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In the May 3rd issue of The Commercial Appeal, Tonyaa Weathersbee's Who Loses if undocumented workers go? carefully avoids the terms Illegal and immigrant and prefers the euphemism.

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The Commercial Appeal 6:05 a.m. CT May 6, 2017

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In the May 3rd issue of The Commerical Appeal, Tonyaa Weathersbee's Who Loses if undocumented workers go? carefully avoids the terms Illegal and immigrant and prefers the euphemism.

Similarly, we just experienced A Day Without Immigrants.Another euphemism, since all Americans - except for Native Americans are either immigrants or children of immigrants.

ButWeathersbee does bring up an interesting question: What would a day without Undocumented (illegal) workers (immigrants) look like?

To answer that question, you first have to know how many live in the US. No one knows exactly because they are undocumented. However, Pew Research estimates there are roughly 11.1 million illegal immigrants living in the US, or 3.5% of America's population. This 3.5 percent commit 13.6 percent all crimes, 12 percent all murders and 16 percent all drug and human trafficking sentences.

Factor in the costs of services such as healthcare and education. According to The Federation for American Immigration reform, this amounts to $113 billion annually. Yet illegal immigrants only contribute $11.6 billion annually in taxes.

Add to that total something called Remittances money sent by illegal immigrants back to their homeland. Pew Research calculates that amount to be $26.72 billion each year money that simply evaporates yearly from the economy.

All totaled, A Day Without Illegal Immigrants would SAVE the US $351 million. The COST of a Day Without Immigrants would be incalculable. Ernest Seger, Germantown

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posted at 10:01 am on May 6, 2017 by Jazz Shaw

You probably heard about the horrible and politically charged rape case out of Maryland which was reported back in March. Two immigrant students, at least one of whom was in the country illegally (the other claims to be on a special student program, but the details are unclear), were accused of luring a 14 year old girl into a school bathroom, sexually assaulting her, filming it and sending the video around. Many conservative outlets as well as the White House pointed to the case as yet another example of why we need to crack down on illegal immigration. (Which isnt really up for debate in any event we do need to.)

The Maryland case took a shocking turn this week, however, when Maryland authorities announced that most of the charges were being dropped and the story wasnt as it first seemed. (CBS Baltimore)

Montgomery County prosecutors made the bombshell decision to drop rape charges against two teenagers who are undocumented immigrants.

17-year-old Jose Montano and 18-year-old Henry Sanchez Milian came to the United States illegally through Central America just months before police alleged they sexually assaulted a 14-year-old classmate inside Rockville High School in March.

Montgomery County States Attorney John McCarthy says the facts in the case do not support the charges.

We have concluded that the facts in this case do not support the original charges filed in this matter, do to [sic] the lack of corroboration and substantial inconsistencies from the facts that we have obtained from multiple sources since the filing of the original charging document.

How the charges could suddenly be dropped was immediately both shocking and outrageous to me. It just didnt make sense. CNN covered the story further and included some comments from the prosecutor which simply flew in the face of reality. (Emphasis added)

Defense attorneys had said that the sexual encounter between the defendants and the 14-year-old girl was consensual.

There were no scratches, no bruises. There was no hitting, there was no screaming, there was no running immediately to some sort of security officer, Sanchez-Milians attorney Andrew Jezic said at the time.

Sanchez-Milian allegedly received sexually explicit images from the 17-year-old student also charged in the case.

Okay, so several of the key elements of the original allegations have clearly changed. Apparently the 14 year old girl wasnt physically forced into the stall and was, perhaps, actively participating in the sexual encounters. Also, according to this new information, she filmed the abuse herself and sent the video to the two assailants who then passed it around further. But none of this changes one underlying fact which nobody involved in the investigation seems to be mentioning. Its still rape, or at least it most certainly should be.

The age of consent in Maryland is 16 and at least until recently they didnt have any form of Romeo and Juliet law which provides exceptions for children engaged in sexual activity who are close to the same age. Unfortunately it looks like they later included a provision which states that a fourteen year old can give consent if the other person is within four years of her age. In this case the girl is fourteen and the two individuals who assaulted her were 17 and 18. At least one, if not both, are legally adults. This is statutory rape in concept if not by definition in Maryland, even if some states are bending the rules. Weve had an accepted premise in this country for some time now that the sex in a case like this could not have been consensual because a 14 year old child can not legally give meaningful consent.

Clearly something had already gone horribly wrong in that childs home if she found it to be an acceptable idea to engage in sexual activity with an adult male in a bathroom, to say nothing of filming the event and forwarding the file. But that doesnt make it her fault. Thats a shortcoming in the family and the community which does not excuse the behavior of either of the men who did this. But the media is somehow treating this story as a case of Trump being wrong about blaming illegal immigrants. Sending around child pornography (the rapists did forward the video even if they didnt record it themselves) is still a serious charge and its more than sufficient grounds to deport the illegal immigrant in question.

But even if leave aside all of the politics and immigration policy, its time for Maryland and other states to take a fresh look at their statutory rape laws. The exceptions I mentioned above were supposed to be designed so that high school sweethearts who are within a couple years of age and foolishly engage in adult sexual activity wouldnt wind up going to jail. I completely support those types of exceptions and feel that its up to the family to teach children right from wrong in such circumstances. But these two men were not this young girls boyfriends and if existing law allows for something like this to happen and see them walk free, the wheels have come off the legal cart.

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NASHUA State Police said Friday an illegal immigrant claimed to be a resident and tried to obtain a New Hampshire drivers license in Nashua.

Shtain Gbalanga, 21, claimed Barrington as his legal residence when he went to the Division of Motor Vehicles substation in Nashua to get a license Friday.

An investigation by State Police with the assistance of federal officials revealed that Gbalanga was using fraudulent documents, and in fact was a French citizen in this country illegally.

Gbalanga was arrested without incident and brought to the Hillsborough County House of Corrections where he was being held on $5,000 cash bail.

He will be arraigned Monday in the 9th Circuit Court District Division in Nashua on misdemeanor charges of tampering with public records and unsworn falsification.

State Police officials said the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement along with the state Division of Motor Vehicles assisted in this investigation.

Anyone with further information about this matter is urged to contact Trooper First Class Richard H. Dupont Jr. at (603) 223-8969.

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Homeland Security has built up a backlog of more than 1.2 million illegal immigrants who it believes have overstayed visas but managed to arrest only about 3,400 of them, according to the most recent data, which works out to a rate of about 1 in every 350 lawbreakers.

That is far worse than the rate for those who crossed the border illegally, and it means criminals, people engaged in narcoterrorism and other national security risks are left to run free in the U.S., the Homeland Security inspector general said in a report Thursday.

Federal agents have trouble tracking down the criminals because the government still doesnt monitor departures, meaning it cant be certain whether those who came on tourist, business or student visas leave when they are supposed to.

Officers have to check as many as 27 in-house systems, in addition to state databases, to try to guess whether someone has left. Even then, they can make catastrophic mistakes when it wrongly appears that a visitor has left the country.

Such false departure information resulted in [deportation] officers closing visa overstay investigations of dangerous individuals, such as suspected criminals, who were actually still in the United States and could pose a threat to national security, the investigators said in the report. For example, an ERO officer stated that a suspect under investigation was listed as having left the country, but had given his ticket to a family member and was still residing in the United States.

Visa overstays, as they are called, have become an increasing focus of the immigration debate. As the flow of illegal border crossings declines, an increasing percentage of those in the country illegally are travelers who came on business, tourist or student visas but didnt leave when their time was up.

Several of the Sept. 11, 2001, hijackers were overstays.

Homeland Security has struggled to get a handle on the situation, or even to figure out how bad it is.

A report last year looking at just a portion of visas calculated that more than 500,000 visitors overstayed in 2015. The total backlog grew to more than 1.2 million, the inspector general said.

Meanwhile, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers arrested only 3,402 potential overstays in 2015.

In its official response, ICE said it is trying to do a better job of calculating the number of visa overstays.

President Trump has pushed the Homeland Security Department to finish the system that would track departures, and tests are being run at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta.

The department also plans to release its next overstay report soon. That report will cover almost all visa categories, so the government will have a better sense for how bad the problem is.

But Rep. Bob Goodlatte, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, said that until the government tracks all departures, it wont know whats going on.

Visa security is a matter of national security, and it is imperative that we know who is coming to our country and when they leave so that we protect American citizens and our interests, the Virginia Republican said.

Congress demanded a biometric entry-exit system more than 20 years ago, but administrations in both parties have failed to deliver, saying that airports arent configured to check departures and that the land ports of entry are an even bigger logistical hurdle.

Mr. Goodlatte said he expects Mr. Trumps focus on immigration to finally push Homeland Security to finish the job.

Until then, officers will waste time on bogus leads, the inspector generals report said. The data are so unreliable that officers and agents often end up finding an overstay still in the country who the systems said already had left, or spend time trying to track down someone who did leave the country or obtained legal status.

An ICE officer estimated that he spent more than 50 hours on a single suspect, only to find the individual had applied for [an immigration] benefit and should not have been categorized as an overstay, the audit said.

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DHS catches less than 1 percent of illegal immigrant 'overstays': Audit - Washington Times

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His comments came during an event on Central America hosted by the international affairs think tank Atlantic Council on Thursday.

Retired Marine Gen. Kelly noted that illegal immigration along the U.S.-Mexico border has dropped by an estimated 70 percent under President Donald Trumps administration.

He also mentioned that the Trump administration is planning to invest money in the economies of Central American countries to provide potential illegal migrants with a reason to stay home where their family and friends are.

The message [to would be illegal immigrants] is if you get here and if you paid the traffickers you will probably get here, but you will be turned around within our laws relatively quickly and returned, declared Kelly. Its not worth wasting your money.

If that message remains, which it will, and we help the economies, I think its a win-win for both the region as well as for the United States, he added.

Kelly pointed out that, although the majority of illegal migrants come to the U.S. in search of economic opportunities, a substantial portion of young undocumented people is involved in gang-related criminal activities.

The overwhelming number of people that come are good, decent people looking for a better way to make a living, noted the DHS chief.

An awful lot of them, not a majority by no means these are good people as a group but because of a lot of different reasons, the young men are often times in relatively large numbers drawn into crime, he later said. Not all of them but some of them. MS-13 is full of people that have come here from that part [Central America] of the world and are criminals.

An awful lot of the young women get taken into the other kinds of trade sex trade that kind of thing, not all of them, but many of them, he also said.

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions recently vowed to eradicate the savage MS-13 transnational criminal gang.

We are targeting you, said Sessions during a speech in New York.

The MS-13 motto is kill, rape, and control, he added. I have a message to the gangs that are targeting our young people: We are targeting you. We are coming after you.

This year, U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), charged with overseeing American military activity in most of Latin America, warned that jihadist groups are radicalizing and recruiting people in Central American regions awash with street gangs, namely MS-13.

Citing the FBI, SOUTHCOM reported that MS-13 is believed to be operating in 42 U.S. states, with a significant presence in Houston, Long Island, Charlotte, and Washington, DC.

According to a recent poll, nearly 50 percent of those surveyed support designating MS-13 as a terrorist organization.

The government of El Salvador, the gangs stronghold in Central America, has already deemed the group a terrorist organization.

In the United States, MS-13 has been officially listed as a transnational criminal organization, the only street gang to the list.

Retired Gen. Kelly served as SOUTHCOM commander.

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DHS Secretary to Illegal Aliens: 'Not Worth Wasting Your Money' on Traffickers, You Will Be 'Returned' - Breitbart News