Washington Post: The Migrant Wave Is Choking Cross-Border Trade
The Central American migration is choking the checkpoints used by trucks and traders to cross between the United States and Mexico, according to the Washington Post.

The Central American migration is choking the checkpoints used by trucks and traders to cross between the United States and Mexico, according to the Washington Post.

President Donald Trump criticized a San Francisco judge for blocking his policy to require migrants requesting asylum to remain in Mexico, rather than be released into the United States to await their court hearing.

Former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach says the flood of illegal immigrants arriving in the United States on a daily basis is “undercutting” President Trump’s “Hire American” economy by threatening to choke recent wage hikes for America’s blue collar and working class.

President Donald Trump may appoint an “immigration czar” to coordinate the government’s fractured authority over border security, asylum law, the labor supply, and visas, according to a report by the Associated Press.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is moving more officers to the border to record the arrival of Central American migrants and is sending more migrants back to Mexico prior to their U.S. courtroom pleas for asylum.

The family and friends of Sonya Jones — a devout Christian mother of two and school teacher who was allegedly killed in a car crash caused by an illegal alien — mourned and remembered their loved one this week.

A young illegal alien who was caught and released by federal immigration officials is now accused of killing a Mobile, Alabama mother and teacher in a head-on collision.

White House officials are not considering an offer of Temporary Protected Status asylum to the many Venezuelans who are fleeing from their socialist dictator, a White House official told Breitbart News.

Sen. Marco Rubio and 23 Democratic Senators are asking President Donald Trump to grant asylum to Venezuelans, even though the grant would minimize the Venezuelans’ incentives to overthrow their country’s Cuban-backed dictatorship.

The migrant inflow may reach 100,000 people in March, according to the Washington Post, as Democrats, business-first Republicans, progressive judges, and cartels hold open U.S. borders.

Chris Odette — father of Chrishia Odette — spoke to a crowd at a Fund the Wall protest in front of the White House on Saturday morning in Washington, DC. He and other speakers called for the construction of a border wall to protect American citizens.

A diplomatic crisis between Italy and North Korea is brewing over the alleged abduction of the 17-year-old daughter of Jo Song Gil, who until November was North Korea’s ambassador to Rome.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) agreed with the claim that a wall along the southern border would cut off “indigenous people” in America and said President Trump is “afraid of immigrants.”

Democratic legislators are using the budget/wall negotiations to reopen catch-and-release loopholes that have been narrowed by President Donald Trump’s appointees.

But in theory, an agreement should be possible, because the changes the Trump administration seeks at the border are not radical, and because Democrats have agreed in the past to similar physical barriers to what Trump is proposing.

The city of Portland, Maine is “struggling” due to mass legal immigration primarily from Africa being driven to the region, as public resources and the state’s social safety net are strained.

Migrant unemployment continues to be a problem in Germany, with government research revealing the majority of asylum seekers who arrived in 2016 are still unemployed.

Pro-migration groups are bitterly denouncing President Donald Trump’s new “Remain in Mexico” policy to end catch-and-release for most asylum-seeking migrants.

The U.S. government will try to end most catch-and-release policies on Friday by sending migrants back to Mexico pending their asylum hearings in the United States, according to Reuters.

Progressive advocates and immigration lawyers are denouncing the president’s compromise offer to allow youths in Central America to apply and win asylum in the United States.

Hondurans who want to escape poverty and corruption are launching another caravan of migrants towards the Californian border, according to the Washington Post.

A Venezuelan Supreme Court Judge fled to the United States on Sunday to protest the continued rule of Nicolás Maduro’s regime, days before the socialist strongman takes power for a further six-year mandate.

Congress’s toleration of the nation’s catch-and-release rules is responsible for the migration crisis, outgoing Chief of Staff John Kelly told the Los Angeles Times.

The Supreme Court declined on Friday to step into a legal challenge to President Trump’s asylum caravan proceedings, allowing that case to proceed in the lower courts until next year.

Former immigration judge Art Arthur said it is “unclear” if a federal court ruling on Tuesday requires the U.S. government to return all previously deported aliens whose asylum requests were rejected.

The United States agreed in 1980 to implement the United Nation’s rules on refugees. This means a group of recently deported migrants must be flown back to the U.S. and be given another chance to win asylum, a Democratic-appointed judge declared December 17.

Denmark’s migration minister Inger Støjberg has told the country’s Somali migrants to return home and work on improving their own country after the Danish government ruled parts of Somalia safe.

Americans are a threat to migrants, says Never Trump author Jennifer Rubin at the Washington Post.

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s asylum office says people from Iran and Turkey are increasingly applying for international protection throughout the EU.

President Donald Trump’s deputies are arresting more of the illegal migrants who try to pick up their youths and children at the shrinking U.S. exit of the “UAC” smuggling route.

An organizer of the migrant caravan gathering near the U.S. southern border in Tijuana, Mexico, urged President Trump to let his band of Central American migrants into the country because they “are not bad.”

The establishment media are admitting in multiple reports that Central Americans with a caravan of 7,000 to 10,000 migrants are not eligible asylum-seekers, but rather looking for jobs and escaping violence.

China’s state-run Global Times on Tuesday pushed back against complaints about China’s abuse of the Uighur Muslim minority in Xinjiang province, accusing a Uighur woman of lying about torture and murder at the gigantic internment camps much of the Uighur population has been herded into.

Univision anchor Jorge Ramos on Wednesday evening said that the caravan migrants seeking asylum are becoming more “intelligent” and sneaking into the United States illegally because they have discovered how porous the U.S.-Mexico border actually is.

Central American migrants in the caravan held a press conference in Tijuana, Mexico, on Tuesday and demanded that the United States speed up its asylum process to allow more migrants into the country.

Almost 400 migrants carried other people’s children or youths, or lied about their adult age, to get over the border in the nine months prior to September 30, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

On Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “All In,” Representative Joaquin Castro (D-TX) characterized the situation at the border as “a self-created chaotic situation by the president.” Castro called on the president to return to the “orderly process” for asylum that previous

South Carolina Congressman Trey Gowdy shares President Trump’s opinion that the courts are partisan — even though he wishes they were not.

Central Americans with a caravan of 7,000 to 10,000 migrants are admitting, en masse, that they are arriving to the United States through the southern border with ineligible asylum claims.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) tweeted at Representative-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) that she should visit the U.S. Holocaust Museum to educate herself about the differences between Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany and the migrant caravan trying to cross the U.S.-Mexico border.
