Thread: Assaults on ICE, Border Patrol surge as illegal immigrants get more violent

Assaults on ICE, Border Patrol surge as illegal immigrants get more violent



Friday, September 7, 2018

Assaults on ICE agents reached a decade high in 2017, and assaults on Border Patrol agents have also surged in recent years, according to new government numbers that seem to back up agents’ claims that illegal immigrants are increasingly looking to fight rather than flee.

The new numbers, reported by Homeland Security’s inspector general, could even be underselling the problem, investigators said, because the government doesn’t do a good job of tracking incidents, and agents and officers don’t always report them properly.

But the report does signal renewed danger particularly on the southwest border, where agents say a surge in illegal immigration in recent years generally correlates with growing violence.

Prosecutors, meanwhile, often refuse to bring charges or win cases against the perpetrators, the audit found.

At the border, the most frequent method of attack was projectiles — usually large rocks — which accounted for half of assaults. But bombs, clubs, knives, guns and even laser pointers to blind agents have all been used.

Customs and Border Protection recorded 1,089 assaults in 2010, which steadily dropped through 2014, when there were just 381 assaults. But things turned violent once again, steadily rising to 856 assaults in 2017.

Last year was the most violent this decade at the border, with 28 assaults per every 10,000 apprehensions.

In the interior, meanwhile, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and officers saw 48 assaults in 2017, tying 2010 as the highest in records going back to the beginning of the decade.

That was nearly double the number from 2016.

ICE officers, who handle deportations, and Border Patrol agents, who patrol the line between the U.S. and Mexico, say they’ve seen an increasing willingness on the part of migrants to resort to violence in recent years.

One of those assaults recorded in 2017 came when ICE officers tried to apprehend Lester Sadict Cruz-Garcia, an illegal immigrant from Honduras who was arrested by police in New York on a domestic assault charge. Police released him into the community, ignoring a request by ICE that he be held.

Deportation officers then had to go out into the community to track him down at his home. When they approached him he struggled and kicked, attempting the get away, the officers said.

They eventually got him in handcuffs and tried to get him into the back of an ICE vehicle when he bit one of the officers on the arm. The officer was taken to the hospital where he was prescribed antibiotics.

Cruz-Garcia was sentenced in June to 364 days in jail.

In another incident last year ICE officers in Massachusetts were trying to deport Mohammed Kenneh to Liberia. They drove him to Logan International Airport in Boston, but he threw a fit, knocked one officer to the ground and then used the handcuffs around his wrists to ensnare the officer’s hand, refusing to let go.

The officer had to be taken to the emergency room.


https://www.washingtontimes.com/news...-patrol-surge/

Originally Posted by lorrie

At the border, the most frequent method of attack was projectiles — usually large rocks — which accounted for half of assaults. But bombs, clubs, knives, guns and even laser pointers to blind agents have all been used.

They have declared war on us, we need the military to STOP this invasion. Send the military and do not hamper the military with weak ROE.

Illegals emboldened and getting more violent as judges thwart Trump

With federal judges thwarting President Trump's every move on immigration law, it's no surprise that illegals are getting emboldened and launching increasingly aggressive attacks on U.S. border agents.

September 8, 2018

Illegals emboldened and getting more violent as judges thwart Trump

By Monica Showalter
The border situation is getting extremely violent and ugly, according to a new report from the Washington Times:

Assaults on ICE agents reached a decade high in 2017, and assaults on Border Patrol agents have also surged in recent years, according to new government numbers that seem to back up agents' claims that illegal immigrants are increasingly looking to fight rather than flee.
The new numbers, reported by Homeland Security's inspector general, could even be underselling the problem, investigators said, because the government doesn't do a good job of tracking incidents, and agents and officers don't always report them properly.
But the report does signal renewed danger particularly on the southwest border, where agents say a surge in illegal immigration in recent years generally correlates with growing violence.

Violence? From illegals? The report is a contradiction of the "narrative" put out by the left, its press allies, and even some libertarians, that illegals commit far fewer crimes than the average American and therefore rule of law is unimportant. Illegals, after all, are just moms and toddlers, coming here to celebrate Mother's Day, aren't they? As NPR reported, "Illegal Immigration Does Not Increase Violent Crime, 4 Studies Show."
So OK, then: let the illegals in. Violence from illegals is nothing but a right-wing myth. Never mind about that rule of law stuff.
Now we have a new surge of border mayhem targeting law enforcement.
Obviously, something is going on.
To take an incentive-based look at what that might be, there are several possibilities.
One: President Trump's crackdown on illegal border-crossers is ending the free-for-all illegal crossers have up until now benefited from. This Border Patrol chart, from Washington Post lefty columnist Catherine Rampell, shows a clear upward trend in 2018. So instead of turning themselves in to the Border Patrol for diaper service, a warm bed, Meals on Wheels, and a bus ticket or free flight to their destination of choice, plenty of the people who pay cartels to get them across are finding themselves busted. Obviously, the Border Patrol is being restored to its original mission, and that's cutting into one perverse incentive to immigrate illegally, because word gets around.
But it doesn't quite explain the violence. It would only explain an increased willingness of illegal border crossers to run away from, not toward, ICE and Border Patrol agents.
The violence is likely coming from money matters, among both cartels and their clients.
First, stepped up enforcement of illegal border crossings is costly – to cartels, who make billions off these illegal crossings. The knowledge that a bust may happen is enough to incentivize at least some would-be border-crossers from not wanting to cross illegally at all, and that means less "business" coming in for the cartels. It's obviously enough to make them mean.
Two, busts are costly for cartels in another way: losing a man to jail for one of Trump's stepped up busts of illegal border-crossing operations means having to find a replacement and train that person, which costs cartels more cash. Like any business operation, cartels raise their prices to illegals to cover the costs – which is why the price of a coyote-guided illegal crossing has gone up – neighborhood of $6,000 or so, from Central America, and probably higher now.
Higher prices mean fewer customers – which, again, costs cartels money as it shrivels their markets further. They are cartels, after all. They get really nasty when they lose money.
But most businesses diversify when business goes south.
Certain other factors seem to be working toward cartels' advantage. One of those is the presence of left-wing judges who throw consistent roadblocks at President Trump every time he tries to enforce rule of law on the border. Trump has not been able to get rid of DACA, a non-law that was nothing but an executive order drawn out of the air by a leftist president using his pen and phone for one. Nor has he been able to enact family separations from group border-crossers apprehended crossing illegally as a disincentive to abusing the asylum system. The crying toddler pictures served the cartel aims handsomely, creating incentives for more business. Nor has he been successful (at least until recently) at keeping unvetted nationals from terrorist states out. What's more, the Border Patrol and ICE have been sanctioned in court for defending themselves from border rock-throwers and shooters, ending up in big payouts to lawbreakers at lawmen's expense. The cartels watch these things and can logically conclude, from their business perspective, that once a matter reaches a court level, leftist judges will ensure that illegals always win. That, too, is good for the cartel business.
Nobody gets involved in violence, not even cartels, unless the risk-to-reward ratio is acceptable. Obviously, left-wing judges have lowered the risks and stepped up the rewards as Trump has shrunk the market. If you know you're going to get off because the justice system and the left-wing press will always be on your side, you take the risk. That seems to be what's fueling this ugly trend.
A controlled border would not have this violence. An uncontrolled one, with just enough comfort for lawbreakers, might just. That underlines just how important it is to allow President Trump the leeway he needs to enact his border control agenda. Voters need to figure this out, because the violence at the border shows that the cartels already have.

Image credit: U.S. Customs and Border Patrol, via Flickr, public domain.

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NOW YOU ARE BACKING DOWN ON SHUTTING THE GOVERNMENT DOWN OVER FUNDING FOR THE WALL.

STOP LISTENING TO THE LIKES OF LINDSAY GRAHAM, McCONNELL AND RYAN! SAME GOES FOR PRETTY BOY McCARTHY...another RINO!

NOW JIM JORDAN IS ON THE AMNESTY BANDWAGON!

I THINK THE MEMBERS OF ALIPAC NEED TO GO IN AND DRAIN THE SWAMP OURSELVES!!!

LET "W" LEAD THE CHARGE