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    My Job Was Getting Countries to Take Back Their Criminal Illegal Aliens. Under Biden-Harris, I’d Be Unemployed—The BorderLine
    In the United States today, there are over 660,000 illegal aliens with pending criminal charges for crimes other than just crossing the border illegally. By all law and logic, they should be behind bars. Instead, they are allowed to roam free throughout the country, putting all the risk of their future misbehavior on American communities…
    Simon Hankinson
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    Minors – The Greatest Victims of America’s Border Crisis
    Lying among the 16 or 17 dead bodies, Tom Homan spotted the corpse of a little boy, only 5 years old. The child died inside a sweltering truck trailer in Victoria, Texas, while being smuggled into the U.S. in May 2003. These are the memories that today’s images from the border evoke in Homan, a…
    Virginia Allen | Kellen McGovern Jones | David Agren
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    Large Migrant Caravan Makes Its Way to the US
    DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—A migrant caravan is heading northward toward the United States a few weeks before Election Day, the results of which will almost undoubtedly spell changes for border enforcement policies, according to The Associated Press. A roughly 2,000-person-strong migrant caravan left southern Mexico on Sunday in hopes of reaching the U.S. in the…
    Jason Hopkins
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    Border Patrol Agents Vow to Quit If Harris Wins
    The illegal immigration crisis facing the U.S. has drastically worsened ever since Vice President Kamala Harris was appointed the incumbent administration’s “border czar” in 2021.  Terrorist threats are on the rise, violent migrant gangs are roaming the streets, small towns are being decimated by state-sanctioned immigrant dumpings, American children are being slain by migrants, and migrant children are being sex trafficked by gangs and cartels. But according…
    S.A. McCarthy
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    The Left’s Word-Shaming Can’t Conceal ‘Third World’ Effects of Open Borders 
    Politically incorrect words don’t kill, but Venezuelan gangs do.  On Saturday, former President Donald Trump warned rallygoers in a small Wisconsin town that if Vice President Kamala Harris “is reelected, your town and every town … will be transformed into a Third World hellhole. ”  Trump repeatedly warns that Biden-Harris open borders are turning New…
    Betsy McCaughey
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    Biden-Harris Admin Raids FEMA Funds to Resettle Illegal Aliens
    Editor’s note: This commentary originally was published in September 2023. Federal spending is hard enough to keep track of at the best of times, but the Biden-Harris administration is highly adept at hiding how it funds its open-borders agenda. In a cynical budget negotiation tactic, the White House is trying to push through a $40…
    Simon Hankinson
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    ‘The BorderLine’ Anniversary Column: Revisiting Biden’s Border by the Numbers One Year Later
    Welcome to the 52nd edition of “The BorderLine”! For the past year, every week, I have tried to capture the unprecedented nature of the Biden-Harris administration’s migration ideology, which mostly boils down to letting in millions more foreign nationals at the border than Congress has ever authorized while severely limiting enforcement of immigration laws inside…
    Simon Hankinson
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    Millions Are Being Spent on Unused ICE Beds, Even as Hundreds of Thousands of Criminal Migrants Aren’t Being Detained
    DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Immigration and Customs Enforcement spent millions on unused bed space while hundreds of thousands of criminal migrants are not being detained by the agency. There are more than 425,000 convicted criminal noncitizens on ICE’s non-detained docket living in the United States as of July 21, according to data released Thursday by ICE acting Director…
    Jason Hopkins
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    New Data on Migrant Crime Rates Raises Eyebrows, Alarms
    The new data on all the criminal noncitizens coming into the U.S. is shocking. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement checks the background of illegal aliens it has in custody. But the ICE administration’s letter to Rep. Tony Gonzales, R-Texas, shows that as of July 21, ICE let 435,719 convicted criminals and 226,847 people with pending criminal charges back in…
    John R Lott Jr.
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    ‘Profound Concern’: UN Refugee Agency Claims US Border Rules Are Too Tough
    DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—A United Nations agency expressed “profound concern” on Monday over the Biden administration’s updated asylum restrictions along the U.S-Mexico border. President Joe Biden on Monday updated an executive order that will help keep in place asylum restrictions and control the number of unlawful crossings at the southern border. However, the United Nations…
    Jason Hopkins
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    Why Are Working-Age Men Leaving the Workforce? Immigration Sheds Light on Issue, Expert Says
    The illegal immigration crisis at the southern border has not only created a culture of lawlessness at the Southern border, it has also adversely affected the labor and housing markets. That’s according to the testimony of Center for Immigration Studies director of research Steven Camarota at a hearing of the House Oversight subcommittee on National…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    Goya CEO: ‘No,’ Trump’s Pro-Border Security Agenda Won’t Cost Him Hispanic Vote
    Hispanic voters who came to the country legally are “not for people just coming over the border” illegally, Goya Foods CEO Bob Unanue says.  “No,” Unanue said, when asked whether former President Donald Trump’s border policies would cost him the Hispanic vote in the 2024 presidential election.  The CEO is a longtime supporter of Trump…
    Virginia Allen
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    Experts Predict Up to 2.7M Votes Will Be Cast by Illegal Immigrants
    Do you plan to vote this November? You’re not alone. Experts say somewhere between 1.5 million and 2.7 million illegal immigrants are likely to cast a ballot in the 2024 elections, affecting races from dogcatcher to president of the United States. The historic flood of illegal immigrants during the Biden-Harris administration has also padded voter…
    Ben Johnson
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    Kamala Harris Silent on Whether She Still Supports ‘Transgender Operations on Illegal Aliens That Are in Prison’
    At Tuesday night’s debate, former President Donald Trump said his opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, supports “transgender operations on illegal aliens that are in prison.” Harris looked on skeptically, suggesting Trump was off his rocker. Yet Harris has indeed supported transgender medical interventions on illegal alien prisoners, and she has not publicly disavowed the claim….
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Venezuelan Illegal Alien Gang Activity Wreaking Havoc in US
    A Venezuelan émigré gang is wreaking havoc in U.S. communities. In El Paso, Texas, the Tren de Aragua gang took over a hotel. And in Aurora, Colorado, members of the same Venezuelan gang have been terrorizing residents in rundown apartment complexes.  Tren de Aragua is a “Venezuelan prison gang and … they’ve been wreaking havoc…
    Virginia Allen
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    DOJ Charges Illegal Immigrant With Voting in Multiple Elections
    Amid debate in Congress over requiring proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote, federal prosecutors in Alabama charged an illegal immigrant with obtaining a false identity in 2011 and voting unlawfully in multiple elections, including two presidential contests.  The Justice Department announced that the illegal immigrant from Guatemala agreed to a guilty plea after…
    Fred Lucas
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    Fraud Permeates Biden-Harris’ Illegal Alien ‘Sponsorship’ Program: The BorderLine
    In the run-up to November’s election, Vice President Kamala Harris is attempting to rewrite history and absolve herself of her administration’s policy of facilitating mass illegal migration into the U.S. through reckless releases of aliens caught at the border and bogus alien “parole” programs. Against much existing evidence, a new ad her campaign is running…
    Simon Hankinson
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    Despite Tough Talk, Biden-Harris Admin Rolls Out Red Carpet for Illegal Alien Gangs: The BorderLine
    Nothing illustrates the grave price of the Biden-Harris administration’s immigration policy like the preventable crimes that occur with dismaying frequency across the country. At the border, Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security has for nearly four years been catching, then almost immediately releasing into the U.S. interior, thousands of young illegal alien men weekly. It…
    Simon Hankinson
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    Biden Executive Order Enables Illegal Aliens to Vote, Election Expert Says
    A 2021 Biden administration executive order constitutes unlawful and potentially partisan interference in the election process, according to a new report from Hans von Spakovsky, a senior legal fellow at The Heritage Foundation. President Joe Biden’s 2021 Executive Order 14019 directs executive branch departments and federal employees to use federal resources to get out the…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Kamala Harris Used to Think Border Wall Was ‘Un-American.’ Now She Supports It.
    DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Vice President Kamala Harris has reversed her position on spending hundreds of millions of dollars to build a wall along the southern border, Axios reported Tuesday. Harris is now in favor of building a wall after being attacked repeatedly by former President Donald Trump for presiding over an unprecedented surge in illegal immigration to…
    Nick Pope
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