Thread: DHS: Haitian Immigrants Up Over 600 Percent in FY2016

by BOB PRICE
22 Oct 2016

The number of illegal immigrants from Haiti entering the United States increased more than 600 percent during FY2016. The dramatic increase seems to account for a decision last month by Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson to resume removals (deportations) of certain Haitian immigrants.

Haitian immigrants illegally entering the United States increased from 795 in FY 2015 to an astounding 4,844 in FY 2016 (year-to-date comparisons), according to a report obtained by Breitbart Texas from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials. 4,316 of these entered the U.S. through the San Diego Sector in southern California. The numbers listed are through August 31 and do not include the year ending October numbers.

“We have seen an uptick in the number of Haitians arriving with no status in the United States,” CBP Public Affairs Officer Jackie Wasiluk said on Friday in response to an inquiry from Breitbart Texas. “While CBP officials have made adjustments to port operations to accommodate this uptick in arriving individuals, CBP officials are used to dynamic changes at San Diego area ports of entry, including San Ysidro, the nation’s busiest border crossing, and are able to flex resources to accommodate those changes.”

Secretary Johnson announced on September 22, the resumption of removals of Haitians who had received an order of removal or who had been convicted of a serious crime. “Yesterday I directed that, effective immediately, enforcement decisions with respect to Haitian nationals should be, consistent standard practice, guided by my memorandum dated November 20, 2014, ‘Policies for the Apprehension, Detention and Removal of Undocumented Immigrants,’” Johnson wrote in the statement. “These policies prioritize the removal of convicted felons, individuals convicted of significant or multiple misdemeanors, and individuals apprehended at or between ports of entry while attempting to unlawfully enter the United States.”

He said that Haitian nationals covered by “Temporary Protected Status” remain unaffected by the change in policy. The removal program halted temporarily following Hurricane Matthew earlier this month, but Johnson said “DHS intends to resume removal flights as soon as possible.”

The startling increase for the San Diego Sector accounts for about 90 percent of the total number of Haitians who were classified by CBP as “Haitian Inadmissibles.” The numbers of Haitian immigrants had been slowly decreasing in recent years from a high in FY 2014 or 1,051 to 887 in all of FY 2015.

Miami had the second largest number of Haitian immigrants, but their numbers actually decreased by about 10 percent to 216 from 236 in YTD comparrisons.

The San Diego number “includes the border crossings at San Ysidro, Otay Mesa, Tecate, Calexico East and West, and Andrade, as well as our airport and seaport activity in the area,” Wasiluk stated. She said most of the Haitians currently entering the U.S. are “simply presenting themselves with no documents.”

The Haitian immigrants processed by the San Diego Sector represents nearly 20 percent of the total number of immigrants reported to be inadmissible. Other immigrants may be determined to be inadmissible because “they may try to use a counterfeit or altered document; they may attempt to hide from officers and enter without inspection (or run or drive past officers to enter without inspection); or they may be an imposter, attempting to use a real document that does not belong to them.” She explained.

Immigrants are considered a priority for enforcement if they have been “convicted of significant or multiple misdemeanors, and individuals apprehended at or between ports of entry while attempting to unlawfully enter the United States,” Secretary Johnson said in his statement noted above.

http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2016/...ercent-fy2016/

Haitians and their anchor children were deported from the Dominican Republic because their Supreme Court ruled that their birthright citizenship provision did not apply to persons "in transit." When you see this from the long view of history it makes a lot of legal sense. In times past, and even today, it can take an expectant foreign woman months to 'transit' through a large country. All sorts of travel delays could occur. Thus opening citizenship up to children born under these circumstances, and actually under a foreign jurisdiction, would not make sense.

So now the US is probably getting a lot of these people. Which we didn't plan on.

DHS Catches Only Half Of Illegal Immigrants Crossing The Border, Claims 81 Percent Success Rate

JP CARROLL National Security & Foreign Affairs Reporter 11:24 AM 10/07/2016

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Federal agents with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) detain a man in this handout picture taken in Dallas, Texas March 30, 2014 and released May 1, 2014. U.S. authorities have arrested 638 suspected gang members in a month-long sweep named Project Southbound aimed at associates of the fast-growing network of Surenos street gangs, an international criminal gang that started in Southern California, Immigration and Customs Enforcement said on Thursday. REUTERS/ICE/Charles Reed/Handout via Reuters

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An internal Department of Homeland Security (DHS) report shows the federal department only nabs just over half of illegal immigrants crossing the border.

DHS caught 54 percent of illegal immigrants in fiscal year 2015, according to the internal report finished in May, and is not publicly available. DHS has publicly claimed that they successfully catch 81 percent of illegal immigrants.

A government official on the condition of anonymity gave the report to the Associated Press Thursday. “DHS does not believe it is in the public interest to release, and it would be irresponsible to make policy or other judgments on the basis of analysis that is incomplete and remains a work in progress,” DHS spokeswoman Marsha Catron said to the Associated Press, despite the report being completed in May.

DHS failed to catch 170,000 illegal immigrants in FY 2015. When adding in the number of people who got away with false identities at border crossings as well as those that came into the U.S. by sea, 200,000 illegal immigrants actually got into the U.S. for the past fiscal year.

In FY 2015, 140,000 asylum seekers showed up on the U.S. border, in contrast with a mere 20,000 10 years ago. Illegal immigration has been a major issue in the 2016 presidential campaign, especially for GOP nominee Donald Trump.


Trump was endorsed by major unions, including Customs Border Patrol and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) employees. The candidate has proposed building a border wall between the U.S. and Mexico and finding ways to get Mexico to pay for it.


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