It only refers to the standing of the House to bring the lawsuit. The preliminary injunction preventing the building of more Wall still stands.
Mexico deploys military to curb migration, reportedly offers major concessions as Trump tariffs loom By Gregg Re | Fox News President Trump warns Mexico tariffs could still happen, urges Republicans to back strategy U.S. and Mexican officials meet in Washington on tariffs and immigration; Rich Edson reports from the State Department. With just days to go until the Trump administration is set to impose punishing tariffs on Mexico unless the country halts the unprecedented flow of illegal immigrants across the southern border, numerous signs that Mexico would capitulate emerged Thursday -- but it remained unclear Friday morning whether their efforts would satisfy the White House. Reports in the evening indicated that Mexico's negotiators with Washington have offered to immediately deploy 6,000 National Guard troops to the border with Guatemala. Additionally, Mexico has reportedly agreed to a major overhaul of reasonable asylum protocols, which would require asylum applicants to seek permanent refuge in the first country they arrive in after fleeing their home countries. For virtually all Central American migrants, that country would not be the United States. The Trump administration has already begun requiring asylum applicants to wait in Mexico while their claims are processed, saying too many applicants were using the system fraudulently to escape into the country. Last month, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals denied a request to stop that practice temporarily. However, two administration officials tell Fox News that while talks have been going well with Mexico, and that Mexico is making some fresh proposals, there is not yet a deal that U.S. officials are sure to imminently accept. Also on Thursday, Mexico's financial intelligence agency announced it had frozen the bank accounts of 26 people who it claimed "have presumably participated in migrant smuggling and the organization of illegal migrant caravans." The agency said it had detected money transfers from central Mexico to six Mexican border cities presumably related to the caravans. Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador on Thursday said the Mexican government does not "act against anybody to please any foreign government." Meanwhile, some 200 military police, immigration agents and federal police blocked the advance of about 1,000 Central American migrants who were walking north along a southern Mexico highway on Wednesday, once again showing a tougher new stance on attempts to use the country as a stepping-stone to the U.S. The group of migrants, including many women and children, set out early from Ciudad Hidalgo at the Mexico-Guatemala border and was headed for Tapachula, the principal city in the region. State and local police accompanied the caravan. The officials blocked the highway near the community of Metapa, about 11 miles from Tapachula. Unarmed agents wrestled some migrants who resisted to the ground, but the vast majority complied and boarded buses or immigration agency vans. Some migrants fainted and fell to the ground. One young man who collapsed was taken for medical attention. That afternoon, in Mexico City, police detained Irineo Mujica, the head of migrant aide group Pueblo Sin Fronteras, and Cristobal Sanchez, a migrant activist. Vice President Mike Pence, monitoring the talks from his travels in Pennsylvania, said the U.S. was "encouraged" by Mexico's latest proposals but, so far, tariffs still were set to take effect Monday. Trump, in announcing the tariffs last week, promised that they would swiftly increase if no action was taken. The president declared Wednesday evening that "not nearly enough" progress was being made in last-minute negotiations with Mexico. "On June 10th, the United States will impose a 5% Tariff on all goods coming into our Country from Mexico, until such time as illegal migrants coming through Mexico, and into our Country, STOP," Trump said on May 30. "The Tariff will gradually increase until the Illegal Immigration problem is remedied, ... ..at which time the Tariffs will be removed. Details from the White House to follow." Fox News is told the tariff on all goods by land, sea, and air from Mexico will hike to 10 percent on July 1 -- and potentially increase substantially from there. "If Mexico still has not taken action to dramatically reduce or eliminate the number of illegal aliens crossing its territory into the United States, Tariffs will be increased to 15 percent on August 1, 2019, to 20 percent on September 1, 2019, and to 25 percent on October 1, 2019," Trump said in a statement released later by the White House on Thursday. "Tariffs will permanently remain at the 25 percent level unless and until Mexico substantially stops the illegal inflow of aliens coming through its territory." The statement added: "Thousands of innocent lives are taken every year as a result of this lawless chaos. It must end NOW! ... Mexico’s passive cooperation in allowing this mass incursion constitutes an emergency and extraordinary threat to the national security and economy of the United States." Specifically, White House sources told Fox News that Mexico would need to step up security efforts on the border, target transnational smugglers, crack down on illicit bus lines and align with the U.S. on a workable asylum policy. Mexico could use certain so-called choke points on the southern border to curb illegal migration sharply, according to the sources. Arrests along the southern border have skyrocketed in recent months, with border agents making more than 100,000 arrests or denials of entry in March, a 12-year high. Immigration courts that process asylum claims currently have faced a backlog of more than 800,000 cases and asylum applicants increasingly have been staying in the U.S. even after their claims for asylum have been denied. More than 4,000 individuals have been apprehended at the border with children who are not their own in recent months, administration officials tell Fox News. And, Customs and Border Protection said it apprehended or turned away over 109,000 migrants attempting to cross the border in April, the second month in a row the number has topped 100,000. In a dramatic moment, more than 1,000 illegal immigrants were apprehended by border agents near the U.S.-Mexico border last week -- the largest ever group of migrants ever apprehended at a single time, sources told Fox News. The group of 1,036 illegal immigrants found in the El Paso sector included migrants from Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras, according to sources. The Trump administration has heavily focused on asylum law reforms, making the current reported Mexican overtures in that area particularly important. Asylum law, conservatives point out, is intended to shield individuals from near-certain death or persecution on account of limited factors like religious or political affiliation — not poor living conditions and economic despair. Last year, the Justice Department eliminated gang violence and domestic abuse as a possible justification for seeking asylum. Most asylum applicants are ultimately rejected for having an insufficient or unfounded personalized fear of persecution, following a full hearing of their case before an asylum officer or an immigration judge. Fox News' John Roberts and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
As of last night's news I have heard of no major concessions. Seems like you've got a scoop on your hands.
Syrian refugee arrested in plot to bomb Pittsburgh church for ISIS, feds say By Vandana Rambaran | Fox News Syrian man arrested for planning terror attack on Pittsburgh church The FBI foiled an attempted bomb plot and arrested a Syrian refugee on Wednesday who allegedly planned to bomb a church in Pittsburgh in the name of the Islamic State, investigators have revealed. Mustafa Mousab Alowemer, a 21-year-old Pittsburgh resident who was born in Daraa, Syria, and came to the U.S. as a refugee in 2016, met with an undercover FBI agent and an FBI source posing as ISIS sympathizers several times between April and June, according to the criminal complaint. He pledged an oath of allegiance to the leader of ISIS in a video he recorded of himself and had been in contact with another ISIS supporter who was also was under investigation, prompting the FBI to look into him. Pittsburgh shooting: How to respond to religious hate Rabbi Motti Selligson shares his reaction to the tragic shooting at Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, and gives some insight into how we should respond and deal with religious hate in today's world. FEMALE JIHADISTS ARE JUST AS 'MOTIVATED' TO BUILD AN ISLAMIC STATE AS MEN, REPORT CONCLUDES During these meetings, he allegedly provided details to bomb an unidentified Christian church on the north side of Pittsburgh, producing plot details and bomb materials he purchased along with copies of Google satellite maps that showed the details about the church including its location and various routes for arriving and escaping the premise. He planned to carry out the attacks in July by setting off the explosives around 3 or 4 a.m., according to the complaint. Alowemer has been charged with one count of attempting to provide material support to ISIS and two counts of distributing information relating to an explosive device or weapon of mass destruction, activities that the Assistant Attorney General for National Security John Demers called "beyond the pale." "Targeting places of worship is beyond the pale, no matter what the motivation," Demers said in a statement. Less than a year ago, in October 2018, a gunman opened fire inside the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, killing 11 people and wounding seven others. The suspect, 46-year-old Robert Bowers, has pleaded not guilty to dozens of charges, including hate crimes and criminal homicide. The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Texas governor to send 1,000 National Guard troops to border over growing migrant crisis By Fox News Staff | Fox News Texas Gov. Greg Abbott states that he will be sending 1,000 National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexican border, in order to tame the fires of the growing migrant crisis. Responding to Congress’ neglect of recognizing the humanitarian crisis at the border, Governor Abbott slammed members for their lack of action regarding the issue. “Congress is a group of reprobates for not addressing the crisis at our border,” Abbott said. “We’re not going to stand idly by and endanger the lives and safety of the state of Texas because Congress is refusing to do its job.” On Friday, Abbott said that the additional Guard members are expected to aid at temporary border facilities in both El Paso and the Rio Grande Valley and at various ports of entry – this deployment will raise the number of Guard members on the border to more than 2,000. After reports of neglected children at a Texas border facility surfaced, Republican leaders have been blasting Congress for their disregard – these comments came after Acting Customs and Border Protection Commissioner John Sanders urged Congress to pass a $4.6 billion border measure on Friday. “If those facts turn out to be true [with] that facility with those children, it is directly on Congress,” Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick comments. “It is not on the men and women of Border Patrol… It’s on Congress… They sit there on their hands and do nothing." This additional deployment will be entirely paid for by the federal government, Abbott said. Fox News’ Morgan Cheung and the Associated Press contributed to this report.
I wonder if he realizes that control of our borders is a responsibility of the federal government. Trump is going to have to Nationalize those troops and even then they can't be used for enforcement.
Trump doubles down on expected ICE raid amid pushback from local Dem politicians By Adam Shaw | Fox News President Trump on Saturday warned that illegal immigrants apprehended in an upcoming roundup by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) “broke the law” and will be deported -- even as local Democratic politicians are promising to oppose the operation. “The people that ICE will apprehend have already been ordered to be deported. This means that they have run from the law and run from the courts,” he tweeted. “These are people that are supposed to go back to their home country. They broke the law by coming into the country, & now by staying.” “When people come into our Country illegally, they will be DEPORTED!” he added. Outside the White House later on Saturday, he said that "everybody who came into the country illegally will be brought out of the country very legally." The Washington Post reported that ICE is expected to target 2,000 families in up to 10 cities, including Chicago, New York, Houston and Los Angeles. Trump had announced earlier this week that ICE will “begin the process of removing millions of illegal aliens who have illicitly found their way into the United States.” ICE said in a statement Friday that “due to law-enforcement sensitivities and the safety and security of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel, the agency will not offer specific details related to enforcement operations.” However, it said that ICE prioritizes arresting and removing those illegal immigrants “who pose a threat to national security, public safety and border security.” “In fact, 90 percent of aliens arrested by ICE's Enforcement and Removal Operations component in FY2018 had either a criminal conviction(s), pending criminal charge(s), were an ICE fugitive, or illegally re-entered the country after previously being removed,” the statement said. ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS FROM 52 COUNTRIES CROSSED US-MEXICO BORDER THIS YEAR The Miami Herald reported that among those first to be targeted will be minors who came into the U.S. without their parents and have since turned 18, people who were ordered removed in absentia and people who missed a court hearing and did not respond to letters mailed to their homes by the Department of Justice. Trump dismissed the opposition on Saturday, saying they were mostly "high crime" cities. "Well some cities are going to fight it. But if you notice they're generally high crime cities, if you look at Chicago they're fighting it. If you look at other cities they're fighting it. Many of those cities are high crime cities and they're sanctuary cities," he said. Fox News’ Louis Casiano, Jake Gibson, Madelin Fuerste and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Well in a weird way Trump may end up making Mexico pay for a wall.....but it will be on their southern border, not ours
I always figured if Donald was going to get something built as president it would be a McDonalds in the White House
Pretty sure when the new president comes in he'll find that the basement contains not just a McDonald's but a golf-themed brothel ("Three holes in one!"). barfo
The logistics of that are even worse than the logistics of a Wall between Mexico and the United States even though the border is not as long as the Northern one. You've got lakes, rivers, streams and jungle to contend with not to mention some nasty people who don't want that wall.
