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March 7, 2024
Ed Kozak
Immigration
News

Denver Begs Property Owners to House Illegal ‘Newcomers.’

The city of Denver, Colorado, is desperately pleading with landlords to take in illegal aliens as it struggles to deal with the influx of invaders.

“We put out a feeler to all the landlords we have connections with,” said Jon Ewing of Denver Human Services. “Basically said, listen, we’re going to have some newcomers who will need housing.”

Denver was recently forced to evict migrants from city shelters as it lacks both the space and the financial resources to house them, with Mayor Mike Johnston saying the city was approaching its “breaking point.”

Ewing revealed that the city has managed to house many of those evicted migrants with the help of local non-profit groups. “We’re at below 1,800 [migrants needing housing] right now, which is the first time that number’s been that low since September,” he said.

In addition to providing them with housing, the city has also endeavored to get the migrants work permits, helping “1,300 people right now, over the last two weeks or so… get their work permits,” Ewing revealed.

Denver has so far spent nearly $58 million supporting 38,861 migrants, most of whom are reportedly from Venezuela. Ewings’ use of the word ‘newcomers’ to describe Denver’s illegal alien population is noteworthy — the Biden White House recently adopted the same language.

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The city of Denver, Colorado, is desperately pleading with landlords to take in illegal aliens as it struggles to deal with the influx of invaders. show more
March 7, 2024
Breaking
Immigration

170 Democrats Vote AGAINST Laken Riley Act That Protects Americans From Criminal Migrants.

U.S. lawmakers passed the Laken Riley Act on Thursday despite the opposition of 170 Democrat Congressmen who oppose sanctions on criminal migrants and continue to disparage the memory of the murdered college student from Georgia.

The bill passed by 251-170 votes and will require the detention by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) of illegal immigrants implicated in local theft or burglary charges. The bill was drafted following the brutal murder of 22-year-old Laken Riley, a nursing student at the University of Georgia, by an illegal immigrant from Venezuela, who had prior criminal charges but was not previously detained by ICE.

The malefactor, identified as Jose Antonio Ibarra, had arrests and citations on his record in multiple states, including a child endangerment arrest in New York and a misdemeanor shoplifting citation in Georgia. Congressman Mike Collins, who advanced the bill, represents Georgia’s 10th Congressional District in Athens, the site of the fatal incident on February 22. He stated that the Laken Riley Act is America’s “wake-up call” to tackle what he sees as an “illegal crime wave” brought about by the ongoing border crisis.

The legislation also allows states to take legal action against the federal government if an immigration-related decision harms the state or its citizens.

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U.S. lawmakers passed the Laken Riley Act on Thursday despite the opposition of 170 Democrat Congressmen who oppose sanctions on criminal migrants and continue to disparage the memory of the murdered college student from Georgia. show more
March 7, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Immigration

Laken Riley’s Murderer Has Family Ties to Notorious Tren de Aragua Gang Targeted by Trump.

Diego Ibarra, brother of Jose Ibarra, the illegal alien accused of murdering Laken Riley, is likely a member of the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang, according to court documents.

Diego Ibarra was detained around the same time as his brother after he showed homicide investigators a counterfeit green card. Reports indicate he used it to secure employment at the university Riley attended.

Previously, Diego Ibarra has been arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol and driving without a license, theft by shoplifting, and failing to appear for fingerprinting. He is known to have crossed the US border at least twice and was involved in a violent attack on a border official during the second crossing. He escaped prosecution by claiming to have epilepsy, however.

Prosecutors have now disclosed they believe he is a member of Tren de Aragua, a violent Venezuelan gang, citing gang-related social media posts and his distinctive tattoos. The gang has begun to make its presence felt in US cities as illegal immigration from Venezuela reaches unprecedented levels under Joe Biden.

Recently, former President Donald Trump warned that Tren de Aragua is partly responsible for the “33,000 assaults, 3,000 robberies, almost 7,000 burglaries, 7,500 weapons offenses, 4,300 sex crimes, 1,600 kidnappings, and 1,700 homicides” linked to illegal aliens detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

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Diego Ibarra, brother of Jose Ibarra, the illegal alien accused of murdering Laken Riley, is likely a member of the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang, according to court documents. show more
March 7, 2024
Crime
Immigration

21 Illegals Caught in Florida Human Trafficking Investigation.

Law enforcement officials arrested 228 people, including 21 illegal aliens, in a multi-agency anti-human trafficking operation titled “Operation March Sadness 2024.”

The eight-day-long operation was carried out in Florida and was driven by Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd. Judd criticized the prevailing flexible immigration policies, attributing the crisis at the border to these lax laws.

“We have a crisis at the border. And because of the crisis at the border, we have people that are victimizing illegal folks, forcing them into the sex trade,” Judd said. “Because we allow these criminals in the country illegally. We all rail about this, and nobody pays any attention.”

Those arrested included illegal aliens from countries such as Chile, Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, and Venezuela.

Judd also reported a specific instance involving a suspect brought to Florida from New York, coupled with three females, all of whom were in the US illegally. The females claimed they were under the control of a female trafficker and forced to pay $3,000 each under threat. Judd alleged these illegal immigrants were permitted to fly freely by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

“They said when they came into the country illegally, the DHS gave them a form, an ID, paperwork, that allows them to fly for free,” Judd said. “You know how Southwest (Airlines) will let your bags fly free? The federal government will let your illegal immigrants fly free.”

The recent influx of illegal aliens into America has brought with it a dramatic increase in crime. Former President Donald Trump recently observed, “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.”

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Law enforcement officials arrested 228 people, including 21 illegal aliens, in a multi-agency anti-human trafficking operation titled “Operation March Sadness 2024.” show more
March 6, 2024
William Upton
Economy
Immigration

Globalist WSJ Admits Cheap, Migrant Labor Kills U.S. Productivity.

US businesses’ increasing reliance on cheap, immigrant labor is hurting American productivity. A report from The Wall Street Journal suggests that overreliance on cheap labor dissuades industries from becoming more efficient and innovative — ultimately preventing the economy from expanding at a significant pace.

“Once industry is organized in a certain way and the structure encourages employers to recruit migrants, it can be very hard to turn back,” Prof. Martin Ruhs, who teaches migration studies in Florence, Italy, told The Wall Street Journal. Addressing Western mass immigration policies, he added: “In some cases, policymakers should ask, does it make sense?”

Productivity and innovation have been core drivers of Western economies for several centuries. However, that may change if Western economies continue relying on cheap immigrant labor. In 2022, a Danish academic study found that companies were less inclined to invest in robotic technology and automation if they had easy access to immigrant workers.

Among the Western nations of Canada, the UK, Germany, and the US, the current rate of immigration is as much as three times higher than it was before the COVID-19 pandemic. The Wall Street Journal notes this is likely to exacerbate sluggish growth in labor productivity, which has lagged among the Western nations for several decades.

Over a quarter of the UK’s nurses working for the National Health Service are immigrants. In Germany, 80 percent of the country’s butchers are foreign laborers.

In the US, several critical industries have become almost entirely reliant on immigrant labor. Immigrant labor comprises about 75 percent of agricultural workers and around 30 percent of construction and mining labor. Government data indicates that the American agricultural sector has seen almost zero productivity growth in over a decade.

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US businesses’ increasing reliance on cheap, immigrant labor is hurting American productivity. A report from The Wall Street Journal suggests that overreliance on cheap labor dissuades industries from becoming more efficient and innovative — ultimately preventing the economy from expanding at a significant pace. show more
March 6, 2024
William Upton
Culture
Immigration

Rapper Meek Mill Says Americans Should ‘Strap Up’ To Protect Themselves From Illegals.

Award-winning rapper Meek Mill is advising Americans to be vigilant and protective in a series of posts on X (formerly Twitter), citing increasing violence in American cities. The 36-year-old Philadelphia native, Robert Rihmeek Williams — known professionally as Meek Mill — attributed the spike in urban violence to illegal immigration, a surge of drugs, and a deepening mental health crisis. Mill, who has had a run-in with the law over gun and drug charges and has been imprisoned for probation violations, wrote, “Make sure you strap up in America, it’s extremely dangerous on the streets!”

A Gallup poll from late February indicates a noticeable increase in concern over immigration among Americans. The poll suggests that 28 percent of respondents now view immigration as the nation’s most pressing issue. This is an increase from the 20 percent who said it was their top concern in January. Mill’s comments drew on these sentiments, referring to the presence of “illegal immigrants everywhere,” the proliferation of automatic guns in inner cities, and the predominance of fentanyl-laced drugs.

Meek Mill made headlines last year for his instrumental role in securing the release of fellow rapper 21 Savage from ICE detention. The British-born rapper, real name She’yaa Bin Abraham-Joseph, was arrested in 2019 over an expired visa and had a linked felony drug charge against him. Narrowly avoiding further prison time, she credited Meek Mill and Jay-Z for their interventions, which led to her release.

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Award-winning rapper Meek Mill is advising Americans to be vigilant and protective in a series of posts on X (formerly Twitter), citing increasing violence in American cities. The 36-year-old Philadelphia native, Robert Rihmeek Williams — known professionally as Meek Mill — attributed the spike in urban violence to illegal immigration, a surge of drugs, and a deepening mental health crisis. Mill, who has had a run-in with the law over gun and drug charges and has been imprisoned for probation violations, wrote, “Make sure you strap up in America, it’s extremely dangerous on the streets!” show more
March 6, 2024
Wake Up Right
Immigration
News
Politics

Biden Admits to Flying In Over 300k Illegals, Won’t Say Where.

The Biden regime has admitted it’s flown in hundreds of thousands of illegals on secret flights to the United States but is refusing to tell lawmakers where cities they’re being flown to.

The details: A report from the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) found that in 2023 alone, 320,000 “inadmissible migrants” were flown directly from their home countries to US cities.

Zoom out: These hundreds of thousands of illegals are in addition to the record-high 3.2 million illegals encountered in fiscal year 2023.

How is this happening? Last year, the Biden regime rolled out the CBP One smartphone app, which allows people to apply for asylum from their home country. Then, Biden flies them to the US using our tax dollars and gives them two years to obtain legal status.

Where are they going? The CIS report confirmed 43 US airports received the illegals. Still, the Biden regime’s US Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) has refused to disclose which cities they’re being dropped in, citing security “vulnerabilities.”

Back up: Since taking office, Biden has undertaken a massive expansion of our immigration parole programs, which have historically been used to allow asylum seekers to come to the US for significant crises like war or natural disasters. But Biden has abused these programs, giving parole to over 1 million people.

Big picture: Biden is using these taxpayer-funded flights to lessen the traffic seen at the southern border. Tens of thousands of illegals at the border are bad optics for the regime. Flying them to US cities in the dead of night gets much less attention.

This article is adapted from the free ‘Wake Up Right’ newsletter, which you can subscribe to here.

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The Biden regime has admitted it’s flown in hundreds of thousands of illegals on secret flights to the United States but is refusing to tell lawmakers where cities they’re being flown to. show more
March 5, 2024
Ed Kozak
Economy
Immigration

Zero Down, No Payment Home Loans! Uh… For Illegals. Not For You.

California lawmakers are proposing expanding the state’s zero-down home loan program to illegal aliens. The proposal — Assembly Bill 1840 — comes as the state grapples with a sharp imbalance in housing supply and demand, currently ranking 49th in the country for housing units per resident.

State Senator Briah Dahle (R-Bieber) slammed the bill, voicing concern for US citizens left behind in the housing market. “Assembly Bill 1840 is an insult to California citizens who are being left behind and priced out of homeownership,” said Dahle. “I’m all for helping first-time homebuyers, but give priority to those who are here in our state legally.”

The bill seeks to expand access to the California Dream for All Shared Appreciation Loans program to illegal aliens. Launched in 2023 with an initial fund of $300 million to help first-time home buyers, it depleted its funds in 11 days.

Threatening to further complicated matters for California is a new influx of illegal aliens seeking to cross California’s borders in the face of Texas’s measures to confront and contain the migrant invasion. Earlier this year, the state — which is already facing significant financial woes — expanded MediCal, its taxpayer-funded healthcare system, to cover illegal aliens. The state estimated that 700,000 illegal aliens would sign up at a cost of up to $3.4 billion. However, significant increases in California’s illegal alien population could spark significantly higher costs.

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California lawmakers are proposing expanding the state’s zero-down home loan program to illegal aliens. The proposal — Assembly Bill 1840 — comes as the state grapples with a sharp imbalance in housing supply and demand, currently ranking 49th in the country for housing units per resident. show more
March 4, 2024
Election 2024
Immigration

Biden Campaign Co-Chair Claims Deporting Illegals Will Harm America.

Democratic Texas Representative Veronica Escobar claimed there would be dangerous economic repercussions for deporting illegal immigrants. Appearing Friday on CNN Newsroom With Jim Acosta, the co-chair of President Joe Biden’s 2024 re-election campaign criticized former President Donald Trump for calling for the deportation of illegal immigrants.

“Democrats have been willing over the decades to not just address border security as a whole, but also to address our workforce needs and to make sure that we remain a country of immigrants,” Rep. Escobar told Acosta before adding: “Immigration is good for us economically.”

Escobar called former President Trump’s pledge to deport illegal immigrants “horrific” before claiming Trump wants to “take us back to an era where people feared being in their own country simply because they belong to a minority group.” The Biden campaign official insisted that “it is impossible to deport every undocumented person in this country.”

Illegal immigration has increased at an alarming rate under the Biden government. President Biden’s initial acts in office included repealing several Trump-era border policies, such as the Muslim travel ban and the Border Wall project.

The ongoing border crisis has become a top issue heading into November’s presidential election. Polling has consistently indicated voters overwhelmingly believe Trump is best suited to end the border invasion.

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Democratic Texas Representative Veronica Escobar claimed there would be dangerous economic repercussions for deporting illegal immigrants. Appearing Friday on CNN Newsroom With Jim Acosta, the co-chair of President Joe Biden’s 2024 re-election campaign criticized former President Donald Trump for calling for the deportation of illegal immigrants. show more
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March 4, 2024
Immigration

U.S. Sees 167% Increase in Migrant Population Under Biden, Surpassing 8 Million.

U.S. government data indicates a significant increase in the migrant population residing within the country, with numbers expected to reach eight million by the end of September — a 167 percent increase over the last five years.

The surge is attributed to the ongoing border crisis that saw over six million asylum seekers and other migrants released from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody and listed on the “non-detained docket” by the conclusion of fiscal year 2023 on September 30. Department of Homeland Security documents sent to Congress anticipate a further increase to the aforementioned eight million by October 1.

Among the migrants caught in the backlog limbo, an estimated 2 million people — a quarter of the total number — are either slated for deportation or facing criminal charges, while others are awaiting final decisions on their asylum applications.

In December 2023 alone, over 302,000 migrants attempted illegal entry into the U.S., marking an all-time high for a single month and the first time the number surpassed 300,000.

The Biden regime faces continued criticism for its mishandling of the ongoing border crisis, which some argue the government has intentionally exacerbated. In February, it was revealed that most of the jobs’ gains’ under President Biden were the result of migrant labor.

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U.S. government data indicates a significant increase in the migrant population residing within the country, with numbers expected to reach eight million by the end of September — a 167 percent increase over the last five years. show more