New border surge prompts 10% jump in 2019 prediction to 1,072,000 illegal immigrants
by Paul Bedard | Washington Examiner, June 06, 2019:
Calling the surprising May surge in illegal immigrant arrests on the border the “worst case scenario,” a top immigration analyst has boosted the expected level of crossings 10%, to over 1 million.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection on Wednesday revealed that May apprehensions topped 144,000. This year has seen 676,315 apprehensions so far, up 99% over this time last year.
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That shocked immigration officials who had hoped it would drop in part due to the Trump administration’s get tough efforts on the border and the potentially deadly heat migrants encounter traveling through northern Mexico.
Steven Kopits, the president of Princeton Policy Advisors which has predicted that immigrant apprehensions would reach 931,000 this year, expressed concern about the May numbers and boosted his prediction to 1,072,000.
“This is the highest for the month of May since 2000 and the highest for any calendar month since March 2006,” he said in a report provided to Secrets.
“We had expected a major surge heading into the summer months, but this is above our worst case scenario,” he added.
And it could go up again if his predictions of high June illegal crossings comes true.
“Forecasting remains a challenge, but our current estimates, allowing for seasonal fluctuations, projects 1,072,000 apprehensions at the southwest border for calendar year 2019. This would be the highest full year since 2005,” he said.
“No doubt President Trump had a sense of these numbers a few days ago, hence the Mexico tariff initiative. Notwithstanding, we expect a similarly bad June,” Kopits added.
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Halal Bacon
4 years ago
makes me think of Oprah, look under your seat, you get a gardener, and here is one for you, no speak engrish, but make good nanny, here is a maid for you…and so on
felix1999
4 years ago
ICE Prepares for Mass Deportations,
Acting Director Admits ‘We Have No Choice’
BY SHAUN HAIR
PUBLISHED JUNE 5, 2019 AT 10:07AM
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In response to the crisis, President Donald Trump’s administration is moving forward with a plan for large-scale deportations. The proposal would address a current problem area — migrant families who fail to attend their court dates, when they would learn their asylum claims have been denied and be ordered for deportation.
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Morgan was clear: “That will include families.”
While ICE will not target families per se, Morgan was clear that no classification of unauthorized immigrants would escape the new operation by means of an exemption.
“I think that a significant incentive there is the fact that once you’re here and you’ve gone through the entire due process in this country and you’ve received a final order of deportation … We’re in a position where we need to enforce that to disincentivize these individuals from taking that trip, exploiting the loopholes, and entering our country illegally,” Morgan said.
ICE’s resources are “strained” and the agency is consistently housing more than maximum capacity.
Of course, the left will complain that any reform is evil. Sending them back is “xenophobic.” Keeping them here is “heartless.” Spreading them around is “bigoted.” Tightening the ports of entry is “racist.”
But the truth is that until we address the number of entrants, the drain on resources and over-capacity centers will continue to run at crisis levels.
Pinprick arrests and deportations to date of illegal aliens by BP and ICE is barely keeping up with new arrivals!
This is a minute fraction of what really needs to be done.
…2 years in and,
800,000 DACA illegal are …………STILL HERE!
26 million illegal aliens …………STILL HERE!
Thousands of muslim refugees ………..STILL HERE!
Thousands of H-1b/2b workers ………..STILL HERE! …and Trump wants even more!
Mandatory E-Verify……………NOT HERE!
The 1,954 mile wall is ………..NOT HERE! …and barely started!
Helll, It would…..STILL be the same, if Hillary had been elected!
Trump should NOT mistake PISSSED OFF and betrayed Republican voter sentiment to be GOP voter enthusiasm!
You are absolutely right however it would be much worse if Hillary had won. What you have to understand is Trump is doing what he can. He is not Obama. DACA and DAPA are illegal directives. Even Obama knew he could not EO that so it was a “policy”. Notice how Trump can’t even get rid of that.
Congress refuses to give Trump money to get the job done! It’s wrong to equate Trump with Hillary. Trump is targeting other sources for more money and wall money and THAT is being challenged. They have Trump boxed in and we’d better hope he makes a break through on it.
“Thousands of H-1b/2b workers ………..STILL HERE! …and Trump wants even more!”
No, Trump doesn’t want more and the spouses of the H1 Visas are being cut off. You can go look that up.
If you don’t vote for Trump in 2020, you are giving the DEMS the victory. I have been following Trump on this, and he IS DOING WHAT HE CAN DO ABOUT ABOUT OUR INVASION! In my deep blue state, NJ, we don’t have to declare we are one – we are without announcing it. So YES, we are paying close attention to this and looking for needed relief! I don’t want that endless shiiiiit residing in in my state and paying for them. I am just as pissed as the next person if not more so. If people want to pout about it and sit home, we will be worse off than Venezuela in short order and I am not being dramatic when a DEM becomes President.
No matter what Trump does he is blocked. Remember how he wanted ILLEGALS coming in through ports of entry to be automatically deported? That too was blocked. The Flores decision by the 9th Circuit Court is a huge problem and in giving us catch and release because you can’t hold these invaders past 20 days. AG Bar is now being challenged for his intervention –
Attorney General Barr Blocks Catch and Release by Migration Judges
By Neil Munro
4/16/19
Immigration judges cannot release migrants who are caught sneaking into the United States, even if the migrants ask for asylum, says a binding legal decision by Attorney General William Barr.
Department of Homeland Security nearly doubled the number of H-2B seasonal employment visas available to foreign workers this summer — adding 30,000 to 33,000 already planned. A week later, at the California border, he told migrants that the United States “can’t take you anymore. Our country is full.”
Yes, additional visas will go only to returning H-2B workers who have worked in the U.S. in the past three years. But the Trump administration’s decision to offer more of these seasonal visas than they have in past years — in non-agriculture blue-collar positions, often in the visitor industry — shows the nation isn’t “full.” Employers’ demand is so great that they had submitted requests for nearly 100,000 workers five minutes after they could do so, crashing the system, per The Boston Globe.
WASHINGTON—The Trump administration is moving ahead to allow an additional 30,000 seasonal workers to return to the U.S. this summer, a higher-than-expected number that reflects internal tensions in the White House’s approach to legal immigration.
The Trump administration’s efforts to change the H-1B program and encourage hiring more U.S. workers don’t appear to be having much effect on demand for the skilled guestworker visas.
The number of petitions submitted for this year reached 201,011, about a 6 percent increase from the 190,098 submitted last year. The rise in petitions, the first in three years, came despite a dramatic uptick in the number of H-1B denials in recent months.
All employers seeking H-1B visas send in their petitions the first week of April, the soonest allowed under the law, because the visas run out so quickly.
Figures show that demand for the visas, a staple of the tech industry, remains high despite the administration’s attempt to scale back the program and encourage the hiring of U.S. workers. Employers such as Amazon Inc., Microsoft Corp., and Alphabet Inc.’s Google. also continue to request the visas in massive numbers despite H-1B supply remaining at 85,000 visas per year.
“The H-1B program is still alive and well,” and the administration “hasn’t done anything to cut it back sharply,” said David North, a fellow with the Center for Immigration Studies and former official in the Johnson administration.
felix1999
4 years ago
Thank RINOS and DEMS for the ongoing invasion.
Predictably Mexican President Lopez-Obrador is unwilling to stop the migration from Central America. There are strong indications the Mexican government does not control the border region as Mexican drug cartels are in charge.
Mexican Officials Reject any Proposal Requiring Them to Keep Migrants in Mexico…
Posted on June 3, 2019 by sundance
Understand what is really going on –
Congress is trying to take away Trump tariff power….and the GOP would like it gone too.
The swamp will NOT pass legislation to STOP this or update our insane immigration LAWS.
The SWAMP WANTS THIS – GOP and DEMS with few exceptions.
Mexico President Lopez-Obrador Enlists Support from ‘Big Club’ Chamber of Commerce (Donohue)…
Posted on May 31, 2019 by sundance
Well, this doesn’t come as a surprise. Hoping to keep the borders open and fend off the Trump tariff’s on Mexican imports, Mexico’s President Lopez-Obrador (AMLO) enlists the help from Tom Donohue and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. MEXICO CITY…
Agreed felix, Ford has been stabbing it’s UK workers in the back for decades, and now the company makes no vehicles or cars in UK, they’ve just announced 1700 workers will lose their jobs making engines in Wales, they’ve also moved van production to Turkey from Southampton with those vans imported tariff free to the whole EU thanks to Brussels.
The word on the street is that those engines will now be made in Mexico.
Its all about money. Love of country is old fashioned and out dated. Globalists don’t care. They are so drunk with power they don’t see the global nightmare they are creating and will NOT be able to control. If this is not stopped, we will have a hell on earth. Venezuela is a sneak preview of what is to come.
A country can fall very quickly under these circumstances. Obama has also purged allot of military generals too….the lefties are running that show. The are determined to disarm us – Red Flag laws are the next effort. Who’d want a JUDGE determining if you have the right to own a gun?
Our police aren’t all on the level either and our judges are very corrupt. I also have no confidence in our Supreme Court. Not hearing cases on free speech and other issues is not encouraging. Trump has quite a WAR on his hands and few in the swamp support him and why we are in the condition we are in. Every time Trump does something, he is blocked by the swamp or a liberal judge and the Supreme Court picks and chooses what they will hear. If they don’t hear it the lower court gets standing. In my eyes they are becoming useless prima donnas.
Poppey
4 years ago
As bad as those figures are, pro rata, they’re not as bad as those in UK, but as in all these cases, if the political will is there to stop this, then so is the solution.
In my old home town recently, raids by immigration officers aided by the plod are more frequent that I have ever known them and the favorite businesses seem to be take away food shops, ethnic run curry restaurants, nail bars and building sites.
However as we understand, the proper way to manage human migration is through controlled immigration through secure borders, the very opposite of what the U.N, globalists and Soros demand.
Should business interests conspire with the deep state to frustrate corrections voted for by the people, those to blame must be exposed and held to account to the people they’ve betrayed.
It is estimated that we have 20-30 million ILLEGALS here already not counting the latest invaders that keep coming. Mexico can not be trusted
They will keep coming. If any of them want to work, who’d settle for $3.00 an hour vs $15.00 plus an hour or be subsidized. The incentive is to keep coming and if you are a female, have an anchor baby! These women are nothing more than whores – notice there is RARELY a father involved other than for the initial deposit. They make out better being a pitied “single mother” and they know that.
Andrés Manuel López Obrador (“AMLO”) Easily Wins Mexican Presidential Election –
Hugo Chavez 2.0 Now Running Mexico….
Posted on July 1, 2018 by sundance
This is the platform that gave him a victory:
Primary platform points:
♦Amnesty to all drug cartels.
♦No longer will work with U.S. immigration enforcement.
♦Nationalize oil industry.
♦Farm subsidies.
♦Elimination of multinational corporate influence on farming.
♦Support and assistance for economic growth plan: using
•mass migration of Mexican nationals into Southern U.S.,
•create AmeriMex border region, and
•remittance of earnings back to Mexico as initiative for rapid domestic economic growth.
He wants to FLOOD the US with Mexicans and other undesirables. Use our infrastructure and then only take back the ones that are worthwhile. He’s a real snake….. So we have a war going on with Mexico and immigration. Mexico will play games with Trump and still allow fake migrants, illegals and fake asylum claimers to sneak through. It’s part of HIS PLAN and CAMPAIGN PROMISE. to Mexicans.
Don’t even start calling this overt attempt to destroy Western nations as “human migration”.
Savanah
4 years ago
We need to divulgate these news in California in every corner…I am not american and live in Europe which happens to have the same stupid leftists policies . I am willing to divulgate tireless these news but I need to know where..links, sites, pages…please! give me some
Savanah
4 years ago
Bilderberg meeting just happened in Switzerland…that bad news…
Alleged-Comment
4 years ago
There is no doubt in my mind Demoncraps sent signals to the back channels to their connections in these countries to LET ‘M LOOSE on Trump.
Many Demoncraps should be HANGED for this. They do not want to see YOU or TRUMP make this country great again. So HANG THE PHUKERS!!
CreoleGumbo
4 years ago
I don’t see these people as immigrants. They are non-uniformed hostile invaders who intend to take over our country. They need to be shot just as if they were wearing uniforms.
Laddyboy
4 years ago
I take issue with your statement that the Democrats are responsible for the INVASION from the South.
I shall refine and correct you statement:
The DemocRATic Nationalist Communist party- also known as the (DNC) AND the RepubliCANTS are responsible for the INVASION from the South.
Why would I say this? Both “parties” have done NOTHING for the last 30 to 40 YEARS to alleviate the problem at the Southern Border of America.
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