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Abel Michua-Tototzin, 37, was found guilty on August 17, 2022.

A Mexican man was found guilty of multiple federal felonies related to smuggling illegal aliens.

Abel Michua-Tototzin, 37, was found guilty on August 17, 2022, following a three-day trial before U.S. District Judge Taylor McNeel in Gulfport. Michua-Tototzin was found guilty of conspiracy to bring one or more aliens into the United States at a place other than a designated port of entry; conspiracy to unlawfully transport aliens within the United States; unlawful transportation of one or more aliens within the United States; and unlawful return of an alien to the United States after deportation or removal.

Michua-Tototzin faces maximum penalties of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine for his conspiracy convictions; 5 years in prison, a $250,000 fine, and $5,100 in special assessments for his conviction of unlawful transportation; and 2 years in prison and a $250,000 fine for unlawful return after deportation or removal. After completing any sentence of incarceration, he is subject to Homeland Security proceedings to remove him again from the U.S. Judge McNeel will determine his sentence after considering the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors. Sentencing is scheduled for November 21, 2022, at 1:30 p.m. in Gulfport.

On April 27, 2022, a Hancock County Sheriffs Deputy conducted a traffic stop on a 2007 Chevrolet Tahoe bearing a North Carolina license plate on I-10 eastbound. The driver, Michua-Totozin, and his four passengers only had identification from Mexico; but, because the U.S. Border Patrol could not respond, Michua-Tototzin was released. After their release, the Border Patrol determined that Michua-Tototzin and his passengers all had been illegally present in the U.S.

On May 17, 2022, the Border Patrol stopped the same vehicle traveling eastbound on I-10 again and being driven by Michua-Tototzin. He did not have a drivers license and was found, along with his six passengers, to be illegally present in the U.S. The vehicle was overloaded by two persons, with seat belts for only five people.

U.S. Attorney Darren J. LaMarca, of the Southern District of Mississippi, Jason E. Schneider, Chief Patrol Agent of the U.S. Border Patrols New Orleans Sector, and David Denton, Special Agent-in-Charge of U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement, Homeland Security Investigations, in New Orleans, made the announcement.

U.S. Attorney LaMarca praised the investigative efforts and coordination of the Border Patrol, Homeland Security Investigations and the Hancock County Sheriffs Department.

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Mexican Man Convicted for Conspiracy & Transporting Illegal Aliens within the U.S. - YallPolitics

Who are the Dreamers in America? In recent years the term has been used to describe young people who have been brought to America illegally. But taking a leaf from the Democratic playbook I would like to suggest a change of use. From now on can we use the term Dreamers to describe anyone who believes that this countrys border system can go on as it is?

The sort of people who think that it is sustainable to have millions of illegal immigrants flood into the United States every year. The people who think that having any border at all is basically bigoted.

Such views used to be held only by a progressive fringe. But today they are mainstream on the Democratic side. That is how far the Democratic Party has moved.

It isnt so long ago that they thought differently. In 1996 the partys platform said, Todays Democratic Party also believes we must remain a nation of laws. We cannot tolerate illegal immigration and we must stop it. Just consider the difference between that platform of only a quarter of a century ago and the same party today. Today that statement would be said to be restrictionist, bigoted and probably racist.

In only a few decades illegal migrants have become undocumented migrants, Dreamers and much more. The Democratic Party has moved from worrying about illegal immigration toward encouraging it. As they did when they stopped construction of the border wall. Like their left-wing counterparts in Europe, they seem to believe that anyone trying to break into the country is an asylum seeker and that countries like the US have a duty to take in anyone in the world who wants to move here.

Just one of the problems of this is that it is unsustainable. A fact that is finally hitting Dem politicians where it hurts. On their own doorstep.

It used to be so easy for leftists in Washington and New York to talk the mantras of the day. No human is illegal became one of the fatuous slogans of our day. Say that you wanted a wall on the southern border and you were a nativist. Say that you were opposed to it and you got virtue points.

All this did was to encourage the flow of illegal migrants across the southern border. In a poll last year, members of the progressive left said by a whopping 86% that they agreed with the phrase People who have immigrated into the US illegally generally make the communities they live in better. They said that because for them it was all just theory. Only people in places like Texas had to experience it in reality.

Well now we are all getting that opportunity. And the lefts ideas about open borders are suddenly being tested across the nation.

Governor Greg Abbott of Texas is completely within his rights to try to distribute migrants around the country. If politicians in Washington are going to grandstand about migration then why should it only be Texans who suffer the consequences?

So the buses have started to arrive. In DC and New York. And even though this is just a taste of what could come, already left-wing officials in both cities are grandstanding and whining. Radical leftists like New York City Council member Shahana Hanif are actually encouraging the move. This week she boasted about standing at the Port Authority Bus Terminal to welcome asylum seekers. Note the change of language there. On their bus journey to New York these people turn from illegal immigrants to asylum seekers.

Other New York officials are complaining that the whole thing is unfair on them. Since May, New York has received over 4,000 illegal immigrants from Texas. You can see the results at the DHS shelters in the city, where Central and South American families with large numbers of children hopelessly wander in and out. You can see it at the citys homeless shelters, which are now feeling the strain from all these people from outside the state. And it isnt as though everything was easy in New York before this.

But what did the left-wing open-borders people think would happen? New York is straining under a few thousand illegal migrants being added to the city. But that is just a few hours of the illegal immigrants coming across the southern border. Where were they meant to go?

For me this brings on some terrible dj vu. Because I saw this happen once before, in Europe during the 2015 migration crisis.

Then, as now, the continents southern border was open. Then, as now, people who just wanted a better life started to flood in. And because the lefts narrative held, for a time, the borders opened up. Suddenly every economic migrant from Africa and the Middle East was called an asylum seeker. Soon the thousands of migrants turned into hundreds of thousands and then millions. Yet that transformative year in Europe is now an average year in numbers of people illegally entering the US.

Then, as now, people in the places where the migrants arrived bore the brunt of the lefts policies. But soon the migrants had to be dispersed elsewhere. They were sent north to Germany, Scandinavia and the other countries that had boasted about their open-border ideals.

It didnt take much of this first-hand experience of illegal migration to change minds. Soon enough all the economic and social problems of unlimited illegal immigration hit home and the borders closed back up.

In America, by contrast, cities like this one have not really had to experience the consequences of the policies that New York council members, among others, encourage. Such people presume that this country can easily absorb millions of illegal migrants every year. Millions of people who have broken the law to get here. Making fools of the people who followed the rules. Well see how well this goes. But if the left seriously thinks it can go on then, sorry, but theyre the dreamers.

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ROME, Aug 12 (Reuters) - Italy's conservative bloc will cut taxes, crack down on immigration and scrap the current system of welfare benefits if it wins next month's election as expected, the group said in a joint manifesto.

The conservative alliance is dominated by two rightist parties, Giorgia Meloni's Brothers of Italy and Matteo Salvini's League, flanked by the more moderate Forza Italia led by 85-year-old former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.

A 15-point joint programme released by the parties on Thursday evening contains little detail and mainly reiterates pledges already made by the parties individually during the campaign for the Sept. 25 election.

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It promises "lower taxes for families, firms and the self-employed", with a so-called "flat tax" or single tax rate, on annual income of up to 100,000 euros for the self-employed and on any increase in income from one year to the next.

Tax cuts are a traditional rallying cry for the Italian right, which argues that the boost to economic growth will offset any reduction in revenues.

The bloc also promises to increase minimum pensions and increase scope for early retirement.

Italy's Recovery Plan of reforms presented to the European Union last year in return for some 200 billion euros ($205.80 billion)of pandemic relief funds will be amended "due to the changed conditions, needs and priorities," the programme says.

It did not specify what it wanted to change.

The manifesto promises to curb illegal immigration, another strong conservative theme, by blocking migrant boats with the help of local African authorities and through the creation of "hot spots" run by the European Union to assess asylum requests before migrants reach the EU.

The conservative alliance is on track to win a comfortable parliamentary majority at the election, a study showed on Tuesday, helped by the divisions among its opponents. read more

Meloni, whose party leads most opinion polls, looks set to become Italy's first woman prime minister.

The programme promises an overhaul of the welfare system, increasing free nursery schools and child benefits but scrapping the "citizens income" poverty relief scheme introduced in 2019.

This will be replaced by "more effective measures of social inclusion and job creation", the programme says, without elaborating.

It envisages a reform of Italy's constitution to introduce the direct election of the president, replacing the current system in which the head of state is elected by parliament.

This is a long-standing centre-right proposal and will require a referendum unless the bloc wins a two-thirds majority in parliament.

On foreign policy, the conservative bloc pledges its "full adherence to the process of European integration," and to "respect the commitments made to NATO," including increased defence spending.

The parties say they will back Ukraine in its resistance against Russia's invasion while "supporting all diplomatic initiatives aimed at resolving the conflict."

In past years the League and Brothers of Italy have both said Italy should quit the euro currency, while Salvini and Berlusconi have often expressed their admiration for Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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Democrats in Congress racked up a handful of legislative wins before departing Washington for the August recess, but Republicans say lawmakers skipped town without attempting to resolve, or acknowledge, the border crisis.

Senators left Capitol Hill in early August while the House is preparing for a final vote on an anti-inflation bill that may give them a leg up ahead of the midterm elections in November. Other legislative wins in recent weeks include the CHIPS Act to boost competition with Chinese chipmakers; the PACT Act, which expands healthcare and benefits to veterans who were exposed to burn pits; and reforms to gun laws.

Republicans accused Democrats of ignoring the national security and humanitarian situation at the U.S.-Mexico boundary, where more people have been encountered attempting to enter the country illegally over the past year than any other time in the Border Patrol's 98-year existence.

"Democrats aren't doing anything because the border is exactly the way they want it. This is all by design and has been since last January," said Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX), who frequently leads congressional delegation tours to the border.

U.S. WILL ADMIT MIGRANTS FORCED TO REMAIN IN MEXICO THROUGH ASYLUM PROCESS

The Democratic Party is divided at the moment over what to do with the border crisis. Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser and New York City Mayor Eric Adams called on the federal government to help receive 100 migrants being dropped off in their cities each day by buses running from Arizona and Texas. But in Congress, other Democrats are still focused on legalization efforts for millions of undocumented immigrants in the country, with more illegal immigrants being released from the border into the country every day.

Republicans had attempted to include amendments in the climate change bill as it went through the Senate over the weekend, but Democrats successfully blocked their attempts to keep in place a pandemic-related protocol that allowed illegal immigrants to be immediately turned back to Mexico.

Congress has been stalled for several years on immigration reform in general, including on what to do with an Obama-era program that protected hundreds of thousands of children who were brought to the U.S. illegally but has been challenged in federal court.

Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (IL), a Democrat who was part of the bipartisan Gang of Eight in 2013 to overhaul immigration laws, has led efforts to provide a pathway to citizenship to some illegal immigrants, introducing the Dream Act in April 2021 with Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC). Others, like the Center for American Progress, want Congress to go further and legalize the 10 million to 12 million illegal immigrants residing nationwide.

President Joe Biden has avoided addressing the border crisis and instead pushed forward on ending Trump-era immigration policies over the past 18 months in office.

On Monday, the Biden administration moved again to end a Trump-era border initiative that had forced migrants seeking asylum to remain in Mexico through court proceedings. While Bidens party has reversed a plethora of his predecessor's immigration policies, Rep. John Katko (R-NY), the top Republican on the House Homeland Security Committee, said there is no action from Congress or the White House to address the revolving door for illegal migration into the country.

Despite a record number of illegal border crossings, including encounters with known or suspected terrorists, the Biden administration continues to abandon any attempt to secure the Southwest border, Katko said in a statement Tuesday. The Biden administrations only plan to address the crisis at the Southwest border is to release migrants into communities across the U.S."

Since Biden took office, the Border Patrol has heavily relied on a procedure that Republicans call "catch and release" for how federal agents apprehend illegal immigrants, process them, then release many into the interior of the country to face immigration removal proceedings years down the road. The government does not immediately reveal how many claim asylum while in custody, though doing so is not required to be let go and allowed into the United States.

Under the Biden administration, border officials have chosen to release more than 1 million people into the country of the 3 million who were encountered trying to enter without permission.

Despite record-breaking activity by the cartels in my district, this administration and Democrats in Congress have turned their back on our border communities," said Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX), whose district includes 800 miles of borderland.

Because migration demographics have shifted during the coronavirus pandemic, more people from countries beyond Central America and Mexico have arrived and, in some cases, cannot be sent back to their home country. It has forced the Biden administration to release certain nationalities of people, including Venezuelans, Cubans, and Nicaraguans, into border communities. Migrants typically travel to other parts of the country where they have friends or family rather than stay in border towns.

Texas and Arizona this spring began using state-funded buses to alleviate some of the demand on airports and bus stations in border towns by offering free rides to New York City and Washington, D.C. Democratic mayors from both northeastern cities recently asked for emergency military assistance to deal with the arriving migrants.

A House Democratic leadership aide told the Washington Examiner that the omnibus legislation passed in March and a more recent Department of Homeland Security appropriations bill for fiscal 2023 included more funding than the president had requested.

Some of the extra funding was put toward programs that prevent illegal immigrants from being detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and track them through digital means once they are released from custody. Nearly $200 million went toward technology at the ports of entry and areas where the Border Patrol works. Another $230 million in the DHS funding bill was solely for the medical care of illegal immigrants in Border Patrol custody.

Roy, whose district is between San Antonio and Austin, does not expect the Biden administration to take action despite its vows to reform the asylum system or take other action to deter illegal migration.

"This invasion won't stop until congressional Republicans make it stop," Roy said.

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"As Democrats focus on increasing taxes, hurting American energy producers, and worsening inflation through reckless spending, Republicans are focused on securing our southern border," Gonzales added.

Last month, House Republicans rolled out a comprehensive plan to respond to the situation at the southern border.

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President Bidens eagerness to welcome millions of global illegal migrants is unlimited. Not only are people from every corner of the world welcome to come to and settle in the United States at taxpayer expense, but now Biden wants to issue each migrant official government identification cards.

With quasi-official status available, mostly poor, unskilled, non-English speaking illegal immigrants will be more willing than ever to pay criminal cartel smugglers for their dangerous and often deadly northbound journeys.The pilot program, overseen by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, will be called the ICE Secure Docket Card program. Todays ICE agency is not the traditional one which protected U.S. citizens from the dangers that illegal immigrants potentially pose to the community.

Rather, Biden and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas ICE have gutted interior enforcement. They also successfully ended expedited removal, the procedure by which DHS can remove, without a formal procedure, an alien who has entered illegally or has sought entry without proper documents or through fraud. DHS authority has been an essential part of immigration law for more than a quarter of a century.

If approved, the new ID card will feature a photograph, biographic identifiers and what ICE calls cutting-edge security features to the mutual benefit of the government and noncitizens. Since aliens, a word used throughout immigration law, is forbidden in the Biden administrations nomenclature, noncitizens or undocumented are used in its place.

But with the ICE ID card, undocumented will also become pass. Illegal immigrants will not only have documentation, but official, federally approved and issued credentials. More than one million illegal immigrants have been released into the interior since Bidens inauguration, each and every one of them potential ID card holders.

Brandon Judd, Border Patrol Council president, said that the cards wont help immigration officials, but will, along with giving coyotes another magnet to lure their nave clients into their web, allow illegal immigrants to report to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service to assist in processing their employment authorization documents.

ICEs defense of its card that it will provide mutual benefit to the government and the noncitizens lacked tangibles, and is patently transparent.

No benefits to the government were specified, but the benefits to the aliens are obvious. They immediately go from undocumented to fully documented, at least in the eyes of institutions that will benefit from recognizing the cards most federal, state and municipal governments, commercial banks, mortgage lenders, landlords, some employers and others sympathetic to illegal immigration.

The ICE representative who spoke to the media about the ID card spun it in the most positive light. Illegal immigrants, the representative claimed, could use the card to check in and schedule reporting dates with ICE offices, and immigration court hearing dates.

But the conclusion that the card will assist in scheduling immigration court hearings is a stretch. The Department of Justices fact sheet found that only about 49% of illegally present aliens show up for their hearings.

With or without an ID card, that statistic is unlikely to change. And should illegal immigrants appear, and ordered for removal, that doesnt guarantee theyll depart. With the ID card, theyre more likely than ever to remain.

Critics have concluded that, despite the risks to the nation that it would bring, the Biden administrations ultimate goal is eliminating existing immigration laws. The ID card is the latest example.

Retired career border patrol officer and Center for Immigration Studies board member Kent Lundgren explained why immigration laws exist: to protect Americans and legal immigrants. Those protections fall into four major categories: 1) public health, 2) public safety, 3) national security and 4) jobs and wages.

Biden, his cabinet, his administration and his advisors have ignored, at sovereign Americas risk, the core reasons why previous congresses have passed, and former presidents have codified, immigration laws.

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