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ICE HSI stepping up investigations into fraudulent family units seeking illegal entry into the US
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WASHINGTON DC, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is reallocating resources to the Southwest border to investigate human smuggling operations and the use of fraudulent documents to create fake families seeking to exploit U.S. immigration laws.
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James Okeefe
Watch: This Guy Just Proved That Obama Is Opening The Door For Our Absolute WORST Enemies
“Do you feel safe?”
James O’Keefe, dressed in a trademark military jacket and dishdasha while wearing an Osama bin Laden mask, can casually cross into the U.S. without fear of the Border Patrol stopping him. O’Keefe asks, “Do you feel safe” before stepping into the 2-foot-deep Rio Grande in Hudspeth County, Texas.
The area looked well-worn with footprints, campsites, and littering, indicating that O’Keefe is not the only person crossing into the U.S.
Jeff Sessions: House Border Bill Is a ‘Surrender To a Lawless President’
The Obama Administration has openly declared its plan to implement a unilateral executive amnesty for 5–6 million more illegal immigrants. This unlawful amnesty—urged on by congressional Democrats—would include work permits, taking jobs directly from millions of struggling American citizens.
Any action Congress might consider to address the current border crisis would be futile should the President go forward with these lawless actions. Congress must speak out and fight against them. It must use its spending power to stop the President’s executive amnesty.
That the House leaders’ border package includes no language on executive actions is surrender to a lawless President. And it is a submission to the subordination of congressional power.
After years of falling wages and rising joblessness, American workers are pleading for someone to hear them. How can it be that our President is brazenly advertising that he will nullify and strip away American workers’ immigration protections, and their own elected leaders will not rise to their defense? Or to the defense of our laws and our Constitutional order?
There are other grave concerns with the Granger package as well: because it does not fix our asylum rules and loopholes, the end result of the additional judges and hearings will be more illegal immigrants gaining asylum and access to U.S. welfare. It is a plan for expedited asylum, not expedited removal.
Nor will this package make our rogue President actively enforce anything, coming nowhere close to the kinds of reasonable enforcement activities needed to restore the interior application of our immigration laws.
And finally, a package that is silent on blocking amnesty creates an opportunity for Senate Democrats to add elements of their party’s open borders and mass immigration agenda.
This legislation is unworthy of support.