https://www.washingtontimes.co...ion-worst-rate-2007/

Illegal immigration across the southwest border is at its highest levels in more than a decade, the government said Tuesday, contradicting claims of Democrats who say there is no border crisis and bolstering President Trump’s case for an emergency.

Border Patrol agents nabbed more than 66,000 illegal immigrants jumping the border in February alone, the worst such month since February 2008, and overall illegal immigration is up 97 percent compared to last year.

At that rate, the country is on track to arrest more than 780,000 illegal immigrants trying to sneak into the country this fiscal year. That would be the worst since 2007.

Officials said the current numbers are worse, though, in that a majority of them are children and families from Central America, under current U.S. policy they are much tougher to deport. That only invites more to make the journey, said Brian Hastings. chief of operations at the Border Patrol.

“The word of mouth and social media quickly gets back to those in northern triangle countries — if you bring a child, you’ll be successful,” Chief Hastings said.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAleenan said solutions include investing in Central America, targeting the multibillion-dollar smuggling organizations who funnel the migrants north, constructing more border wall here, and changing laws to stop the incentives that invite more people to come.

“We are facing alarming trends,” he said, calling the total flow of illegal immigration “our highest levels in over a decade.”

The number of people caught at the border is generally considered a proxy for the total flow of illegal immigration, so more apprehensions is believed to mean more people are attempting to cross.

However, Mr. McAleenan acknowledged that formula has changed somewhat in recent years based on the new demographics of the migrants attempting to cross.

In the past, when most were single adults from Mexico, and a majority of those men, their goal was to evade capture. Now, the children and families from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador — dubbed the northern triangle countries — want to be caught.

When they sneak across the border they often “present” themselves to Border Patrol agents and demand asylum, certain in the knowledge they’ll be quickly released into communities to await a process that can take years — giving them a chance to disappear into the shadows.

Mr. McAleenan said the surge of children and families has grown worse in the last few months as smuggling organizations have begun to use charter buses to ferry migrants from Guatemala, in particular, to remote locations at the border in Arizona and New Mexico.

Mini-caravans as large as 300 people are delivered to places like Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, a beautiful but rugged location in southern Arizona that is far from any substantial infrastructure, or medical care.

In just five months of the current fiscal year, agents have encountered 70 large groups, defined as those of 100 or more migrants. The previous year’s total was just 13 such groups.

Buses also mean more migrants who would normally not be able to make the journey by foot are traveling, and it’s meant a surge in sick people arriving at the border.

Fifty-five migrants a day are being sent to clinics or hospitals for care, and the Border Patrol says it’s on track for 31,000 total this year. That’s up from just 12,000 last year.

Agents have to accompany each of those migrants, taking them away from enforcement duties.

Chief Hastings said his agents have logged 57,000 hours of medical watch so far this fiscal year.

The smuggling cartels, which also control the flow of drugs along the border, will use the migrants as a distraction, sending a large group of people over to occupy agents’ attention, then trying to slip drugs over in another location.

“We have four specific cases here recently that we’ve seen those family units used as a diversionary tactic,” Chief Hastings said.

It's peaking because all of this human garbage now realizes that it's going to become harder in the near future to get into the US.

Why couldn't we have another country like Canada on our southern border? Why the fuck does it have to be this shitty place with a shitty government and shitty people? The United States is in no need whatsoever of any more illiterate manual laborers, mmkay?

Each time one of these people enter our country illegally, it diminshes us as a nation and as a people, because all they do is drag us down.

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Originally posted by parabellum:
It's peaking because all of this human garbage now realizes that it's going to become harder in the near future to get into the US.

Why couldn't we have another country like Canada on our southern border? Why the fuck does it have to be this shitty place with a shitty government and shitty people? The United States is in no need whatsoever of any more illiterate manual laborers, mmkay?

Each time one of these people enter our country illegally, it diminshes us as a nation and as a people, because all they do is drag us down.

But we get cheap lettuce and higher property taxes to educate illegal's children.

These insane laws that we have that encourage this invasion need to be changed.

It should be "Not a citizen,not a penny"

Organized and funded.
Soros.

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The United States is in no need whatsoever of any more illiterate manual laborers, mmkay?

Each time one of these people enter our country illegally, it diminshes us as a nation and as a people, because all they do is drag us down.

And it's not just Democrats who want more of them:

GOP/Democrats Lobby to Import Twice As Many Low-Skilled Foreign Workers

A coalition of Republican and Democrat Senators is lobbying Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen to more than double the number of low-skilled foreign workers that businesses can import to take blue-collar American jobs.

Eleven Republican and Democrat Senators, including Sens. Susan Collins (R-ME) and Angus King (I-ME), are seeking to convince Nielsen to once again increase the number of H-2B foreign workers who are admitted every season to take U.S. jobs that would otherwise go to young and working-class Americans.

Every year, U.S. companies are allowed to import 66,000 low-skilled H-2B foreign workers to take blue-collar, non-agricultural jobs. For some time, the H-2B visa program has been used by businesses to bring in cheaper, foreign workers and has contributed to blue-collar Americans having their wages undercut.

The demand for more H-2B foreign workers comes as the Center for Immigration Studies released a study this year that, again, reveals widespread U.S. wage suppression for Americans in occupations prone to H-2B visas.

Every one percent increase in the immigrant composition of American workers’ occupations reduces their weekly wages by about 0.5 percent, researcher Steven Camarotta has found. This means the average native-born American worker today has his weekly wage reduced by perhaps 8.5 percent because of current legal immigration levels.

In a state like Florida, where immigrants make up about 25.4 percent of the labor force, American workers have their weekly wages reduced by perhaps more than 12.5 percent. In California, where immigrants make up 34 percent of the labor force, American workers’ weekly wages are reduced by potentially 17 percent.

Likewise, every one percent increase in the immigrant composition of low-skilled U.S. occupations reduces wages by about 0.8 percent. Should 15 percent of low-skilled jobs be held by foreign-born workers, it would reduce the wages of native-born American workers by perhaps 12 percent.

https://www.breitbart.com/poli...led-foreign-workers/

Republicans have fucked us every bit as much as the Democrats on this. & they both continue to fuck us.

Nielsen declares migration crisis 'spiraling out of control,' warns it will get 'even worse'

She just testified that we are expecting 1,000,000 apprehensions this year. Add to that the ones that don't get arrested and it totals a metric shit ton.

Really, the courts have fucked us. Every illegal caught at the border should be summarily and immediately deported. And if they're not from Mexico, flown back to the shithole they came from, so they at least have to have a full length do over if they want to try again. The reason this doesn't happen is that the courts won't let it. I'm not even sure there's any way to legislate around it, without a constitutional amendment.

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Republicans have fucked us every bit as much as the Democrats on this. & they both continue to fuck us.

The economy is booming so the Chamber of Commerce has the Republican's ear wanting cheap labor.

The Demonrats want a fresh generation of poorly educated voters that will vote for them no matter what.

Some foolish RINOs think they can outgive the Demonrats in terms of free shit and get their first ever generation of poorly educated voters that will vote for them no matter what and fundamentally change the Republican party.

In other words, both parties suck and neither gives a shit about the bigger picture. However, the Republicans suck less.

A wall with machine gun towers and landmines.

Our government imports poverty and steals from its taxpaying citizens at the point of a gun to provide for these third world primitives. I read today that an average of 55 invaders a day are taken to the hospital, to give just one example of one of the first thefts by our government.

You can bet that if American patriots were allowed to end this invasion on their own, rather than the government "attempting" to do it, the invasion would stop in a matter of days. Yeah, you'd have to break a few eggs to make the omelet, but the invaders would get the message real quick.

^^ Lack of will.
Citizens could solve this. I'd volunteer a week with a rifle on the border.

As much as I hate hate hate illegal immigrants I do respect legal immigrants greatly. I work with many of them currently one Haitian and one Dominican and in the past have worked with many Spanish legal immigrants. They have all hated illegals more than any of us could. These guys went through the process paid lots of money to come here legally.
My branch at my company alone needs to hire 40-50 guys for the upcoming season. I will welcome any legal immigrant who wants to break his back alongside me. Legal immigrations exists for a reason. We do need workers blue collar workers and we sure as hell aren’t getting it from the snowflakes graduating college.
It’s sad American kids don’t want to work the trades but we can’t hire them if they don’t apply.

https://www.judicialwatch.org/...or-racial-profiling/

Illegal Aliens Arrested in Workplace Raid Sue Fed Agents for Racial Profiling
FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Represented by an extremist nonprofit that lists conservative organizations on a catalogue of “hate groups,” seven illegal immigrants detained in a workplace raid are suing the federal agents that arrested them, claiming that they were racially profiled for being Latino. In a federal court complaint filed this week by their pro bono attorneys at the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), the illegal aliens assert that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents violated their Constitutional rights against illegal seizures and to equal protection under the Fourth and Fifth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.

The raid occurred last spring at a slaughterhouse and meatpacking plant in a small rural town called Bean Station in east Tennessee. Agents from ICE and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) raided the facility as part of a lengthy investigation into the owner’s multi-million-dollar tax evasion and fraud scheme. About 100 illegal aliens were arrested, most of them from Guatemala and Mexico and some had been previously deported from the U.S. more than once. At least 54 people were deported immediately, some were released and others faced federal or state charges, according to a local news report following the seize.

The owner of the business, James Brantley, eventually pled guilty to multiple federal crimes, including tax fraud, wire fraud, and employment of unauthorized illegal aliens. The feds say he avoided paying nearly $1.3 million in taxes by hiring at least 150 illegal aliens and paying them off the books in cash. The scheme began in 1988 and continued through 2018 when he got busted. Brantley had reported to the IRS that he had only 44 wage-earning employees, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ). To avoid Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA) tax obligations, unemployment insurance premiums, unemployment tax and workers’ compensation insurance premiums he paid illegal immigrants in cash at a rate of $8-$10 per hour.

The feds said it was a criminal investigation from day one, not simply an immigration enforcement action as many open borders activists alleged. “Tax fraud is an outrage to hard-working Americans directly harmed when criminals cheat their obligation to society by failing to pay their fair share, and the employment of illegal workers also poses a serious threat to public safety as the use of fraudulent identity documents exposes Americans to potential identity theft and other financial harm,” said the special agent from ICE Homeland Security Investigations who led the probe.

Leftist groups went ballistic, asserting that illegal immigrants were victims whose “rights” were violated by the federal government. Outraged, the SPLC called it the largest workplace immigration raid since the George W. Bush administration. “What happened on April 5, 2018 was law enforcement overreach, plain and simple,” said the group’s senior supervising attorney Meredith Stewart. “We, as a nation, have a shared set of ideals, rooted in the Bill of Rights: We have a right to be free of racial profiling and unlawful arrests. If we are not willing to uphold those ideals for everyone in this country, then we are all at risk of losing our rights.” In the complaint, SPLC attorneys write that the federal officers conspired to plan and execute the forceful and prolonged seizure of the meatpacking plant’s Latino workforce solely on the basis of their actual or apparent race or ethnicity.

The defendants are nine ICE agents who are accused of using “brutal and excessive force without any provocation.” They cursed, shoved and punched workers, according to the SPLC complaint. A Tennessee group that’s helping in the case says the lawsuit addresses the brutality the workers faced at the hands of agents. The nonprofit, Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition (TIRRC), claims the workplace raid was an “unconscionable abuse of power” with “human costs.” The SPLC, an Obama-tied leftist group that helped a gunman commit an act of terrorism against a conservative organization, has the lead in the case. A few years ago a gunman received a 25-year prison sentence for carrying out the politically-motivated shooting of the Family Research Council (FRC) headquarters after admitting that he learned about the FRC from the SPLC “hate map.” Prosecutors called it an act of terrorism and recommended a 45-year sentence.

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As much as I hate hate hate illegal immigrants I do respect legal immigrants greatly. I work with many of them currently one Haitian and one Dominican and in the past have worked with many Spanish legal immigrants. They have all hated illegals more than any of us could. These guys went through the process paid lots of money to come here legally.
My branch at my company alone needs to hire 40-50 guys for the upcoming season. I will welcome any legal immigrant who wants to break his back alongside me. Legal immigrations exists for a reason. We do need workers blue collar workers and we sure as hell aren’t getting it from the snowflakes graduating college.
It’s sad American kids don’t want to work the trades but we can’t hire them if they don’t apply.

We are up to our eyes in both legal and illegals. How many do we need ? What is the number ? Do we need more eternally or forever ? Do you really expect collage level people to do what sounds like mexican labor ? What is this trade ? Roofing, framing, concrete, roads, please tell. Educated young folk aspire to careers. Yes, some will do anything to get a start. Others will not. But they're American snow flakes so they gotta be replaced by legals right ? I am sick to my bladder of people making claims about needing these workers. Those claims and the cell phone are why so many of them are here in Our country. Everywhere I go here in the midwest is filled with these people and they've got other peoples JOBS ! They are driving other peoples new vehickes. I dont give a crap what anyone says, we dont need them in this country.

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A wall with machine gun towers and landmines.

Agreed. I guaran-goddang-tee you that LEGAL immigrants don't just show up to the wall and expect to be let in. The Lib-o-shits in this country had better thank their lucky stars I'm not in charge. Don't want a wall?? Fine by me! Instead, they would get observation towers equipped with snipers and MG nests no more than 1/2 mile apart and ordered to shoot on sight, concertina wire, search lights, CONSTANT UAV surveillance, trip flares, claymores, and land mines on every last damned INCH of the southern border.

I am getting really sick of this bullshit...

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Originally posted by David Lee:
I dont give a crap what anyone says, we dont need them in this country.

x2!

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We don't seem to "win" any of these immagration battles.
Maybe, we should give the Dems what they want.
Let them pour over the southern border but then transport them to Sanctuary States and cities.
Tell them as long as they stay there they will be safe unless the local jurisdiction changes there sanctuary status. If caught outside a sanctuary area they will then be imprisoned in a "hell hole" until they are deported or imprisoned.
Let the parasites pray on each other.

∆∆∆. Wait, what?

Your soultion is to lock them in a hellhole and tell them they have to stay there, if they leave their hellhole they are sent to a worse hellhole?

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I am getting really sick of this bullshit...

Same here.
The time is rapidly approaching when the citizens of this country decide to take the law into their own hands.
We can't trust the political/legal system to enforce the law.