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One of President Donald Trumps central (and most controversial) campaign promises was to shut down the flow of immigrants illegally crossing into the United States, especially from Mexico. Newly released figures show Trump appears to be making good on his promise.

An analysis by the Daily Caller News Foundationfound that from February through May in 2016, 188,000 people were caught attempting to illegally enter the United States from Mexico. During the same period in 2017, only 76,000 were captured or deemed inadmissible, a decline of 59 percent.

In May alone, the number caught in 2017 was less than half (19,967) that recorded in 2016 (55,442), a truly remarkable turnaround considering Trumps much-talked-about border wall has still yet to be financed by Congress.

Theyve done more than any administration in the history of the world, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton told the Daily Caller.

So, Im pretty happy that theyve done so much in such a short period of time so it would really be difficult for me to criticize them on that issue because theres no comparison with any other administration as far as how quickly and effectively theyve approached the problem on many different fronts, Paxton also said.

In May, Ronald Vitiello, the chief of the U.S. Border Patrol, told a Senate Judiciary subcommittee the decline is due to Trumps January executive orders mandating a shift in policy and resources on the border.

As a result of the executive orders issued by the president, and the implementing policies issued by the secretary, as well as earlier policy changes and the significant investments we have made in border-enforcement personnel, technology, and infrastructure, we are seeing a historic shift in illegal crossings along the southwest border, Vitiello said, according to the Washington Examiner.

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Travis County Sheriff Sanctuary Sally Hernandez came up with the idea of instructing crime victims who happen to be in the country illegally on how they can apply for a U visa, Fox 7 in Austin reported. Merely filing out the application for the visa, intended to help true crime victims, is enough to at least temporarily block immigration officials from deporting an applicant.

Her work continues to propagate the myth that Texas new sanctuary city law (previously known as Senate Bill 4) is a threat to crime victims.

During the final days of the debate, several Texas law enforcement officials joined together penning an op-ed published in April by the Dallas Morning News. The police chiefs stated:

Officers would start inquiring about the immigration status of every person they come in contact with, or worse, inquire about the immigration status of people based on their appearance. This will lead to distrust of police and less cooperation from members of the community. And it will foster the belief that people cannot seek assistance from police for fear of being subjected to an immigration status investigation.

Distrust and fear of contacting or assisting the police have already become evident among legal immigrants. Legal immigrants are beginning to avoid contact with the police for fear that they themselves or undocumented family members or friends may become subject to immigration enforcement.

Such a divide between the local police and immigrant groups will result in increased crime against immigrants and in the broader community, create a class of silent victims, and eliminate the potential for assistance from immigrants in solving crimes or preventing crime.

Their statement ignores the fact that SB 4 specifically prohibits officers from inquiring about the immigration status of a crime victim or a witness to a crime, unless the information is pertinent to the crime as in the case of human smuggling or sex trafficking crimes.

ARITCLE 6, SECTION 6.01 Article 2.13: (I)n the course of investigating an alleged criminal offense, a peace officer may inquire ast o the nationality or immigration status of a victim of or witness to the offense only if the officer determines that the inquiry is necessary to: (1) Investigate the offense; or (2) provide the victim or witness with information about federal visas designed to protect individuals providing assistance to law enforcement.

In apparently ignoring this section of the new law (effective September 1, 2017), the Travis County Sheriffs Office is preparing to pro-actively distribute flyers. These flyers could be used to teach people how to abuse or take advantage of a program designed to protect true victims of or witnesses to crimes.

I think that just with the political climate in general across the U.S. that we have victims not reporting crime and thats a concern for us. I mean, we care about all of the victims regardless of immigration status. We want to make sure that we have an avenue to ensure them theyre safe to come and speak with us, Captain Craig Smith of the Travis County Sheriffs Office told Fox 7 News.

Sheriff Hernandez is having the pamphlets printed up to begin distribution, Travis County Sheriffs Office Spokesman Kristin Dark told Breitbart Texas in an email response. It is currently being published in English and Spanish, despite the fact that Travis County has immigrant communities speaking many different languages. The report by Fox 7 does not state what funds the sheriff is using to pay for these pamphlets. Dark told Breitbart Texas she would research the source of funding.

The sheriffs office told the local Fox affiliate they currently receive about 10 U visa applications per month. They stated the department attempts to process the visas within 30 days to forward to immigration officials.

The federal government issues approximately 10,000 U visas per year. Victims or witnesses granted approval receive up to four years of protected status. They are required to cooperate with law enforcement regarding prosecuting the crime they witnessed or were a victim of. While the application is pending, the applicant cannot be removed from the U.S., Fox 7 reported.

At least one Democrat Texas sheriff stood up to tell the truth about SB 4. Hidalgo County Sheriff J.E. Eddie Guerra joined with local chiefs of police in the Rio Grande Valley to try and calm the flames of fear being fanned by others across the state. As Texas Governor Greg Abbott has stated [SB 4] is simply a mechanism such that when someone has a criminal record, or who is also wanted by [U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement], they are going to be detained and turned over to ICE, Sheriff Guerra told local reporters. If you have not committed a crime, regardless of your immigration status, and unless you are subject to an ICE detainer, you have absolutely nothing to worry about.

Sheriff Guerra told the McAllen newspaper, The Monitor, To all the people we serve, we want you to know we are here to help you. We want you to continue working with us. Now more than ever we all need to work together we need to encourage you to report crimes, suspicious activity and fugitives, so that we may all enjoy a better quality of life and a safer community.

In contrast to Sheriff Guerras honesty about the new law, Breitbart Texasreportedthat Travis County Sheriff Sanctuary Sally Hernandez teamed up with four other Texas sheriffs to claim that FBI crime statistics have found that labeled sanctuary cities experience lower rates of all crime types, including homicides. Although fact checkers at the left-of-center PolitiFact admitted that the FBI report does not exist, they still dubbed the statements Half-True. In my book, a half true for an open borders study from Politifact means it was definitely bogus, Center for Immigration Studies Director of Policy Studies Jessica Vaughn told Breitbart Texas.It means we would like it to be true, but it wasnt.

Bob Price serves as associate editor and senior political news contributor for Breitbart Texas. He is a founding member of the Breitbart Texas team. Follow him on Twitter@BobPriceBBTXandFacebook.

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NASHVILLE, Tenn.

Immigration agents nab an undocumented felon Thursday in a Davidson County Courtroom.

Immigration and refugee rights advocates say they went about it the wrong way, using a tactic that's spreading fear of the judicial system.

Undocumented immigrants rallied earlier this week to support Metro Council bills that would protect immigrants from what happened to Faustino Hernandez.

"Yesterday's arrest sent a really dangerous message to the immigrant community that courts are places to avoid," said Lisa Sherman-Nikolaus, policy director for Tennessee Immigrant & Refugee Rights Coalition.

When Hernandez showed up in General Sessions Court for driving without a license, Immigration Customs Enforcement Agents arrested him.

"ICE called the court that morning and said they wanted to pick up Mr. Hernandez and that they had a warrant," Sherman-Nikolaus said.

According to the regional ICE Office, Hernandez is a felon with convictions for aggravated burglary, DUI, and other misdemeanor charges . ICE said he's been deported twice before.

The Metro Council is considering a bill that would require immigration agents to get a criminal warrant before asking a jail to hold and inmate on an ICE detainer. Proponents say the bill sends the wrong message that Nashville is sanctuary city for immigrants possibly running afoul of the law.

TIRRC's Policy Director said ICE Warrants are not signed by a judge like judicial warrants and local courts have no obligation to enforce them.

"We want to make sure local agencies are not carrying out the work of the federal government," said Sherman-Nikolaus. "When they cooperate in this way or help ICE carry out deportations, it erodes trust in the immigrant community."

ICE said many of the targets arrested near courthouses are foreign nationals who have prior criminal convictions.

Because courthouse visitors are typically screened for weapons, the safety risk for the arresting officer and the arrestee inside such facilities are substantially diminished.

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WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) Secretary of State Kris Kobach announced his bid for Kansas governor on Thursday.

On Friday, Eyewitness News sat down with the official in Wichita to find out some of his top issues and how he thinks the state could successfully pull itself out a budget crisis.

Kobach had two words for where he believes many problems lie - "illegal aliens".

Kobach said the state has a huge problem with undocumented immigrants and it's affecting the state's deficit.

"So, every year, Kansas government spends $424 million dollars on services and public welfare benefits that are consumed by people who are illegal aliens," said the secretary. "And we had the legislature talking about solving a $300 million dollar deficit in the state budget."

Kobach did not say where that number came from during the interview. Factfinder 12 investigators tracked down a study from 2010 that makes the same claim. The study comes from the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR). Kobach is listed as legal counsel for a branch of FAIR.

FAIR's website describes itself, in part, as a "non-partisan organization of concerned individuals who believe that our immigration laws must be reformed." The Southern Poverty Law Center brands FAIR as an anti-immigrant extremist group with ties to white supremacists.

The study lists 133 sources as evidence dating back more than two decades. Factfinder 12 investigators are still going through those papers to find out how FAIR got those numbers. Eyewitness News has called Kobach's campaign to ask whether this study is the basis for his claim. Kobach's camp had not responded at the time this was written. Eyewitness News also reached out to other candidates in the race for governor, and had not heard back at the time this was written.

Kobach said Kansas is the only state that does nothing to discourage illegal immigration. He also pointed out the in-state tuition benefit for those who are not citizens.

"We wouldn't be in this budget problem that the legislature found themselves in if they had stopped the illegal immigration," he said.

Kobach said under his leadership as governor he would have the Kansas Highway Patrol sign an agreement to cooperate with ICE and "hand over people that they encounter that are illegal immigrants in the country."

He said he would force legislators to deal with illegal immigration and get rid of in-state tuition for illegal immigrants.

"We should not be giving this subsidy at taxpayer expense," said Kobach. "We should not be giving it to people breaking our laws."

As secretary of state, Kobach has cracked down on illegal immigration and made voter registration laws tougher.

Because of this, President Donald Trump offered Kobach a position in the White House and in the department of security, he said. But, the secretary said he could make a bigger difference in Kansas.

"I felt like I could just move the ball further as governor and staying in the state I love then moving to Washington D.C.," he said.

Kobach will face Wink Hartman, Carl Brewer and Josh Svaty in the 2018 governor race.

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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 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 spike 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 spikes last month, rising from a combined 2,117 nabbed by the Border Patrol in April to 3,070 in May.

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