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If the national press wanted to prove it's not the "enemy of the people," it could start by covering illegal immigration more like it's a serious problem and less like their husbands just left them.

It's nearly impossible to find a news story on illegal immigration that doesn't read like a Nicholas Sparks novel.

President Trump signed an executive order in late January that recommitted the White House to enforcing immigration laws, including deportation of just about any illegal immigrant who has committed a crime (including fraud) and "the immediate construction of a physical wall on the southern border."

This might otherwise be known as maintaining the U.S. as an actual country with established borders and laws.

Regarding the so-called DREAMers, immigrants brought into the country illegally as children and who were given legal protections to stay by former President Barack Obama, the New York Times in February noted that Trump harbors some natural sympathy.

"The problem that Mr. Trump faces as he worries aloud about how to handle the young immigrants encapsulates the beating heart of the difficult choices confronting him," said an article in the Times.

News stories on abortion are couched in the most sanitized, passionless terms, but on immigration, "the beating heart" leaps to the forefront of the Times' conscience.

After one illegal immigrant who had been living in America for decades using a fraudulent Social Security number was deported in February, all three network prime-time newscasts put together packages on "the family she leaves behind."

Those were CBS correspondent Carter Evans' words.

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Mental exercise: What would happen if the IRS found out that an actual citizen, Carter Evans, for example, was employed for years under a fake Social Security number?

When Trump signed a separate executive order in January that put a hold on incoming Syrian refugees and non-citizens coming from some Muslim-majority countries (the order has since been stayed by federal courts), New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof likened it to the establishment of internment camps.

"When Japanese-Americans were rounded up, other Americans were silent," he said, unbothered by the dissimilarity of a policy that forcibly relocated real citizens in their own country, but stewing nonetheless. "Today, it is heartwarming to see Americans of all creeds standing up against similar bigotry."

By "Americans of all creeds," Kristof means: Two judges and some protesters.

Otherwise, a clear majority of Americans, 54 percent, said they at least "somewhat" approved of it, according to a poll published Feb. 8.

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This past week, Trump said in his first joint session address to Congress that he was directing the Department of Homeland Security to create a new office for the Victims Of Immigration Crime Engagement, or VOICE.

"Joining us in the audience tonight are four very brave Americans whose government failed them," he said, acknowledging four guests he invited and who had family members killed by illegal immigrants.

The Washington Post editorial board called it "the ugliest moment" of Trump's speech and asserted that the victims were only "allegedly" murdered by illegal immigrants.

In the cases of those "allegedly" murdered by illegals, one person, illegal immigrant Pedro Espinoza, was convicted in 2012 of killing 17-year-old Jamiel Shaw II.

Another illegal immigrant confessed. Luis Enriquez Monroy Bracamontes, stated in court in 2015, "I killed them cops," a reference to two police officers, Danny Oliver and Michael Davis Jr., he says he shot dead.

Three Americans are gone but for the Post, the "ugliest moment" was Trump's vow to reduce crime by immigrants who violated the law and snuck into the country.

The national media are affronted when Trump calls them the "enemy of the people."

But that's only because Trump doesn't specify he's referring to legal citizens.

Eddie Scarry is a media reporter for the Washington Examiner.

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'Impartial' media always side with illegal immigrants - Washington Examiner

For six years under the Obama presidency, illegal aliens cuts almost 10,000 holes in the border fence, according to a report by the Government Accountability Office. CNS News Terry Jeffrey wrote about how these gaps are located in the pedestrian portion of the fence, which only covers 354 square miles:

Only 654 miles of the 1,954-mile-long U.S.-Mexico border currently have any type of fencing, according to GAO. The other 1,300 miles of border have no fencing.

Of the 654 miles of fencing, 354 miles consists of what the Department of Homeland Security calls pedestrian fencing. The other 300 miles is vehicle fencing.

Border fencing types, explains GAO, include pedestrian fencing, which is primarily intended to slow down and deter pedestrians from crossing the border, and vehicle fencing, which is intended to resist vehicles engaged in drug trafficking and alien smuggling operations and is typically used in rural or isolated locations that have a low occurrence of illegal pedestrian traffic.

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The GAO report noted that it is common for illegal entrants to cut holes in the existing border fences so they can enter the United States.

Agents we spoke with in the El Paso and Tucson sectors explained that one of the most common methods employed by illegal entrants involves cutting openings, or breaches, in pedestrian and vehicle fencing, says GAO. Once breached, illegal entrants can cross through the fence or smuggle people and contraband into the United States.

President Donald J. Trumps executive order on immigration calls for more border patrol and immigration enforcement agents to help secure our border and intends to build a physical wall, something that congressional Democrats will staunchly oppose.

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By Melissa M. Firman

With a focus on illegal immigration that parallels current issues in the news, Shanthi Sekaran's second novel Lucky Boy explores how innocent lives, especially those of children, can irrevocably change because of reckless decisions and complicated systems.

"LUCKY BOY"

By Shanthi Sekaran G.P. Putnams Sons ($27).

Eighteen-year-old Solimar (Soli) Castro-Valdez dreams of a new life in America, away from her impoverished Mexican town of Popocalco. Her cousin promises work in California and her trusting father finances Solis trip, believing a coyotes false promises to safely smuggle his daughter into the country. Predictably, Solis trek becomes harrowing and dangerous (several rape scenes may be difficult for some to read); also, predictably, Soli falls in love with her protector during their shared journey.

Shortly after arriving at her cousin Silvias home in Berkeley, Soli discovers she is pregnant. A warm family reunion this isnt. A domineering and cold woman, Silvia manages a workforce of undocumented immigrants and only views Soli as a revenue source.

While Soli works as a housekeeper and cares for her newborn son Ignacio, Ms. Sekaran introduces her reader to Kavya and Rishi Reddy, an affluent and emotionally insecure Berkeley couple preoccupied with work and status. Desperately desiring a child for reasons mostly stemming from a chance to best Kavya's perfect childhood nemesis and to quiet societys expectations they turn to fertility treatments.

After a routine traffic stop gone bad results in Soli being discovered as an illegal alien, Soli and Kavyas lives and Ignacios begin to interact more clearly. Deportation procedures are initiated and Ignacio is placed into foster care, landing in the custody of Kavya and Rishi who, in one of the novels many disingenuous moments, hand-pick Ignacio among a room of toddlers and infants seemingly ripe for the taking.

This erroneous portrayal of the foster care and adoption process is only one example albeit a significant one of how Lucky Boy is rife with generalities and stereotypes. The novels plodding and stilted prose is laden with melodrama, flat metaphors and odd phrasing. (On Solis pregnancy cravings: She ate like a beast in a cave. She found herself addicted, thinking only of her next meal, where it would come from, what it would taste like, how much of it she could cram down the hole before anyone saw her.

The sex-on-demand nature of Kavya and Rishis fertility quest gets similar treatment: She was timing herself religiously now, waiting for mittelschmerz, that sharp ache in her lower abdomen that meant an egg was on its journey. She felt it that morning in the shower: The mittel had arrived and she was schmerzing like a fiend.

Although Soli and Kavyas experiences and losses evoke a readers compassion and sympathy, Lucky Boy doesnt find its focus and footing to succinctly convey how different paths and obstacles to motherhood shape ones identity. If a woman is unable to become pregnant, what messages are received from society about ones value? If someone doesnt have identification, how does that person justify ones worth and purpose and is it ever possible to gain a sense of belonging and place?

These are complicated questions, and while Lucky Boy attempts to answer them through the connected path of motherhood and immigration, this novels rambling journey stumbles before reaching its intended destination.

Melissa M. Firman is a Pittsburgh based freelance writer and editor.

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'Lucky Boy': the tale of the life of an illegal immigrant - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

I want to address the question concerning immigrants living in this country on a legal basis or on an illegal basis.

My maternal grandparents came to this country from Ukraine around 1910, through Ellis Island, the legal gateway to America, to start their new lives. They came in the shadow of the Statue of Liberty through the appropriate legal immigration channelsnot over a fence, not smuggled in a small boat, not swimming across a river, not paying thousands of dollars to be hidden under blankets or in trunks of cars.

The point is simple. Some 10 million to 12 million people are living here illegally, and most have been for years. They are hiding under the radar, are paid under the table, take the jobs of legal immigrants with green cards and work-permits and so much more.

Employers throughout the country have encouraged illegal status to take advantage of these people.

Sure, those here illegally are scared; sure, they are worried about deportation. They have only themselves to blame. If they had taken the appropriate steps, most of them would probably be permanent residents or citizens.

Employers should be heavily fined if caught employing illegal people.

Maybe another amnesty, like President Reagan initiated, is one answer.

Immigration problems have been discussed for decades. Action is happening. Legal immigrants have worked too hard to have jobs, housing, benefits and so much more taken away as others disregard our laws, which are on the books to protect all legal American citizens. We should expect no less from Washington. Follow the laws and live free of fear here.

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Letter: Nation must deal with illegal immigration | Letters To Editor ... - Fredericksburg.com

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D., Texas) / AP

BY: Jack Heretik March 3, 2017 3:23 pm

Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (Texas) is working to bring an illegal immigrant back into the United States.

Lee is trying to bring back Jose Escobar, a 31-year-old who was deported to El Salvador after he was arrested by immigration agentson Feb. 22, according to KPRC Click2Houston.

Escobar was ordered to leave the United States back in 2006, but federal officials said that he fled and became a fugitive. He was arrested in 2011 and subsequently released in 2012 after seven months in federal custody.

He was given time to prepare for his deportation back to El Salvador, but instead obtained a work permit to stay in the U.S. Escobar checked in with Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials for five years before he was arrested and deported last month.

Escobar's wife, Rose, an American citizen, and two children remain in the United States. His wife asked the Trump administration to return her husband and stop its deportation plans in a press conference on Thursday .

Lee held a press conference on Friday afternoon with Escobar's supporters calling for him to be returned to the United States.

"This has to cease and desist," Lee said regarding the deportations.

Lee also said the United States is currently mass deporting illegal immigrants.

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Sheila Jackson Lee Trying to Bring Illegal Immigrant Back to US - Washington Free Beacon