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Monday, May 17, 2021
ICE Director on Illegals Released into U.S.: ‘Our Ability to Track Those Folks Closely is Much More Limited’ - That's Because Nafta Joe Wants Us To Scatter the Invaders All Over America So They Disappear Into American Jobs, Welfare Offices and Voting Booths
Life in Prison for MS-13 Member Convicted in Murder of Texas Teen
HOUSTON, Texas — A Texas jury rendered a sentence of life without parole to an MS-13 gang member convicted in the killing of a Houston-area teenager. The victim witnessed several gang-related murders before being lured to Missouri City, Texas, for his own execution.
A jury in Harris County, Texas, sentenced Douglas Alexander Herrera-Hernandez, an MS-13 gang member who illegally entered the United States in December 2014, to spend the rest of his life in prison without the possibility of parole for the murder of 16-year-old Estuar Quinonez. The victim suffered 15 gunshot wounds as he sat on a park bench in Buffalo Run Park on June 13, 2016, Fox 26 Houston reported.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officials confirmed to Breitbart Texas that Herrera-Hernandez, aka “Terror,” entered the U.S. illegally as an Unaccompanied Alien Child (UAC) by crossing the Rio Grande in December 2014. Officials reported the migrant was 17 years old at the time he crossed the border.
Border Patrol agents released him under President Barack Obama’s catch and release policies with a “notice to appear” before an immigration court. A Houston immigration judge issued a final order of removal against Herrera-Hernandez after he failed to appear for his hearing.
Just under one year later, Herrera-Hernandez murdered 16-year-old Estuar Quinonez in Missouri City, Texas, a suburb of Houston, Breitbart Texas reported. Quinones reportedly witnessed several MS-13 gang-related murders. Missouri City police, working with the Houston Police Department, identified the Salvadoran national as a suspect in the murder.
Herrera-Hernandez fled from Texas and was later arrested by police in Virginia in late July 2017, Breitbart Texas reported. In addition to the murder of Quinones, the MS-13 gang member also allegedly shot and killed 26-year-old Kevin Alvarez in southeast Houston on July 9, 2017.
During the trial, prosecutors told the jury that Herrera-Hernandez got permission from MS-13 gang leaders in El Salvador to kill Quinonez, the local Fox affiliate reported. The now-convicted killer gathered several gang members to carry out the execution of the victim. Herrera-Hernandez and another gang member picked up Quinonez and brought him to the park where the gang members fired multiple gunshots including one to the head.
“We are trying to break the back of this organization by sending their assassins to prison for as long as possible and we will remain unrelenting in our pursuit of these criminals who band together to terrorize communities,” Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg told reporters.
ICE Director on Illegals Released into U.S.: ‘Our Ability to Track Those Folks Closely is Much More Limited’
(CNSNews.com) - Acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Tae Johnson told the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security on Thursday that—except for a limited number who are put in an “Alternatives to Detention” (ATD) program--his agency cannot track illegal aliens who are caught and then released into the United States.
Johnson made this concession in an exchange with Rep. Ashley Hinson (R.-Iowa).
“Today, can you confirm for me the ability--the inability, rather, for ICE to track illegal immigrants’ location and then their activity within the homeland on that person level following their release by CBP?” Hinson asked Johnson, who had discussed the issue earlier in a telephone call with Johnson.
“As I mentioned in our call, there's certainly some gaps in our ability to track everyone that's released in the interior,” Johnson said.
“For those individuals that are released on an Alternative to Detention, whether it's an ankle monitor or smart link or telephonic reporting, we have, you know, much better success at keeping track of those,” he said.
“But for individuals that are just released with notice--notification to report to ICE or to show up in court, then our ability to track those folks closely is much more limited,” Johnson said.
Johnson then said it was his “understanding” that when Customs and Border Protection releases an illegal alien inside the United States, their recording system does not report where that illegal alien is “proposing to reside” in the United States. Therefore, they cannot say how many of them, for example, are in Hinson’s home state of Iowa.
“Can you state for the record that you're not currently able to tell Iowans how many illegal immigrants are present in Iowa right now or how many CBP has released into the country with plans to be in Iowa?” asked Hinson.
“That is correct,” responded Johnson.
“I mean, and again, you know, I would want to just--that's my understanding,” he said. “I would like to start with--I would like to go back to CBP and just clarify that they are unable to pull data by state. But that is my understanding that their system of record will not sort of produce a report based on the states that the individuals that they're releasing are proposing to reside.”
“Since FY2004,Congress has appropriated funding to the Department of Homeland Security’s(DHS’s) Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for an Alternatives to Detention (ATD) program to provide supervised release and enhanced monitoring for a subset of foreign nationals subject to removal whom ICE has released into the United States,” said the report.
“These aliens are not statutorily mandated to be in DHS custody, are not considered threats to public safety or national security, and have been released either on bond, their own recognizance, or parole pending a decision on whether they should be removed from the United States,” it said.
“Currently, ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) runs an ATD program called the Intensive Supervision Appearance Program III (ISAPIII),” said the CRS report. “On June 22, 2019, program enrollment included more than 100,000 foreign nationals, who are a sub group of ICE’s broader ‘non-detained docket’ of approximately 3 million aliens. Those in the non-detained docket include individuals the government has exercised discretion to release—for example, they are not considered a flight risk or there is a humanitarian reason for their release (as well as other reasons).”
“Individuals in the non-detained docket, and not enrolled in the ISAP III program, receive less-intensive supervision by ICE,” the report said.
Here is a transcript of Hinon’s exchange with Johnson about ICE’s tracking of illegal aliens released into the United States:
Rep. Ashely Hinson: “Thank you, Madam Chair. I appreciate you holding this hearing today. I did have the ability to speak with Acting Director Johnson earlier this week. So, thank you, again, for taking the time to meet with me earlier this week. My time today I'm going to devote to follow up questions from that conversation, as well as a few concerning issues that have been brought to my attention, specifically about ICE's activity or lack thereof in certain cases as well. These issues and a general lack of information are highly concerning to me, and we're going to follow up with the secretary when he's in in a few weeks, but on these issues must be addressed by ICE leadership and the administration. In my mind, it's part of our role to hold everybody accountable and make sure taxpayer dollars are spent effectively. So, Director Johnson, thank you, again, for your service and our frank conversation earlier this week. I also think it's important to note when members of this committee reach out to ask for answers, we're doing that not to create more work for you but because we are ultimately accountable to the American taxpayer and require those answers to be able to make truly informed decisions about how to spend those taxpayer dollars, their money.
“So, thank you for the responses I have already received. And I trust that you and your team are going to follow up on the existing--the other questions that we discussed in our call.
“We did talk about, in our call, the disconnect between ICE and Customs and Border Patrol, specifically when it comes to tracking illegal immigrants once they have been released into the United States. So, today, can you confirm for me the ability--the inability, rather, for ICE to track illegal immigrant's location and then their activity within the homeland on that person level following their release by CBP?”
Acting ICE Director Tae Johnson: “Sure, thanks, congresswoman. As I mentioned in our call, there's certainly some gaps in our ability to track everyone that's released in the interior. For those individuals that are released on an alternative to detention [ATD], whether it's an ankle monitor or smart link or telephonic reporting, we have, you know, much better success at keeping track of those. But for individuals that are just released with notice--notification to report to ICE or to show up in court, then our ability to track those folks closely is much more limited. And—”
Hinson: “So this gap you talk about why is it so much more challenging to track individuals now than it was in 2019?”
Johnson: “No, I don't think it was much more limited to track in 2019. The systems have been--the same systems are in place. And in 2019, when we were seeing a surge of family units that were being released, I mean, they were being released with a notice to appear. And not, you know, we couldn't enroll everyone on ATD, because the numbers were high just as they are now. So we were certainly running into those same issues in 2019 as we are today. That's not changed.”
Hinson: “Can you state for the record that you're not currently able to tell Iowans how many illegal immigrants are present in Iowa right now or how many CBP has released into the country with plans to be in Iowa?”
Johnson: “That is correct. I mean, and again, you know, I would want to just--that's my understanding. I would like to start with--I would like to go back to CBP and just clarify that they are unable to pull data by state. But that is my understanding that their system of record will not sort of produce a report based on the states that the individuals that they're releasing are proposing to reside.”
Hinson: “Right. And you say you want to go back to them, obviously, to confirm this. But do you believe that ICE should be able to provide this information? You know, obviously, we've got a gap here in communication if you can't and they can't. But do you believe Americans should know if illegal immigrants are in their neighborhood? Specifically, you talk about some of these risk categories. I think people deserve to know who's coming in.”
Johnson: "I agree. And--and we, you know, it should be possible for that information to be transferred over to an I--to ICE's system of record in a way that would allow us to--to track folks down to the state and, quite frankly, the cities that these individuals are living in. We just don't have that capability or capacity currently."
Hinson: "Okay, so why is that? I mean, is it lack of resources that you're not able to track individuals down to that in person level at this point?"
Johnson: "It--it is our--it's--it's the--the two systems. The one system that CBP uses and the one that ICE uses. It-- they just don't talk to each other in a meaningful way. So I do think it's, you know, getting some technology that will make this two systems talk would be extremely helpful. Or, you know, maybe we will have to just scrap the two systems that are being used and--ad start afresh with something that provides the--the sophistication that we--that we need to--to track folks."
Hinson: "Well, Director Johnson, I appreciate those answers. And I'll probably have a few more questions around you. But thank you. And Madam Chair, I yield back. Thank you."
CBP: U.S.-Mexico Border Apprehensions Up 944% in April 2021 Compared With April 2020
(CNS News) -- The latest numbers from Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) show that there were 178,622 apprehensions at the U.S.-Mexico border in April 2021, what the agency calls "enforcement encounters."
That number is up from March 2021, which saw 173,348 apprehensions, and from January 2021, which saw 78,443 apprehensions.
For comparison, under the Trump administration in April 2020, there were 17,106 apprehensions.
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In other words, the difference between April 2020 and April 2021 is a 944% increase in enforcement encounters.
In March 2020, there were 34,460 apprehensions. Compared with March 2021 (173,348), that's a 403% increase.
These "enforcement encounters" do not include the illegal immigrants who were never apprehended, those who got away into the United States.
On May 11, 19 governors signed a letter about the border crisis that was sent to President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.
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"We call on you to take action on the crisis at the southern border immediately," reads the letter. "Contrary to statements from your Administration, the border is neither closed nor secure. ... The crisis is too big to ignore and is now spilling over the border states into all of our states."
"This Administration has enticed a rush of migrants to our border and incentivized an influx of illegal crossings by using irresponsible rhetoric and reversing a slew of policies -- from halting border wall construction to eliminating asylum agreements to refusing to enforce immigration laws," reads the letter.
"The cause of the border crisis is entirely due to reckless federal policy reversals executed within your first 100 days in office," states the letter.
EXCLUSIVE: Criminal Alien Arrests at U.S. Border Exceeds 6K in 2021
As Border Patrol struggles with the surge of migrants this year, a law enforcement source informs Breitbart Texas that more 6,000 migrants with serious criminal records were apprehended since the new fiscal year beginning October 1, 2020. One thousand of those were apprehended in the Rio Grande Valley of south Texas alone.
The term “criminal alien” is not used by the Border Patrol to refer to migrants with only immigration violations. It is reserved for those with criminal convictions for state and federal crimes like murder, rape, sexual assault, burglary, robbery, narcotics, and more.
The source reports that within this total, nearly 700 had convictions for assault and battery; 34 were convicted of homicide; nearly 500 for burglary-related offenses; and more than 300 convicted of sexual offenses.
Most of these individuals are returning to the United States illegally after deportations.
On May 10, Border Patrol agents in the Rio Grande Valley Sector arrested an Ecuadoran national convicted for the rape of a minor in New York. A day later, agents in McAllen, Texas, arrested a Salvadoran national who readily admitted to serving seven years for murder and aggravated theft in his home country.
CBP further reports, during Fiscal Year 2020, San Diego agents arrested 25 sex offenders. This year, 25 were arrested in the sector during the first five months–putting them on pace to double the statistic. The San Diego Sector began tracking the annual apprehension of sex offenders in 2019.
Although only a small percentage of migrants illegally entering the country have criminal backgrounds, the source is concerned that many are eluding apprehension. As Border Patrol struggles to process and provide humanitarian care for the latest border surge, fewer agents are on normal duties.
The number of migrants avoiding apprehension by the Border Patrol exceeded 200,000 during the last seven months. The most noticeable increases began in January.
Randy Clark is a 32-year veteran of the United States Border Patrol. Prior to his retirement, he served as the Division Chief for Law Enforcement Operations, directing operations for nine Border Patrol Stations within the Del Rio, Texas, Sector. Follow him on Twitter @RandyClarkBBTX.
On Tuesday, Zavala County Sheriff’s deputies and Border Patrol arrested two U.S. citizens for suspicion of human trafficking near La Pryor, Texas. Six passengers were determined to be migrants illegally present in the country. Two of those were Pakistani nationals.
The arrest of human smugglers on border highways is becoming common due to the surge in migrant crossings. Encountering Pakistani nationals in these types of stops are uncommon at the moment, however.
Most illegal border crossings involve citizens of Mexico and Central America. A source working for Customs and Border Protection says they are detaining several migrants from Department of Homeland Security-designated “special interest” countries. The source says CBP is holding alien nationals of Turkey (18), Pakistan (4), and Syria (1).
According to the Department of Homeland Security:
[G]enerally, a Special Interest Alien is a non-U.S. person who, based on an analysis of travel patterns, potentially poses a national security risk to the United States or its interests. Often such individuals or groups are employing travel patterns known or evaluated to possibly have a nexus to terrorism. DHS analysis includes an examination of travel patterns, points of origin, and/or travel segments that are tied to current assessments of national and international threat environments.
This case remains under investigation.
Randy Clark is a 32-year veteran of the United States Border Patrol. Prior to his retirement, he served as the Division Chief for Law Enforcement Operations, directing operations for nine Border Patrol Stations within the Del Rio, Texas, Sector. Follow him on Twitter @RandyClarkBBTX.
TX Sheriff: We’ve Never Seen Border Like This and It’s ‘Only Going to Get Worse’ and More ‘Are Going to Die’
On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Faulkner Focus,” Val Verde County, TX Sheriff Joe Frank Martinez (D) stated that the situation at the border is “something that has not taken place in this part of our county ever.” And that without implementing a solution, the situation will get worse and “more people are going to die.”
Martinez said, “Well, this is something that has not taken place in this part of our county ever. This is the first time we’ve experienced something like this. So, it’s overburdened our federal partners, U.S. Border Patrol, who are doing everything they can to handle the situation. But we see these immigrants that are coming across fleeing their home country looking for a better way of life, you’ve got to feel for these individuals. But at the same time, there has to be a system in place that allows them a legal process. But it’s heartbreaking to watch some of these family units dragging their small children across a river risking their life.”
He added, “I wish that a decision be made one way or the other as to [how] to stop this. Because more people are going to die. Our state partners are involved in car chases every day. People are — there [are] accidents, they’re going through fences and stuff. People are going to die trying to come here. So, we need to put a stop to this nonsense until we come up with a solution. Because it’s only going to get worse. People are going to continue to come.”
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