Nine Ways Trump Is Solving the Illegal-Migration Problem (Aided by Jeff Sessions)
Article publisher:
Breitbart
Article date:
20 September 2018
Article category:
National News
High
Article Body:
... Here are the top nine measures that President Donald Trump — aided by Jeff Sessions — is taking to shut down the beginning, middle, and end of the illegal migration pipeline.
Prosecution of Illegal Immigrants
Sessions has dramatically accelerated the prosecution of adult illegal immigrants [illegal aliens], ensuring the rapid conviction of 30,000 illegal migrants by the end of July. Few of the adult migrants are kept in jail, but the convictions raise the deterrent because they ensure those repeat offenders can be detained for two years if they cross the border again....
Asylum Reform
Sessions has narrowed the pipeline entry by ending President Barack Obama’s offer of asylum to people who have a “credible fear” of criminal gangs and brutal spouses. The reform allows border officers to quickly send many migrants home after about 40 days of legal processing time....
Flores Regulation
Guided by Sessions, Trump’s deputies have written a regulation to close the Flores loophole.
In September, Homeland Defense Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen announced a draft regulation to close the Flores loophole, which bars officials from holding children for more than 20 days. The regulation will take months to get through the formal legal process, and then will face intense opposition from pro-migration groups and some judges. Once operational, it will allow officials to detain migrants with children — dubbed “Family Units” — until their legal cases are completed in roughly 40 days.
Migrants are rational, and few will borrow $8,000 from the cartels for smugglers’ fees if they cannot get a job in the United States to pay off the debt. The pending regulation could close the entry to the “Family Unit” migrant pipeline....
Unaccompanied Alien Children
Roughly 32,000 “Unaccompanied Alien Children” from three Latin American countries have also come through the border since October 2017 to exploit a different set of loopholes....
In February 2018, a coalition of Democrats and business-first Republican Senators blocked Trump’s proposed TVPRA reform....
On Sept. 18, officials told the Senate that DHS officers detained 41 illegal immigrants who sought to pick up children and youths from DHS shelters. The new enforcement policy may deter illegal-immigrants from trying to smuggle their “UAC” children into the United States....
UAC Shelters
... The rising number of UACs in the shelters will prompt another wave of media-magnified Democratic complaints. But that crisis will be muffled if the GOP in Congress funds additional housing so more migrant children can be sheltered until they are legally processed and sent home.
The Border Wall
Trump wants to build roughly 1,000 miles of border wall, at the cost of roughly $25 billion. Democrats hate the wall as a physical symbol of Trump’s America First policies, and business-first Republicans would prefer it not get built.
That political opposition means Trump has only gotten $3.2 billion for the wall, or enough to build roughly 200 miles of top-grade border fence....
Currently, GOP leaders promise Trump up to $5 billion to build more than 200 miles of wall in 2019,...
Overstays
Many middle-class migrants fly into the United States as tourists or temporary guest-workers, and never go home. These migrants are called overstays, and some estimates say they comprise 40 percent of the illegal-immigrant population in the United States....
Judges
... So far, Sessions’ upgrades have ensured that more judges giving many more deportation orders to migrants, while the number of migrants permitted to stay has plunged from almost 120,000 in 2016 to under 70,000 in 2018, according to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University....
ICE Enforcement
... ICE has significantly increased deportations, especially of migrants detained in the interior, far from the border, often years after they crossed the border....