DHS Confirms Massive Amounts of Criminals in Illegal Migrant Caravan

As hundreds of convicted criminals cross our borders and President Trump seeks to stem the tide, liberal activist judges continue to work against his efforts to protect us.

After hearing arguments in San Francisco, U.S. District Judge Jon S. Tigar has issued a temporary restraining order that allows immigrants to continue seeking asylum no matter where they cross U.S. border. This ensures that, for at least until next year, illegal immigrants can cross the U.S./Mexican border at any point and then seek asylum.

President Trump issued a proclamation on November 9 that called for anyone who legally seeks asylum to enter at approved “ports of entry.”

The judge’s ruling removes a legal barrier that could have prevented thousands of people from entering the U.S. illegally.

Tens of thousands of immigrants have appeared on the north bank of the Rio Grande in Texas and in the Arizona desert annually over the past decade. The pattern has been for these illegals to surrender to immigration officials, requesting asylum, and subsequently never be seen again.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) estimates that about 70,000 people a year claim asylum at places other than official ports of entry.

Baher Azmy, a lawyer for the Center for Constitutional Rights, argued: “Individuals are entitled to asylum if they cross between ports of entry.”

In his fiery, extended comments to reporters outside the White House President Trump blasted the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, calling it a “disgrace.” His remarks came just hours after the Obama-appointed federal judge issued the nationwide injunction against his emergency restrictions on asylum claims.

Trump promised he will seek “immediate action” and “put in a major complaint” about the appellate court. He said:

“You go to Ninth Circuit and it’s a disgrace… Because you cannot win, if you’re us, a case in the Ninth Circuit … Every case gets filed in the Ninth Circuit. … We get beaten, and then we end up having to go to the Supreme Court — like the travel ban — and we won. We’re gonna have to look at that.”

Trump pointed out what many conservatives have noted for years. As he said, “Everybody that wants to sue the U.S. … files their case in the Ninth Circuit” which results in a predictable ruling in the favor of progressive causes.

Last October, former Attorney General Jeff Sessions said the 28 nationwide federal injunctions issued by judges during Trump first two years in office made up an unprecedented “judicial encroachment.”

In the first 175 years of our history, no single judge issued such a restraining order, but it has now become a weapon used by the losing party to thwart the will of a duly elected president. As Sessions said, “It is emphatically not the duty of the courts to manage the government or to pass judgment on every policy action the Executive branch takes.”

The legal standard for obtaining asylum in the U.S. requires that people from foreign countries demonstrate they face serious, legitimate risks of persecution by their government if they remain in their homeland. By law, an applicant for asylum “must demonstrate” their risk for persecution is based on their “national origin, race, religion, political views or membership in a particularly vulnerable social class.”

Over a year ago, Sessions noted that, “The vast majority of the current asylum claims are not valid.” In remarks this summer he told reporters that only 20 percent of asylum claims during the last five years were found “meritorious after a hearing before an immigration judge.”

The result is a system, already overwhelmed by bogus applications that crowd out legitimate ones, faces the breaking point while judges like Tigar ensure that common sense solutions are not enacted.

At official ports of entry, the task is daunting even if there was interference from the courts. DHS reports that at least 500 criminals are part of the migrant caravan that is bottled necked in Tijuana, Mexico. DHS officials say the nearly 6,000 strong caravan facing hostile Mexican locals is made up mostly of single adults (i.e. teen males), but who have pushed women and children to the front of the line hoping to garner sympathetic media coverage.

A Tijuana housewife told the AP that her Mexican government should conduct background checks on the migrants to make sure they don’t have criminal records. One wonders how that would fare in the 9th Circuit.


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