In retrospect, Donald Trump locked up the Republican presidential nomination the day he announced his candidacy. In words that will forever be etched in the minds of voters who were captivated by his boldness, Trump came down the escalator at Trump Tower on June 16, 2015, and announced, “The U.S. has become a dumping ground for everybody else’s problems.” He spoke directly to the unspoken concern of millions of Americans when he declared, “When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. … They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.”

Fast-forward four years later, and I think any border agent would tell you they would love to go back to the level of border problems they were dealing with in 2015 before the mass migration from Central America, and now, 50 other countries. During the month that Trump delivered the famous speech, there were 38,611 apprehensions at the border, and only a fraction of them were released. Now, over 100,000 are being apprehended every month. ICE has released 168,000 just since December 21, and another 33,000 were released directly by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) from March 19 to early May without ever having been processed in an ICE holding facility. The criminal elements are more empowered than ever to bring in gangs, criminals, and drugs. Indeed, America is a bigger dumping ground than ever before.

After vigorous protest from local officials, the DHS announced that it has no plans to dump illegal immigrants apprehended at the Texas-Mexico border into Broward and Palm Beach Counties, Florida. On Saturday, acting CBP Commissioner John P. Sanders announced that “contrary to inaccurate reports in the press, CBP has no plans to transport people in our custody to northern or coastal border facilities, which include Border Patrol stations in Florida.” Instead, what CBP has been doing is “transporting hundreds of families by bus and aircraft from the U.S. Border Patrol’s severely overcrowded processing facilities to less-crowded stations along the Southwest border.”

By declaring reports of sending illegal immigrants to Florida as “inaccurate,” the acting CBP commissioner is seemingly stating that there never were such plans, not just that they changed their mind. It sure doesn’t seem that way from the fact that the Palm Beach County sheriff claims he was told by a local Miami Border Patrol official this was going to happen. In a recorded statement, Sheriff Ric Bradshaw said, “It appears that Border Patrol has backed off its initial plans to transport 1,000 illegal immigrants to South Florida.” (Emphasis added.) He thanked county residents for protesting the move “to stop what appeared to be a crisis for our community.”

Either way, it appears that DHS officials recognize the toxicity of releasing illegal aliens into the interior of the country. The problem is that they are admitting to releasing them and moving them around near the southwest border itself. That is not much better. What happens after they are moved around? They are released. And as most border officials will tell you, most of them are not staying near the border but are going to major cities in the interior of the country, most often the East Coast. So while there is much debate over what CBP does initially with the migrants, what is not in dispute is that between CBP and ICE, they have released over 200,000 impoverished illegal aliens who went into our communities.

What is important from the protests of Palm Beach and Broward, two Democrat counties, is that everyone seems to agree that the protection of Americans should come first. They laid down a clear marker that it is unacceptable for Americans to bear the fiscal cost and be on the hook for any health concerns or crime. As Governor Ron DeSantis said, “It will tax our resources, the schools, the health care, law enforcement, state agencies.” Even Democrats were furious. Sheriff Bradshaw, a registered Democrat, called it “a public safety problem,” and questioned, “What kind of health conditions do they have?” Other local Democrats decried the public safety concerns and straining of public resources.

So! If we all now believe that it is unacceptable to dump illegal immigrants into Florida, then why is it acceptable to dump them into Texas and New Mexico outside controlled tent cities right at the border? And why it is acceptable to release them after dumping them in border states and have them smuggled, often by criminal networks in the country, to the East Coast? Is it only a firehose that is a problem, but not a sprinkler system of migrants?

Also, DHS officials now admit that they are indeed using aircraft to fly illegal aliens around, although they say they will only do so to other parts of the border in order to conserve space. But again, once they are putting illegal immigrants on planes, why should the American people be on the hook for their eventual release into the interior instead of flying them back to Central America or at least to one of our islands with military bases? The trip from McAllen, Texas, to San Diego is actually 200 miles longer than a trip back to Guatemala City. Flying them from McAllen, Texas, to San Diego is not going to deter them from coming so long as they know they will be released into our country. If they were flown and held outside the country or returned to their own countries, then that would solve the numbers problem with detention facilities.

What this dust-up over the dumping of migrants in Florida has demonstrated is that now is the best time for the president to begin shifting the debate away from the needs and desires of the illegal immigrants to the needs and desires of the American people and the sovereign states, not to mention the government’s obligation to the American people and the sovereign states. We now see how bipartisan this issue truly is, once the effects are actually apparent, imminent, and brought home to our communities. According to a new Harvard/Harris poll, when asked whether people with questionable asylum claims should “be let into the United States for years until their case comes up or should they immediately be turned back to Mexico for staging,” 66 percent said that they should be turned back to Mexico. And just 13 percent of the same pool of respondents ascertained the number of migrants coming to our border. If more people realized how bad it is, the number of people opposing catch-and-release would likely be higher.

While DHS has been turning migrants back to Mexico in small numbers, the president has thus far declined to issue a complete shutoff of all asylum requests at our border and refuse entry to anyone, an executive power that was just affirmed in the Supreme Court. The American people have been forced to shoulder the burden of millions of illegal migrants from Mexico for years. The American people are clearly tired of it. (For more from the author of “It Turns out That Keeping Waves of Illegal Aliens out of Our Communities Is a Bipartisan Goal” please click HERE)

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A previously deported Honduran national attempted to illegally re-enter the United States by utilizing a six-month-old boy as a “fake” son to make a fraudulent family claim, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials allege. ICE agents from Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) determined there was no familial relationship between the man and the little boy.

Rio Grande Valley Border Patrol agents apprehended the man after he waded across the Rio Grande with an infant child in his arms near Hidalgo, Texas, on May 7, according to ICE. Agents said the migrant claimed the boy as his own and presented what later turned out to be a fraudulent birth certificate. Agents at the McAllen Central Processing Station became suspicious of the parent-child relationship and turned them over to HSI.

During interviews with ICE, the man identified as Amilcar Guiza-Reyes, a 51-year-old from Honduras, reportedly admitted he obtained the fraudulent birth certificate to establish a father-son relationship. He further stated he intended to use the child to “further his unlawful entry into the U.S.,” ICE officials stated.

“Cases like this demonstrate the real danger that exists to children in this disturbing new trend,” HSI Acting Executive Associate Director Alysa Erichs said in a written statement. “And while we have seen egregious cases of smugglers renting and recycling children, this case involving a six-month-old infant is a new low – and an unprecedented level of child endangerment.”

“Frankly, it’s disgusting,” Acting ICE Director Matthey T. Albence said in a phone interview with Breitbart News. “But, it’s not something that we’re surprised about, unfortunately. We’ve been saying for several years that when we talk about the humanitarian crisis on the border, it’s not just the number of family units and unaccompanied children that are coming to the border illegally, it’s a fact that, based on the laws that Congress has failed to fix, they have created an industry the smuggling and rental of children.” (Read more from “Deported Migrant Used Infant for Fake Family Claim at Border” HERE)

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A recent national survey finds that most Americans don’t understand just how severe an illegal immigration situation this country is currently facing at the southern border.

The latest monthly Harvard/Harris poll, which was conducted between April 30 and May 1 among 1,536 registered voters, found that a mere 13 percent of respondents were able to accurately give the annual number of illegal immigrant apprehensions at the border (between 250,000 and 500,000) when asked “About how many people do you think are caught trying to enter through the southern border each year?” At the same time, a whopping 76 percent of respondents gave answers that were well under current levels.

The poll numbers were released by the Center for American Political Studies at Harvard University and The Harris Poll.

Now, it should be noted that the 13 percent who got it right are only correct about previous levels of border apprehensions. Between fiscal years 2010 and 2018, the number of total apprehensions fluctuated between 300,000 and 500,000.

However, we’re currently dealing with record numbers at the border. If the current monthly rates hold, then the 12 percent of respondents who said that apprehensions are over 500,000 per year would be correct. In fact, according to federal government estimates based on the surging monthly totals so far, this fiscal year could see around one million apprehensions.

Here’s the rundown for all Americans to equip themselves with the information needed to grasp the state America finds itself in now:

109,144 individuals were apprehended at the border in April alone.

103,492 illegal and inadmissible aliens were apprehended by during the month of March alone.

76,325 apprehensions occurred in February.

Border arrests have reached their highest point in 12 years.

February numbers showed a 1,744% increase in asylum claims.

Family unit apprehensions by Border Patrol jumped 311% during the first five months of this fiscal year over the first five months of last fiscal year.

4,117 migrants were apprehended on a single day in March.

Just 6% of the people crossing the border are expressing a credible fear and requesting asylum in one sector, according to an immigration official.

A recent survey found that one-third of Guatemala’s population wants to come to the U.S.

Over 1% of the entire populations of Guatemala and Honduras have entered the United States this fiscal year, according to DHS.

There are at least 1.9 million known criminal aliens sitting in U.S. jails.

Human smugglers are running radio ads in Central America, according to a Border Patrol official.

ICE is having to reallocate resources to deal with “fake families” trying to manipulate border policies.

Now Border Patrol reports that children are also being rented and “recycled” to defraud immigration officials.

Catch-and-release policies also sent an estimated 7,000 illegal immigrants into Tuscon, Ariz., over an eight-month period alone.

Border Patrol agents in Texas over just the last week apprehended 5,500 migrants per day.

If you weren’t aware of the severity of the immigration crisis, that ought to give you a pretty good snapshot. And that’s just a sampling of stories from the last few weeks. (For more from the author of “Most Americans Don’t Realize How Bad the Border Crisis Is. Here Are the Eye-Popping Numbers” please click HERE)

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