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More than 600 Haitians have reached the U.S. mainland in the last eight months after sailing across the treacherous Caribbean pass; many others have died trying to make the journey. This is,the Miami Herald reports,"the largest exodus of boat refugees since 2004." It is also what happens when a group of people wants to flee dire circumstances but lacks a safe and predictable immigration path.

Political and economic conditions in Haiti have long been terrible, but they worsened last year after a devastating earthquake and the assassination of President Jovenel Mose. Violence in Haiti, poor conditions in Latin American countries where other Haitians had settled, and additional factors compelled thousands of Haitians to journey to the United States. That mass migration came to a head in September, when around 15,000 Haitians gathered at the U.S.Mexico border, some of them clashing with U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) agents as they tried to reach American soil.

In 2020, President Donald Trump invoked Title 42 of the Public Health Service Act to enact a policy of allowing immediate expulsions of migrants at the border, a policy that remains in place today. Many migrants, thus barred from beginning the formal asylum-seeking process, were simply sent back to Haiti. The Biden administration has expelled more than 25,000 Haitians since September. Around 4,000 were sent back to Haiti last month.

With land-based migration proving difficult, some desperate Haitians are attempting to reach American soil aboard overcrowded ships. The Miami Herald reports that five boats of undocumented Haitian migrants have reached the Florida Keys since November. While others reach Puerto Rico, most are intercepted in the waterand many drown, undetected. A boat trying to reach the U.S. in May capsized, resulting in the deaths of 11 Haitian women. Another vessel carrying two dozen Haitians bound for the U.S. has been missing since March.

Border hardliners often claim that chaos will erupt if Title 42 expulsions are halted and the standard asylum process resumes. But as the Cato Institute's David J. Bier points out, illegal immigration from Haiti (and other Caribbean nations) is a policy choice. "In October 2016, nearly 7,500 asylum seekers from Haiti and Cuba crossed the U.S.-Mexico border into the United States," Bier writes. "Just 6 did so illegally.99.9 percent of all crossings from these two countries happened legally through lawful ports of entry." That number had essentially reversed by October 2021, when 99.7 percent of the 7,000 Haitians and Cubans who crossed the border did so illegally.

In the early 2010s, border guards "at southwest ports of entry adopted a policy of generally granting parole to Haitian asylum seekers," Bier points out, after the Obama administration suspended removals of Haitians without criminal records. They were legally permitted to enter the country, claim asylum, and receive work authorization. But starting in 2016, the Department of Homeland Security required the CBP to detain all incoming Haitians and turn them over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement to be deported (unless they could demonstrate a credible fear of persecution in their home country). A significant proportion of Haitians began to enter the U.S. illegally after this policy change and other Trump-era restrictions on asylum.

Immigration officials warn that sea arrivals could come to resemble migration patterns in the 1980s and 1990s, when groups of 70 to 100 Haitians would heap into one makeshift boat bound for the United States. "Our general worry is this could replicate over the summer and this could become a trend," CBP spokesperson Jeffrey Quiones told The Washington Post.

Restoring asylum is an important step in preventing more tragedies, and so is employment-based immigration. Thankfully, the Biden administration has said it will provide 11,500 H-2B nonagricultural seasonal worker visas for people from northern Central America and Haiti. Shutting down safe and legal migration options won't prevent truly desperate Haitians from attempting to escape danger, but reopening them can help prevent deadly journeys.

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ICE agents tracked down a smuggler who separated a 1-year-old girl from her mother as they tried to make their way deeper into the U.S., arresting the smuggler and reuniting the family.

The Mexican woman and her 11-year-old son were apprehended by Border Patrol agents in western Texas on Saturday, according to court documents. Thats when the mother revealed her daughter had also been with them but had been separated in Mexico so the baby could be smuggled through a border crossing rather than trekked through the desert.

Agents searched the mothers phone and found details on the smuggling operation, including a picture of a bus ticket that had apparently been bought for the infant showing she was to be taken from El Paso to Dallas.

Agents from Homeland Security Investigations, a branch of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, stepped in to help. They spotted a woman carrying a small child show up just as the bus was getting ready to depart.

Agents say the woman, identified as Rubye Ramos, at first insisted the baby was hers and presented a birth certificate for a 4-year-old. When agents told her they knew the child wasnt hers, they said she broke down in tears and handed the baby over, acknowledging it wasnt hers.

This is one more example of the callous and ruthless tactics used by transnational criminal organizations that often use the most vulnerable migrants children as a commodity, said Gloria I. Chavez, chief patrol agent in the Border Patrols El Paso sector.

Ms. Ramos faces a human smuggling charge.

She was ordered held without bond until a detention hearing later this week.

She is a U.S. citizen but lives in Mexico, and prosecutors argued she couldnt be counted on to remain in the U.S. unless she was detained.

The Trump administration drew attention several years back for its zero-tolerance border policy, which had the effect and critics argued the intended consequence of separating illegal immigrant families caught at the border.

The parents were arrested and since there are no family facilities in federal jails, the children were placed in the case of the Health and Human Services Department. But the government failed to reunite the families once the parents were out of the criminal justice system often a matter of just a day or two.

Thousands of families were separated and authorities say hundreds remain so today, four years later.

The border case presents the other side of that coin parents who voluntarily separate from their children to make an illegal entry into the U.S.

Smugglers will sometimes decide for their own reasons that a family shouldnt enter or be transported together, and split children from adults with the intention to reunite them at a destination deeper in the U.S.

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The super PAC supporting Republican Herschel Walker is going on television with a seven figure ad buy attacking Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock as the general election campaign in the Georgia Senate race heats up.

The super PAC, 34N22, is hitting the broadcast and cable airwaves in the Atlanta media market, Georgias biggest, while also running the new advertisement on digital platforms across the rest of the Peach State. The spot ties Warnock to embattled President Joe Biden and blames both Democrats for the surge in illegal immigration at the southern border since Donald Trump left the White House, though the former president is not mentioned by name.

Joe Biden and Raphael Warnock have opened the floodgates to the massive surge in illegal immigration, crime, drugs, and fatalities we are seeing in communities across Georgia, 34N22 spokesman Stephen Lawson said in a statement. The super PAC, named after Walkers jersey number at the University of Georgia and in the NFL, 34, as well as 2022, the election year, first shared its new ad with the Washington Examiner.

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The advertisement opens with a visual of a kitchen sink faucet, first just dripping water and then turned on at full strength.

By 2020, illegal immigration had slowed to a trickle. Then, Joe Biden and Raphael Warnock took over. Illegal border crossings surged, the voiceover says as the spot opens. Illegal drugs like fentanyl poured in. Violent crime flooded America.

Walker, 60, was recruited by Trump to run for Senate. He was crowned the GOP nominee in the May 24 primary, easily defeating state Agriculture Commissioner Gary Black. Despite living in Texas for several years, Walker, a Heisman Trophy winner, is a folk hero in Georgia for leading the Bulldogs to a national championship in 1980. He begins his bid to oust Warnock well known and relatively popular.

But Walker also has political baggage that Democrats are hoping to exploit, including unanswered questions about his extensive business holdings as well as past instances of domestic abuse, much of which the Georgia Republican personally, and voluntarily, disclosed years before he entered politics. Meanwhile, Republicans believe Warnock also has liabilities from his personal life that could trip up his reelection bid.

Warnock, 52, a pastor by trade, was elected to the Senate in January 2021 after defeating then-Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R) in a special election runoff.

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Loeffler was appointed to replace Johnny Isakson in early 2020 after he resigned from the Senate for health reasons. Warnock is a talented politician who had built a $23 million war chest as of May 4 but nonetheless faces a tough reelection bid this fall. Georgia is a swing state, and Democrats are vulnerable up and down the ticket, largely due to Bidens political struggles.

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(The Center Squarer) Voters will head to the polls on Tuesday in a special election for Texas new 34th congressional district in the Rio Grande Valley, where illegal immigration is front and center.

Longtime Rio Grande Valley Democratic Rep. Filemon Vela Jr., resigned earlier this year, leaving the 34th district seat open.

The special election will decide who represents the district for the remainder of Vela's term, which ends in January. November's regular election will determine who serves the district beginning in January for the next two years.

Early voting, which began May 31, ends Friday.

In a race where two Republicans and two Democrats are running, Mayra Flores, the favored Republican candidate, is hoping to win outright, avoid a runoff election and be the incumbent to beat in November.

Flores, the current GOP nominee for the seat in the November general election, is the Hidalgo County GOP Hispanic Outreach Chair and wife of a U.S. Border Patrol agent. Juana "Janie" Cantu-Cabrera, a nurse whom Flores beat in the March primary, is also running in the special election.

Democrats Dan Sanchez, a Harlingen attorney, and Rene Coronado, a city civil service director from Harlingen, are running for the seat.

Flores has outraised Sanchez by 16 to 1.

Republicans have poured money into Flores race, including $1 million recently for television ads that describe what the candidate calls the chaos created by the Biden administrations open border policies. Sanchezs campaign and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee spent $100,000 on digital ad buys starting this past Saturday, his campaign said.

Sanchez is hoping to win in the historically Democratic district. At a recent campaign rally in Harlingen, he said, Were gonna win this June 14 without a runoff. Were gonna show those Republicans that money doesnt buy elections in South Texas.

Sanchez has also attempted to distance himself from far-left Democrats whove ran in other races and lost, describing himself as a conservative Democrat and pro-life Catholic.

In District 28, far-left Democratic candidate Jessica Cisneros lost to incumbent Rep. Henry Cuellar of Laredo, the only pro-life Democrat in the Texas congressional delegation. Cisneros aggressively criticized Cuellar for being prolife, being committed to border security and supporting oil and gas jobs. She lost. While shes demanded a recount, it isnt expected to change the outcome.

District 34 consists of all or parts of Bee, Cameron, DeWitt, Goliad, Gonzales, Hidalgo, Jim Wells, Kenedy, Kleberg, San Patricio, and Willacy counties. Cameron County is the southernmost county located at the tip of Texas in the Rio Grande Valley, where illegal immigration has surged since President Joe Biden took office. Both sides of the border are controlled by the Gulf Cartel, which facilitates the transport of illegal immigrants and a steady flow of illicit drugs, border agents say.

All counties in the 34th district remain under one of Gov. Greg Abbotts disaster declarations, either related to the coronavirus, illegal immigration, or because they are in a potential disaster zone. Because of these circumstances, district residents need to have full and effective representation in Congress as soon as possible, the governor said in a proclamation setting the date for the special election.

Due to redistricting, the 34th District was previously the 15th District represented by incumbent Rep. Vicente Gonzalez. While he isnt running in the special election and endorsed Sanchez, Gonzalez is running for the seat and for reelection in November.

If no one wins 50% of the vote June 14, a runoff election would likely be held in August, the governors proclamation states.

Some of the most competitive races this November are at the southern border, Congressional Districts 15, 28 and 34, which Republicans are hoping to flip red.

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COPS were forced to release a suspect arrested for immigration offences after angry crowds clashed with officers.

An army of people surrounded the Immigration Enforcement van chanting "let him go" in Peckham, south east London on Saturday.

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The stand off, which lasted for a number of hours, saw over 100 Londoners take to the streets in protest.

They congregated in Evans Cook Close in a bid to thwart the Home Office immigration raid, refusing to move unless the man was released.

The suspect had been detained inside a police van while a swarm of supporters obstructed its exit.

It is understood the man is Nigerian and was suspected of overstaying his visa.

Some demonstrators sat on the ground in front of the vehicle "eating ice lollies" in protest of his arrest.

Extraordinary footage captured the blockade, with crowds chanting "We won't be moving until the man is released," and "You say people, we say power, people power."

Despite Metropolitan Police officers being called to help out Home Office officials, they were unable to subdue the large group.

They eventually had to relent and announced the suspect would be released - much to the crowds' delight.

People were heard crying "Don't come back to Peckham," as they escorted the police van out of the estate.

The man, who had been arrested on suspected immigration offences, has now been released on bail.

A spokeswoman for the Home Office said: "Preventing immigration enforcement teams from doing their job is unacceptable.

"Blocking or obstructing them will not deter them from undertaking the duties that the public rightly expect them to carry out."

The Met Police confirmed they had been called shortly after 1:30pm "to a report of protesters obstructing immigration officers" and said officers remained at the scene shortly before 5pm.

A spokesman for the force said: "Officers attended and found a van was being prevented from leaving the location.

"One man has been arrested by immigration enforcement officers for immigration offences."

Eleanor Janega, 39, told PA: "We were alerted that there was an immigration raid in process so locals came down to block it.

"We had been sitting here blocking the van and having ice lollies.

"They brought more police in and tried to break through the crowd by pushing us. We all sat down."

Labour councillor Reginald Popoola said the crowd had "encircled the van peacefully", but some people were shoved.

Discussing the news the man had been released on bail, he proudly proclaimed: "He's being released, peaceful protest is powerful."

Another woman described how cops "gave up" trying to arrest demonstrators.

The activist explained: "Police tried to arrest a number of activists at the front, but they were held onto by others who were also sitting down and the police gave up.

"And finally, after a lot of protest, the police announced that they were going to release him.

"It took, I don't know, about half an hour for them to actually open the doors so we all stayed and called for this to happen quickly."

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