Border Patrol Apprehends 15 Migrants with Fake IDs in Louisiana
File Photo: U.S. Customs and Border Protection/Mani Albrecht
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New Orleans Sector Border Patrol agents arrested 15 migrants for using fraudulent documents at a government meeting in Louisiana last week. The 15 included one unaccompanied minor.
During a Gulf Coast Safety Council training meeting in St. Rose, Louisiana, Border Patrol, ICE officers, and Social Security Administration investigators encountered a group of illegal immigrants attempting to use fraudulent documents. The migrants presented what officials believed to be counterfeit Social Security cards and driver’s licenses, according to a statement.
The agents carried out a brief investigation and determined the migrants to be of Mexican and Nicaraguan origin. The agents placed the 14 Mexican nationals and one Nicaraguan national into custody after determining they had no legitimate documents allowing their legal presence in the United States.
“These arrests represent a beautiful example of Department of Homeland Security components working together to ensure national security,” USBP New Orleans Sector Chief Gregory Bovino said in a written statement. “Illegal aliens can use fake identification to thwart the E-Verify System used by some corporations. Some of these companies constitute critical infrastructure, such as chemical plants or refineries, where the potential exists for possible terrorist attack or sabotage.”
The agents turned the 14 adults over to officials with the Social Security Administration and Homeland Security Investigations for possible criminal charges. They also turned the unaccompanied alien child over to the Office of Refugee Resettlement for removal proceedings.
“Social Security number integrity has enormous financial consequences for the Government, the public, and the business community,” Adam D. Schneider, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Social Security Administration’s Office of the Inspector General, Dallas Field Division explained in a written statement. “The Social Security Administration Office of the Inspector General is committed to ensuring our national security by working with our law enforcement partners to identify people who use fraudulent identification documents and Social Security numbers to hide their true identity.”
Report: Illegal Workers Flee Georgia Food Plants After Mississippi ICE Raids
Illegal workers fled a number of Georgia food processing plants this past week after highly-publicized raids by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency at five Mississippi plants.
This month, ICE agents conducted the largest workplace raid in more than a decade across five food processing plants in Mississippi, netting the
arrests of 680 illegal aliens. That same day, though, ICE officials said they
released about 300 of the illegal workers back into the U.S. on “humanitarian grounds.” More than 200 of the illegal workers had prior criminal records and a federal criminal investigation is expected to
result in convictions of the employers at the plants. The raids have already resulted in
job fairs at some of the plants seeking to hire locals.
Those ICE raids, according to
reports compiled by the
Atlanta Journal-Constitution (
AJC ), spurred illegal workers in Hall County, Georgia — where numerous food processing plants are located — to flee their jobs in fear that they could be arrested for illegally working in the country.
Jerry Gonzalez with the Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials told AJC that food processing plant workers fleeing their jobs following the Mississippi ICE raids proved that employers were illegally hiring illegal aliens:
Thursday’s walk-out is evidence of the presence of undocumented workers in those plants, Gonzalez said . “Without a doubt there are undocumented workers in Georgia’s agriculture industry. Even if they use E-Verify – the plants in Mississippi used E-Verify. That doesn’t mean they’re not using undocumented workers,” he said . [Emphasis added]
Though it is unclear which food processing plants in Hall County saw their illegal workers flee following the ICE raids in Mississippi, the region is home to plants such as Koch Foods of Gainsville, Victory Foods, Koch Meat Inc., and Cargill Inc.
A map of Hall County, Georgia details the numerous food processing plants in the region. Local officials have said that there is no doubt that the state’s food processing industry hires illegal workers. (Screenshot via Google Maps)
The Mississippi-based plant for Koch Foods was one of the five plants raided by ICE. The plant is not associated with the billionaire Koch brothers. Federal affidavits allege that Koch Foods has a long history of exploiting and hiring illegal workers.
As Breitbart News reported, only
11 employers and no businesses have been federally prosecuted for hiring illegal aliens in the last year despite there being nearly eight million illegal alien workers holding American jobs at companies in the U.S.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder .
WATCH: Migrants Fail to Scale New Border Wall Section
Photo: U.S. Customs and Border Protection video screenshot
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Border Patrol security video captures a failed attempt by a pair of migrants to cross a new border wall section near San Diego, California. The migrants attempted to scale the new bollard wall section but could not reach the top. Agents responded and apprehended the duo.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials erected new border barriers in the San Diego Sector. The barrier includes a large bollard wall with steel plates along the top. The barrier also includes two rows of fencing with a security road and electronic monitoring. The Mexican side of the barrier is not completed, as seen in the border security video.
Two men passed through the incomplete section of the outer barrier and moved across the security road to the completed bollard wall. They attempted to scale the wall but failed. As responding agents began to arrive, the migrants fled back to some of the construction pallets and attempted to hide.
Two other people can be seen on the U.S. side of the wall in the same area as the attempted crossing. One is on a ladder that reaches the top of the wall. It appears they fled back into the community after agents approached.
San Diego Sector Border Patrol agents easily took the two migrants into custody.
“Barriers give agents the time they need to respond and contain illicit activity at the immediate border,” San Diego Sector CBP officials tweeted.
“MORE THAN 10 MILLION” ILLEGALS IN
CALIFORNIA ALONE
Xavier Becerra breaks the news, files suit against Trump administration
public-charge rule.
August 19, 2019
More
than 22 million people are illegally present in the United States, according to
a recent study by scholars
at MIT and Yale . Pew Research pegged the figure at 11 million, and for years it
stood as the official count for media and government. It now emerges that 11
million is more like the number illegally present in California alone.
“California
is home to over 10 million immigrants,” reads a chart displayed by California
attorney general Xavier Becerra and governor Gavin Newsom as they announced
a lawsuit against the Trump administration’s public-charge rule.
“Immigrants,” is California code for “illegals,” a term the state’s ruling
class has banned. As Rachel
Bovard notes at American
Greatness , even
a legal immigrant’s ability “to stay off the welfare system must be taken into
account when considering qualifications for a green card.”
California
heaps welfare benefits on those illegally present, including nearly $100
million for health care in the recent budget. Many of those
10 million illegals came to California specifically to get those
taxpayer-funded benefits. It disturbs Becerra and Newsom that this disqualifies
the recipients from any future legal status, but there’s more to it. As
attorney Madison
Gesiotto explains in The
Hill , voting must also be taken into account.
“Voting
as an illegal alien in federal elections is a crime punishable by fine,
imprisonment, deportation, or inadmissibility.” According to a State
Department investigation , false-documented illegals
have been voting in federal, state and local elections for decades. In
1996, illegals
cast 784 votes against Republican Robert Dornan in a
congressional race Democrat Loretta Sanchez won by only 984 votes.
If
Newsom and Becerra are certain that more than 10 million people illegally
reside in the state, they doubtless know how many voted in 2016. Trouble is,
California Secretary of State Alex Padilla refused to release any voter
information to a federal voter-fraud probe.
Back in
2015, Padilla told the Los
Angeles Times , “At the latest, for the 2018 election cycle, I
expect millions of new voters on the rolls in the state of California,” with
“new voters” code for ineligible voters. True to form, by March, 2018, more
than one million “undocumented” immigrants received
driver’s licenses from the state Department of Motor Vehicles, which
automatically registered them to vote under the “Motor Voter” program.
Padilla
is now claiming that only six
“California residents” were erroneously added to voter rolls
for 2018, that it was all due to DMV errors, and that none was guilty of
“fraudulently voting or attempting to vote.” To paraphrase John Goodman
in The Big Lebowski ,
this is what happens when the governor’s own department of finance, not the
official state auditor, investigates the DMV.
In
reality, California officials know full well how many non-citizens voted in
2016 and 2018. With more than 10 million illegals in the state, the ballpark
figure of one million illegal voters is probably low. In California,
illegals are the Democrats’ electoral college, and the Democrats reward them
with welfare benefits and protection from deportation through sanctuary laws.
This raises another issue.
Illegals’
use of welfare benefits and practice of voting in federal elections
disqualifies them from legal residency and citizenship. This makes for a
permanent group of more than 10 million foreign nationals in California alone.
In these conditions, Congress should start pushing back.
Public
officials who apportion taxpayer-funded benefits for foreign nationals should
be required to register as agents of the governments of those foreign
nationals. The primary candidates would be the governments of Mexico, Honduras,
Guatemala and El Salvador, which
Gavin Newsom visited before he had even toured his own
state.
State
and federal governments should also bill the foreign governments for welfare,
medical, education and incarceration costs. Some of this could be
alleviated by a tax on remissions, such as the 33.4
billion Mexicans abroad sent back last year. That
amount is impossible without massive inputs from U.S. taxpayers. Legitimate
citizens and legal immigrants have no obligation to relieve foreign governments
of responsibility for their own citizens.
Meanwhile,
as Rachel Bovard also notes, the Trump administration’s new rule only updates a
1996 law proclaiming “inadmissible” those aliens likely to become a public
charge. The law was supported by Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Joe Biden and
other leading Democrats. The Trump administration measure gives more
definition to what constitutes a welfare benefit, food stamps, Medicaid, public
housing assistance and such. Those benefits are all for legitimate citizens and
legal immigrants but Bovard cites Census data showing that 63 percent of
non-citizens use the welfare system.
Those
who thought there were only 11 million illegals nationwide were mistaken.
Thanks to Jerry Brown crony Gavin Newsom, and Xavier Becerra, once on Hillary
Clinton’s short list as a running mate, Americans now understand that “more
than 10 million” illegally reside in California alone, and that might
understate the figure.
The
MIT-Yale estimate ranges as high as 29.1 million nationwide, more than the
population of Australia,
with 25,088,636 and a veritable occupation. To all but the willfully blind,
politicians have abandoned the rule of law, and made false-documented illegals
a protected, privileged class.
This is
how a nation loses its sovereignty.
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