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    Illegal immigrant numbers skyrocket at Mexican border



    By Mike Lillis - 05/04/16 06:52 PM EDT

    Child migration is surging again.

    The number of families and unaccompanied children apprehended on the southern border has skyrocketed this year, according to new figures from the Obama administration.

    The numbers, compiled by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), reveal that child migration is on par with 2014 levels, when a wave of kids –– thousands of them unaccompanied –– arrived at the southern border.
    The surge of illegal immigration quickly swamped border authorities, immigration courts and health and humanitarian workers, while sparking a political battle on Capitol Hill over the cause and proper response to the crisis.

    The new figures raise the specter of another increase this summer. That would almost certainly inflame another political showdown in a volatile presidential year in which the issues of race, immigration and border security have been pronounced — particularly due to the hard-line enforcement approach adopted by the presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump.

    Through the first six months of fiscal 2016, which ended on March 31, border officials apprehended 27,754 unaccompanied children, the CBP reported — a 78 percent jump from 15,616 apprehended in 2015, and just shy of the 28,579 apprehended in 2014.

    For family units, which consist of at least one child traveling with at least one adult, the increase was even more dramatic. In the first six months of 2016, 32,117 families were apprehended, the CBP reported — an increase of 131 percent from the 2015 figure (13,913) and 62 percent from the 2014 figure (19,830).

    Kevin Appleby, director of international migration policy at the Center for Migration Studies, proposed several reasons for the increase. For one, the violence plaguing Central America –– particularly El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala –– still exists, he noted, sending people fleeing north for their lives.

    "The forces driving the migration are still strong," he said.

    Appleby also suggested the human smugglers accompanying the migrants might have adapted to a crackdown by Mexican authorities in 2015, allowing the smugglers to elude capture and get more people to the U.S. border.

    Appleby, along with many other human rights advocates, has been critical of Mexico's policing efforts –– and the Obama administration's support of them. They fear that many people eligible for asylum in the United States never make it that far, but are instead returned by Mexican authorities to dangerous conditions in Central America.

    "Our policy of deterrence is clearly not working no matter how much we pay the Mexican government to do our dirty work," Appleby said Wednesday.

    It's unclear if the 2016 increases will continue into the summer and rival the surge total of 2014. The Obama administration has scrambled to prevent a similar crisis since then, and Congress last year approved $750 million to help stabilize El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras in hopes of slowing the flow of people trying to come to the U.S.

    In January, the Homeland Security Department tried another deterrent strategy, launching a series of controversial raids on scores of families that had arrived in the 2014 surge and putting them in line for deportation.

    Jens Manuel Krogstad, of the Pew Research Center, noted Wednesday that the strategy might have worked.

    "This fiscal year, family and unaccompanied children apprehensions spiked in December 2015, and in January 2016 the Department of Homeland Security launched immigration raids targeting families," Krogstad wrote on Pew's blog. "Since then, monthly border apprehensions have dropped below 2014 levels."

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    They should put a little tattoo on each one of these so we know who they are in the future. I expect every trick to be pulled to find ways for them to stay, such as false documents and hardship cases and sympathetic county workers, or state agencies figuring out a way they can stay no matter what. Just like the adaptable coyotes, no doubt wherever some crooked person can find a way to better fool the authorities and make money at it they are already thinking it up.
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    ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION BOOMING

    POSTED ON MAY 5, 2016 BY JOHN HINDERAKER

    The Hill headlines: “Illegal immigrant numbers skyrocket at Mexican border.” The numbers are simply staggering:

    The number of families and unaccompanied children apprehended on the southern border has skyrocketed this year, according to new figures from the Obama administration. …

    Through the first six months of fiscal 2016, which ended on March 31, border officials apprehended 27,754 unaccompanied children, the CBP reported — a 78 percent jump from the 15,616 apprehended in 2015, and just shy of the 28,579 apprehended in 2014.

    For family units, which consist of at least one child traveling with at least one adult, the increase was even more dramatic. In the first six months of 2016, 32,117 families were apprehended, the CBP reported — an increase of 131 percent from the 2015 figure (13,913) and 62 percent from the 2014 figure (19,830).

    And those are just the ones who were caught. Although “caught” doesn’t seem like the right word; I am not sure that illegal immigrants arriving from the South do much to evade capture. Even as funding has increased for ICE, the number of deportations continues to drop. This simple chart is from Senator Jeff Sessions’ Subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest:



    ICE’s detention and removal budget grew approximately 25 percent from FY 2012 to FY 2015, but deportations fell by around 43%. The Subcommittee adds:

    This dramatic decline in deportations is the direct result of policies implemented by the Obama Administration to get around plain law passed by Congress. Indeed, the guise was to assert that the Government lacked the resources to deport more aliens. The former Director of ICE, John Morton, issued a memorandum in March of 2011, in which he outlined ICE’s purported enforcement “priorities,” and claimed that setting such priorities was necessary because ICE “only has resources to remove approximately 400,000 aliens per year, less than 4 percent of the estimated illegal alien population in the United States.” The Administration has used this line repeatedly, even citing it in testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee. …

    Notwithstanding the Administration’s claims of limited resources, ICE’s budget for detention and removal operations has grown substantially – from $2,750,843,000 in FY2012, to $3,431,444,000 in FY2015. Moreover, just last year, the Administration shifted $113 million away from ICE’s budget for detention and removal of aliens
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    The scofflaw Obama administration refuses to enforce the country’s laws. This goes a long way toward explaining why Donald Trump will probably be our next president.

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    Illegal Immigration from Central America Spiking Again in South Texas
    Posted May 6th, 2016 @ 3:30pm

    All along the Texas Mexico border, they're gearing up for a surge in illegal immigrant families and unaccompanied children which will rival, and even surpass, the flood that we saw in 2014, when parts of Lackland Air Force Base had to be turned into a shelter for immigrant children, News Radio 1200 WOAI in San Antonio reports.

    The Border Patrol says the number of illegal immigrant families flooding into Texas in the last two months is more than double the figures seen in March and April of 2015. The number of unaccompanied children arriving in Texas is up 78%.

    Sister Norma Pimentel runs a Catholic Charities shelter in McAllen, tells News Radio 1200 WOAI the situation in the 'northern triangle' of Central America, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras, remains dire.

    "If that doesn't get fixed, families are going to continue to leave their country," she said.


    Read more from WOAI


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