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Six American families whose relatives have been killed by illegal immigrants announced Tuesday the formation of a victims advocacy group, responding to what they see as indifference among elected officials to the dangers of illegal alien crime.

The members of Advocates for Victims of Illegal Alien Crime (AVIAC) say they are joining together in order to provide a support network for other families and to educate the public on the effects of lax immigration enforcement. The nonprofit organization plans to lobby Congress on a wide range of illegal immigration bills, including measures to punish sanctuary cities and provide funding for President Donald Trumps proposed border wall. (RELATED:WH: Signing Anti-Illegal Immigration Bills Is A Priority)

In an emotional ceremony at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., mothers and fathers recounted stories of how their children were slain. Many laid blame for the killings at the feet of government officials, who they said have pursued sanctuary city policies in order to score political points.

My son is dead because politicians in local jurisdictions have put illegal aliens ahead of Americans, said Maureen Maloney, whose son Matthew was killed in Massachusetts in 2011, when an illegal alien ran him over in a hit-and-run incident.

My sons killer had a lengthy criminal record, and with each offense only received a slap on the wrist from lenient judges, and local law enforcement was prohibited from communicating with ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement], she added. (RELATED:Nashville City Council Passes Bill Stopping Assistance To Feds On Immigration)

Iowa Republican Steve King, one of Congress most strident immigration hawks, praised the creation of AVIAC, saying that it will prod Congress to restore the rule of law to the U.S. immigration system.By documenting crimes committed by illegal immigrants, AVIAC will help build a strong database, so America understands the price Americans have paid for the failure to enforce immigration law, King said during introductory remarks at the AVIAC launch event.

In addition to support from King, AVIAC also has a willing ally in the White House. The groups formation comes after Trump authorized the creation of Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement (VOICE), an office within the Department of Homeland Security that provides support to the families of victims of removable criminal aliens. AVIAC co-founder and vice president Mary Ann Mendoza was invited to attend Trumps signing of executive orders on immigration enforcement in January, and she was present at DHS Secretary John Kellys announcement of the VOICE office in April.

The families of AVIAC were encouraged by Trumps tough rhetoric on illegal immigration during the campaign, especially his promises to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border and to pull funding from cities that dont cooperate with federal immigration enforcement. His stance was a welcome change from former administrations who had not been doing that, Mendoza told The Daily Caller News Foundation.

Mendoza, whose son was killed by a drunk driving illegal alien on Mothers Day 2014, believes AVIAC is needed because there has been a backlash from the media and some politicians to the Trump administrations crackdown on illegal immigration.

We are trying to get Americans to back our president up, she told TheDCNF.

Members of AVIAC say shining a light on illegal alien crime is not intended to demonize all immigrants, as some critics have alleged, but rather to draw attention to the public safety problems caused by criminal aliens.

The amount [of crime] that happens on a daily basis will stagger the American public when we start to get this information out there, Mendoza told reporters at the National Press Club. Its time for American victims to be more important to their fellow Americans than illegal aliens that our in our country. Its time to to stand up for your fellow Americans.

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WASHINGTON President Donald Trump is looking forward to signing two bills designed to curb illegal immigration, according to White House press secretary Sean Spicer.

Spicer said at Mondays press briefing that the House is expected to vote on both theNo Sanctuary for Criminals Act and Kates Law at the end of this week.

The No Sanctuary for Criminals Act withholds Department of Homeland Security and Department of Justice grants from states and localities that dont comply with federal immigration detainers. It also protects these localities from lawsuits due to complying with these detainers, while allowing victims of crimes from released illegal immigrants to sue these jurisdictions.

Kates Law adds increased punishments for deported illegal immigrants who return back to the United States. It is named after Kate Steinle, whose 2015 murder was allegedly done by a five-time deported illegal immigrant.

Spicer said that these bills are major priorities for the president, and that combating illegal immigration is an issue that should unite all Americans in both major parties.

Spicer went on to say, We look forward to signing them both.

He also added that the bills represent a major tool in a fight to dismantle the dangerous MS-13cartel. The Trump administration has focused on taking apart the transnational street gang based out of El Salvador. The president said at a recent cabinet meeting that the gang will be gone pretty soon.

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Arizonas Joe Arpaio, once known as Americas toughest sheriff, was back Monday where has long been most at home in the spotlight although not for the reasons he would have preferred.

Months after losing his re-election bid, the 85-year-old former Maricopa County sheriff went on trial in Phoenix on misdemeanor criminal contempt-of-court charges, a case his foes have praised as long overdue and fans have denounced as a political prosecution.

Federal prosecutors argued that Mr. Arpaio willfully disobeyed a 2011 injunction barring him from enforcing federal immigration laws by detaining 170 suspected illegal aliens from December 2011 to May 2013.

After U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement refused to accept the suspects in 2012, the sheriffs office tried a workaround by taking them to Border Patrol.

He thought he could get away with it, prosecutor Victor Salgado said in his opening argument, according to ABC15. He never thought this day would come.

Defense attorney Jack Wilenchik called the prosecution of Mr. Arpaio shameful and outrageous, as reported by the Phoenix New Times.

Mr. Arpaio became a national figure during his 24 years as sheriff with headline-grabbing moves such as requiring prisoners to wear pink underwear and erecting a tent city for offenders.

The trial has gained national attention with the defenses attempt to call Attorney General Jeff Sessions as a witness, which the Justice Department has resisted, saying Mr. Sessions was a senator during the relevant period and that the defense has failed to show extraordinary circumstances.

The proceedings, playing out before a packed courtroom, began on Monday with a victory for the prosecution: Hours beforehand, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected Mr. Arpaios request for a jury trial.

Instead, the former lawman will have his fate decided by U.S. District Court Judge Susan R. Bolton, a Clinton appointee, in a trial expected to last eight days. If found guilty, Mr. Arpaio faces a maximum six months in jail.

The prosecution called former Arpaio counsel Tim Casey, who said he told the sheriff that he must either arrest detainees on state charges or release them, instead of detaining them solely on suspicion of being in the country illegally.

Mr. Casey said he told the sheriff and his subordinates, Arrest or release. Those are the options, The Arizona Republic reported.

Opinion on the case is sharply divided. James Fotis, president of the National Center for Police Defense, accused the Justice Department of deep state bias, noting that prosecutors filed the charges two weeks before the Nov. 8 election.

With over 55 years of law enforcement experience, Sheriff Arpaio has always followed and enforced the laws on the books. Now, the DOJ wants to put him in prison for enforcing the very laws he swore an oath to uphold, Mr. Fotis said in a Monday statement.

The six-term Republican sheriff lost his seventh bid for office to Democrat Paul Penzone, a former police officer, by 56 percent to 44 percent. The new sheriff has since taken down the tent city.

After the loss, Mr. Arpaio started a conservative nonprofit called the Sheriff Joe Arpaio Action Fund to advocate on issues such as illegal immigration and Second Amendment rights. Im not retired, thats for sure, he said.

In a pro-and-con, columnists for The Arizona Republic said Mr. Arpaio was guilty of violating the December 2011 preliminary injunction issued by U.S. District Court Judge G. Murray Snow, but they disagreed on the punishment.

Columnist Elvia Diaz called for prison, saying she wanted the elderly former sheriff to go through the same hell that he forced Latinos to live, the same agony and torture of an uncertain future. Op-ed writer Laurie Roberts argued for leniency.

Ms. Roberts said the former sheriff has already lost what he loved most with his election defeat and his sentence of irrelevance.

Plenty of people are out for Arpaios blood, she said. Theyd give him life if they could.

The charges stem from a 2007 class-action lawsuit brought by Manuel de Jesus Ortega Melendres against the Maricopa County Sheriffs Office arguing that Sheriff Arpaio had engaged in racial profiling by detaining Hispanics based solely on suspicion of their legal status.

This article is based in part on wire service reports.

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She handed Rodolfo a checklist, assembled by the Immigrant Legal Resource Center, on how to prepare for a possible deportation: Decide who can care for your children. Write down their medications and important phone numbers. Tell your family whom to call if you are detained.

Providers at these federally qualified health centers, which receive some government funds to serve the uninsured and underinsured, do not ask patients about their citizenship status. Instead, the patients, who are required to pay a modest clinic fee, must show proof of residence and income.

For decades, these clinics have been safe havens. When police officers parked in the Carrboro clinics lot for a coffee break, a doctor chased them off because she didnt want patients to be frightened.

But that was a year ago.

Now some insulin-dependent patients have been no-shows at appointments. Diabetes patients, who must exercise, have told doctors here they will not even walk around the block, skittish about the cruising police cars even though a few departments have announced they will not check immigration status.

Dr. Ashkin has built up relationships with many uninsured immigrants over the years. But recently a longtime patient, pregnant but having first-trimester bleeding, refused to take his advice to go for an ultrasound at the university medical center at Chapel Hill.

She was fearful that immigration agents might be waiting. Fortunately, the bleeding stopped.

Referring to the dread among his patients, Dr. Ashkin said, Their trust in us is breaking down.

This is not the first time that fear has kept undocumented patients away. Researchers found that in the wake of expanded immigration enforcement in Arizona in 2010, illegal immigrants used health services less frequently, according to a study published in The American Journal of Public Health.

After a large federal immigration raid in 2008 in Postville, Iowa, babies born to Latinas had a 24 percent higher risk of low birth weight than those born a year earlier, according to a study published this year in The International Journal of Epidemiology.

The effects of deferred health care will be felt in many ways, experts said. Hospitals and emergency departments, exponentially more expensive than primary care, will treat more sick patients, said Dr. Joshua M. Sharfstein of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. School systems will feel the impact of more students with a range of health-related challenges.

Researchers have also looked at the question of federal benefits for illegal immigrants.

Many are paid off the books in cash. But certainly not all. Between 2000 and 2011, immigrants not authorized to work here contributed between $2.2 billion and $3.8 billion a year more to Medicare than they withdrew, according to a 2016 study.

Jos, 42, works year-round for a tobacco grower; his wife, Irma, 44, picks tobacco and also works at a local steakhouse, wiping down tables and mopping floors. They do not have Social Security numbers because they are here illegally.

But we pay taxes! Irma declared, responding to the argument that taxpayer-funded clinics should serve only legal citizens.

Their paycheck deductions are taken with individual tax identification numbers. But, she noted, neither is eligible for the programs those taxes fund, including Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.

Siler City is a town of about 8,000 an hour southwest of Durham. The road there runs past tobacco fields, a derelict former chicken-processing factory and trailer parks into a downtown lined with storefront Pentecostal churches. A sign in an art gallery window warns: No Weapons Allowed.

In a ranch house with chipped gray-blue siding is a branch of El Futuro, Dr. Smiths mental health clinic. Post-traumatic stress disorder is prevalent among patients, said Karla Siu, the clinical program director.

A 9-year-old recalls sleeping in the desert, awakening to a snake. Women quake from memories of being raped on the road. Men seethe, mortified, less from having been stiffed of a days wages than from being too afraid to file a complaint.

As stories of raids churn through rumor mills, therapy sessions have become especially tense. Clinicians report that some patients conclude sessions with ever more elaborate farewells.

The client is grieving the possibility of not seeing the therapist again, Ms. Siu said. So saying goodbye with hugs and tears each time is a form of control, because its on their own terms.

El Futuro has waiting lists of people who want help. But in a survey of patients, the clinic found that some people are afraid to come in. Elizabeth, 27 and here illegally, is among them.

With great reluctance she showed up at the clinic for an interview with a reporter, arriving late, uneasy. Apologizing, she said she leaves her apartment these days only to go to the grocery store and to her job as a hotel maid.

She has no one who will care for her two young children if she is deported, she explained haltingly, tears welling up.

And in Mexico, another danger awaits: her ex-boyfriend. Years ago, when the couple arrived in North Carolina, she said, he began to beat her so badly that she finally called the police. They arrested him and had him deported.

Now, fearful for her children and for her own safety, Elizabeth is consumed by anxiety. Her nightmares from that violent period are back.

After recounting her story, Elizabeth walked toward El Futuros reception area, clutching her 5-year-old daughters hand. Even if she cleared the clinics wait list, she said, it just seemed too risky to come back.

A version of this article appears in print on June 27, 2017, on Page D1 of the New York edition with the headline: Sick With Worry.

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The Washington Post allowed activist and journalist Jose Antonio Vargas to keep his job and even promoted him after telling his editor he was an illegal immigrant, The Daily Caller News Foundation learned Monday.

Vargas confessed his immigration status to Peter Perl, WaPos former assistant managing editor, about four months into his job in 2004, according to a 2011op-ed Vargas published in The New York Times. The newspaper subsequently kept him on for nearly five years,2004-2009,and promoted him from intern to staff writer, according to his LinkedIn page.

Perl kept it a secret, wrote Patrick Pexton, ombudsman for The Washington Post, in a response to Vargass public confession in 2011.

Vargas told Perl his illegal immigrant status in 2004, but Perl only disclosed it to WaPosleadership in March 2011 when Vargas tried to contribute the op-ed in which he disclosed his status. The Washington Post originally considered publishing the piece but ultimately turned it down.Vargas published the piece inThe New York Times.

Marcus Brauchli, executive editor for WaPo when Vargas pitched his 2011 op-ed, refused to publish the story, but did not share his reason for doing so.

I did something I believed was the right thing to do, Perl said to WaPo. The editor said he believed that disclosing Vargass status would cost the media figure his career and perhaps trigger his deportation.

What [Vargas] did was wrong. What [Perl] did was wrong, said Kris Coratti, a WaPo spokeswoman, to The San Diego Tribunein 2011. We are also reviewing our internal procedures, and we believe this was an isolated incident of deception.

Perl reported that his pay was not docked, nor was he suspended or terminated for failing to disclose Vargass illegal immigrant status.

[Vargas] left behind a reputation in WaPos newsroom for being tenacious and talented but also for being a relentless self-promoter whom many colleagues didnt trust, said Pexton.Editors said that he needed direction, coaching and constant watching.

Perl, Vargass superior at WaPo, should have been fined or prosecuted for continuing to employ Vargas after he learned (from Vargas himself) that Vargas was not authorized to work in the U.S., Mark Krikorian, executive director at the Center for Immigration Studies, told TheDCNF. Once this came out, WaPo should have fired Perl immediately the fact that it didnt implicates WaPo in the illegal activity.

Krikorian said that Vargass crimes could be forgotten if the illegal immigrant is repatriated, but he noted that The Washington Posts crime should not be forgotten.

Vargas himself committed multiple felonies (ID fraud, Social Security fraud, tax fraud) that a less-famous person, one less lionized by the Left, would have been prosecuted for, noted the immigration research executive. He still has family in his native country, the Philippines, and his skills set those of an English-language journalist are very much in demand, so finding work would be easy for him.

Vargas came under scrutiny Wednesday for performing work for several high-profile media companies like CNN, MTV, and The Huffington Post through several LLCs, an act which legal experts told TheDCNF likely violated the law.(RELATED: Famous Illegal Immigrant Likely Breaking The Law With The Medias Help)

If the Washington Post and the New York Times knowingly contracted with an illegal alien, which it appears they did in 2011, theyd indeed be liable under federal law, said Dale Wilcox, executive director and general counsel for the Immigration Reform Law Institute, to TheDCNF. That the Obama DOJ didnt bring an action against either of them at the time obviously isnt shocking. But its hoped the Trump DOJ does and that ICE places Vargas in removal proceedings as its obligated to do by law.

Repatriating him back to the Philippines would send out a very loud message and surely cause thousands of illegal aliens to self-deport on their own, he said.

The illegal immigrant announced Thursday that he was taking a break from social media to make space to write.

TheDCNF reached out to Jose Antonio Vargas and The Washington Post for comment, but received none in time for publication.

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