'From February 2022 to December 2023, Congress appropriated about three times as much money for its response to the conflict in Ukraine as the federal government spent on Customs and Border Protection. ...'
'...the deal would allegedly include setting an allowance of 5,000 migrant crossings per day into the United States, grant work permits to the adult children of H-1B visa holders, and automatically grant work permits to undocumented migrants as soon as they are released from custody. ...'
'...students will have to pivot to remote learning due to the disruption it is causing – sparking outrage from residents and local politicians. New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ office said it is moving 1,900 migrants...'
'...So far this year, 169 individuals with positive terrorism watchlist matches tried to cross the southern border into the United States. ...a “tenfold increase” from the fiscal year 2021 numbers. ...the Republican lawmakers are demanding answers from Biden on a number of border-related questions, including: • What proactive moves are underway to bolster the security'
'While these data points highlight the chaos that President Biden’s failed border policies created, they only tell part of the story. This administration’s goal has never been to fix the border crisis but to simply hide the evidence. To that end, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has tried to "legalize" illegal immigration by funneling migrants into unlawful release – or as they say in immigration law jargon, "parole" – programs it created, and we have no idea how many or what kind of people are entering the United States through this boondoggle. ...Earlier this year, the Biden administration created a program that allows migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela to enter and remain in the United States legally for two years and receive nearly instant work authorization. The Biden administration took this major step without the consent of Congress, acting unilaterally to offer work status for up to 360,000 people a year. ...'
'...More encounters were recorded on the United States’ southern border in the 2023 fiscal year than any other since the government began collecting those records in 1960, shocking new data showed. ...“These are individuals whose identities & purpose we do not know. That is why you need every Border Patrol agent to be in the field and on patrol'
'...For the first time ever, U.S. border agents encountered over 3.2 million illegal aliens on America’s borders in a single fiscal year, a number that is greater than the combined population of Hawaii, Alaska, and Vermont. ...'
'...Proponents of the “open border” narrative in the past have pointed to Biden’s support of enforcing unauthorized border crossings as a civil offense instead of a criminal one during a Democratic presidential debate as evidence of open-border policies. Biden’s decision to halt border wall construction on his first day in office in January also has contributed to the narrative of open borders. ...'
'Just three days: That’s how long it took for Republicans to adopt a new orthodoxy on how the Biden administration should respond to Palestinian refugees fleeing the violence in Gaza. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis went first. “I don’t know what Biden’s going to do, but we cannot accept people from Gaza into this country as refugees,” DeSantis said in Iowa on Saturday, establishing a red line that the other frontrunners for the Republican presidential nomination would soon adopt. ...'
'They included citizens from state sponsors of terrorism such as Iran and Syria...worries about the threat of terrorists sneaking into the country. In all, more than 70,000 migrants have been picked up from countries of particular concern, according to leaked Custom and Border Protection data. They include 6,386 nationals from Afghanistan, where the Taliban took control in 2021 after a 20-year war, 659 people from Iran, which backs the terrorist group Hamas, and Syria, which is designated as a state sponsor of terrorism. ...'
'...Schaefer’s House Bill (HB) 20 would create a “Border Protection Unit” within the Department of Public Safety to “eventually” relieve National Guardsmen and other law enforcement of the border patrol responsibilities they have been performing, Phelan’s office said. HB 20 adds language to state law codifying the duty of the State of Texas to secure the border. The governor would appoint a border patrol unit chief who could then hire “law-abiding citizens without a felony conviction” to serve on the state’s border patrol. The bill gives the unit a sunset date of December 31, 2030 and contains strict severability clauses demanding enforcement of the law to the greatest degree possible....'
'...But this week’s howler was a much more consequential lie. When asked about congressional concerns about the border crisis, she said, “The president has done more to secure the border, to deal with this issue of immigration than anybody else. He really has.” You might dismiss this as a laughable but harmless fairy tale, like Biden’s supposedly boundless energy, but it has real policy consequences. ...'
'Three days after The Post exposed 114 gates in the Arizona border wall have been welded wide open, allowing thousands to illegally enter the US, nothing has changed. New images taken Thursday show brazen human smugglers in a dark-colored van and a white SUV pull up and shamelessly drop migrants on the Mexican side of the border. They then escort them through the open gates...'
'...So most of the people – actually all of the people, with one exception – that I spoke to for this story, they flew first to Hong Kong. And then from Hong Kong they flew to Turkey, to Istanbul; from there they took a flight to the capital of Ecuador, because Ecuador is the only country in South America that is visa-free for Chinese visitors. ...'
'US Citizenship and Immigration Services' new policy says immigrants can select a gender marker that does not match supporting documentation...'
'...Crowd control measures were used when the group of mainly Venezuelan migrants continued to press forward, though according to sources at the border, the efforts were thwarted. ... President Biden again appealed for Republicans to pass parts of the bill, but lawmakers have balked at the inclusion of a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants, which Democrats have indicated is a must.'
'The Guarantee Clause requires the United States to guarantee to the states a republican form of government, and provide protection from foreign invasion and domestic violence. ...because protection against invasion or domestic violence is normally available only from Congress and the President, the structure of this section suggests that the political branches have at least the primary duty to carry out its obligations.'
