Immigration News

Mark Morgan, who was chief of the Border Patrol under President Obama, says that the Mexican border is more out of control than ever. He explained, "[T}this isn’t just a crisis, this is a crisis like we’ve never experienced in the history of this country since we started tracking numbers. And again, we’ve had that talk and that’s because of the demographics. There’s still this very false talking point out there that — well, back in the ’90s, the numbers were higher — over a million.” Well, first of all, again, you got to remember they were Mexican adults, we were moving, deporting 90 percent of them. With the broken asylum laws and other loopholes that are there, we’re seeing 65 to 70 percent increase in family units, and because of those broken laws, we’re allowing them in. This year, we’re expected to hit a million. . . . That’s driving this crisis, driving our resources, being overwhelmed. We have to address it." Read more at breitbart.com

The surge of illegal aliens at the border making bogus asylum claims  has overwhelmed  U.S. authorities and forced them to release these aliens into the United States. President Trump has suggested that they be placed in sanctuary cities, i.e., cities that refuse to cooperate with federal immigration agents to deport illegal aliens.  The leaders of some of these communities make a big point of stating that they welcome illegal immigrants. Trump's proposal would give them what they claim to want, even though the number might be more than they can handle. White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders explained the administration's position as follows:   “We’re looking to see if there are options that make [this plan] possible and doing it in a full and thorough and extensive review. The president likes the idea and Democrats have said they want these individuals in their communities. Let’s see if it works, and everybody gets a win out of it. . . .  [T]his isn’t the ideal situation. The ideal solution is real simple for Congress particularly Democrats in Congress to sit down with the president, do their jobs and help us stop this awful crisis that’s taking place at our border.” Read more at breitbart.com

Three Republican senators have reintroduced the RAISE Act. It would reform our current policy of legal immigration which makes the family connections of immigrants the chief priority for admitting new immigrants. This policy, often referred to as "chain migration," greatly pushes up the numbers of legal immigration, now at the highest sustained level in our history.  The RAISE Act would replace chain migration with a merit based system for selecting immigrants. The sponsors are Tom Cotton (R-AR), David Perdue (R-GA), and Josh Hawley (R-MO). Sen. Cotton stressed that the mass immigration undercuts wages and opportunities is not good for American workers. He noted that "For decades our immigration system has been completely divorced from the needs of our county and has harmed the livelihoods of working-class Americans. " Read more at thehill.com

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FOX News commentator Tucker Carlson commented on the wide deployment of U.S. troops, with one notable exception: "As of Tuesday night, we have nearly 175,000 active duty personnel serving overseas, American troops are posted in 158 different countries. For perspective, there are only 195 countries total on the entire planet. We're almost everywhere. Keep in mind there is no world war currently in progress. This is what we've signed up for in peacetime. "And yet, you may notice that there was one place American troops are not. They are not on our southern border protecting us. They should be, we could use them. Tens of millions of illegal immigrants already live here in the United States. We don't know the exact number. We don't even know who they are. They just show up and a hundred thousand more are showing up every month." Read more at foxnews.com

On Monday the editorial staff of the Boston Herald published a statement against bias and false reporting in the mainstream media. It stated, “The left and its compliant media are willfully reporting false news to the American people. Whether it is a symptom of mass hysteria that is the genesis for this confirmation bias-style reporting or an intentional maneuver to spread anti-Trump propaganda, its effect is toxic and pernicious.” As example cited that the claim circulated by The New York Times, MSNBC. CNN and other prominent media that President Trump referred to all migrants coming to the United States as "animals." Trump did not say this. He only applied the term "animals" to members of MS-13, a criminal gang notorious for its viciousness and cruelty.  The Herald editorialists concluded that "Reputable media personnel . . . are entrusted to be conveyors of truth. They constantly declare their import with screeds about the First Amendment. Those in the media who propagated this toxic lie should be fired. Read more at bostonherald.com 

A new Rasmussen survey found that 67 percent of all likely U.S. voters believe that illegal immigration is a serious problem. Forty-seven percent described it as "very serious." Only 32 percent said it was not a serious problem, with eight percent saying it was "not serious at all." Read more at rasmussenreports.com

Vatican Cardinal Robert Sarah, a native of Guinea, strongly condemned globalism and mass immigration in his recently released book Evening Draws Near and the Day Is Nearly Over.  In an interview he stated, "It is a false exegesis to use the Word of God to promote migration. . . . All migrants who arrive in Europe are penniless and without work or dignity.  Sarah asked, "Is this what the Church wants, this new form of slavery? . . . If the West continues in this way, there is great risk that, due to lack of birth, it will disappear, invaded by foreigners, just as Rome [was] invaded by foreigners." The cardinal affirmed that the best way to help people is in their own homelands.  Commenting on the fact that much of the Roman Catholic leadership supports mass immigration, Sarah observed that "In the Church there have always been betrayals. Today, I can say without fear that some priests, some bishops and even some cardinals are afraid to proclaim what God teaches and to transmit the doctrine of the Church. They are afraid of being seen as reactionary.”  Sarah was sharply critical of the European Union's  globalist agenda: "The Brussels Commission thinks only about building a free market in the service of the great financial powers.  The European Union no longer protects the peoples within it. It protects the banks. This contemporary desire to globalize the world, ridding it of nations with their distinctive characteristics is sheer madness." Read more at breitbart.com and dailywire.com 

The Texas Senate approved a resolution which called the crisis at the U.S,-Mexican border an "emergency." The author of the measure, Sen. Paul Bettencourt stated, “I think that the resolution speaks to the fact that there is a crisis at the border. We have gone to a very good debate already about how we’re recognizing the humanitarian, the sex trafficking, the vulnerable populations, et cetera, and, and the reality is that . . . you have an unprecedented number of crossings of 100,000 in the month of March of 2019.” Read more at breitbart.com

President Trump has cut direct foreign aid to El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras because, he maintains, they have  not done enough to stop caravans of migrants from coming to the United States. Jeh Johnson, who served as secretary for Homeland Security during the Obama Administration, says that the situation at the border is now a "crisis."   Read more at foxnews.com