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According to Jornal de Notcias, footballers are trafficked by false agents and club officials and there are currently 39 investigations underway by SEF.

The Foreigners and Borders Service (SEF) have identified, over the past five years, 250 footballers who have been the target of illegal immigration, and most of the cases were practiced by managers of amateur clubs or lower level clubs.

Jornal de Notcias states that, in the last five years, SEF investigated 57 football clubs in mainland Portugal and in the autonomous regions of the Azores and Madeira on suspicion of crimes of illegal immigration and human trafficking. These investigations resulted in 93 defendants, including 62 managers, 13 agents, 12 athletes and a coach.

A source from SEF quoted by the newspaper reveals that most of these athletes enter Portugal under the visa exemption for short stays, that is, for tourism, "which does not allow the exercise of professional activity".

In the investigations carried out by SEF, crimes of forgery of documents in the elaboration of false employment contracts with companies of people linked to the clubs were also found. According to the newspaper, "officially they are, for example, construction workers, but in practice they just play football."

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Studies show that immigrants are less likely to commit violent crimes than those born in the United States.

Senate Republicans who continue to oppose measures that would make it harder for criminals to obtain and keep firearms are blaming immigrants for a rise in violent crime in the United States, despite having no evidence to support their accusations.

On Monday, Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) introduced a resolution "urging the development of a strategy to counter the rise in violent crime across the United States."

"If there was ever a time that the American people want to know that the president and Congress are working together to defeat the scourge of crime, the time is now. This resolution is to send the message that combating crime is what we are focused on," Cassidy told Fox News in a statement.

The text of the resolution, which specifically calls out what it terms "gun violence in major, Democrat-run cities and States," accuses the Biden administration of pursuing an "alleged violent crime reduction strategy is actually a gun control strategy and wrongly puts lawful gun owners and dealers at the center of enforcement efforts instead of focusing on the criminals perpetuating violence, insecurity, and fear across the United States." It claims that "drug cartels have overburdened Border Patrol resources by surging illegal immigrants into strategic locations so that the cartels can traffic narcotics and other contraband into the United States undetected" and notes that "violent crimes related to illegal immigration and the illegal drug trade must stop for the sake of the sovereignty of the United States and the safety of the people of the United States."

The resolution expressly notes a correlation between violent crime and higher levels of undocumented immigrants, with no evidence whatsoever that one caused the other. It asserts that "rising violent crime in the United States can be directly correlated to a surge in illegal immigration at the southern border of the United States and a surge in the sale, distribution, and consumption of illegal drugs."

The text calls for a resolution "that it is the sense of the Senate that the President should work with Congress to develop and execute a strategy, drawing on the multiple instruments of power and resources of the United States to counter the rise in violent crime across the country by reinforcing strong criminal justice policies, by laying blame on the perpetrators of violent acts, and by securing the southern border."

Data shows that immigrants, documented or undocumented, are less likely to commit violent crimes than native-born citizens.

A study published by the journal Criminology in 2018 found "that undocumented immigration does not increase violence. Rather, the relationship between undocumented immigration and violent crime is generally negative, although not significant in all specifications."

Even the Cato Institute, which calls itself a promoter of libertarian ideas, reported statistics on crime in Texas that pushed back against Republican talking points: In an October 2020 blog post that repeatedly used the offensive term "illegal immigrants," the think tank referred to a study by its researchers that found:

In 2018, the illegal immigrant criminal conviction rate was 782 per 100,000 illegal immigrants, 535 per 100,000 legal immigrants, and 1,422 per 100,000 nativeborn Americans. The illegal immigrant criminal conviction rate was 45 percent below that of nativeborn Americans in Texas. The general pattern of nativeborn Americans having the highest criminal conviction rates followed by illegal immigrants and then with legal immigrants having the lowest holds for all of other specific types of crimes such as violent crimes, property crimes, homicide, and sex crimes.

The author concluded: "There is more and more evidence that immigrants, regardless of legal status, are less likely to commit crimes than nativeborn Americans. However, a substantial number of Americans still think that immigration increases crime. As more evidence builds over time, we can only hope than Americans respond by updating their opinions so that they fit the facts."

The GOP resolution also dismisses without evidence the notion that keeping guns out of the hands of violent criminals does anything to reduce gun crimes.

Though Republicans have frequently claimed that Democratic-controlled jurisdictions are the only ones seeing an increase in violent crime, a March report by Third Way, a think tank that says it "champions modern center-left ideas," documented that the 2020 per capita murder rate was 40% higher in red states than in blue ones: "Murder rates in many of these red states dwarf those in blue states like New York, California, and Massachusetts. And finally, many of the states with the worst murder rateslike Mississippi, Kentucky, Alabama, South Carolina, and Arkansasare ones that few would describe as urban." It also noted that Republican-run Jacksonville, Florida, and Bakersfield, California, had worse homicide rates than Democratic-led San Francisco.

Democratic lawmakers have pushed to address gun violence through extreme risk protection order ("red flag") legislation and through universal background checks. Both are designed to keep dangerous individuals from obtaining and keeping guns. Research has suggested that red flag laws and background checks may help reduce gun violence and gun deaths, but Republicans have opposed both.

While violent crime rates are way lower than they were in the 1990s, they have been rising in recent years. The trend began under then-President Donald Trump and has continued under President Joe Biden.

Thomas Abt, chair of the Council on Criminal Justice's Violent Crime Working Group, told the PBS NewsHour in January, "It is hard to tell what drives crime trends, but the experts broadly agree on three main reasons" for the spike. Those were the pandemic, an increase in gun sales, and "less proactive investigation from police" since the 2020 international protests against police violence, Abt noted.

According to the Gun Violence Archive, there have already been more than 16,200 gun deaths in the United States in 2022. That figure includes 203 mass shootings more than one per day on average.

On Saturday, an alleged white supremacist terrorist with a gun killed 10 people and injured three more in Buffalo, New York. A 180-page manifesto he apparently wrote professed the debunked "great replacement theory," promoted by Republican lawmakers and right-wing media figures, that white Americans are being deliberately and systematically "replaced" by nonwhite immigrants.

Cassidy's resolution made no mention of the conspiracy theory.

As of Tuesday morning, 35 Senate Republicans and none of their Democratic colleagues had signed on as co-sponsors, including Senate Republican Conference Chair John Barrasso and National Republican Senatorial Committee Chair Rick Scott.

Published with permission of The American Independent Foundation.

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The horrific massacre in Buffalo has created a debate about great-replacement theory, the rancid idea that Jews are conspiring to destroy white America by importing non-white immigrants.

The Buffalo shooter was in thrall to the theory, as have been other racist and anti-Semitic killers.

The theory should be denounced by all people of good will, and indeed, it thrives only in the most sewerish precincts of the Internet.

Yet there is an attempt to tar Republicans more broadly with the theory and somehow attribute responsibility for the horror in Buffalo to them on this basis. The argument is that the likes of Elise Stefanik, a Republican congresswoman from New York, have warned that the Democratic Party views immigration as a way to change the electorate in its favor and so are mainstreaming the hateful replacement ideology.

This is a smear and especially perverse since Republicans sounding the alarm about this Democratic view have been unquestionably correct. There hasnt been any secretive cabal at work its all been out in the open, discussed by progressive political operatives and think-tank analysts and celebrated in the press.

The left-wing Center for American Progress issued a report in 2013 titled Immigration Is Changing the Political Landscape in Key States. It summarized its argument thus: Supporting real immigration reform that contains a pathway to citizenship for our nations 11 million undocumented immigrants is the only way to maintain electoral strength in the future.

Books were written about this idea. The widely cited (and over-interpreted) 2002 book The Emerging Democratic Majority by John Judis and Ruy Teixeira called the Democrats the party of transition as white America is supplanted by multiracial, multiethnic America. In 2016, Steve Phillips published Brown Is the New White: How the Demographic Revolution Has Created a New American Majority. His publishers website says the latest edition of the book contends hope for a more progressive political future lies not with increased advertising to middle-of-the-road white voters, but with cultivating Americas growing, diverse majority.

Donald Trumps 2016 victory suppressed some of this sentiment since it made it clear that white working-class voters didnt appreciate being spoken of as if they were a relic of the past, and the 2020 election and its aftermath made the assumption that Democrats will own Latino voters forevermore seem increasingly shaky.

But the left wants to create rules that define it as perfectly acceptable for Democrats to advocate high levels of immigration as a means of gaining political power and out of bounds for Republicans to call them on it.

Washington Post writer Greg Sargent slammed Stefanik for allegedly flirting with the great-replacement theory in Facebook advertisements last year. They warned that Democrats want a sweeping amnesty for illegal immigrants to overthrow our current electorate and create a permanent liberal majority in Washington.

Never mind that Stefanik could have drawn her warning directly from various left-wing writers and advocacy organizations. Or that Sargent himself wrote after Barack Obamas victory in 2012 that the election had been all about demographics and the outcome showed the electorate wasnt reverting to the older, whiter, more male version Republicans had hoped for.

What makes Sargents basic sentiment different from Stefaniks, other than the fact that he welcomes how immigration trends have changed our politics and she doesnt?

Immigration has been hotly contested throughout our history and is inherently a highly emotive issue, involving the composition of our polity and core questions of national identity. It can only inflame the issue further to explicitly weaponize demographic change, as the left has for decades now. We should have an immigration policy that serves the national interest, not the narrow interest of one political party.

Yes, by all means, further shun and marginalize great-replacement theory, but dont support high levels of immigration for partisan reasons and expect the other side not to notice.

Twitter: @RichLowry

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FIRST ON FOX: House Republicans, led by Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas., on Friday introduced a bill that would suspend the entry of illegal immigrants into the U.S. -- as Republicans push solutions to the raging crisis at the southern border.

"The Border Safety and Security Act of 2022" would authorize the Homeland Security Secretary to suspend the entry of illegal immigrants into the United States, if he determines it "necessary in order to achieve operational control" of the border.

INTERNAL CBP DOC WARNS OF SIGNIFICANT SAFETY IMPLICATIONS OF TITLE 42 LIFT, CARTEL HOLD ON CENTRAL AMERICA

Sept. 22, 2021: : Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX), joined by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), speaks at a news conference about the National Defense Authorization Bill at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images) (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

It would also require the suspension of entry of illegal immigrants if the DHS head cannot detain them as required in the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). Should the DHS secretary not follow that requirement, it allows state attorneys general to bring legal action against the administration to enforce it.

The 17 lawmakers signed onto the bill include Reps. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., Tom Tiffany, R-Wis., Matt Rosendale, R-Mont., Byron Donalds, R-Fla., and Andy Biggs, R-Ariz.

"Secretary [Alejandro] Mayorkas has been allowing asylum to be the exception that swallows the rules of border security leading to chaos and crises at our border," Roy said in a statement to Fox News Digital. "Congress needs to step in and require DHS to turn people away if the department cant abide by our laws and certify that all aliens claiming asylum are being detained for the adjudication of their claims."

"The only metric for any border policy right now is whether it will stop the flow of illegal migrants. That's it," he said.

FEDERAL JUDGE EXTENDS ORDER BLOCKING BIDEN ADMIN FROM ROLLING BACK TITLE 42 AHEAD OF HEARING

It comes as Republicans are pushing a number of solutions to the crisis at the southern border, which saw 221,000 migrants hit the border in March alone -- and that number is expected to rise in the months ahead as the administration lifts the Title 42 public health order.

The administration has said it is planning for worst-case scenarios of up to 18,000 migrants a day if the public health order is lifted. Republican states are suing to block the lifting of the order.

Republicans have repeatedly blamed the massive migrant numbers on the administration's policy including the rollback of multiple Trump-era policies which they say has encouraged more migrants to travel north. The administration has instead focused on "root causes" like violence, corruption and climate change in Central America.

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Meanwhile, a number of immigration hawks and former officials have called for Republicans to unite behind a "flagship" border security bill next year when the new Congress sits.

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The newly re-drawn Third California Congressional district is big. It is bigger in square-milage than nine states and, if on the other side of the country, would length-wise stretch from Baltimore to Boston.

While the local concerns may vary widely from one end to the other, certain overall issues are important for everyone in the district, from Shoshone to Tahoe and beyond.

Hence this two-part series in which we asked the candidates to chat un-edited about their views on a number of subjects.

Two candidates Kevin Kiley and Scott Jones took us up on the offer. A third, Dave Peterson, may have vanished into the luminiferous ether, while a fourth, Kermit Jones, at first agreed to participate but then backed out.

Note to Kermit: Putting Peterson aside, this may be a close race come the June vote and, considering party affiliation and your bankroll and such, you may have stood a chance of getting into the runoff. However, if you are going to ignore opportunities to talk directly un-edited to your potential constituents, then you may not have thought this decision through.

All that being said, here we go with the questions and answers of the candidates who had the common sense, courtesy, and cared enough about their constituents to respond:

Illegal immigration particularly since the Biden administration has rolled back certain previous restrictions remains a significant topic of discussion. What is your stance on border protection issues- is it currently too little, enough, or too much?

JONES The situation at our southern border is an unmitigated disaster, a humanitarian crisis, and a threat to public safety. In 2014, I had a deputy murdered by an undocumented criminal who had been removed from this country at least four times without suffering any consequences for continuing to enter our country illegally. This issue is very personal for me, and one I refuse to stop fighting to fix.

Securing the border is the first step and the single most important facet of any immigration reform plan. President Trump made serious progress to increase Americas border security by building miles of new border wall, empowering ICE and CPB, and enforcing a remain in Mexico policy for people claiming asylum, but we must do more, now! We must finish the wall, employ technological measures to help maintain security, ensure that CPB has sufficient staffing and resources to carry out their mission, and return to the remain in Mexico policy.

We all know the truth securing the border will help us put an end to human trafficking, drug and arms smuggling, illegal immigration and help prevent terrorists and criminals from entering our country. It will help ensure criminals who have been deported do not return to commit more mayhem. A combination of beefed-up border patrols, increased fencing and technology, and certain consequences for illegal entry will help us keep America safe.

As I said, I take fixing our border seriously, and as a testament to my commitment, I am honored to have earned the endorsement of President Donald Trumps Acting Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Thomas Homan.

KILEY The Biden Administrations reckless border policies have caused great harm to our country and must be reversed. In the Legislature, I introduced a bill to repeal the Sanctuary State. In Congress, I will fight to retain Title 42, restore the strong border policies of the Trump Administration, and end sanctuary policies across the country.

The Department of Homeland Security recently announced the creation of a disinformation working group. Do you believe it is appropriate for the federal government to in any way, shape, or form to determine what is true?

KILEY The Biden Administrations proposed Ministry of Truth is chilling and un-American. One of our nations Founding principles is that the government is not the arbiter of truth it is rather for us, as citizens, to discern the truth for ourselves through a free exchange of ideas.

JONES I have grave concerns with the Department of Homeland Securitys disinformation working group. We dont have to look in the all-too-distant past to see what happens when unelected bureaucrats start dictating whats best for us, without allowing for any input, counterbalance, or debate. Further, I question whether this or future Presidential Administrations might weaponize this panel in an effort to silence their critics. America was founded on many ideals, including freedom of speech. It is critical for the future of our Country to not stray from our founding principles.

Around the nation and in California in particular, the crime rate has risen of late, with examples of organized smash and grab looting incidents throughout the state being broadcast worldwide. Why, do you believe, crime has recently increased, do you support such notions as defunding the police and/or restorative justice, and what role, if any, should the federal government play in the matter?

JONES Its obvious to everyone that crime is on the rise nationwide. Having spent 33 years in law enforcement and the last 12 years as Sheriff, I know a thing or two about keeping people safe, but also making sure people feel safe. It is possible, but you have to have the experience and courage to make it happen, and to stand up to those that are trying to dismantle our criminal justice systems.

The soft-on-crime policies promulgated by liberal politicians and bureaucrats have led to this drastic rise. Weve gotten to a place where we treat criminals like victims, and victims like criminals. Its upside down. We MUST restore law and order in our society, it is the bedrock of everything else that is important. In Congress as Ive done for my entire adult life Ill work to ensure those who prey on our society face justice, and that victims of crime ALWAYS have a voice.

It should come as no surprise that I have been an outspoken critic of the Defund the Police movement. Whether its been at the Federal, State, or County level, I have consistently spoken against any such efforts.

I am a firm believer that the closer to the people authority is, the better. The Federal government should play a limited role in police reform and regulations, since what is best for individual communities is better decided by local and state entities. With that being said, Congress can and should play a role in ensuring representation and funding opportunities are allocated in a fair manner.

KILEY California has seen rising crime because of radical policies that have removed the consequences for criminal conduct. We need to make crime illegal again. I will use my experience as a former prosecutor to fight for strengthening our criminal laws and supporting our law enforcement.

How would you rate the governmental locally, regionally, statewide, and federally response to the recent COVID pandemic?

KILEY Californias response to COVID-19 has caused incalculable harm. We had the strictest lockdowns of any state and kept schools closed the longest. I have fought Newsoms mandates and lockdowns in the Legislature, even taking him to court and winning a trial where a judge found he abused his emergency powers. Joe Biden pursued much the same approach at the national level. Fortunately, we had some parts of our state, such as my home of Placer County, where local leaders placed trust in citizens. The result was considerably better outcomes across the board than the state as a whole.

JONES From the very beginning of the pandemic, I made one thing abundantly clear: my Sheriffs Office would not be an enforcement mechanism for the guidelines coming down. We would educate, we would provide service 24/7 to those in need, but my deputies would not be arresting individuals, shutting down businesses, or breaking up household gatherings. The one-size-fits-all approach that we saw at the Federal and State level did not always factor in localized trends and measures.

Thanks again to the candidates the readers and commenters.

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