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During an interview broadcastThursdays Special Report, on the Fox News Channel, Pinal County, AZ Sheriff Mark Lamb (R) stated, illegal immigration goes hand-in-hand, almost always, with drug trafficking and with human trafficking.

Lamb said, People need to understand that illegal immigration goes hand-in-hand, almost always, with drug trafficking and with human trafficking. He added that the287(g) program allows me to make sure that Im not putting criminals back in our communities.

During the same segment, ICEs LA Field Director David Marin said, [T]hose sheriffs and law enforcement agencies realize that by turning over these criminal aliens to us, that, theyre not going to be able to go out and commit additional crimes.

Marin added that with sanctuary cities Instead of taking these criminal aliens in a secure environment of a jail, our officers have to go out on the street. And that not only endangers our officers, but the community at large, as well.

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The number of illegal border crossings has declined so much that U.S. judges assigned to the U.S.-Mexico border to process asylum requests have been recalled because they have too few cases to hear.

And guess whos being credited with that drop? President Trump, of course.

Reuters reports (emphasis mine):

The dearth of cases at two Texas facilities where the judges are based can be traced to a sharp drop in illegal border crossings by women and children since U.S. President Donald Trump took office in January.

Eight immigration judges were reassigned from their regular courts to detention centers at the border beginning on March 20 as part of Trump's executive order to curb illegal immigration.

Six of the judges have had full dockets, handling dozens of cases per week. But the two at detention centers housing women and children in Dilley and Karnes County, Texas had so few cases their presence was deemed a waste of resources by the U.S. Department of Justice, according to one of the sources.

In March, the number of parents making the trek with children had dropped a whopping 93 percent from December, the Department of Homeland Security recently reported.

Following through on his campaign promise, President Trump has taken a tough stance on illegal immigration, enacting policies that make nearly all illegal border crossers subject to deportation. The judges were assigned to the border so that cases of those seeking asylum could be heard more quickly, and, if considered ineligible, could be deported more rapidly.

After more than three weeks in Dilley, the judge had no hearings, while the one in Karnes County had four, according to a spokeswoman for the DOJs Executive Office of Immigration Review, Reuters reports.

Sounds like a campaign promise kept.

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The latest report from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency shows the impact of words and actions on illegals seeking access to free benefits available to them just by crossing the nations southwest border. The number of individuals caught crossing that border in March 16,600 was a 30 percent decrease from February and a 64 percent decrease from the same month a year ago.

President Donald Trumps campaign promises to build the big, beautiful wall as one of many efforts to stem illegal immigration flooding into the country from Mexico turned into actions when he began signing executive orders to start the process.

His attorney general, Jeff Sessions, expanded on Trumps determination to stem the flow on Tuesday during a speech he made at Nogales, Arizona. He issued a memorandum to federal attorneys to ramp up their efforts to prosecute illegals, including those who harbor or assist them, with special priority given to those with criminal records and those who were previously deported. Sessions also instructed the Justice Department to pursue charges even for relatively minor infractions such as identity fraud, document theft, or forgery as well as fraudulent marriages arranged to obtain legal immigration status.

Sessions stated:

For those [who] continue to seek improper and illegal entry into this country, be forewarned: This is a new era. This is the Trump era.

The lawlessness, the abdication of the duty [by the previous administration] to enforce our immigration laws, and the catch-and-release practices of old are over.

Sessions then spoke of the criminal cartels responsible for importing illegal drugs into the United States:

Depravity and violence are their calling cards, including brutal machete attacks and beheadings. It is here, on this sliver of land, where we first take our stand against this filth.

Later that night Sessions, being interviewed on Fox News Hannity," expanded his remarks, directing them to those still considering taking the risk of entering the United States illegally:

The border is not open. Please dont come.

You will be apprehended if you do come, and you will be deported promptly. If youre a criminal, you will be prosecuted, and if you assault our officers, were going to come at you [like] a ton of bricks.

When he was informed of the latest numbers from the CBP, he expressed surprise at how much the flow of illegals had been staunched already:

I knew strong Presidential leadership unlike the wishy-washy-ness weve seen in the past would impact the flow, but not as much as weve seen already. The numbers are down 70 percent since President Obama left office. So its really a remarkable achievement.

Its not only the words but the actions that are working to turn the tide. Sessions said that 25 immigration judges have already been sent to detention centers along the border to help expedite the deportations, with another 50 to be assigned before the end of the year. And there will be another 75 judges sent to the border next year as well, reflecting, said Sessions, the dire need to reduce the backlogs in our immigration courts.

And then there are the actions already taken by the administration: 200 construction companies have already responded to the administrations requests for proposals to build the wall, while some funding to begin design and construction of it has already been committed. More funding requests for the wall are in Trumps budget, along with funding requests for 5,000 more border patrol agents and 10,000 additional immigration enforcement officers.

The drop in illegal immigration could be temporary, with potential illegals waiting to see whether these words and actions actually turn out to be effective over time. Some are comparing the drop to the spike in the stock market which was driven by anticipation that many of Trumps promises regarding regulations, tax reform, and infrastructure spending were actually going to come true. With the rejection of RyanCare as a replacement of ObamaCare, the stock market has taken a wait-and-see attitude. As Ronald Colburn, who retired in 2009 as deputy chief of the U.S. Border Patrol, put it:

There is this symbolic holding of ones breath by the transnational criminal organizations and by the governments of Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras, because of the new administration in place.

They are watching and waiting to see if Congress and the American people and the administration have the will to follow through if they do, then we may see this is a continuing downtrend.

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In a letter to clergy, the Most Reverend Bishop Peter Libasci for the Diocese of Manchester says Catholic parishes should not be working against law enforcement. Libasci stated that the term sanctuary church was being misused by illegal immigration advocates.Thomas Bebbington, spokesman for the Diocese, told Christian Postthat the letter came in response to a meeting with several priests who expressed concerns about increased immigration enforcement.

The Christian Post reports excerpts of the letter to clergy sent by Bishop Peter Libasciregarding the harboring of illegal immigrants and the term "sanctuary church".

Some use this term and mean what I have described above a welcoming community ready to offer immediate aid to anyone in need. In these works, of course, we will always be involved, Libasci wrote in the letter.

But others use this term sanctuary to refer to churches that will allow individuals in fear of deportation to live in the church.

Sanctuary is not a designation recognized by law and provides no such legal protection, Libasci continued.

Instead, immigration law imposes criminal penalties and fines on anyone who conceals, harbors, or shields from detection, in any place, an alien who has come to, entered, or remains in the United States in violation of the law.

In the letter, which the Diocese provided The Christian Post, Bishop Libasci explained that there were two definitions for the term "sanctuary churches" being used.

"Some use this term and mean what I have described above a welcoming community ready to offer immediate aid to anyone in need. In these works, of course, we will always be involved," wrote Libasci.

"But others use this term 'sanctuary' to refer to churches that will allow individuals in fear of deportation tolivein the church."

The bishop went on to state that the latter definition, that of allowing unauthorized immigrants to live within a church, was problematic "because it creates a false hope to tell individuals living in fear that we can protect them from law enforcement actions."

The role that the church will play in the immigration debate is crucial. Many are dividedon President Trump's building of the wall plan and his travel ban. Many religious leaders were the first to signup in protest of the travel ban and tensions run high in cities calling themselves "sanctuaries" for illegal immigrants. One biblical definition of sanctuary is holy place. Perhaps political officials and advocacy groups shouldn't use that word so loosely.

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Rafael Carranza, Arizona Republic Published 4:54 p.m. ET April 11, 2017 | Updated 46 minutes ago

Attorney General Jeff Sessions has announced a get-tough approach to immigration prosecutions during a tour of the U.S.-Mexico border. (April 11) AP

Attorney General Jeff Sessions in Nogales, Ariz.(Photo: Ross D. Franklin, AP)

NOGALES, Ariz. The nation's top prosecutor outlined an expansion of the Trump administration's crackdown on illegal immigration Tuesday to include directing federal prosecutors to bring felony charges against immigrants suspected of making repeated illegal entriesto the United States.

Undocumented entry cases have been previously charged as misdemeanors.

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, in his first trip to the U.S.-Mexico border, detailed the changes as an attempt to "establish lawfulness in our immigration system.''

"This is a new era," Sessions said. "This is the Trump era.The lawlessness, the abdication of the duty to enforce our immigration laws, and the catch-and-release practices of old are over."

In a memo to U.S. attorneys across the country, Sessions said prosecutors must consider:

Charging individuals for "bringing in and harboring certain aliens."

Charging undocumented immigrants with a felony "if they unlawfully enter or attempt to enter a second time and certain aggravating circumstances are present."

When possible, charging undocumented immigrants "with document fraud and aggravated identity theft."

Make prosecution of assault on a federal law-enforcement officer "a top priority."

Sessions also announced a plan to hire and deploy 50 new immigration judges to the border this year and 75 more next year to address a massive backlog in immigration appeals.

The administration's most vocal advocate for tougher border enforcement measures, Sessions' trip to the region comes as the Department of Homeland Security recorded a 40% decline in illegal crossings along the southwest border during the first two months of the year.

Sessions called the decline "unprecedented,'' coinciding with the administration's roll out of aborder security strategy, including the planned construction of a border wall.

Despite the declining apprehensions, Sessions defended the need for a wall, describing it as "a force multiplier'' to deter future illegal immigration.

"There is no doubt that the barrier, the wall, will have a great and positive impact,'' he said.

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In his new charging directive to federal prosecutors, Sessions said felony prosecutions would be recommended for repeatillegal immigrants, "especially where indicators of gang affiliation, a risk to public safety or criminal history are present.''

Civil rights advocates, however, characterized Sessions' directive as an attempt to intimidate immigrant communities.

Attorney General Sessions is grandstanding at the border in an attempt to look tough and scare immigrants,'' said Frank Sharry, executive director of America's Voice Education Fund. "Its yet another example of the Trump administration treating all immigrants as threats and as criminals.''

Josh Breisblatt, a policy analyst at the American Immigration Council, said the attorney general's prosecution directive effectively makes illegal entry prosecutions a national priority, beyond the border states where the majority of cases are brought.

"This is a waste of resources,'' Breisblatt said. "It seems to be a further attempt to link immigration and crime.''

Contributing: Kevin Johnson and Alan Gomez

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