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It's Time to Designate Cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations
By Dan Cadman
After nine dual-citizen U.S./Mexican Mormons were murdered in Sonora State proximate to the U.S. border, President Trump reacted on Twitter by urging the president of Mexico to declare war on the cartels, one of which was responsible for the shocking butchery of women and children. He offered help, including use of our military. Designation carries with it a variety of sanctions, penalties, and authorities that are desirable from enforcement and intelligence perspectives.
UN Backpedals on Child Detention Claims
By Andrew R. Arthur
Agence France Presse reported that "[a]n independent UN expert has apologized for misspeaking during a news conference in Geneva this week, correcting his claim that more than 100,000 children were being held in migration-related US detention." The whole kerfuffle simply underscores the fact that no international immigration claim is too unbelievable if it makes the Trump administration — and by extension in the international community, the United States — look bad
ICE's Fake University: A Sting, not Entrapment
By Dan Cadman
When ICE shut down the university, it went after the aliens who, looking for a way to pose as foreign students while in fact doing other things like working illegally, had registered at the university rather than attend accredited institutions where they would have been expected to actually study and learn before being granted a degree. Needless to say, in short order, a number of progressives of an open-borders mindset began howling about ICE's dirty underhanded entrapment of those poor innocents who got lured in and find themselves in legal troubles now.
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Hold Off: Designating Mexican Cartels as Terrorists Could Dilute War on Jihadists
By Todd Bensman
President Donald Trump has revealed that his administration is well on its way to formally designating Mexico's drug-trafficking cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations, the same as ISIS or al-Qaeda. Should such a designation actually go through, it is argued, an arsenal of American authorities used to suppress the likes of ISIS would supposedly be wheeled into a fight to preserve U.S. national security from the Mexican cartels.
What About the 172,000 DACA Dropouts? A Question Not Raised
By David North
We keep hearing about the Supreme Court, the Trump administration, and the DACA population of relatively young illegal aliens now temporarily in legal status as if this group were a single grouping. That is not the case. The Department of Homeland Security, over the last seven years, has granted DACA status to some 825,000 aliens, but more than 172,000 of them, or about 21 percent, have dropped out of the program, leaving about 653,000.
Safe Third Country or Baltimore?
By Andrew R. Arthur
In a November 21, 2019, post, I wrote about an interim final rule that modifies existing regulations to implement Asylum Cooperative Agreements ( "safe third-country agreements") the United States has entered into with El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, allowing asylum officers and immigration judges to send third-country asylum applicants to one of those three countries to apply for asylum. Despite claims that those countries are too dangerous for asylum seekers, each is safer than my erstwhile hometown of Baltimore, Md.
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