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    ‘All for Nothing,’ Retired Border Patrol Agent Says of His 31 Years of Service

    JACUMBA HOT SPRINGS, Calif.—Mike Syzdek joined the Border Patrol in 1976. He says he “always liked the idea of law enforcement” and wanted the job security the Border Patrol offered.   At 57, after 31 years of serving at the Campo Border Patrol Station in San Diego County, Syzdek retired in 2007. He loved his job during…
    Virginia Allen
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    Gap in San Diego Sector Border Wall Raises Obvious Question About Illegal Immigration

    A man made his way along a dirt path in Tijuana, Mexico, toward the large gap in the U.S.-Mexico border wall Friday morning. He carried a backpack and walked with ease through the more than 100-yard opening into Otay Mesa, a community in San Diego County, California.   No Border Patrol agents were in sight….
    Virginia Allen
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    I Asked Illegal Aliens If They Knew They Were Breaking Law. Here’s What They Said.

    SAN DIEGO, Calif.—Brandon says he left Cameroon on March 15 and crossed the border from Mexico into California four days later.    He knows it’s illegal to cross the U.S.-Mexico border between ports of entry, as he did, Brandon told The Daily Signal. But, he said, he did so because the “situation in my home…
    Virginia Allen
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    How Illegal Immigration Could Change American Leftists

    Some 8 million to 10 million illegal aliens from all over the world, as expected, have flooded across the border since President Joe Biden took office in January 2021. A demagogic candidate Biden, remember, in 2019 invited those massing at the southern border to “surge” into the United States without specifying that they first needed…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    Florida’s New Online Dashboard Displays Cost of Unrecompensed Hospital Care Provided to Illegal Aliens

    Florida has launched a dashboard that reports the total cost of uncompensated health care for illegal immigrants, which currently tops $566 million.   Announced on Wednesday, the interactive Hospital Patient Immigration Status Dashboard highlights “the cost of illegal immigration, which puts a strain on our health care system and taxpayers here in Florida,” the secretary of…
    Mary Elise Cosgray
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    You Can’t Fool All of the People All of the Time About Immigration: The BorderLine

    There’s an old saying attributed to Abraham Lincoln: “You can fool all of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time. But you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.” Three years into his presidency, Joe Biden has run into the last sentence of that…
    Simon Hankinson
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    EXCLUSIVE: Parents Kept in the Dark Over Illegal Immigrants Housed in NYC School, Emails Show

    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—School administrators in New York City agreed to house illegal aliens at James Madison High School in Brooklyn without including parents in the discussion, documents obtained by The Oversight Project show.  Emails obtained by The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project through New York state’s Freedom of Information Law show that officials from…
    Tony Kinnett
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    Haiti: Here We Go Again—The BorderLine

    Haiti, a Maryland-sized country sharing half the island of Hispaniola with the Dominican Republic, won independence from France in 1804 and since then has been beset by political strife and poverty. Today, Haiti has descended into a Hobbesian state of nature, in which gang leaders like Jimmy Chérizier, aka “Barbecue,” will fight for control until…
    Simon Hankinson
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    ‘The Pain Grows Every Day,’ Says Woman Who Lost Daughter, Mother in Crash With Vehicle Smuggling Illegal Aliens

    One year ago Wednesday, Elisa Tambunga lost her mother and daughter at the hands of a human smuggler.  Rassian Comer is accused of speeding through a red light in Ozona, Texas, crashing into Maria Tambunga’s pickup truck. Seven-year-old Emilia was in the back seat, and both she and her grandmother were pronounced dead at the…
    Virginia Allen
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    Call Them What They Are: Illegal Aliens

    According to the embargoed version of Thursday’s State of the Union address, which journalists previewed, President Joe Biden planned to remain silent about the late Laken Riley, the 22-year old Georgia nursing student who was killed while jogging on Feb. 22, reportedly by Venezuelan illegal alien Jose Antonio Ibarra, 26. He broke into America in…
    Deroy Murdock
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    The Real Obstacle to Immigration Reform 

    A Wall Street Journal headline Thursday stated: “Americans Want the Immigration Bill Congress Won’t Pass.” Citing the Journal’s own polling, the article suggested that “voters crave a blueprint for compromise that Congress has all but abandoned.” However, a more accurate description of the dynamic would be to say that reform efforts “repeatedly failed in recent years”…
    Scott Rasmussen
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    SPLC Fought Reforms That Might Have Helped Prevent Laken Riley’s Death, Immigration Activist Says

    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The Southern Poverty Law Center has repeatedly opposed Georgia bills that would require local law enforcement to report illegal aliens to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement if they are charged with or convicted of other crimes. This activism has drawn renewed scrutiny in the wake of Laken Riley’s killing, allegedly at…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    How ‘Sanctuary Cities’ Are Costing American Lives: The BorderLine

    According to a former Immigration and Customs Enforcement official, ICE asked police in Montgomery County, Maryland, 119 times this year to detain and hand over criminal aliens they had arrested. The criminals’ records included “convictions for assault, robbery, illegal firearms, sex abuse of a minor, rape, and MS-13 gang membership,” former official John Feere said….
    Simon Hankinson
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    The Right to Vote Is a Privilege Reserved for Citizens, Not for Illegal Immigrants

    The New York City Legislature, following in the footsteps of Washington, D.C., passed a groundbreaking bill into law in 2022. The law would have allowed any lawful permanent resident or green card holder to vote in a New York City election. That law was met with legal challenges as quickly as it was passed, which…
    Armstrong Williams
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    Single Adult Illegal Alien Men Flood San Diego Streets

    The Border Patrol began releasing illegal aliens onto the streets of San Diego last week after local funding for migrant resources ran out.  The illegal aliens being released onto the city streets of San Diego County are “predominantly single adults, and predominantly men,” Jim Desmond, a San Diego County supervisor, told The Daily Signal.  Desmond…
    Virginia Allen
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    Biden’s Catch-22—Continue Border Crisis or Fix It—Either Way, He Loses Support: The BorderLine

    By hinting that he will use executive power to crack down on mass illegal immigration for the first time in his administration, President Joe Biden is admitting that he already has the necessary authority to do so. This completely undercuts his attempt to blame Republicans in Congress for not giving him additional laws, money, and…
    Simon Hankinson
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    Are We the Chump on the Latin American Block?: The BorderLine

    The interests of our Latin American friends (and enemies) are not the same as ours when it comes to immigration. They want to get foreign migrants out of their territories while making money. They also want their own access to the U.S. labor market—for example, Mexicans working in the U.S. sent back $55 billion in…
    Simon Hankinson
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    Asylum Zombies: The BorderLine

    In France last June, an unnamed Syrian “refugee” stabbed six people on a playground. He had applied for asylum in France but was rejected—because he had already received asylum in Sweden a few years earlier. In Switzerland last week, a man with an ax took passengers hostage on a train until police shot him. Thought…
    Simon Hankinson
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    Mountain of Expenses: Denver’s Fiscal Woes Climb as Illegal Aliens Overwhelm City

    Denver is buckling under a financial crisis caused by illegal immigration. But the fault lies not in the stars, but with the city itself. “Denver will cut hours at recreation centers, end in-person vehicle-registration renewals and eliminate spring flower beds to save $5 million this year, a response to the migrant crisis that is expected…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    Pakistani Illegal Alien on Terror Watchlist Released Before Being Caught Again

    Federal immigration authorities caught and released a Pakistani man who illegally crossed America’s southern border and whose name appeared on the nation’s terror watchlist, according to a memo from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement reviewed by the Daily Caller News Foundation. The Pakistani national entered the U.S. illegally Nov. 9 and was nabbed by…
    Jennie Taer
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