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your support. Alrighty, So, during the twenty sixteen and twenty
twenty four election cycles, Donald Trump promised to end catch
and release. This obviously lost him the vote of sports
fishermen all over the country. No, this is about the
immigration practice where you allow illegal immigrants that you apprehend. Obviously,
the godaways they got away, so you did not apprehend them.
But if you apprehend them, then you would allow them
to be released. That's the release part of catch and release,
while their cases go through the administrative courts. And well,
unless they are a flight risk, then you would keep
them detained. Although under the Biden administration, I don't think
they thought anybody was a flight risk. So even though
people were fleeing literally their own countries, but okay, the
absconding rate is constantly high though. In other words, they
don't appear, they don't come back for their court appearance.
The result of that has been millions and millions of
illegal aliens that have been absorbed into the country. And
when you have Democrats in control, they don't ever fund
the clearing out of these cases. They don't dedicate resources
to go and find the people to rearrest them, bring
them into the court, run them through their process, and
then deport them if their asylum claims are bunk, and
most of them and when I say most, it's somewhere
in the neighborhood of I think the last stime I
saw was somewhere around eighty to ninety percent of the
asylum claims are bunk, and so the courts say, no,
you're not actually in fear of your life or in
fear for your life, so we're going to send you back.
Which is why once they get caught and they get
their notice to appear and then they don't appear like
that's why they don't appear is because there was really
no fear of them ever being picked up and being
brought back and then being told they have to go
back to their home country, but now the opportunity for
bonding out is closed. Ed Morrissey, the founder of hotair
dot com, writes about this today over at the website
hot air dot com. He says, ICE will now detain
all illegal border crossers for the duration of their case
without exception. So if you get picked up at the border,
you're going to be held until you appear in front
of a judge. That's it. No more being released. Here's
how the Wall Street Journal reported it, though, quote the
Trump administration is attempting to make millions of immigrants living
in the country illegally once again. Like here is the
Wall Street Journal. It's just illegal alien. Save yourself, like
five words and some you know, half a column inch
here and just say illegal alien. And by the way,
these immigrants that they're talking about, they're not living in
the countrygally. They just crossed in. They don't even have
an address, they have no home, right, they've just arrived.
You pick them up at the border, you're putting them
into the detention facility. So they're not immigrants living in
the country illegally. But once again another example of the
obfuscation of reality based on choices that media and Democrats,
But I repeat myself that they make in these vocabulary
changes that they make in order to advance their agenda.
So back to the peace. The Trump administration is attempting
to make millions of illegal aliens ineligible to be released
from detention on bond as they fight their deportation cases.
According to an administration official familiar with the matter, So
here's an unnamed source. The move marks a significant departure
from decades of practice when immigration judges had the latitude
to release someone from detention on a bond if they
were not deemed a flight risk. By the way, I
remember Republicans and back then even some Democrats complaining about
the catch and release program. This would have been twenty
five years ago. They were complaining about this. I went
to town hall meetings with congress people who were being
berated by their constituents for the catch and release approach.
This has been part of the immigration debate for twenty
five years. Immigration law states that all immigrants in the
country illegally must be detained while their fates are decided.
That's what the law is. You are to be held
and then you are to be adjudicated, and then you
are to be either released or you are to be deported. However,
with limited beds available in the ice jails, the government
had considered the law effectively impossibly to enforce. Right, So
you get the game here, right. If you don't build
the beds, then you can keep releasing the people. And
when you overwhelm the system and you don't have enough
beds to begin with, then you don't even never go
and pick them up. You never bring them back in.
If they just disappear into the fabric of our society,
well we'll never know, and we won't have any resources
to go get them, and we can't schedule them to
appear in a timely manner because we're so overwhelmed by
all of the millions and millions of people that have
been allowed to come in, particularly in the last four years.
Ed Morrisy goes on to say later in the piece,
most of those inside the US who could be impacted
by this policy change are already absconders. So people who
did not show up to court, they had a date,
they did not show and so that means they are
already subject to arrest and detention. That's already the law.
So this policy is not aimed at the existing population
of illegal aliens. It's aimed at those who want to
try entering the US illegally now and in the future.
That's what this policy does. It sends a message, It
sends a signal. And this is one of the things
that the left and the media and I repeat myself again,
but they never talk about this, which is the messaging
that goes out to the rest of the world. And
if you're as sending the message that the borders are open,
and if you get here, you'll stay and we won't
do anything to get rid of you, and you'll even
be able to get some benefits, and if Democrats have
their way, you'll even be able to vote here. Meanwhile,
you'll be able to send remittances. You'll be able to
send money back to your family and friends back in
your home country, and that's not taxed. Like these are
rational decisions that people in the other countries are making
to come here and take advantage of this. If we
are foolish enough to offer this kind of a system
to anybody on the planet, then anybody on the planet
is rationally going to take advantage of that offer. And
so now the policy is changing. Now, no we are
going to enforce the law. And the message is going
out clearly. It's a signal. There's no way to avoid
making the inside, to avoid making the inside of a
detention center the sum total of your entire experience of
living in America under these circumstances, if you cross that border,
we're going to catch you, because they're catching them now,
we're going to catch you. And once if we catch you,
you're going to stay in a detention facility until you
are adjudicated, and then you're head and home. That's going
to be your experience in America, and you then cannot
come back. If you try to come back, you're in
even more trouble. You can't even apply to come back
if you get caught. That sends the signal do not come,
which is what Kamala Harris told everybody that's where that
that was her plan. Don't come, remember like that was
the extent of it, like, and nobody listened to her
because all of the incentives were aligned for them to come.
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over the hot air dot com piece by Ed Morrissey.
The name of the piece by Ed Morrissey is chu changes.
I don't know if he has a stutter or something,
but Trump ends catch and release bonds for illegal immigrants,
so illegal crossings have dropped by over ninety percent year
over year, delivering on one of Trump's biggest political promises
and giving him the biggest political win I would submit
so far. Some of the numbers the US borders are.
Tom Homan put out a tweet he called it the
Trump Effect. Total border patrol encounters. These are just encounters
for the entire month of June, last month, six thou seventy. Okay,
that is less in an entire month. That's sixty seventy.
That is less than a single day. Under Biden, It's
less than half of a single day. The total number
of counters is less than half of a single day
under Joe Biden. Under Biden's term, you saw ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen,
fourteen thousand encounters every day, and of those sixty seventy,
the six thousand and seventy encounters, zero were released into
the US. That sends a message. Here's Bill Malugin on Twitter.
Bill Malugin is a Fox reporter. Customs Border Patrol reports
June was the lowest month of illegal crossings ever recorded
at the southern border, with just sixty thousand, seventy two
for the month. The Biden administration routinely had sixty or sorry,
six thousand in a single day, CPB reports, or it's
a six thousand plus in a single day. CBP reports
zero releases of illegal aliens into the US and June
compared to twenty seven thousand, seven to seventy six a
year ago. So we went from almost twenty eight thousand
people released into the country during the month of June
last year to zero released this year. CBP says June
was the second month in a row of zero releases
of illegal aliens at the southern border, and CBP calls
it the most secure border in history. I'd say that's
pretty good. That's a pretty big victory. Then there's this,
as Ed Morrissey writes at hodair dot com, the One
Big Beautiful Bill Act, or the oh Bah Babbaba as
I like to call it. Congress injected more than one
hundred and seventy billion dollars into the Department of Homeland
Security to bolster border related functions. Much of those funds
will go to expand ice detention capacity, going from forty
thousand to one hundred thousand capacity, and other funds will
ex span the capacity of the administrative judges handling these cases. Finally,
finally again twenty five years. People have been clamoring for
this on the right. I don't know where the lefties
are on this now. They used to be for border protection,
Now I don't know what they're at. Now. They're just
open borders because it'll destroy America, I guess. But more
judges speed up the process, greater capacity at the facilities.
While some of that detention and process capacity could be
used for absconders, the people who got released already, who
are found and then detained, most of it will likely
get used for quick turnarounds on new border crossings, making
their U turns a lot quicker and entirely more certain.
It's the combination that between these two approaches that makes
it work more. As he says, even one hundred thousand
beds would not have been enough, while over one hundred
thousand crossed into the country each month under Joe Biden. Right,
so even if you just increased capacity when Biden was president,
you would not have been able to turn them around quickly.
Don't forget Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, the bill that they
said that they had to have that Donald Trump tanked right,
that they oh, we had a bipartisan deal, and Donald
Trump called them up and said, don't you pass that bill.
Their bill would not have put any emergency measures into
place until the number of illegal border crossers went over
twenty five hundred a day, which is seventy five thousand
a month, which still would have made no bond policies.
In other words, the release policy would have made it
impossible to undo. You would have had to release this
many people because the trigger for declaring an emergency was
too high, which is why Trump and Republicans opposed it.
At six thousand a month, a bed capacity of one
hundred thousand should be pretty effective as long as DHS
hires enough administrative judges to process the cases expeditiously. Now,
all that being said, it'll take years, maybe decades, to
fully deal with the damage already done by decades of
lax enforcement into four year period of open borders chaos
from the Biden regency. So keep that in mind. You
have to have a realistic view of this. But at
least now people come across, they're going to get detained
and they're going to get sent back home. All right,
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when discussing the illegal immigration crisis okay in America, and
this is also true in other countries of the West
that have thrown open their borders as some you know,
virtue signal of suicidal empathy or something. It's important to
remember that there are different categories of people that are
attempting to come across the border. And what the left
likes to do and the media that I repeat myself,
what they like to do, is to always focus on
economic migrants, shall we say, people who are coming to
make a better life for themselves here in America or
in some other Western society. Maybe they get in they're
here as a child with their parents, and then they
you know, grow up in this society. They they become successful,
they run for mayor on a platform of how terrible
America is, like what's happening in Minneapolis and in New
York City. More on that later. But there are other
types of people that do come across the border. And
I've talked about this for years, various reports out of
the Dare Gap down in Central America, this really harrowing
connection point where it's like jungle and densely forested and stuff,
or would that be densely jungled, I don't know. And
there are like these pitstop areas, these base camps and
where people it's where you know, groups of people they
meet up with the smugglers, the human traffickers and stuff,
and they make their payments and they go up across
the border. And there have been numerous reports over the years,
many of them about certain categories of people, like military
aged men from China, right, that are on their way
to America through Central America. Why why are they killing
chickens and drinking the chicken blood which is something that
members of the Chinese military forces due as some sort
of like initiation deal or whatever. Those are. Those are
some reports. And then there was this one about Immigration
and Customs Enforcement detained eleven illegal aliens a couple of
weeks ago actually from Iran, including one former member of
the IRGC that's the Revolutionary Guard and this individual had
connections to Hesbalah. Right. That's a category of the types
of illegal aliens coming across the border. They're not all
coming for the same reason. Just because you you know,
sanitize the word illegal alien to say they are migrants,
that that doesn't mean that every single person crossing the
border is doing so for the same reason. In its
latest crackdown against illegal immigration, federal agents arrested eleven Iran
money in foreign nationals within forty eight hours, including one
watch listed individual. This was part of a series of
targeted operations spanning eight states and nine cities nationwide. Among
those arrested by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Mehern Makari Saheli.
He was up at Saint Paul, Minnesota. A ICE officials say,
Shahelli or Saheli or Saheli whatever. He is a former
member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, an elite branch
of Iran's armed forces. I says the DTE has quote
admitted connections to Hesbelah, which, in case you are not aware,
that is a US designated foreign terrorist organization backed by Iran.
And in case you were also unaware, prior to nine
to eleven, Hesbelah had the highest American body count of
any terrorist organization. ICE said that five of those arrested
possessed previous criminal convictions, ranging from grand larceny to drug
and firearm possessions. A report also noted that the from
ICE that the Biden administration detained more than fifteen hundred
Iranian nationals who had crossed the southern border illegally, About
half of them subsequently were released into the United States
despite their affiliation with a country whose regime makes death
to America both a slogan and a policy. Of the
seven hundred and twenty nine illegal Iranian aliens that were
released seven twenty nine. Of the seven twenty nine, all
but fifty of them got released while Iran's proxies waged
war on Israel with Iranian support. Why did the flood
of illegal crossings by Iranian nationals increase year over year
by three hundred percent in fiscal year twenty twenty two,
and then by another one hundred and thirty five percent
in fiscal year twenty twenty three, and then by another
seventy three percent in fiscal year twenty twenty four. Why
Why did we see this constant increase in Iranian illegal
aliens year over year over year. Why would the Department
of Homeland Security under Alejandro Majorcas, why would they have
released any Iranian into America. Eleven arrests in forty eight hours.
Pretty good start, but a lot more needs to be
done on that count. That's also Ed Morrissey at hot
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Pambondi filed suit against the City of Los Angeles over
its sanctuary city policies. In the suit, the US Department
of Justice states that sanctuary policies intentionally discriminate against the
federal government by treating federal immigration authorities differently than other
law enforcement agents. From the lawsuit quote, through access restrictions
both to property and to individual detainees, by prohibiting contractors
and subcontractors from providing information, and by disfavoring federal criminal
laws that the City of Los Angeles has decided not
to comply with. I don't know if this case will
have any legs, but I'm going to watch it to
see what happens. LA has been a sanctuary SA City
informally at least since twenty seventeen, when the city council
adopted a sanctuary resolution, which does not carry the force
of law. When Trump won in twenty twenty four, city
officials quickly worked to codify its sanctuary status. That ordinance,
sponsored by City council members Nitya raman Ugo, Soto Martinez
and Unices Hernandez, became effective December nineteenth, twenty twenty four,
so just before Trump took office. Now go back eight
years prior December twenty one, twenty sixteen, during the term
of Chief Charlie Beck LAPD's Chief of Detectives, he had
sent a memo to all commanding officers stating that department
personnel quote, shall not detain an inmate already in local
custody for state or local violations for the sole purpose
of transferring custody of the mate to ICE, unless at
least one of the following conditions present or is present. Rather,
a judicial determination of probable cause for the detainer or
an arrest warrant from a judicial officer. Custody Services Division
will not honor idna's which are Immigration detainer notice of action.
This is exactly what Mecklenburg County Sheriff Gary not my fault.
McFadden has been doing exactly the same thing. And these
carve outs, Oh, if you get a judge with a
probable cause order, a judicial order, or an arrest warrant
from a judicial officer. See, because immigration is administrative law.
It's not criminal law. It's administrative law. And so this
is why they use these Weasley terms. Well, if you
get a judge to issue the detainer, but judges don't
do that. Customs and Border Patrol ice they do that.
It's administrative and so this is what they did back
in twenty sixteen. Our sheriff has been doing very much
the same thing. That's why you've got all this state
legislation that has come down the pipeline to try to
force the sheriff to cooperate fully with ICE on these detainers.
And remember, one of the reasons why McFadden and Democrats
say that they can't possibly cooperate with ICE is that
they're worried about being sued. That's been their argument all
this time. Oh, if we hold somebody in order for
ICE to come get them out of the jail before
we release them back into the community where they will
re offend, because obviously they've done something to arrive in
the jail, right, They've committed some criminal act allegedly. That's
why they got arrested, and that's why they're in the jail.
And he says, we can't release them because we could
get sued. And they've been saying this for eight years.
Nobody's ever been sued over this, though, but he keeps
saying it. He keeps saying it, and now I would
submit if you don't cooperate with ICE. Now, if LA
is your example, you're gonna get sued. So now you
risk being sued by the DOJ for not cooperating with ICE,
for discriminating against this federal agency. California sanctuary state law
passed in twenty seventeen. The first Trump administration sued the
state over portions of that law, arguing it violated the
supremacy clause. They lost at the Ninth Circus Court of Appeals.
The Supreme Court declined to take up that case at
the time, so we'll see what happens this time around. Meanwhile,
Guatemala and Honduras have signed agreements with the United States
to potentially offer refuge to people for from other countries
who otherwise would seek asylum in the United States. One
of the other major questions, right, when people are actually
fleeing violence in their home country and they claim asylum,
they pass through three, four or five other countries to
get to America before they claim asylum. If you are
actually fleeing violence, why wouldn't you claim asylum at the
very first opportunity you had to do so? Right? Why
wouldn't you go as soon as you cross over the
border and you get to that other country where you
are ostensibly theoretically not at threat anymore. You're no longer
at risk of being murdered by whatever cartel was running
your neighborhood. You're now in another country, Why wouldn't you
seek asylum there? But they don't. They travel through many
other countries undergoing hardship, abuse, assaults just to claim asylum
in America. It's almost as if the original as asylum
claim probably wasn't meritorious. All right, that'll do it for
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