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The administrations fiscal year 2018 budget just delivered to Congress contains a broad number of reforms designed to deter illegal immigration, locate and deport illegal aliens involved in criminal activities, and stem the fiscal drain caused by illegal aliens residing in the United States.

Unless you believe illegal aliens should be accommodated and given legal residence, you will be pleased that the Trump budget demonstrates a commitment to accomplish several of the presidents campaign promise to crackdown on illegal immigration. Although, still, the commitments to construction of the border fence and increasing the capacity of immigration courts, are severely short-changed in the proposed budget.

One of the clearest expressions that the true immigration reforms in the budget request will be opposed by the entrenched open borders network appeared in the May 20 New York Times from an avowed opponent of the reforms. Angela Kelley, who championed amnesty for illegal aliens as an advisor to Obamas White House staff, and now advises George Soross Open Society Foundation, commented on the budget proposals, If your single goal is to make life as miserable as possible for those who are here without status, then its about as effective as you can get. Her comment is, of course, biased. The goal of the reforms is not to make life miserable for illegal aliens, but to send a clear message that we will not tolerate unchecked illegal immigration making life miserable for American workers and taxpayers.

The budget measures include funding for more detention space, more enforcement personnel, expansion of the E-Verify system to deter employers from hiring them, eliminating the ability of illegal aliens to access social safety net benefits if they have U.S.-born children, and clarifying the requirement that state and local jails and prisons cooperate with the federal government in turning over detained illegal aliens for deportation.

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Trump Budget: A Broad Crackdown on Illegal Immigration - ImmigrationReform.com (blog)

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By Will Racke

The Department of Homeland Security under former President Barack Obama knowingly admitted teenage members of a vicious transnational gang into the U.S. during a flood of illegal immigration, a leading Republican senator said Wednesday.

Sen. Ron Johnson, citing internal agency documents from a whistleblower, told the Senate Homeland Security Committee that DHS allowed at least 16 MS-13 members to stay in the U.S. after border agents detained them in 2014. The gang members arrived in the U.S. as a part of a wave of unaccompanied minors from Central American countries, where MS-13 is a dominant criminal organization.

CBP apprehended them, knew they were MS-13 gang members, and they processed and disbursed them into our communities, Johnson, a Wisconsin Republican, said.

Johnson revealed the whistleblower documents during a hearing of the Senate Homeland Security Committee to discuss the threat of MS-13, which has been responsible for a recent spate of grisly murders in several cities across the country. The police commissioner in Suffolk County, N.Y., the site of at least 17 MS-13-related murders since 2016, told the committee that gang members are often drawn from populations of Central American teens who came to the U.S. in the unaccompanied minor surge. (RELATED:Top Cops Sound Alarm On Gruesome MS-13 Violence)

Most MS-13 gang members have connections to El Salvador, Guatemala or Honduras, Commissioner Timothy Sini said. Of a sampling of 143 active gang members plus 11 MS-13 victims, 89 entered the United States illegally and currently do not have legal status.

Suffolk County has been a common landing spot for unaccompanied minors since the height of the surge.From the beginning of 2014 through March 2017, more than 4,500 were placed in the county alone.

The Obama administration said children should be treated as refugees fleeing rampant crime and poverty in their home countries, though security analysts warned that hardened gang members were likely mixed in with the flood of migrants.

Johnson said the portrayal of unaccompanied minors as desperate children didnt paint the full picture of the situation.

Out of nearly 200,000 UAC apprehended between from 2012 to 2016, about 68 percent were between the ages of 15 and 17, reports the Washington Times. Most of the teenagers were male, meaning they were ideal recruits for MS-13.

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Whistleblower: Obama Administration Let In Known MS-13 Members During Illegal Immigration Surge - The Libertarian Republic

President Donald Trump is proposing to trim the Justice Departments overall budget in the coming year, but he wants to boost funding for a crackdown on illegal immigration.

The Trump administration is proposing a $27.7 billion for the Justice Department in fiscal 2018, down $1.1 billion, or about 4 percent, from the continuing resolution the previous year.

But the administration proposed nearly $145 million in additional funding for immigration enforcement, adding 75 immigration judges along with about 375 support personnel, 70 new assistant U.S. attorneys focused on immigration and border crime, 40 deputy marshals, and new funds for prison space to detain more illegal immigrants.

With this budget we are also implementing the presidents promise to secure our borders and restore a lawful immigration system, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein told reporters at a Justice Department briefing Tuesday. While dramatic progress has been made at the border in recent months, much remains to be done, and its critical that we focus on increased enforcement of our criminal immigration laws and that we enforce all immigration laws efficiently.

Weve asked all federal prosecutors to increase their focus on this area by making several immigration offenses a higher priority, Rosenstein said.

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Congress does not have to follow the presidents budget suggestions, but the document is considered a statement of the administrations priorities. Trump is also proposing nearly $4 million in additional funding for 40 new civil litigation positions that would address immigration-related matters, such as lawsuits challenging Trump policies or involving land seizures required to build the wall Trump has promised to erect on the Mexican border.

The budget proposal sent to Congress also contains language targeting so-called sanctuary cities by requiring that localities comply with federal immigration detainer requests in order to receive Justice or Homeland Security Department funding.

However, the Justice Departments top budget official said there is no funding for a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border.

We do not have border wall money in the Department of Justice budget, said Assistant Attorney General for Administration Lee Lofthus.

Most of the cuts in the Justice Department budget involve grant programs or one-time funding, like money related to the presidential campaign or building projects.

One of the grant programs targeted for elimination compensates state and local governments for the cost of housing foreign nationals who wind up in prison.

For years, the Justice Department has recommended the end of the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program, but Congress regularly adds the funds back. The budget that passed earlier this month put $210 million into that reimbursement program.

Asked why the Justice Department would propose cutting that account when Attorney General Jeff Sessions has repeatedly complained about the burdens of illegal immigration, a Justice official said the Trump team wants to end the program for the same reason the Obama administration did.

The SCAAP program is an after-the-fact reimbursement program. It reimburses state and locals for what happens when we dont strictly enforce the law, when we dont have proactive enforcement programs, said DOJ controller Jolene Lauria. We only have a limited amount of resources. We want to enhance those that proactively prevent and prosecute those illegal aliens that cross the border. So for us, its not in contravention because we want to do it on the proactive side.

New legislative language in the budget proposal targets sanctuary cities, amending an existing statute to force state and local jurisdictions to comply with "detainer" requests, which ask localities to hold suspected undocumented immigrants up to 48 hours beyond their release time.

The provision could encounter resistance from law enforcement and elected officials, some of whom have questioned the constitutionality of the requests.

The revised statute would also require local jails to share more information about people in custody, including whether the individual is removable from the U.S. and the person's home address.

Under the reworked measure, the Homeland Security and Justice departments would be able to condition federal grants on compliance.

In January, Trump issued an executive order that included language billed as a crackdown on so-called sanctuary cities, threatening their federal funding.

Last month, a judge issued an injunction against part of that order, directing that it not be applied beyond the funding restrictions contained in a specific section of federal law focused on policies that interfere with local officials communications with the feds.

On Monday, the Justice Department asked the judge to dissolve that injunction, saying that it was unnecessary. But the budget proposal released Tuesday makes clear that the administration wants Congress to strengthen the requirements facing cities.

Ted Hesson contributed to this report.

Josh Gerstein is a senior reporter for POLITICO.

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BY: Adam Kredo May 23, 2017 3:35 pm

The Trump administration is seeking to pump $44.1 billion into the Department of Homeland Security in a bid to increase the number of federal agents patrolling America's porous Southern border, according to a preview of the agency's 2018 budget request, which focuses on investments in advanced technology and human personnel.

President Donald Trump's budget request for DHS "makes significant, critical investments in people, technology, and infrastructure for border security and enforcement of immigration laws," according to an overview of the security department's fiscal year 2018 budget request.

The investment represents a multi-billion dollar increase above the Obama administration's final budget and puts a focus on securing America's southern border, which experienced some of the highest levels of illegal immigration in history under Obama.

Trump administration officials have said that the president's first budget reflects his commitment to border security and reversing Obama-era policies that loosened restrictions on immigration and contributed to an influx of illegal aliens at the U.S. southern border.

Senior DHS officials described the budget request as an "important downpayment on the administration's policies," particularly those aimed at sealing gaps across the souther border, where illegal immigration continues to take place largely unchecked.

DHS is seeking money for "major vessel and aircraft recapitalization for the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) to address ongoing maritime threats, including illegal alien and drug trafficking, before reaching our Nation's shores," according to the proposal.

Trump is also seeking $1.6 billion to construct 32 miles of new border wall, as well as "miles of levee wall along the Rio Grande Valley, and 14 miles of new border wall system that will replace existing secondary fence in the San Diego sector, where apprehensions are the highest along the Southwest Border, and where a border wall system will deny access to drug and alien smuggling organizations," according to the proposal.

A major focus is being placed on training and hiring more federal authorities to patrol the southern border.

The administration is seeking to hire an additional 1,000 immigration enforcement officers and 500 Customs and Border Patrol agents (CBP), as is required under Trump's executive orders on immigration enforcement. The monetary request is about $30 million more than was allocated in 2017 by the Obama administration.

Another $100 million will be used to boost some 20,258 border patrol employees, including the 500 new CBP agents, according to the proposal.

"These new personnel will improve the integrity of the immigration system by adding capacity to interdict those aliens attempting to cross the border illegally," DHS said in its budget request.

An additional $185.9 will be spent to expand U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement activities, per requirements in the president's executive orders on immigration.

This will include the hiring of 850 new immigration officers, 150 criminal investigators, and 805 law enforcement staff, according to the proposal. The administration also is seeking to hire 125 new legal advisers to help the federal government prosecute and deport illegal immigrants.

To bolster the range of new hires, the administration is requesting nearly $976 million for "high-priority tactical infrastructure and border security technology improvements to provide a layered defense at the border," according to the proposal, which outlines new investments in surveillance technology and other equipment to help border agents detect and interdict illegals.

DHS is seeking $971 million to boost its cyber security efforts, which help guard critical U.S. infrastructure. A portion of these funds, around $279 million, would be used to invest in computer hardware and software to secure federal networks.

At the nation's airports, the Trump administration is seeking $3.1 million to support more than 43,000 Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers.

"Increased passenger volume and evolving threats to aviation security require an increase to TSA's frontline workforce at security checkpoints nationwide," DHS maintains in its budget request.

The administration also is seeking to boost the Secret Service's force size, requesting $1.3 billion to hire 436 new employees, bringing the total force size to 7,150.

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Trump Admin Seeks Huge Investment to Choke Off Illegal Immigration - Washington Free Beacon

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers arrested over 41,000 illegal immigrants between January 22 and April 29, the 100 days following President Donald Trumps executive order on stricter illegal-immigration enforcement. In comparison to the same period in 2016 under the Obama administration, there was a 37.6 percent increase in arrests.

According to the ICE report released last week, nearly 75 percent of those arrested under the Trump administration were convicted criminals; more than 2,700 of them were convicted of violent crimes such as rape, homicide, kidnapping, and assault.

ICE agents and officers have been given clear direction to focus on threats to public safety and national security, said ICE acting director Thomas Homan, which has resulted in a substantial increase in the arrest of convicted criminal aliens.

However, Homan added, when we encounter others who are in the country unlawfully, we will execute our sworn duty and enforce the law.

Indeed, ICE officers did not shy away from increasing the number of arrests involving illegal immigrants without criminal records. There were 10,845 illegal immigrants without criminal records arrested between January 22 and April 29 under the Trump administration, a stark contrast to the 4,242 arrested under the Obama administration. Which is to say that the number of illegal immigrants arrested who had no criminal record soared 156 percent in just one year.

The ICE report comes one week after the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency announced that the number of illegal immigrants apprehended at the southwest boarder had decreased significantly under the Trump administration. People in Central America are waiting and watching what happens rather than taking the long journey, Department of Homeland Security spokesman David Lapan explained, adding, When you get here, its likely you will be caught and returned to your country.

The Trump administration seems to be fulling its promise: to address the issue of illegal immigration, both at the border and within our cities.

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In 100 Days, ICE Officers Arrest over 41000 Illegal Immigrants - National Review