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The Senator is working with the Administration on legislation that addresses border security and interior enforcement only, according to a statement from the Cornyns office. That border focus excludes the basics of immigration law, such as rules for the annual number immigrants and guest-workers, for required skill levels, and rules for integrating into Americans civic society.

Cornyns denial was aimed at a CNN report which declared Cornyn is quietly working on an immigration and border security bill, sources say, in what could be the first credible effort to deliver a legislative win on immigration policy under President Donald Trump.

But Trumps Department of Homeland Security is also downplaying Cornyns own claim that he is working with the agency to draft a new border-security policy.

Were working with many members of Congress to fulfill the Presidents direction in his EO [Executive Order] to plan, design and construct a physical wall along the southern border, using appropriate materials and technology to most effectively achieve operational control of the southern border, said a statement from agency spokesman David Lapan, who added:

The EO mentions technology as well as the physical wall and Secretary [John] Kelly has frequently said the plan also must include people the men and women of CBP and Border Patrol who patrol and protect the border, every day. That is DHSs plan.

The agencys emphasis on a wall is very different from Cornyns record of opposing any wall that might reduce the supply of cheap workers and consumers to Texas businesses.

Cornyns staff declined to offer any details about his secret bill.

During his time in the Senate, Cornyn has downplayed support for a wall and has instead emphasized the use of border patrols and surveillance technology, both of which can be quickly removed by a future president.

I think people would say, if you are talking about a physical wall, it would rate very low in importance, he said in a February radio interview.

Cornyn told Texas reportersin February that I dont think were just going to be able to solve border security with a physical barrier because people can come under, around it and through it. He added:

I believe that successful border security is composed of three components. One is infrastructure, which you could call that a physical barrier, wall, or fencing. Secondly, technology, and third, personnel.

Because if you dont have the people there to detain people trying to illegally enter the country when they come over the wall or around the wall or under the wall or through the wall, it doesnt make much sense. So I really believe that successful border security entails a combination of all three, and each of those will vary a little bit depending on where you are along the border.

Cornyn is working on his secret proposal with Texas Rep. Mike McCaul, who chairs the Houses Committee on Homeland Security Committee.

McCauls office did not respond to emails from Breitbart.

However, McCauls prior legislation on border security has also downplayed the wall. In 2013, for example, he tried to jump-start the Gang of Eight amnesty-and-cheap-labor bill with a bill that reduced border security rules and was embraced by Democratic leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi and other progressives.

In November, McCaul was praised by Jeh Johnson, the former for DHS secretary for former President Barack Obama. I dont know anybody who is stronger on border security in Congress that I have dealt with, Johnson said.

Other Senate legislators are drafting new bills that may be combined later this year into another proposed Comprehensive Immigration Reform bill.

That is a risky strategy for the GOP, if only because Democrats lost nine Senate seats the year after they pushed their Gang of Eight bill in 2013.

One possible element of any new comprehensive bill is GOP Sen. Ron Johnsons unpopular proposal to invite additional500,000 guest workers, plus their families, to take jobs from U.S. workers every year. The federal government already allows companies to import almost 1 million temporary contract workers each year, even though four million Americans turn 18 and beginlooking for jobs each year.

Democratic Senator Dick Durbin is also pushing a BRIDGE Act that would provide amnesty to several hundred thousand illegals who were brought to the United States as children by their parents. Once the beneficiaries receive the amnesty and then citizenship, they can also put their illegal-immigrant parentson track to get residency, citizenship, Medicare and Social Security payments.

Under current policies, federal immigration policy adds roughly 1 millionlegal immigrants per year, who help business groups by serving as lower-wage workers, welfare-aidedconsumers, and as downtown renters.

This legal inflow includes some very skilled workers and some people who become very successful entrepreneurs, but it also dumps a lot of unskilled workers into the country just as a new generation of technology is expected to eliminate many types of jobs. It also lowers salaries so it annuallyshifts $500 billion from employees to their employers and toWall Street, and it forces state and local government to provide $60 billionin taxes to businesses via routine aid for immigrants, it drives up housing costs, and it pushes millions of marginal U.S. workers out of the labor force andinto poverty, crime andopioid addiction.

High immigration also reduces employers need to recruit disengaged Americans, to build new facilities in high-unemployment areas, or tobuy productivity-boosting machineryor to demand that local schools rebuild high school vocational training departments for the millions of youth who dont gain much from four-year colleges.

The resulting poverty and civic conflicts increase ballot-box support for Democrats, ensuring that more states especially high-immigration California are dominated by the Democratic Partys big-government policies.

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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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Watch: Tucker Carlson corners Jorge Ramos with facts during tense debate on illegal immigration - TheBlaze.com

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.

Todd Starnes is host of Fox News & Commentary. His latest book is The Deplorables Guide to Making America Great Again. Follow him on Twitter @ToddStarnes and find him on Facebook.

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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.

DHS' KELLY DEFENDS MORE ICE, BORDER HIRES; SAYS ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS MUST BE 'DEALT WITH'

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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Immigrants oppose illegal immigration; native-born Americans shocked - NumbersUSA (blog)