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Daily Public Schedule for April 23, 2019:
11:45AM POTUS participates in a photo opportunity with the WH News Photographers Assoc award recipients.
12:30PM POTUS has lunch with the VP Pence.
3:45PM POTUS participates in a swearing-in ceremony of the Secretary of the Interior.
Arizona mayor declares state of emergency amid immigration crisis
By Janet Shamlian CBS News April 22, 2019, 6:41 PM
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/yuma-arizona-mayor-declares-state-of-emergency-amid-immigration-crisis-today-2019-04-22/?bcmt=1
Yuma, Ariz. — On the front line of Arizona's border battle, agents gather names and offer water to migrants before taking them to detention centers. Seventy-two hours later, the migrants, mostly families from Central America, are released into Yuma, a city of 100,000 with just one shelter, a converted Salvation Army thrift store with 200 beds.
Yuma's mayor declared a state of emergency, asking for state and federal funds.
"It's like if a hurricane's coming and you don't prepare for it. This is the same kind of thing," Mayor Douglas Nicholls said.
More than 24,000 families crossed in the Yuma sector between October of last year and this March, up 273 percent from the same period a year earlier. Immigrants can get stuck in Yuma for days because they can't get a bus ticket out. If there were more buses, migrants could be moved out of the community quicker.
Despite the challenges, the city is full of heart. Ruth Velasquez gives away warm clothes at the bus stop.
"I have everything I need. But these people don't," she said.
Apprehensions at the southwest border are at a 12 year high. Last month, almost 9,000 of those detained were unaccompanied children.
"What I think people don't understand about this crisis is just the word itself. It's a crisis. It's not in their community yet, but it could be," said Justin Kallinger, an operations officer with U.S. Customs and Border Patrol.
Asylum seekers overwhelming a border town, with little relief on the horizon.
Trump orders crackdown on visa overstays
by Rob Crilly
| April 22, 2019 08:35 PM
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/trump-orders-crackdown-on-visa-overstays
The Trump administration is considering suspending or limiting entry of nationals from countries with high rates of visa overstays as it seeks to clamp down on illegal immigration.
President Trump signed a memo on Monday giving the State and Homeland Security departments 120 days to come up with measures to tackle the problem.
“We have laws that need to be followed to keep Americans safe and to protect the integrity of a system where, right now, there are millions of people who are waiting in line to come to America to seek the American Dream," Trump said.
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While recent attention has focused on migrants illegally crossing the border, the nonpartisan Center for Migration Studies says the visa overstays account for a higher number of illegal immigrants.
The White House said the latest figures showed 415,000 individuals were suspected to have remained in the U.S. after overstaying their nonimmigrant visas during fiscal 2018.
Officials will target nations that have overstay rates greater than 10%. Those include Afghanistan, Angola, Bhutan, Burundi, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Eritrea, Georgia, Laos, Liberia, Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, and Yemen, according to the most recent Department of Homeland Security data.
Some have overstay rates as high as 40%, according to the White House.
The memo also tasks officials with exploring ways to stop visitors abusing the visa waiver scheme, and it lays the groundwork for using admission bonds, refundable deposits, to ensure people leave on time.
Trump has tasked two of his most senior advisers with tackling immigration concerns.
Stephen Miller, a hard-line figure from the economic nationalist wing of the Trump campaign, is focused on strengthening enforcement of existing regulations to prevent and deter migrants crossing the border.
At the same time, Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, is conducting a bigger-picture review of immigration policy that could even allow an increase in legal migration as part of a shift to a merit-based system that would end the visa lottery and family-based visas, something dismissed by Trump as “chain migration."
Don't be shallow anon. He fights for us every day, and the left says the most horrible things about him. They can't stand that he is trying to keep us and this country safe.
I just don't get folks being so anti-jewish on here. I am not even Jewish, and find it disgusting. Why can't folks just judge people by their character? I could care less about someone's religion or color etc.