In an attempt to starve the populist right of political capital, the European Union (EU) has endorsed vast reforms to its asylum system to address the controversial issues that arose due to unregulated migration during the 2015 migrant crisis. The reforms were approved as part of The New Pact on Migration and Asylum, a set of legislative changes aimed at handling unauthorized entries more effectively.
Despite opposition by Hungary and Poland, other EU member states embraced the revisions eagerly, hoping they will resolve disagreements that have been simmering since the sudden influx of over a million migrants, primarily from war-torn areas like Syria and Iraq.
These changes, however, will not be implemented until 2026, deferring any immediate solution to the issue that has split nations over their responsibilities towards migrants. Critics have expressed concerns that this pact may end in more exploitative agreements with poorer nations that people flee or traverse to reach Europe.
In the new system, countries of first arrival will screen migrants and store the information in a new database, Eurodac. If the law is enacted and enforced fully by member countries, the newly approved reforms will mark a significant shift in the EU’s handling of migration, giving countries a degree of flexibility in lending asylum support while ensuring stricter border protocols. This change has already received pushback, notably from Hungary, spotlighting challenges that lie ahead in the implementation process.
Concerns over mass migration have been a driving factor in increasing European support for right-wing populist parties, such as Alternative for Germany (AfD) in Germany, Party for Freedom (PVV) in the Netherlands, and National Rally (RN) in France. Right-wing populist parties have seen a surge in support over the last few years and are expected to make significant gains in the European elections next month.
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In an attempt to starve the populist right of political capital, the European Union (EU) has endorsed vast reforms to its asylum system to address the controversial issues that arose due to unregulated migration during the 2015 migrant crisis. The reforms were approved as part of The New Pact on Migration and Asylum, a set of legislative changes aimed at handling unauthorized entries more effectively.
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Hassan Nasrallah, the Islamist cleric and leader of Hezbollah, is pressuring the Lebanese government to allow a Syrian migrant armada to sail for Europe. In a televised address, he said it is time for “a national decision that says: we have opened the sea… whoever wants to leave for Europe, for Cyprus, the sea is in front of you. Take a boat and board it.”
Cyprus is a member of the European Union (EU) and its borderless Schengen Area and is already experiencing a massive influx of boat migrants — up from just 78 in the first three months of 2023 to over 2,000 in the first three months of 2024.
While the influx seems small compared to Joe Biden’s border crisis in the United States, the Greek Christian population of Cyprus is under one million, and the new arrivals and past arrivals during the migrant crisis of 2015-16 have put it under enormous pressure. The north of the island is under Turkish occupation following an invasion in the 1970s, and the Turkish government has settled hundreds of thousands of Muslims in the so-called Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus — which only Ankara recognizes.
Nasrallah claims Hezbollah does not “propose forcing displaced Syrians to board boats and leave for Cyprus and Europe,” but it is likely many of the approximately two million Syrian refugees in Lebanon would do so if the Lebanese authorities stopped trying to prevent voyages.
Hezbollah is not officially part of the Lebanese government, but it essentially has free rein in the south of the fractured country, which was majority Christian until Muslim immigration and Christian emigration permanently changed its demographics.
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Hassan Nasrallah, the Islamist cleric and leader of Hezbollah, is pressuring the Lebanese government to allow a Syrian migrant armada to sail for Europe. In a televised address, he said it is time for "a national decision that says: we have opened the sea... whoever wants to leave for Europe, for Cyprus, the sea is in front of you. Take a boat and board it."
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The U.S. foreign-born population, comprising both legal and illegal immigrants, has reportedly reached an unprecedented high of 51.6 million, or 15.6 percent of the total US population, according to the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS). A record-setting, two-year increase in the foreign-born population has occurred since March 2022, with an addition of 5.1 million immigrants, over 2.5 million each year.
The report reveals that during Joe Biden‘s 39 months in office, the foreign-born population grew by 6.6 million, averaging almost 170,000 immigrants monthly. Moreover, the CIS has estimated that roughly 58 percent of this immigration increase is attributable to illegal immigration under President Biden’s existing policies. It is crucial to note that only 46 percent of those arriving after March 2022 are currently employed.
According to the same report, if this upward immigration trend perpetuates, the U.S.’s foreign-born population may rise to 62.5 million and reach 82.2 million by 2040.
Simultaneously, as immigration concerns persist, President Biden appears to be faltering in recent polls in comparison to former President Trump, who leads by a significant 35 percent on this issue. Additionally, Trump is ahead in five of the six key swing states, as per a Monday report from the New York Times. The border crisis has gotten so out of control under Biden’s watch that earlier this year, two-thirds of Americans said “invasion” is an accurate term to describe the situation at the U.S.-Mexico border.
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The U.S. foreign-born population, comprising both legal and illegal immigrants, has reportedly reached an unprecedented high of 51.6 million, or 15.6 percent of the total US population, according to the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS). A record-setting, two-year increase in the foreign-born population has occurred since March 2022, with an addition of 5.1 million immigrants, over 2.5 million each year.
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New data from the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) reveals that less than half of both legal and illegalimmigrants who’ve arrived in the United States over the past two years are actually holding down a job. According to CIS, just 46 percent of the new immigrant population under Joe Biden are employed.
The CIS immigrant employment numbers, calculated with data provided by the U.S. Census Bureau, undercuts the argument used by many mass immigration proponents that the unchecked flow of immigrants is necessary to fill jobs that Americans won’t work. While immigrant labor did fuel much of the Biden government’s job growth since the octogenarian Democrat took office in 2021, it appears a cooling job market and stagnant economy has resulted in even immigrants increasingly being unable to find work.
Illegal and legal immigrant labor has distorted U.S. job numbers for several years now. The National Pulse has reported extensively on the economic and socialimpact the border and illegalimmigrationcrisis have had on the average American. While cheap immigrant labor has undoubtedly had a deflationary impact, that has come chiefly through suppressing the wages of native American workers. In addition, overreliance on cheap immigrant labor can lead to industries stagnating in terms of innovation, resulting in long-term negative externalities for businesses.
Those immigrants who have been able to find work often do so through Biden — and Democrat-backed non-government organizations (NGOs) like the Tent Partnership for Refugees. Companies supplied with labor by the Ten Partnership for Refugees include RedRoof Inn, Royal Farms, Shopify, Delta Airlines, DoorDash, Etsy, and Bloomberg.
U.S. companies that employ illegalimmigrants, and even more troubling, illegal child immigrants as laborers, have faced little in the way of fines under the Biden government. The National Pulse reported last week that several janitorial service companies and a vendor for TysonFoods all faced little in terms of pushback from Biden government regulators.
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New data from the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) reveals that less than half of both legal and illegalimmigrants who've arrived in the United States over the past two years are actually holding down a job. According to CIS, just 46 percent of the new immigrant population under Joe Biden are employed.
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Joe Biden’s high-volume immigration policy is driving the rising housing inflation linked to surges in interest and mortgage rates, concedes the Wall Street Journal. Chief economics correspondent Nick Timiraos says one “key reason market rents have moderated is that the industry is adding a record amount of new apartment supply.” However, industry executives advise that “supply is being quickly absorbed because of increased immigration,” among other factors.
The Federal Reserve has been trying to get inflation down to two percent, but an expected slowdown in the cost of housing has not materialized.
“Fed officials, Wall Street investors, and private-sector economists have expected housing inflation to slow since late 2022,” the WSJreports, adding, “Housing inflation has indeed slowed from a peak of 8.2 percent one year ago – but only to 5.6 percent in March.”
Jay Parsons, Texas-based apartment owner Madera Residential’s head of residential strategy, says this is “a much slower pace than pretty much anybody anticipated.”
The Biden regime had planned on being able to count on a general improvement in the inflation situation and the economy generally heading into the November elections. However, the situation is poorer than expected, with inflation figures worse than projected and job growth shaky. Research suggests the “American Dream” has become unaffordable to anyone earning less than $100,000 nationwide and, in many states, less than $150,000.
Illegal immigration, in particular, has been extremely high under Biden, with a majority of voters suspecting the Democrat incumbent is allowing it for partisan advantage.
News that immigration is helping keep housing costs, interest rates, and mortgage rates high in the U.S. comes as a report in the United Kingdom confirms record-breaking mass migration has exacerbated housing shortages and is driving rents and house prices upwards.
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Joe Biden's high-volume immigration policy is driving the rising housing inflation linked to surges in interest and mortgage rates, concedes the Wall Street Journal. Chief economics correspondent Nick Timiraos says one "key reason market rents have moderated is that the industry is adding a record amount of new apartment supply." However, industry executives advise that "supply is being quickly absorbed because of increased immigration," among other factors.
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Donald Trump describesmigrant crime as a “new category of crime” that is “going to be worse than any other form of crime.” A National Pulse review of the past week finds illegal aliens have indeed been involved in the worst offenses on the books multiple times.
BABY BEATEN TO DEATH.
Twenty-six-year-old Melvin Jesus Aquino Enriquez has been arrested in Montgomery County, Texas, accused of inflicting a brutal month on a three-month-old baby. The infant was admitted to hospital but later died.
As of the time of publication, the authorities have released little information on Enriquez. His nationality and manner of entry have not been disclosed, and nor has his connection, if any, to the murdered child. He faces separate charges for strangling the baby’s mother, however.
While some media outlets have chosen to describe him as simply a “Montgomery County man,” other reports confirm he is an illegal alien subject to a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainer request.
RELEASED TO TARGET CHILDREN.
Marvin Dionel Perez Lopez, a 20-year-old Guatemalan illegal, has been arrested for kidnapping an 11-year-old girl from the street in Lake Worth, Florida, and sexually assaulting her. Lopez crossed the southern border illegally in January and presented himself to Border Patrol, but was soon released and given a date to appear before an immigration judge — in 2027.
He is accused of snatching his alleged victim near her home and forcing her into a van, where he began to assault her. Her fate may have been even worse had the girl’s mother not noticed what was going on and rushed over to the vehicle, with the migrant fleeing on foot when she began banging on the door.
“Here’s a Guatemalan, who came into the country illegally, was stopped by the border people, released, and made his way to South Florida. And now he commits a crime where he held an 11-year-old girl against her will and sexually assaulted her,” lamented Sheriff Ric Bradshaw.
A FAMILY AFFAIR.
Josefina Cardona-Cardona has been arrested and faces deportation for attempting to hire a hitman to murder two witnesses against her son, Manuel Marcos Cardona, who was imprisoned for stabbing a teenager to death at a five-year-old’s birthday party in February.
The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office in Florida says Cardona-Cardona sought to “solicit someone to murder two cooperating witnesses in her son’s case.” However, the supposed assassins were undercover agents.
“Now, she faces two counts of Solicitation to Commit Murder and will be subject to deportation following the completion of her prosecution,” the office says.
She and Manuel Marcos Cardona’s father are said to have participated in a beating of the teenager he stabbed to death. She also attempted to flee the state with her son following the killing.
We have arrested a mother for attempting to solicit someone to murder two cooperating witnesses in her son’s case. In April, we learned that the mother of Manuel Marcos Cardona was planning a heinous act. Our detectives, along with undercover agents, conducted a thorough… pic.twitter.com/eXZXjX9Y9T
An unnamed Bangladeshi, aged 47, has been arrested by ICE in Litchfield, Connecticut. Connecticut State Police charged him with “multiple counts of commercial sex abuse, illegal sexual contact with a minor, fourth-degree sexual assault, risk of injury to child, and illegal sale of tobacco to a person under 21 years of age” in April, with ICE lodging an immigration detainer against him the same month.
“This unlawfully present individual allegedly brought harm to our Connecticut communities by sexually assaulting several children,” said a deportation officer.
‘SIGNIFICANT SAFETY THREAT.’
A 37-year-old Dominican was arrested by deportation officers in Providence, Rhode Island, after police charged him with two counts of first-degree child molestation, one count of second-degree child molestation, and one count of first-degree sexual assault.
The migrant “unlawfully entered the United States on [an] unknown date at an unknown location without being inspected, admitted or paroled by a U.S. immigration official,” making him a so-called “gotaway.”
“This unlawfully present Dominican national represents a significant safety threat, as he currently faces multiple felony child sexual assault charges,” said an ICE spokesman.
The charges were filed against the illegal in November 2023, but he was released and remained among the public until ICE took him into custody in April.
FUGITIVE RAPIST.
Jairo Arnoldo Matamoros Solorzano, a 47-year-old Costa Rican, has been removed to his native country, where he is wanted for sexual assault and rape.
He first fell foul of the authorities in March 2021, when the U.S. Coast Guard caught him with cocaine and marijuana at sea, resulting in his arrest for possession with intent to distribute. He was imprisoned by ICE and discovered to be wanted for sex crimes in Costa Rica after being transferred to ICE custody at the end of his sentence.
SHORT SENTENCE.
A 55-year-old Guatemalan illegal has been arrested by ICE in Providence, Rhode Island. He had been sentenced to 25 years in prison after being convicted locally of first-degree child sexual molestation/sexual assault in December 2022, but this was reduced to “six years with 19 years suspended.”
The illegal alien served nothing like six years in custody and was released in April, however, the Rhode Island Department of Corrections contacted ICE to facilitate his arrest by deportation officers. He has been in the U.S. since 2008.
‘NO MORE DISTURBING CRIME.’
Deportation officers have arrested another Guatemalan pedophile, aged 25, in Billerica, Massachusetts. He was arrested and arraigned on two counts of rape of a child and four counts of indecent assault and battery on a child under 14 years of age in 2021 and sentenced to just two years’ imprisonment in 2022.
“There is no more disturbing crime than sexual assault of a child,” said Todd M. Lyons, a field office director for ICE. “Those who are not lawfully present in this country and who are convicted of such disturbing crimes will be arrested and removed from our neighborhoods,” he claimed.
However, the sheer number of migrants convicted of crimes or facing criminal proceedings that ICE faces is overwhelming. Rep. Glenn Grothman, Chairman of the House National Security, Border, and Foreign Affairs Subcommittee, puts the number of illegal aliens known to ICE with criminal records or pending criminal charges at 617,000 — greater than the entire population of the State of Wyoming.
"We have a new category of crime. It's called migrant crime, and it's going to be worse than any other form of crime," @realDonaldTrump told Laura Ingraham. pic.twitter.com/FrdQLSFKPB
Read The National Pulse’s previous migrant crime round-up here.
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Donald Trump describes migrant crime as a "new category of crime" that is "going to be worse than any other form of crime." A National Pulse review of the past week finds illegal aliens have indeed been involved in the worst offenses on the books multiple times.
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CNN’s Fareed Zakaria is urging Joe Biden to adopt Donald Trump’s immigration policies. “The whole system is broken, and Biden needs to confront that and say, you know, ‘We are going to have to reform the whole system,’” he said.
“I would wish he’d do something much more extreme,” Zakaria said. “Like, say ‘the old asylum system is dead. No one is coming in through that process. You have to apply from your home country.’”
When interviewer Margaret Hoover pointed out that this was the “Trump policy,” the CNN host stumbled over his words slightly but acknowledged she was essentially correct.
“Which was a Trump– and also the Mexico, let– you know, you have to be in Mexico to apply,” he said, referencing Trump’s ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy.
“I think that’s all correct.”
Zakaria predicts adopting Trump’s policies will give Biden a better “political chance” in November. However, he also stresses the Trump policy is “the right policy, because the old asylum system is being gamed by millions of people.”
Immigration now ranks among inflation and the economy as one of voters’ top concerns. This includes among Democrats. Biden rates far below Trump in terms of his effectiveness on immigration and a range of other issues.
A majority of Americans believe Biden is actually encouraging illegal immigration to create a “permanent majority” for his party.
CNN's Fareed Zakaria says that President Joe Biden needs to implement former President Donald Trump's asylum policies to deal with the illegal immigration crisis.
He says that Trump's policies are "correct" and "the right policy because the old asylum system is being gamed by… pic.twitter.com/b8VsPqf8T5
CNN's Fareed Zakaria is urging Joe Biden to adopt Donald Trump's immigration policies. "The whole system is broken, and Biden needs to confront that and say, you know, ‘We are going to have to reform the whole system,’" he said.
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Customs and Border Protection says — unofficially — that 175,000 “gotaways” have entered the U.S. and evaded detainment by agents since the start of the fiscal year in October. On average, nearly 1,000 illegalimmigrants are coming into the country per day. A concerning portion of the illegal immigrants who’ve managed to evade border patrol may be of Chinese origin.
According to the official “encounter” numbers from the border patrol, agents have picked up at least 1,200 illegal Chinese immigrants in the first eight days of May. This comes out to roughly 150 Chinese nationals trying to enter the U.S. per day. The number, however, only included those actually detained by Customs and Border Patrol and not those merely observed entering the county. This means the number of illegal Chinese immigrants entering the U.S. is likely much higher.
Predominantly entering through the San Diego Sector, Chinese nationals have comprised an increasing share of illegal immigrants attempting to enter the U.S. across the country’s southern border with Mexico. Some government officials, including several members of Congress, worry the Chinese nationals are primarily smuggling drugs — especially fentanyl, which has been responsible for an ongoing drug overdose crisis.
House Republicans have repeatedly warned that the ChineseCommunist government “wants the chaos and devastation” brought by fentanyl to continue to spread across the U.S. Additionally, some lawmakers contend illegalChineseimmigrants are being encouraged by the Chinese state to enter the U.S. to facilitate the spread of illicit and dangerous drugs.
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Customs and Border Protection says — unofficially — that 175,000 "gotaways" have entered the U.S. and evaded detainment by agents since the start of the fiscal year in October. On average, nearly 1,000 illegalimmigrants are coming into the country per day. A concerning portion of the illegal immigrants who've managed to evade border patrol may be of Chinese origin.
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Speaker Mike Johnson is promoting the Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act to revise the National Voter Registration Act. The bill proposes amendments requiring proof of citizenship for individuals who register to vote at departments of motor vehicles (DMVs) and other state agencies. It also mandates the removal of foreign nationals from state voting registers.
“There is currently an unprecedented and a clear and present danger to the integrity of our election system, and that is the threat of noncitizens and illegal aliens voting in our elections,” Johnson argues.
The Speaker says the introduction of the SAVE Act safeguards potential risks to the security of the election process. While the Joe Biden regime and its allies in the corporate media claim non-citizens are not voting in elections, weaknesses in the registration and vetting process mean it is happening — with such illegal votersthree times more likely to vote for the Democrats.
Separate legislation has been introduced to stop resident foreigners, including illegal aliens, from being included in population counts used to decide congressional apportionment. The Biden regime has said it “strongly opposes” this legislation and Democratic politicians such as Rep. Yvette Clarke have suggested illegal immigration gives them an advantage in terms of redistricting.
A majority of Americans believe Joe Biden has been “encouraging” illegal aliens to enter the United States at scale to “create a permanent majority” for the Democratic Party over time. By the end of the current presidential term, he is projected to have overseen illegal immigration equal to all legal immigration from 1892 to 1954.
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Speaker Mike Johnson is promoting the Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act to revise the National Voter Registration Act. The bill proposes amendments requiring proof of citizenship for individuals who register to vote at departments of motor vehicles (DMVs) and other state agencies. It also mandates the removal of foreign nationals from state voting registers.
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Recent data disclosed by Germany‘s Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) suggests that foreign migrants are committing a disproportionately large number of violent crimes. The data, reported by German broadcaster NTV, reveals that foreign migrants, who account for just 14.6 percent of the country’s population, were implicated in 58.5 percent of all violent crimes in Germany. Furthermore, the BKA documented a 14.5 percent rise in violent crimes attributed to non-German suspects from the previous year.
The data also reveals migrant involvement in other crimes. For instance, suspected foreigners constitute 187,000 of the total 424,000 alleged thieves, over 40 percent. In addition, the rate of non-German suspects in general crimes increased by 17.8 percent in a single year to reach 923,269, nearly 50 percent of the total suspected criminals last year. However, these figures do not include those migrants who have since gained German citizenship or those of migrant heritage.
The high degree of criminal conduct linked to foreign migrants has created a substantial burden on Germany’s ability to integrate these groups. The increase in alien crimes has prompted a response, with the German government promising to escalate the deportation of foreign offenders. Reflecting the growing dissatisfaction, the Christian Social Union party’s Andrea Lindholz said Germany is reaching its “limit” in its “ability to integrate” migrants.
German citizens increasingly disapprove of mass migration despite frequent criticism from the establishment. The anti-immigration, national populist Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party has been surging in the polls and is expected to see significant gains in the upcoming European elections.
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Recent data disclosed by Germany's Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) suggests that foreign migrants are committing a disproportionately large number of violent crimes. The data, reported by German broadcaster NTV, reveals that foreign migrants, who account for just 14.6 percent of the country's population, were implicated in 58.5 percent of all violent crimes in Germany. Furthermore, the BKA documented a 14.5 percent rise in violent crimes attributed to non-German suspects from the previous year.
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