8chan/8kun QResearch Posts (25)
#20200652 at 2024-01-07 15:00:14 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #24788: Quick News Roundup Edition
>>20200651
We have protected America's critical infrastructure and empowered American communities. I would personally like to thank the Department's dedicated operators and personnel for performing their duties with the vigilance, integrity, and true sense of service that the American people deserve. But our work is not finished. Indeed, this is a pivotal moment in the Department's history, as we explicitly acknowledge, and adapt our tools to properly confront, the threats of today. These threats have become more complex, more interconnected, more intertwined with technological advances, and closer to home. As the threats evolve, we must do so as well. While the Strategic Framework that follows is significant in many ways, I would like to highlight six contributions that I consider particularly noteworthy: 1) This is not just a Strategic Framework for countering terrorism, but rather it addresses both terrorism and targeted violence. The Federal Government has been moving toward recognizing terrorism and targeted violence as intertwined and interrelated for some time, but this is the first national-level strategy to explicitly state that terrorism and targeted violence overlap, intersect, and interact as problems, and that they necessitate a shared set of solutions. 2) We introduce new methods of creating a more comprehensive understanding of the challenge of terrorism and targeted violence, both within and outside the Federal Government. The Strategic Framework introduces a new annual assessment that will explicate the state of the threat to the Homeland. This new report will help to inform all levels of government and the broader public. A common understanding of threats within the Homeland will support interagency policymaking, agency prioritizations, resource allocations, and inter-governmental partnerships. The Strategic Framework also introduces a mechanism for crafting a new definition of the key concept of targeted violence, which will further help to ensure a common understanding of the threat, allowing for better discussion, approaches to mitigation, and resource allocation. 3) This Strategic Framework clearly elucidates the nature of today's domestic challenges, including providing an extended assessment of the dangers posed by domestic terrorists, including racially-and ethnically-motivated violent extremists, particularly white supremacist violent extremists.
4) This Strategic Framework is designed to assess the Department's past and provide a guidepost to its future. The Strategy identifies the Department's successes, and explains how they can be parlayed into addressingthe multifaceted challenges of today. 5) The Strategic Framework provides a comprehensive treatment of the preventive tools that can be brought to bear against these threats, regardless of the varying ideological or non-ideological drivers. Importantly, the Strategic Framework explicitly recognizes the need to support and protect our most vulnerable populations, our youth in particular. 6) This Strategic Framework emphasizes the importance of transparency, the protections of civil rights and civil liberties, and the protection of data in a digital age. DHS's Strategic Framework for Countering Terrorism and Targeted Violence is intentionally forward-looking in its understanding of technology's role-as a factor that can exacerbate problems, but also one that can provide new solutions to combat the threats we confront. This document will strategically position the Department to deal with future technological advances, as well as other new and emerging threats. The complex and evolving nature of the threats we face today demands that the American people should know our strategy for countering them, and feel comfortable with the transparency of our execution. We will follow this strategy with a public action plan, explaining to the American people in greater detail how we will accomplish the strategic goals we lay out herein. We will implement this new approach to combating terrorism and targeted violence by harnessing the Department's unique multi-purpose architecture. I am confident in our ability to rise to the challenge through relentless resilience, determination, and unity of effort. As Acting Secretary, I made a promise to the American people to spare no effort in safeguarding our homeland security. I am confident that the Strategic Framework will help to make our Nation safer and more resilient. I am honored to lead this new Strategic Framework that the Department is introducing. Sincerely, Kevin K. McAleenan Acting Secretary, U.S. Department of Homeland Security September 2019
#14631301 at 2021-09-21 20:03:42 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #18508: EBake Code Red Edition
>>14631295
>>>>>>>>>>>>https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/09/tuesday-crashing-border-frontpagemagcom/
…But Congressional Democrats dismissed Trump's message as nothing more than an exercise in bigotry, fear-mongering, and, ironically-given the role that the Cloward-Piven Strategy now played in their own political maneuvering-"staging a crisis." Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer, for example, said: "This president just used the backdrop of the Oval Office to manufacture a crisis, stoke fear, and divert attention from the turmoil in his administration." Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi likewise accused President Trump of "manufacturing a crisis" by means of "cruel and counterproductive policies" that scapegoated "the women and children at the border" as "a security threat." And Senator Bernie Sanders said in a video statement: "Mr. President, we don't need to create artificial crises. We have enough real ones."[50]
That same month-February 2019-the total number of illegal aliens apprehended near America's Southern border shot up to 66,884. This figure included 6,818 unaccompanied children, 23,535 single adults, and 36,531 "family unit" members. The latter figure was 46% higher than the corresponding January figure.[51]
The steep upward trend in border-area apprehensions continued in March 2019, when the figure reached 92,835, most of them as members of "family units." Border Protection commissioner Kevin K. McAleenan warned that "the system is well beyond capacity and remains at the breaking point."[52]
April of 2019 brought more of the same: 99,290 apprehensions that included 8,893 unaccompanied children, 31,681 single adults, and an astounding 58,716 "family unit" members. As the Families & Children Care Panel of Customs & Border Protection (CBP), a component of the Homeland Security Advisory Council, noted in its Final Emergency Interim Report that same month: "By far, the major 'pull factor' is the current practice of releasing with a NTA [Notice To Appear in court at a later date] most illegal migrants who bring a child with them."[53] In May 2019, the number of border-area apprehensions reached 132,880, among whom were 11,489 unaccompanied minors, 36,900 single adults, and a previously unimaginable 84,491 people in "family units." Noting that "the numbers for May prove the crisis is only getting worse," U.S. Border Patrol Chief of Law Enforcement Operations Brian Hastings pointed out that as many as 60 percent of all Border Patrol agents were being pulled from their customary law-enforcement duties and shifted into roles where they were providing illegal migrants with housing, food, and transportation.[54]
#8343496 at 2020-03-07 23:06:41 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10681: The Best Is Yet to Come Memes Edition
Military Shifts Troops on Border to Cope with Spike in Illegal Crossings, Pentagon Says
the 9th circuit court is causing chaos in southern border, right while corona virus is at peak concern, something's gotta happen with these judges
The military has shifted 160 Army troops already deployed to the southern border region to entry points at San Ysidro, California, and El Paso, Texas, to bolster security following a spike in illegal crossings, the Pentagon announced Friday.
The additional troops at the two ports of entry will be used to put up temporary barriers and provide force protection for Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents, a Pentagon spokesman said in a statement.
The 160 troops are from the 687th Engineer Construction Company and the 519th Military Police Battalion, both based at Fort Polk, Louisiana, according to the statement. There are more than 3,500 active-duty troops deployed to the border region on order of President Donald Trump.
The CBP announced Tuesday that more than 76,000 mostly migrant families had crossed the border illegally in February, an 11-year high.
Related: Navy Leaders Left Out of Talks to Cut Shipbuilding, Move Funds to Pay for Border Wall
"The system is well beyond capacity, and remains at the breaking point," Kevin K. McAleenan, the CBP commissioner, said Tuesday in announcing the new figures.
The surge has overwhelmed processing centers and resulted in migrant families jamming into already overcrowded detention facilities, McAleenan said. "This is clearly both a border security and a humanitarian crisis."
The surge occurred despite the Trump administration's controversial decision under an emergency order to divert billions from military construction accounts already approved by Congress to build new sections of the border wall and replace existing sections.
The administration took $3.6 billion in military construction funding in 2019, which had been slated for such projects as schools, hospitals, port expansions and firing ranges, to pay for the wall.
The administration has also announced proposals to divert another $3.7 billion this year from military construction for the wall.
Trump has said the wall is vital to national security, but critics such as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-California, have called it a "vanity" project to make up for the president's unfulfilled campaign promise to have Mexico pay for the wall along the 1,900-mile border.
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/03/06/military-shifts-troops-border-cope-spike-illegal-crossings-pentagon-says.html
#8338702 at 2020-03-07 05:00:40 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10675: MBS Arresting Saudi Royals Edition
Military Shifts Troops on Border to Cope with Spike in Illegal Crossings, Pentagon Says
The military has shifted 160 Army troops already deployed to the southern border region to entry points at San Ysidro, California, and El Paso, Texas, to bolster security following a spike in illegal crossings, the Pentagon announced Friday.
The additional troops at the two ports of entry will be used to put up temporary barriers and provide force protection for Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents, a Pentagon spokesman said in a statement.
The 160 troops are from the 687th Engineer Construction Company and the 519th Military Police Battalion, both based at Fort Polk, Louisiana, according to the statement. There are more than 3,500 active-duty troops deployed to the border region on order of President Donald Trump.
The CBP announced Tuesday that more than 76,000 mostly migrant families had crossed the border illegally in February, an 11-year high.
"The system is well beyond capacity, and remains at the breaking point," Kevin K. McAleenan, the CBP commissioner, said Tuesday in announcing the new figures.
The surge has overwhelmed processing centers and resulted in migrant families jamming into already overcrowded detention facilities, McAleenan said. "This is clearly both a border security and a humanitarian crisis."
The surge occurred despite the Trump administration's controversial decision under an emergency order to divert billions from military construction accounts already approved by Congress to build new sections of the border wall and replace existing sections.
The administration took $3.6 billion in military construction funding in 2019, which had been slated for such projects as schools, hospitals, port expansions and firing ranges, to pay for the wall.
The administration has also announced proposals to divert another $3.7 billion this year from military construction for the wall.
Trump has said the wall is vital to national security, but critics such as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-California, have called it a "vanity" project to make up for the president's unfulfilled campaign promise to have Mexico pay for the wall along the 1,900-mile border.
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/03/06/military-shifts-troops-border-cope-spike-illegal-crossings-pentagon-says.html
#7082727 at 2019-07-18 17:12:17 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9063: Archives restored per Boss BO! TY CM! Edition
Global Announcements
>>7077026 BO "thank you for vote of confidence"
>>7079301, >>7079338 BO summarizes bread reversion, no more captcha, and continued notables thread
Bakers, Do not add Q's non-tripcoded posts to the dough
Notables
are not endorsements
#9062
>>7082159, >>7082275, >>7082318, >>7082349, >>7082359, >>7082414, >>7082434, >>7082495, >>7082523, >>7082617 Planefag update
>>7082167 pb Epstein Scandal Brings Legal Titans to Blows
>>7082020 THE #QBABY HEARD AROUND THE WORLD
>>7082013, >>7082055 Netflix Tanking
>>7082028, >>7082068, >>7082081 House passed legislation to gradually raise the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour
>>7082071, >>7082089, >>7082153 Avenatti will hold a press conference on the unsealed Michael Cohen documents (2:30pm EST)
>>7082090, >>7082156 Koch Brothers, Chamber of Commerce Lobby for Big Tech's Green Card Giveaway
>>7082102, >>7082127, >>7082138, >>7082142, >>7082173, >>7082174, >>7082179 At 15 an hour all welfare goes away
>>7082125 USA v. Cohen, No. 1:18-cr-00602-1 (S.D.N.Y. Jul 18, 2019)
>>7082146, >>7082019, >>7082074, >>7082201 Frank Guistra dig
>>7082167, >>7082245, >>7082259 Epstein Scandal Brings Legal Titans to Blows
>>7082184 USS Boxer, a Wasp-class amphibious assault ship, loaded with 2,000 Marines and dozens of helicopters just entered Persian Gulf
>>7082263, >>7082353, >>7082410 Anons are overlooking the destinations on the Epstein flight logs
>>7082461, >>7082471 Epstein Island
>>7082540, >>7082591, >>7082622 per BO I am happy to report the archives have been restored by CM
>>7082592 Ponzi Scheme Victims Say Epstein Swindled Them
#9061
>>7081291 Awkward Psuedo-Intellectual Advice Posted by Epstein in 2004 - "Epsteins First Law" (Kekstein)
>>7081313 Dig RE: Election Meddling and Google
>>7081327 New DJT Tweet
>>7081347 Chicago Board of Options Exchange VP sold $1,59m in shares
>>7081397 Anon Digs on Tucson, AZ
>>7081488 Interdasting: Placeholder Population Start Aug 2019
>>7081541 , >>7081640 , >>7081654 , >>7081724 , >>7081926 (((Epsteins))) Bail Has Been REJECTED
>>7081550 Cures happening? New Aids Research
>>7081551 POTUS' business allies and over 400 bundlers give his 2020 war chest a boost
>>7081586 Pence To Iran: We Are With You
>>7081631 Michael Cohen Files Implicate Trump, Hope Hicks and David Pecker
>>7081656 Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib Introduce Bill Supporting BDS
>>7081690 Fort Lauderdale, surrounding cities without water for at least 24 hours
>>7081682 , >>7081704 Potential Instagram Outage Occuring
>>7081886 Reminder: Israel Actually Trains It's Students on Editing and Controlling Wikipedia
>>7081944 #9061
#9060
>>7081073, >>7081066 New DJT twats
>>7081037 Rush Goes Public, Reveals Man Behind Scenes Who Actually Controls The 'Socialist Squad'
>>7081021 Southwest Removes Boeing 737 MAX From Schedule Until November 2, Freezes Pilot Hiring
>>7080926 DoJ may sue to block Sprint, T-Mobile merger: CNBC
>>7080864 Epstein Island dig update
>>7080785, >>7080823, >>7080863 Epstein's lawyer has offered further explanation of the foreign passport
>>7080731 Chinese property tycoon Wang Zhenhua took children as his playthings
>>7080710 (Embedded Video) Oversight Committee: Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Kevin K. McAleenan
>>7080566, >>7081013 "It's Going To Be Staggering": Epstein Associates Prepare For Worst As Massive Document Dump Imminent. 'A friend gave it to me'.
>>7081129 #9060
Previously Collected Notables
>>7080417 #9059
>>7078212 #9056, >>7078852 #9057, >>7079627 #9058
>>7078173 #9053, >>7078187 #9054, >>7077105 #9055
>>7073506 #9050, >>7074341 #9051, >>7075816 #9052
>>7071257 #9047, >>7071878 #9048, >>7072750 #9049
>>7068910 #9044, >>7069750 #9045, >>7070412 #9046
Notables Archive by BV's (no longer updated?): https://8ch.net/qresearch/notables.html
Notables also archived here: >>>/comms/3396 (#740~#6384)
#7081971 at 2019-07-18 16:09:47 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9062: Captchas be DAMNED! Boss Steps In And Restores The Light Edition
Global Announcements
>>7077026 BO "thank you for vote of confidence"
>>7079301, >>7079338 BO summarizes bread reversion, no more captcha, and continued notables thread
Bakers, Do not add Q's non-tripcoded posts to the dough
Notables
are not endorsements
#9061
>>7081291 Awkward Psuedo-Intellectual Advice Posted by Epstein in 2004 - "Epsteins First Law" (Kekstein)
>>7081313 Dig RE: Election Meddling and Google
>>7081327 New DJT Tweet
>>7081347 Chicago Board of Options Exchange VP sold $1,59m in shares
>>7081397 Anon Digs on Tucson, AZ
>>7081488 Interdasting: Placeholder Population Start Aug 2019
>>7081541 , >>7081640 , >>7081654 , >>7081724 , >>7081926 (((Epsteins))) Bail Has Been REJECTED
>>7081550 Cures happening? New Aids Research
>>7081551 POTUS' business allies and over 400 bundlers give his 2020 war chest a boost
>>7081586 Pence To Iran: We Are With You
>>7081631 Michael Cohen Files Implicate Trump, Hope Hicks and David Pecker
>>7081656 Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib Introduce Bill Supporting BDS
>>7081690 Fort Lauderdale, surrounding cities without water for at least 24 hours
>>7081682 , >>7081704 Potential Instagram Outage Occuring
>>7081886 Reminder: Israel Actually Trains It's Students on Editing and Controlling Wikipedia
>>7081944 #9061
#9060
>>7081073, >>7081066 New DJT twats
>>7081037 Rush Goes Public, Reveals Man Behind Scenes Who Actually Controls The 'Socialist Squad'
>>7081021 Southwest Removes Boeing 737 MAX From Schedule Until November 2, Freezes Pilot Hiring
>>7080926 DoJ may sue to block Sprint, T-Mobile merger: CNBC
>>7080864 Epstein Island dig update
>>7080785, >>7080823, >>7080863 Epstein's lawyer has offered further explanation of the foreign passport
>>7080731 Chinese property tycoon Wang Zhenhua took children as his playthings
>>7080710 (Embedded Video) Oversight Committee: Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Kevin K. McAleenan
>>7080566, >>7081013 "It's Going To Be Staggering": Epstein Associates Prepare For Worst As Massive Document Dump Imminent. 'A friend gave it to me'.
>>7081129 #9060
Previously Collected Notables
>>7080417 #9059
>>7078212 #9056, >>7078852 #9057, >>7079627 #9058
>>7078173 #9053, >>7078187 #9054, >>7077105 #9055
>>7073506 #9050, >>7074341 #9051, >>7075816 #9052
>>7071257 #9047, >>7071878 #9048, >>7072750 #9049
>>7068910 #9044, >>7069750 #9045, >>7070412 #9046
Notables Archive by BV's (no longer updated?): https://8ch.net/qresearch/notables.html
Notables also archived here: >>>/comms/3396 (#740~#6384)
#7081197 at 2019-07-18 14:57:56 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9061: It's Going To Be Staggering Edition
Global Announcements
>>7077026 BO "thank you for vote of confidence"
>>7079301, >>7079338 BO summarizes bread reversion, no more captcha, and continued notables thread
Bakers, Do not add Q's non-tripcoded posts to the dough
Notables
are not endorsements
#9060
>>7081073 New DJT twats
>>7081037 Rush Goes Public, Reveals Man Behind Scenes Who Actually Controls The 'Socialist Squad'
>>7081021 Southwest Removes Boeing 737 MAX From Schedule Until November 2, Freezes Pilot Hiring
>>7080926 DoJ may sue to block Sprint, T-Mobile merger: CNBC
>>7080864 Epstein Island dig update
>>7080785, >>7080823, >>7080863 Epstein's lawyer has offered further explanation of the foreign passport
>>7080731 Chinese property tycoon Wang Zhenhua took children as his playthings
>>7080710 (Embedded Video) Oversight Committee: Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Kevin K. McAleenan
>>7080566, >>7081013 "It's Going To Be Staggering": Epstein Associates Prepare For Worst As Massive Document Dump Imminent. 'A friend gave it to me'.
>>7081129 #9060
#9059
Baker Change
>>7080341 STUNNING: Watch CNN Correspondent Argue and Harrass Focus Group of Female Trump Supporters After They Won't Call President a Racist (VIDEO)
>>7080286 Planned Parenthood Officials Say They've Halted Use Of Title X Family Planning Funds
>>7080252 MPs vote to stop Boris Johnson forcing through No Deal Brexit in Tory revolt
>>7080225 US big tech under attack: Spain to push ahead with tax on digital firms
>>7080194 Archiveanon update
>>7080183 POTUS Press Corp twat w/CAP: Omar introduces resolution defending boycott of Israel, likens it to boycotts of Nazi Germany, Soviet Union.
>>7080159 Jim Jordan: Timing of final Carter Page FISA extension is 'significant'
>>7080158 BO/BV: The "make it rain" bread for digs on masonry and illuminati. this is pretty important info and should not get lost.
>>7080121 Ocasio-Cortez: Nobody is 'heartbroken' at the prospect of losing private health insurance
>>7080012 Jake Tapper replies to blue check mark tweet "This is all going to get so much worse" with EVERGREEN!
>>7079948 Trump allows Rand Paul to be back channel with Iran
>>7079899 Fed-up Puerto Ricans March Demanding Governor Ricardo Rosselló Resign
>>7079892 Two Federal Judges Bar Citizenship Question on Census
>>7079869 'Billions' Co-Creator Brian Koppelman: No One Should Call Trump 'Mr. President'
>>7079758, >>7079793, >>7080161, >>7080291, >>7080298 Saville dig continued…
>>7079834 Twatter thread with DJT numerations at Greenville Rally mapped to Q Drops
>>7079815 anon posts background on Ayanna Pressley
>>7079702 More troops are heading to the US-Mexico border
>>7080417 #9059
#9058
>>7079301 Board Owner comments on changes to board
>>7078963, >>7079502 US MIL Notes
>>7079033 Dan Scavino Tweet re Trump Train 2020
>>7078926 A week to member. Seals coming.
>>7079129, >>7079169, >>7079187, >>7079199, >>7079217, >>7079270, >>7079536 MOAR! Epstein and his Friends
>>7078928, >>7079519, >>7079368, >>7079530 MOAR! Epstein Island/Properties diggz
>>7078950 Iranian Guard Corps forces have detained a foreign tanker in the Persian Gulf
>>7079026 ISRAEL SAY NO TO ILHAN OMAR AND RASHIDA TLAIB
>>7079165 Anon speculates Behind the scenes cp in Japanese Animation studio fire
>>7079141 History: In 1794 the Jay Treaty between the United States and Great Britain was signed.
>>7079144 Free flow of drug mules coming across empty checkpoints?
>>7079307 Informations about Kyoto Animation's Studio
>>7079391 CALL TO DIG:WHO ARE THE FAMOUS LEBENSBORN CHILDREN ??
>>7079428 US lawmaker who oversees Puerto Rico calls for governor to resign after 6 arrested on corruption charges
>>7079469, >>7079478, >>7079486 POTUS mentioned the drug crisis last evening. Wanted to share this dig summary:
>>7079498 Turkey dropped from F35 program 7/17 article
>>7079482, >>7079552 SAVILLE SAYS COVFEFE other comments
>>7079561 "We are the Keystone to this whole plan."
>>7079627 #9058
Previously Collected Notables
>>7078212 #9056, >>7078852 #9057,
>>7078173 #9053, >>7078187 #9054, >>7077105 #9055
>>7073506 #9050, >>7074341 #9051, >>7075816 #9052
>>7071257 #9047, >>7071878 #9048, >>7072750 #9049
>>7068910 #9044, >>7069750 #9045, >>7070412 #9046
Notables Archive by BV's (no longer updated?): https://8ch.net/qresearch/notables.html
Notables also archived here: >>>/comms/3396 (#740~#6384)
#7081129 at 2019-07-18 14:53:35 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9060: ONE 'SQUAD' UNDER GOD Edition
final call for notables @ 650
70min bred
#9060
>>7081073 New DJT twats
>>7081037 Rush Goes Public, Reveals Man Behind Scenes Who Actually Controls The 'Socialist Squad'
>>7081021 Southwest Removes Boeing 737 MAX From Schedule Until November 2, Freezes Pilot Hiring
>>7080926 DoJ may sue to block Sprint, T-Mobile merger: CNBC
>>7080864 Epstein Island dig update
>>7080785, >>7080823, >>7080863 Epstein's lawyer has offered further explanation of the foreign passport
>>7080731 Chinese property tycoon Wang Zhenhua took children as his playthings
>>7080710 (Embedded Video) Oversight Committee: Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Kevin K. McAleenan
>>7080566, >>7081013 "It's Going To Be Staggering": Epstein Associates Prepare For Worst As Massive Document Dump Imminent. 'A friend gave it to me'.
baking soon
morning baker will be requesting handoff at next bred.
#7080966 at 2019-07-18 14:38:42 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9060: ONE 'SQUAD' UNDER GOD Edition
notables bun @ 500
Bred is smok'n. a new land speed record.
#9060
>>7080926 DoJ may sue to block Sprint, T-Mobile merger: CNBC
>>7080864 Epstein Island dig update
>>7080785, >>7080823, >>7080863 Epstein's lawyer has offered further explanation of the foreign passport
>>7080731 Chinese property tycoon Wang Zhenhua took children as his playthings
>>7080710 (Embedded Video) Oversight Committee: Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Kevin K. McAleenan
>>7080566 "It's Going To Be Staggering": Epstein Associates Prepare For Worst As Massive Document Dump Imminent
#7080710 at 2019-07-18 14:12:55 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9060: ONE 'SQUAD' UNDER GOD Edition
Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Kevin K. McAleenan
Oversight Committee
#7032057 at 2019-07-14 01:12:23 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8997: >>Watch NYC<< News unlocks. 5:5? Edition
Guatemala: Leftist Opposition And Alleged Interference By U.S. State Dept Risk Immigration Agreement
The Guatemalan Constitutional Court placed an injunction against Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales ' government Saturday from signing the much anticipated 'Safe Third Country Agreement' with President Donald Trump on Monday, according to Guatemalan and U.S. officials, who spoke to SaraACarter.com.
Further, sources familiar with the immigration agreement and the deliberations between the two nations say several State Department officials have pushed back against the Trump administration's proposal and have been supporting those in opposition to the agreement in Guatemala, according to an official with access to both U.S. and Guatemalan sources.
One senior Guatemalan official told this reporter that current Department of Homeland Security Acting Director Kevin K. McAleenan warned Guatemalan officials that the meeting between Trump and Morales will be cancelled unless Guatemala agrees to sign the agreement, which will allow immigrants from any country seeking asylum in the United States to be sent to Guatemala for asylum. The agreement, which some critics say is dangerous to migrants seeking refuge in the United States, is intended to be signed by the Department of Homeland Security and the Governance Ministry of Guatemala.
The Guatemalan official's statement was not disputed by a senior U.S. official, who said Trump will meet with Morales only if the the agreement is signed. McAleenan could not be immediately reached for comment.
https://saraacarter.com/immigration-agreement-with-guatemala-in-trouble-leftist-opposition-and-alleged-interference-by-u-s-state-dept/
#6791613 at 2019-06-19 20:20:55 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8687: Winning Anyway Edition
Democratic Mayor: 'We Are Sick And Tired' Of Government Inaction On Illegal Immigration
The Democratic mayor of a border town in Texas says more federal politicians need to journey to the U.S.-Mexico border to see just how bad the illegal immigration crisis has become.
Mayor Bruno Lozano of Del Rio, Texas told Texas Republican Sen. John Cornyn's office that "we are sick and tired of the deaf ears" that accounts of the border crisis seem to fall upon, Fox News reported Tuesday.
Lozano suggested that the federal government has left border towns hanging out to dry as they try to cope with the influx of illegal immigrants who apparently cross the border, are temporarily detained and then released. He said it's easy to ignore the situation when politicians are isolated in Washington.
"They need to see firsthand what's going on. They need to understand the frustrations that the commissioners, or that the city council, the school board, the hospital officials are managing [and] having to deal with," Lozano said, according to Fox's account of the meeting between the mayor and Cornyn's staffers.
The mayor said the small towns can't cope with large immigration problems because "it is not our purview; it is not our jurisdiction."
"We're frustrated. We're extremely frustrated," he continued. "Our priorities on the city council are our streets, are our parks, are the economy, are the drive of the community and the places of worship and the places to have leisure activities. It is not the priority to solve immigration."
But he said Washington doesn't seem to be listening. "It's falling on deaf ears, and we are tired of it. We are sick and tired of the deaf ears."
Lozano's frustration comes at a time when border patrol agents are reporting being overwhelmed by the numbers of migrants illegally crossing the border. Before he was appointed acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), then-U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Kevin K. McAleenan said the situation at the border had reached a "breaking point" as he inspected the El Paso, Texas crossing, according to the El Paso Times.
https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/democratic-mayor-we-are-sick-and-tired-of-government-inaction-on-illegal-immigration/
#6725455 at 2019-06-11 14:37:14 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8601: I like My Covfefe Declasifinated Edition
#FoxNews
Live: Senate Judiciary Committee holds a hearing on the border crisis
8,451 watching now
623 likes
35 dislikes
Fox News
Started streaming 31 minutes ago
Live: Senate Judiciary Committee, chaired by Senator Lindsey Graham holds a hearing on "The Secure and Protect Act: a Legislative Fix to the Crisis at the Southwest Border." Acting DHS Secretary Kevin K. McAleenan testifies. #FoxNews
https://youtu.be/Zxnmloul0qE
#6610235 at 2019-05-28 19:08:53 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8452: Barr About To Drop The Hammer Edition
DHS Signs Memorandum of Cooperation with Guatemala to Confront Irregular Migration and Combat Human Smuggling
Release Date:
May 28, 2019
Acting Secretary Kevin K. McAleenan has formalized an agreement between the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Ministry of Government of Guatemala with the signing of a Memorandum of Cooperation (MOC). The agreement, which will expand areas of collaboration between the United States and the Northern Triangle country to target human smuggling and trafficking networks, marks the start of the Acting Secretary's four-day trip to participate in bilateral and multilateral meetings with officials representing the governments of the Northern Triangle countries.
The meetings will highlight the root causes driving the current high rate of irregular migration to the U.S., as well as viable options for enhancing protections of vulnerable populations.
"I am proud to sign this agreement with Minister Enrique Antonio Degenhart," said Acting Secretary McAleenan. "Through our continued collaboration and partnership, the U.S. and Guatemala are formalizing a number of initiatives to improve the lives and security of our respective citizens by combating human trafficking and the smuggling of illegal goods, helping to limit 'push' factors that encourage dangerous irregular migration to the U.S., perpetuating the ongoing crisis at or border."
According to the MOC, both countries have agreed to take concrete actions necessary to combat the scourge of human trafficking and smuggling, interdict illicit drug trafficking, and target illegal trade and financial flows. This will include law enforcement training and collaboration to improve criminal investigations.
Other areas of cooperation include increasing the security of the Guatemalan border to stem the flow of irregular migration while ensuring proper preparation to improve the ability of both countries to identify and better understand their root causes.
The Acting Secretary will be in Guatemala through Thursday, May 30th, to meet with officials representing Northern Triangle countries, leadership from non-governmental organizations and Guatemalan civil society.
https://www.dhs.gov/news/2019/05/28/dhs-signs-memorandum-cooperation-guatemala-confront-irregular-migration-and-combat
#6210125 at 2019-04-17 14:04:04 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7941: No More Cuban Footsie Edition
>>6210124
The panel makes several recommendations to bring about this change:
Establish and staff three to four Regional Processing Centers (RPCs) along the border, scalable and with sufficient capacity to shelter all FMUs apprehended at the border and, among other things, provide safe and sanitary shelter, to include medical screening and care, credible fear examinations, vetting for identity and familial relationship, and evaluations for public health and safety, national security and flight risK.
Resource and require transport from USBP stations and Ports of Entry (POEs) of all FMUs to an RPC, within 24 hours or less of apprehension.
Recommendations 1 and 2 will require an emergency supplemental appropriation with funding to cover the costs of, among other things, erecting and staffing the RPCs, transportation to RPCs to meet the 24-hour requirement and providing healthcare for minors.
Until the RPCs can be established, steps should be taken immediately to relieve the POEs and USBP of all tasks unrelated to their law enforcement mission. That is, all transportation, medical, feeding and caring for migrants should be the responsibility of non-CBP professionals who provide such services, whether by contract or applicable emergency government relief services. These are national security costs that should be included in the emergency supplemental budget request.
The panel also recommends that Congress enact emergency legislation to:
Achieve faster asylum processing. At a minimum, legislation is needed to modify asylum procedures, at least temporarily, so that a hearing and decision can be provided to family members within 20 or 30 days. The panel is recommending that Congress immediately fund a substantial increase in immigration judges.
"Flores Fix": Roll back the Flores decision by exempting children accompanied by a parent or relative acting as the guardian of the child. DHS also should be given discretion to detain a close relative with a non-parent family member when this is in the best interest of the child.
Amend Section 208 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) to require that border crossers make asylum claims at POEs. Simultaneously, CBP will be resourced to begin processing all asylum claims initially presented at a POE and put an end to metering. This can and should occur promptly after this recommendation and the above recommendations are implemented.
Amend the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act (TVPRA) to permit repatriation of any child when the custodial parent residing in the country of origin requests reunification and return of the child. Currently, this is not permitted by the statute.
Emergency regulatory action is also recommended:
Enable CBP to take photographs and biometrics of children of any age in order to stem the recycling of children at the border and to rapidly determine the legitimacy of parentage claims.
Because the expansion of Flores is contributing to the flow of accompanied children, many who are of tender age, DHS should act promptly to limit it by emergency regulation until Congress acts.
To strengthen medical and child exploitation safeguards, the panel recommends:
Office of Field Operations POEs and USBP stations should be supplemented by contracted medical and transport professionals.
Finally, the panel makes two recommendations for international action:
Enter into a North America Family Protection Initiative with Mexico that includes the elements of a Safe Third Agreement.
In cooperation with Guatemala, establish a secure shelter to process asylum claimants from Central America in Guatemala, proximate to the Guatemala-Mexican border.
The report notes that the influx of FMUs has increased dramatically over the past year by 600 percent. Over 53,000 FMU were apprehended last month alone by the Border Patrol, and at the current trajectory the panel believes the number of FMU apprehensions is likely to exceed 500,000 in Fiscal Year 2019.
Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Kevin K. McAleenan said the report made a series of important findings and recommendations to address the crisis that will form key elements of the department's response in the coming weeks.
"The unprecedented surge in unaccompanied children and family unit migration is overwhelming our ability to provide humanitarian aid within our immigration system," said McAleenan. "The reasonable changes proposed by this nonpartisan panel could dramatically reduce migration of family units from Central America, help eliminate dangerous and illegal border crossings, as well as improve the care of children who are brought on this harrowing journey. These recommendations are essential to secure our border and for the safety and welfare of children living in Central America and elsewhere who will continue to make this dangerous trek north."
#6090584 at 2019-04-08 01:14:43 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7789: Nielson Out, McAleenan In Edition
New DHS head.
Commissioner Kevin K. McAleenan
https://www.cbp.gov/about/leadership-organization/commissioner
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_McAleenan
https://twitter.com/CBP_McAleenan
https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/McAleenan%20Testimony.pdf
Seems a little shady to me. But I assume he has a role to play.
#6013704 at 2019-04-02 04:21:16 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7691: Misspellings Matter Edition
Luis Gutierrez: 'There Should Be Welcoming Centers All Across America' for Migrants
Former Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) over the weekend called on mayors of major U.S. cities to open "welcoming centers" for caravan migrants.
Appearing on CNN, Gutierrez, who is now a senior policy adviser for the National Partnership of New Americans (NPNA), urged Democrats leading major U.S. cities like Chicago and Los Angeles to "invite" caravan migrants to stay in their cities, saying he hoped his party "stands up for its principles." He said America is the "richest, most powerful nation in the world," and it "should also be the nation with the biggest heart and a nation that has a great tradition of receiving refugees." "And I would say to the mayor of my own city, Rahm Emanuel, instead of hitting yourself on the chest every day about Jussie Smollett, invite them to come to Chicago," Gutierrez said. "L.A.-invite them to come. New YorK. There should be welcoming centers all across America for these refugees, for these asylum seekers to find a home in America. That's what I believe people should be doing right now."
Gutierrez also challenged President Donald Trump, who announced this weekend that he will be cutting foreign aid to Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador, by saying the U.S. should provide more aid and job opportunities to Central American nations so Central Americans can stay in the countries that they love. Gutierrez made his remarks days after U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin K. McAleenan revealed that his agency last Monday "saw the highest total of apprehensions and encounters in over a decade, with 4,000 migrants either apprehended or encountered" a various ports of entry in a single day. Though many migrants seek to enter the U.S. to take advantage of its "catch and release" policies, asylum laws, and judicial backlogs, so many migrants have admitted to reporters that they are fleeing poverty that even establishment media outlets like CBS Evening News had to concede that most of the migrants coming to the United States do not qualify for asylum. A CBS Evening News report in October noted: "Most tell us they are fleeing extreme poverty, but that's not a condition for asylum or refugee status in the U.S."
Trump will visit the border town of Calexico, California, on Friday, and he has repeatedly vowed to close the U.S.-Mexico border if Mexico does not do more to impede the migrants who are on their way to America. "Mexico is tough. They can stop them. But they chose not to," Trump said on Friday. "Now they got to stop them. If they don't stop them, we're closing the border. We'll close it, and we'll keep it closed for a long time. I'm not playing games."
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/04/01/luis-gutierrez-there-should-be-welcoming-centers-all-across-america-for-migrants/
#6002266 at 2019-04-01 11:17:09 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7676: 1776 -- 1976 Edition
Border Patrol forced to restart 'catch-and-release' of illegals at border
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/mar/27/border-patrol-forced-restart-catch-and-release/
CBP chief says 'breaking point has arrived'
By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times - Wednesday, March 27, 2019
The Border Patrol will have to restart a policy of catch-and-release at the border, the top border officer said Wednesday, saying there's not enough bed space to hold them and, under the law, they can't be immediately sent bacK.
Kevin K. McAleenan, commissioner of Customs and Border Protection, said things have gotten so bad that more than 100,000 illegal immigrants will be nabbed at the border in March alone. Those are levels that haven't been seen in more than a decade, and the current situation is worse because the migrants are exploiting loopholes that make it almost impossible to oust them, Mr. McAleenan said.
He said that means that the Border Patrol will, for the first time since the Bush administration, actually be directly releasing illegal immigrants into the communities - a policy agents call "catch-and-release," and which they consider an embarrassing black mark on their duties.
"For the first time in over a decade, CBP is performing direct releases of migrants," he told reporters in a press conference at the border fence in El Paso, Texas.
Mr. McAleenan said the surge of illegal immigrants is so big, and they are seeing so many sick people, that in some areas 40 percent of Border Patrol agents' time is being spent driving illegal immigrants to and from processing centers, taking them to clinics or babysitting them while they undergo care.
That takes them off the border, where they're no longer able to patrol, he said.
He announced a stopgap solution of pulling 750 officers from the ports of entry, where they scan legal traffic for contraband drugs and smuggled people, and deploying them to help the Border Patrol care for migrants. He said that should get agents back on the line, but it will mean rougher times at the legal crossings.
"That breaking point has arrived this week at our border," Mr. McAleenan said.
Restarting catch-and-release is a devastating admission for the Border Patrol.
President Trump has repeatedly bragged that he ended the practice.
Yet Homeland Security officials have said it's quietly been ramping up in recent months as the numbers at the border have surged.
#5945295 at 2019-03-28 18:39:08 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7604: THEY DO NOT LOVE YOU OR AMERICA Edition
Federal authorities have shut down all highway Border Patrol checkpoints in New Mexico, re-allocating agents to deal with the influx of migrants from south of the border.
The checkpoints-all within 100 miles of the border-are meant to be a last line of defense against people seeking to enter the U.S. illegally.
That safety net has now been compromised.
"We were told to go ahead and close down all the checkpoints," one official told Texas Monthly anonymously. "It's really out of control, it's bad."
A total of six checkpoints have been closed, including all five in New Mexico, and one in West Texas, according to the Albuquerque Journal.
'Unprecedented' Border Security Crisis
The move comes after U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CPB) officials announced in a press conference Wednesday extraordinary steps being taken in response to "an unprecedented humanitarian and border security crisis."
Unusual new measures include re-assigning up to 750 Customs and Border Patrol Officers from ports of entry along the southwest border, who "will soon be supporting Border Patrol with care and custody of migrants."
"The United States Border Patrol (USBP) continues to apprehend illegal alien families and unaccompanied children in steadily increasing numbers. To process and ensure appropriate care for those in custody, resources including personnel have been diverted from other border security priorities," a CBP spokesperson stated on Monday, according to the Texas Tribune.
"This shifting of resources and personnel will have a detrimental impact at all Southwest border ports of entry," the CBP said in a statement. "CBP will have to close lanes, resulting in increased wait times for commercial shipments and travelers."
Immigration officials were cited by the Texas Tribune as saying that resources from the checkpoints are "intended as a temporary measure."
'Overwhelming the Entire System'
Earlier, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin K. McAleenan told a press conference in El Paso that a dramatic increase in illegal crossings along the Southwest border was a major strain on law enforcement resources.
"The surge numbers are just overwhelming the entire system," McAleenan said on March 27, according to the El Paso Times.
More:
https://www.theepochtimes.com/border-patrol-shuts-all-checkpoints-in-new-mexico_2857311.html
#5938844 at 2019-03-28 09:02:53 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7597: The Ghosts and The Graveyard Edition
Border hits 'breaking point' in El Paso, CBP commissioner says
Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAleenan, center, announced that the Trump administration will temporarily reassign several hundred border inspectors during a news conference at the border in El Paso, Texas on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Cedar Attanasio)
The nation's top border security official said Wednesday that the border is at its "breaking point" during a visit to Texas, where as many as 1,000 migrants crossed into the U.S. and there are not enough agents to respond.
"That breaking point has arrived this week at our border," U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin K. McAleenan said along the border. "CBP is facing an unprecedented humanitarian and border security crisis all along our Southwest border, and nowhere has that crisis manifested more acutely than here in El Paso."
McAleenan said the Border Patrol is on pace for over 100,000 apprehensions and encounters with migrants - mostly from Central America seeking asylum in the U.S. On Monday, agents encountered an estimated 4,000 migrants border-wide, he said.
BORDER AGENTS OVERWHELMED AS TEXAS BEGINS PROCESSING MIGRANT CARAVAN
In February, more than 76,000 migrants were detained, the highest number in 12 years. That figure includes more than 7,000 unaccompanied children. More than 36,000 migrant families have arrived in the El Paso region in fiscal year 2019 compared with about 2,000 at the same time last year, according to CBP data, the El Paso Times reported. The influx is posing new challenges for border agents.
Central American migrants wait for food in El Paso, Texas on Wednesday in a pen erected by U.S. Customs and Border Protection to process a surge of migrant families and unaccompanied minors. (AP Photo/Cedar Attanasio)
Some arrive with viruses, such as the flu or chickenpox, and others with injuries. McAleenan said crowded detention centers could worsen the situation.
LARGE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT GROUPS CROSSING US-MEXICO BORDER PUSHING AGENTS TO 'BREAKING POINT'
"We are doing everything we can to simply avoid a tragedy in a CBP facility," he said. "But with these numbers, with the types of illnesses we're seeing at the border, I fear that it's just a matter of time."
About 750 border agents have been reassigned from other ports to El Paso and highway security checkpoints in West Texas and New Mexico will temporarily shut down. The reassignments could mean longer wait times at border crossings and may affect trade between the U.S. and Mexico as fewer agents will be available to inspect cargo and normal border traffic.
Immigration-rights advocates have called the situation along the border a humanitarian crisis. They push back at President Trump's national emergency declaration to fund his long-promised border wall. The Pentagon on Monday, authorized the transfer of $1 billion to erect 57 miles of "pedestrian fencing" along the border.
"There is no need for a national emergency, no need for costly and ineffective walls, or programs that criminalize and dehumanize asylum seekers," Fernando Garcia, executive director of the Border Network for Human Rights, said in a statement to the Dallas Morning News.
McAleenan said the only solution is for Congress to act.
"Legislative relief, changes in the law and closing the vulnerabilities in our legal framework is the only way this flow is going to be reduced and we're going to be able to restore integrity to our immigration system," he said.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/border-patrol-chief-says-border-has-hit-its-breaking-point-as-1000-migrants-cross-into-el-paso-on-monday
#5885814 at 2019-03-25 19:47:08 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7529: Twitter's Butthurt Algorithm Engaged Edition
Court rejects challenge to Trump's steel tariffs
The Court of International Trade, the body that hears constitutional challenges to federal trade policy, rejected an effort to overturn President Trump's 25 percent tariffs on steel imports on Monday. The American Institute for International Steel, a trade association, had sued the administration, arguing that the president exceeded his authority when he claimed last year that the tariff was justified under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act, which involves protecting "national security." The court said Monday that it lacked the authority to second-guess the president's decision.
"[I]dentifying the line between regulation of trade in furtherance of national security and an impermissible encroachment into the role of Congress could be elusive in some cases because judicial review would allow neither an inquiry into the president's motives nor a review of his fact-finding," a three-judge panel said. A spokesman for the institute could not be reached for comment, but its website characterizes the lawsuit as "an ongoing legal battle that may well end up before the Supreme Court." A Commerce Department spokesman declined to comment.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/economy/court-rejects-challenge-to-trumps-steel-tariffs
United States Court of International Trade
https://www.cit.uscourts.gov/about-court
AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL STEEL, INC., SIM-TEX, LP, and KURT ORBAN PARTNERS, LLC v. UNITED STATES and Kevin K. McAleenan, Commissioner, United States Customs and Border Protection,
https://www.cit.uscourts.gov/sites/cit/files/19-37.pdf
#5560563 at 2019-03-07 19:17:17 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7110: Phone_wipe Edition
Border Crisis Hearing: "It's Real. It's Serious. It is a Threat."
Commissioner for U.S. Customs and Border Protection Kevin K. McAleenan strongly rebuked claims by opponents Wednesday that the border is not a crisis. He said he "fundamentally disagrees" with those who called President Donald Trump's national emergency a "fake emergency" and laid out a litany of statistics exposing the serious humanitarian crisis and national security implications for the United States.
McAleenan spoke after opening statements from Senate Judiciary Committee ranking member Dianne Feinstein, D-Ca, and Chairman Lindsey Graham gave their opening statements.
The issues discussed ranged from drug smuggling, penetration of drug cartels deep in the United States and the counternarcotics efforts being addressed by Department of Homeland Security and its divisions. McAleenan argued - with statistics to back his claims - that Trump's request for $5.7 billion for border wall infrastructure is an absolute necessity as part of a comprehensive plan to address the crisis.
The growing humanitarian crisis took precedence as well. McAleenan spoke at significant length about trans-national criminal trafficking organizations, which he said are expected to make roughly $2.5 billion a year off of illegal immigration into the U.S. alone. He addressed the long journey of children being trafficked into the U.S. In one example, he spoke of children from Guatemala, who travel more than 1500 miles under gruesome conditions. Some of the children spend more than 30 days being trafficked and are subjected to physical, sexual abuse and in many cases have contracted infectious diseases that threaten their lives, he said.
It's not a manufactured crisis. It's not a cable television ploy. It is real. It is serious. It is a threat, Sen. Graham
https://saraacarter.com/border-crisis-hearing-its-real-its-serious-it-is-a-threat/
#5536375 at 2019-03-06 15:00:18 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7079: Research & Thinking Causes Viruses Edition
>>5536340
Notable^^^^^
The biggest increase was in the Border Patrol's El Paso sector, which also includes New Mexico. During the first five months of this fiscal year, about 36,300 family units were apprehended - a 1,689 percent increase from the same period last year, when 2,030 were apprehended.
"This increased flow presents ... both a border security and a humanitarian crisis," CBP commissioner Kevin K. McAleenan said at a press conference Tuesday. "[It] challenges our resources and personnel and is negatively impacting border security."
#5521641 at 2019-03-05 19:03:59 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7060: Racist Left Edition
76K Migrants Entered Through Southwest Border in February - Most in 12 Years, Says CBP
U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) reports that 76,103 migrants appeared at ports of entry and illegally crossed between ports in February. This is the largest number of apprehensions and inadmissible migrants for a February reporting period in 12 years, CBP stated Tuesday.
Of the 76,103 migrants who came to the border seeking admission or illegally crossing between ports of entry, 62 percent were family units and unaccompanied minors. This presents both a border security and humanitarian crisis at our southwest border, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin K. McAleenan said in a press conference on Tuesday afternoon.
United States Border Patrol Chief of Operations Brian Hastings told reporters that during the 28 days of February, Border Patrol agents apprehended more than 66,000 migrants who illegally crossed the border from Mexico between ports of entry. This is up from nearly 48,000 in January - a nearly 40 percent increase. When compared to the first five months of Fiscal Year 2018, this fiscal year has seen a 97 percent increase, he stated.
"A lot of folks look at that and they say, 'we have seen numbers like that in the past," Hastings explained. He said that many people do not understand the "significant change in the demographics of what we are seeing today is what presents us and our partners with a lot of challenges."
The Border Patrol operations chief said that historically, agents have apprehended about 70 to 90 percent Mexican nationals. "We could apply a consequence to that demographic," he stated. "We could return them quickly to Mexico."
https://www.breitbart.com/border/2019/03/05/76k-migrants-entered-through-southwest-border-in-february-most-in-12-years-says-cbp/
#4580580 at 2019-01-03 18:24:05 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5843: Happy Birthday Brad Edition
22K Minors 'Illegally Crossed' Border in December, Says DHS
As the humanitarian crisis continues along the U.S-Mexico Border, officials with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) say that 22,000 minors "illegally crossed the border" in December. Nearly 25 percent of those were unaccompanied.
"Vulnerable populations are embarking on the dangerous journey north in record numbers putting themselves and minors in harm's way, last month 22,000 minors illegally crossed our borders," DHS Spokeswoman Katie Waldman said in a written statement. Of those, approximately 5,000 cross the border without a parent or guardian as Unaccompanied Alien Children, she said.
During the first three months of Fiscal Year 2019, more than 15,000 children crossed the border without parents. It is not clear how many minors in total crossed the border during this period, but in the first two months of the new fiscal year, nearly 60,000 crossed as unaccompanied minors or family units, according to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection's November Southwest Border Migration Report.
"The lack of a physical barrier coupled with major loopholes from badly written laws and a terrible ruling from the Ninth Circuit act a magnet for family units and unaccompanied alien children," Waldman said. "Congress must act to fund the border wall, amend the 2008 Trafficking Victims Protections Reauthorization Act, and terminate the Ninth Circuit's Flores Settlement Agreement to stop the cycle of illegal immigration."
The massive increase in minors crossing the border led to what is now being called a humanitarian crisis by U.S. officials. The increases in border crossings by families and minors have resulted in a "significant" number of referrals for medical treatment because of the stress of the journey, crowded conveyances, and the current flu season, government officials stated.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Kevin K. McAleenan said, "We are facing an unprecedented crisis on the southern border that is putting the most vulnerable populations at risK. 129 children under the age of five have been referred for emergency medical care in the last weeK. The care of those in CBP custody is paramount, and the United States Border Patrol is doing everything in its power to handle this crisis."
"The status quo is not acceptable," the commissioner said. "As [DHS Secretary Kirstjen] Nielsen has stated, the system is at the breaking point. Border Patrol stations built decades ago are not resourced to handle this crisis and are not the best facilities to house children with their parents for extended periods."
During the last week of the year, CBP referred 451 cases to medical providers, the agency reported. Of those, 129 were children under the age of five and 88 were between the ages of six and fourteen. The remaining 42 aged between 15 and 17, officials reported. These referrals resulted in at least 17 hospitalizations for illness.
Officials reported these numbers for the period beginning on December 22 and ending on December 30. They cautioned that these are "operations reporting" numbers and could change on a daily basis.
https://www.breitbart.com/border/2019/01/02/22k-minors-illegally-crossed-border-in-december-says-dhs/