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It appears Mexico does not want criminal aliens in the United States returned to their country. What changes today is that we are prioritizing legal matters over everything. Previously, we didnt have the need to seek so much legal support for our people, Miamis Consul General Antonio Zabalgoitia told the Associated Press on Friday. But now, we need to protect them against an eventual deportation.

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The Trump Administration, under the leadership of Department of Homeland Security Secretary John F. Kelly, is conducting targeted enforcement actions against criminal aliens across the U.S. One effort,carried out in February, landed nearly 700 criminal aliens in detention. ICE officials are processing those criminal aliens for removal.

ICE conducts these kind of targeted enforcement operations regularly and has for many years, Secretary Kelly said in a written statement obtained by Breitbart Texas. The focus of these enforcement operations is consistent with the routine, targeted arrests carried out by ICEs Fugitive Operations teams on a daily basis.

To counter this effort, the Mexican consulates are joining up with law schools, immigration clinics, and nonprofit organizations that specialize in helping foreign nationals. The Mexican government will place attorneys in these facilities to provide assistance to those facing deportation, the AP reported. The consulates are also working with private law firms to provide assistance.

During a meeting at the New York Consulate, Mexican Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray called the effort a moral imperative.

It is something that we will continue to do by obligation and conviction, the foreign minister told the AP. He expressed that the workload being faced by consulates is escalating rapidly. I used to sign two birth certificates a week, he said. Only yesterday, I signed 15.

Videgaray previously stated Mexico was allocating about $54 million to provide services to migrants living in the U.S., Breitbart News reported.

The Mexican consulate in Houston described war-like conditions facing migrants.

The tolerance is gone. I think thats the best way of describing it, Oscar Solis, a first secretary of the Mexican consulate in Houston, told the AP. Its like in wars. They come for one person and many who are innocentor not really involvedend up paying.

The Mexican consulate in Houston serves about 500,000 Mexican nationals who live in the area. Officials stated requests for Mexican birth certificates have increased by 50 percent since the Trump Administrations crackdown began.

Breitbart Texas visited the Houston consulates website to learn about the process for obtaining a birth certificate. The website lists the following steps:

IMPORTANT:The name of the identification must match the name that appears in the birth certificate.

3.Provide the following information:

Make the payment of rights: US $ 13 for each certified copy.

Consular officials stated that 92 percent of Mexican birth certificates had been digitized, leaving eight percent to be digitized in the future

Mexican nationals who have overstayed visas are also requesting assistance from the consulates. In Phoenix, Gloria Portillo, a Mexican national who allowed her visa to expire three years ago, told the AP, Weve been here all of our lives, we have kids, and of course were afraid to be deported.

The AP did not ask the Phoenix woman why she waited until this time to begin the process of renewing her legal status. She recently married an American citizen.

Bob Priceserves as associate editor and senior political news contributor for Breitbart Texas. He is a founding member of the Breitbart Texas team. Follow him on Twitter@BobPriceBBTX.

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President Trump said in an address to Congress last Tuesday that illegal immigration threatens the job prospects of American citizens. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, however, will extend work permits for six months on Monday for hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants from El Salvador who receive Temporary Protected Status (TPS).

El Salvador is currently one of 13 countries whose citizens are eligible to receive TPS. This designation made bythe secretary of homeland security is for countries whose circumstances have been deemed too dangerous for its residents to returnto.

TPS lasts for 18 months, and it is up to the secretary of homeland security to renew the status. Last July, then-DHS SecretaryJeh Johnson extended TPS for an estimated 195,000 El Salvadorans. This wasdue to a bad recovery to a 2001 earthquake and high crime in the Central American country. The TPS status is set to expire in March 2018 and work permits are set to expire on Thursday.

Instead of letting these work permits expire, USCIS Acting Director Lori Scialabbais isauthorizing the automatic extension of them through Sept. 9, 2017.

Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, told The Daily Caller: TPS is a scam, but this notice seems routine [U.S Citizenship and Immigration Services]cant process the TPS renewals fast enough, so theyre extending the work permits so people whose renewals havent been processed yet dont lose their work authorization in the interim.

The White Househas overall been enacting Trumps tough-on-immigration campaign promises. DHS has ordered the construction of a border wall and has removed constraints placed by the Obama administration on Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. The Washington Post reported Friday that illegal immigrants have begun to leave the U.S. voluntarily.

The president, however, has yet to rescind President Obamas executive amnesty protecting around 750,000 illegal immigrants who arrived in the U.S. as children.

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An Oregon judge is being investigated for allegedly helping an illegal immigrant evade Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in January, by letting the DWI suspect slip out through her own private entrance.

The Jan. 27 incident could land Judge Monica Herranz in serious trouble if she is shown to have helped Diddier Pacheco, 22, escape her Multnomah County courtroom as federal agents waited outside to deport him.

This individual was allowed to leave that courtroom through a doorway that is not a public doorway, and which ultimately led to his ability to leave the courthouse undetected by ICE, said U.S. Attorney Billy Williams.

I found my client, told him that Id seen ICE agents outside, that I had no way to know if they were there for him or not, but it was possible.

- John Schlosser, attorney for Diddier Pacheco

Herranz is now under internal investigation by the Multnomah County Court Administration. She is cooperating with the probe, which is expected to be completed within a week.

The options for how Pacheco exited Herranz courtroom are limited, as there are only three doors. One is used by the Sheriffs Department to bring inmates in and out. Another is used by the public and the last for the judge and courtroom staff to get back to their offices. It also leads to a staircase which goes to a first floor exit.

Pachecos attorney John Schlosser says he doesnt know how his client left the courtroom. But he acknowledged both knew there were ICE agents inside the courthouse who might be there to arrest Pacheco. He had passed several agents on his way into the courtroom.

I found my client, told him that Id seen ICE agents outside, that I had no way to know if they were there for him or not, but it was possible, said Schlosser.

Federal law makes it a crime to conceal, harbor or shield from detection illegal immigrants. The U.S. Attorney in Portland decided not to prosecute after ICE officials told him they were opposed to an investigation of the judge. Instead, Williams met with most of the judges in the county and made it clear similar actions in the future would not be tolerated.

Herranz, a board member of the Oregon Hispanic Bar Association, is still working in the Multnomah County courts, but she could face internal discipline once the investigation is finished.

I dont want anything that in the eyes of the public undermines the integrity and the neutrality of the justice system being done, said Presiding Judge Nan Waller.

Lars Larson, a nationally syndicated conservative talk show host based in Portland thinks Herranz should be finished on the bench and even lose her license to practice law.

I think the judge broke the law, said Larson, I think as a lawyer, her ticket should probably be punched. I think she helped a criminal escape.

Herranz declined a request by Fox News for a comment. Pacheco was caught by ICE agents outside the same courthouse two weeks later following another hearing. Hes been taken to an ICE detention facility in New Mexico where hes awaiting deportation.

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March 5, 2017 Despite an uptick in illegal immigration in recent months, Canada won't be tightening its border security anytime soon.

Several hundred people have illegally crossed into Canada from the United States since the beginning of the year, officials say, with much of the activity taking place in the weeks immediately following President Trump's controversial executive order temporarily barring refugees and citizens of seven majority-Muslim countries from entering the United States.

Canadian and US government officials are working to find a way to handle the recent influx of asylum seekers, withHomeland Security Secretary John Kelly expected to visit Canada later this month to discuss border security. But for now, saidPublic Safety Minister Ralph Goodale on Saturday, the increase isn't enough to warrant additional border security measures.

"We are concerned and we will deal properly with the extra hundreds," said Mr. Goodalesaid at a news conference in Emerson, located near the North Dakota border. "But the full border deals with 400,000 people moving in both directions every day. It also handles (more than $1 trillion) in trade every day."

At least 183 people have walked across the border in freezing temperatures since Jan. 1, according toRoyal Canadian Mounted Police in Manitoba.

But "thecurrent accelerated rate started in the first week of February," Goodale said Saturday. "[W]eve been following this very, very closely."

The 2016 presidential campaign elicited warnings sometimes serious, sometimes lighthearted from scores of Trump opponents vowing to move north in the event of a Trump victory. In the days following the election, Canadian real estate brokers reported a surge in interest from American homebuyers and some disappointed voters have already followed through on their promises to relocate.But the majority of those crossing over illegally, experts say, are not disgruntled American citizens, but anxious refugees and undocumented immigrants seeking asylum.

The campaign rhetoric and election victory of Trump, who said on "60 Minutes" in November that he planned to deport or incarcerate "2 million or 3 million" undocumented immigrants with a criminal record upon taking office, led many of the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States to fear for their future. More than 1,200people entered Quebec illegally and requested refugee status in 2016 nearly five times the totalin 2015,according to the Canada Border Services Agency. More people requested refugee status this past November alone than throughout all of the previous year.

That surge, immigrant rights advocates say, saw a greater increase with the signing of Trump's now-frozen travel ban blocking refugees and citizens of seven majority-Muslim countries.

"A comment that we might hear is that theyre scared of whats happening in the US," Rita Chahal of the Manitoba Interfaith Immigration Council told The Guardian in February. "A couple of people have said they watched what happened in the airports last weekend, they were afraid. Theyre afraid that they might get put in detention, they might get deported, that their applications wont be accepted, so they express a lot of fear."

One reason why crossing illegally is so appealing, experts say, is theCanada-US Safe Third Country Agreement. Under this agreement, established in 2004,a person who is in the US, which is considered a safe country, cannot request to be admitted into Canada as a refugee. But those who request refugee status once they are already on Canadian soil and are able to pass criminal checks will be allowed to have their cases considered.

The process to apply for refugee status is considerably quicker than the process in the United States. Anyone caught trying to cross the Canadian border can apply for refugee status. The applicant will thenreceive a date to appear before a refugee tribunal, which by law cannot be more than two months away. In the meantime, there is no need to wait in a detention center unlike in the United States and anyone put in detention has the right to see a judge within 24 hours.

Typically, about 60 percent of immigrants who go before the tribunal are granted asylum, but chances partly depend on the country of origin,Melissa Anderson, spokeswoman for theImmigration and Refugee Board of Canada, told Public Radio International (PRI) last month. Citizens of Syria, Iraq, and Eritrea have anacceptance rate of more than 80 percent and are not required to appear before the refugee tribunal in person. Members of theRoma minority from Romania and Hungary are also usually accepted.

Public Safety Minister Goodale's comments on Saturday underscore remarks made byCanadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau less than two weeks ago, in which he told parliament that Canada would continue toaccept asylum seekers crossing illegally from the US while ensuring security measures were taken to keep Canadian citizens safe.

"One of the reasons why Canada remains an open country is Canadians trust our immigration system and the integrity of our borders and the help we provide people who are looking for safety," Mr. Trudeau said, as reported by Reuters. "We will continue to strike that balance between a rigorous system and accepting people who need help."

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About 250 students and faculty members attended the protest, which was organized by the Cornell Coalition for Inclusive Democracy, Heat Street reported.

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No ban, no wall. Sanctuary for all, protesters chanted.

The protesters want the upstate New York school to provide illegal immigrants, including those not protected by DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals), with special funding.

Our endangered community members still lack explicit assurance that the institution that took them in will protect them, Professor Russell Rickford told the Cornell Sun. Thats shameful.

The group also wants Cornell to provide on-campus housing for immigrant students who have been warned not to travel overseas, and fight for legislation that protects illegal immigrants.

They also want campus police not to release information about illegal immigrant students to immigration agents unless it is absolutely necessary.

State explicitly that CUPD will join the Tompkins County Sheriff and Ithaca Police Department in declining to honor civil immigration detainer requests (which is not legally required!) from a federal agent unless accompanied by a judicial warrant, the demand read.

One illegal immigrant student spoke about her struggle to obtain financial aid.

I had to sacrifice meals. I had to sacrifice having the right books. I had to do everything to thrive at this school, Julia Montejo said. Now that Cornells caught up, which is a little late for many people, Cornell is refusing to explicitly state that CUPD will not cooperate with ICE.

Another professor told the crowd that the students would always be in a minority in terms of what they were fighting for.

You will always be in a minority. But, the truth is, we look back on those periods now as periods of grave injustice, where time has turned against what was done. And you dont need the majority; what you need is a very dedicated, involved minority, Professor Joe Margulies said.

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