The U.S. is on pace to secure an additional 400-450 miles of its Southern Border with Mexico by the end of 2020, Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf said Wednesday during a press conference with President Donald Trump.
CNS news <a href="https://cnsnews.com/article/international/susan-jones/dhs-chief-us-well-track-build-400-450-miles-new-border-capability">reported</a> on Wolf’s comments, during which he told viewers that “very few people are coming into country right now. And as we complete, again, the wall, in addition to the 27,000 (Mexican) soldiers, it&#8217;s a very &#8212; it&#8217;s a very tough place to come into.&#8221;
Trump then asked Wolf to discuss “how tight that southern border is right now,” to which Wolf responded that the government is continuing to “build miles of the wall every day.” He went on to say:
<blockquote>We&#8217;re up to over 150, I believe. We&#8217;re continuing to build new&#8211;new miles of wall. And a lot of folks ask about replacement wall or new miles? It&#8217;s a new capability on the Southwest border that we haven&#8217;t had before.
And so, whether you talk to the agents, the Border Patrol agents, they like that capability&#8230;They like that impedance and denial that it provides them. And it provides the ability for those agents to focus elsewhere on parts of the border that are very difficult to patrol so we can use our resources in a different way. And so, we see a lot of benefits from the border wall system.
And again, that includes not only the physical infrastructure but the cameras, the roads, the lightings, the fiber optic cables, and we&#8217;re looking forward and we&#8217;re still well on our track&#8211;well on our mark to meet 400, 450 miles by the end of the calendar year.</blockquote>
Trump added that the “wall is up to about 160 miles already, and any areas where we have that wall&#8211;it&#8217;s for the most part, contiguous, we have fill-ins, but we&#8217;re up to 161 miles exactly.” He said, “any place where you have that wall, other than walking around it on the edges, it&#8217;s stopping everybody cold.&#8221;
In addition, Trump explained how the wall is working:
<blockquote>And we are stopping&#8211;nobody has seen anything like it. That&#8217;s how good it works. And the other side (Democrats) knew it worked that well. Everybody, because everybody was for it five years ago. All of the sudden they changed.
It&#8217;s having a tremendous impact but we are now focused on so many different things because of what has happened, because of this horrible&#8211;I say it&#8217;s a horrible phenomenon that now we have got to focus on drugs and the drugs come in from different methods, and we have the best people at sea anywhere in the world, so we will have a tremendous impact on drugs. But one of the other things we will also have an impact, we think, on the coronavirus.</blockquote>
This press conference was separate from Trump’s daily coronavirus press briefings and received less media attention. Trump as this press conference also announced an “enhanced counter-narcotics operations in the Western Hemisphere to protect the American people from the deadly scourge of illegal narcotics.”

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Travelers trying to return home on the last flights into the United States ahead of coronavirus-related travel shutdowns were forced to wait hours in line for medical screenings, customs checks, and immigration processing Saturday night, after American authorities failed to adequately anticipate and prepare for the travel spike.
The United States announced Friday that travelers coming in from Europe on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday &#8212; the last days before a coronavirus-related &#8220;travel shutdown&#8221; goes into full effect &#8212; would be routed through 13 international airports, where the Transportation Safety Administration and U.S. Customs and Border Protection had both the facilities to process large numbers of travelers, and the ability to quarantine any travelers suspected of carrying the dreaded coronavirus.
That decision left customs officials at airports like Dallas Fort-Worth (DFW) and Chicago&#8217;s O&#8217;Hare International (ORD) overwhelmed, <a href="https://apnews.com/1510caddee80ea2d73363fab76d55967">the Associated Press reports</a>, and left travelers stranded for up to 8 hours at a time waiting for basic screening.
The system at DFW was “atrocious, no semblance of a line beyond the barriers and no officials or staff around to direct,&#8221; one traveler told the AP.
&#8220;Everybody was nervous about it,” an O&#8217;Hare traveler said of the staff processing newly arrived passengers. “Everyone working there was confused and frustrated, and [their] hands were tied, too.”
&#8220;People arriving in the US shared accounts of chaos and confusion as they waited to go through customs at airports including Chicago&#8217;s O&#8217;Hare International Airport and Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport,&#8221; Buzzfeed News added Saturday. &#8220;Photos showed winding lines and shoulder-to-shoulder crowds, with people reporting wait times from 5 to 7 hours long.&#8221;
&#8220;This is the scene at O’Hare airport,&#8221; one social media user tweeted above a photo of incoming passengers packed into an atrium. &#8220;The traveler who took the photo said it’s a 6-hour wait for bags then on to customs for 2-4 more of waiting in shoulder-to-shoulder crowds. Police are handing out water and disinfectant wipes.&#8221;
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This is the scene at O’Hare airport. The traveler who took the photo said it’s a 6-hour wait for bags then on to customs for 2-4 more of waiting in shoulder-to-shoulder crowds. Police are handing out water and disinfectant wipes. <a href="https://twitter.com/fly2ohare?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@fly2ohare</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ord?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ord</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/coronavirus?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#coronavirus</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/COVID19?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#COVID19</a> <a href="https://t.co/UTx9E0nj1s">pic.twitter.com/UTx9E0nj1s</a>
&mdash; Brooke Geiger McDonald (@BrookeGMcDonald) <a href="https://twitter.com/BrookeGMcDonald/status/1238986272137502720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 15, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Passengers were concerned, too, that they were being shuttled through hallways and holding areas where people were packed shoulder-to-shoulder &#8212; much closer than the CDC&#8217;s heavily recommended &#8220;social distancing&#8221; policies should allow. At DFW, passengers complained that there were no measures being taken to ensure sanitary conditions &#8212; and no hand sanitizer available to those who waited hours just inches from other people who had not been screened for coronavirus.
States, airports, and the Department of Homeland Security disagreed on which entity was at fault for the issue. O&#8217;Hare Airport and Illinois governor J.B. Pritzker laid the blame squarely at the feet of the Trump administration and urged Federal authorities &#8220;to increase staffing to meet demand.&#8221;
Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf said Federal agencies are working to streamline the process of screening incoming travelers, but that each person must undergo a 60-second health check.
“Right now we are working to add additional screening capacity and working with the airlines to expedite the process,” Wolf tweeted. “I understand this is very stressful. In these unprecedented times, we ask for your patience.”
On Saturday, the process was moving faster, but fewer flights were coming in. Sunday, the final day that U.S. citizens and greencard holders can re-enter the United States before a complete travel ban takes effect, is expected to be very busy.

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House Democrats, ready to begin investigating the Trump Administration anew after being thwarted in their efforts to remove the president from office, have demanded information on a Department of Homeland Security decision made late last week, ending the &#8220;trusted traveler&#8221; and &#8220;global entry&#8221; programs for New York residents.
Homeland Security Committee Chair Bennie Thompson (D-MN) and House Oversight and Reform Committee Chair Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) are demanding documents from the White House outlining when and why the Trump Administration made the decision to &#8220;retaliate&#8221; against New York for its new, permissive drivers license program.
“We write today to express our opposition to the decision by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to discriminate against residents of the State of New York by barring them from enrolling or re-enrolling in four U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Trusted Traveler Programs,” the two lawmakers wrote in a letter issued to the White House late Saturday. &#8220;We are concerned that the Department&#8217;s policy change may be an improper attempt to use official DHS policy to punish the punish the people of New York because their state government has a political disagreement with the Trump Administration over immigration policy.&#8221;
“This senseless, retaliatory decision should be immediately reversed,&#8221; they demanded, listing a host of DHS documents they&#8217;d like to see.
Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf announced the department&#8217;s new policy barring New Yorkers from using the Transportation Safety Administration&#8217;s &#8220;Trusted Traveler Program&#8221; (TTP) and &#8220;Global Entry&#8221; program last Wednesday, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-dems-demand-documents-on-dhs-move-to-suspend-global-entry-for-ny-over-sanctuary-law">according to Fox News</a>, linking the decision to New York&#8217;s new &#8220;Green Light law,&#8221; which allows illegal immigrants to obtain a driver&#8217;s license, potentially giving those same individuals access to TSA programs that allow them to bypass security screenings.
The Green Light Law also cuts off Customs and Border Patrol&#8217;s access to individual driving records so that CBP and Immigration and Customs Enforcement cannot use those records to initiate deportation proceedings. DHS relies on driving records in its TTP investigations; applicants who have a DUI or other serious traffic offense on their record are not approved for the program.
The Green Light Law &#8220;compromises CBP&#8217;s ability to confirm whether an individual applying for TTP membership meets program eligibility requirements,&#8221; Wolf said in his letter to New York&#8217;s state government outlining the new ban. &#8220;This Act and the corresponding lack of security cooperation from the New York DMV requires DHS to take immediate action to ensure DHS&#8217; s efforts to protect the Homeland are not compromised.&#8221;
DHS also served several subpoenas to the New York Department of Corrections last month, seeking information on whether the NYDOC is deliberately not cooperating with immigration officials, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/07/politics/global-entry-new-york-chad-wolf/index.html">according to CNN</a>.
New York announced late last week that they intend to sue the Trump Administration to have the ban lifted.
House Democrats have restarted a number of investigations into the Trump White House, suspended while the House Democratic caucus pursued an impeachment inquiry stemming from allegations that President Donald Trump traded foreign aid to the Ukraine for an investigation into whether former Vice President Joe Biden abused his power, turning Ukrainian investigators off of an oil and gas company, Burisma, that employed his son, Hunter.
If Democrats pursue this investigation, it would likely mark the first new inquiry following Trump&#8217;s Senate acquittal.

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On Wednesday, Daily Wire Editor-at-Large Josh Hammer, a constitutional attorney by training who also frequently opines on issues pertaining to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-border-wall-nice-interior-enforcement-nicer-josh-hammer">immigration enforcement</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-federal-government-has-no-more-important-josh-hammer">border security</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEglbpSPJ2o&amp;feature=youtu.be">joined</a> &#8220;Tipping Point with Liz Wheeler&#8221; on One America News Network to discuss the latest immigration- and crime-related craziness to emerge from the sanctuary jurisdiction that is the state of California.
&#8220;Since California became a sanctuary state in 2017, the number of inmates with immigration detainers being arrested again after being released from jail has jumped, according to a new report from Orange County Sheriff Don Barnes,&#8221; Los Angeles&#8217; local CBS affiliate <a href="https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2020/02/04/oc-sheriff-sb-54-sanctuary-state-law-repeat-crimes-increase-undocumented-immigrants/">reported</a> earlier this week. &#8220;According to Barnes, more than 1,500 inmates released in 2019 had ICE detainers, a request from the federal agency for notification that a particular inmate has been released. Of those inmates, 238 were re-arrested in Orange County for new crimes, including assault and battery, rape, and robbery.&#8221;
&#8220;The rate of recidivism for those with ICE detainers is up from 2018, when 123 were arrested again for new crimes, out of more than 1,800 such inmates, according to the report,&#8221; the outlet continued.
Hammer has been previously outspoken on the topic of sanctuary cities, opining in a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-why-no-one-pointing-out-sanctuary-cities-josh-hammer">Daily Wire op-ed</a> last summer that the majority of sanctuary jurisdictions blatantly violate the text of <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1373">8 U.S.C. § 1373(a)</a>, which reads: &#8220;Notwithstanding any other provision of Federal, State, or local law, a Federal, State, or local government entity or official may not prohibit, or in any way restrict, any government entity or official from sending to, or receiving from, the [Department of Homeland Security] information regarding the citizenship or immigration status, lawful or unlawful, of any individual.&#8221;
&#8220;The Constitution’s Supremacy Clause, as applied to § 1373(a), therefore prohibits state and local governments from shielding a removable illegal alien from ICE when ICE issues a detainer request on the alien,&#8221; Hammer wrote.
Joining Wheeler, Hammer decried the <a href="https://cis.org/Camarota/NonCitizens-Committed-Disproportionate-Share-Federal-Crimes-201116">disproportionately high rate of crime</a> for illegal aliens in America before making a similar legal point that he made in the Daily Wire op-ed. He accused sanctuary jurisdictions of adopting similar logic to that of the old Confederacy:
<blockquote>Very few people in the conservative punditry class are making this point, but my reading of federal law is that laws like California&#8217;s are blatantly illegal. If you look at title eight of the United States Code, section 1373, subsection (a), it says very clearly that no federal, state, or local government can &#8220;prohibit&#8221; or &#8220;restrict&#8221; sending any information to the Department of Homeland Security, which of course includes [Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)]. Put another way, when ICE requests detainer information, these states cannot just refuse it. That is literally against the United States Code. And of course, that law is promulgated directly pursuant to the Supremacy Clause of <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/articlevi">Article VI of the Constitution</a>.
Liz your high school viewers might recall from civics class in high school: This was the entire so-called &#8220;nullification crisis&#8221; of the 1830s, with John C. Calhoun in South Carolina. And it&#8217;s the reason why, in my personal writings on this topic going back months, I always refer to the sanctuary jurisdictions as &#8220;neo-Confederate,&#8221; because it&#8217;s literally what&#8217;s going on here. They are adopting John C. Calhoun-esque, defying-federal law, Confederacy-style public policy and legal argumentation.</blockquote>
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It just continues to get worse and worse for the Iowa Democratic Party — and, by extension, for both the Democratic National Committee and grassroots Democrats across the country alike. The already-infamous app crashing that has resulted in politicos still not knowing the full and final results of Monday night&#8217;s first-in-the-nation caucuses was compounded by the fact, as The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dhs-acting-secretary-iowa-democratic-party-refused-help-testing-failed-caucus-app">noted</a>, that the Iowa Democratic Party turned down express overtures from the Department of Homeland Security to help with vetting the technology.
As of Thursday morning, The New York Times&#8217; &#8220;live&#8221; caucus <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/02/04/us/elections/results-iowa-caucus.html?action=click&amp;module=Top%20Stories&amp;pgtype=Homepage">results tabulator</a> showed former South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg with a remarkably narrow lead over Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT). Buttigieg currently leads Sanders 26.2% to 26.1% in the total statewide popular vote, and by 550 to 547 in terms of state delegate equivalents. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is in third place, with 18.2% and 381 state delegate equivalents, whereas bumbling former Vice President Joe Biden is in fourth place with 15.8% and 331 state delegate equivalents. Overall, then, with 97% of Iowa precincts reporting, Buttigieg leads in 59 of Iowa&#8217;s 99 counties, Sanders leads in 19, and politicos everywhere eagerly anticipate the results of the final 28. Despite his minuscule deficit in statewide popular vote and state delegate equivalents, however, the Times&#8217; current &#8220;live estimate&#8221; of who will ultimately prevail shows Sanders as a narrow favorite over Buttigieg.
In short, this is total chaos and a dumpster fire of catastrophic proportions.
But now, the Times is <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/06/upshot/iowa-caucuses-errors-results.html?emc=edit_na_20200206&amp;ref=headline&amp;nl=breaking-news&amp;campaign_id=60&amp;instance_id=0&amp;segment_id=21030&amp;user_id=b715e556383ae49550d07cacec388fa8&amp;regi_id=74074015&amp;fbclid=IwAR1YBbD9XtncQ9h-ewnL6kg3WQsQ6Jf4rekz3cDas72ynCHODBKdenZzTvs">separately reporting</a> that the results finally reported by the Iowa Democratic Party on Wednesday are &#8220;riddled with errors and inconsistencies.&#8221;
&#8220;The results released by the Iowa Democratic Party on Wednesday were riddled with inconsistencies and other flaws,&#8221; the Gray Lady wrote. &#8220;According to a New York Times analysis, more than 100 precincts reported results that were internally inconsistent, that were missing data or that were not possible under the complex rules of the Iowa caucuses.&#8221;
&#8220;In some cases, vote tallies do not add up,&#8221; the Times continued. &#8220;In others, precincts are shown allotting the wrong number of delegates to certain candidates. And in at least a few cases, the Iowa Democratic Party’s reported results do not match those reported by the precincts.&#8221;
&#8220;Some of these inconsistencies may prove to be innocuous, and the irregularities do not indicate an intentional effort to compromise or rig the result,&#8221; the newspaper reported. &#8220;But not all of the errors are minor, and they raise questions about whether the public will ever get a completely precise account of the Iowa results. With Mr. Sanders closing to within 0.1% with 97% of 1,765 precincts reporting, the race could easily grow close enough for even the most minor errors to delay a final projection or raise doubts about a declared winner.&#8221;
This is not exactly the way a political party ostensibly preoccupied with repelling election interference and preserving the integrity of the franchise would prefer that a leading left-wing newspaper cover its first-in-the-nation caucuses.
Separately this week, guru Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight <a href="https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/iowa-might-have-screwed-up-the-whole-nomination-process/">weighed in with insights</a> on how &#8220;Iowa might have screwed up the whole nomination process.&#8221;
&#8220;To be &#8230; blunt: The Iowa Democratic Party’s colossal screw-up in reporting results will potentially have direct effects on the outcome of the nomination process,&#8221; Silver wrote. &#8220;The failure to report results will almost certainly help Biden, assuming that indications that he performed poorly in Iowa are correct, as they won’t get nearly as much media coverage. And they’ll hurt whichever candidate wins the state — most likely Sanders or Buttigieg.&#8221;
&#8220;It’s not a good situation for the Democratic Party,&#8221; he concluded. &#8220;And it’s already too late for the damage to be entirely undone, even if Iowa eventually gets its act together.&#8221;

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Last night&#8217;s Iowa caucuses debacle was nothing less than a catastrophe for the Democratic Party and the Democratic National Committee. &#8220;You had one job,&#8221; as the <a href="https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/you-had-one-job">popular meme</a> goes, and the Iowa Democratic Party failed did not merely fail that job — it exhibited the kind of reckless and gross incompetence that would be merely embarrassing were it not for the rather Orwellian fact that these are the same people who want to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/walsh-the-democrat-party-cant-run-its-own-primary-but-wants-to-run-the-health-care-system">nationalize and control our health care</a>. As of this moment, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/what-to-watch-for-during-tonights-iowa-caucuses">politicos across the country</a> are still waiting with bated breath for official results from last night&#8217;s caucuses.
The Iowa Democratic Party (IDP) has issued a preliminary official response, as The Daily Wire&#8217;s Ashe Schow <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/iowa-democrats-on-caucus-debacle-we-gotta-learn-to-code">reported</a> this morning:
<blockquote>As precinct caucus results started coming in, the IDP ran them through an accuracy and quality check. It became clear that there were inconsistencies with the reports. The underlying cause of these inconsistencies was not immediately clear, and required investigation, which took time.
As this investigation unfolded, IDP staff activated pre-planned backup measures and entered data manually. This took longer than expected.
As part of our investigation, we determined with certainty that the underlying data collected via the app was sound. While the app was recording data accurately, it was reporting out only partial data. We have determined that this was due to a coding issue in the reporting system. This issue was identified and fixed. The application’s reporting issue did not impact the ability of precinct chairs to report data accurately.</blockquote>
That underlying app, it turns out, was developed, in large part, with the failed 2016 Hillary Clinton presidential campaign&#8217;s campaign manager, <a href="https://twitter.com/ComfortablySmug/status/1224541115241680902">Robby Mook</a>. Some Democrats and leftists last night were indeed quick to blame Mook for their party&#8217;s Hawkeye State woes.
&#8220;I’ve always felt like Robby Mook didn’t get enough credit for his part in tanking Hillary’s campaign but now knowing he was behind this failed Iowa app I’m positive he was fully responsible for tanking Hillary’s campaign,&#8221; tweeted Mashable&#8217;s Matt Binder.
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I’ve always felt like Robby Mook didn’t get enough credit for his part in tanking Hillary’s campaign but now knowing he was behind this failed Iowa app I’m positive he was fully responsible for tanking Hillary’s campaign
&mdash; Matt Binder (@MattBinder) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattBinder/status/1224540937138966528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 4, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Now, as of this morning, we know that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) initially reached out to the IDP to see if the state party wanted any help with vetting the new technology. The IDP, in turn, brazenly refused the feds&#8217; request.
&#8220;Department of Homeland Security Acting Secretary Chad Wolf says the Iowa Democrat[ic] Party declined to have their new caucus app vetted by the department,&#8221; Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/dhs-sec-chad-wolf-democrats-iowa-clinton-app">reports</a>. &#8220;Appearing on &#8216;Fox &amp; Friends&#8217; with co-host Steve Doocy, Wolf said that the DHS cybersecurity and infrastructure security agency had offered to test the app from a &#8216;hacking perspective,&#8217; but the party had declined.&#8221;
&#8220;They declined and so we are seeing a couple of issues with it,&#8221; Wolf added, according to the outlet.
Heather Swift, officials spokesperson for DHS, also corroborated Wolf&#8217;s on-air narrative.
&#8220;Homeland Security&#8217;s [Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency] offered to test the Iowa Caucus app,&#8221; she tweeted. &#8220;They declined. See [Acting Secretary Wolf] interview,&#8221; she added, linking to Wolf&#8217;s &#8220;Fox &amp; Friends&#8221; appearance.
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Homeland Security&#39;s <a href="https://twitter.com/CISAgov?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CISAgov</a> offered to test the Iowa Caucus app. They declined. See <a href="https://twitter.com/DHS_Wolf?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DHS_Wolf</a> interview <a href="https://t.co/GoQeEMZbuJ">https://t.co/GoQeEMZbuJ</a>
&mdash; Heather Swift, DHS spokesperson (@SpoxDHS) <a href="https://twitter.com/SpoxDHS/status/1224684831558324225?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 4, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Suffice it to say this is not exactly the start the Democratic Party wanted for its campaign to defeat President Donald Trump this November.

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As The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-considering-dramatic-expansion-of-terrorist-nations-added-to-travel-ban-list">previewed weeks ago</a> and as has also been rumored for much of this current week, the Trump administration on Friday imposed travel restrictions on six new countries.
&#8220;President Donald Trump is expected to reveal an expansion of his controversial travel ban on Friday, the same day he could be acquitted in his impeachment trial and just days ahead of the president’s annual State of the Union address,&#8221; Politico <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/30/trump-travel-ban-expansion-109659">reported</a> yesterday. &#8220;The expected announcement — confirmed by two people familiar with the matter — had initially been planned for this past Monday to coincide with the three-year anniversary of the original order, which restricted travel from several majority-Muslim nations.&#8221;
On Friday afternoon, The Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-administration-imposes-new-travel-restrictions-on-six-countries-11580500874?emailToken=ee9c4d96fd7222587f6a95ea5366a1faJTb2EUg+d0M9bUrQCrIOQzQ91WSepUbYHQgY9Wk%2F8tABR%2F6914m7UCcOGLZysxL+RosZfgYd3Lb8J2OSgyyjyduSEnQYimX%2FldifLfWwadKmtNJ7tcwwfsnO5mS8469GWPrBhircuAoxdsFvkggkYQ%3D%3D&amp;reflink=article_whatsapp_share&amp;fbclid=IwAR03FzpEH7xWpUAx8Zyh0wkm5hGE__rlQ_gQW9NIAzsU5wuLbIvKnm8_tAc">confirmed the news</a>. The six new countries to have various types of travel restrictions imposed upon them are Nigeria, Eritrea, Myanmar, Kyrgyzstan, Sudan, and Tanzania.
&#8220;Citizens from Nigeria, Eritrea, Myanmar and Kyrgyzstan won’t be allowed to apply for visas to immigrate to the U.S. under the policy, which the Trump administration said was designed to tighten security for countries that don’t comply with the U.S. minimum security standards or cooperate to prevent illegal immigration,&#8221; the Journal reports. &#8220;Two other countries, Sudan and Tanzania, will be barred from participating in the diversity visa lottery, which randomly awards green cards to 50,000 immigrants from underrepresented countries annually. Many of the recipients are from African countries.&#8221;
Specifically, Nigeria, Eritrea, Myanmar and Kyrgyzstan will have the issuance suspended of all visas that might lead to permanent residency, according to <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-ban/trump-to-expand-travel-ban-to-six-additional-countries-u-s-official-idUSKBN1ZU2WD">Reuters</a>.
Overall, &#8220;[t]he six countries [added today] will join a list of seven nations, most of them Muslim-majority, that faced significant travel restrictions under President Trump’s original travel ban, issued in 2017,&#8221; the Journal continues. Those original seven nations were Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria, Yemen, Venezuela, and North Korea.
That original travel ban was ultimately upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in the attention-grabbing 2018 case of <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/17pdf/17-965_h315.pdf">Trump v. Hawaii</a>.
&#8220;By its plain language, [8 U.S.C.] §1182(f) grants the president broad discretion to suspend the entry of aliens into the United States,&#8221; Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for a bare 5–4 Court majority. &#8220;The president lawfully exercised that discretion based on his findings — following a worldwide, multi-agency review — that entry of the covered aliens would be detrimental to the national interest. And plaintiffs’ attempts to identify a conflict with other provisions in the [Immigration and Nationality Act], and their appeal to the statute’s purposes and legislative history, fail to overcome the clear statutory language.&#8221;
The addition of countries with Trump administration-imposed travel restrictions placed upon them surely has a political element, and can likely be viewed as an attempt by the president to help shore up his base in the lead-up to November&#8217;s election. But the primary rationale seems to be a more emotionally detached attempt to buttress homeland security.
“These countries for the most part want to be helpful, want to do the right thing,” said Chad Wolf, acting Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, according to the Journal. “But for a variety of reasons, they failed to meet those requirements we laid out.”

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It turns out that an Iranian student who was recently denied entry upon his arrival in the U.S. and was subsequently deported has some pretty shady ties, according to a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official who <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/iranian-student-whose-deportation-spurred-dem-outcry-has-family-ties-to-irgc-hezbollah-dhs-official">spoke to Fox News</a>. That the deported student has such problematic links — to Iran&#8217;s murderous Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and the Iranian regime&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-defund-lebanon-and-do-it-yesterday">Lebanon-based Hezbollah proxy</a>, in particular — ought to serve as a wakeup call for the Democratic Party officials, left-wing activists, and open-borders advocates who trotted out the normal hue and cry upon the student&#8217;s denial and deportation.
&#8220;An Iranian student who was denied entry to the United States on arrival and deported this week, amid objections from top Democrats and left-wing activists, has family ties to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps and Lebanon-based terror group Hezbollah, a Department of Homeland Security official told Fox News,&#8221; the outlet <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/iranian-student-whose-deportation-spurred-dem-outcry-has-family-ties-to-irgc-hezbollah-dhs-official">reported</a>.
&#8220;Mohammad Shahab Dehghani Hossein was denied entry to the U.S. and detained on Sunday when he arrived on a student visa at Boston Logan International Airport,&#8221; Fox News continued. &#8220;His detention sparked outrage from activists, who flooded the airport demanding his release. It also drew objections from Northeastern University, where [Hossein Abadi] was due to be enrolled, and the American Civil Liberties Union.&#8221;
Some very prominent Democrats, such as 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), responded indignantly. Warren, taking up Hossein Abadi&#8217;s cause, casually accused President Donald Trump&#8217;s administration of &#8220;xenophobia[a].&#8221;
&#8220;Shahab Dehghani is an Iranian student with a valid F1 visa, returning to finish his education,&#8221; Warren tweeted. &#8220;[U.S. Customs and Border Protection] already held him overnight. His deportation must be halted, and we must fight the Trump administration&#8217;s xenophobic policies.&#8221;
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Shahab Dehghani is an Iranian student with a valid F1 visa, returning to finish his education. CBP already held him overnight. His deportation must be halted, and we must fight the Trump administration&#39;s xenophobic policies. <a href="https://t.co/ZCKVo5fwvM">https://t.co/ZCKVo5fwvM</a>
&mdash; Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) <a href="https://twitter.com/ewarren/status/1219457019729588224?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 21, 2020</a></blockquote>
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A judge in Massachusetts had initially stayed Hossein Abadi&#8217;s deportation, but U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) then promptly executed his deportation. CBP issued a statement on the incident, as <a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/01/22/iranian-student-bound-northeastern-removed-us-despite-court-order">reported</a> by Insider Higher Ed.
&#8220;Every applicant for admission is subject to inspection upon arrival in the United States,&#8221; CBP said. &#8220;The issuance of a visa or participation in the visa waiver program does not guarantee entry to the United States. Upon arrival at Logan Airport on Sunday, January 19, [Hossein Abadi] was deemed inadmissible and processed for expedited removal and return to his place of departure. During today’s hearing, the court ruled that the matter is now moot as the subject was never admitted into the United States, the subject is no longer in custody, and the court does not have jurisdiction to order his return.&#8221;
Hossein Abadi had first applied for a U.S. visa in 2018 and &#8220;[h]is visa was granted approximately a week ago,&#8221; Insider Higher Ed reported. But the DHS official who spoke to Fox News told the outlet that &#8220;the case was more complicated than some were letting on, and that there were legitimate reasons for rejecting [Hossein Abadi]&#8221; — in other words, his ties to the IRGC and Hezbollah.
Hezbollah, the Iran-funded and -trained proxy militia that has <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/lebanon-is-gone">all but overrun Lebanon</a>, is uniquely poised to cause immense trouble for Israel. As I explained last month in a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-defund-lebanon-and-do-it-yesterday">Daily Wire op-ed</a> calling for the full defunding of all U.S. taxpayer foreign aid to Lebanon:
<blockquote>Bear in mind that Hezbollah currently maintains scores of Iranian-funded, <a href="https://www.idf.il/en/minisites/hezbollah/hezbollahs-precision-guided-missile-project/">precision-guided missiles</a> currently stationed in southern Lebanon and aimed straight at the hearts of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Israel’s next war — and it is a matter of when, not if — with Hezbollah is going to be a <a href="http://www.thetower.org/article/the-new-hezbollah-israels-next-war-will-be-a-godawful-mess/">long, bloody mess</a>. And foreign aid to Israel aside, the U.S. taxpayer presently also funds the horrifically wrong side of that inevitable war.</blockquote>

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In October, the Trump administration handed out $100,000 of taxpayer dollars to the <a href="https://www.meforum.org/pics/CAIR-Dossier-other.pdf">terror-tied</a> Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the Middle East Forum has found.
In 2009, the FBI blacklisted CAIR after federal prosecutors <a href="https://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/case_docs/423.pdf#page=5">named the Islamist group as an unindicted co-conspirator</a> during the 2008 Holy Land Foundation <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/holy-land-foundation-hamas-support-convictions-affirmed-andrew-c-mccarthy/">terrorism financing</a> trial. In 2014, the United Arab Emirates designated CAIR as a terrorist organization. And today, its officials continue to <a href="https://www.meforum.org/59432/hate-crimes-panel-with-cair-leader-cancelled">promote</a> and <a href="https://www.meforum.org/59007/zahra-biilloo">excuse</a> violently anti-American and anti-Semitic rhetoric.
To fund CAIR, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) first <a href="https://www.usaspending.gov/#/award/ASST_NON_EMW-2019-UA-00061_7022">awarded</a> monies to the Washington, D.C. government, which then selected CAIR and a number of other extremist organizations as suitable sub-recipients. The federal government would likely have been aware, however, that CAIR was a grantee — <a href="https://hsema.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/hsema/publication/attachments/subrecipient-handbook%20Oct%202018.pdf">according</a> to government documentation, it seems sub-grantees must be approved by DHS before funds are distributed.
The administration’s funding of CAIR was the product of the DHS’s Nonprofit Security Grant Program. As my colleague <a href="https://www.meforum.org/islamist-watch/60198/stop-taxpayer-money-from-funding-islamist-tied">David Swindle recently wrote</a> in The Daily Wire, Congress’ current proposed expansion of the program’s budget, however “well-meaning,” carries enormous “potential for abuse” and will end up providing “millions of taxpayer dollars” to “pro-jihadist Islamist groups.”
This program and others seem to be doing just that. Additional new federal grants of taxpayers’ money handed out to Islamist organizations include over $57,000 to the Muslim American Society (MAS), a national Islamist organization whose Philadelphia branch hosted an event last year at which young children from an MAS-run school recited poetry about the killing of Jews; and $100,000 to Dar al-Hijrah, a hardline Virginia mosque once home to former al-Qaeda leader Anwar al-Awlaki, and <a href="https://www.investigativeproject.org/mosques/417/dar-al-hijrah-mosque">long</a> <a href="https://clarionproject.org/dar-al-hijrah-islamic-center/">considered</a> a key terror hub by law enforcement agencies.
The Middle East Forum has written before about the enormous amount of taxpayers’ money being handed out to dangerous Islamist organizations. In 2019, we <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/westrop-research-has-uncovered-41-million-taxpayer-sam-westrop">discovered</a> that over $41 million of federal grants has been given to radical groups since 2007. This total does not include the dozens of more recent awards made in the last few months.
Surprisingly, under the Trump administration, grants to extremist organizations have actually increased. As we <a href="https://www.meforum.org/60019/american-islamism-flourishes-under-trump#_ftn28">noted</a> last year, “between 2017 and 2018, the amount of taxpayers&#8217; money given to organizations either influenced or controlled by Islamist activists more than tripled from $4 million to $13.5 million. Under the Obama administration, the amount given to Islamist-linked organizations averaged a mere $1.7 million each year.”
In August 2019, the U.S. Census Bureau quickly cancelled a proposed partnership with CAIR after a number of conservative media outlets started <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/census-bureau-abruptly-ends-just-announced-partnership-with-muslim-advocacy-group-cair">investigating</a> the decision. But why this was not enough to stop the federal government from subsequently funding the very group it had previously conceded was beyond the pale?
Over the last few months, some supporters of the administration have reacted to our research into public subsidy and <a href="https://www.meforum.org/60019/american-islamism-flourishes-under-trump#_ftn28">political support</a> for these theocratic groups by acknowledging the problem but arguing that, in many instances, the federal government’s embrace of Islamists and its failure to work instead with moderate Muslims is an enduring legacy of extant Obama administration policies.
Given the longstanding programs behind many of these grants, this may well be true. If only there were someone to drain the swamp.
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Sam Westrop is director of <a href="http://islamist-watch.org/">Islamist Watch</a>, a project of the <a href="https://www.meforum.org">Middle East Forum</a>.

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Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA), who was infamously the sole member of the U.S. House of Representatives to vote against Congress&#8217;s post-9/11 Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists, which precipitated the Afghanistan invasion, has now taken to spreading outright fake news.
Yesterday, Lee took to Twitter to spread baseless and unconfirmed innuendo that the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is now involved in the detention of Iranian-American U.S. citizens. &#8220;People of Iranian descent — including American citizens &amp; green card holders — are reportedly being detained by CBP officials,&#8221; Lee tweeted. &#8220;We can’t let this stand.&#8221; She continued, urging conscientious citizens all over the land to contact her district office: &#8220;If you or someone you know has been targeted or detained by CBP officials, please contact my district office at 510-763-0370.&#8221;
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People of Iranian descent — including American citizens &amp; green card holders — are reportedly being detained by CBP officials. We can’t let this stand. 
If you or someone you know has been targeted or detained by CBP officials, please contact my district office at 510-763-0370.
&mdash; Rep. Barbara Lee (@RepBarbaraLee) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepBarbaraLee/status/1213944364575031296?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 5, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Less than 30 minutes after Lee&#8217;s misleading spreading of fake news, CBP itself responded. &#8220;Social media posts that CBP is detaining Iranian-Americans and refusing their entry into the U.S. because of their country of origin are false,&#8221; the agency tweeted. &#8220;Reports that DHS/CBP has issued a related directive are also false.&#8221;
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Social media posts that CBP is detaining Iranian-Americans and refusing their entry into the U.S. because of their country of origin are false. Reports that DHS/CBP has issued a related directive are also false.
&mdash; CBP (@CBP) <a href="https://twitter.com/CBP/status/1213951246463328256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 5, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Congresswoman Lee was not the only prominent leftist to spread this fake news, as the Daily Caller <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2020/01/05/customs-border-iran-detain-order">reported</a>. Other offenders included Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), who tweeted on Sunday: &#8220;Deeply disturbed by reports that Iranian Americans, including U.S. citizens, are being detained at the Canadian border with WA State.&#8221; She continued, similarly urging conscientious citizens to contact her office: &#8220;My office has been working on this all morning. Please contact us with information on directly affected people at WA07PJ_casework@mail.house.gov.&#8221;
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Deeply disturbed by reports that Iranian Americans, including U.S. citizens, are being detained at the Canadian border with WA State.
My office has been working on this all morning. Please contact us with information on directly affected people at WA07PJ_casework@mail.house.gov.
&mdash; Rep. Pramila Jayapal (@RepJayapal) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepJayapal/status/1213896795409059840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 5, 2020</a></blockquote>
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As <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/border-patrol-denies-reports-by-democrats-that-iranian-americans-were-being-detained">noted</a> by the Washington Examiner, part of the fear-mongering began via the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which was infamously an <a href="https://www.investigativeproject.org/1854/doj-cairs-unindicted-co-conspirator-status-legit">unindicted co-conspirator</a> in the largest terror finance trial in the history of the Department of Justice. CAIR had issued an <a href="https://www.cair.com/breaking_cair_wa_assisting_iranian_americans_detained_u_s_border">alarmist post</a> earlier on Sunday entitled, &#8220;BREAKING: CAIR-WA Assisting Iranian-Americans Detained at U.S. Border.&#8221;
Lee, keeping with her longtime status as an ardent foreign policy dove, has been one of the most outspoken opponents of escalating military tension with the Islamic Republic of Iran. As <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/house/476862-omar-lee-introduce-house-resolution-directing-trump-to-pull-us-troops-back">reported</a> by The Hill, Lee is teaming up with none other than Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) to draft a congressional resolution that would prevent U.S. military action against Iran that is not expressly authorized by Congress:
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The resolution released by the two lawmakers would explicitly tie any military action against Iran to a congressional vote, though the U.S. would not be prevented from responding to an Iranian attack.
&#8220;We in Congress must exercise our Constitutional duty—and do everything in our power to stop another disastrous war,&#8221; Omar said in a statement. &#8220;Following the assassination [of Gen. Qassem Soleimani,] thousands of additional troops were sent to the Middle East in one of the largest rapid deployments seen in decades. This follows years of saber-rattling and threats of war against Iran by President Trump and his accomplices.&#8221;
&#8220;It’s past time for Congress to reassert our Constitutional authority and return to diplomacy with Iran and our allies,&#8221; added Lee, the sole member of Congress to vote against war in Afghanistan in 2001.
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New York took a dramatic step on Monday toward providing illegal immigrants more privacy rights than law-abiding citizens. On December 16, the state’s “Green Light” law took effect, having been signed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) in June.
The law allows illegal immigrants to apply for a driver’s license, since a Social Security number is no longer needed. In addition, the law allows unverified foreign documentation to be used as proof of identity. Further, the law prevents Department of Homeland Security (DHS) law enforcement officers from obtaining public records when they run license plates on vehicles registered to illegal immigrants.
On Monday, a DHS spokesman provided <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2019/12/16/dhs-new-york-green-light-allow-illegal-alien-driver-license/?utm_source=&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=11289">a statement</a> to The Daily Caller outlining the safety issues that come with the New York law.
“This will protect criminals at the expense of the safety and security of law-abiding New York residents,” the DHS spokesman said in the statement.
“Besides giving drivers licenses to hundreds of thousands of people who broke our laws and have come to our country illegally, the New York law also blocks DHS law enforcement officers who investigate crimes like child exploitation, human trafficking, terrorism, the targeting of gang members, sex offenders, and drug smuggling, from accessing important public records,” the spokesman continued.
“Accessing this information is vital to building out these criminal cases, identifying criminal suspects, and enhancing officer safety,” the statement said.
Lisa Koumjian, assistant commissioner for communications for the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles, confirmed to the Caller that the Empire State would withhold vital information from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers.
“Under the Green Light Law, no DMV data of any kind can be shared with an agency that primarily enforces immigration law, which means ICE, Customs &amp; Border Protection and Citizenship and Immigration Services do not have access to data unless the DMV is presented with a valid judge-signed court order, subpoena or judicial warrant,” Koumjian said.
This means that DHS officials must receive a warrant to obtain public records if they run the plates of a suspicious vehicle and it turns out the vehicle is registered to an illegal immigrant. American citizens don’t have such rights in New York if, say, the FBI were to look up their plates.
The law has angered some county clerks in New York. Some have said they would not comply with the law. More than 50% of county clerks with DMV responsibilities signed a letter to Cuomo asking him to delay implementation of the law, citing concerns about validating foreign documents. The clerks said they were not provided adequate regulations for validating foreign documents, saying the state only gave them information during “two hastily delivered webinars and a conference call.”
The clerks further stated that state DMV representatives admitted during the conference call that “they have no way to check or verify if a person” signs an affidavit saying they don’t have a Social Security Number does not, in fact, have a Social Security number.
The Clerks also said there are no standards to verify a correct translation of foreign documents and that even a foreign school report card would be acceptable proof of identity under the New York law.

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Police in Chicago were warned not to cooperate with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on issues of immigration.
The Chicago Police Department (CPD)sent a memo, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/chicago-police-dont-cooperate-dhs-immigration">obtained by Fox News</a>, to officers in late September telling them to wait for a supervisor to arrive before assisting DHS. Upon arrival, the supervisor will direct CPD officers to leave the scene, “if the request is to assist with an immigration arrest or detention. Fox News confirmed the authenticity of the memo but could not determine whether Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot was behind the directive.
Several sources within the CPD told Fox that the new policy puts both departments at risk.
“See what happens when that happens and a DHS agent is injured because of a lack of response by CPD. Sickening what’s happening here,” one source told the outlet.
“You’ll not find a single real police officer that would refuse to assist another agency,” said another.
Chicago is one of at least 36 sanctuary cities in the United States that refuse to cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, an agency within DHS. In addition to dozens of cities, whole counties and states are also considered to be sanctuaries for illegal immigrants.
A DHS spokesperson told Fox that the memo to Chicago police officers was dangerous.
“The Department of Homeland Security is deeply concerned with the dangerous anti-law enforcement direction given by the leadership of the Chicago Police Department. The men and women of ICE put their lives on the line every day to protect the citizens of this country from dangerous criminals,” the spokesperson told the outlet. “Failing to support fellow law enforcement officers upon request for assistance not only places our heroic police officers in greater danger but keeps criminals on the streets and makes all of our communities less safe, specifically the great City of Chicago.”
The CPD told the outlet that law enforcement would assist a federal agent who is in danger but would not assist in the arrest. Instead, they will “advise and leave the scene.”
The new policy for CPD came around the same time that a Virginia police officer was suspended <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/police-officer-suspended-after-cooperating-with-ice">for cooperating with ICE</a>.
The officer was suspended after responding to a vehicle crash. During routine license checks, the officer discovered that one of the drivers had a warrant out for his arrest for failing to appear for a deportation hearing. The officer notified the ICE contact listed on the notification of the warrant, who was nearby. The officer then arrested the driver and turned them over to the ICE agent.
Fairfax County Police Chief Edwin Roessler Jr. said in <a href="https://fcpdnews.wordpress.com/2019/10/01/chief-roesslers-statement-on-officers-custodial-detention-and-ice-notification/?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social">a statement</a> that officer violated a department order requiring them to ignore such a notification unless the person in question is “being taken into custody for any other violation of law.” Roessler emphasized in his statement that officers are extensively trained on this distinction and that the suspended officer “deprived a person of their freedom, which is unacceptable.”
The arrested driver spent three hours in custody and was released.

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A woman was arrested on Friday for allegedly attacking a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) facility in Florida with a Molotov cocktail, which authorities say was intended to harm people.
&#8220;The woman walked into the office Friday afternoon and hurled a bottle filled with gasoline and a lit fuse,&#8221; Local 10 News <a href="https://www.local10.com/news/florida/broward/woman-tosses-molotov-cocktail-into-oakland-park-immigration-office">reported</a>. &#8220;But the fuse disconnected and didn&#8217;t ignite &#8230; Security officers handcuffed her, and she was taken into custody. The report did not list her name.&#8221;
The attack happened at a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) office about 30 miles north of Miami.
&#8220;Today’s attempted attack on one of our USCIS facilities using a Molotov cocktail is another example of the use of violence in place of debate by those who oppose the proper application of our immigration laws,&#8221; USCIS Acting Director Ken Cuccinelli wrote in a statement. &#8220;This is the 2d attack on a DHS facility in 2 months using a Molotov cocktail. Violence has no place in our society. Thankfully, no one was hurt today. We&#8217;re grateful to our security guards &amp; the law enforcement officers of FPS who apprehended and arrested the assailant.&#8221;
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— USCIS Acting Director Ken Cuccinelli (@USCISCuccinelli) <a href="https://twitter.com/USCISCuccinelli/status/1167627990282452992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 31, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Acts of aggression against immigration authorities have increased in recent months as Democrats and the media have increasingly demonized them as part of their attacks on the Trump administration.
&#8220;About two weeks ago in San Antonio, at least one vehicle pulled up to a building that houses offices for ICE and a gunman fired shots through a window, FBI officials said,&#8221; Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/florida-woman-tosses-lit-molotov-cocktail-citizenship-immigration-services-office-homeland-security">reported</a>. &#8220;Another building used by ICE was also fired on.&#8221;
In July, a self-described member of the far-left extremist group Antifa attacked an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) building in Tacoma, Washington, as he fired a rifle at the facility, lit vehicles on fire, and attempted to detonate a propane tank that he reportedly hoped would burn the facility down.
The suspect echoed rhetoric from socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) in his manifesto, falsely claiming that immigrant detention facilities were &#8220;concentration camps.&#8221;

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Securing the nation&#8217;s borders and protecting the nation&#8217;s sovereignty against those who would violate it is, perhaps above anything else, the singular <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/48335/hammer-federal-government-has-no-more-important-josh-hammer">most important function of the federal government</a>. After all, in the 2012 Supreme Court case of Arizona v. United States, Justice Antonin Scalia powerfully <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/11-182">described</a> &#8220;the power to exclude from the sovereign’s territory people who have no right to be there&#8221; as &#8220;the defining characteristic of sovereignty.&#8221; Illegal immigration, furthermore, manifests itself across <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/49616/hammer-why-no-one-discussing-drug-trafficking-josh-hammer">countless issues</a> affecting the body politic: National security, crime, drugs, public health, cultural assimilation, and the health of the public fisc.
But what happens when the federal government&#8217;s unwillingness to defend its sovereignty is coupled with the federal government&#8217;s unwillingness to defend the <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/articlevi">Supremacy Clause of Article VI</a> of the U.S. Constitution — that the &#8220;Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof &#8230; shall be the supreme law of the land?&#8221;
Every single day across America, sundry sanctuary jurisdictions harbor illegal aliens — often violent <a href="https://www.conservativereview.com/news/ice-guard-dangerous-drunk-driving/">criminal</a> ones — and fail to honor <a href="https://www.ice.gov/detainers">detainer requests</a> from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). As ICE explains on its <a href="https://www.ice.gov/detainers">website</a>, detainers &#8220;provide notice of [ICE&#8217;s] intent to assume custody of an individual detained in federal, state, or local custody&#8221; and are typically &#8220;placed on aliens arrested on criminal charges for whom ICE possesses probable cause to believe &#8230; are removable from the United States.&#8221; The results of local law enforcement agencies failing to honor ICE detainers, from a public safety and sovereignty protection perspective, are often <a href="https://www.conservativereview.com/news/despite-horrific-bambi-larson-murder-santa-clara-county-continuing-sanctuary-status/">predictably disastrous</a>. But what seems to be an under-covered aspect of the sanctuary cities phenomenon is how blatantly illegal the practice is under existing federal statute.
As Daniel Horowitz helpfully <a href="https://www.conservativereview.com/news/oregon-sanctuaries-force-ice-apprehend-alleged-child-sex-offender-courthouse/">points out</a> at Conservative Review, it is imperative to consider the text of <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1373">8 U.S.C. § 1373(a)</a>:
<blockquote>Notwithstanding any other provision of Federal, State, or local law, a Federal, State, or local government entity or official may not prohibit, or in any way restrict, any government entity or official from sending to, or receiving from, the [Department of Homeland Security] information regarding the citizenship or immigration status, lawful or unlawful, of any individual.</blockquote>
It is true that the U.S. Supreme Court&#8217;s so-called &#8220;<a href="https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/on-this-day-the-supreme-court-reinforces-the-10th-amendment">anti-commandeering doctrine</a>,&#8221; most famously articulated in the 1992 case of <a href="https://www.oyez.org/cases/1991/91-543">New York v. United States</a> and the 1997 case of <a href="https://www.oyez.org/cases/1996/95-1478">Printz v. United States</a>, stands for the proposition that the federal government cannot forcibly &#8220;commandeer&#8221; state governments to help the federal government enforce federal law. As Justice Scalia <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/95-1478.ZO.html">wrote in Printz</a>, &#8220;The Federal Government may neither issue directives requiring the States to address particular problems, nor command the States’ officers, or those of their political subdivisions, to administer or enforce a federal regulatory program.&#8221;
But a plain reading of 8 U.S.C. § 1373(a) does not seem to countenance a violation of the anti-commandeering doctrine. Under § 1373(a), state and local officials are not coerced into &#8220;enforc[ing] a federal regulatory program.&#8221; Rather, under the text of the statute, all state and local officials are prohibited from doing is issuing a &#8220;restrict[ion] [upon the] sending to, or receiving from, the [Department of Homeland Security] information regarding the citizenship or immigration status, lawful or unlawful, of any individual.&#8221; Put simply, the issue at hand in § 1373(a) is not federal commandeering of state actors to enforce a federal program; rather, the issue is the prevention of state and local officials from openly defying and subverting federal law. And the Constitution&#8217;s Supremacy Clause plainly forbids the states from openly defying and subverting federal law. The Constitution&#8217;s Supremacy Clause, as applied to § 1373(a), therefore prohibits state and local governments from shielding a removable illegal alien from ICE when ICE issues a detainer request on the alien.
The Trump administration, despite a <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/trump-has-not-built-a-single-mile-of-new-border-fence-after-30-months-in-office">mixed (at best) record</a> on actually effectuating the president&#8217;s signature campaign item and building the wall, is now doubling down and <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/finish-that-wall-trump-seeks-to-turn-his-failure-to-build-the-wall-into-campaign-rallying-cry/2019/02/16/3fbaebd4-3138-11e9-ac6c-14eea99d5e24_story.html">campaigning hard on the immigration issue</a> in advance of the president&#8217;s 2020 re-election campaign. As both a political and a policy matter, wouldn&#8217;t it then make sense for the administration to actually try to enforce federal law that is already on the books against the pervasive problem of sanctuary city malfeasance?

HAMMER: Why Is No One Pointing Out That Sanctuary Cities Blatantly Violate This Federal Law?

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Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) is helping to spearhead an effort to streamline the screening and deportation process for migrant families who have entered into the United States without valid legal claims for asylum.
“This pilot program would apply to families who aren’t claiming ‘credible fear,’ which of course is the first threshold in seeking asylum,” Sinema told <a href="https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/immigration/2019/07/18/sen-kyrsten-sinema-program-removal-migrant-families-border-asylum-seekers/1770073001/">The Arizona Republic</a> on Thursday. “If someone says ‘I left my country because I can’t make a living’ [or] ‘it’s hard to take care of my family,’ that’s what we call an economic migrant.”
Referring to the program as “Operation Safe Return,” Sinema helped craft the pilot program with Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), who chairs the Homeland Security Committee in the Senate. She initially got involved the program&#8217;s creation after the Trump administration discussed potential changes to American asylum laws and mulled over challenges to court rulings that have more recently dictated immigration policy.
“I just felt those weren’t the right answers,” Sinema said. “We wanted to solve the problem. We wanted to protect the asylum process for valid applicants … and we want to respect the Flores decision.”
Federal courts during the Obama administration ruled that the government is prohibited from detaining alien children for longer than 20 days. Since the 20-day window is often not long enough to process the detained immigrants, children and their accompanying adults are consequently separated so as not to violate what is referred to as the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/46601/hammer-why-did-dhs-abort-its-re-writing-infamous-josh-hammer">Flores consent decree</a>.
“With Operation Safe Return we want to send a message to the people of Central America: Don’t indebt yourself to these human traffickers — the most evil people on the planet,” <a href="https://twitter.com/SenRonJohnson/status/1151962345519775744">Johnson said</a>. “It’s not worth it.”
“As sympathetic as I am toward anyone who yearns for the freedom and opportunity that America provides, it is not possible to properly accommodate all who do. Those who enter our country illegally without a valid asylum claim put themselves and our society at risk,” he continued. “The goal of our policies should be to reduce the overwhelming flow of illegal migration and convert it to a controllable number of legal immigrants.”
Sinema and Johnson are joined by seven other senators in their push to enact Operation Safe Return along the U.S.-Mexico border. Democratic Sens. Doug Jones (D-AL) and Joe Manchin (D-WV) crossed the aisle to join Republican Sens. John Barrasso (R-WY), John Cornyn (R-TX), Mike Enzi (R-WY), James Lankford (R-OK), and Rob Portman (R-OH) in the effort.
The bipartisan group of nine <a href="https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2019-07-17%20RHJ,%20Et%20All%20to%20President%20Trump%20re%20Operation%20Safe%20Return.pdf">penned a letter</a> to acting Homeland Security Sec. Kevin McAleenan that describes the pilot program, reported The Arizona Republic. They will be meeting with McAleenan face-to-face in the coming weeks to discuss the program in greater detail.
“We have worked with your agencies to develop a streamlined process to rapidly, accurately, and fairly determine those family units that do not have a valid legal claim and safely return those individuals to their homes,” the Senators wrote to McAleenan. “The process would use existing authorities, but surge necessary resources to a limited, particular location on the southern border.”
“Within approximately 15 days after being encountered, the Department of Homeland Security should remove family units whose negative credible fear determinations are affirmed by the immigration judge,” the letter continued.
“[The Department of Homeland Security and Customs and Border Protection] indicated a strong interest in this program for several reasons,” Sinema added.
NOTE: The article has been updated to reflect that Sinema is helping to lead Operation Safe Return with Johnson, rather than being the sole lead of the operation.

Kyrsten Sinema Leads Bipartisan Push To Streamline Removal Of Migrant Families With Invalid Asylum Claims

The sheer scope of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/45822/hammer-customs-and-border-protections-insane-march-josh-hammer">systemic</a>, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/46992/crisis-cbps-april-border-numbers-further-reveal-josh-hammer">all-encompassing</a> sovereignty <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/46457/amidst-unprecedented-border-crisis-united-nations-josh-hammer">crisis</a> at our southern border is staggering.
From both a <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/48335/hammer-federal-government-has-no-more-important-josh-hammer">constitutional and a philosophical perspective</a>, the federal government has no more important responsibility to its citizenry than securing the border. Period.
From a national security perspective, it is stupefying to ponder the reality that we are releasing tens of thousands of barely vetted aliens into the interior each month due to a brutal combination of catch-and-release tomfoolery, limited bed space due to the under-funding of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and the erroneously decreed <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/46601/hammer-why-did-dhs-abort-its-re-writing-infamous-josh-hammer">Flores settlement</a>. Indeed, we know from the <a href="https://cis.org/Bensman/Assessing-Report-about-Four-ISIS-Terrorist-Suspects-Caught-Nicaragua">intrepid reporting</a> of journalist extraordinaire Todd Bensman that the predominantly Central America-fleeing economic migrants have no shortage of dangerous Middle Easterners <a href="https://www.toddbensman.com/from-panama-and-costa-rica-complete-findings-of-bensmans-terror-travel-threat-investigation/">mixed in among them</a>. Furthermore, we are letting in <a href="https://www.conservativereview.com/news/contagion-invasion-part-1-ever-happened-principle-protecting-borders-dangerous-diseases/">no shortage</a> of migrants afflicted with <a href="https://www.conservativereview.com/news/contagion-invasion-part-2-untold-public-health-endemic-borders-beyond/">deadly diseases</a>.
From an assimilation perspective, the huge number of Central Americans absconding into the nation&#8217;s interior due to the de facto amnesty of catch-and-release only exacerbates our increasingly stark crisis of national unity — including but hardly limited to our ability to (literally) all <a href="https://www.conservativereview.com/news/what-assimilation-half-the-people-in-americas-largest-cities-speak-foreign-languages/">speak a common language</a>.
From a crime perspective, we know that non-citizen aliens commit a <a href="https://cis.org/Camarota/NonCitizens-Committed-Disproportionate-Share-Federal-Crimes-201116">disproportionate share of federal crime</a> — 44.2% of it over the course of 2011 — in 2016, according to <a href="https://cis.org/Camarota/NonCitizens-Committed-Disproportionate-Share-Federal-Crimes-201116">statistics</a> from the U.S. Sentencing Commission. And from a pure common sense perspective, it ought to make sense that vulnerable unaccompanied alien youths showing up at our border would be more susceptible to recruitment by MS-13 and other Central America-originating transnational gangs. In fact, both MS-13 and the cartels operate so fluidly throughout the U.S. due in no small part to the ongoing surfeit of prospective gangsters and drug mules who reach our border and are released into the interior. Consider this <a href="https://www.conservativereview.com/news/19-22-indicted-ultra-violent-ms-13-murders-illegal-aliens-central-america/">harrowing story</a> out of Los Angeles:
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">&#8220;Nineteen of the 22 defendants charged in the indictment had entered the country illegally in the last four years,&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/MHQ1kW4aAU">https://t.co/MHQ1kW4aAU</a>
— Daniel Horowitz (@RMConservative) <a href="https://twitter.com/RMConservative/status/1151463048827346944?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 17, 2019</a></blockquote>
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But perhaps the singular least discussed aspect of the ongoing crisis at our southern border is that the illegal alien influx there has dramatically metastasized America&#8217;s <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db329-h.pdf">already-dire drug epidemic</a>. An eye-opening <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/drugs-pour-in-from-mexico-as-border-patrol-forced-to-focus-on-migrants">report</a> in the Washington Examiner this morning shines a spotlight on the extent to which the border crisis has frozen our Department of Homeland Security (DHS) human assets — redirecting those officials who would normally be in the business of interdicting contraband 50-100 miles inland to deal with apprehension and toddler daycare duty at the border itself. Per the Examiner:
<blockquote>Border Patrol highway checkpoints in the southern New Mexico region that normally seize seven figures worth of drugs annually have not seized a dollar in nearly four months after being shuttered in late March, allowing drugs to flood into the country. Meantime, with the added supply, prices for illicit drugs are dropping precipitously.
Those seven checkpoints have sat unattended after Border Patrol closed them to move all personnel to the border to assist with apprehending, processing, and caring for the high number of migrant families arriving. &#8230;
Officials have also noted upticks in methamphetamine and fentanyl seizures since March. Black said the cost of a pound of meth has been slashed in half since then, from $4,700 when the checkpoints first closed to $2,500 by late June. The price dropped because the market is saturated.</blockquote>
To summarize, then, Border Patrol assets who are normally tasked with interdicting contraband have been, due in no small part to the current under-funding of DHS, redeployed to the border to deal with the sundry maladies transpiring there. As a consequence, drugs trafficked in by the cartels and their terrorist allies (like Hezbollah) are not being seized. There is now a huge, unprecedented glut of deadly narcotics pouring into the nation. Recall that a sugar packet-sized dose of fentanyl can kill a whole room full of people. And now, so much meth is being trafficked into the interior that prices in Las Cruces, New Mexico have been cut by nearly half in just four months! That is simply astonishing.
America&#8217;s drug overdose epidemic, while <a href="https://www.conservativereview.com/news/senate-about-to-pass-opioid-laws-that-are-built-on-lies/">misdiagnosed</a> as an &#8220;opioid&#8221; epidemic, is really a more general narcotics epidemic that has fentanyl, cocaine, meth, and heroin as its leading contributors. Our under-funded DHS and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/48281/hammer-trump-has-unilateral-power-stop-migrant-josh-hammer">political unwillingness</a> to stanch the illegal alien influx bleeding at our border is not just resulting in <a href="http://www.conservativereview.com/news/19-22-indicted-ultra-violent-ms-13-murders-illegal-aliens-central-america/">machete-style MS-13 murders</a> in Los Angeles. It is also leading to an unprecedented crisis of drugs so potent that — in the case of fentanyl — they might be reasonably compared to cartel-driven chemical warfare against our inner cities and collective progeny.
This is a huge, huge problem. Drugs are literally destroying countless small towns across the nation. And now our political elites, by ignoring the border crisis as they have, are somehow making the drug epidemic crisis even worse than it already is. It is nothing short of a blemish upon our entire political ruling class.

HAMMER: Why Is No One Discussing The Drug Trafficking Aspect Of Our Southern Border Crisis?

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Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) took her extreme left-wing agenda to new levels during an interview with The New Yorker Radio this week, saying that the entire Department of Homeland Security (DHS) should be eliminated.
Ocasio-Cortez made the comment while discussing her past calls to abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) with David Remnick.
&#8220;ICE is not under DOJ, it&#8217;s under the Department of Homeland Security and so we have now —&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez said.
&#8220;Would you get rid of Homeland Security too?&#8221; Remnick asked.
&#8220;I think so,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez responded. &#8220;I think so.&#8221;
Ocasio-Cortez called the creation of DHS an &#8220;egregious mistake&#8221; by the Bush administration.
DHS was created after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, which resulted in the deaths of thousands of Americans, and is designed to help prevent attacks and deal with threats against the United States.
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">Ocasio-Cortez tells The New Yorker Radio that she wants to eliminate the entire Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
Question: “Would you get rid of Homeland Security too?”
Ocasio-Cortez responds: “I think so”
DHS was created to protect America in response to 9/11 <a href="https://t.co/A8i05visFi">pic.twitter.com/A8i05visFi</a>
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1148817308086702080?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 10, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Ocasio-Cortez is not the only member of the far-left wing of the Democratic Party that wants to destroy DHS.
In February, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) also made a similar call when she tweeted &#8220;#Not1Dollar for DHS.&#8221;
Omar tweeted: &#8220;When Democrats stood our ground last month, we proved that Individual 1 does not have the public support to ram his hateful wall through Congress. Let’s stand firm: #Not1Dollar for DHS.&#8221;
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">When Democrats stood our ground last month, we proved that Individual 1 does not have the public support to ram his hateful wall through Congress.
Let’s stand firm: <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Not1Dollar?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Not1Dollar</a> for DHS.
— Rep. Ilhan Omar (@Ilhan) <a href="https://twitter.com/Ilhan/status/1094014995430555648?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 8, 2019</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;DHS has a budget of over <a href="https://www.dhs.gov/news/2018/02/12/department-homeland-security-statement-president-s-fiscal-year-2019-budget">$45 billion</a> per year, which it uses to fund multiple <a href="https://www.dhs.gov/operational-and-support-components">operational and support components</a> that the department oversees,&#8221; The Daily Wire reported. DHS also employs nearly a quarter of a million people, according to its website.
Eliminating DHS would bring an end to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), United States Coast Guard (USCG), United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC), United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), United States Secret Service (USSS), Transportation Security Administration (TSA), Management Directorate, Science and Technology Directorate, Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office, Office of Intelligence and Analysis, and the Office of Operations Coordination.
DHS has five core goals, which include preventing terrorism and enhancing security, securing and managing the borders, enforcing and administering immigration laws, safeguarding and securing cyberspace, and ensuring resilience to disasters.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/49327/patriarchy-has-no-gender-aoc-claims-conway-sexist-ryan-saavedra">‘Patriarchy Has No Gender’: AOC Claims Conway Is ‘Sexist’ Toward Her</a>

Ocasio-Cortez Calls For Elimination Of Critical Portion Of U.S. Government

Today, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) released its apprehension data for the month of May. And the numbers are wild. Specifically, CBP recorded a 32% increase over the already-record-breaking April apprehension numbers.
CBP tweeted: &#8220;CBP continues to face a worsening crisis at the Southwest border. In May, CBP apprehended or deemed inadmissible 144,278 individuals along the SWB&#8212;a 32% increase over the previous month.&#8221;
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CBP continues to face a worsening crisis at the Southwest border. In May, CBP apprehended or deemed inadmissible 144,278 individuals along the SWB&#8212;a 32% increase over the previous month. Details here: <a href="https://t.co/ru9AsalgPb">https://t.co/ru9AsalgPb</a> <a href="https://t.co/p8kcr5lZ7Y">pic.twitter.com/p8kcr5lZ7Y</a>
&#8212; CBP (@CBP) <a href="https://twitter.com/CBP/status/1136337950353100800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 5, 2019</a></blockquote>
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CBP&#8217;s <a href="https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/sw-border-migration">full data release</a> today showcases the incredible trajectory of our border <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/46457/amidst-unprecedented-border-crisis-united-nations-josh-hammer">crisis</a>. Solely looking at apprehensions recorded between points of entry, CBP recorded 132,887 in the month of May alone. That is double the number of apprehensions from just February, when CBP recorded 66,884 apprehensions. Going back to the beginning of the fiscal year in October 2018, CBP has recorded a staggering 160.52% increase in apprehensions recorded between points of entry in the first eight months of this fiscal year alone.
These are eye-opening numbers that ought to indicate the depth of the national crisis to every sober viewer relatively familiar with basic arithmetic.
Twitter reacted strongly to CBP&#8217;s astonishing revelation.
Nick Miroff &#8212; a Washington Post national security reporter specializing in immigration enforcement and drug trafficking who had previously found himself so flabbergasted by CBP&#8217;s February border numbers so as to describe them as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/44291/data-suggest-no-relationship-between-central-josh-hammer">&#8220;bonkers&#8221;</a> &#8212; today tweeted: &#8220;&#8216;We are in a full-blown emergency, and I cannot say this stronger: the system is broken,&#8217; said acting CBP Commissioner John Sanders. CBP has detained more than 680,000 border-crossers in FY19, Sanders said, &#8216;more than the population of Miami.'&#8221;
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&#8220;We are in a full-blown emergency, and I cannot say this stronger: the system is broken,&#8221; said acting CBP Commissioner John Sanders.
CBP has detained more than 680,000 border-crossers in FY19, Sanders said, &#8220;more than the population of Miami.&#8221; Our story <a href="https://t.co/UbO7oKOlNW">https://t.co/UbO7oKOlNW</a>
&#8212; Nick Miroff (@NickMiroff) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickMiroff/status/1136331236593586176?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 5, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Reporter David Nakamura, also from the Post, tweeted: &#8220;Just did the math: During the 2014 border crisis under Obama, CBP apprehended 137,000 families + children for the entire fiscal year. In the past *two months* alone, CBP has apprehended 164,000 of them.&#8221;
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Just did the math: During the 2014 border crisis under Obama, CBP apprehended 137,000 families + children for the entire fiscal year. In the past *two months* alone, CBP has apprehended 164,000 of them. Links: <a href="https://t.co/ojQhtTIdlU">https://t.co/ojQhtTIdlU</a> and <a href="https://t.co/1zzW3PPLv3">https://t.co/1zzW3PPLv3</a> <a href="https://t.co/pXMDnRZDYO">https://t.co/pXMDnRZDYO</a>
&#8212; David Nakamura (@DavidNakamura) <a href="https://twitter.com/DavidNakamura/status/1136336911621136389?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 5, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Jason Johnson, the Texas-based former chief strategist of the 2016 Ted Cruz presidential campaign, tweeted: &#8220;Arrests at southern border in May ALONE (144,000) roughly equal to population of Savannah, GA/Bridgeport, CT/Syracuse, NY/McAllen, TX/Mesquite, TX/Paterson, NJ/Midland,TX&#8230;. #BorderCrisis.&#8221;
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Arrests at southern border in May ALONE (144,000) roughly equal to population of Savannah, GA/Bridgeport, CT/Syracuse, NY/McAllen, TX/Mesquite, TX/Paterson, NJ/Midland,TX&#8230;. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BorderCrisis?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BorderCrisis</a> <a href="https://t.co/yIoKEjxh11">https://t.co/yIoKEjxh11</a>
&#8212; Jason Johnson (@jasonsjohnson) <a href="https://twitter.com/jasonsjohnson/status/1136338086865096709?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 5, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Freshman congressman Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX), a consistent <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/42306/conservative-favorite-rep-chip-roys-maiden-floor-josh-hammer">border hawk</a>, bluntly tweeted: &#8220;I cannot imagine why we should conduct one more item of business on the Hill until we address this.&#8221;
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I cannot imagine why we should conduct one more item of business on the Hill until we address this. <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/HouseGOP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@HouseGOP</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/SenateGOP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SenateGOP</a> <a href="https://t.co/emJ0ljrHgJ">pic.twitter.com/emJ0ljrHgJ</a>
&#8212; Chip Roy (@chiproytx) <a href="https://twitter.com/chiproytx/status/1136347521700306944?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 5, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Conservative commentator Daniel Horowitz noted that President Donald Trump could easily shut off large swaths of the migrant influx by unilaterally invoking <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/47473/hammer-trumps-legal-immigration-plan-solid-it-josh-hammer">8 U.S.C. § 1182(f)</a>, tweeting: &#8220;The fact that CBP can announce border numbers like this and the president doesnt give an immediate speech announcing an 1182f shutoff sets the precedent that no matter the situation &#8211; the entire world could come &#8211; and he cannot shut it off. Stop talking about tariffs.&#8221;
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The fact that CBP can announce border numbers like this and the president doesnt give an immediate speech announcing an 1182f shutoff sets the precedent that no matter the situation &#8211; the entire world could come &#8211; and he cannot shut it off. Stop talking about tariffs.
&#8212; Daniel Horowitz (@RMConservative) <a href="https://twitter.com/RMConservative/status/1136334430275088385?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 5, 2019</a></blockquote>
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The reality, as Ryan Girdusky has noted, is that President Trump has many options to exercise hitherto statutorily delegated authority, if he chose to invoke it:
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There&#8217;s a long list of existing statute that gives <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a> to power to fix this problem on his own: 
8 U.S.C. § 1182(f) 
8 U.S.C. § 1222(a) 
8 U.S.C. § 1225(b)(1)(A)(i) and (b)(1)(B)(iii)(IV) 
18 U.S.C. § 1001 
8 U.S.C. § 1158(a)(2)(C) <a href="https://t.co/nTHwmGFBXc">https://t.co/nTHwmGFBXc</a>
&#8212; Ryan James Girdusky (@RyanGirdusky) <a href="https://twitter.com/RyanGirdusky/status/1130891759393943554?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 21, 2019</a></blockquote>
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CBP has used strongly worded language before in an attempt to convey to Americans the dire extent of the border situation. At the time of the release of CBP&#8217;s apprehension data for the month of March, CBP Deputy Commissioner Robert E. Perez referred to the onslaught as a &#8220;system-wide emergency.&#8221; &#8220;We are currently experiencing a system-wide emergency in our processing and holding facilities,&#8221; he <a href="https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/national-media-release/cbp-releases-march-statistics-southwest-border-migration">said</a> at the time.

FULL-ON CRISIS: CBP Records Yet Another New Monthly Record In Apprehensions

Mexico

Last Thursday, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Kevin McAleenan and Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney held a phone briefing with members of the media. The full transcript is <a href="https://www.dhs.gov/news/2019/05/30/background-press-call-senior-administration-officials-crisis-our-southern-border">publicly available</a>, courtesy of the Department of Homeland Security. On the call, McAleenan referred to the present overwhelming influx of migrant aliens as placing U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in a situation that is &#8220;beyond sustainable capacity.&#8221;
The Center for Immigration Studies has a <a href="https://cis.org/Arthur/McAleenan-Details-Scope-Disaster-Border">helpful summary</a> of the staggering &#8212; and truly tragic, from a humanitarian perspective &#8212; key takeaways of the McAleenan/Mulvaney phone call:
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<li>Over the past 21 days, an average of over 4,500 people have crossed our border illegally or arrived at ports of entry without documents. In May of 2017, that number was less than 700 a day. The month of May is on pace to be the highest month in crossings in over 12 years and will significantly surpass the record 109,000 in April.</li>
<li>U.S. immigration authorities now have over 80,000 people in custody, a record level that is beyond sustainable capacity with current resources. Over 7,500 single adults are in custody at the border and Immigration and Customs Enforcement is holding over 50,000.</li>
<li>Over 2,350 unaccompanied children &#8211; the highest level ever &#8211; are currently in custody waiting for days for placements in border stations that cannot provide appropriate conditions for them because Health and Human Services is out of bed space and Congress has failed to act on the administration&#8217;s emergency supplemental request for more than four weeks.</li>
<li>A five- and a ten-month old drowned in a river transiting Mexico to the United States in the last few days.</li>
<li>More than 75,000 families have already transited through Mexico to the Southwest border this month alone.</li>
<li>More than 4,000 foreign nationals appeared at the border this year with children that they fraudulently claimed were their own, a number that is increasing.</li>
<li>At any given moment, up to 100,000 migrants are transiting Mexico on their way to the U.S. border.</li>
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CBP has often used extraordinarily blunt language, of late, in describing the present <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/46643/poll-even-many-more-democrats-now-describe-our-josh-hammer">crisis</a> at our southern border. In a <a href="https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/local-media-release/over-2200-apprehensions-el-paso-sector-border-patrol-memorial-day">press release</a> from last week <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/47792/cbp-reports-staggering-number-memorial-day-josh-hammer">announcing</a> a staggering number of Memorial Day apprehensions for the CBP-designated El Paso Sector, for example, CBP referred to the &#8220;influx of illegal aliens entering our country [who have] no respect for our immigration laws.&#8221; As The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/46992/crisis-cbps-april-border-numbers-further-reveal-josh-hammer">reported</a>, furthermore, CBP responded to the publication earlier last month of its monthly apprehension numbers for the month of April by tweeting about the &#8220;unprecedented&#8221; and &#8220;unsustainable&#8221; influx: &#8220;#CBP is experiencing an unprecedented and unsustainable situation at the Southwest border. In April, CBP apprehended or deemed inadmissible 109,144 individuals along the SWB.&#8221;
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CBP?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CBP</a> is experiencing an unprecedented and unsustainable situation at the Southwest border. In April, CBP apprehended or deemed inadmissible 109,144 individuals along the SWB. Details here: <a href="https://t.co/ru9AsalgPb">https://t.co/ru9AsalgPb</a> <a href="https://t.co/kzfTpfPNP8">pic.twitter.com/kzfTpfPNP8</a>
&#8212; CBP (@CBP) <a href="https://twitter.com/CBP/status/1126214086839214083?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 8, 2019</a></blockquote>
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A month prior, CBP Deputy Commissioner Robert E. Perez <a href="https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/national-media-release/cbp-releases-march-statistics-southwest-border-migration">referred</a> to the migrant alien onslaught as presenting a &#8220;system-wide emergency.&#8221; &#8220;We are currently experiencing a system-wide emergency in our processing and holding facilities,&#8221; Perez stated at the time of the release of CBP&#8217;s apprehension data for the month of March.
Congressional Democrats have <a href="https://amgreatness.com/2019/05/04/the-democrats-are-humanitarian-frauds-on-the-border/">consistently rejected attempts</a> to help mollify the humanitarian crisis presently afflicting our <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/46207/day-our-beleaguered-border-human-smugglers-arizona-josh-hammer">beleaguered</a> border.

DHS: Number Of Aliens In Custody At Border ‘Beyond Sustainable Capacity’

Mick Mulvaney

White House

DHS Secretary Kevin McAleenan shot down false claims from Democratic lawmakers and journalists about family separations on the border during a Thursday interview on Fox News.
Responding to hysterical claims and accusations from Democrat Rep. Lauren Underwood (D-IL) and MSNBC&#8217;s Mika Brzezinski about separating families, McAleenan said: &#8220;First of all, that is not happening. We are separating children in maybe one case a day out of the 3,000 families arriving.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s very rare. It&#8217;s for the safety of the child, first and foremost,&#8221; McAleenan continued. &#8220;It&#8217;s a prosecution for a serious criminal offense, it&#8217;s a threat to the child, it&#8217;s communicable disease, or it&#8217;s someone who&#8217;s presenting a family relationship that doesn&#8217;t exist. That&#8217;s when that happens.&#8221;
Ingraham later asked McAleenan: &#8220;If you could get one thing, just one thing tonight, what would it be to solve this problem?&#8221;
&#8220;I would change the law on the families so we could keep them in custody,&#8221; McAleenan responded. &#8220;That&#8217;s 70 percent now of the crossings, the last several days. We need to address that.&#8221;
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Full transcript of the interview provided via Fox News:
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LAURA INGRAHAM, FOX NEWS HOST: Here exclusively, acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Kevin McAleenan.
Mr. Secretary, thank you for being here.
What is going on here? The accusations over the last two days that you have to endure this, that you are intentionally keeping kids in this precarious situation. We have some children who&#8217;ve died in custody.
KEVIN MCALEENAN, ACTING DHS SECRETARY: It&#8217;s a sad state of affairs in our politics when we&#8217;ve got an actual crisis, we&#8217;ve got solutions on the table, we&#8217;ve got clarity on what our men and women on the border need, what the support from Congress, and yet, that&#8217;s the kind of thing we are hearing.
INGRAHAM: You needed X number of beds and facilities to house what you predicted months ago, and we covered this.
MCALEENAN: Right.
INGRAHAM: You predicted that if we didn&#8217;t get the money to house these people, we would have kids on the floors and mats and whatever you can provide that border patrol facilities or in tents outside.
MCALEENAN: Right.
INGRAHAM: Did you get the beds?
MCALEENAN: No. No, this administration &#8212;
INGRAHAM: This is unbelievable.
MCALEENAN: This administration has put solutions on the table over the last three weeks, both to manage a crisis with beds. These are beds for children who are coming unaccompanied. It&#8217;s our statutory responsibility. It&#8217;s our human responsibility to take care of them. We asked for that funding.
We&#8217;ve also put a solution that would end the crisis to begin with. Allow us to detain families together through legal immigration proceedings.
INGRAHAM: So, keep them at the &#8212; just so people understand, crossing the border &#8212;
MCALEENAN: Right.
INGRAHAM: &#8212; as I saw many family units crossing &#8212;
MCALEENAN: We&#8217;re there.
INGRAHAM: Crossing the border, they would not be processed and released under your plan.
MCALEENAN: Right.
INGRAHAM: They would be processed and they would be adjudicated at the border, correct?
MCALEENAN: They would see a judge. They would get a fair hearing. If they had an asylum claim and only about 10 percent do, they would be allowed to stay. But the rest would be repatriated swiftly, and this flow would drop immediately.
INGRAHAM: It would drop overnight, would it not?
MCALEENAN: It happened in 2014. We did the same thing then.
INGRAHAM: Well, right now, we have recrimination and politics.
MCALEENAN: Right.
INGRAHAM: So, it is finger-pointing with the most heinous accusations being leveled at you. If you could get one thing, just one thing tonight, what would it be to solve this problem?
MCALEENAN: Just one thing tonight?
INGRAHAM: Yes.
MCALEENAN: I would change the law on the families so we could keep them in custody. That&#8217;s 70 percent now of the crossings, the last several days. We need to address that.
INGRAHAM: How many do have in custody? Let&#8217;s just go to the unaccompanied minors.
MCALEENAN: Right.
INGRAHAM: That&#8217;s babies all the way until 18 years of age, correct? How many in your custody?
MCALEENAN: Yes, most are 13 to 17-year-old teenage boys.
INGRAHAM: OK.
MCALEENAN: Right? We&#8217;ve got almost 2,000 in custody right now. About 1,800 in custody.
INGRAHAM: Where are they living?
MCALEENAN: They&#8217;re staying in border patrol stations. These are police stations designed for adults.
INGRAHAM: How much does that cost? I mean, how &#8212; I mean, I was there, they&#8217;re not meant to hold people.
MCALEENAN: No, not at all. We are using a huge portion of our operating budget on a care and feeding. We&#8217;ve got border patrol agents, 40 percent of our agents, who are supposed to be out on the border protecting people, that you see them out in the field, they are doing care, custody, transportation, hospital watch for unaccompanied children.
INGRAHAM: We saw this. I mean, we saw people arriving, jumping in the water, getting pulled at the boat, falling out of the boat. We witnessed this.
MCALEENAN: Right.
INGRAHAM: And HHS is supposed to pick them up after how long?
MCALEENAN: It&#8217;s supposed to be within the 72 hours, we transfer to HHS.
INGRAHAM: And do they have anywhere to put these people?
MCALEENAN: They don&#8217;t have any beds &#8212;
INGRAHAM: OK. So, there is nowhere to put the people.
MCALEENAN: Right.
INGRAHAM: Congress won&#8217;t allocate the money.
MCALEENAN: Exactly.
INGRAHAM: And then you are the bad guy?
Someone explained the situation to me. This is really ridiculous at this point.
MCALEENAN: It&#8217;s hard to explain.
INGRAHAM: So, right now, the president has decided, like look, he can&#8217;t work &#8212; they are trying to impeach him. They&#8217;re claiming he is doing a cover-up.
MCALEENAN: Right.
INGRAHAM: So, things look like they are stalled. What is this going to mean as the hot summer months kick in? It&#8217;s already hot down there. It&#8217;s getting worse.
MCALEENAN: Right.
INGRAHAM: What do you expect to see?
MCALEENAN: Well, even though we provided solutions to Congress we will not wait for them to act. I&#8217;m going on Monday to Guatemala. I want to take this fight to the cartels that are smuggling children, starting at the Guatemala-Honduran border. We are bringing a HHSI agents, CBP officers, border patrol agents, to embed with the Guatemalan forces and try to interdict this flow at the beginning.
We are working with the government in Mexico in the same thing. Sharing intel on the people profiting from human misery, we can&#8217;t allow that to go on anymore.
And then these steps we&#8217;re taking at the border, trying to get judges down there to adjudicate hearings more quickly, get people repatriated and change this dynamic.
INGRAHAM: What about the story about the plan to send people around the country? That was blowing up the Internet over the weekend.
MCALEENAN: Right.
INGRAHAM: There&#8217;s going to be 300,000 sent to Florida and some to California.
MCALEENAN: Sure.
INGRAHAM: And people in Florida were messaging me going, what are they doing sending them here? Like nobody wants them, not my backyard, you know, scenario.
But what was that?
MCALEENAN: So, I understand Governor DeSantis&#8217; concerned, you know, Senator Rubio. These communities don&#8217;t need an influx of migrants, right? Everybody is overloaded across the country. What the numbers that you outlined at the open.
So, what we are doing is trying to manage that in the border environment first and foremost. We have stations that are full in South Texas, in El Paso, in Huma, Arizona. So, we are transforming and moving migrants from stations that are overloaded and moving them to San Diego, for instance, where we have more capacity, moving them to El Centro sector. That&#8217;s how we are trying to manage the capacity issue. But we&#8217;re not going to &#8212; we have no plans to move migrants to states like Florida or to the northern border at this point.
INGRAHAM: Mr. Secretary, I also want to get your response to this disturbing headline today. Infectious diseases a rising threat among migrants at the southern border.
I saw a lot of people coughing, bad coughs when I was there.
MCALEENAN: Sure.
INGRAHAM: A lot of children. I mean, again, the border patrol agents were donating their own children&#8217;s clothes where I was and bringing in diapers and formula, buying it with their own money. It&#8217;s like teachers buying school supplies here.
How big of a concern, though, is the health risk &#8212;
MCALEENAN: Right.
INGRAHAM: &#8212; both to agents, to, obviously, the migrants themselves and then the communities that are absorbing these people?
MCALEENAN: It&#8217;s significant. I&#8217;ve been talking about it since December. We are seeing younger children arriving sicker every day. We had H1N1 outbreak yesterday, in McAllen station, that&#8217;s what the infectious disease that our teenager who passed away on Monday. It looks like he had the flu, a very virulent strain of the flu, H1N1.
We have seen measles. We&#8217;ve seen mumps. We have folks in ICE custody that are quarantined due to mumps.
It&#8217;s a tremendous challenge. We&#8217;ve got a huge medical effort under way with contract support, with coast guard, with the public health service. But, really, this is overwhelming problem, and when smugglers are keeping people in close quarters in Mexico and stash houses for days on end, it just exacerbates.
INGRAHAM: They just &#8212; 120 people in the back of a &#8212;
MCALEENAN: Right.
INGRAHAM: &#8212; truck last week I think it was.
MCALEENAN: Right.
INGRAHAM: Ten days ago, whenever that was. I mean, that in and of itself is horrific.
MCALEENAN: It&#8217;s very dangerous. The temperature in that truck was 98 degrees.
INGRAHAM: We&#8217;ve got a lot of folks on television who are turning this into a hysterical issue as far as blame. This was on MSNBC today.
MCALEENAN: OK.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
MIKA BRZEZINSKI, MSNBC HOST: This is our responsibility as a country and as a nation. And we are not being given answers as to what is happening to a small, young children, to teenagers, to girls, to boys who are being taken away from their families, from their parents and left alone in our custody. Ivanka, Jared, anybody, get to him!
(END VIDEO CLIP)
INGRAHAM: Your reaction?
MCALEENAN: Well, first of all, that&#8217;s not happening. We are separating children and may be one case a day out of the 3,000 families arriving. It&#8217;s very rare. It&#8217;s for the safety of the child, first and foremost.
INGRAHAM: When it&#8217;s not the family member with the child, correct?
MCALEENAN: Right. It&#8217;s a prosecution for a serious criminal offense, it&#8217;s a threat to the child, it&#8217;s communicable disease, or it&#8217;s someone who&#8217;s presenting a family relationship that doesn&#8217;t exist. That&#8217;s when that happens.
And the other thing on the health care, we are doing everything we can to take care of these children as they arrive. We&#8217;ve had over 150,000 kids enter our process in the last three and a half months, our border patrol agents are doing an amazing job to take care of them.
INGRAHAM: Do you think the new world that was I guess released today that sponsors of illegal immigrants I guess are going to have to guarantee.
MCALEENAN: Right.
INGRAHAM: They&#8217;re going to pay for their health care. They will pay for their, you know, other costs.
MCALEENAN: Sure.
INGRAHAM: Which is a law right now, it&#8217;s a law, but it&#8217;s not being enforced.
MCALEENAN: Right.
INGRAHAM: Is that a good idea? With that perhaps bring down the illegal immigration?
MCALEENAN: I think a whole set of initiatives that we&#8217;re pursuing, along with the Department of Justice, to tighten our enforcement of laws that haven&#8217;t been enforced effectively in the past to make it harder to be here unlawfully. I think those are important steps.
INGRAHAM: E-Verify, yes?
MCALEENAN: Absolutely, we support it. We&#8217;re ready to expand it.
INGRAHAM: Mr. Secretary, it&#8217;s going to be tough months. We&#8217;re going to get back down in the border. Thank you so much for being here.
MCALEENAN: Thank you for coming down and seeing our men and women.
INGRAHAM: Absolutely.
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DHS Secretary McAleenan Reveals Top Immediate Fix Needed To Help Border Crisis

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