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September 3, 2024
Christopher Tomlinson
Economy
Immigration
UK

Jobless Migrants Costing UK Over $11.1 BILLION Per Year.

A record number of jobless migrants in the United Kingdom are costing the country at least £8.5 billion (~$11.14 billion) annually. Around 1.68 million migrants are either looking for work or are classed as “economically inactive.”

Government Office for National Statistics (ONS) data suggests that the 2024 jobs figures represent the highest migrant joblessness rate since 2012. When social services, healthcare, transport, and other costs are considered, estimated costs to taxpayers could be far higher than £8.5 billion pounds, skyrocketing to as much as £20.3 billion (~$26.6 billion) a year.

Robert Bates, research director at the Centre for Migration Control, says the new leftist Labour government should stop handing out long-term visas when so many migrants are not working.

“This is the very definition of a Ponzi scheme, and we will only compound the problem if we do not change course soon,” he said.

Britain has seen unprecedented illegal and legal migration in recent years, with net immigration running at 764,000 in 2022. This is significantly straining the housing supply. To alleviate the problem and help build new homes, Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner wants the country bring in even more migrants on supposedly “temporary” visas.

Other Western nations are also dealing with significant unemployment among their migrant populations. In Sweden, migrant unemployment is often several orders of magnitude above native-born Swedes. Migrants also account for around 80 percent of all welfare fraud in the country.

Meanwhile, the Danish Finance Ministry published a report noting that migrants from at least 24 different Muslim-majority countries make no net contribution to public finances.

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A record number of jobless migrants in the United Kingdom are costing the country at least £8.5 billion (~$11.14 billion) annually. Around 1.68 million migrants are either looking for work or are classed as "economically inactive." show more
September 2, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Immigration
News
World

Earthquake: Anti-Mass Migration Populists Win Big in European State Elections.

The right-populist, anti-mass migration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has won state elections in Thuringia and near-tied the establishment Christian Democratic Union (CDU), formerly led by Angela Merkel, in Saxony. The AfD has won an enormous share of the youth and working-class votes, in particular.

Led by Björn Höcke, the AfD in Thuringia is projected to have won over 33 percent of the vote on Sunday, up around 10 points on their previous showing in 2019. The CDU looks to be far behind, at around 25 percent. The Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW), a new, left-populist party that opposes mass migration, is third, at around 15 percent.

Meanwhile, Chancellor Olaf Scholz‘s left-wing Social Democratic Party (SPD) is at around 6 percent. His party’s coalition partners, the far-left Greens and neoliberal Free Democrats (FDP), have a statistically zero percent share of the vote.

In Saxony, the AfD appears to have secured a near-tie with the CDU, with both coming in around 40 percent. The SPD seems to have secured around 7 percent—its worst-ever result in Saxony. The Greens and FDP have also fared poorly, with the latter dropping to under one percent—their worst-ever result in any state election.

IMPLICATIONS.

While the AfD and the notionally right-wing CDU would enjoy legislative supermajorities in a coalition, the latter has refused to work with the former under any circumstances. Despite Merkel declaring multiculturalism had “utterly failed” in 2010, she opened the borders during the 2015-16 migrant crisis, with the SPD and its partners displacing her party after four terms in office in 2021.

However, the SPD has experienced a rapid collapse in support due to migrant crime worsening under their stewardship, and the Russia sanctions war and net zero policies driving up costs.

It will be difficult for the CDU to form governments without the AfD, given the level of support the populists achieved, and the unpopularity of attempting to form a “grand coalition” with the SPD and other left-leaning parties.

Germany’s establishment right, left, and far left also face long-term challenges, with the AfD winning a large plurality of the working-class vote in Thuringia and Saxony, and performing very strongly among younger voters. There are signs Germany’s youth are increasingly unhappy with mass migration and multiculturalism, with the viral song “Foreigners Out” spreading over the summer.

France’s President Emmanuel Macron faces a similar situation. The success of Marine Le Pen‘s populist National Rally (RN) in the recent European and national elections has left his faction in the legislature unable to form a government without the help of various far-left parties.

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The right-populist, anti-mass migration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has won state elections in Thuringia and near-tied the establishment Christian Democratic Union (CDU), formerly led by Angela Merkel, in Saxony. The AfD has won an enormous share of the youth and working-class votes, in particular. show more
August 30, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Health
Immigration
UK

Top Politician Boasts: ‘Palestinian-born Doctor Prioritized Me Due to My Ceasefire Vote.’

Jess Phillips, a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in Sir Keir Starmer‘s government and a Member of Parliament (MP) for the Labour Party, has described how Palestinian doctors rule the roost in Birmingham, England’s second city. She said she was given preferential treatment by one of them because she voted in favor of supporting a ceasefire in Gaza just weeks after the Hamas terror raids against Israel in October 2023, which killed around 1,200 people.

Phillips, tasked with “Safeguarding and Violence Against Women and Girls” in Starmer‘s government—despite having trivialized mass sexual assaults by Muslim migrants in Cologne, Germany—said she had “seen better facilities, health facilities, in war zones, in developing countries” when she sought socialized medical care at a Birmingham emergency department recently. However, she was soon bumped to the front of the line.

“I got through because of who I am,” Phillips said, tacitly acknowledging that politicians do not have a clear idea of how the National Health Service (NHS) operates for ordinary citizens because they receive special treatment.

“Also, the doctor who saw me was Palestinian, as it turns out. Almost all the doctors in Birmingham seemed to be,” she continued. “He was sort of like, ‘I like you. You voted for a ceasefire.’ [Because of that] I got through quicker,” she boasted, seemingly not seeing an issue with foreign doctors allocating state healthcare based on patients’ positions on foreign wars.

Phillips previously told Richard Tice MP, of Nigel Farage’s Reform Party, to stop sharing footage of Muslim rioters in Birmingham and questioning why they were not being aggressively policed like white anti-mass immigration protesters. She appeared to justify the Muslim rioters’ actions, saying they believed “racists were coming to attack them.”

Image by David Woolfall.

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Jess Phillips, a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in Sir Keir Starmer's government and a Member of Parliament (MP) for the Labour Party, has described how Palestinian doctors rule the roost in Birmingham, England's second city. She said she was given preferential treatment by one of them because she voted in favor of supporting a ceasefire in Gaza just weeks after the Hamas terror raids against Israel in October 2023, which killed around 1,200 people. show more
August 30, 2024
Crime
Immigration

KNIFE CONTROL: Migrant Mass Stabbing Heralds Pointless New Laws.

The German government has introduced a new security package that includes knife bans and stricter asylum measures after a deadly knife attack at a diversity festival in Solingen.

The incident, which resulted in the deaths of three people, has triggered a new debate over the country’s lax asylum policies.

At a joint press conference, German ministers stated that measures would include banning knives at most public events and on public transport and a total ban on flick knives. The government also intends to expedite the deportation of foreigners ordered to leave Germany and enforce fast deportation for those facing jail terms for knife crimes.

Additionally, the government proposed creating a task force to prevent Islamism and using biometric facial recognition to identify suspects. Interior Minister Nancy Faeser stated that asylum seekers registered in another EU country would lose their rights to welfare benefits in Germany.

The suspect in the Solingen case had his asylum application rejected because he first registered in Bulgaria, as stipulated by the EU’s Dublin Regulation. Attempts to deport him to Bulgaria last year failed after he went underground.

Center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) leader Friedrich Merz has called for a suspension of refugees from these regions, but Chancellor Olaf Scholz rejected this idea.

The government detailed its plans three days before elections in Thuringia and Saxony, where the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) is seeing significant support in the polls. In Thuringia, the AfD is predicted to come first ahead of the conservative CDU, while in Saxony, the two parties are in a tight race.

Despite their polling strength, the AfD is unlikely to gain power and govern as the establishment parties have previously refused to work with them in any regional or national government.

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The German government has introduced a new security package that includes knife bans and stricter asylum measures after a deadly knife attack at a diversity festival in Solingen. show more
August 29, 2024
Crime
Immigration

Illegal Aliens Storm School Buses on Freeway.

A California school district is announcing it will no longer allow its school buses to make stops where large numbers of illegal immigrants are present. The move comes after at least two incidents involving groups of illegal immigrants attempting to force their way on board school buses near San Diego.

Superintendent Liz Bystedt informed families that the school district’s new policy means buses will proceed to the next stop on their route if illegal immigrants are present at their designated stop. The decision follows two incidents earlier this week. On Tuesday afternoon, near the intersection of Highway 94 and Cochera Via along Route A, three men walked tried to stop a school bus in the middle of the highway. The driver had to navigate around the group to ensure safety.

The following morning, a group of about 20 illegal immigrants attempted to storm a bus on Route B. Parents at the stop assisted the bus driver in preventing unauthorized boarding. Both incidents have been reported by the school district to local and state law enforcement as well as U.S. Border Patrol. The San Diego County Sheriff’s Department has confirmed they are aware of the illegal immigrant encounters and are investigating.

Superintendent Bystedt, in her email to families, urged vigilance and advised parents to follow the bus to the subsequent stop if it bypasses their location due to the presence of illegal immigrants. This precaution, she stated, is “for the safety of students and bus drivers.”

Illegal immigrants targeting children has been a growing concern in the United States. The National Pulse has covered the issue extensively as the country has seen increasing incidents of migrant crime under the Biden–Harris government.

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A California school district is announcing it will no longer allow its school buses to make stops where large numbers of illegal immigrants are present. The move comes after at least two incidents involving groups of illegal immigrants attempting to force their way on board school buses near San Diego. show more
August 29, 2024
Crime
Immigration

WATCH: Migrants Seize U.S. Apartment Complex.

Venezuelan migrant gangs are reportedly taking over American apartment buildings by force, with new video footage showing armed men storming an apartment building in Colorado.

The shocking video allegedly shows a Venezuelan gang seizing control of an apartment complex in Aurora, a suburb of Denver, Colorado. The video, which surfaced on social media on Wednesday, August 28, shows individuals moving through the floors of the complex, wielding firearms.

One man, wearing a hoodie and carrying a rifle, is seen pounding on a door, joined by others with handguns.

Local police have not officially confirmed the involvement of the Tren de Aragua gang, which started in Venezuela’s prison system. However, Aurora City Council member Danielle Jurinsky cited the gang’s involvement during a recent interview.

“We currently have entire [apartment] complexes under gang control—complexes where staff have been beaten up, they’ve been threatened, their families have been threatened [and] complexes where there are no staff left on the property,” Jerinski said.

The Tren de Aragua has reportedly established numerous footholds nationwide since Joe Biden and Kamala Harris entered office, presiding over record-breaking illegal immigration.

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Venezuelan migrant gangs are reportedly taking over American apartment buildings by force, with new video footage showing armed men storming an apartment building in Colorado. show more
August 29, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Immigration
NatSec
World

Taylor Swift Islamic Terror Plot Aimed to Kill ‘Tens of Thousands’.

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Deputy Director David Cohen says a jihadist terror plot targeting a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna, Austria, aimed to kill “tens of thousands” of people, including “many Americans.”

“They planned to kill a huge number of people, tens of thousands at this concert including, I’m sure, many Americans,” Cohen said. “The Austrians were able to [arrest the suspects] because the [CIA] and our partners in the intelligence community provided them information about what this ISIS-connected group was planning to do,”

Concerts planned for August 8, 9, and 10 in the European capital were all canceled after the plot was uncovered. Initially, two Austrian citizens with Turkish and Croatian backgrounds were arrested in connection with the scheme, followed by an 18-year-old Iraqi immigrant.

Young girls at a Taylor Swift-themed dance and yoga class in Southport, England, were targeted in a mass stabbing by a migration-background teenager on July 29. Three were killed, and several others were left in critical condition. Two adult female teachers and a man in his sixties who tried to stop the attacker were also injured. However, the authorities have not identified the attack, which sparked widespread anti-immigration demonstrations and counter-demonstrations, as terrorism.

In 2017, a jihadist suicide bomber attacked an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England, killing 22 and injuring over 1,000. Many of the victims were minors and their parents, with the youngest fatality being an eight-year-old girl.

Image by Ronald Woan.

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Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Deputy Director David Cohen says a jihadist terror plot targeting a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna, Austria, aimed to kill "tens of thousands" of people, including "many Americans." show more
August 29, 2024
Christopher Tomlinson
1A
Immigration
Religion

Blasphemy: Sweden Prosecuting Quran-Burning Protesters.

Swedish prosecutors are charging two men with agitation against an ethnic or national group after they set copies of the Quran on fire in four separate locations, including outside a mosque. Salwan Momika and Salwan Najem both face charges for burning copies of the Islamic holy book, which led to Sweden heightening its terrorism alert system last year.

In the multicultural city of Malmo, Momika, a Christian Iraqi refugee, burned a Quran last year, sparking riots in the notorious no-go suburb of Rosengard as Muslims set dozens of cars on fire and threw missiles at police.

Sweden previously insisted that burning the Quran is not illegal, refusing to bring charges against anti-Islam activists like Momika or Rasmus Paludan. The country briefly considered outlawing Quran burning last year but ultimately ruled out any significant changes to the current laws on freedom of expression. A permit for a Quran-burning protest was granted as recently as May 2024.

The Quran protests strained Sweden’s relationship with Turkey amid its bid to join NATO, with Turkey demanding the European Union (EU) country make it illegal to burn the book.

Neighboring Denmark also caved to Turkey, passing de facto blasphemy laws in August 2023 banning burning the Quran, calling such protests uncivilized.

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Swedish prosecutors are charging two men with agitation against an ethnic or national group after they set copies of the Quran on fire in four separate locations, including outside a mosque. Salwan Momika and Salwan Najem both face charges for burning copies of the Islamic holy book, which led to Sweden heightening its terrorism alert system last year. show more
August 29, 2024
Immigration
World

Meloni Impounds NGO Ship in Fresh Migration Crackdown.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s government seems to be changing course on illegal migration, seizing the Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) migrant taxi ship, Geo Barents. The ship was impounded for 60 days by Italian authorities after dropping off 191 migrants it picked up in the Mediterranean.

Rome accused the crew of Geo Barents of endangering lives during a night-time rescue operation last Friday, alleging that they failed to inform Italian authorities promptly. MSF denies the charges, stating that the crew was forced to act after witnessing migrants falling—or being pushed—overboard from a small boat as a Libyan coastguard vessel approached.

Meloni’s government, backed by her Brothers of Italy (FdI) party, has succeeded in reducing migrant arrivals. This year, just over 39,500 migrants have arrived in Italy by sea, a sharp decline from the 112,500 who reached Italian shores during the same period last year.

MSF and other pro-migration groups have lodged formal complaints with the European Commission, which is still assessing whether Italy’s policies are consistent with EU and international law.

The Geo Barents is the latest in a string of migrant taxi vessels impounded by Italy, with authorities detaining ten such boats this year. The new approach for Meloni comes after a year of unsuccessfully trying to work with the European Commission and others to tackle the migrant crisis as over a hundred thousand illegals arrived in Italy by boat.

At one point, Meloni even stated that Europe and Italy needed immigration, adopting the establishment stance that migrants should be given safer legal routes to Europe. While migrant numbers to Italy have slowed in recent months, many seem to have switched to the Spanish route to Europe, which has surged.

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Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's government seems to be changing course on illegal migration, seizing the Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) migrant taxi ship, Geo Barents. The ship was impounded for 60 days by Italian authorities after dropping off 191 migrants it picked up in the Mediterranean. show more
August 28, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Economy
Immigration

This Sanctuary State Just Blew a BILLION Dollars on ‘Secret’ Migrant Spending.

Republicans have formally requested information from the Massachusetts state government regarding $1 billion in expenditures on the migrant crisis. The Massachusetts Republican Party has called upon Governor Maura Healey’s administration to provide a comprehensive cost breakdown detailing the financial impact on state residents.

“The Healey-Driscoll Administration has shrouded nearly $1 billion spent in secrecy, leaving Massachusetts residents in the dark,” complains state party chairwoman Amy Carnevale. “They have withheld critical information on 600 incidents involving police, fire, and EMT. Blocking journalists at every turn, the administration has obstructed the flow of information to the public.”

Carnevale has filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request seeking detailed information on the allocation of funds for migrants. The request demands the names of government and private entities involved in providing housing, the specific locations of migrant housing, correspondences related to public safety issues, and relevant police or incident reports.

The request follows a report by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) highlighting the strain on state resources due to the increasing number of migrants. CIS projects costs potentially reaching $1.8 billion over the next two years, with the state already spending over $1 billion on its Emergency Assistance shelter program.

BURDENS. 

In addition to the immediate costs of housing migrants, the CIS report identifies other financial burdens in terms of providing education, social services, healthcare, and public safety. The report estimates that around 355,000 migrants currently reside in Massachusetts.

Whistleblowers have previously revealed how migrants put up in Massachusetts hotels and motels receive “free diapers, wipes, toiletries, free tablets and phones, free English lessons, state caseworkers making sure all entitlements are taken, free Uber and Lyft rides, [and] free bus passes,” among other benefits.

“They all have MassHealth, free legal services, free tax-filing services,” the whistleblower said, adding that the hotel where they operated saw “daily” police and fire department callouts to deal “with fights, guns, drugs, [and] overdoses.”

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Republicans have formally requested information from the Massachusetts state government regarding $1 billion in expenditures on the migrant crisis. The Massachusetts Republican Party has called upon Governor Maura Healey’s administration to provide a comprehensive cost breakdown detailing the financial impact on state residents. show more