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Feds paid for room service, laundry and babysitters for illegal immigrants kept at hotels

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Feds paid for room service, laundry and babysitters for illegal immigrants kept at hotels
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Sun, 11/06/2022
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Homeland Security not only put illegal immigrant families up in hotels at taxpayer expense but the contract it signed insisted they be given five-star treatment with laundry service, their choice of mattresses and guards — not to keep them in, but to keep others out.

Some of those contracting details were revealed by America First Legal, a conservative outfit run by former top Trump aides, which obtained documents through an open-records request and called some of the accommodations for illegal immigrants “astounding.”

Immigrants were given the option of meat at every meal, 24-hour access to drinks and snacks, babysitters to watch their children, television with programming in English and Spanish and a choice of mattresses for their beds.



The hotels were part of the Biden administration’s response to the unprecedented surge of illegal immigrants that swamped Homeland Security’s resources in early 2021.

The department used the hotels to house migrant families it was still trying to process.

Family Endeavors Inc. won no-bid contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars from ICE and Health and Human Services despite not having any experience with that size contract.


SEE ALSO: Border numbers worsened in October; historic number of gotaways


The awards came after the firm hired Andrew Lorenzen-Strait, who had previously served as a senior ICE official overseeing treatment and then worked as a member of the incoming Biden administration’s transition team after the 2020 election.

“We thought that it was important to make this information public so that the average citizen can see what the government is up to,” said Reed D. Rubinstein, senior counselor and director of investigations at American First Legal. “That’s where this contract is really helpful because it gives you a. window — a small window, but a window nonetheless — into how the Biden administration is conducting itself.”

Hotels were used in El Paso, Pecos and Cotulla, Texas, and Chandler and Phoenix in Arizona.

Among the things Family Endeavors promised ICE in the contract was that it would never refer to the illegal immigrants it was detaining as “detainees” or “aliens” — even though they were, legally, both of those. The contracting document even uses those legal terms repeatedly to refer to the immigrants.

The Times reached out to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for comment for this story.

AFL said the illegal immigrants seemed to get more consideration than Americans, including veterans. The organization pointed out that Texas and Arizona, where the hotels were commandeered, have nearly 40,000 homeless residents — including 3,000 veterans.

Sen. Hawley to introduce bill empowering states to deport illegal immigrants

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Sen. Hawley to introduce bill empowering states to deport illegal immigrants
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Legislation being introduced by Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., on Tuesday would allow states to enforce federal immigration law, including the deportation of illegal immigrants – as Hawley calls for the U.S. to "take the gloves off" to fight unlawful immigration.

The "Empowering States to Deport Illegal Immigrants Act" would authorize state and local law enforcement officers to enforce certain federal immigration laws, and comes amid ongoing Republican claims that the Biden administration is refusing to secure the border.

The bill would effectively abrogate a 2012 Supreme Court case which significantly limited the ability for states to be involved in immigration enforcement. Instead, the bill would allow states to use their resources for immigration enforcement. 

It would give power to state prosecutors to initiate prosecutions for violations of federal immigration law. States would be able to deport illegal immigrants and for border states to move to secure the border.

The Biden administration has argued that the border is "secure" and has said it is re-establishing legal asylum processes that are in accordance with U.S. law and that were torn down during the Trump administration. 

However, Republicans have pointed to the more than 2.1 million encounters this fiscal year, a significant number of which have resulted in release into the U.S., as well as the more than half a million "gotaways" believed to have entered the U.S. They have attributed the enormous migrant surge to Biden-era policies, which have seen the end to Trump-era border enforcement mechanisms and a dramatic reduction of internal immigration enforcement.

"If Joe Biden isn’t going to enforce immigration laws why don’t we let the states enforce immigration laws?" Hawley said last week on "The Ingraham Angle" previewing the legislation. "The State of Texas would love to, the states of Florida, Arizona, they’d love to enforce immigration laws. Let’s them do it, let’s let them secure the border, let’s let them deport illegal immigrants according to our laws."

"Let’s take the gloves off here, let's enforce the law, let’s restore order to the border," he said.

The legislation is one of a number of recent efforts by Republicans at both state and national level to have states step in to fill what they say is a vacuum by the federal government in the face of a raging migrant crisis.

A number of lawmakers at state and local level in Arizona and Texas have called for their governors to declare an "invasion," a move that would give them greater powers to detain and remove illegal immigrants.

Taxpayers to foot bill for amnesty under House proposal

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Taxpayers to foot bill for amnesty under House proposal
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Sat, 09/11/2021
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House Democrats unveiled their plan to legalize millions of illegal immigrants — and to make taxpayers pay billions of dollars to process their applications.

Rep. Jerrold Nadler’s proposal, released late Friday, calls for $2.8 billion in federal funds to help U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services build capacity to handle the expected surge of paperwork and decision-making.

USCIS is almost entirely fee-funded, under the theory that immigrants should pay their own way. Mr. Nadler’s proposal would subvert that model.


SEE ALSO: EXCLUSIVE: Homeland Security would need years to prepare for new amnesty


His plan would also kick in the amnesty by May 1, giving USCIS little time to get up and running.

Previous directors have told The Washington Times it would take at least 18 months to prepare for a mass amnesty.



Mr. Nadler, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, envisions legalizing “Dreamers,” who came to the U.S. before age 18, those in the U.S. under the Temporary Protected Status program and illegal immigrants who held “essential” jobs during the pandemic. That covers more than three-quarters of the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants believed to be in the country.

The plan does not contain new border security or enforcement measures. That marks a major break with past immigration plans, whose security measures were considered critical elements to prevent the amnesty from enticing more people to come to the U.S.

The eligibility date is the start of this year, meaning any illegal immigrant who made it to the U.S. by that time could qualify. That includes hundreds of thousands of people who jumped the border during the surge in 2019 and who should have been deported.

Biden: Amnesty for Over 11 Million Illegal Aliens Going to Senate in My First 100 Days

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Biden: Amnesty for Over 11 Million Illegal Aliens Going to Senate in My First 100 Days
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Tue, 11/24/2020
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Democrat Joe Biden says he will send an amnesty deal for “over 11 million” illegal aliens to the United States Senate in his first 100 days in office.

During an interview with NBC News’s Lester Holt, Biden reiterated his plan to give amnesty to the roughly 11 to 22 million illegal aliens living in the U.S. Biden said of his agenda:

Some of it’s going to depend on the kind of cooperation I can or cannot get from the United States Congress. But I am going, I made a commitment, in the first 100 days, I will send an immigration bill to the United States Senate with a pathway to citizenship for over 11 million undocumented people in America.

Already, a number of Senate Republicans have suggested that they are interested in working with Biden on some sort of immigration deal. Senators Lindsey Graham (R-SC), John Cornyn (R-TX), and Chuck Grassley (R-IA) have all hinted at striking a Democrat-GOP deal on immigration that would almost certainly include an amnesty.

Currently, about 24.5 million Americans are either jobless or underemployed, but all want full-time jobs. Those unemployed are forced to compete in the labor market by an endless stream of foreign workers who secure visas and green cards that rack up to more than 2.5 million admissions every year.

These legal immigration admissions are in addition to the hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens who successfully cross U.S. borders and overstay their visas every year.

Exit polling after the election reveals that voters across party and racial lines overwhelmingly want less overall immigration to the U.S. More than 3-in-4 voters, for instance, said it is important to reduce immigration with continued high unemployment, and more than 62 percent said, even after unemployment has leveled off, immigration should remain lower than its current levels.

 

Immigration crackdown expands following ‘Sanctuary Cities’ ban

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Immigration crackdown expands following ‘Sanctuary Cities’ ban
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (News Service of Florida) - Gov. Ron DeSantis’ push to crack down on illegal immigration is slowly expanding the footprint of federal immigration authorities in parts of Florida’s criminal justice system.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, known as ICE, now has formal agreements with 49 Florida sheriffs. Probation officers are notifying federal deportation officers about offenders. And a North Florida prison is poised to deputize corrections workers to perform some functions of immigration officers.

The wave of cooperation skyrocketed after DeSantis last summer signed a bill that requires local officials to use “best efforts to support federal immigration law.”

The law is known as a ban on so-called “sanctuary” cities, which DeSantis vowed to outlaw during his 2018 campaign for governor.

Republican backers touted the controversial measure as a requirement to follow federal law. The statute requires local governments to "use their best efforts to support the enforcement of federal immigration law."

Before the law went into effect in July, 14 of the state’s sheriffs had agreements with ICE to train deputies working in county jails to perform some functions of immigration officers.As of April 14, a total of 49 Florida sheriffs have inked some type of agreement with the federal immigration agency.

Illegal immigrant charged with raping Maryland girl, 11

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Illegal immigrant charged with raping Maryland girl, 11
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Illegal immigrant charged with raping Maryland girl, 11
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A man charged with raping an 11-year-old girl in Maryland was living in the United States illegally, authorities said.

Jonathan Coreas-Salamanca, 20, was arrested along with Ivan Reyes Lopez, 19, earlier this month at the high schools they attended in Montgomery County, Md., WJLA-TV reported. Both men are charged with second-degree rape.

Coreas-Salamanca, a citizen of El Salvador living in the U.S. illegally, faces additional charges of sexual abuse of a minor and a third-degree sexual offense.

“U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) lodged a detainer for Jonathan Coreas-Salamanca, an unlawfully present Salvadoran national, with Montgomery County Detention Center on Feb. 14, following his arrest by Montgomery County Police for sex abuse of a minor and second-degree rape,” ICE spokeswoman Kaitlyn Pote said in a statement to the Daily Caller on Tuesday.

 

Coreas-Salamanca is accused of exchange explicit text messages and photographs with the 11-year-old girl, in addition to arranging meetups for sexual encounters. Her father found the phone on Christmas Eve last year and called the police, the news station said.

"[The victim's father] described a text message where Suspect Coreas-Salamanca advised Victim A that she bit his penis the last time she performed fellatio," court documents state. "Suspect Coreas-Salamanca's purpose in sending the text message was to teach Victim A how to better perform fellatio."

The Washington Examiner reported that Montgomery County is allowing ICE to place detainers on undocumented immigrants, which allows agents to pick them up from jail to begin deportation proceedings.

Nashville Tennessean supports illegal alien journalist

Given the news media's dismal record on fair and impartial coverage of the immigration issue, it is only fitting that one of its members come to the aid of a journalist ordered deported 11 years ago, "Free Memphis-based journalist Manuel Duran," "Another View/Nashville Tennessean," April 13. Read more about Nashville Tennessean supports illegal alien journalist

Report: AG Sessions Freezes Aid Program for Illegal Migrants

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Report: AG Sessions Freezes Aid Program for Illegal Migrants
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Neil Munro
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Tue, 04/10/2018
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions is temporarily shutting down a taxpayer-funded advice service for the huge numbers of illegal migrants who drive down blue-collar wages throughout the United States, according to the Washington Post.

The program, dubbed the Legal Orientation Program, paid various left-wing groups to provide immigration-court advice to migrants, according to the Washington Post. The program helped roughly 53,000 migrants during 2017, the Post said.

The shutdown spotlights the administration’s efforts to reform the nation’s business-oriented immigration system, which annually delivers at least one million additional cheap workers and taxpayer-aided consumers to businesses, and up to one million government-dependent voters to the Democratic Party. Overall, the nation’s migration policy shifts at least $500 billion per year from young Americans up to investors, employers, real-estate owners, and migration-industry progressives.

Iowa governor signs into law ban on ‘sanctuary cities’

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Iowa governor signs into law ban on ‘sanctuary cities’
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds has signed into law an immigration enforcement bill that bans so-called sanctuary cities.

The Republican governor signed the bill privately Tuesday. The news was tucked into a press release about 16 other bill signings.

The legislation will require law enforcement to follow requests from federal agents to hold a jailed person suspected of being in the country illegally. Local governments risk losing state funding if they don't comply with the law.

Attorneys say the provision could open the state to litigation. Community organizers argue the bill will lead to racial profiling.

 

‘Enough Is Enough’: Nearly 400 Sheriffs Demand Congress Reduce Immigration, Criminalize Sanctuary Cities

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‘Enough Is Enough’: Nearly 400 Sheriffs Demand Congress Reduce Immigration, Criminalize Sanctuary Cities
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Thu, 03/29/2018
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Nearly 400 sheriffs across the country are calling on the Republican-controlled Congress to follow through on President Trump’s popular immigration agenda by securing the nation’s porous borders and criminalizing sanctuary cities.

Sheriff Thomas M. Hodgson of Bristol County, Massachusetts, has gathered with about 380 sheriffs from across America, representing 40 states, to ask Congress to push Trump’s agenda that would help decrease and end illegal immigration to the United States.

“Enough is enough,” the sheriffs write. 

The sheriffs faulted Congress for failing to enact reforms that would drastically reduce illegal immigration to the U.S., writing that their lack of effort to end illegal immigration has “undermined our ability to keep our communities safe.”

Illegal immigration, resulting in 12 to 30 million illegal aliens now living in the U.S., has come at not only the expense of American citizens, but also local law enforcement agencies that do not have the resources or manpower to take on the issue.

 

 

 

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