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Feds handcuff selves on illegal immigration – WND.com

U.S. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif.

A new government report estimates that 1.4 million illegal immigrants are using the stolen Social Security numbers of Americans, a problem that is getting worse and being exacerbated by the inability of key federal agencies to work together.

Its a problem that U.S. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., says demands congressional attention to protect the interests of American citizens and those in the U.S. legally.

According to the report from Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration J. Robert George, only half of those 1.4 million Americans were even notified that their Social Security information was compromised.

He also concluded that tracking the fraud is more difficult than it needs to be because the IRS is forbidden from working with the Department of Homeland Security to identifythose responsible.

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Rohrabacher finds that unacceptable but not surprising. He says the problem is getting worse because more and more people are coming to the U.S. illegally with the expectation of receiving federal benefits.

You have got a large number now, millions of people who are coming to this country who thought they were going to get government benefits, just like Americans, said Rohrabacher.

Today, weve evolved into a situation where if people [who]are here illegally can end up compromising the Social Security system or any of our systems designed to help Americans and legal immigrants, itll just destroy the whole system. Its in the process. We are in the process of collapsing now, said Rohrabacher.

The congressman saidthe problem also persists because of leaders who encourage it.

This is the same mentality as people who are in elected office who are telling us they are going to provide sanctuary in cities and states around the United States for people who are here illegally, even when theyre criminals. I mean how absurd is that, said Rohrabacher.

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He said the bureaucratic wall that prevents IRS-DHS collaboration is from the same mindset.

This same gang has managed to sneak this type of restriction into law or into practice here at the federal level. We need to make sure its dealt with as quickly as we can. Now that we have a president and two houses of Congress, we need to prove we can act, said Rohrabacher.

The congressman said there are definitely good, honorable people working inside the federal government, but he warns the number of political operatives who are embedding themselves into the bureaucracy is a problem.

There are a lot of other people who have been making their way through the bureaucracy that have been helped along by liberal-left political connections, sort of wormed their way into the system. I know a lot of people in the last eight years have made sure theyre in positions throughout our government, said Rohrabacher.

While Rohrabacher isnt immediately sure of what exact legislation is needed to allow greater interagency cooperation and to crack down on Social Security fraud, he said the process is clear.

Wed have to name those legal impediments to say specifically that the cooperation thats necessary to track down this type of fraud committed against the American people by illegal immigrants and that all areas of government should be legally able to work together, said Rohrabacher.

On Thursday, the House of Representatives passed multiple bills addressing illegal immigration, one to ratchet up the punishment for repeat illegal immigrants and the other to threaten the withholding of federal dollars to cities and other jurisdictions that impede the work of federal immigration officials.

Rohrabacher said addressing Social Security fraud and bureaucratic hurdles is another test the public expects Republicans to pass.

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House Pushes Bills to Crack Down on Illegal Immigration – India West

WASHINGTON The Republican-led House June 29 pressed ahead with legislation to crack down on illegal immigration, a key priority for President Donald Trump.

One bill would strip federal dollars from self-proclaimed sanctuary cities that shield residents from federal immigration authorities, while a separate bill would stiffen punishments for people who re-enter the U.S. illegally.

Trump often railed against illegal immigration during his presidential campaign, and his support for tougher immigration policies is crucial to his voting base. Trump met at the White House June 28 with more than a dozen people whose family members were killed by people in the country illegally, and Attorney General Jeff Sessions is set to meet with the families as well.

One of the bills, known as Kates Law, would impose harsher prison sentences on deportees who re-enter the United States. The bill is named after 32-year old Kathryn Steinle, who was shot and killed in California in 2015 by a man who was in the country illegally.

A second bill would bar states and localities that refuse to cooperate with immigration authorities from receiving certain Justice Department and Homeland Security grants, including some related to law enforcement and terrorism.

Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly said he appreciates Congress effort to address the dangers of sanctuary cities and illegal immigrant offenders.

At a news conference at the Capitol with House Speaker Paul Ryan, Kelly said his agency will enforce the laws that are passed by Congress, adding: I am offended when members of this institution put pressure and often threaten me and my officers to ignore the laws they make.

Kelly did not elaborate on what threats or pressure he was referring to.

The Justice Departments inspector general has identified California and major cities such as Chicago, New York and Philadelphia as locales with barriers to information-sharing among local police and immigration officials. The Trump administration warned nine jurisdictions in late April that they could lose coveted law enforcement grant money unless they document cooperation.

The Asian Americans Advancing Justice, an affiliation of five civil rights organizations, in a June 28 statement in response to the two bills, said it strongly opposes both H.R. 3003 and H.R. 3004 and the passage of any immigration enforcement legislation that would increase indiscriminate enforcement, further the criminalization of immigrants and instill more fear in already terrified communities.

It noted that roughly 40 percent of all immigrants come to the U.S. from Asia, and 1.6 million of those immigrants are undocumented.

Anti-immigrant policies create a climate of fear for all immigrants, regardless of status, the organization said.

We are horrified and dismayed that House leadership has chosen to line up behind the administration in its scapegoating of immigrants, it added. Both of these bills further the administrations goals of criminalizing all immigrants.

The bills are scheduled to be voted on by the end of the month.

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Illegal Immigrant Arrests Doubling under Trump – Breitbart News

In a report by the San Diego Union-Tribune, new data shows that illegal immigrants in southern California are being arrested at roughly the same rate before former President Obamas era of relaxed border policies.

Between February and May, nearly 550 illegal immigrants were arrested in San Diego alone by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.

Compare that to the number of illegal immigrants arrested in that same time period last year, where only 242 foreign nationals were arrested. In 2015, during the same time frame, ICE agents only arrested 267 illegal immigrants.

Authorities commented on the recent change of pace.

Were still focusing on criminals, but were not confined to them, ICEs Assistant Field Director in San Diego, Clinton Johnston told the San Diego Union-Tribune. Its the ability for us to enforce the law across the board.

All were trying to do is protect the community and remove the threats, ICE San Diego Field Director for Enforcement and Removal Operations Greg Archambeault said.

Southern California, in particular, has been hit with a decade-long wave of immigration, violence and foreign cartel issues.

In a recent study by the Pew Research Center, researchers found that at least a million illegal immigrants live in southern California, as Breitbart Texas reported.

For San Diego, based on 2014 estimates, at least 170,000 illegal immigrants live in the region, while at least 120,000 illegal immigrants live in the San Jose area. Those figures are expected to be significantly higher than actually reported as the figures were taken before the Obama Administration decreased enforcement of immigration.

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

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Nigeria deports 450 illegal immigrants – TV360

The Nigeria Immigration Service on Tuesday said it arrested and repatriated no fewer than 450 illegal immigrants from Edo in the first quarter of the year.

Comptroller of Immigration in the state, David Adi, disclosed this at the presentation of a refurbished Hilux van by the Management of Okomu Oil Palm Company Plc to the command, in Benin.

Adi said that those repatriated were mainly from the Niger Republic, Mali and Ghana, adding that they were irregular immigrants and security risks to the country.

He said that the affected foreigners had no regular travel documents and credible means of livelihood.

Adi commended Okomu Oil Palm Company for the vehicle, saying that the gesture would help the command in achieving its statutory duties.

He said that the success of the raid on illegal aliens domain was attributable to logistics support by some companies, including Okomu Oil Palm Company, in the state.

The company had sunk a borehole at our outpost station at Iguobazuwa in Ovia South West Local Government Area of Edo.

The command additionally requested for the companys assistance in refurbishing the van and the managing director agreed.

We appreciate the long-standing relationship between the company and the command.

I will definitely pass on this gesture to the Comptroller-General of Immigration Service and I hope other stakeholders will emulate this good gesture, he said.

Earlier, the Managing Director, Okomu Oil Palm Company Plc, Graham Heifer, had said that the gesture was the companys way of fulfilling part of its corporate social responsibility to NIS to enhance its operational efficiency.

Immigration service has always assisted us in the area of educating our expatriates to ensure that they do the right thing with regard to immigration laws, Heifer said.

According to him, we have 15 expatriates from countries such as South Africa, Kenya, and America in our company.

We ensured they came into the country following approved protocol.

It is our obligation as part of our corporate social responsibility, to assist Immigration Service to enhance its operational efficiency.

Our company hopes that this refurbished van will improve the services operational efficiency, he said.

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Oh, Hey, No Big Deal, Just Illegal Immigration from Honduras Drying Up – National Review

Ah, its good to be back. Thanks to Jack Fowler for holding down the fort in my absence; Im sure all of you have finally bought a cabin on the upcoming NR cruise now.

Why does our president care so much about what Mika Brzezinski thinks?

Good News from the Border

While the president is envisioning himself punching a cable-news network logo into submission, take a look at what The Failing New York Times reports from Choloma, Honduras:

While some of Mr. Trumps most ambitious plans to tighten the border are still a long way off, particularly his campaign pledge to build a massive wall, his hard-line approach to immigration already seems to have led to sharp declines in the flow of migrants from Central America bound for the United States.

From February through May, the number of undocumented immigrants stopped or caught along the southwest border of the United States fell 60 percent from the same period last year, according to United States Customs and Border Protection evidence that far fewer migrants are heading north, officials on both sides of the border say.

Arrests of immigrants living illegally in the United States have soared, with the biggest increase coming among those migrants with no criminal records.

The shift has sown a new sense of fear among undocumented immigrants in the United States. In turn, they have sent a warning back to relatives and friends in their homelands: Dont come. ...

Migrant smugglers in Honduras say their business has dried up since Mr. Trump took office. Fewer buses have been leaving the northern Honduran city of San Pedro Sula bound for the border with Guatemala, the usual route for Honduran migrants heading overland to the United States. In hotels and shelters along the migrant trail, once-occupied beds go empty night after night.

Marcos, a migrant smuggler based near San Pedro Sula, said that last year he had taken one or two groups each month from Honduras to the United States border. Since Mr. Trumps inauguration, however, he has had only one client. He blames Mr. Trump.

People think hes going to kick everyone out of the country, Marcos said, asking that his full name not be published because of the illegal nature of his work. Almost nobodys going.

Give Trump critics credit: They predicted he would destroy jobs, and they were right; he appears to have destroyed a considerable number of positions in the previously vibrant and lucrative illicit people-smuggling industry.

Also, all of us who gripe about the New York Times often with good reason should retire ourthe Times never reports any good news for Trump! complaint. This is good journalism. Yes, the article is written with a great deal of sympathy for those who seek to cross the border illegally, declaring thatmany potential migrants in the Northern Triangle are choosing to sit tight and endure the poverty and violence that have driven hundreds of thousands to seek work and sanctuary in the United States in recent years.

And theres an implied argument that the change in U.S. policies is worsening conditions in these countries: Experts in the region warn that the decline in migration could put additional pressure on Central American countries, increasing competition for work, which is already in short supply, and potentially driving more people into the criminal gangs that have terrorized the region.

But, ultimately, the United States cannot build a better Honduras; only the Hondurans can do that. Mass illegal migration only helps those in power maintain the status quo by driving the most determined, the hardest-working, and the most ambitious out of the country. Yes, those poor people in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras deserve a better life than they have in their current circumstances. But they really deserve a chance to build that better life in their home countries.

A Smaller Government At Least At 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue

On Friday, the Trump administration released its annual report on White House office personnel. It includes the name, status, salary, and position title of all 377 White House employees. OpenTheBooks.com, a private organization that tracks government spending, calculates that the Trump White House is costing taxpayers $5 million less, and employing 110 fewer staffers thanthe Obama White House in 2015.

Perhaps the biggest reduction comes in the size of the first ladys staff: There are five staffers dedicated to Melania Trump vs. 24 staffers who served Michelle Obama (FY2009). God bless Melania.

In the eyes of a fiscal conservative, this is good. Of course, itsnot even a drop in the bucket of our overall government-spending problems, but it is good to see the White House leading by example.

One point to consider is whether the White House might work a bit more effectively if it had, say, a few more assistants for legislative affairs attempting to coordinate with Capitol Hill. (I notice that in the final year of the Obama presidency, the White House had 68 people withthe word policy in their job titles; the new Trump administration has 27.) Yes, fewer White House assistants, deputies, support specialists, project managers, analysts, and so on qualifies as cutting government. But then again, these are among the very few positions in the entire federal bureaucracy with the duty of implementing conservative policies across the government.

You Probably Dont Want to Be Seen There During a Government Shutdown

Man, is Chris Christie trying to end his second term as the most hated politician in New Jersey history?

People hoping to visit Island Beach State Park this holiday weekend were not allowed in because of the state government shutdown. Gov. Chris Christie ordered amid the state budget standoff in Trenton.

But there was one family there: Christies. They are using the summer beach house provided by the state for a weekend down the Shore.

At that news conference, Christie was asked if he got any sun Sunday.

I didnt, he said. I didnt get any sun today.

When later told of the photo, Brian Murray, the governors spokesman, said: Yes, the governor was on the beach briefly today talking to his wife and family before heading

into the office.

He did not get any sun, Murray added. He had a baseball hat on.

That is a bad liar. But wait, it gets worse.

Christie told reporters Saturday that the beach house is separate from the park and that his family will not ask for any state services.

Asked if this is fair, Christie said Saturday: Run for governor, and you can have a residence there.

This was just handed to me:Marie Antoinette issued a statement declaring that relaxing on the beach while a nearby state-park beach is shut down is a bad look.

Then again, Chris Christies approval rating is 15 percent, and his Republican Lt. Governor Kim Guadagno is at just 26 percent in this years upcoming governors race. Maybe Christie just doesnt care anymore.

ADDENDA: Happy Independence Day. I finished Brad Thors latest, Use of Force, last week and will have a full (glowing) review and analysis later this week. I will reveal one shocking twist: Unlike the previous two books, neither Larry OConnor nor Brian Wilson of Washingtons WMAL radio station end up in harms way in this one.

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