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THERE are a lot of people who talk about the law who dont seem to much care for it.

In the past year, ever since then Home Secretary Priti Patel announced her Rwanda migrant plan, the Left in this country has been in overdrive.

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The plan is against the law, they say.

Last year, when a plane with a few dozen illegal migrants on it was due to take off to Rwanda, central Africa, it was stopped at the last minute by meddling human rights lawyers and left-wing activists.

All appealing to an anonymous judge in Strasbourg.

As I say, it is interesting because these people who talk of laws pay no attention to our own laws.

They do not seem to think it even a subject of interest that 40,000 people came across the Channel illegally last year alone.

That is 40,000 people breaking the law.

Our law.

The open-borders Left always tries to pretend that everyone who breaks the law by entering this country illegally from France is an asylum seeker.

They couldnt be more wrong.

Most have no legal right to be in the UK.

All have travelled through multiple safe countries before heading here.

They come to Britain not because it is the only place they can flee to but because they believe it is the most comfortable country to be in.

As similar border crises in Australia, Europe and America have shown, there is only one way to stop such flows of people.

And only one certain way to make sure that the numbers do not grow.

That way is to deter people.

To make it clear they are breaking the law and that if they spend their time and money trying to break our laws it will be pointless.

That is one of the things that makes the Rwanda plan so important.

It will discourage people from paying smuggler gangs to bring them from France to Britain.

It will encourage them to realise that if they get to our shores they will not stay.

Of course, the open-borders, know-nothing Left has decided that sending people to Rwanda is like sending them to a Nazi death camp.

We already know that the brilliant mind of Gary Lineker got stuck in this piece of stupidity.

He was joined over the weekend by another airhead, radio shock-jock James OBrien.

I dont listen to OBriens show and cannot access his tweets.

He blocked me after I exposed his campaign to promote the lies of paedophile Carl Beech.

Fortunately I know one person who is not blocked by snowflake OBrien.

So I was able to see his weekend campaigning in its full glory.

There he posted a photo of Home Secretary Suella Braverman laughing while visiting a deportation facility and claiming she hopes to deport trafficked victims of modern slavery to this place.

It portrayed an evil woman.

It is worth pausing to wonder why Braverman gets up the noses of people like OBrien so badly.

It is because she is not behaving as people like him think she should.

Dare to be an independent or conservative-minded ethnic minority woman and unhappy men like OBrien will come at you while shouting feminism.

As it happens, the photograph in question was doctored.

Specifically, the lefties cropped out the two Rwandan counterparts Braverman was sharing a joke with.

But it doesnt matter, because truth has never detained people like OBrien.

And wont do now.

Happily this doesnt matter, because the public is on the side of the Home Secretary.

A poll out last week from the Independent (hardly a bastion of the right wing) showed that 42 per cent of the public support this specific plan.

Only 25 per cent oppose it.

That is already a striking difference of opinion.

But what matters most is what happens next.

Because much of the public will be watching and waiting.

If the Rwanda plan (among other measures) works, then the public will reward the Government in the opinion polls and at the next election.

If the Government can stop the mass law-breaking on the south coast then the figures will improve even more for.

And that would be a great thing, not just for the Government, but for this country as a whole.

It would also bring a second benefit which is that it would show up the Labour Party and others on the left.

As was shown this weekend, these angry activists are not very good critics.

Not even very good insulters.

But what they are even worse at is coming up with answers.

The Government, by contrast, has come up with an answer.

For the sake of the country, we must hope that it works.

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March 23, 2023

Boston Cardinal Sen OMalley speaks about the Church and state response to the global immigration crisis at the James H. Provost Memorial Lecture at The Catholic University of America March 22.(Catholic University/Patrick G. Ryan)

By Cecilia Engbert

Boston Cardinal Sen OMalley, spoke about necessary responses that should come from the Church and State to overcome the global immigration crisis at the James H. Provost Memorial Lecture March 22.

Monsignor Ronny Jenkins, dean of The School of Canon Law, opened the event with a quote from Pope Francis who in September urged Catholic institutions of higher education to educate their own students to a clearer understanding of the phenomenon of migration, within a perspective of justice, global responsibility and communion in diversity.

During his lecture, Migration and Immigration: A Challenge of Our Time for Church and State, Cardinal OMalley said Pope Francis has offered clear direction to the Catholic Church and political leaders on aiding migrant refugees: to welcome, to protect, to promote, and to integrate.

Welcoming requires generous and reasonable national policy; protecting requires diligence and seeing that individuals and families are not taken advantage of, said Cardinal OMalley. Promoting involves opening the path to citizenship and employment. Integrating means respecting the migrants cultural and religious heritage while creating the space and assistance to enter the life of our society.

Cardinal OMalley said his primary attention is the moral dimension of the immigration policy. He mentioned seven fundamental Catholic teachings on immigration: the human community, the dignity of the human person, rights and duties, the common good, social justice, solidarity, and the preferential option for the poor.

From 1973 to 1992, the cardinal worked in Washington, D.C., at the Spanish Catholic Center, which offers services to immigrants from around the world. He called it an uplifting experience and indeed a privilege and honeymoon of my priesthood.

Cardinal OMalley said immigrants are significant contributors to the well-being of the United States.

The hard work and sacrifice of so many immigrant peoples are in many ways the secrets to success in this country, he said. Migrants and refugees are not primarily a problem to be solved, they are human beings and future human resources to a country.

However, immigration remains one of the most contested policies in the United States. In the past year an estimated 2.3 million individuals tried to enter the U.S. at the southern border.

As a nation of immigrants, we should feel a sense of identification with other groups seeking to enter our country, the cardinal said. People have the right to immigrate and states have obligations to provide reasonable responses to migration.

Cardinal OMalley praised the University for placing the sculpture replica of Angels Unaware on its campus, in the Welcome Plaza between Father O'Connell Hall and Gibbons Hall. The original sculpture which depicts 140 migrants and refugees from different countries and historical eras stands in St. Peters Square and was commissioned by Pope Francis.

Cardinal OMalley, who has a doctorate in Spanish and Portuguese literature from The Catholic University of America, taught at the University from 1969 to 1973 and is a member of the Board of Trustees.

Introducing the talk, University President Dr. Peter Kilpatrick thanked Cardinal OMalley for his friendship and colleagueship on the Board of Trustees, adding that it was a distinct pleasure for him to welcome the cardinal to deliver the Provost lecture.

The School of Canon Lawhosts the lecture series in honor of Rev. James Provost who served as chair of the canon law department from 1987-1998. The series is supported through the generosity of family and friends of Rev. Provost.

The full lecture is available below.

Migration & Immigration: A Challenge of Our Time for Church and State from Catholic University on Vimeo.

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(THE CONVERSATION) The media create the impression that there is an unprecedented crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border, with droves of children arriving alone, as well as families flooding to the border.

There is a crisis.

But as a law professor who studies child migration, I can tell you that its nothing new.

Children and families have been fleeing to the U.S. for years, particularly from Mexico and the so-called Northern Triangle countries of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.

Yet aspects of the current situation are different from the past. And whether more individuals are attempting to cross the U.S.-Mexico border than have been in the last 20 years, as Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas predicted, remains to be seen.

The situation is best explained by looking at the number of migrants who have arrived at the border, as reported by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, a law enforcement agency that is part of the Department of Homeland Security.

Customs and Border Protection puts arriving noncitizens in three categories: unaccompanied children, families and single adults. Children are designated as unaccompanied if they are under the age of 18 and arrive at a U.S. border without lawful status and without a parent or legal guardian.

The numbers of children like these and families have been steadily increasing in recent years. Examining those numbers puts the current circumstances at the U.S.-Mexico border into context.

A steady stream

Except for fiscal year 2020, which started on Oct. 1, 2019, the number of children and families migrating to the U.S. has been escalating since 2013, with highs in 2014 and 2019, and a slight dip in 2015. Overall, the number of arriving unaccompanied children has been above 40,000 every year since 2014. In most yearsit was above 50,000. For arriving families, the numbers have hovered around 70,000 each year, with surges in 2018 and especially 2019.

Scholars of migration look to many push and pull factors that draw migrant children to the U.S. border. These include family and community violence, sexual assault, government corruption, agricultural disease, drought, discrimination against indigenous populations and extreme poverty.

The vast majority of the migrating families, and almost all (95%) of the unaccompanied children, are coming from El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico.

So is anything different about what is taking place now? Why are government officials like Mayorkas calling the situation difficult and complicated?

There are three interrelated issues to watch.

1. Rapid increase

From January to February 2021, there was a 61% uptick in the number of arriving unaccompanied children, and a 163% increase in arriving families. The numbers for March 2021 have not yet been formally reported, but they are expected to be high.

If this trend continues, fiscal year 2021 has the potential to surpass the high numbers that were seen in fiscal years 2014 and 2019. However, this is not yet clear, as migration flows tend to increase in the spring months and reduce a bit in the hotter, late summer months.

2. Push and pull factors

There are additional push and pull factors that could give rise to increased migration.

Relief agenciesreport the COVID-19 pandemic has worsened economic conditions in the Northern Triangle countries and Mexico which have always been dire.

Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua suffered through two Category 4 hurricanes within a two-week span in November 2020 that killed hundreds of people and left millions in need.

Also, asylum-seeking children and families may have some sense that the current U.S. administration will be more welcoming than the prior one. This might motivate more migrants to make the dangerous journey to the U.S. in search of safety and protection.

3. The U.S. government was not prepared

Advocates celebrated when the Biden administration exempted unaccompanied minors from the current Title 42 expulsion policy that expels migrants based upon a public health law. But government officials were ill-prepared for the surge of arriving children that followed.

By law, Border Patrol agents have 72 hours to turn children over to the custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement, a unit of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Yet the Office of Refugee Resettlement currently lacks capacity to house all the children in need of shelter, in part because many of their facilities were dismantled under the Trump administration.

The Office of Refugee Resettlement is rallying to construct more shelters and to release children as quickly as possible to relatives, but the backlog is huge, and many children have had to remain in Border Patrol custody for far longer than 72 hours. Whether and when the Office of Refugee Resettlement will be able to get the situation under control remains unclear.

So, is there anything different about what is taking place now?

So far, not really, although there are serious concerns about the conditions for the recently arriving children, and many hope that the expulsion policy will soon be lifted for all migrants. But time will tell whether this is an unprecedented year or not.

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This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here: https://theconversation.com/the-situation-at-the-us-mexico-border-is-a-crisis-but-is-it-new-158106.

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UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announcing his "stop the boats" policy

The UK government is banking on its new migration bill to stem the flow of small boats crossing the English Channel. The policy's headline-grabbing slogan is identical to that used in Australia a decade ago.

For many Australians, hearing UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak promise to "stop the boats" was a moment of deja vu.

The same words were used by former Australian PM Tony Abbott in 2013 - helping him win an election.

The situation in Australia was similar to the one facing the UK now.

Last year, more than 45,000 migrants crossed the English Channel in small boats to reach the UK. In 2013, Australians watched as 20,000 migrants made similar perilous journeys from countries like Indonesia, Iran and Sri Lanka. Scores died en route.

And so, during his winning general election campaign, at the height of the crisis, right-wing Liberal Party leader Mr Abbott promised to implement border rules even tougher than the outgoing Labor government. Under his "Operation Sovereign Borders" policy, migrant boats would be intercepted and either returned to where they travelled from or those on board taken to overseas island detention centres.

Human rights groups have long criticised Australia's border policy - but other countries, like Denmark, have been inspired.

"Australia absolutely wrote this playbook - and we're still writing it," says Australian National University politics lecturer Kim Huynh, whose family fled Vietnam for Australia via boat in the 1970s.

More than just three words

The UK copied word-for-word Australia's "stop the boats" slogan, but the broader rhetoric - the tough language - is also strikingly similar.

Australia's former Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton has suggested several times that the country has blocked murderers, rapists and paedophiles from seeking asylum by boat. And in 2017, he faced a backlash after suggesting that many asylum seekers who travelled to Australia were "fake refugees" trying to "rip the Australian taxpayer off".

In the UK, Home Secretary Suella Braverman has controversially referred to her job as being "about stopping the invasion on our southern coast". And - while numbers of Albanians arriving fell significantly at the end of 2022 - she told MPs last week that many of the migrants were young men "from safe countries like Albania" who were "rich enough to pay criminal gangs thousands of pounds for passage".

That kind of language resonates in both Australia and the UK, partly because their populations have - to differing degrees - "island mindsets", Dr Huynh says. "A lot of the critics would say [the rhetoric] works politically because it stirs up fears of outsiders."

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Former Australian PM Tony Abbott described his border policy as "decent, humane and compassionate"

And then, there is the policy rationale - the public marketing. Both countries have stressed the humanitarian benefits.

Ms Braverman told the Commons last week that the UK government was acting with "determination", "compassion" and "proportion".

While in 2014, Mr Abbott spoke of a policy that was saving lives. "As long as the boats keep coming, we will keep having deaths at sea," he said. "So, the most decent, humane and compassionate thing you can do is to stop the boats."

Policy similarities?

The UK's current migration issues aren't identical to the ones that faced Australia 10 years ago - and so the policy touted by Westminster does not exactly mirror that of Tony Abbott's coalition administration in Canberra. But comparisons can be drawn.

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A boat carrying asylum seekers near Christmas Island in 2012

But arguably, the most important aspect of Australian policy in 2013 was the reintroduction of so-called "turnbacks" at sea - having been used previously between 2001-03. Defined by the Abbott government as "the safe removal of vessels from Australian waters, with passengers and crew returned to their countries of departure", boats were prevented from reaching shore. There was a dramatic reduction in arrivals by sea.

In April 2022, the UK government dropped plans to return small boats in the Channel back to France, after the Royal Navy refused to carry out the operations. The military conducted trials of practices similar to those performed by Australian armed forces but declared them "inappropriate".

The UK announced on 10 March it would give Paris almost 500m over three years - to fund extra police patrols on beaches and a new detention centre in northern France.

Did Australia's policies work?

While Operation Sovereign Borders remains controversial, both major parties in Australia - the right-wing Liberals and left-wing Labor - still support the policies behind it. They argue the country's success lies in the policy mix working together to deter asylum seekers.

But there are those who believe the offshore processing had little - if any - impact.

It was re-introduced by Labor in 2012 and the facilities in Papua New Guinea and Nauru quickly filled up.

"Two months in, the government was saying, 'We've already had more people arrive than we'll ever be able to accommodate offshore, and so we're going to start releasing some people into the community in Australia,'" says refugee law expert Madeline Gleeson.

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Photo from 2012 showing the asylum-seeker processing facility on Manus Island, Papua New Guinea

And so the Labor government did a reset - emptying the centres and bringing migrants to Australia, before trying again. This time adding a promise that anyone seeking asylum in Australia by boat would never be settled here, even if they were found to be a refugee.

That didn't seem to slow the number of boats either, Ms Gleeson says.

And so when the Liberal-National coalition took over in late 2013, they pivoted to boat turnbacks - something which Labor had opposed - and the number of migrant boat arrivals dropped dramatically.

The measures had "restored integrity to Australia's borders", said Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton in 2015 - but at a price. Best estimates put the cost at A$1bn (552.4m, $658.7m) a year. There's also the compensation bills the government has footed for the poor treatment asylum seekers have suffered in offshore processing facilities.

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A "Welcome Refugees" rally in Sydney on 29 September 2013

"And then there's a cost on the heart and soul of Australia," says Dr Huynh.

Australia's treatment of people in offshore detention, particularly children, has drawn international condemnation - the UN says it amounts to torture.

And the country has also been accused of violating international law by breaking its obligations to refugees and those seeking asylum.

Would similar measures work in the UK?

UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman has conceded the latest plans push "the boundaries of international law". And Australia's former foreign minister and diplomat Alexander Downer - who has advised the UK government on border policy - has admitted the country would have to change its laws and wind back human rights protections to employ the policies effectively.

Ultimately, says Ms Gleeson, the UK will likely have a harder time implementing its proposed policies than Australia did. The UK is also a "totally different place" from Australia, she adds.

Australia also has agreements with several of the countries from where migrants travel, but France has made it clear that such an agreement with the UK is unlikely.

Then there is scale. Even in the peak year of 2013, the total number of boat arrivals in Australia was less than half the current UK annual figure - and they overwhelmed the country's processing system.

"If it was too much for us, how [is the UK] going to have the capacity to do it?" Ms Gleeson says.

And perhaps most critically - she says - while Australia is a signatory to international treaties, it has no legally binding human rights framework, similar to the UK's Human Rights Act or the European Convention on Human Rights. "So I think there is going to be a real legal issue."

Additional reporting by Paul Kerley

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A previously deported MS-13 gang member was arrested Sunday after trying to illegally enter the U.S. through California, officials said.

Two individuals were spotted trying to cross the U.S.-Mexico border just east of the Calexico Port of Entry around 6:40 p.m., U.S. Customs and Border Protection said.

U.S. Border Patrol agentsdetermined that neither individual had the proper documents to be in the U.S. legally and placed them both under arrest.

Record checks at the El Centro Sector Processing Center confirmed the 26-year-old man arrested was a documented member of the MS-13 street gang, officials said.

BIDEN ADMIN SCALING BACK DETENTION OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS, EVEN AMID MIGRANT SURGE

The 26-year-old documented MS-13 gang member was previously deported in 2016, officials said.

He also has prior immigration violations and was previously deported from the U.S. in 2016.

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Both individuals will be processed for removal from the U.S., officials said.

"The El Centro Sector agents make life rough on felonious gang members who want to make our country their home," said El Centro Sector Chief Patrol Agent Gregory Bovino. "Well do our utmost for the taxpayer to ensure such predators are kept from harming American citizens as is so often the case."

ICE DEPORTATIONS OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT CRIMINALS DROPPING SHARPLY UNDER BIDEN

Border Patrol agentsat the southern border have encountered more than one million illegal migrants so far since the beginning of the fiscal year in October, CBP officials said Monday.

It marks the latest milestone in an enormous migrant crisis that has engulfed the border for over two years.

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There were just 400,000 Border Patrol encounters in FY 2020, which then shot up to 1.6 million in FY 21 and 2.2 million in FY 22.

Fox News Adam Shaw contributed to this report.

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