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Police: Illegal Alien Fled Car Crash on Foot After Killing Teacher

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New details are emerging about a hit-and-run crash in Mobile, Alabama, allegedly caused by an illegal alien that left a schoolteacher and mother dead.

As Breitbart News reported, 49-year-old Sonya Jones was allegedly killed by 16-year-old illegal alien Domingo Francisco Marcos, from Guatemala, in a head-on, hit-and-run collision on March 18. The illegal alien had been previously released into the U.S. by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) after he crossed the southern border. . .

State Trooper Timothy Freeman explained to the court that the illegal alien was injured in the crash but still attempted to flee the scene. Freeman alleges that Marcos stumbled away from the crash before collapsing but eventually got back on his feet and eventually crawled away. . .

The illegal alien’s defense attorney claims the hit-and-run was an accident, a claim that Assistant District Attorney Keith Blackwood denies.

“The evidence that we have, both from the video that was testified about and the crash data retrieval system that there was testimony about is totally inconsistent with that theory,” Blackwood said in court. “What we do know is that Mr. Diego was speeding and he directly crossed over a center lane of traffic directly into Ms. Jones lane of travel.” (Read more from “Police: Illegal Alien Fled Car Crash on Foot After Killing Teacher” HERE)

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Sanctuary Cities Welcome Illegal Aliens With ‘Open Arms’ While 38K American Veterans Remain Homeless

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Sanctuary cities across the United States are responding to President Donald Trump’s threat to bus border crossers and illegal aliens to their jurisdictions, saying they plan to welcome all illegal immigration with “open arms” despite soaring homelessness problems.

Last week, Trump threatened to bus border crossers and illegal aliens into sanctuary cities and states, like California and New York City, if the country’s asylum laws were not changed. White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Sunday confirmed that the White House is considering the plan. . .

Sanctuary city mayors like Oakland, California, Mayor Libby Schaaf have responded to Trump’s threat by saying they plan to welcome any and all illegal aliens to their cities — even those cities that are struggling with rising homelessness. Currently, there are nearly 38,000 homeless American veterans across the country. . .

As of 2017, there were more than 2,700 Oakland residents who were homeless — an increase of 25 percent when compared to two years before. In all of Alameda County, there are about 5,630 homeless residents. In all of California, there are nearly 130,000 homeless residents, including nearly 11,000 homeless American Veterans. . .

In total, there are more than 550,000 American residents who are homeless nationwide. Meanwhile, the U.S. admits more than 1.5 million illegal and legal immigrants every year — the overwhelming majority of which are low skilled workers who compete for jobs against America’s poor, working, and middle class. The Washington, DC-imposed mass immigration policy drives housing costs up for Americans, economists have found. (Read more from “Sanctuary Cities Welcome Illegal Aliens With ‘Open Arms’ While 38K American Veterans Remain Homeless” HERE)

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Illegal Immigration Is Already Hurting Commerce at the Border

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Last week, many media figures and members of Congress warned the Trump administration that some of its ideas to deter illegal immigration would devastate commerce at the border. But it appears now that not stopping the border flow is already resulting in a partial shutdown of commerce at our points of entry. Agents are being diverted from points of entry to manage and process the asylum scam at our border, resulting in lane closures and partial shutdowns at certain points. We should use those resources to enforce an immigration and asylum shutdown, to push back the aliens or detain them in tent cities in order to stop the flow, and in the long run, to reopen commerce.

Last week, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) redirected roughly 545 of its “blue shirt” customs officers who man the points of entry to help the “green shirt” Border Patrol agents deal with the influx of Central American families and children entering between the points of entry. However, they are not being redirected to hold the line against the influx and deter the aliens from entering, but rather to further expedite catch-and-release.

Yesterday, the Washington Post wrote a long article chronicling the complaints of trade associations regarding the slowdown at points of entry: the “trucks backed up for hours and industry leaders warning of possible produce shortages and supply-chain interruptions.” They tacitly accuse the administration of implementing “a slow-motion facsimile of the border closure that President Trump threatened two weeks ago before backing down amid protests that shutting down the border would hurt the economy.”

Furthermore, as of the beginning of this month, CBP has shut down all commercial trucking lanes at the Nogales, Arizona, port on Sundays until further notice. It cites the redeployment of customs agents to deal with the border crisis as the cause.

Senator John Cornyn, who doesn’t seem to be too concerned about the actual invasion itself, also complained bitterly about Trump’s response to it. “The diversion of frontline CBP personnel from these ports, and the threat of a possible closure in the future, threatens to have a debilitating impact on the overall health of Texas’ economy,” wrote Texas’ senior senator in a letter to Acting DHS Secretary Kevin McAleenan. “Some Texas ports of entry have reported cross-border wait times in excess of seven hours, resulting in lost revenue and perished goods.

But nobody is really explaining what they want the administration to do instead. If they don’t want the president to choke off all immigration, then more agents are indeed needed to process the flow. Brian Hastings, chief of law enforcement operations for Border Patrol, told reporters in a conference call on Tuesday that “on average the Border Patrol is sending 63 people per day for additional medical treatment” from the illegal immigrant families. “This is the highest we have seen this number since we began tracking this,” he warned. “We’re currently on track to refer over 31,000 people for medical treatment this year as compared to only 12,000 during fiscal year 2018.”

The need for a redeployment of agents is obvious. According to Hastings, “Since December 22, 2018, US Border Patrol has spent over 100,000 hours — agent hours — at a hospital or medical facility.”

And the trajectory is not good: “Most concerning for us looking ahead is summer is approaching, this typically historically has meant increased flow from what we’ve seen in prior years and we’re concerned with the high temperatures paired with the dangerous and crowded conditions on the journey that puts this vulnerable population of family units and unaccompanied children at risk.”

Thus, at this point, the administration appears to have two options. It can either divert staff to help process and further incentivize this influx of illegal immigrants, or it could declare a “212(f)” shutoff of all immigration requests and use other federal law enforcement, as well as the military, to hold the line against the influx and deter them. Either way, commerce and trade will be hampered in the coming weeks. However, the former approach would ensure that it’s hampered forever, while accelerating the illegal immigration influx. The latter approach would shut down the next waves of illegal immigration in the pipeline, thereby allowing business as usual to resume within a few weeks. The administration will have to come to the conclusion sooner rather than later. (For more from the author of “Illegal Immigration Is Already Hurting Commerce at the Border” please click HERE)

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Pelosi Is Outraged at Leaked Plan From Trump Admin to Punish ‘Sanctuary Cities’

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A plan to retaliate against the political foes of the president by busing illegal immigrants to ‘sanctuary cities’ was leaked by whistleblowers on Thursday, and Democrats are outraged.

“The extent of this administration’s cynicism and cruelty cannot be overstated,” said Ashley Etienne, a spokeswoman for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).

“Using human beings — including little children — as pawns in their warped game to perpetuate fear and demonize immigrants is despicable,” she concluded. . .

The plan was revealed in the Washington Post, which relied on anonymous sources in the administration, but it was confirmed by a statement from the White House. . .

The report says administration officials pressured the Department of Homeland Security to implement the plan twice in order to pressure political enemies of President Donald Trump, but they resisted. (Read more from “Pelosi Is Outraged at Leaked Plan From Trump Admin to Punish ‘Sanctuary Cities'” HERE)

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Mainstream Media Outlets Change Their Tune on Border Crisis Amid Illegal Immigration Surge

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Months after repeatedly dismissing and mocking President Trump’s claim of a national emergency at the Southern U.S. border, the mainstream media are grappling with reality, with no less than The New York Times declaring the border crisis at “breaking point.”

Yet as recently as February, a New York Times fact-checker of Trump’s State of the Union speech tweeted: “President Trump described illegal border crossings as a ‘urgent national crisis.’ This is false.” . . .

Fast forward, the same media outlets are now scrambling to accurately portray the border crisis, no longer fearing to quote top officials and their data, and declare that the southern border is at a “breaking point” amid a surge in the number of illegal immigrant crossings. . .

“The U.S. Immigration System May Have Reached a Breaking Point,” a New York Times story read Wednesday, detailing the unprecedented problems at the border. . .

This is a follow-up to another story in the Times from last month titled “Border at ‘Breaking Point’ as More Than 76,000 Unauthorized Migrants Cross in a Month” that cited the data that over 76,000 migrants crossed the border without authorization in February, the 11-year-high that put a strain on the border patrol resources. (Read more from “Mainstream Media Outlets Change Their Tune on Border Crisis Amid Illegal Immigration Surge” HERE)

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9 Shocking March Stats From the ‘System-Wide Emergency’ at the Border

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If the February border numbers were unprecedented, the March border numbers appear to be unfathomable. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has published the March border numbers, which reflect a “system-wide emergency” in the view of top border officials. “The impacts to legitimate trade and travel cannot be overstated,” said CBP Deputy Commissioner Robert E. Perez in a statement. “As this crisis continues to worsen, it undermines CBP’s ability to perform its dual mission of protecting our borders and facilitating legitimate trade and travel.”

Here are nine shocking statistics from the March data and the cumulative numbers of illegal aliens and family units crossing this fiscal year.

103,492: The total number of illegal aliens and inadmissible aliens apprehended at and between points of entry in the month of March. That is the highest monthly number since April 2007. But as former Border Patrol head Mark Morgan told the Senate Homeland Security Committee last week, last decade, “1/3 of those apprehended were repeat offenders so the realistic number of migrant apprehensions was well below what’s reflected.” As such, it’s likely that this month is at or near an all-time record.

1.2 million: How many in a year if March’s pace continues. But Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) predicts that with the weather getting warmer over the next few months and the incentives for illegal immigration unaddressed, the numbers will grow larger. The first week of April seems to indicate this.

$168-180 billion: The lifetime cost of 1.2 million illegal aliens per year, using the input and methodology of the Center for Immigration Studies’ Steven Camarota to calculate the cost of illegal aliens to the American taxpayer.

57,271: A record number of family unit apprehensions (number of people apprehended with family members) in March. That beats the record we just set last month by a whopping 40 percent. That is more than three times as large as the first Central American wave at the peak of the 2014 migration during Obama’s tenure. Even just the unaccompanied minors (who are often split off from family units for strategic reasons) totaled 9,398, which in its own right rivals all but the two busiest months of the 2014 UAC surge, which was without the family units.

189,584: The number of family unit apprehensions between points of entry for the first six months of fiscal year 2019. This far surpasses the numbers for any previous full year.

218,645: The number of family unit apprehensions between points of entry since Judge Dana Sabraw ruled last July that all parents or adults brought with children must be released with the children. During that last nine months, as many family units have been apprehended as in the previous 33 months.

4,647%: The percentage increase in monthly family unit apprehensions between points of entry since the low of the “Trump effect” in April 2017 through February 2019. There’s been a 370 percent increase in family units for the first half of this fiscal year compared with the first half of FY 2018.

422,334: The total number of illegal aliens and inadmissible immigrants, including single adults, who have been caught at our border. That is almost twice the rate of last year, which in itself was a dramatic increase from FY 2017.

104: The number of large groups, defined as 100 or more, coming in at once to surrender to border agents and shutting down their resources. There were 13 such groups in FY 2018, mainly in the latter part of the year when this phenomenon began. It was almost unheard of in previous years.

One of the surprising data points from this month is the surge in single adults in addition to family units. While two-thirds of the illegal immigrants were family units or unaccompanied minors, the number of single adults increased in raw numbers by 30 percent over February. This is likely the result of the family units filling up the detention centers to such a point that even the single adults are being released for a lack of space. This has likely incentivized even those who can’t find a child to use as a ticket into the country to make the trek and try their luck at the border.

Yesterday, I presented 10 ways to disincentivize the border flow. But it is self-evident that unless the administration changes tactics, we have not reached rock bottom at the border yet. (For more from the author of “9 shocking March stats from the ‘system-wide emergency’ at the border” please click HERE)

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Deter, Defend, Demagnetize: 10 Ideas for Trump to Stop the Illegal Mass Migration

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What should be done about the crisis at our border?

To be clear, if the administration continues to concede that forum-shopped judges can issue universal injunctions on border security, no matter the precedent, justiciability, or issues of standing, then there is quite literally nothing the administration can do. By definition, anything that will effectively shut down this flow will be challenged in a specifically liberal court, and the Supreme Court will take forever to overturn it.

The administration must assert, as an independent branch of government, that universal injunctions issued by courts are unconstitutional, as suggested by Justice Clarence Thomas. At the very least, such an opinion issued by the attorney general will force the Supreme Court to finally confront this vital question, not just on our border, but on the very question of what the judicial power is.

Once the administration is willing to do this, here are a mixture of policies that are completely within the president’s powers, both inherent and delegated, to deter this particular wave of illegal immigration, defend against the cartels exacerbating it, and demagnetize the incentives for them to come here.

Deter

1) A complete shutoff of immigration processing (but not commerce) at our land border: The president should assert his unquestionable authority to deny entry to anyone seeking entry without existing valid documents, including those “seeking” asylum. He should announce that all processing of any asylum claims is suspended for at least six months. It would require holding the line against the first wave of migrants in the pipeline by turning them back. Those who manage to get in or refuse to depart, the administration should hold in tent cities while offering them the option to voluntarily depart at any moment. But admission into the country will be closed off, pursuant to the president’s inherent and delegated authority. Concurrently, the president should launch a media campaign in Central America announcing the shutoff and stating that no immigration status can be obtained at our land border without having applied at our embassies. President Obama launched such a campaign in 2014. President Clinton launched a similar campaign with the Haitian migrants in 1993 and agreed to process their asylum claims only in Haiti.

2) Tent cities plus rocket docket: The construction of tent cities, pursuant to DHS’ existing mass migration emergency plan, would likely be necessary to partially enforce (1), but could also work as a standalone idea, without a full shutoff. If the administration doesn’t want to completely shut down the process, it could house the very next wave of migrants in tent cities and then immediately transfer immigration judges and deputize other officials into adjudications in order to rapidly dispense with the bogus claims in less than seven days, as was done in 1989. This is actually required by law anyway, and holding them in tent cities will ensure they are not released, but also make it possible to fulfill the Flores settlement requirement of a 20-day limit.

3) Have Border Patrol immediately screen out invalid claims of credible fear: The best way to ensure that asylum law is properly and expeditiously interpreted is to have border agents immediately screen out, and most often reject, credible fear claims the minute the claimants step foot on our soil. This will begin the seven-day clock for them to expend their appeals and allow us to hold them even under the Flores limit.

4) End the Flores settlement: Contrary to public perception and even assertions by this administration, the law does not require DHS to release children within 20 days. The law actually mandates detention of all those making credible fear claims and places no time limit or exception on children. It comes from Flores, which is not even a court opinion, but a settlement. The administration has the ability to vitiate this settlement and started the process of doing so last September. It should enact a new rule to hold family units together. The 45-day comment period has long passed, and it’s a mystery why the administration has not promulgated the rule yet. Even if it fears lawsuits on this issue, idea (1) would still override Flores, and idea (2) would make it moot, because they wouldn’t need to be held longer.

Defend

5) Designate the Mexican cartels as terrorists: In addition to helping streamline the flow of illegal immigration, the cartels pose a general threat to this country that needed to be dealt with years ago. Now would be a good time to signal that we are serious about attacking them. Designating them as terrorists, a move Trump can make unilaterally, will open up numerous DOD and intelligence resources to harness against the cartels. It will also bolster the political case for using the military. The military can work to eradicate the cartel’s lookout scouts, who operate on our soil. This will not only defend against criminals and drug traffickers, it will disrupt their system of directing flows of migrants into strategic locations.

6) Operation Hold the Line: The president should deploy the military to enforce our sovereignty. This could work in tandem with enforcing a complete shutoff by having enough manpower to hold the line at the border and not allow anyone to enter. Deployment of the military will also help with the other part of this crisis; namely, how the cartels and smugglers are bringing in criminals, gangs, drugs, and special interest aliens while Border Patrol is completely overwhelmed. This is using the military to hold the line on our border and not allow caravans in and to deter and defend against cartels. That is literally the quintessential purpose of having a military.

7) Deputize numerous federal officers as immigration officers: Trump should recruit as many law enforcement agents into the immigration enforcement business as possible to buttress the work of both Border Patrol and ICE. He can deputize all park rangers and Bureau of Land Management agents (or any federal officer who wears a badge) into securing the border and enforcing immigration laws. The president also has the power (8 U.S.C. § 1103(a)(10)) to deputize local law enforcement, with the permission of local authorities, to “to perform or exercise any of the powers, privileges, or duties” of immigration enforcement in the event that the attorney general determines that there is “an actual or imminent mass influx of aliens.”

Demagnetize

8) Stop all remittances to Mexico and Central America: Even with more families coming than ever before, a large portion of them are still adult males coming to work and send back money. They just bring a child with them as their token border pass. According to Pew, Mexican nationals sent home $30 billion in 2017, while migrants from the three Central American countries in the Northern Triangle sent back roughly $17 billion. While a large chunk of the Mexican remittances could also be from legal immigrants, the lion’s share of the Central American remittances are from illegal immigrants. Blocking those transfers would choke off the biggest incentive to come here from Central America. It would also further pressure Mexico into cooperating and would cut off the flow of some of the drug trafficking revenue. While a tax on remittances would require a new law by Congress, there is no reason why the Treasury Department could not write a rule blocking illegal aliens from wiring those funds.

9) Prioritize the deportation of Central American families with final deportation orders. There are over one million illegal aliens with final deportation orders who still have not been deported. In particular, there are 644,000 from El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico. There are no signs that we are deporting them. While ICE usually prioritizes the deportations of those with prior criminal records, it would be worthwhile to focus for the next few months on deporting Central American families, regardless of their criminal records, in order to send the message to their friends and relatives thinking of making the trip that catch-and-release does not last forever.

10) Have IRS clamp down on illegal employment and identity theft: Choking off the ability of illegal immigrants to work in America is the lynchpin to demagnetizing our border. While Trump cannot unilaterally mandate E-Verify, he can direct the IRS to stop accepting tax identification numbers used by illegal aliens to file for refundable tax credits. Moreover, Trump can have the DHS, the IRS, and the SSA work together to flag anomalies with Social Security cards for employment and tax filing. The IRS and the SSA should constantly share information with DHS so they can inform the employer that the employee has engaged in identity theft and is an illegal immigrant. Also inform local law enforcement and the victim immediately. Then Trump should require ICE to immediately apprehend them.

Collectively, this would serve to deter both the migrants and the cartels. While some will complain about diverting resources from other federal functions, there is no greater emergency now than what is going on at the border. History has shown that the signal is sent very quickly if we are no longer giving amnesty. Moreover, it will create a bottleneck in Mexico and finally force Mexico’s government to deal with the problem. This is the model Hungary used to spur neighboring countries, such as Serbia, Croatia, and Romania, into action in deterring the Middle East migration in 2014. Unlike in previous years, these migrants are not their own, and Mexicans don’t want them remaining in their country. They have been recalcitrant only because we fail to secure our own border and they knew they could get away with steering them into our territory.

At some point, the administration will need to build the political will, policy arguments, and legal case for a mixture of these policies. Otherwise we quite literally will not have a border at all. (For more from the author of “Deter, Defend, Demagnetize: 10 Ideas for Trump to Stop the Illegal Mass Migration” please click HERE)

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HHS Reprogramming Department Funding to Facilitate Resettling ‘Unaccompanied’ Central American Teens

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What if I told you that our government is unintentionally completing a criminal conspiracy to deliver Central American teens from cartels and smugglers to other illegal aliens, resettling them on our dime, and sending them to our schools, all the while enriching some of the most evil organizations and nourishing the growth of MS-13 and drug traffickers?

Yesterday, HHS Secretary Alex Azar told the Senate Appropriations Labor-HHS-Education Subcommittee that the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), which cares for and resettles unaccompanied alien children (UACs), will run out of cash before the end of the year. That is because, as Congressional Quarterly (paywall) reported in a summary of the hearing, at a pace of about 300-350 UACs arriving each day, HHS is taking custody of roughly 70-80 children from CBP each day who are not immediately released to other family members. Azar said that there are currently 12,340 mainly Central American children, in HHS custody and bed space is almost full.

We’ve been spending roughly $1.3 billion a year on this program, and Azar revealed at the hearing that the administration transferred $446 million from other HHS programs to help fund the UAC program and that it recently transferred another $385 million.

I reached out to ORR for comment and received this statement from an HHS spokesperson:

HHS is assessing the additional resources that may be needed to support this influx and sustain critical child welfare operations. Last month, Secretary Azar notified the Appropriations Committees that he would make $385 million in administrative resources available to the UAC program, $99 million in reprogrammed ORR funds and $286 million from a Secretary’s Transfer. However, HHS projections show a continued influx would exceed all current HHS resources this fiscal year. The Administration is currently working to find solutions to this potential issue.

As I’ve noted many times, almost all of the Central American teens are self-smuggled into the country to be reunited with other illegal immigrant family. That makes them ineligible for the program on two accounts – they are not victims of a “severe form of trafficking” and they are not here without relatives. In fact, we are completing the very criminal conspiracy of smuggling that the law was designed to combat. At $4,000-$8,000 per illegal alien, the cartels have made billions off this scam, so they can further ramp up their drugs to kill Americans.

As Thomas Homan, former ICE acting director, told me last week, in one operation against MS-13, 40 percent of those caught were UACs resettled through this very program designed for refugees. According to Homan, “Many that entered the U.S. were already gang members or soon became gang members after arriving in the U.S.” We’ve witnessed a spike in MS-13 growth over the past few years as a result of the influx of Central American teens in 2014. One can only imagine the degree of danger our country is in from the exponentially higher number of teens coming in under the same circumstances.

In fiscal year 2018, roughly 72 percent of the teens being held in ORR facilities were 15-17 years old, and 71 percent were males. Mark Morgan, former chief of Border Patrol, reiterated yesterday in testimony before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee what he told me in an interview last week:

As chief of the Border Patrol, I toured the detention facilities filled to capacity with unaccompanied minors, 17 years of age or younger, who had illegally entered the country. Alone, without any parents or guardians. As I looked on, I saw both hardened young men as well as vulnerable and lost youth. With every encounter, I walked away wondering how many would be lured into joining a gang. The odds were not in their favor, as they were released into a city somewhere in the U.S., never to be heard from again.

But there is another important catch in this development. Remember how members of Congress, including a number of self-described conservatives, expressed outrage that the Trump administration reprogrammed defense funding for the quintessential defense function of border security? Well, now that HHS has reprogrammed funding from sacred federal health programs to essentially facilitate the smuggler criminal conspiracy against America and to resettle volatile illegal alien teens in our schools and communities, not a single person will protest. Funding the cartels and nourishing the growth of MS-13 while leaving taxpayers with the tab is evidently the true quintessential function of our government.

How is it that more and more of our money is being pumped into a circuitous operation that enriches evil cartels and nourishes the growth of vicious gangs without any questions? How is it that our laws say the exact opposite of this government policy, one judge even accusing the government of successfully complet[ing]” the “goal of the conspiracy” of drug smugglers at “significant expense” to taxpayers, and yet nobody stands up for we the people?

The day that our politicians begin placing the interests of America’s security and financial solvency at least on equal footing with the interests of illegal aliens and the Mexican cartels is the day we will preserve at least a modicum of representative governance. (For more from the author of “HHS Reprogramming Department Funding to Facilitate Resettling ‘Unaccompanied’ Central American Teens” please click HERE)

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DHS Releases More Than 17K Illegal Aliens Into U.S. In 12 Days

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President Trump’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is continuing its mass release of border crossers and illegal aliens into the interior of the United States, most recently releasing more than 17,000 migrants in less than two weeks.

According to newly obtained data by Breitbart News, DHS released about 17,065 border crossers and illegal aliens into the interior of the U.S. between March 21 and April 1, a mere 12-day period. Since December 21, 2018, DHS has released about 125,565 border crossers and illegal aliens into the interior of the country.

The Catch and Release process often entails federal immigration officials busing border crossers into nearby border cities and dropping them off with the promise that they will show up for their immigration and asylum hearings, sometimes years later. The overwhelming majority of border crossers and illegal aliens are never deported from the country once they are released into the U.S. . .

In the last 12 days, DHS released nearly 6,000 border crossers and illegal aliens into the San Antonio area, alone, forcing American communities to absorb the influx of soaring illegal immigration levels at the U.S.-Mexico border. (Read more from “DHS Releases More Than 17K Illegal Aliens Into U.S. In 12 Days” HERE)

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Previously Deported Illegal Alien Arrested on 100 Counts of Child Porn

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While the media is focused on the potential cost if President Trump shuts down the southern border for a period of time, there is not much focus on the cost of the status quo unbridled illegal immigration. And that cost is often not quantifiable in monetary terms. A previously deported illegal alien has been arrested in Louisiana on 100 counts of possession of child pornography and sexual battery of a minor.

According to Louisiana’s Attorney General Jeff Landry, Miguel Martinez, an illegal alien who had previously been deported in 2005, “was arrested on 100 counts of possession of pornography involving juveniles under the age of 13 years old, one count of production under the age of 13, and one count of sexual battery of a juvenile under the age of 13.”

This was the conclusion of a joint state and federal operation, which included Mississippi state authorities as well. Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the investigative arm of ICE, has placed a detainer on Martinez pending the outcome of the criminal case. An ICE spokesman confirmed these details with Blaze Media but declined to comment further on Martinez’s background and nationality until he is transferred to ICE custody.

These cases of criminal aliens who have been previously deported, yet successfully re-enter to victimize more Americans have become all too familiar. However, this case has a wrinkle that demonstrates how the criminal alien problem sits at the nexus of both weak border enforcement and sanctuary cities thwarting interior enforcement. It was discovered over the course of the investigation that Martinez had already been convicted of sex crimes in California and is a registered sex offender in the Golden State.

How can known sex offenders be allowed to remain in the country, rather than being turned over to ICE for deportation? It’s dangerous enough for citizen sex offenders to remain around children, but harboring other countries’ sex offenders is a completely avoidable liability.

This case also shows that what is attracted to sanctuary states doesn’t necessarily remain in sanctuary states. By incentivizing illegal immigrants to come and obtain benefits, sanctuary jurisdictions often place other cities and states in danger, in this case, the states of Louisiana and Mississippi.

This is one of the reasons why the Founders swapped out the Articles of Confederation for the Constitution and empowered the federal government to deal with issues pertaining to the sovereignty of all the states collectively. They wanted to protect the entire union from “the intrusion of obnoxious aliens through other States,” in the words of Madison.

Roger Sherman, among the greatest of all the Founders, noted during the House debate on the Naturalization Act of 1790 that “it was intended by the Convention, who framed the Constitution, that Congress should have the power of naturalization, in order to prevent particular States receiving citizens, and forcing them upon others who would not have received them in any other manner” (emphasis added). Sherman was emphatic that federal control was designed to “guard against an improper mode of naturalization” and prevent individual states from flooding the country with immigrants based on “easier terms.”

However, getting all the states to cooperate with federal law enforcement is only half the equation. Even after the criminal aliens are deported, if the border continues to remain largely open, they will march right back in, as Martinez did. This is the untold story of the mass migration and asylum fraud. While as much as 40 percent of Border Patrol resources are diverted to “care for, transport, provide medical and hospital watch for families and children” of those surrendering to agents en masse, according to CBP Commissioner Kevin McAleenen, criminal aliens who don’t want to get apprehended have a free opening to re-enter undetected.

The Trump administration ramped up interior deportations by 46 percent in fiscal year 2018 over the final year of the Obama administration. In the same year, ICE apprehended, with intent to deport, illegal aliens who collectively were convicted of or charged with 2,028 homicides, 50,753 assaults, and over 12,000 sexual assaults or sex offenses. How many of these criminal aliens are able to return even more easily than before because of the unprecedented shutdown of Border Patrol?

A recent example was Simon Rochel-Cervantes, an illegal alien from Mexico who spent 11 years in a Kansas facility for the rape of a child. After serving his sentence, Rochel-Cervantes was deported back to Mexico on February 19, yet he was picked up by police in Kansas again just two weeks later.

While a partial border wall alone will not directly solve the mass migration and asylum fraud, it will likely help Border Patrol strategically slow down and interdict those who enter surreptitiously because of their criminal records.

As Jeff Landry, Louisiana attorney general and former congressman, said about this case, “Illegal immigration has real-life consequences – countless numbers of needless crime victims, including too many Louisiana families and children. For their sake – I again urge Congress to realize the national emergency we have at our Southern border, support President Trump, build the wall, and help us make our communities safer.” (For more from the author of “Previously Deported Illegal Alien Arrested on 100 Counts of Child Porn” please click HERE)

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