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    Biden’s Worsening Border Crisis Is an Attack on Self-Government

    The Biden administration apparently wants to transform the United States into a poorly managed economic zone. It’s hard to conclude otherwise amid the latest mayhem at the southern border. When border-crossing numbers briefly dipped during the summer, legacy media outlets were eager to declare the crisis overblown. One opinion writer in The New York Times…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    New Feature: The BorderLine / This Week, We Look Inside Biden’s Bogus Illegal Immigrant ‘Visa’ Program

    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. ———————————————————- As the Biden Border Crisis rages on,…
    Simon Hankinson
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    NYC Leaders Ignore Illegal Alien Crisis, Continue to Push Maoist Cultural Revolution

    The revolution continues in New York. As illegal immigrants flood New York City, the City Council remains hard at work ensuring that every once-venerated symbol of America is stripped from public places. On Tuesday, the New York City Council’s Committee on Civil and Human Rights held a hearing to discuss the removal of historical statues…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    Lawmakers Aim to Put Price Tag on ‘Financial Costs of Mayorkas’ Open Border’

    Members of Congress sought Wednesday to calculate the immense financial cost of the border crisis at a hearing held by the House Homeland Security Committee.   Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has “implemented a radical agenda at the expense of the safety, security, and economic well-being of all Americans,” committee Chairman Mark Green, R-Tenn., said, adding…
    Virginia Allen
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    Amid Surge in Illegal Alien Encounters, GOP Senators Push ‘Secure the Border’ Bill

    Illegal alien encounters on America’s southern border approached record highs between Friday and Monday.   In just four days, Customs and Border Protection has encountered more than 35,000 illegal aliens on the U.S. border with Mexico, according to Fox News reporter Bill Melugin.   When you do the math, “that’s almost 9,000 every single day,”…
    Virginia Allen
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    WATCH: Former Border Official Shares ‘Visceral’ Reaction to 2 Deaths Caused by Human Smuggler

    “My reaction to this video is visceral,” former homeland security official Mark Morgan said after watching Elisa and Emilio Tambunga tell their story in a video report by The Daily Signal.  “I’m angry,” Morgan, acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection during the Trump administration, told The Daily Signal after watching the video report…
    Virginia Allen
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    FEMA Money Should Go to Disaster-Stricken Americans, Not Illegal Aliens

    Federal spending is hard enough to keep track of at the best of times, but the Biden administration is highly adept at hiding how it funds an open borders agenda. In a cynical budget negotiation tactic, the White House now is trying to push through a $40 billion “supplemental” funding bill that holds bailout money…
    Simon Hankinson
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    Mother and Grandfather Mourn Death of Family Lost to ‘Border Crisis’

    Emilia quickly said goodbye to her mom, eager to go inside and see her grandmother, but Elisa Tambunga called her 7-year-old daughter back to give her a big hug and kiss, and to say, “I love you.” Those would be the last words the mother would ever speak to her daughter.   It was March 13…
    Virginia Allen
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    Why Was DOJ Silent About Border Patrol ‘Whipping’ Investigation Conclusion? What New Emails Reveal

    After closing its investigation of a false allegation that Border Patrol agents whipped Haitian migrants in Texas in September 2021, Justice Department officials didn’t notify the targets of the probe—and opted to say little to the media about the once-hyped matter. But department officials did want to notify Al Sharpton.  Emails obtained by The Heritage…
    Fred Lucas
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    Migrants Are on a Misguided Path of Unchecked Compassion

    Engraved at the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty, a stirring poem by American poet Emma Lazarus, “The New Colossus,” eloquently captures the essence of compassion and virtue that has defined the American spirit. This renowned excerpt—“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free”—has welcomed thousands of immigrants as they…
    Armstrong Williams
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    Protests Erupt in Blue Cities Over Illegal Immigrants as Leftists Reap What They Sow

    The meltdown in blue cities over the busing of illegal immigrants continues, and it’s causing Democrats serious problems. That’s good, because it’s their fault this is happening. What the media inaccurately call the “migrant crisis” (these are people who have unlawfully crossed the U.S. border, not migrants) is battering so-called sanctuary cities, such as New…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    California Democrat Wants DeSantis Investigated for ‘Trafficking’ Illegal Aliens

    A California state lawmaker is calling for an investigation of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for the “illegal trafficking of migrants.”  DeSantis “illegally trafficked vulnerable migrants across state lines” and transported illegal aliens “unknowingly” to California to score “cheap political points,” California Assemblyman Evan Low, a Democrat, said Tuesday in a written statement.  DeSantis, a Republican,…
    Virginia Allen
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    Biden’s Misguided Priorities: Ukraine, Illegal Aliens vs. Hawaii

    Hawaii, once a symbol of nature’s grace, now lies devastated, a chilling semblance of a war zone. At least 100 lives have been lost to the flames of a devastating wildfire, with hundreds of homes obliterated and families shattered. But in the face of this profound tragedy, President Joe Biden has responded with a suggestion…
    Armstrong Williams
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    8 Democrats Who Have Declared States of Emergency Over Border Crisis

    Most elected Democrats across the country have either been silent about or openly promoted the Biden administration’s border policies. But once the effects of those policies were felt at home, putting thousands of illegal aliens in their own backyards, several Democrats have acknowledged there is a problem. Democratic leaders in Colorado, Illinois, Massachusetts, New York,…
    Virginia Allen
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    Ignorance Isn’t Bliss: Mexican Cartels’ Wristbands Underscore Mayorkas’ Willful Blindness on Border

    In a heated exchange with Sen. Ted Cruz in late March, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said he had no knowledge of the use of wristbands by Mexican cartels at the Texas-Mexico border. Texas lawmakers, including Cruz, aren’t buying it. Mayorkas’ widely reported interaction with Cruz, a Republican, only invited more questions as to the…
    Kim Lain
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    Open Borders Creating Bidenvilles of Homelessness. Who Saw That Coming?

    A year ago, I wrote about the obvious connection between illegal immigration and homelessness in U.S. cities. Since then, encounters with inadmissible aliens at the border have remained at more than 150,000 a month, often over 200,000. Of these, perhaps half are being released into the country, either under the charade of a “removal process”…
    Simon Hankinson
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    Democratic Leaders Tell Biden NYC at ‘Breaking Point’ After Receiving More Than 90,000 Illegal Aliens

    New York City is “at a breaking point” after more than 90,000 illegal aliens have arrived in the city since last spring, according to city leadership.   A group of 54 NYC Democratic elected officials, including state senators and assembly members, sent a letter to President Joe Biden Wednesday asking him for “help.”   “Our City…
    Virginia Allen
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    Irony at Tex-Mex Border

    The Department of Justice has announced it is suing Texas’ Republican governor, Greg Abbott, for using floating barriers in the Rio Grande river to stop migrants who are breaking U.S. law by illegally crossing the southern border. For this the word “irony” was created. Defined, it means “the use of words to convey a meaning…
    Cal Thomas
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    Mayorkas Dodges Questions During Judiciary Hearing on Failure to Secure America’s Borders

    House Republicans pressed Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on his failure to secure the U.S.-Mexico border during a roughly four-hour hearing Wednesday. The Biden administration “violates the law under the guise of instituting safe, orderly, and humane policies,” Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, said at the start of the House Judiciary Committee hearing. Lawmakers pressed Mayorkas…
    Virginia Allen
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    ‘America’s New Slave Trade’ Is Here at Hands of Mexican Cartels, Border Expert Tells Lawmakers

    Jaeson Jones held up a handful of colored wristbands during a House Homeland Security Committee hearing on Wednesday.   “What I’m holding in my hand before you today, I want to be very clear, this is America’s new slave trade,” Jones, a former captain for intelligence and counterterrorism at the Texas Department of Public Safety, testified…
    Virginia Allen
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