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Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas says, “loving parents” in Central America are sending their children, alone, to the United States-Mexico border. During a press briefing on Monday, Mayorkas said Unaccompanied Alien Children (UACs) are being sent to the U.S. via an often deadly journey through Mexico by their “loving parents.” “We are not apprehending a 9-year-old child, who has come alone, who has traversed Mexico, whose parents … whose loving parents sent that child alone, we’re not expelling that 9-year-old child to Mexico when that child’s country of origin was Guatemala, Honduras, or El Salvador,” Mayorkas said. Mayorkas said DHS officials, along with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), are attempting to release UACs into the U.S. interior as quickly as possible. According to the U.S. Border Patrol union, President Joe Biden’s DHS has been holding hundreds of UACs in their custody longer than the legal limit. The law … [Read more...] about DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas: ‘Loving Parents’ Sending Children Alone to U.S.-Mexico Border

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas sounded a clear note Monday to unaccompanied minors headed for the border, declaring they could come to the United States. “We are not expelling young children,” he said. “We are not apprehending a nine-year-old child who’s come alone, who’s traversed Mexico, who’s parents, who’s loving parents, had sent that child alone.” Mayorkas appeared at the White House press briefing Monday afternoon to answer questions about President Joe Biden’s approach to handling the increasing flow of unattended child migrants coming to the United States from the southern border. Mayorkas said Customs and Border Patrol would continue to apprehend unattended children at the border and work quickly to get them transferred to a facility operated by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Under HHS, he said, a child would get health care, mental health care, and would get released to an adult sponsor “as soon as possible.” “We … [Read more...] about DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas: We Will Not Expel Children at Our Southern Border

A Mexican federal judge ordered the arrest of a former governor of the state of Nayarit and his daughter on money laundering charges. Allegations from Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office point to former Nayarit Governor Roberto Sandoval Castaneda and his daughter Lidy Alejandra Sandoval Lopez as having had laundered hefty cartel bribes during the politician’s time in office. Sandoval served as governor of Nayarit from 2011 to 2017. Además, existen datos de prueba, tanto en el fuero común como el federal, de su presunta vinculación con diversas personas que han sido detenidas en un país extranjero por delitos relacionados con la delincuencia organizada. — FGR México (@FGRMexico) March 1, 2021 According to authorities, Sandoval worked through his state attorney general to benefit friendly criminal organizations such as Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion and factions of the Beltran Leyva in exchange for bribes. The politician allegedly used his daughter — who was a college … [Read more...] about Money Laundering Arrest Warrant Issued in Mexico for Former State Governor

Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents arrested nearly four dozen migrants over the weekend. The arrests came following a police pursuit and raids on two human smuggling stash houses near the Texas border with Mexico. Webb County Constables Office Precinct 2 contacted Laredo South Station officials on the morning of February 26 about a vehicle that failed to yield. When the police pursuit ended, the driver and passengers jumped from the vehicle and fled, according to information obtained from Laredo Sector Border Patrol officials. The constable’s deputy chased down the driver, a U.S. citizen, while the Border Patrol agents rounded up ten illegal aliens, officials stated. The agents reported the migrants entered the U.S. after traveling from Guatemala and Mexico. The deputy arrested the driver and the agents took the migrants to the Laredo South Station for processing under current sector guidelines. Later that day, Laredo Police Department officials contacted the Border Patrol … [Read more...] about Police Chase, Stash House Raids, Lead to Arrest of Dozens near Border in Texas

The speedy re-opening of mothballed detention facilities and new construction projects along the border show the Biden administration knows exactly what is on the horizon. In a press conference on Monday, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas clearly invites illegal border crossers to come to the United States, with one caveat — not now, but soon. “We are not saying don’t come, we are saying don’t come now because we will be able to deliver a safe and orderly process to them as quickly as possible,” Secretary Mayorkas stated when answering a question related to how long it might take to rebuild the United States’ immigration system. The re-opening of a facility in South Texas designed to accommodate an influx of unaccompanied migrant children and soft-sided detention facilities in the Texas Rio Grande Valley serve as telling signs of things to come. Primarily, that Secretary Mayorkas understands what the future holds as a result of the … [Read more...] about Clark: Border Activity Contradicts DHS Secretary’s ‘No Crisis’ Message