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So were at least all in agreement that the steep decline in illegal alien border crossings from Mexico since Trump took office is a good thing, right? Dont be silly. There is no argument, debate or policy point put forward by conservatives where you cant find at least some liberals willing to kvetch over it and illegal immigration is no exception. Out in California, farmers growing fruits and vegetables are increasingly upset at the prospect of having to either upgrade to robotic technology or offer higher wages and benefits to get their crops picked. The story begins with a discussion of AgroBot, a contraption in use at Driscolls farms which picks strawberries.(LA Times)

AgroBot is still more John Deere than C-3PO a boxy contraption moving in fits and starts, with its computer-driven sensors, graspers and cutters missing 1 in 3 berries.

Such has been the progress of ag-tech in California, where despite the adoption of drones, iPhone apps and satellite-driven sensors, the hand and knife still harvest the bulk of more than 200 crops.

Heres a refreshing twist to the story which ICE might want to look into. The LA Times has actually found an executive at a company that supplies labor to agricultural interests who is willing to come out on the record and admit that the industry has been knowingly hiring illegal aliens and participating in a scheme involving forged documents. (Emphasis added)

Weve been masking this problem all these years with a system that basically allowed you to accept fraudulent documents as legal, and thats what has been keeping this workforce going, said Steve Scaroni, whose Fresh Harvest company is among the biggest recruiters of farm labor. And now we find out we dont have much of a labor force up here, at least a legal one.

Stated bluntly, there arent enough new immigrants for the states nearly half-million farm labor jobs especially as Mexico creates competing manufacturing jobs in its own cities, Taylor said. He has calculated that the pool of potential immigrants from rural Mexico shrinks every year by about 150,000 people.

Youll notice how the LA Times once again chooses to disingenuously use the phrase, there arent enough new immigrants when what they actually mean is that there arent enough illegal aliens. In a number of columns here over the years I have repeatedly stated that one surefire way to reduce the number of illegal aliens coming to the country would be to divert some resources away from arresting the actual workers and begin prosecuting the CEOs of the major companies who employ or recruit them. As soon as that happened the jobs would dry up overnight and the incentive to cross the border would be vastly diminished.

Now youve got a potential candidate for this bold plan, or at least somebody who probably knows enough to bring down the perpetrators. Steve Scaroni is one of the principals of SFC, the Scaroni Family of Companies. They employ more than 3,000 workers in that region and right on their front page they brag about their participation in the H-2A guest worker program. But it certainly sounds from this interview like Steve is aware that either he or his competitors are accepting fraudulent documents as legal in their organizations. Perhaps ICE would like to have a chat with him.

So what are the farmers to do if the supply of illegal aliens is drying up? The robots theyve developed for picking more fragile crops arent up to speed yet, but they are better than they used to be. Necessity is the mother of invention, and that progress would continue if the demand is there. And as the Times article notes, other competitors are already offering higher wages and even health care and other benefits to attract workers. Believe me if you offer a good enough deal you will find citizens willing to do the work. Combing better compensation packages with improved technology to make the work less onerous would eventually solve the problem in a free labor market. Does that mean that well be paying a bit more for a salad? Maybe. But thats how the market works.

Progress is being made in fighting illegal immigration. The agricultural industry is simply going to need to keep up with the times and adapt.

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Each year the Border Patrol apprehends hundreds of thousands of aliens who flagrantly violate our nation's laws by unlawfully crossing U.S. borders. Such illegal entry is a misdemeanor, and, if repeated after being deported, becomes punishable as a felony.

The illegal alien population is composed of those who illegally enter the country (referred to as "entry without inspection EWI") in violation of the immigration law, and others enter legally and then sty illegally (referred to as overstayers). The immigration authorities currently estimate that two-thirds to three-fifths of all illegal immigrants are EWIs and the remainder is overstayers. Both types of illegal immigrants are deportable under Immigration and Nationality Act Section 237 (a)(1)(B) which says: "Any alien who is present in the United States in violation of this Act or any other law of the United States is deportable."

Apologists for illegal immigration try to paint it as a victimless crime, but the fact is that illegal immigration causes substantial harm to American citizens and legal immigrants, particularly those in the most vulnerable sectors of our population the poor, minorities, and children.

Illegal immigration causes an enormous drain on public funds. The seminal study of the costs of immigration by the National Academy of Sciences found that the taxes paid by immigrants do not begin to cover the cost of services received by them.1 The quality of education, health care and other services for Americans are undermined by the needs of endless numbers of poor, unskilled illegal entrants.

Additionally, job competition by waves of illegal immigrants desperate for any job unfairly depresses the wages and working conditions offered to American workers, hitting hardest at minority workers and those without high school degrees.

Illegal immigration also contributes to the dramatic population growth overwhelming communities across America crowding school classrooms, consuming already limited affordable housing, and increasing the strain on precious natural resources like water, energy, and forestland. Until the recent economic recession and high unemployment, the immigration authorities estimated that the population of illegal aliens was increasing by an estimated half million people annually.

While most illegal immigrants may come only to seek work and a better economic opportunity, their presence outside the law furnishes an opportunity for terrorists to blend into the same shadows while they target the American public for their terrorist crimes. Some people advocate giving illegal aliens legal status to bring them out of the shadows, but, if we accommodate illegal immigration by offering legal status, this will be seen abroad as a message that we condone illegal immigration, and we will forever be faced with the problem.

The Border Patrol plays a crucial role in combating illegal immigration, but illegal immigration cannot be controlled solely at the border. The overstayers as well as the EWIs who get past the Border Patrol must be identified and removed by the interior immigration inspectors of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Today, the policies of the Obama administration are working at cross purposes to this objective. ICE is constrained from detaining and deporting most illegal aliens they encounter with the exception of those with criminal convictions or threats to the national security.

There must be a comprehensive effort to end illegal immigration. That requires ensuring that illegal aliens will not be able to obtain employment, public assistance benefits, public education, public housing, or any other taxpayer-funded benefit without detection.

The three major components of immigration control deterrence, apprehension and removal need to be strengthened by Congress and the Executive Branch if effective control is ever to be reestablished. Controlling illegal immigration requires a balanced approach with a full range of enforcement improvements that go far beyond the border. These include many procedural reforms, beefed up investigation capacity, asylum reform, documents improvements, major improvements in detention and deportation procedures, limitations on judicial review, improved intelligence capacity, greatly improved state/federal cooperation, and added resources.

Effective control and management of the laws against illegal immigration require adequate resources. But those costs will be more than offset by savings to states, counties, communities, and school districts across the nation.

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SAN ANTONIO At least nine people died after being crammed into a sweltering tractor-trailer found parked outside a Walmart in the midsummer Texas heat, authorities said Sunday in what they described as an immigrant-smuggling attempt gone wrong.

The driver was arrested, and nearly 20 others rescued from the rig were hospitalized in dire condition, many with extreme dehydration and heatstroke, officials said.

Were looking at a human-trafficking crime, Police Chief William McManus said. He called it a horrific tragedy.

Authorities were called to the San Antonio parking lot late Saturday night or early Sunday and found eight dead inside the truck. A ninth victim died at the hospital, said Liz Johnson, spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The victims were very hot to the touch. So these people were in this trailer without any signs of any type of water, San Antonio Fire Chief Charles Hood said.

It was just the latest smuggling-by-truck operation to end in tragedy. In one of the worst cases on record in the U.S., 19 immigrants locked inside a stifling rig died in Victoria, Texas, in 2003.

Based on initial interviews with survivors of the weekend tragedy, more than 100 people may have been packed into the back of the 18-wheeler at some point in its journey, ICE acting Director Thomas Homan said.

Thirty-nine were inside when rescuers arrived, and the rest were believed to have escaped or hitched rides to their next destination, officials said.

Some of the survivors told authorities they were from Mexico, Homan said.

Authorities did not say whether the rig was locked when they arrived, whether it was used to smuggle the occupants across the border into the U.S., or where it might have been headed. San Antonio is about a 150-mile (240-kilometer) drive from the Mexican border.

The temperature in San Antonio reached 101 degrees (38 Celsius) on Saturday and didnt dip below 90 (32 C) until after 10 p.m. The trailer didnt have a working air conditioning system, Hood said.

Federal prosecutors said James Mathew Bradley Jr., 60, from Clearwater, Florida, was taken into custody. No immediate charges were filed.

The U.S. Homeland Security Department stepped in to take the lead in the investigation.

Many of the victims looked to be in their 20s and 30s, and there were also apparently two school-age children, the police chief said.

The tragedy came to light after a person from the truck approached a Walmart employee in the parking lot and asked for water late Saturday night or early Sunday morning, McManus said.

The employee gave the person water and then called police, who found the dead and the desperate inside the rig. Some of those in the truck ran into the woods, leading to a search, McManus said.

Hours later, after daybreak, a helicopter hovered over the area, and investigators were still gathering evidence from the tractor-trailer, which had an Iowa license plate and was registered to Pyle Transportation Inc. of Schaller, Iowa. A company official did not immediately respond to a phone message seeking comment.

Investigators checked store surveillance video, which showed vehicles arriving and picking up people from the truck, authorities said.

By any standard, the horrific crime uncovered last night ranks as a stark reminder of why human smuggling networks must be pursued, caught and punished, Homan said in a statement.

In the May 2003 case, the immigrants were being taken from South Texas to Houston. Prosecutors said the driver heard them begging and screaming for their lives but refused to free them. The driver was sentenced to nearly 34 years in prison.

The Border Patrol has reported at least four truck seizures this month in and around Laredo, Texas. On July 7, agents found 72 people crammed into a truck with no means of escape, the agency said. They were from Mexico, Ecuador, Guatemala and El Salvador.

Authorities in Mexico have also made a number of such discoveries over the years.

Last December, they found 110 migrants trapped and suffocating inside a truck after it crashed while speeding in the state of Veracruz. Most were from Central America, and 48 were minors. Some were injured in the crash.

Last October, also in Veracruz state, four migrants suffocated in a truck carrying 55 people.

Associated Press writers Mike Graczyk in Houston and Peter Orsi in Mexico City contributed to this report.

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This story has been corrected to show that ICE is now saying the death toll is nine, not 10, as ICEs acting director previously said.

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Its strange that Riviera Beach has become a focal point of discord over thehandling of undocumented residents.

Of all thejurisdictions in Palm Beach County,you wouldnt expect that the one led by the areas most well-known civil rights advocate is where the most pressing civil rights issue of our time is being handled in the harshest way.

But its true. Unlike the Palm Beach County Sheriffs Office and the West Palm Beach Police Department, the Riviera Beach Police Department has been turning non-criminal service calls into immigration busts. Residents encountered by police in some instances have been asked to prove their citizenship, and if theyre unable to provide proof, theyre turned over to federal immigration officers, locked up and put on a path to deportation.

But when you talk to this about the mayor, Bishop Thomas Masters, heres what he says:

I feel that anyone who calls the police for help shouldnt be the one that ends up getting in trouble, Masters said.

But Masters is at a loss to explain why thats happening in his city, and he seems to be more wrapped up in his own lack of documentation issues, after aspeeding ticket earlier this monthshowed he was driving without a valid license.

It was just an untimely situation, he said.

Masters isnt only a local civil rights leader. He was a Hillary Clinton delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia last summer, where he and other delegates advocated handling undocumented residents in a very different way.

We will promote best practices among local law enforcement, in terms of how they collaborate with federal authorities, to ensure that they maintain and build trust between local law enforcement and the communities they serve, the Democratic Partys convention document said.

But heres what has happened recently in Riviera Beach.

Police arrived at the scene of a traffic accident earlier this month to discover that one of the vehicles involved was driven by Gloriana Gonzalez, a 43-year-old Venezuelan woman who has a masters degree and has been living crime-free in America after her visa expired.

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City police summoned Immigration and Customs Enforcement, who locked Gonzalez in a detention center in Pompano Beach, putting her on a path to deportation.

On another call two months earlier, Riviera Beach Police responded to a woman who said that her clothes had been stolen from a laundromat. When police arrived, they noticed the woman had a boyfriend, Milton Perez, 24. He was asked about his citizenship, and found to be undocumented Guatemalan laborer with no criminal history.

Once again, police called ICE and he was locked up.

Deportations like this used to happen with regularity during the first years of the Obama Administration. In 2013, a record number of more than 438,000 unauthorized immigrants across the country were deported. And these numbers include tens of thousands of undocumented parents who were separated from their American citizen children.

But late that year, President Obama issued a directive to ease deportations of parents. And in an executive action the following year, ICE was instructed to prioritize deportations for criminals, and sparing undocumented residents from the fear of deportation if theyve lived at least five years in this country and hadnt committed any crimes while here.

Last years presidential election put immigration in the spotlight with then-candidate Donald Trump railing against sanctuary cities for illegal immigrants. And after winning the election, President Trump signed an executive order that would strip federal funding to any city that didnt fully cooperate with federal officials in singling out undocumented residents for deportation.

But that directive was quickly found to be unconstitutional in court challenges, and meanwhile, cities across America defiantly stood for the principal that local law enforcement officers better served their citizens when they werent acting as an arm of federal immigration control.

One of those cities was West Palm Beach, which passed a Welcoming City resolution that proclaimed that city officers would not assist immigration officers in rounding up undocumented residents.

We want to make sure people know that they are safe in West Palm Beach and this is a place where we want them to be, West Palm Beach Mayor Jeri Muoio said about the resolution.

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By contrast, Riviera Beachs mayor has been silent and confused.

Is Riviera Beach a sanctuary city? I asked Mayor Masters.

I dont know, he said. Im not a strong mayor. Thats the city managers situation. Its up to him. Ive asked him to look into it.

Immigrant rights attorney Aileen Josephs says a lot is at stake here.

Riviera Beach, according to the census, is now home to about 34,244 Hispanics, she said. Many of them I suppose are undocumented and its very important to promote the trust between the immigrant community and law enforcement.

Josephs said she has a meeting with the citys police chief next week. Meanwhile, Masters said he has asked the city manager to get involved.

We need to see if there needs to be some changes or modifications, he said.

It needs to be fixed, Josephs said.

People are saying, dont call the police, they are against us, she said.

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