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    Tony the Bouncer at Club America: A Parable of Title 42 and Border Security

    Immigration law is a maze of statute, regulation, and presidential whim. Explaining things like immigration parole, Title 42, and asylum is difficult. Here’s a parable to explain Title 42, a public health measure that enabled the quick removal of illegal immigrants, but that is set to expire. Imagine the hottest nightspot in town, Club America….
    Simon Hankinson
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    Biden’s 1,500 Troops Sent to Southern Border Are a ‘Welcome Wagon,’ Retired Border Patrol Agent Says  

    “It’s a welcome wagon,” a retired Border Patrol agent says of the 1,500 active-duty troops the Biden administration is sending to the southern border ahead of the expiration of Title 42 on May 11.   The troops will be helping with “non-law enforcement duties,” according to the Homeland Security Department, but Frank Lopez says that…
    Virginia Allen
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    The 6 Mistakes of Biden’s Emergency Immigration Plan

    You know that feeling on a Wednesday night when you’ve reheated the chili you made on Sunday for the third time and you can’t face it again so you throw it away and order take-out? That’s how I felt watching Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas pitch the latest…
    Simon Hankinson
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    Dead Migrants, Dead Americans: Pro-Border Security Rally Highlights Scourge of Cartels and Fentanyl

    A photo of a skeleton laying in the Texas dirt flashed across the screen, followed by another, and another – all images of the remains of migrants who died from exhaustion or other causes after entering America illegally. “[President] Joe Biden is responsible for more dead people on the Texas border than any time in…
    Virginia Allen
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    House to Vote on Border Security Bill Same Week Title 42 Expires

    Lawmakers have the opportunity to pass what House Majority Leader Steve Scalise says he believes is the “strongest border security package that Congress has ever taken up.”   What’s more, Scalise said, the plan is for the House to vote on the legislation next month, when a public health measure known as Title 42 is…
    Virginia Allen
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    Rep. Chip Roy’s Prescription to Secure Border: Use Power of Purse to ‘Bring President to His Knees’

    If America’s southern border is to be secured, Congress must “use the power of the purse to bring the president to his knees and [make him] sit at the table,” Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, says.  President Joe Biden’s border policies are enriching China and harming the American people, Roy argues.  “The fact of the matter…
    Virginia Allen
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    Biden Plan for Health Care for ‘Dreamers’ Called ‘Back-Door Way to Give Taxpayer Subsidies to Illegal Aliens’

    President Joe Biden is proposing a plan for recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program to receive subsidized health care through Obamacare and Medicaid. If the plan is finalized, illegal aliens who were brought to America as children will be eligible for the health care programs. “[M]y administration is announcing our plan to…
    Virginia Allen
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    GOP Lawmakers Move Forward on Bill to Secure Border

    A group of House Republicans say they have a plan to secure America’s southern border, the Border Security and Enforcement Act of 2023. The bill, when finalized, would grant the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security authority to suspend entry of inadmissible aliens into the U.S. in full or in part for the purpose…
    Virginia Allen
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    New DC Law Allowing Illegal Aliens to Vote Is ‘Absolutely Insane,’ Former Immigration Judge Says

    Illegal aliens now are allowed to vote in local elections held in the nation’s capital. Under a new law, anyone who qualifies as a permanent resident of the District of Columbia can cast a vote in races for mayor, D.C. Council, attorney general, and neighborhood advisory boards, regardless of U.S. citizenship status. Now, the Immigration…
    Virginia Allen
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    Deadly Fire at Migrant Detention Center Sober Reminder of Chaos at Southern Border

    The fire at a migrant detention center in Mexico that claimed 38 lives is a sober reminder of the ongoing crisis along the southern border. About 70 men from South and Central America were being held in the migrant facility in Ciudad Juarez, just across the U.S.-Mexico border from El Paso, Texas, when the fire…
    Virginia Allen
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    70 Terrorist Watch List Encounters at Border. Real Numbers Are ‘Likely Much Higher,’ Congressman Says

    The number of individuals on America’s terrorist watch list encountered on America’s borders is growing.   Since the start of fiscal year 2023, Border Patrol has encountered 70 illegal aliens who are listed in the Terrorist Screening Database, also referred to as the terrorist watchlist, between ports of entry. The majority, 69, have been encountered on…
    Virginia Allen
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    Police Lt. Explains How Cartels Are Taking Advantage of Biden’s Open Border Policies

    PINAL COUNTY, Ariz.—Worms crawled out of a small hole in the front of a carpet shoe that was used by a cartel member likely only weeks before. Dropping the piece of camouflage fabric the cartels use to make their tracks less visible to Border Patrol, I scanned the small parcel of desert that was covered…
    Virginia Allen
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    Biden’s ‘La Invitacion’ to Illegal Aliens Triggered Border Crisis, New Book Charges

    In 2021, Todd Bensman stood on the edge of the Rio Grande river with a member of a drug cartel. Despite usually trying to avoid the cartels, Bensman found himself interviewing the man, who happened to be on vacation after guiding a group of illegal aliens into Texas.  “He had his cocaine. He had a…
    Virginia Allen
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    Angry Federal Judge Orders Biden’s DHS: End Mass Parole of Illegal Aliens

    In a scathing opinion on Wednesday that questions the credibility of the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. District Court Judge T. Kent Wetherell II for the Northern District of Florida has ordered a stop to the Biden administration’s “Parole Plus Alternatives to Detention” (“Parole+ATD”) policy that has been illegally releasing hundreds of thousands of aliens…
    Hans von Spakovsky
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    Time to Declare War on Mexican Drug Cartels

    The tragic killing of two U.S. citizens this week in the border town of Matamoros, Mexico, should—in a just world—refocus American attention on the glaring problem of transnational drug cartels’ de facto control of large swaths of our perilously porous southern border. That the two Americans killed may have been mistaken by warring cartel clans…
    Josh Hammer
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    Cartels’ Influence Over Border Is ‘Really Frightening,’ Texas Land Commissioner Says

    Drug running and human smuggling by Mexican cartels have become tragically commonplace for many Texas communities. Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham says Texans are deeply frustrated with the situation at their southern border, a situation she describes as “frightening.”  There is a “tremendous loss of life with the increase in crime” at the southern border, Buckingham…
    Virginia Allen
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    The 1 Million Illegal Immigrant Encounters in Past 5 Months Is Equivalent to Population of Biden’s Delaware

    More than 1 million migrants have been encountered at the southern border just since fiscal year 2023 began on Oct. 1.  Fox News reported Saturday that Customs and Border Protection sources confirmed that migrants attempting to cross the border into the U.S. reached 1,008,217 as of Friday. “Of those, 87.8% were single adults,” Fox reported. “Just 328,454…
    Virginia Allen
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    2 Migrants Stoned to Death by Smugglers at Southern Border

    Two migrants were reportedly stoned to death on the Mexican side of the southern border Saturday.   According to Border Report, police in Tijuana, Mexico, say the migrants were preparing to illegally cross a border barrier into San Diego when smugglers repeatedly struck them in the head with rocks, killing them. A third migrant was shot and…
    Virginia Allen
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    Illegal Immigrants Are Now Using the Northern Border, Too

    America’s southern border is not the only one experiencing a dramatic increase in the number of illegal migrants attempting to cross into the country. Customs and Border Protection reports record numbers of encounters with illegal migrants at America’s northern border with Canada.  “While the southern border garners most of the attention, both of America’s borders…
    Virginia Allen
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    Supreme Court Cancels Arguments for Health Measure Limiting Illegal Immigration

    The Supreme Court has removed arguments from its calendar for a highly anticipated case on Title 42, a COVID-19 public health measure allowing Border Patrol to quickly expel some illegal aliens. The case was going to be heard March 1.    The Supreme Court announced Thursday that the case had been removed from its argument…
    Virginia Allen
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