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Hundreds of Illegals Get Away as Just 14 Agents Patrol Extensive, Highly Trafficked County

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The shocking May border apprehension numbers are bad enough, but what is worse is what we are not seeing coming in, but is getting in nonetheless because of the catch-and-release of Central American families.

Sunday’s Border Patrol statistics from just one Texas county tell the story of a border crisis that is more of a national security issue than just an immigration problem.

On Tuesday, Jaeson Jones, a retired Texas Department of Public Safety captain who used to manage the daily operations of the Texas Rangers’ Border Security Operations Center (BSOC) tweeted out the following:

I reached out to Jones for an exclusive interview to distill these numbers. He tells me what the politicians are missing and what the president is not getting briefed on is that the Gulf Cartel in the Rio Grande Valley is strategically controlling the flow of migrants so that they can get in more “criminals, cartel members, drugs, weapons, and special interest aliens than anyone can imagine.”

His sources tell him that last Sunday, 1,232 illegals were apprehended in Starr County alone. But what happens when Border Patrol is pulled off the line transporting and processing bogus asylum claims?

When the surges of Central American families are happening, all Border Patrol agents are pulled off the line to support the humanitarian effort, meaning we are borderless. From what I’m hearing, they are averaging 14 agents remaining on patrol for the entire 68 miles of Starr County. That is when the cartels send in all the drugs, criminal aliens, and SIAs. Plus, they send money and weapons south from the cartel associates who are already residing in the Rio Grande Valley. All of those flows of migrants and transfer of drugs, weapons, and criminals are coordinated activities.

For months, Customs and Border Protection’s political brass has been warning how bad people and items are getting in while Border Patrol is tied down. CBP in Tucson warned yesterday, “Transnational criminal organizations are employing dangerous and unconventional methods to smuggle humans and drugs into the United States, hindering law enforcement and first responder capabilities.”

Now, Jones is putting a number on that. Just this Sunday, Jones said, there were 347 known “got aways.” Again, that is just in one county on one day. Given how generously we are offering status to anyone who comes here, “one has to fear that many of the got aways are the worst of the worst” who really don’t want to get apprehended, according to Jones.

I asked Jones how Border Patrol collates this daily data on got aways. As a former commander of Texas’s Border Security Operations Center, he helped collate for state law enforcement all the intel from CBP as well as from local law enforcement as part of Operation Secure Texas like no other border state government. “BSOC has 30+ analysts who pull all border data from all agencies and collates them and then shares it with local, state and federal officials.”

“It’s a multi-layered approach,” explained Jones. “First, we have thousands of sensors in the ground that notifies us about foot or vehicle traffic crossing the border. Next, there are thousands upon thousands of ‘Drawbridge cameras’ that spot the actual bodies coming over in addition to tall tower cameras that scan the broader area. Unlike other state governments, in Texas, we invested millions in this technology.”

Finally, Jones explained the feds have their Aerostat blimps equipped with sensors as well as their helicopters and drones. Border Patrol begins the data collation by counting footprints in the ground and adding them to the hits they get on all the cameras and sensors. Then they compare those suspected infiltrations against the apprehension numbers. “The difference between the two is the rough estimation of how many people got away that day in the given area of operation.” Hence, this is how Border Patrol estimates there were 347 got aways on Sunday in Starr County.

I reached out to CBP’s press office for comment confirming or denying Sunday’s got away numbers but have not received a statement as of publication.

I did, however, confirm with a line agent in the Rio Grande Valley Sector that there were indeed 347 “known got aways” on Sunday in Starr County. The agent, who must remain anonymous because he is not authorized to speak to the press, also confirmed, that “in recent days, Border Patrol has been forced to divert 70-75% of resources in parts of Texas to deal with the humanitarian care.” He told me that Starr is the second most trafficked area for both human smuggling (behind Hidalgo County, Texas) and drugs (behind Ajo Arizona station).

This veteran agent was certain that the number of got aways is likely an undercount. “Cutting sign,” which means counting the footprints of the got aways, “is often difficult.” “The guides will often brush out the sign, walk in hard-packed areas, or travel in thick brush, Caliche or on hard-paved roads.” Much of the traffic in those areas is unaccounted for.

The fact that our immigration policies are allowing cartels to tie down all but a handful of agents for 68 miles and smuggle in hundreds of dangerous people and goods should make this a national defense issue, not an immigration issue. Even if the president didn’t have immigration authority to shut down all asylum requests, which he does, his power as commander-in-chief should allow him to shut it down just on account of the national security problems it creates, as it is used as the prime strategic weapon of our enemies.

The veteran border agent has had it and said morale is very low. “So much of our Texas border is wide open many days. The cartel, just like any other insurgency, watches and records our every move… so they can gain the upper hand in ALL their OPERATIONS. They see how we responded to the traffic… They see how we are not prosecuting… They see how the government has left us behind,” Jones messaged. (For more from the author of “Hundreds of Illegals Get Away as Just 14 Agents Patrol Extensive, Highly Trafficked County” please click HERE)

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Will Trump Draw the Line at the May Border Numbers?

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Just three months ago to the day, I posted an analysis of the February border numbers, which were referred to at the time as “bonkers” and surpassing a “breaking point.” Well, three months later, with no “1182(f) shutdown” of immigration requests at the border triggered by the president, those very uncharted numbers have now DOUBLED.

Yesterday, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced that the number of illegal aliens apprehended at the border in May was roughly 144,000, a 32 percent increase from what we thought were unconscionable numbers in April. A whopping 132,887 were caught between points of entry and 11,391 at points of entry. The real shocker is that the total number of individuals coming in family units or as unaccompanied minors surged passed 100,000 for the first time, crushing April’s record by roughly 40 percent.

Now is the time for the president to either give a speech suspending all asylum requests and launching an operation against the cartels or cease calling this a sovereign nation.

The famous adage, “The Constitution is not a suicide pact,” came from Justice Robert Jackson, the great champion of individual rights and due process, the lead prosecutor at Nuremberg, and the lead dissenter in the Japanese internment case. He used this concept in his dissent in Terminiello v. Chicago (1949) after his fellow justices at the Supreme Court ruled that a Chicago ordinance leading to the conviction of a fascist speaker for speech that “stirs the public to anger, invites dispute, brings about a condition of unrest, or creates a disturbance” was unconstitutional.

Despite the fact that this disorderly conduct conviction, overturned by the majority of his colleagues, was a direct infringement upon the unambiguous and most foundational First Amendment rights of an individual citizen of the United States, Jackson famously wrote in his dissent that you reach a point when “the choice is not between order and liberty. It is between liberty with order and anarchy without either.” He warned in a dissent joined by three other justices, “There is danger that, if the Court does not temper its doctrinaire logic with a little practical wisdom, it will convert the constitutional Bill of Rights into a suicide pact.”

Despite the flagrant constitutional violation by Chicago of the rights of a U.S. citizen, Jackson felt that the majority had reached the point of “accepting the doctrine that civil liberty means the removal of all restraints to maintain order.” He believed that treating this one aspect of the Constitution as a suicide pact “in the long run” would make “maintenance of free speech … more endangered if the population can have no protection from the abuses which lead to violence.”

Jackson’s broad principle is pure common sense of human survival. It was just a question of whether, in this particular case, upholding a strict view of the First Amendment would indeed cross that line. Five of his colleagues disagreed.

But what would they say in this case, when the Constitution gives the president foreign affairs powers to block entry into the country? When the law itself says these people, if the president chooses to let them in, “shall be detained” and placed in expedited removal? And yet, a single California judge grants standing for foreign nationals to sue for a phantom right to immigrate and not be detained, thereby trampling the social compact and sovereignty of every American citizen, empowering the cartels to bring in drugs, gangs, criminals, and weapons, and saddling American communities with the bill.

The cascading effects of an open border are insane enough, but with cartels orchestrating that flow, it is downright suicidal. Uninterrupted case law gives the president full authority to shut off migration, and his foreign affairs and military powers give him the authority to shut this down to deal with the cartels without any judicial intervention. This principle “has become about as firmly embedded in the legislative and judicial tissues of our body politic as any aspect of our government,” not “merely” by “a page of history … but a whole volume” (Galvan v. Press). The concept is “inherent in sovereignty,” consistent with “ancient principles” of international law, and “to be exercised exclusively by the political branches of government” (Kleindienst v. Mandel).

Indeed, Justice Jackson is the one who famously said, “Due process does not invest any alien with a right to enter the United States, nor confer on those admitted the right to remain against the national will” (Shaughnessy v. Mezei, (1953)). An alien’s claim to enter, much less a mass population transfer spawned by criminal organizations, is as antithetical to a fundamental civil liberty as fire is to water. The law could never impede a government from protecting the ultimate public order of national borders.

In fact, even as it relates to the Bill of Rights and freedom of speech for Americans, the Supreme Court in Feiner v. New York (1951), just two years after the Chicago case, sided with police in Syracuse, New York, who arrested a man for inciting a mob. Irving Feiner caused a riot in Syracuse in March 1949 when he urged black people to “rise up in arms and fight for equal rights” and was arrested and charged with breaching the peace after police told him three times to stop. This time, a majority of the court joined Jackson and believed that the facts on the ground showed that allowing an individual right to inhibit governmental action would be a bridge too far.

The majority opinion noted that civil liberties cannot make governments “powerless to prevent a breach of the peace” or to use “considered judgement” when “faced with a crisis” to exercise “their power and duty to preserve peace and order” given, among other factors, “the existing situation and the imminence of greater disorder.”

Could you imagine how the breach of peace, the crisis, and the existing imminent disorder at our international border would have been regarded by any judge of previous generations, weighed against an illegal alien’s “claim” to enter and fuel the mayhem?

Even with regard to habeas corpus rights of Americans, Article 1, Section 9 of the Constitution states that “the Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it.” While Chief Justice Roger Taney ruled that this emergency power only applied to Congress, President Lincoln disagreed and ordered the military to suspend habeas corpus rights in Maryland to prevent a rebellion.

During his July 4, 1861, address to Congress, Lincoln famously asked in defense of his action, “Are all the laws but one to go unexecuted, and the Government itself go to pieces lest that one be violated? Even in such a case, would not the official oath be broken if the Government should be overthrown when it was believed that disregarding the single law would tend to preserve it?”

Lincoln noted that the president must look to “the whole of the laws” and not let them collapse due to the fear of a “single law” being violated to “a limited extent.”

Again, even if the president didn’t have the power to deny entry into this country and even if we didn’t know that this is a prima facie fraud, there is no way someone could read asylum law so literally and stringently as to include a mass smuggling invasion that is so detrimental to this country when it violates the letter and spirit of every other area of the Immigration and Nationality Act.

Nobody is asking President Trump to violate any law or constitutional right to prevent the global migration from dissolving this country. He merely needs to use delegated and inherent authority to shut off an orchestrated and criminal conspiracy of mass smuggling. Are we going to allow one judge’s interpretation of asylum law to shred every other immigration law for the benefit of millions of aliens and the cartels at the expense of all American citizens? Are we really prepared to allow all laws but the fake law of catch-and-release to go unexecuted so that our country go to pieces on behalf of people who have no right to be here? (For more from the author of “Will Trump Draw the Line at the May Border Numbers?” please click HERE)

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ISIS Scheme to Send Terrorists to U.S. Over Mexican Border Revealed in Chilling Report

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A chilling confession from a captured ISIS fighter has shed light on how the terrorist group intended to exploit the vulnerabilities of the U.S. border with Mexico, using English speakers and westerners to take advantage of smuggling routes and target financial institutions.

Seized ISIS fighter Abu Henricki, a Canadian citizen with dual citizenship with Trinidad, last month said that he was sought out by the violent insurgency’s leadership to attack the U.S. from a route starting in Central America, according to a study by the International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism (ICSVE) and published in Homeland Security Today.

“ISIS has organized plots in Europe with returnees so it seems entirely plausible that they wanted to send guys out to attack. The issue that makes a North American attack harder is the travel is more difficult from Syria,” Anne Speckhard, who co-conducted the study as the director of ICSVE and Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Georgetown University, told Fox News. “So the idea that they would instead use people who were not known to their own governments as having joined ISIS might make it possible for them to board airplanes.”

Henricki allegedly traveled to Syria with the intention of serving as an ISIS fighter, but was later told he could not take on soldier duties due to a chronic illness. At the end of 2016, he claimed to have been “invited” by the ISIS intelligence wing – known as the emni – to join other Trinidadians and launch financial attacks on the U.S. . .

“The plan came from someone from the New Jersey state of America. I was going to take the boat from Puerto Rico into Mexico. He was going to smuggle me in,” the ISIS cadre continued. (Read more from “ISIS Scheme to Send Terrorists to U.S. Over Mexican Border Revealed in Chilling Report” HERE)

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May Apprehensions Reveal a Full-Blown Emergency at U.S. Border

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U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has released the latest statistics for border apprehensions in the month of May, reporting another massive surge in migrant individuals and families attempting to enter the United States illegally.

CBP released statistics Wednesday showing that more than 144,000 migrants were taken into custody, marking a 32-percent spike from last month and more than double the average monthly numbers reported from October to February.

Acting CBP Commissioner John Sanders has described the latest numbers as “a full-blown emergency.” He added, “I cannot say this stronger: the system is broken.”

“I’ve never seen anything like this in the 24 years I’ve been doing this job,” Brian Hastings, the Border Patrol’s operations chief, told the Washington Post.

There is a high likelihood that the May statistics set another new record for unique apprehensions, in addition to the documented records for family and child apprehensions in the May data. In the mid-2000s, statistics were inflated due to the same individuals and groups of migrants attempting to get into the United States multiple times.

Conservative Review has reported regularly on the eye-popping statistics stemming from the border crisis. This includes the fact that over one percent of the population of multiple Central American countries has attempted to illegally enter the United States.

President Trump and other U.S. officials have taken to describing the situation at the border as an “invasion,” citing the need for new policies and funding to stop the nonstop entry of illegal aliens into the United States.

Meanwhile, Congress continues to appear entirely uninterested in solving the crisis at the border. The latest House Homeland Security bill provides zero additional funding for Border Patrol agents, Border Patrol checkpoints, or bolstering the barriers at the southern border, according to Roll Call. (For more from the author of “May Apprehensions Reveal a Full-Blown Emergency at U.S. Border” please click HERE)

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Pelosi’s House Answers Border Crisis with an Amnesty Bill Containing No Border Security Funding

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America is currently facing a massive border crisis, and House Democrats, along with seven Republicans, responded to it Tuesday evening by voting to pass an amnesty bill with absolutely no border security money or asylum system reforms. The final vote was 237-187.

H.R. 6, or the the “American Dream and Promise Act of 2019” would extend amnesty to at least 2.5 million illegal immigrants who were either brought to the U.S. as minors or have been on “Temporary Protected Status.” That number is well beyond the estimated 700,000-800,000 total DACA recipients. This would take the form of green card status with a path to citizenship.

“The Dream, and now Dream and Promise Act, is urgent for our country,” Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said at the bill’s introduction in March, before trying to sell the legislation under a few lines from a Ronald Reagan speech.

However, critics point out that the legislation would do absolutely nothing to address the border enforcement problems and legal loopholes that created the current crisis in the first place.

Conservative Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, took to social media on Tuesday to say the bill would cost the American taxpayer $34.6 billion, according to the Congressional Budget Office, while providing “$0 (ZERO) dollars for border security” and no asylum reforms.

“What is it?” Roy pondered: “A complete dereliction of our constitutional duty to #SecureTheBorder and address the ongoing humanitarian crisis at our southern border.”

According to a summary sheet from House Judiciary Committee Republicans, the total cost of the bill comes from the combined estimated costs of the two bills that make up the legislation in its current form. The summary goes on to explain that “time constraints” kept the CBO from being able to calculate the potential public cost of aliens who could seek citizenship by violating the terms of their visas and then become eligible for green cards: “That cost is unknown.”

Other critics say that the bill’s barriers against applicants with criminal histories are too low. Briefing materials about the bill from the office of Republican Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., say that “applicants with several misdemeanor convictions can obtain a green card, even if the misdemeanors were violent and resulted in death or bodily injury.”

The bill’s language bars illegal immigrants who have been convicted of a felony or three separate misdemeanors involving total jail time over 90 days from getting green cards. It also disqualifies those who have been convicted of a “crime of moral turpitude” and those convicted of domestic violence.

Furthermore, the bill bars the DHS from using state and federal gang databases as the determining factor in disqualifying potential beneficiaries.

“The Democrats are making us consider a bill that will worsen — give a green light — to the border crisis, incentivizing more people to cross our borders illegally in hopes of getting a piece of the amnesty pie,” said House Judiciary ranking member Doug Collins, R-Ga., on the House floor Tuesday. “No doubt at this very minute, the smuggling cartels are getting the word out. … Congress is going to legalize millions, just get there.”

Meanwhile, the acting head of the Department of Homeland Security says that the current level of migrants in custody is “beyond sustainable capacity,” while this year has seen record levels of border apprehensions. (For more from the author of “Pelosi’s House Answers Border Crisis with an Amnesty Bill Containing No Border Security Funding” please click HERE)

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Former ICE Director Reveals SOMETHING Huge About Illegal Alien Deportation

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If the DHS will not close the border to lawfare, why won’t it at least deport those Central American families who have gone through the cumbersome legal process and have been ordered to be deported?

Appearing on Fox & Friends last Friday, former acting ICE Director Tom Homan said he believes the most effective deterrent now to the flow of migrants at the border is to begin deporting all those with final deportation orders.

“We could do more,” said Homan, who headed deportation operations during the 2014 wave of Central American immigrants. “I’ve said many times, there are over 100,000 family units with final orders, been ordered removed by an immigration judge. We need to seek them out and return them to their homeland. We need to execute the final orders issued by the judges, or there’s no integrity to the entire system. That’s not being done; we need to do it. I did it four years ago and it worked. I can’t understand why that’s not happening.”

Indeed, I reported in March that over one million illegal aliens remain in this country despite final deportation orders. According to data obtained by the Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI) via a FOIA request, as of June 2018, there were 450,976 individuals from Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador with final deportation orders and another 715,930 with pending final orders. Those with pending final orders are usually individuals who have already been ordered deported by immigration judges but are appealing their cases to the Bureau of Immigration Appeals (BIA), the appellate body of the DOJ’s administrative immigration courts.

These numbers are a year old and were collected before much of the unprecedented surge from Central America. It’s likely that by now the numbers of those with final deportation orders are even higher. Homan noted that specifically targeting Central American families with final deportation orders will serve as a strong deterrent to those in the pipeline now trying to make the trip or thinking of coming here illegally.

When the hosts of Fox & Friends tried to press Homan on the efficacy of the Trump threat to levy tariffs on Mexico, Homan steered the discussion back to deportations. “I’ll say it once again, the secretary of Homeland Security needs to approve this operation. ICE has been ready to do this operation for months – to go seek out those that have final orders. If we don’t do that, there’s no integrity in the system. It works.”

Thus, the former acting ICE director revealed that ICE has a ready-made plan to deport these families with final orders, but for some reason there remains reluctance at the leadership level of DHS to executive it.

While it certainly makes sense to prioritize the resources of ICE’s relatively small staff for deporting the most dangerous criminal aliens, regardless of country of origin, it is most prudent today to specifically target recent arrivals from Central America as a means of solving the border crisis. Once they are released, they know they will not be deported. This is why 87 percent of recent Central American migrants failed to show up for their court hearings.

But what if ICE started aggressively apprehending and deporting those with final deportation orders and Guatemalans began seeing planeloads of those ahead of them in the pipeline of the smuggling routes returning home? Then, even if we fail to end catch-and-release at the front end, at least they know the law will catch up with them eventually, thereby dissuading them from embarking on the dangerous journey in the first place.

The new acting director of ICE, Mark Morgan, appears to be a big fan of this targeted action against those with final orders. During testimony before the Senate Homeland Security Committee in April, Morgan referred to such a plan as “an essential element to reduce the continuing ‘pull’ factor.”

“We need to support and increase ICE enforcement, interior enforcement,” said Morgan, referring to the over one million illegal aliens with final deportation orders who still remain here illegally. “If we start an enforcement operation to remove those individuals, you will also make a huge dent on the incentive.”

Homan is mystified as to why DHS leadership has not yet executed the plan. As weak as Obama was on immigration enforcement, after several months of a much smaller Central American wave in 2014, he approved a plan to begin deporting those who had already gone through the process. The endless planeloads of failed infiltrators arriving back home, in conjunction with a robust media campaign in Central America warning of those deportations, reduced most of the Central American migration in 2015, until it heated up again during Trump’s presidency.

In July 2014, President Obama didn’t just focus on “a humanitarian crisis” and the need for more illegal alien care in his emergency supplemental funding request for the border; he also asked for $879 million “for detention and removal of apprehended undocumented adults traveling with children.” On July 25, Obama warned Central American leaders that “children who do not have proper claims and families with children who do not have proper claims, at some point will be subject to repatriation to their home countries.” And this is when they were traveling alone, without the obvious fraud of one child being used per adult as a ticket to catch-and-release.

Soon we will find out whether the DHS, now headed by acting Secretary Kevin McAleenan, is willing to be at least as strong under the Trump administration as it was under the Obama administration. (For more from the author of “Former ICE Director Reveals SOMETHING Huge About Illegal Alien Deportation” please click HERE)

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WATCH: Sheriff Calls for 2020 Candidate to Be Arrested After Signing Sanctuary Bill

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By The Daily Caller. A local sheriff wants Democratic Washington Gov. Jay Inslee to be held in contempt of Congress, or even arrested, for signing a sanctuary bill into law.

“There is no way that this law is going to be followed because I have a responsibility to make sure that criminals are taken off the streets of my county, regardless of immigration status. I will be helping my federal partners do that,” Spokane County Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich said Friday on Fox News.

Knezovich made it very clear that he will continue helping Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) apprehend illegal immigrants in his county, despite what the new law mandates.

“The sanctuary city, or sanctuary state issue, is actually causing the problem we have on our border,” the Spokane County sheriff explained. “When the United States is signaling to illegal immigrants that you can cross that border with no repercussions, we are going to have more and more problems. I disagree with the progressive socialists’ view that there was no crime associated with illegal immigration.” . . .

The new law largely prohibits local law enforcement from asking about a person’s immigration status or place of birth. Jails and state prisons are also barred from honoring voluntary “immigration holds” requested by ICE agents, or from alerting them if a migrant is soon to be released from custody. The new rules, on par with laws passed in California and Oregon, are considered some of the most restrictive in the country. (Read more from “Sheriff Calls for 2020 Dem to Be Arrested After Signing Sanctuary Bill” HERE)

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Washington ‘sanctuary’ law means Gov. Inslee should step down or be held in contempt, arrested, sheriff says

By Fox News. Washington state Gov. Jay Inslee should step down, be held in contempt or arrested for approving a “sanctuary” law, according to the Spokane County sheriff.

Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich told host Harris Faulkner on “Outnumbered Overtime” Inslee took the same oath of office that he did, promising to respect federal law.

“You’re saying [Inslee] is committing a crime, basically,” Faulkner said.

“I am,” Knezovich responded. “He took the same oath that I did to uphold the Constitution of the United States and the laws thereof.”

“If you don’t want to enforce your own laws, then either step down or be held in contempt of Congress or be arrested for obstruction – but do not impede and badmouth your ICE agents for doing their job.” (Read more from “Washington ‘sanctuary’ law means Gov. Inslee should step down or be held in contempt, arrested, sheriff says” HERE)

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Large Numbers Coming to the Border from Ebola-Ridden Countries

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There are 88 nations where the per capita GDP is lower than that of Guatemala, which stands at $4,471 as of 2017. That is likely well over one billion people living in similar or worse conditions than those coming to our border today, primarily from Central America. As such, it’s no surprise that once our government telegraphed the message to the world that our sovereignty no longer matters when someone invades with a child, people are now coming in large numbers from all over the world, including from the most disease-prone countries in Africa.

While Africans have been trickling over our border in recent months, on Friday, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced that “the first large group of people from Africa” were apprehended in the Del Rio sector of Texas. In total, 116 individuals were apprehended in this African caravan on Thursday morning, including 35 from Angola, one from Cameroon, and 80 from Congo.

This demonstrates that the global migration, at this pace, will be a bottomless pit, because even if we eventually empty out the northern triangle of Central America, there are unlimited regions in the world where poverty is pervasive and from which people will travel to seek the de facto amnesty being offered.

The per capita GDPs for Angola, Cameroon, and Congo are $4,247, $1,452, and $2,147 respectively – all below that of Guatemala. Would-be African migrants have so far largely lacked the family and friend ties the Central American and Mexican immigrants have after years of illegal immigration from those countries. Once the seeds from these newer countries are planted, there is nothing stopping the illegal immigrant chain migration phenomenon from spreading to other parts of the globe in the coming years.

But when it comes to countries like Congo, there is an entirely new dimension of concern – dangerous contagious diseases. While the problems of mumps, tuberculosis, scabies, and chicken pox from Central America are bad enough, the influx of African migrants takes the concern of contagious diseases to an entirely new level.

Congo is experiencing the worst Ebola outbreak in recent memory, with over 1,300 fatalities since last August. The Ebola virus is extremely deadly, and there are no vaccinations or reliable treatments for it. While CBP noted that the group of Africans was given a medical screening, the challenge with Ebola is that the initial symptoms are often unremarkable, such as such as fever, headache, and weakness, and are therefore difficult to diagnose shortly after the infection, according to the Centers for Disease Control. In fact, according to the CDC, “When someone gets infected with Ebola, they will not show signs or symptoms of illness right away.”

With family units being released within days, often within hours, how can our government be certain that Americans, not to mention Border Patrol and local health officials, are not being put in danger? This is why the law (8 U.S.C. § 1222(a)) requires the government to detain all migrants “for a sufficient time to enable the immigration officers and medical officers to subject such aliens to observation and an examination sufficient to determine whether or not they belong to inadmissible classes.” This was for all migrants. It was always presumed that we would never take in people from specific countries that were experiencing deadly epidemics.

I asked CBP’s press office whether CBP has a different protocol for dealing with migrants from Congo or other African countries with risk of diseases, such as not releasing the migrants as immediately as Central Americans. A CBP spokesperson replied that “the process is the same, officers and agents review all individuals they come in contact with for signs of illness and notify CDC as needed.”

Again, Ebola and many other illnesses are not apparent through immediate symptoms, and most of these aliens are not held long enough to fulfill the dictates of § 1222(a) given the incubation period required. It’s quite shocking that country of origin would not play a role in either making these aliens inadmissible or prohibiting their release from detention.

(Read my four-part series on the threat of diseases at the border here, here, here, and here.)

CBP did confirm that contrary to some internet rumors, as of today, there have been no confirmed cases of Ebola at the border.

The country of Cameroon is on Congo’s western border, and its migrants should also be a concern to us. According to the CDC, Cameroon is experiencing a measles outbreak, along with the long-standing problems of many other diseases, such as yellow fever, hepatitis, malaria, and typhoid. The same measles outbreak is also in Angola, which borders Congo to the south.

However, even Angola has shut its border to Congo in light of the Ebola outbreak. Yet, the United States has evidently not shut its border to Congo. It is quite shocking the Trump administration has not included Congo on the travel ban list in light of the concern of Ebola and other diseases.

The president has unilateral authority to shut off any or all immigration, even legal immigration, and refuse to process any asylum claims (even legitimate ones) when he determines that the migration is “detrimental” to U.S. interests. If the crime, drugs, poverty, and empowerment of the cartels are not reason enough to do so, one would think the public health concern would be more than sufficient. (For more from the author of “Large Numbers Coming to the Border from Ebola-Ridden Countries” please click HERE)

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Watch: Footage Shows Thousands of Illegal Aliens Going Through Border

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As impeachment fever soaks up the oxygen in Washington D.C., the crisis on the southern border with Mexico continues to get worse by the day.

Yesterday marked a new and grave milestone for Border Patrol agents as more than 1,000 illegal aliens, the vast majority falsely claiming asylum, poured over the border into the United States.

“The apprehension of 1,036 individuals in a single group – the largest group ever encountered by Border Patrol agents – demonstrates the severity of the border security and humanitarian crisis at our Southwest border,” Customs and Border Protection Deputy Commissioner Robert Perez released in a statement. “The dedicated men and women of CBP, and in particular the U.S Border Patrol, are doing their very best every day to address the influx of family units and unaccompanied children.”

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U.S. On pace for ANOTHER Record Month in Illegal Immigration

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After the new record numbers of family units coming to the border almost every month this fiscal year, some might have thought the crisis would have maxed out in April and the numbers would begin decreasing. But preliminary data from Customs and Border Protection (CBP) apprehensions so far in May show that numbers continue to skyrocket.

According to preliminary weekly data used internally by CBP and given to CR by a Border Patrol agent who must remain anonymous because he is not authorized to speak to the press, 71,834 illegal aliens were apprehended between points of entry in the state of Texas from May 1 to May 28. That works out to a daily pace of 2,565.5 per day or a flow of 936,408 annually – just in the state of Texas alone. One has to go back to fiscal year 2006 to find this level of annual apprehensions in all four border states combined.

This ensures that May will now crush April’s unfathomable numbers. The same internal, preliminary CBP data for April shows that 60,476 illegals were apprehended in Texas during an equivalent 28-day period from April 3 through April 30. That means that illegal immigration into Texas likely increased roughly 18.8 percent in May over April.

Overall, in April, almost 99,000 illegal immigrants were caught between points of entry at the entire southwestern border, in addition to roughly 10,000 inadmissible immigrants at points of entry. Given that approximately 60 percent of the aliens have been coming in through Texas and Texas’ numbers increased almost 19 percent in May, it’s likely that when the final numbers are tallied for the entire border, May will easily set another overall record. Axios is reporting that 75,000 families have arrived, absolutely blowing out the record 58,000 in April.

On Wednesday, a record 1,036 illegal immigrants came in one large group at El Paso, which is the most of any single group coming in at once. Clearly, the situation is getting worse, not better.

While the overwhelming majority of the illegal aliens hailed from the three northern triangle countries in Central America, there were also a number of people from other Latin American countries and even other parts of the world. There were 1,045 from Brazil, 1,787 from Cuba, 1,118 from Ecuador, and 1,301 from Nicaragua. This suggests that a number of people in other countries relatively close to the smuggling routes are catching on to the de facto open border for those coming in with a child.

There were also illegal aliens caught from countries of possible terror concern, including 67 from Bangladesh and 40 from Uzbekistan. Special interest aliens (SIAs) usually pay smugglers much more to get smuggled in while agents are tied down with Central American family units, so it’s very likely that the apprehension rate for those from countries of particular concern is lower.

Yesterday, Politico reported that the president would be announcing a shutoff of asylum for those who could have claimed asylum in Mexico or other countries. When reading the Immigration and Nationality Act and the UN treaty on refugees, it’s striking how they are all written in singular language referencing individuals claiming asylum. Nothing in our laws would ever define a mass cartel smuggling operation accounting for a significant percentage of a country’s population as asylum. It’s an invasion. Whether the president is prepared to treat it as such is yet to be determined, but the clock is ticking on his legacy. In 2015, when Trump referred to the border situation as making America a “dumping ground,” we were apprehending 38,000 illegal aliens per month. Now, we are seeing twice that number just in Texas alone. (For more from the author of “U.S. On pace for ANOTHER Record Month in Illegal Immigration” please click HERE)

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