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Border Patrol union chief tells how to break log-jam of asylum seekers

2019-04-08

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border, Border Patrol, Mexico, enforcement, Homeland Security, illegal immigration, illegal aliens

Brandon Judd, president of National Border Patrol Council, the union that represents the agents and support staff of the U.S. Border Patrol, presents a great idea for changes that would simplify and restore control of the border. He recommends that DHS cross-designate and train Border Patrol agents at the senior patrol agent level as asylum officers with limited authority to conduct “credible fear” interviews.

As he explains: “Asylum and deportation proceedings are civil administration actions, not criminal. Therefore, DHS has the right to establish fear thresholds. Unlike in a...

Illegal Aliens Go for a Windfall

Claim constitutional rights were violated before they entered the U.S.

Immigration Reform Law Institute

2019-04-05

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border, Border Patrol, Mexico, enforcement, Homeland Security, illegal immigration, illegal aliens

WASHINGTON Two families of illegal aliens from Central America are suing Trump administration officials in a Massachusetts federal district court over their treatment after they crossed the border illegally. The families claim that the month-long separation of the parents from their children when the parents were in jail for a criminal offense violated their constitutional rights. They seek monetary damages from the defendants, who are being sued as individuals, not in their official capacities. The Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI) this week filed a friend-of-the-court brief in...

Can the President shut down the border?

Matt O'Brien

Federation for American Immigration Reform

2019-04-03

Tags:

border, enforcement, immigration, President, sovereignty

In response to the endless stream of Central American migrants currently attempting to access the U.S. by any means, lawful or otherwise, President Trump has threatened to shut down the border.

Predictably, the armchair jurists in the media have opined that the president doesn’t have the authority to close the border and will be sued if he tries. The Washington Post proclaimed, “The only way Trump could potentially shut down the border would be through trade.” (Although, the legal sages at the Post didn’t go into any detail about how that would actually work, since the object of...

Supreme Court rules against immigrants in detention case

Jessica Gresko

The Seattle Times

2019-03-19

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crime, enforcement, ICE, sanctuary cities, illegal immigration, illegal aliens

WASHINGTON (AP) — A divided Supreme Court ruled Tuesday against a group of immigrants in a case about the government’s power to detain them after they’ve committed crimes but finished their sentences.

The issue in the case before the justices had to do with the detention of noncitizens who have committed a broad range of crimes that make them deportable. Immigration law tells the government it must arrest those people when they are released from custody and then hold them while an immigration court decides whether they should be deported.

But those affected by the law aren’t...

Southern Poverty Law Center fires co-founder Morris Dees

Melissa Brown and Brian Edwards

Montgomery Advertiser

2019-03-14

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crime, fraud, illegal immigration, illegal aliens, Oregon, ORS 181A.820, OFIR, SPLC

The Southern Poverty Law Center fired Morris Dees, the nonprofit civil rights organization's co-founder and former chief litigator.

SPLC President Richard Cohen said in a statement Dees' dismissal over his misconduct was effective on Wednesday, March 13....

"As a civil rights organization, the SPLC is committed to ensuring that the conduct of our staff reflects the mission of the organization and the values we hope to instill in the world," Cohen said in the emailed statement. "When one of our own fails to meet those standards, no matter his or her role in the...

Democrats Winning 90% Congressional Districts with Large Foreign-Born Populations

John Binder

Breitbart

2019-03-07

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election, voter registration, legal immigration, amnesty, government, voter registration, Democrat

Mass legal immigration is driving Democrats towards full electoral dominance, with left-wing politicians winning nearly 90 percent of congressional districts with larger than average foreign-born populations, analysis finds.

The Atlantic senior editor Ronald Brownstein analyzed Census Bureau statistics for the 2018 midterm elections, finding that the country’s admission of more than a million legal immigrants every year is set to hand over electoral dominance to House and Senate Democrats.

Among Brownstein’s findings is that nearly 90 percent of House congressional...

Eleventh Circuit Rules DACA Recipients are Illegal Aliens

Dale Wilcox

Immigration Reform Law Institute

2019-03-06

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immigration, DACA, deferred action, Dream act, Congress, national legislation

WASHINGTON - Today the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals issued the first opinion by a federal circuit court classifying Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients as illegal aliens. The court’s opinion, which closely tracks a friend-of-the-court brief that the Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI) had filed in the case, makes clear that DACA recipients are “inadmissible and thus removable” under federal law. According to the Court, their deportation has merely been “reprieved” by an Obama-era policy that “encouraged” government officials to “exercise prosecutorial...

Washington Post: Farm Industry Is Being Forced to Replace Illegal Workforce

Neil Munro

Breitbart

2019-02-22

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jobs, E-Verify, illegal immigration, agriculture, cost, illegal aliens

Excerpts:

The paper [Washington Post] reported February 21:

... With the election of Trump, employers said they knew that finding undocumented workers would probably become even more difficult. One Washington state farmer said he watched as his entire pool of undocumented workers crossed the border into Canada after Trump’s inauguration, fearing deportation. Another farmer, failing to find domestic workers in 2017, formed a partnership with a local prison, hiring detainees to work the fields as part of a voluntary work program.

Farm companies are importing more...

Migrant Caravans Prove a Successful Formula for Mass Illegal Entry to US

Charlotte Cuthbertson

Epoch Times

2019-02-20

Tags:

border, enforcement, illegal immigration, cost, illegal aliens, Congress, national security

Portillo, 38, said she joined the migrant caravan after hearing about it on social media. She brought her 6-year-old daughter from Honduras.

"I was coming with the original caravan that was going to Tijuana, but the first people that arrived in Tijuana were causing trouble, so I decided to sidetrack and not continue on with the group," Portillo said on Feb. 15, through a translator. "When this other caravan started coming over here, I joined it." She arrived in Piedras Negras, Mexico, on Feb. 4 with 1,800 other mostly Central American migrants, and has been staying in an old...

Mexico's dispersal of latest caravan simply frees migrants to cross the U.S. border less visibly

Todd Bensman

Center for Immigration Studies

2019-02-18

Tags:

border, Mexico, illegal immigration, illegal aliens, national security

A CIS visit to the improvised caravan migrant shelter at Piedras Negras, Mexico

PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Mexico, February 18, 2019 — Inside the sprawling ceramics factory where the Mexican government has detained the latest migrant caravan, a process is underway virtually guaranteeing that almost everyone here will soon be granted exactly what they came for: an opportunity to breach the U.S. southern border, exploit the American catch-and-release loophole by claiming asylum, and add themselves to the millions already living in the country illegally.

This caravan of some 2,000...

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