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May 9, 2017 9:46 PM

By Rick Sallinger

DENVER (CBS4) U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is defending arrests caught on camera at the Denver Lindsey-Flanagan Courthouse.

Shot from a cellphone, a man is seen struggling with two ICE agents on the ground just inside the door to the courthouse.

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Thats not okay, thats not okay, a woman shouted to the agents in the video. Youre breaking his arm; you are going to hurt him, she said at one point.

ICE says the man had received final deportation orders five years ago and had two misdemeanor convictions. But its the place where it occurred that has immigration attorneys upset.

If ICE wants to do its work thats fine. What it shouldnt be doing is meddling in our local systems, said Hans Meyer, the attorney who did not shoot, but released the video, at a news conference.

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in February Meyer released video from the same courthouse showing one of his attorneys confronting ICE agents by an elevator and in a hallway.

Are there other agents here? The female attorney asked an agent on camera,

I cannot speak with you, Im sorry, the agent replied.

When the attorney approached two other men nearby she asked if they were with ICE and acknowledged they were.

Denver Mayor Michael Hancock, the city council, and Denver Public Schools last month wrote a letter to ICE asking them to respect sensitive locations in making arrests mentioned the courthouse.

Another detention was captured by an attorney as he walked his client out of the same courthouse. The lawyer, Matthew Keller, told CBS4, I heard some noise and there were three undercover ICE officers and they were already placing him in handcuffs.

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ICE says Antonio Garcia had two prior drunk driving convictions and has pleaded guilty to two others this year.

According to a release, ICE honors areas deemed sensitive, but a courthouse is not one of them.

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CBS4s Rick Sallinger is a Peabody award winning reporter who has been with the station more than two decades doing hard news and investigative reporting. Follow him on Twitter @ricksallinger.

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Department of Homeland Security Chief John Kelly stated in a closed-door meeting about immigration policy with House Democrats last month:

The least of my worries right now [is] anyone who falls in the general category of [Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)].

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Even though Trump originally promised to repeal DACA on day one of his presidency, he has yet to do so and the Department Homeland Security would be wise to focus its attention elsewhere, as Kelly inferred in his recent statement.

Conversations about repealing DACA distract from real concerns about the safety of Americans and the benefits of immigration, and also ignore fundamental causes of illegal immigration.

DACA is an executive order from President Obama which temporarily stayed the deportation of undocumented immigrants brought unwittingly to the United States by their parents as children.

Among several other requirements, individuals applying to DACA must be enrolled in school, graduated from high school, enlisted in the military, undergo a background check and go through other extensive screening processes to determine if they present a public safety risk or if they qualify to remain in the United States.

Hoyannee Malatchanyan, a 10 year-old from Armenia, waves the American flag after taking the Oath of Allegiance to become a U.S. citizen during a citizenship ceremony at The Bronx Zoo, May 5, 2017 in The Bronx, New York City. Josh T. Smith and Ryan Yonk write that people would come legally to the US if they could, but with the turmoil from their home countries at their heels they make the decision to jump over the border however they can, rather than wait for paper-pushers. Drew Angerer/Getty

As even this list of abbreviated requirements indicates, the DACA screening process works to ensure that individuals who are an unacceptable risk do not qualify to remain in the United States. In fact, DACA goes even further than just mitigating risks, it specifically looks for the most productive people those who are certainly a net benefit to the United States.

A recent study by several immigration experts finds that DACA participants are almost twice as likely as the average population to start a business. These businesses are as simple as online craft stores, like Etsy, or as complex as tax preparation services and technology startups.

Claims are often made about the number of American jobs that are being lost to immigrants, but those claims fail to acknowledge the positive secondary effects that immigration can have.

More people actively working and living in a community means more people shopping at grocery stores and participating in the local economy, which means those enterprises expand as well. The supposed negative effects of immigration on employment and wages are overblown and largely debunked by academic researchers.

The fundamental problem with policy solutions like repealing DACA lies in the fact that its repeal does nothing to solve the problems that cause illegal immigration. Those from common illegal entry countries are willing to pay large amounts to enter the United States because they expect to benefit from living in the US.

In 2012, the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) reported immigrants in Central America pay as much as $10,000 to be smuggled across the border. Their willingness to pay this much raises an interesting question; why arent people just entering legally if they can afford to pay for smuggling?

The answer is the burdensome bureaucracy potential immigrants face. As Rachel Wilson, an immigration attorney, describes her work helping people immigrate:

I went into law school to fight the man, but I'm not fighting the man, I'm fighting a bureaucracy.

She noted, complying with the current rules can take over a decade as bureaucrats determine the degree of a relationship between family members and other requirements.

It seems people would come legally if they could, but with the turmoil from their home countries at their heels, they make the decision to jump over the border however they can, rather than wait for paper-pushers.

Instead of pursuing piecemeal changes to immigration policy, President Trump would do well to work with the United States Congress to comprehensively reform the immigration process and make it easier for potential immigrants to navigate.

The screening process must balance security with simplicity so that immigrants are not deterred from entering legally, and thus pushed towards entering illegally. If you want to stop illegal immigration, it makes sense to streamline legal immigration.

President Trump and policy makers interested in dealing with the problems of our immigration system would be well advised to focus their attentions elsewhere and instead devote their energy to meaningful changes that will simplify the immigration process and ensure the United States remains safe.

Josh T. Smith is a graduate student in economics at Utah State University and works as a Policy Analyst at Strata.

Ryan M. Yonk is assistant research professor at Utah StateUniversity.

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While the 15 illegal immigrants were working at the LNG construction company site in Cameron, Louisiana, federal and state agents showed up to arrest the men, primarily from Mexico, for alleged identity theft, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ).

The illegal immigrants are:

The 15 illegal immigrants were indicted by a federal grand jury for identity theft, accusing the men of using social security numbers of actual citizens, and making false claims of United States citizenship in order to obtain jobs at the facility over the past three years, the statement read.

According to prosecutors, the illegal immigrants were working under names of actual U.S. citizens. The stolen identities primarily came from citizens living in Puerto Rico.

Prosecutors said that after the illegal immigrants stole the Social Security numbers, they received state-issued identification cards from Louisiana, Missouri, Texas and Arkansas in order to work in those states.

The stolen Social Security numbers allowed the illegal immigrants to get past the E-Verify systems.

Protecting critical infrastructure is a national security priority for law enforcement, Acting U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston said in a statement. To do so we must make sure that workers in our community, and especially those working in proximity to vital national interests like our oil and chemical industries, are legal and properly vetted as required by law. Further, we must remain vigilant to these concerns to protect the economy and the law abiding worker.

Some of the illegal immigrants indicted in the case had previously been deported and are now facing further immigration violations for returning to the U.S.

The illegal immigrants are facing five years in prison each, if convicted of identity theft and potential deportation.

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

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Its understandable why many people would want to immigrate to the United States. However, the political situation at hand dictates that a large number of those same people would probably need a visa to do that. In fact, a visa might be needed for even less than immigration, such as visiting a friend in the country or just traveling as a tourist. Today, there are ESTA VISA solutions in places like e-visa-usa.com which bring the subject of legal passing into the US into the attention of the public. However, many disregard such solutions and thus US is facing some pretty jacked up numbers in terms of how many illegal immigrants are currently present within the US borders. Here are some interesting, if nothing else, facts about the immigration situation in the US.

While the subject of illegal immigration continues to be a problem discussed in higher forums, it is also a problem that persists albeit with slight declines over the last several years. It remains to be seen how the situation continues to evolve and in what way it will shift over the upcoming years.

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President Trump ultimately won in November in large part because he campaigned aggressively on cracking down on illegal immigration. He vowed to make America safe again by building a wall to secure our borders and defunding sanctuary cities that shelter illegal criminals.

If you turn on the TV or listen to the Democrats talking points, they try to instill fear by painting those who believe in immigration laws as hateful human beings who lack compassion and want all immigrants deported.

People are drinking the Kool-Aid theyre pouring. After the election I remember people telling me they were scared that someone they know who is here legally might get deported.

President Trump never advocated deporting legal immigrants, and he never advocated turning our country into a police state. Thats just fear mongering.

The agents knocked down the door and went in military guns locked and loaded. The iconic picture of an agent pointing one of those giant guns directly at the terrified little boy and his uncle is one many of us will never forget.

How ironic. Elians mother gave her life to ensure his freedom, and it was a free country that took him from his law-abiding family with totalitarian force.

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Thats real fear. Enforcing laws that prohibit people from entering this country until we can verify that they dont have a criminal history, and they arent here to terrorize us thats called protecting my kids and yours.

Not only did President Trumps message of law and order resonate with the American people last November, it apparently resonated with illegal immigrants.

Even before construction on the wall has started, the number of people crossing the border illegally has drastically decreased since the inauguration. Former Border Patrol Chief David V. Aguilar said that compared with 2016, apprehensions on the southwest border are down 67 percent through March. That is even higher than the 61 percent decline touted by President Trump.

The Democrats and their friends in the media use examples of displaced refugees to show youre heartless if you dont support an open border free-for-all. What they dont talk about are the tens of thousands of illegal immigrants convicted of crimes, including homicide, manslaughter, and kidnapping who were released back into communities during the Obama administration.

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Those arent the stories that make the cut for primetime news.

Innocent refugees, unfortunately, arent always the reality of an immigration system in chaos. Just ask Kate Steinles parents.

Many people remember that she was allegedly killed in 2015 by an illegal immigrant with seven felony convictions. He was deported five times, but snuck back over the border and sought refuge in San Francisco, a sanctuary city.

While he was apprehended on drug charges another crime ICE issued a detainer request for him. Instead of turning him over to authorities, as the law requires, they let him walk because it's a sanctuary city, and illegal felons dont have to follow law, apparently. Shortly after, he shot and killed Kate Steinle.

The city of San Francisco has her blood on its hands.

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President Trump recently signed an executive order, making good on his promise to cut off funding to sanctuary cities who harbor illegal criminals, only to have it blocked by a judge who appears to be anything but impartial.

The executive order essentially enforced existing law. The Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 requires states to cooperate with authorities on immigration requests. State, or local government entity or official may not prohibit, or in any way restrict, any government entity or official from sending to, or receiving from, the Immigration and Naturalization Service information regarding the citizenship or immigration status, lawful or unlawful, of any individual. (8 U.S. Code, section 1373)

Judge William Orrick, who blocked the order, was nominated by President Obama, and was a major fundraiser and donor to the former president, raising $200,000 for him and donating $30,800 to committees supporting him. He contributed large amounts of money to a man who supported harboring illegal criminals, and then issued a ruling telling President Trump he cant enforce existing law that prevents harboring illegal criminals. I think its fair to say judicial integrity took another serious hit on his watch.

If we decide to stop paying taxes because we dont like the law, will local governments protect us from the IRS under the guise of a sanctuary city? Or if a city decides to declare itself a sanctuary for the Second Amendment, can everyone carry guns openly, shielded from federal and state gun laws? How should we know which laws are serious and which are simply suggestions?

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According to a Rasmussen poll, 81 percent of voters favor the mandatory deportation of illegal immigrants convicted of a crime, and 50 percent of voters in November said the U.S. should take legal action against sanctuary cities that harbor illegal immigrants.

The American people voted decisively for President Trump in November, and they allowed Republicans to keep their majorities in both the House and Senate, because they believed these Republicans would work to help the president carryout his agenda.

Late last month Congress passed a short-term budget that looks more like the Democrats agenda than the presidents. It doesnt include money to fund the border wall or cut funding for sanctuary cities.

The presidents priorities are what the American people voted for, and his priorities are the reason many of the Republicans in Congress lived to see another term.

They would be wise to remember that.

Lauren DeBellis Appell, a freelance writer in Fairfax, Va., served as former Senator Rick Santorums (R-PA) deputy campaign press secretary for his successful re-election campaign, and as assistant communications director for the Senate Republican Policy Committee.

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