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Border Patrol Concerned Migrants might Rush U.S. Border While Drug Cartels Find New Routes

By Sara Carter

November 21, 2018 | 6:25 AM EST

Officials said Tuesday's court ruling against Trump's asylum executive order is making things much more difficult for law enforcement.Former acting ICE director Tom Homan said his agency is completely overwhelmed and needs the military's help.




Border Patrol agents and other law enforcement officials fear the growing number of migrants amassing along the United States border in Tijuana, Mexico will try to rush the U.S. port of entry as the situation has been exacerbated in recent days by the increased conflict between the migrants and locals, former and current U.S. law enforcement officials said.

The concern is two-fold, said law enforcement officials, who noted that the decision Tuesday by U.S. District Judge Jon S. Tigar of San Francisco to temporarily block the Trump administration from denying asylum to migrants who crossed the southern border illegally is prolonging an already broken immigration system. Tigar said the president violated a “clear command” from Congress to allow them to apply, but U.S. Custom’s and Border Protection agents say it will only make the situation worse.

It’s bad, we are still getting tons of family units being allowed in and immediately getting cut loose after a quick processing.

“It’s bad, we are still getting tons of family units being allowed in and immediately getting cut loose after a quick processing. They, too, will disappear after they’re released,” said a U.S. law enforcement official working along the border, who asked for anonymity because they were not authorized to speak. “So pretty much just show up with a child, and claim and get cut loose–regardless of previous immigration history or criminal history. (The) only thing that stops a person with a child is aggravated criminal felony.”

President Donald Trump told reporters Tuesday afternoon, “it’s a disgrace what happened in the 9th Circuit, we’ll win this case in the Supreme Court.”

Over recent days, hundreds of Tijuana residents gathered to protest the roughly 4,000 migrants, mainly from Central American countries. The increased tensions have raised concerns among U.S. law enforcement officials that the migrants may try to rush the border, like they did when they crossed the Guatemala and Mexican border. The Tijuana demonstrators shouted at the migrants, “No illegals” and “No to the invasion.”

The numbers of migrants are expected to increase to 10,000 plus in the upcoming weeks, according to Mexican authorities who are monitoring the groups heading to the city and other ports of entry along the U.S. Mexico border. The strain on local services in Tijuana has already caused a backlash from residents in the border community and the drug cartels that utilize those corridors “are not only trying to infiltrate the caravans, kidnap some migrants, but are also taking advantage of the strained resources on U.S. law enforcement,” according to officials.

The increased 5,900 U.S. troops over the past month created a semi-stop gap measure along the porous border forcing cartels to circumvent their contraband to other areas.

On Monday, Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Buchanan, who oversees the mission, told Politico some troops may be heading home this week and that all will be back to their regular duty assignments by Christmas. However, by Tuesday, U.S. Army North, which Buchanan commands, issued a statement saying, “we may shift some forces to other areas of the border to engineering support missions in California and other areas. No specific timeline for redeployment has been determined.”

“The Mexican Cartels have a business to run and their goal is to make tons of money,” said Derek Maltz, a former Special Agent in Charge (SAC) of the DOJ, DEA, and Special Operations Division (SOD). “The thought of the greatest military in the world hanging out on the border will definitely cause them to adapt and utilize all routes available to keep the profits rolling and the customers supplied. They have already started moving huge quantities of drugs through the Caribbean corridor which has been used successfully for decades.”

Maltz noted that as the U.S. increased it’s military presence along the southern border with Mexico this month and forced the narco-traffickers to reroute the a large amount of its drug supplies through high trafficking routes along the British Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Florida and other states presenting new obstacles for law enforcement battling the cartels.

He’s not the only one concerned. Former Acting Immigration and Custom’s Enforcement Director Tom Homan said his former agency is overburdened. Homan noted that ICE budgeted for “51,000 beds last budget cycle and only got 40,000.”

“ICE is pretty much full, their beds are full,” said Homan. “ICE is over-burdened right now. All these military guys are on the border taking care of logistical duties, but the military can help with its presence by increasing eyes and ears on the border. These caravans are actually hitting the cartel pocket books. It’s hurting their business. We’ve seen instances where the cartels are turning on the migrants. The smugglers and those being trafficked have pay the cartel to operate in their plazas. No one operates on the U.S. Mexican border without paying off the cartels.”

The decades long drug war, coupled by the recent wave of migrant caravans “are creating a dangerous national security situation for our country, as well as law enforcement,” said a Border Patrol official in California, who works along the San Diego corridor. The Border Patrol agent, like numerous others interviewed by this news agency, suggested that any rush of migrants to breach the U.S. Port of Entry, could lead to a situation that puts both the migrants lives in danger as well as law enforcement.

The agent stressed, “you can’t deal with the migrant situation separate from the raging narco-state across the southern border. It’s all connected, no matter how you cut it.”

The migrants are causing serious problems problems in Tijuana…

Another Border Patrol official, who also spoke on background as they did not have permission to speak to the press told this news site, “the migrants are causing serious problems problems in Tijuana and it’s believed that they are going to try and swarm past the port of entry in mass. You can see it brewing south of the line.”

The drug traffickers are also taking advantage of current crisis using watchers (known as ventanas, windows) to find porous areas they can breech, while U.S. and Border Patrol officials are focused mainly on the migrants attempting to enter the country, according to law enforcement.

But the one obstacle in the narco’s way right now is the presence of military officials along their trafficking routes in the U.S.

“The DOD and CBP combined are a force multiplier on the border,” Maltz said. “This will cause some disarray for the cartel border operatives. The sophisticated cartels study the techniques and measures put in place by the United States daily and will develop alternative routes to get their poison into our country.”

Maltz noted “we’ve already seen a shift of millions of dollars of kilos of cocaine and heroin – diverting cocaine and heroin through the Caribbean – larger seizures have already been confiscated coming through the Bahamas, Puerto Rico — they know the southwest border has the larger presence.”

The cartels are using semi-submersible, gulf fast boats, private aircraft and drones to move their contraband and narcotics “into the islands, South Florida, Louisiana and Texas.”

“These guys understand when the U.S. is pushing along the southwest border they need to keep their enterprise running,” Maltz added.

“The drug cartels are poisoning our kids, our nation and present a real national security risk to our country. This is a war and our law enforcement can not be crippled. It’s going to take everyone to find solutions,” he said.

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Call Congress in session now and shut this down!!!

Cancel their vacation for the rest of the year!

Some members of the migrant caravan, who have spent the past month traveling from Central America through Mexico to reach the U.S. border, are talking about crossing the border en masse as a way to provoke the Trump administration, an aid group has claimed.

Migrant caravan members may be planning ‘human stampede’ at US border: aid group

By Carolyn Salazar | Fox News

Migrant caravan clashes with residents of Tijuana

Republican strategist Ashley Hayek reacts to the protests happening near the border.

Video at the page link

Some members of the migrant caravan, who have spent the past month traveling from Central America through Mexico to reach the U.S. border, are talking about crossing the border en masse as a way to provoke the Trump administration, an aid group has claimed.
"They have that intention,” Sergio Tamai, a founder of Angels without Borders, a group helping the migrants, told Telemundo 20 in San Diego. “I believe that thousands could make that jump."
At least 3,000 migrants have already arrived in Tijuana, a border city across from San Diego, Calif., the past two weeks. The federal government estimates the number of migrants could grow to 10,000 in the coming weeks, or months.
Those already in the city have camped out in tents, slept on dirt fields or under bleachers or are staying in overcrowded shelters throughout the city as they wait to figure out their next steps.
But some are growing impatient, and believe their best option is to plan a mass crossing.
“Most of us, yes, we want to be on the other side,” Jorge Molina, a Honduran migrant, told Telemundo. “Some want to jump over the wall, others to go another way, and others want to wait and see what kind of response they get.”
MIGRANT CARAVAN FACES OPPOSITION FROM ANGRY TIJUANA RESIDENTS
Border agents have already arrested dozens of migrants trying to illegally cross the border.
About 5,800 active-duty troops dispatched to the border to deal with the migrant crisis started coming home this week. On Monday, a judge barred the president from enforcing a ban on asylum for those who cross the U.S. border illegally – a decision the administration said would cause “countless illegal aliens to pour into our country."

Central American migrants wait to access to the shelter in Tijuana, Mexico, Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2018. At least 3,000 migrants have arrived in Tijuana and the federal government estimates the number of migrants could grow to 10,000 in the coming weeks and months. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Tijuana residents have not fully embraced members of the caravan. During the weekend, about 500 residents protested the migrants by marching to an outdoor sports complex where the migrants were camped out, with protesters chanting: “Get out!” and “We don’t want you here!”
While the caravan members have concentrated in one area of the city, many residents fear with the passage of time their presence will take its toll and crime could go up. Since 2016, thousands of Haitians who also tried to get to the U.S. ended up settling in the city, while, at the same time, Tijuana has taken in thousands of Mexicans deported from the United States.
Tijuana also has been struggling with drug violence and some say they do not want the caravan bringing more problems.
Officials have said they arrested 34 caravan members for drug possession, public intoxication, disturbing the peace and resisting police, and they would be deported to their home countries.
Tijuana Mayor Juan Manuel Gastelum has made a point of saying the city is not happy with the migrants who began arriving last week, and he compared the Central American group unfavorably with about 3,000 Haitians who ended up staying after their bid to reach the U.S. failed last year.

Migrants, who are part of a Central American migrant caravan, leave Mexicali for Tijuana, Mexico, Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2018. Tensions have built as nearly 3,000 migrants from the caravan poured into Tijuana in recent days after more than a month on the road. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

“The Haitians arrived with their papers, with a clear vision,” Gastelum said in an interview posted on the city’s Facebook page. They came “in an orderly way, they never asked us for food or shelter,” renting apartments and making their own food. He said the Haitians found jobs and “inserted themselves in the city’s economy” and had not been involved in any disturbances.
By contrast, Gastelum said, the caravan of Central Americans, “had arrived all of sudden, with a lot of people — not all ... but a lot — were aggressive and cocky.”
Tijuana councilman Manuel Monárrez said a mass border would further strain economic relations with the U.S.
"A human stampede would be an immediate provocation to the U.S.,” said Manuel Monárrez, a Tijuana councilman, told Telemundo. “And justify [President] Donald Trump to impact the binational dynamics of the economy.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report

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Mexico needs to send them back and do it now.

Americans need to push back at every level in every way. I'm optimistic our military can stop this, but it all depends on what happens on the border, so I just don't know.

I do know that if the US military does not stop it, it will be all over the news and any fear of American soldiers around the world will be lost forever. So to me, the military has one option which is to prevent it, and if they can't prevent it, stop it cold in its tracks by all means necessary, whatever it takes.

No one is afraid of Border Patrol any more and that's contributed greatly to the increased invasion numbers whether in caravans or small groups.

No one is afraid of our courts or legal system, because the legal system and courts favor illegal aliens.

No one is afraid of Congress, because the Congress doesn't have enough Republican votes to pass a bill to stop it, and in January, the US House of Representatives will be controlled by Open Borders DemoQuacks.

No one is afraid of Trump, because the courts have ruled against him so many times and the Open Borders DemoQuacks who won the US House of Representatives by 8 million votes, want to impeach him.

So the US military is the last resort to stop it. Whether they will or not, we'll soon find out.

You are right Judy.

Trump needs to demand that Congress pass something now to stop this in it's tracks.

Mexico does not want them either! Both our countries cannot be swarmed with millions of people on the planet rushing our borders. They already attacked the Mexican police.

CONGRESS...DO YOUR JOB AND STOP THIS NOW!

THIS IS NOT FUN AND GAMES ANY MORE...THIS IS SERIOUS THREAT TO OUR NATION!

Yes, my dear Beezer, it's a very very precarious situation.

San Diego Border Patrol has handled BORDER RUSH before.

11/26/13

CA. Border Patrol used tear gas, rubber bullets, tasers to turn back mass border rush

Aid Group Says Migrants Prepared To ‘Jump’ Across Border En Masse

3:20 PM 11/21/2018 | World David Krayden | Ottawa Bureau Chief

An aid group sympathetic to the migrant caravan currently parked in Tijuana says some members of the group are planning to scramble across the U.S. border en masse.
According to Fox News, Angels without Borders founder Sergio Tamai talked to San Diego’s Spanish-language media Telemundo 20 and said, “They have that intention. I believe that thousands could make that jump.”

Kirstjen Nielsen, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, tours the border area with San Diego Section Border Patrol Chief Rodney Scott (L) at Borderfield State Park along the United States-Mexico Border fence in San Ysidro, California on Nov. 20, 2018. (Photo by SANDY HUFFAKER/AFP/Getty Images)

There are about 3,000 migrants camping out in Tijuana with many more on the way. The locals have not exactly been welcoming, with the mayor and an angry mob calling the would-be Central American refugees “an invasion” and calling them “criminals” and “freeloaders.”
The Department Of Homeland Security is warning Americans that the migrants are not an innocuous collection of women and children. (RELATED: DHS: Migrant Caravan On Border Contains More Than 500 Criminals)
It is uncertain what happens next. A federal judge nixed President Donald Trump’s plans to order a temporary halt to illegal immigrants obtaining refugee status. If the migrants are allowed to apply for asylum, it could take six months to assess their claims.
But many of the migrants aren’t prepared to wait for due process and tell Telemundo that they are prepared to break-in to the United States.
“Most of us, yes — we want to be on the other side,” said Jorge Molina, from Honduras. “Some want to jump over the wall, others to go another way, and others want to wait and see what kind of response they get.” (RELATED: Some Migrants Not Even At US Border Sue Trump For Allegedly Violating Their Constitutional Rights)
A U.S. Marine sets up a barricade with concertina wire, at the border between Mexico and the U.S., in preparation for the arrival of migrants, in Tijuana, Mexico Nov. 13, 2018. REUTERS/Jorge Duenes

The migrant caravan has attracted controversy and notoriety from the beginning of its trek from Honduras. There have been numerous clashes with Mexican authorities.
A Reuters report detailed how some of the migrants are armed with guns and Molotov cocktails that could be still be used in any border confrontation. One migrant offhandedly told a reporter about his conviction for attempted murder, but said he was sure a pardon awaited him in the United States.
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What kind of people do this to another country? It's Thanksgiving in the United States, and Americans deserve security, safety, peace of mind, and domestic tranquility to enjoy this wonderful national holiday and prepare for the Christmas holiday. Americans do not want the distraction, the worry, the risks, the harm or the costs of "caravans" invading our country and illegal aliens pouring over our borders.