illegal immigration
Texas triples razor wire barriers, continues building border wall
From The Center Square
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“Democrats want walls to protect them at their convention. But they are AGAINST walls to protect Americans from an unprecedented onslaught of more than 11 million illegal immigrants, including criminals and terrorists.”
Texas is continuing to expand razor wire barriers and building its own wall along its border with Mexico through Gov. Greg Abbott’s border security mission, Operation Lone Star.
The Texas National Guard has tripled erecting razor wire barriers along the Texas-Mexico border since soldiers began expanding them last year in key illegal border crossing points on state land.
“Texas is tripling razor wire barriers to STOP illegal immigrants from crossing the border,” Abbott said. “As Joe Biden and Kamala Harris turn a blind eye to the border crisis, Texas will deploy every tool and strategy to deny illegal crossings into our state.”
The governor also responded to social media posts about barriers being put up outside of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, saying, “Democrats want walls to protect them at their convention. But they are AGAINST walls to protect Americans from an unprecedented onslaught of more than 11 million illegal immigrants, including criminals and terrorists.
Members of the Texas National Guard erecting razor wire barriers on state land in Eagle Pass, Texas.
“An onslaught created by Kamala. Hypocrites.”
Texas has been expanding border wall construction every day, most recently installing more panels in Zapata and Val Verde counties last week.
“Texas is the first and ONLY state in U.S. history to build our own border wall,” Abbott said. “Texas continues to take historic action to protect Texans and Americans.”
By doing so, “Texas upholds our nation’s sovereignty and defends our constitutional right to protect our border,” he added.
In June 2021, Abbott announced Texas would build its own border wall after illegal border crossers began inundating south Texas communities. Record numbers in the thousands a day began pouring through after President Joe Biden halted border wall construction and reversed many other existing border policies on his first day in office.
By October 2021, Texas and Missouri sued, arguing it was illegal to halt border wall construction that Congress allocated funds for and it was still costing taxpayers $3 million a day because of contractual obligations. By that time, Texas had sued the administration seven times over the border and immigration. Since then, Texas has sued the administration over 75 times on a range of issues.
Roughly two and a half years later, a federal court ruled in May that halting federal border wall construction was illegal. The administration didn’t appeal, handing Texas a huge win.
Other litigation between the Biden-Harris administration and Texas over border barriers is ongoing.
Last October, Texas sued after Border Patrol agents cut concertina wire barriers Texas installed on state land in Eagle Pass, Texas. Texas argued they were destroying state property and facilitating illegal immigration. Despite numerous court rulings, Texas has forged ahead building its razor wire barriers. A final ruling has yet to be issued on the case.
Two other lawsuits were filed over marine barriers Abbott ordered be installed in the Rio Grande River in Eagle Pass. Texas’ border security efforts have also been enhanced with the support of 25 governors who are sending law enforcement resources to the Texas border on rotation.
Since Abbott launched OLS in March 2021, law enforcement officers have apprehended more than 517,900 illegal border crossers and made more than 46,000 criminal arrests, with more than 39,900 felony charges reported. They’ve also seized more than 518 million lethal doses of fentanyl, enough to kill the combined populations of the United States and Mexico.
The Texas legislature allocated more than $11.6 billion to fund OLS over a four-year period, which is larger than many state’s budgets, The Center Square reported. A Texas congressman filed a bill requesting Congress to reimburse Texas for OLS costs, which has gone nowhere.
Texas’ efforts have paid off, pushing illegal entry west to New Mexico, Arizona and California, The Center Square first reported.
Regardless if the federal government reimburses Texas or not, Texas will continue to secure its border, Abbott said. He has the support of 25 governors, and according to several polls, support from the majority of Texans and Americans.
Multiple polls continue to show that voters overwhelmingly oppose Biden-Harris administration border policies, oppose illegal immigration and want troops sent to the border to secure it, The Center Square reported.
Daily Caller
Biden Admin Touts Reduction In Border Crossings While Flying In Hundreds Of Thousands Of Migrants
From the Daily Caller News Foundation
The Biden-Harris administration on Monday boasted about the recent reduction in illegal border crossings, despite the latest immigration data also showing hundreds of thousands of migrants have been allowed into the U.S. via different pathways created by the White House.
Since President Joe Biden announced an executive order in June limiting the number of unlawful crossings along the U.S.-Mexico border, encounters between ports of entry have fallen by over 50%, according to a press release by Customs and Border Protection (CBP). However, the press release also revealed that more than half a million foreign nationals have been flown in via a mass parole program, and nearly a million others have scheduled appointments with the U.S. government in hopes of entering.
“CBP continues to enforce the Securing the Border interim final rule and deliver strong consequences for illegal entry, and encounters between ports of entry remain at their lowest level in years,” acting CBP Commissioner Troy Miller boasted in the CBP press release.
Nearly 530,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans have been flown into the country and granted parole under an initiative launched by the Biden-Harris administration known as the CHNV program, according to the CBP press release. Additionally, around 813,000 migrants have scheduled appointments to present at ports of entry via the CBP One app since its introduction in January 2023.
Border Patrol agents encountered roughly 58,000 migrants attempting to illegally cross the U.S.-Mexico border in August, according to the latest CBP data. This number marks the first uptick in illegal crossings at the southern border since February, in which there had been a steady decline every month.
Initially launched for Venezuelans in October 2022, CHNV was later expanded in January 2023 to include Cubans, Nicaraguans and Haitians. The parole program grants foreign nationals two year authorization into the U.S. and work permits, provided they have not previously entered the country illegally and pass other vetting processes.
The Department of Homeland Security had temporarily paused CHNV in August after reports found massive fraud, but then quickly resumed the mass parole program just a few weeks later. An internal audit discovered a litany of red flags, such as over 100,000 CHNV forms being completed by fewer than 4,000 applicants and Social Security numbers by sponsors belonging to a deceased individual, among other discrepancies.
House Homeland Security Chairman Mark Green has previously referred to CHNV and the CBP One app as a “massive shell game” that allows otherwise inadmissible aliens to enter the country lawfully in lieu of crossing the border illegally.
The administration also noted that, since Biden’s executive order went into effect in June, DHS has deported more than 131,000 foreign nationals to over 140 countries and nearly tripled the percentage of noncitizens processed for expedited removal.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Crime
ICE Nabs Illegal Migrant ‘Gotaway’ Charged With Raping Child On Ritzy Island In ‘Sanctuary’ State
From the Daily Caller News Foundation
Federal immigration authorities on Tuesday successfully apprehended an illegal migrant charged with raping a minor on a wealthy Massachusetts island.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Nantucket nabbed Bryan Daniel Aldana-Arevalo, a 28-year-old Salvadoran national living unlawfully in the country, according to a press release from the agency published Monday. Aldana was charged earlier this year with two counts of indecent assault and battery of a child under 14 and one count of rape of a child with a 10-year age difference.
“Bryan Daniel Aldana-Arevalo stands accused of some detestable and disturbing crimes against a Nantucket child,” Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Boston Field Office Director Todd Lyons stated on Monday in the press release. “He represents a significant danger to the children of our Massachusetts communities.”
Aldana illegally crossed into the U.S. at an unknown date and unknown location, according to ICE. Such illegal migrants in the country are categorized as “gotaways,” as they were not stopped by Border Patrol or other federal immigration officials before entering the interior of the U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrest of Bryan Daniel Aldana-Arevalo. (Photo by ICE)
The Salvadoran national was arraigned in Nantucket District Court for the multiple sex crime charges on July 26, according to ICE. He was later released on bail by the Nantucket District Court on July 29.
“ERO Boston will not tolerate such a threat to the most vulnerable of our population,” Lyons stated. “We will continue to prioritize the safety of our public by arresting and removing egregious noncitizen offenders from our New England neighborhoods.”
Since his ICE apprehension, Aldana has been served with a notice to appear before an immigration judge, and he remains in ICE custody, according to the agency.
“The Nantucket Police Department, specifically the Detective Unit did assist with identifying requested addresses provided to them by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency,” reads a Thursday press statement from the police department. Deportation officers made an unknown number of arrests on the island last week, which specifically targeted “violent offenders.”
The Nantucket population in 2022 had a median household income of more than $131,000, according to Data USA, far surpassing the median household income of the country that same year, which was slightly less than $75,000. Housing has become so expensive on the island, that some homes costing as much as $1 million have been offered via a lottery system as a part of a subsidized housing program, according to The New York Post.
President Joe Biden won more than 70% of the vote in Nantucket County in the 2020 presidential election, according to county election results compiled by CNN.
Aldana is one of the countless gotaways who enter the country illegally and undetected by federal immigration authorities. Around two million known gotaways have crossed into the U.S. since the beginning of the Biden-Harris administration, a congressional source confirmed to the Daily Caller News Foundation earlier this year.
Over seven million migrants have illegally crossed the U.S. southern border since the beginning of the Biden-Harris administration, according to the latest Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data.
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