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    The BorderLine: New York’s ‘Right to Shelter’—Why Are Taxpayers Forced to House Unlimited Illegal Aliens?

    The BorderLine is a weekly Daily Signal feature examining everything from the unprecedented illegal immigration crisis at the border to immigration’s impact on cities and states throughout the land. We will also shed light on other critical border-related issues like human trafficking, drug smuggling, terrorism, and more. ———————————————————- Faced with a flood of caught-and-released illegal…
    Simon Hankinson
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    Cruz Recounts ‘Horrifying’ Scene at Southern Border During Midnight Patrol With Agents

    Texas Sen. Ted Cruz was at the southern border late Thursday night and into Friday and encountered a situation he calls “horrifying.”   While on a midnight patrol with Border Patrol agents, Cruz encountered a group of about 20 illegal aliens in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley. They had turned themselves in to Border Patrol, and the…
    Virginia Allen
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    The BorderLine: Cities, States Can’t Continue to Shoulder Costs of Biden’s Deliberate Border Crisis

    The BorderLine is a weekly Daily Signal feature examining everything from the unprecedented illegal immigration crisis at the border to immigration’s impact on cities and states throughout the land. We will also shed light on other critical border-related issues like human trafficking, drug smuggling, terrorism, and more. ———————————————————- “Will we have enough unicorn poop to pay for it,…
    Simon Hankinson
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    Biden Admin Reports Over 3 Million Illegal Aliens on America’s Borders in Single Year

    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.   U.S. Customs and Border Protection, or CPB, reported Saturday that agents encountered 3,201,144 illegal immigrants at or between ports…
    Virginia Allen
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    The BorderLine: Revoke the Visas of Students Who Support Terrorists

    The BorderLine is a weekly Daily Signal feature examining everything from the unprecedented illegal immigration crisis at the border to immigration’s impact on cities and states throughout the land. We will also shed light on other critical border-related issues like human trafficking, drug smuggling, terrorism, and more. ———————————————————- The United States is a tolerant society with…
    Simon Hankinson
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    Iranians on America’s Terrorist Watchlist Encountered on Southern Border

    Illegal aliens on America’s terrorist watchlist are crossing America’s southern border, including at least two from Iran so far this month, authorities say.   Since Oct. 1, U.S. Customs and Border Protection has apprehended at least two Iranians at the border who are on the watchlist, officially called the Terrorist Screening Data Base, according to…
    Virginia Allen
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    US ‘Will Never Be the Same,’ Tucker Carlson Says of Country ‘Being Invaded’ by Flood of Illegal Aliens

    Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson says the U.S. is “being invaded” and “will never be the same” after playing a video that showed illegal immigrants rushing toward the southern border in El Paso, Texas. “This was the scene at the so-called border at El Paso, Texas, the other day,” Carlson said on X, formerly…
    Samantha Aschieris
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    America’s Border Crisis Invites Terrorists, Guatemalan President Warns

    GUATEMALA CITY—Hamas’ harrowing terrorist attacks in Israel last weekend made it all the clearer to Americans that President Joe Biden’s opening of our borders has put the United States at grave risk. At least one Central American leader says he warned the Biden administration two years ago. Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei cautions us that we are being invaded, perhaps by…
    Mike Gonzalez
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    Here’s How Many Illegal Aliens From Terrorist or Suspect Nations Were Encountered at Border

    The U.S. Border Patrol has encountered 72,823 “special interest aliens” on America’s borders over the past two years—many from the Middle East—according to an exclusive Fox News report.   A special interest alien is a government term used to refer to an illegal alien from a nation that either promotes terrorist activity, harbors terrorists, or poses a…
    Virginia Allen
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    New Data Reveals Number of Illegal Aliens Who Entered US Under Biden Exceeds Population of These 22 States

    The number of illegal aliens who have entered the interior of the U.S. under the Biden administration now is greater than the population of at least 22 states as well as the District of Columbia.   Data released Monday by the House Judiciary Committee reveals that at least 3.8 million illegal aliens either have been released into…
    Virginia Allen
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    Hell Freezes Over, Pigs Fly, and Democrats Demand Closed Border

    “There is presently an acute and immediate need to construct physical barriers and roads in the vicinity of the border of the United States in order to prevent unlawful entries into the United States.” Who said that? Donald Trump? Rep. Matt Gaetz, R- Fla.? Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga.? Nope. These are the words of…
    Deroy Murdock
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    The BorderLine: The Border Crisis by the Numbers

    The BorderLine is a weekly Daily Signal feature examining everything from the unprecedented illegal immigration crisis at the border to immigration’s impact on cities and states throughout the land. We will also shed light on other critical border-related issues like human trafficking, drug smuggling, terrorism, and more. ———————————————————- Math was never my favorite subject, so it’s…
    Simon Hankinson
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    Karine Jean-Pierre Tries to Blame Border Crisis on Republicans. Here Are the Facts

    President Joe Biden has provided “record funding” for securing the southern border and is “doing everything that he can to deal with the border” while House Republicans are “trying to politicize it and make it worse,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said.  The assertions Monday by Biden’s spokesperson came after major Democrats, including New…
    Fred Lucas
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    The Left’s Denialism: Border Is ‘Secure’

    The phrase “Climate change denier” has wormed its way into the modern lexicon to shame those who have a different view of the science supporting—or not—the idea that the world is in danger of burning up in weeks, months, or years. (They can’t seem to decide on the timing.) There is another form of denial…
    Cal Thomas
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    Tim Ballard and ‘Sound of Freedom’ Bring Our Border Crisis Home

    As I walked out of the movie theater with my wife, Haley, after watching “Sound of Freedom,” my mind returned to the powerful rallying cry of the film: “God’s children are not for sale.” The movie is based on the actions of former Department of Homeland Security investigator Tim Ballard, played by actor Jim Caviezel,…
    Rep. Michael Guest
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    ‘Schools Not Shelters’: Legislation Would Prohibit Conversion to Housing for Illegal Aliens  

    Sen. Ted Cruz has introduced a bill that would prevent educational institutions from being turned into shelters for illegal immigrants.   The border crisis has placed unprecedented demands on state resources, and the educational experience of taxpayers’ children should not be compromised to accommodate the migrants, according to Cruz’s bill.  The legislation serves as the…
    Sara Garstka
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    Army Veteran, 95, Forced Out of Nursing Home to House Illegal Aliens 

    A 95-year-old veteran of the Korean War says he received less than two months’ notice that he had to move out of a nursing home in New York City after the city struck a deal to house illegal aliens there.    “I thought my suitcases were going to be on the curb, because I’m not that…
    Lucy Gilbert
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    The BorderLine: Boggled by Biden’s Border Crisis? Relax, AOC Is in Charge

    The BorderLine is a weekly Daily Signal feature examining everything from the unprecedented illegal immigration crisis at the border to immigration’s impact on cities and states throughout the land. We will also shed light on other critical border-related issues like human trafficking, drug smuggling, terrorism, and more. ———————————————————- For most of his 50-plus years in politics,…
    Simon Hankinson
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    NY Governor’s ‘Finger in the Dike’ Response to Flood of Illegal Immigrants: More National Guard Troops

    Democratic New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is calling in additional National Guard members to help manage the state’s escalating migrant crisis. New York will bring in an additional 150 National Guard members to help control the state’s migrant surge, bringing the new total of members deployed in the state to approximately 2,200, Hochul said during…
    Jake Smith
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    Federal Government Program Allows More Than 200,000 Illegal Aliens to Fly Right Over the Border

    Not all illegal aliens are entering the U.S. along the southern or northern border, according to the Center for Immigration Studies.   Over the past year, “more than 200,000 people from four countries” used a direct-flight parole program to enter the United States illegally, says Todd Bensman, senior national security fellow at the Washington-based think…
    Virginia Allen
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