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New Surge of Border Crossers Creating a Shortage of Detention Beds

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Fri, Oct 21^st 2016 @ 10:51 am EDT

Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson met with ICE and CBP officials on Tuesday to review their plans to hold the expected surge of people crossing the southern border in the next few weeks and months. Currently ICE is holding a record breaking 40,000 people in their detention centers but is expecting that number to rapidly increase to 45,000 in the next months, leaving ICE to scramble to find enough space to house the expected detainees.

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CIS: Asylum Claims are 10 Times Higher Than in 2009

Center for Immigration Studies Asylum Claims

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Wed, Oct 19^th 2016 @ 2:59 pm EDT

A new report from the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) analyzes statistics from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to show how asylum petitions have increased since 2004. According to the report, credible fear asylum cases began to dramatically increase after the Obama administration’s catch-and-release policy was enacted in 2009.

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DHS: Illegal Immigration Increased by 23% in FY16

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Wed, Oct 19^th 2016 @ 11:48 am EDT

According to the latest DHS report, released on Monday, the number of illegal aliens caught at the southern border increased around 23% from FY15. 408,870 illegal aliens were apprehended trying to cross the border in FY16 compared to the 331,333 illegal aliens apprehended in FY15.

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H.R. 1735: HASC vote on Gallego amendment (2015)

2015: House Armed Services Committee vote on Rep. Pete Gallego's (D-Texas) amendment to H.R. 1735 (NDAA)

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Lawsuit Charges Environmental Impacts of High Legal, Illegal Immigration Ignored

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Mon, Oct 17^th 2016 @ 5:47 pm EDT

The Washington Examiner reports the Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI) and a number groups are suing the Department of Homeland Security, alleging that its policies did not take into consideration the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act. Julie Axelrod, IRLI’s lead counsel on the case, said, “Our lawsuit will demonstrate that legal and illegal immigration have a very significant impact on the environment, which DHS has spent the last 46 years ignoring.”