Immigration; weaponized immigration

[Crafty_Dog]

https://www.oann.com/newsroom/sweden-offering-migrants-34k-to-leave-european-nation/

[ccp]

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/09/19/congressional-report-over-85-of-migrants-arriving-at-southern-border-released-into-u-s-as-biden-harris-slash-detention-space/

They forget to say/add :


We are releasing them into the US more than anyone in history

[Body-by-Guinness]

A law firm that has represented Hillary "let's jail people who traffic in disinformation, first amendment be damned" Clinton has issued a report detailing the take over of a Colorado apartment complex by a Venezuelan Gang. Their findings are incredibly shocking.

Imagine being an apartment dweller contending with the results of a federal government that habitually fails to enforce immigration laws, fails to keep people detained when arrested for violation of those laws and other laws, that apparently imports citizens of Venezuela and other countries en masse that then partake of criminal activity, and that leaves these low income renters to deal with the predations of this gang. Bet they feel great when filing their federal tax returns.

The current administration has failed to install more than ten charging stations despite throwing billions at that folly, it has failed to connect a single underserved person, let alone community, to high speed internet despite tens of billions more thrown at that boondoggle, yet it does a really good job of tossing millions or more at NGOs that, by means not much understood, assists people here illegally, with some of that group banding together to prey on the powerless.

No doubt our non-Border Czar had nothing to do with this mess:

https://bigleaguepolitics.substack.com/p/report-from-colorado-law-firm-claims?r=2k0c5&fbclid=IwY2xjawFac61leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHVSDvykRJQaPQI_sfl0LcZVErnmGHLUzVfzJfReP4g6h07UTvHGQfqidXA_aem_30fxvlVaVuR4iiSe6or9bw&triedRedirect=true

At least we can sleep easy knowing that, should the current administration get another four years, this awful set of circumstances will be directly dealt with on "day one," perhaps just after it pushes for fracking in swing state PA, and ceases its underhanded attempts to eliminate second amendment protections by extra-constitutional means....

[Crafty_Dog]

(1) MURPHY INTRODUCES NEW IMMIGRANT VISA BILL: Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) the Witness Assistance and Criminal Accountability Act yesterday, which would create a new W visa category for illegal immigrants who cooperate with law enforcement after witnessing a crime.
The W visa would work similarly to the U visa for illegal immigrants who are a victim of a crime.
Why It Matters: The House left for recess yesterday and will have only five legislative work weeks when Congress returns in mid-November, leaving this bill unlikely to pass before 2025. If Harris wins and Democrats flip the House, the bill will likely pass. A potential Harris administration and Democrats are also likely to look at other ways to expand amnesty for illegal immigrants, including new visa categories and parole programs. – R.C.

[ccp]

https://www.breitbart.com/law-and-order/2024/09/29/minneapolis-swears-first-non-u-s-citizen-police-officer/

[DougMacG]

https://www.breitbart.com/law-and-order/2024/09/29/minneapolis-swears-first-non-u-s-citizen-police-officer/

They can't figure out why they're having recruiting problems, while the governor leaves them out to die and blames them.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/minneapolis-police-department-officer-shortage-chief-brian-ohara/

[Body-by-Guinness]

Illegal immigration rates from Obama through Biden, broken down by single immigrants to families to children only:

https://x.com/charliekirk11/status/1841307528409563238?s=61

[Body-by-Guinness]

… is growing explosively:

https://www.thefp.com/p/inside-americas-fastest-growing-criminal

[Body-by-Guinness]

CLOSING THE BORDER TO TERRORISTS: COOPERATION BETWEEN MEXICAN CARTELS AND INTERNATIONAL TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS

Tue, 10/22/2024 - 8:19pm

Closing the Border to Terrorists: Cooperation between Mexican Cartels and International Terrorist Organizations

By Andrew Byers and Kelsey Warner

In July 2024, three Palestinians and a Turk, all with possible connections to terrorist organizations, were detained by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents while attempting to illegally cross the Southwest border from Mexico into the San Diego area.[1] One of the two Jordanians who attempted to breach the USMC Marine Corps Base at Quantico in May 2024 was confirmed to have crossed the Southwest border illegally before being detained and then released into the United States.[2] Eight Tajiks with ties to the Islamic State-Khorasan Branch (ISIS-K) were found to have crossed illegally into the United States via the Southwest border at various points in 2023 before being released into the United States.[3]  These are just a handful of the most recent incidents involving potential international terrorism-affiliated individuals entering the United States via the Southwest border in the past several years,[4] all facilitated by the Mexican cartels that control the flow of human trafficking across the border.

A growing number of potential terrorists have entered the United States illegally via the Southwest border in recent years. While we can document several important recent cases, we do not yet understand the full scope of the problem because of the large number of “gotaways,” illegal aliens who are known to have entered the United States, typically between ports of entry, but who do not have encounters with U.S. law enforcement officials, so their identities remain unknown and they are never vetted. The vast majority of such gotaways are, of course, economic migrants unaffiliated with international terror organizations. But the number of bad actors blending into this large pool of gotaways remains unknown and unknowable.

If the United States wants to address the problem of individuals with international terrorism ties entering the United States via the Southwest border, it will have to target the Mexican cartels, which control the flow of illegal entries into the United States. While these organizations are run primarily by businessmen driven by profit motives, well-financed terror organizations have the resources to secure entry to the United States from the cartels. The application of additional pressure on the cartels to cut off the flow of terror-affiliated illegal aliens will change the cartels’ incentives and should have some effect.

The Scope of the Problem

In December 2023, FBI Director Christopher Wray testified before Congress that the number of warning signs of possible terror attacks inside the United States has increased dramatically since the October 7, 2023 attack by Hamas inside Israel. “What I would say that is unique about the environment that we're in right now in my career is that while there may have been times over the years where individual threats could have been higher here or there than where they may be right now, I've never seen a time where all the threats or so many of the threats are all elevated, all at exactly the same time.”[5] This is troubling, to say the least, and suggests that much more must be done to head off the possibility of one or more major terrorist attacks inside the homeland.

The recent re-arrest of eight Tajiks with possible ties to ISIS-K inside the United States is a case study in both the potential problem—terrorists entering the United States via the Southwest border—and how current U.S. government policies exacerbate or fail to correct the problem. While most of ISIS-K’s attacks have taken place inside Afghanistan and Pakistan (including the 2021 Kabul airport attack that killed thirteen U.S. servicemembers), ISIS-K has also staged attacks inside Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Iran. Most recently, in March 2024, four ISIS-K operatives, all ethnic Tajiks, attacked a Russian concert hall that killed close to 150 civilians. This recent out-of-area attack is highly worrisome because it suggests larger aspirations for ISIS-K, providing the context for why the recent arrests of eight ethnic Tajiks said to have connections to ISIS-K inside the United States are so concerning. The eight entered the United States illegally, coming across the Southwest border at various times in 2023. Of the eight Tajik nationals, three used the CBP One phone application to schedule an appointment at a port of entry, four were initially encountered by CBP while crossing the border between ports of entry, and one arrived at a port of entry without scheduling a CBP One app appointment.[6] After they were taken into custody by CBP, they were nominally “vetted” and subsequently released inside the United States with notices to appear before a U.S. immigration court at a later date.[7] Only later were they re-arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Los Angeles, New York, and Philadelphia after the individuals in question had scattered. This particular group of Tajiks is said to have ties with a larger ISIS-K cell operating in Central Europe, but it remains unclear if this was an ISIS-K operational cell being sent to conduct one or more attacks within the United States.[8]

The Tajik case is not isolated. This comes on the heels of an April 2024 arrest of an Uzbek national with ISIS-K ties who had been living illegally inside the United States for two years in Baltimore.[9] In February 2024, a Columbian man who was a positive match for membership in a terrorist organization (name of organization has not been publicly released) was detained by the Texas Department of Public Safety and turned over to CBP when he crossed into the United States via Eagle Pass area just a few days before a visit to the area by former President Donald Trump.[10] In August 2023, more than a dozen Uzbeks were detained on the Southwest border, having been infiltrated into the United States by a human smuggler with ties to ISIS.[11] Astonishingly, this case did not result in any detentions, since no derogatory information on the Uzbeks was immediately found. The Uzbeks all requested asylum and were then released into the United States and provided with court dates for their asylum hearings. It was only after the Uzbeks were released into the United States that the FBI learned that their travel had been facilitated in part by an individual with ties to ISIS. Despite the fact that there was no known immediate attack plot involving the Uzbeks and the ISIS-linked smuggler was not believed to be a formal member of ISIS but rather had “personal sympathies” with ISIS, according to U.S., government officials, this was an alarming case of potentially very dangerous human trafficking. Over 400 Central Asians are believed to have entered the United States via this ISIS-connected human trafficking operation.[12] While some 150 of the Central Asians who entered the United States via this smuggling network have now been arrested, at least fifty of them have not been relocated.

The number of individuals attempting to illegally enter the United States who are present in the Terrorist Screening Data Set (TSDS) has increased dramatically in the last few years. CBP reports that in FY2023, there were 80 such encounters on the Southwest border and 484 such encounters on the Northern border at land ports of entry.[13] In FY2024 (Year-to-Date), there were 46 such encounters on the Southwest border and 321 on the Northern border. There were many more such encounters between ports of entry. In FY2023, there were 169 such encounters on the Southwest border and 3 on the Northern border. In FY2024 (Year-to-Date), there have been 100 on the Southwest border and 2 on the Northern border. This is not to suggest that in each case the individual in question is a known terrorist, but in each case there is enough potentially derogatory information about the individual to further screen them. The total number of potential terrorists attempting to enter the United States is unknown, because since 2021 there have been at least 1.7 million gotaways at the Southwest border (illegal entrants detected but not detained).[14] Then-U.S. Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz testified in March 2023 that the total number of gotaways was likely 10-20 percent higher than the publicly reported numbers.[15] We simply cannot know how many of these two million gotaways were also present in the TSDS.

Congressional oversight recently forced CBP to admit that at least 99 individuals from the TSDS encounters on the Southwest border from FY2021-23 were released into the U.S. homeland and at least 34 additional TSDS individuals remain in DHS custody and have not yet been deported.[16] These individuals represent nationals from 36 countries, including Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Kyrgyzstan, Mauritania, Pakistan, Somalia, Syria, Tajikistan, Turkey, Uzbekistan, and Yemen.[17] Of these 99, immigration judges granted bond to at least 27; four more were granted asylum inside the United States, and at least two more had their cases terminated by immigration judges.[18] In at least one case, a potential terrorist was granted bond after the immigration judge was never told by CBP that the individual was a potential national security threat. The Chief Immigration Judge admitted to a Congressional committee that only 5% of immigration judges have a Top Secret clearance, and that because of this, she “imagine[d] there may be” gaps in the information that DHS shares with immigration judges about the potential national security risks posed by such individuals.[19]

While we see news of isolated cases of watchlist-associated individuals crossing the border, Mexican cartels have a hand in everything that moves through the areas under their control, drugs, contraband, and people alike. In 2021 alone, the most recent year for which data are available, the Mexican cartels are estimated to have made $13 billion from human trafficking across the Southwest border.[20] CBP chief of the Tucson Sector recently testified before Congress that, “…if someone’s being smuggled, they’re using a criminal organization….that has changed significantly, when I started…in ’95, people could just get to the border and cross on their own….now nobody crosses without paying the cartels. …the cartels…determine when people cross…how many people cross at a time, all of that.”[21] Other senior CBP officials have likewise testified that anyone attempting to cross the Southwest border without the cooperation of the cartels—and, most importantly, paying the cartels—is beaten or killed by the cartels.[22] Yuma County Sheriff Leon Wilmot recently noted that, “The cartels don’t have to invest a penny in any of the human smuggling. Their product is walking up to them and paying them to cross, so the cartels control every bit of what’s going on. Same with over in Baja. So it’s more of a human product and it’s cheap and easy for them. They just tell‘em when to cross.”[23]

Policy Recommendations

A number of obvious and immediate policy recommendations naturally flow from the above analysis. All require significant political will to implement and require acknowledging that there is a major problem underway. The good news is that there are some remedies that can begin to help cut off the flow of individuals with links to international terrorist organizations. If terrorists want to enter the United States badly enough, some will find ways to get inside the United States no matter what policy changes are implemented. The key is to raise the costs for illegal entry and deter at least some terror organizations from dispatching operatives because of the increased likelihood of getting caught.

One common refrain is that Mexican cartels and other transnational criminal organizations should be designated as terrorist organizations. This would not necessarily increase U.S. legal authority to deal with the problem, however. As Brian Jenkins noted, “Ironically, the USA Patriot Act, passed in 2001 after the 9/11 attacks, allowed investigators dealing with terrorism ‘to use the tools that were already available to investigate organized crime and drug trafficking.’”[24] While potentially satisfying, doing so would not change much. More specific policy solutions are needed.

First, the United States must apply additional pressure on the Mexican cartels to cut off the flow of terror-affiliated illegal entrants. This pressure should take the form of additional focusing of law enforcement resources, as well as military and intelligence community support for CBP and state, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies on the border. In part, this could take the form of cooperative training exercises between U.S. and Mexican forces that would give Mexican law enforcement organizations additional resources while simultaneously allowing the United States deeper and more frequent access to vet their Mexican partners. The United States could also create a formalized, identity-protected channel of communication for Mexican law enforcement personnel to report terrorism concerns. This channel could be supported by additional counterterrorism training.

Second, the United States should cease using a kingpin strategy and head-hunting tactics, which target cartel leaders, which only serve to further destabilize the local cartel presence and spur further violence. As one study found, such an approach failed to “tackl[e] underlying issues like corruption, collusion, impunity, and a lack of economic opportunities,” and ended up doubling the local homicide rates where such a strategy was employed.[25] Another study found that homicide rates increase by 80% in a municipality in which a cartel leader is captured, and these effects persist for at least one year; neighboring municipalities suffer a 30% increase in homicides, with effects lasting at least six months.[26] The case study of the Sinaloa Cartel’s Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman is one such cautionary tale. El Chapo was arrested in 2014, re-arrested in 2016, and extradited to the United States in 2017. This resulted in the creation of a power vacuum within the Sinaloa Cartel, which immediately resulted in massively increased violence as various Sinaloa factions jockeyed for influence. Cartel violence peaked in 2018, with 33,341 homicides that year, though Mexico’s murder rate has only diminished slightly since then.[27] While the removal of El Chapo from power initially seemed to be a success, it soon became clear that this was a Pyrrhic victory at best. New approaches that address underlying sources of violence, poor governance, and poverty while simultaneously depriving cartels of resources are needed.

Third, the United States should employ a combination of carrots and sticks against the Mexican government to pressure it to assist in combating the cartels. This would be a combination of punitive measures against Mexican law enforcement when they fail to stop crossings as well as providing additional resources and training to help them perform their jobs better. Note that giving the Mexican government increased access to U.S. vetting procedures may make them better at assisting the cartels in evading our security efforts but is probably necessary.

Lastly, in response to the recent reporting of at least 99 detained watchlisters being allowed into the United States, the U.S. federal government should make detention and automatic deportation the rule for all detained illegal aliens with derogatory data on the TSDS watchlist, rather than allowing immigration judges to grant bonds or asylum status, both of which permit release of these individuals into the United States with minimal to no oversight. This change may require congressional support but should be a nonpartisan issue. If such a new blanket policy is not politically feasible, all immigration judges should go through the process of receiving Top Secret security clearances so that they can be given information about the national security risks posed by detained watchlisters by CBP and other intelligence community officials. CBP should create a formalized process for its personnel with first-hand interactions with those on the list to refer them for further questioning by U.S. intelligence agencies before the detainees receive further processing. Illegal aliens with derogatory information on the TSDS watchlist should have their cases reviewed by immigration judges with the proper security clearances to review all information pertaining to the individuals.

 
[1] Mathilda Heller, “Palestinian migrants with possible terror ties detained by San Diego border agents,” The Jerusalem Post, July 29, 2024, https://www.jpost.com/international/article-812321.

[2] Greg Wehner and Bill Melugin, “ICE confirms Jordanians who attempted to breach Marine Corps Base Quantico were both in US illegally,” Fox News, May 23, 2024, https://www.foxnews.com/us/ice-confirms-jordanians-attempted-breach-marine-corps-base-quantico-both-us-illegally.

[3] Caitlin Yikek, “Arrests of 8 with suspected ISIS ties in U.S. renew concern of terror attack,” CBS News, June 14, 2024, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/arrests-suspected-isis-ties-terror-attack-us-concerns/.

[4] Andrew Byers, “Where Do We Stand with Al-Qaeda and ISIS? International Salafi Networks in 2024,” Small Wars Journal, July 16, 2024, https://smallwarsjournal.com/index.php/jrnl/art/where-do-we-stand-al-qaeda-and-isis-international-salafi-networks-2024.

[5] Chris Pandolfo, “FBI director warns of unprecedented terror threats since Oct. 7: 'Lights blinking everywhere,'” Fox News, December 5, 2023, https://www.fox9.com/news/fbi-director-warns-of-unprecedented-terror-threats-since-oct-7-lights-blinking-everywhere.

[6] Committee on the Judiciary and Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement, U.S. House of Representatives, “Terror at Our Door: How the Biden-Harris Administration’s Open-Borders Policies Undermine National Security and Endanger America,” Interim Staff Report, August 5, 2024, https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/FILE_6538.pdf.

[7] Caitlin Yikek, “Arrests of 8 with suspected ISIS ties in U.S. renew concern of terror attack,” CBS News, June 14, 2024, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/arrests-suspected-isis-ties-terror-attack-us-concerns/.

[8] Julia Ainsley, Tom Winter, Andrew Blankstein and Antonio Planas, “8 suspected terrorists with possible ISIS ties arrested in New York, L.A. and Philadelphia, sources say,” NBC News, June 11, 2024, https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/8-suspected-terrorists-possible-isis-ties-arrested-new-york-l-philadel-rcna156635.

[9] Julia Ainsley, “Migrant with alleged ISIS ties was living in the U.S. for more than two years, officials say,” NBC News, May 1, 2024, https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/migrant-alleged-isis-ties-living-us-two-years-officials-say-rcna150281.

[10] Ali Bradley and Jorge Ventura, “Colombian man on terror watchlist arrested at Eagle Pass,” NewsNation, March 6, 2024, https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/immigration/border-coverage/colombian-terror-watchlist-crossing-border/.

[11] Katie Bo Lillis, Evan Perez, Priscilla Alvarez, and Natasha Bertrand, “Exclusive: Smuggler with ties to ISIS helped migrants enter US from Mexico, raising alarm bells across government,” CNN, August 30, 2023, https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/29/politics/migrants-us-southern-border-smuggler-isis-ties/index.html.

[12] Julia Ainsley and Tom Winter, “DHS identifies over 400 migrants brought to the U.S. by an ISIS-affiliated human smuggling network,” NBC News, June 25, 2024, https://www.nbcnews.com/investigations/dhs-identifies-400-migrants-brought-us-isis-linked-human-smuggling-rcna158777.

[13] FY23 and FY24 numbers are drawn from U.S. CBP Enforcement Statistics, https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/cbp-enforcement-statistics. FY2024 year-to-date data last checked on October 14, 2024.

[14] “Border Sector Chiefs Confirm Operational Impacts of Border Chaos: Increased Gotaways, Closed Checkpoints, and Empowered Cartels,” December 20, 2023, https://homeland.house.gov/2023/12/20/border-sector-chiefs-confirm-operational-impacts-of-border-chaos-increased-gotaways-closed-checkpoints-and-empowered-cartels/.

[15] “Homeland Security Committee Republicans Confirm the Cause of This Unprecedented Border Crisis: Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas,” March 16, 2023, https://homeland.house.gov/2023/03/16/homeland-security-committee-republicans-confirm-the-cause-of-this-unprecedented-border-crisis-secretary-alejandro-mayorkas/.

[16] Committee on the Judiciary and Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement, U.S. House of Representatives, “Terror at Our Door: How the Biden-Harris Administration’s Open-Borders Policies Undermine National Security and Endanger America,” Interim Staff Report, August 5, 2024, https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/FILE_6538.pdf.

[17] Committee on the Judiciary and Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement, U.S. House of Representatives, “Terror at Our Door: How the Biden-Harris Administration’s Open-Borders Policies Undermine National Security and Endanger America,” Interim Staff Report, August 5, 2024, https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/FILE_6538.pdf.

[18] Committee on the Judiciary and Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement, U.S. House of Representatives, “Terror at Our Door: How the Biden-Harris Administration’s Open-Borders Policies Undermine National Security and Endanger America,” Interim Staff Report, August 5, 2024, https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/FILE_6538.pdf.

[19] Committee on the Judiciary and Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement, U.S. House of Representatives, “Terror at Our Door: How the Biden-Harris Administration’s Open-Borders Policies Undermine National Security and Endanger America,” Interim Staff Report, August 5, 2024, https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/FILE_6538.pdf.

[20] Committee on Homeland Security, “Chairman Green: ‘Every Dollar the Cartels Rake in Comes at the Cost of an American Life or Livelihood,’” July 19, 2023, https://homeland.house.gov/2023/07/19/chairman-green-every-dollar-the-cartels-rake-in-comes-at-the-cost-of-an-american-life-or-livelihood/.

[21] Chief Patrol Agent John Modlin, Tucson Sector, December 14, 2023 Testimony, Committee on Homeland Security, https://homeland.house.gov/2023/12/14/now-nobody-crosses-without-paying-senior-border-patrol-agents-describe-unprecedented-cartel-control-at-southwest-border/.

[22] “’Now Nobody Crosses Without Paying’: Senior Border Patrol Agents Describe Unprecedented Cartel Control at Southwest Border,” December 14, 2023 Testimony, Committee on Homeland Security, https://homeland.house.gov/2023/12/14/now-nobody-crosses-without-paying-senior-border-patrol-agents-describe-unprecedented-cartel-control-at-southwest-border/.

[23] “Yuma County Sheriff provides perspective on immigrant surge,” KAWC Colorado River Public Media, May 24, 2024, https://www.kawc.org/news/2022-05-24/yuma-county-sheriff-wilmot-pleased-with-continuance-of-migrant-border-policy.

[24] Brian Jenkins, “Should Mexico’s Drug Cartels Be Designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations?” RAND, March 22, 2023, https://www.rand.org/pubs/commentary/2023/03/should-mexicos-drug-cartels-be-designated-foreign-terrorist.html.

[25] Jane Esberg, “Why Mexico’s Kingpin Strategy Failed: Targeting Leaders Led to More Criminal Groups and More Violence, Modern War Institute at West Point, June 9, 2022, https://mwi.westpoint.edu/why-mexicos-kingpin-strategy-failed-targeting-leaders-led-to-more-criminal-groups-and-more-violence/.

[26] Jason M. Lindo and María Padilla-Romo, “Kingpin Approaches to Fighting Crime and Community Violence: Evidence from Mexico’s Drug War,” Cato Institute, July 29, 2015, https://www.cato.org/research-briefs-economic-policy/kingpin-approaches-fighting-crime-community-violence-evidence.

[27] Center for Preventive Action, Council on Foreign Relations, “Criminal Violence in Mexico,” October 9, 2024, https://www.cfr.org/global-conflict-tracker/conflict/criminal-violence-mexico.

About the Author(s)
Kelsey Warner
Kelsey Warner is a former intelligence operations specialist for the Department of Homeland Security who focused on transnational organized crime and cybersecurity threats.


Andrew Byers
Andrew Byers is a non-resident fellow at the Texas A&M University’s Albritton Center for Grand Strategy and a former history professor at Duke University

https://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/closing-border-terrorists-cooperation-between-mexican-cartels-and-international-terrorist

[Body-by-Guinness]

2nd post. 4000 “migrants” headed our way in the hope of crossing illegally before a Trump inauguration or a Biden/Harris border backpedal:

https://www.borderreport.com/immigration/2000-migrant-caravan-departs-southern-mexico-for-the-us-weeks-before-election/?utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_source=t.co&utm_medium=referral

[Crafty_Dog]

https://media.gab.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=1136,quality=100,fit=scale-down/system/media_attachments/files/167/797/134/original/5c9d6dda6ff19e6b.jpg

[ccp]

But immigration is Portugals strength 

[Crafty_Dog]

For a while we sort of assumed problematic immigration and problematic Islam were one and the same, but in point of fact, that has become rather imprecise.  Therefore I have added Michael Yon's term "weaponized immigration" to the Subject line of this thread.

[Body-by-Guinness]

And you and I pay for it. Likely be curious to discover if these folks were resettled in demographically handy spots and if they were set up to vote:

https://x.com/wallstreetapes/status/1850586782271680676?s=61

[Body-by-Guinness]

Erik Prince states there’s an element of the RICO statutes that makes aiding illegal immigration a RICO offense:

ErikDPrince

@realErikDPrince
The next Attorney General must  go after all the heads of NGOs who facilitated invasion of 15 million illegals with this law. Bankrupt these NGOs in fines and penalties. Consequences matter. Facilitating an invasion of America is criminal treason.

https://x.com/realErikDPrince/status/1855393852489658798

My take: full speed ahead. I particularly want to see the names of leaders and boards of these NGOs, trace what percentage of funding was devoted to importing and supporting illegals, how much went to payroll, and what portion is difficult to account for, particularly if any got kicked upward/elsewhere.

[Crafty_Dog]

Emotionally I like it.  Not sure how it would play out politically though-- but I am willing to be persuaded.

[Body-by-Guinness]

Emotionally I like it.  Not sure how it would play out politically though-- but I am willing to be persuaded.

Trump will have to be smart about it. ID, say, a truly cretinous NGO and go at them hard, the invite others to speak with the “truth and reconciliation” committee he has stated he’s setting up. Get a couple to cop to their acts, then stand back as the dam breaks.

[Crafty_Dog]

This is not the thread for it, but another something for us to dial in on is the way NGOs are financed by the Blob.   Going after them will trigger truly fierce resistance.

[ccp]

"the Blob"

I don't see the connection to the 1958 Steve McQueen movie.

??

[Crafty_Dog]

Another name for the uniparty and its remoras in our nation's capitol.

[Crafty_Dog]

Trump’s Mass Deportation Promise
He has a mandate on the border and to deport criminals. But more than that could get ugly fast.
By The Editorial Board
Nov. 11, 2024 5:55 pm ET

Donald Trump won a second term in the White House by pledging to secure the U.S.-Mexico border, and that includes sending a clear deterrent message to migrants before he’s sworn in again on Jan. 20. Last week a caravan of about 3,000 people set out toward the U.S. from near the Guatemala border, according to Reuters, but many of them dispersed after Mr. Trump’s victory.


Mr. Trump announced late Sunday that Tom Homan, his former acting head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, has agreed to be his new border czar. Mr. Homan will be “in charge of our Nation’s Borders,” plus “all Deportation of Illegal Aliens back to their Country of Origin,” Mr. Trump wrote on Truth Social. Media leaks Monday said Stephen Miller, who advised Mr. Trump on immigration policy in the first term, is likely to be White House deputy chief of staff for policy.

In short order, Mr. Trump will move to reinstate the border policies of his first term, such as Remain in Mexico, which seemed to work. Under that deal, migrants claiming asylum in the U.S. were sent back to Mexico while their cases were pending, which might take months or more. The idea was to break the incentives to game the system. Given the backlog of asylum cases, letting migrants into the U.S. while they wait is an enticement to come.

The political rub may be Mr. Trump’s campaign promise to conduct “the largest deportation operation in the history of our country.” How it goes depends on what Mr. Trump means. Speaking Monday on Fox News, Mr. Homan said the priority will be “public-safety threats and national-security threats,” as well as migrants who “had due process” and “their federal judge said ‘you must go home,’ and they didn’t.”

Good to hear, and add what Mr. Homan told “60 Minutes” last month. “It’s not going to be a mass sweep of neighborhoods,” he said. “It’s not going to be building concentration camps. I’ve read it all. It’s ridiculous.”

Instead he said Mr. Trump’s plan would involve “targeted arrests,” and eventually “worksite enforcement operations.” If officers making an arrest also find an undocumented grandma in the house, will they detain her? “It depends,” Mr. Homan said. “Let the judge decide.”

Some of Mr. Trump’s advisers, including Mr. Miller, have talked about mass deportation in sweeping terms. But enforcement priorities are up to the President, and Mr. Trump has suggested he isn’t interested in illegal grandmothers.

When he visited the Journal recently, we asked about aliens who have been here for years, who might have U.S. citizen spouses and children. His response was that he wanted to help them.

“We have a lot of good people in this country, and we have to do something about it,” Mr. Trump said. “This has been going on for a long time. It’s a complicated subject.” He declined to specify whom he’d deport: “I don’t want to go too much into clarification, because the nicer I become, the more people that come over illegally.” Yet after stringent talk about deterrence, he ended with nuance: “There are some human questions that get in the way of being perfect, and we have to have the heart, too.”

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The public backs him on securing the border and reducing the burden that migrants have put on cities across the country. But as Mr. Trump appears to realize, support will ebb if the public sees crying children as their parents are deported, or reads stories of long-settled families broken up and “dreamers” brought here illegally as children deported to countries that they no longer remember.

Even as Mr. Biden’s failures turned the public against immigration, Gallup this summer said 81% of Americans want a path to citizenship for those “brought to the U.S. illegally as children.” That included 64% of Republicans.

Mr. Trump can do much on immigration by executive action, but a durable solution needs legislation. Maybe Democrats, after the electoral haymaker they got last week, will be willing to compromise more than they have in the past. Mr. Trump missed a chance for a bipartisan deal in 2018 to permanently change the border incentives on asylum and more. He’ll have a narrow window again next year, if he’s willing and has the heart.

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" but a durable solution needs legislation. Maybe Democrats, after the electoral haymaker they got last week, will be willing to compromise more than they have in the past. Mr. Trump missed a chance for a bipartisan deal in 2018 to permanently change the border incentives on asylum and more. He’ll have a narrow window again next year, if he’s willing and has the heart."

so typical of WSJ

 

yes I know the crying babies etc.....

[ccp]

badass  :

https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2024/11/11/trump-picks-tom-homan-to-oversee-border-security-deportations/

 

Compare him to that no good lying piece of "garbage"  Myorkas who must be on the list of investigations for breaking and subverting American law.

[Crafty_Dog]

Homan is a GREAT choice!

[ccp]

Coulter => fangirl -> never Trumper => fangirl:

https://townhall.com/columnists/anncoulter/2024/11/13/columnistsanncoulter20241113trumps-magnificent-beginning-n2647750

[ccp]

https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2024/11/18/ny-times-admits-migration-skews-nations-economy-politics/

[Body-by-Guinness]

Piece looks at NGOs using lawfare to derail deportation efforts. I’m willing to bet that some of the funds flowing into these NGOs originated from the federal government before being washed through various cut outs:

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/investigations/3238077/charities-spending-millions-stop-illegal-immigrants-deported/

[Crafty_Dog]

That bet is a sure thing.

[Body-by-Guinness]

2nd post. Lines being drawn regarding deportation of illegals from “sanctuary cities.” Be interesting to see who blinks. My guess is few of these posers will opt to eat a harboring charge:

https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/11/denver-mayor-willing-to-use-city-police-to-thwart-ice-create-tiananmen-square-moment/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=denver-mayor-willing-to-use-city-police-to-thwart-ice-create-tiananmen-square-moment

[Crafty_Dog]

Homan has drawn a clear line in the sand with his citation of specific federal statute under which those who interfere with ICE will be arrested.

[ccp]

"You are absolutely breaking the law," Tom Homan, Trump's "border czar" designate, told Fox News' Sean Hannity. "All he has to do is look at Arizona v. U.S. and he would see he's breaking the law. But, look, me and the Denver mayor, we agree on one thing. He’s willing to go to jail, I’m willing to put him in jail."

 

[Crafty_Dog]

The Local Sheriffs Gearing Up to Help Trump Carry Out Mass Deportations
The president-elect plans to give county authorities more power in deportation matters—with rewards for jurisdictions that cooperate, and retribution for those that don’t

Ohio Sheriff Richard Jones: ‘We’re going to do our part to help get these people out of here that shouldn’t be here.’ Photo: Paul Vernon/Ap
By Scott CalvertFollow
 and Michelle HackmanFollow
 | Photographs by Rosem Morton for WSJ
Nov. 28, 2024 9:00 pm ET

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FREDERICK, Md.—If President-elect Donald Trump ramps up deportations as promised, he will have a strong ally in Chuck Jenkins, the longtime Republican sheriff of Maryland’s Frederick County.

“I’m willing to support the president 100%,” said Jenkins, 68, gravel-voiced with a gray buzzcut. “I want to do more, within the law.”

That prospect is spreading fear in immigrant circles, advocates say, and drawing mixed views from residents in this growing county, which backed Democrats in the last two presidential elections. But Jenkins, once dubbed among the nation’s 10 toughest immigration sheriffs by Fox News, sees Trump’s imminent return to the White House as a mandate for a more assertive approach.

For local sheriffs who have long talked tough on immigration, their time has come.


Mementos in the office of Sheriff Chuck Jenkins in Frederick County, Md.

Jenkins, a Republican, is midway through his fifth term as sheriff of a county of nearly 300,000 residents.
While the incoming Trump administration has spoken about increasing the ranks of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and using the military to turbocharge deportations, one thing is clear: The federal government needs help from local law enforcement in cities and states far from the border to detain and remove people en masse.

Trump’s transition team is already pursuing new spaces they can repurpose into short-term detention centers near large, Democratic-run cities where most immigrants in the country illegally live. It is also weighing a broad mix of changes to give sheriffs more power, with rewards for jurisdictions that cooperate, and financial retribution against those in blue states and cities that hold out, according to people involved in the planning.

To leverage legions of deputies, the Trump’s team is aiming for a “historic” expansion of a federal program that gives sheriffs and other agencies certain ICE powers, said one person involved in transition planning. Under that program, known as 287(g) after the section of law that created it, the team aims to revive a dormant and controversial “task force model,” which until 2012 allowed officers from participating local agencies, during their routine duties, to question and arrest suspected noncitizens in the community on immigration violations.

Tom Homan, the administration’s incoming border czar and a longtime ICE official, favors the model because it leads to more frequent and visible arrests, which he believes could act as a deterrent to would-be migrants thinking of coming to the U.S., according to people close to him.

Under one plan being considered, billions of federal dollars that currently reimburse nonprofits and cities for helping newly arrived migrants at the border would be redirected to local law-enforcement agencies that turn immigrants over to ICE, people involved in the planning said.

Trump’s plans remain unclear and some point to practical limits on how many people could be deported, given an estimated 11 million undocumented migrants in the country.

Transition officials including Homan have publicly started to narrow the effort’s scope—Trump promised to deport as many as 20 million people—to focus primarily on immigrants with criminal histories.

“State and local cooperation is absolutely essential to detain and deport illegal immigrants on a historic scale,” said RJ Hauman, president of the National Immigration Center for Enforcement, which advocates for tougher enforcement tactics.

Enthusiastic enforcers
Across America, sheriffs, most elected in partisan races—unlike police chiefs—have long been viewed as more political than police and as uniquely powerful because they operate jails and often have a vast geographic reach into unincorporated areas outside municipal lines. As president, Trump granted a pardon to Joe Arpaio, a former Arizona sheriff who built a national reputation as an immigration hard-liner before he was convicted of disobeying a court order to halt the raids that brought him fame.


Since the Nov. 5 election, some sheriffs have emphasized they aren’t in sync with Trump and say linking arms with ICE erodes trust with immigrants and drains resources. In Los Angeles, which just passed a “sanctuary city” ordinance, the county sheriff last week emphasized that his officers don’t and won’t ask citizens about their immigration status. In Massachusetts, Bristol County’s sheriff publicly said he would reply “not interested” if ICE asked him to hold undocumented immigrants with a criminal history at a former federal detention facility in his county.

Adding to the complexity, a patchwork of state laws means sheriffs in some blue states legally can’t cooperate with ICE, while those in some red states must, said Jonathan Thompson, the executive director of the nonpartisan National Sheriffs’ Association, whose members include about 70% of the country’s 3,081 sheriffs. In North Carolina, for instance, Republican lawmakers last week overrode Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of a bill that would require sheriffs to work with ICE on certain detentions. In Oregon, by contrast, local and state agencies can’t comply with federal immigration requests absent a judicial subpoena.

Trump’s advisers intend to penalize so-called sanctuary cities by cutting off what could amount to billions of dollars in federal grants to them, according to people familiar with their plans.

Thompson said his group plans to meet soon with members of Trump’s transition team, hoping to learn more about the scope, cost and duration of his deportation plan.

In Thompson’s view, it is clear the influx of migrants in recent years has “created an enormous amount of pressure on local law enforcement, state law enforcement agencies, across the country, not just along the border. It’s created havoc in many, many communities.” He added state and local law enforcement, “and in particular sheriffs” will be critical to Trump’s plans.

Many conservative sheriffs across the U.S., from Texas to California to redder swaths of the northeast, now stand ready to be force multipliers for ICE and its 6,000 agents.

Asked if he supports mass deportation, GOP Sheriff Richard Jones of Butler County, Ohio, replied: “Sure, I do. And so do the American people…. People are tired of this.”


Donald Trump, speaking at a rally, has had support from many county sheriffs. Photo: Kamil Krzaczynski/Afp/Getty Images
Jones, who spoke at a Trump rally, said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal that during the Biden administration “everything shut down” when it came to immigration enforcement.

Now, Jones said, “We’re going to be in the business again.” He is gearing up to resume housing ICE detainees and estimates he could hold up to 150 today. “We have space available, and they’re going to need space from day one.”

He added he wants to revive another aspect of his pre-Biden closer working relationship with immigration officials.

“We actually had ICE agents that had offices here, and we had hearings with immigration court for deportation,” he said. “And we still have the setup. We’re getting that back reinstated here.”

Political winds shift
When Obama left office in 2017, 34 agencies took part in ICE’s partnership program, according to a 2022 ACLU report. That grew to over 140 by the time of the report. It cited Trump’s recruitment efforts and what it called racist and anti-immigrant views by many participating sheriffs.

Today ICE says the 287(g) program has 135 partner agencies in 21 states.

Most are sheriffs who, unlike police chiefs, typically have no boss beside voters.

Currently their scope is limited to jails—for example, identifying and holding undocumented jail inmates for ICE—but that could expand if Trump brings back the task-force model and makes good on a goal to sign up more jurisdictions.

“You should expect to see a historic number of new 287(g) agreements,” said a person involved in transition planning.

“At the end of the day, the Trump administration is going to want to be empowering sheriffs,” said Naureen Shah, deputy director of government affairs at the American Civil Liberties Union.

The pro-Trump sheriffs eager to help with deportations include self-described “constitutional sheriffs,” who believe they have a duty to protect citizens against federal overreach.

Their group, called the Constitutional Sheriffs & Peace Officers Association, held a conference in Las Vegas earlier this year where speakers included former Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne, who suggested 15 million immigrants in the U.S. are military-aged men here to take over the country. Byrne, an early proponent of stolen-election claims in 2020, has also said he is helping to fund the sheriffs’ movement. 

The group’s founder, Richard Mack, a former sheriff, maintained in an interview with the Journal Tuesday that many migrants have been let in to bolster Democratic voting rolls. “I mean, come on, what else is there? Why do the Democrats want them here?” Mack said. Unauthorized immigrants or those in the asylum system risk deportation and jail for illegally casting ballots. Voter fraud by noncitizens is exceedingly rare, election experts have found.


Former Graham County, Ariz., Sheriff Richard Mack, founder of the Constitutional Sheriffs & Peace Officers Association. Photo: BRIDGET BENNETT/REUTERS
Mack said sheriffs would play a prominent role in Trump’s mass deportations, and estimated as many as 2,000 may participate. “We’re really pushing that nationwide…sheriffs being involved in deportations or it’s not going to work,” Mack said. “Sheriffs, why would they back away? The political wave, the red wave, is behind them.”

Trump has said his deportation agenda is needed after an estimated 5.7 million migrants entered the U.S. illegally during the Biden administration. He has claimed these newer arrivals commit crime at high levels, take jobs and drive up housing costs. Available data show immigrants commit crime at lower levels than U.S. citizens, and analysts say they fill low-paying jobs many Americans eschew.

Many voters feel Biden-era border policies are straining towns and schools across the U.S. In the November election, immigration was a top concern for voters, with only the economy a bigger worry, polls show.

Charleston County, S.C., Sheriff Kristin Graziano, a Democrat, pulled out of the 287(g) program after taking office in 2021, saying it hurt relations with the immigrant community and cost too much. She says it was the right call. “Crime has come down three years in a row in our county,” she said. “We haven’t had many arrests at all with undocumented people committing crimes.”

But the move dogged her re-election bid this year, and she lost to a Republican in November.

Newly emboldened sheriff in town
Now midway through another four-year term, Sheriff Jenkins in Frederick has built his career on immigration enforcement since he made a pledge to work with ICE a hallmark of his 2006 campaign, and joined the 287(g) program two years later. On display in his tidy corner office are four ICE plaques or certificates lauding his agency’s help. He said he visited the White House eight or nine times during Trump’s first term, and he has defended ICE on Fox News.

When arrestees are booked at Frederick County’s jail, they fill out a 13-question intake form. No. 8 asks: “What Country are you a citizen or national of?” Anyone who doesn’t answer the U.S. is walked back to the 287(g) unit, a small office where trained corrections officers check federal immigration databases. The sheriff’s office can prepare and issue a hold request called a detainer, and ICE decides if it wants the person held after local charges are resolved.


Sheriff Jenkins shows a jail intake form that asks inmates about their citizenship. Photo: Kenneth K. Lam/TNS/Zuma Press
Jenkins supports the Trump transition’s plans of expanding local enforcement powers, and says he would participate if they did so.

Frederick County has become bluer over the years thanks to a steady influx of D.C.-area transplants among its nearly 300,000 residents. Jenkins has continued winning, though there is division over his policies.

Democrat Douglas Coleman has voted against him and argues mass deportations would hurt the economy. “Immigrants are like everybody else—they want a better life for themselves and their family,” said Coleman, 67, a retired federal worker. “Most of them that I’ve met are not criminals. They are hardworking people who just basically want to succeed.”

But retiree Sandy Brubaker, a 75-year-old independent, supports a crackdown. “I know there are cases where they’re escaping maybe hardship and poverty. But you know, you don’t know who’s coming in. You read about all the gangs and stuff,” she said. “I feel like they should obey the law and come in here and do what other immigrants have done.”



From left, Sandy Brubaker, an Independent, and Douglas Coleman, a Democrat, have different views.
Jenkins credits 287(g) with creating a “virtual fence” around Frederick County, deterring gangs and keeping accused criminals from returning to the streets. County figures show that since 2008, the program has led to about 2,000 ICE detainers, mostly against people from Mexico and three Central American countries—including over 100 gang members, and nearly 100 people charged with murder, attempted murder or sex offense against a minor.

The sheriff’s tenure has also been marked by several lawsuits and complaints alleging discrimination. In one case, Jenkins apologized in writing as part of a $125,000 settlement. The suit was brought by a woman who claimed his office racially profiled and unlawfully detained her during a 2018 traffic stop because she is Latina. “The deputy actually was wrong in that case. So I thought, listen, I’m not afraid to apologize,” Jenkins said, adding that the stop wasn’t related to the 287(g) program.

Jenkins has vocally tied himself to Trump, including claiming vindication earlier this month when the Justice Department dropped charges alleging Jenkins and another man conspired to illegally obtain machine guns. Jenkins called the prosecution a failed “political assassination” and likened it to the attempt on Trump’s life in July.


The Frederick County jail can hold inmates for up to 48 hours for ICE.
“Yes, it was a near miss. And yes, I was bloodied and I was injured, but I survived,” the sheriff said.

To Jenkins, Biden’s ICE is the most lenient of any he has worked with over 18 years. Maj. Michael Cronise, acting jail warden, said ICE has always exercised prosecutorial discretion. In years past, he said, that reflected common sense, such as when agents spared from detention a parent who faced minor charges and had young children.

“It’s swung the whole opposite way, where you have people with felony assault charges they’re not putting in custody,” Cronise said during a recent tour of the jail.

Now, the anticipated shift toward more muscular enforcement under Trump is rattling many in Frederick County’s immigrant community, regardless of their legal status, said Claudia Hernandez, a licensed counselor who is on the county’s Immigrant Affairs Commission.


Claudia Hernandez in her office in Frederick, Md., this month.
“Knowing that we have a sheriff that aligns a lot with some of those policies, there is a greater concern,” said Hernandez, 36, who was born in the U.S. to Salvadoran parents.

Some of her undocumented clients have grown so apprehensive they won’t meet at her clinic, where a tissue box says “showing emotion makes you human.” Instead, she said, they want Zoom sessions and generally stay close to home, worried police might pick them up on the street.

Jenkins said he doesn’t want all immigrants without legal status to be afraid, and said the first priority should be deporting gang members and other criminals.

But he added: “Listen, they’re here illegally. They shouldn’t be here. You know, I look as an American citizen that we can’t sustain this. It’s not tenable for us to continue to allow people to come into this country by the hundreds of thousands or millions.”

Joel Schectman contributed to this article.

[Crafty_Dog]

Second

(6) 64% OF DARIÉN GAP CROSSERS FROM “GREATEST NATSEC” NATIONS: The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) released its report on the Darién Gap this week. The report identifies the Gap as the “primary land route for migrants, most of whom are heading to the United States.”

The Federation noted a decline in 2024 crossings that they largely attribute to policies of the recently elected anti-immigration Panamanian president, as well as the significant number of migrants likely taking advantage of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Processes for Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan, and Venezuelans. (CHNV program)

They report that Haitian children born in South America are frequently recorded as Chileans and Brazilians by the Panamanian government. Children make up about 20% of the crossers each year.

About 64% of the foreign nationals encountered in Panama between 2021 and October 2024 came from 1 of 15 countries the Department of Homeland Security said poses “greatest national security and counterintelligence threats to the United States.” (Afghanistan, China, Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Kyrgyzstan, Mauritania, Nigeria, North Korea, Syria, Tajikistan, Turkey, Uzbekistan, and Venezuela)

Why It Matters: Illegal immigration continues to be a high national security threat, and the full picture is likely obscured by citizenship laws similar to the Haiti-Brazil situation in point two. While 2024 saw a significant reduction in crossings, more than a quarter million people have already crossed with a majority of them likely headed toward the United States. – J.V.

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Every time I see or read or hear a LEFTist program such as CNN I am lectured that border crossings are DOWN!! (you fool).

Like crime rates are DOWN!! (you fool).

Boy does that propaganda BS tick me off.

Thank you for listening now that I got that off my chest

[Crafty_Dog]

(1) DEMS MAKE FIRST MOVE AGAINST TRUMP REMIGRATION PLANS: Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) urged President Biden and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin to issue a policy directive to ensure federal or federalized National Guard troops can only be deployed domestically if requested by state or local government officials.

(MARC:  What do we think of this as a matter of Federalism?)

Immigration Hub announced the launch of a new political arm, Catalyze/Citizens. The group will conduct major political ad campaigns and push for reforms to the Communications Act Section 230 to fight disinformation about illegal immigrants, according to Immigration Hub and Catalyze/Citizens co-executive director Beatriz Lopez.

Why It Matters: This is likely the first step in Democrat pressure campaigns against the incoming Trump administration, to fight against Trump’s plans for remigration and pressure Democrats to stay away from anti-immigration policies. Warren and Blumenthal’s intent is likely to extend the timeline and increase the political capital cost for using federal and National Guard troops to enforce immigration laws or respond to far left unrest. – R.C.

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https://catalyzecitizens.org/about/

 

We just need to be educated about how good MASS illegal immigration is so good for us.

 

[DougMacG]

[National Guard troops can only be deployed domestically if requested by state or local government officials.

(MARC:  What do we think of this as a matter of Federalism?)
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1. We can go after the illegals in NYC, San Fran, Martha's Vineyard last.

2. Criminals and terrorists first, then areas where the Feds get the most cooperation.

3. There are serious motives to self deport as well, plus the inflow gets stopped by the change of policies.

4. Regarding blue states, sanctuary states, stop counting illegals in the Census and giving them "representation".

5. Federal dollars have 'strings attached'. Cooperation may be forthcoming over time.  Otherwise a lot of money might be saved...

35 million people aren't going to be deported