Michelle Obama: Black Americans Not Voting in 2016 was a ‘Slap in the Face’
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Former first lady Michelle Obama says in her upcoming Netflix documentary Becoming that it was a “slap in the face’’ that black Americans failed to show up to vote in the 2016 presidential election, according to the New York Post.
“It takes some energy to go high, and we were exhausted from it … when you’re the first black anything,’’ Obama said, referring to her and her husband, former President Barack Obama, of their failed efforts to help election then-Democrat White House nominee Hillary Clinton.
“You know, the day I left the White House, it was painful to sit on that stage, and then a lot of our folks didn’t vote — it was almost a slap in the face,” the former first lady added.
“It wasn’t just in this election, but every midterm, every time Barack didn’t get the Congress he needed, that was because our folks didn’t show up,” she said during another point in the film. “After all that work, they just couldn’t be bothered to vote at all. That’s my trauma.”
During the highly-anticipated documentary, Obama also shoots down the prospect of returning to politics — even as calls grow for former Vice President Joe Biden, the presumptive Democrat presidential nominee, to select the former first lady as his running mate.
“Now we’re out of the White House, not to be viewed, judged and parceled by every other person on the planet — yeah, it’s better, it’s absolutely freeing,’’ said Obama. “Being the first lady has been the greatest honor of my life. But how many people are in that position where the entire attention of everything is you, every gesture you make, every blink of an eye is being analyzed?
“Barack and I are not interested in being at the forefront forever — not even for that much longer,’’ she added
The film, described as “an intimate look into the life of former first lady Michelle Obama” chronicles her 34-city book tour in 2018-2019 for her best-selling memoir “Becoming.” Obama’s promotional tour, managed by the concert promoter Live Nation, had the scale of a rock tour, with a string of dates at sold-out arenas.
The film will debut May 6 on Netflix. In a statement, Obama said the experience of the tour “drove home the idea that what we share in common is deep and real and can’t be messed with.”
“We processed the past and imagined a better future. In talking about the idea of ‘becoming,’ many of us dared to say our hopes out loud,” said Obama. “I treasure the memories and that sense of connection now more than ever, as we struggle together to weather this pandemic, as we care for our loved ones, tend to our communities, and try to keep up with work and school while coping with huge amounts of loss, confusion, and uncertainty.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
'We've
got to strengthen our own borders': MLK niece supports Trump's temporary
immigration ban
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April 22, 2020 10:34 AM
Martin
Luther King Jr.’s niece said she supports President Trump’s forthcoming
temporary suspension of immigration to the United States.
Trump
announced he would be signing an executive order this
week that is expected to put a 60-day ban on immigrants seeking permanent
status in the U.S. Alveda King, the director of Civil Rights for the Unborn at
Priests for Life, said she agrees with the order, arguing that it will help the
U.S. become healthier and stronger amid the coronavirus.
“I
agree with President Trump,” King told Just
the News on Tuesday. “Now, this is a temporary measure. This is not a
forever measure."
"So,
the president, when he says 'America first' — he never says 'America only,'
just 'America first,'" she said. "Immigration slows for a time. Then
we become healthier. Then we can reach out to others. That is the strategy. So,
people need to understand that. We've got to strengthen our own borders, our
own lives, our own families, our own communities. Once we do that, then we can
help others."
Just
the News reported that the U.S. Civil Rights Commission under
the Obama administration showed illegal immigration negatively affects blacks
and asked King if the U.S. should consider immigration control a civil right.
“Civil
rights, I would not say — I think more it helps human rights. It helps
Americans to get better," King said. "Civil rights, of course, come
after human rights, and human rights are endowed by our creator. So, there are
some rights, human rights, that we all have. And I believe we all have rights
all over the planet to safety, security, provision, and all of that. When that
is missing, it is wise for leaders of any nation to stop, take toll, repent,
pray, return to God, and get things straightened out."
On
the topic of immigration, she added, “During her lifetime, my aunt Coretta
Scott King spoke about immigration coming in, and it would displace ‘negroes,’
or blacks, as we were called back then. And she even wrote about that. My
uncle, Martin Luther King, Jr., spoke about immigration as well.
"My
father, the Rev. A.D. King, with all of us having the understanding this nation
was founded by immigrants, as it is today," she continued. "We had
the Native Americans here before we were here, of course. So, we are all
immigrants. ... Martin Luther King Jr. said, ‘Well, we may have come out on
different boats, but we are all in the same boat now.'"
Biden’s
Coronavirus Plan: Catch and Release Border Crossers into U.S.
Obama:
DACA Illegal Aliens Deserve Amnesty During Coronavirus Crisis
‘Dreamers’ risk lives on pandemic’s front lines while they
await a decision on their own futures
JAMES WALSH
THE OBAMA-BIDEN HISPANICAZATION of AMERICA… first ease millions of illegals over our borders and into our voting
booths!
Joe
Biden: ‘Absolutely Bizarre’ to Suggest Limit on U.S. Capacity to Absorb
Immigrants
Trump has flipped the 9th Circuit — and some new judges are causing a
'shock wave'
Surge in Illegal Aliens,
500% Increase in Some U.S. Ports of Entry
Concrete Evidence of the Continuing Plunge in Both Civil and Criminal Immigration Enforcement
By Dan Cadman
CIS Immigration Blog, January 23, 2016
Two recent reports from Syracuse University's Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) reflect the continued erosion of immigration enforcement under the Obama administration.
On January 20, TRAC reported that criminal prosecution for immigration offenses fell 22.3 percent from November 2014 to November 2015, and more than 36 percent over the course of five years, excluding magistrate court (which deals exclusively with petty offenses).
The following day, TRAC announced that "ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] Detainer Use Stabilizes Under Priority Enforcement Program". The Priority Enforcement Program (PEP) is the replacement to the Secure Communities Program mandated by Homeland Security Security Jeh Johnson as a part of the president's "executive actions" on immigration. It significantly restricts the ability of immigration agents to file detainers against aliens arrested by police on criminal charges.
I have no idea what TRAC means by "stabilizes". A quick look at Figure 1a of their report shows a more accurate state of affairs, if one considers the number of detainers being filed over the course of five years, from a high in April 2011, when Secure Communities became fully effective nationwide and kicked into high gear, versus October 2015. I would use other phrases: "plummeted" or "Dropped like a stone". Or, as my colleague Jessica Vaughan has noted, particularly in relation to detainers filed at county jails, where the lion's share of criminals of any stripes are held after being booked for offenses small and large: "a stunning free fall".
http://www.cis.org/cadman/concrete-evidence-continuing-plunge-both-civil-and-criminal-immigration-enforcement
Biden’s
Coronavirus Plan: Catch and Release Border Crossers into U.S.
508David McNew/Getty Images
1 May 20201,989
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Presumptive 2020 Democrat
presidential nominee Joe Biden is suggesting a restart of the nation’s “Catch
and Release” program in the midst of the coronavirus crisis. The policy would
ensure thousands of border crossers are readily released into the United
States.
This week, during an interview with
Florida local media, Biden suggested a return to
the previous, decades-long policy of catching and releasing border crossers
into the U.S. as they await their asylum hearings despite public health
concerns over the coronavirus.
“You’ve never seen a time where
someone seeking asylum has to seek it from another country,” Biden said when
asked about his immigration plan in the middle of the coronavirus crisis.
“You’ve never seen a circumstance where we put people in cages. We have to take
stock of where we are.”
Biden’s plan would ensure that
thousands of border crossers who have arrived at the U.S.-Mexico border since
President Trump’s shutdown of the region
would be released into the country while they await their asylum hearings — the
majority of which take years to hold.
Today, Trump’s “Remain in Mexico”
policy coupled with the border shutdown has allowed federal immigration
officials to swiftly return border crossers to Mexico in an average of 96 minutes. The policy means
border crossers from Mexico and Central America are processed and immediately
returned to Mexico without setting foot in the U.S. interior.
As Breitbart News reported, federal
immigration officials have said that as of April 10, Trump’s policy
had successfully returned 10,000 border crossers to Mexico.
Analysis conducted by the Center
for Economic and Policy Research shows a continued flow of border crossers
being returned to their native countries in recent weeks.
From March 15 to April 24, ICE Air
appears to have made 21 deportation flights to Guatemala; 18 to Honduras; 12 to
El Salvador; six to Brazil; three each to Nicaragua, Ecuador, Haiti, and the
Dominican Republic; and one each to Colombia and Jamaica…
…
Over the last 12 weeks, it appears
that ICE has used 22 unique charter planes for 232 likely deportation flights.
Of those planes, 15 participated in confirmed ICE Air deportation flights
between October 2018 and May 2019, the most recent data compiled by UWCHR.
Biden’s plan, though, would reverse
such measures, halting deportations except for convicted felon illegal aliens
and allowing those arriving at the border to await their asylum hearings in the
U.S. interior with the hopes that they show up to court.
The plan proposed by Biden comes
even as public health concerns have circulated around border crossers arriving
at the southern border. This week, an illegal alien from India tested positive for
coronavirus after he snuck across the border into California with a group of
Mexican nationals.
Likewise, data from Guatemalan
officials have said about 50 to 75 percent of all migrants returned to
Guatemala from the U.S. have tested positive for
coronavirus.
Under Biden’s plan, each of these
border crossers would be in a federal immigration facility or already released
into the U.S. interior.
Trump’s Remain in Mexico policy has
decimated asylum fraud. In the first few months of its implementation, the
policy ensured that zero of 1,200 total border
crossers ineligible for asylum in Mexico had been released into the U.S.
interior. Most recent reports have
indicated that the Remain in Mexico policy has a less than one percent
asylum-grant rate.
John
Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
Obama:
DACA Illegal Aliens Deserve Amnesty During Coronavirus Crisis
Former President Barack Obama says the time is now, during the
Chinese coronavirus crisis, to provide amnesty to about 3.5 million illegal
aliens who are enrolled and eligible for the Deferred Action for Childhood
Arrivals (DACA) program.
While about ten million Americans have
filed for unemployment in just three weeks, Obama took to Twitter to call for
an amnesty for DACA illegal aliens in the midst of the coronavirus crisis.
“Dreamers have contributed so much to our country, and they are
risking their lives fighting on the frontlines of this pandemic,” Obama said.
“They deserve permanent immigration status and a pathway to citizenship—as they
are Americans in every way but on paper.”
Dreamers have contributed so much to our country, and they are risking
their lives fighting on the frontlines of this pandemic. They deserve permanent
immigration status and a pathway to citizenship—as they are Americans in every
way but on paper. https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/dreamers-risk-lives-on-pandemics-front-lines-while-they-await-court-ruling/2020/04/11/d34a7b58-76c4-11ea-85cb-8670579b863d_story.html …
‘Dreamers’ risk lives on pandemic’s front lines while they
await a decision on their own futures
Center for Immigration Studies
Research Director Steven Camarotta has noted that DACA illegal aliens make up about 0.2 percent of the
nation’s nearly 15 million healthcare workers. In New York, where a staggering
number of DACA illegal aliens reside, they still only account for about 0.2
percent of the state’s healthcare workers, according to Camarotta.
Obama’s lobbying for a DACA amnesty
in the middle of the coronavirus crisis comes as House Democrats — including
Congressional Hispanic Caucus Chair Joaquin Castro (D-TX), Rep. Zoe Lofgren
(D-CA), and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) — have sent a letter to the Trump administration demanding DACA illegal aliens
have their work authorizations extended.
“Support of DACA recipients during the current pandemic is
particularly critical as over 200,000 DACA recipients are in occupations and
industry groups that render them ‘essential critical infrastructure workers,’
according to DHS guidance,” the House Democrats wrote in their letter.
A DACA amnesty would put more
citizen children of illegal aliens — known as “anchor babies” — on federal
welfare, as Breitbart News reported,
while American taxpayers would be left potentially with
a $26 billion bill.
Additionally,
about one-in-five DACA illegal aliens, after an amnesty, would end up on food stamps, while
at least one-in-seven would go on Medicaid.
Any plan to give amnesty to DACA illegal aliens that does not
also include provisions to halve legal immigration levels — the U.S. admits
about 1.2 million legal immigrants a year at the expense of America’s working
and middle class — would give amnestied illegal aliens the opportunity to bring
an unlimited number of foreign relatives to the country.
At the southern border, a DACA amnesty has the potential to
trigger a border surge that could triple the number of illegal aliens pouring
through the border. Since DACA’s inception, more than 2,100 recipients of the
program have been kicked off because they were found to either be criminals or
gang members.
JAMES WALSH
THE OBAMA-BIDEN HISPANICAZATION of AMERICA… first ease millions of illegals over our borders and into our voting
booths!
How the Democrat party
surrendered America to Mexico:
“The watchdogs
at Judicial Watch discovered documents that reveal how the Obama
administration's close coordination with the Mexican government entices
Mexicans to hop over the fence and on to the American dole.” Washington
Times
"This is country belongs to Mexico" is said by the
Mexican Militant. This is a common teaching that the U.S. is really AZTLAN,
belonging to Mexicans, which is taught to Mexican kids in Arizona and
California through a LA Raza educational program funded by American Tax Payers
via President Obama, when he gave LA RAZA $800,000.00 in March of 2009!
The “zero tolerance” program was dismantled by Attorney
General Erc Holder once it had successfully cut the transit of
migrants by roughly 95 percent. Initially, officials made 140,000 arrests per
year in the mid-2000s, but the northward flow dropped so much that officials
only had to make 6,000 arrests in 2013, according to a 2014 letter by two pro-migration Senators,
Sen. Jeff Flake and John McCain.
“The cost
of the Dream Act is far bigger than the Democrats or their media allies admit.
Instead of covering 690,000 younger illegals now enrolled in former President
Barack Obama’s 2012 “DACA” amnesty, the Dream Act would legalize at least 3.3 million
illegals,
according to a pro-immigration group, the Migration Policy Institute.”
Obama Quietly Erasing Borders (Article)
WIKILEAKS EXPOSES THE OBAMA CONSPIRACY TO
FLOOD AMERICAN WITH DEM VOTING ILLEGALS
“The watchdogs
at Judicial Watch discovered documents that reveal how the Obama
administration's close coordination with the Mexican government entices
Mexicans to hop over the fence and on to the American dole.” Washington
Times
Obama Funds the Mexican Fascist Party of
LA RAZA “The Race”… now calling itself UNIDOSus.
"This is country belongs to Mexico" is said by the
Mexican Militant. This is a common teaching that the U.S. is really AZTLAN,
belonging to Mexicans, which is taught to Mexican kids in Arizona and
California through a LA Raza educational program funded by American Tax Payers
via President Obama, when he gave LA RAZA $800,000.00 in March of 2009!
Previous
generations of immigrants did not believe they were racially superior to
Americans. That is the view of La Raza Cosmica, by Jose Vasconcelos,
Mexico’s former education minister and a presidential candidate. According to
this book, republished in 1979 by the Department of Chicano Studies at Cal
State LA, students of Scandinavian, Dutch and English background are dullards,
blacks are ugly and inferior, and those “Mongols” with the slanted eyes lack
enterprise. The superior new “cosmic” race of Spaniards and Indians is
replacing them, and all Yankee “Anglos.” LLOYD
BILLINGSLEY/ FRONTPAGE mag
*
GLOBALIST BARACK OBAMA
AND NANCY PELOSI’S CONSPIRACY TO SABOTAGE HOMELAND SECURITY AND KEEP AMERICA
FLOODED WITH DEM VOTING ILLEGALS
"Along with Obama, Pelosi and
Schumer are responsible for incalculable damage done to this country over the
eight years of that administration." PATRICIA McCARTHY
“One of the most disgusting things to come out of the Obama administration
was "Operation Fast and Furious," where members of the Department of
Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) allowed illegal gun sales to go
through – commonly referred to as "gun walking" – in order to track
buyers and sellers they believed were connected to the Mexican drug cartels.
Nearly 2,000 firearms were sold and were eventually found throughout the United
States and Mexico. Two of them were used to k ill Border Patrol Agent Brian
Terry.” BETH BAUMANN
The “zero tolerance” program was dismantled by Attorney
General Erc Holder once it had successfully cut the transit of
migrants by roughly 95 percent. Initially, officials made 140,000 arrests per
year in the mid-2000s, but the northward flow dropped so much that officials
only had to make 6,000 arrests in 2013, according to a 2014 letter by two
pro-migration Senators, Sen. Jeff Flake and John McCain.
Jose
Angel Gutierrez, professor, University of Texas, Arlington and founder of
La Raza Unida political party screams at rallies: "We have
an aging white America. They are d ying. They are s hitting in their
pants with fear! I love it! We have got to eliminate the g ringo, and what
I mean by that is if the worst comes to the worst, we have got to k ill him!"
Previous
generations of immigrants did not believe they were racially superior to
Americans. That is the view of La Raza Cosmica, by Jose Vasconcelos,
Mexico’s former education minister and a presidential candidate. According to
this book, republished in 1979 by the Department of Chicano Studies at Cal
State LA, students of Scandinavian, Dutch and English background are dullards,
blacks are ugly and inferior, and those “Mongols” with the slanted eyes lack
enterprise. The superior new “cosmic” race of Spaniards and Indians is replacing
them, and all Yankee “Anglos.” LLOYD
BILLINGSLEY/ FRONTPAGE mag
Joe
Biden: ‘Absolutely Bizarre’ to Suggest Limit on U.S. Capacity to Absorb
Immigrants
LAS VEGAS, Nevada — Former Vice President Joe Biden campaigned
inside a Chinese restaurant on Tuesday evening, telling supporters it was
“bizarre” to suggest a limit on immigration to the U.S.
Biden promised to expand immigration to the U.S. if elected
president.
“Folks, look — the idea that there’s some limitation on the
capacity of anyone who — on the immigrants in this country is absolutely
bizarre! It’s absolutely bizarre.”
Biden, speaking to a packed crowd inside the Harbor Palace
Seafood Restaurant on the eve of the next Democratic debate, addressed members
of the Asian-American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community, urging them to
turn out the vote ahead of Saturday’s caucuses.
Last month, the AAPI Victory
Fund super PAC endorsed Biden for president, citing his ability to defeat
President Donald Trump and his experience working with immigrant communities
from South Asia, East Asia and the Pacific generally.
Though the AAPI immigrant community is politically diverse, it
has trended Democratic in recent years.
Last year, Breitbart News reported,
another local AAPI organization in Las Vegas expressed opposition to President
Trump’s proposed merit-based system for legal immigration.
On Tuesday, Biden promised, if elected, to allow family
reunification visas.
“We should be able to increase, to three million people, the
people who could come for family reunification. Period, period, period,
period.”
He called the idea that the U.S. could not “reunite” more
families “absolutely bizarre.”
Biden also reminded his audience that Latinos were not the only
beneficiaries of President Barack Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood
Arrivals (DACA) program, which applied to those brought to the country
illegally as children.
He said there were “thousands and thousands of AAPI ‘Dreamers'”
who had benefited from DACA as well.
Afterwards, Biden greeted attendees, some of whom proceeded to
the Chinatown Mall to cast early votes before the polling place there closed.
Biden hopes to finish in the top three in Nevada, and to win
South Carolina on Feb. 29, to make the case that he is still a top contender
for his party’s nomination. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) now leads national
polls, as well as Nevada polls.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large
at Breitbart News. He earned an A.B. in Social Studies and Environmental
Science and Public Policy from Harvard College, and a J.D. from Harvard Law
School. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship.
He is also the co-author of How Trump Won: The Inside Story of a Revolution, which is available from Regnery. Follow him on Twitter
at @joelpollak.
ICE ignores California laws and arrests illegal aliens at the
courthouse door
In 2018, California implemented the California Values Act, which gave special protection to illegal
aliens by mandating that California law enforcement agencies cannot cooperate
with federal immigration authorities. Last week, Immigration and Customs
Enforcement (“ICE”) thumbed its nose at California and arrested two people in
Sonoma County Superior Court.
BLOG: CALIFORNIA HAS 15 MILLION
ILLEGALS!
California has lots of reasons to hang
onto its roughly 2.2 – 3.5 million illegal immigrants. They provide cheap,
easily-exploited labor. They swell the state’s population, which matters for
electors and congresspeople, as well as the distribution of certain federal
funds. As illegal immigrants are fed into the system, they provide reliable
(legal or illegal) Democrat votes. And they make Californians feel virtuous
even as they allow corrupt Latin American states to continue exploiting their
own citizens and destroying their economies by relying on remittances from
people illegally in America.
For these reasons, California enacted the
pompously named “California Values Act.” Although the act refers to
“immigrants,” it’s obviously intended to affect only illegal aliens because the
Act’s entire purpose is to use the agencies of the state to prevent ICE from
gaining access to people illegally in California – including people who have
committed crimes in California. This is the type of law that could only come
from legislators and other virtue signalers ensconced in comfortable middle-
and upper-middle-class enclaves unaffected by felonies that would never have
happened but for open borders and sanctuaries.
Throughout the Obama administration,
sanctuary cities and states were able to get away with these policies because
the Obama administration, despite Obama’s sworn obligation to upload the laws
of the United States, approved of open borders. Trump promised to change all
that.
During the first three years of his
administration, rather disappointingly, Trump was able to have little effect on
illegal immigration or on deportation. However, Trump was just getting his
ducks in a row. He was hampered by a reluctant Republican Congress, which was
superseded by a violently resisting Democrat House. He also had to deal with
“resistance” judges who blocked every immigration initiative he made.
Finally, though, things are changing.
Trump was able to squeeze money out of Congress for his wall and, even more
importantly, with help from Mitch McConnell, he’s changing the judiciary:
Great news for the U.S. Constitution! @realDonaldTrump has flipped the 9th Circuit — and some new judges are
causing a 'shock wave' https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-02-22/trump-conservative-judges-9th-circuit …
Trump has flipped the 9th Circuit — and some new judges are causing a
'shock wave'
With a judiciary that believes in
interpreting the law, not making it, Trump’s administration is able to act in
accordance with the Supremacy Clause (Constitution, Art. VI, Clause 2):
This
Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in
Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the
Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the
Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or
Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.
In other words, when there’s a direct
conflict between state laws and federal laws, federal laws prevail.
Because the critical mass of judges is no
longer deliberately inserting itself as an obstacle between federal laws and
illegal immigrants, ICE is beginning to carry out its duty as written under the law:
U.S. immigration
agents arrested two people at a Northern California courthouse, including a man
detained in a hallway on his way to a hearing, flouting a new state law
requiring a judicial warrant to make immigration arrests inside such
facilities.
Immigration
and Customs Enforcement agents made the arrests Tuesday at Sonoma County
Superior Court, prompting an outcry from criminal justice and court officials
who said the action undermines local authority and deters immigrants who are in
the country illegally from participating in the U.S. justice system.
ICE said
California's law doesn't supersede federal law and “will not govern the conduct
of federal officers acting pursuant to duly-enacted laws passed by Congress
that provide the authority to make administrative arrests of removable aliens
inside the United States."
“Our officers
will not have their hands tied by sanctuary rules when enforcing immigration
laws to remove criminal aliens from our communities," David Jennings,
ICE's field office director in San Francisco, said in the statement.
At long last, in Trump’s America, the rule
of law matters again. The reliability of law is one of the essential
ingredients of a just and successful civilization. In that context, if you
don’t like the law, you change it through the democratic process, not through
illegal and unconstitutional resistance.
Surge in Illegal Aliens,
500% Increase in Some U.S. Ports of Entry
Judicial Watch Corruption Chronicles, December 30, 2015
The agency’s own statistics certainly contradict that, showing that the southern border region is as porous and vulnerable as ever. Other entry ports that saw large hikes in Central American illegal immigrants during the first two months of this fiscal year include Del Rio, Texas (269%), El Centro, California (216%) and Rio Grande Valley, Texas (154%). The Border Patrol breaks the stats down by “family unit” and illegal immigrants under the age of 18, referred to as “Unaccompanied Alien Children” or UAC. The Rio Grande Valley port of entry topped the list in both categories with 8,537 family units and 6,465 UACs during the two-month period. In all, the nation’s nine southern border crossings saw an average of 173% increase in family units and a 106% increase in minors during the short period considered.
Some of the illegal immigrants are Mexican nationals, but the overwhelming majority comes from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. The government records show that somehow 4,450 family units from El Salvador evaded our topnotch border security and entered the United States in a period of only two months. Guatemala and Honduras had 3,934 and 3,203 respectively. Mexico had 538 family units. Of interesting note is that, during this period, the Border Patrol reports 35,234 apprehensions in the region of foreigners labeled by the government as “Other Than Mexican” or OTM. This is a term used by federal authorities to refer to nationals of countries that represent a terrorist threat to the U.S.
. . .
http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2015/12/surge-in-illegal-aliens-500-increase-in-some-u-s-ports-of-entry/
The agency’s own statistics certainly contradict that, showing that the southern border region is as porous and vulnerable as ever. Other entry ports that saw large hikes in Central American illegal immigrants during the first two months of this fiscal year include Del Rio, Texas (269%), El Centro, California (216%) and Rio Grande Valley, Texas (154%). The Border Patrol breaks the stats down by “family unit” and illegal immigrants under the age of 18, referred to as “Unaccompanied Alien Children” or UAC. The Rio Grande Valley port of entry topped the list in both categories with 8,537 family units and 6,465 UACs during the two-month period. In all, the nation’s nine southern border crossings saw an average of 173% increase in family units and a 106% increase in minors during the short period considered.
Some of the illegal immigrants are Mexican nationals, but the overwhelming majority comes from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. The government records show that somehow 4,450 family units from El Salvador evaded our topnotch border security and entered the United States in a period of only two months. Guatemala and Honduras had 3,934 and 3,203 respectively. Mexico had 538 family units. Of interesting note is that, during this period, the Border Patrol reports 35,234 apprehensions in the region of foreigners labeled by the government as “Other Than Mexican” or OTM. This is a term used by federal authorities to refer to nationals of countries that represent a terrorist threat to the U.S.
. . .
http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2015/12/surge-in-illegal-aliens-500-increase-in-some-u-s-ports-of-entry/
Concrete Evidence of the Continuing Plunge in Both Civil and Criminal Immigration Enforcement
By Dan Cadman
CIS Immigration Blog, January 23, 2016
Two recent reports from Syracuse University's Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) reflect the continued erosion of immigration enforcement under the Obama administration.
On January 20, TRAC reported that criminal prosecution for immigration offenses fell 22.3 percent from November 2014 to November 2015, and more than 36 percent over the course of five years, excluding magistrate court (which deals exclusively with petty offenses).
The following day, TRAC announced that "ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] Detainer Use Stabilizes Under Priority Enforcement Program". The Priority Enforcement Program (PEP) is the replacement to the Secure Communities Program mandated by Homeland Security Security Jeh Johnson as a part of the president's "executive actions" on immigration. It significantly restricts the ability of immigration agents to file detainers against aliens arrested by police on criminal charges.
I have no idea what TRAC means by "stabilizes". A quick look at Figure 1a of their report shows a more accurate state of affairs, if one considers the number of detainers being filed over the course of five years, from a high in April 2011, when Secure Communities became fully effective nationwide and kicked into high gear, versus October 2015. I would use other phrases: "plummeted" or "Dropped like a stone". Or, as my colleague Jessica Vaughan has noted, particularly in relation to detainers filed at county jails, where the lion's share of criminals of any stripes are held after being booked for offenses small and large: "a stunning free fall".
http://www.cis.org/cadman/concrete-evidence-continuing-plunge-both-civil-and-criminal-immigration-enforcement
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