Since mid-April, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents have worked alongside Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in the El Paso sector to help process alleged families that illegally crossed into the United States. Three teams were initially launched into Las Cruces, New Mexico and El Paso, Texas. A couple weeks later three more HSI teams were sent to the Rio Grande Valley, Del Rio, Yuma, and El Centro Border Patrol Sectors, Breitbart reported.

“We have been working these cases from an investigative standpoint for quite a while,” Acting ICE Director Matthew Albence told Breitbart. “What we’re doing now that is a little different is surging the additional resources to the ports of entry and Border Patrol stations where these individuals are being arrested and being processed. We’ve got teams in seven different locations who are conducting interviews of people who appear to be fraudulent families or where we have concerns that they are not who they say they are.” . . .

“The results have been staggering thus far. In just a couple of weeks, we’ve interviewed 256 family units and identified 65 fraudulent families. Almost three out of every ten families we’ve interviewed have become fraudulent,” Albence said.

To make matters even worse, the children are being utilized repeatedly to help adults stay in America. The children will show up at the border with the adults, where they pretend to be a family. Once the adults are released the child is sent back to their home country and they’re used again, over and over, in the same way. The kids are either flown home or cross back into Mexico illegally, where they catch a bus and go back to their home country. (Read more from “ICE Reveals Just How Many Illegal Aliens Are Falsely Claiming They’re a ‘Family'” HERE)

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The White House is dropping a longtime initiative of President Trump’s that reduces overall legal immigration levels to increase U.S. wages, a senior administration official tells the media.

Throughout 2015, 2016, and 2017, Trump routinely touted his plans to reduce the number of legal immigrants who arrive in the U.S. on a myriad of visas. Since the 1990s, when it was expanded by President George H.W. Bush, legal annual immigration levels have remained at historic highs with about 1.2 million nationals legally admitted every year.

For example, since 1980, the number of legal immigrants admitted to the U.S. every year has not dipped below 525,000 admissions. Since 1999, annual legal immigration levels have not dropped below 645,000 admissions and since 2004, the average number of legal immigrants admitted every year has not dipped below a million admissions.

Trump often touted the need for reducing legal immigration levels to “reduce poverty, increase wages, and save taxpayers billions and billions of dollars” in 2017, arguing that the current importation of more than a million legal immigrants every year “has placed substantial pressure on American workers, taxpayers, and community resources.” . . .

High levels of immigration, illegal and legal, puts downward pressure on U.S. wages while redistributing about $500 billion in wealth away from America’s working and middle class and towards employers and new arrivals, research by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine has found. (Read more from “White House Reveals Surprise Immigration Plan” HERE)

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Over the weekend, President Donald Trump announced his new nominee to head up Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE): Former Border Patrol Chief Mark Morgan.

“I am pleased to inform all of those that believe in a strong, fair and sound Immigration Policy that Mark Morgan will be joining the Trump Administration as the head of our hard working men and women of ICE,” the president tweeted on Sunday morning. “Mark is a true believer and American Patriot. He will do a great job!”

I am pleased to inform all of those that believe in a strong, fair and sound Immigration Policy that Mark Morgan will be joining the Trump Administration as the head of our hard working men and women of ICE. Mark is a true believer and American Patriot. He will do a great job!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 5, 2019

So who is Mark Morgan? Here’s a brief rundown of the career law enforcement officer’s resume and past statements.

1. Morgan was named head of the Border Patrol during the waning months of the Obama administration. He was replaced during Trump’s first week in office with Ronald Vitiello. Vitiello was later moved up to acting ICE director; he recently stepped down.

2. Before Morgan moved over to DHS, he spent 20 years working at the FBI, where he was eventually named assistant director of the Training Division at FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C.

3. Before he went to work for the feds, Morgan served in the United States Marine Corps and the Los Angeles Police Department.

4. He was the first outsider to lead the Border Patrol since the agency’s creation in 1924.

5. He supports the idea of designating the drug cartels as terror groups under federal law: “The cartels must be targeted … with the same level of commitment and tenacity as we have against terrorist organizations.”

6. He’s also expressed concerns to Congress about the influx of unaccompanied minors that stem from his time in Obama’s Border Patrol:

As chief of the Border Patrol, I toured the detention facilities filled to capacity with unaccompanied minors, 17 years of age or younger, who had illegally entered the country. Alone, without any parents or guardians. As I looked on, I saw both hardened young men as well as vulnerable and lost youth. With every encounter, I walked away wondering how many would be lured into joining a gang. The odds were not in their favor, as they were released into a city somewhere in the U.S., never to be heard from again.

7. He also warned Congress that “We’re experiencing a crisis at the southern border at a magnitude never seen in modern times, it’s unprecedented.”

8. He sees the clear connection between the border crisis and the drug crisis: “There is no way with any degree of certainty to know the quantity of drugs entering our country because at least 50 percent of the southwest border is wide open.”

9. He sees catch-and-release policies and activist judges combined with changing migrant demographics as a key driving factors behind the current crisis.

10. He’s previously disputed the Left’s talking point that children are being kept in “cages” at the border: “They’re not cages. They’re actually really nice facilities, and there are chain-link fences within the facilities, but it’s designed so the Border Patrol agents working there can provide safety and security for the people that are there.”

Morgan will have to be confirmed by the Senate before he can start the job, and given that pressure from the political Left has forced the withdrawal of Trump’s last two picks for the Federal Reserve, only time will tell whether or not Morgan’s previous statements will sink his nomination. (For more from the author of “Who Is Mark Morgan? 10 Quick Facts About Trump’s New ICE Director Nominee” please click HERE)

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