Thursday, February 14, 2019

TRUMP CONSPIRES WITH LA RAZA PELOSI AND SCHUMER FOR WIDER OPEN BORDERS AND EXPANDED WELFARE FOR THE INVADERS

HERITAGE FOUNDATION:

AMNESTY WOULD DOUBLE U.S. POPULATION, POVERTY, HOUSING AND HOMELESS CRISIS

http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2010/03/heritage-foundation-amnesty-would-add.html

"Critics argue that giving amnesty to 12 to 30 million illegal aliens in the U.S. would have an immediate negative impact on America’s working and middle class — specifically black Americans and the white working class — who would be in direct competition for blue-collar jobs with the largely low-skilled Illegal alien population." JOHN BINDER

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"Additionally, under current legal immigration laws, if given amnesty, the illegal alien population would be allowed to bring an unlimited number of their foreign relatives to the U.S. This population could boost already high legal immigration levels to an unprecedented high. An amnesty for illegal aliens would also likely triple the number of border-crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border." JOHN BINDER

Border Patrol Council President: Congress Ignored Experts on the Wall



Border Patrol officers keep watch before US Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen M. Nielsen inaugurates the first completed section of President Trumps 30-foot border wall in the El Centro Sector, at the US Mexico border in Calexico, California on October 26, 2018. (Photo by Mark RALSTON / AFP) (Photo …
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National Border Patrol Council president Brandon Judd told Breitbart News Tonight on Wednesday that Congress had ignored the advice of experts when reaching a deal to provide less than $1.4 billion for border fencing.

The Council, the union representing “approximately 18,000 Border Patrol Agents and support personnel assigned to the U.S. Border Patrol,” has consistently supported President Donald Trump’s proposals for physical barriers on the U.S.-Mexico border.
Judd said that he could not discuss “absolute specifics” of what the Border Patrol told the conference committee, but he said that its experts “absolutely let this committee know that without physical barriers, we just cannot gain the control that’s needed on the border.” The presentation, he said, was “very in-depth and went to specifics.”
“To see that it was rejected for political purposes was very disappointing …. These elected officials don’t really care about what is necessary to secure the border. They just care about what is politically expedient,” he said.
Pressed further, Judd told hosts Joel Pollak and Rebecca Mansour that the compromise bill “doesn’t go as far as what was needed. They did take up a little of it.”
He added: “We don’t need a 2,000-mile wall, but we definitely need more than 55 miles of new fencing.”
The experts, Judd said, felt it would have taken the full $5.7 billion that President Trump had requested to achieve border security. “$1.3 [billion] just isn’t going to do it.”
The White House had scaled its proposal down from $25 billion to $5.7 billion, getting rid of “bells and whistles” but supplying necessary structures.
“To see that Congress didn’t reciprocate is what’s disappointing to the men and women of Border Patrol.”
Asked whether there were any experts — even brought by the Democratic side — who could possibly have argued that the border could be secured for $1.4 billion, Judd said no. “It’s just not going to do what’s needed.”



GOP/Dem Deal: Less Detention of Illegal Aliens, Expanded Catch and Release



Laredo Sector agents apprehend a group of 63 illegal aliens on a ranch near the Texas border with Mexico. (Photo: U.S. Border Patrol/Laredo Sector)
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A Republican-Democrat spending bill being offered to President Trump provides less detention space for border crossers and illegal aliens while expanding the Catch and Release program.

The spending package provides the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency with less detention space to house border crossers and illegal aliens, funding about 40,250 beds rather than the 52,000 beds that Trump had requested. This is about the same level of detention space that is currently funded and that which ICE officials have said is not sufficient.
Due to the massive number of illegal aliens in the U.S. — around 12 to 22 million — and roughly 1,300 new border crossers coming to the country every day, ICE officials have had to routinely exceed this 40,250 bed limit.
This has caused the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to release thousands of illegal aliens into the interior of the country. In the first two weeks of January, DHS officials released about 2,000 border crossers into the U.S. due to the lack of detention space, a glimpse into what Catch and Release will continue to be should Trump sign off on the GOP-Democrat spending bill.
Aside from keeping detention space limited for ICE, the spending bill also increases the use and funding of what is known as “Alternatives to Detention” (ATD) programs.
ATDs effectively allow for illegal aliens to be released into the interior of the U.S. with the promise from federal officials that they will be monitored and tracked to ensure that they arrive for court dates, hearings, and check-ins with ICE agents.
One of the most often used components of the ATDs is illegal aliens being released into the U.S. with ankle monitors on. DHS officials, though, have previously told Breitbart News the monitors are extremely ineffective and data reveals that only about one percent of ATD illegal aliens are ever deported once they are released into the country.
Despite experts warning of the ineffectiveness of ATDs, the spending bill expands the programs by allowing a daily participation rate of about 100,000 border crossers and illegal aliens rather than the current daily limit which is set at 82,000.
The expansion of ATDs and decrease of physical detention space is a steady structural change that Democrats have championed as they wish to move towards ending all immigration detention in favor of a nearly 100 percent Catch and Release policy at the southern border.
These Catch and Release expansion provisions are taken straight from House Democrats’ initial offer to Trump, which was released weeks ago and quickly shot down as it sought to end all detention of border crossers by the end of the year.
While expanding Catch and Release, the spending bill provides about $1.3 billion for 55 miles of a border wall, far less than the $5.7 billion that Trump requested and roughly $300 million less than what Republicans and Democrats originally offered last year.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.



PUT EMPLOYERS OF ILLEGALS IN JAILS ALONG THE NARCOMEX BORDER AND DENY ILLEGALS "FREE" HEALTHCARE AND ANCHOR BABY WELFARE FOR 18 YEARS AND THE INVASION ENDS!


"Homeland Security officials have previously told Breitbart News these programs are ineffective in monitoring border crossers and that illegal aliens who have been released put into ATD programs are rarely ever deported as federal officials lose track of them."

Uncertainty hangs over US border deal as shutdown deadline nears


14 February 2019
US House and Senate leaders continued work on the exact legislative language to implement the “in principle” deal reached Monday on funding more than a quarter of the federal government, two days before the 12:01 a.m. Saturday deadline for another federal shutdown.
President Trump has refused to make any final commitment to sign the funding bills into law, claiming he was waiting for the final language so the White House could determine if there were any “land mines” in the deal made by congressional Democrats to give him $1.375 billion in funding for 55 miles of new border barriers, variously described as a “wall” and “fencing.”
Congressional Democratic leaders have sought to present their capitulation to Trump on the wall as a victory, pointing out that the amount is less than the $1.6 billion Trump rejected in December, forcing a 35-day shutdown of the federal government. But given the passage of time since then, the $1.375 billion actually allows a more aggressive daily spending rate on “border security” for the rest of the current fiscal year, which ends September 30: $6 million a day compared to $5.6 million in the legislation passed by the Senate two months ago.
More importantly, the Democratic leadership has effectively signaled that the Trump administration will be free to shift money around within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) budget, and perhaps even from other departments, to fund the wall. In addition, they abandoned efforts to set a limit on the number of immigrants who can be detained at any one time, giving Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) a free hand to carry out mass round-ups and expand its detention of immigrants and asylum seekers, including tens of thousands of children.
White House officials, including acting budget director Mick Mulvaney, have crowed about the possibilities opened up by the legislation, claiming they will be able to come up with all the funds required for wall-building efforts over the seven months remaining in the 2019 fiscal year.
The legislative package actually consists of seven spending bills, providing a total of $320 billion in appropriations. Only one of the bills, providing $49.4 billion for the DHS, directly involves funds for arresting and jailing immigrants and building the wall. Workers at eight other federal departments, including Agriculture, Commerce, Housing, Interior, Justice, State, Transportation and Treasury, and numerous independent agencies, were held hostage by the Trump White House in order to force through approval of the wall on the US-Mexico border.
One part of the legislative package is a 1.9 percent across-the-board pay increase for all federal civilian workers, overriding the wage freeze announced by President Trump at the end of 2018, but still well below the inflation rate and thus amounting to an effective pay cut. Military personnel received a 2.6 percent pay rate increase for the current fiscal year in legislation that was enacted last fall.
In statements Wednesday, House Democratic leaders predicted passage of all seven bills through the House on Thursday, to be followed by votes in the Senate, presumably on Friday, in an effort to beat the midnight deadline.
House Democratic Caucus Chairman Hakeem Jeffries explicitly defended the concessions to Trump on the wall. He told reporters, “It is reasonable to support 55 miles of additional barrier in a manner that is consistent with our evidence-based approach to find common ground and improve security along our border.”
A leading Democrat on the conference committee that crafted the deal, Representative David Price of North Carolina, said, “I think it is the best possible deal we could get under the circumstances, and it’s a considerable achievement, and so I’m confidently advocating a ‘yes’ vote.”
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi emphasized that an overwhelming majority of Democrats in the House would back the deal. “We have to,” she said. “We have to. I think we’re in a pretty good place.”
Representative Tony Cardenas of California, a leader of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, said of the deal with Trump, “It’s not where we want to be long-term, but I think it’s progress… We feel good. I feel good about it.”
Immigrants’ rights advocates were not “feeling good” about the agreement, which pours $49 billion more into the repressive apparatus of the Department of Homeland Security.
Alex Sanchez, a leader of Homies Unidos, which advocates on behalf of Central American youth, both immigrants and deportees, told the World Socialist Web Site, “Immigrants have got nothing in this deal. If anything, we were sacrificed in all of this. The government shutdown put a toll on a lot of people. The Democratic compromise shows that they didn’t put the interests of immigrants at the forefront, but they have played this card for a long time.”
Sanchez pointed out that the wave of mass deportations actually began under the Democrats, with the passage of a law known as IIRAIRA in 1996 during the Clinton administration. He added, “The wall is just a barrier not to deal with the root causes of mass migration. The question no one is asking is, ‘Why are we having people flee all of these countries?’”
“The intention of building walls that extend into the harsh terrain is to cause people to die,” he continued. “This is intentional. The fact that Border Patrol and Minutemen groups are desecrating water reserves gives a clear view that this government wants us dead. It’s a way of killing us indirectly.”

In response to the effort by the Democrats to save face over their cave-in on the wall by waging a phony fight to limit the quota of beds for detained immigrants in the interior of the US to 16,000 rather than 20,000, Sanchez said, “I would like to tell the Democrats to go speak to each of the 16,000 family members. They are using our lives to compromise and this can only be described as torture: torture to the individuals who are detained and to our families.”






Congress Reveals Details of Border ‘Compromise’ to Avoid Shutdown



EL PASO, TEXAS - FEBRUARY 01: Central American immigrants walk between a Bollard-style border fence, left, and the older "legacy" fence after crossing the Rio Grande from Mexico on February 01, 2019 in El Paso, Texas. The migrants later turned themselves in to U.S. Border Patrol agents, seeking political asylum …
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The details of a Republican-Democrat border deal package includes about $1.3 billion for 55 miles of construction at the United States-Mexico border for “physical barrier” and $415 million in “humanitarian relief” for border crossers.

The bipartisan offer to President Trump falls short of the $5.7 billion that the White House requested in border wall funding, providing just $1.375 billion in total to construct about 55 miles of new physical barriers in the Rio Grande Valley, Texas, sector of the southern border. The full text of the legislation can be read here. Section 230 discusses border construction funding — which appears to limit new construction to bollard fencing:
The amounts designated in subsection (a)(l) shall only be available for operationally effective designs de20 ployed as of the date of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2017 (Public Law 115-31), such as currently deployed steel bollard designs, that prioritize agent safety.
Roughly $100 million will fund “new border security technology.”
Meanwhile, the offer includes $415 million in “humanitarian relief specifically for medical care, transportation, food, and cloth” and funds “humanitarian improvements” for the McAllen, Texas, processing center and for a new El Paso, Texas U.S. Border Patrol processing center.
The spending deal attempts to reduce overall detention of border crossers and illegal aliens by limiting the number of beds at federal detention centers to only 40,250 — far less than the 52,000 the Trump administration requested.
The limited detention space will mean that current rates of Catch and Release — where border crossers and illegal aliens are released into the interior of the U.S. — will continueas they have throughout 2017 and 2018.
While reducing detention space for federal immigration officials, the spending deal ramps up what is known as “Alternative to Detention” (ATD) programs that effectively allow for illegal aliens and border crossers to be released into the U.S. with ankle monitors.
Homeland Security officials have previously told Breitbart News these programs are ineffective in monitoring border crossers and that illegal aliens who have been released put into ATD programs are rarely ever deported as federal officials lose track of them.
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) — tasked with deporting the 12 to 22 million illegal aliens living in the U.S. — would not receive any additional funding to add enforcement and deportation agents to the agency, despite requests by Trump.
Though Trump has yet to confirm his support for the spending, White House aides have told the media that they believe the president will sign the deal.
Illegal immigration at the southern border is expected to reach levels that have not been seen since President George W. Bush if reforms are not implemented this year. Researchers project, at current rates, there will be more than 600,000 illegal aliens apprehended at the border this year. In December 2018, there were about 51,000 border crossers apprehended and 52,000 apprehended in November 2018. This is a two-month border crosser population that exceeds the total population of Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder

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