Posted on 11/21/2018 5:17:35 AM PST by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
Standing on a beach near the concertina wire-topped fence that divides the U.S. and Mexico, DHS Secretary Kristjen Nielsen fought back against assertions that Central American migrants bound for the United States as part of a caravan were docile women and children fleeing violence.
Instead, saying she wanted to “set the record straight,” she said most of the thousands of caravan members are adult or teenage males leaving behind their home countries for economic reasons or to be reunited with family members already living here.
“Wanting a job is not a basis for asylum under U.S. law,” Nielsen told reporters at Border Field State Park in Imperial Beach. “Wanting to be reunited with your family is not a basis for asylum under U.S. law. Wanting to live in the U.S. — not a basis for asylum under U.S. law.”
She also said more than 500 criminals including documented gang members have been identified among the caravan.....
“the caravan does not give one a special right to enter this country. Members of the caravan will wait in the back of the line of those already waiting to be processed at our ports of entry.”......
The secretary’s sharp assessment of the migrants counters criticism that the threat is overblown, and that the deployment of military troops to aid border authorities is overkill. Nielsen said there are more than 6,200 migrants “camped out” in Tijuana and more than 3,000 caravan members in Mexicali. Combined with other groups traveling through Mexico, en route to the border with the U.S., officials expect as many as 10,000 migrants to arrive at the border, she said....[snip]
...based on “historic trends, intel and open-source reporting,” officials anticipate that most caravan members will make “frivolous or unsubstantiated claims of asylum.” She said only 9 percent of migrants from the Northern Triangle of Central America — Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador — were determined to be eligible for asylum by a federal immigration judge in 2017.
“To fuel the sympathetic narrative we continue to see repeated in U.S. media, we know that organizers of the caravan have been pushing women and children and others to the front of the caravan in hopes law enforcement will not engage them,” Nielsen said.
She blamed the influx of migrants, which she described as an “unprecedented crisis,” on what she characterized as loopholes created by “poorly drafted” federal laws and a “deeply flawed” ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that bans the detention and immediate deportations of minors and families. She also said she was “deeply disappointed and troubled” by a federal judge’s emergency ruling Monday against President Donald Trump’s attempt to deny migrants who cross the border illegally the chance to seek asylum.
Nielsen said the government plans to appeal the court-issued order, but in the meantime, the Trump administration plans to adhere to the ruling.....
“Our weak immigration laws have encouraged caravans to try to break our immigration laws,” she said. She called on Congress to close the loopholes......
Nielsen pushed back on reports that the troops might be pulling out early, saying she’d spoken with U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis. “I have no doubt they will continue to partner with us in this mission until it is resolved,” she said Tuesday. An end date of Dec. 15 for the military mission had been set previously.....
Along the border fence, the gear up in operations was unmistakable.....
Near the inspection booths at the San Ysidro Port of Entry, about two dozen Customs and Border Protection officers in riot gear lined up for crowd control drills,....[snip]
Actually a well-written article, which is VERY RARE these days. They didn’t even call our soldiers ‘baby killers’, at least not yet.
DHS Secretary Kristjen Nielsen.......PRETTY FRISKY FROM HER! Trump must have told her she is the list to fired in 2019.
Pedophiles, Killers, Gang Members Arrested by Texas Border Agents Central American gang of child rapists, violent criminals caught crossing border illegally
https://neonnettle.com/news/5684-pedophiles-killers-gang-members-arrested-by-texas-border-agents
The Truth About the Invasion Heading Toward the Southern Border
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It’s a very informative article, there’s more at the source. We just deployed about an additional 400 military police to the CA border. These invaders are going to have a much more difficult time getting through.
A few will likely still break in, but not thousands.
“Members of the caravan will wait in the back of the line of those already waiting to be processed at our ports of entry.”
It is way past time for all ports of entry to be closed.
Every time a conservative commentator says a word about immigration, such as Limbaugh and Hannity, they will quickly, lightning quick, and EVERY TIME, interject that they are for legal immigration.
Which means that they are good with allowing over one million third worlders with no job skills coming into the country each year.
Insanity.
Done. That’s a great very informative and revealing article. Very well done.
I posted the second article just before 10AM.
By the time they get to the gate, they’ll have been coached extensively by lib lawyers on what to say.
They were all very well coached by the time they made it to Mexico City:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3707523/posts
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