Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com CBP plans to hire 2,000 new agents thanks to funding provided in the 2014 budget, KTAR reports. The hiring of agents to secure the air, land and sea ports has nothing to do with the current immigration crisis involving unaccompanied Central American children, officials said. “This was in the pipeline,” said CBP…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com “La Bestia” is a hit song in Central America. Turns out, the song, which chronicles the dangers of Mexican freight trains, was reportedly written by Customs and Border Protection as propaganda to discourage immigration to the U.S., the Washington Times reports. “Migrants from everywhere, entrenched along the rail ties/Far away from where…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An armed militia leader drew criticism for urging U.S. residents in a video to confront and intimidate illegal immigrants who come across the border. The Los Angeles Times reports that Chris Davis has since removed the 21-minute YouTube video. “You see an illegal. You point your gun dead at him, right between…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Central American immigrants illegally crossing the border at alarming rates do not present a danger to Americans and can be handled by the CBP, the agency’s commissioner, Gil Kerlikowske, said Sunday, according to ABC News. “These are family members, these are not gang members, these are not dangerous individuals,” Kerlikowske told…
By Desert Sun Editorial Board Desert Sun The protests in Murrieta that turned away buses full of undocumented women and children last week is not a chapter in the long story of immigration of which to be proud. There’s lots of blame to go around. President Obama deserves some for over-promising the message that refugees…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Flights that were scheduled to begin flying Central American immigrants from Texas to California today to ease up on overcrowded conditions have been canceled, NBC News reports. What’s unclear is why the flights were stopped, said Ralph DeSio, a spokesman for Customs and Border Protection. “This whole thing is in a very…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Michigan congresswoman is urging President Obama to dispatch the National Guard to address a growing humanitarian crisis involving tens of thousands of children illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, Fox News reports. U.S. Rep. Candice Miller, a Republican, urged the president in a letter to address the overcrowding along the border. “I…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The head of internal affairs at Customs and Border Protection was removed from his position Monday following criticism that he wasn’t aggressive enough with agents accused of using inappropriate force, the Los Angeles Times reports. James F. Tomsheck, whose job is to root out corruption among the federal government’s largest law enforcement…
