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DENVER - Authorities tracked a wanted man, reportedly part of the MS-13 gang, to Colorado. ICE announced the deportation of 23-year-old Oscar Antonio Rosas-Alas. He was located and arrested in Eagle County in March of 2018. He was deported on Wednesday. Rosas-Alas was wanted in his home country of El Salvador for aggravated extortion. Authorities say he entered the country illegally and made his way to Colorado where he "gained the attention of local peace officers." “Our ICE officers aggressively work to remove dangerous criminal aliens from the United States, such as Rosas-Alas,” said Jeffrey D. Lynch, field office director...

Polk County Sheriff’s Office has issued a warrant for the arrest of Bionel Cervin-Gomez, a 48-year-old illegal immigrant from Davenport sought for leaving the scene of an accident which resulted in the death of an unborn child. According to a PCSO press release, deputies responded to a crash on Feb. 9 involving three vehicles near U.S. 17/92 and Shamrock Drive in Davenport. Cervin-Gomez was driving a GMC pickup when he violated the right-of-way of a Chevrolet Aveo, driven by 22-year-old Courtney Belser, who was eight months pregnant. There was a 1-year-old passenger in the Aveo as well, and she was...

Fresno, CA - The Napa County deputy should have never been in a life or death situation during a routine traffice stop Sunday night. ICE officials confirming Javier Henderson-Morales was deported multiple times prior to 2011. We've heard this story before. Less than two months ago officer Ronil Singh was gunned down in Newman during a routine traffic stop at the hands of an illegal immigrant. "It's rapid, it's brutal, it's sudden." said Undersheriff Jon Crawford of Napa County. In a blink of an eye this routine traffic stop on a rural road in Napa County on Sunday night turns...

Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-Texas, is leading the joint resolution of disapproval. About an hour before an announced deadline for original co-sponsors on a Democratic-led effort to disapprove of President Trump’s declaration of a national emergency over border security, one Republican had signed on.... the measure had already gathered support from 216 members, almost all of them members of the House Democratic caucus. ... It wasn’t immediately clear which GOP lawmaker had signed on early.... ~snip~ The law provides a path for Congress to weigh in to reject a presidential emergency declaration, but the joint resolution would need either a presidential...

Yet another caravan of more than 1,000 mostly Central American migrants has crossed Mexico’s southern border. They clashed briefly with federal police and immigration agents but were able to overwhelm the officials and enter illegally. The new caravan begins the march north toward the United States as border cities like Ciudad Juárez are swelling with migrants already here from previous caravans – with more arriving from the closure of the shelter in Piedras Negras. ~snip~ NIELSEN URGES CENTRAL AMERICA TO STOP NEW MIGRANT CARAVANS A wheelchair-bound migrant named Jose... showed Fox News his number – 6,387. Jose guesses he may...

President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela ordered its border with Brazil closed Thursday, part of his escalating effort to stop opponents from sending humanitarian aid into his poverty-stricken country. Juan Guaidó, the parliamentary opposition leader who declared himself president of Venezuela last month, has vowed to bring tons of aid donated by the United States and others into Venezuela on Saturday. Mr. Maduro, who has called Mr. Guaidó an American lackey, has vowed not to let the aid in. The Brazil-border closure, announced on television, followed a Venezuelan government announcement on Wednesday that it would block air and sea travel between...

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico - Yet another caravan of more than 1,000 mostly Central American migrants has crossed Mexico’s southern border, according to officials. They clashed briefly with federal police and immigration agents (INM) but were able to overwhelm the officials and enter illegally. The new caravan begins the march north toward the United States as border cities like Ciudad Juárez are swelling with migrants already here from previous caravans – with more arriving from the closure of the shelter in Piedras Negras on Wednesday. There are two shelters here that are beyond maximum capacity, each holding more than 600 people....

America’s foreign-born population has reached its highest level in over 100 years, driven by immigrants from Latin America, according to new Census Bureau data. What’s more, the Pew Research Center has found that most Latinos feel the percentage of foreigners in the United States is just about right, though 14 percent said America needs more. The analysis from Pew showed that the last 50 years have seen the biggest surge in immigration into the U.S. since before the Civil War. There are currently 44-45 million foreign-born in the U.S., 14 percent of the total population. "Today, immigrants from Latin America...

MIAMI - A delegation of House Democrats on Tuesday toured one of the largest facilities in the country housing unaccompanied migrant children - a visit one representative called “chilling.” The Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Migrant Children, about 25 miles southwest of Miami, is under scrutiny because it is the only one in the U.S. run by a for-profit corporation and, as a federal facility, it is not subject to state regulations. Several Democratic lawmakers have called for shuttering facilities such as Homestead, citing the lack of oversight and the length of time that children are held. The delegation included...

Last week, a caravan of 1,800 Central American migrants arrived in this isolated Mexican border city, where police ushered them into a makeshift government shelter surrounded by chain-link fence. As conditions at the shelter deteriorated, riots erupted. Migrants broke through security barriers and struggled with guards. Some threw pipes, tables, chairs and parts of a tent at Mexican officers. Migrant advocates and reporters were barred from the facility, which was surrounded by dozens of federal police in riot gear. On the other side of the Rio Grande, in the sleepy town of Eagle Pass, Texas, 250 troops and scores of...

Implementation of the Affordable Care Act cut in half the percentage of low-income, uninsured Californians under age 65, from 23 percent in 2013 to 11 percent in 2016-17. But federal law bars undocumented residents from federally funded Medicaid health services and from purchasing health insurance on the ACA Marketplaces. This leaves them the largest group of uninsured people in California, according to a new study by UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. The study reports that of the 2.2 million undocumented people living in the state, three in five are low income and of those, nine in 10 are uninsured....

The mountain peak provides 360-degree views of the desert below. To the east, the homes and businesses of Casa Grande dot the landscape. To the north, the lights of Phoenix glimmer in the distance. But to the west and south, there is just desert as far as the eye can see. It is this vantage point that is coveted by Mexican drug cartel scouts, stationed up here for weeks at a time, and tasked with one job: guiding drug shipments north from the border. “They’re radioing in, letting the smugglers know when it’s time to start going,” said Detective Eddie...

AGREED and AMEN! Thank you, Randy Miller from LinkedIn! The ONE WORD that REQUIRES Donald J Trump to Declare a National Emergency on the border if Congress failed to follow through on their own border bills which they have not done: TEXAS Texas has a Supreme Court right under federalism under Article 4 Section 4 of the US Constitution as well as by Congressional Treaty (1845 Joint Resolution of Annexation of the Republic of Texas to the United States of America) to counter sue the states that do not wish to defend the border. Clearly Texas has been invaded. Statistical...

The Trump 2020 campaign is highlighting examples of the president keeping his promises, advisory board member Marc Lotter says. The attorneys general of California, New York, and 14 other states on Monday filed a lawsuit in the Ninth Circuit against the White House's recent national emergency declaration over border security, claiming President Trump has "veered the country toward a constitutional crisis of his own making." President Trump sarcastically had predicted the lawsuit last week. He's slammed the Ninth Circuit multiple times as "disgraceful" and politically biased. The litigation, brought before a federal trial court in the Northern District of California,...

Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) told Breitbart News Sunday that when former Rep. Paul Ryan was House speaker, he “tricked” President Donald Trump into believing a spending bill with wall funding could not pass through the House of Representatives. Congressman Gohmert, a member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, told Breitbart News Deputy Political Editor Amanda House that former Speaker Paul Ryan told Trump in the run-up to the December government shutdown battle that a spending bill with wall funding would not pass through the GOP-controlled House. House Freedom Caucus chairman Mark Meadows (R-NC), a staunch Trump ally, correctly predicted that...

An ambush by gunmen from a faction of Los Zetas killed one Mexican soldier and injured two others in Nuevo Laredo. Three attackers working for a convicted terrorist also died in the incident just south of Laredo, Texas. Mexican military officials have not released any information on the attack, however unofficial sources with direct knowledge revealed to Breitbart News the attack took place along the highway that connects Nuevo Laredo and Monterrey. Moving in various SUVs, a team of gunmen with the Cartel Del Noreste (CDN) faction of Los Zetas attacked a convoy of soldiers patrolling the streets of Nuevo...

PITTSBURGH - Pittsburgh is one of several cities across the country participating Monday in what's being called the "Fake crisis, no racist wall" protest. Channel 11 News spoke with people who will be involved in the protest in downtown Pittsburgh on Monday, including the group Women's March on Washington -- Pittsburgh. “Although not every American family came here as an immigrant family, most did.” Tracy Baton, director of Women's March on Pittsburgh, said. The group is calling the wall unnecessary and unconstitutional.

(I saw this on a Facebook post): ========== WALL RESEARCH • there are only three circuits who might hear a challenge to a Declaration of Emergency, 9th, 5th, and 10th. But a challenge can only start in a state where wall construction is going up (Texas). While not unanimous, the 5th Circuit in Texas is an R-dominated court. However, and this is where it gets good, before any court can hear a case it must be "ripe." For ex., DeWine in Ohio has said he will sign the "Heartbeat Bill" and ghoulish Planned Parenthood will challenge that - but Planned...

Protests planned across US on Presidents Day in response to Trump's national emergency for border wall By Aris Folley - 02/16/19 06:33 PM EST Protesters have planned demonstrations across the U.S. for Presidents Day in response to President Trump’s decision to declare a national emergency for border wall funding. USA Today reports a wave of protests have been planned from New York to California and Texas to oppose the president’s national emergency declaration. A number of demonstrations are being planned by the liberal advocacy group, MoveOn.org, and others have been listed on Rally List. “Donald Trump has declared a #FakeNationalEmergency—an...