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A Mexican national is being deported by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for the seventh time.

ICE officers apprehended 29-year-old Agustin Jorge Figueroa Garcia on Wednesday and took him into custody at Pharr city jail, News 4 reports.

In the middle of deportation efforts, federal agents have formally charged Garcia with illegal re-entry into the U.S.

ICE deportation protocol has evolved under the Trump administration, giving agents more liberty to follow the law. Trumps Enhancing Public Safety In The Interior executive order allowed officers to make collateral arrests, which occur when ICE conducts a raid and arrests are made of illegal aliens who were not targeted ahead of the operation.

ICE reports that it is usual for officers to come across additional suspects violating federal immigration laws during targeted raids. Under the Obama administration, ICE did not detain suspects who were not identified prior to the raid.

Under the Obama administration, the Secure Communities program curtailed efforts to empower police officers to enforce immigration laws locally.

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Officials in the Department of Health and Human Services are looking to reduce the number of temporary and permanent shelters for illegal immigrant children, in the wake of a dramatic drop in illegal immigration at the southwestern U.S. border in the last few months.

An HHS official testified Wednesday at the Senate Judiciary Committee that the Department of Homeland Security refers thousands of children to HHS each year after they are apprehended at the border. In fiscal year 2016, for example, 59,170 kids were referred to HHS's Office of Refugee Resettlement.

The high numbers in recent years have necessitated the building of temporary shelters for these children. However, Scott Lloyd, the director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement, said the numbers are falling since Trump took office.

"In fact, while referrals during the first quarter of FY 2017 were the highest first quarter referrals in the history of the program, referrals since January have dropped to a five-year low," Lloyd said in his prepared testimony.

"In response to the decreased number of referrals, ORR has been working to reduce shelter capacity by closing the temporary shelters that operated earlier in FY 2017, and we are currently implementing further reductions in permanent shelter capacity," he added. "At this time, we have no temporary facilities open at Department of Defense locations, as the last one closed in February 2017."

That's a dramatic turnaround from the Obama years, when illegal immigration soared and in 2014 became a humanitarian crisis. The numbers fell in 2015, but rose again in 2016, in part because illegal immigrants were hoping to get to the U.S. in time for some kind of perceived improved treatment under President Hillary Clinton, or before President Trump took steps to shut the border.

Total apprehensions of illegal immigrants quickly fell under Trump, which DHS has said is a sign of a drop in attempted illegal border crossings.

By February, Trump's first full month in office, total apprehensions fell to their lowest levels for that month in six years.

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Feds closing shelters as illegal immigration drops under Trump - Washington Examiner

In a piece headlined One Ohio Towns Immigration Clash, Down In The Actual Muck highlights the town of Willard, Ohios, large-scale illegal immigrant workforce, despite never asking questions of how those working in the region are able to falsely claim they are in the country legally.

Instead, the Times glosses over the question, burying the fact that the Ohio farm profiled uses illegal immigrants:

Their descendants the Wierses, Buurmas and Holthouses now grow more than three dozen kinds of vegetables sold through Kroger, Meijer, Walmart and other retailers.

For decades, the farmers have relied on migrant labor from spring to fall. Depending on how quickly they work, field workers can earn up to $18 an hour, compared with Ohios $8.15 minimum hourly wage. Many return year after year to do the strenuous seasonal work, sometimes in temperatures that soar to 100 degrees. (Local residents largely steer clear.)

Seven in 10 field workers nationwide are undocumented, according to estimates by the American Farm Bureau Federation. In Willard, it is probably no different.

As Center for Immigration Studies Fellow Ronald Mortensen has written, illegal immigrants in the U.S. regularly commit felonies in order to work, by using stolen Social Security numbers, fraudulent Green Cards, birth certificates, and identity theft.

The farmers hiring the illegal immigrants in seasonal jobs say they rely on the illegal workforce to grow their crops. Although the New York Times mentions the wage of the illegal immigrants, they only note the highest wage that a worker could be paid $18 an hour not necessarily reflecting reality.

The New York Times also blames President Trumps enforcement of federal immigration law for the Ohio farm having to deal with not getting a constant flow of illegal labor, rather than having to recruit Americans by raising wages and work conditions:

But beefed-up border enforcement has slowed the flow of workers who enter the country illegally. Last year, a shortage forced Mr. Wiers and the other growers to leave millions of dollars worth of produce in the fields.

This year could be worse. The Trump administration has encouraged local law enforcement across the country to help identify deportable individuals for the federal authorities, making long-distance travel risky for those already in the country without legal status.

The New York Times did not stop at praising the Ohio farmers illegal immigrant workforce. The piece went further to paint a negative picture of Trump supporters in the region for their objections to illegal immigrants taking the farm jobs and potentially driving wages down.

Judy Smith, a longtime resident of Willard, told the Times Im a compassionate person. I believe people who come here have to come here the right way. It makes me angry when I hear people talking about harboring illegals.

Smiths husband, Dave, also spoke with the paper. Instead of including a quote from the resident, the piece simply mentions that the man for said he didnt like hearing that everyone in the country, legally or not, is protected by the Constitution.

The open borders, big business, and agricultural lobbies have long claimed there simply are not enough Americans willing to do the hard work that illegal immigrants and foreign nationals will do.

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

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File Photo: Two Ethiopian immigrants netted

The Department of Immigration and Citizenship Services announced that it has arrested a total of 1,247 illegal immigrants into Malawi from July 2016 to May 2017.

Speaking in an interview with the Malawi News Agency (MANA) on Tuesday, Deputy National Immigration and Citizenship Services Spokesperson, Wellington Chiponde, said the illegal immigrants were arrested for violating conditions of staying in the country.

According to Chiponde, some of them were conducting businesses while others were in schools, but without proper documents.

These people were from countries like India, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Burundi, Rwanda, Pakistan, and Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). As a Department, after arresting them, we checked their particulars, and took them to court., said the immigration publicist.

He said the aliens who have refugee status, were sent to Dzaleka Refugee Camp, whilst the bon-refugee illegal aliens, were deported to their countries.

Chiponde said that from the 1,247 illegal immigrants, 539 were deported and 273 are pending deportation, with the remaining 435 accorded refugee status in the country.

We are trying our best to ensure that the people who are in the country illegally, should be sent back to their countries, said Chiponde.

Meanwhile, the Immigration Department has urged all Malawians to inform them whenever they suspect someone of being an illegal immigrant, because some of them threaten national security

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Over one thousand illegal immigrants arrested in Malawi from July 2016 - The Maravi Post

County officials agreed Tuesday in a 4-1 vote to support the California Community Foundation with $3 million, over the strong objection of 5th District Supervisor Kathryn Barger. Dont miss a thing. Get breakingKHTS Santa Clarita News Alertsdelivered right to your inbox.

The deal grants several million dollars to the organization, which plans to use the money to provide legal defense for illegal immigrants facing deportation, according to Bargers office, which issued a strongly worded statement in opposition.

One of the bigger concerns, per Barger spokesman Tony Bell, is the misuse of Los Angeles County taxpayers dollars, which should not be used to pay for a broken federal system, in this case, immigration.

The federal government has failed time and time again to fix the problem, to provide a viable solution or to assist counties and cities in dealing with the issue, he said, adding Barger planned to continue to be watchdog for taxpayer funds.

Bargers statement reiterated the stance she took back in December, When Supervisor Hilda Solis first introduced the item.

Our federal immigration system is broken. It is the federal governments responsibility to support states and counties in their efforts to address the costs of illegal immigration, she said. Consistent with my position on this issue on December 20, 2016, county taxpayers should not be forced to bear the cost to provide free legal representation for those facing deportation.

The California Community Foundation is dedicated to fulfilling the promise of a greater Los Angeles for all of its residents. We are committed to creating positive systemic change that strengthens and empowers communities to determine their own destiny. As a leading L.A. advocate, grantmaker and partner, we support these efforts with everything we have, according to its website.

The organization is run by a Board of Directors that includes Gloria Molina, the former 1st District Supervisor whom Solis replaced.

The item was first introduced Dec. 20, 2016, by a motion to create the Los Angeles Justice Fund, which passed on a 4-1 vote.

This motion directed the County CEO to identify and set aside $1 million in Fiscal Year 2016-2017 and up to $2 million in Fiscal Year 2017-18 with the purpose of providing legal representation to illegal immigrants at risk of deportation.

This funding would be in addition to a $2 million contribution from the City of Los Angeles, and a $5 million contribution from the philanthropic community. The totality of these contributions would bring the Los Angeles Justice fund to a total of $10 million.

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