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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 | Lora Ries | Steve Bradbury
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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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    Shocking Cost of the Illegal Immigration Crisis to Americans
    As record numbers of illegal aliens continue to flood across our southern border, they are being dispersed into every congressional district in the country, making every state a border state. We’re told they’re merely coming to seek a better life. And while that’s true for many, why do open-borders advocates ignore the enormous toll on…
    Erin Dwinell
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    Indian Immigrant Who Was Booted From Education Board, Called ‘White Supremacist’ After Defending Constitution Shares Her Story
    Suparna Dutta says she thought the exceptional nature of the Constitution and Declaration of Independence “was common sense,” but her recent experience with the Virginia Board of Education proved otherwise.  Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin appointed Dutta—a mother, engineer, and Indian immigrant—to the Virginia Board of Education in July.  “I was thrilled and very honored to…
    Virginia Allen
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    Fact Check: Karine Jean-Pierre Says Republicans Wanted to ‘Abruptly’ End Title 42 Border Policy
    During a White House press briefing on Wednesday, press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Republicans had been the ones to push for an end to the Title 42 border policy, but the record demonstrates the opposite. A reporter asked Jean-Pierre whether the Biden administration would keep or lift Title 42, a public health measure used to easily…
    Virginia Allen
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    Why Blue State Politicians’ Tax Cartel Attempt Will Fail
    Cartels are groups of organizations that collude with each other to drive up prices, crush competition, and ultimately extort huge amounts of money to redistribute to the cartel members. While the word is often associated with drugs, oil-producing countries, or anti-competitive business practices, politicians from nine blue states are attempting something new in the U.S.—a…
    Rachel Greszler | Preston Brashers
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    On Illegal Immigration, Mexico Isn’t Really America’s Amigo
    Left-wing Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador recently praised a visiting President Joe Biden: “Just imagine: There are 40 million Mexicans in the United States. Forty million who were born here in Mexico, [or] who are the children of people who were born in Mexico.” Why wouldn’t Lopez Obrador be delighted? Since Biden took office…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    A Legal Immigrant’s Lament: Biden’s ‘Parole’ Scheme Makes ‘Patsies’ of Those Who Abide by Law
    One thing I have in common with journalist Andrew Sullivan is that we both chose to go through the lengthy process to become American citizens. As he recently told Washington Post reporter Nick Miroff, the current insanity at the border makes legal immigrants like us “look like patsies.” When a staunch liberal, a reporter from…
    Simon Hankinson
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    Forget Biden’s Border Photo-Op. Real Crisis Demonstrated by Democrat Governor Who Bused Illegal Immigrants Out of State.
    As President Joe Biden briefly toured a small segment of the southern border Sunday and talked about why the illegal immigration crisis there is not really a crisis, and if it is then it isn’t his fault, other interesting developments highlight the depth of the problem. Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, a Democrat, announced Saturday that…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    President Biden Bashes Republicans While Unveiling New Immigration Plan
    President Joe Biden criticized Republicans’ handling of the southern border as he announced plans Thursday to visit the border and address illegal immigration.   “It’s clear that immigration is a political issue and extreme Republicans are always going to run on it,” Biden said Thursday. “But now they have a choice, they can keep using…
    Virginia Allen
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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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