https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-border-checkpoint-closures-20190419-story.html

This year, the traffic jams at the border crossings are especially bad, because the federal government has reassigned 750 staff from their usual duties at ports of entry and inland checkpoints to help deal with large numbers of Central American immigrant families who have been showing up at the border to claim asylum.

Through March of this year, a total of 189,584 people traveling in families sought asylum at the southern border — a 374% increase compared with the same period last year.

According to Border Patrol policy, all those migrants must be taken to holding areas to be “processed” — interviewed, fed and screened for medical issues.

The agents were reassigned this month after President Trump declared a national emergency. Now communities along the border are starting to feel the consequences.

The ports aren’t the only problem. U.S. Customs and Border Protection runs about 170 inland checkpoints, concentrated in the zone 100 miles north of the border.

Some El Paso area checkpoints are notorious for drug seizures, like Sierra Blanca, dubbed “Checkpoint of the Stars” by Texas Monthly for busting tour buses of celebrities including Willie Nelson and Snoop Dogg.

Last month, Border Patrol officials closed checkpoints in southeastern New Mexico and West Texas, and redirected staff to process migrant families. Vehicles that would have been stopped and inspected now flow north freely.

In southern New Mexico’s Otero County, commissioners voted to demand that the governor deploy National Guard troops to reopen the checkpoints and declared a state of emergency Thursday.

“If this demand is not met by the state of New Mexico in one week’s time, the County of Otero will take action itself to provide security and safety and well-being for the people in this county,” said Couy Griffin, who leads the county commission.

Griffin said county officials might also sue the state for “failing to follow its constitutional duties.”

Border emergency starting to have major impacts in the west, just not on the east coast

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/20/asia-pacific/u-s-arrests-former-marine-connected-north-korea-embassy-raid-spain/#.XLqXlHdFw5s

WASHINGTON - U.S. authorities on Thursday arrested a former U.S. Marine who is a member of a group that allegedly raided the North Korean Embassy in Madrid in February and stole electronics, according to two sources familiar with the arrest.

Christopher Ahn was arrested and had been expected to be arraigned Friday in federal court in Los Angles, according to a law enforcement official and a source close to the group.

Separately, federal agents raided the apartment of Adrian Hong, the leader of the group, The Washington Post reported, citing people familiar with the incident, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive law enforcement issue.

In a statement to The Post, Hong’s lawyer, Lee Wolosky, said he was “dismayed that the U.S. Department of Justice has decided to execute warrants against U.S. persons that derive from criminal complaints filed by the North Korean regime.”

Ahn, who was to appear in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, was involved in the group’s 2017 evacuation of the nephew of Kim Jong Un from Macau when potential threats to his life surfaced, according to Wolosky. The nephew was the son of Kim Jong Nam, the North Korean leader’s exiled half brother who was assassinated in a nerve-gas attack in a Malaysian airport that same year. Kim Jong Nam was widely believed to have been killed by the regime, making his son a likely target.

The anti-Kim group, which calls itself Cheolima Civil Defense, said the raid was not an attack and that it had been invited into the embassy.

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The cartels have run Mexico for quite a while now and AMLO doesn't seem to be onboard with that, our mil have probably already gamed just such a scenario out

https://spectator.org/slimy-group-therapy-for-the-trump-haters/

The Mueller Report is a 448 page-long primal scream of rage by the frustrated Hillary Clinton acolytes who wrote it and who utterly failed in their anointed mission to (a) lure President Trump into a General Flynn-style perjury trap and/or (b) goad him into obstructing their faux investigation of non-existent Trump campaign collusion with Russia.

Unable to find any evidence of actual criminality by the president, Team Mueller resorted to dirtying him up as much as possible for the benefit of their mainstream media and Democrat party fan clubs. This extra-prosecutorial exercise in character assassination was undoubtedly good group therapy for them and most likely will help them retain their social acceptability in progressive circles. But it had nothing to do with law enforcement as that term is understood in America.

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