Illegal immigration
January 26, 2024 — Steven Hayward
I haven’t followed the estimates and accounts of potential terrorists and other bad actors crossing over our southern border, but last week a groups of senior retried FBI agents wrote the following letter to our congressional leaders indicating their belief that the problem is serious indeed. Could there be a critical mass of infiltrators who stage a 10/7-style attack here? These agents think so. (You can click on each graphic
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January 25, 2024 — John Hinderaker
The Biden Administration has dealt a devastating blow to America by opening up the southern border to all comers. The influx of illegals threatens our national security and our economy, and it has placed an intolerable burden on the border states. How intolerable, is demonstrated by the panic that seizes blue cities when they are faced with a tiny fraction of the burden suffered by communities near the open border.
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January 24, 2024 — Scott Johnson
As he had vowed to do, President Biden opened the borders to illegal aliens on January 20, 2021. It was among his first acts in office and stands as an almost unbelievable act of willful destruction. Administration officials have both repeatedly lied about it and deflected blame over the years since that day. The Free Beacon’s Drew Holden notes that last week Biden acknowledged the border is not secure. “I
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January 23, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Texas installed concertina wire in the vicinity of Eagle Pass to prevent illegal immigrants from crossing the border into the state. Governor Abbot is of course trying to make up for President Biden’s opening of our southern border and refusal to enforce the immigration laws. Biden’s undoing of our border is an act of willful destruction. In addition to everything else, it seriously jeopardizes our national security. Everyone knows who
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January 22, 2024 — John Hinderaker
In the 2022 off-year election, nearly everyone expected Republicans to make big gains in Washington. But they didn’t: Democrats held the Senate and Republicans eked out a bare House majority. Meanwhile, gains in state elections were muted. In Minnesota, where I live, GOP hopes were dashed as the Democrats held the House, took the Senate, and won all the constitutional offices from the governor on down. Why these disappointments? The
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January 19, 2024 — Lloyd Billingsley
Salvadoran national Jose Guadalupe Menjivar-Alas, a four-time deportee, was recently taken into custody in Colorado “after a mother and her son died in a drunken driving collision.” In 2022, a non-citizen and alleged MS-13 gang member was charged with the murder of 20-year-old Kayla Hamilton. In late December 2018, false-documented illegal Gustavo Perez Arriaga, also known as Paulo Virgen Mendoza, murdered Newman, California, police officer Ronil “Ron” Singh, a legal
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January 14, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Like other “sanctuary cities,” New York has learned that being a refuge for illegal immigrants is a bad thing if they actually show up. So New York is buying them airplane tickets to go elsewhere. My colleague Bill Glahn reports: The Minneapolis Star Tribune had a headline yesterday noting that Minnesota is among the top states to which New York City is redirecting its excess illegal immigrant arrivals. The Star
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January 12, 2024 — John Hinderaker
During a television appearance last night, I was asked why the Biden administration pursues an open border policy that has had catastrophic consequences and is deeply unpopular with voters. It is a good question. I agreed with the host that liberals think they are importing a lot of future Democrats. I also think some Democrats perceive that mass illegal immigration dramatically increases the demand for social services, most of which
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January 8, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Liberals love to blame inanimate objects for their own policy failures. Guns are responsible for homicides; Hyundais and Kias are responsible for being stolen; and now, bus companies are responsible for New York City’s illegal immigrant crisis. The New York Post reports: [Mayor Adams’] latest gimmick is to sue bus companies bringing migrants from Texas. In announcing the lawsuit Thursday, Adams slammed what he called Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s “reckless
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January 6, 2024 — Scott Johnson
DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas appeared for an interview on FOX News Special Report with Bret Baier this past Thursday. FOX News has posted video of the whole thing here. At the Fox News site Charles Creitz reported on the interview here. Running for office President Biden invited illegal aliens of the world to come on in under his prospective presidency. On his first day in office he made good on
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January 4, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Across Western Europe, the right is rising. This strikes fear into the hearts of Brussels bureaucrats, as the London Times reports, with this headline: “‘Hormonal’ voters could hand hard-right victory, EU chief fears.” Josep Borrell, the EU’s high representative for foreign policy, warns that migration fears could send political shockwaves across Europe. Borrell, 76, a Spanish Socialist and former foreign minister, was referring to the fact that illegal immigration has
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December 31, 2023 — John Hinderaker
Donald Trump has made news by saying, in these Truth posts, that Joe Biden’s illegal open border policy is intended to generate fraudulent votes in the 2024 election: Those posts are classic Trump. Who else in our political history–at least since the first half of the 19th century–has talked that way? No one. But what about Trump’s specific claim that Biden has allowed millions of illegal aliens into the country
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December 30, 2023 — John Hinderaker
From the DHS comes confirmation that the Biden administration will issue ID cards to illegal immigrants: [The Office of Immigration Program Evaluation] is leading the ICE Secure Docket Card (SDC) project, which offers a uniform, durable card provided to noncitizens upon release, and facilitates reliable access to commonly lost or damaged immigration-related paperwork. The SDC will be integrated with the Unified Immigration Portal that ICE and [Customs and Border Protection]
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December 26, 2023 — John Hinderaker
California has so much going for it that it should have been indestructible. But it turns out there is nothing that liberalism can’t destroy. People–that is, taxpayers–are fleeing California in droves, and the state is experiencing a budget crisis. Conversely, illegal aliens who cross the southern border undetected generally head for California, where they know they can expect a warm welcome. And it is about to get warmer. California is
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December 20, 2023 — Scott Johnson
The New York Post cover story today is by Alex Oliveira: “Record 12,600 migrants encountered at border in 24 hours — as backlog for immigration hearings breaks 3 million.” The story reports on our self-created border crisis. When I say “self-created,” I mean created by President Joe Biden. Why would a president of the United States do what he has done? Even certain well-known Democratic officeholders are unhappy with the
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December 9, 2023 — John Hinderaker
We could write about illegal immigration every day, and we probably should. Our open southern border is one of the greatest long-term threats to our country’s survival in any recognizable form. Here is today’s bad news: The United States reportedly set a new record for the most single-day migrant encounters at its southern border, marking another historic casualty brought about by President Biden’s open border policies. According to Customs and
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October 30, 2023 — Scott Johnson
The Star Tribune has just posted Maya Rao’s weepy and euphemistic take on Hennepin County’s close encounter of the Biden kind with the flood of illegal immigrants that is washing up in Minneapolis from New York (thanks, Mayor Adams!) and south of the border. After a month in New York’s overcrowded homeless shelters, two Ecuadorian migrants and their baby recently received a free plane ticket to Minneapolis. They took a
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