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Two former chiefs of the U.S. Border Patrol join Parsing Immigration Policy this week on the occasion of the agencys 100th anniversary. Rodney Scott and Mark Morgan join host Mark Krikorian discuss how, despite a century of government policies that have often made it harder to secure the border, the Border Patrol has always remained committed to protecting Americas national security. Morgan emphasizes that bad politics, the lack of political courage, strength, and will decade after decade has made the Border Patrols job more difficultbut yet somehow they still are able to succeed.

The Biden administration has leveraged Americans compassion for migrants to promote policies that hinder the Border Patrols ability to do its job. One such policy is the elimination of rapid DNA testing, which helps agents in identifying human traffickers. The mass influx of illegal immigrants that started in 2021 has overwhelmed the Border Patrol, preventing them from engaging in preventive measures like rigorously interviewing suspicious migrants. This situation has led to the departure of many experienced agents and has hindered the training of new agents to address potential national security threats at the border. Morgan and Scott emphasize that illegal immigration is not a victimless crime, underscoring that Border Patrol agents are not motivated by racism or any other nefarious motives; rather, they are safeguarding American national security and the integrity of the legal immigration system.

Going forward, Morgan and Scott stress the importance of improving transparency at the border to pressure politicians to provide resources and policies that will improve border security.

In his closing commentary, Mark Krikorian, the Centers Executive Director and podcast host, discusses the eight Tajikistani nationals all of whom crossed the Southern border and were then released who were recently arrested on terrorism charges. The vetting process failed to detect these Tajiks terrorist ties, and once these ties were discovered, the fact that these foreign nationals were not detained allowed them to disappear into the country. Border security is ultimately a matter of national security, and cases like this showcase the limitations of vetting and the importance of detention.

Mark Krikorian is the Executive Director of the Center for Immigration Studies.

Rodney Scott is a former Chief of the U.S. Border Patrol.

Mark Morgan is a former Chief of the U.S. Border Patrol.

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Reflecting on 100 Years of the Border Patrol - Immigration Blog

I write to encourage a call to action. We must immediately address the illegal immigration happening in Montana.

I, as well as many Montanans have seen the numbers fentanyl confiscation in Montana up by 20,000%, sex trafficking up by 116%, illegal immigration at our northern border up 597% with over 10,000 illegal immigrants crossing per month.

These inexpiable numbers indicate two things: The failure of the Biden Administration to protect America from the influx of crime caused by the illegal immigration crisis on our border and the need for the Montana State Legislature to act where the federal government fell short.

Rep. Ruben Gallego, D-Arizona was quoted by the American Press regarding securing his states borders as saying, every minute we wait means more fentanyl deaths, more strain on our first responders and the looming possibility of street releases something that no small community wants.

But what are we as Montanans doing with the information that has already been well circulated regarding our state? Are we still pretending what is happening at the southern border cant affect a state as far away as Montana?

Look at accounts like the Bozeman resident who was stabbed to death by an illegal immigrant or the apprehension of three illegal immigrants stalking Bozeman locals in a sex trafficking scheme.

Denying the facts can only mean one is suffering from motivated skepticism or an ideological fallacy.

This is not the case for Rep. Colin Allred, D-Texas who was also quoted saying, Our border communities are not just political backdrops, not just places you go to point out problems. Theyre places where real people live, where theyre trying to raise their families.

This is why I am calling on you to urge your state legislators to vote for a special session where we can gather for a week and address these issues as many other states have already done. It is our job to protect the Montana population by halting those inexcusable statistics. It is likely that the U.S. Supreme Court will soon be asked to consider the constitutionality of Senate Bill 4 enacted by Texas, which is what our bill in the special session is based upon.

"It will be important that other states impacted by the Biden Administrations unwillingness to enforce federal immigration laws have enacted their own laws to signal to the Court that we must have the ability to defend our interests if the Biden Administration will not. The impacts extend far beyond southern border states.

Representatives Bill Mercer HD 46, Brandon Ler HD 35, Sherry Essmann HD 52, Jodee Etchart HD 48, Mike Yakawich HD 51, Nelly Nicol HD 53, Larry Brewster HD 44, Greg Oblander HD 40 and Senator Kenneth Bogner SD 19.

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A call for action on the border crisis - The Western News

WASHINGTON, D.C.Senator Thom Tillis and his colleagues recently sent a letter to U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and Attorney General Merrick Garland questioning the Administrations dismissal of asylum cases and highlighting the erosive effect of these policies on the U.S. legal immigration system.

We write to you today regarding recent reports of the Biden administration's purported mass amnesty for illegal aliens. According to a recent article published by the New York Post on June 2, 2024, the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) detailed the dismissal of over 350,000 removal cases since 2022 under the guise of prosecutorial discretion,the senators wrote.

President Bidens recent executive order uses 212(f) and 215(a) of theImmigration and Nationality Actto purportedly shut down the southern border if illegal crossings surge to a daily average of 2,500 over 7 days. This action is too little, too late, and its numerous exceptions make clear that the Administration is more interested in creating the appearance of an orderly border than stopping illegal crossings. It is also an implicit admission of the administrations failure to manage the border crisis effectively from the outset,the senators continued.

This Administrations approach has consistently downplayed the severity of the border crisis, initially denying its existence, then reluctantly acknowledging it, and now attempting to address it through inadequate measures. The repeated failures in border management under your leadership have led to an unprecedented backlog of 3.5 million asylum cases, posing a substantial burden on our immigration system and increasing the risk of criminal activities by illegal aliens,the senators concluded.

Text of the full letter is availableHERE.

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Tillis, Colleagues Demand Answers on Biden Administration's Mass Amnesty for Illegal Immigrants - Thom Tillis

Parents Defending Education submitted a public records request to the San Francisco Unified School District seeking any materials provided or shown to staff during training regarding students who are immigrants or in the United States illegally. The district provided PDE with hundreds of pages of documents. One document that PDE received was titled Characteristics of White Supremacy Culture. The document has a list of perceived characteristics of white supremacy, including perfectionism, sense of urgency, worship of the written word, individualism, and objectivity.

PDE also received a document titled Newcomer RTI Support Services Planning Guide. One point in this document is to explicitly protect illegal aliens: Adherence to & Promotion of Sanctuary City Ordinance. The document also states that staff should have training in Cultural Competency & Humility and Immigrant Youth & Police Contact. Another point is Recognizing specific challenges of newcomers. This includes immigration status and court appointments. This document also includes a list of resources for illegal students.

PDE additionally received a presentation titled Understanding & Supporting the Newcomer Journey. This presentation starts with a Land Acknowledgment and promotes racial equity and anti-racism. The presentation features videos that appear to promote illegal immigration, such as Children on the Run in Central America and The Life of an Unaccompanied Minor in L.A.

Another presentation is titled Building Sanctuary. This presentation starts with a Land Acknowledgment that states no one is illegal on stolen land. A focus of this presentation is Racial Equity Framing and states that immigration is a black issue. The presentation promotes that California is a sanctuary state and that the district is a sanctuary school district. This presentation tells staff how to handle U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

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Promoting open border and amnesty policies is increasingly tricky business for the left. After all, illegal immigration is a major issue for most voters, a concern thats apparently deepening as shown by a new CBS News poll revealing that 62 percent of Americans support, in principle, a new government program to deport all undocumented immigrants living in the U.S.illegally.

Mindful of mounting public resistance and hoping to soften it, mass immigration advocates long ago modified their tactics by conflating legal and illegal immigration, and euphemizing the term illegal alien with an assortment of mushy alternatives undocumented immigrant, undocumented worker, and more recently, New American. Now, a new sleight-of-hand is emerging in the form of local ordinances that permit private groups to create shelters for homeless people when in fact, they are designed to become overflow shelters for illegal aliens further displacing legitimately needyAmericans.

Its deceptive and offensive. According to a U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) report, 650,000 Americans were experiencing homelessness on a single night in January 2023, a 12 percent increase from 2022. HUD also reports nearly 40,000 veterans are living on the streets, a 7.4 percent increase from 2022 to 2023. Substance abuse, escalating home prices and soaring mortgage rates, inflation, and a shortage of housing are contributing factors. Hundreds of thousands of Americans need a helping hand to turn their lives around. Short-term and affordable housing might offer that opportunity, but they cant find it; down-and-out Americans are foreclosed by migrants dominating occupancy at taxpayer-supported shelters and housingunits.

Not surprisingly, most of those municipalities have sanctuary policies, ironically peddled as compassionate when originally put in place, but which now displace Americancitizens.

Westbrook, Maine, is one such example. The city resides within Cumberland Countyheartily endorsing its sanctuary policiesand lays adjacent to the City of Portland which has become the migrant hub of Northern New England. As a result, Westbrook is suffering collateral impact from its neighboring city, and from its own illegal alien welcoming policies. Its recent solution to large numbers of loitering migrants has been to pass an ordinance that allows private groups to create homeless shelters in empty buildings, offices, churches, and single family homes that can operate a shelter as long as they dont exceed 12 people.

What could possibly gowrong?

The recent City Council debate over the ordinance was a farce, sugar-coated with hoorays for community spirit and welcoming neighborhoods, while lacking of any substantive discussion of the citys illegal alien sanctuary policies that have created a migrant housing shortage. Jennie Franceschi, Westbrooks director of planning and code enforcement, glossed over concerns about existing zoning requirements, property values, and public safety issues inherent in creating ad hoc migrant shelters by explaining just how simple everything will be under the new ordinance: A church that has a room that they utilize for the purposes of baked bean suppers or educational or social needs could then take that room and make it into a shelter if the needs of the community necessitatedit.

While the City Council avoided mentioning the word migrants in their push to justify more shelters, a few local residents did recognize the elephant in the room. Westbrook resident Martin Malia, sent an email that was read during the hearing expressing concern that the new ordinance would attract more migrants, and criticized the measure for the potential tax burden it could impose on property owners in the city. I do not believe the homeless shelter proposal is beneficial to the property taxpayers and residents of the city of Westbrook. Last year, the property taxpayers were burdened with an 8.8 percent tax increase. He added the current proposal would result in a cumulative hike property taxes of 11.4percent.

Mr. Malia knows something local leaders know, but wont widely acknowledge: 90 to 95 percent of those applying for general welfare assistanceincluding housingin Westbrook aremigrants.

Dubious that anyone but illegal aliens will occupy the new shelters, Malia continued while offering a perfect description of how sanctuary policies incentivize endless flows of migrants. Word will soon spread that resources are available in Westbrook. Then the calls for shelter expansion will ensue to meet thedemand.

Westbrook citizens can count onthat.

Despite lack of transparency, the new semantics are clear: For mass immigration advocates, homelessness and efforts to address it really mean accommodating and expanding illegal immigration, hiding that agenda, and tossing aside the needs of destituteAmericans.

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Is That REALLY a Homeless Shelter for Needy Americans orIllegal Alien Housing? | FAIRUS.org - Federation for American Immigration Reform