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Andrea Jenkyns MP writes: The arrival of undocumented migrants on UK shores not only raises concerns about national security but also places significant strains on public resources.

It's time for the UK to seize the opportunity to assert control over its borders and reevaluate its approach to illegal immigration.

Undoubtedly, immigration is a complex and multifaceted issue. It's important to recognize that legal immigration has been a cornerstone of the UK's development and prosperity. However, the subject of illegal immigration requires attention due to the strain it places on public resources, particularly when migrants are temporarily housed in accommodations such as hotels at the taxpayers' expense. This raises valid concerns about fairness and the proper utilization of public funds.

Leaving the EU has granted the UK greater sovereignty over its borders. This newfound control should not be taken lightly. The ability to determine who enters the country is a privilege that carries immense responsibility. It is crucial to strike a balance between compassion and security, ensuring that genuine asylum seekers find refuge while also safeguarding the nation's integrity.

To this end, there is a growing call for the UK to reassess its relationship with the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and take further steps to exercise its autonomy over immigration policies. While the ECHR has played an important role in safeguarding human rights across Europe, some argue that its application to immigration matters has hampered the UK's ability to manage its borders effectively. I have joined teams with the Conservative Post to create a petition, advocating for the UK to leave the ECHR in relation to immigration matters.

The term "illegal immigration" encapsulates not only the journey of migrants but also the policy landscape that either encourages or discourages such activities. As the UK charts its course in a post-EU era, it must establish comprehensive policies that address the issues of immigrants making the dangerous journey across oceans and tackling migrant smugglers.

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Crucially, tackling illegal immigration necessitates international collaboration. While asserting control over borders is a sovereign prerogative, cooperation with neighbouring countries is vital, such as France who have for years recognised the issue but seen it as not their problem. This can involve sharing intelligence, coordinating search and rescue efforts, and addressing the underlying issues that prompt people to undertake dangerous journeys in the first place.

In conclusion, illegal immigration is a challenge that requires a multifaceted approach, considering both security concerns and humanitarian considerations.

The UK's departure from the EU provides an opportunity to reshape immigration policies in alignment with its national interests. It is time to stop the boats and put the British people first!

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Andrea Jenkyns MP: Addressing illegal immigration and taking control of UK borders - Yahoo News UK

OPINION:

Last month, I met a recent Ivy League graduate who devotes his computer-science skills to a Silicon Valley enterprise. He is bright and creative, and he speaks with a splash of a British accent. He wants nothing more than to thrive in the tech sector and, consequently, make America rich again.

Alas, this young man failed to score an H-1B visa when Customs and Immigration Services awarded them by lottery on March 27. Of 483,927 registrants, 85,000 received visas. But he was not one of them.

So, any day now, the Biden administration will take this highly educated, productive son of our closest ally and deport him. Back to Britain he will go with his American dreams delayed or destroyed.

Meanwhile, in bitter contrast to this Englishmans rejection, illegal aliens savor concierge service as they invade, overrun and occupy America.

On Aug. 5, three machine-gun-toting cartel members waltzed across the U.S.-Mexico border near Eagle Pass, Texas. The Border Patrol chased them, but they got away.

These thugs are armed and deadly, and they could be plotting evil anywhere in America.

On Aug. 8, some 200 illegal aliens stormed the border crossing at Brownsville, Texas. Rather than wait patiently, they swamped Border Patrol officers, breached the checkpoint, and dashed into the interior.

Who are they? Where are they? Who knows?

Over 100,000 illegal aliens have overpowered New York City since last spring. They clog the sidewalks outside and rooms inside the previously venerable Roosevelt Hotel, where bandleader Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians dazzled radio listeners with Auld Lang Syne on many New Years Eves.

Democratic Mayor Eric Adams has converted soccer fields on Randalls Island (in the East River) into a giant shelter for 2,000 illegals. Taxpayers starved for recreation and teenagers seeking team sports rather than trouble are out of luck.

This facility will cost $20 million per month, or $10,000 for each illegal alien, every month. How many U.S. citizens receive a staggering $120,000 in annualized welfare?

Madrid-based Marca.com estimated an average Americans yearly public assistance:

$13,200 in housing subsidies.

$8,346 in Medicaid.

$234.42 in food stamps.

$7,404 in Supplemental Security Income.

$418 for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families.

$2,411 in earned income tax credits.

This totals over $32,000. At least on Randalls Island, foreign citizens who barged into the United States cost taxpayers 373.7% of that amount.

This is repulsive.

Mr. Adams reckons that babysitting these illegals will cost Gotham taxpayers $12 billion by 2025. The long-term financial burden for these criminals is incalculable and excruciating.

While illegal aliens enjoy boutique hotels, low-income New Yorkers endure public housing projects. Rather than room service, they get rats and roaches. Instead of maid service, the New York City Housing Authoritys 528,105 tenants stomach $78 billion in deferred maintenance.

Equity?

Nope.

This unfairness is vulgar.

Drug-resistant tuberculosis, polio, leprosy and plague have cropped up in America. Doctors explain that these previously conquered diseases have reemerged thanks, in part, to illegal aliens who storm in without medical exams, a requirement for immigrant-visa applicants.

Meanwhile, according to Customs and Border Protection, 144,571 illegals invaded America in June. Border Patrol agents apprehended 1,782,615 illegals in former President Donald Trumps final 29 months in power. In President Bidens first 29 months, they encountered an outrageous 5,606,785 illegals up a calamitous 215%.

Comparing the plight of these pampered illegals and the legal but spurned H-1B lottery loser, America has clearly devolved into Upside-downia.

So, this modest proposal might begin to turn America back into Right-Side-Upistan:

Grant H-1B visas to all applicants with employers ready to hire them. Then, deport just as many illegal aliens whose first act in America violated federal law by breaking in with neither papers nor permission.

The United States would harness the diligence, energy, and innovation of these legal aliens and unleash desperately needed justice upon an equal number of taxpayer-sucking illegals who invaded America.

In short, boot the illegal aliens. And may a million H-1Bs bloom.

Deroy Murdock is a Manhattan-based Fox News contributor. Aaron Cichon contributed research to this opinion piece.

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In a move to address migration challenges head-on and show unwavering determination against the issue, a well-coordinated operation sprung into action this morning in the Limassol district. The aim? To dismantle a criminal organization that's been trafficking illegal immigrants into Cyprus. This operation was no spur-of-the-moment decision; it followed the President's clear directives and instructions that had been passed down to various State Services.

About 40 police officers, a mix of Headquarters Police, MMAD, YCAN, and YAM members, came together like pieces of a puzzle. Their target: a network involved in smuggling people into the country. And the results? Five people of Syrian nationality were taken into custody. These individuals were suspected to be part of the criminal group responsible for the illegal trafficking of immigrants. Furthermore,additional arrests are on the horizon based on warrants that have already been issued.

The authorities had already been keeping tabs on this criminal organization for around three months based on solid information they'd gathered.

Migration challenges are complex, and one of the big issues is those smuggling rings that put not just the country, but the lives of these immigrants at risk. To counter this, the Minister of Interior made a call: to assemble a special team to rethink the policies concerning Syrian nationals already in Cyprus who are somehow involved in these illegal migrant networks. This team is a mix of experts from the Asylum Service, Population and Immigration Registry Department, Aliens and Immigration Service, and the Ministry of Labour and Social Insurance.

These departments havebeen given specific orders to put certain measures in place.

On a bigger scale, Cyprus is sticking to its international commitments and working hard to manage and prevent migration flows. These actions seem to be working there's been a noticeable drop in asylum applications lately. Looks like Cyprus is rolling up its sleeves and tackling migration challenges with some serious determination.

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SAN DIEGO Lourdes Ortiz Castaneda was sentenced in federal court yesterday to 34 months in prison for her role as the chief financial officer of a vast alien-smuggling organization operating in Southern California for several years.

The organizations leader, Gerardo Rigoberto Barojas-Saavedra, was previously sentenced to 71 months in custody for his running one of the most prolific smuggling operations in Southern California from 2019 through 2021. According to their plea agreements, Barojas, known as El Jefe (The Boss), admitted that he, along with Ortiz and others, smuggled more than one hundred undocumented migrants from Mexico into the United States, including some minors, through the southern border to Orange County and as far as the east coast. According to their plea agreements, Barojas and Ortiz charged migrants between $7,000 and $8,000 per person to be smuggled to Orange County, receiving the majority of smuggling fees in cash. According to their plea agreements, Barojas received approximately $216,925 in wire transfers and Ortiz received payments in cash, check, and wire transfers totaling approximately $480,465.

U.S. Border Patrol Agents assigned to the Boulevard Border Patrol Station led the investigation into the smuggling organization, resulting in the interdiction of approximately 150 alien smuggling events and the prosecution of three couriers, according to the complaint. The plea agreements reflect that the organization operated by renting vehicles and recruiting drivers to pick up illegal aliens along the Interstate 8 corridor in Imperial and San Diego counties, after the aliens had crossed illegally into the United States. Several of these smuggling events involved substantial risk to the migrants, including, for example, one event in which three were transported in an unsafe manner concealed within the trunk of a vehicle.

According to publicly filed documents, on or about November 9, 2020, the Anaheim Police Department arrested Barojas for allegedly kidnapping one of the minor migrants he smuggled into the United States and holding the minor at gunpoint. Officers found nine migrants, including the minor, in Barojas stash house, and seized four Glock handguns, one shotgun, two AR-15 rifles (including Barojas personal rifle bearing punisher logo), high-capacity magazines, a suitcase containing ammunition, hand-drawn maps depicting smuggling routes and locations to pick up aliens in the Southern District of California, electronic devices, a ledger, pay/owe sheets, and over $20,000 in cash. Barojas pleaded guilty to assault with a semi-automatic firearm in violation of California Penal Code 245(b) and Human Trafficking for Forced Labor in violation of California Penal Code 236.1(a) in 2021.

The plea agreements revealed that while in custody on the state charges from 2020 to 2021, Barojas continued running the Barojas alien smuggling organization from custody with the help of Ortiz and others. Ortiz handled day-to-day operations during this time, and also continued managing the financial operations of the smuggling organization until her arrest in September 2021.

The sentences, handed down by U.S. District Judge Barry Ted Moskowitz, included enhanced penalties for the substantial risk that the Barojas organizations drivers caused; the illegal transportation of an unaccompanied minor; the possession of firearms in furtherance of the offense; the transportation of more than 100 aliens; and their aggravated roles within the transportation cells alien smuggling activities.

We cannot emphasize enough that human smugglers only care about money and have very little regard for the safety and well-being of their customers, said Acting U.S. Attorney Andrew Haden. I urge anyone considering this perilous journey: Please do not trust a smuggler with your life.

This case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Loren G. Rene.

DEFENDANTS Case Number 21-cr-02922-BTM

Gerardo Rigoberto Barojas-Saavedra Age: 35 Anaheim, CA

Lourdes Ortiz Castaneda Age: 28 Anaheim, CA

SUMMARY OF CHARGES

Conspiracy to Transport Aliens, in violation of 8 U.S.C. 1324(a)(1)(A)(v)(I)

Maximum penalty: Ten years in prison and a $250,000 fine per count

AGENCY

U.S. Border Patrol

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The U.S. Attorneys Office for the Southern District of Californiahelps leadJoint Task Force Alpha (JTFA), which was established by Attorney General Merrick B. Garland in June 2021 to marshal the investigative and prosecutorial resources of the Department of Justice, in partnership with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), toenhance U.S. enforcement efforts against the most prolific and dangerous human smuggling and trafficking groups operating in Mexico and the Northern Triangle countries of Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras. The Task Force focuses on disrupting and dismantling smuggling and trafficking networks that abuse, exploit, or endanger migrants, pose national security threats, and are involved in organized crime. JTFA consists of federal prosecutors and attorneys from U.S. Attorneys Offices along the Southwest Border (District of Arizona, Southern District of California, Southern District of Texas, and Western District of Texas), from the Criminal Division and the Civil Rights Division, along with law enforcement agents and analysts from DHSs Immigration and Customs Enforcement,Customs and BorderProtection, and Border Patrol. The FBI and the Drug Enforcement Administration are also part of the Task Force.

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Any politician who is serious about discouraging illegal immigration should support E-Verify, the online tool that allows employers to determine whether their employees have work authorization. Mandating E-Verify nationwide would be one of the most effective enforcement measures, but dont take my word for it. Listen to the Farm Bureau, which says E-Verify will have dire impacts because it would lose illegal workers, or to Mark Zuckerbergs pro-immigration lobbying group that warns about E-Verify diminishing the size of the available labor pool. These activists are not as concerned about walls or troops on the border because they know such measures are less effective than targeting the jobs-magnet directly.

Unfortunately, E-Verify was not a top priority for the Trump administration, and the former president remains oddly non-committal about it. When asked, Will you implement E-Verify nationally? in a candidate questionnaire published this week, Trump responded only with, We must stop people coming illegally into the country from taking jobs from American citizens.

That evasive reply contrasts sharply with the forcefulness of Trumps other answers to the questionnaire. For example, when asked, Will you extend the temporary parole status given to migrants by [Biden]? his response was clear and direct: No. All parole will be terminated retroactively and prospectively.

The contrast with other candidates responses on E-Verify is also striking. Every other candidate who answered the individual questions Ron DeSantis, Mike Pence, Nikki Haley, and Tim Scott gave a full-throated endorsement of E-Verify. DeSantiss answer was particularly convincing because he was able to point to Floridas implementation of E-Verify under his watch as governor.

Why is Trump so lukewarm toward the program? Perhaps he feels he cannot get it through Congress, but a fairly strong version did pass the House last spring. Its not implausible that a compromise measure could also work its way through the Senate in the future.

More importantly, implementing mandatory E-Verify may not require Congressional action at all. Current law requires employers to collect information on work eligibility through the paper I-9 form which, contrary to popular belief, does not actually get submitted to the government. Employers must merely keep I-9 forms on hand for three years in case the government wants to look at them. (It rarely does.) A simple regulatory change that requires employers to complete the I-9 through a government website rather than on paper may be able to replicate the E-Verify process without new legislation.

Trumps administration did belatedly start work on this idea (sometimes called "G-Verify") near the end of his term, but the clock ran out. A new administration that prioritizes mandatory E-Verify could get started immediately on implementing a new rule, ensuring enough time for the regulatory processes and inevitable legal challenges to play themselves out. But Trump apparently has different priorities.

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