The Border & Illegal Aliens, And What We Are Doing About It.

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Attorney General Jeff Sessions said.

“We are not going to let this country be invaded!

We will not be stampeded!

We will not capitulate to lawlessness!

This is NOT business as usual.

This is the Trump era!," the Attorney General said.
 

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New Video From Inside Migrant Caravan Will Stun You.

 11/14/18

https://youtu.be/LLJtznxJ1-g

A filmmaker embedded himself in the migrant caravan quickly approaching the United States and discussed what he saw with Fox News’ Tucker Carlson. (The Daily Caller)

 Ami Horowitz went to the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca to film the caravan.

“What we do know is this thing cost millions and millions of dollars.

The mainstream media, and there are so many layers of onions to peel back, it’s hard to know where to begin. 

 One of the lies the fake news media is trying to propagate is the fact that all this weird organic thing and all the water and the food and medicine, all dropped from … manna from heaven. It’s bologna. It’s all highly organized. It’s paid for by a number of organizations, we don’t know exactly where the money is coming from.”

 “Why haven’t other news organizations gotten to the bottom of this? You’re one man, you’re doing this independently. Why isn’t NBC News or ABC or PBS, why aren’t they on this?” Carlson asked.

 “You know the answer to that. They don’t want to get to the bottom of this. They have no interest politically in getting to the bottom of it. The same reason why, when you see a photo in The New York Times or The Washington Post or a video on CNN or the BBC or MSNBC. What do you see? The entire framing are women and children when the reality is so far from the truth, 90-95 % of all the people in this caravan are men. Although I do apologize for assuming their gender,” Horowitz responded.

Earlier this month, President Trump deployed troops to the border.

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New Video From Inside Migrant Caravan Will Stun You.

 11/14/018

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Pro-Trump Org Goes to Border to See Firsthand Why We Need the Wall.

 3/5/19

El Paso Inundated Under Migrant Surge

El Paso, Texas – a city of roughly 700,000 situated along the Rio Grande – is ground zero in America’s border crisis.

Everyone from Border Patrol agents to customs officials to shelter volunteers have scrambled to cope with the massive influx of illegal migrants. (Texas Tribune)

Most of the migrants are Central American families and unaccompanied minors, and their numbers have grown by 340 percent — about 136,150 family units were apprehended on the southwest border between October and February, compared to 31,100 families during the same period the year before, according to CBP statistics.

And here in El Paso, the local Border Patrol sector saw its family unit apprehension numbers jump 1,698 percent over that same period. By last month, when U.S. Customs and Border Protection predicted it would hit a 12-year high with more than 100,000 apprehensions across the border, so many migrants were coming through El Paso that agents set up a military style tent surrounded by chain link under a freeway bridge to hold the overflow.

The surge has led CBP to redirect 750 agents from their positions at the ports of entry to help Border Patrol process the migrants, and it fed President Donald Trump’s recent threats to close the southern border — a move that even members of Trump’s own party have said would wreak havoc on the country’s economy.

On Tuesday Department of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen reportedly said the administration would treat the surge like a category five hurricane and tapped former U.S. Border Patrol sector chief Manny Padilla to coordinate the federal response to the crisis, according to a DHS news release.

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This Veteran, Who Supplied Water to Firefighters, Went to Prison for Digging Ponds.

 Joe Robertson, a Navy veteran from Montana, was 78 when he was convicted and sentenced to 18 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $130,000 in restitution through deductions from his Social Security checks.

  3/28/19  Kevin Mooney

 

At age 78, Navy veteran Joe Robertson was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $130,000 in restitution for digging ponds on his property.

 **** Damn, I've dug two ponds on my property! ****  Bull

 The 78yr. old veteran who ran a business supplying water to fight forest fires was prosecuted by the federal government and sent to prison for digging ponds on his own property, one of his lawyers says.

  His crime?

Robertson, whose business supplied water trucks to Montana firefighters, dug a series of small ponds close to his home in 2013 and 2014. The site was a wooded area near a channel, a foot wide and a foot deep, with two to three garden hoses’ worth of flow, according to court documents.

 The U.S. government prosecuted Robertson for digging in proximity to “navigable waters” without a permit, a violation of the Clean Water Act administered by the Environmental Protection Agency and the Army Corps of Engineers. **** "navigable waters"? The site was a wooded area near a channel, a foot wide and a foot deep, with two to three garden hoses’ worth of flow.  I'd like to see some one "navigate that ! ****

 Tony Francois, a senior attorney with Pacific Legal Foundation, a nonprofit, public interest law firm specializing in property rights, described the events leading up to Robertson’s prosecution during a panel discussion Monday at The Heritage Foundation. Also on the panel was Kevin Pierce, vice president of Hawkes Co., a Minnesota-based family business that harvests peat for golf course greens. Daren Bakst, Heritage’s senior research fellow for agriculture policy, was moderator of the event, called “Horror Stories of EPA and Corps Overreach under the Clean Water Act.”

 Pacific Legal Foundation filed a petition on behalf of Robertson, asking the Supreme Court to review his case, which turns on the definition of “navigable waters.”

 The Navy veteran argued that he didn’t violate the Clean Water Act because
digging the ponds did not discharge any soil to navigable waters, since the trickle in the channel didn’t constitute "navigable waters"!

 The largest navigable body of water anywhere near the Robertson home is more than 40 miles away, Francois said.

Because Robertson lived in a wooded area that is “increasingly fire prone,” he was “concerned about the safety and vulnerability of his property,” Francois said. He built the ponds “with a view toward being well-prepared should a fire strike.”

 The Supreme Court is expected to decide in April whether it will hear Robertson’s appeal.

Robertson, sentenced in 2016, completed his 18 months behind bars in late 2017. He was still on parole for the next 20 months when he died March 18 at age 80 of natural causes, according to his widow.

 Pacific Legal Foundation filed papers this week to substitute Robertson’s widow, Carri Robertson, as the petitioner in the appeal to the Supreme Court.

 Congress initially passed the Clean Water Act in 1948, but lawmakers greatly altered and expanded it into the current form with amendments in 1972.

 The law “establishes the basic structure for regulating discharges of pollutants into the waters of the United States and regulating quality standards for surface waters,” according to the EPA’s website.

 Under the 1972 amendments, it is illegal to discharge any pollutant from a point source into navigable waters without a permit from the EPA. The Corps oversees the permitting process and shares enforcement authority with the EPA.

 In 2015, the the dumb assed obuma administration implemented its Clean Water Rule, widely known as the Waters of the United States rule or WOTUS rule, which expanded the regulatory reach of the EPA and the Corps over bodies of water throughout the country.

 The Trump administration has taken steps to withdraw the obuma administration’s rule and replace it with a new one that limits the regulatory reach of federal agencies.

 Although Heritage’s Bakst said he approves of the Trump administration’s efforts, he has argued that it ultimately falls to Congress to clarify what waterways are subject to EPA regulations.

 The Daily Signal sought comment for this report from both the EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers.

“We cannot comment on ongoing litigation even as it pertains to actions of the previous administration,” EPA spokesman James Hewitt said in an email. “However, EPA is moving forward with a replacement WOTUS rule to ensure farmers and ranchers have more certainty when it comes to federal jurisdiction over waters.”

A Corps spokesman said in an email that it would not comment on the Robertson case since it is still active and has nothing to add to the Hawkes case beyond what is already “a matter of public record.”

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Sen. Blackburn: Trump Right With Threats to Shut Down Border!
  4/1/19 By Sandy Fitzgerald

President Donald Trump "is right" with his threats to shut down the Mexican border unless Mexico does more to stem the numbers of migrants traveling through on their way to the United States, What we need to realize is that until we close the southern border, every town is a border town, every state is a border state, because drugs, human sex trafficking, gangs, they are all there on the southern border. Mexico needs to secure their southern border to end entry into Mexico and then we do need to do some things there, getting the Border Patrol, what they need to do their job." It's "unfortunate" that Democrats won't work with Republicans on the nation's immigration laws, because "this is a national security emergency," the Tennessee Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn said Monday.told Fox News' "America's Newsroom."

 "This is in our interest to secure it, to stop the drugs coming into our country, to stop the sex trafficking, to stop these gangs," said Blackburn. "This is something that needs to be done because they continue to come across the border until we get that barrier, they're going to put their foot on US soil, say asylum. Our Border Patrol is overrun!"

 The United States also needs Guatemala, Nicaragua, and El Salvador to work together toward solving the migration issue, said Blackburn, adding that the Border Patrol's morale is "very low right now."

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Mexican Official: No Plans to Stop Migrant Caravans.

  4/1/19  By Jason Devaney

Central American migrants walk along the Suchiate-Tapachula road in the municipality of Tapachula, Chiapas State, Mexico, on February 17, 2019.

 Mexico will not use its military to stop Central American migrant caravans from passing through en route to the United States and will instead offer support and security along the way, an official confirmed.

 The Hill cited a mexican-language article, which quoted Mexico's Interior Secretary Olga Sánchez Cordero as saying no militarization of the border will take place.

 The government under President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is "not repressive," Sánchez Cordero said, adding that the country will not put the military along the border to stop migrants from Guatemala and other nearby nations from entering "under any circumstances."

 Sánchez Cordero later added that solving the immigration problem facing the United States, Mexico, and Central America requires cooperation from all parties involved. "We are very conscious that migration has to change, be regulated, and safer, and they'll also have to do their part," she said. Sánchez Cordero said last week that a caravan of migrants currently underway could eventually grow to 20,000 people.

 Over the weekend, President Trump administration cut aid to El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras in response to the multiple migrant caravans that have departed those poverty-stricken countries in recent years, all with goals of reaching the U.S.

 President Trump has even threatened to close the U.S. border with Mexico this week because of a recent increase in illegal crossings and detentions.

 (Adds U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman's invitation and comment from Mexico's Ambassador to the United States): "mexico will help to regulate the flow of Central American migrants passing through its territory to the United States, but the root causes behind the phenomenon must be tackled", President Lopez Obrador said on Monday. Lopez Obrador said he would not have a confrontation with the United States.

 "I prefer love and peace," Lopez Obrador told reporters at his regular morning news conference.

The leftist president has consistently refused to get drawn into a war of words with Trump over the border.

 A senior Mexican trade official warned later that closing down the U.S.-Mexico border would cause pain on "both sides."

 Most of the people caught at the frontier trying to enter the United States illegally come from three violent and impoverished countries: Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador.

 Lopez Obrador has tried to persuade Trump to address the problem by more economic aid in Central America. But on Saturday the U.S. State Department said it was cutting off aid to those three countries.

 Detentions at the U.S. border have surged in recent months, angering Trump and putting pressure on Lopez Obrador to find a solution that will prevent a shutdown of the frontier to the market for 80% of Mexico's exports.

 Asked if it was time to put pressure on the Central American countries to do more to tackle the problem, Lopez Obrador said the causes of migration were "not being attended to" and that people needed to be offered more opportunities there. "Obviously, we have to help because Central American migrants pass through our territory and we have to bring order to this migration, make sure it's legal," he said.

 "That's what we're doing. But serenely, calmly, without a commotion and with great prudence and responsibility."

Mexico began issuing temporary humanitarian visas to some members of a migrant caravan in southern Mexico, giving priority to children and the elderly, the National Migration Institute said Monday. It said it would provide transport back to Central American countries, Cuba and Haiti, on a voluntary basis. *** DUH! ***

 Earlier this year, Mexico handed out humanitarian visas liberally, but reined in the program after a surge in applications. The institute said from next month it was planning to encourage people to apply for visas in their home countries.

It was not immediately clear if the government was limiting the number of visas it issues.

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Sanders: Dems Leaving Trump 'No Choice' on Border Security!
  

President Donald Trump is "not threatening" to shut down the Mexican border, but is taking his job as commander in chief very seriously when it comes to protecting the American people, White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said Tuesday.

 "Democrats in Congress are leaving us no choice," Sanders told Fox News' "America's Newsroom." "This is not the path the president wants to take. They're leaving us no choice because they're unwilling to fix the problem. They're too busy playing politics."

 Mexico, however, has been taking a "greater sense of responsibility" to help stop people from coming across the border by stopping them in Mexico and offering them asylum there while they wait for their claim to be processed in the United States, said Sanders.

 Sanders also discussed a push by House Democrats for the release of special counsel Robert Mueller's unredacted report, saying it shows again what "sore losers" they are. "They got beaten in 2016 because we had the candidate with a better message," said Sanders. "Now we're seeing they've gotten beaten again when it comes to the Mueller report. They were convinced, they went out and lied about what they expected the Mueller report to tell America. They got it wrong. They got it wrong in 2016."

 Also on Tuesday, Sanders responded to Trump's comments that there will not be a vote on obumacare until after the 2020 election.
 "The president wants to see healthcare return to the power of the patient," she said. "He wants the people that are receiving the care to get to make decisions about it."

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Administration Officials Pull Back Trump Border Threat.

 4/2/19

 Fiesty, No-Nonsense, Sarah Huckabee Sanders

The White House took a step back on Tuesday from a threat to close the U.S. border with Mexico, even as a redeployment of border officers in recent days has led to a slowdown of legal crossings and commerce at U.S. ports of entry there.

 White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said the Trump administration sees Mexico "stepping up and taking a greater sense of responsibility" for dealing with the immigration flows that U.S. officials say are overwhelming ports of entry along the border.

 "They have started to do a significant amount more. We've seen them take a larger number of individuals" and hold those who have asylum claims in Mexico while they are being processed in the United States. "We've also seen them stop more people from coming across the border so that they aren't even entering into the United States. So those two things are certainly helpful and we'd like to see them continue," Sanders said.

 President Trump threatened on Friday to close the border this week unless Mexico took steps to stop immigrants from reaching the United States illegally. Closing the border could disrupt millions of legal border crossings and billions of dollars in trade. He also Twitted on Tuesday. "After many years (decades), Mexico is apprehending large numbers of people at their Southern Border, mostly from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador," he said.

 Sanders said the administration was "looking at all options when it comes to closing the different ports of entry, what that looks like and what the impacts would be." She told Fox News the administration wanted Mexico to continue working to address the issue, and added that the administration is doing studies on the impact of closing different ports of entries to give Trump some options.

 Senior U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials said on Tuesday a redeployment of some 750 officers on the border to deal with a surge in migrants - mostly Central American families turning themselves in

to border agents - had led to a slowing of legal crossings and commerce at ports of entry.

 

The White House took a step back on Tuesday from a threat to close the U.S. border with Mexico, even as a redeployment of border officers in recent days has led to a slowdown of legal crossings and commerce at U.S. ports of entry there.

White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said the Trump administration sees Mexico "stepping up and taking a greater sense of responsibility" for dealing with the immigration flows that U.S. officials say are overwhelming ports of entry along the border.

"They have started to do a significant amount more. We've seen them take a larger number of individuals" and hold those who have asylum claims in Mexico while they are being processed in the United States, Sanders told reporters at the White House.

"We've also seen them stop more people from coming across the border so that they aren't even entering into the United States. So those two things are certainly helpful and we'd like to see them continue," Sanders said.

Trump threatened on Friday to close the border this week unless Mexico took steps to stop immigrants from reaching the United States illegally. Closing the border could disrupt millions of legal border crossings and billions of dollars in trade.

Trump hinted at a softening earlier in a Twitter post on Tuesday. "After many years (decades), Mexico is apprehending large numbers of people at their Southern Border, mostly from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador," he said.

Sanders said the administration was "looking at all options when it comes to closing the different ports of entry, what that looks like and what the impacts would be."

She told Fox News the administration wanted Mexico to continue working to address the issue so, and added that the administration is doing studies on the impact of closing different ports of entries to give Trump some options.

Senior U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials said on Tuesday a redeployment of some 750 officers on the border to deal with a surge in migrants - mostly Central American families turning themselves into border agents - had led to a slowing of legal crossings and commerce at ports of entry.

 "Wait times in Brownsville, Texas were around 3 hrs., which were two times the peaks of last year," said a senior DHS official on a call with reporters. "We ended the day yesterday at Otay Mesa (California) with a back-up of 150 trucks that hadn't been processed," the official said. "This is a reality."

 DHS officials said on the call that border facilities have been overwhelmed by families who cannot be deported quickly because they hope to seek asylum in the United States.

 The U.S. Customs and Border Protection estimated that some 100,000 migrants would be apprehended or encountered at the border in March, the highest level in a decade. "The system is on fire," a DHS official said.

 

Because of limits on how long children are legally allowed to be held in detention, many of the families are released to await their U.S. immigration court hearings, a process that can take years because of ballooning backlogs.

 To try to address the problem, the administration in late January started returning some migrants to Mexico to wait our their U.S. court dates in Mexican border cities.

 On Monday, DHS said it would dramatically ramp up the pace of that program, even as it is being challenged in court and immigration attorneys have raised concerns about how the process is being implemented.

 

 

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Mexico Braces for New Caravan of Central American Migrant Invaders.

 3/28/19 

Mexico is bracing for the arrival of the "mother of all caravans,"  Central American migrants Invaders.

 Interior Secretary Olga Sanchez Cordero has said a caravan of migrants from El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala could be forming.

 "We have information that a new caravan is forming in Honduras, that they're calling 'the mother of all caravans,' and they are thinking it could have more than 20,000 people," Sanchez Cordero said Wednesday.

 However, a WhatsApp group calling for people to gather Saturday in El Salvador to set off for Guatemala only has about 206 members.

 Activist Irineo Mujica, who has accompanied several caravans in Mexico, said reports about "the mother of all caravans" were false, claiming "this is information that (U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen) Nielsen is using to create fear." She and others suspect the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump may be trying to fan fears of a big caravan to turn the U.S. national agenda back to the immigration issue.

 Honduran activist Bartolo Fuentes, who accompanied a large caravan last year, dismissed the new reports as "part of the U.S. government's plans, something made up to justify their actions."

A caravan of about 2,500 Central Americans and Cubans is currently making its way through Mexico's southern state of Chiapas. The largest of last year's caravans in Mexico contained about 7,000 people at its peak, though some estimates ran as high as 10,000 at some points.

 

Mexico is bracing for the possible arrival of the "mother of all caravans," even as doubts arise over whether the group of Central American migrants will be all that big.

Interior Secretary Olga Sanchez Cordero has said a caravan of migrants from El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala could be forming.

"We have information that a new caravan is forming in Honduras, that they're calling 'the mother of all caravans,' and they are thinking it could have more than 20,000 people," Sanchez Cordero said Wednesday.

But a WhatsApp group calling for people to gather Saturday in El Salvador to set off for Guatemala only has about 206 members.

Activist Irineo Mujica, who has accompanied several caravans in Mexico, said reports about "the mother of all caravans" were false, claiming "this is information that (U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen) Nielsen is using to create fear."

She and others suspect the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump may be trying to fan fears of a big caravan to turn the U.S. national agenda back to the immigration issue.

Honduran activist Bartolo Fuentes, who accompanied a large caravan last year, dismissed the new reports as "part of the U.S. government's plans, something made up to justify their actions."

A caravan of about 2,500 Central Americans and Cubans is currently making its way through Mexico's southern state of Chiapas. The largest of last year's caravans in Mexico contained about 7,000 people at its peak, though some estimates ran as high as 10,000 at some points. \

 Mexico appears to be both tiring of the caravans and eager not to anger the United States. It has stopped granting migrants humanitarian visas at the border, and towns along the well-traveled route to Mexico City sometimes no longer allow caravans to spend the night.

 Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Thursday that Mexico is doing its part to fight immigrant smuggling. "We are going to do everything we can to help. We don't in any way want a confrontation with the U.S. government," he said. "It is legitimate that they are displeased and they voice these concerns."

 Sanchez Cordero has pledged to form a police line of "containment" around Mexico's narrow Tehuantepec Isthmus to stop migrants from continuing north to the U.S. border.

 The containment belt would consist of federal police and immigration agents.

However, such highway blockades and checkpoints have not stopped large and determined groups of migrants in the past.

 

 

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Thursday, 28 March 2019 06:16 PM

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Dicks Sporting Goods Bans Gun Sales, Reports Massive Loss!

 3/31/19 by Robert Gearty

Dick’s Sporting Goods pulls assault-style rifles from stores

Dick’s Sporting Goods’ bottom line took a very big hit after halting the sale of assault-style weapons in response to the Parkland school massacre.

 The policy change cost the nation’s largest sporting goods retailer about $150 million in lost sales, about 1.7% of annual revenue, Bloomberg News reported Friday.

But boss Ed Stack isn’t complaining.

 “The system does not work,” Stack said, according to the news outlet. “It’s important that when you know there’s something that’s not working, and it’s to the detriment of the public, you have to stand up.”

 Parkland gunman Nikolas Cruz purchased a shotgun from Dick’s a few months before the attack, which left 17 dead, including a number of students.

 Stack also banned the sale of all guns to anyone under 21.

Still, the gun ban hasn’t affected Dick’s stock price, Bloomberg reported.

 Shares have climbed 14% in the 13 months since Parkland. Shares rose slightly Friday.

After the ban was announced, the National Rifle Association criticized Stack’s “strange business model,” according to Bloomberg.

 Also, the National Shooting Sports Foundation kicked Dick’s out of the organization. Gun manufacturers like Mossberg stopped doing business with Dick’s.

Those who supported the ban promised to become Dick’s customers, but did not stay the course.

“Love is fleeting. Hate is forever,” Stack said.