ICE Releases Hundreds of Migrants in Texas over Christmas
26 Dec 201853
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has released hundreds of migrants in El Paso, Texas over the past few days, including 186 on Christmas Day.
Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-TX), who lost his Senate bid to incumbent Republican Ted Cruz, is cited in the story as being instrumental in making sure ICE informs city officials of impending releases.
Illegal Alien Charged with Murder After California Counties Ignore 9 ICE Detainer Requests
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Two California counties failed to honor ICE detainers for a Salvadoran national before the murder of a woman for which he has now been arrested.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) had issued nine detainers for criminal illegal alien Carlos Eduardo Arevalo Carranza, 24, in order to deport him, but Los Angeles and Santa Clara counties each ignored them. Carranza has a “long criminal history,” according to NBC Bay Area. The counties released him every time without notifying ICE.
Carranza was recently arrested for the vicious murder of a 59-year-old woman in San Jose in February.
His more than ten prior convictions over three years include “kidnapping, drug possession, battery on a police officer, trespassing and burglary” according to the report that added he was diagnosed with psychosis in 2016. The report cited acting field office director for ICE Erik Bonnar for the number of crimes:
How many more people have to be killed or injured before California lawmakers will open discussions to revise the state policy prohibiting local law enforcement agencies from working with ICE to apprehend dangerous criminal aliens? It’s unfortunate that our communities face dangerous consequences because of inflexible state laws that protect criminal aliens. These sanctuary policies have unintended, but very real, and often tragic consequences to public safety.
San Jose Police Chief Eddie Garcia placed blame for Carranza’s releases on those who set the policies. “Those policies are not set at our level,” he said during a Tuesday afternoon press conference, according to the report. Garcia said Carranza had stalked the victim and trolled the neighborhood.
Home security camera footage of the man obtained by NBC Bay Area appears to show him casing a home:
#UPDATE: A San Jose family's security camera captured footage of the man arrested in the brutal slaying of their neighbor, 59-year-old Bambi Larson. He appeared to be casing their home and others in the area. nbcbay.com/7mUsKfH
Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith called the murder a “senseless act” that “very well may have been preventable,” in a Tuesday statement:
Carlos Arevalo is a violent predator who should have remained in custody until officials with ICE had the appropriate time to evaluate his immigration status. It has been my long standing position that all undocumented immigrants who are a serious or violent felons, should be held for ICE evaluations. I will advocate to change the county policy to try to prevent this from happening again.
Santa Clara and Los Angeles counties and the state of California are sanctuaryjurisdictions, according to the Center for Immigration Studies. Such policies prevent law enforcement officials in those jurisdictions from working with federal immigration authorities.
Michelle Moons is a White House Correspondent for Breitbart News — follow on Twitter @MichelleDiana and Facebook
Beto O’Rourke Immigration Plan: No Walls; Amnesty for Dreamers, Parents, ‘Millions More’
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Former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-TX) isn’t yet a candidate for the Democrat presidential election, but he is already making clear his stance on immigration — open borders and amnesty for all of the people in the country illegally.
Media outlets, including the Houston Chronicle, are reporting O’Rourke has released a “10-point plan.”
After three terms in Congress and an unsuccessful bid for the U.S. Senate, El Paso Democrat Beto O’Rourke has made clear his view that immigrants should be welcomed as “human beings” and that “walls end lives.”
Now, signaling that he may soon announce a 2020 White House run, O’Rourke is putting a finer point on his immigration agenda, releasing a 10-point plan that calls for citizenship for both “Dreamers” and their parents, as well as for “millions more” who now live in the U.S. illegally.
And not only is O’Rourke against building more walls along the U.S. border with Mexico but he has expressed support for tearing down existing barriers that divide El Paso from Mexico.
“Yes, absolutely. I’d take the wall down,” O’Rourke said in an MSNBC interview.
One politico scientist with the University of Houston quoted in the Chronicle report said this position puts O’Rourke on the left side of the ever-growing Democrat presidential field.
“That is fairly to the left of where most of the people in the Democratic field are,” Brandon Rottinghaus said.
The Chronicle noted that tearing down walls was not on the immigration policy list, “an omission that is likely to raise new questions about his border policy positions.”
One strange point in O’Rourke’s immigration plan is the argument that a wall would make it harder for people here illegally to return home.
“Here’s why,” O’Rourke wrote, “as we made it harder for people to cross into the United States, we made it less likely that once here they would attempt to go back to their home country. Fearing an increasingly militarized border, circular patterns of migration became linear.”
His amnesty proposal is sweeping and includes all of the Dreamers, their parents — whom he calls “the original Dreamers” — and would bring “millions more out of the shadows and on a path to citizenship by ensuring that they register with the government to gain status to legally work, pay taxes and contribute even more to our country’s success.”
Republicans may be cheering O’Rourke’s radical stance on immigration.
“He is now showing, even more, how out of touch he is and how little he cares for American citizens and those who have followed the law to seek to become citizens,” Texas Republican Party Chairman James Dickey said. “Creating a whole new class of citizens whose status is a direct reward for breaking the law is just his latest dangerous extremist position.”
“O’Rourke’s new policy paper does not call for abolishing ICE, but it does call for, an ‘end to the global war on drugs’ which he says has accelerated the erosion of civil society in Latin America and helped produce the resulting flow of immigrants and refugees,” the Chronicle reported.
During his unsuccessful race to replace Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), O’Rourke’s Senate campaign website spelled out some of his immigration priorities:
• End the militarization of our immigration enforcement system and close private immigration prisons and detention centers that profit from locking up families.
• Pass the DREAM Act and ensure that undocumented immigrants who were brought here as children, known as ‘Dreamers’, find a permanent home and citizenship in the U.S.
• Ensure that those who come to our borders seeking refuge from violence and persecution are given a fair opportunity to present their claims and guaranteed due process under our laws.
• Improve the immigration system to encourage and facilitate family reunification, education, and the investment of talent in our country.
• Modernize the visa system to allow U.S. employers to find workers for jobs that American workers can’t fill.
• Reform our immigration laws to legalize the status of millions of immigrants already in our country and ensure a fair path to citizenship for those inspired by the opportunity and ideals that we present to the rest of the world.
O’Rourke recently met with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) about a different kind of campaign in which he would toss his hat in the ring to unseat Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX).
Nothing in O’Rourke’s plan that was reported in the media addressed curtailing drug and human trafficking at the border.
BETOLAND
Human Smuggler Killed Two Innocent Victims During South Texas Car Chase, Say Police
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A human smuggler allegedly attempting to flee authorities killed two innocent victims after a head-on collision in southern Texas. In addition to the two innocent motorists that died, five illegal immigrants were rushed to a local hospital.
The incident occurred when Sullivan City Police tried to pull over a Ford Expedition, but the driver instead triggered a high-speed chase along U.S. Highway 83. Sullivan City radioed other law enforcement agencies for help after suspecting a human smuggling effort was underway. The vehicle veered into opposite traffic and crashed into a Nissan sedan near the intersection of U.S. 83 and Farm-to-Market Road 2221 in La Joya. The driver of the suspect vehicle managed to get out of the crashed SUV and slip into the nearby brush. Federal authorities rushed to the scene to perform a manhunt.
According to information provided to Breitbart News by the Texas Department of Public Safety, state troopers took over the investigation of the fatal wreck. DPS identified the two deceased individuals as 69-year-old Aurora Chavez and 45-year-old Leonel Martinez. Both were uninvolved in the chase, authorities revealed. The five passengers of the Ford Expedition who are believed to be in the U.S. illegally were rushed to a local hospital. Their medical statuses remain unknown.
The western areas of the Rio Grande Valley, including La Joya and Sullivan City, have historically been prime drug and human smuggling areas as cartels seek out areas without physical barriers such as fencing or walls. The region has become home to almost daily high-speed chases.
The former police chief of La Joya was convicted on two drug smuggling charges for his role in helping the Gulf Cartel operate in Texas, Breitbart News reported.
Ildefonso Ortiz is an award-winning journalist with Breitbart Texas. He co-founded the Cartel Chronicles project with Brandon Darby and Stephen K. Bannon. You can follow him on Twitter and on Facebook. He can be contacted at Iortiz@breitbart.com.
Brandon Darby is the managing director and editor-in-chief of Breitbart Texas. He co-founded the Cartel Chronicles project with Ildefonso Ortiz and Stephen K. Bannon. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook. He can be contacted at bdarby@breitbart.com.
Even before the latest surge, the
Department of Homeland Security spent over $3 billion in 2018 sheltering and
feeding illegals at the border, which is nearly double the cost from 2011.
Build
the Wall to Save Taxpayers Billions
https://townhall.com/columnists/betsymccaughey/2019/03/14/build-the-wall-to-save-taxpayers-billions-n2543076
President
Donald Trump launched another battle for border-wall funding on Monday, calling
for $8.6 billion additional dollars in his proposed federal budget for next
year. Top Democrats came out swinging, bashing a border wall as "expensive
and ineffective."
The truth is, Dems are not leveling with the public about the
billions we're already forced to spend on shelters, food, diapers, medical care
and child care for migrants sneaking across the border and claiming asylum.
Not to mention the
costs of public schooling and healthcare provided free to migrants once they
are released into communities. The wall will pay for itself in less than two
years. It's a bargain.
Look what it costs us when a Central American teen crosses
the border illegally without an adult. Uncle Sam spends a staggering $775 per
day for each child housed at a shelter near Florida's Homestead Air Reserve
Base. There they have access to medical care, school and recreation. They stay,
on average, 67 days at the Homestead shelter before being released to a sponsor.
Do the math. That's almost $52,000 per child. American parents would appreciate
the government spending that money on their kids. Imagine the government
handing you a check for $52,000 for your teenager.
However, there are bigger costs ahead. The number of illegal
border crossers just hit an 11-year high with a total of more than 76,000
during the month of February alone. U.S. and Mexican officials predict hundreds
of thousands more in the coming months.
The
migrants use the word "asylum" as their get-in-free card. When they
say it to a border agent, they gain entry to the U.S. 80 percent of the time
according to Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen. They are temporarily
housed and eventually released with an immigration court date. But half never
go on to file an asylum claim, disappearing into the U.S., said former Attorney
General Jeff Sessions.
They're turning asylum into a scam. The system is meant to protect victims of
persecution, such as Cubans fleeing Castro's prisons. Now it's overwhelmed by
Central Americans escaping poverty for a lifestyle upgrade.
Legal immigrants also want to better their circumstances, but
they play by the rules. What a slap in the face to see migrants jump the line.
Unfortunately, a federal appeals court just made the asylum
hoax even easier. Last week, the left-leaning 9th Circuit ruled that migrants
who fail to convince border authorities they face danger in their home country
still have a "right" to a day in court in the U.S. That bizarre
ruling won't stand. Another circuit court ruled the opposite way in 2016,
clarifying that a border agent's decision is final and entering the U.S. is a
privilege, not a right. The Supreme Court let that earlier decision stand, so count
on the Supremes to reverse the 9th Circuit.
In the meantime, though, taxpayers are getting fleeced by
caravans of fake asylum-seekers.
Even before the latest
surge, the Department of Homeland Security spent over $3 billion in 2018
sheltering and feeding illegals at the border, which is nearly double the cost
from 2011.
Add to
that the hundreds of millions being spent caring for unaccompanied teenagers in
130 shelters overseen by the Department of Health and Human Services.
President Trump has tried several strategies to protect
taxpayers from these rip-offs. First, he barred illegal migrants from asking
for asylum, requiring that asylum-seekers enter the country through official
ports of entry. That would have reduced the numbers considerably. But in
November, a federal district judge, also from the 9th Circuit, nixed the
president's regulation.
Then, Trump devised a "Remain in Mexico"
arrangement to make Mexico the waiting room for asylum-seekers. As long as
they're south of the border, the U.S. doesn't have to house them, and they have
no "right" to public schooling and emergency medical care on our tab.
The program, if successful, will save U.S. taxpayers a bundle. It's one way
Mexico is already helping to pay for the wall.
Dems claim it's a waste to spend billions on a wall. But the
facts show we can't afford not to build it. As the cover of the president's new
budget says, "Taxpayers First."
SERVING THE
BILLIONAIRE CLASS
“Restructuring El Paso: O’Rourke supported a
plan in 2006 to redevelop downtown El Paso by taking down tenements and
gentrifying the area. His father, billionaire William Sanders, was involved in
the project. The plan angered barrio residents and small business owners, who
feared they would lose their homes through the eminent domain process.”
The 2020 Democrats: Beto O’Rourke
Source:
AP Photo/Richard W. Rodriguez
State: Texas
Current
position: Former U.S. House Representative of Texas
Campaign
Website: https://betoorourke.com
Background: O’Rourke earned a
B.A. in English from Columbia University in New York. While studying, he worked
as an intern on
Capitol Hill for the office of former Rep. Ron Coleman (D-TX). After working a
few jobs, as
an internet service provider and at a publishing company, he returned to El
Paso where he was born. There he sat on the city council from 2005 to 2011. He
served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 2013 to 2019.
O’Rourke ran an unsuccessful campaign against Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) in 2018,
despite running the most expensive Senate
campaign in U.S. history.
The Issues:
- Healthcare: O’Rourke
considers healthcare,
“a basic human right, not a privilege,” and opposed the
idea of repealing Obamacare. He supported expanding Medicaid coverage to prevent
childbirth-related deaths, as well as covering,
“vulnerable children, the disabled, and the elderly.” He wanted
politicians to focus on, “achieving universal healthcare coverage- whether
it be through a single payer system, a dual system, or otherwise - so that
we can ensure everyone is able to see a provider when it will do the most
good and will deliver healthcare in the most affordable, effective way
possible.”
- Immigration: "Absolutely,
I'd take the wall down," O’Rourke told MSNBC's
Chris Hayes in February. The former representative supported the DREAM Act
and “modernizing” the visa system to allow U.S. businesses to seek employees
for jobs, “that American workers can’t fill.”
- Environment: O’Rourke
said in 2012 that he would work with members of the House to come up with
plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to a level that can be absorbed
by the ecosystem. “I believe that in tackling climate change and the
greatest environmental threat we have ever faced,” he said.
“We need to take unprecedented action in building a foundation for a clean
energy economy. Harmful emissions that contribute to climate change also
pollute our air and water. Climate change threatens our food supply, our
security and the complex ecosystem that sustains humanity.” O’Rourke is
also a supporter of
the Green New Deal, calling it the best proposal he's seen to combat
climate change.
- Economy: O’Rourke supported federal
stimulus spending. He co-sponsored the Minimum Wage Fairness Act, which requires a $10.10 per hour federal
minimum wage by 2016. The former congressman said he wanted, “policies that
encourage companies to focus on returning investments back to their
consumer, their employees, and to the community.”
- Criminal
Justice: On Monday,
O’Rourke told supporters that he will push for completely legalized
marijuana across the nation and call for expunging records of people
imprisoned for possession. “Giving low-level offenders a second chance no
matter the color of their skin or the economic status they hold can create
opportunity for all of us,” he wrote in an email to supporters. O’Rourke
also called for non-violent offenders to receive alternative sentences to
prison and to get access to rehabilitation programs.
- Gun
Control: O’Rourke advocated for
universal background checks to regulateonline and gun-show sales. He
also wants to ban the sale of, “weapons of war and high-capacity
magazines.”
- Abortion: O’Rourke
is pro-abortion.
He co-sponsored the Women’s Health Protection Act in 2013 as well as bills
S.217 and H.R.448 in 2015, which prohibit the passage of certain abortion
restrictions. He said that he want to ensure, “that a woman’s right to choose
is not compromised by limited access to safe and legal abortion services
or family planning help.”
Weaknesses/Controversies:
-
Restructuring El Paso: O’Rourke supported a
plan in 2006 to redevelop downtown El Paso by taking down tenements and
gentrifying the area. His father, billionaire William Sanders, was
involved in the project. The plan angered barrio residents and small
business owners, who feared they would lose their homes through the
eminent domain process.
- Denies
Fleeing the Scene: In his 2018
debate with Sen.Cruz, Beto claimed that he didn't attempt to flee the
scene of a crime back in August 1998. Beto was arrested on
DWI charges east of the New Mexico border. The Anthony Police Department
confirmed the authenticity of a 12-page police report attached to a Houston
Chronicle article, which states that an,
"unidentified motorist ‘then turned on his overhead lights to warn
oncoming traffic and to try to get the defendant (O’Rourke) to
stop.'"
- Only
Passed One Bill in Congress: During
his time as a House representative, O’Rourke helped pass only one bill.
In 2016, H.R.5873 went into law, which designated, "the Federal
building and United States courthouse located at 511 East San Antonio
Avenue in El Paso, Texas, as the 'R.E. Thomason Federal Building and
United States Courthouse.'"
- Flip/Flop
on Cop Support: Civil rights
groups were angered by O’Rourke’s votefor
the Thin Blue Line Act in 2017, which, “calls for death penalty to anyone
who kills or attempts killing ‘a law enforcement officer, firefighter, or
other first responder.’” O’Rourke also called modern
law enforcement, "The new Jim Crow," and last year expressed his
admiration for the NFL players who took a knee in retaliation to acts of
police brutality against black people.
- Demeaning
Comments About Women: O’Rourke
wrote a review of the Broadway musical "The Will Rogers Follies"
while studying at Columbia University. In it, he criticized the,
"perma-smile actresses whose only qualifications seem to be their
phenomenally large breasts and tight buttocks." O’Rourke apologized
for his article, saying that he had, “no excuse for making disrespectful
and demeaning comments about women."
THE CONSPIRACY TO SABOTAGE HOMELAND SECURITY
The Democrat
Party’s secret agenda for wider open borders, more welfare for invading
illegals, more jobs and free anything they illegally vote for…. All to destroy
the two-party system and build the GLOBALISTS’ DEMOCRAT PARTY FOR WIDER OPEN
BORDERS TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED.
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