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    Rep. Andy Biggs: Congress should pass $25 billion for a border wall ... next week

    Rep. Andy Biggs: Congress should pass $25 billion for a border wall and security next week



    By Rep. Andy Biggs | Fox News




    I recently spoke to a Democrat friend and asked him whether he thought we could reach an agreement to fund a border wall. He assured me that Democrats will never support funding and building a border wall.

    I’m not sure that he is representative of all the Democrats in Congress, but he represents the chasm between Republicans and Democrats on this issue. During President Trump’s meeting with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Speaker Designate Nancy Pelosi in the Oval Office this week about border security, the Democrats pushed back against any significant wall funding.

    At least Nancy Pelosi is consistent in her ardent opposition to the border wall. Many other Democrats – including Senator Schumer, then-Senator Barack Obama, and then-Senator Hillary Clinton – once voted to authorize hundreds of miles of border fencing. Many Democrats have changed their position on a wall simply because they do not want President Trump to have a political victory. They are putting politics above public safety.

    Congress – the House and the Senate – is still controlled by Republicans. Consideration of a government shutdown should not even be necessary. Republican leaders in the House and the Senate should bring a clean bill to the floor in the next week that would fund the wall.

    It isn’t rocket science, it’s a matter of integrity – of simply doing what we said we would. However, if a clean bill is not brought forward, the president should veto the year-end spending bill that funds approximately 20 percent of the government. Congress will have to accept responsibility for funding the wall, even if it means the partial shutdown of our bloated federal bureaucracy.

    Failure to enforce our laws has created an environment wherein people from outside of America now believe they do not have to follow U.S. immigration laws. Our Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents are overwhelmed as the seemingly numberless migrants continue coming to our border.

    The cost in dollars is almost incalculable, but the harm to victims of crimes perpetrated by illegal immigrants is even greater. Consider Grant Ronnebeck, for whom I named a bill that I introduced, Grant’s Law, which ends catch and release of criminally violent illegal immigrants. He lost his life to a criminally violent illegal immigrant in Mesa, Arizona. Brandon Mendoza of Mesa was also killed by an illegal immigrant. 16-year-old Madison Wells was recently killed by an illegal immigrant.

    If you want to count the cost of our failure to secure our southern border, ask Steve Ronnebeck, MaryAnn Mendoza, or any of the angel families who have suffered the violent loss of a loved one at the hands of an illegal immigrant.

    The run on our border often culminates with a claim of asylum. The individual is usually released with a bus ticket to somewhere in the United States and a piece of paper indicating a date that he or she is supposed to return for a hearing to prove the asylum claim. Many don't appear at their hearing and of those that do, most fail to prove their asylum claim. We have caught them, and we have released them into the country, thus “catch-and-release.”

    President Trump has fought for border security funding during his two years in office. I introduced a bill that would fund the wall. My colleagues in the House Freedom Caucus continue to press for wall funding and changes to the amnesty laws.

    Democratic leader Steny Hoyer has already promised an early vote on amnesty when the Democrats take over the House in January. Border Patrol agents and those who live along the border understand that there is a surge of illegal crossings whenever Congress even talks about amnesty.

    Congress must act within the next two weeks to fund the border wall and require all persons claiming asylum status to wait in their country, or in the nearest safe country, for their claim to be adjudicated. Allowing asylum claimants into the country and releasing them into the U.S. is just another incentive for masses of people to enter the country and stay here illegally.

    Congress must pass $25 billion of border security funding and revise our amnesty laws. It’s the right thing to do – even if we have to stay through Christmas Day to get it done.

    Republican Andy Biggs represents the 5th Congressional District of Arizona.


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    Yes, they should! Hope they do!
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    Make them stay through Christmas.

    Fund the 25 BILLION, it is our money.

    No asylum, no deals on our wall.

    No DACA, no path to stay.

    Send the message do not come here, go home and fix your own country.
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    DO NOT REWARD THEM - DEPORT THEM ALL

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    It’s Past Time To Close 3 Loopholes In American Laws That Enable Illegal Immigration

    A series of court rulings, glitches in the asylum system, and well-intentioned (but flawed) legislation have combined to open a gigantic hole in the legal architecture of immigration enforcement.

    Dec. 20, 2018
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    Borders are the most fundamental way we identify Americans. Yet a border is more than a physical location, although that’s an important part of the equation. A border also marks the enforcement of the laws that we use to build a national community, including providing an effective deterrent against illegal immigration. I represent a border state, and I know the system. If our laws don’t work, then our borders don’t work.

    Malevolent people have created a crisis by finding and exploiting flaws in our immigration laws. A series of court rulings, glitches in the asylum system, and well-intentioned (but flawed) legislation have combined to open a gigantic hole in the legal architecture of immigration enforcement. The pre-election migrant caravan is only a symptom of a larger, quieter, slow-moving migration catastrophe known as “catch-and-release.”

    Most people believe that when an alien is detained (caught) at the border, he is then expeditiously deported to his home country. That is the ideal of the current system, but it is far from the reality.

    Every year, tens of thousands of aliens are caught, then released into the interior of the United States. Many never show up for their immigration hearings and pass into the interior of the country, where they are almost never deported. Regardless of how one feels about what should be done about legal immigration, and how we treat illegal aliens already in the country, having a process that creates legal obstacles to deporting illegal immigrants caught at the border causes huge problems.

    In practice, obstacles to removing and preventing people who arrive illegally come from three primary sources: faulty claims of a “credible fear of persecution,” flaws in the Trafficking Victims’ Protection Reauthorization Act, and the Flores settlement.

    An asylum applicant is required to demonstrate to an immigration officer that he has a “credible fear of persecution” in order to be given a hearing in front of an immigration judge. Immigration officers are now accepting these claims at face value. The response has been overwhelming — the number of “credible fear” claims surged from 5,000 in 2009 to 94,000 in 2016 and show no signs of slowing. The backlog of asylum cases has doubled in the last five years, from 344,000 to 768,000, and within another five years, will double again unless something is done.

    On top of the explosion in asylum claims, the Trafficking Victims’ Protection Reauthorization Act, passed ten years ago, has a major loophole: unaccompanied alien children from places other than Canada or Mexico have to be turned over to the Department of Health and Human Services, and placed in the “least restrictive setting.” That often means a parent or guardian in the United States who is also an illegal alien. Between February 2014 and September 2015, 80 percent of unaccompanied alien children from Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras were placed with sponsors who are present illegally in the United States.

    The inducement for human traffickers to bring children into the United States is clear, which is why more than 200,000 alien children from these countries crossed the border between 2013-2016.

    Finally, there’s the Flores settlement, which results from litigation in the 1990s that has been read to create a presumption that all minors caught at the border should not be detained for more than 20 days. This includes most family units, so working-age adults arriving at the border with children, even if they are not their own children, are nearly always released into the U.S. interior pending an immigration hearing.

    Most Americans would agree if five working-age males are detained at the border at 2 a.m. in the Bootheel of New Mexico they should be deported. Most Americans can also see the perverse incentives that would be created if the presence of people under 18 in that group leads to the illegal aliens’ release. The border is a dangerous place, and is certainly no place for children, but our laws represent a huge incentive to put the most vulnerable in danger.

    Those incentives are part of a widening door for illegal immigration. More will come, and the prospects of action in divided government are low. We must act to close these loopholes now, and we must do it before the Democrats take control of the House. The year-end funding bill is the last train leaving the station in this Congress. Closing catch and release loopholes should be among our top priorities.

    Rep. Andy Biggs represents Arizona’s Fifth District and is a member of the House Freedom Caucus.

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    Send those UAC's back within 48 hours into the care and custody of their President.

    Many are teenagers affiliated with gangs or will be recruited into gangs here.

    They are not "innocent" little darlings! They rape, murder and hack up OUR citizens!

    We do not want them here or in our schools to pay for.
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    DO NOT REWARD THEM - DEPORT THEM ALL

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