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January 8, 2019 By Felicia Sonmez, John Wagner, Josh Dawsey and Mike DeBonis Migrants (click here) wait to be assisted by volunteers in a Humanitarian Respite Center in the border town of McAllen, Texas on June 14, 2018. “This is a humanitarian crisis (click here) — a crisis of the heart and a crisis of the soul,” Trump said. He added that the federal government “remains shut down for one reason and one reason only: because Democrats will not fund border security.” For as long as there have been border crossings there have been religious organizations involved that secure the lives of desperate people. I take issue with Trump's words. He is trying to say Americans need to turn their backs on their moral character in order to deal effectively with the southern USA border. That is not the case. If anything, the paranoia Trump exudes is far more dangerous. The Trump Administration is not capable of securing the USA border and the violence by the Sinaloa Cartel within the USA is proof. The churches involved are doing all the heavy lifting. There is no reason for detention facilities. There never has been a need for detention facilities. 20 June 2018 By Jaden Urbi The Trump administration's zero tolerance policy (click here) for illegal immigration is shining a spotlight on U.S. detention efforts.... ...As of this month, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement runs 113 detention facilities across the country and works with state and local jails along with private prisons to operate hundreds more. ICE facilities cost $133.99 a day per adult According to ICE's FY 2018 budget, on average it costs $133.99 a day to maintain one adult detention bed. But immigration groups have pegged the number closer to $200 a day. The cost to maintain a family bed, which keeps mothers and children together in a family residential center, costs around $319 a day, according to DHS. But as of April, children have been separated from their parents with much higher frequency, which has led to the creation of "tent cities" to hold thousands of separated children. Those beds cost $775 per person per night, HHS told NBC News.... The 2014 Crisis brought about change in immigration policy that worked. June 24, 2018 By Jane C. Timm ...The Family Case Management Program, (click here) launched as a pilot in early 2016, aimed to keep asylum seeking kin together, out of detention, and complying with immigration laws. It was praised by immigration advocates for both its high rate of compliance and its ability to help migrants thrive in a new country — right up until the Trump administration shuttered it almost exactly a year ago.... ...“It was really, really cost efficient compared to family detention or family separation,” Katharina Obser, a senior policy adviser for the Women's Refugee Commission's Migrant Rights and Justice program, said. According to The Associated Press, cost the government $36 per day per family. By the end, it served 954 people in total, according to a 2017 Department of Homeland Security Inspector General report. Trump has slammed policies or programs that let undocumented immigrants live in the country while awaiting immigration proceedings, using the term "catch and release" to decry the protections afforded to children and families seeking asylum in the U.S. and inaccurately claiming that the laws force ICE to release dangerous criminals....
There were no facts in Trump's speech. Trump is dumping his responsibility in ending violence within USA borders at the Undocumented. He is scapegoating them while our children still have no reassurances they are safe in their schools. Trump's violent rhetoric escalates violence, especially racist violence. He never takes responsibility for it or changes his speech. He continues to spew hate to drive a base of White Supremacists. The beheading Trump referred to was not qualified as to whom was involved in the deaths of a 13-year-old girl and her grandmother. The two men involved were members of the "Sinaloa Cartel." Who exactly is the Sinaloa Cartel? El Chappo. Dec. 08, 2018 - 1:38 - El Chapo’s Sinaloa cartel (click here) is responsible for brutal violence including beheadings by chainsaw and leaving body parts strewn in the streets. I have to question the effectiveness and truthfulness of the witnesses at the El Chappo trial if this is what is occurring in the USA. USA law enforcement is supposed to be closing the loop on this and now it is obvious there are no actions to end the reign of lawlessness by the Sinaloa Cartel? Someone is lying and law enforcement is not providing insight to state and local law enforcement to the cartel's activity in the USA as well as it's structure so this ends. Who in the USA is on "the take" to look the other way? July 25, 2018 By Crystal Bonvillian ...The grisly details of Mariah Lopez’s slaying came out during the preliminary hearing of Yoni Martinez Aguilar, AL.com reported. Aguilar, 26, and Israel Gonzalez Palomino, 34, are each charged with two counts of capital murder in the deaths of Lopez and her 49-year-old grandmother and legal guardian, Oralia Mendoza. Palomino is also charged with possession of methamphetamine. Members of the middle schooler’s family wept (click here) as Investigator Stacy Rutherford testified about the details Aguilar, who was Mendoza’s live-in boyfriend, gave in a statement following his June 14 arrest.... The immigrants from the Northern Triad are not remotely responsible for these brutal murders. What are these men doing in the USA? They MUST be here to attempt to free El Chappo. Is Trump saying they came across the southern USA border? Really? How did that happen? This revelation by Trump really surprises me. There are significant people in USA custody testifying about the cartel and there are thugs from that cartel freewheeling around the USA? How is this happening? It makes no sense to think there are details about the cartel, it's organization and members coming out of the El Chappo trial only to find there are cartel thugs in the USA. I am sorry these deaths occurred, but, when Americans become involved with cartels, these are the consequences. =
January 8, 2019 By Carmin Chappell ...Although PresidentDonald Trump (click here)has frequently called the situation at the U.S.-Mexico border a "crisis," government data shows that arrests are down compared with the Obama administration as most illegal immigration occurs through overstaying temporary visas. As the government shutdown enters day 18 with no resolution in sight, Trump has repeatedly overstated the severity of illegal immigration at the border in order to convince Congress to approve more than $5 billion in funding for a border wall. "The crisis of illegal activity at our Southern Border is real and will not stop until we build a great Steel Barrier or Wall," he tweeted Dec. 22, the day the shutdown began....
January 4, 2019 By Manny Fernandez, Caitlin Dickerson and Paulina Villegas A migrant child from Honduras at Annunciation House in El Paso. The shelter takes in roughly 200 migrants a day. El Paso — At a migrant shelter near the Mexican border, (click here) three girls from Guatemala — sisters aged 10, 9 and 6 — coughed and sniffled. One of them clung to both a teddy bear and a large bottle of Pedialyte, to soothe her dehydration and flu. The girls’ mother, Nelcy, 28, said her daughters got sick not during their long journey to the border in the back of a pickup truck, but during the 12 days they spent at two crowded government detention facilities before arriving at the privately run shelter in Texas. “It was very cold, especially for the children,” said Nelcy, who would only be identified by her first name. “My children got sick. They gave us aluminum blankets, but it wasn’t enough.”...
October 17, 2018 By Sarah Ferguson ...Mexicans (click here) and Central Americans line up at the U.S.-Mexican border to make asylum requests. Shelters run by charities in border cities like Reynosa, Tijuana and Nogales all have reported an uptick in migrant asylum seekers. Above, Sister Maria Nidelvia Basulto visits with some of her guests at the Casa del Migrante in Reynosa, which houses both migrants hoping to reach the U.S. and deportees preparing to return home.... November 1, 2018 By Mary Rezac ...Cavendish told CNA (click here) that when Catholic Community Services (CCS) receives refugees who have been released by ICE, the first thing they do is “reaffirm their human dignity, we make sure they understand that they’re safe and welcome and give them a hot meal and something to drink.” These refugees then spend about 24 hours in a CCS-established shelter while they are provided with food, clothing and shelter while arrangements are made to get them to their families in the U.S. “Everyone who comes to us has sponsors here in the United States, and so we help them to reach out to their families and we help make their travel arrangements,” she said.... September 12, 2018 The Bipartisan Policy Center (click here) says results of a survey to be released Friday support the view that Texas and its historic, pragmatic views on immigration are key to pushing for future reform. As the national debate over immigration rages on, conservative-leaning Texas is seen as an important bellwether state given its growing diversity, 1,000-mile border with Mexico and closeness to hot button topics ranging from sanctuary cities, the border wall, DACA to the separation of families entering the U.S. And those issues are complicated by a growing economy dependent on its immigrant labor force. The Washington-based Bipartisan Policy Center think tank said results from the nationwide survey, conducted in conjunction with Southern Methodist University, show that, overall, Texans share an underlying belief – 68.8 percent – that “immigrants are an essential part of American society,” particularly when newcomers are willing to demonstrate a commitment to learning English, and being law-abiding citizens. “Texans are welcoming to immigrants and they want them to be law abiding, hardworking and assimilating, integrating into society,” said Theresa Cardenal Brown, director of immigration and cross border initiatives at the center. “Texans believe it can be done and they believe it can happen.” When asked what concerns Americans more when it comes to immigration, 47 percent of national respondents said the “lack of control over the people we are allowing in.” For Texas, that number rose to 54 percent.... "Gallup" (click here)
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