Thread: Officials Concerned about Spike in Illegal Immigration

Officials Concerned about Spike in Illegal Immigration

Posted: Aug 21, 2013 7:30 PM
Updated: Aug 21, 2013 7:35 PM

WESLACO - The countries of origin of illegal immigrants crossing through the Rio Grande Valley have changed considerably in recent months, officials said.

Border Patrol officials said there has been a 91 percent increase in apprehensions of immigrants from countries other than Mexico. Agents arrest an average of 250 immigrants every day from countries other than Mexico, they said.

This year, agents have arrested 80,000 immigrants from countries other than Mexico.

The spike in illegal immigration has Border Patrol shifting resources to the Valley. Some residents and officials said the increase in manpower is good for the region.

"We noticed a surge we've never seen before," Hidalgo County Water Control and Improvement District 3 President Othal Brand Jr. said.

Brand said his employees at the McAllen Pump Station near the river are constantly running into illegal immigrants.

"We tell them, ‘it's not your job to stop them or turn them in. ‘If they walk right through our pump station, let them do so,'" Brand said.

Brand said he doesn't want his workers to get into dangerous situations. Still, he said they are prepared to defend themselves.

"We allow them to carry firearms for their own protection when they are down on the river," Brand said.

Border Patrol officials said the area where the pump house sits is a hot spot for human smugglers.

Border Patrol official said there has been a 56 percent increase in illegal immigration in the area. They said agents have arrested a total of 130,000 this year, compared to 84,000 for all of 2012.

"When we catch a load of marijuana, that's a different process then when we catch a human being. A load of marijuana, we can put in storage. A human being, we need to make sure we are dealing with their civil rights," Rosendo Hinojosa said. He is the chief Border Patrol agent for the Rio Grande Valley Sector.

Border Patrol officials said most of the immigrants from counties other than Mexico come from Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras.

http://www.krgv.com/news/officials-c...al-immigration

That is because the World Bank and the State Department under Hillary Clinton has incentivized those government to encourage their citizens to come here - they get money for them.

US signs historic deal with El Salvador and Honduras for remittance securitization


SUBMITTED BY SANKET MOHAPATRA ON WED, 10/13/2010 -

The United States has recently signed separate Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) with El Salvador and Honduras to assist them in securitizing their future remittance receipts to raise financing for infrastructure and development projects.

Under the Building Remittance Investment for Development, Growth, and Entrepreneurship (BRIDGE) initiative, banks in these countries will leverage their future remittance receipts to raise lower-cost and longer-term financing in international capital markets to fund infrastructure, public works, and commercial development initiatives (see press release).

In a speech in New York City on September 22, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton explained how BRIDGE would work to raise critically needed development funding:

“…Now, if they [migrants] send these remittances through the formal financial system, they create huge funding flows that are orders of magnitude larger than any development assistance we can dream of. By harnessing the potential of remittances, BRIDGE will make it easier for communities in El Salvador and Honduras to get the financing they need to build roads and bridges, for example, to support entrepreneurs, to make loans, to bring more people into the financial system…..Through BRIDGE and its in-country partners, local banks will be able to leverage their remittance flows….With the leverage from remittances, the local banks will be able to get lower-cost, longer-term financing for investments in infrastructure projects and small businesses.”

The financing structure proposed under BRIDGE is similar to that used by banks in several remittance-receiving countries such as Brazil, Jamaica, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Peru and Turkey, to raise over $15 billion in international financing during the last decade (see previous work on this topic by my colleagues Dilip Ratha and Suhas Ketkar on
securitization of future-flow receivables and new paths to funding).

The BRIDGE initiative provides an excellent application of innovative financing instruments leveraging on migration and remittances. The World Bank group has recently become involved in this area. The International Finance Corporation has recently provided up to $30 million debt financing for securitizing the significant remittances of El Salvadorans working abroad to raise financing for a credit cooperative Fedecredito. These additional resources will be used to increase lending to micro-entrepreneurs and low-income people in the country.

Increasingly the Bank is receiving requests to assist countries to raise funds through diaspora bonds.

http://blogs.worldbank.org/peoplemov...securitization

This year, agents have arrested 80,000 immigrants from countries other than Mexico.

And that's how many they caught! Talk of amnesty encourages this also....duh!

Related:
http://www.alipac.us/f12/mexico-rail...grants-283568/

http://www.alipac.us/f12/central-ame...s-rise-272451/