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    Federal Government Leaves Border Hospital With $20 Million Bill for ‘Free’ Health Care to Illegal Aliens

    A hospital in Yuma, Arizona, is owed $20 million for medical services provided to illegal immigrants.   “We’ve calculated that over a six-month period, from December 2021 to May 2022, we had $20 million in charges that we’re unable to bill anyone for, for services we provided to migrants alone,” Dr. Robert Trenschel, president and CEO of Yuma…
    Virginia Allen
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    6 Falsehoods From DHS’ Post-Title 42 Immigration Plan

    A “tissue of lies” is defined by The Free Dictionary as “a number of false statements made to deliberately hide the truth.” Under this definition should be a copy of the Department of Homeland Security’s “Update on Southwest Border Security and Preparedness Ahead of Court-Ordered Lifting of Title 42.” In it, the Biden-Harris administration absolves…
    Simon Hankinson
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    Conservatives Celebrate Death of Immigration Bill That ‘Ignores’ Border Crisis, ‘Puts Big Tech’ Ahead of US Workers

    An immigration bill that sought to eliminate per-country caps on employment visas died in the House of Representatives Wednesday. Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., introduced the Equal Access to Green Cards for Legal Employment, or EAGLE, Act, in June 2021. The House reintroduced it this year and lawmakers scheduled it to go up for a vote…
    Gillian Richards
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    Republicans Shouldn’t Fall for Lame-Duck Session Fool-Me-Twice Immigration Bill

    If Sam Bankman-Fried offers a new cryptocurrency investment scheme, are you in? Not likely. I’d rather trust the ghost of Bernie Madoff with my money. Once bitten, twice shy. That’s why conservatives don’t trust the immigration “compromise” proposals being discussed on Capitol Hill in the lame-duck session of Congress just weeks before control of the…
    Simon Hankinson
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    GOP Senators Press Homeland Security Chief on Why 63,500 Cases Against Illegal Aliens Were Dropped

    The failure of the Biden administration’s Department of Homeland Security to carry out the most basic enforcement of U.S. immigration laws has led to skyrocketing crime and drug deaths, a Republican senator told The Daily Signal.  “While illegal immigration and the resulting fentanyl overdose deaths and violent crime continue to skyrocket, the Biden administration must…
    Fred Lucas
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    China Benefits If Congress Rearranges Deck Chairs of Legal Immigration as Southern Border Burns

    The House is about to debate a wrongheaded bill that is touted simply as a mechanism to speed up the availability of green cards for certain employment-based applicants. But the bill, HR 3648, actually would upend the nation’s legal immigration system while benefiting China and inviting an immediate, immeasurable influx of new applicants to overwhelm…
    Joseph Edlow
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    Amnesty for DACA Flunks Border Security Test

    The U.S.’s nearly two-year-old border crisis continues unabated, yet Senate Democrats and some Republicans are foolishly resuming a push to grant amnesty to hundreds of thousands—and perhaps millions—of people living in this country illegally. There is a simple test to determine if a given policy will reduce illegal immigration, and amnesty—whether for Deferred Action Childhood Arrivals…
    Lora Ries
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    Supreme Court Justices Question Biden Administration’s Reckless Border Policy

    The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in a lawsuit filed by Texas and Louisiana over Biden administration guidelines that severely restricted the Department of Homeland Security’s enforcement of federal immigration law against illegal aliens.  Twenty other states supported Texas and Louisiana with amicus briefs, ranging from Arizona to Florida and West Virginia to Wyoming. The…
    Hans von Spakovsky
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    Historic Levels of Illegal Immigration on Southern Border Likely to Get Worse

    The historic level of illegal immigration on the southern border is likely to get much worse, if that’s possible. On Wednesday, a federal judge declared that the Biden administration had to end Title 42 by Dec. 21. The ruling came from Judge Emmet Sullivan of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, who…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    Majority of Hispanic Voters Want Government to Do More to Enforce Immigration Laws, Exit Poll Finds

    Hispanic voters say the U.S. government should do more to enforce immigration laws, according to new polling data.   An exit poll conducted by Rasmussen Reports and NumbersUSA found that more than half of Hispanics who voted in the 2022 midterm elections agree that the government isn’t doing enough to reduce illegal immigration.  The survey asked Hispanic…
    Virginia Allen
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    4 States Addressed Illegal Immigration on Ballot, but More Need to Do So

    While most eyes are on the emerging new balance of power in Congress as vote counts continue after Tuesday’s  midterm elections, state leaders should note the outcome of immigration-related ballot measures in four states.  Voters weighed in on immigration-related ballot questions in Arizona, Massachusetts, Nebraska, and Ohio that provide models for introduction of similar measures…
    Hannah Davis
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    Martha’s Vineyard, While Touting ‘Humanitarian’ Response, Quickly Decided to Ship Illegal Aliens to Mainland

    Immediately after the arrival of about 50 illegal immigrants from Venezuela, Martha’s Vineyard officials pushed a public image of a humanitarian response from the affluent island resort off the coast of Massachusetts. However, internal emails reveal officials’ intent to ship the migrants off the island to a military base on the mainland shortly as soon…
    Fred Lucas
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    Reality of Illegal Immigration: ‘Dead Bodies All Over the Whole of the Border,’ Local  Leader Says

    BRACKETTVILLE, Texas—It was 5:15 p.m. on a Monday afternoon and the 13th hour of Sheriff Brad Coe’s workday.   “Phone call came at 4 a.m. this morning,” said Coe, the sheriff of Kinney County, which borders Mexico.   A human smuggler had been caught trying to sneak illegal immigrants across the border into the U.S. The…
    Virginia Allen
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    Border Towns, Martha’s Vineyard, and the Reality of Illegal Immigration

    “We don’t have the services to take care of 50 immigrants, and we certainly don’t have housing.” These remarks were made by a Martha’s Vineyard local after 50 illegal migrants arrived last week on the resort island off the coast of Massachusetts. The average price for a house on Martha’s Vineyard is around $1.3 million,…
    Virginia Allen
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    As Martha’s Vineyard Panics Over 50 Migrants, Texas Border Town Sees Hundreds in Just 2 Hours

    As Massachusetts scrambled to move 50 migrants off Martha’s Vineyard Thursday morning, more than 500 migrants crossed illegally into Eagle Pass, Texas, over a two-hour period, according to Fox News. Drone images showed three groups of migrants illegally crossing the border in Eagle Pass in the early morning, and this area has seen more than…
    Laurel Duggan
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    Vice President Harris Says Border Is ‘Secure.’ Now Migrants Are Showing Up at Her House.

    The border crisis isn’t just going north, it’s showing up at the vice’s president’s doorstep. On Sunday, Vice President Kamala Harris insisted that the southern border was “secure” in an interview on “Meet the Press.” “The border is secure, but we also have a broken immigration system, in particular, over the last four years before…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    DC Mayor Declares Public Emergency Over Illegal Migrants Bused From Texas, Arizona

    Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser declared a public emergency Thursday in response to the efforts of Texas and Arizona to bus illegal migrants to the nation’s capital. The declaration allows more funding to go to supporting the illegal migrants and to give the city more power to provide resources to address the growing issue, Bowser,…
    Jennie Taer
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    ‘Allows Our Borders to Remain Open’: Biden Administration Makes It Easier for Illegal Migrants on Welfare to Stay

    The Department of Homeland Security will make it easier for certain illegal migrants benefiting from certain welfare programs to stay in the country beginning Dec. 23. The “Public Charge” rule, which applies to noncitizens “likely at any time to become a public charge,” will no longer consider certain nutrition, health, and housing benefits for inadmissibility, according to…
    Jennie Taer
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    ‘If We Can Do It, They Can Too,’ Border Mayor Says of DC, NYC Absorbing Illegal Aliens

    A border mayor has a message for the mayors of Washington, D.C., and New York City as busloads of illegal immigrants continue to arrive in those cities from Texas and Arizona.   “My message is there’s a lot of encouragement, and we did it when we had several thousand at [Anzalduas Park] and during the height of…
    Samantha Aschieris
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    Big City Mayors Welcome Illegal Immigrants, Except When They Don’t

    This morning, I watched on the news as a busload of mostly young, single men arrived at New York’s Port Authority bus terminal. In the bizarro-world of the Biden administration’s COVID-19 policies, the staff from the nongovernmental organizations that greeted them all wore masks, yet not one of the arrivals did. Maybe, like President Joe…
    Simon Hankinson
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