Posted on 04/14/2017 1:03:42 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
President Donald Trump has won the first major battle in his war on illegal immigration and he did it without building his wall.
The victory was announced last week by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which released figures showing a 93% drop since December of parents and children caught trying to cross the Mexico border illegally.
In December, 16,000 parents and children were apprehended; in March, a month in which immigration typically increases because of temperate weather, the number was just over 1,100.
It was a remarkable decline – steeper than the 72% drop in overall apprehensions – but for eight DHS officials interviewed by Reuters it was not surprising.
Trump has spoken about the need to crack down broadly on all illegal immigrants. But, internally, according to the DHS officials familiar with the department’s strategy, his administration has focused on one immigrant group more than others: women with children, the fastest growing demographic of illegal immigrants. This planning has not been previously reported.
In the months since Trump‘s inauguration, DHS has rolled out a range of policies aimed at discouraging women from attempting to cross the border, including tougher initial hurdles for asylum claims and the threat of prosecuting parents if they hire smugglers to get their families across the border.
The department has also floated proposals such as separating women and children at the border....
(Excerpt) Read more at thewire.in ...
For what reason?
For being short and wearing glasses.
Columba Garnica Gallo was born in León, Guanajuato, Mexico,[3] the daughter of José María Garnica Rodríguez (1925–2013), a migrant worker and waiter from Arperos, Guanajuato, and Josefina Gallo Esquivel (born 1920), from León, who were married in February 1949. Columba's father abandoned the family in 1956 when she was 3 years old[4] and her parents divorced in 1963.[5] Following the departure of her father, Columba and her mother remained in León.[5][6]
Garnica attended Instituto Antonia Mayllen, a private Catholic school in the historic center of León.[5]
She met Jeb Bush in 1970 in León when she was 16 years old and he was 17.[3] Bush was teaching English as a second language and assisting in the building of a school in the small nearby village of Ibarrilla[7] as part of a class at Andover called Man and Society.[3][4]
Garnica married Bush on February 23, 1974, in Austin, Texas[8][9][10] at the chapel in the Catholic student center on the campus of the University of Texas.[4][6] At the time of the wedding, she did not speak English and a part of the wedding ceremony was conducted in Spanish.[3]
... became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1979.[5]
putting the people hiring illegals in jail and closing down such companies will bring illegal immigration to zero.
Working to destroy your birthright and undermine the government of the US. Violating her assumed oath at naturalization.
"I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty, of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen; that I will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I will bear arms on behalf of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform noncombatant service in the Armed Forces of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform work of national importance under civilian direction when required by the law; and that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; so help me God."
Here’s a latest made-up tidbit:
...a complete loss of immigrant labor could cause the loss of one-in-six dairy farms and cut U.S. economic output by $32.1 billion, resulting in 208,000 fewer jobs nationwide. Some 77,000 of the lost jobs would be on dairy farms.
Retail milk prices, the report said, would increase 90 percent if all immigrant labor was lost. That would drive the supermarket price of a gallon of milk, which averaged $3.37 in June, to approximately $6.40...
“Even if the kid was born here, he or she is still under age, and in their parents care, so goes back with them.”
The kid is also a citizen of whatever country the parents came from. Why should we keep them here?
And then there’s this!
The Pik Rite 240 Tomato Harvester at work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YeGOv87JE4
Youre right, about the kids being citizens of the parents country.
Besides, if Mexican, Mexico would consider them as being citizens ... so Mexico can have ‘em back.
Colombia Bush “... became a citizen in 1979.”
1979 is the year George HW Bush ran in the Republican primary against Ronald Reagan. I wonder if that was the motivation to become a citizen. Being married to Jeb an American citizen was not enough of a reason as 5 years had passed since their wedding in 1974.
I think the inaugural sent a signal to W--nobody loves the Bushes. America at last dislikes them as much as they disliked America.
He needs to warn them next election that they will be hunted and deported if they vote illegally in the US.
They probably have to go to the bathroom every two hours, I do.
Operation Wetback 1954, was last serious attempt to control illegal immigration.
Few here remember when they played the race card against GHWB he defended by telling how much he loved and protected these little brown babies.
70 Point De-Laval Rotary Milking Parlour. Little need for labour here.
Eeeuuuuwwwww...Are you posting from there?
Good for Trump.
Thanks for the offer. Want to give an address?
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