POTUS to pursue an aggressive executive crackdown on immigration

[Zippyjuan]

Ill gotten gains of criminal invaders.

Ah- "criminal invaders". Guidebook key words again.

[Swordsmyth]

Ah- "criminal invaders". Guidebook key words again.

Truth is my Guidebook.

You should consider using it.

[Swordsmyth]

The irony being that not allowing people to send money will encourage more to come to the US. The money supports people who live in the country it is sent to. Less money, more incentive to go to the US and look for work yourself. Or for a worker to bring his/ her family to the US to join them.

IT IS always a temptation to an armed and agile nation
To call upon a neighbour and to say: –
"We invaded you last night – we are quite prepared to fight,
Unless you pay us cash to go away."

And that is called asking for Dane-geld,
And the people who ask it explain
That you've only to pay 'em the Dane-geld
And then you'll get rid of the Dane!

It is always a temptation for a rich and lazy nation,
To puff and look important and to say: –
"Though we know we should defeat you,
we have not the time to meet you.
We will therefore pay you cash to go away."

And that is called paying the Dane-geld;
But we've proved it again and again,
That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld
You never get rid of the Dane.

It is wrong to put temptation in the path of any nation,
For fear they should succumb and go astray;
So when you are requested to pay up or be molested,
You will find it better policy to say: --

"We never pay any-one Dane-geld,
No matter how trifling the cost;
For the end of that game is oppression and shame,
And the nation that plays it is lost!"

-Rudyard Kipling

[Swordsmyth]

The Trump administration plans to aggressively push for tougher screening of asylum seekers that will make it vastly more difficult for migrants fleeing persecution in their home countries to win protection in the United States, a senior administration official told reporters on Tuesday.
The official said that President Trump ordered a shake-up of his top immigration officials in recent days because they were moving too slowly, or even actively obstructing, the president’s desire to confront the surge of migrants at the southwestern border. The asylum changes are among many policies the president wants to put into effect with a new team in place, the official said.
Mr Trump denied on Tuesday that one of those changes would be to restart his policy of separating migrant families at the border, though he said that the act of taking children from their parents — which drew global condemnation before he abandoned it last summer — was effective.
“Now I’ll tell you something, once you don’t have it, that’s why you see many more people coming,” Mr Trump said. “They are coming like it’s a picnic, because, ‘Let’s go to Disneyland.’”
The administration official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity even as Mr Trump was making his remarks, said a modified version of family separation, in which parents are given a choice of whether to be separated or to accept indefinite detention alongside their children, continues to be under consideration.


But the so-called binary choice proposal is “not ripe for White House consideration” right now, he insisted, because the government does not currently have the detention space to hold families if the policy were put in place.
The asylum changes being envisioned could drastically alter the role that the United States plays as a refuge for people fleeing poverty, violence and war. American and international laws require it to allow migrants to request asylum once they come to the country.
But the official said that an initial assessment of the basis for a request for asylum — known as a “credible fear” screening — too often accepts the claim that the migrant was persecuted. The official also said that many more asylum seekers should be rejected during that first step.
Out of 97,728 completed interviews with migrants in the fiscal year that ended on 30 September 2018, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services confirmed a credible fear of persecution 74,677 times, according to an agency official.
Changes in the screening process could drastically lower those findings by requiring more proof from asylum seekers that they would be persecuted in their home countries. Screeners could also try to verify migrant claims by using State Department assessments of the threats that exist in those countries.


The administration official blamed the delay in that effort on “deep state” bureaucrats at the Department of Homeland Security and even the president’s own political appointees in the department, whom the official described as lacking the management skills to push Mr Trump’s agenda.
The official declined to name specific administration officials who have failed. But he made thinly veiled references to two top officials at the Department of Homeland Security: John Mitnick, the department’s general counsel, and L. Francis Cissna, the head of United States Citizenship and Immigration Services.
He said there was “clearly a track record” in which the president’s policies have not been advanced.


Customs and Border Protection officials this week underscored Mr Trump’s concern about illegal immigration by announcing that more than 103,000 migrants crossed the southwestern border in March without authorization, an increase from the more than 76,000 migrants who crossed in February.
“Just last month, we saw record numbers of family units and unaccompanied juvenile apprehensions in February, and unfortunately, March apprehension numbers are again record-setting and cause dire concerns for us,” said Brian Hastings, the chief of law enforcement operations for the Border Patrol.
Most of the migrants — 92,000 of the 103,000 — were apprehended by Border Patrol agents, meaning they crossed in between the ports of entry.
More than 53,000 of those migrants were members of a family, Mr Hastings said, and most of those families were from Honduras, Guatemala or El Salvador.
In the first half of fiscal year 2019, Border Patrol agents apprehended more than 385,000 migrants on the border, more than double those apprehended during the same time last year.
Mr Hastings said the Border Patrol can generally maintain 4,500 people in its custody. But it recently counted 13,000 migrants in its facilities, and he said the overflow has led to the release of families into cities along the border.
“Backups have resulted in individuals spending additional time in Border Patrol custody in increasingly crowded conditions,” Mr Hastings said.
On Tuesday, White House officials announced that the president would appeal a judge’s ruling that blocked the administration’s “Migrant Protection Protocols,” which require some asylum seekers to remain in Mexico while they wait for their court cases.
Mr Trump has recently commended Mexico for doing more to stem migration to the border, but the officials said they have not seen any effect on the number of people crossing it. “The numbers aren’t declining; in fact, we’re still seeing 3,000 apprehensions per day,” Mr Hastings said.
Officials also revealed that among the tens of thousands of family members approaching the border each month, just 3,100 people who said they were travelling with relatives were found to have a fraudulent claim. Those people either said they had a child when the individual was over 18 or the group’s members were not really related.

More at: https://news.yahoo.com/trump-adminis...095300519.html

[Swordsmyth]

The Department of Defense is sending additional personnel to assist agents at the U.S. border with Mexico. This comes amid a shakeup at the Department of Homeland Security and the departure of Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen.

[NorthCarolinaLiberty]

Yay! Approving government seizing private property! How libertarian!

But you're really really really against libertarians.

[Zippyjuan]

The Department of Defense is sending additional personnel to assist agents at the U.S. border with Mexico. This comes amid a shakeup at the Department of Homeland Security and the departure of Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen.

Maybe. Might be asked to help set up some tents.

[ATruepatriot]

The irony being that not allowing people to send money will encourage more to come to the US. The money supports people who live in the country it is sent to. Less money, more incentive to go to the US and look for work yourself. Or for a worker to bring his/ her family to the US to join them.

You have it completely backwards... The money sent there funds them to get here.

We may take it then that an army without its baggage train is lost; without provisions it is lost; without bases of supply it is lost. ~ Sun Tzu

[Swordsmyth]

Donald Trump Has Ordered Thousands More Troops to Mexican Border, New Deployment Document Suggests

[Swordsmyth]

https://twitter.com/NewsBreaking/sta...77295763390464

[Swordsmyth]

The Trump administration wants to open two new tent facilities to temporarily detain up to 1,000 parents and children near the southern border, as advocates sharply criticize the conditions inside the tents already used to hold migrants.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection said in a notice to potential contractors that it wants to house 500 people in each camp in El Paso, Texas, and in the South Texas city of Donna, which has a border crossing with Mexico.
Each facility would consist of one large tent that could be divided into sections by gender and between families and children traveling alone, according to the notice. Detainees would sleep on mats. There would also be laundry facilities, showers, and an "additional fenced-in area" for "outside exercise/recreation."
The notice says the facilities could open in the next two weeks and operate through year end, with a cost that could reach $37 million.

More at: https://www.centredaily.com/news/nat...229338129.html

[RJB]

But you're really really really against libertarians.

Yep.

Socialism is actually very Christian.

[Zippyjuan]

Donald Trump Has Ordered Thousands More Troops to Mexican Border, New Deployment Document Suggests

Text of article says it is not "thousands". Mostly setting up some tents.

However, on Tuesday afternoon, the Pentagon emailed a Newsweek reporter and said the number is not 3,000, and the document Newsweek obtained was a draft copy and if Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan approved any Homeland Security request, the number of additional troops would range between 300 and 500.

Some will be replacing troops already there.

[enhanced_deficit]

Border Wall Already Funded by DOD, Awaits Commander-In-Chief’s Go-Ahead

MSM media seems to be not covering this, if confirmed as non-fakewnews this would be huge and help shore up GOP conservative base / rebuild MAGA image as a great deal maker.

Wall funding was also apparently the roadblock in MAGA's plan to solve DACA issue, this news could mean MAGA may soon have another big accomplishment on that front.

[Swordsmyth]

Text of article says it is not "thousands". Mostly setting up some tents.



Some will be replacing troops already there.

Read the next part:

However, on Tuesday afternoon, the Pentagon emailed a Newsweek reporter and said the number is not 3,000, and the document Newsweek obtained was a draft copy and if Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan approved any Homeland Security request, the number of additional troops would range between 300 and 500.

Three Defense Department sources told Newsweek the document is not a draft copy and if it were, draft would be displayed on the document near the classification markings.

It is definitely in dispute how many troops are involved.

[Zippyjuan]

Read the next part:



It is definitely in dispute how many troops are involved.

Read the first part of that.

However, on Tuesday afternoon, the Pentagon emailed a Newsweek reporter and said the number is not 3,000, and the document Newsweek obtained was a draft copy and if Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan approved any Homeland Security request, the number of additional troops would range between 300 and 500

[Swordsmyth]

Read the first part of that.

I did and the next part contradicts it.

[Swordsmyth]

President Donald Trump is proposing charging asylum-seekers a fee to process their applications as he continues to crack down on the surge of migrants crossing into the U.S.In a presidential memorandum signed Monday, Trump is directing his attorney general and acting homeland security secretary to take additional measures to overhaul the asylum system, which he insists is "in crisis."
He's giving them 90 days to propose regulations so that, all asylum applications are adjudicated within 180 days, except for those representing exceptional circumstances.
Trump also wants to charge asylum-seekers to process their asylum and employment authorization applications. And he wants to bar anyone who has entered or tried to enter the country illegally from receiving authorization that allows them to work.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/trump-wan...um-seekers-fee

[r3volution 3.0]

Papers, please! You are now required to provide proof of citizenship to enter this building.

I don't see that anywhere but in your head.

You're in favor of people having to provide proof of citizenship to work, buy land, or do certain other things within the country, aren't you?

[Swordsmyth]

You're in favor of people having to provide proof of citizenship to work, buy land, or do certain other things within the country, aren't you?

I oppose mandatory e-verify but there are things that should require proof of citizenship, like voting.

[r3volution 3.0]

I oppose mandatory e-verify but there are things that should require proof of citizenship, like voting.

Anything else?

[Swordsmyth]

Anything else?

Probably but I don't have a list in my head, most things should not require it however.

[Swordsmyth]

Since the beginning of the year, Border Patrol officers have faced an relentless wave of illegal aliens that total more than 400,000.
But most of the illegal are arriving as family units, the data show. Since October, the figure is 215,745.
One reason for “families?” Illegals know that carting a kid along means an almost certain ticket to be released into the United States after border agents apprehend them.
That knowledge, Immigration and Customs Enforcement reports, has provided an incentive for illegals to lie by creating phony documents that in turn create fake families,
Thus has ICE moved more resources to the border to look for the fakers.
Result? Of the 100 or so “families,” ICE officers have investigated, 25 were bogus.

They Know The Loopholes
How many illegals have slipped by border agents with phony ID and manufactured tales of woe we are not given to know, although the White House has said about 90 percent of the asylum claims from “migrants,” who are mostly from the Northern Triangle, are bogus.
So ICE has moved more resources to the border, the agency announced on Monday, to ferret out fake documents and human smugglers.
The week before Easter, ICE Home Security Investigations sent three teams to support Customs and Border Protection officials in El Paso, Texas, and Las Cruces, New Mexico. The following week, ICE HSI sent three teams to Eagle Pass and Harlingen, Texas, Yuma, Arizona, and El Centro and San Diego, California.
The agency also temporarily moved about 330 deportation officers to those border areas where the illegal-invasion of the last six months is a particular concern.
“Throughout April, HSI special agents have conducted about 100 family unit interviews and have found evidence of fraud in more than a quarter of cases,” ICE reported. “This fraud may include the use of forged birth certificates or other fraudulent documents to establish parentage.” In addition:
Forged or other fraudulent documents are also being used by adult illegal aliens to falsely claim they are minors under the age of 18. By fraudulently entering as a family unit or unaccompanied minor, illegal aliens can exploit loopholes in immigration laws to enter the U.S. and avoid detention.
Earlier today, The New American reported that the Pentagon moved 320 more troops to the border through Sept. 30, at a cost of $7.4 million, to help border agents deal with illegal-alien tsunami, which again, carries most families from Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador.
Word of the weakness of U.S. immigration law has traveled to Central America, where smugglers are advertising for “migrants” to move north, sometimes in caravans of buses that deliver them straight to the border.
Once there, as The New American has reported, the smugglers move the illegals across, sometimes with the help of drones to spot U.S. border agents.
Fakers Caught, And So Were Three Smugglers
Among those caught are two father-and-son “family units” on April 22. “The four individuals, two of whom were discovered to be 23-year-old men pretending to be minors,” ICE reported, “are being prosecuted for visa fraud and making false statements.”
ICE caught another faker on April 18. “An adult Honduran man presented a false birth certificate for a 7-year-old child traveling with him,” ICE reported. “During an interview, the adult admitted that he was completely unrelated to the child. The man was prosecuted for illegal entry and the child was turned over to the Office of Refugee Resettlement as an unaccompanied minor, according to procedures required in the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act.”
Meanwhile, CBP agents nailed three Americans who attempted to smuggle right Mexicans across the border at the Tohono O’odham nation.
On Friday night, agents stopped a car with six passengers: a driver and five illegals wearing camouflage. On Sunday, they nailed the driver and a passenger, both Americans, trying to smuggle three illegals into the country.
Authorities charged the eight illegals with immigration violations and the three Americans with smuggling humans.


More at: https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnew...real-smugglers

[enhanced_deficit]

The Department of Defense is sending additional personnel to assist agents at the U.S. border with Mexico.

This again shows MAGA has a big heart as he said during DACA deal negotiations with Dems.



Pentagon sending 100s of cooks to border to cook food for migrants

The Pentagon plans to send about 300 more U.S. active-duty troops to the border as cooks and drivers, some of whom will come into contact with migrants as they hand out food to migrants as part of the mission to help U.S. Customs and Border Protection deal with the large number of migrants arriving at the southern border.

[Swordsmyth]

This again shows MAGA has a big heart as he said during DACA deal negotiations with Dems.



Pentagon sending 100s of cooks to border to cook food for migrants

The Pentagon plans to send about 300 more U.S. active-duty troops to the border as cooks and drivers, some of whom will come into contact with migrants as they hand out food to migrants as part of the mission to help U.S. Customs and Border Protection deal with the large number of migrants arriving at the southern border.

The troops will free up more Border Patrol to patrol the border.

[Swordsmyth]

President Donald Trump is reportedly preparing to give law enforcement officials the authority to conduct interviews with asylum seekers arriving on the U.S.-Mexico border.
Under the upcoming plan, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) officers would train Border Patrol agents deployed on the southern border on how to perform “credible fear interviews,” according to sources who spoke with the Washington Examiner. A migrant illegally crossing the border would be subjected to an interview by an agent shortly after apprehension and would only be allowed to claim asylum if they pass the interview.

The changes would reduce the number of migrants who are waiting for a decision on their asylum case, alleviating an immigration court system bogged down with some 900,000 pending cases, and more quickly deport foreign nationals who do not qualify.
“If that gets rolled out and we actually start deporting people within a timely manner, you’re going to see the numbers drop exponentially,” an official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said to the Examiner.
The only drawback for the administration would be that agents would be temporarily diverted away from border enforcement duties as they undergo training. However, the plan is expected to result in an overall drop of illegal immigrants entering the interior of the country.
“Theoretically, we could end up deporting them in two weeks, rather than two to five years,” another source stated. Asylum seekers typically wait in the U.S. for years as they wait for their case to be adjudicated.
Officials with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) believe they are within their authority to implement this plan because asylum officers are required to be immigration officials, and Border Patrol agents are considered to be immigration officials. For this reason, DHS is not seeking congressional approval.


More at: https://truepundit.com/report-border...s-on-the-spot/

[Schifference]

Papers, please! You are now required to provide proof of citizenship to enter this building.

They could mandate people wear some type of placard or symbol on their clothing and possibly incorporate that with some type of numbering system. They could possibly tattoo numbers on the people.

[Schifference]

President Donald Trump is reportedly preparing to give law enforcement officials the authority to conduct interviews with asylum seekers arriving on the U.S.-Mexico border.
Under the upcoming plan, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) officers would train Border Patrol agents deployed on the southern border on how to perform “credible fear interviews,” according to sources who spoke with the Washington Examiner. A migrant illegally crossing the border would be subjected to an interview by an agent shortly after apprehension and would only be allowed to claim asylum if they pass the interview.

The changes would reduce the number of migrants who are waiting for a decision on their asylum case, alleviating an immigration court system bogged down with some 900,000 pending cases, and more quickly deport foreign nationals who do not qualify.
“If that gets rolled out and we actually start deporting people within a timely manner, you’re going to see the numbers drop exponentially,” an official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said to the Examiner.
The only drawback for the administration would be that agents would be temporarily diverted away from border enforcement duties as they undergo training. However, the plan is expected to result in an overall drop of illegal immigrants entering the interior of the country.
“Theoretically, we could end up deporting them in two weeks, rather than two to five years,” another source stated. Asylum seekers typically wait in the U.S. for years as they wait for their case to be adjudicated.
Officials with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) believe they are within their authority to implement this plan because asylum officers are required to be immigration officials, and Border Patrol agents are considered to be immigration officials. For this reason, DHS is not seeking congressional approval.


More at: https://truepundit.com/report-border...s-on-the-spot/

I don't like the idea of low IQ cops questioning anyone. That never ends well. They should just make record of every encounter assign a number/ticket to each person and deport them. On the ticket is a phone number they can call where they can get message updates on when their case will be heard. Kind of like a jury duty notice. Maybe people will never be heard but they won't be in the country and they will be scheduled for due process and free outside the US in the meantime.

[Swordsmyth]

I don't like the idea of low IQ cops questioning anyone. That never ends well. They should just make record of every encounter assign a number/ticket to each person and deport them. On the ticket is a phone number they can call where they can get message updates on when their case will be heard. Kind of like a jury duty notice. Maybe people will never be heard but they won't be in the country and they will be scheduled for due process and free outside the US in the meantime.

Unfortunately the current law won't allow that, this is a pretty good maneuver considering that the Demoncrats won't change the insane laws and we can't take back the House until Jan. 2021.

[Swordsmyth]

NEW: The Justice Department is reportedly considering making it easier to deport immigrants who use public benefits – Reuters
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