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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.”

(Read more from “Footage Shows Thousands of Illegal Aliens Going Through Border” HERE)

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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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People Die in Immigration Detention of Tragic but Natural Causes — and Border Personnel Try to Save Them

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The legacy media ensures that Americans are aware of the name of every illegal alien who dies in ICE or Border Patrol custody after making the most perilous journey through the hands of brutal smugglers and cartels. It is evidently now the job of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and ICE not only to give up immigration enforcement designed to protect Americans but to perform miraculous revivals of the dead like the biblical prophets. In reality, a fair look at CBP/ICE mortality rates demonstrates a remarkable track record for that agency.

The media lament that six children have died in CBP custody this year. What they don’t offer is any context or sense of proportion. People die in government custody all the time, out of hundreds of thousands of people in custody. The Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) tracks the mortality rate of incarcerated individuals across the nation. Per the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the average mortality rate in state prisons from 2001 to 2014 (the most recent year available) was 256 deaths per 100,000 persons. The mortality rate in federal prisons during the same period was 225 deaths per 100,000.

Now consider the fact that 531,711 people have come into CBP custody this year at the border just for the first seven months of the fiscal year. Many of them are children coming under the worst circumstances. According to testimony from acting DHS Secretary Kevin McAleenan, most of the migrants are coming “from countries where poverty and disease are rampant,” and large numbers of them “may have never seen a doctor, received immunizations, or lived in sanitary conditions.” Then, the trip itself is so perilous with illness and dehydration that CBP and then ICE are receiving them under exponentially worse conditions than state or federal prisons receive their inmates.

Six children died this fiscal year in CBP custody. A total of nine people (all adults) died in ICE custody last fiscal year, out of 396,000 people detained. That is approximately 2.25 deaths per 100,000 persons. So far this year, five people have died in ICE custody (separate from CBP custody).

Now, obviously, there are several unique factors about immigration detention that caution against declaring that detainees are 100 times more likely to die in federal prison than in ICE or CBP custody. For one, most inmates are in prison a lot longer than illegal immigrants are in ICE or CBP detention facilities.

Also, the population in prison tends to be older than the illegal immigrant population. The older the population, the more likely people will reach their end. After all, 59 percent of those who died in state prisons in 2014, according to BJS, were 55 or older. But if you break down the mortality rate by age for state prisoners, it was 34 per 100,000 for those aged 18-24 and 54 per 100,000 for those aged 25-34. That is still well above the mortality rate in immigration facilities. And again, criminal prisoners are coming, on average, from much healthier backgrounds and not under the unique circumstances of dehydration and malnutrition or being locked in trailers by smugglers and cartels, as is the case with the illegal immigrants.

None of this fits on a bumper sticker. Every death is a tragedy, but it’s ridiculous to report on it without any context or comparison to other large incarcerated populations.

Why don’t we know the names of the 2,028 homicide victims killed by foreign nationals apprehended by ICE just in fiscal year 2018? Every year, ICE apprehends a population of criminal aliens responsible for roughly 2,000 avoidable murders. Roughly 80 percent of them have been convicted, with the remainder being apprehended and deported after arrest on murder charges. Where are the detailed lists of children killed by MS-13 members let into the country?

Additionally, we will never know the number of murders and deaths prevented by ICE because they’ve deported millions of criminal aliens, including the most violent transnational gangsters. According to BJS, more than three-fourths of felony defendants had a prior arrest history, with 69 percent having multiple prior arrests. Most criminals tend to be career criminals. It’s the 20 percent committing 80 percent of the crime. Those are the folks deported by ICE.

While all illegal alien crime is avoidable and not enough criminal aliens are deported, we have still deported from the interior and at the border 1.8 million criminal aliens from 2007 to 2018. That is a decade worth of criminal aliens who are not only off the streets but out of the country. On average, despite the appalling number of criminal aliens we don’t deport, we generally deport a larger share of the worst offenders. There is a direct relationship between the severity of the offense and the likelihood of deportation. Can you imagine the number of people saved by ICE’s ability to completely remove certain criminal elements from the country and thereby end their future criminal careers?

Immigration enforcement saves lives, but like every other issue, it requires one to look at the full picture. (For more from the author of “People Die in Immigration Detention of Tragic but Natural Causes — and Border Personnel Try to Save Them” please click HERE)

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The Coming Crime Wave That Border Patrol Isn’t Stopping

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here’s a very simple question the president needs to ask as he continues to contemplate action at the border. For whom does our Border Patrol or even the military exist? Do they exist to protect Americans from bad people coming into this country or to serve as babysitters for a cartel smuggling operation that enables bad people to come in? The two jobs are mutually exclusive. Cartel babysitting undermines protecting Americans. This fact alone should prompt the president to shut down all asylum requests at the border and turn back migrants.

Yesterday, the U.S. Border Patrol celebrated a grim 95th birthday. On May 28, 1924, Congress established the Border Patrol as part of the Immigration Bureau in the Labor Appropriation Act of 1924. Prior to that, land borders were patrolled by ad hoc “mounted watchmen” with few formal federal resources, because most people entered through sea ports. The purpose of the Border Patrol was very clearly spelled out in the 1924 funding bill: “Preventing the unlawful entry” of mainly Chinese nationals and deporting anyone who was caught. The Department of Labor was given funding for “the operation of horse and motor vehicles.” It was all for detention and deportation. Nothing more, nothing less.

Fast-forward 95 years later, and Border Patrol has now become a global babysitting and hospital service. It exists for the invaders, not for those supposed to be protected from them. Border Patrol has advertised “the creation of a new Border Patrol Processing Coordinator position” for the purpose of processing and transporting aliens and for “custodial watch of detainees in hospitals.”

Just in the El Paso sector alone, 2,200 illegal immigrants surrendered themselves to Border Patrol on Memorial Day. While most are still from Central America, the message has gotten out to the rest of the world that we are not enforcing our border. According to Customs and Border Protection (CBP), 15 illegal aliens from Congo, a country ravaged by Ebola, yellow fever, and other diseases, were apprehended at Eagle Pass, Texas. Not surprisingly, “The group consisted of five adult males, five adult females, and five minor children.” In other words, just enough minors to go around that each adult pair has one to use as a ticket to amnesty.

What is going on in plain sight at the border is bad enough, but what’s worse is what we don’t see. Try to imagine how many really bad people are coming in the New Mexico desert while the agents are on babysitting duty rather than patrolling. In Texas, border agents at secondary checkpoints caught 38 illegal aliens being smuggled up the highway in the Rio Grande Valley on Monday. Thankfully, those checkpoints are still being manned, but what is happening in New Mexico, where all the checkpoints are down? Any suspicious smuggling activity of people who are scared to meet agents will go unchallenged because they have unfettered access to the interior of the country.

Even among the hundreds of thousands we do apprehend without prior criminal records, we have no idea who these people are. Many Central American teens come from extremely volatile backgrounds and are being resettled in our communities under the most tenuous circumstances in neighborhoods full of existing illegal immigrant gangs. The entirety of the Long Island MS-13 surge has been caused by the influx of Central Americans since 2014. Deputy Assistant Attorney General John Cronan said that there are 2,000 MS-13 members in Long Island and “their ranks are continually being refilled with new emissaries from El Salvador.” The Nassau County Police union said on Sunday that they need 60 additional detectives just to combat MS-13 in their area. Eleven people have been killed by MS-13 in Long Island since 2016.

These are the direct effects of our Border Patrol being used to facilitate catch-and-release rather than stop-and-turn-back to enforce a shutoff of immigration the president should have announced long ago. If this is the degree of criminality we saw just from the 2014 wave, can you imagine what is going to occur as a result of this much larger wave?

That is a question Jaeson Jones, retired captain with the Texas Department of Public Safety’s Intelligence and Counterterrorism Division, asked on my podcast last week. Jones warned that tens of thousands of illegal aliens have now become “indebted to the cartels inside our country” and will have to go back into the criminal world to pay off that debt.

“Human trafficking will reach new heights in the United States in the next 18 to 24 months,” Jones warned. “Several cartels have stated that they cannot keep up with the number of people surging through their plazas throughout Mexico. Historically, the cartels’ process was to detain people in stash houses until receiving payments from migrants who wished to travel through their plaza or be smuggled across the border into the United States. Those who could not pay would compensate by working off the debt in Mexico for the cartels. For women, that would mean sex trafficking, and for men that would be carrying narcotics for the cartels.”

That has all changed, and the criminal activity will continue on our soil, according to Jones.

“Today, due to the surge of migrants from across the world, the cartels are dealing with new challenges in collecting the piso [tax]. Many migrants traveling from Central America cannot afford the tax ranging from $3,000 to $6,000 per person. Additionally, the cartel cannot afford to house migrants until receiving payment. As a result, the cartels are collecting the personal identifying information (PII) from migrants, including family contact information, which is then confirmed and validated through phone calls made to family members of the migrants. These migrants are then released to travel into the United States.”

Thus, the criminal problems we will face will not only come from those the Border Patrol misses but from those they catch and release.

“Once through U.S. immigration and customs processing, migrants are immediately contacting smugglers and are receiving instructions where to go and who to contact to work off their debt.”

I’ve noted many times that the president has the power to shut off even legitimate asylum claims when he believes it’s “detrimental” to U.S. interests. But this goes even beyond immigration law. This is national security and national defense in the face of a strategic 21st century-style invasion by the most dangerous cartels.

The president would be wise to make the national security case to the American people for designating the cartels as terrorists and using the military to counter them. That would easily pave the way for an executive shutoff of all immigration processing at our border. Then, the Border Patrol can actually focus on patrolling.

After all, that is why we created the Border Patrol. (For more from the author of “The Coming Crime Wave That Border Patrol Isn’t Stopping” please click HERE)

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Border Patrol Whistleblower Provides an Inside Look at America’s Broken Immigration System

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By Townhall. For years, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Border Patrol have said their facilities are overwhelmed and the system is severely broken. Politicians in Washington, D.C. have debated the issue, but one thing they can’t debate is the cold hard facts. And the fact is we have people from around the world taking advantage of loopholes in our immigration system, a Border Patrol whistleblower told Townhall.

Central American caravan riders have overwhelmed the Border Patrol since last fall when they began coming to the United States en masse. Mexico established a system to help the U.S. deal with the people who were coming to America, allegedly seeking asylum. Those who wanted to seek asylum had to go through a port of entry, file the paperwork and then go back to Mexico to wait until their court date. Mexico even offered to provide humanitarian visas to those who couldn’t legally enter into the United States so they could stay in Mexico and work. But that’s not what these migrants wanted. They want a life in America. . .

And here’s where things get even more twisted. If an illegal alien comes up sick, agents are forced to take him or her to a nearby urgent care or hospital for treatment, exposing everyone in the community to the communicable disease. Border Patrol and ICE aren’t required to report said diseases to the Center for Disease Control so there’s absolutely no way for the CDC to accurately track where an outbreak began, the whistleblower explained. Not only that, but agents are getting sick themselves and they’re bringing these diseases home. They’re exposing their kids and family members to the diseases they’re being exposed to while on the job.

The whistleblower who spoke to me explained the general concern amongst agents tends to be the same: agents really aren’t on the border right now because they’re spending basically all of their time and resources processing people who ask to see immigration judges. The illegal aliens figured out our “catch and release” system so they’re coming in droves. Not having anyone along the border means we essentially have open borders. The drug cartels and terrorists are taking advantage of that fact. Agents are seeing more “exotics” – people from South Africa, Somalia, India and the Middle East – than they otherwise would have. It’s not just those from Central America, like Guatemala and Honduras. (Read more from “Border Patrol Whistleblower Provides an Inside Look at America’s Broken Immigration System” HERE)

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Border Control Creating New Position for Immigration Crisis

By The Daily Caller. The U.S. Border Patrol announced that it’s creating a new position specifically tailored to processing and caring for migrants who reach the southern border, allowing agents to refocus their work on enforcement.

The “Border Patrol Processing Coordinator” will assume certain responsibilities that have consumed the agency’s time as it deals with a surge of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border, according to a Customs and Border Protection (CBP) press release on Tuesday. The new position is meant to bring relief to agents who have long complained that the humanitarian crisis has kept them from performing their main role at the border.

Coordinators are to be tasked with feeding, cleaning, transporting and other general tasks for illegal immigrants in Border Patrol custody. Migrants in need of medical care will be transported to hospitals by coordinators, who will also be assigned to watch over migrants as they receive care.

“I am committed to providing the men and women of the U.S. Border Patrol the resources they need to accomplish their border security mission,” Carla Provost, Chief of the Border Patrol, said in a prepared statement on Tuesday. “Border Patrol Processing Coordinators will take on processing, transportation, and custody responsibilities, which will free up agents for critical law enforcement operations.” (Read more from “Border Control Creating New Position for Immigration Crisis” HERE)

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46 Cases of MUMPS in County with Highest Illegal Alien Traffic

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Hidalgo County, Texas, is ground zero for the most illegal aliens coming in among all places along the southwestern border. It is also experiencing an outbreak of mumps, with 46 reported cases countywide since March, an unprecedented number for any U.S. county. Yet you would never know about this if you rely on the national media beat reporters at the border to report on it. Why? Because it is inconceivable that this unprecedented outbreak is not coming from the influx of extremely vulnerable illegal aliens from source countries that are experiencing a mumps epidemic.

On Monday, the Hidalgo County health department announced that the tally of mumps cases had risen to 46.

According to Hidalgo County Health and Human Services Director Eduardo “Eddie” Olivarez, the county usually only experiences one to three mumps cases in an entire year, and most of them are in infants. Now, they are seeing outbreaks in some of their schools and colleges.

Amazingly, Olivarez is quoted in the local media as saying that in no way is this epidemic coming from illegal immigrants. No sir. It’s likely coming from people traveling to other states around Easter time, according to Olivarez.

So let’s get this straight: We have people coming in the largest numbers ever “from countries where poverty and disease are rampant,” and large numbers of them “may have never seen a doctor, received immunizations, or lived in sanitary conditions,” according to testimony from acting DHS Secretary Kevin McAleenan. They are coming under the worst conditions in “close quarters on trains and buses that smugglers procure for moving them through Mexico,” which “can hasten the spread of communicable diseases,” according to testimony from Randy Howe, head of operations for CBP’s Office of Field Operations.

We know there was a massive mumps outbreak in Honduras right before the caravans started coming up last fall. Two weeks ago, the AP reported that “authorities in the northern Mexico border state of Tamaulipas say they have detained 289 Central American migrants, including some children with measles and other illnesses.” Most of the caravans left from San Pedro Sula, a northern Honduran town that had 1,336 reported cases of mumps as of April.

We now know that there were close to 200 individuals in Texas ICE facilities who contracted mumps. CBP has released thousands of migrants without any screenings or vaccinations. Yet, Hidalgo County officials are 100 percent certain the mumps outbreak is coming from Americans and not from illegal immigrants.

In addition to the threat of diseases from Central Americans, there are now individuals coming from places in Africa that have Ebola outbreaks, such as Congo. More than 1,110 people have died of Ebola, there and the situation has spiraled out of control. I asked CBP if they have a special protocol for not releasing those coming from these African countries effected by Ebola and if they require mandatory screening and holding for an incubation period or if they just treat them if they exhibit symptoms at the moment of arrival or request medical attention. A spokeswoman for CBP responded that “U.S. Customs and Border Protection and public health officials monitor the health of people coming into the U.S. and there have been no encounters of Ebola along the southwest border.”

The CBP official further reiterated that at ports of entry, they have worked closely with the CDC to screen out potential threats:

“CBP and the CDC have closely coordinated to develop policies, procedures, and protocols to identify travelers at all ports of entry who may potentially be infected with communicable diseases and to minimize the risk to the traveling public. These procedures have been utilized collaboratively by both agencies on a number of occasions with positive results. CBP personnel review all travelers entering the United States for general overt signs of illnesses (visual observation, questioning, and notification to CDC as appropriate) at all U.S. ports of entry, including all federal inspection service areas at U.S. airports that service international flights, land-border crossings and seaports.”

However, there appears to be no confirmation that those coming between ports of entry as families to benefit from catch-and-release are subjected to mandatory screening and incubation based on country of origin. Indeed, a Homeland Security advisory council report observed that there clearly is no long-term screening to ensure those who don’t currently exhibit symptoms are incubated in order “to anticipate some of the potential infectious disease complications that can be found in this population of children.”

The council recommends facilities with exam rooms “and equipment designed to prevent the transmission of communicable diseases.” It further recommends the issuance of “a medical ‘passport’ for children exiting the custody of RPCs that identifies significant medical problems as well as any immunizations provided before their release, which would be beneficial to destination communities and their public health systems and avoid the very high risk of these children becoming lost to monitoring.” That is currently not being done.

Clearly, when it comes to diseases like tuberculosis, scabies, and mumps, it’s very unlikely that Americans are protected from their spreading. Aaron Hull, chief patrol agent of the El Paso sector, divulged in April that Customs and Border Protection is increasingly “caring for more and more sick people, because a lot of these aliens coming in are carrying contagious health conditions, things like chicken pox, scabies, tuberculosis, lice.”

Yuma County Sheriff Leon Wilmot is definitely seeing this problem in his area. “They have come across a number of different diseases, from scabies to chicken pox to measles to mumps … they have encountered that here,” said the veteran border sheriff on my podcast yesterday. “Unfortunately, there have been some Border Patrol agents that have been exposed to these types of health issues. I know there were two Border Patrol agents here locally who contracted scabies from having to have contact with some of these folks. It is an issue that is being monitored by our local health department, but medical [personnel] can only catch what they are able to catch. And when you are running through so many folks, its obviously an issue when they are not showing signs when they are in the custody of BP for just 24 hours.”

Yuma is the third busiest human smuggling sector at the southwest border.

Why do all common sense and precautions for Americans go out the window when it comes to illegal immigration? How bad do things have to get before we enforce our laws barring entry to those with health concerns? (For more from the author of “46 Cases of MUMPS in County with Highest Illegal Alien Traffic” please click HERE)

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Illegal Alien Teens Charged with Murder Were Previously Released by Sanctuary

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There seems to be a full-court press over every single illegal alien who dies of natural causes after making the perilous journey over our border. Yet there is almost no coverage even of the most high-profile murders committed by illegal aliens, including by the “children” coming through our border from Central America and being released into our communities.

Last week, three teens, including two confirmed illegal aliens from El Salvador, were charged with first-degree murder in Prince George’s County, Maryland, for allegedly butchering a 14-year-old with a bat and machete. Josue Rafael Fuentes-Ponce, 16, and Joel Ernesto Escobar, 17, both gang members, were arrested on May 16 by PG County police for the murder of 14-year-old Ariana Funes-Diaz in a wooded area in Riverdale. Shockingly, a 14-year-old girl, Cynthia Hernandez-Nucamendi, was also arrested for the murder last week.

Gang-style murders committed by illegal aliens have become very common both on the Maryland and Virginia sides of Washington D.C., as these counties are saturated with illegal aliens from Central America who are often connected to MS-13. Yet nobody in the local media reported on their immigration status until now.

In response to a media request from CR last week regarding the immigration status of those charged, ICE has now confirmed that the two male suspects were both illegal aliens from El Salvador who were released into the country – one as part of a family unit and one as an unaccompanied alien child. It turns out both were arrested for attempted murder almost exactly a year ago, and both were released by the PG County criminal justice system in defiance of an ICE detainer.

ICE has confirmed that Josue Rafael Fuentes-Ponce was first apprehended as part a family unit in Texas on December 23, 2015. “They were ultimately paroled into the U.S. pending the outcome of the immigration case,” said ICE spokeswoman Justine Whelan in a statement. An immigration judge ordered Fuentes removed in absentia on March 16, 2017, but like so many of them, it was too late. He had already disappeared.

Escobar had a parallel experience, except that because his family smuggled him in alone, he was resettled as an unaccompanied alien child. “On Aug. 23, 2016, immigration officials encountered unlawfully present El Salvadoran national Joel Ernesto Escobar as an unaccompanied juvenile near McAllen, Texas. Escobar was transferred to the custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement, and later released to a family member in the Washington, D.C. area,” said Whelan.

The fact that, once again, illegal aliens released into our country as part of a smuggling operation were allowed to remain and allegedly commit murder would be tragic enough, but that is not the end of the story.

Both Fuentes and Escobar were charged with attempted murder almost exactly one year ago in PG County. ICE previously lodged a detainer against each of them on May 11, 2018, with the Prince George’s County Detention Center. At the time, Fuentes was arrested “for attempted first-degree murder and related charges” and Escobar was arrested “for attempted first-degree murder, attempted second-degree murder, conspiracy to commit murder, participation in gang activity and other related charges,” according to Whelan.

In the case of Fuentes, the case was remanded to juvenile court, after which “the Maryland Department of Juvenile Services failed to honor that detainer and Fuentes was released without notification to ICE.” In the case of Escobar, he was released by county police “without notification to ICE.” Escobar was convicted of conspiracy to commit robbery on March 15, 2019, still without any notification to ICE.

PG County does not allow ICE in its jails, so ICE has no way of knowing when these individuals are released.

It wasn’t until their high-profile arrest on May 16 that ICE was again aware of their whereabouts, now with another teenager dead. “As law enforcement officers, we must continue to serve and protect the American public and act in the interest of public safety first,” said Baltimore Field Office Director Diane Witte in a statement. “These individuals had demonstrated violent criminal behavior before, and because they were released in spite of the lawful detainer, they were afforded an opportunity to take a life.”

I’ve reported on numerous cases where illegal aliens arrested for murder had previously been released after charges of DUI, assault, or drug trafficking. But to ignore an ICE detainer after an initial charge of attempted murder is a new level for local sanctuaries thumbing their noses at federal immigration officials. Attempted murder is hard to dismiss as “low-level” charges. One has to wonder, if they are not honoring detainers on attempted murder charges and are not notifying ICE of the arrestees’ release, how many other murders, robberies, assaults, drunk driving incidents, and gang crimes could have been avoided? It’s quite evident that these crimes would certainly not impel local authorities to cooperate with ICE if an attempted murder charge is not enough. (For more from the author of “Illegal Alien Teens Charged with Murder Were Previously Released by Sanctuary” please click HERE)

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