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April 6, 2024
Immigration

Chicago’s Mayor Wants Biden To Grant Work Permits For Half-A-Million Illegals.

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is pushing President Joe Biden to authorize work permits for the nearly half-million illegal immigrants currently residing in Illinois. According to Johnson, Chicago alone can accommodate several hundred thousand more immigrants.

“We need the president to extend the same economic opportunities long term for our undocumented brothers and sisters, so they can build a better life here in the city of Chicago or wherever else they decide to live,” Johnson said during a recent meeting with business leaders. The Chicago mayor argued that the state’s illegal immigrant population should benefit from the same economic opportunities accessible to legal residents.

On Thursday, Johnson — backed by other Democrat mayors, including those from Denver, New York, Seattle, and San Francisco – submitted a formal request for the work permit increase to the Biden White House. “I remain standing in my belief that a more inclusive and equitable future for all residents is truly possible, whether they arrived here yesterday or have been here for an extended period of time,” he wrote.

Johnson’s request comes as part of a broader effort by Democrat mayors to urge the Biden government to expedite work permit issuances for the new wave of illegal immigrants and to extend current permits, which are set to expire in late April. They contend that without additional permits, their municipalities will be overwhelmed by their growing population of illegal immigrants who are currently unable to seek legal work. In response to a joint appeal from more than forty mayors in February, the Biden government has increased the extension time from 180 to 540 days for specific categories of illegal immigrants.

Despite widespread local disapproval surrounding the illegal immigrant influx, Johnson remains staunch in his advocacy for the immigrant community, even as thousands continue to inhabit city shelters.

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Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is pushing President Joe Biden to authorize work permits for the nearly half-million illegal immigrants currently residing in Illinois. According to Johnson, Chicago alone can accommodate several hundred thousand more immigrants. show more
April 5, 2024
William Upton
Immigration

Biden, Zuckerberg Allies Use Baltimore Bridge Collapse to Demand MORE Cheap Illegal Labor.

As Joe Biden visits the Francis Scott Key Bridge wreckage in Baltimore, Maryland, the President’s allies — including progressive lawmakers and corporate special interest groups — are using the immigrant deaths to renew a push for the mass legalization of illegal immigrants working low-wage jobs. The bridge collapsed after being struck by a shipping vessel on March 26 — with six immigrant workers killed in the disaster.

Proponents of mass amnesty for illegals contend that illegal aliens who have worked and paid taxes in the U.S. for decades are entitled to the legitimacy of a work permit. Organizations such as the American Business Immigration Coalition (ABIC) and FWD.us — a progressive advocacy group co-founded by Facebook‘s Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan — are spearheading the effort.

Critics argue this press for immigration legislation unfairly utilizes the tragic bridge disaster as leverage and neglects American citizens. Chris Chmielenski, the president of the Immigration Accountability Project, told Breitbart that the corporate media is “choosing — whether consciously or not — to ignore the fact that these immigrant workers are being exploited at the expense of American workers who are willing to take these jobs.”

Since President Biden took office, more than 13.7 million illegal immigrants have entered the U.S., displacing native-born workers. The National Pulse previously reported that almost all of the jobs gained by the U.S. economy since the start of Biden’s term have been fueled by migrant labor. This led the Biden government and its progressive allies to quietly push executive actions to work around the immigration limits set by Congress in 1990.

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As Joe Biden visits the Francis Scott Key Bridge wreckage in Baltimore, Maryland, the President's allies — including progressive lawmakers and corporate special interest groups — are using the immigrant deaths to renew a push for the mass legalization of illegal immigrants working low-wage jobs. The bridge collapsed after being struck by a shipping vessel on March 26 — with six immigrant workers killed in the disaster. show more

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April 5, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Immigration

Illegal Migration Under Biden Matches All LEGAL MIGRATION from 1892 to 1954.

Illegal immigration under Joe Biden is approaching the volume of all legal immigration processed at Ellis Island. The federal processing facility operated from 1892, when former Civil War colonel Benjamin Harrison was President, to 1954, when General Eisehower’s government closed it down.

Ellis Island accepted more than 12 million immigrants legally seeking American citizenship. Biden has already overseen an influx of at least 9.4 million illegal immigrants, with almost ten months remaining until the next inauguration.

This only accounts for recorded encounters with illegal aliens, however. Hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants — if not more — bypass immigration authorities entirely each year, becoming “gotaways.”

The Democratic Party benefits at least indirectly from the border crisis, as Congressional and Electoral College apportionment is calculated based on the estimated number of people living in a particular area—whether or not they are lawful residents, still fewer citizens.

Congressman Yvette Clarke openly admitted she wanted “more people in my district, just for redistricting purposes” during a House Foreign Affairs Committee meeting on Haitian migrants in 2021.

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Illegal immigration under Joe Biden is approaching the volume of all legal immigration processed at Ellis Island. The federal processing facility operated from 1892, when former Civil War colonel Benjamin Harrison was President, to 1954, when General Eisehower's government closed it down. show more
April 5, 2024
Immigration
World

Frances Clears Migrant Camp Ahead of Olympics.

French law enforcement cleared a camp of approximately 50 migrants from the Paris City Hall on Wednesday. The move comes as the city prepares for the start of the Olympic Games. Mothers, children, and infants comprised the majority of the group. They were brought onto a bus destined for temporary government-sponsored accommodations in Besançon, located in eastern France.

Aid groups raised concerns that the move signals the potential start of a wider campaign by officials to clean up the city’s streets of migrant communities ahead of the Olympic Games. Paris authorities seem to have no clear plans for providing these citizens with long-standing housing solutions.

Olympic organizers have claimed to be collaborating with aid groups to find solutions for the multitude of migrants currently on the city’s streets, many of whom are refugees or job seekers. A significant number of these individuals are from French-speaking African countries.

France is one of many European countries that have struggled with massive numbers of migrants. In December, the country introduced legislation curbing the number of migrants permitted into the nation, strengthening requirements for French citizenship, streamlining migrant deportation procedures, and delaying migrants’ access to state benefits.

The expulsion of migrants from Paris City Hall is not the first time the country’s management of the impending Olympic Games has caused controversy. Last year, France announced it was banning athletes participating in the games from wearing Islamic head scarves. In March, promotional art for the games removed the cross from the famed Dôme des Invalides.

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French law enforcement cleared a camp of approximately 50 migrants from the Paris City Hall on Wednesday. The move comes as the city prepares for the start of the Olympic Games. Mothers, children, and infants comprised the majority of the group. They were brought onto a bus destined for temporary government-sponsored accommodations in Besançon, located in eastern France. show more
April 4, 2024
William Upton
Economy
Immigration

How is America ‘Adding Jobs’ While Unemployment Rises? Allow Us to Explain…

The massive number of immigrants who have crossed into the United States at the southern border over the last year may be the cause of diverging government data detailing job growth and the unemployment rate, according to The Wall Street Journal. While the U.S. economy has seen relatively strong job growth over the last year, the unemployment rate has also begun to creep up — leaving economists and labor market analysts stumped.

Monthly employment data released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics is based on two surveys that measure job growth and the unemployment rate using slightly different methodologies. The ‘establishment survey’ — used to determine how many jobs the economy has added in a given month — is based on data collected from over 100,000 businesses and government agencies. Meanwhile, the ‘household survey’ is based on a rotating poll of around 60,000 American households and is used to calculate the unemployment rate.

In the latter survey, the U.S. government uses the percentage of respondents who say they are working and applies that number to the Census Bureau‘s population data. The census data, however, has not accounted for the millions of immigrants who have entered the country over the past year. That discrepancy could cause the divergence in data and explain why the U.S. economy hasn’t overheated from the increased job growth.

David Mericle, chief U.S. economist at Goldman Sachs, told the Wall Street Journal that the increasing unemployment rate is likely driven by out-of-work immigrants, while the immigrants securing work are fueling the job market growth. The National Pulse previously reported in February that data produced by the Center for Immigration Studies shows almost the entirety of job growth over 2023 was driven by legal and illegal immigration. Meanwhile, native-born American workers saw a decline of 183,000 jobs.

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The massive number of immigrants who have crossed into the United States at the southern border over the last year may be the cause of diverging government data detailing job growth and the unemployment rate, according to The Wall Street Journal. While the U.S. economy has seen relatively strong job growth over the last year, the unemployment rate has also begun to creep up — leaving economists and labor market analysts stumped. show more
April 4, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Crime
Immigration

Illegals Caught Hiding in U.S. School.

Santa Teresa Middle School in New Mexico has been forced into lockdown twice in one week due to illegal aliens being discovered on school premises.

On March 27, six migrants were apprehended by El Paso Border Patrol personnel after they were found on the property of the school, located close to the Rio Grande outside of El Paso. The school had to be locked down to ensure safety as Border Patrol apprehended the illegals, who were seeking to penetrate the U.S. undetected.

“Being that those schools are so close to the border. The proximity of the border, these types of events happen weekly,” admitted Border Patrol representative Refugio Socorro.

“A lot of people in that area that try to evade arrest from our apprehensions do have a criminal history or have immigration issues,” he warned.

Santa Teresa Middle School is about five miles from a gap in the border wall referred to as ‘The Anarpa Gap’.

Halting border wall construction was one of Joe Biden’s first acts as President.

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Santa Teresa Middle School in New Mexico has been forced into lockdown twice in one week due to illegal aliens being discovered on school premises. show more
April 3, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Immigration
NatSec

Chinese Illegals Entering U.S. in Record Numbers.

The Joe Biden regime has overseen a surge of over 140,000 Chinese illegal aliens since fiscal year 2021, most of them military-aged men. This surge represents a threat to national security, with El Centro Sector Chief Patrol Agent Gregory Bovino recently disclosing an incident in which a Chinese national infiltrated a Marine Corps base near the border.

Bovino confirmed the “purpose and intent behind his actions are still being investigated” and that he was in the country illegally.

Illegal entries by Chinese migrants rose from 23,471 in fiscal year 2021 to 27,756 in fiscal year 2022, then to 53,700 in 2023. With reports of 36,912 apprehensions through February 2024, this year continues the upward trend.

The influx has been partly facilitated by TikTok, controlled by the Chinese government, with accounts on the platform providing detailed instructions on how to make the journey to the U.S. border.

Despite the obvious security implications, the Biden regime weakened the vetting process for Chinese illegal aliens in April 2023.

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The Joe Biden regime has overseen a surge of over 140,000 Chinese illegal aliens since fiscal year 2021, most of them military-aged men. This surge represents a threat to national security, with El Centro Sector Chief Patrol Agent Gregory Bovino recently disclosing an incident in which a Chinese national infiltrated a Marine Corps base near the border. show more
April 3, 2024
Ed Kozak
Immigration

Residents Slam ‘Disgusting’ Plan to House Migrants at Historic Veterans Home.

Boston area residents are slamming plans to convert the historic Chelsea Soldier’s Home into a facility to house 100 illegal alien families.

“I can’t believe the Chelsea Soldiers’ Home which is for the Vets is going to [be] used for the immigrants overflow,” George Belmonte, a Massachusetts resident, commented on Facebook. “How about taking care of the homeless vets first? I am all for helping people but how about taking care of those already here and homeless,” Belmonte added.

Nearly 550 veterans in Massachusetts experienced homelessness on a single night in 2023, according to U.S. Housing and Urban Development data.

Area resident Denise Levy noted that while the Home was still operational for veterans, those “who fought for our country are paying to live there,” while the illegal aliens will be provided accommodation for free. “Disgusting!!!” she wrote. According to its website, single veterans at the Old Soldiers’ Home paid $30 per day — with a $300 personal exemption from personal income — for nursing home care. Vets who did not need nursing home care were asked to give $10 per day, also with the $300 exemption.

Founded in 1882 to care for Civil War veterans, the now-vacant Chelsea Soldiers’ Home was ear-marked for demolition before Democratic Governor Maura Healey announced the plans to turn it into housing for illegal aliens. Healy’s decision comes as the
state — like many others across the country — struggles to cope with the massive influx of illegal aliens entering the country due to the Biden government’s mishandling of the border crisis.

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Boston area residents are slamming plans to convert the historic Chelsea Soldier's Home into a facility to house 100 illegal alien families. show more
April 3, 2024
William Upton
Crime
Immigration

Sanctuary Law Stopped Illegal Accused of Sexually Assaulting Kids Being Deported.

An illegal immigrant living in Lynn, Massachusetts, accused of multiple instances of assault and child sexual abuse, was shielded from deportation by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) due to the state’s sanctuary laws. Throughout 2022 and 2023, the Guatemalan national had numerous run-ins with law enforcement — resulting in a long list of charges against him. In November 2023, ICE finally issued a detainer against the illegal immigrant. A Massachusetts court — citing the state’s sanctuary policy — released him back into the community instead.

While it is unclear when the Guatemalan national entered the United States, his criminal history suggests he crossed the border relatively recently. On March 30, 2022, the Guatemalan man was first charged in Lynn for assault, battery, and strangulation offenses. Two days later, he was charged with reckless endangerment of a child. A state district court dismissed the charges in February of last year.

In June of 2023, the illegal immigrant was charged with compulsory insurance violation, identification infringements, and forgery, of which he was again cleared on the same day. He again faced criminal charges in early November when he was arraigned on numerous counts of child assault, including attempted rape. Additional charges — including offensive assault and battery on a child under 14 years, child rape, assault and battery, and witness intimidation — were added in February of this year. Again, those charges were eventually dismissed.

Despite interference from Massachusetts courts, ICE agents were finally able to detain the Guatemalan man at his Lynn residence. He currently remains in ICE custody, awaiting deportation.

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An illegal immigrant living in Lynn, Massachusetts, accused of multiple instances of assault and child sexual abuse, was shielded from deportation by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) due to the state's sanctuary laws. Throughout 2022 and 2023, the Guatemalan national had numerous run-ins with law enforcement — resulting in a long list of charges against him. In November 2023, ICE finally issued a detainer against the illegal immigrant. A Massachusetts court — citing the state's sanctuary policy — released him back into the community instead. show more
April 3, 2024
Immigration
NatSec

Feds ‘Accidentally’ Released Somali Terrorist on FBI Watch List.

A known member of the Somali terrorist group al Shabaab was able to reside in the U.S. for almost a year due to an error by federal agencies. The 27-year-old man, still unnamed, was already listed on the terrorist watchlist for his involvement in explosives and weapons trafficking. Despite his criminal background, he was released after being detained for illegal entry in California in March 2023. His rearrest only happened this January in Minnesota.

Republican lawmakers are now seeking explanations for the oversight. A letter from these lawmakers questioned the possibility of a Non-Governmental Organization’s (NGO) involvement in the terrorist’s transportation to Minnesota, either directly or indirectly.

“Due to Minnesota’s far distance from the border, it is not an easy task for migrants to travel to the state,” the letter reads. “Did the al-Shabbab terrorist travel to Minnesota with the assistance, either direct or indirect of an NGO? If so, which NGO was responsible for transporting the individual to Minnesota?”

House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) held the Biden administration accountable for this incident. “The Biden administration’s open-borders agenda allowed a known terrorist to roam freely throughout our state, and now they must answer for their inexcusable negligence,” Emmer said in a statement.

News of the Somali terrorist’s mistaken release is likely to add to already heighten public concerns about terrorists crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. It follows the March apprehension of a Hezbollah terrorist at the border, who confessed his intent “to make a bomb” and target New York.

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A known member of the Somali terrorist group al Shabaab was able to reside in the U.S. for almost a year due to an error by federal agencies. The 27-year-old man, still unnamed, was already listed on the terrorist watchlist for his involvement in explosives and weapons trafficking. Despite his criminal background, he was released after being detained for illegal entry in California in March 2023. His rearrest only happened this January in Minnesota. show more