The three individuals charged in the murder of a Virginia teenager in September allegedly entered the U.S. illegally as unaccompanied minors in 2013, skipped their immigration hearings, and had been ordered removed “in absentia,” according to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA).
During September, the final month of the fiscal year, nearly 10,000 unaccompanied minors and family unit members were apprehended illegally entering the U.S. through the southern border. That is, Border Patrol intercepted 4,476 unaccompanied minors and 5,273 illegal immigrant family unit members.
The number of Latin American migrants crossing the southern border increased this August compared to last August, boosting the total migrant inflow to more than 240,000 since 2011.
As the number of unaccompanied minors from Central America attempting to illegally come to America have increased over the summer, DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson is on a media campaign to dissuade people from making the journey or sending their children.
The number of illegal immigrant unaccompanied minors granted asylum by the Obama administration has increased by more than 4,100 percent since Fiscal Year 2013, Breitbart News has learned.
While this year the number of unaccompanied Central American minors apprehended attempting to illegally enter the U.S. is slightly lower than last year, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) reports that the level of migration from Central America is still high.
ICE notes that the UACs who have been removed were under 18 at the time of their initial book-in but might have been under 18 at the time of removal. Further, the removal totals include those identified as UACs as far back as FY 2009 through 2014/2015. The numbers of UACs entering the U.S., however, dwarf those that have been removed.
Large numbers of unaccompanied minors and incomplete families once again cross the Texas border. The numbers are not as great as last summer’s surge but Border Patrol agents tell Breitbart Texas that significant crossings have again resumed.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said that unaccompanied minors crossing the US border “should be sent back” during a CNN townhall on June 17, 2014. Hillary, who on Tuesday accused Republicans of being “on a spectrum of hostility” toward immigrants,
According to an HHS report, provided to Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) and obtained by Breitbart News, in Fiscal Year 2014 immigration officials released 53,550 unaccompanied illegal immigrant minors to sponsors throughout the U.S.
Mexico now deports more Central American migrants than the United States, a dramatic shift since the U.S. asked Mexico for help a year ago with a spike in illegal migration, especially among unaccompanied minors.
The Hispanic-dominated Los Angeles Unified School District Board has decided it is better to let failing students graduate with D grades rather than deny them a diploma because of their poor grades in college prep classes.
The number of family unit apprehensions for the first seven months of this fiscal year compared to the same timeframe last year is also down — with 16,997 apprehensions as the southern border compared to 26,341 family unit apprehensions in the same timeframe last fiscal year.
Customs and Border Protection has a contingency plan in its 2016 budget request to spend up to $134.5 million “to provide the necessary support activities” in the event of a future influx of unaccompanied illegal immigrant youths.
Expect another surge of illegals. Although the Obama administration has adopted a range of efforts to stop Central American children from illegally coming to the U.S. — including implementing a program to fly them here instead — a new report projects 39,000 unaccompanied minors and 35,000 family units will be apprehended at the southern border this fiscal year.
More than 15,640 unaccompanied minors were apprehended illegally entering the U.S. from October 1, 2014 through March 31, 2015 according to updated government figures. The new data show an increase of 3,138 unaccompanied minors over previous totals in February at 12,509 unaccompanied minors.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), in collaboration with the US State Department, had launched a program that would allow Central American minors (CAMs). The program is formerly referred to as Unaccompanied Alien Children (UACs) to reach the US safely
Democrat Texas State Representative Ana Hernandez (D-Houston), has filed a bill that would require a Texas Supreme Court committee to develop an educational guide that would assist judges in determining which children are eligible for “special immigrant juvenile status” (“SIJS”). Federal law gives special protections to eligible unaccompanied immigrant children (“UACs”) who have entered the country illegally.
A bipartisan delegation of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC) was at Anzalduras Park on the Rio Grande border on Saturday. Breitbart Texas was there when Chairman Ron Johnson (R-WI), ranking member Tom Carper (D-DE), and committee member Ben Sasse (R-NE), finished their Rio Grande tour of the war-torn region near Reynosa and Matamoros.
Congressman Randy Weber (R-TX) has re-introduced a bill to hold Central American nations accountable for illegal immigrants from their countries by cutting off foreign aid. The bill (H.R. 439, attached below) is in response to last summer’s invasion of illegal immigrants and unaccompanied minors mostly from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala.
For the first time, more immigrants illegally crossing the southern border of the United States came from countries other than Mexico. Central Americans from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras accounted for 239,229 of the FY 2014 apprehensions while the number