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Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Thursday called for the federal government to pay the bill for costs incurred to protect the state from crimes occurring as a result of the crisis at the southern border.

Abbott has criticized the administration of President Joe Biden for the surge in illegal immigration that has swamped facilities designed to hold migrants and resulted in many illegal immigrants who are detained being turned loose in Texas communities.

Noting the role of drug cartels and human smugglers in the border crisis, Abbott last month announced the creation of Operation Lone Star to have Texas law enforcement agencies, led by the Texas Department of Public Safety, focus on human trafficking and other crimes taking place during the surge. . .

  Read more about Abbott Hits Biden with the Bill After Texan Forces Were Left to Clean up After President's Costly Border Crisis

Since he took office nearly two months ago, Joe Biden has failed to address the public regarding any of the issues facing our country, most specifically the crisis at the border.

Even his press secretary, Jen Psaki, skirts around the topic, refusing to confirm reports that the number of detained unaccompanied minors at the border has tripled since Biden took office.

“I’m not going to confirm numbers from here,” Psaki said during the White House press briefing. “Obviously, the Department of Homeland Security and others are overseeing the programs and engagements that happen at the border.”. . Read more about Biden Administration Refuses To Say How Many Kids Are In Cages; Florida Takes Legal Action

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DHS announced in February that it will be delaying and reconsidering a critical regulation change governing how USCIS selects H-1B registrations for the filing of cap-subject petitions. The administration’s failure to implement these critical reforms underscores its unwillingness to prioritize the interests of both U.S. and foreign workers over those of profit collectors and outsourcing companies. . . Read more about DHS Delays Critical H-1B Rule, Senators Respond

Joe Biden’s immigration agenda along with the executive orders he’s already signed are creating a “perfect storm” of conditions at the border for a surge, says Tom Homan, former ICE director.Biden’s halt to deportations, his dismantling of the “Remain in Mexico” policy and the cancellation of border wall construction are sending powerful signals to the hundreds of thousands of people hoping to enter the U.S. that our borders are a fiction and that entering the United States is just a matter of showing up at the border.

The president is playing with fire and doesn’t appear to have any idea of the forces he is about to unleash. . . Read more about The Biden Immigration Plan Is Leading to a 'Perfect Storm' at the Border

The United States should reopen itself to migration, amnesties, refugee inflows, asylum seekers, and more temporary contract workers, Mexico’s ambassador to the United States said Tuesday.

The U.S. immigration system “has to be based on facts and realities,” Ambassador Martha Bárcena Coqui told a forum arranged by the National Immigration Forum (NIF). She continued: ‘The facts and realities is the need to protect the most vulnerable, the need to keep open the generosity towards refugees, the need to recognize the complementarity of labor markets and demographic profiles, the need for temporary workers in the United States.”. . Read more about Mexican Ambassador: Let's Restart Mass Migration into U.S.

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Mexican drug smugglers are really getting bold. A cross-border tunnel recently discovered by U.S. authorities exits in a San Diego warehouse right next to a busy Customs and Border Protection (CBP) port of entry. It gets better. The southern California warehouse is manned by Illegal immigrants even though it is situated just a few hundred yards from a hectic border crossing staffed with federal agents around the clock. . . Read more about Mexican Drug Tunnel Exits in U.S. Warehouse Run by Illegal Aliens Near CBP Crossing

Information obtained from the Oregon Department of Corrections (DOC) indicated on March 1, 2020 that 662 of the 825 foreign nationals (criminal aliens) in the state’s prison system were Mexican nationals — 80.24 percent of the criminal alien prison population (Note: The number of Mexican nationals incarcerated in DOC prisons does not necessarily equal the number of Oregon residents victimized by this specific group of criminal aliens).

Using DOC U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) immigration detainer numbers, the following table reveals the total number criminal alien inmates along with the number and percentage of those alien inmates incarcerated on March 1st in the state’s prisons who declared themselves as being Mexican nationals.
 

Source: Research and Evaluation DOC Report ICE inmates list 01 March 20.

Mexican (MEX) national criminals were sent to DOC prisons from 26 of the 36 Oregon counties — 72.22 percent of the counties in the state.

Seven Oregon counties, Marion (173 MEX national inmates), Washington (139 MEX national inmates), Multnomah (99 MEX national inmates), Clackamas (43 MEX national inmates), Lane (32 MEX national inmates), Umatilla (26 MEX national inmates) and Jackson (25 MEX national inmates) had 537 of the 662 Mexican national inmates incarcerated in DOC prisons — 81.12 percent of the MEX national inmates.

Using DOC ICE immigration detainer numbers, the following table reveals the number and percentage of Mexican national inmates on March 1st incarcerated in the state’s prison system from the state’s 36 counties.
 

Source: Research and Evaluation DOC Report ICE inmates list 01 March 20.

Here are the ways Oregon residents were victimized by the 662 Mexican national criminals.

Significant numbers, there were 370 of the 662 criminal alien inmates from Mexico incarcerated in DOC prisons for three types of sex crimes — sex abuse, rape and sodomy — 55.89 percent of the Mexican national inmates in the state’s prisons.

Using DOC ICE immigration detainer numbers, the following table reveals the number and percentage of Mexican national inmates incarcerated on March 1st by type of crime.
 

Source: Research and Evaluation DOC Report ICE inmates list 01 March 20.

When compared to the overall DOC criminal alien prison population, Mexican nationals were 91 of the 120 criminal aliens convicted of homicidal crimes (various degrees of murder and manslaughter) incarcerated in the state’s prison system — 75.83 percent of all alien inmates serving time for homicidal crimes.

Using the DOC ICE immigration detainer numbers from March 1st, the following table reveals the total number of criminal alien inmates incarcerated by type of crime, the number of Mexican national inmates incarcerated by type of crime and the percentage of Mexican national inmates incarcerated by type of crime.
 

Source: Research and Evaluation DOC Report ICE inmates list 01 March 20.

Beyond the DOC Mexican national incarceration numbers and incarceration percentages, per county and per type of crime, criminal aliens from Mexico place a substantial economic burden on Oregonians.

An individual inmate incarcerated in the DOC prison system costs the state approximately ($108.26) per day.

The DOC’s incarceration cost for 662 Mexican national inmates is approximately ($71,668.12) per day, ($501,676.84) per week, and ($26,158,863.80) per year.

None of preceding cost estimates for the DOC to incarcerate the 662 Mexican national inmates includes the dollar amount for legal services (indigent defense), language interpreters, court costs, or victim assistance.

Bibliography:

Oregon Department of Corrections Population Profile (unpublished MS Excel workbook) titled Incarcerated Criminal Aliens Report dated March 1, 2020.

Oregon Department of Corrections Issue Brief Quick Facts, March 2019:
https://www.oregon.gov/doc/Documents/agency-quick-facts.pdf

David Olen Cross of Salem, Oregon is a crime researcher who writes on immigration issues and foreign national crime. The preceding report is a service to federal, state, county and city elected and non elected governmental officials to help them assess the impact of foreign national crime in the United States of America. He can be reached at docfnc@yahoo.com. His current and past crime reports can be found at http://docfnc.wordpress.com/. Read more about Oregon Department of Corrections: Mexican National Crime Report March 2020