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While Mr. Biden won most of the Texas border in 2020, some towns there saw a shift to the political right. The region has been particularly hard-hit with the influx of migrants being released into local communities. Nonprofit organizations along the southwest border provide a significant amount of assistance, but the spike at times has been overwhelming for them as well.

Immigration and human rights advocates have said that the order turned out to be former President Donald J. Trumps most successful measure to limit the number of people getting asylum in the United States. Stephen Miller, the architect of Mr. Trumps restrictive immigration policies, tweeted on Wednesday that lifting the public health order would be one of historys most spectacular travesties and would open the floodgates on a biblical scale.

Mr. Bidens decision to leave the order in place for more than a year, after campaigning to restore compassion to the immigration system, raised doubts among immigration advocates about his commitment to doing so.

Even with the order in place, the Biden administration has allowed hundreds of thousands of undocumented migrants to face deportation proceedings, many of whom arrived in the country with young children. Reasons have varied from humanitarian exemptions to operational restrictions such as limited detention space. The United States cannot expel migrants from certain countries, including Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela, because of diplomatic strains, and those migrants are making up a fast-growing number of new arrivals.

Since October, border officials have apprehended 900,000 undocumented migrants at the southwest border, according to the Homeland Security Department. In the 12 months before that, undocumented migrants were caught a record-breaking 1.7 million times. Among the reasons the department has cited for the increase are natural disasters, severe economic decline causing food and housing insecurity, crime, corruption, lack of education and health care, and the pandemic.

Some argue that the inconsistent enforcement of the public health rule and an absence of punishment for those caught crossing illegally is partly to blame for the high numbers. Homeland Security officials estimate that 30 percent of illegal crossings during the pandemic are repeat offenders.

The spike in illegal migration has at times overwhelmed border officials. To speed up the time it takes to process people into the country and avoid overcrowding in congregate settings, border officials have released some migrants into the country with incomplete paperwork and no court date, leaving migrants in limbo and creating new backups in the already-backlogged immigration court system. Immigrants wait an average of five years before their first court date.

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A multi-agency operation targeted people involved in organised immigration crime over the past three months.

Cheshire Police worked with Border Force, Immigration, the Driver Vehicle Standards Agency (DVLA) and the local authority during three two-day operations over three-months, which aimed to disrupt illegal immigration to the UK. The operations were conducted at Burtonwood services on the M62 on January 10 and 11, Poplars 2000 services on the M6 at Lymm on February 10 and 11 and again at Burtonwood services on March 22.

The operations included offering advice to HGV drivers on how to avoid becoming involved in the illegal movement of people. Cheshire Police said that those involved also checked drivers' hours were being adhered to, lorries were roadworthy and ensured those who had travelled illegally were brought to safety and dealt with appropriately and sensitively.

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A Cheshire Police spokesperson said that the operation resulted in:

148 HGVs stopped and checked for illegal immigrants. 11,200 in civil penalty fines recovered from hauliers having outstanding fines for previous clandestine found on their vehicles One Iranian clandestine surrendered to police at the scene and dealt with by Border force officers 96 fixed penalties issued for various offences totalling 18,750 in fines

DS Darren Wright said: These operations highlight the work we do 24/7 to disrupt criminals who use our road network to commit crime, and serves as a warning to criminals that we are out there policing the roads with our partners to disrupt illegal activity and make Cheshire a no go area for criminals.

He added: "Clandestine entry to the UK poses a significant risk of life to those who have been concealed in the vehicles and transported overseas to the UK and vice versa.

We recognise that many of the successful clandestine entry attempts involve road haulage vehicles due to the amount of hiding space in the vehicle, and the ease of movement in and out of the UK through legitimate and identified travel routes.

Organised crime groups also know this and exploit this method of movement in and out of the UK, and recruit complicit drivers to assist with the facilitation of illegal entry of people and goods.

Sadly, many of who successfully gain illegal entry into the UK often end up becoming victims of modern slavery offences. Many will become subjected to further criminal exploitation, so its important drivers play their part in protecting vulnerable people by understanding the risks and knowing how to keep themselves safe from these criminal gangs.

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Austin, TX, 12 hours ago As the federal government prepares to end its application of Title 42 to expel illegal aliens, U.S. Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX-21) has called for the impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and asserted that Gov. Greg Abbott should shut down the border.

Texas ought to just flat out shut down the border. And Im looking at Governor Abbott right now when I say that. You shut down the border, governor, Roy said in a Newsmax appearance earlier this week.

You stand up to this president. Im tired of Texas taking a back seat to an administration screwing the people of Texas.

Proponents of more assertive border security measures have argued that the illegal immigration is an invasion that justifies a response under Article 1, Section 10, Clause 3 of the U.S. Constitution.

The provision states, No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any Duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay.

In an interview with The Texan, Roy stated on Friday that its certainly hard to argue that our nation is not being invaded. He pointed to the operational control the cartels have over our border.

If your state, your community, your families that are all sharing that community, Texas, if youre being invaded, harmed, you have a right to do something about that, Roy asserted.

Thats why that constitutional provision exists. And the federal government is refusing to do its job. You cannot ignore your duty to secure the border of the United States and then say, sorry, thats federal law. You have no recourse. Thats just straight-up bulls.

Roy also called for all Republicans to take a position on whether Mayorkas should be impeached.

Abbott was calling for Mayorkas to be investigated by Congress as early as October when he assembled with nine other governors in Mission to call on the White House to do more to stop illegal immigration.

For the past year, Abbott has been leading a border security effort known as Operation Lone Star that received bipartisan support and funding from the Texas legislature during a regular session last year.

In a press release on Friday, the governors office indicated that since day one, Operation Lone Star has resulted in several state agencies arresting about 225,000 illegal aliens. Abbotts office also reported more than 13,000 criminal arrests, 10,400 felony charges, 3,500 seizures of weapons, $30 million worth of currency seizures, and the confiscation of 289 million lethal doses of fentanyl.

The governors office also stated that a portion of the state border wall is nearing completion in Starr County using 30-foot bollards, which were part of leftover supplies from the U.S. border wall that Texas obtained through a federal program.

Abbott promised last summer to arrest everybody coming across the border, but that promise never materialized. Operation Lone Star has focused on referring illegal aliens to federal agencies and prosecuting them in South Texas for crimes such as trespassing.

Roy argued that Abbott should stop treading lightly around federal court decisions and that Operation Lone Star is not getting the job done.

The bottom line is you cant win this prosecuting trespassing crimes, Roy told The Texan.

What would we do if we were a stand-alone sovereign nation? Thats what we should do. Muster your own force. Sit down at the river and turn people away, and if youre not willing to do that or if that doesnt go far enough, then shut down I-35 and tell the rest of the country to kiss our a until the border is secure.

The congressman clarified that he is not seeking to rattle somehow negatively about Abbott and he supports the governors efforts on border security and the state wall, but that Texas cannot wait for a Republican-controlled Congress or president to act on the border crisis.

Defending the state efforts, Rep. James White (R-Hillister) responded to some of Roys comments in a social media post by emphasizing that the Texas National Guard and the Texas Department of Public Safety are already taking action.

However, if they cross anyway and touch our soil, the current [attorney general], his former employer, has stated that we have no immigration authority, as per the last Senate Select Committee on Border Security, White tweeted, referring to a committee in the Texas Senate.

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Should we change course?

E.J. Dionne gushes over President Biden's State of the Union and how it will change the unwanted trajectory of his presidency.

Nothing could be further from the truth!

As many letter writers to The R-G are concerned with the evils of the Trump presidency, which is no more, they miss the counterculture Biden presidency. Nothing makes sense. For example, Russias brutal attack on Ukraine, negotiating with Iran (one of four countries in the world that is sponsoring terrorism), inflation, increased violence in the cities, illegal immigration at the southern border and curtailing fossil fuels in America, which leads to a loss of jobs and dependence on foreign countries who wish to harm America.

These are only a few such policies that testcommon sense andDionne is wrapped up inBiden's political speech andfuture when America is becoming a shellof the Jefferson/Madison/Monroe philosophy of limiting Federalism.

Is it too late to change course?

Joel Marks, Florence

Thank you for the very comprehensive article on Measure 110.

Voterswho approved Measure 110 legalizing certain quantities of life-ruining substances such as methamphetamine and heroin have been duped. A year later and there is no clear indication, contrary to the ballot measure contention, that funded treatment programs have materialized. Hard-drug abusers should be given the option to receive the treatment they need, or be forced out of our communities through incarceration.

Either way, voters have been fooled on this one. Bureaucratic infighting and red tape have prevented the immediate roll out of treatment centers, and police have one less tool to combat rampant drug abuse and property crime in our state.

Seth P. Shenker, Eugene

President Biden wont be sending our military to fight in Ukraine, so its simply a matter of time before Russias military capability overtakes Ukraine.

When planning Ukraines invasion, Putin anticipated the current sanctions and for years has accumulated a pool of money intended to offset the effects he knew sanctions would have on Russias economy.

Recently, Putin rattled his nuclear sword. Bullies are only deterred after their own nose gets bloodied. Without harsher economic reprisals for Putins brutality happening soon, Moldova will become his next victim.

Today our best option for supporting the brave Ukrainian people and avoiding WWIII is to punish Russia with sanctions on their fossil fuel exports. Russias money pool will evaporate much faster without fossil fuel revenues.

This move will drive up already high world oil prices and put further economic hardships on Europeans as well as Americans. That is still much less traumatic than what Ukrainians are experiencing and a much better choice than shedding blood and risking nuclear war.

Doing nothing further to punish Putin would eventually represent a more substantial risk to world peace.

Bob Hoitt, Springfield

In the March 3 Register-Guard guest view supporting EmX buildouts, no mention was made of EmX ridership, nor revenue data. That could be because no accurate, verifiable statistics exist. Unlike conventional buses, EmX has no internal fare enforcement. Drivers have no contact with passengers, so they cannot ascertain fare payment. No electronic, nor mechanical, oversight exists to verify ridership or revenue. Very rarely does a transit officer check fares, but only at Eugene or Springfield stations. They do not ride the route to confront oncoming passengers.

Why hasnt LTD or Eugene remedied this huge hole in their accounting records? EmX virtue invocation means nothing without paying customers. Accurate and auditable revenue and patronage metrics must be collected. Both federal and state agencies granting taxpayer money for EmX projects demand that data. What are LTD and Eugene going to present? EmX has been in existence for nearly 15 years, so no excuse exists for not solving this problem. Until then, shelve proposed EmX buildouts.

Charlie Rojas, Eugene

The article Moving ahead (R-G, March 6) indicates thepurpose of the partnership between Eugene, LTD and other regional entities" (unnamed) is to redesign major streets inEugene to "make them work better for takingthe bus, walking and biking.

Since the majority of users of these thoroughfares arepeopledrivingprivate or commercial vehicles and since a significant portion of thefunds are generated from gasoline taxes, itseems to me that the paramount purpose of anyredesign (if really necessary) should be toredesign these roads for the use, convenience and safety of those driving trucks and cars on them. Did I misssomething?

Ridership on LTD is as low as it has been since 2012 and walking and biking are fine, but they simply do not represent the majority ofusers. Redesigningand spending tax dollars on these projects for the stated purpose of enhancing bus, bikes and walkers should be reconsidered.

Make your voice heard.

Shannon Roseta, Eugene

I would like to share a quote from Mohammed Rafik Mhawesh, a Palestinian writer and journalist based in Gaza City.He says, "We fight our oppressors, and we get branded terrorists.Ukrainians do the same, and they get applauded for their courage."

Hmmm.

Margaret Brye,Eugene

For all who are concerned about the effects climate change will have on our grandchildrens world, now is a critical time. The new report by the International Panel on Climate Change tells us that the window of opportunity to prevent the average global temperature from rising more than 1.5 to 2.0 degrees centigrade is closing fast. The report goes into detail on the predicted devastating effects global warming will have on the planet.

Action must be taken quickly at the national level to accomplish the goal of at least keeping global temperature rise below 2.0 degrees C. A 50% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and net zero by 2050 are important components. Polls consistently show that a majority of Republicans and Democrats are worried about the effects of climate change and want Congress to act. This should not be a partisan issue. Now is the time to let our senators and representative know we want them to pass effective climate legislationthis year.I hope you agree that we owe this to our grandchildren.

Richard Barnhart, Eugene

If just for one minute we were to think of taking care of ourselves first, the gas prices wouldn't be where they are.Why are we exporting so much oil to other countries and evidently ignoring our own shortage here? It doesn't take rocket science to look out for No. 1 and any overages can move elsewhere.That's No. 1. No. 2, we do have oil reserves. How about tapping them until all this mess is over.And No. 3, gas stations do not refill their tanks every day, but they sure do like to increase gas prices daily.

Simply put, it's another case of corporate greed.

Richard Besser, North Bend

M. Reza Behnam'sarticle "Palestinians are refugees in theirown land" is long overdue.It explicitlypoints out theconditions Palestinians have lived with since the Zionist war of 1946-1947.

Palestinian children are put in Israeli prisons for throwing rocks at tanks, but their parents are not allowed to visit them because they are not allowed to enter Israel.

There are so many other inhumane practices that exist, yet anyone who objects to those things is called antisemitic.Year after year, our senators and representatives vote to send $3.8 billion to Israel.The majority of that money goes to the military, which continues to bombard Palestine, destroy its homes and take their land for Zionist settlers.

Where is the sanity in all of this?

Ruth Roberts, Corvallis

The Lane County commissioners have fast-tracked a request to their planning staff to consider funding for a new baseball stadium for the Eugene Emeralds. The stadium is estimated to cost $50 million, which the county can't afford even with the $7.5 million approved by the Oregon Legislature. I don't believe local government agencies ought to fund a private for-profit business unwillingto assume some or all of the cost. In this case, the parent company of the Ems, the San Francisco Giants, has not indicated an interest in providing funding.

Why does the local government in Eugene immediately rush to consider approval ofany sports-related facility? Such a venue willlikely disrupt the neighborhood, exacerbate traffic and be available only for those with enough discretionaryincome to afford season tickets.

Has a sportscomplex ever been turned down in Eugene? Not that I recall.

Pat Reilly, Eugene

Carol Carver (Letters, March 3), in relating her experience with racism, sadly, is mild compared to the rampant racism that makes up our nation's history.

I wish to share one of my own. I grew up in the projects in a Queens neighborhood. These were high-rise apartment buildings with culturally diverse, lower middle-class families. One day two Black siblings, perhaps 5 and 7years old, were arguing. One screamed at the other, "White Jew, White Jew!" Obviously, learned by environmental rote.

Carver cited George Santayana's quote: "Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat it." German philosopher Georg Hagel's quote is far more accurate: The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history."

Prejudice is not race-, religion- or gender-specific. It is human-specific and humankind, left to itself is hapless and helpless. Providentially, we are not left to ourselves.

James Tsalapinas, Harrisburg

I was glad to see that in the March 6R-G all nine letters to the editor condemned Putins attack on Ukraine and Trumps praise of the brutal dictator. Some on the far right, like Marjorie Taylor Green and Tucker Carlson, are applauding Putin, but the vast majority of Americans support freedom and democracy.

Another story by the AP, The West recalculates the cost of war," said U.S. citizens might have to pay higher gas prices. Russia supplies 40% of Europe's oil and gas, and Putin thought he could hold Europe hostage because of Europes dependence. But Germany shut down the NordStream2 pipeline and is accelerating its move to renewables.

We should do the same.

Putin will be hurt the most if the world shuts down its oil and gas. We should temporarily ramp up U.S. production to help the Europeans, but at the same time curtail our own use of fossil fuels and increase alternative energy to keep prices down. Russian oil production is more harmful to the environment than ours, but we need stricter regulations, to do less harm. China is watching, and if Russia can invade Ukraine without severe consequences, it may invade Taiwan.

Jerry Brule, Eugene

When I see the struggle the Ukrainians are goingthrough in their fight for the freedoms America and a host of other countries have enjoyed in the lesson of self-government,greed, self-indulgence tainted with sloth and debauchery have made anugly reflection of a once revered symbol.

We should be ashamed of ourselves.

What do you see when you look into the mirror? Do you see a person who rejects your doctor's adviceon free immunizations or perhaps paying $4 to $5 a gallon for gas?

Woe be you. It tugs at my heartstrings to see you suffer so.

Review your self-imposed ills from your place of comfort, if you're not too busy slamming government, the price of beer or some social atrocitythat has discomfitedyou. If that isyou in the mirror, go back to watching TV and see what true grit and democracy are all about. The fighting and dying Ukrainians are what we used to be. If you're not too mentally inert you might learn what a true Americans should be.

Leslie Marti, Eugene

The citizens of Ukraine are fighting against an aggressive and more powerful adversary to protect their democracy. As the fight rages in Ukraine, we must not forget the fight that rages in our own country to defend democracy and its tenets.

A local young woman who graduated from Sheldon High School and UO has already been shot with rubber bullets and teargassed in Texas for trying to get the voting rights promised for all Texans. She works for Good Deed Corps in the Texas Rising effort. It seems many Hispanic Texas residents in the Rio Grande area have been discouraged from registering to vote for years. The unpaid workers for Texas Rising are trying to change that. Theyve legally organized registration drives and voter education activities all allowable under Texass new voter suppression laws.

Unfortunately, when these voters submit registration forms or ask for mail-in ballots, the state denies those efforts. When the state was asked for more registration forms, the head of Texas elections said there were no more forms and no more would be printed as the state couldnt afford to print more.

Thats not democracy, thats tyranny.

Hal Huestis, Eugene

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Until the late 19th century, there wasnt any such thing as illegal or legal immigration to the United States. Thats because before you can immigrate somewhere illegally, there has to be a law for you to break.

American immigration didnt really begin until the late 1700s, when the United States became an independent nation. Before that, Africans had unwillingly entered the Americas as enslaved peoples and Europeans had entered as settlerswhich is something totally different. While immigrants are beholden to the laws of the land they migrate to, settlers come to disrupt the current system and implement their own laws, write the scholars Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang.

But once the U.S. made its Constitution the new law of the land, immigrants flocked to the country with few restrictions. This didnt mean that they were welcomed in the New World. In the beginning, when immigrants came mostly from northern and western Europe, anti-Irish and anti-Catholic sentiment were rampant. By the mid- to late-19th century, people from southern and eastern Europe as well as China were coming over, and Americans resented the presence of Chinese, Italians, and more Catholics.

The walls of a holding area in the Angel Island Immigration Station feature inscriptions from immigrants who were detained there. Due to prolonged questioning, some immigrants were detained for months, or even years.

Although some states like California passed local immigration laws during this time, these laws either werent well enforced or were thrown out by courts, says Madeline Y. Hsu, a professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. In fact, there were no federal laws governing who could enter and who couldnt until the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.

At the time, Chinese people worked in gold mines, factories, railroads, and agriculture, especially on the West Coast. Although these immigrants made up only .002 percent of the U.S. population, white Americans blamed them for low wages and other economic problems. To placate economic and racial anxieties, the radical exclusion act banned almost all immigration from China, making only a few exceptions for special groups like students and diplomats. In addition, the Immigration Act passed that same year banned people who were poor, mentally ill, or convicted of crimes from entering the country.

Because only a very narrow group of Chinese people could legally immigrate, the acting presumption was that if youre Chinese you must have come in illegally, Hsu says. Chinese become the only group required to carry around certificates of residence, which are intended to showto documentthat they have in fact entered legally. In 1917, the Asiatic Barred Zone Act banned most immigration from Asia, as well as immigration by prostitutes, polygamists, anarchists, and people with contagious diseases.

Asian exclusion continued with the 1924 Immigration Act, which banned all people who could not become naturalized citizens per the 1790 Naturalization Act. That naturalization law had originally said that only free white people could become naturalized citizens. Yet by 1924, previously excluded groups like Mexicans, black Americans, and Native Americans had won citizenship rights, and the law really only applied to Asians.

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But the biggest change the 1924 act made to immigration policy was introducing numerical caps or quotas based on country of origin. These quotas gave enormous preference to people from northern and western Europe over those from southern and eastern parts of the continent. Turns out, the previous restrictions on Asian immigrants had made very little impact on the growing levels of immigration to the United States, Hsu says, because the vast majority of immigrants came from Europe. These new quotas were meant to address a sense of crisis that America was accepting too many immigrants, particularly too many non-Anglo Saxon ones.

The 1924 act resurfaced in the news in September 2017 when United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that the U.S. would end DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals), a policy to give people who came to the U.S. as undocumented children a legal avenue to stay. Sessions had earlier stated that the 1924 Immigration Act was good for America.

But according to Mae M. Ngai, a professor of Asian American studies and history at Columbia University, the 1924 act is considered almost universally to be a stain on our history.

Its an obviously racist act, she says. It ranked people from all over the world on a kind of hierarchy of desirability based on their race and national origin There is no controversy over that.

Ellis Islands Great Hall

The 1924 quota system remained largely in place until the 1960s, when a new law established a new system. Each year, there is a cap on the total number of visas that the U.S. can issue. According to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the U.S. cannot issue more than seven percent of the total allowable visas to one nation.

Before this change in 1965, there had been no numeric caps on immigration within the Americas. So when the U.S. decided that it would only take a certain percentage of people from each nation per year, it was the first time the U.S. had put an official cap on Mexican immigration.

Prior to this, Mexican immigrants freely, and commonly, found work in the United States. Yet after the Hart-Celler Immigration Act was passed, Whole groups of migrants from Mexico and Latin America whose entrance to the U.S. would have been considered legal before 1965 suddenly became illegal, writesJane Hong, a history professor at Occidental College, in The L.A. Times.

Theres a lot of talk about the DACA students and [accusations] that its an unlawful program, Hsu says.The problem with that is that you can always change laws, she continues. Laws are constantly changed in order to accommodate actual circumstances.

For example, it is a fact that Mexicans have already been immigrating to and living in the U.S. for a very long time. Whether lawmakers choose to consider that reality is another story.

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