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Some 42,000 migrants have illegally crossed the border from Mexico in the days since President Bidens crackdown took effect, The Post can reveal.

Border Patrol sources say that most of the migrants are still being given court dates and released into the US despite the Biden Administrations claim that the new measure would stem the flow of illegal immigrants into border towns and major cities.

Thousands are still released by the day, a source said.

They get their ICE appointment and theyre gone in the wind. You think theyre going to show up when they know they dont have a legitimate claim? Of course not.

The average number of crossings each day is about 3,200 since the order began June 5, according to internal Department of Homeland Security (DHS) data leaked to The Post.

The two weeks before that, there was an average of more than 3,900 crossings a day, suggesting that the policy hasnt had a dramatic impact on illegal immigration at the southern border.

Crossings also tend to dip as the summer progresses and the scorching heat makes the trek more dangerous.

Bidens order restricts migrants access to asylum when crossings average 2,500 per day and will only be overturned after crossings average 1,500 per day for a consecutive week.

Migrant crossings havent been that low since July 2020, when President Trump sealed the border due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

When the Biden policy is in effect, most migrants who cross the southern border illegally will be ineligible to pursue asylum in the US.

However, this doesnt mean that theyre being immediately deported after being caught.

If they are found to be ineligible, they will still have the chance to tell federal authorities that they have a fear of returning to their home country.

An asylum officer will then vet their fear claims and determine whether they are legitimate.

If a migrant doesnt have a fear claim, the federal government will attempt to remove them quickly. If they do have a valid fear claim, they will typically be released with a future court date.

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The system is still overwhelmed. This is a last ditch effort from this bullst administration to say we did something. We dont know why theyre still coming, the source said.

Too little too late. Its an election year and this administration knows theyre in deep shit.Theresstill thousands coming in by the day.

The restrictions, however, exclude large groups of migrants, including those who use the CBP One phone app to cross at a port of entry, enter as unaccompanied minors, or can prove they have suffered severe forms of trafficking or face medical emergencies.

Its all smoke and mirrors, Manny Bayon, the president of the National Border Patrol Council for San Diego, told The Post recently.

The San Diego sector has become the epicenter for illegal immigration at the southern border, where migrants from more than 100 countries in Europe, Asia and Africa are exempt from the executive orders restrictions and are being released into the country.

Migrants who are exempt from the order will have the chance to have their cases heard by an immigration judge.

However, under the Biden administration, 77% of migrants applying for asylum have been permitted to remain in the US, equating to 499,000 of the 648,000 applications. That is because immigration judges are dismissing hundreds of thousands of cases effectively allowing those migrants to stay in the country without the fear of deportation.

Migrants can also be ordered removed by immigration judge in absentia, meaning they failed to appear to hearings and were considered no shows.

Out of the more than 231,000 migrants ordered removed by an immigration judge in the financial year 2023, which ended in September 2023, roughly 159,000 failed to appear for their hearings, which resulted in deportation orders, according to federal data.

Each Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer has to manage an average of 7,000 cases, making it all the more difficult to track down migrants with deportation orders, according to Fox News.

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Mexican cartels are now offering VIP travel agency packages worth as much as $15,000 to help illegal immigrants sneak into the United States via a stream of underground tunnels.

The so-called VIP smuggling has become so lucrative that the cartels are now focusing roughly 70% of their criminal activity on getting migrants across the US-Mexico border instead of their usual drug trafficking, USA Today reported.

The La Linea cartel, for example, has allegedly been shepherding roughly 1,000 VIP migrants from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico into El Paso, Texas every month, a senior Mexican official told the outlet.

Criminals have shifted from their primary business, which was drug trafficking. Now 60-70% of their focus is migrant smuggling, Arturo Velasco, the head of the Chihuahua attorney generals offices anti-kidnapping unit, said.

A kilo of cocaine might bring in $1,500, but the risk is very high, he continued. The cost-benefit of trafficking a person is $10,000, $12,000, $15,000.

The migration travel agency packages can range between $6,000 to $15,000 per person, according to both smugglers and migrants.

The VIP migrants are given a code, which identifies what cartel theyve paid to help them, so they can avoid being harassed by local cops or rival syndicates as they traverse through the tunnels, according to officials.

Mexican National Guard members and immigration bureaucrats, as well as local cops, are allegedly in on the VIP ruse and have been accepting bribes from cartels, officials claimed.

In some cases, cops are even kidnapping migrants and keeping them in safe houses until they can find the money to pay a cartel for a VIP package.

They load people onto their trucks, and they care for them, so that another cartel doesnt abduct them, one smuggler, identified only as Ricardo, said.

The cops then bring the VIPs to tunnel entrances and, in some instances, provide cover for the smugglers and migrants as they head to the border, he added.

Ricardo said he forks out nearly $600 per migrant for the police protection service.

Its millions of pesos in extortions and everyone is in on it, Tony Payan, director of The U.S.-Mexico Center at Rice University, said of the VIP scheme.

In other words, its an extortion force.

Meanwhile, Jurez municipal police chief Cesar Omar Muoz Morales denied allegations of corruption, insisting his department was clean and efficient.

Were doing the best we can, he said.

News of the cartels VIP migrant operation emerged after it was revealed some 42,000 migrants have illegally crossed the border from Mexico in the days sincePresident Biden issued a crackdown executive order earlier this month.

The June 4 order threatens to haltasylum processingatthe US border if the average number of illegal arrivalscrosses 2,500 per dayin a week.

The average number of crossings each day has been roughly 3,200 since the order began, internal Department of Homeland Security (DHS) data leaked to The Post shows.

Border Patrol sources said most of the migrants are still being given court dates and released into the US despite the Biden Administrations claim the new measure would stem the flowof illegal immigrants.

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WASHINGTONU.S. Senators Mitt Romney (R-UT), Tom Cotton (R-AR), Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), James Lankford (R-OK), JD Vance (R-OH), and Joe Manchin (I-WV) today introduced the Mandatory E-Verify Act of 2024, bipartisan legislation that would require all employers to use the federal electronic E-Verify system to confirm the employment eligibility of their workforce. The senators bill comes on the heels of President Bidens recent attempt to restrict asylum claims, which does not affect the millions of illegal aliens who have already entered the United States since he took office and leaves in place the employment magnet that incentivizes illegal immigration.

President Bidens last-ditch effort to limit asylum is too little, too late. Millions of illegal immigrants have already flooded into our country under his watch, and his executive order falls short in stopping widespread illegal employment,Senator Romney said. By requiring all employers to use E-Verify, our legislation would ensure that businesses only hire legal workerseliminating a key driver of illegal immigration and protecting jobs for hardworking Americans.

American workers today compete against millions of illegal immigrants for too few jobsthats unfair. Ending the black market for illegal labor will open up jobs for Americans, Senator Cotton said. Our legislation will take the necessary steps to make sure every potential employer is hiring only legal workers.

E-verify protects employees and employers,said Dr. Cassidy.It is an essential tool in controlling immigration and protecting Americans jobs.

Im proud to introduce the Mandatory E-Verify Act of 2024 to ensure businesses of all sizes are hiring legal workers, said Senator Manchin. Along with the E-Verify mandate, our bipartisan legislation would increase penalties for businesses that intentionally avoid E-Verify and hire unauthorized labor. Expanding E-Verify was a key component of the 2013 bipartisan immigration deal that passed the Senate and was our biggest opportunity to comprehensively fix our broken immigration system. I will continue to support all components of that compromise including E-Verify, stronger border security, and expanded pathways for legal immigration.

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One of the leading causes of illegal immigration is the lack of adequate safeguards against unlawful employment in the U.S. job market.About7.8 millionillegal immigrants were in the U.S. labor force in 2021, and undocumented migrant encounters reported by U.S. Border Patrol have skyrocketed to more than9.6 millionsince then.According to Rasmussen Reports,68%of all likely voters believe the government should mandate employers to use E-Verify to help ensure they hire only legal workers for U.S. jobs.

TheMandatory E-Verify Act of 2024would:

Full text of the legislation can be foundhere, and a one pager is availablehere.

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SALT LAKE CITY Illegal immigrants have been sent to Utah from the city of Denver without local officials being aware or approving of the actions, according to statements from Governor Spencer Cox and his office.

In a social media post Friday, Cox accused Denver Mayor Mike Johnston, a Democrat, of sending the immigrants who are in the process of being allowed in the country to Utah without approval, calling the move "completely unacceptable."

When contacted by FOX 13 News, a spokesperson for Cox's office said they learned of the sending of immigrants to Salt Lake City on May 13.

"Denver did not consult with us prior to instigating this practice. We have now been told that 59 people have been bussed or flown to Salt Lake in the past 30 days," said Jennifer Napier-Pearce.

The governor's office added that one group of immigrants was allegedly sent to Salt Lake City International Airport with no resources or anywhere to go.

Mayor Erin Mendenhall said she is aware of migrants arriving from Denver and has recently spoken with Johnston, adding that her office is regularly briefed from federal and local agencies.

While Mendenhall says Salt Lake City has tried to connect families without local resources, her office says a consistent message has been delivered that local emergency services and shelter space is currently at full capacity.

More often, our metro area is seeing the arrival of families seeking asylum, who do not have existing connections or family in Utah. Contact and communication about their arrival would require other state and local governments or nonprofits outside Utah to connect with local service providers or officials in advance," said a spokesperson with Mendenhall's office. "Like many local governments working to navigate this increasing nationwide challenge, Utah does not have a formal entrance process for new arrivals, and often those who arrive in Salt Lake City spread out to locations across Salt Lake County and the region."

For his part, Cox is placing the blame on the Biden administration.

"All 50 states, including Utah, are now border states due to the failed immigration policies of President Biden and Congress," the governor wrote. "Once again we call on the Biden administration and Congress to solve this crisis."

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SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) Gov. Spencer Cox claimed Friday that the mayor of Denver is sending immigrants to Utah without proper approval, calling the alleged actions unacceptable on Twitter/X.

We recently learned that the Democrat mayor of Denver has been sending illegal immigrants to Utah without proper notification or approval. This is completely unacceptable and follows on the failed catch-and-release policy of the Biden administration, his post said in part.

The Salt Lake City Police Department told ABC4 that 15 people arrived in Salt Lake City last month from Colorado, all of whom had gone through federal processing. Police say social workers transported them to Ogden because the shelters in Salt Lake County were full.

Jon Ewing, a representative of the Denver Department of Human Services, confirmed that they had helped people travel to Salt Lake City over the past 30 days, however, he said they have been incredibly transparent with all of our newcomer operations.

They say over the past year and a half they have helped approximately 2,000 people travel to Salt Lake City, with 59 of those people having departed in the last 30 days.

The vast majority of newcomers arriving in Denver do so on buses chartered from Texas and had no intention of ever coming to Denver. Thats why part of our operations include purchasing tickets for newcomers to get to their desired location, where they may have support networks or job opportunities, Ewing said.

Ewing added the destination is always chosen by the newcomer, and many choose to go to other locations like New York and Chicago.

To date Denver has served more than 42,000 people from the southern border, assistance which has included helping to house thousands of people and assisting more than 2,000 individuals with securing legal work, he said.

Cox said every state has received immigrants and Utahs resources are completely depleted.

All 50 states, including Utah, are now border states due to the failed immigration policies of President Biden and Congress, Cox said. Once again we call on the Biden administration and Congress to solve this crisis.

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