Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) on Friday announced he is sponsoring a bill that would put a 10-year freeze on all immigration into the United States, arguing the pause is needed to help stem the current surge in illegal border crossings. “We can’t have legal immigration when we have rampant illegal alien invaders. This is a threat to our national security and our economy and to our citizens,” Gosar said in a statement announcing HR 4643, a bill that seeks “to prohibit the admission of aliens to the United States for 10 years” from the date of its potential enactment. The backdrop for Gosar’s initiative is the border surge, with federal immigration officials recently announcing that they had apprehended 188,829 people illegally crossing the southwest border in June, up from 180,034 in May. The figure includes more than 15,000 unaccompanied minors, over 55,000 family units, and over 117,000 single adults. Gosar blamed the spike in …

Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) on July 23 announced he’s sponsoring a bill that would put a 10-year freeze on all immigration into the United States, arguing that the pause is needed to help stem the current surge in illegal border crossings. “We can’t have legal immigration when we have rampant illegal alien invaders. This is a threat to our national security and our economy and to our citizens,” Gosar said in a statement announcing HR 4643, a proposal that seeks “to prohibit the admission of aliens to the United States for 10 years” from the date of its potential enactment. The backdrop for Gosar’s initiative is the border surge, with federal immigration officials recently announcing that they had apprehended 188,829 people illegally crossing the southwest border in June, up from 180,034 in May. The figure includes more than 15,000 unaccompanied minors, over 55,000 family units, and more than 117,000 single adults. Gosar blamed the spike …

The United States Attorney’s Office in Arizona reported that 241 individuals were charged with illegal entry in June, 40 with violent crime convictions. Of the 241 charged, 178 had previously been convicted of non-immigration criminal offenses in the United States, according to the agency’s Arizona June 2021 Immigration and Border Crimes report. The report said that six illegal aliens had homicide convictions while eight individuals had sex offense convictions. Another six had convictions for domestic violence; 10 had property crime convictions; 36 had drunken-driving convictions, and 90 had drug crime convictions. In addition, 74 illegals were charged in June with smuggling illegal immigrants, the report added. These numbers represent United States Attorney’s Office prosecutions only and do not include those apprehended by immigration enforcement officials and “subjected solely to administrative process,” according to the report. In March 2020, the DHS instituted a policy of “expeditiously” returning aliens who illegally enter …