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President Trumps vow to enforce U.S. immigration laws is already proving results: Arrests of people crossing the border dropped 40 percent during his first month in office.

Its almost like illegal immigration isnt an unmanageable problem after all.

Mr. Trump has aggressively pursued his immigration agenda, signing executive orders to start work building the southern border wall, halting funding to jurisdictions that dont comply with federal immigration laws and removing illegal immigrants who have committed serious crimes.

Hes directed the Department of Homeland Security to hire 10,000 immigration and customs enforcement officers and agents, and 5,000 border patrol agents.

And all that work in his first 50 days in office is having a deterring effect.

According to a report from The New York Times: In interviews with migrants, their advocates, and workers at shelters and soup kitchens in Mexico, the United States and Central America, few quibbled with the idea that President Trump had altered the climate for immigration.

Indeed, it was clear that the ground had shifted on both sides of the border, and that the well-traveled route north to a better life had suddenly grown quieter, riskier and more desperate, The Times reported.

The Associated Press trying to do its best to explain away Mr. Trumps success said the people crossing the border illegally in the winter is typically less than the summer. And thats true. But it doesnt explain why illegal border crossing dropped so precipitously from January to February.

According to Homeland Security Secretary John Kellys statement, This change in the trend line is especially significant because CBP historically sees a 10-20 percent increase in apprehensions of illegal immigrants from January to February. Instead, this year we saw a drop from 31,578 to 18,762 persons a 40 percent decline.

This, as migrants look to go elsewhere.

Some migrants who might once have headed to the United States for safety and work are instead looking elsewhere, including Mexico, Belize, Costa Rica, Panama and even South America, The Times reported.

If the United States isnt a country that will provide the guarantees, they will go somewhere else, Vinicio Sandoval, executive director of the Independent Monitoring Group of El Salvador, a labor and legal rights organization involved in migration issues, explained to The Times.

And thats a win for the U.S.

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Trump proves immigration enforcement deters illegal immigration - Washington Times

Sometimes, the language of the media takes an almost synchronized turn, as though someone had flipped a switch. For the past month or so, news stories about illegal immigrants have been remarkably consistent in stressing the fear they feel: living in fear, fearful of ICE agents, etc. It is easy to understand why a sympathetic reporter would want to emphasize the fear and the stress felt by these people, who are, for the most part, poor and vulnerable.

But of course people who are breaking the law are afraid of law enforcement. The fear of getting caught is an inescapable part of violating the law. It is the only reason why speed limits are even kinda-sorta obeyed. The liberal attitude here is, in essence, Gosh, should we feel bad for making them afraid!

Well, no.

Here is what I think is going on, something that touches a little on Richs and Rameshs argument about nationalism: Illegal immigration is basically kind of low-level act of civil disobedience. Civil disobedience doesnt always have a theory behind it or a real political agenda often it is just that: disobedience, refusal to comply with a law that is seen as unjust or intrusive. Most of the people smoking and selling marijuana do not have any big political idea about it they simply intend to live their lives and they please, irrespective of what the letter of the law says. The situation with illegal immigrants is unusual in that we have millions of citizens of one country committing a very large-scale act of civil disobedience against the government of another country.

To people who see citizenship and the nation as more than a legal arrangement, that is intolerable. To those who see these as formalities, Mexicans being present illegally in the United States is something like violating the speed limit.

Which is to say, how we feel about illegal immigration is more about how Americans feel about America than about how we feel about Mexico or Honduras or Ireland.

Rich and Ramesh write: Trumps view of immigration is of a piece with this nationalism we have the sovereign right to decide who comes here and who doesnt, and policy should be crafted to serve the interests of U.S. citizens. Aside from a few fringe libertarians and dotty one-worlders on the left, I have not encountered very many people who dispute that the United States, or any country, has a sovereign right to create and enforce immigration law. There are those who see the elevation of the interests of U.S. citizens above the interests of others as a pernicious form of bias, but the more common attitude is that there really is no such thing as the interests of U.S. citizens corporately, or that, to the extent that such interests are real, the legitimate interests of U.S. citizens are not in conflict with the interests of those seeking to immigrate here.

(The Left tends to get Millian in a hurry on these kinds of questions: Tell me how my gay marriage hurts you! Etc.)

And thus the emphasis of the fear and stress experienced by those on the wrong side of immigration law. To inflict suffering needlessly is cruelty, and those who take an overly indulgent view of illegal immigration do so in no small part because they do not see the point in enforcing the law, which seems to them cruel. To the extent that we do not agree about what the United States is, we will disagree about why things like citizenship and immigration law matter.

Naturally, I do not expect to read any sympathetic accounts of how generally law-abiding Americans subject to whimsical and capricious interpretations of the law say, gun-store owners or grocers live in fear of the ATF or the EPA, and the nice lady with the badge and the gun who took what seemed to me an excessive interest in the relatively trivial issue of my rate of highway travel on a recent trip to California seemed distinctly unsympathetic.

But surely I am not alone in thinking, when I hear NPR reporters choking up about illegals living in fear of immigration enforcement: Well, good. That is as it should be.

No one who has traveled much in Mexico or Central America can fail to be sympathetic to the plight of the poor and the powerless there, but one of the things that most plagues such unhappy corners of the world is lawlessness, first and foremost lawlessness on the part of those entrusted with enforcing the law. Lawlessness north of the Rio Grande is no remedy for lawlessness south of it. That lawlessness engenders a great deal of fear and anxiety, too on both sides of the border.

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Illegals 'Living in Fear' - National Review

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Thursday, Univision anchor Jorge Ramos said on CNNs Anderson Cooper 360 that the Trump effect is causing a fear stronger than any wall that is keeping illegal immigrants from coming into the United States.

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Partial transcript as follows:

COOPER: Jorge, the massive drop in border apprehensions last month, the customs border protections says 40 percent, its down 40 percent, people trying to cross illegally. What do you make of that? Is it possible that the tough talk on illegal immigration by President Trump is working, that he deserves credit for that drop?

RAMOS: Let me just say that fear is stronger than any wall. What we are seeing right now is the Trump effect.

These people calling their relatives and their friends, saying, Dont come here, this is not the right moment. So I think it is possible. Really no one wants illegal immigration, not even undocumented immigrants. It is very risky for them. It is better to do it in a legal way.

And the other positive thing is that, I think, many Americans, many people who voted for Donald Trump, they really have to understand that theres no invasion. No one is invading the United States. Mexicans arent invading the United States. The undocumented population has remained stable at about 11 million for the last decade. So those are the positive things.

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Univision's Ramos: The 'Trump Effect' Is Scaring Illegal Immigrants Away from Entering the US - Breitbart News

LOUISBURG, N.C. An 18-year-old man accused of decapitating his mother promised an emergency dispatcher that he wouldn't kill two young siblings heard wailing in the background of his 911 call, according to a recording released Thursday.

The suspect, who called 911 not long after the killing Monday afternoon, calmly gave answers throughout the nearly 17-minute recording -- with responses ranging from his location to the names of his 4-year-old sister and 2-year-old brother who were in the house. He said his father was away and recited the man's name and cell phone number in an even tone. The dispatcher asked repeatedly about the children.

"I'm not going to kill them; don't worry," the suspect responded.

The siblings were found unharmed when deputies arrived Monday at the house in Zebulon, about 30 miles east of Raleigh. Court documents said the first deputy on the scene saw the suspect walk out of the house carrying a knife in one hand and his mother's severed head in the other.

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The emergency call began with the suspect saying he killed someone and the dispatcher asking him why.

"Why did you kill somebody?" the dispatcher says.

"Because I felt like it," the suspect answers.

Later, the dispatcher later asked if the mother had made him mad: "What was she doing? Did she make you mad, or what happened?"

The suspect responds: "Yes, she made me mad."

The recording offered chilling details of the aftermath of the killing by the suspect described by his defense attorney as mentally disturbed. As they trade questions and answers, the dispatcher sounds unnerved at times. When he says he stabbed his mother eight times, the dispatcher responds: "Oh, mercy."

The exact spelling of the suspect's name was unclear. Local court records listed him as Oliver Funes Machada; federal records as Oliver Funes Machado. He is charged with first-degree murder.

The mother's name, according to local authorities who received the information from a 14-year-old son, is Yesenia Beatriz Funez Machado, 35.

The suspect was from Honduras and in the U.S. illegally, said U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman Bryan Cox.

The prosecutor said officials were seeking a mental evaluation of the suspect, and that his apparent mental issues could delay uncovering a motive for weeks or months. The warrants say he was on four medications for a psychiatric condition, but don't elaborate.

His public defender, attorney C. Boyd Sturges III, has said he spoke to the man and that he is profoundly mentally disturbed.

The suspect's next court appearance is scheduled for Tuesday.

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Illegal immigrant accused of beheading his mom gives chilling 911 call - Fox News

Normally, the ACLU promotes transparency in government and the ability of the public to access public records. But apparently that changes when transparency might reveal damaging information that hurts their opposition to President Trumps common-sense, revised executive order temporarily suspending entry from six terrorist safe havens in the Middle East and Africa.

How else can one explain the ACLUs criticism of a little-noticed provision in the executive order that requires the Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security to, among other things, report on the number and types of acts of gender-based violence against women in the U.S., like the honor killings committed by foreign nationals? That provision will also require public reporting on the number of foreign nationals charged/convicted of terrorism-related offenses or removed from the country for terrorism-related activities.

President Trump announced in his speech to Congress that the Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement office (VOICE) would help victims of crimes committed by aliens. Theres also a provision in his Jan. 25 executive order directing DHS to provide a comprehensive list of criminal actions committed by aliens on a weekly basis. Yet the Left and the media again made the claim that aliens commit less crime than native-born citizens and that the only cruel purpose of these actions is to tag immigrants as criminals.

According to a recent Associated Press article, multiple studies have concluded that immigrants are less likely to commit crime than native-born U.S. citizens. But the issue isnt non-citizens who are in this country legally, and who must abide by the law to avoid having their visas revoked or their application for citizenship refused. The real issue is the crimes committed by illegal aliens. And in that context, the claim is quite misleading, because the multiple studies on crimes committed by immigrants including a 2014 study by a professor from the University of Massachusetts, which is the only one cited in the article combine the crime rates of both citizens and non-citizens, legal and illegal.

That isnt the only problem with the study. Instead of using official crime data, it uses self-reported criminal offending and country of birth information. For obvious reasons, there is little incentive for anyone, let alone criminal aliens, to self-report delinquent and criminal involvement. When it comes to self-reporting criminal activity, some respondents will, no doubt, exaggerate. Others will flat out lie. Furthermore, many respondents will likely not disclose if they are a non-citizen out of fear of discovery and deportation.

These claims overlook disturbing actual data on crimes committed by criminal aliens. For example, the Government Accountability Office released two unsettling reports in 2005 on criminal aliens who are in prison for committing crimes in the United States, and issued an updated report in 2011.

The first report (GAO-05-337R) found that criminal aliens (both legal and illegal) make up 27 percent of all federal prisoners. Yet according to the Center for Immigration Studies, non-citizens are only about nine percent of the nations adult population. Thus, judging by the numbers in federal prisons alone, non-citizens commit federal crimes at three times the rate of citizens.

The findings in the second report (GAO-05-646R) are even more disturbing. This report looked at the criminal histories of 55,322 aliens that entered the country illegally and were still illegally in the country at the time of their incarceration in federal or state prison or local jail during fiscal year 2003. Those 55,322 illegal aliens had been arrested 459,614 times, an average of 8.3 arrests per illegal alien, and had committed almost 700,000 criminal offenses, an average of roughly 12.7 offenses per illegal alien.

Out of all of the arrests, 12 percent were for violent crimes such as murder, robbery, assault and sex-related crimes; 15 percent were for burglary, larceny, theft and property damage; 24 percent were for drug offenses; and the remaining offenses were for DUI, fraud, forgery, counterfeiting, weapons, immigration, and obstruction of justice.

The 2011 GAO report wasnt much different. It looked at 251,000 criminal aliens in federal, state, and local prisons and jails. Those aliens were arrested nearly 1.7 million times for close to three million criminal offenses. Sixty-eight percent of those in federal prison and 66 percent of those in state prisons were from Mexico. Their offenses ranged from homicide and kidnapping to drugs, burglary, and larceny.

Once again, these statistics are not fully representative of crimes committed by illegal aliens: This report only reflects the criminal histories of aliens who were in prison. If there were a way to include all crimes committed by criminal aliens, the numbers would likely be higher because prosecutors often will agree to drop criminal charges against an illegal alien if they are assured that immigration authorities will deport the alien.

The GAO reports also highlight another important flaw in the study referenced by the Associated Press. It uses survey data from a nationally representative sample of people living in the United States. Thus, the study does not take into account some potentially key factors highlighted in the GAO reports: that criminal aliens from Mexico disproportionately make up incarcerations (GAO-05-337R) and that most arrests are made in the three border states of California, Texas, and Arizona (GAO-05-646R and GAO-11-187).

One 2001 study that does take country of origin and geographic concentration factors into account found that Mexican immigrants commit between 3.5 and 5 times as many crimes as the average native. It also pointed out the large concentration of Mexican immigrants in the Southwest, which indicates that a nation-wide sample may not represent what is happening in states with a large concentration of criminal aliens.

Although there are no perfect measures of crimes committed by criminal aliens, it has certainly not been substantiated, as the Associated Press article states, that illegal aliens commit crimes at a lesser rate than either native-born or naturalized American citizens. In fact, existing data seems to show that the opposite is likely true.

But we do know one thing for sure. Every crime committed by an illegal alien is one that would not have occurred if that alien wasnt in the United States in the first place. That includes the hundreds of thousands of crimes committed by the 55,322 illegal aliens in the GAO study who victimized countless numbers of Americans.

So despite the criticism from the ACLU and others, requiring the federal government to keep track of and regularly report on the victimization of Americans by illegal aliens is not only a good idea, it is something that the American people should demand.

Hans A. von Spakovsky is a Senior Legal Fellow and Grant Strobl is a member of the Young Leaders Program at The Heritage Foundation. Along with John Fund, von Spakovsky is the coauthor of Whos Counting? How Fraudsters and Bureaucrats Put Your Vote at Risk and Obamas Enforcer: Eric Holders Justice Department.

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