Posted on 03/06/2019 8:45:33 AM PST by jazusamo
Yesterday the Department of Homeland Security released new numbers showing 76,000 illegal aliens crossed the southern border into the United States in February, further overwhelming and hemoraging resources. They were apprehended.
White House Press Secretary Sanders is putting that number into context.
In January, 58,000 individuals crossed.
"As border personnel deal with the surge of family unit aliens and alien minors arriving at our border, they are hamstrung by dangerous catch and release loopholes. Catch and release loopholes created by Federal law and activist left-wing judges have helped fuel the unprecedented crisis we are facing at the border," the White House released Tuesday. "These loopholes have created a de facto immunity for many illegal aliens by limiting our ability to detain them for more than a short period of time. Activist judges interpreting the Flores Settlement Agreement have drastically hindered our ability to detain and remove illegal alien family units. As a result, the Government is forced to release entire family units into the interior of the United States, after which they often fail to appear for court hearings."
"The President has taken action to address this crisis and build barriers desperately needed at our border, including declaring a national emergency," the statement continues.
Meanwhile, Congress is busy condemning President Trump for declaring a national emergency over this ongoing crisis. Today the Senate Judiciary Committee is holding an oversight hearing about Border Patrol's response to ongoing human smuggling at the border. Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen is testifying on the House side in front of the Homeland Security Committee.
“The truth is that the politics and policies of open borders have failed the American people. Our broken system endures, and the ongoing humanitarian and security crisis at our Southwest Border leaves many minors and families at extreme risk of being exploited by traffickers, human smugglers, gangs, and other nefarious actors seeking to profit at their expense,” Nielsen released in a statement Wednesday morning. “Activist courts, congressional inaction, and criminals intent on breaking our laws stand in the way of confronting illegal and uncontrolled migration threatening our safety and security. What was a crisis, is now a full-fledged emergency.”
Here are some additional numbers on the issue, courtesy of DHS and the White House:
-In the last two years alone, ICE officers have arrested 266,000 aliens with criminal records including those convicted of nearly 100,000 assaults, 30,000 sex crimes, and 4,000 homicides.
-In Texas, 276,000 criminal aliens were booked into local jails between June 1, 2011 and December 31, 2018, of which over 186,000 were classified as illegal aliens by DHS.
-Last year, ICE officers removed more than 10,000 known or suspected gang members already in our country illegally.
-Each week, approximately 300 Americans have died from heroin overdoses, of which nearly 90% comes across our southern border.
-Just last month, CBP made the largest seizure fentanyl ever recorded attempting to cross the southern border. It was enough to kill more than 115 million Americans.
-Alarmingly, CBP has reported that fentanyl smuggling between ports of entry at the southern border has more than doubled over our last fiscal year. Fentanyl was responsible for more than 28,400 overdose deaths variety of Americans in 2017. Just a few weeks ago, CBP made its largest fentanyl bust in U.S. history, seizing 254 pounds hidden in a truck trailer compartment.
-One in three women are sexually assaulted on the journey to the border.
-In FY 2018, ICE made more than 1,500 human trafficking arrests – 97% of them for sex-trafficking.
20,000 children were illegally smuggled into the United States during the month of December, alone.
-In the first five months of fiscal year 2018, CBP saw a 315% increase in individuals using children to pose as family units to gain entry into the United States.
-CBP has recorded a 50% spike over the last fiscal year of the number of gang members apprehended at the southern border.
You know I was wondering when the media would make it clear that just because 76,000 or whatever number it is crossed our border illegally that doesn’t mean that the 76,000 or more or less are running around inside our country free.
This is the first story I’ve seen that is actually mentioned at the illegals who have crossed the border into our country have in fact been arrested.
can’t this migration (invasion) be stopped by edict, at least for a period of time???
“...have in fact been arrested....”
and then what?? aren’t they released after arrest?? The right thing to do would be to send them back following arrest, but that isn’t happening.
Those questions never seem to be clearly answered.
But it’s not an emergency, after all it’s only your money, not theirs.
FYI, 76K won’t fill most SEC football stadiums. :)
And after arrest, then what? Are they shoved back across the border? Or do they just stay and consume resources?
How many became Obama-voters?
Yes. The President is in charge of national security. He can erect temp fencing, concertina wire and put as many troops on the border as needed.
8 U.S. Code § 1182, entitled “Inadmissible aliens,” reads:
Suspension of entry or imposition of restrictions by President Whenever the President finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, he may by proclamation, and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or nonimmigrants, or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate. Whenever the Attorney General finds that a commercial airline has failed to comply with regulations of the Attorney General relating to requirements of airlines for the detection of fraudulent documents used by passengers traveling to the United States (including the training of personnel in such detection), the Attorney General may suspend the entry of some or all aliens transported to the United States by such airline/
He has total authority to stop this invasion. The question is why is he not doing it?
76,000 were the number caught. You can safely estimate that 3-4 times that much made it through(A border patrol estimate). And those 76,000 are released into the interior.
We may have as many as a quarter of a million invaders coming over the border in ONE MONTH!!! And nothing is being done about it.
Let’s wrap this Freepathon up, Folks!
These are the ones that come here to turn themselves in.
They will be released into the US and every female over 10 yrs old will drop an anchor baby ASAP and never leave.
PDJT needs to stop this today or he will lose his base.
Exactly.
Yep, these are only the ones turning themselves in or the ones caught coming in illegally.
Clearly it doesn't say what happens to them after they are arrested either. Care to speculate?
Hello Rand Paul, Tillis, Collins, Murkauski... you disgusting traitors!
A caller just asked Rush about this. Rush seems to think Trump will be impeached and Trump knows it so he is not likely to do anything that will turn a bunch of Senators against him.
Arresting them is not the solution.
They want to be arrested. They get free shelter, food, clothing, medical care, a lawyer, education for the kids...
It’s an utter disaster. We have to keep them out. Can you imagine having to take care of 76000 new invaders each month!?
Why isn’t Trump holding an emergency news conference highlighting this crisis, justifying his emergency declaration and shaming those RINOs voting against it.
He already has...Countless times. He needs to stop talking about it and take action. He’s the President of the United States. If congress wants to impeach him over securing our borders from hordes of invading foreign nationals, they’ll impeach him over anything.
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