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by John Binder14 Jun 2017Washington, D.C.0

In total, 54,944 illegal aliens either had their Temporary Protected Status (TPS) renewed by the administration or are new recipients of the classification, which has been derided by immigration hawks for being an indirect amnesty program.

Under Temporary Protected Status, hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens are allowed to remain in the U.S. for up to 18 months, as Breitbart Texas reported. After their protected status has expired, they can re-apply to have the classification renewed.

Although the number of illegal aliens receiving protected status remains high, the Trump Administration did lower the number, which encompasses January through March 2017, from where the Obama Administration had left it.

In Obamas last full three months in office, DHS approved close to 84,000 illegal aliens for temporary protected status.

But while Trumps DHS does not look to be considerably destabilizing the program, Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) introduced legislation to halt the Temporary Protected Status system.

My bill, the TPS Reform Act, would ensure that temporary means temporary by establishing clear time limitations and creating statutory tests that must be met to grant the TPS designation, Brooks said in an interview about the program. This legislation provides the needed reform for what has become a long-running amnesty program.

Days ago, Breitbart Texas reported how border crossings along the U.S.-Mexico Border increased by 31 percent in May from the previous month.

John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart Texas. Follow him on Twitter at@JxhnBinder.

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Nearly 55K Illegal Aliens Given 'Protection' under Trump, Says Fed Report - Breitbart News

Illegal immigrants often cross the ranch lands of South Texas in the summer heat. It's a risk that can be deadly. Especially as illegal immigration increases for the first time during the Trump administration.

Oscar Margain, KENS 4:53 AM. CDT June 13, 2017

(Photo: Oscar Margain, KENS)

ENCINO, Texas -- Illegal immigrants often cross the ranch lands of south Texas in the summer heat. Its a risk that can be deadly. This as the number of people crossing rises for the first time during the Trump administration.

Behind this gate is an 8,600-acre property, tucked in somewhere between a highway and a Border Patrol checkpoint in Encino, Texas.

Ryan Weatherston, the foreman for Dos Haches Ranch, takes us on a truck ride 5 miles down a dirt road, crossing a path dozens of undocumented immigrants have traveled.

This is a hot, hot, hot area, said Weatherston.

Its also an area that could easily reach 100-degree temperatures during this time of the year. Its when Border Patrol expects illegal crossings to rise and at the same time when more people could die.

Ive been out here 5 years, the foreman said. In the past 5 years, Ive found 8 dead people.

Clothing, cell phones, human skulls and human corpses are just some of the scenes Weatherston has walked into.

Desperate people do desperate things, he said. Weatherston believes more immigrants chose to cross during summer because there are fewer watchful eyes. It's low season for hunters and bird watchers, customers who rent the camp house in the property.

However, this year things are a bit different as illegal immigration had dropped to about 70% since Trump took office until May when it picked up again about 25%. And quail birds are sticking around a little longer. The reason why former Texas governor Mark White was there.

You hear the quail? Weve been listening to them all day, said the former Governor.

Governor White knows a thing or two about illegal immigration. He believes the country is taking the wrong approach.

Its every attribute that you want to see in a good citizen, is revealed to you in those people who have come here, he said.

His empathy grew when he read this note left by three teenage women from El Salvador after breaking into the camp house seeking help.

The note written on June 16, 2013, reads: Excuse us for having come in your ranch, but it was out of necessity because we were lost for 4 days. We were three young women, one of us was pregnant and was feeling very ill. Forgive us for destroying your door and have used your belongings. Had we not arrived here, we wouldnt have been able to call migration (Border Patrol). Thank you and were sorry a thousand times. May God bless you. We were Salvadorians.

I cant imagine my wife walking through this country pregnant and, you know, being sick and being 104 degrees outside, said Weatherston. Thats rough. Im glad they were able to find this (camp house).

These encounters have taught these men to not lock up their doors, but rather, to leave them open, for the survival of those who will decide it all to make it here, so argues the governor.

These people want the same thing that I wanted, that my family wanted, he pointed out. They just happen to be born there and not here.

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Illegal immigration picks up as deadly Texas heat moves in - KHOU

Illegal immigrants should be living in fear of being deported, the chief of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Tuesday, pushing back against a growing sentiment among Democrats on Capitol Hill and activists across the country who have complained about agents enforcing the laws on the books.

Thomas D. Homan, acting director at ICE, said anyone in the country without authorization can be arrested and those who have been ordered deported by judges must be removed if laws are to have meaning.

His comments marked a major shift for an agency that President Obama forbade from enforcing the law when it came to more than 9 million of the countrys estimated 11 million illegal immigrants. Unshackled from Mr. Obamas strictures, agents have dramatically increased the number of arrests.

Advocacy groups are enraged and demand leniency for traumatized immigrants.

Mr. Homan makes no apologies.

If youre in this country illegally and you committed a crime by being in this country, you should be uncomfortable, you should look over your shoulder. You need to be worried, Mr. Homan testified to the House Appropriations Committee. No population is off the table.

The Trump administration is asking for significant boosts in spending for both border and interior enforcement, but it is meeting resistance from Democrats who oppose a crackdown.

Democrats will not accept a penny of funding for a new deportation force or a border wall, said Rep. Nita M. Lowey of New York, the ranking Democrat on the committee.

Border Patrol acting Chief Carla Provost defended the 74 miles of fencing that President Trump wants to erect next year, saying the wall will plug holes where illegal activity is still a problem in San Diego and parts of Texas.

She said the southwestern border is at medium risk of penetration and needs the wall to assist. She said construction on the 74 miles would start in either March or April.

Mr. Homan, meanwhile, said he needs a major infusion of detention beds to hold the larger population of illegal immigrants, now that his agents have been unshackled from the restrictions under Mr. Obama.

He said the number of countries refusing to take back their deportees has been cut in half, while the number of jurisdictions looking to have their police and sheriffs deputies trained to process illegal immigrants in their jails has nearly doubled and will likely triple by the end of the year.

In addition, some 400,000 illegal immigrants ordered removed by judges but who were ignored under the Obama administration are now back on the list of priorities.

All of that means more illegal immigrants to be detained in preparation for deportation.

Rep. C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger, Maryland Democrat, told Mr. Homan not to try deporting drunken drivers.

DWI or traffic is not really considered to be the type of people that are hurting our country, he said.

Mr. Homan, though, said drunken driving sounds like a public safety risk. They should be removed, he said.

Mr. Homan said anyone in the country without authorization is a target for enforcement.

We shouldnt wait for them to become a criminal, he said.

That angered immigrant rights advocates, who said it showed antipathy toward illegal immigrants.

Wow. How revealing, said Frank Sharry, executive director at Americas Voice. Homan makes it clear that the ICE strategy is to indiscriminately target the entire undocumented population in America and to intentionally spread fear throughout millions of deeply rooted families.

He called Mr. Homans testimony extremist.

Mr. Homan pushed back against such criticism. He said his agents are enforcing the laws as written and no other branch of law enforcement faces the abusive questions his employees do.

He said the illegal immigrants deserve the blame for separating families. When a U.S. citizen commits a crime and goes to jail, he said, the police who catch him arent blamed for keeping him from his family.

Mr. Homan said the increased risk of enforcement is part of the reason illegal immigration across the southwestern border is at its lowest level in decades.

Democrats, though, said his officers need to show more discretion.

Ms. Lowey raised the case of a 19-year-old man in New York who was arrested on the day of his high school prom, which she said sent the wrong signal.

She said the man had kept out of trouble and was arrested while waiting at a bus stop for school.

Mr. Homen defended the arrest as valid. He said the young man committed a crime when he sneaked across the border and ignored an immigration judges order to be removed.

He lost his case, and because we dont like the results of that case we forget about it? Mr. Homan asked Ms. Lowey. I dont know where else in the American justice system any other agency is told to ignore a judges ruling.

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No apologies: ICE chief says illegal immigrants should live in fear of deportation - Washington Times

Illegal immigration across the southwest border appears to have jumped 27 percent in May, according to numbers released this week by Homeland Security, breaking a three-month streak of declines under President Trump and suggesting that the slump in migrants has bottomed out.

The Border Patrol nabbed 14,535 illegal immigrants in the southwest last month, up from just 11,129 in April. Analysts said that the number of people caught is a rough measure of the overall flow of people trying to sneak in.

The number of illegal immigrants showing up at ports of entry without authorization also ticked up, from 4,649 to 5,432.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the agency that oversees the Border Patrol and the ports of entry, acknowledged the increase in crossings, but attributed it to a seasonal uptick.

CBP said it expects the uptick to continue through the summer months.

The numbers suggest that while Mr. Trump appears to have changed the calculations of many border crossers, theres still a segment of the population particularly among Central Americans determined to make the journey.

Agents usually record an uptick from April to May, but the jump this year is the largest on record.

Still, its by far the lowest May total on record. For example, May 2016 saw more than 40,000 illegal immigrants caught at the border.

Illegal immigration from Cuba and Haiti had been a problem last year, but had dipped under the final months of President Obama and again under Mr. Trump.

Now, Cubans appear to be surging again, while Haitians remain low.

Two other special categories of migrants unaccompanied minors and families traveling together also saw increases last month, rising from a combined 2,117 nabbed by the Border Patrol in April to 3,070 in May.

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Illegal immigration across southwest border increased during May ... - Washington Times

Tens of thousands of undocumented immigrants have been granted work permits by the Trump administration under an Obama-era deferred-action program that President Trump had promised to end on his first day in office, according to federaldata.

Trump had called the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program an unconstitutional executive amnesty during his campaign. But statistics from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services released last week showed that more than 17,000 new DACA applicants were approved for the program in the first three months of 2017.

In addition, 107,000 immigrants already enrolled in DACA had their two-year work permits renewed during that time, which includes the final 20 days of President Barack Obamas tenure in January.

The new figures make clear that the deferred-action program for immigrants brought to the country illegally as children often known as dreamers has continued at a robust pace under Trump. This comes despite concerns from some immigrant advocates that the administration would start targeting work permit-holders for deportations.

Trump has waffled on DACA since taking office. In April, he told the Associated Press that dreamers should rest easy and not fear deportation. But his failure to follow through on a key pledge to voters has angered immigration hawks.

Its a violation of a campaign promise, said Dale Jackson, a conservative radio host in Huntsville, Ala., who asked White House press secretary Sean Spicer in February why Trump had not ended the program.

Jackson emphasized that unlike some of Trumps other promises, such as repealing the Affordable Care Act or building a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border wall, the president could halt the issuance of work permits through executive decree without congressional approval.

This is completely within his singular power to do by himself, he said. Theres no rationalization I can come up with. The guy said one thing during the campaign and hes outright not doingit.

A White House spokesman did not respond to requests for comment Monday.

Trump has touted successes in his efforts to get tougher on undocumented immigrants, including a significant drop in the number of people trying to enter the United States illegally from Mexico. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have ramped up arrests of illegal immigrants under new guidelines from the administration that broaden the pool of people identified as a priority for removal.

While we still welcome legal immigrants to tune of 1 million a year, we are no longer a friendly environment for illegal border-crossers, Homeland Security Secretary John F. Kelly said during a Cabinet meeting with Trump at the White House onMonday.

But the DACA program, which Obama instituted through executive action in 2012, is popular among Latino and Asian communities and has presented a political conundrum for Trump.

More than 750,000 immigrants have participated, and Obama emphasized the programs value to Trump in a meeting at the White House after the election. Obama told reporters that he would speak out if the new administration attempted to deport dreamers.

Since then, there have been a handful of highly publicized arrests of dreamers that have raised fears among immigrant rights groups. In some cases, the immigrants had allowed their DACA standing to lapse before their arrests.

On Monday, a federal judge in Atlanta ordered that a Mexican woman living in Georgia, Jessica Colotl, be temporarily reinstated in DACA after the Trump administration attempted to place her in deportation proceedings because of a 2010 traffic stop.

Her attorney, Charles Kuck, said in an interview that he thinks cases such as hers are outliers and that it appears nothing has changed in the processing of DACA applications. He added that he has filed about 100 applications for clients trying to enroll in the program or renew their DACA standing since Trump took office.

Immigration hard-liners said Trump, with his inaction, now shares ownership of the deferred-action program with Obama. Roy Beck, executive director of Numbers USA, a group that advocates for lower immigration levels, said Trumps inaction is denying jobs to native-born workers.

This is not a symbolic thing; this has real consequences, said Beck, whose organization has more than 7 million followers on Facebook. Theres a sense that he believes its almost okay not to act. The trouble is, theres no neutral position in this.

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Trump administration grants work permits to thousands of illegal immigrants - Washington Post