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Jim and Sue Chilton own a ranch in Arizona on the U.S.-Mexico border. Every time Jim leaves the house, Sue fears he won’t come back alive, she said Wednesday night at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.

“Our house has been broken into twice,” Sue told convention delegates. “A Border Patrol agent was shot five times by drugs smugglers on our ranch. The cartel drug smugglers are crossing our nation’s border every day. They are bringing lethal drugs into our country.”

The Chiltons’ security cameras have spotted more than 3,500 drug traffickers and others in camouflage marching through their ranch, according to Jim Chilton, a fifth-generation rancher in Arivaca.

“These are not asylum-seekers,” he said. “It looks like and it feels like an invasion, because it is.”

Things were different when Donald Trump was president, the Chiltons believe.

“Under President Donald Trump, it wasn’t like this, and if we bring him back,” Jim Chilton said, “I know he’ll stop it again.”

“We know firsthand that Biden’s open border is our nation’s greatest national security threat,” he continued. “We need to make America safe again.”

Trump’s wall along the U.S.-Mexico border was almost finished on the Chilton family’s ranch when Biden became president and halted construction of the wall.

“Since then, crossings on our ranch have increased fivefold,” Jim Chilton said.

“We must elect Donald Trump to finish the wall, to stop the cartels, to keep America safe and strong,” he said.

The crowd erupted with several resounding cheers of “Build that wall!”

David Lara, owner of a small business who lives in a border town, said small towns like his bear the brunt of the border chaos.

“Imagine strangers terrorizing your homes, your neighbors, your yards, the local schools,” Lara said. “Imagine being treated as second-class citizens as chaos and crime terrorize streets.”

“I don’t have to imagine this,” he continued. “I’ve watched it with my own eyes. I’ve seen my town suffer.”

Lara blames the Biden administration’s border policies.

“Biden and [Vice President] Kamala Harris want the illegal immigration crisis to continue, and no amount of suffering has changed their mind or convinced them to finally put Americans first,” he said.

“We must reelect President Trump to close the border the crime and stop the drug from pouring in,” Lara said. “We must reelect President Trump to imprison and deport violent gang members, instead of coddling them as they terrorize our nation.”

https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/07/17/americans-southern-border-trump-protect-families-cartels-violence/

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On a recent podcast, former president Donald Trump said that if elected, he would give permanent green cards to all international students who graduate from U.S. colleges and universities. If so, it would boost our economy and potentially decrease the government’s budget deficit. However, it wouldn’t solve our border problems.

Trump declared, “What I want to do and what I will do is, you graduate from a college, I think you should get automatically, as part of your diploma, a Green Card to be able to stay in this country.”

He elaborated, “And that includes junior colleges, too. Anybody graduates from a college, you go in there for two years or four years. If you graduate or you get a doctorate degree from a college, you should be able to stay in this country.”

There were 858,395 international students in U.S. colleges in 2022-23. If a quarter of them graduate annually, legal immigration will increase by 200,000 yearly and surely grow in future years as the promise of a Green Card attracts more international college applicants.

The regular inflow of highly skilled immigrants would benefit Americans by increasing economic growth. The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) reported that perhaps the most crucial benefit of immigration is the “infusion by high-skilled immigration of human capital that has boosted the nation’s capacity for innovation and technological change.” The NAS added that this innovation “has the potential to increase the productivity of natives” and economic growth.

The policy change would secure economic benefits without causing most of the standard worries about immigration. College graduates commit fewer crimes than non-graduates. Virtually all immigrants who graduate college already speak English and are at least partially assimilated. And while they represent a significant flow, they do not amount to a flood in the context of overall legal immigration to the United States, which has averaged 2.5 million people annually over the last decade, excluding the pandemic years.

Following Trump’s remarks, campaign representative Karoline Leavitt stated that an aggressive vetting process would “exclude all communists, radical Islamists, Hamas supporters, America haters, and public charges” from this program. Presumably, most immigrants already here on student visas would pass this test. Rather than “public charges,” these immigrants would create a net tax gain.

The NAS estimates that each immigrant with a college degree creates a combined fiscal surplus for national, state and local governments of around $500,000 over 75 years (in present value terms). Those with graduate degrees create a surplus of closer to $1 million. A decade of giving Green Cards to college graduates could easily generate $1 trillion in net fiscal surplus.

In short, this policy should be a no-brainer. Unfortunately, good economics is often not good politics. During his presidency, Trump severely cracked down on immigration, including high-skilled immigration, and his base is often motivated by his anti-immigrant rhetoric. The only chance this idea has politically is if it is combined with increased border security to crack down on illegal immigration.

Unfortunately, illegal immigration can’t be cured by enforcement alone. The vast majority of people crossing the border illegally have essentially no legal path to immigration, and few, if any, of them would be able to take advantage of a Green-Card-for-college-grads program. As long as massive differences exist between economic opportunities in the United States and their origin countries, illegal immigration will remain a problem despite enforcement—if there is no plausible legal path for these lower-skilled immigrants.

No single immigration reform can solve all our immigration problems, but giving Green Cards to college graduates is a step in the right direction. These immigrants would get the opportunity to realize the American dream, and we natives would enjoy more economic growth.

https://www.independent.org/news/article.asp?id=14989&omhide=true&trk=rm

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Mainly from Africa, the continent of much woe

Protesters hurled bricks and fireworks at riot police near a Dublin factory set to house asylum seekers today, with officers spraying activists with pepper spray.

Gardai clashed with hundreds of people gathered at the former Crown Paints factory in Coolock as fighting exploded throughout the day.

A number of fires were started at the site after anti-immigration protesters set up a makeshift camp.

The disused building being redeveloped to house seekers, but activists today showed their opposition as photos showed a digger in flames.

Ireland's Justice Minister Helen McEntee said she was 'appalled' by the scenes as incapacitant spray was used by the garda public order unit.

It was used in an attempt to disperse a crowd which had gathered close to where the makeshift anti-immigration camp had been set up.

Gardai have charged 15 people in relation to public order incidents at a site designated to house asylum seekers in north Dublin.

They are due to appear before a special sitting of the Criminal Courts of Justice in Dublin on Monday evening.

The violence flared in the morning after preparations were made to start work at the disused building.

Protesters gathered, some with their faces covered, and a number of fires were set.

Workers who were to begin renovating the premises were removed from the site.

The protest camp was set up several months ago to prevent workers from renovating the premises, with people there around the clock.

Videos on social media also showed a stand-off between gardai and protesters, while some demonstrators shouted abuse at officers.

Masked men and youths were also at the site, while a man with a megaphone told the crowd the Government is going to 'change the constitution'.

He claimed ministers will 'change the 39th amendment to take our private property'.

'They are going to ask you if you have a private room and force you to put them in,' he said.

Dozens of Gardai formed a line to bar access to protesters, with officers from the Public Order Unit also in the area.

The violence escalated as bricks and fireworks were thrown at Garda officers and the fire service, and bins and mattresses were set alight.

Traffic was diverted from the area and one of the city's main arteries, the Malahide Road was closed.

Pictures from the scene showed a number of people being detained by Gardai.

A large number of people gathered this evening after a call on social media for a protest to take place at 6pm.

Gardai were again attacked with missiles and responded by using incapacitant spray.

A spokesman said officers remain at the scene of a 'serious public order incident'.

The spokesman added: 'There is a significant Garda presence in place, which includes several Garda public order units.

'Several people have been arrested, and are currently in custody at Garda stations in Dublin, pursuant to Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act, 1984.

'The Malahide Road at Coolock is currently closed in both directions, and local diversions are in place.

'It is the intention to re-open the Malahide Road as soon as it safe to do so.

'This operation remains ongoing.'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13637003/Fighting-Irish-immigration-Protesters-hurl-missiles-riot-police-Dublin-factory-asylum-seekers.html

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A top Republican lawmaker is ordering Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to provide key documents pertaining to illegal migrants encountered at the southern border who have potential ties to terrorism.

House Homeland Security Chairman Mark Green issued the subpoena to Mayorkas on Friday, requiring him to hand over all “documents and communications” since Jan. 20, 2021, that could shed light on the matter. The chairman is accusing Mayorkas of slow-walking requests for information about the number of suspected terrorists illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, according to a letter from Green.

Green says that for over a year, Mayorkas has failed to fully comply with the requests for specific documents and information relating to gotaways and other illegal migrants on the terrorist screening database since the beginning of the Biden administration.

“President Biden and his now-impeached DHS secretary’s refusal to secure our borders or comply with our laws is putting our country in rapidly growing peril,” Green said in a public statement. “The Biden administration has utterly failed to safeguard the American people by allowing millions of otherwise inadmissible aliens into the country with limited screening and vetting, including tens of thousands of special interest aliens.”

Green, along with Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan and Oversight Chairman James Comer, first requested the information from Mayorkas on May 19, 2023, according to the letter. The DHS has since failed to provide satisfactory documentation, despite multiple other requests over the year.

The subpoena follows an ongoing immigration crisis along the southern border. More than 7 million migrants have crossed illegally into the United States since President Joe Biden first entered office, according to the latest data from Customs and Border Protection (CBP).

“Amid the chaos, Secretary Mayorkas and President Biden have also allowed nearly two million gotaways to evade an overwhelmed Border Patrol and roam free in American communities, presenting an almost impossible challenge for the dedicated federal law enforcement who are working tirelessly to find a growing number of needles in an ever-expanding haystack,” Green stated

Since the beginning of fiscal year 2021, there have been more than 370 foreign nationals on the terrorist watchlist that have been apprehended attempting to unlawfully cross the U.S.-Mexico border, according to Green. The sharp rise in suspected terrorists represents a more than 3,000% increase from the Trump administration.

https://dailycaller.com/2024/07/12/alejandro-mayorkas-ordered-to-testify-before-congress-over-terrorist-threat-from-border-crisis/

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Whistleblower Deborah White was a perfect candidate when the government in 2021 made an emergency appeal for federal agencies to provide temporary help to process thousands of migrant children who began crossing the southern border without parents at the beginning of the Biden administration’s border crisis.

As career worker at the General Services Administration, White had experience in managing large federal projects and was a native Spanish speaker who could talk directly with children coming from Latin American countries. So she was quickly lent in May 2021 from GSA to the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Refugee Resettlement, the agency responsible for finding safe homes for the children known as “unaccompanied minors” in federal parlance.

When she got to Pomona, Calif., to help process children and begin to do wellness checks, however, she became horrified by what she witnessed.

Children related to her how they were raped or forced into labor while in the custody of drug cartels that transported them from their parents’ homes to the U.S. in hopes of taking advantage of Biden’s new immigration policies.

And the federal effort to find them safe shelter once in America was rushed like an assembly line, raising the risk that children got placed in unsafe shelters or with sponsors who weren’t properly vetted, she says.

“The mantra was speed over safety,” White told the John Solomon Reports podcast on Tuesday, the same day she gave her account to three Republican senators who held a roundtable discussion.

White said she quickly discovered some of the children were likely being placed into a potential trafficking ring when she ran a background check and found out some of the adult sponsors were actually migrant children themselves who had just turned 18 or 19. When she went to a supervisor to report the possible trafficking ties, her access to the background databases was shut off.

Eventually she blew the whistle to the HHS inspector general and got back her ability to screen sponsors. But the experience made her certain that the very process the federal government put in place to protect unaccompanied migrant minors was in fact flawed enough to put many in jeopardy.

“It's disgusting. Honestly, if I didn't live it, I would have a hard time believing it because it's so egregious,” White told Just the News. “If I didn't live this experience, I understand why people think you know that we're crazy people or something. But we're not, this is the reality.”

What White experienced from May to September 2021 has since been validated by Congress and the HHS inspector general.

Rep. Glenn Grothman, R-Wis., who chairs a House subcommittee on border security, said officials have told him the government can’t vouch for the whereabouts of 85,000 migrant children let into the country under Biden.

And the HHS inspector general has issued several reports warning that ORR and other agencies aren’t adequately screening placement homes or sponsors as required by law, including a report in February that found:

In 16% of children’s case files, one or more required sponsor safety checks lacked any documentation indicating that the checks were conducted.

For 19% of children who were released to sponsors with pending FBI fingerprint or state child-abuse and neglect registry checks, children’s case files were never updated with the results.

In 35% of children’s case files, sponsor-submitted IDs contained legibility issues.

In 22% of cases, ORR did not conduct timely Safety and Well-Being Follow Up Calls, and in 18% of cases, the followup calls were not documented in children’s case files.

White got to tell her story for the first time in public at the forum Tuesday led by Sens. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, Bill Cassidy, R-La., and Ron Johnson, R-Wis., joined by another whistleblower named Tara Rodas.

White related the horrors migrant children witnessed even before they reached the border.

“Typically, they owed about $2,500,” she said. “They ... knew they were coming here to work and pay off that debt. So labor trafficking was absolutely out of control. You know, there were also cases where, you know, children were sexually assaulted en route.”

The lawmakers expressed outrage not only at the IG statistical finding but the specific human stories the two whistleblowers offered from their personal experiences.

"This isn't willful ignorance. It's not willful negligence," Johnson said during opening remarks. "This is malevolent to allow children, knowing full well, the children have been sold [and] that people's eyes and organs are being harvested and that boys and girls are going to be raped and mutilated."

https://justthenews.com/accountability/whistleblowers/wedwhistleblowers-detail-harrowing-failure-protect-migrant-children

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Illegal immigrant families can no longer sleep overnight at Boston’s Logan Airport as of the night of July 9, according to a state government official.

Last month, Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey ordered the families to be out of Logan’s Terminal E by July 9. They have been sleeping in the airport because shelters in the state reached full capacity, officials said, with hundreds of families staying there for months.

A Healey administration official told The Epoch Times that July 9 marks “the first day” that the illegal immigrant families won’t be allowed to return to Logan Airport at night.

The government was still working with the families as of July 9 to discuss their options, such as transportation to another place or “placement into a safety-net site if they are eligible,” the official said.

The official didn’t indicate how many individuals remained at the airport as of the evening of July 9. Local media reported that only a small number of families remained in the terminal on July 9.

“The administration has worked diligently in recent months to increase the number of families leaving shelter into more stable housing. With this progress, the recent opening of a new safety-net site in Norfolk and the new nine-month length of stay policy, we are now in a position to end the practice of families staying overnight in the airport,” Massachusetts Emergency Assistance Director Scott Rice said in a statement.

“If families are traveling to Massachusetts, they need to be prepared with a plan for housing that does not include Logan Airport or our Emergency Assistance shelters,” the statement reads.

The Healy administration said in a statement that it recently increased efforts to provide families who are homeless with housing, work applications, English classes, job placements, and other options.

“As a result of these efforts, the number of families leaving shelter has steadily increased over the past few months, with more than 300 families leaving in May—the highest number in years,” the statement reads.

Top Massachusetts officials, including Mr. Rice, traveled to the U.S.–Mexico border in Texas “as record numbers of immigrant families continue to arrive in Boston and the state’s family shelter system is at capacity,” according to a separate announcement from the governor’s office.

The trip was meant to serve as a warning of sorts to individuals looking to travel to Massachusetts after illegally crossing the U.S.–Mexico border, Mr. Rice said, noting that it’s “to make sure they have accurate information about the lack of shelter space in Massachusetts.”

“It is essential that we get the word out that our shelters are full so that families can plan accordingly to make sure they have a safe place to go,” he said.

The move comes just three weeks after President Joe Biden issued executive orders suspending the processing of most asylum claims at the U.S.–Mexico border under certain conditions, triggering a lawsuit from the American Civil Liberties Union and other groups just days later.

“These actions will be in effect when high levels of encounters at the Southern Border exceed our ability to deliver timely consequences, as is the case today,” the White House said of the order. “They will make it easier for immigration officers to remove those without a lawful basis to remain and reduce the burden on our Border Patrol agents.”

The border has been a major policy issue of concern for voters throughout the presidential campaign so far. According to Gallup’s monthly data, Americans identified immigration as the top issue facing the country in February, March, and April, surpassing even the share who cited the economy and persistently higher prices.

Immigration came up less frequently as a top issue in Gallup’s May poll. As of June, the issue was still tied with the government and the economy as what voters see as the nation’s most important problem.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/illegal-migrants-no-longer-sleeping-overnight-at-bostons-logan-airport-official-says-5683584

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By Andrew R. Arthur

It reveals that at least some of the 80 to 90 Cameroonian nationals who were deported between 2019 and 2021 — most logically under the Trump administration — are now “arriving back in the United States under a program with little precedent”.

That’s an understatement, because there is no mechanism in current law permitting DHS to allow aliens who have been removed pursuant to lawful orders to return — though not for want of trying on the part of the Biden White House.

Almost immediately after he took office, the president sent a proposal called the “U.S. Citizenship Act”, H.R. 1177, to Capitol Hill. In addition to creating a massive amnesty for aliens unlawfully here, the bill also would have provided a “waiver” for certain aliens removed under the Trump administration that would have allowed them to return.

Even under the Democratic-party controlled 117th Congress, that bill went nowhere (it never even made it to a markup, let alone out of committee), but as these Cameroonian returns reveal, that apparently hasn’t deterred the administration’s efforts to implement the plan itself, albeit on a limited basis.

Why, exactly, is DHS allowing those deported aliens to return? The Free Beacon explains:

    The program, which has not been announced to the public, appears to be a response to a February 2022 Human Rights Watch report about dozens of Cameroonians deported between 2019 and 2021 and then allegedly mistreated by their government. An estimated 80 to 90 Cameroonians were deported during that period of time.

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    The official rationale for the program, according to internal memos reviewed by the Free Beacon, is to avoid a "potential lawsuit." There is pending litigation in New York over documents related to alleged abuse of Cameroonian migrants, but no court has ordered their return.

As a former DOJ attorney, I can assure you that “litigation risk” guides any number of immigration-policy decisions, but absent evidence that these aliens were denied their due process rights — and nothing suggests they were — they would have a tough row to hoe in convincing even the most sympathetic federal judge to order DHS to return them.

As for the harm that they have suffered at the hands of their government (which I deplore in any context) there are any number of alternative avenues for protection they could — and should — access in lieu of returning to the United States.

With the exception of Nigeria, every country neighboring Cameroon is a signatory to the 1951 U.N. Convention on Refugees and its 1967 Protocol, including Equatorial Guinea and Gabon, as is every country on the West African coast (Cameroon sits on the South Atlantic Ocean), most notably Ghana.

Logically, if those aliens are fleeing persecution, they would go to the first country they can get to — not the one that best meets their personal and economic needs.

At this point, according to the Free Beacon, at least four deported aliens have been returned here, though up to 28 “will eventually be brought back to the United States”. If that’s true, it will send yet another signal to the world that this country is not serious about either its sovereignty or its immigration laws, which will just encourage even more illegal migration.

https://cis.org/Arthur/DHS-Returns-116-Chinese-Nationals-Then-Allows-Deported-Cameroonians-Back

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