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Austin, TX, 30 mins ago In April, border agents in Texas patrol sectors encountered more than 100,000 illegal immigrants in a single month for the first time this year.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) published its monthly operational update this week, providing enforcement statistics for the last full month the Title 42 public health order was in effect. The order expired Thursday, May 11.

The agency said there were 106,332 arrests between ports of entry in the Big Bend, Del Rio, El Paso, Laredo, and Rio Grande sectors. The agency reported 88,304 arrests in March in Texas sectors.

The Office of Field Operations reported 14,672 encounters at the Laredo ports of entry and 3,309 at the El Paso ports in April.

Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has touted the Biden administrations enforcement of Title 8, the regular immigration laws that have not been in use due to the pandemic-era Title 42 policy allowing the government to rapidly expel foreign nationals with no legal basis to be in the country.

Now, illegal immigrants could face a five-year ban on reentry and criminal prosecution. Mayorkas has also indicated that those who try to seek asylum outside the legal pathways will face a presumption of ineligibility for further asylum claims that will make it more difficult to establish a legal basis for them to be in the country.

The spike in illegal immigration included an average of more than 10,000 encounters daily in the days leading up to the expiration of Title 42. Encounters then dropped to a daily average of 4,400 in the days that followed.

In a news release, CBP Acting Commissioner Troy Miller commented on the agencys transition back to Title 8 policies.

As part of our planning for the end of the Title 42 public health order, we have surged resources, technology, and personnel to safely and orderly manage challenges along the southern border while at the same time, maintaining a persistent focus on our other missions to ensure national and economic security, Miller said.

The CBP workforce including the U.S. Border Patrol and the Office of Field Operations have the experience and professionalism to continue to adapt to changing dynamics. Along with the support of personnel from across DHS and across the federal government, we will continue to meet the moment.

Including encounters at field offices and ports of entry, there were 211,401 encounters in April, an increase of 10 percent from 191,956 in March, per CBP.

CBP added that 28,738 foreign nationals from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela were released into the interior in April based on the parole policy created in October and expanded in January. President Biden and Mayorkas contend these lawful pathways to entry help keep illegal immigration at bay.

Last month, 39 percent of the unique encounters along the southwestern U.S. border were with Mexican nationals and those from Central American countries. In addition, 18 percent of the unique encounters were with Venezuelan nationals. Unique encounters include those who have not already been encountered in the preceding 12 months.

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Last legislative session, lawmakers got hung up over a toothless proposal on illegal immigration. The measure, Senate Joint Memorial 101, passed the Senate 25-10 but drew strong objections from conservatives who decried it for promoting amnesty for illegal aliens. The issue did not get a hearing in the House.

The troublesome section of the memorial asks Congress to pass immigration reforms that include An effective process by which persons currently present in the United States without lawful status and who are gainfully employed and their immediate family can obtain work authorization or residency status, without a pathway to United States citizenship, provided said persons have no criminal history beyond their immigration-related violations, and provided further that an appropriate fine is assessed and paid in satisfaction of their immigration-related violations.

The proposal got support from southern Idaho Republicans and the leftist-Idaho Association of Commerce and Industry. They argued about the availability of workers and tended to view with skepticism the idea that the U.S. will, or should, deport the 20 million illegals living here.

But the crux of the illegal immigration controversy is that Americans dont want to do the work that farmworkers do. Ive heard this same complaint over and over for years. Americans just wont tend crops, prune trees, set siphon tubes, and so on.

The question that needs to be asked and rarely is is why? Why dont Americans want to do hard work? Why wont they work in agriculture, where the domestication of livestock and cultivation of plants has been the basis of thriving societies and cultures for thousands of years? And what can be done about it?

Most Americans of a certain age started working young. When I was 10, I climbed ladders to rooftops, crawled under houses, and into attics to fix air conditioners and commercial refrigeration equipment. When my dad was 10, he worked at a car repair shop. Most successful people I know talk glowingly about their experiences as youngsters learning a trade or skill and earning money. Todays youth are hard-pressed to recount similar experiences.

Today, youth employment in America is frowned upon and, in large part, illegal. For every farmer wondering where theyll get the next generation of workers, theres a youngster sitting on a couch playing video games and streaming TV shows.

Youth employment is governed by a complex intermingling of state and federal laws. Idaho law basically prohibits youngsters under 14 from working. The Fair Labor Standards Act, which was initially designed to cover interstate employment matters, is now used to block youth employment in places where the government considers equipment dangerous a term so broad as to disincentivize restaurants from hiring kids to bus tables out of fear a regulator will fine the owner for also having a meat cutter in the kitchen.

Federal law has also been misinterpreted as applying to any business where money is being transacted across state lines, and that can be as trivial as a credit card reader sending and receiving transaction data. Idaho also requires employers of minors to keep a separate record of every young person in their employ. Both laws tie working hours to public school hours, even if a youngster is homeschooled or attends private school.

Young people who don't want to work grow into adults who also dont want to work. And that has exacerbated Americas employment troubles of late. Moreover, the heavy emphasis from public schools on kids going to college is incongruent with a policy that forbids work; it virtually guarantees that young people will emerge from their post-secondary schooling with college debt.

Eliminating restrictions on youth employment by the state would put Idaho at odds with federal law, yet the list of benefits for youngsters is extensive. It could help kids:

Idaho should end restrictions on youth employment. It is a solution that could very well be considered part of the larger question of how to deal with the lack of agricultural workers while also further making Idaho the place young people want to stay and raise their children who would benefit from the opportunities Idaho has to offer.

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Since the expansion of a federal immigration parole program, illegal immigration from the four countries covered by the program has decreased by more than 90%.

The program, which formerly applied only to Venezuela, was extended to Cuba, Haiti and Nicaragua in early January. It allows up to 30,000 migrants per month who secure a financial sponsor to stay in the U.S. on a temporary period of parole of up to two years. The program remains in effect pending a ruling on a Republican-led court challenge.

In December 2022, Southwest border encounters with migrants from the four countries totalled 87,531. In March 2023, these encounters fell to 3,827 a 95.6% drop. Overall encounters declined too, from 252,012 in December 2022 to 191,899 in March 2023 fewer than the 222,574 encounters recorded in March 2022.

U.S. officials expect encounters to rise following the May 11 ending of Title 42, which allowed immigration authorities to expel migrants without an asylum hearing.

This Fact Brief is responsive to conversations such asthis one.

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White HouseFACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Announces New Border Enforcement Actions

US Citizenship and Immigration ServicesProcesses for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans

ReutersBiden policy allowing migrants to enter US challenged by states

Google DocsSouthwest border encounters (Cuba, Nicaragua, Haiti, Venezuela) December 2022 to March 2023

US Customs and Border ProtectionSouthwest Land Border Encounters

Department of Homeland SecurityCircumvention of Lawful Pathways

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Texas Governor Greg Abbott is praising the efforts of the men and women who are guarding the border with Mexico.Guardsmen from Florida and Idaho will be arriving on the Texas border in the next few days, and the governor says they'll be staying a few weeks to help in the effort to turn back illegal border crossers.The numbers have gone from 27-hundred daily encounters down to about 20 a day in Texas.On top of the razor wire being strung, Governor Abbott vowed to continue building a border wall.

Im here in Brownsville today to thank the hardworking men women who are defending our border for their bravery and courage, said Governor Abbott. "These men and women in uniform here today, they're considered to be heroes by their fellow Americans. They should be proud of what they've done. I'm proud of what they've done."

Since the launch of Operation Lone Star, the multi-agency effort has led to over 376,000 illegal immigrant apprehensions and more than 28,000 criminal arrests, with more than 25,000 felony charges reported. In the fight against fentanyl, Texas law enforcement has seized over 416 million lethal doses of fentanyl during this border mission.

Texas has also bused more than 9,400 migrants to our nation's capital since April 2022, over 6,700 migrants to New York City since August 5, more than 1,900 migrants to Chicago since August 31, more than 1,000 migrants to Philadelphia since November 15, and 40 migrants to Denver on the first bus that departed this week.

Abbott said, "Operation Lone Star continues to fill the dangerous gaps left by the Biden Administration's refusal to secure the border."

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Freshly inaugurated Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson says Chicago is a welcoming place for illegal immigrants, but he also says that helping illegal immigrants reach his sanctuary city is cruel and evil.

Chicago is a sanctuary city, which is why Texas has been busing illegal immigrants to it while trying to relieve the strain on smaller border towns. But Johnson finds this despicable, claiming, Its wicked. Its unconscionable. But as you all know, the city of Chicago is coming together to make sure that people who wish to find real comfort here in the city of Chicago, that we provide that.

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Here is what Johnsons campaign website said about immigration and Chicagos sanctuary city status: Chicago must lead with and live by the promise to be a sanctuary city and welcome immigrants and refugees, and treat them with dignity and respect. This sanctuary promise must extend to everyone who needs it in our city, and residents both old and new.

How are these two quotes not contradictory? Why would it be wicked to help illegal immigrants travel to a city that promises to treat them with dignity and respect? Why would it be unconscionable to help illegal immigrants reach a city that extends its sanctuary promise to everyone who needs it, including residents both old and new? In this case, is Texas not doing those illegal immigrants a favor by sending them to such an accepting sanctuary city, free of charge?

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In reality, this is Johnson trying to do the same dance that New York City and Washington, D.C., have been doing. He has to continue to posture that this is no big deal, even though outgoing mayor Lori Lightfoot already declared that Chicago reached a breaking point with illegal immigrant arrivals. He wants to try and shame Texas into stopping the practice because he cant admit that his sanctuary promise must extend to everyone who needs it was a performative sham.

Johnson already telegraphed that he would be completely out of his depth when he said that violent rioters assaulting people in the streets were just being silly like middle school children. He is nothing more than the personification of shallow progressive talking points, and he already cant get those points in concert with illegal immigration and his sanctuary promise.

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