Tag: U.S. Customs and Border Protection

Children and families now make up more than half of those in custody on the southern border, according to Customs and Border Patrol; Casey Stegall reports on the stats. #AmericasNewsroom #FoxNews FOX News operates the FOX News Channel (FNC), FOX…

U.S. House majority leader Steny Hoyer toured the San Ysidro Port Of Entry Friday to evaluate a recent pilot program to return some asylum-seekers to Mexico while they await their day in U.S. court. San Diego Democratic Congressmen Juan Vargas, Scott Peters and Mike Levin were all there to welcome Hoyer for the visit with U.S. Customs and Border Protection. RELATED: San Diego Judge Considers Expanding Migrant Family Reunification Case Vargas condemned the pilot program, saying asylum seekers aren’t safe in Tijuana amid record homicides. Peters agreed with him. More than 70 asylum-seekers have been sent back to Mexico under the program. “It has a capacity to process people humanely … we should have infrastructure like this in all of our border entry points," he said. But due to a surge of families seeking asylum in the U.S., it faces a backlog of thousands of asylum-seekers who must wait weeks before they can speak with a Customs and Border Protection officer. RELATED: Mother's Journey Shows Some Asylum-Seekers Are Reaching The US The politicians said what is needed for greater border security isn’t a wall, but better technology, personnel and other investments in ports of entry. They rejected the idea that there is a national security crisis at the border, calling Trump's national emergency declaration "a fake crisis." They also toured a migrant shelter in San Diego operated by the San Diego Rapid Response Network, a coalition of human rights and legal advocacy groups.

Former ICE acting director Tom Homan says Democrats are lying to the American people when they say plans for the border wall lack detail. #AmericasNewsroom #FoxNews FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service dedicated to delivering breaking…

Arizona Governor Doug Ducey is now required to name a Republican replacement for Kyl. After losing a year-long court battle, the Department of Education said it would cancel $150 million in student-loan debt for roughly 15,000 students. Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team repudiated assertions from Michael Flynn, Donald Trump’s former national-security adviser, that he had been tricked into lying to FBI agents. Flynn will be sentenced next week. The Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General said it will investigate the death of a 7-year-old girl from Guatemala, who died of dehydration in the custody of Customs and Border Protection after crossing from Mexico into the U.S. illegally with her father. Today on The Atlantic How the National Enquirer Helped Trump: The tabloid secretly agreed to kill a story about Donald Trump’s alleged affair with a Playboy model—but it also published 35 covers with anti–Hillary Clinton stories. (David A. Graham) What’s Wrong With the GOP? : The Republican Party is a corrupt institution where “the higher cause is conservatism, but the highest is power,” argues George Packer. Eyes on 2020: A co-chair of the Republican National Committee is leaving to head up Trump’s reelection campaign in Ohio. (Elaina Plott) Complicit in Mass Starvation: President Trump’s affinity for Saudi Arabia is prolonging the war in Yemen, and House Republicans are also complicit, argues Conor Friedersdorf.

Tuesday’s meeting between President Trump and House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi of California and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer of New York showed that while the president is determined to protect the security of our border and the safety of the American people, Democrats have no interest in working with him. “I am proud to shut down the government for border security, Chuck,” the president told Schumer. As President Obama’s Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson wrote in a memo in 2016, special interest aliens (SIAs) are “those who are potential national security threats to our homeland. But at the meeting with President Trump, Pelosi showed she was more interested in scoring political points than in keeping the American people safe. But Pelosi knows full well that a Senate filibuster would stop any House border wall funding measure from becoming law. In response, the president accurately noted: “If we thought we were going to get it passed in the Senate, Nancy, we would do it immediately.” The Senate currently has 51 Republican and 49 Democratic members. That means that any House-passed bill would need at least nine Democratic votes in the Senate to get to the 60-vote threshold to stop a filibuster. The Schumer shutdown was widely considered a disaster as Democrats put funding for low-income American children in limbo over the fate of illegal immigrants. According to a recent Harvard-Harris Poll, 63 percent of voters support President Trump’s immigration compromise that gives a path to legalization for DACA recipients in exchange for border wall funding, an end to the diversity visa lottery, and a move toward merit-based immigration. Unfortunately, this deal has been repeatedly rejected by Democrats.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents fired tear gas at Central American migrants who ran toward the U.S.-Mexico border on Sunday. The agency also temporarily closed the border crossing near San Diego. The FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast crew puts the current situation at the border in context and asks how much it is affecting American politics. They also preview the final U.S. Senate election of 2018, which is taking place in Mississippi on Tuesday. The race between Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith and Democrat Mike Espy is highlighting fault lines on race and geography in the South. You can listen to the episode by clicking the “play” button in the audio player above or by downloading it in iTunes, the ESPN App or your favorite podcast platform. If you are new to podcasts, learn how to listen. Help new listeners discover the show by leaving us a rating and review on iTunes. Have a comment, question or suggestion for “good polling vs. bad polling”? Get in touch by email, on Twitter or in the comments.

A new group of migrants bound for the US has set off from El Salvador, following thousands of other Central Americans fleeing poverty and violence who have taken similar journeys in recent weeks. 'God will decide if we make it': Central American caravan presses northward Read more The group of more than 300 Salvadorans left the capital San Salvador on Sunday. A larger group of mostly Hondurans, estimated to number at least 3,500, left that country in mid-October and is now in southern Mexico. That group has become a key issue in US midterm elections. Migrants say joining a large group offers a measure of protection against police officers and bandits. Donald Trump and his fellow Republicans have sought to make immigration a major issue ahead of the 6 November elections, in which the party is battling to keep control of Congress. “We have a crisis at the border right now,” she said. “I think what the president is making clear is every possible action, authority, executive program is on the table to consider, to ensure that it is clear that there is a right and legal way to come to this country and no other ways will be tolerated.” Statistics from US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) show that illegal border crossings have declined significantly from record highs in the early years of the century. On Friday, defense secretary Jim Mattis authorized the use of troops and other military resources at the US-Mexico border. Migrant caravan members unfazed by Trump: 'He'll change his thinking' Read more They organized using social networks like Facebook and WhatsApp over the last couple of weeks, inspired by the larger group in Mexico.

Under heavy criticism, Trump ordered a stop to the family separations and a federal judge has sharply criticized the government's response in reuniting the families. Trump will try to retake the political initiative Monday by hosting the "heroes" of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, known as ICE, which arrests and deports people in the country illegally, and Customs and Border Protection, which is responsible for patrolling on the border. "Tragically, the brave men and women of ICE have recently been subjected to a nationwide campaign of smears, insults, and attacks by politicians shamelessly catering to the extreme elements of our society that desire lawlessness and anarchy," he wrote. Democrats have used Trump's harsh immigration crackdown — and the symbolism surrounding an agency despised by some on the left for workplace raids and widespread reports of sexual and physical abuse in ICE detention facilities — to build enthusiasm among core supporters and activists. The push to abolish ICE gained steam in June when Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez won a Democratic primary in a New York House race over a party leader, making her an instant celebrity in the party's left flank. Since she had campaigned on the issue, the party's liberal base has pushed others to embrace it. Mary Small, policy director for Detention Watch Network, an immigration advocacy group in Washington, called Trump's focus on ICE "propaganda that's really intended to stoke people's fears" because of the public outcry to his immigration crackdown." So the president holding up these ICE agents as heroes -- it's a response to the fact that our stories are breaking through." Schlapp, whose wife, Mercedes, works in the White House communications office and will be moderating a panel at Monday's event, links Trump's embrace of ICE and border patrol agents to his other "law and order" rhetoric, including his criticism of National Football League players who have protested police brutality during the national anthem and Trump's embrace of the "Blue Lives Matter" movement. Trump also hosted a White House event in June with "American victims of illegal immigration."

Written by Elaine Godfrey (@elainejgodfrey), Madeleine Carlisle (@maddiecarlisle2), and Olivia Paschal (@oliviacpaschal) Today in 5 Lines Amid calls from Democrats to “abolish ICE,” the White House hosted an event honoring what it termed the “heroes” of Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement. President Trump tweeted that he hopes former CIA Director John Brennan goes to court over the revocation of his security clearance, saying that it would make it easier to show “the poor job he did” as CIA director. First Lady Melania Trump advocated against cyberbullying as part of her Be Best campaign, while Trump insulted Brennan on Twitter. In an open letter, Pope Francis responded to last week’s Pennsylvania grand jury report concluding that more than 1,000 victims had been abused by 300 Catholic priests across the state. “We showed no care for the little ones; we abandoned them,” he wrote. Jury deliberations continued for a third day in the fraud trial of former Trump campaign chairman, Paul Manafort. Today on The Atlantic Addicted to Pot? As marijuana legalization rolls forward, some Americans are smoking pot daily—leading to addictive behavior and health problems that nobody seems to be talking about. (Annie Lowrey) Multiple Messages: Democrats don’t need one united message; they need hundreds of messages tailored to each candidate, writes former New York Representative Steve Israel. Concentrated Poverty: In Fresno, California’s poorest large city, a legacy of discrimination has lasting effects on its residents.

Over the past few years, it has become increasingly difficult to keep politics out of daily conversations. Whether I’m at work, at home or with friends, the current news cycle effortlessly becomes the main topic of conversation. It may come as a surprise to hear that kids – some as young as seven years old – are talking about politics. In this political era, it’s important to discuss current event topics with kids so they can understand the world around them and have informed opinions. Political conversation for kids isn’t always straightforward. The jokes cause their peers to laugh, but it isn’t until I confront them that they realize the jokes were wrong, and I learn they are repeating a friend or family member’s words that they have learned are OK. Kids absorb what they hear and repeat it without much thought. I don’t believe that kids try to spread false information or make insensitive comments. While I have worked with kids at my camp for several weeks now, one thing that I know is that all of them are eager to learn something new. Renee Pineda, a senior majoring in political science, is The Hatchet’s opinions editor.