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Fox News host Tucker Carlson cornered Univision anchor Jorge Ramos during a contentious debate on immigration reform Friday night and tore apart Ramos arguments piece by piece.

Carlson began the segment by noting that Ramos believes the border wall proposed by President Donald Trump is both illegitimate and bigoted.

The wall is useless, Ramos affirmed. That wall is not going to do anything to stop immigration.

Carlson pointed out, citing Ramos statistics, that the majority of immigrants who come to America dont come via visa or airplane, but come across the border. If you can get a handle on that then Carlson suggested that illegal immigration could be quelled with a wall.

Maybe your real fear is that it would be too effective, Carlson said. Walls work in other countries like Israel.

Ramos argued back that what were doing at the border is somehow working, noting that some of the safest U.S. communities are on the southern border and that illegal immigration rates have remained steady over the last half decade.

The last time I check, were not at war with Mexico.

But Carlson had just one question.

Do you adopt this attitude at home? he asked. Do you have locks on your doors at home?

Of course, yeah, Ramos replied.

Are you at war with your neighbors? Carlson followed up.

Im very civil with my neighbors, Ramos said.

Then why do you have locks on your doors? Carlson said.

The Fox host went on to press Ramos over why he locks his doors as night, but Ramos tried to skate around the question. Ramos said that Carlson, through his line of questioning, was implying that all immigrants are criminals, but Carlson clarified that he most definitely was not.

Your attitude [about your house] is the one we should have about our country: if you care something, you want to secure it, Carlson explained. That doesnt mean you prevent anyone from entering, Im sure you have guests in your home, but you decide who they are and you dont want someone coming in your house that you didnt invite.

Why is a country any different than that, Carlson asked.

Ramos disagreed with Carlson and said that America is inviting illegal immigrants to come to the U.S. through the hiring of immigrants in the service and agricultural industries.

Carlson, however, disagreed.

Im just saying as a theoretical matter, and then as a practical one, a country has a right to determine who comes in, Carlson said, explaining that voters should decide and that by electing Trump to be president, the voters chose for a wall to be built.

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Lennox Lake was having the time of his life on Saturday. The six-year-old had tagged along with his mom and dad on a road trip to central California.

Lennox had been such a good boy, his parents decided to treat him to a surprise stop at Disneyland the happiest place on Earth.

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On the way drive back home to San Ysidro, the Lakes treated their good little boy with one final treat - a frosty milkshake from In-N-Out. They were just a block from their home. But they never made it.

Police say the Lakes were hit by an alleged drunk driver a man identified as a Mexican national a man living in our country illegally. Immigration and Customs Enforcement tells Fox 5 in San Diego the suspect had been deported 15 times over the past 15 years.

Constantino Banda-Acosta is accused of slamming his pickup truck into the passengers side of the Lake familys Honda Accord. And then, he fled the scene.

Benjamin and Ingrid Lake suffered minor injuries, but Lennox was gravely injured. He was bleeding from his nostrils and his ears.

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The San Diego Tribune reported that the child was unconscious, not breathing.

Benjamin Lake tells me his son has had two surgeries and doctors are cautiously optimistic the child will fully recover.

Hes a fighter, Ben said. Really my strength comes from Lennox and seeing him fight so hard. I want to do everything possible for him.

Ben and Ingrid have been taking turns sleeping on a couch in the hospital room 24 hours a day.

We dont want to leave his side, Ben told me.

In the meantime, family members have launched a GoFundMe page to help cover medical bills and other expenses.

The San Diego Tribune reports the suspect is being held on $100,000 bail. Banda-Acosta faces a number of charges including felony hit and run, drunken driving and driving without a valid license.

Its hard not to be angry the fact that this is like the 15th time hes had a run-in with the police, Ben told me. Its angering. There is something wrong with the system where this guy can keep coming back.

The Lake family has every right to be angry furious.

Hes hurting people and somehow he keeps coming back it doesnt make any sense, he said.

San Diegos mayor says they are not a sanctuary city but the Lake family feels otherwise.

Its hard not to feel that way after this happened, Ben said. Before all of this I was indifferent, but I definitely dont support sanctuary cities.

I hope you will pray for Lennox and his family and I hope you will support their GoFundMe page. They could use a helping hand.

But I also urge you to call your elected leaders and demand they take immediate action to secure the border and rid our nation of the scourge of illegals.

How many more six-year-old children must be injured by illegal aliens before Washington, D.C. takes action? How many more families must be terrorized by the invaders?

California lawmakers are considering legislation to become a sanctuary state. The legislation would, in effect, provide refuge for illegals like the one who nearly killed Lennox Lake.

Let me be clear: sanctuary cities may provide a safe haven for illegals, but they create a living hell for the rest of us.

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Dad on deported illegal immigrant who injured son: 'He keeps coming back' - Fox News

After years of surging immigration from Central America, law enforcement in Texas Rio Grande Valley are finally seeing some relief, thanks in part to President Trumps strong rhetoric.

Words matter, said Christopher Sabatini, an expert in Latin American affairs at Columbia University in New York City.The rhetoric has mattered. There is a sense of fear that immigrant families, without legal status, without papers are going to be sent back down.

That fear prompted a dramatic change in behavior among illegal immigrants that few predicted. For three years, a flood of unaccompanied children, women and families made the hazardous trek north from Hondurans, El Salvador and Guatemala, through Mexico to the U.S. Border. Now they are not coming.

Were at a trickle, said Chris Cabrera, with the National Border Council. It hasnt stopped but its slowed considerably that were at a point where we have empty cells now.

SESSIONS: BORDER CROSSINGS DOWN 60 PERCENT DUE TO 'TRUMP'S STRONG LEADERSHIP'

That added bed space is allowing Immigration and Customs Enforcement to hold immigrants longer. Previously, Central American immigrants turned themselves in, claimed asylum and were released.

In most cases, the Obama Administration accommodated the claim by placing the applicant on a court docket with a two- to three-year waiting list. In the meantime, most illegal immigrants were free to work while living with relatives. Some set down roots by getting married or having American-born children.

President Trump promised to end that catch and release policy, saying anyone who illegally crosses the border will be detained until they are removed out of our country.

Apparently that message got through thousands of miles away.

Since January, we have seen a significant decrease in traffic to the point were averaging about 150 alien apprehensions a day, down from as many as 1,000 a day, according to Deputy Chief Raul Ortiz of the Rio Grande Border Patrol Sector. A big part of the decrease, I think, has to do with a lot of the discussion about the buildup of infrastructure on the southwest border,more agents along the border and some of the message making its way down to those host countries.

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And with traffic down,more enforcement means higher smuggling costs, detained immigrants tell the Border Patrol.

If you think that you are not going to be able to stay with relatives, you are not going to spend $8 to $9,000 to cross just to get caught and sent back, said Border Patrol agent Marlene Castro while overlooking the once busy Rio Grande.

Border Patrol numbers tell the story. Since the election, apprehensions have fallen every month, from 15,000 families and unaccompanied minors in November to just over 1,000 today.

Cabrera believes media reports surrounding ICE arrests, the proposed wall and the presidents vows to enforce the law scared many illegal immigrants into staying home.

The media has a big say in what happens, he said. They put that out there and people come or dont come, depending on what they say.

The same holds true, he said, of President Obama. Though his administration also vowed to deport most illegal immigrants and even produced an expensive ad campaign in Central America urging residents to stay home, the headlines told a different story of immigrants getting temporary amnesty and freedom from custody for those claiming asylum. By contrast, President Trump hasnt actually done much.

Without any real concrete changes in policies, without any real tightening of the border wall, without any of the $1.5 billion worth of increased funding yet for Homeland Security and the border guard, we are seeing the numbers that it is having an effect on peoples calculation of the risk of crossing the border illegally, said Sabatini.

The administration has elaborate plans to strengthen both the border and the court system to diminish the pull factors in illegal immigration.

So far, the Department of Justice has reassigned 25 judges from the interior to the border to help streamline the process and keep immigrants in custody until their asylum claims are completed.

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Published: Thu, May 11th 2017 @ 10:58 am EDT by Jeremy Beck

Sabrina Tavernise's May8 story in the New York Times lives up to its promise to share the stories of "people whose voices have rarely been heard in the long debate over how to fix the nations immigration system."

J.D. Ma, Stanley Salazar, Biplab Pal, andHongling Zhouare all American citizens. None were born here. At least three of them typically vote for the Democratic candidate. One lived in the country illegally before eventually getting a green card. All of them opposed bills to make their Maryland communities sanctuary cities:

"In passionate testimony before county legislators, and in tense debates with liberal neighbors born in the United States, legal immigrants argued that offering sanctuary to people who came to the country illegally devalued their own past struggles to gain citizenship."

"Surprise," says the headline. "Stunned," were supporters of the sanctuary policies, Tavernise reports:

"Democrats oppose deportation on the grounds that it breaks up families, Mr. Ma said. But so do other aspects of the justice system -- without setting off the same outcry.

'If a single mother commits a crime and has to go to jail,' he said, 'we don't say, 'Oh, we can't do that, because it will break her family.'

This perspective baffled the sanctuary bills supporters."

Why? Immigrants have at least as much at stake in a credible immigration policy as their fellow Americans who were born here. Immigration policy continues to effect immigrants long after they arrive. In fact, immigrants and their children are often the first to feel the effects of the next wave.

Stanley Salazar would like to see more ways for illegal aliens to gain legal status, but he also worries about his daughters. Tavernise reports:

"The public school population has risen sharply, and the county recently raised property taxes by about 9 percent to keep up. The share of students enrolled in classes for English learners rose to14.6percent of the school population this year, up from11.2 percent in 2009, andaccounted for more than half the total increase of studentsin the school system this year

But that burden is borne unequally, he said. The high school Mr. Salazar's daughters would attend, where more than 40 percent of students receive subsidized lunch, is ranked far below one in affluent Bethesda, where fewer than 5 percent qualify."

Record levels of immigration have significantly contributed to the number of low-income students in public schools in communities like Salazar's. Speaking on a Center for Immigration Studies panel about immigration and education, the opinion journalist ReihanSalam says policy makers should ask these questions upfront:

"Are we going to be able to successfully integrate folks? And also, are we going to be able to have create the resources the fiscal resources necessary to devote the resources we need in order to help integrate the existing immigrant and second-generate populations into the country?"

Immigration is a regulated process, the parameters and management of which reflect a nation's priorities and values. But to many people, immigration has become a value in and of itself, like love or justice. TheNew York Timeseditorial board, for instance, frames the immigration debate inbinary terms:welcoming v. unwelcoming, inclusive v. exclusive, pro-immigrant v. anti-immigrant. There is no room for Ma, Salazar, Pal, or Zhou within their paradigm.

Reducing a complex policy debate into a battle of good vs. evil has destructive consequences for our civil discourse. According to the Times' story, some of the immigrants who spoke against sanctuary cities were called "Trump Terrorists."

The four Americans profiled have nuanced and sometimes conflicting views about what immigration policy should look like. Some of them would appear to support at least some of the bi-partisanrecommendations from the Jordan Commission. They may oppose other recommendations. But they all express views that defy over-simplistic labelling. Kudos to Tavernise and the Times for sharing their stories and giving them a voice. JEREMY BECK is the Director of the Media Standards Project for NumbersUSA

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Amy Phillips, Producer, 22News Investigative Team Published: May 12, 2017, 7:10 am Updated: May 12, 2017, 8:43 am

CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) - The debate over immigration and sanctuary cities has continued to heat up across the country in recent months.

The stakes are high for undocumented immigrants, and the cities where they live. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January that threatened to strip federal funding from so-called sanctuary cities. A federal judge recently blocked that order, but Trump has vowed to take the battle all the way to the Supreme Court.

Should an undocumented immigrant be deported based solely on their immigration status? The leaders of sanctuary cities in western Massachusetts say no, but not everyone agrees with them.

The 22News I-Team discovers how the fight over sanctuary cities could impact communities in western Massachusetts. Watch the report on SANCTUARY CITIES, Tuesday, May 16 on 22News at 6pm.

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