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[Lanny]

Oregon's Sanctuary Law just murdered another illegal alien.

Kate Brown, and every single Dem pol or voter who supports this heinously anti-American sedition has this woman's blood on their hands.

Lib voters think this is all a game, but the reality is their party kills and maims innocent people all day long with their 1%er-pocket-lining laws.

From making healthcare and home ownership impossibly unaffordable for the masses, to continually unleashing the most heinous criminals over and over and over...

This is why Karma exists.

ICE put hold months ago on undocumented immigrant now accused of killing wife

Updated 5:11 PM; Posted Nov 1, 8:16 AM

Martin Gallo-Gallardo, 45, was arrested Tuesday, accused of stabbing his wife, Coral Rodriguez Lorenzo, multiple times and leaving her body in a ditch near a camp in Sandy. (Go Fund Me/Clackamas County Sher)

by Maxine Bernstein The Oregonian/OregonLive

Federal officers say they placed an immigration hold in March on a man facing domestic violence allegations but the Multnomah County jail wouldn't recognize their civil detainer.

The man is now accused of killing his wife and dumping her body in a ditch near a summer camp outside Sandy in Clackamas County.

The case is the latest to shine the spotlight on Oregon's controversial sanctuary law just as voters in next week's election will decide whether to repeal the law.

The matter goes to the heart of the debate over the 31-year-old law, a major thorn in the side of the Trump administration's crackdown on illegal immigration. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has singled out Oregon and other states with similar laws as a haven for criminals who don't belong in the United States.

It also exposes the fraying relationship between the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The latest case has both agencies accusing the other of not protecting the Portland community.

ICE officials said they put a hold on Martin Gallo-Gallardo on March 6 after he was arrested and accused of felony fourth-degree assault in the alleged abuse of his wife. The agency provided The Oregonian/OregonLive with a copy of the receipt from the fax they sent to the Sheriff's Office.


Receipt showing the fax of an ICE civil detainer sent to the Multnomah County Detention Center on March 6, 2018.

Gallo-Gallardo, a Mexican citizen, illegally entered the U.S., according to ICE. Border Patrol officers had previously apprehended him multiple times, federal officials said.

ICE wanted the county jail to alert immigration officers before Gallo-Gallardo's release so they could pick him up and hold him for deportation proceedings.

County sheriff's officials lied and said they didn't get the ICE request but wouldn't have followed it anyway.

This week, Gallo-Gallardo was charged with murder, accused of fatally stabbing his wife, Coral Rodriguez Lorenzo, 38.

An ICE spokeswoman suggested if Multnomah County had alerted the federal agency so its officers could pick up and hold Gallo-Gallardo before he was released from jail, he probably wouldn't have returned to his family.

"ICE maintains that cooperation by local law enforcement is an indispensable component of promoting public safety,'' said Tanya J. Roman, a spokeswoman for the ICE regional office that covers Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Alaska.

"It's unfortunate that law enforcement agencies like the Multnomah County jail refuse to work with ICE to promote public safety by holding criminals accountable and providing justice and closure for their victims," she said.

Federal authorities continue to complain, arguing the sheriff's stance misinterprets state and federal law.

Federal officials say it shouldn't affect defendants who are already arrested on a criminal charge. They argue that neither the 2014 federal judge's ruling or the state sanctuary law prevents local police and jails from sharing information with federal agents about people in the country illegally who face criminal charges. Other Oregon counties and the state Department of Corrections routinely provide that information.

Portland sex attack suspect's 12 deportations inflame immigration debate

Jail under fire for not telling ICE about suspect's many arrests, releases this year. Federal prosecutor and immigration officials say Multnomah County's sheriff has misconstrued state and federal law.

"Sanctuary policies not only provide a refuge for illegal aliens, but they also shield criminal aliens who prey on people in their own and other communities,'' Roman said.

"In addition to false claims that ICE never filed a detainer, the county's statement on this matter ignores the fact that there is no mechanism for a judge to issue a criminal warrant for an administrative immigration arrest,'' she added. "Oregon's sanctuary policies fail to recognize federally established processes for the enforcement of immigration law, and they do so at the expense of the safety of their citizens.''

Oregon voters are now deciding whether to repeal the law.
Gallo-Gallardo was arrested early on March 4 after a daughter called 911 at 4:24 a.m. and reported her father was yelling and hitting her mother, court records show. The girl said Gallo-Gallardo had come home drunk from a party.

Police arrived and interviewed other children in the home, including a 15-year-old boy, who said he awoke to his father's shouts and heard sounds of a physical fight. He told police his father had assaulted his mother in the past.

Gallo-Gallardo was booked into the Multnomah County Detention Center in downtown Portland on two counts of felony fourth-degree assault.

ICE officials said they placed a hold on him two days later, faxing a civil detainer notice to the jail and sheriff's office on March 6 at 12:13 p.m. The Sheriff's Office, as required, shared Gallo-Gallardo's fingerprints with the FBI, which in turn provided the prints to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Homeland Security ran them through its immigration databases.

Gallo-Gallardo posted 10 percent of his $20,000 bail and was released on March 8.

On Monday, an employee at Camp Namanu, east of Sandy, reported finding a body in a ditch but authorities didn't know who it was.

Detectives went to question Gallo-Gallardo later Tuesday at his job. He agreed to go with them to the Sheriff's Office in Clackamas County. There, he confessed to the killing, the affidavit said.

An autopsy found Rodriguez Lorenzo died from blunt-force head trauma and multiple stab wounds, the affidavit said.

After Gallo-Gallardo's murder arrest, ICE placed a hold on him with the Clackamas County jail.

-- Maxine Bernstein

mbernstein@oregonian.com
503-221-8212
@maxoregonian

Oooooh, Karma, it's gonna strike the Democrats hard in the form of a red wave come this Tuesday.
By the way, the logic leading up to the content of this post is the result of some kind of wild eyed fantasy.

 

[Lanny]

https://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/...s-public-health-threat-tb-dengue-chikungunya/

Central American Caravan Poses Serious Public Health Threat; TB, Dengue, Chikungunya
NOVEMBER 01, 2018

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The caravan of Central Americans marching towards the United States poses a serious public health threat and could bring dangerous diseases into the country, a prominent physician in a key border state warns. “It’s insane to bring in migrants from any country without proper health screening,” said Dr. Jane Orient, executive director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons. At her Tucson, Arizona practice, Dr. Orient, a graduate of the prestigious Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, specializes in internal medicine. In an interview with Judicial Watch she said that extremely drug resistant strands of tuberculosis are among the infectious diseases the Central American migrants are likely to bring in. Others include mosquito-borne diseases such as dengue and chikungunya that are widespread in the region.

Just this week a mainstream newspaper reported on the health crisis created by the influx of Venezuelans fleeing to neighboring countries. The migrants are spreading malaria, yellow fever, diphtheria, dengue, tuberculosis and AIDS throughout South America. Many of the diseases had been considered eradicated in the neighboring Latin American countries, according to government officials cited in the article, which states that “contagion from Venezuela’s economic meltdown is starting to spread to neighboring countries—not financially, but literally, in the form of potentially deadly diseases carried among millions of refugees.” As an example, the story reveals that “measles reappeared with a vengeance” in a Brazilian city near the Venezuelan border that had declared the highly contagious airborne disease “vanquished” nearly two decades ago. “Measles is already spreading beyond the Brazilian Amazon to other Brazilian states, as well as Colombia, Peru and as far south as Argentina, according to recent Pan American Health Organization reports,” the article states. “Other diseases racing through communities in Venezuela are now crossing borders and raising concerns among health authorities as far away as the U.S.”

The U.S. could face a similar situation if the caravan of Central Americans—at last count around 7,000—is allowed into the country. “Of course it could happen here,” Dr. Orient said, referring to the health crisis ignited by Venezuelans in South America. She points out that even legal immigrants are not screened as they should be. “The government is putting kids with lice and scabies and other health issues in American schools without people knowing the health risks,” Dr. Orient said. When immigrants arrived at Ellis Island they were properly tested for diseases and quarantined, Dr. Orient points out. Now they’re allowed to stay in the U.S. without proper health screenings and many get relocated throughout the country, further risking the spread of diseases.

Years ago, when Barack Obama let tens of thousands of illegal immigrant minors into the country, health experts warned about the serious health risks. Most of the Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) came from Central America, like the current caravan, and they crossed into the U.S. through Mexico, in the same way that the caravan expects to. Swine flu, dengue fever and Ebola were among the diseases that the hordes of UACs brought with them, according to lawmakers and medical experts interviewed by Judicial Watch during the influx. At the time, a U.S. Congressman, who is also a medical doctor, told Judicial Watch about the danger to the American public as well as the Border Patrol agents forced to care for the UACs. The former lawmaker, Phil Gingrey, referred to it as a “severe and dangerous” crisis because the Central American youths were importing infectious diseases considered to be largely eradicated in this country. Many migrants lack basic vaccinations such as those to prevent chicken pox or measles, leaving America’s young children and the elderly particularly susceptible, Gingrey pointed out then. To handle the escalating health crisis the CDC activated an Emergency Operations Center (EOC) that largely operated in secrecy.

You left out Ebola, that was supposed to wipe out Millions of us last Fall of 2014. Wheww, they managed to save Millions of us while losing four.

Meanwhile, all these diseases are rampaging thru the U.S. and Mexico killing people by the tens of thousands. But don't worry, Trump's got a solution. Now, if he'll just reveal it to us.

 

[julius]

Funny how they're concerned about a caravan that contains diseases, yet if it wasn't for a certain caravan that arrived on the shores of the North American Continent, and the diseases they carried, the Natives there wouldn't have been wiped out.

but i know that's just liberal spin and that the Natives were just happy as clams to welcome the settlers.

 

[MARIS61]

You left out Ebola, that was supposed to wipe out Millions of us last Fall of 2014. Wheww, they managed to save Millions of us while losing four.

Meanwhile, all these diseases are rampaging thru the U.S. and Mexico killing people by the tens of thousands. But don't worry, Trump's got a solution. Now, if he'll just reveal it to us.

The Wall.

 

[MARIS61]

Funny how they're concerned about a caravan that contains diseases, yet if it wasn't for a certain caravan that arrived on the shores of the North American Continent, and the diseases they carried, the Natives there wouldn't have been wiped out.

Funny?

Man that’s a twisted sense of humor you have.

But thanks for proving there’s ample precedent to be concerned about the threat to innocent Americans, especially our children and seniors.

 

[stampedehero]

Thanks Obama!

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/08/2...isthian-rivera-24-living-in-us-illegally.html

Mollie Tibbetts murder suspect ID'd as Cristhian Rivera, 24, living in US illegally

By Nicole Darrah | Fox News
Man in US illegally charged with murder of Mollie Tibbetts
An illegal immigrant from Mexico stands accused of killing college student Mollie Tibbetts and dumping her body in an Iowa cornfield — after he accosted her during a July 18 jog and she threatened to call police.

Cristhian Bathena Rivera, 24, was charged with first-degree murder Tuesday in Tibbetts' death, officials confirmed.

Cristhian Bahena Rivera, 24, was charged with first-degree murder Tuesday in the death of Mollie Tibbetts, a missing 20-year-old college student from Iowa. (Iowa Department of Public Safety)

Authorities said Rivera, who lived in the rural Poweshiek County area, is being held on a federal immigration detainer. He's believed to have been in the area for four to seven years.

The body of Tibbetts, a 20-year-old University of Iowa student, was found Tuesday in a field covered with corn stalks. Her father and two sources confirmed to Fox News on Tuesday morning that Tibbetts was found dead; investigators said later in the day they were working to formally identify the body.

MOLLIE TIBBETTS, UNIVERSITY OF IOWA STUDENT FOUND DEAD: A TIMELINE OF EVENTS

Investigators said they used surveillance footage to track down Rivera. The video showed Tibbetts jogging in a rural area near her hometown of Brooklyn, and also showed Rivera's car. She was last seen around 7:30 p.m. on July 18 after she went for a jog around a neighborhood in Brooklyn.

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Mollie Tibbetts murdered: Timeline of events
Tibbetts' family pleaded for her safe return and had remained hopeful she would be found alive. Her father, Rob, previously told Fox News that "somebody knows something."

Brooklyn, according to her father, is a small city and “you can’t do anything there without someone seeing it.”

Iowa's Division of Criminal Investigation received more than 4,000 tips during the investigation, and had roughly 30 to 40 investigators working on the case.

Investigators followed "hundreds" of those leads — interviewing several hundred people and canvassing a nearby hog farm, cornfields and other properties for traces of the college student. Two items Tibbetts typically took with her — a Fitbit and cellphone — remained missing.

Investigators announced last week that they were focusing the search on five locations in and around Brooklyn, which included a car wash just a block away from the city’s main commercial strip and a TA truck stop next to Interstate 80, which runs across the entirety of Iowa.

Brooklyn, a town of just 1,400 people, was shaken by Tibbetts' disappearance. Blake Jack, the brother of Tibbetts’ boyfriend, told Fox News on Aug. 8 there was no sign of a struggle at the Brooklyn home she was staying in at the time.

Dalton, Tibbetts' boyfriend of two years, said he believed the doors of the home where his girlfriend last stayed had been left unlocked.

“It’s Brooklyn. You don’t lock your doors,” Dalton said. “We lock our doors now. Every night.”

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds called Tibbetts' death "heart-wrenching," and said that Iowans "are angry that a broken immigration system allowed a predator like this to live in our community."

"Mollie Tibbetts, our hearts are broken," Republican Iowa Rep. Steve King tweeted Tuesday. "We all prayed for your safe return. May you now be with the Lord and your family one day find a peace. Justice must now be served. RIP Mollie."

Fox News' Katherine Lam and Lillian LeCroy contributed to this report.

I checked your link to the Roger Maris museum. Fargo ND has a treasure (for free).

 

[Lanny]

The Wall.

Do you mean the wall that the Mexicans are gonna pay for? That plan?

 

[MARIS61]

Caravans now include over 12,000 and growing.

 

[MARIS61]

Baby steps.

$145M Texas border wall project awarded, Customs and Border Protection says

By Elizabeth Zwirz | Fox News

The U.S. border wall with Mexico is seen from the United States in Nogales, Arizona back in mid-September. (Reuters/File)

A $145 million construction project was awarded Wednesday to build roughly six miles of border wall in Texas, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced on Friday.

The agency, in conjunction with the Army Corps of Engineers, gave the multimillion-dollar job in the Border Patrol’s Rio Grande Valley Sector to SLSCO, CBP said in a news release.

Work on the project, also known by CBP as RGV-03, is expected to kick off in February, the agency said.

Among the anticipated work is the building and set up “of tactical infrastructure,” which includes “a reinforced concrete levee wall to the height of the existing levee, 18 feet tall steel bollards installed on top of the concrete wall, and vegetation removal along a 150 foot enforcement zone throughout the approximately six miles of levee wall system,” the news release said.

The area will also be equipped with detection technology and video surveillance, the agency said.

The Rio Grande Valley Sector has “high illegal cross border activity,” according to CBP.

“Once constructed, this levee wall system will serve as a persistent impediment to transnational criminal organizations, while still allowing river access for property owners, other federal/state/local officials, local emergency responders, and USBP,” the agency said.

“CBP continues to implement President Trump’s Executive Order 13767 -- also known as Border Security and Immigration Enforcement Improvements -- and continues to take steps to expeditiously plan, design, and construct a physical wall using appropriate materials and technology to most effectively achieve complete operational control of the southern border,” the agency continued.

The announcement from the CBP comes as a caravan of Central American migrants makes its way toward the U.S.-Mexico border, and as Trump has unveiled plans to deploy troops at the southern border.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

 

[Chris Craig]

You left out Ebola, that was supposed to wipe out Millions of us last Fall of 2014. Wheww, they managed to save Millions of us while losing four.

Meanwhile, all these diseases are rampaging thru the U.S. and Mexico killing people by the tens of thousands. But don't worry, Trump's got a solution. Now, if he'll just reveal it to us.

Sharks with lazer beams attached to their fricken heads

 

[Lanny]

Baby steps.

$145M Texas border wall project awarded, Customs and Border Protection says

By Elizabeth Zwirz | Fox News

The U.S. border wall with Mexico is seen from the United States in Nogales, Arizona back in mid-September. (Reuters/File)

A $145 million construction project was awarded Wednesday to build roughly six miles of border wall in Texas, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced on Friday.

The agency, in conjunction with the Army Corps of Engineers, gave the multimillion-dollar job in the Border Patrol’s Rio Grande Valley Sector to SLSCO, CBP said in a news release.

Work on the project, also known by CBP as RGV-03, is expected to kick off in February, the agency said.

Among the anticipated work is the building and set up “of tactical infrastructure,” which includes “a reinforced concrete levee wall to the height of the existing levee, 18 feet tall steel bollards installed on top of the concrete wall, and vegetation removal along a 150 foot enforcement zone throughout the approximately six miles of levee wall system,” the news release said.

The area will also be equipped with detection technology and video surveillance, the agency said.

The Rio Grande Valley Sector has “high illegal cross border activity,” according to CBP.

“Once constructed, this levee wall system will serve as a persistent impediment to transnational criminal organizations, while still allowing river access for property owners, other federal/state/local officials, local emergency responders, and USBP,” the agency said.

“CBP continues to implement President Trump’s Executive Order 13767 -- also known as Border Security and Immigration Enforcement Improvements -- and continues to take steps to expeditiously plan, design, and construct a physical wall using appropriate materials and technology to most effectively achieve complete operational control of the southern border,” the agency continued.

The announcement from the CBP comes as a caravan of Central American migrants makes its way toward the U.S.-Mexico border, and as Trump has unveiled plans to deploy troops at the southern border.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Only $19 Billion $855 Million to go, all of it paid by Mexico. Promises made, promises kept.
Meanwhile, two years of talk on upgrading infrastructure has resulted in more endless talk of upgrading infrastructure. Promises made, promises kept.

 

[Lanny]

Caravans now include over 12,000 and growing.

That's funny. The AP has it pegged at 4,000. https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...fe01fcdc3a6_story.html?utm_term=.eb145932ddb1
USA Today has it pegged at 5.000 https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...-us-mexico-border-military-troops/1885039002/
I suppose Trump has it at Millions.
I almost forgot, do you have a credible link to your figure of over 12,000?

 

[MARIS61]

By The Numbers: Understanding The Border Crisis Being Driven By Congressional Democrat Backed Loopholes
Immigration

Issued on: October 23, 2018

As a result of Democrat-supported loopholes in our federal laws, most illegal immigrant families and minors from Central America who arrive unlawfully at the border cannot be detained together or removed together, only released.

President Donald J. Trump

ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION SURGE: The latest immigration figures show a surge of alien family units and unaccompanied minors from Central America continue to arrive here illegally every day.

• Recently released figures on Southwest border apprehensions and inadmissibles, or those denied admission at a port of entry, show the dire state of the crisis at our border.
• We have seen a record-shattering surge in the arrival of family units, with more than 161,000 family unit apprehensions and inadmissibles in fiscal year (FY) 2018.
  • This historic surge was 42 percent higher than any previous year on record.
  • In the last three months, family unit apprehensions made up the highest percentage of total apprehensions in history.
• Tens of thousands of unaccompanied minors continue to stream across our borders.
  • Unaccompanied minor apprehensions and inadmissibles totaled 58,660 in FY 2018, an increase of nearly 10,000, or approximately 20 percent, compared to FY 2017.

TODAY’S DANGEROUS BORDER CRISIS: Catch-and-release loopholes that hinder the detention and removal of many illegal aliens have incentivized a shift in illegal immigration.

• Responding to catch-and-release loopholes, illegal immigration has shifted from primarily single adults from Mexico to family units and unaccompanied minors from Central America.
  • 98 percent of aliens apprehended by Border Patrol in FY 2000 were from Mexico, but today more than half are from Central America.
• These loopholes drive more and more illegal immigration from populations that the Government cannot quickly return to their home country.
  • Of the family unit aliens from non-contiguous countries who arrived in FY 2017, only around 1.4 percent have been repatriated as of June 30, 2018.
• Smugglers and traffickers exploit these loopholes to prey on families and children who make the life-threatening journey north to our border.
  • More than two-thirds of those making the journey north become victims of violence along the way, according to a report by Doctors Without Borders.
  • Nearly one-third of women are sexually assaulted along the journey according to that same report.

LOOPHOLES DRIVING THE PROBLEM: Congressional Democrats back the loopholes that created this crisis and have been unwilling to fix it.

• Democrats in Congress continue to support outrageous catch-and-release loopholes that drive the crisis at our border and even want to expand these loopholes.
  • Every Senate Democrat has backed a proposed bill that would effectively grant amnesty to any illegal alien within 100 miles of the border if they are accompanied by a minor.
• The surge in family unit and unaccompanied minor immigration has taken up vital resources.
  • Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facilities are at 98 percent capacity.
  • Shelters for unaccompanied alien minors are operating at 88 percent capacity.
  • Yet, Democrats seem intent on obstructing efforts to close catch-and-release loopholes and fully fund border security.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing...iven-congressional-democrat-backed-loopholes/

 

[MARIS61]

Border Wall Construction Project to Begin in Texas

Release Date:
November 2, 2018
WASHINGTON – U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), in partnership with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), has awarded a contract to construct approximately six miles of levee wall system in the U.S. Border Patrol’s (USBP) Rio Grande Valley (RGV) Sector, which was funded in CBP’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2018 appropriation. The contract for this project, referred to by CBP as RGV-03, awarded on October 31, 2018 to Slsco Ltd in the amount of $145 Million for construction. Construction is scheduled to begin in February 2019.

The RGV-03 project includes the construction and installation of tactical infrastructure including a reinforced concrete levee wall to the height of the existing levee, 18 feet tall steel bollards installed on top of the concrete wall, and vegetation removal along a 150 foot enforcement zone throughout the approximately six miles of levee wall system. The enforcement zone will also include detection technology, lighting, video surveillance, and an all-weather patrol road parallel to the levee wall. This project lies within the McAllen Station area of responsibility in Hidalgo County, Texas.

The RGV Sector remains an area of high illegal cross border activity. In FY 2017, USBP apprehended over 137,000 illegal aliens, and seized approximately 260,000 pounds of marijuana and approximately 1,192 pounds of cocaine in the RGV Sector. Once constructed, this levee wall system will serve as a persistent impediment to transnational criminal organizations, while still allowing river access for property owners, other federal/state/local officials, local emergency responders, and USBP.

CBP continues to implement President Trump’s Executive Order 13767 - also known as Border Security and Immigration Enforcement Improvements – and continues to take steps to expeditiously plan, design, and construct a physical wall using appropriate materials and technology to most effectively achieve complete operational control of the southern border.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection is the unified border agency within the Department of Homeland Security charged with the management, control and protection of our nation's borders at and between official ports of entry. CBP is charged with securing the borders of the United States while enforcing hundreds of laws and facilitating lawful trade and travel.

Last modified:
November 2, 2018

https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/national-media-release/border-wall-construction-project-begin-texas

 

[MARIS61]

Trump administration asks Supreme Court to fast-track DACA cases, in bid to bypass Ninth Circuit
By Bill Mears | Fox News

In an apparent bid to bypass the liberal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and seek an immediate resolution to its effort to end the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, the Trump administration on Monday made the unusual decision to ask the Supreme Court to take over three cases concerning pending lawsuits that seek to preserve DACA.

A three-judge panel at the San Francisco-based federal appellate court heard arguments in May on whether the administration could end DACA, and the federal government had warned it would ask for high-court intervention if the appeals court did not decide by last Wednesday.

DACA, which was created after President Barack Obama signed an Executive Branch memorandum, gives some illegal immigrants who were brought to the United States as children the opportunity to receive a renewable two-year period of deferred action from deportation and become eligible for a work permit.

FEDERAL JUDGE ORDERS TRUMP WHITE HOUSE TO RESTART DACA

The Trump administration last year announced its plan to phase out the program, but federal courts have ruled variously that the phase-out could not apply retroactively and that the program should be restarted.

The White House fiercely condemned those court decisions, which were premised on the idea that the Executive Branch cannot arbitrarily phase out a right that individuals have come to rely on, simply by arguing that the right was established illegally without Congressional approval. (DACA proponents have also argued that Trump's planned termination of the program violates federal law requiring adequate notice-and-comment periods before certain federal rules are changed, as well as other constitutional equal protection and due process guarantees.)

TRUMP TRIES TO CLOSE THE DEAL FOR GOP IN BATTLEGROUND STATES

The Justice Department wants the justices to use their authority to decide the matter without waiting for lower courts to rule. It is rare the high court grants such a so-called fast-track petition before all the lower courts have weighed in on the merits.

"The last administration started DACA without a mandate or even an authorization from Congress or the courts; this administration can therefore end DACA at any time,” Attorney General Jeff Sessions said in a statement Monday night.

He added: "That is what we have done, and it was the lawful thing to do. Immigration law in this country—and the status of DACA recipients in particular—ultimately must be settled by our representatives in Congress. The Department of Justice should not have been forced to make this filing today—the Ninth Circuit should have acted expeditiously, just as the Supreme Court expected them to do—but we will not hesitate to defend the Constitutional system of checks and balances vigorously and resolutely."

Earlier this year, the Trump administration similarly attempted to jump the line and appeal to the Supreme Court after another lower court ordered that DACA resume. “It is assumed that the Court of Appeals will proceed expeditiously to decide this case,” the Supreme Court ruled in rejecting the White House's request in February.

DHS v UC Petition by Fox News on Scribd

There was no initial timetable from the justices on when they would decide whether to grant the Trump administration's latest petition.

The cases are DHS v. Regents of the University of California (18-587) (CA9); Trump v. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (18-588) (CADC); and Nielsen v. Vidal (18-589) (CA2). The Trump administration is seeking to convince the Supreme Court to consolodate those cases because they make the same substantive objections to the planned DACA recession, and toss them all out on the merits.

Fox News' Gregg Re and Jake Gibson contributed to this report.

 

[Lanny]

By The Numbers: Understanding The Border Crisis Being Driven By Congressional Democrat Backed Loopholes
Immigration

Issued on: October 23, 2018

As a result of Democrat-supported loopholes in our federal laws, most illegal immigrant families and minors from Central America who arrive unlawfully at the border cannot be detained together or removed together, only released.

President Donald J. Trump

ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION SURGE: The latest immigration figures show a surge of alien family units and unaccompanied minors from Central America continue to arrive here illegally every day.

• Recently released figures on Southwest border apprehensions and inadmissibles, or those denied admission at a port of entry, show the dire state of the crisis at our border.
• We have seen a record-shattering surge in the arrival of family units, with more than 161,000 family unit apprehensions and inadmissibles in fiscal year (FY) 2018.
  • This historic surge was 42 percent higher than any previous year on record.
  • In the last three months, family unit apprehensions made up the highest percentage of total apprehensions in history.
• Tens of thousands of unaccompanied minors continue to stream across our borders.
  • Unaccompanied minor apprehensions and inadmissibles totaled 58,660 in FY 2018, an increase of nearly 10,000, or approximately 20 percent, compared to FY 2017.

TODAY’S DANGEROUS BORDER CRISIS: Catch-and-release loopholes that hinder the detention and removal of many illegal aliens have incentivized a shift in illegal immigration.

• Responding to catch-and-release loopholes, illegal immigration has shifted from primarily single adults from Mexico to family units and unaccompanied minors from Central America.
  • 98 percent of aliens apprehended by Border Patrol in FY 2000 were from Mexico, but today more than half are from Central America.
• These loopholes drive more and more illegal immigration from populations that the Government cannot quickly return to their home country.
  • Of the family unit aliens from non-contiguous countries who arrived in FY 2017, only around 1.4 percent have been repatriated as of June 30, 2018.
• Smugglers and traffickers exploit these loopholes to prey on families and children who make the life-threatening journey north to our border.
  • More than two-thirds of those making the journey north become victims of violence along the way, according to a report by Doctors Without Borders.
  • Nearly one-third of women are sexually assaulted along the journey according to that same report.

LOOPHOLES DRIVING THE PROBLEM: Congressional Democrats back the loopholes that created this crisis and have been unwilling to fix it.

• Democrats in Congress continue to support outrageous catch-and-release loopholes that drive the crisis at our border and even want to expand these loopholes.
  • Every Senate Democrat has backed a proposed bill that would effectively grant amnesty to any illegal alien within 100 miles of the border if they are accompanied by a minor.
• The surge in family unit and unaccompanied minor immigration has taken up vital resources.
  • Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facilities are at 98 percent capacity.
  • Shelters for unaccompanied alien minors are operating at 88 percent capacity.
  • Yet, Democrats seem intent on obstructing efforts to close catch-and-release loopholes and fully fund border security.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing...iven-congressional-democrat-backed-loopholes/

Perhaps you could include a credible link to your assertion. Right now all we've got is a cut and paste.

 

[Lanny]

Border Wall Construction Project to Begin in Texas

Release Date:
November 2, 2018
WASHINGTON – U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), in partnership with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), has awarded a contract to construct approximately six miles of levee wall system in the U.S. Border Patrol’s (USBP) Rio Grande Valley (RGV) Sector, which was funded in CBP’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2018 appropriation. The contract for this project, referred to by CBP as RGV-03, awarded on October 31, 2018 to Slsco Ltd in the amount of $145 Million for construction. Construction is scheduled to begin in February 2019.

The RGV-03 project includes the construction and installation of tactical infrastructure including a reinforced concrete levee wall to the height of the existing levee, 18 feet tall steel bollards installed on top of the concrete wall, and vegetation removal along a 150 foot enforcement zone throughout the approximately six miles of levee wall system. The enforcement zone will also include detection technology, lighting, video surveillance, and an all-weather patrol road parallel to the levee wall. This project lies within the McAllen Station area of responsibility in Hidalgo County, Texas.

The RGV Sector remains an area of high illegal cross border activity. In FY 2017, USBP apprehended over 137,000 illegal aliens, and seized approximately 260,000 pounds of marijuana and approximately 1,192 pounds of cocaine in the RGV Sector. Once constructed, this levee wall system will serve as a persistent impediment to transnational criminal organizations, while still allowing river access for property owners, other federal/state/local officials, local emergency responders, and USBP.

CBP continues to implement President Trump’s Executive Order 13767 - also known as Border Security and Immigration Enforcement Improvements – and continues to take steps to expeditiously plan, design, and construct a physical wall using appropriate materials and technology to most effectively achieve complete operational control of the southern border.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection is the unified border agency within the Department of Homeland Security charged with the management, control and protection of our nation's borders at and between official ports of entry. CBP is charged with securing the borders of the United States while enforcing hundreds of laws and facilitating lawful trade and travel.

Last modified:
November 2, 2018

https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/national-media-release/border-wall-construction-project-begin-texas

I thought I already commented on this.

$155 Million down and $19 Billion and $855 Million to go. That's pretty close to halfway, isn't it?

 

[Chris Craig]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/armed-militia-groups-head-border-124852355.html

Right wing extremists out to kill people.

 

[MARIS61]

Perhaps you could include a credible link to your assertion. Right now all we've got is a cut and paste.

There are 2 links, 1 at the beginning and 1 at the end.

They are both links to the information I cut and pasted in it's entirety.

There is no more credible source than the one it comes from, anywhere on Earth.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/issues/immigration/

 

[Chris Craig]

There are 2 links, 1 at the beginning and 1 at the end.

They are both links to the information I cut and pasted in it's entirety.

There is no more credible source than the one it comes from, anywhere on Earth.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/issues/immigration/

He said credible

 

[MARIS61]

He said credible

It’s solid gold.

 

[Lanny]

There are 2 links, 1 at the beginning and 1 at the end.

They are both links to the information I cut and pasted in it's entirety.

There is no more credible source than the one it comes from, anywhere on Earth.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/issues/immigration/

Aha, so there is no credible source.

 

[MARIS61]

Lets hear from some Real Americans.

 

[Lanny]

Lets hear from some Real Americans.

She's got a scarf on her head, dammit. That means she's one of the hordes of Al-Quada terrorists in the notorious 'Caravan'.

 

[Chris Craig]

It’s solid gold.

 

[MARIS61]

President Trump is using the Feinstein Plan.

Feinstein urged Obama in 2014 to use 'broad power' to limit immigration

By Samuel Chamberlain | Fox News

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., told then-President Barack Obama in the summer of 2014 that he could use "very broad power" to limit immigration as he saw fit, according to a letter obtained by Fox News.

In the July 29 letter, Feinstein cites Section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act -- the same federal legislation cited by the Trump administration Thursday in unveiling a rule denying asylum claims to migrants who enter the country illegally.

"Whenever the president finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States," the legislation states, "he may by proclamation, and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or nonimmigrants, or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate."

Feinstein's letter initially notes that the senator has discussed possible legislation with then-Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson. Feinstein then writes: "there is also an argument that there is sufficient flexibility in current law for the government to respond to the current crisis and that further legislation is not needed." She adds that the authority vested in the presidency by Section 212 (f) means that "no legislation is necessary to give your administration the tools it needs to respond to this crisis, and that any needed temporary measures can be implemented through presidential action."

"There is an unprecedented crisis at our Southern border where aliens understand that they can enter the country illegally, avoid removal, and ultimately remain in the U.S. living and working illegally," U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services spokesman Michael Bars said in a statement. "The congressionally delegated authority for our president to handle crises at our border appropriately is recognized historically as a bipartisan approach to solving some of the most endemic challenges to national security and public safety. By strengthening the integrity of our lawful immigration system, both the interests of the American people and legitimate asylum seekers properly presenting themselves at ports of entry prevail."
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fe...-2014-to-use-broad-power-to-limit-immigration

 

[Chris Craig]

Trumps mother was an illegal immigrant

 

[Lanny]

Separating children from their mothers is Feinstein's plan?

 

[MARIS61]

Border agents arrest over 400 illegals in 2 days, as agency announces record month for apprehensions

By Paulina Dedaj | Fox News
Border agents arrested over 400 illegal immigrants, including children, mainly from Central America, from Tuesday to Wednesday. This, after the agency announced that October apprehensions set a record for this year.

A group of 82 migrants were captured illegally crossing into the United States near the San Luis Port just before midnight on Tuesday. U.S. Customs and Border Protection said in a press release that most represented family units from Guatemala, with the exception of three individuals from El Salvador.

The youngest in the group was 2, the oldest 48.

Almost four hours later, a second group of 83 illegal aliens were seen trying to enter the same port of entry by digging beneath the wall. CBP said this group also consisted mostly of Guatemalans, with 14 people from El Salvador.

In total, Border Patrol agents with the Yuma Station apprehended 449 illegal immigrants by the end of Wednesday.

The large number of arrests comes just as the agency announced Friday that October apprehensions surpassed 50,000 – a new high this year.

The report stated that 50,975 people were apprehended on the southwest border in October, double the number from October last year and the highest monthly figure since 2014.

That figure included almost 5,000 unaccompanied minors.

President Trump issued an executive order Friday declaring that anyone entering the U.S. illegally from Mexico outside established posts would be ineligible for asylum – a measure that was almost immediately challenged with a lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/border-a...ency-announces-record-month-for-apprehensions

 

[MARIS61]

llegal immigrant killed 3 after 'sanctuary' release from custody, ICE says
By Louis Casiano | Fox News
Luis Rodrigo Perez, 23, a Mexican national, is accused of killing three people in Missouri, authorities say. (Associated Press)

An illegal immigrant accused of a triple murder in Missouri was previously jailed and released in New Jersey on domestic violence charges, authorities said, putting the spotlight on the conflict between local and immigration authorities nationwide.

Luis Rodrigo Perez, 23, a native of Mexico, is charged with fatally shooting two men and wounding two others on Nov. 1 and fatally shooting a woman the next day.

He was being held on domestic violence charges at the Middlesex County Jail in New Jersey in December 2017 and was released in February, NJ.com reported.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials said they placed a detainer on Perez while he was in custody, but the request was not honored nor was the agency notified when he was let go, said Corey Price, acting executive director of ICE.

“Yet again, an ICE detainer was ignored and a dangerous criminal alien was released to the streets and is now charged with killing three people,” Price said. “Had ICE’s detainer request in December 2017 been honored by Middlesex County Jail, Luis Rodrigo Perez would have been placed in deportation proceedings and likely sent home to his country – and three innocent people might be alive today.

"It is past time that localities realize the perils of dangerous sanctuary policies and resume their primary goal of protecting their residents."

— Corey Price, acting executive director, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)

Missouri law enforcement officials believe Perez and Aaron Anderson, 19, killed their ex-roommates Steven Marler, 38, and Aaron Hampton, 23, after they were kicked out of their Springfield home.

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT ICE WANTED DEPORTED IS NOW CHARGED IN WIFE'S STABBING DEATH

Perez is also accused of killing a 21-year-old Sabrina Starr the next day at her house. He is charged with eight felony counts in the shootings.

Anderson told investigators he was waiting with Starr in an SUV outside Hampton and Marler’s home when Perez shot them, adding that he could hear the victims begging for their lives while on the phone with Perez.

He was charged as an accomplice to first-degree murder and three other felonies.

Perez’s girlfriend, Dalia Garcia, 23, is charged with tampering with evidence after she allegedly rode a bus from New Jersey to help burn evidence.
President Trump has consistently bashed municipalities that refuse to cooperate with immigration authorities. The U.S. Border Patrol officials said Friday that its agents detained more than 50,000 people crossing the U.S.-Mexico border in October.

The news came on the same day Trump issued an executive order declaring that anyone entering the U.S. illegally from Mexico outside of established ports would be ineligible for asylum.

The Associated Press contributed to this story.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/undocumented-immigrant-released-from-jail-charged-in-triple-murder