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Foreign Influence: Chinese Illegal Aliens Come to Our Border Without Any Vetting, yet They Are Released

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The Democratic push for open borders and for other countries’ nationals to determine our destiny is the ultimate foreign influence over our government. The biggest threat is the large number of Chinese aliens coming in, thanks to the lack of a full border wall and more aggressive use of the military at the border. Now that Democrats appear to be so concerned about sovereignty and foreign influence with the Ukrainian government, perhaps they will pay attention to one of the forgotten problems of their open border policies.

“Chinese nationals are coming to our border in increasing numbers with absolutely no way to vet them and they are all allowed into our country as legitimate asylees,” said one veteran agent who patrols the Rio Grande Valley Sector in an interview with CR.

“This is the biggest national security, espionage, and cybersecurity threat to our nation that policymakers in Washington are completely ignoring,” said the agent who must remain anonymous because he is active duty and is not authorized to speak to the media.

I reached out to the agent after reading media releases nearly every day from CBP referencing Chinese illegal aliens at the border. Just Wednesday, CBP in the Laredo Sector reported on a group of illegal aliens caught who hailed from Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, and … China. One of these is not like the other. A news release from Tuesday references a stash house in Mission, Texas, with “nine subjects and determined them to be Chinese nationals.”

Based on data from weekly Texas border apprehension reports that CR has been given by an agent in the field, a total of 118 Chinese nationals have been apprehended just in Texas during the first two weeks of September.

This is a pace of over 3,000 Chinese nationals coming through the border just in Texas alone under very suspicious circumstances every year. Last year, according to CBP, 991 were caught at the entire southwest border, plus another 86 at the northern and maritime borders.

Why do I say suspicious?

“Every Chinese alien I’ve encountered has run from us rather than surrendering,” said the Texas border agent. “Then they claim asylum. But if they are trying to claim asylum, why are they running? Why are they overwhelmingly male if they are fleeing persecution? Also, after they fly into Brazil, they ditch their documents and come with nothing on them but cash. Lots of cash. They are also wearing fancy clothes like Gucci. They are coordinating their trafficking already overseas and some are paying the cartels along with other smuggling entities as much as $70,000. These are wealthy people.”

Hmmm … a Chinese government hell-bent on espionage and asymmetrical warfare against America, thousands of Chinese migrants who come with zero identification and know they can play the “communist card” on us and be placed into asylum proceedings or get in undetected … do you think the Chinese government would ever exploit that?

What is astounding is that we treat them as asylees despite the suspicious circumstances and the lack of vetting.

“We share nothing with China, so they can just make up a name and we have no way of checking into them,” said the agent who also worked in evidence collection at the station for several years. “We literally have no idea who they are before we release them. They just give us a random name a birthdate and we have no way of verifying it. None of those from China are in the system and they certainly don’t share criminal histories with us. All of them are released into the asylum system.”

Thus, when the director of National Intelligence warned in its latest Worldwide Threat Assessment, “China’s intelligence services will exploit the openness of American society, especially academia and the scientific community, using a variety of means,” this is a perfect example. They know we are gullible enough to treat those coming from China as “fleeing communism,” even though we have no idea of knowing if the government is sending them.

The scary thing is that not only is China our top cybersecurity threat, but much of the hacking now comes from within the United States. Now, we don’t have evidence it’s coming from those who cross the border because we also bizarrely bring in a tremendous amount of them through our visa system and on green cards. But those coming through the border have absolutely no vetting.

Shockingly, China is not listed as one of the 35 or so “Special Interest Alien” countries, whose border crossers require more vetting. For example, if an Iranian national is caught at the border, they are automatically interrogated by the FBI. That is not the case for Chinese nationals. Often, agents will be forced to rely on a private translating service to even interview Chinese nationals because few agents are fluent enough in Mandarin.

As it is, we hand out roughly 70,000 to 85,000 green cards to Chinese national every year, more than to nationals of any country other than Mexico. In addition, we have, by far, more foreign students from China than from any country. In fact, 363,341 Chinese nationals were here on student visas for the 2017/2018 academic year, roughly one third of the growing total of over 1 million foreign students every year.

Chinese immigrants have been very productive for the most part, but how in the world could we possibly vet these people and be sure that the Chinese have not either initially sent any of them as operatives or is manipulating those they know are here studying technical fields with bribes and threats to their relatives back home. Any wonder why China is stealing our R&D left and right?

In January, one Chinese student was indicted for being an “illegal agent” at the direction of a “high-level intelligence officer.” As CNN reported at the time, “The sheer size of the Chinese student population at U.S. universities presents a major challenge for law enforcement and intelligence agencies tasked with striking the necessary balance between protecting America’s open academic environment and mitigating the risk to national security.”

Now consider how bad it has to be for them to send people to our border given how generously we hand out visas. The fact that wealthy, young Chinese nationals can easily get a student visa but come through our border and then run from agents should scare us all.

And we haven’t even discussed the birth tourism scam of Chinese nationals giving birth to babies here while on tourist visas and grabbing citizenship for their kids thanks to liberals insisting that our Constitution somehow mandates this national suicide. Of course, the Russians are just as bad about scamming out this liberal loophole. Talk about Russian influence in our elections; their kids who wrongly steal American citizenship can then get to vote 18 years later!

In his resignation letter, former Secretary of Defense James Mattis noted that Russia and China are our biggest strategic threats and that we must “be resolute and unambiguous in our approach to those countries” and “use all the tools of American power to provide for the common defense.”

That should include closing all the insane immigration loopholes as well as deploying our military in a meaningful way at our border. We are essentially as a state of cold war with China and immigration is a very dangerous pipeline through which they can direct asymmetrical attacks on us. Never in our history did we continue mass migration – both through visas and at the border – from countries that were at war with us.

Indeed, if we are going to discuss impeachment on grounds of foreigners influencing our politics, then every open border member of Congress should be impeached. (For more from the author of “Foreign Influence: Chinese Illegal Aliens Come to Our Border Without Any Vetting, yet They Are Released” please click HERE)

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Illegal Alien Who Could Have Been Deported Admits to Years of Child Sex Abuse

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How is it that so many illegal aliens who go on to commit heinous crimes were caught by law enforcement for previous infractions but never removed? That is the question that should be the subject of endless hearings by Senate Republicans, as House Democrats hold a string of hearings on the welfare of illegal aliens. The case of an illegal alien who just admitted to sexually assaulting two minors for many years should serve as the latest example of the need for aggressively enforcing the laws on the books.

On Saturday, Palm Beach County, Florida, officials arrested Dilson Mejia-Licona, an illegal alien from Honduras, on two counts of lewd behavior with a minor. He is accused of sexually assaulting a child between 2012 and 2017 while the girl was 6 to 11 years old. He is also charged with sexually assaulting her older sister who is now an adult when she was about 13 years old.

The details of the domestic relationship surrounding the alleged assaults, first reported by the Palm Beach Post, appear to be murky. The police report doesn’t really describe Mejia-Licona’s relationship to the victims, but it appears that he was a boyfriend of the mother of these girls. The police report is extremely graphic and describes them all sleeping in the same room, with Mejia-Licona admitting to touching them in terribly graphic ways over an extended period of time. When the female detective who is fluent in Spanish asked him why he acted this way, he replied, “I don’t know, I guess I am just perverted.”

As we’ve reported before, the child molestation problem is not just a criminal alien issue, but is systemically part of the culture in some parts of Central America where child marriages are the rule, not the exception. Roughly one quarter of pregnancies in Honduras are to teen mothers, the second highest rate in Latin America. While the Honduran government has taken steps to ban child marriages, they are still commonplace particularly in the rural areas and among the poorer residents, precisely the people who come here illegally. With hundreds of thousands coming from those villages in rural Central America, it’s no surprise we are seeing an epidemic of child sex cases with illegal aliens.

However, there is something more disturbing about this. What if these alleged molestations could have been prevented? Our laws are designed so that illegal aliens are supposed to be detected upon their first interaction with a government entity. They are required to register with DHS (8 U.S. Code §1304), and their status is not supposed to be shielded from detection (§1324). According to court records, Mejia-Licona had been caught at least three times driving without a license in 2012, 2017, and 2018. How is someone like that caught without a license and not asked about his citizenship?

Those of us who live in the real world are asked all the time whether we are citizens for the most mundane private or public services, irrespective of how we look. How is it, then, that illegal aliens can be pulled over by cops and cycle in and out of county courts without their illegal status ever being discovered and turned over to the proper authorities? Yet, Mejia-Licona appeared in court several times during these cases and even got a Spanish-language interpreter paid for by taxpayers. Had he been removed after the first incident of driving without a license, these girls would never have been harmed.

Driving without a license is a serious problem and the fact that he was on the roads without one and was caught three times over a period of 6 1/2 years, according to court records, demonstrates the lawlessness in immigration enforcement. Congress needs to work with state officials on creating a process for always asking citizenship status when an officer pulls someone over for a driving violation or at least in the forms in court. Some of the worst criminals are often initially engaged by law enforcement or the court system through traffic citations, and if they are here illegally, that should be their last infraction in this country.

Even absent new congressional action, there is no reason why politicians on a local level shouldn’t be more proactive in enforcing immigration laws the same way localities enforce so many other federal laws. As Justice Clarence Thomas said in Arizona v U.S. (2010), “States, as sovereigns, have inherent authority to conduct arrests for violations of federal law, unless and until Congress removes that authority.” There is nothing in federal statute that prohibits local law enforcement from inquiring about citizenship status as a standard for every interaction with a resident.

Indeed, it is preposterous for anyone to assert that local law enforcement can’t arrest someone who must be deported by federal law. Quite the contrary: 8 U. S. C. §1644 unambiguously says that “no State or local government entity may be prohibited, or in any way restricted, from sending to or receiving from” federal immigration officials “information regarding the immigration status” of a foreign national. And, of course, §1373(c) says that ICE “shall respond to an inquiry by a Federal, State, or local government agency, seeking to verify or ascertain the citizenship or immigration status of any individual within the jurisdiction of the agency.”

Florida no longer permits counties to be sanctuary jurisdictions, thanks to Gov. Ron DeSantis. However, the horrific alleged crimes of Dilson Mejia-Licona should prompt more aggressive action to actively ensure that citizenship of anyone who cycles into the justice system is known and conveyed to the right authorities. After all, why should we harbor other countries’ criminals when we have enough of our own? (For more from the author of “Illegal Alien Who Could Have Been Deported Admits to Years of Child Sex Abuse” please click HERE)

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Washington Post Tries to Smear Town as Racist, but Instead Reveals True Cost of Illegal Immigration

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Social transformation without representation.

Imagine a lawless federal policy whereby illegal alien families can pay cartels to smuggle in their teen children or relatives who then come to this country and fuel a pipeline of MS-13 recruitment – and their reward for doing so is getting amnesty – all at taxpayer expense! Well, that is exactly what is happening in small towns like Worthington, Minnesota, where, against the will of local residents, illegal aliens are able to traffic in their own children, have them resettled at taxpayer expense, and then force residents to pay for the cost of education, social transformation, and crime.

In a random act of journalism, the Washington Post profiled a farmer in the small town of Worthington, Minnesota, who is trying to end the resettlement of Central American teens in his town. The article, to anyone living outside the elite bubble of the Acela corridor, reveals just how unfair of a burden illegal immigration and refugee resettlement are on small towns. Except, that wasn’t the intent of the elite writers and editors at the Post. They made the article all about race.

In a long report peppered with endless racial references to skin and hair color, the Post essentially accuses Don Brink, local farmer, school bus driver and Vietnam War veteran, of being triggered by “a stream of dark-haired children” in this once quiet southwest Minnesota town. But what most Americans will derive from this article is that a small town of 13,000 people now suffers from nearly the largest per capita resettlement of Central American teens (unaccompanied alien children, UACs) who are wrongly treated as refugees when they are trafficked here by their illegal alien relatives who themselves don’t belong there.

Far from being upset about legitimate and peaceful immigrants who properly apply to come to this country, the people are dealing with the cost, social problems, and crime of an illegal alien chain migration scheme transforming their community carte blanche over a short period of time without the input of local residents. In fact, according to the Post, when the question of expanding schools at a cost of $79 million was brought to a vote in Worthington, the people rejected it overwhelmingly on five occasions.

Who is paying for the resettlement of a record number of these self-trafficked Central Americans teens? Well, this article gives us some insight into where they are being placed and how it burdens local communities. While many of the UACs have been placed in large metropolitan areas on the east and west coasts, “thousands more, however, have ended up in small towns like Worthington, where their impact is dramatic.”

The post notes that over the past six years, Nobles County, Minnesota, has received more unaccompanied minors per capita than all but one county in the country. “Their arrival has helped swell Worthington’s student population by almost one-third, forcing administrators to convert storage space into classrooms and teachers to sprint between periods, book carts in tow.”

Why is nobody in Congress demanding an accounting for who is paying for this? The Post lists some other small communities being burdened by this, such as Manassas, Virginia; Scott County, Mississippi; and Texas County, Oklahoma. More UACs have been resettled this year than ever before, costing taxpayers billions of dollars.

It’s not like these people will be earning enough money to pay for their forced entry into these communities. As the Post notes, the number of non-English speaking children in Worthington has nearly doubled since 2013, to 35 percent of students, and “[I]n the high school, where most unaccompanied minors are placed, it has almost tripled.” The Post also reports on girls coming into the schools straight from the border while pregnant. There are so many social problems with mass numbers coming from indigenous areas of Central America. God bless those people and people from other troubled parts of the world, but it’s not the job of small-town American residents to shoulder the burden of those problems in mass numbers forced upon the community without any orderly process of admission and assimilation.

How come nobody in the state or federal delegation in Minnesota is even asking the question of why American children should have to deal with such a costly and disruptive transformation to accommodate people here illegally?

Social transformation without representation is a general problem with the refugee program. Minnesota has certainly had its share of problems with thousands of Somalis being resettled around Minneapolis in a short period of time without any input from local residents or study of the fiscal cost, crime, terror recruiting, and assimilation. The Trump administration is considering a proposal to allow local communities to reject it, an intuitive that cannot come quickly enough. But the so-called “unaccompanied alien children,” almost exclusively from Central America, will continue to be placed in these communities without any local input. However, as we’ve noted before, they are the least legitimate refugees because almost all of them are self-trafficked by illegal alien families here and are not truly unaccompanied. As bad as chain migration is through the legal visa system, this is a form of illegal alien chain migration that the American people never voted for and is against statute.

Then there are the criminal problems, the one issue conveniently omitted from the Post story. The single biggest driver of the resurgence of gangs, such as MS-13, is the influx of Central American teens erroneously resettled in this country through the UAC program. Up to 40 percent of MS-13 members arrested in recent stings were found to have been resettled in this manner. Also, where you have translational gangs, you have drug trafficking for the cartels. It’s no surprise why the Minneapolis Star Tribune wrote a story last year on how “Mexican drug cartels turned Minneapolis into a meth hub.” At this pace, how much longer will it be until those gangs reach small towns like Worthington?

To the Washington Post writers, the only reason someone would oppose forcible transformation of a small community with an influx of very troubled illegal aliens who are costly and bring in gangs is because of race. Sure, I guess the residents would crawl over glass to embrace the crime, gangs, foreign language programs, pregnant high school kids, and the cost of education and crowded schools if their skin color happened to be lighter.

Despite their barely disguised race-baiting, the Washington Post gives away the farm toward the middle of the article: “Even as Worthington has changed, however, its tax base still depends largely on white farmers like Brink, pitting the town’s future against its past.”

They sure could have done without the reference to “white” farmers, but any sane American reading this expose empathizes with the local residents. American taxpayers – whether black, white, yellow or orange – being forced against their will to subsidize illegal aliens, is the ultimate violation of the underpinnings of our government by the consent of the people.

Social transformation without representation has nothing to do with race and everything to do with making the American people pay for the rope to hang themselves against their will. The Washington Post might not have intended this, but they did a great service by exposing the truth of what is happening to so many towns across America thanks to the the refusal of our government to enforce immigration laws as originally drafted. (For more from the author of “Washington Post Tries to Smear Town as Racist, but Instead Reveals True Cost of Illegal Immigration” please click HERE)

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Poll: Here Is the ‘Least Popular’ Policy in 2020 Race

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The most unpopular position in the 2020 Democrat presidential primary is a policy forcing American taxpayers to provide free healthcare for 11 to 22 million illegal aliens living in the United States, a new survey reveals.

According to the latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll, when all American voters are asked to rank 12 policies from best to worst, a plan to provide taxpayer-funded healthcare to all illegal aliens — endorsed by Democrat front-runners like Joe Biden, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) — ranks as the least popular among the bunch. . .

Of 12 policy ideas tested in the poll, providing government-sponsored health care to undocumented immigrants was the least popular among the broader electorate, with 62% rejecting it. In a June Democratic debate, all 10 candidates on the stage, including Messrs. Biden and Sanders, raised their hands when asked who backed the idea. In the new survey, it was supported by 64% of Democratic primary voters but only 36% of voters overall. [Emphasis added]

As Breitbart News estimated, providing free healthcare to every illegal alien in the U.S. would cost up to $66 billion a year or $660 billion over a decade to American taxpayers. Already, Americans are forced to subsidize illegal aliens’ medical costs to the sum of almost $20 billion a year. (Read more from “Poll: Here Is the ‘Least Popular’ Policy in 2020 Race” HERE)

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Pakistani Illegal Alien Admits to Killing Daughter and Grandson

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As Texas officials like Gov. Greg Abbott and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick search for solutions to mass shootings and focus on guns and background checks, they might want to search for solutions to more avoidable murders committed by illegal aliens with all sorts of weapons and motivations.

According to local media, a probable cause statement from Corpus Christi police states that Mohammad Sahi, 72, approached neighbors covered in blood last Thursday and told them to call police. Sahi then confessed to the two officers arriving at the scene to murdering his 47-year-old daughter and 18-year-old grandson by beating them with a stick. Another grandson was found in the house severely beaten and barely alive.

Sahi appeared in court on Monday and is being charged for two murders and one aggravated assault. He confessed to the crimes speaking in his native Punjabi through an interpreter.

ICE spokesman Tim Oberle confirmed with CR that ICE lodged a detainer on September 13 following his arrest and that Sahi is indeed an illegal alien from Pakistan. However, given that bail is set for $2.5 million, it’s unlikely he will be released from Nueces County Jail. If prosecutors obtain a conviction leading to capital punishment or life without parole, the ICE detainer will become moot, because he will never be released and deported.

This is obviously a shocking and extremely bizarre case. Police have not posited any theory of a motive in this case as to why a 72-year-old man would kill his daughter and grandson. But in 2016, Amnesty International spotlighted Pakistan in particular as a hotbed for the practice of family members murdering women for bringing shame to their family in some form. They estimate that roughly 1,000 such killings take place every year.

On January 27, 2017, as part of the “travel ban” executive order, Trump called for data collection on certain criminal activity that seems to be associated with the same countries listed in the visa moratorium. Sec. 10 of the order called upon DHS and DOJ to publish a semi-annual report on the number of foreign nationals charged on terrorism-related grounds. A lesser known part of that order also called for “information regarding the number and types of acts of gender-based violence against women, including honor killings, in the United States by foreign nationals.”

Only one DHS/DOJ report has been issued pursuant to this order, and very little was published on that section of the order. The report, from January 2018, noted that there is no reliable data on honor killings because the federal government doesn’t directly track them. It’s part of a broader problem of our government failing to track foreign national crimes, transnational gang and cartel crimes, and foreign terrorism crimes.

Again, there is no evidence yet that this was an honor killing, but at present, there doesn’t appear to be any logical motive at all. The more we continue mass migration from countries with these habits without any thorough vetting, the more likely we will continue to import those who subscribe to this ideology among those who don’t.

Coincidentally, just last week in California, Rohail Sarwar, a recent arrival from Pakistan, was sentenced to life in prison for brutally stabbing a woman at a massage parlor after frequently demanding sex from the employees and sexually assaulting them throughout the summer of 2018. Yolo County Judge Paul Richardson referred to the murder of Junying Lu, which occurred last August, as one of the “most vicious” murders he’s seen. He was convicted on special murder charges and sexual assault. The family of the victim wanted the death penalty, but prosecutors pursued life without parole.

At one point during the trial, Sarwar’s mistress testified about his violence and his feelings toward women. Lloyd Billingsley, who covered the trial for the California Globe in July, reports that deputy district attorney Diane Ortiz told the court, “‘No’ is never an answer in Sarwar’s world,” referring to the culture of women submitting to men in Pakistan. During the testimony of the unnamed mistress, she described how her family wanted to send her back to Pakistan to be killed for having an affair with Sarwar.

During sentencing last Thursday, Junying Lu’s youngest daughter, Amy, blasted Sarwar’s culture of subjugating women and questioned why he had not been “kicked out of the United States,” according to Billingsley’s reporting of the victim impact statement. It’s unclear whether Sarwar is here legally or not.

While we are groping in the darkness trying to prevent heinous murders, it’s important to start with the voluntary policy of immigration and understand why we are needlessly bringing in problematic individuals. As we see with these two Pakistanis, when you import a violent culture, it doesn’t matter what sort of gun laws you have. One killed with a knife and one allegedly killed with a stick. In 2017, according to the FBI, almost four times as many people were killed by knives as by rifles. Also, more people were killed by blunt objects or by brute strength.

Last month, I reported on the case of Billy Chemirmir, a criminal alien from Kenya with a long rap sheet who is now accused of smothering 19 seniors to death in the Dallas area over the past three years. GOP leaders in the state have not uttered a word about this case. All of these murders could have been avoided had we closed multiple criminal alien loopholes that allowed this man to remain in the country.

Texas politicians who are focused on guns seem to be silent about criminal aliens we needlessly bring in who kill with all sorts of weapons. After all, it’s a lot easier to target an object that doesn’t have an entire grievance industry backing it than to require universal background checks on immigrants. (For more from the author of “Pakistani Illegal Alien Admits to Killing Daughter and Grandson” please click HERE)

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Illegal Alien Charged With Raping 4-Year-Old Girl

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In yet another illegal immigration-related heinous crime that will go uncovered by the media, a Mexican national has been indicted for raping a four-year-old girl and is accused of molesting a six-year-old girl in Baton Rouge over the past year.

A grand jury in East Baton Rouge Parish indicted Joel Emmanuel Rodriguez, 30, on Wednesday for allegedly raping a four-year-old girl on May 26. Rodriguez was originally arrested on May 31 on the rape charge, according to arrest records from the East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s office. He’s also accused of molesting a six-year-old girl between Aug. 1, 2018, and May 3, 2019, according to court records.

Rodriguez is being referred to by local media as a “Baton Rouge man,” but ICE spokesman Bryan Cox confirmed on inquiry from CR that he is indeed an illegal alien and that ICE had placed a detainer on him in May.

Over the past few months, CR has covered a rash of child sex assaults by illegal aliens. In many of their home countries, it is a regular practice to marry young girls, especially in rural areas. However, these shocking crimes seem to victimize kids who are younger and younger.

The FBI and most states do not track categories of crime broken down by legal status of the perpetrator. It would be useful for public policy decisions to know how many drunk driving incidents, how much drug trafficking, how much gang activity, or how many child sex assaults are committed by illegal aliens, but nobody seems to want to find out.

Even the anecdotes are hard to come by, because most reporters don’t want to inquire about immigration status, and DHS is largely precluded from actively publicizing the information unprompted by a reporter’s inquiry. Hence, a “Baton Rouge man” is arrested for child rape or a “Long Island man” is arrested for killing someone while driving drunk.

Yesterday, BuzzFeed reported that acting USCIS Director Ken Cuccinelli is trying to change the privacy policies at his agency to better inform the public of heinous crimes committed by illegal aliens, refugees, or those seeking some sort of asylum status. In response to the report, Cuccinelli confirmed that he is seeking more transparency on this issue when the public interest outweighs the individual’s privacy interest, such as in the California MS-13 case involving numerous recent asylum seekers. “Due to the abuse of the refugee and asylum programs by MS-13, terrorist organizations and cartels,” said Cuccinelli in a statement, “the Acting Director requested the same authority in order to educate the America public, lawmakers, and media about the dangerous criminals who came to the United States by abusing our legal immigration system.”

Raping a four-year-old and a six-year-old is a pretty big deal, and the fact that not a single local media report in Louisiana that I can find mentioned an ICE detainer when he was arrested in May or after the indictment this week is pretty shocking. It underscores the need for ICE to proactively bypass the media and push this information out to the public.

The rash of illegal alien rape suspects, including child rape cases, has made headlines in Montgomery County, Maryland. But Louisiana has had its share as well.

In July, Andres Fuentes-Castro, 44, an illegal alien from El Salvador, was arrested by CBP in Baton Rouge and is charged with three counts of first-degree rape against a child between 2014 and 2016. Agents initially arrested him in 2007 during a traffic stop in Baton Rouge and could have deported him before this child was harmed. However, they found he was given Temporary Protected Status (TPS) as a Salvadoran national under the El Salvador TPS program. His status later expired in 2010 and was not renewed, rendering him a fugitive alien for nine years for not departing the country.

On the same day, Tomas Gabriel Chox-Lopez, another illegal alien living in south Louisiana, was caught in a child porn sting by state and federal law enforcement and charged with seven counts of possessing pornography involving juveniles under the age of 13.

Earlier this year, Miguel Martinez, an illegal alien who had previously been deported in 2005, was arrested in Louisiana on 100 counts of possession of pornography involving juveniles under the age of 13 years old, one count of production under the age of 13, and one count of sexual battery of a juvenile under the age of 13.

Bizarrely, these cases have not been publicized by the prominent GOP members of the Louisiana federal delegation in the House and Senate. These are prime examples of why, despite the declining overall numbers at the border, there is a need for a wall and more resources to deter the really bad criminals who continue to come in and don’t surrender to agents.

Sadly, the less people know, the less they will clamor for action. For some in politics and media, that is by design. (For more from the author of “Illegal Alien Charged With Raping 4-Year-Old Girl” please click HERE)

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Illegal Alien Assaults Border Agent After Mistaking Him ‘for a Cow’

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Attorneys for a Mexican migrant who assaulted a Laredo Sector Border Patrol agent told the court he believed the agent was a cow at the time. He assaulted the agent with a flashlight.

A federal judge in Laredo, Texas, sentenced 39-year-old Melecio Lopez-Hernandez, an illegal alien from Mexico, to more than five years in prison for assaulting a U.S. Border Patrol agent on a ranch near Freer, KVUE reported. The community is located about 60 miles from the Texas-Mexico border.

The NBC affiliate reported that Lopez-Hernandez was walking through the brush on a ranch to circumvent a Border Patrol checkpoint. A Freer Station agent came upon the man and attempted to place him under arrest. Lopez-Hernandez resisted and dislodged a flashlight clipped to the agent’s belt. . .

Court records revealed the incident took place on February 7, 2019. A records check revealed a previous deportation in August 2017. Additional court records show the man was also deported in December 2005 after being apprehended in Duval County, Texas. The Mexican national pleaded guilty to illegal re-entry after removal and the court sentenced him in October 2016 to 21 months in federal prison. Immigration officers removed him again to Mexico on August 28, 2017.

At trial, the defendant’s attorneys attempted to convince the court that Lopez-Hernandez did not mean to assault a Border Patrol agent. Instead, they claimed Lopez-Hernandez mistook the agent for a cow. “The judge was not persuaded,” KVUE reported. (Read more from “Illegal Alien Assaults Border Agent After Mistaking Him ‘for a Cow'” HERE)

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Previously Deported MS-13 Member Arrested in Alleged Kidnapping; Progressives Attack ‘Remain in Mexico’ Program

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By Breitbart. A previously deported MS-13 gang member in the U.S. illegally was arrested and charged with allegedly kidnapping a Tennessee high school student and beating him because he refused to join the gang.

A student at Glencliff High School told officers that suspected MS-13 gang member Franklin Jefferson Pineda-Caceres, 18, showed up at his high school with two other men before they forced him into a vehicle, according to a report from WKRN. . .

Officials then charged Pineda-Caceres on Monday with one count of aggravated kidnapping, three counts of assault with a deadly weapon (vehicle), four counts of possession of a controlled substance, one count of possession of drug paraphernalia, and one count of violating immigration law, according to Fox 17 Nashville.

Tennessee federal prosecutors also charged Pineda-Caceres on Tuesday with illegal re-entry. He first crossed the border into the U.S. illegally in 2014 and was deported in May 2018 after committing several drug-related crimes in 2017. (Read more from “Previously Deported MS-13 Member Arrested in Alleged Kidnapping” HERE)

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Progressives Attack ‘Remain in Mexico’ Program for Migrants

By Breitbart. Top leaders from the Department of Homeland Security are showcasing the new border courtrooms created to handle asylum claims by more than 40,000 migrants who were sent back to Mexico, as pro-migration groups step up their campaign to block the successful program.

The progressives are showcasing critical media claims about migrants who say they are suffering in Mexican towns while waiting for their asylum hearings in U.S. courtrooms. The media campaign is intended to persuade federal judges in California to shut the MPP program down and so reopen the border to a massive infusion of poor migrants into the jobs, housing, and schools needed by blue-collar Americans and their children.

The MPP program has sent more than 40,000 migrants back into Mexico until U.S. officials are ready to hear their legal claims for asylum. The returns mean that migrants cannot get released into the United States to get jobs while they wait two or more years for a courtroom hearing in the United States.

The program is having a big impact on the economic incentive for migration. The migrants need U.S. jobs to pay their smuggling bills to the cartel-affiliated coyotes. But the MPP program means they cannot get U.S. jobs while waiting in Mexico. That economic loss effectively removes the incentive for them to migrate, and it also damages the economic engine of the cartels’ labor trafficking business. (Read more from “Progressives Attack ‘Remain in Mexico’ Program for Migrants” HERE)

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Angel Mom’s Facebook Posts on Illegal Immigration Removed for ‘Hate Speech’

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Angel Mom Mary Ann Mendoza, who heads the Angel Families organization, has had her posts raising awareness about illegal immigrant crime removed from Facebook as “hate speech.” . . .

This week, Mendoza had two of her Facebook posts from her personal page removed, with the tech platform claiming that she had violated the “Community Standards on hate speech.”

The posts raised awareness about illegal immigrant crime and its impact on Americans. One post simply directly quoted from a Breitbart News article about the suffering Angel Families have had to endure after losing loved ones to illegal immigration. . .

Likewise, Mendoza said Facebook temporarily blocked her from posting to the nonprofit Angel Families organization’s page, a group that helps provide support for the family and friends of Americans and legal immigrants killed and murdered by illegal aliens.

Facebook permanently removed the donation button from the Angel Families Facebook page, according to Mendoza, which would allow Facebook users to donate to the nonprofit through the platform. Mendoza told Breitbart News that Facebook justified the removal of the donation button by saying she had “violated their community guidelines more than once.” (Read more from “Angel Mom’s Facebook Posts on Illegal Immigration Removed for ‘Hate Speech’” HERE)

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How Trump Can Take the Supreme Court Border Victory to the Next Level

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In a better world, we’d all suffer from heartburn reading the headline, “Supreme Court allows Trump asylum restrictions to take effect.” We don’t need a Supreme Court to “allow” us to have a sovereign nation or to “allow” a president to use his authority to deny entry to any foreign national. However, in our prevailing political system, I’ll take “allowing” over disallowing any day of the week. Now the Trump administration has an opportunity to go on offense and kick these district judges while they’re down and drive a stake through the heart of the border crisis, ending it once and for all.

Late yesterday, the Supreme Court reversed the partial injunction of the Ninth Circuit and the nationwide injunction by California Judge Jon Tigar against the administration’s policy of rejecting asylum requests of those who could have claimed asylum in another country. Only two justices – Sonia Sotomayor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg – went on record as dissenting from the unsigned SCOTUS decision to reverse the unprecedented lower-court power-grab, at least pending the disposition of the case on the merits.

Now is the time for the administration to strike while the iron is hot and put an end to this entire concept of carefully selected district judges in California controlling international relations and border policies. Rather than tepidly ease into the border policies pending the outcome of the case on the merits, the administration should begin immediately rejecting every non-Mexican asylum applicant at the border. No half-measures and no more deference to the same judges who have been repudiated over and over again.

Trump should call on Sen. McConnell to bring to the floor the bill introduced yesterday by Sen. Tom Cotton, which officially clarifies existing constitutional law that judges cannot issue rulings outside the cases of legitimate plaintiffs and that district judges cannot apply rulings outside their geographical jurisdictions. He should also have a conservative member of the House introduce articles of impeachment against Jon Tigar, who has now blatantly violated the core of judicial power by giving standing to third-party organizations to sue as aggrieved parties just so he can veto border policies.

There is never any pressure within the left-wing legal profession against those judges who rule more progressively than Supreme Court precedent, but only against those who rule more conservatively. This is why Clarence Thomas warned in the original “travel ban” case that absent a categorical repudiation from the Supreme Court, the left-wing groups would continue going back to the same district judges and get the same favorable rulings.

The more the administration delegitimizes the entire concept of universal injunctions and illegal judicial tampering in the process of admission of aliens, the more it will create pressure against these judges stepping out of line.

Then there is the situation at the border itself. We can’t continue going pursuing border policy tethered to the whims of any district judge. This has real-life consequences at our border for the agents on the line, because the policies keep changing every day. Judges have an important role mediating domestic disputes among legitimate parties, but they cannot take the role of a commander-in-chief in securing an international border.

To that end, the administration should begin rejecting all Central American asylum applicants rather than using the half-measure of the Migration Protection Protocols (MPP), otherwise known as the “return to Mexico policy.” Rather than rejecting them outright, the administration gives them a notice to appear in court while they wait in Mexico near our border for several months. While it certainly has resulted in many Central Americans returning home and was better than full catch-and-release, it is still a half-baked measure that should no longer be needed.

Todd Bensman, National Security Fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, reported a few weeks ago from his conversations with illegal immigrants waiting in Mexico that Central American migrants in the pipeline are already much reduced and further, that those who have been given an MPP document are trying to sneak over the border anyway.

Bensman was on my podcast several weeks ago and related how several of the migrants he met in Mexico who had received MPP documents told him that they were planning to cross the river illegally.

One border agent in the Rio Grande Valley told me he caught a woman from Honduras running away from agents over the weekend. She had a son with her. Until a few weeks ago, this was unheard of. With catch-and-release in full swing, they wanted to get “caught” by an agent if they had a kid with them. Why are they now running?

“Well, after questioning her, we found out that we apprehended her and her son on August 10th almost in the same area,” said the line agent patrolling the RGV, who must remain anonymous because he is not authorized to speak to the media. “She was part of the MPP program. We gave her a court date in December and sent her back to Mexico. She didn’t want to wait, so she paid the cartel $22,000 for having to cross her twice. Unfortunately, this story is now becoming the norm. Every day we are catching family units running from us because they too do not want to wait. Just a few days ago we had a big bailout from a high-speed FTY [failure to yield], and the majority of the illegals in the vehicle were family units in the MPP program. They face no consequences from trying to come over again.”

Thus, we are allowing an entire group of illegal aliens from Central America to remain on our doorstep in very desperate straits in this half-status. Right now, Mexico is deporting many Central Americans, but they won’t deport those who have an MPP document. MPP is rapidly reaching the tipping point of undermining our more categorical policies as well as Mexico’s enforcement. This is why it’s time to just categorically reject all of these asylum applications and not issue MPPs, because they all could have and should have applied for asylum in Mexico. That would end almost the entire flow, and the rest would be subject to deportation by the Mexican authorities.

At the very least, CBP must put teeth in the MPP for those who violate the agreement. I asked a CBP press officer if those MPP recipients who are caught coming over the river again lose their opportunity to apply for asylum. The spokesman replied, “Their paperwork is updated with the illegal entry and they are returned to Mexico to await their hearing date.” Which likely means that a judge might possibly take this infraction into account, but they do not categorically lose their chance to apply. If CBP updated this policy to deny asylum to those who violate their waiting period in Mexico under MPP, it would deter them and likely encourage all of them to return home.

Trump sits at the crossroads of the issues of judicial supremacy and the border crisis. Momentum is on his side, but history has shown that the best way to kill a policy problem is when it has been weakened, lest it become strong again. (For more from the author of “How Trump Can Take the Supreme Court Border Victory to the Next Level” please click HERE)

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