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FACEBOOK, GOOGLE, AMAZON SILENT FOR DAYS AFTER TWITTER DROPS SPLC
“It is long overdue that social media companies stop using the hypocritical SPLC as a reliable source to police their content and discriminate against pro-family and conservative nonviolent organizations,” said Mat Staver, chairman of Liberty Counsel. “The rest of the tech companies should follow Twitter’s lead and divorce from the SPLC.”
“Twitter distanced itself from the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) following reports suggesting that the group scams liberal donors out of money. Facebook has not yet revealed whether it plans on ending its partnership with the group.
Twitter appears to be one of the only big tech companies in Silicon Valley to completely divorce itself from the SPLC, an Alabama-based group that got slammed in March following reports it takes donors’ money while ignoring racial harassment. Facebook has not responded to The Daily Caller News Foundation’s repeated requests for comment about its affiliation with the SPLC.
Read the rest here, at The Daily Caller
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Watch Illegal Aliens Cross American Borders – Video from Border Patrol Tuesday Night
Before 5 a.m. MT this morning, #BorderPatrol agents apprehended more than 980 individuals that illegally crossed the border in 3 large groups. The groups, mostly comprised of family units from Central America, were apprehended in the El Paso and Tucson Sectors. pic.twitter.com/4M3hXMXn9t
— CBP (@CBP) April 16, 2019
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Adios, IERB – Georgia Legislature Passes Law to Abolish the Immigration Enforcement Review Board
Created in 2011 via HB87, and dubbed a “parody of a kangaroo court” by this writer, the controversial but obscure IERB has been abolished by the General Assembly.
Archived tracking of the IERB can be seen here on the Dustin Inman Society blog.
A more detailed story on the apparent demise of the IERB from the Decaturish.com news outlet can be seen here.
PSA, Weekend Reading: A Reminder About Libertarians; “Forget the Wall Already, It’s Time for the U.S. to Have Open Borders”
Not for the last time, we re-post the below from the Libertarian Cato Institute as a continuing education, public service.
Author Jeffrey Miron is director of economic studies at the Libertarian Cato Institute and the director of undergraduate studies in the Department of Economics at Harvard University.
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Forget the Wall Already, It’s Time for the U.S. to Have Open Borders
This article appeared on USA Today on July 31, 2018.
President Donald Trump’s recent tweets against open borders come as no surprise. Indeed, even fervent immigration advocates worry that open borders would lower the wages of low-skilled natives, erode national security, and overburden the social safety net. Trump doubled down, tweeting that he would be “willing to ‘shut down’ government” unless Congress approves funding for a border wall with Mexico.
Trump, however, has it exactly backwards: The solution to America’s immigration problems is open borders, under which the United States imposes no immigration restrictions at all. If the U.S. adopts this policy, the benefits will far outweigh the costs.
Legalize ALL immigration
Illegal immigration will disappear, by definition. Much commentary on immigration — Trump and fellow travelers aside — suggests that legal immigration is good and that illegal immigration is bad. So, legalize all immigration.
America has nothing to fear, and much to gain, from open borders.
Government will then have no need to define or interpret rules about asylum, economic hardship, family reunification, family separation, DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) and so on. When all immigration is legal, these issues are irrelevant.
The question of fairness about who enters first — those who waited in line or those who entered illegally — disappears. Amnesty for existing illegal immigrants also becomes a non-issue. Or an open borders policy could require anyone who entered illegally to exit the country — for exactly five minutes — and then re-enter legally.
Think about the money we could save and make
Expenditure on immigration enforcement would shrink to nothing, because open borders means no walls, fences, screening at airports, ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement), deportations, detention centers or immigration courts. A 2013 report estimated that immigration enforcement cost more than $18 billion annually, and standard indicators suggest costs have grown further since then…. read the rest here.
BONUS INFO: Bernie Saunders on open borders, here.
Fast Fact: U.S. immigration authorities apprehended or turned back more than 103,000 illegal aliens along the U.S.- Mexico border in March
From CBS News
U.S. immigration authorities apprehended or turned back more than 103,000 migrants — including approximately 53,000 families and nearly 9,000 unaccompanied children — along the U.S.-Mexico border last month, further overwhelming the Trump administration’s efforts to address the unprecedented surge in migrant families from Central America heading north.
“We’ve arrived at the breaking point,” Brian Hastings, chief of law enforcement operations for U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), told reporters Tuesday. About 92,000 of the 103,000 migrants were apprehended between ports of entry, while nearly 11,000 migrants who appeared at ports of entry to claim asylum were deemed “inadmissible” and turned back, according to CBP statistics.
Georgia Congressman Barry Loudermilk – (R) says he and many of his colleagues support amnesty and U.S. citizenship for some illegal aliens – does not reply to questions @RepLoudermilk
Maybe voters who live in the Georgia 11th District can get some answers from Congressman Barry Loudermilk. We get silence. Contact info here.
The below email was sent to Georgia Congressman Barry Loudermilk’s Washington D.C. office (Brandon Cockerham press staffer Brandon.Cockerham@mail.house.gov)on March 13, 2019. It was sent again the next day and I posted a Tweet to the congressman alerting his office to the email.
No response has been received.
My email is below. I have added some links to educate the reader.
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March 13, 2019
Brandon,
I write for several news outlets, including Breitbart News, Insider Advantage Georgia many Georgia newspapers and on my own website, Immigration Politics Georgia (ImmigrationPoliticsGA.com). I am doing a report on Rep Loudermilk’s position on immigration, illegal immigration, DACA and the current effort in congress to legalize a group of illegal aliens with DACA, TPS and DED. Below I include some background and a few questions to help insure accuracy and balance in my reports. I will be grateful for your response. My deadline is Friday, 4:00 PM. I expect my piece to appear in multiple outlets and to be distributed at the Georgia state Republican Convention.
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I notice that on the congressman’s “issues” page he has detailed an explanation of the DACA executive amnesty and apparently says that no federal law clearly addresses visa overstays. Also that “we need to consider a system to allow the DACA individuals to apply for renewable contingent nonimmigrant legal (CNS) status, which would allow them to stay in the country, but would not automatically grant them U.S. citizenship.”
Congressman Loudermilk recently spoke to the Georgia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and has been quoted by several people in attendance as saying (about DACA recipients) that he and many of his colleagues “want them to stay and apply for citizenship.”
On the issues page of his official website, Congressman Loudermilk refers to “the vagueness of our laws” while saying “they not be given blanket amnesty” in reference to DACA recipients.
From the“Issues” page.
DACA
“Issue: There are currently about 1.8 million on, or eligible for, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program in the U.S. Those identified as DACA/DACA eligible were minors when they were brought to the U.S. by their parents. While some of the parents came across the border illegally, some of the parents came legally on visas, but remained after their visas expired. This is a unique problem that current law does not clearly address.
Solution: We must change the law to clearly address the DACA situation, otherwise the courts will ultimately make the decision. We need to consider a system to allow the DACA individuals to apply for renewable contingent nonimmigrant legal (CNS) status, which would allow them to stay in the country, but would not automatically grant them U.S. citizenship.
DACA Fines/Fees
Issue: Although DACA recipients are technically considered to be legally in the country – due to the vagueness of our laws, they should not be given blanket amnesty
Solution: Any program that addresses DACA must require all applicants to pay a fine/fee to apply. And, these fees should go to funding enhanced border security.”
“Issue: There are currently about 1.8 million on, or eligible for, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program in the U.S. Those identified as DACA/DACA eligible were minors when they were brought to the U.S. by their parents. While some of the parents came across the border illegally, some of the parents came legally on visas, but remained after their visas expired. This is a unique problem that current law does not clearly address.
Solution: We must change the law to clearly address the DACA situation, otherwise the courts will ultimately make the decision. We need to consider a system to allow the DACA individuals to apply for renewable contingent nonimmigrant legal (CNS) status, which would allow them to stay in the country, but would not automatically grant them U.S. citizenship.
DACA Fines/Fees
Issue: Although DACA recipients are technically considered to be legally in the country – due to the vagueness of our laws, they should not be given blanket amnesty
Solution: Any program that addresses DACA must require all applicants to pay a fine/fee to apply. And, these fees should go to funding enhanced border security.”
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QUESTIONS:
Q: Is the congressman aware that 8 USC 1227 provides for removal of aliens who remain in the U.S. longer than authorized and who are inadmissable? Can you please explain the position that the laws on visa overstays/unlawful presence are “vague?”
Q: Will you please cite or explain the “contingent nonimmigrant legal status” (CNS)” – which would allow them to stay in the country, but would not automatically grant them U.S. citizenship.” Is this a federal immigration status of which I am not aware? Is this a legalization/amnesty proposal from the congressman that he has dubbed “CNS?”
Q: USCIS has long explained that DACA does not provide legal status or lawful presence. The 11th District appellate court has also ruled with the same findings; and that DACA recipients are “inadmissible and thus removable under federal law.”
Can you please explain the statement that “DACA recipients are technically considered to be legally in the country?”
Q: Does the congressman’s reported remarks to the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce audience in Atlanta confirm his support for legalization and a path to U.S. citizenship for the current DACA recipients? If so, does he foresee the same support for the future legalization and path to U.S. citizenship of the tens of thousands of illegal alien children whose parents have overstayed temporary visas and who have been illegally brought over our borders in the years since 2012, today and next week?
Thank you in advance, please feel free to contact me with any questions or clarification.
D.A. King
Marietta
Nearly 20 Percent of Inmates in Federal Prisons Are Criminal Aliens – (Republican-Ruled Georgia House Unwilling to Share Same Information on State Level)
“The illegal immigrant crime rate in this country should be zero.” He added, “Every crime committed by an illegal alien is, by definition, a crime that should have been prevented. It is outrageous that tens of thousands of Americans are dying every year because of the drugs and violence brought over our borders illegally and that taxpayers have been forced, year after year, to pay millions of dollars to incarcerate tens of thousands of illegal aliens.” Then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
According to a new report, criminal aliens currently make up nearly 20 percent of the population in the U.S. Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) system — a total of 34,776.
David Olen Cross, a Salem, Ore., crime and immigration researcher, looked at the number of foreign nationals in the U.S. BOP system based on the most recent federal report. As of March 30, 2019, there were 179,761 inmates incarcerated in federal prisons across the U.S. Their countries of origin, according to the report, are:
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Mexico 21,668 inmates, 12.1 percent;
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Colombia 1,633 inmates, 0.9 percent;
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Dominican Republic 1,425 inmates, 0.8 percent;
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Cuba 1,169 inmates, 0.7 percent;
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Other/unknown countries 8,881 inmates, 4.9 percent;
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United States 144,985 inmates, 80.7 percent;
You can read the rest of the story from PJ Media here.
System Successfully Overwhelmed – “We are Witnessing the Real-Time Dissolution of the Immigration System” – DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen
With a Republican president in the White House
While the Democrats are pushing another immigration amnesty, DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen told congress yesterday that the ability of the strongest nation on the planet to protect its own borders is collapsing and that the security system has been successfully overwhelmed.
With little mention of Americans who at one time trusted their government to protect the nation from invasion, in her letter to congress, Neilson expressed her concern for the migrants who are illegally moving from Central America and seeking out Border Patrol agents to happily “turn themselves in” with the knowledge that they will soon be on their way to the interior of the United States.
Americans will soon see these same ‘victims of borders’ being organized by corporate-funded anti-borders groups with angry marches in American cities demanding open borders, U.S. citizenship and the right to vote.
Breibart News has more on the story here . The Washington Examiner reports that Border Patrol is now releasing the illegal aliens directly into the U.S. Even NBC News has taken note that illegal border crossings have hit thirteen-year highs.
Including by the Georgia-based Dustin Inman Society, pro-borders Americans are being urged to contact the White House to demand and support any and all action necessary to end the incursion.
This writer is on his way to the southern border and will periodically post photos and short insights here on IPG, on Twitter ( @DAKDIS ) and on the Dustin Inman Society Facebook page.
Updated typo: 6:54PM
Fast Fact: Mexican News Daily: “U.S. bound “mother of all migrants’ caravans” is forming up in Honduras, Mexican Interior Secretary says “numbers could go higher than 20,000”
“The interior secretary told reporters that migration and specifically the formation of the huge caravan was a central issue in talks she held yesterday with United States Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen in Miami, Florida.”
Mexican News Daily, here.
The United States now has open borders for illegal aliens who bring a child – Border Patrol releasing illegal crossers directly into U.S.
Border Patrol releasing immigrant families into US instead of transferring to ICE
Washington Examiner
SAN ANTONIO, Texas — Border Patrol agents have been quietly releasing immigrant families apprehended at the southern border rather than transferring them to Immigration and Customs Enforcement to continue being held in federal custody, a senior Department of Homeland Security official told reporters Tuesday.
Acting ICE Director Ronald Vitiello said the situation at the U.S.-Mexico border has become so dire that Border Patrol agents are letting families go free into the United States and telling them to show up for asylum hearings in the future instead of putting them in ICE custody for 20 days, the maximum amount of time they can be detained due to a 2015 court ruling.
“CBP [Customs and Border Protection] is doing some of their own release and as the flow continues, we may have to start doing that,” Vitiello said following a speech at the Border Security Expo.
Vitiello, who is still navigating the Senate confirmation process since his nomination to lead the agency last summer, said ICE is “barely keeping up” with the people it is taking from CBP, prompting border agents to take matters into their own hands.
“They are overwhelmed, and we are in a position where we’re not able to help them as fast as we want to,” he said.
Vitiello, who worked for CBP for three decades, said the release an unspecified number of undocumented immigrants into the U.S. is “not really different” than what CBP did in the mid-2000s. Back then, Border Patrol agents were arresting nearly 100,000 people per month and would release some out the back door of stations. Read the entire report here and see the video.
