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NASHUA State Police said Friday an illegal immigrant claimed to be a resident and tried to obtain a New Hampshire drivers license in Nashua.

Shtain Gbalanga, 21, claimed Barrington as his legal residence when he went to the Division of Motor Vehicles substation in Nashua to get a license Friday.

An investigation by State Police with the assistance of federal officials revealed that Gbalanga was using fraudulent documents, and in fact was a French citizen in this country illegally.

Gbalanga was arrested without incident and brought to the Hillsborough County House of Corrections where he was being held on $5,000 cash bail.

He will be arraigned Monday in the 9th Circuit Court District Division in Nashua on misdemeanor charges of tampering with public records and unsworn falsification.

State Police officials said the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement along with the state Division of Motor Vehicles assisted in this investigation.

Anyone with further information about this matter is urged to contact Trooper First Class Richard H. Dupont Jr. at (603) 223-8969.

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His comments came during an event on Central America hosted by the international affairs think tank Atlantic Council on Thursday.

Retired Marine Gen. Kelly noted that illegal immigration along the U.S.-Mexico border has dropped by an estimated 70 percent under President Donald Trumps administration.

He also mentioned that the Trump administration is planning to invest money in the economies of Central American countries to provide potential illegal migrants with a reason to stay home where their family and friends are.

The message [to would be illegal immigrants] is if you get here and if you paid the traffickers you will probably get here, but you will be turned around within our laws relatively quickly and returned, declared Kelly. Its not worth wasting your money.

If that message remains, which it will, and we help the economies, I think its a win-win for both the region as well as for the United States, he added.

Kelly pointed out that, although the majority of illegal migrants come to the U.S. in search of economic opportunities, a substantial portion of young undocumented people is involved in gang-related criminal activities.

The overwhelming number of people that come are good, decent people looking for a better way to make a living, noted the DHS chief.

An awful lot of them, not a majority by no means these are good people as a group but because of a lot of different reasons, the young men are often times in relatively large numbers drawn into crime, he later said. Not all of them but some of them. MS-13 is full of people that have come here from that part [Central America] of the world and are criminals.

An awful lot of the young women get taken into the other kinds of trade sex trade that kind of thing, not all of them, but many of them, he also said.

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions recently vowed to eradicate the savage MS-13 transnational criminal gang.

We are targeting you, said Sessions during a speech in New York.

The MS-13 motto is kill, rape, and control, he added. I have a message to the gangs that are targeting our young people: We are targeting you. We are coming after you.

This year, U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), charged with overseeing American military activity in most of Latin America, warned that jihadist groups are radicalizing and recruiting people in Central American regions awash with street gangs, namely MS-13.

Citing the FBI, SOUTHCOM reported that MS-13 is believed to be operating in 42 U.S. states, with a significant presence in Houston, Long Island, Charlotte, and Washington, DC.

According to a recent poll, nearly 50 percent of those surveyed support designating MS-13 as a terrorist organization.

The government of El Salvador, the gangs stronghold in Central America, has already deemed the group a terrorist organization.

In the United States, MS-13 has been officially listed as a transnational criminal organization, the only street gang to the list.

Retired Gen. Kelly served as SOUTHCOM commander.

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Homeland Security has built up a backlog of more than 1.2 million illegal immigrants who it believes have overstayed visas but managed to arrest only about 3,400 of them, according to the most recent data, which works out to a rate of about 1 in every 350 lawbreakers.

That is far worse than the rate for those who crossed the border illegally, and it means criminals, people engaged in narcoterrorism and other national security risks are left to run free in the U.S., the Homeland Security inspector general said in a report Thursday.

Federal agents have trouble tracking down the criminals because the government still doesnt monitor departures, meaning it cant be certain whether those who came on tourist, business or student visas leave when they are supposed to.

Officers have to check as many as 27 in-house systems, in addition to state databases, to try to guess whether someone has left. Even then, they can make catastrophic mistakes when it wrongly appears that a visitor has left the country.

Such false departure information resulted in [deportation] officers closing visa overstay investigations of dangerous individuals, such as suspected criminals, who were actually still in the United States and could pose a threat to national security, the investigators said in the report. For example, an ERO officer stated that a suspect under investigation was listed as having left the country, but had given his ticket to a family member and was still residing in the United States.

Visa overstays, as they are called, have become an increasing focus of the immigration debate. As the flow of illegal border crossings declines, an increasing percentage of those in the country illegally are travelers who came on business, tourist or student visas but didnt leave when their time was up.

Several of the Sept. 11, 2001, hijackers were overstays.

Homeland Security has struggled to get a handle on the situation, or even to figure out how bad it is.

A report last year looking at just a portion of visas calculated that more than 500,000 visitors overstayed in 2015. The total backlog grew to more than 1.2 million, the inspector general said.

Meanwhile, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers arrested only 3,402 potential overstays in 2015.

In its official response, ICE said it is trying to do a better job of calculating the number of visa overstays.

President Trump has pushed the Homeland Security Department to finish the system that would track departures, and tests are being run at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta.

The department also plans to release its next overstay report soon. That report will cover almost all visa categories, so the government will have a better sense for how bad the problem is.

But Rep. Bob Goodlatte, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, said that until the government tracks all departures, it wont know whats going on.

Visa security is a matter of national security, and it is imperative that we know who is coming to our country and when they leave so that we protect American citizens and our interests, the Virginia Republican said.

Congress demanded a biometric entry-exit system more than 20 years ago, but administrations in both parties have failed to deliver, saying that airports arent configured to check departures and that the land ports of entry are an even bigger logistical hurdle.

Mr. Goodlatte said he expects Mr. Trumps focus on immigration to finally push Homeland Security to finish the job.

Until then, officers will waste time on bogus leads, the inspector generals report said. The data are so unreliable that officers and agents often end up finding an overstay still in the country who the systems said already had left, or spend time trying to track down someone who did leave the country or obtained legal status.

An ICE officer estimated that he spent more than 50 hours on a single suspect, only to find the individual had applied for [an immigration] benefit and should not have been categorized as an overstay, the audit said.

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Francisco Escobar-Orellana, an illegal immigrant, entered the U.S. at an unknown time and place, according to ICE. In 1993, Escobar-Orellana allegedly hacked two men to death with a machete at a liquor store in Honduras. He has been wanted for arrest in Honduras since May 2005.

In February, Escobar-Orellana was arrested by ICE agents near his home in Hope Mills, North Carolina. Shortly following his arrest, an immigration judge ordered the illegal immigrant fugitive be handed over to Honduran authorities.

ICE is focused on identifying, arresting and removing public safety threats, such as convicted criminal aliens and gang members, as well as individuals who have violated our nations immigration laws, ICE Atlanta Field Office Director Sean Gallagher said in a statement.

ICE Fugitive Operations Teams conduct targeted enforcement operations toward these identified threats to public safety, Gallagher continued. North Carolina residents are safer today thanks to the professionalism and hard work of these dedicated officers.

Subsequently, Escobar-Orellana was deported from the U.S. in an ICE Air operation to San Pedro Sula, Honduras where he was immediately transferred over to local law enforcement officials.

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

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When the Americans for Legal Immigration Political Action Committee endorsed Donald Trump in February 2016, the decision angered PAC members who supported the candidacy of Ted Cruz or believed Trump was untrustworthy.

This week, ALIPAC President William Gheen announced those doubting members were correct, saying that Trump had betrayed their vision of stricter immigration laws and that the PAC would rescind its endorsement of the president.

Its clear that weve been betrayed on the issues that gave him his greatest power to defeat his primary opponents and Hillary Clinton, which are the promises to end DACA amnesty and dangerous refugee resettlement programs, Gheen tells Newsweek, referring to the Deferred Action Childhood Arrivals program. Gheen dismissed claims by Trump supporters that the presidents attempts to do just that have been stymied by Democrats or the courts.

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DACA amnesty and the refugee resettlement programs could be ended by Donald Trump with a swipe of his pen, he says.

In a letter Tuesday to ALIPAC membersGheen says the group has 50,000 email subscribershe blasted Trump for joining the ranks of amnesty backers like former presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush.

Two other anti-illegal immigration groups told HuffPost they are also disappointed with Trumps decision to continue the DACA program.

Its something that he did promise.... We still think the president should act on his campaign pledge, Ira Mehlman, spokesman for the organization Federation for American Immigration Reform, told HuffPost.

What youve got now is, The wall is dead and DACA is alive, Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, told the website.

The same day ALIPAC made its announcement, a tweeted photo of Trump adviser Steve Bannons whiteboard went viral. Under the heading, Pledges on Immigration, the whiteboard is marked with a list of multiple goals, including, Hire 5,000 more Border Patrol agents, suspend the Syrian Refugee Program and Build the border wall.

While part of the board was obscured by Bannons rumpled shoulder, there was nothing visible on the board concerning DACAa possible validation of ALIPACs decision.

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