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Emergency responders found eight people dead in the back of a semi-trailer at a Walmart in southwest San Antonio.

Officials investigate a truck that was found to contain suspected illegal immigrants in San Antonio, Texas, on July 23, July 2017.(Photo: Darren Abate, EPA)

Despite an apparent human smuggling operation thatresulted in the gruesome deaths of ninein a tractor-trailer in Texas, the number of people apprehended for illegally crossing into the United States from Mexico remains sharply lowerin recent months compared withpast years.

In June, 21,659 people were arrested or turned away at U.S. ports of entry along the Mexican border, according to Department of Homeland Security statistics.That's slightly higher than May but less than half the number from June 2016. June marked the fifth consecutive month that the numbers were markedly lower than in 2016.

Early Sunday, eight bodies were found in a truckin the parking lot of a San AntonioWalmart.Atleast 30 more people in the truck were rushed to hospitals, many in critical condition. Oneof those died later Sunday, officials said.

The temperatures Saturday had exceeded 100 degrees, and the truck had no functioning air condition, authorities said.

"Were looking at a human trafficking crime," San Antonio Police Chief William McManus said.

The driver was arrested, and Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was leading the investigation.

By any standard, the horrific crime uncovered last night ranks as a stark reminder of why human smuggling networks mustbe pursued, caught and punished," ICE Acting Director Thomas Homan said in a statement.

President Trump's highly controversialimmigration crackdown has meant an increase in arrests of undocumentedimmigrants already in the country in recent months, but arrests along the border begantheir precipitous fall in February. Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly said that decline reflected an overall reduced flow of illegal immigrants across the border.

Kelly credited Trump's executive orders such as those aimed at jump-starting construction of the U.S.-Mexico border wall and expanding the powers of federal immigration officials to arrest undocumented immigrants. Courts have turned aside some of Trump's orders, but the atmosphere alone created by the Trump administration's policies could be curbing immigration enthusiasm.

"Since President Trump took office on Jan.20, we have seen a dramatic drop in numbers," Kelly said in March. He said the decrease was also encouraging because it meant "many fewer people are putting themselves and their families at risk of exploitation, assault and injury by human traffickers and the physical dangers of the treacherous journey north."

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Kelly said tightened border security has driven up thefees charged by human smugglers. Since November2016, coyotes have more than doubled theirprices in some areas:$8,000 from $3,500in certain mountainous regions.

"The early results show that enforcement matters, deterrence matters, and that comprehensive immigration enforcement can make an impact," he said.

The vast majority of human smuggling cases are handled outside the spotlight.In fiscal year 2016, ICE's Homeland Security Investigations unit initiated 2,110 human smuggling investigations resulting in 1,522 criminal convictions.

In Sunday's incident, police were alerted to the tragedy when someone from the truck asked a Walmart employee for water. The employee called police.

A similar case in Texas in May 2003 proved even more deadlywhen 19 immigrants died inside a sweltering tractor-trailer.Prosecutors in that case said the driver heard the immigrants screaming for their lives but refused to free them. He was initially sentenced to multiple life terms of life in prison, but an appeals court overturned the sentence, and in 2011 he was re-sentenced to 34 years in prison.

Homan personally worked on that case.

"So long as I lead ICE, there will be an unwavering commitment to use law enforcement assets to put an end to these practices," he said.

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U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham is urging his constituents to vote him out of office if they disagree with his ongoing support of amnesty for illegal aliens.

Unfortunately theyll have to wait a while to take him up on that offer which as weve previously noted is all part of Grahams plan.

Graham has sponsored legislation that would grant amnesty to roughly 3.3 million illegal aliens the first step in granting amnesty to all of the estimated 11 million illegal aliens currently residing in our country.

To the people who object to this, I dont want you to vote for me because I cannot serve you well, Graham said during a press conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. Ive stoppedletting 30 percent ofthe peoplewhoare madabout immigrationdetermine how I behave.

Graham said the key here is to be fair to the 11 million illegal aliens. Really? We thought the key was to be fair to the tens of thousands of working age South Carolinians who desperately need jobs.

Thats who Graham represents or who he is supposed to represent.

Known in Democratic circles as former U.S. president Barack Obamas best GOP ally Graham is unfortunately not up for reelection in South Carolina until June 2020.

Graham also had some choice words for U.S. president Donald Trump, whose aggressive proposals to secure Americas southern border were instrumental in securing him the GOP presidential nomination.

This website hasnever breathed fireon the immigration issue although we have consistently called for government to appropriate more resources to border security.

Why not stop subsidizing millions of things governmentshouldntbe doing and start spending tax dollars on one of the handful of things itshoulddo? we wrote recently.

We have also consistently called for the elimination of taxpayer benefits for illegals as well as automatic deportation for violent criminal aliens.

Those who enter the United States illegally should automatically forfeit their right to American citizenship and taxpayer-funded benefits of any kind, wewrotein July 2014. And illegal immigrants who commit violent crimes should be deported immediately.

Whatever we think about the morality of the immigration issue, the bottom line is unavoidable: Americas lifeboat is full.

If we continue to incentives an open borders policy, we will all drown

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A new study by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) finds that under Trumps immigration orders, attorneys with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) are no longer asking for prosecutorial discretion when it comes to deporting illegal aliens.

Prosecutorial discretion disclosures have been used to enact lax immigration decisions where only illegal aliens who have committed violent crimes are prioritized for deportation. Likewise, deferment of deportation for illegal aliens was a common practice during the Obama Administration.

In the first five months of the Trump presidency, there have been less than 100 illegal aliens per month being given prosecutorial discretion disclosures, according to the study. This is a sharp decline from the same first five months of 2016, under Obama, when 2,400 illegal aliens per month were given discretion.

As the latest court data demonstrate under President Trump discretion to defer deporting individuals irrespective of their circumstances has largely been abolished, the TRAC report states.

At the same time, Attorney General Jeff Sessions adding immigration judges and sending many to regions near the U.S.-Mexico Border, where the most border-crossing occurs, has contributed to a rising deportation rate.

In Trumps first five months in office, 8,996 illegal aliens per month were given deportation orders. In that same time frame in 2016, only 6,913 illegal aliens every month were given deportation orders.

The number has fluctuated under Trump. For instance, in March, more than 10,000 illegal aliens were set to be deported out of the U.S. Three months later, the number of illegal aliens being given deportation orders dropped to more than 8,900.

John Binder is a reporterfor Breitbart Texas. Follow him on Twitter at@JxhnBinder.

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Federal agents announced Friday that they had recently arrested123 illegal immigrantsin Texas.

The illegal immigrants were arrested in an eight-day operation that ended Wednesday, KAGS reports.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) also claim that all of those arrested had previous criminal convictions. They were from Mexico, Honduras, and Guatemala.

Summaries of some of the criminal aliens arrested shows that one individual was previously convicted of two counts of lewd act on a child and one count of impregnating a minor; he was twice deported, and was convicted for illegal re-entry after deportation, FOX29 reports.

Others arrested had previously run afoul with the law for possession of heroin and other controlled substances. Some had been previously deported but re-entered the country several times.

Daniel Bible,field office director of ERO San Antonio, reportedly said, Public safety remains a top priory for ICE. This was a focused eight-day enforcement operation over a large area, but we routinely conduct operations daily.

This news comes as aHouse bill included $1.57 billion in funding for border protection, enough to make some progress, but not enough to build the entire border wall.

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