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From the very beginning of Donald Trumps historic run for the presidency, he said combating violent crime carried out by illegal immigrants would be one of his top concerns.

His law and order stance and vow to secure the border was one of the reasons the American people elected him with 306 electoral votes. And his words from back in 2015 carry a prophetic poignancy in light of the horrific rape of a 14-year-old Maryland girl in a high school bathroom, allegedly by two much older immigrants. One suspect is here illegally, and the others immigration status is not yet clear.

The U.S. has become a dumping ground for everybody else's problems, then-candidate Trump said nearly two years ago. When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. They're not sending you. They're not sending you. They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with [them]. They're bringing drugs, they're bringing crime, they're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.

It's coming from more than Mexico, he continued. It's coming from all over South and Latin America.

Trump was mocked mercilessly in the alt-left propaganda media and roundly roasted by Hispanic activists following those comments. Here's a small sampling of what his critics said.

When you say that immigrants from Mexico are criminals and rapists, isn't that spreading hate? Univision anchor Jorge Ramos wondered.

Im outraged, said Latin American activist Ana Maria Salazar told CNN. I can't understand how is it possible that a presidential candidate for the United -- who wants to be president of the United States can speak and use hate language.

The natural reaction is to think that he's a clown, let's ignore him, Feliz Sanchez, of the National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts, told MSNBC.

Now that President Trump sits in the White House, violent crimes carried out by illegal immigrants continue to take place, including last weeks brutal rape by suspects aged 17 and 18. Despite their age, the alleged rapists were attending high school as 9th graders.

This terrible crime is just the latest in a long list of Americans who are victims because of illegal immigration.

During the presidential election, the murder of Kate Steinle became national news. She was gunned down in the summer of 2015 in front of her parents in the sanctuary city of San Francisco. The killer was an illegal immigrant who had been deported five times.

These high-profile incidences are just the tip of the iceberg. Last year, Fox News Channels Hannity held a town hall with then-candidate Trump, and we had mothers whose children were killed at the hands of illegal immigrants. It was a sobering moment.

Their heart-breaking stories unfolded, underscoring their personal tragedies as well as twisted local government policies that seem to place people who sneak into the U.S. above innocent Americans.

My son was an integral part of a community, and his life was cut short by a repeat criminal, Laura Wilkerson told us.

As the illegal drove by, he shot into the passenger side, said Sabine Durden, whose son was also killed by illegal immigrants. My son was sitting at a red light, waiting for it to turn green. He was less than a mile from his home.

For years, I have been raising real concerns about illegal immigration. Back in 2014, Texas Gov. Rick Perry and I sat in on a border security briefing. I learned that in the previous seven years in Texas alone, illegal immigrants had been responsible for about 642,000 criminal offenses.

Between 2011 and February 2017, illegal immigrants were responsible for 1,162 homicide charges, 68,151 assault charges and 6,098 sexual assault charges in the Lone Star State.

Of course, Texas is not the only state impacted by criminal illegal immigrants. In 2015, 36.6 percent of all federal sentences were given to illegal immigrants, including convictions for drug trafficking, kidnapping, and murder.

Between 2013 and 2015, despite the dangers listed above, the Obama administration released 86,288 criminal illegal immigrants right back into the general U.S. population. You wont hear about that in the alt-left media. Thankfully, we have a new president, and he has a new attitude.

I met with many American families whose loved ones -- sons and daughters, husbands and wives -- were viciously killed by illegal immigrants, Trump said recently. These American victims and their families were ignored by the media. The media doesn't want to talk about it.

But these Americans were not ignored by me, he continued. There were not ignored by you. You showed that on Nov. 8. There were not ignored by you, and they will never be ignored by any of us.

President Trump is right: We can never forget those whose lives were destroyed by illegal immigrants. And we need to demand a secure border and an end to local policies that allow illegal immigrant criminals to prey on innocent Americans.

Adapted from Sean Hannity's monologue on "Hannity," March 21, 2017

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President Donald Trump holds rally in Louisville, Kentucky on March 20, 2017.

President Donald Trump told supporters in Kentucky to focus on their basketball team and let him take care of the rest, such as securing the borders and kicking out immigrants in the country illegally.

"We will build, that's right, a great, great border wall And we will stop the drugs that are pouring into our country and poisoning our youth and plenty of others. We're going to stop the drugs," Trump said March 20. "A lot of them are coming in from the southern border. Since the day of my election, we've already cut illegal immigration at the southern border by 61 percent, think of that, 61 percent, and we haven't started."

Trump has boasted about a 40 percent decline in illegal immigration in his first month in office. We rated that Mostly True. He is now extending the comparison to November to show even more significant cuts.

Border patrol apprehensions at the U.S.-Mexico border declined 60 percent from November 2016 to February 2017, but immigration experts caution against assuming that declines have been a sole result of Trumps policies.

Border apprehension data

The Department of Homeland Security on March 8 released illegal border crossing data that show that in the month of the presidential election, November 2016, border patrol made 47,210 apprehensions. In February 2017, there were 18,762 apprehensions, a 60 percent decline.

Total southwest border apprehensions declined about 63 percent from November 2016 to February 2017. DHS defined total apprehensions as those made by border patrol between ports of entry and inadmissibility at ports of entry determined by U.S. Customs and Border Protections Office of Field Operations.

We asked U.S. Customs and Border Patrol for apprehension data from Election Day to the day before Trumps Kentucky speech, but the agency said it provides statistics by month, not by specific dates and timeframes.

Its worth noting that this past fall there was an unseasonal increase of unauthorized border crossings, said Christopher Wilson, deputy director of the Mexico Institute at the Wilson Center.

People rushed to the border before Trump took over and implemented new policies, he said.

"After that rush to the border, its natural to expect a decline," Wilson said. "What we cannot still answer is whether this is a temporary or permanent decline."

DHS Secretary John Kelly in a March 8 statement said illegal crossings typically rise between March and May.

While Trumps rhetoric against illegal immigration has played a role in recent apprehension decreases, apprehension levels are typically lower in the winter months and on-the-ground changes in response to policies can take longer, experts have told us.

"It is almost always necessary to look at trends over a longer period, usually at least six months, to get a better sense of changes," said Denise Gilman, a clinical professor and director of the Immigration Clinic at the University of Texas School of Law. "It seems likely that the numbers of border crossers will go back up again before long given that the human rights situation in Central America is still incredibly problematic, and Central American asylum seekers are one of the main sources of migration in recent years."

Other factors worth considering, according to Gilman are that Mexico may have stepped up its enforcement efforts so that migrants dont reach the U.S.-Mexico border, and that smugglers may be waiting to decide on new routes for bringing people across the border

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Trump said, "Since the day of my election, we've already cut illegal immigration at the Southern border by 61 percent."

While U.S. Customs and Border Protection does not provide border apprehension statistics for specific dates, monthly data show a 60 percent decline from the month of the presidential election, November 2016, to February 2017.

Experts said other factors should be considered in the decline and that its too early to tell whether low apprehensions will become the new norm or if they will increase in coming months, as they typically do.

We rate Trumps statement Mostly True.

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Judge Neil Gorsuch repeatedly defended an undocumented immigrant against the massive crush of the administrative state during his confirmation hearing Tuesday, picking a fascinating fight with his potential future colleagues on the Supreme Court.

The case he was referring to a 2016 ruling from the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in which he wrote both the opinion of the court and, strikingly, a separate concurring opinion has become a major flash point in his quest to win a seat on the Supreme Court.

In the case, Judge Gorsuch ruled that he had to follow a 1984 Supreme Court precedent and show deference to the decisions of the agencies that make up the massive federal bureaucracy. But in his concurrence, he also warned that the justices might need to revisit their doctrine and rebel against the bureaucrats.

When, with all respect, a bureaucracy can overrule neutral dispassionate judges on the meaning of a law based on their political whims at the moment, thats a separation of powers issue, I think. And, maybe an equal protection issue, too, the judge said.

The case involved an illegal immigrant, Hugo Gutierrez-Brizuela, who found himself caught in a tangle of federal law. One part of the law said he could apply for special consideration from the Homeland Security secretary, while another part said that because hed been in the U.S. illegally for so long, he had to go home for at least 10 years before gaining legal status here.

Judge Gorsuchs court had ruled that the first law, allowing for special consideration, trumped the other. But the Board of Immigration Appeals, a federal agency, said the 10-year bar was more important. It also said that decision applied retroactively, forcing Mr. Gutierrez to have to start over, and wait 10 years.

The judge said he had no choice. Because of the Supreme Courts precedent in whats known as the Chevron ruling, he had to defer to the immigration board.

But he wrote his concurrence to raise the fact that whats become known as Chevron deference may have run its course.

Theres an elephant in the room with us today, he wrote. Maybe the time has come to face the behemoth.

Judge Gorsuch used the case during his confirmation hearing to argue he would rule for any litigant, no matter who it was.

The judge studiously referred to Mr. Gutierrez as an undocumented immigrant. At one point Tuesday he called the man an alien the official term used in the law then quickly apologized and called him an immigrant instead.

To me that just seems he had the rug pulled out from underneath him. I think a person in this country should be allowed to rely on the law, Judge Gorsuch said.

For Democrats, the judges concurring opinion even though it sided with the illegal immigrant was worrying.

Sen. Al Franken, Minnesota Democrat, said it was an indication Judge Gorsuch was an ideologue.

This is a big deal, Mr. Franken said. I think some of those signals have already been sent.

Conservatives, meanwhile, have cited the judges wariness of Chevron deference as a key indicator that they can rely on him if hes confirmed to the high court. The Trump White House has even described that case a judge ruling against the executive branch as a key reason Judge Gorsuch was picked.

The judge, however, cautioned against reading too much into his warning, saying he was merely raising the matter for the Supreme Court.

My job as a circuit judge is when I see a problem, I tell my bosses about it, he said.

He refused to say what he would do on the high court.

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Tucker Carlson called the recent rape of a 14-year-old Maryland student by two illegal immigrants "the sign of a sick civilization at war with itself," and asked a Baltimore councilman about his vocal opposition to the ICE deportation process.

Councilman Zeke Cohen (D-Dundalk) last week sponsored a resolution demanding federal authorities stop enforcing immigration laws in Baltimore, Carlson said.

Cohen said there is no place in America for the sexual violence seen 40 miles away in Rockville recently, but added that recent ICE arrests in Baltimore trouble him about the treatment of immigrants.

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Carlson said there is no way to know whether an illegal immigrant will be a productive member of the community or commit another crime unless laws are properly enforced.

He criticized Cohen's position on ICE, pointing to a CityPaper article quoting the councilman as likening their arrests to Nazis rounding up Jews in Germany.

Cohen referenced recent news about about immigration authorities detaining a father dropping his child off at a school.

"Baltimore is a welcoming city," Cohen said, calling Carlson's recent broadcasts on illegal immigration a "Willie Horton-style race-baiting dog whistle."

Carlson responded that Cohen himself was guilty of using a "dog whistle" to stir controversy by comparing ICE officers to the Nazis.

He added that Cohen refused to "provide a serious answer" to illegal immigrant crimes like the tragedy in Rockville.

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WASHINGTON The Trump administration is naming some names in its efforts to shame local jails that don't cooperate with immigration authorities. It's putting the spotlight on Travis County, Texas, home of liberal Austin.

The administration released a list of 206 cases of immigrants released from custody before federal agents could intervene. Roughly two-thirds were from Travis County.

The 206 figure is somewhat murky. It doesn't represent all the cases in which immigration authorities sought custody of people facing criminal charges, with major cities like New York and Los Angeles underrepresented on the list. It's also unclear what period it covers. The cases were identified by the administration between Jan. 28 and Feb. 3, but most of the detention requests had been made before then, as far back as early 2014. Also unclear is the status of the immigrants -- whether some are in federal or state custody.

The release of the list by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was prompted by an executive order signed by President Donald Trump in January. That order called on the government to document which local jurisdictions aren't cooperating with federal efforts to find and deport immigrants in the country illegally.

Trump has made immigration a key issue in his administration and has promised to deport "bad dudes" living in the United States illegally. The report highlights a variety of crimes, including the case of a Jamaican national in Philadelphia charged with homicide, along with multiple sex offenses, assaults and driving under the influence cases. The majority of the immigrants whose cases are highlighted are from Mexico or Central America. The Travis County cases also include a mix of convictions and charges ranging from drunken driving to aggravated assault and sexual assault.

Travis County Sheriff Sally Hernandez, a Democrat, was elected last fall after campaigning on refusing to comply with immigration detainers in cases where people were arrested on minor offenses unrelated to their being in the country illegally. Detainers are government requests that an immigrant who could face deportation be turned over to immigration authorities.

Hernandez's office has continued to honor detainers for more serious offenses, including murder. All but 26 of the declined detainers were issued by the Obama administration and before Hernandez took office.

Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott responded to Hernandez's policies by blocking $1.5 million in state grant funding to Travis County.

Jails and police agencies around the U.S. have opted in recent years not to cooperate with immigration authorities, in some cases citing federal court rulings that immigrants cannot be held in those jails strictly because of their immigration status. Other jurisdictions have passed local ordinances barring cooperation.

As a result, the Obama administration dramatically reduced the number of detainers filed annually, a trend Trump's immigration authorities have pledged to reverse.

ICE said that nationwide, from Jan. 28 to Feb. 3, it made 3,083 new requests to jails that immigrants accused of a crime be held long enough for ICE agents to take them into custody. It is unclear how many of those requests were honored.

The number of requests made and declined is likely to increase as the government issues more detainer requests, immigration officials said. The officials briefed reporters on the condition of anonymity despite Trump's complaints that anonymous sources should not be considered reliable.

Acting ICE Director Thomas Homan said that when detainer requests aren't honored and serious offenders are released, "it undermines ICE's ability to protect the public safety and carry out its mission."

Trump has said he plans to crack down on so-called "sanctuary cities" and other jurisdictions that do not cooperate with immigration authorities and has threatened to eliminate access to some federal grants. He also plans to restart the Secure Communities program that used fingerprints collected in local jails and shared with the FBI to identify immigrants who could face deportation. The program was scrapped under the Obama administration amid multiple court challenges and widespread complaints that it resulted in the deportations of people accused of only low-level offenses.

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