Once again, Meghan McCain was the lone voice of reason on “The View” this week, this time as the ladies were discussing immigration. She is one courageous woman to hold the only point of rationality in a room full of agitated ignorance. To breakout applause, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, and Whoopi Goldberg were opining on the Trump administration’s policy of separating children and families at the border in order to discourage illegal immigration and groundless claims for asylum.
Behar called the policy of separating children from their parents “vicious” and likened it to Nazi Germany, although it is completely within the bounds of asylum law in this country. When a family requests asylum at a port of entry, they must demonstrate a “credible fear” of harm if they return to their home country. Many do. But Border Patrol officers say migrants are being coached to use “magic words” so they will fall within the statute of credible fear. . .
Meghan McCain sat in dignified silence through all of the rantings and then spoke up. “I disagree with a lot of what everyone’s saying.” She attempted to connect the dots of how we got to such a draconian “zero tolerance” policy, but she was essentially shouted down by the others who claim to know just fine, thank you very much, exactly how we got here.
I’m sure no one was listening, but Meghan had the final word: “We are a nation of borders and laws. If we are a nation without borders and laws, then we are not a nation.”
What is a nation? It’s a group of people with common descent, shared history and culture, and a bounded piece of land to call our own. It just so happens that the American nation is unique in all the world. No other country is an ideal always in the making. Millions of people long to come here because they want to be part of that ideal. The ideal only lives and they can only come if there’s a “here” to come to. A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation. (Read more from “Meghan McCain Schools Joy Behar on Immigration After Ridiculous ‘Nazi Germany’ Comparison” HERE)
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By The Daily Caller. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Monday that fear of domestic abuse alone is not enough to qualify for asylum, a ruling that could affect thousands of migrants from Central America who say they are fleeing violence in their home countries.
Sessions’ legal opinion reverses a 2014 ruling by the Board of Immigration Appeals that granted asylum to a woman from El Salvador who had been raped by her husband, in a case known as “Matter of A-R-C-G-.” That ruling established a precedent under which so-called “personal crimes” could be considered grounds for an asylum claim.
The BIA decision was “wrongly decided and should not have been issued as a precedential decision,” Sessions countered in his opinion. He argued that personal violence alone was not enough to meet the standard for a valid asylum claim under U.S. law.
“An alien may suffer threats and violence in a foreign country for any number of reasons relating to her social, economic, family, or other personal circumstances,” he wrote. . .
Sessions’ opinion comes as the Trump administration seeks to close what it calls “loopholes” in immigration law that encourage migrants to cross the border illegally. (Read more from “Sessions Tightens Asylum Standards, Domestic Violence No Longer Enough for Valid Claim” HERE)
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Thousands of U.S. Asylum Claims in Doubt After Sessions’ Decision
By Reuters. New limitations on asylum imposed by U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions could invalidate tens of thousands of pending claims brought by women, children and men fleeing violence in their home countries, according to immigration attorneys. . .
At least 230,000 of the 711,000 cases before U.S. immigration courts involve asylum petitions from Central America and Mexico, according to a Reuters analysis of data from the Executive Office for Immigration Review, which runs U.S. immigration courts.
Attorneys said most claims from this region are based on domestic or gang violence. Those cases will be far harder – if not impossible – to win in light of Sessions’ decision, they said.
In a case known as the “Matter of A-B,” the attorney general revoked a ruling by the Board of Immigration Appeals that carved out special protections for domestic violence victims. The decision narrowed who can qualify for asylum because they were victims of criminal activity, as opposed to government persecution. (Read more from “Thousands of U.S. Asylum Claims in Doubt After Sessions’ Decision” HERE)
According to a Senate subcommittee testimony last week, nearly 1,500 immigrant children were lost in government arranged foster homes last year, with the suspicion that many of them were kidnapped by human traffickers.
During the hearing, Senator Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota told child protection representatives with the Health and Human Services Department (HHS) that they were “the worst foster parents in the world.”
“You are the worst foster parents in the world. You don’t even know where they are. We are failing. I don’t think there is any doubt about it. And when we fail kids that makes me angry,” Heitkamp said.
Many of the children are still unaccounted for, but some of them who have been found were held captive by human traffickers in terrible conditions.
Subcommittee Chairman Senator Rob Portman said that an investigation into the lost children began after the HHS put eight children from Guatemala into the custody of human traffickers, who forced them to work on a farm for 12 hours a day without pay.
“It is intolerable that human trafficking — modern-day slavery — could occur in our own backyard. What makes the Marion cases even more alarming is that a U.S. government agency was responsible for delivering some of the victims into the hands of their abusers,” Portman said after learning of the case.
“Whatever your views on immigration policy, everyone can agree that the administration has a responsibility to ensure the safety of the migrant kids that have entered government custody until their immigration court date,” Portman said.
Since that incident came to light, HHS and The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) promised to check up on the unaccompanied immigrant children who passed through their care. After these checkups, it was revealed that many more children were slipping through the cracks than anyone anticipated.
Acting assistant secretary at HHS, Steven Wagner, told the committee that between October and December of 2017, HHS called 7,635 children that the agency placed with sponsors and they were only able to track down 6,075 of them. At least 28 of them had reportedly run away, five others were deported, 52 were living with someone else and 1,475 were missing.
The number of children in danger could be much larger, considering that since 2013, more than 180,000 unaccompanied immigrant children passed into America, and very few of them had family in the states who they could stay with, so many of them were placed in the care of random foster families who did not have to go through the same types of background checks and scrutiny that foster families usually do.
The agencies blame their neglect of these children on low budgets, but they seem to have billions to spend on fighting the drug war and creating a police state at the border.
Of those 180,000 children that were placed in new homes, it is hard to imagine how many are currently missing, since so many of the 7,635 children who were actually followed up on could not be found.
In 2016, an AP investigation found that more than two dozen children had been sent to homes where they were sexually assaulted, starved or forced to work for little or no pay.
Child welfare lawyers from Ohio who testified at the hearing said that increased persecution from immigration enforcers has made family members of unaccompanied children who enter the US afraid or unable to take custody.
One of these attorneys, Jessica A. Ramos, suggested that the children be appointed lawyers, in addition to having the opportunity to reunite with family members in the US without fear of deportation.
“Prioritization of enforcement over humanity is endangering children. My clients, despite having been born in another country and not speaking English, are still, above all things, children. Children who deserve to be safe from harm. Children who deserve a chance, just like our own children,” Ramos said.
There have been similar concerns in Europe as well—in 2016, it was reported that more than 10,000 immigrant children may have disappeared after arriving in Europe over a two-year time period.
“It’s not unreasonable to say that we’re looking at 10,000-plus children. Not all of them will be criminally exploited; some might have been passed on to family members. We just don’t know where they are, what they’re doing or whom they are with,” Europol’s chief of staff told the Observer newspaper.
While it is possible that some of these children are intentionally staying under the radar because they fear deportation, there have been enough cases of human trafficking in these circumstances to show that this is a widespread problem.
Along with immigrants and refugees, Native Americans have an especially high risk of becoming victims of human traffickers. As The Free Thought Project reported last year, Native American women and children are disappearing from areas near oil fields, where thousands of workers from around the country live in “man camps.” Investigations have revealed human trafficking to be a factor in many of these instances, but police in native tribes do not have jurisdiction to arrest non-natives, making it difficult to prosecute the human traffickers who are preying on their community.
Sadly, whether they are immigrants, natives, orphans, or just poor, children who are in vulnerable positions become easy targets for predators, and they are often ignored by the law as well, since these are already groups who are not treated with the dignity that they deserve by the systems that they live under.
(For more from the author of “Feds Admit Responsibility for Human Trafficking of Immigrant Children Within United States, “Hundreds Lost” please click HERE)
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By Bizpac Review. About 50 members of the Central American caravan that marched through Mexico are asking for asylum in the United States, but border officials told them the port of entry is full.
Alex Mensing helped organize the caravan with the group Pueblos Sin Fronteras (translation: “villages without borders”). Mensing said U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) told him there’s no more room for asylum seekers right now. So the fate of the “asylum seekers” currently hangs in the balance.
Mensing told BuzzFeed: “CBP officials said, ‘We are at capacity. At this time we cannot accept any more asylum-seekers; you can wait on one side.’ So the asylum-seekers are next to the door waiting for whenever it is CBP is capable of receiving asylum-seekers.”
The caravan initially started off as a throng of 1,200 to 1,500 people, but has since winnowed down after President Trump asked Mexico to intervene and break up the horde of unemployed refugees.
As of April 29, U.S. border officials have not allowed the vagrants to apply for asylum. After all, they are not political refugees because there’s no war going on in Mexico, nor are they targets of religious persecution. (Read more from “Central American Caravan Hits U.S. for Asylum but Didn’t Get the Answer They Expected This Time” HERE)
U.S. Officials Still Have Not Allowed Members of the Central American Caravan to Apply for Asylum
By Buzzfeed. On Sunday evening, about 50 asylum-seekers who have made their way through Mexico as part of a caravan of Central Americans walked into the San Ysidro Port of Entry, just south of San Diego, but US border authorities have not allowed them to ask for asylum.
The caravan started with about 1,200 to 1,500 people and on Sunday about 40 presented themselves at San Ysidro in the United States to ask for asylum, citing violence and political oppression. As of Sunday evening, the US border authorities had still not allowed them to apply for asylum . . .
“CBP officials said, ‘We are at capacity — at this time we cannot accept any more asylum-seekers; you can wait on one side,'” Mensing said. “So the asylum-seekers are next to the door waiting for whenever it is CBP is capable of receiving asylum-seekers.” (Read more from “Us Officials Still Have Not Allowed Members of the Central American Caravan to Apply for Asylum” HERE)
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By The Daily Caller. Unaccompanied children continue to be one of the government’s biggest and most complex immigration challenges, Trump administration officials said Thursday.
In testimony before a Senate Homeland Security subcommittee, senior officials with the Departments of Homeland Security (DHS) and Health and Human Services (HHS) told lawmakers that federal agencies are struggling to process and keep track of migrant children after they are caught illegally crossing the southwest border.
Illustrating the point, Steven Wagner, the acting head of HHS’s Administration for Children and Families, revealed that his agency lost track of nearly 20 percent of the migrant children placed with sponsors during a three month period last year.
From October to December 2017, officials at the HHS’s refugee office contacted 7,635 children and their sponsors, but were unable to determine with certainty the whereabouts of 1,475 of them, Wagner said in prepared testimony.
Details of the unaccompanied alien children (UAC) programs came as Congress seeks to evaluate how federal agencies ensure migrant children in their care are tracked as they wind their way through years-long immigration court proceedings. Government watchdogs have found deficiencies in the programs, despite a February 2016 memorandum of agreement between DHS and HHS to establish new guidelines for handling UAC cases. (Read more from “Feds Struggle to Cope with Growing Wave of Unaccompanied Child Migrants” HERE)
Top Homeland Security Officials Urge Criminal Prosecution of Parents Crossing Border with Children
By The Washington Post. The nation’s top immigration and border officials are urging Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen to detain and prosecute all parents caught crossing the Mexican border illegally with their children, a stark change in policy that would result in the separation of families that until now have mostly been kept together.
If approved, the zero-tolerance measure could split up thousands of families, although officials say they would not prosecute those who turn themselves in at legal ports of entry and claim asylum. More than 20,000 of the 30,000 migrants who sought asylum during the first quarter — the period from October-December — of the current fiscal year crossed the border illegally.
In a memorandum that outlines the proposal and was obtained by The Washington Post, officials say that threatening adults with criminal charges and prison time would be the “most effective” way to reverse the steadily rising number of attempted crossings. Most parents now caught crossing the border illegally with their children are quickly released to await civil deportation hearings. (Read more from “Top Homeland Security Officials Urge Criminal Prosecution of Parents Crossing Border with Children” HERE)
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By The Daily Caller. A memorandum signed by President Trump on Friday could be the beginning of the end for America’s longstanding “catch and release” policy at the border.
The memo gives the Department of Homeland Security and other agencies 45 days to detail “all measures that their respective departments have pursued or are pursuing to expeditiously end ‘catch and release’ practices,” according to The Hill.
In addition to other measures, the departments are also supposed to provide “a detailed list of all existing facilities, including military facilities, that could be used, modified, or repurposed to detain aliens for violations of immigration law at or near the borders of the United States.”
Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and Attorney General Jeff Sessions have also been directed to identify additional means “that may be needed to expeditiously end ‘catch and release’ practices.”
The practice allowed captured illegal immigrants to be released from custody until their court date. “Catch and release” has been sharply criticized by President Trump and others because many illegals often don’t appear for their court dates. (Read more from “Trump May Have Just Ended ‘Catch and Release’ With a Stroke of the Pen” HERE)
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Trump Signs Memo Ordering End to ‘Catch and Release’ Practices
By The Hill. President Trump signed a memorandum on Friday ordering agencies to “expeditiously end” the practice known as “catch and release” that allows immigrants caught in the U.S. without proper documents to be released from detention while their cases play out in court.
The memo signed by Trump orders the Department of Homeland Security, in coordination with other agencies, to submit a report to the president within 45 days “detailing all measures that their respective departments have pursued or are pursuing to expeditiously end ‘catch and release’ practices.”
The report instructs departments to share information on any contracts to construct or operate detention facilities along the border as well as steps taken to assign asylum officers at detention facilities, among other measures.
As part of the order, Trump is requesting “a detailed list of all existing facilities, including military facilities, that could be used, modified, or repurposed to detain aliens for violations of immigration law at or near the borders of the United States.” (Read more from “Trump Signs Memo Ordering End to ‘Catch and Release’ Practices” HERE)
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Conservatives have Crowder’s back … Yesterday, I told you how Twitter has suspended CRTV Host Steven Crowder over an undercover video taken at the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas. It’s not just Twitter, YouTube has removed the video as well. Conservative thought leaders and media types have joined in the effort to get Crowder fully reinstated on Twitter before the end of his 7-day suspension. CR’s Chris Pandolfo has the details.
Why this is important … There is a disturbing trend where it appears Silicon Valley tech giants are suppressing conservative content. The Western Journalism’s George Upper has documented how recent algorithm changes at Facebook have effected conservative websites. Spoiler alert: conservative sites have, on the whole, seen their traffic drop precipitously after the change while MSM and left-wing sites have dropped far less or in many cases have seen a significant uptick in traffic from the social network. The change is clear and demonstrable.
Fight back … There is a real concrete way to fight back against the Silicon Valley bias against conservatives. Sure you could move away like PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, but through control of social media the bias is everywhere. First, you can support conservative media by purchasing a subscription to conservative content creators. For instance, you can both see the Crowder video Twitter and YouTube don’t want you to see, AND subscribe to CRTV using this link.
Immigration enforcement like the Holocaust … Defending the borders and enforcing the immigration laws of a sovereign nation is in no way like the systemic government-sanctioned murder of a race of people. That’s a pretty easy notion to grasp. Well, unless you are CNN. Check this tweet by CNN:
A Jewish woman heard an undocumented immigrant and her two daughters were on the run from ICE. Driven by thoughts of the Holocaust, she risked her own comfort to offer them shelter. https://t.co/B959PLxUhZpic.twitter.com/1v4EEHofaR
This comparison by CNN is not only absurd, it is disgusting.
Sad … Gregory Korte, the White House correspondent for USA Today shares a heart-wrenching story about how one of Korte’s sources sent the journalist his life’s work via email, then committed suicide. It’s a poignant reminder that all people are human, all people have problems, even those who we think are all right. I’m sharing because it’s a story I think we all need to read.
CNN shakeup … Over the past few months, CNN’s ratings have been tanking while MSNBC’s ratings soar and Fox’s hold steady. In February, CNN didn’t have a show in the top 20 of cable programs. Not only that but the highest rated show, “Anderson Cooper 360,” ranked at 24.
Perhaps that’s why CNN has decided to move Chris Cuomo from morning to primetime. Cuomo’s new show will be in the same 9 p.m. ET timeslot that includes Sean Hannity and Rachel Maddow. Cuomo, who routinely engages in partisan attacks, hilariously taunted his new competition. Cuomo said, “I don’t know where their partisan fights are getting us.”
Important …
I said it above, but I’m going to say it again. Techies holding the left-wing values of Silicon Valley are actively trying to suppress conservative thought. There are ways to fight back against the censorship including newsletters like WTF MSM!? That’s why, every day, I ask you to send your friends to the WTF MSM!? signup page. Delivering conservative content directly to email inboxes circumvents the censors. As always send me an email at [email protected] if you see the media or tech giants do something that makes you say WTF. (For more from the author of “CNN Equates ICE Enforcement to the Holocaust” please click HERE)
An arrest by the U.S. Border Patrol has stirred up outrage in the activist community as a purported example of how President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement policies are unjustly tearing immigrant families apart.
Viral videos posted to Facebook and YouTube on Thursday show Border Patrol agents — some in uniform and some in plain clothes — seizing Perla Morales-Luna as she was walking with her daughters in National City, California, last week.
She is then hustled into the back of a waiting Border Patrol SUV while bystanders plead with agents to release her.
Activists and media organizations immediately seized on the videos as more evidence of heavy-handed immigration enforcement under the Trump administration, which has been accused of breaking up families by detaining illegal immigrant parents.
Immigrant rights groups say the episode shows how immigration agents have a free hand to arrest mothers and fathers who are not threats to public safety.
“It’s really a grotesque way of detaining and enforcing immigration law,” Benjamin Prado, coordinator for the American Friends Service Committee’s San Diego U.S.-Mexico Border Program, told the Los Angles Times.
“It is very quickly accelerating to a very tyrannical form of detention and arrest, snatching people up off the street.”
Morales-Luna is not just an otherwise law-abiding illegal immigrant.
She is also a member of a Southern California-based human smuggling ring, according to Customs and Border Protection.
“Perla Morales-Luna was identified as an organizer for a transnational criminal smuggling organization operating in East County, San Diego,” the agency’s San Diego field division said in a statement.
“She was arrested as a result of a targeted operation on March 3, 2018, in National City for being in the country illegally. She is currently in Border Patrol custody awaiting transfer to ICE for removal proceedings.”
Perla Morales-Luna was identified as an organizer for a transnational criminal smuggling organization operating in East County, San Diego. She was arrested as a result of a targeted operation on March 3, 2018, in National City for being in the country illegally.
It remains unclear if Morales-Luna will face criminal charges.
She is expected to be placed in deportation proceedings after CBP transfers her to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
News of Morales-Luna’s arrest comes as the Trump administration and California are locked in a legal and political battle over the state’s sanctuary policies.
The Department of Justice sued California Tuesday, along with Gov. Jerry Brown and Attorney General Xavier Becerra, both Democrats.
The state’s laws constitute a “significant intrusion into federal enforcement of the immigration laws,” the DOJ argues.
California officials say none of the laws prevent immigration authorities from doing their jobs.
They have also argued that the federal government cannot require state and local jurisdictions to enforce federal law.
National City, where Morales-Luna was arrested, has stopped short of describing itself as a sanctuary city, preferring to use the term “compassionate community.”
City officials supported the passage of Senate Bill 54, one of the laws at issue in DOJ’s lawsuit against California, reported the San Diego Union-Tribune.
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By Henry C. Jackson. Congress is on the verge of a budget deal. President Donald Trump is implying he’d be happy to shut it all down if he doesn’t get his way.
The House passed another stopgap funding bill that could avert a government shutdown as talks continued positively toward a broader, long-term agreement, POLITICO’s John Bresnahan, Jennifer Schultes and Sarah Ferris report. The House bill boosts Pentagon spending over the next eight months but only funds non-military programs until March 23, and at their current levels.
That approach is almost certain to be blocked in the Senate. But there’s optimism:
“Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer met privately on (today) to discuss lifting stiff spending caps as part of the short-term funding package, according to sources in both parties briefed on the talks. The top four congressional leaders believe they are close to clinching a budget deal that significantly boosts defense and domestic spending and ends the cycle of temporary funding measures.” . . .
“If we don’t get rid of these loopholes where killers are allowed to come into our country and continue to kill … if we don’t change it, let’s have a shutdown,” Trump said at a White House roundtable focused on the gang MS-13. “We’ll do a shutdown, and it’s worth it for our country. I’d love to see a shutdown if we don’t get this stuff taken care of.” (Read more from “Trump Says He’d ‘Love’ to See Another Shutdown over Immigration” HERE)
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Trump: ‘I’d Love to See a Shutdown’ over Immigration
By CNN. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he supports a government shutdown if Democrats won’t agree to tighten immigration laws, undercutting ongoing bipartisan negotiations on Capitol Hill.
The comment, which came during a White House meeting on the violent MS-13 gang, was not well received in the room. Rep. Barbara Comstock, a Virginia Republican who represents a district with thousands of federal workers, confronted Trump about the remark and urged him to avoid another government shutdown.
“If we don’t change it, let’s have a shutdown,” Trump said of the nation’s immigration laws. “We’ll do a shutdown and it’s worth it for our country. I’d love to see a shutdown if we don’t get this stuff taken care of.” (Read more from “Trump: ‘I’d Love to See a Shutdown’ over Immigration” HERE)
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By The Daily Wire. Senior Senate Democrat Dick Durbin (IL) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that legislators are unlikely to reach a deal on the Delayed Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) before the president’s March deadline, but that Democrats will not force a second government shutdown over the impasse.
“There is not likely to be a DACA deal, though we’re working every single day on telephone calls and person-to-person to try to reach this bipartisan agreement,” Durbin told host Jake Tapper. “I don’t see a government shutdown coming.”
This leaves Democrats with few options — and no leverage — going into the final weeks of negotiations over an immigration deal that they were, by all accounts, poised to ink with the president. But earlier in January, the deal broke down, reportedly over an included stipulation that would have given indefinite amnesty to parents of DACA recipients even though those parents knowingly violated U.S. immigration law.
When Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) realized he’d lost Republican cooperation, he ordered his colleagues to filibuster a continuing resolution on the budget, sending the government into a three day shutdown. But having lost the media, and activists in both the middle and on the far left, Schumer caved to the president’s shutdown deal and ordered his colleagues to negotiate on the budget and on immigration separately. (Read more from “Democrat Cave? Senator Signals an Unconditional Surrender on Immigration Deal” HERE)
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Fractured GOP Struggles with Immigration Strategy
By The Hill. Republicans are barreling toward a fight over immigration despite divisions on what the party’s strategy should be.
GOP lawmakers decamped Friday from a retreat in West Virginia meant to tout unity around their 2018 agenda without finding a consensus on what to do about recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
The political cacophony comes as the Senate is expected to turn to a debate as soon as this week on the fate of the Obama-era program, which allows certain immigrants brought into the country illegally as children to work and go to school in the U.S. . . .
A growing number of Senate Republicans are backing a scaled-back plan that would include only a DACA fix and a border security package — though the details of such an agreement would still need to be sketched out. (Read more from “Fractured GOP Struggles with Immigration Strategy” HERE)
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