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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Disgraced lawyer MichaelCohen, who takes the stand today in former President Donald J. Trump‘s Manhattan-based hush money trial, is not the ideal witness for District Attorney Alvin Bragg‘s prosecutors. Cohen has a sordid legal history and served a prison stint for fraud, tax evasion, and lying to Congress.
COHEN THE FRAUDSTER.
In late 2018, following what appears to have been a nearly year-long investigation into tax evasion campaign finance fraud allegations, Cohen surrendered himself to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). He pleaded guilty to eight federal charges, including tax evasion, making false statements to a financial institution, violating the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA) of 1971, and making an excessive contribution on behalf of a candidate. The last charge stems from the alleged $130,000 hush money payment to StormyDaniels.
After his conviction, Cohen began speaking to the press through his attorney, Lanny Davis, a long-time Clinton confidant. This, arguably, marked the start of the events that would culminate in the ongoing hush money trial brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. In what appeared to be a ploy to avoid any serious jail time, Cohen sat for over 50 hours of interviews with the MuellerInvestigation — with little coming of his testimony. In December 2018, a federal judge sentenced Cohen to three years in prison. The disgraced lawyer was also hit with a $50,000 fine, ordered to pay $1.4 million in restitution, and made to forfeit an additional $500,000.
‘PERVERSE’ AND A ‘SERIAL PERJUROR.’
At the same time, in November 2018, Cohen pleaded guilty to lying to Congress. The disgraced lawyer admitted he misled the Senate and HouseIntelligence Committee during his 2017 testimony. Cohen was ordered to serve a two-month prison sentence. In 2019, Cohen was disbarred as an attorney in the State of New York.
In March of this year, Cohen asked a federal judge to lift the conditions of his early release from prison, citing his ongoing testimony against former President Trump. The judge denied the request by Cohen, calling it the ethics of reasoning “perverse.” In addition, the judge noted that Cohen was a serial perjurer.
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Disgraced lawyer MichaelCohen, who takes the stand today in former President Donald J. Trump's Manhattan-based hush money trial, is not the ideal witness for District Attorney Alvin Bragg's prosecutors. Cohen has a sordid legal history and served a prison stint for fraud, tax evasion, and lying to Congress.
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Jury selection begins on Monday in the second federal corruptiontrial of New Jersey Democrat Senator Bob Menendez. Menendez and his wife, Nadine, are charged with accepting bribes from three affluent businessmen. The businessmen were charged alongside the Democrat, although one of them, Jose Uribe, had already pleaded guilty. He will testify against Menendez and the other two businessmen, Fred Daibes and Wael Hana.
Prosecutors say Menendez meddled in criminal investigations to benefit the governments of Egypt and Qatar. He is alleged to have used his influence to lobby the U.S. government and interfere in criminal investigations on behalf of Uribe, Daibes, Hana, and the foreign governments and interests tied to them.
Menendez was previously indicted for bribery, fraud, and other offenses in 2015, related to claims he used his position to lobby the Dominican government on behalf of a donor. Jurors failed to agree on any of the charges, resulting in a mistrial, though the Democrat was still found to have “violated Senate Rules, federal law, and applicable standards of conduct” by the United States Senate Select Committee on Ethics.
Nevertheless, the Democratic Party did not expel him, and he retained the chairmanship of the influential Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He lost this after the latest round of indictments but remains a committee member. He bragged in November that his intelligence clearance had not been revoked despite the fact he is being tried as a foreign agent.
Menendez has said he will not run for reelection as a Democrat in November — although he may run as an independent, endangering the party’s slim Senate majority.
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Jury selection begins on Monday in the second federal corruption trial of New Jersey Democrat Senator Bob Menendez. Menendez and his wife, Nadine, are charged with accepting bribes from three affluent businessmen. The businessmen were charged alongside the Democrat, although one of them, Jose Uribe, had already pleaded guilty. He will testify against Menendez and the other two businessmen, Fred Daibes and Wael Hana.
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The Wisconsin Supreme Court will today hear oral arguments on a crucial case involving the future of absentee ballot drop boxes in the state’s elections. The case presents the court’s liberal majority with a chance to reverse a ruling from less than two years ago, which significantly curtailed the number of such drop boxes.
If the court, with its current 4-3 liberal majority, reverses the earlier ruling, it could lead to a return of widespread use of absentee ballot drop boxes in time for the upcoming presidential election. Democrats and progressive groups have filed numerous briefs urging the court to reverse the 2022 decision. Conservative groups, along with the Wisconsin GOP, are pressing to uphold the current restrictions.
The Wisconsin GOP Chairman, Brian Schimming, warned about potential “hijinks” and concerns about the security of drop boxes. Moreover, he indicated that a change this close to the elections could fuel confusion.
The state high court ruled in 2022 that only the state Legislature—currently under Republican control—has the authority to make rules concerning absentee ballot drop boxes and not the Wisconsin Elections Commission. Priorities USA, a Democratic group, filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn this ruling. The current liberal majority on the court has agreed to review whether the prior ruling was wrongly decided.
Many of the ballot drop boxes in Wisconsin in 2020 were financed by Mark Zuckerberg’s Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL) and overwhelmingly favored Democrats. Last month, Wisconsinites voted to amend their constitution to prevent state election officials from using private grants to administer elections.
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The Wisconsin Supreme Court will today hear oral arguments on a crucial case involving the future of absentee ballot drop boxes in the state’s elections. The case presents the court's liberal majority with a chance to reverse a ruling from less than two years ago, which significantly curtailed the number of such drop boxes.
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Michael Cohen, the disbarred lawyer and convicted perjurer due to testify against Donald Trump in Manhattan on Monday, is viewed as dishonest by a plurality of Americans. Almost half, 48 percent, of people polled by POLITICO and Ipsos, say they believe he will be very or somewhat dishonest on the stand, against 47 percent who believe he will be very or somewhat honest.
Poll respondents were informed Cohen “was a long-time lawyer and ‘fixer’ for Trump who has since turned against Trump” and that he “pled guilty in 2018 in federal court to lying to U.S. congressional committees, financial fraud, and campaign-finance violations.”
They were further informed that Cohen “was sentenced to three years in prison as a result and lost his law license” and later “implied that he lied to the federal judge who accepted his guilty plea and that he is, in fact, innocent of some of those offenses.”
Nevertheless, 23 percent of Democrat respondents said they believed his testimony would be “very honest,” and 51 percent of Democrat respondents said he would be “somewhat honest,” suggesting a partisan bias.
HUNG JURY?
POLITICO notes in its report that the Manhattan jury pool is “bad for Trump” — although “not as bad as it is in Washington,” where Joe Biden’s Justice Department is prosecuting him. The news outlet adds an outright acquittal of the former president “seems highly unlikely” but that even a single juror could hang the jury and cause a mistrial.
Adding that Trump “will probably be convicted,” they warn it is still “quite plausible” Cohen’s credibility issues could result in a mistrial if jurors’ views of him “are ultimately in line” with its national poll.
Cohen has been grifting from anti-Trumpers on the China-controlled TikTok app in recent months. He is also a contributor to MeidasTouch, a far-left news organization pushing hoax stories against Trump with White House support, funded by billionaires linked to Jeffrey Epstein.
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Michael Cohen, the disbarred lawyer and convicted perjurer due to testify against Donald Trump in Manhattan on Monday, is viewed as dishonest by a plurality of Americans. Almost half, 48 percent, of people polled by POLITICO and Ipsos, say they believe he will be very or somewhat dishonest on the stand, against 47 percent who believe he will be very or somewhat honest.
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However, owing to campaign backlash, Kennedy pivoted, posting on social media that abortion legality should be upheld to a specific number of weeks, thereafter imposing restrictions.
Abortion has been a notoriously divisive issue in America, but actually I see an emerging consensus — abortion should be legal up until a certain number of weeks, and restricted thereafter. Even in the reddest of red states, voters reject total abortion bans. And on the other…
— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) May 11, 2024
“Even in the reddest of red states, voters reject total abortion bans,” Kennedy tweeted, adding: “And on the other end, almost no one supports gruesome third-trimester abortions except to save the life of the mother.”
Kennedy’s shift came after Angela Stanton King, a campaign adviser, expressed shock at his backing for late-term abortions.
Even Kennedy’s running mate, Nicole Shanahan, shared that she wasn’t privy to his initial perspective. She insisted that Kennedy believed in imposing abortion limits.
The campaign subsequently issued a statement stating that Kennedy believed in the mother’s final decision-making right, creating yet another contradiction.
Kennedy’s tendency to alter his stance on abortion was observed previously when he initially supported a federal abortion ban after three months, only to retract this support mere hours later.
Russian forces persist in making headway across the northern region of Ukraine, according to Sunday morning reports. A series of smaller border settlements are now under Russian control, with Ukrainian soldiers abandoning long-held positions.
“Today, during heavy fighting, our defenders were forced to withdraw from a few more of their positions, and today, another settlement has come completely under Russian control,” said Hostri Kartuzy, a Ukrainian special forces unit. “The Russians are dying in droves. But they are pressing on regardless and succeeding in some areas.”
Russian troops are moving further into Ukraine, posing a threat to a few small towns on the periphery of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest city.
The recent Russian offensive, launched unexpectedly on Friday, involves fighter jets, artillery units, infantry, and armor. These forces have been rapidly crossing the northeastern border between Russia and Ukraine.
Meanwhile, cross-border fire continues to escalate in the area. On Sunday, Russia accused Ukraine of hitting a multi-story building in the Russian city of Belgorod, located approximately 45 miles from Kharkiv. Russian state-run news outlet, TASS, reported a presumed casualty count of 17, though the number of deaths remains to be specified.
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Russian forces persist in making headway across the northern region of Ukraine, according to Sunday morning reports. A series of smaller border settlements are now under Russian control, with Ukrainian soldiers abandoning long-held positions.
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Denver Mayor Michael Johnston is facing a formal demand from local migrants. A list of 13 conditions was submitted earlier this week, pressing the city to accommodate their needs to vacate the overcrowded encampments and relocate to shelters. Among these demands were calls for free immigration lawyers, fresh ingredients for self-preparation of meals, unlimited access to showers, frequent medical checkups, and uniform housing support.
Additional demands by the migrants encompass an orderly and just process for their eviction, job support, ensured privacy, the eradication of abuse, school transportation, and family unity. The migrants also requested a meeting with Denver city officials and a helpline to report the instances of mistreatment, tying these conditions to their relocation to shelters.
The demands emerged in light of the recent implementation of the Asylum Seekers Program by Mayor Johnston. Under this policy, recent migrants lodged in city-funded shelters in Denver receive food and rental aid for six months, as well as free legal assistance. However, the time span for their stay in shelters, which used to range between two weeks and 42 days, has been sharply curtailed to 24 to 72 hours.
This change, in addition to Denver’s accommodation of over 40,000 migrants last year at an expense of $68 million, has sparked intense criticism. Republican Representative Lauren Boebert condemned the migrant proposal, describing it as utterly unreasonable, and articulated her disapproval of Denver’s invitation for residents to host migrants in their residences.
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Denver Mayor Michael Johnston is facing a formal demand from local migrants. A list of 13 conditions was submitted earlier this week, pressing the city to accommodate their needs to vacate the overcrowded encampments and relocate to shelters. Among these demands were calls for free immigration lawyers, fresh ingredients for self-preparation of meals, unlimited access to showers, frequent medical checkups, and uniform housing support.
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Even the historically ‘Never Trump’ publication National Review has come out against Trump’s trial in Manhattan, pushed by far-left District Attorney Alvin Bragg. The magazine, founded by William F. Buckley, splashed an op-ed by Andrew McCarthy on Saturday, beginning: “The simple fact is that DA Alvin Bragg can’t prove his case.”
Merchan should dismiss the case because it is already apparent that Bragg cannot prove criminal intent beyond a reasonable doubt. After three weeks of the prosecution’s case, I now believe the evidence would be insufficient even if Bragg had charged only New York’s misdemeanor business-records-falsification offense. As for the felony offense, as to which prosecutors must prove willfulness beyond a reasonable doubt (a heightened standard of scienter, i.e., criminal intent), Bragg’s evidence is woefully inadequate.
He adds:
To sum up, Bragg’s proof of falsity is paltry. His proof of fraud is non-existent. And if he had a scintilla of proof that Trump was even thinking about federal campaign law, let alone willfully flouting it, then he would have spelled it out in an indictment rather than playing his unconstitutional game of “guess what the other crime is.”
McCarthy concludes:
Wholly independent of the plethora of constitutional infirmities in the prosecution, it should be thrown out for the most basic of reasons: Bragg can’t prove his case.
The entire thing is worth reading, if you have the time, here.
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Even the historically 'Never Trump' publication National Review has come out against Trump's trial in Manhattan, pushed by far-left District Attorney Alvin Bragg. The magazine, founded by William F. Buckley, splashed an op-ed by Andrew McCarthy on Saturday, beginning: "The simple fact is that DA Alvin Bragg can’t prove his case."
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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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