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The Home Secretary is to raise the issue when she chairs the G7 meeting of interior ministers this week. The summit in Lancaster House between Tuesday and Thursday will also deal with the continuing effects of the Afghanistan debacle and providing safety for refugees from the country after the Taliban swept to power.

However, Ms Patel will call on G7 counterparts to work together to crack down on illegal migration and the organised criminal networks that facilitate the trade in vulnerable migrants.

Her words follow a difficult summer for Britain where illegal migrants have been coming into the country on small boats launched in France, a fellow G7 member, across the English Channel.

Meanwhile, another G7 member Italy has been under siege from illegal migrants crossing from north Africa across the Mediterranean.

And there has been criticism of Joe Bidens administration for failing to secure the Mexican border with illegal migrants coming into the US.

The Home Secretary will reiterate that the shared challenge of illegal migration requires a collaborative response.

She will set out the reforms and action the UK Government is taking through its New Plan for Immigration and will call on all G7 nations to work together to take tough action in breaking up these criminal gangs who pose a threat to all nations border security.

She will tell counterparts that the people smugglers have no respect for human life and are lining their pockets through the exploitation and abuse of vulnerable migrants.

She will say to Interior Ministers that only by cracking down on those breaking our laws and facilitating illegally entry to our countries can we ensure we have the time, resources, and capacity to focus on those in genuine need.

The Home Secretary will also speak with counterparts about their efforts to support vulnerable Afghans and will set out details of the leading role the UK is playing through its established Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy (ARAP) and new Afghanistan Citizens Resettlement Scheme (ACRS).

Speaking ahead of the meeting, Ms Patel said: The ongoing crisis in Afghanistan has underlined the vital importance of prioritising those in genuine need.

The UK has led the international response through creating one of the most generous resettlement schemes in British history.

But we cannot do this alone all of the G7 must have the courage, conviction, and heart to step up and help those that need it most.

Through ARAP, more than 7,000 Afghans who worked with the UK in Afghanistan and their families have been evacuated to safety in the UK, and the scheme remains open to applications from any country, for individuals who are eligible.

The G7 will meet from September7 to 9 at Lancaster House in London. It is the first UK chaired in-person gathering of G7 Interior Ministers in almost 15 years.

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On this major anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, we Americans have to ask ourselves: Are we safer now than we were 20 years ago?

Its difficult to admit, but we arent.

The Biden administrations reckless pullout of Afghanistan put terrorists back on offense and emboldens our other adversaries.

The southern border, opened by this administration, provides a wide path for terrorists to enter the U.S.

Meanwhile, the federal agencies responsible for preventing terrorist attacks are politicized and looking inward to combat white supremacy and extremism based on political opinion or association.

Americans are right to feel abandoned andat risk, thanks to the decisions and policies of this administration.

Who would imagine that 20 years after 9/11, the Taliban would govern more territory; have more allies, including China; have more money than it did two decades ago; and have our weapons?

Yet President Joe Bidens shocking decisions regarding Afghanistan have snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.

Now, he desperately wants America to move on and forget about the past two weeks in Kabul. Biden clearly doesnt understand human nature or Americans if he thinks we will move on from the needless loss of 13 military service members, abandoned Americans who are now hostages, andmany billionsof dollars worth of high-tech military equipment and weapons left behind for the Taliban to capture and use against us.

We also cannot move on, per Bidens wish, because he has put America in a very difficult position relative to our adversaries.

Biden not only hasrevitalizedthe Taliban and put al-Qaeda and ISIS back in the fight, his weakness emboldens China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea to aggressively pursue their geopolitical schemes, which will not be in Americas interest.

As such, the U.S. must increase its vigilance to prevent terrorist acts against Americans at home and abroad, while also blocking dictatorial regimes expansion and aggression.

Like an anti-Midas, Biden has intentionally weakened Americas ability to prevent more terrorist attacks. In addition to removing intelligence-gathering capabilities in Afghanistan, the Biden administration rushed to bringtens of thousandsof Afghans directly to the U.S.rather than safe third countrieswithquestionable vetting.

Some have since been flown toKosovoafter discovering subsequent derogatory information.

Terroristsexploitrefugee and migration flows to gain a foothold in their target countries. The Biden administration insists it isrobustlyvetting Afghan evacuees, but against what data? Weno longer have staff or access to documentationin Afghanistan to verify claimed identities or background information.

Furthermore, the administration has squandered its credibility in its portrayal of the Afghan withdrawal.

The administration also has stated that it has expedited the vetting of Afghans and that it seeks to resettle such Afghans as quickly as possible. But thefaster vettingis done, the less thorough it is.

Americansshould not have confidencethat there are no terrorists or other bad actors among the Afghans this administration already has brought directly to the U.S. The administration should continuously vet such populations for a reasonable period of time to gain confidence in the bona fides of the individuals and to prevent radicalization.

Another front Biden has weakened against preventing terrorist attacks is our southern border. Starting on his first day in office, Biden stopped border security, immigration enforcement, and asylum-fraud prevention policies and programs.

Predictably, America has since seenhistoric flows of illegal aliens, includingknown and suspected terroristsand seriouscriminal aliens, andpoisonous illicit drugs pour across our border.

Surely, al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups see our southern border is a wide open avenue into the U.S. Yet an unfazed Biden administration shows no sign of starting to secure the border, enforce immigration laws, or prevent asylum and other immigration fraud.

Meanwhile, the agencies responsible for preventing terrorism have become politicized and prioritize all the wrong issues. The Department of Homeland Securitys Aug. 13 National Terrorism Advisory SystemBulletinprioritizes racial and anti-authority violent extremists (white supremacists and COVID-19 mandate opponents) over foreign terrorists.

The Department of Homeland Security also prioritizes addressingclimate change, as prominently displayed on its homepage. Even if the department properly reprioritizedradical Islamic terrorismas the homelands No. 1 threat, the department does not have the resources to adequately focus on preventing terrorist attacks.

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkasadmittedin last weeks Operation Allies Welcome press briefing that his departments resources are indeed stressed due to processing aliens at the southern border.

Also responsible for combating terrorism, the FBI isfocusingon diversity, hate crimes, and the Jan. 6 Capitol violence. Both the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI have their eye off the terrorism ball, and Americans are less safe for it.

Twenty years after the horrific attacks on our homeland, the world is just as dangerous. The Biden administrations debacle in Afghanistan has madeanother 9/11more likely.

The historic Biden border crisis is a fundamental assault, not just on our system of laws, but a major national security threat. And our most vital agencies are increasingly characterized by political maneuvering, rather than a singular focus on protecting Americans.

All of that only makes the 20thanniversary of 9/11 even more tragic.

This piece originally appeared in The Daily Signal

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The U.S. Supreme Court did President Joe Biden a favor in ordering the reinstatement of the Remain in Mexico policy governing asylum-seekers from Central America.

The program, part of former President Donald Trumps Migrant Protection Protocols, was put in place in 2019 to deal with caravans of migrants who were showing up at the southern border claiming to be refugees from violence and persecution in their home countries.

Before the policy was implemented, asylum applicants were allowed to enter the country and remain in America until the hearing on their claim could be held. That could take months, and many never showed up for the hearings.

Trumps policy sent the applicants back across the border to wait for adjudication of their claim.

Within seven months, encounters at the border dropped to 36,500 a month from 144,000.

And then Biden took over and immediately scrapped Trumps immigration policies, including Remain in Mexico. In July, encounters with migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border hit 200,000, a 21-year high.

Federal courts have already blocked Biden from unilaterally undoing other Trump immigration provisions, including increased use of deportation and detention and suspension of the DACA program.

In ruling Biden had overreached in suspending Remain in Mexico, a federal district judge in Texas determined the administration knew the policy was effective and had been successfully defended in court previously, and that it was aware of the consequences of scuttling the program.

The legal challenge was brought by the states of Texas and Missouri, which claimed their residents have been harmed by the presidents abandonment of effective efforts to curb illegal immigration.

Biden eliminated the programs on his first day in office for no other reason than that were implemented by Trump.

Almost immediately, the Central American caravans began re-forming and Americas southern border was again swamped by refugees.

Another successful tool used by Trump was to expel illegal border crossers under a public health order known as Title 42, intended to slow the spread of the coronavirus.

Border control agents turned back the migrants rather than apprehending and detaining them.

Biden has kept that program in place, but is not using it nearly as often. In July, 47% of encounters resulted in expulsion, compared with 83% in January, the month he took office.

Bidens stubborn neglect of the southern border is creating a crisis for the states such as Texas and Arizona that must deal with the impact.

The presidents feeble attempt to off-load responsibility for the situation to Vice President Kamala Harris, who has treated it like a hot potato she doesnt want landing in her lap, has failed.

Conditions continue to worsen and the president doesnt have a plan for bringing them under control.

His best option is to return to the Trump plan, which was working.

The courts, in halting Bidens push to scrap his predecessors policies, have given the president an excuse for continuing Trumps methods without personally embracing them.

Biden should stop further legal action and return to what has worked to maintain a secure and orderly border.

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Editorial: A wise return to Trumps border policies - Boston Herald

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced Monday that it had renewed a policy allowing the expulsion of illegal immigrants due to concerns about the spread of COVID-19, as the number of unaccompanied children stopped at the US-Mexico border was expected to have reached an all-time high in July.

The policy, known as Title 42, would remain in effect until the CDC Director determines that the danger of further introduction of COVID-19 into the United States from covered noncitizens has ceased to be a serious danger to public health, the agency said in a statement.

In a separate statement, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said it would process illegal immigrants in accordance with the order, which exempts unaccompanied children and some families.

Title 42 is not an immigration authority, but a public health authority, and its continued use is dictated by CDC and governed by the CDCs analysis of public health factors, DHS said. Under Title 42, DHS continues to expel the majority of single adults, and, to the extent possible, families encountered at the Southwest Border.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and other activist groups resumed a lawsuit against the Biden administration Monday over the use of Title 42, breaking off settlement talks.

Seven months of waiting for the Biden administration to end Title 42 is more than enough, ACLU attorney Lee Gelernt said.

We are deeply disappointed that the Biden administration has abandoned its promise of fair and humane treatment for families seeking safety, leaving us no choice but to resume litigation, added Neela Chakravartula, managing attorney for the Center for Gender & Refugee Studies.

In a court filing in the case, a top immigration official revealed Monday preliminary government figures indicated US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) picked up more than 19,000 unaccompanied children in July, exceeding the previous high of 18,877 in March. The estimated number would represent an increase of nearly 25 percent over the June total of 15,253.

David Shahoulian, DHS assistant secretary for border and immigration policy, added that about 80,000 people were encountered in family units, up more than 43 percent from the June number of 55,805.

Overall, authorities stopped illegal immigrants about 210,000 times at the border in July, up from 188,829 in June and the highest in more than 20 years.

Lawmakers from both parties have blamed the Biden administrations immigration policies for creating a surge of illegal immigrants attempting to cross the border. In an effort to stem the tide, DHS announced last week it was resuming fast-track deportation flights for families to Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras.

Attempting to cross into the United States between ports of entry, or circumventing inspection at ports of entry, is the wrong way to come to the United States, DHS said in a statement.These acts are dangerous and can carry long-term immigration consequences for individuals who attempt to do so.

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The Biden administration hasnt introduced COVID-19 travel restrictions on Americans going to Mexico since the delta variant became dominant in the U.S., and it is enforcing immigration laws at the border. But a meme falsely claiming the opposite is circulating online.

Two topics that routinely draw false claims on social media are COVID-19 and immigration at the U.S. border with Mexico.

A claim currently circulating online misrepresents the Biden administrations actions on both issues.

A Twitter account with trump won in its bio posted this false claim, which has been retweeted more than 2,700 times and shared on Facebook: The COVID delta variant is so deadly Biden is restricting travel for Americans into Mexico but is keeping the border wide open for illegal aliens to walk right into our country.

Neither of its major points is correct. Biden hasnt initiated any travel restrictions for Americans going to Mexico since the delta variant became dominant in the U.S. in July, and his administration is enforcing existing immigration laws.

As for the travel portion of the claim, the administration has recently extended restrictions on non-essential travel from Mexico into the United States at land ports of entry due to COVID-19 through Aug. 21.But the travel limits have been ineffect since March 21, 2020,and they do not prevent U.S. citizens and permanent lawful residents fromtraveling to Mexico or returning to the United States. Also,the restrictions applyonly to land and ferry border crossing, not air travel.

Although there is no restriction on Americans flying to Mexico, those who do fly there will have to provide negative COVID-19 test results before their return flight. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that pandemic-related order on Jan. 12 under the previous administration, and it went into effect on Jan. 26 under Biden so its not new, either.

The State Department also urges travelers to reconsider going to Mexico since the CDC has listed the countrys COVID-19 risk level as high. Thats the third level in the CDCs four-tiered system.

The part of the claim asserting that the border is wide open for illegal aliens is also wrong. U.S. Customs and Border Protection has made hundreds of thousands of apprehensions and expulsions at the southwest border since Biden took office.

More than 500,000 expulsions were made from February to June under Title 42, a public health law the Trump administrationbegan using in March 2020 to expel people at the border in the name of preventing the spread of COVID-19.

During the Trump administration, from March 2020 to January 2021 there were more than 459,000 expulsions.

Many Democrats and immigrant advocates have urged Biden to rescind the policy, but it remains in effect.

So, the claim is wrong about both travel restrictions and border policy.

Update,Aug.3:On Aug. 2, theCDCextendedthe use of the public health order under Title 42that allows the CBP to immediately expel those trying to cross the border illegally.The CDC said it will reassess the need forthe order every 60 days and confirmed that theexception for children, which it announced on July 16,remainsin effect.

Editors note:SciChecks COVID-19/Vaccination Projectis made possible by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The foundation hasno controlover our editorial decisions, and the views expressed in our articles do not necessarily reflect the views of the foundation. The goal of the project is to increase exposure to accurate information about COVID-19 and vaccines, while decreasing the impact of misinformation.

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Order: Requirement for Proof of Negative COVID-19 Test Result or Recovery from COVID-19 for All Airline Passengers Arriving into the United States. CDC.gov. Updated 19 Jul 2021.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Requirement for Proof of Negative COVID-19 Test or Recovery from COVID-19 for All Air Passengers Arriving in the United States. CDC.gov. Updated 6 Jul 2021.

U.S. Department of State. Mexico Travel Advisory. 12 Jul 2021.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Southwest Land Border Encounters. Accessed 29 Jul 2021.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Nationwide Enforcement Encounters: Title 8 Enforcement Actions and Title 42 Expulsions. Updated 16 Jul 2021.

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