Migrant Families, Minors at Texas Border Hit ‘Unprecedented’ Levels, Say Feds
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Border Patrol officials in South Texas expressed “growing concerns” as the flow of migrant families and unaccompanied minors hit “unprecedented” levels in 2018.
“As the Rio Grande Valley Sector continues to experience an unprecedented flow of family units and unaccompanied children, the increase in identified fraud cases is extremely concerning,” Rio Grande Valley Sector Chief Patrol Agent Manuel Padilla, Jr. said in a written statement. “The trend in these fraud cases is an effort by smugglers to exploit ongoing U.S. immigration policies and procedures. Agents have already discovered over 60 fraudulent cases in the first two weeks of the new fiscal year.”
The numbers of Family Unit Aliens (FMUA) and Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) continue to increase in the nation’s busiest Border Patrol sector, officials said. As an example, the sector reported the apprehension of a large group of 30 migrants on Monday evening. The group, composed of FMUAs and UACs, traveled to the U.S. from Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador.
The following day, McAllen Station agents came upon another large group of 68 migrants. The group’s membership comprised of families and UACs from Nicaragua, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador.
With one month to go in Fiscal Year 2018, agents in the Rio Grande Valley Sector apprehended 54,498 FMUAs and 21,557 unaccompanied minors, according to the August Southwest Border Migration Report issued by U.S. Customs and Border Protection in September. These apprehensions represent an increase of 15 percent over last year’s apprehension of family units. This single sector apprehends more than 60 percent of all migrant family units in all nine southwestern Border Patrol sectors. Agents in the sector also apprehended nearly 50 percent of all UACs arrested along the border with Mexico this fiscal year.
Bob Price serves as associate editor and senior political news contributor for Breitbart Border/Cartel Chronicles. He is a founding member of the Breitbart Texas team. Follow him on Twitter @BobPriceBBTX and Facebook.
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Donald Trump Props Up Ted Cruz: ‘Beto Is a Flake’
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President Donald Trump emphasized his support for Sen. Ted Cruz’s re-election campaign on Wednesday.
Trump revealed that he watched the Texas senator debate his leftist opponent, Beto O’Rourke, on Tuesday night.
“Ted has long had my Strong Endorsement!” Trump wrote on Twitter.
O’Rourke borrowed the president’s attack line from the 2016 primary against Cruz during the debate.
“Senator Cruz won’t be honest with you. He’s dishonest,” O’Rourke said. “It’s why the president called him ‘Lyin’ Ted’ and it’s why the nickname stuck — because it’s true.”
But Trump said Cruz was more in line with Texas values: strong on crime, enforcing the border, supporting the Second Amendment, veterans, and low taxes.
“Beto is a Flake!” he wrote.
The president plans to campaign with Cruz at a rally in Houston on Monday:
US Announces 15 Indictments Against Mexican Drug Cartel
WASHINGTON—The Justice Department announced 15 indictments against members of one of Mexico’s largest drug cartels on Oct. 16.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions unveiled the charges against members of Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion, or CJNG, which is accused of trafficking tons of cocaine, methamphetamine, and fentanyl-laced heroin into the U.S.
The announcement comes a day after Sessions named the cartel one of the top five transnational criminal organizations.
Investigators believe the cartel brings about five tons of cocaine and five tons of methamphetamine into the U.S. from Mexico each month, Sessions said. The 15 indictments charge a total of 45 of the cartel’s leaders, financers, transporters and suppliers.
“Every day, these cartels are taking advantage of our porous Southern border to move and push their illegal drugs for large profits – expanding suffering and death along the way,” Sessions said at a news conference.
Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, who authorities say is the cartel’s kingpin and is also known as “El Mencho,” is charged in three of the indictments but remains a fugitive. The U.S. is offering a $10 million reward for information leading to his arrest.
His son, Ruben Oseguera Gonzalez, who prosecutors say served as the cartel’s second-in-command until he was arrested by Mexican authorities in 2015, is also charged in two of the indictments.
Officials believe the cartel has influence in 75 percent of Mexican states. The cartel also operates across the U.S., and in Europe, Asia, and Australia, according to prosecutors.
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