief
Borderland Beat
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GOM
Mexico's
National Guard proposal goes to state legislatures
Migrant
crisis sparks friction, strains resources in Mexican cities
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Politics
CPAC 2019 Offers Little
for Immigration Restrictionists
Bernie
Sanders Hires Twice-Arrested Illegal Alien as Press Secretary
Trump
calls migrants at Mexican border 'rough hombres' as he rants that Republicans
need to vote for his state of emergency
Pelosi
named ‘honorary president‘ of U.S.-Mexico region
Track the Progress of
President Donald Trump's Immigration Reform Campaign Promises
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Selected Incidents
CBP canine prevents
smuggling of three Mexican nationals inside trunk
BP
agents rescue people from Yuma canal; provide medical aid after Ajo crash
Border
patrol stop smuggling attempt near Calexico
Nogales
man straw purchased Mexico-bound guns and ammunition, feds say
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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.
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Mexico
Here’s How Mexico Treats Illegal Immigrants
Authored by: Matt Palumbo
While combating illegal immigration has long been a bipartisan issue, the so-called anti-Trump “resistance” has decided that guilt tripping anyone who supports a sensible immigration policy is a viable political strategy. We’ve all heard the arguments; that opposing illegal immigration is preventing people from “just looking for a better life,” or over the past few months, is “separating families.” And of course there’s the most common insult, that enforcing immigration laws is “racist.”
But are America’s immigration laws, or our treatment of illegal immigrants uniquely awful?
To answer that question, let’s examine the situation in another nation: Mexico.
Mexico Rejects More Asylum Requests than the U.S.
Speaking of the rise in asylum request rejections under Trump, a writer at the American-Statesman noted a “dramatic” change. They write, “Immigration judges, who are employed by the Justice Department and not the judicial branch like other federal judges, rejected 61.8 percent of asylum cases decided in 2017, the highest denial rate since 2005.”
Meanwhile in Mexico, nearly 90 percent of asylum requests are denied (and the figures are similarly high for other Latin American countries, such as El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala).
Mexico Regulates Immigration Based on Race
I only bring this up, because for all the rhetoric about Trump’s supposed racism or disdain for certain immigrants, there is one country that does regulate their immigration flows by race, and that’s the country Trump is most accused of being racist against.
In Article 37 of Mexico’s General Law of Population, we learn that their Department of the Interior shall be able to deny foreigners entry into Mexico, if, among other reasons, they may disrupt the “domestic demographic equilibrium.” Additionally, Article 37 also states that immigrants can be removed if they’re detrimental to “economic or national interests.”
Mexico Deports More Central American Illegal Immigrants than the United States
In July 2014, former Mexican president, Enrique Peña Nieto and former president of Guatemala Otto Pérez Molina, announced the start of a migration security project called Plan Frontera Sur (Southern Border Plan). The U.S. has committed at least $100 million towards this plan to help aid Mexican border security, because it’s mutually beneficial. Both Mexico and the U.S. want to keep out Central American illegal immigrants (and they have to pass through Mexico to reach the U.S.)..
Since Plan Frontera Sur, Mexico has deported more central American illegal immigrants than we have in the U.S. Even CNN had to acknowledge that:
According to statistics from the US and Mexican governments compiled by the nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute, Mexico in 2015 apprehended tens of thousands more Central Americans in its country than the US did at its border, and in 2015 and 2016 it deported roughly twice as many Central Americans as the US did.Since migrant children are the hot-button topic in the American immigration debate currently; In 2014 there were 18,169 migrant children were deported from Mexico, and 8,350 deported to Central America the year before. From January 2015 to July 2016, 39,751 unaccompanied minors were put in the custody of Mexican authorities.
A report this year from Amnesty International concluded that “Mexican migration authorities are routinely turning back thousands of people from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala to their countries without considering the risk to their life and security upon return, in many cases violating international and domestic law by doing so.”
Mexico Has Their Own Southern Border – and Invisible Wall
For us much as Donald Trump is criticized by the political class in Mexico for wanting to beef up security on the U.S.-Mexico border, as previously mentioned, Mexico has accepted our help in enforcing their immigration laws on their own southern border with Guatemala. While they don’t have a literal border fence, they do have checkpoints, patrols, raids, etc. According to NPR:
Rather than amassing troops on its
border with Guatemala, Mexico stations migration agents, local and federal
police, soldiers and marines to create a kind of containment zone in Chiapas
state. With roving checkpoints and raids, Mexican migration agents have formed
a formidable deportation force.
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14 killed in shooting attacks in
Mexican border city
Read more at:
//economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/64717234.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_cam____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________In Homan's conversation with CIS's Jessica
Vaughan, he identified five actions that Congress can take to end the surge
of illegal border crossings.
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The Current "Wall" Images
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NEW BOOK by Judicial Watch's Tom Fitton: Clean House: Exposing Our Government's Secrets and Lies
Judicial Watch: Open Records Laws and Resources
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Leo Banks is a Tucson-based reporter who covers border-related issues.
New Book
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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 3/2/2019 BORDER
NEWS WATCH SPECIAL EDITION
3/8/2019 BORDER NEWS
WATCH SPECIAL EDITION
New
Book Recommendation
Our
50-State Border Crisis by Howard G. Buffett
also
see:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/our-50-state-border-crisis-howard-buffett/1127331052
https://www.amazon.com/Our-50-State-Border-Crisis-Epidemic-ebook/dp/B074M6FT8F
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/howard-g-buffett/our-50-state-border-crisis/
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US Congress
National
Association of Sheriff’s supports Singh’s law introduced by Sen. Cotton
Bill
enhances border patrol personnel compensation process
House
Democrats to Introduce Expanded Dream Act
Sen.
Grassley Introduces Mandatory E-Verify Legislation
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Opinion Polls
A poll found Mexicans think relations with the
U.S. are better than before. Ignoring Trump may be the secret.
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Opinion
Crisis
on the border: It's not yet a national emergency, but left untended it soon
will be
The
border surge is real
The
wall won't matter so long as the asylum loophole goes unfixed
Tucker
Carlson: 1 million illegal aliens at the border is a crisis -- 'manufactured'
or not
America’s Immigration Ambivalence
Letter:
Tucson irresponsible in divestment policy
Americans
choose security, not insanity
Trump’s
‘Remain in Mexico’ Policy Is Illegal Under International Law
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US Media on the Border Crisis
NBC Ignores
76,000 Illegals Caught in Feb., Just Seconds From
ABC, CBS
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The "Wall"
Amid clouds
of dust, border wall prototypes are demolished
The
wall won't matter so long as the asylum loophole goes unfixed
CEO
Offers to Build 234 Miles of Border Wall for $1.4 Billion
US-Mexico
Border Wall: Wildlife To Bear The Brunt
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DHS
Nielsen:
“Politics and policies of open borders have failed the American people”
DHS
secretary defends 'metering' asylum seekers at border: 'We're not turning
anybody around'
Homeland
Security secretary insists border crisis is 'real'
Beltway
Class Praises DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen While
She Oversees Illegal Immigration Surge
Border
patrol officials warn of crisis as 40,000 migrant parents and children are
detained in February
Southern
border at 'breaking point' after more than 76,000 illegal immigrants tried
crossing in February, officials say
February
marked 12-year-high for illegal immigration: 76,000 encountered at southern
border
DHS
Sec. Nielsen: "Children Are Being Used As Pawns" By Human
Traffickers, Smugglers On The Border
Temporary
Protected Status extended for nationals from four countries ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
CBP
CBP
Experiencing Record SW Border Arrests/Inadmissible Family Units
CBP El Paso
Processing Center will reduce wait times for children, families: Officials
Border
agency watchdog looking into caravan database __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Border Patrol
Border
Patrol's Tucson Sector gets new chief
Border
Patrol chief warns of 'dangerous new trend' in illegal immigration
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Border
Perspective
Many of the
big issues we face revolve around a familiar problem
A
Father's Decision to Smuggle His Daughter Across the Border Turned Into a
Months-Long Nightmare
NPR
Accidentally Admits Border Fences Are Effective
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Border
Patrol Corruption
Border
agent smuggled $1 million in cash, 255 pounds of cocaine, indictment says
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Border Patrol: Assaults on Agents
Illegal
Immigrant Attacks Border Patrol Agent With Lawnmower Blade
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Anti-Border Patrol
Border
Control Sweeps Migrant Atrocities into the Desert and Out of the American
Conscience
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Border Security Technology
Donald
Trump‘s wall: How tech guards the US-Mexico border
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Border
Communities
Border
communities refine tactics to deal with onslaught of fentanyl overdoses
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ICE
An
Interview with Top Boston ICE Official Todd Lyons
The
Number of Babies In ICE Detention at the Border Has Shot Upward Since January
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DEA
Drug-smuggling
tunnels: DEA warns what's beneath the U.S. Mexico border
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Census Bureau
Census
Bureau quietly seeking immigrants' legal status: report
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CBP Website
ICE Website
FOX News on Immigration
Borderland Beat
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VISAS
A Rising
Number Of Visa Applications To The US Are Getting Denied
702,000
Overstay Visa Nearly Two Decades after Terrorists Did it to Execute 9/11
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Immigration
National
Review's Kevin Williamson Compares Immigration Restriction to Totalitarianism __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Flores/TVPRA
The History of
the Flores Settlement: How a 1997 agreement cracked open our detention
laws
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Legal
Immigration Policy
Immigration,
World Poverty and Gumballs - NumbersUSA.com
History
of U.S. Immigration
Track the Progress of
President Donald Trump's Immigration Reform Campaign Promises
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Illegal Immigration: Arizona
Southern
Arizona ranchers ask feds for protection from cartel smugglers
Illegal
immigration numbers off the chart, McSally waivers,
Pima Supervisors reject border security
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Illegal
Immigration Policy
Immigration,
World Poverty and Gumballs - NumbersUSA.com
The
wall won't matter so long as the asylum loophole goes unfixed
History
of U.S. Immigration
The History of
the Flores Settlement: How a 1997 agreement cracked open our detention
laws
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Illegal
Immigration
Open
borders called license for trafficking: Agent says all migrants pay a price,
often sexual
More
migrants crossing US southern border in large groups
Southern
border at 'breaking point' after more than 76,000 illegal immigrants tried
crossing in February, officials say
February
marked 12-year-high for illegal immigration: 76,000 encountered at southern
border
Illegal
Immigration Under Trump Projected to Surpass Obama Era Levels
Yemenis
Smuggled over Texas Border Wearing Hard-Hats and Reflective Vests
700 Migrants
Apprehended in One Day in El Paso Sector ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
USPS: Smuggling
US Mailing
System Key to Future Fentanyl Trafficking Prevention
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Fentanyl Smuggling
Fentanyl:
Summary and Major Findings
The
Fentanyl Trade Through Mexico, Explained in 8 Graphs
Mexico's
Role in the Deadly Rise of Fentanyl
Also see: https://www.insightcrime.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Fentanyl-Report-InSight-Crime-19-02-11.pdf
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Human Smuggling/Trafficking
‘Child
Recycling’ Rings Smuggle Migrants into U.S., Says DHS
Yemenis
Smuggled over Texas Border Wearing Hard-Hats and Reflective Vests
Human
Smugglers Busted After Driving Through California Border
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Sanctuary
More
Evidence Sanctuary Policies Threaten Public Safety
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DACA
Eleventh
Circuit: DACA Recipients Not Lawfully Present
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Immigration
Court
Skipping Court
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Judicial
Eleventh
Circuit: DACA Recipients Not Lawfully Present
Court
gives illegal immigrants new right of appeal before deportation
California
judge boots all anti-sanctuary grant enforcement rules
Former Texas Border Police
Chief Convicted for Aiding Gulf Cartel
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Immigrant
Crime
How the
asylum invasion allows the cartels to flood us with criminals
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Workplace
Two
H-1B Bright Spots: Media Covers Long Hours, Jay Palmer Engages __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Cannabis
Effects
Marijuana,
Mental Illness, and Violence
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Military
Military Was
Using Outdated Intelligence for Border Troop Deployment Planning, Documents
Suggest
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UAC Detention
Is the
Homestead UAC Shelter Actually a Prison?
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Central
American Migrants
Mexico
Deploys More Forces to Its Southern Border to Combat Crime amid Caravans
Nearly 400
Migrants Arrive in California Border City, More Coming
Migrant
parents separated from children return to US, plead to be reunited
Two
Dead in Southern Mexico After Gunmen Attack Migrant Caravan
No
Relationship Between Homicide Rates in Central America and Illegal Border
Crossings
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Asylum
Border
patrol officials warn of crisis as 40,000 migrant parents and children are
detained in February
Border
bishops speak against asylum policy, perception of immigrants
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Border
Academics
propose U.S.-Mexico ‘energy-water corridor’
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Venezuela
TPS for Venezuela?
Border
closure forces Venezuelan kids to make perilous treks
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California
California
refused 5,600 ICE requests to turn over criminal illegals
in 2016-2017 – report
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Cartels
Tips
lead to arrest of Gulf Cartel leader in Mexico, border officials say
Borderland Beat
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GOM
Mexico
Deploys More Forces to Its Southern Border to Combat Crime amid Caravans
MS-13 Member
Arrested for Allegedly Murdering Mexican Cops
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Politics
Border
Patrol union chief prefers courts decide Trump wall emergency
Democrats,
the SPLC, and CAIR Argue
Against Collecting Data on Alien Prisoners in Georgia
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Selected Incidents
Migrant Gang Member Allegedly
Yells ‘F-You’ Before Assaulting Border Patrol Agent with Lawnmower Blade
700 Migrants
Apprehended in One Day in El Paso Sector
366
Pounds of Meth, Fentanyl Seized at Arizona Border
U.S.
Border Patrol agents foil drug smuggling attempt at Texas border near Fort
Hancock
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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
of illegal border crossings.
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An applicant for asylum has the burden to demonstrate that he or she is eligible for that protection. To satisfy that burden, the applicant must prove that he or she is a refugee. A “refugee” is a person outside of his or her country of nationality or habitual residence who is “unable or unwilling” to return to that country “because of persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion.”
The Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) allows immigration officers — rather than judges — to order the deportation of arriving aliens who are inadmissible because of fraud or misrepresentation, because they have no documentation (like a passport or a visa) that would allow them to be admitted, or because they entered illegally and are apprehended within 100 miles of the border and 14 days of entry.
If an alien in expedited removal asserts a fear of persecution, the arresting officer will refer the alien to an asylum officer for a “credible fear interview”. If the asylum officer determines that the alien has a credible fear, the alien is placed in removal proceedings before an immigration judge, where the alien can file his or her application for asylum. Under the INA, the term “‘credible fear of persecution’ means that there is a significant possibility, taking into account the credibility of the statements made by the alien in support of the alien’s claim and such other facts as are known to the officer, that the alien could establish eligibility for asylum under section 208.” This is a very low standard, and credible fear is found in 75 to 90 percent of all cases in which an alien claims credible fear.
“Bond” is the term used in immigration for the release of an alien pending removal proceedings or removal. Aliens can be released on their own recognizance, or on a minimum bond of $1,500. Bond can be granted by either an immigration judge or U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
“Parole” is the term used in immigration for the release of an arriving alien. It can only be granted by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Again, DHS can release an alien on parole on his or her own recognizance, or for a sum of money as bond.
An alien under the age of 18 who enters the United States or is apprehended by DHS who does not have a parent or guardian in the United States. Under section 462 of the Homeland Security Act (2002), UACs must be turned over to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), not DHS, for detention.
Modified the rules governing the detention of unaccompanied alien children (UACs). Under the TVPRA, UACs must be turned over to HHS within 48 hours of detention by DHS, or identification as a UAC, and “promptly placed in the least restrictive setting that is in the best interest of the child,” generally meaning release to a family member or friend.
An agreement between the then-Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) and a class of alien minors in 1997, which is currently overseen by Judge Dolly Gee of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. In 2016, it was read to create a presumption in favor of the release of all alien minors, even those alien minors who arrive with their parents.
Agency of the Department of Justice (DOJ) with jurisdiction over the immigration courts and the Board of immigration appeals (BIA).
Courts with primary jurisdiction over removal proceedings. Immigration judges in these courts determine removability, set bond where they have jurisdiction, and can adjudicate applications for relief from removal, including asylum.
Cases that have been pending before the immigration courts for more than one year. The backlog more than doubled from FYs 2006 through 2015, primarily due to declining numbers of cases completed per year. There were 437,000 pending cases at the start of FY 2015, when the median pending time was 404 days.
Appellate tribunal with jurisdiction over appeals from immigration courts. Most aliens have a right to appeal immigration court decisions to the BIA.
Topics:
Immigration Courts, Asylum
Fact Sheet
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Southwest Border Tour, Spring
2019: Hosted by the Center for Immigration Studies
Read Accounts
and View Pictures of Past Tours:
Unrest in the Rio Grande
Valley
Diligence on a Changing
Canadian Border
Constant Activity on the
California Border
Holding Steady in West Texas
A Washington Narrative Meets
Reality
Sunshine, Saguaros, and
Smugglers
Reflections from the Border
End of 3/8/2019 BORDER
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New Book
Recommendation
Our
50-State Border Crisis by Howard G. Buffett
also
see:
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https://www.amazon.com/Our-50-State-Border-Crisis-Epidemic-ebook/dp/B074M6FT8F
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/howard-g-buffett/our-50-state-border-crisis/
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US Congress
The
media is catching up to the border crisis. Will Congress?
Sen. Grassley Pushes for Mandatory
E-Verify on Senate Floor
Measure
expedites CBP hiring process
New
'Dream' Amnesty Would be Biggest Amnesty Ever
Rep. Chip Roy Introduces Bill to Declare Specific Mexican
Cartels as Foreign Terrorist Orgs
National Association of Sheriff’s supports Singh’s law
introduced by Sen. Cotton
Bill enhances border patrol personnel compensation process
Democrats Urge U.S. Asylum for Venezuela’s Population
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Opinion
Trump wants a border wall. Texas may
want a smarter alternative
Conor Walsh: Immigration and climate change
in Central America
George W. Bush urges politicians to
"dial down rhetoric" on immigration
Today’s war on drugs is more than just
cartels at the border
US drug czar says border wall will
reduce influx of drugs
Lisa Hinman:
Trump is exceeding his authority
Never fake, the border crisis just got
catastrophic
Why I Support The President's National
Emergency
America is changing; get used to it
Immigration and border wall: How Donald
Trump is dividing America
Crisis on the border
Steller column: It's a crisis, but border declaration doesn't address
it
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The "Wall"
Trump wants a border wall. Texas may
want a smarter alternative
Explaining the Trump re-election
campaign's 'Wall Defense Fund'
Legal
experts: Emergency declaration may not be quickest way to build wall
Stronger,
Quicker, Cheaper: US Company to Build 234 Miles of Border Wall for Fraction of
the Price
Trump
Includes $12.2B Request for Border Wall Funding in 2020 Budget
Feds
Seize 3 Tons of Cocaine at Sea in Two Days
Arizona
ranchers who supported Trump wall now have doubts about border plans
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DHS
DHS Nielsen: Border Security Is ‘Near System-Wide Meltdown’
DHS Secretary Projects That Border Patrol Will Catch
100,000 Illegal Immigrants in March Alone___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
CBP
Rio Grande Valley Border Chief: We Have Intercepted
Migrants from Bangladesh, Turkey, Romania and China
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Border Patrol
Border Patrol diverted $45M in operations budget to
cover migrant healthcare costs
Tucson Sector Border
Patrol help arrest dangerous fugitive
Border
Patrol's Tucson Sector gets new chief ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Border
Perspective
Immigration is beneficial to local
economies, even after 100 years
Border Report: For Some Deportees, Home
Is a Foreign Country
NPR
Accidentally Admits Border Fences Are Effective
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Border
Patrol Corruption
Border Patrol agent is jailed for nine
years for helping drug traffickers smuggle marijuana into US from Mexico by
giving them KEYS to fences in exchange for $50,000 cash
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Border Security Technology
Could drone tech for oil pipeline monitoring make
border security a breeze?
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USCIS
Is 'Extreme Vetting' Really Responsible
for Backlogs at USCIS?
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Border Militias: Arivaca
Militias, MAGA
activists and one border town’s complicated resistance
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Border
Crisis on the border
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ICE
Greyhound says migrant families must wait outside bus
stations
Romance Over: ICE Officers Send Scathing Letter To Trump
ICE union officers to Trump: ‘“Catch and Release” is not
just happening, it’s in overdrive’
Influx of migrants dropped off by ICE
has churches, faith groups near breaking point
ICE released 84,500 migrant
family members since Dec. 21, including 14,500 in Arizona
ICE arrests more students
at fake university, others being removed from US
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Barry M.
Goldwater Bombing Range
Migrant border
crossing: Arizona bombing range is under political fire
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CBP
Website
ICE Website
FOX
News on Immigration
Borderland Beat
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The Crime Report
The Silenced Voices at the U.S.-Mexico Border
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Human Trafficking
Combatting human trafficking
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Flores/TVPRA
The History of the Flores Settlement: How a 1997
agreement cracked open our detention laws
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Legal
Immigration Policy
Bigger isn't
always better
OP-ED:
Verizon Wireless: Fewer dropped calls, more dropped American workers
Immigration is beneficial to local
economies, even after 100 years
Immigration Growth Agenda Doesn’t Work
If Liberals Won’t Enforce Borders, Fascists Will
Immigration,
World Poverty and Gumballs - NumbersUSA.com
History of U.S. Immigration
Track
the Progress of President Donald Trump's Immigration Reform Campaign Promises
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Illegal
Immigrant Farm Labor
Trump Crackdown Unnerves Immigrants, and
the Farmers Who Rely on Them
Immigration Growth Agenda Doesn’t Work _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Illegal Immigration: Arizona
Ranchers who supported Trump's barrier
along the border are losing faith
Watch: Undocumented Immigrants, Cartels
a Weekly Occurrence in Arizona Rancher’s Backyard
Southern
Arizona ranchers ask feds for protection from cartel smugglers
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Illegal Immigration Policy
Why aren’t we deporting illegal aliens who already have
deportation orders?
Immigration Growth Agenda Doesn’t Work
U.S. expands return of asylum seekers to Mexico to new
ports of entry
Homeland Security's return-to-Mexico policy off to slow
start
Trump
Includes $12.2B Request for Border Wall Funding in 2020 Budget
If Liberals Won’t Enforce Borders, Fascists Will
Immigration, World
Poverty and Gumballs - NumbersUSA.com
The wall
won't matter so long as the asylum loophole goes unfixed
History of U.S. Immigration
The History of the Flores Settlement: How a 1997
agreement cracked open our detention laws
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Illegal
Immigration
Group of 170 Migrants Dug Under Arizona
Border Fence, Say Feds
More than 700 illegal aliens caught in
El Paso in one night
Pew: Fewer undocumented people living in
Arizona's urban areas
More than half of all illegal immigrants
arrested at the US-Canada border are Mexican
Illegal border crossings from Canada quietly rising,
data shows
Romanians, among the largest groups of illegal immigrants
crossing to the U.S. from Mexico
Rio Grande
Valley Border Chief: We Have Intercepted Migrants from Bangladesh, Turkey,
Romania and China
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Illegal Immigration: Deportation
Data: 1.7M Central American, Mexican
Illegal Aliens Living in U.S. Despite Deportation Orders
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Central
American Migrants
Truck smuggling Central
American migrants who planned to illegally enter the U.S. flips over and
crashes in Mexico killing 23 and injuring 31
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Asylum
Is 'Extreme Vetting' Really Responsible
for Backlogs at USCIS?
Asylum seekers waiting in Mexico arrive for hearings
in US
Influx of migrants dropped off by ICE
has churches, faith groups near breaking point
When Can Asylum Applicants Get a Work Permit (EAD Card)?
U.S. expands return of asylum seekers to Mexico to new
ports of entry
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Illegal
Aliens: Fact-Checking
Fact-checking claim about Kansas City
Chiefs' stadium, illegal immigration
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Immigrant
Crime
How the asylum invasion
allows the cartels to flood us with criminals
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Human
Trafficking
The Need to Combat Human Trafficking Worldwide
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Immigration
Court
Skipping Court
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Judicial
Breaking: Supreme Court Rules in Favor
of Trump on Immigrant Detention
“Zero Tolerance” policy greatly
accelerates migrant criminalization through end of 2018
Detainees taking lawsuit over conditions at BP
facilities to trial
Corrupt Valley Border
Patrol Agent Heading To Prison
Border
analyst in Tucson convicted of lying about education
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Pima County
Sheriff
Sheriff Applies for Border Grant After Pima County
Rejection
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
DOS
State
Department issues warning to spring break travelers to Mexico
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
USCIS
Trump Administration Closing Citizenship
and Immigration Services Offices Abroad
When Can Asylum Applicants Get a Work Permit (EAD Card)? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Cannabis
Effects
Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
California
California
refused 5,600 ICE requests to turn over criminal illegals
in 2016-2017 – report
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El Chapo
The End of the Big Cartels – Why There
Won’t Be Another Chapo
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Mexican Journalists
Mexico: Journalist and Radio Host
Santiago Barroso Killed by Gunmen
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Cartels
PHOTOS:
Alleged Terrorist Cartel Declares War in Mexican Coastal State
Cartel
Gunmen Accused of Murdering Mexican Border State Police Commander Captured
VIDEO:
Kidnapped Mexican Politician Forced to Disclose Gulf Cartel Ties
Mexico club attack leaves at least 15
dead
Borderland Beat
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GOM
Humanitarian Visas Won’t Stop Bullets or Migrants
VIDEO:
Kidnapped Mexican Politician Forced to Disclose Gulf Cartel Ties
Mexican Army Seizes Rifles, Grenade
Launchers in Tijuana
Mexican top cop: security is deficient
throughout country
Mexican President Downplays Mass
Kidnapping Case near Texas Border
Mexico
Deploys More Forces to Its Southern Border to Combat Crime amid Caravans
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Politics
Explaining the Trump re-election
campaign's 'Wall Defense Fund'
Pres.
Trump Continues Push for More Immigration
Trump
Includes $12.2B Request for Border Wall Funding in 2020 Budget
Here's how Trump wants to fund an
illegal immigration crackdown
Trump budget sets up another battle over
wall funding
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Selected Incidents
El Paso Border Patrol Agents detain more than 400
migrants in five minutes
Tucson Border Patrol agents arrest previously deported
felons
Feds
Seize 3 Tons of Cocaine at Sea in Two Days
Illegal
Immigrant Arrested After Having Sex with Cow, Say Police
Couple caught trying to smuggle Mexican
migrant into Arizona
Drug Smugglers Caught At The Border
Driver arrested after attempting to
smuggle 3 in cab of truck
Border Patrol: Nearly 750 immigrants
arrested in Yuma Sector
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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.
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
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
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
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
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Southwest Border Tour, Spring 2019: Hosted by the
Center for Immigration Studies
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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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