LAWLESS LAWYERS - Texas Attorney Who Allegedly Claimed to Be Federal Immigration Judge Arrested for Smuggling Migrants - BUT HOW IS THIS ANY DIFFERENT THAT GAMER LAWYER JOE BIDEN'S MASSIVE INVASION?
Texas Attorney Who Allegedly Claimed to Be Federal Immigration Judge Arrested for Smuggling Migrants
(CNS News) – A Texas attorney, who reportedly told officers he was a federally appointed immigration judge, was arrested on Aug. 13 in Kinney County, Texas on four counts of human smuggling as a part of Republican Gov. Abbott’s Operation LoneStar.
The attorney, Timothy Daniel Japhet, told CNS News that he never identified himself as an immigration judge. However, the police affidavit says that, “Japhet stated he was an appointed Judge in Nueces County, and his State Bar number is 24038976.”
Japhet, like all persons, is considered innocent of all charges unless found guilty in a court of law.
According to an affidavit provided to CNS News by the Texas Department of Public Safety, on Aug. 13 State Trooper Wanda Wolfe “observed a Black BMW passenger car […] fail to drive in a single lane.” After pulling the car over, the driver identified himself as Timothy Daniel Japhet.
“Within the vehicle there were 4 undocumented immigrants who all provided identification cards from Mexico and were referred to USBP,” the affidavit states. (USBP is the U.S. Border Patrol.)
Japhet told KPRC 2 television that he had picked up the men as hitchhikers and was not smuggling them.
According to the affidavit, Japhet was arrested on four counts of the Class 3 felony “Smuggling of Persons (TXPC 20.05(b)).”
According to Trooper Wolfe in the affidavit, the route upon which Japhet was traveling raised suspicion:
“Japhet stated he lived in Corpus Christi traveled to Eagle Pass then went to Del Rio and was now traveling to San Antonio from Del Rio. Japhet was traveling north on RM 674 which is not a direct route from Del Rio to San Antonio and is a known route for illegally transporting undocumented immigrants.”
Japhet told CNS News in an email, “I haven’t seen the video but we were on a two lane FM road with no shoulder and a two-foot fog line…no one could stay between those lines.”
Wolfe asked Japhet to step out while “a Galveston County Constable detained him,” the affidavit reads.
Despite the arrest taking place near the U.S.-Mexico border in Kinney County, Texas, “the arrest was handled by a Galveston County Precinct 2 Deputy Constable, working that area as a part of Operation Lone Star,” reported Robert Arnold of Houston’s KPRC 2.
Japhet told KPRC 2 that he had picked up the four men as hitchhikers and was not smuggling them.
The affidavit also claims that “Japhet stated he was an appointed Judge in Nuecs County, and his State Bar number is 24038976.”
On Aug. 20, Galveston Constable for Precinct 2 Jimmy Fullen posted to Facebook, announcing the arrest of “a licensed Texas attorney and Federally appointed immigration magistrate,” for “smuggling of a human and resisting arrest.”
On Aug. 23, Constable Fullen posted an additional post to his Facebook, clarifying some of the ambiguous aspects of his original post about Japhet’s arrest. According to the post, Japhet “was in fact arrested on four counts of smuggling a human,” and “deputy Gonzales filed for and is currently awaiting for a warrant to be issued for Resisting Arrest and Transport.”
Additionally, the post explains that “the arrestee stated to Deputy Gonzales several times once in custody that he was a federal immigration judge.” As Fullen clarifies, “that assertion by the arrested has since been disproved.”
Fullen also included a series of photos from the arrest, one of which features Japhet’s State Bar of Texas Card, which according to the photo, was licensed on May 5, 2003.
Timothy Japhet explained to CNS News in an email that much of what the Constable is saying is not accurate and is in effect “making the prosecution’s job much harder by muddying the water with garbage.”
CNS asked Japhet if he had identified himself to the arresting officers that he is a federally appointed immigration judge, as stated in the affidavit, Fullen’s Facebook Post, as well as numerous media reports.
“I never claimed that at all but I did identify myself as a lawyer,” Japhet replied. “Only an idiot would claim to be anything like that […] I’m not a federal anything, never claimed to be and never have been. That assertion is silly.”
According to the State Bar of Texas, Timothy Daniel ‘Dan’ Japhet has been a licensed attorney in the State of Texas since May 5, 2003.
Japhet also provided CNS News with some critical comments about Governor Abbot’s Operation Lone Star:
“It’s sad that everyone is talking about this and not the private police force, prison system, detainee camps and judiciary that Governor Abbott has established in South Texas that answers only to him. Seriously, only answer to him. Or that he sold Operation Lone Star as a deterrent but it’s the opposite because they aren’t detaining anyone but Americas. The illegals are all catch and released back across.”
As Japhet alleges, these “detained Americans are not given phone calls, access to attorneys, medical care or food, but the Bureau of Prisons has no jurisdiction over these guys because they are only detainees.”
According to the Texas Military Department, “Operation Lone Star integrates TMD with the Texas Department of Public Safety to deploy border security assets top high threat area to deny criminal organizations the ability to illegally move drugs and people to Texas.”
The initiative was implemented by Gov. Abbott in March 2021 in response to the rising number of border crossings under the Biden administration.
According to a Magistrate Warning provided to CNS News by the Texas Department of Public Safety, Japhet’s bail was set at $40,000 in total, or $10,000 for each of the four counts of human smuggling.
Japhet was released on Aug. 19 after posting bail. No indictment has been issued yet, the Daily Wire reports.
Congressional Budget Office: U.S. Population Growth Will Be ‘Entirely’ Driven by Immigration by 2043
(CNSNews.com) - The Congressional Budget Office is predicting in a demographics report it published in July that by 2043 population growth in the United States will be “entirely” driven by net immigration.
“By 2043, deaths exceed births,” says the CBO report, “population growth after that point is driven entirely by net immigration, in CBO’s projections.”
“Over the course of the next decade, immigration accounts for about three-quarters of the overall increase in the size of the population, and the net effects of fertility and mortality account for the remaining quarter,” says the report.
“After 2032, population growth is increasingly driven by net immigration, which accounts for all population growth in 2043 and beyond,” it says.
“Population growth is determined by births, deaths, and net immigration,” says the CBO report. “In CBO’s projections, fertility rates remain low and immigration becomes an increasingly important part of overall population growth.”
According to the CBO’s projections, the number of babies born to American women will continue below the “replacement rate” into the future.
“In CBO’s projections, the total fertility rate falls to 1.60 births per woman in 2021, rises to 1.75 births per woman in 2030, and remains at that value thereafter,” it says. “That rate is below the replacement rate—the fertility rate required for a generation to exactly replace itself in the absence of immigration—of about 2.1 births per woman.”
The CBO projects that the numbers of both legal and illegal immigrants coming to the United States will increase in the coming years.
“CBO develops its projections of net immigration (the number of all people who enter the United States less the number who leave in that year) using three categories: lawful permanent residents (LPRs), who are authorized to work, liable to pay income taxes, and eligible for most federal programs; legal temporary residents (LTRs), whose eligibility for federal programs is limited; and foreign-born people without legal status, who are generally not eligible for federal programs,” explains the CBO report.
“Under current law, annual net immigration to the United States would rise from 950,000 people, on average, in the first decade of the projection period to 1.1 million people, on average, in the third decade, CBO projects,” says the report.
“LPRs, which are the largest category of projected total net flows, rise from 800,000 to 870,000 people per year, on average, from the first decade to the third decade in CBO’s projections,” it says.
“Net flows of foreign-born people without legal status rise from 80,000 people per year, on average, in the first decade to 150,000 people per year in the third decade,” says the report. “CBO projects net flows of LTRs to be 80,000 people per year, on average, throughout the 30-year projection period.”
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