Border Patrol Stops Four Illegal Migrant Sex Offenders From Entering U.S. In One Day

Border Patrol stopped four illegal migrants who are sex offenders, some with convictions of crimes against children, at the southern border in just one day this week.

Border Patrol Chief Jason Owens said in a tweet that agents arrested the four sex offenders on Wednesday.

Yesterday alone, USBP agents arrested 4 convicted sex offenders with charges of: “Sexual abuse of a child”, “rape by force/fear”, “indecency with a child and aggravated sexual assault”, & “indecency with a child, exposes.” pic.twitter.com/Z8PGrXkFz3

— Chief Jason Owens (@USBPChief) August 3, 2023

The four arrested had charges including “sexual abuse of a child,” “rape by force/fear,” “indecency with a child and aggravated sexual assault,” and “indecency with a child, exposes,” Owens said.

Last week, Owens said agents encountered another three sex offenders in a single day along with 10 firearms and two armed subjects.

Owens became head of Border Patrol last month. He frequently tweets out details and pictures of Border Patrol busts, including narcotics seizures, arrests of armed smugglers, and smuggled migrants in tractor trailers.

A typical day for USBP agents…

Yesterday, we encountered 10 firearms, 3 sex offenders, 2 armed subjects, & recovered 2 stolen vehicles. On top of our enforcement efforts, we also rescued & reunited a missing elderly citizen w/ her family.

Proud of our men & women in green! pic.twitter.com/PUSTcXd5mN

— Chief Jason Owens (@USBPChief) July 27, 2023

 

In December, Border Patrol arrested three sex offender migrants who have abused children and reentered the country after being deported. One had been convicted of aggravated sexual assault of a child in Houston in March of last year. Another had been convicted of indecency with a child involving sexual contact and was deported in 2020. The third migrant had been convicted of indecent liberties with a child in North Carolina in 2007 and was deported in 2009.

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Amid record high migrant encounters under the Biden administration, sex offender encounters by border authorities have spiked.

In fiscal year 2019, 58 sex offenders were arrested. That number jumped to 156 in 2020 and 488 in 2021.

One Republican congressman from Texas sounded off on the issue in December.

“Border Patrol agents … are doing everything they can to find those sex offenders and those rapists and those murderers and those violent criminals, but they’re being relegated to administrative duties inside some processing center, and they’re not able to actually get out there — not to mention the overwhelming numbers. So it’s just incomprehensible to think this is going on and there’s nothing being done,” Representative August Pfluger (R-TX) told the Washington Examiner.

A record 2.4 million illegal migrants were encountered by border authorities in fiscal year 2022, according to Customs and Border Protection.

The Biden administration has allowed at least 541,000 migrants into the country through the parole authority, which allows the federal government to let in migrants without visas.

Critics also point out the number of gotaways, or migrants who entered the country illegally, but were not apprehended. There were nearly 600,000 migrant gotaways in 2022, according to one report.

Exacerbating the issue is the end of Title 42, a COVID emergency rule that allowed authorities to deport migrants quickly back to Mexico. Title 42 expired on May 11 after several previous attempts by the Biden administration to end it.

Frustrated border states have shipped some of the migrants flooding their border towns to northern states, particularly Democrat-run cities like New York City, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles.

In New York, more than 90,000 migrants have arrived in the city since April of last year. As of this month, about 55,000 are still being housed on the city’s dime, causing New York’s homeless shelters to burst at the seams and Mayor Eric Adams to complain about the burden on the city.

Federal Judge Blocks Illinois Law Targeting Crisis Pregnancy Centers: ‘Violation Of The First Amendment’

A federal judge has blocked a new Illinois law that targets crisis pregnancy centers in the state, saying that it violates the First Amendment

The bill that was signed into law last week by Governor J.B. Pritzker (D-IL) allows the state’s attorney general to investigate a case of alleged consumer fraud against crisis pregnancy centers accused of deceptive practices, but it has raised concerns that it would be used to target pro-life centers that suggest an association between abortion and breast cancer or infertility.

“The bill is painfully and blatantly a violation of the First Amendment,” U.S. District Judge Iain Johnston said on Thursday. 

“There’s no doubt who the Attorney General wants to win or lose in the market place of ideas, but the government doesn’t get to decide that,” Johnston, a Trump-appointee, added. “The people do.”

Almost immediately after the law was enacted, the Thomas More Society, a conservative law firm that fights in defense of religious liberty and free speech, filed a suit challenging the law. 

“Free Speech won today in the Land of Lincoln — pro-life advocates across Illinois can breathe a sigh of relief they won’t be pursued for ‘misinformation’ by Attorney General Kwame Raoul,” Peter Breen, the executive vice president and head of litigation for the Thomas More Society, said after the judge’s ruling.

The suit was filed on behalf of the National Institute of Family and Life Advocates, Women’s Pregnancy Services, Rockford Family Initiative, Relevant Pregnancy Options Center, and the Pro-Life Action League.

“Across the nation, pregnancy help ministries are being discriminated against by laws that target their life-affirming work,” said Breen. “The injunction granted today sends a strong, clear message to the country that the First Amendment protects pro-life speech.”

Centers found guilty of alleged “misinformation, deceptive practices, or misrepresentation” could have faced $50,000 in fines if found guilty. 

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Pritzker said he believes that the law will ultimately take effect and keep women in the state from accessing so-called “misinformation.”

“I’m disappointed that the far-right is interfering with the ability for women to access safe medical care without deception or lies,” he said. “This law is constitutional and I am confident that the law will ultimately be found constitutional and we’ll continue to work alongside Attorney General Raoul to ensure Illinois patients are protected from misinformation.”

Vermont has instituted a similar law taking aim at pro-life pregnancy centers, a law that is also being challenged in court.

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