Thread: 1800 Migrants Illegally Enter El Paso Sector in One Day

1800 Migrants Illegally Enter El Paso Sector in One Day

Photo: U.S. Border Patrol/El Paso SectorBOB PRICE18 Apr 20194553 4:14
El Paso Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended more than 1,800 migrants who illegally crossed the border Tuesday. More than half crossed into the El Paso Metropolitan Area.

Lordsburg Station agents patrolling near the remote Antelope Wells Port of Entry in the New Mexico boot heel region encountered a group of 230 shortly before 1 a.m. on April 16, according to El Paso Sector Border Patrol officials. The agents began the long task of medically screening, processing, and transporting the migrants to the station.


About five minutes after the apprehension of the first group, another set of agents encountered a group of 360 migrants just west of Mount Cristo Rey in Sunland Park, New Mexico, officials reported.


The agents working in the Antelope Wells Port of Entry area encountered yet another large group of 130 migrants at about 11:45 p.m. to close out their day.


In total, the El Paso Sector agents apprehended a total of more than 1,800 migrants on Tuesday — at least half entering in the El Paso Metropolitan area, officials stated.


During the first six months of Fiscal Year 2018, El Paso Sector agents apprehended less than 11,000 migrants who illegally crossed the border from Mexico. So far this fiscal year, that number has skyrocketed to more than 71,000.
“It is very clear that the cartels and their smugglers know the weaknesses in our laws,” Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan said during a visit to the Texas border this week. “They know that family units and unaccompanied children will be released with no consequences for their illegal entry”


During a press briefing earlier this month, U.S. Border Patrol Chief Law Enforcement Operations Director Brian Hastings expressed concern about the cartel tactic of crossing large groups of migrants in remote areas, Breitbart News reported.
“The resources that we’re pulling away from national security have a negative effect on law enforcement mission,” the operations director explained. “Currently each day we’re pulling approximately 40 percent of our agents on the Southwest border, and diverting them specifically for the humanitarian need, that is to care for, transport and process family units and UACs.”


“Not only does this divert our resources, but as we’ve seen recently, smuggling organizations are utilizing these large groups as a diversion to enable the movement of smuggling of narcotics,” Hastings stated. “Approximately 60 large groups so far this year have been encountered in remote locations which causes us particular concern because they’re generally the furthest away from our processing centers, medical services, contract transportation, and even our stations.”


Hastings blamed the problem on immigration and asylum laws and court rulings.


Hastings said one solution to the current problem would be for Congress to fix the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act (TVPRA) passed by Congress and signed by President George W. Bush in 2008.


“Specifically,” Hastings said in response to a question from The New York Times. “What we look at the biggest problem being for us appears to be TVPRA and [the Flores settlement agreement] and then just going through the system quicker in a more – adjudicating the cases quicker, if you will. We need some assistance with CIS and additional attorneys in order to expedite these cases and the credible fear claims quicker.”


Due to the massive numbers of apprehensions and laws restricting migrant detention and lack of funds and bed spaces allocated by Congress, Border Patrol officials have initiated a policy to release migrants directly into the community after medical screenings and criminal background investigations.


The overwhelming number of releases forced the mayor of Yuma, Arizona, to issue a “State of Emergency” declaration earlier this week. “Migrants being released into the community faster than they are departing, and shelters and the staff to run them are at max capacity,” a tweet on the City of Yuma Twitter page states quoting Mayor Douglas J. Nichols. “A state of emergency is declared.”


The mayor explained that when the shelters reach capacity, the City is forced to release the migrants onto the streets. “That means they are likely to be on the street and there would be a whole cascading effect of people walking around the city,” he explained.

https://www.breitbart.com/border/201...or-in-one-day/

Originally Posted by stoptheinvaders

1800 Migrants Illegally Enter El Paso Sector in One Day

Top comment with 88 upvotes

They're illegal aliens, not migrants.

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Breitbart your readers are not happy with the turn you have taken.

Mexico is LOADING up the buses and dumping them on USA Trump!

You need to stop threatening and shut that whole border down now!

YOU are the swamp now!

Get used to this. This activity is scheduled to last all year long. Personally, I feel there's NO END IN SIGHT for this invasion and it will continue on a continuous basis indefinitely. The talking point on why it's continuing with no end in sight is that the "DEMOCRACTS WON'T CHANGE THE LAWS" and that is a 100% TOTAL LIE!!!!! The laws are already there for Trump to STOP IT COLD TODAY.

Vice President Mike Pence: Congress must act to end the crisis on our border

This week, Mayor Douglas Nicholls of Yuma, Arizona, declared a state of emergency as thousands of illegal immigrants poured into the city and pushed it to its breaking point. As the mayor warned, the sudden influx of people is “above our capacity as a community to sustain.”
I saw firsthand the humanitarian and national security emergency that we face on oursouthern border last week, while meeting with the men and women of Customs and Border Protection in Nogales, Arizona. As those brave officers told me, we have a real crisis on our hands, and what’s driving it is the loopholes in our immigration laws that Congress has refused to close.

This crisis is unlike anything we’ve ever seen before. Nearly 3,000 aliens are stopped trying to cross our southern border each day. In the last six months alone, Customs and Border Protection has apprehended more than 360,000 aliens – close to the total number apprehended in all of fiscal year 2018.
BORDER PATROL SPOTS DRONE TRYING TO HELP MIGRANTS ILLEGALLY ENTER AMERICA
For the first time ever, a majority of these immigrants are families and unaccompanied minors. And their numbers are only growing, as we’ve seen a 370 percent increase in the number of family units apprehended at the border this fiscal year to date.
These vulnerable people face incredible danger from the criminal smugglers who ferry them to our southern border. Nearly 70 percent of illegal immigrants report being victims of violence, and Doctors Without Borders reports that nearly one-third of women are sexually assaulted.
But this humanitarian crisis is also endangering our national security.
Forty percent of Border Patrol agents have been diverted from guarding our borders to care for these families and children, leaving many areas along the border exposed. Drug cartels take advantage of these vulnerabilities to smuggle in their poison, fueling an overdose epidemic that took more than 70,000 American lives in 2017. And as Border Patrol agents in Nogales told me, in addition to stopping gang members, human traffickers, and other violent criminals, they apprehended two Iranian nationals attempting to cross our border illegally just two weeks ago.
This crisis is threatening lives on both sides of the border – and to end it, Congress must act to close the loopholes that drug cartels and human traffickers use to entice vulnerable families to make the long and dangerous journey north to our southern border.
That begins with changing the federal asylum laws that encourage so many immigrants to try to cross our border illegally. Our asylum system was created after World War II to protect all those who feared persecution by their home countries – but today, tens of thousands of aliens are taking advantage of the law by presenting themselves to law enforcement and claiming a “credible fear” of persecution without evidence of a credible threat.
In fiscal year 2018, more than 90,000 aliens claimed to have a credible fear after being stopped at our border – a 2,000 percent increase from just a decade before. Nearly 90 percent of them were simply released into our country to wait for a court date. Yet ultimately less than one out of ten illegal immigrants from Central America claiming credible fear receive asylum.
Every month this year, nearly 1,500 removal orders were issued after an illegal immigrant claiming a credible fear didn’t show up to court – three times the average from just three years ago. And today, more than one million people remain in our country illegally even though they’ve been ordered by a judge to leave.
This rampant abuse of our immigration system is also being driven by the Flores settlement agreement. Under this court precedent, minors who are apprehended crossing our border generally cannot be kept for more than 20 days in detention centers – requiring law enforcement to either separate children from their family members or release the entire family into the United States.
As President Trump made clear, the United States does not have a policy of separating children from their families – but Flores encourages adults to cross the border with a child in the hope of entering and staying in the United States. And it encourages childless adults – including gang members and drug traffickers – to use children to pose as families, in order to enter our country illegally and avoid deportation.
Finally, current law forces our federal law enforcement agencies to treat every unaccompanied minor from a non-neighboring country who crosses our border illegally for any reason as a victim of human trafficking – resulting in thousands from Central America being released into the United States.
Each of these loopholes is contributing to the humanitarian and national security crisis at our southern border – and each of them requires Congress to act. Congress must return our asylum laws to their original purpose of helping victims of government persecution by raising the standard of proof for credible fear. And it must extend the period of time minors can be detained with their families so that they can remain together throughout the adjudication process.
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President Trump promised the American people that we would secure our border, and he’s a man of his word. We’ve secured from Congress more than $1.3 billion to build 55 miles of a physical barrier in highly dangerous areas along the southern border, as well as funding for 5,000 more beds in ICE detention facilities and an additional 600 Customs and Border Protection officers. And in February, the president declared a national emergency to secure an additional $8.1 billion to build a wall on the southern border of the United States.
President Trump is doing his job. The men and women of law enforcement are doing their jobs. Now it’s time for Congress to do its job and close the loopholes in our immigration laws that are driving the humanitarian and security crisis on our southern border.
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https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/vice...-on-our-border

Originally Posted by tonyklo

Get used to this. This activity is scheduled to last all year long. Personally, I feel there's NO END IN SIGHT for this invasion and it will continue on a continuous basis indefinitely. The talking point on why it's continuing with no end in sight is that the "DEMOCRACTS WON'T CHANGE THE LAWS" and that is a 100% TOTAL LIE!!!!! The laws are already there for Trump to STOP IT COLD TODAY.

Yes, that is the main talking point, spread everywhere.

The Forever Trumper's and the so called Conservative media (including Breitbart) have it in overdrive to brainwash the public.

Some people are aware and awake to what is happening.

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This is the Tweet of a raging psychopath:

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I wonder if the New York Times will apologize to me a second time, as they did after the 2016 Election. But this one will have to be a far bigger & better apology. On this one they will have to get down on their knees & beg for forgiveness-they are truly the Enemy of the People!

3:08 AM - 23 Apr 2019
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We have an invasion on our Border and this is what the President is tweeting!

The only thing I want to get used to is SEEING thousands loaded up on barges and let the Coast Guard ship them the hell back!

OPERATION RETURN TO SENDER!

And load up the Mexican and ship them back to the very Southern tip of Mexico!