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Illegal Alien Serial Killer: Man Allegedly Killed 12 Elderly Women

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By The Dallas News. A serial killer suspect faces 11 new capital murder charges in the deaths of elderly women in Dallas and Collin counties.

Billy Chemirmir, 46, has been in the Dallas County Jail since March 2018 facing a capital murder charge in the death of 81-year-old Lu Thi Harris.

Chemirmir, a former health care worker, was indicted Tuesday on six additional counts of capital murder in Dallas County and five counts in Collin County.

In each of the cases, he smothered his victim with a pillow and robbed her, according to court records. (Read more from “Illegal Alien Serial Killer: Man Allegedly Killed 12 Elderly Women” HERE)

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Suspected North Texas Serial Killer Charged in Smothering Deaths of 12 Elderly Women

By WFAA. A 46-year-old home health worker is now linked to the deaths of 12 elderly women in Dallas, Frisco and Plano.

Billy Chemirmir, 46, has been in custody since March 2018 on a capital murder charge in connection with the smothering death of 81-year-old Lu Thi Harris. . .

Investigators said early on they believed Chemirmir was linked to more deaths, but he had not faced new charges in a year.

His bail is now set at more than $9 million. There’s also an immigration hold on him, according to Dallas County jail records.

(Read more from “Suspected North Texas Serial Killer Charged in Smothering Deaths of 12 Elderly Women” HERE)

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Most Americans Don’t Realize How Bad the Border Crisis Is. Here Are the Eye-Popping Numbers

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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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DOJ Report: 43% of All Offenders Last Year Were Non-Citizens

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While jailbreak, known by its proponents as “criminal justice reform,” is misguided on the state level, it is downright built upon a false premise on the federal level. The latest report from the U.S. Sentencing Commission demonstrates that the 800-pound gorilla in the room clogging up the federal criminal justice system is immigration, not “low-level” domestic offenders.

If we only solved our border problem and deported illegal aliens before they commit more crimes, not only would we be safer, but we’d save a ton of money on the federal criminal justice system – without irresponsibly releasing American criminals back into our communities, as proposed by jailbreak proponents.

According to the U.S. Sentencing Commission, in its recently published 2018 report on federal sentencing statistics, 54.3 percent of the 69,425 federal offenders last year were Hispanic, and 42.7 percent of offenders were non-citizens. The two biggest offense categories were immigration (34.4 percent) and drugs (28.1 percent).

This is why methamphetamine was actually the most common drug charge, according to the U.S. Sentencing Commission. The biggest increase in drug activity from the cartels was meth, not marijuana or even heroin. Thus, our federal drug prosecutions are all about the most violent transnational cartels and gangs. Federal prosecutors don’t waste their time with “low-level” Americans in New York or Chicago. Drug possession charges accounted for just 3.9 percent of federal offenders, and almost all of those were in border districts because they involved immigration cases.

The notion that the feds go after drug possession is just a straight-up lie. 63 percent of all non-citizens charged for drug trafficking in 2018 were illegal aliens. Moreover, because illegal alien networks are the antecedent for much of the trafficking from the cartels, if we were to enforce our immigration laws on the front end, many Americans who get roped into drug trafficking would never have the opportunity to do so.

As Robert Murphy, special agent in charge of the DEA’s Atlanta office, told me last year, “Predominantly, what we arrest here is illegal aliens.” He noted that were we to close our border and deport all criminal aliens, the cartels would struggle to survive. “Sure, you might find some Americans who would be willing to go to Mexico and work for the cartels, but it won’t be the level that they need to have the control of the U.S. market like they do now with the illegals and Mexican nationals.”

To begin with, the federal prison population overall has plummeted over the past decade, the exact opposite of the jailbreak narrative. The imprisonment rate for sentenced prisoners under state or federal jurisdiction decreased 2.1 percent from 2016 to 2017 and 13 percent since 2007, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics. The imprisonment rate for sentenced prisoners older than 18 was the lowest since 1995.

The decline in the federal system is even sharper. The federal system, to begin with, only accounts for 12 percent of the incarcerated population, and if they are not in the system for immigration charges, they are usually those who’ve graduated to big-time crimes. Yet since just 2012, the federal prison population has declined by 16 percent.

Still, the jailbreakers think that all of the releases, under-sentencing, and lack of convictions are not enough “progress” in dismantling law and order in this country.

What these numbers also demonstrate is the degree of criminality from illegal aliens in this country. Defenders of open borders will retort by noting that the overwhelming number of non-citizen offenders are in the system for immigration violations, which is self-fulfilling and doesn’t demonstrate that they commit more crime in general. However, they miss the point that most U.S. attorneys will not waste their time prosecuting someone for a standard immigration charge unless they believe they are engaged in trafficking for the cartels or have committed other crimes.

Most illegal aliens now are either given de facto amnesty and released, or they are deported. If they are turned over to the DOJ for prosecution, there is usually more than just immigration violations, though they charge them with immigration violations, which are open-and-shut cases, in order to save time and resources. In fact, in 2012, the DOJ adopted a “fast-track” prosecutorial procedure in the border districts to allow criminal aliens to plead down for the purpose of deporting them expeditiously. Were they to remain in the country, as many weak-on-crime and open-borders advocated want, they would be prosecuted for other crimes. And had we not deported millions of criminal aliens over the past two decades, we would be dealing with an unimaginable level of crime from those who would remain in the country. Remember, we actually have deported some of the worst criminal elements among illegal aliens, and yet there are still this many coming into the justice system.

So the next time you hear someone complaining about too many people locked up in federal prison for “stupid drug charges,” ask them their position on immigration. (For more from the author of “DOJ Report: 43% of All Offenders Last Year Were Non-Citizens” please click HERE)

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This Is the next Illegal Immigration Shoe to Drop – Along with Its Criminal Elements

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What’s next after Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador empty their populations into this country? There is no end in sight. The next country to line up at our border is Cuba, and it’s bringing an entirely new dimension of criminality with it.

On Monday, the Associated Press published a comprehensive report on the growing trend of Cubans accepting the invitation from our government to come to our border along with the Central Americans. The article discusses the particular route the Cubans have taken through Juarez. As the AP observes, “10,910 Cubans came through official crossings between October and April, versus 7,079 in the previous 12 months.” Almost half of them came in at the El Paso field office, while the other half came in at points of entry near Laredo.

What is going on in the Juarez-El Paso area? According to the Agencia EFE, the largest Spanish-language news wire agency, the phenomenon began with just 100 Cuban migrants arriving in Juarez last October. Once they saw they were allowed into the United States within 24 hours, “word began to spread about the quick and easy access to the United States via Ciudad Juarez-El Paso among the migrants’ relatives and friends.” Then, Cubans began to fly to Panama and make their way to Juarez, and now their numbers are overwhelming even the Central Americans in his key border city.

While most of the media reports on the Cuban migration focus on the veracity of asylum claims or even the cultural clashes with local Mexicans, there is another disturbing element to this that has bearings on our national security. The Cuban migration has brought with it an entirely new dimension of organized crime right at our border and likely coming through it. Juarez is infested with Mexican criminal cartels and gangs, and now, according to a top federal official, the caravans are bringing in criminal organizations from other countries.

“With the pressure placed on the system, now you have all these OTM (other than Mexicans) caravans flooding into Juarez,” warned Kyle Williamson, special agent in charge of the DEA in El Paso. “You’ve got Cubans, Hondurans, Salvadorans, and Guatemalans flooding into Juarez. The Cubans are pretty much occupying all of the motels in town and, together with the Hondurans, are working the street-level drug trafficking.”

“Sinaloa is still the dominant cartel in the region, but Cartel Jalisco New Generacion (CJNG) is coming on strong and pushing a lot of meth.” Williamson noted that while there is still a rigid structure of the individual cartels at the senior level, “the waters have gotten very muddy” at the mid-level and the gangs contracting with them, who often move loads for multiple cartel bosses. Plus, the three major cartels in the area – Sinaloa, CJNG, and La Linea – are sharing the plazas in Juarez. Williamson observed how traditionally the three gangs operating in the area served particular cartels, but that is all changing. “Now you throw in the mix something we’ve never seen before in this area with a lot of other criminal elements coming in from these other countries, and they are getting involved in the gangs. The cartels are giving the Cubans, Hondurans, Salvadorans, and Guatemalans the permission to run prostitution rings and street-level drug trafficking in Juarez.”

Therefore, the migration is now bringing entirely new dimensions of criminal activity and drug trafficking at the same time it is taking out Border Patrol resources to combat a more robust cartel and gang threat than ever before. Our enemies now know they can weaponize migration to kill two birds with one stone: They can flood us with migrants and criminal elements who take advantage of desperate migrants, plus the flow in itself ties down our agents so the cartels can strategically bring in their criminal organizers. And as I reported yesterday, with the secondary Border Patrol checkpoints all taken down in New Mexico, these criminal elements have a free lane into our country.

What’s particularly disturbing about the Cuban criminal elements, more than those from Central America, is that there are likely hostile anti-American intentions at the governmental level. Whereas the Guatemalan government under Jimmy Morales is friendly with the Trump administration, the Castro government remains an arch-enemy of the United States.

Colonel Dan Steiner, a retired Air Force veteran who coordinated Texas military operations at our border and also has significant experience in Latin America and the Middle East, believes it’s a no-brainer that Castro is sending much more than drug runners. “The Cubans have a relationship with the Venezuelans, Tehran, Moscow, and the Bolivarian revolution. Their instinct is to counter U.S. actions against them. Insertion of individuals or groups to conduct counter-operations is almost a given. Once we accept this premise, we can fully anticipate these groups will have motives beyond the drug business. Why would they not take advantage of something we seem not to have a handle on? Does anyone in D.C. really care about the potential ramifications of this?”

Steiner believes this is yet another reason why the cartels should be designated as terrorists and should be the focus of more robust military operations. “Again and again, this is why I argue there is a true nexus between the cartels the drug industry and the U.S. definition of a terrorist organization.”

Criminal elements or national security threats from Cuba or other countries of interest now know they can come up the highways without being stopped by the checkpoints where some of them would stand out to agents. We already know that people from nearly 50 countries have been caught at our border this year, according to Raul Ortiz, the deputy chief patrol agent of the Rio Grande Valley sector. “These are from the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Yemen, Iraq, Pakistan, Iran, you name it,” said Ortiz in an interview with the Epoch Times in March.

The fact that our military is not being placed at the border in places like New Mexico to counter the criminal elements and national security threats rather than simply changing tires on trucks and serving as drivers and cooks for the illegal immigrants remains a mystery.

So long as we refuse to close our border to processing of any immigration requests, there simply is no end to the number of people throughout the world who will eventually come. So long as we open our doors and our welfare system, they will come, especially if we’ve already let in so many from those countries that they are motivated by family unification along with economic considerations. A quick glance at the U.N.’s data on GDP per capita by country shows that 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 the ones coming to our border today.

What is most tragic is that as these economic migrants pour through Mexico to our border, they serve as a physical and political conduit for all the criminal elements of these countries from which America is supposed to be an asylum. (For more from the author of “This Is the next Illegal Immigration Shoe to Drop – Along with Its Criminal Elements” please click HERE)

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Father of Transgender School Shooter Suspect Is a Illegal Alien With a HEAVY Record

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By The Epoch Times. The father of Colorado school shooting suspect Maya “Alec” McKinney is an illegal immigrant and serial felon, according to a new report.

McKinney, 16, was identified as one of two suspects in the STEM Highlands Ranch shooting, which left one dead and eight wounded.

According to records obtained by the Daily Mail, McKinney’s father Jose Evis Quintana is a Mexican national who has been deported twice.

Quintana once served over a year in jail after being convicted of domestic violence against McKinney’s mother and was arrested multiple times in Colorado between 2008 and 2017.

Despite the domestic violence conviction, Quintana, 33, married Morgan Lynn McKinney, 32, in 2009. He was deported the next year.

(Read more from “Father of Transgender School Shooter Is a Illegal Alien With a HEAVY Record” HERE)

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The Mexican Father of Alleged Colorado School Shooter Alec McKinney, 16, Was Jailed for Domestic Violence and Deported TWICE, With His Son Posting How He Missed Him Just Days Before the Atrocity

By The Daily Mail. ose Evis Quintana, the father of alleged 16-year-old killer Alec McKinney was once jailed for 15 months for domestic violence against Alec’s mother and ‘menacing with a weapon’. . .

Records show Quintana, 33, who was also deported twice, had a string of arrests in the Colorado dating back from 2008 to 2017.

Court papers show that despite Quintana terrorizing Alec’s mother Morgan Lynn McKinney, 32, he managed to convince her to marry him in 2009, a year before he was first deported.

Quintana, 33, who admitted to having a history of drink and drug problems, was sent back to his native Mexico on December 9, 2010. (Read more from “The Mexican Father of Alleged Colorado School Shooter Alec McKinney, 16, Was Jailed for Domestic Violence and Deported TWICE, With His Son Posting How He Missed Him Just Days Before the Atrocity” HERE)

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Beto’s Ridiculous Mother’s Day Message: So Many Mothers Deported

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Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke delivered a Mother’s Day message about the deportation of mothers to Exeter, New Hampshire, over the weekend.

O’Rourke asked those gathered for a Saturday campaign stop to think of migrants in light of Mother’s Day. He then employed his own children as he claimed that mothers have been deported, while the children they crossed the U.S.-Mexico border with are kept in cages before being sent off to “god-only-knows where in America.” He threatened that some of the children who came with their mothers may be forever separated from them.

O’Rourke said:

Right now we have mothers arriving at our front door, at the Texas-Mexico border, who have traveled 2,000 miles, leaving some of the deadliest places on the planet today. Doing what Amy and I would do if the only way to save the lives of our kids, Ulysses who’s 12, Molly who’s 10, Henry who is 8-years-old, was to make a similar journey for their lives and for their sake, to come to a country that has defined and distinguished itself by being a country of refugees and asylum-seekers, and immigrants from the world over.

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O’Rourke focused on child separation policies under the Trump administration without the same attention to policies existing and being established under previous administrations. The Trump administration curtailed family separation policy in the midst of national attention on the subject. (Read more from “Beto’s Ridiculous Mother’s Day Message: So Many Mothers Deported” HERE)

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Cartels ‘Kicking Our Butts’, as U.S. State Left Without Checkpoints

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What happens when our government takes down its interior checkpoints north of the border in New Mexico? Well, the cartels, with the drug and human smuggling, are “kicking our butts,” according to one local official.

In an interview with CR, Couy Griffin, the chairman of the Otero County, New Mexico, county commission, explained how our government has exposed his county, and by extension, the rest of the nation, to unprecedented criminal activity from the Mexican cartels. In his view, by taking down the two secondary Border Patrol checkpoints in his county in order to focus on more processing of illegal immigrants, the federal government is missing the point.

“The cartel is winning and winning big; they are kicking our butts,” complained the commissioner of this sparsely populated but large county bordering Texas, near El Paso. “We get so tied up and focused on the asylum seekers or the illegal immigrant aspect of what’s going on at our southern border, but the reality of it is that it’s nothing but a mere smoke screen for the cartel. They’re using these large groups of migrants as nothing more than a smoke screen to smuggle their drugs across the southern border. Meanwhile, as soon as those agents are exhausted, those critical spots, they’re sending boatloads of drugs across the border in unsecured areas. The shutting down of the checkpoints on the major drug smuggling corridors is a recipe for disaster. Now they have a green light to shuttle drugs through our counties and through our rural areas, with no security in place.”

Otero County, while itself not on the international border, has two highways originating from the two main border towns where the illegal immigrants are coming in and the cartels are operating – U.S. Highway 70 and U.S. Highway 54. For years, there has been a checkpoint on each highway on the way to Alamogordo, the foremost town in this county. Griffin noted that while the cartels used to relegate their activity to remote parts of the southeast corner of the county, “Now, with our checkpoints being shut down, there’s no need to take it out to the middle of nowhere when they can just run it right up to main road.”

Otero County Sheriff David Black told me that his tiny three-man narcotics team and other deputies now have to deal with the cartels all on their own without any help from Border Patrol: “We have rerouted all of our overtime money to interdictions on the highway.” Black noted that his informants tell him the large stash houses in El Paso and even in source cities in Mexico like Juarez are now empty because the cartels “are taking advantage of the unprecedented open borders because nothing is stopping them.”

Obviously, his three-man narcotics team catches only a small amount of the drugs, but what they’ve seen demonstrates the relationship between the surge in the border migration distracting agents, the taking down of checkpoints, and the increased drug traffic.

“In February, before the closing of the checkpoints, we seized $3,500 worth of drugs, including meth, heroin, and marijuana. In March we seized $23,000, and in April we seized $61,790. For our county, that’s a lot.”

In total, there are six checkpoints in the El Paso Border Patrol sector: one in El Paso County, Texas, two in Otero County, N.M., and three in Doña Ana County, N.M. Customs and Border Protection has confirmed with CR that all six remain shut down. Thus, there is not a single checkpoint operating in New Mexico. While the politics of Doña Ana County and the central state government in the urban areas of Albuquerque and Santa Fe have rolled out the welcome mat to illegal immigration and cartel activity, officials in the more conservative and rural counties, such as Otero and its neighboring county to the north, Lincoln, resent the secondary effects and fear that more is coming.

“I’ve never seen all these checkpoints closed in my life, and I’ve been in Lincoln and Otero Counties for 30 years,” said Lincoln County Sheriff Robert Shepperd in an interview with CR. “I have friends who are out on ranches who now have to lock their doors and do things they shouldn’t have to do. It’s eerie watching these checkpoints look like ghost towns.”

Sheriff Black in Otero believes that in the greater El Paso area, the cartel operatives are picking up those who sneak in while Border Patrol is tied down. “I guarantee you they are picking them up in truckloads and driving them north with nothing stopping them in our county.” Black feels a responsibility not only for his county but as a gatekeeper for the entire country. But he has only the resources of a 65,000-person county to deal with the largest transnational criminal organizations at a volatile international border.

The El Paso-Juarez region is a hotbed for transnational cartel and gang activity. Kyle Williamson, the special agent in charge (SAC) for the DEA’s operations in the El Paso sector, explained to me in an interview last week that three major cartels are operating in the region: Sinaloa, Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG), and La Linea (Juarez Cartel). They are all served by three major transnational gangs operating in the Juarez-El Paso region, including the violent Barrio Aztecas, which were just elevated to a Tier 1 threat by Texas DPS’ gang threat assessment. According to Williamson, Sinaloa is still the dominant cartel in the region, but Cartel Jalisco New Generacion is “coming on strong and pushing a lot of meth.”

Williamson echoed the concerns of the local officials about the lack of checkpoints – with a federal perspective of particular concern to the DEA. “When they catch drugs at the checkpoints, unlike at the points of entry, we as DEA actually respond to those. At the points of entry, it’s Homeland Security Investigations that responds. Border Patrol catches a lot of drugs at those checkpoints, then we go out there and take the prisoners and drugs, continue to develop the investigation and get them into court.”

Thus, when the Border Patrol is diverted in order to process the influx of illegal aliens, it hampers the DEA’s core mission. “These checkpoints are a very effective and important second line of defense, absolutely vital and necessary.”

And while most of the politicians and the media are focused on opioids, Williamson believes there needs to be more attention paid to meth. “My biggest threat in New Mexico and West Texas is methamphetamine without a doubt. When you talk about Mexican cartels, the transnational criminal groups, and drugs, you can’t do so in the same breath as the opioid crisis.”

On top of the diverted federal resources, the more conservative rural counties in New Mexico must deal with the open-border policies of the governor, who doesn’t seem concerned about the empowerment of the cartels or the drugs coming into her state. Earlier this year, Governor Michelle Grisham scoffed at the notion that there even was an emergency and initially rebuffed requests for help from Hidalgo County when it was slammed with thousands of migrants. She even removed the National Guard troops from the border, who could have been used to free up more border agents, so they could return to the checkpoints.

Three weeks ago, Couy Griffin and his fellow commission members declared an emergency in Otero County because of the closure of the checkpoints. “If Governor Grisham really had a heart for the people, she would redeploy the National Guard to our border, which would relieve those agents from the border to come back to our checkpoints, but she won’t do that,” said Griffin in our interview.

Couy believes it all boils down to politics. “The politics of our state is what’s killing our state. It all just boils down to politics.”

Meanwhile, as American leaders fight over politics, cartel leaders fight over turf, drugs, and human smuggling routes made possible by these policies. Those with years of experience in law enforcement seem certain that things will only get worse from here. “About six months down the road is when we are going to start seeing a spike in property crimes and a spike in overdoses,” predicted Sheriff Black ominously. “We have not seen the worst of it yet; it’s still coming.”

Sheriff Shepperd sees the same picture just one county north. “It’s like the calm before the storm.” (For more from the author of “Cartels ‘Kicking Our Butts’, as U.S. State Left Without Checkpoints” please click HERE)

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April Was Another Record Month for Illegal Immigration

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The problem with waiting months to act decisively at the border is that we become accustomed to the new normal of record border numbers.

According to Customs and Border Protection (CBP), April set yet another record, with a total of 109,000 apprehensions at the southwest border. Unless the administration harnesses this news and calls for a complete shutoff of immigration processing at the border, it’s unlikely that the numbers will fall significantly. The partial measures being pursued currently might have worked a year ago when we warned about the tsunami, but not now that we are squarely in the storm.

Here are the key takeaways from the April CBP border report:

In total, 109,144 individuals were apprehended at the border – 98,977 between points of entry and 10,167 at points of entry. This is the highest number in 12 years, it is very likely the highest number of unique individuals of all time, given that many in the past were the same individuals deported multiple times within the same week, while almost all of these are first-timers.

The 58,474 individuals in family units set another record, but an increasing number of people are also coming as single adults, 31,606. The overwhelming number of single adults are from Mexico, while most of the family units and unaccompanied teens are from Central America.

The increases over the previous month seemed to be from the Rio Grande Valley (RGV), El Paso, and Yuma sectors, the three busiest corridors in absolute numbers. Overall, for this fiscal year, every sector has seen a massive increase in family units.

Guatemala still leads the pack for the most migrants coming in all categories, followed by Honduras, with a sharp drop-off for Salvadorans. Overall, 301,900 Guatemalans were apprehended at and between points of entry since the beginning of fiscal year 2018. In other words, in just 19 months, 1.7 percent of Guatemala’s population came to our border, and that is on top of the 815,000 Guatemalan nationals who already lived here, most of them illegally. A recent poll showed that a third of Guatemalans would like to immigrate to the U.S. A total of 224,078 Hondurans have come since FY 2018, 2.4 percent of the population. That is on top of the 623,000 already here. This means that the size of these countries’ populations in America equal roughly 6.6 percent and 9.2 percent of their respective populations in Guatemala and Honduras. “Only” 79,000 have come from El Salvador over the past 19 months, but because they dominated the Central American migration in previous years, we already had 1.4 million Salvadorans in this country as of last year, representing roughly 22 percent of their entire homeland population!

Has the trajectory been bent? Will the numbers go down in May? Well, CBP reported on Tuesday that during the first week in May, there were 10,000 apprehensions in the Rio Grande Valley, a new weekly record. During the 30 days of April, there were 36,681 apprehensions in the RGV. It is therefore clear that the message has not yet gone out to Central America that we are no longer tolerating this violation of sovereignty.

Unlike in the past, when mainly single adults were coming over and were immediately repatriated, most of these individuals are being released. ICE has released 168,000 just since December 21, and that number doesn’t include the 33,000 released by CBP directly without ever being processed in an ICE holding facility since March 19. If these individuals are never repatriated, the lifetime cost to taxpayers, as estimated by the Center for Immigration Studies, would be roughly $30 billion.

This is the part of the crisis that is never discussed. The philosophical problem with the approach of our government over the past year is that when circumstances such as lack of detention space create a scenario where our laws cannot be implemented properly, they err on the side of the alien and not on the side of the American people.

Our laws require that every alien, including those seeking asylum and even those approved for it, be detained throughout the entire process. Moreover, our laws require that these economic migrants be immediately placed into expedited removal. Any appeal of a credible fear denial must be handled within a day and no later than seven days, according to existing law. Why should the fact that they flood us with invasion levels of migrants strengthen their hands to achieve the very intent of their mission? Why should the fact that they increase the illegal smuggling to levels that can’t be detained result in rewarding the cartels with catch-and-release and making Americans pay for the crime, gangs, drugs, lack of security checkpoints, fiscal costs, cultural problems in the schools, and the health risks?

Part of the problem is that the desires of the aliens are individualized and immediately apparent before the TV cameras. The harm they cause to Americans – both directly through fiscal, security, and health concerns and indirectly by draining off resources and empowering the cartels and gangs – are long-term, less apparent, and often go unreported. Nobody sees a rapist right at the border, but there are sadly plenty of people like Juan Leon-Gomez, an illegal alien from Guatemala, who is now charged with raping and impregnating an 11-year-old girl and keeping her in his closet. The TV cameras show 16-year-olds in need at the border, but they won’t show you how 40 percent of those caught in a recent MS-13 sting were border teens who were resettled as refugees.

The entire purpose of our federal government is to care for Americans, not foreign invaders.

Today, as the DHS announces the unprecedented data from April, would be the most auspicious time for the president to announce a complete shutoff of all cross-border migration of those who show up without documentation. Unless he acts now, the American people will become used to the cartels and illegal aliens pouring over our border as the new normal. (For more from the author of “April Was Another Record Month for Illegal Immigration” please click HERE)

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Trump Defends National Emergency Declaration, Reveals the BIG Immigration Problem With Dems

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By Fox News. President Trump again described the situation at the U.S.-Mexico border as a “national emergency” at a Florida campaign rally Wednesday, saying the caravans headed to the United States were an “invasion” and voicing his concerns against human and drug trafficking.

“No nation can tolerate a massive organized violation of its immigration laws. And no one should run for office without an ironclad pledge to protect and defend America’s borders,” Trump told the Panama City Beach crowd. “Shouldn’t be allowed to run. And to confront this crisis — you saw that! It was a big deal two months ago. I declared a national emergency, which is what it is. This is an invasion!”

Trump said Democrats “don’t mind crime” and spoke about caravans heading through Central America to the U.S.-Mexico border.

“When you see these caravans starting out with 20,000 people, that’s an invasion. I was badly criticized for using the word ‘invasion.’ It’s an invasion!” Trump said, defending his rhetoric. (Read more from “Trump Defends National Emergency Declaration, Reveals the Problem With Dems” HERE)

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Trump Briefs Republican Senators on Emerging U.S. Immigration Plan

By Reuters. President Donald Trump and aides on Tuesday briefed a group of Republican senators on a merit-based immigration plan that would let more highly-skilled workers into the United States and fewer low-skilled workers, a senior administration official said.

The overall effect of the plan, the official told a group of reporters, would be to leave the number of legal immigrants allowed into the United States at about the same.

“We want to encourage immigration. But it’s got to be through the legal system,” the official said.

Separately, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, whose committee would have to shepherd such legislation through the Senate, described the effort to reporters as “a merit-based immigration proposal that deals with increases in work visas and decreases family visas.” The latter refers to visas for relatives of immigrants already in the United States. (Read more from “Trump Briefs Republican Senators on Emerging U.S. Immigration Plan” HERE)

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Illegal Alien Arrested by ICE After Killing 3

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Jose and Anna Pacheco and their 10-year-old son Angel were sleeping Saturday night in their trailer home in Sutter County, California. But Ismael Huazo-Jardinez, a previously deported illegal alien, was allegedly driving drunk, missed a turn on the road, and slammed straight into the trailer, killing the three Pachecos, leaving the severely injured 11-year-old daughter, Mariana, as the only surviving member of the family.

The ink had barely dried on my column last week about two unreported illegal alien alleged DUI manslaughters in California when news broke about this triple fatality resulting from alleged drunk driving. I suspected this was yet another unreported illegal alien vehicular homicide. Initially, I didn’t hear any news back from ICE about a detainer, so I assumed there was no way an illegal alien who had killed three people could have been let out on $300,000 bond and therefore presumed the suspect was a citizen. But evidently that was the case, because ICE’s Fugitive Operations Team arrested Jardinez on Tuesday and is holding him pending the criminal proceedings.

According to ICE spokesman Eric Prince, “Ismael Huazo-Jardinez is an illegally present Mexican national.” He told CR in a statement that “the U.S. Border Patrol apprehended him in Arizona and granted him voluntary return to Mexico in February 2011.”

Yet thanks to the sanctuary of California, the suspect, like many other criminals, was incentivized to come back and must have returned to the state sometime afterwards.

According to the local CBS affiliate, Huazo-Jardinez was granted bail the next day, despite protests from the California Highway Patrol. Thanks to new state laws and judicial guidance, criminals booked in jail are rarely denied bail, and many are now released even without bond.

The fact that our border is wide open and so many criminals can come back is disturbing enough. But this is yet another case where despite another arrest of the criminal, he was not turned over to ICE. According to the local sheriff’s office, as reported by the local NBC affiliate, Huazo-Jardinez had a prior conviction for reckless driving.

What’s worse is that even after he was arrested again for a triple vehicular homicide, he was still released without being turned over to ICE. It appears that ICE had to get him on their own. How many thousands of illegal aliens are in this country with criminal records, have been allowed to go free, and ICE is not even aware of their existence? By definition, every crime that is committed by these individuals is completely avoidable.

There seems to be a Californian killed almost every day by illegal alien DUIs alone. It would take a full-time beat reporter to cover all these cases and to verify their immigration status. I’ve been bombarding ICE with requests for information on various crimes that appear likely to involve illegal aliens, but certain privacy policies often make it difficult to verify the exact immigration history when the aliens are in local custody.

The bottom line is that so long as there is an incentive for people to come to places like California and be treated on the same or better footing than citizens even after being arrested for a crime, there will continue to be more dead Americans resulting from bad guys pouring over our border.

To this day, even the GOP-controlled Senate has refused to vote on any meaningful anti-sanctuary legislation. It’s surprising that Congress will not make it a top priority headed into the election to require local authorities to turn over every individual arrested with a “no match” fingerprint, indicating the suspect is an alien.

For now, ICE is trying to step up its enforcement even without the help of California law enforcement. “Individuals who enter our country illegally and commit crimes must not be released back into our communities where they are able to harm others,” said Erik Bonnar, acting field office director, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) San Francisco, in a statement to CR. “This is an important matter of public safety.”

“U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is committed to identifying and apprehending removable aliens, detaining these individuals when necessary and removing illegal aliens from the United States,” said Bonnar. “Members of the ICE (San Francisco) Fugitive Operations Team made good on this commitment today when they prioritized resources to apprehend Ismael Huazo-Jardinez.”

“I am proud that ICE San Francisco continues to contribute to the safety of our communities through its tireless efforts, pursuing and apprehending illegal aliens that pose a threat to our public safety,” Bonnar added.

A GoFundMe that says it was posted by a cousin of the family has been set up for Mariana, who will face a future without her parents. (For more from the author of “Illegal Alien Arrested by ICE After Killing 3” please click HERE)

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