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Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA): "I don't think that people are breaking into the country illegally... When people differentiate between legal and illegal immigration, the undertone from your side is that somehow people who are coming illegally are trying to break into the country"

On Friday’s broadcast of ABC’s “The View,” Senate Majority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) stated that the problems on the border are not due to President Joe Biden reversing several Trump-era policies, cited Republicans who saw the Senate border bill as Democrats “moving in a tough, strong direction” on the issue, and stated that by opposing the Senate bill, Trump said, “hold it out for political advantage and let this so-called crisis fester for another year.”Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin asked, “Well, Senator, Biden was right last night to bring up the strong bipartisan border bill that Trump essentially killed that...

Chief Patrol Agent Lloyd Easterling called the decision 'unfortunate' and 'disheartening' Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says the Biden administration's border policies have 'unilaterally destroyed' the country on 'Special Report.' The school district in Spokane, Washington voted unanimously to ban U.S. Border Patrol agents from entering schools, saying that it could be traumatizing for immigrant students. The movement to bar U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) personnel from the classrooms came after members of Latinos En Spokane, an advocacy group that supports the Latino community, said that immigrants seeing Border Patrol agents in their school could be traumatizing. "They could be...

The Joe Biden presidency has had its share of missteps, maybe more than any other administration before it. But the latest scandalous behavior is not an error in the eyes of this White House. In pursuit of cultural and political engineering that only the Democrats would ever consider, the administration has flown 320,000 illegal immigrants into the country directly from foreign airports. According to the ​​Center for Immigration Studies, “U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has approved secretive flights that last year alone ferried hundreds of thousands of inadmissible aliens from foreign airports into some 43 American ones over the...

What most people don’t realize is that the administration has created an illegitimate system by which all the people entering here illegally suddenly aren’t illegal at all. Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Mayorkas opines that America’s immigration crisis is an outcome of a “system” that has been broken for thirty years. An honest Mayorkas would take ownership of a crisis three years in the making. He would say that, by leveraging a record-breaking 535 immigration actions, we are giving millions of, at best, loosely vetted, mostly non-English speaking “twilight” immigrants a pathway to citizenship, with no pesky conditions like good moral...

An unhinged madman with a long rap sheet is allegedly targeting female doctors and nurses in The Bronx — with at least four attacks over the past five years, The Post has learned. Edward Johnson, 57, an illegal immigrant believed to be from the Caribbean who came to the United States over a decade ago, has been arrested 23 times on charges that include gun possession, according to sources and records. He has another 42 arrests that have been sealed since he arrived in the US. He skipped out on supervised release and is on the lam, authorities said —...

....A California Democratic assemblymember's new bill states that an individual's immigration status can't disqualify an applicant from the program.... ...The bill is set to expand eligibility criteria for a state loan program to expand these loans to include undocumented migrants that are first-time buyers.... ....The bill focuses on the California Dream for All Shared Appreciation Loans program, which launched spring of 2023 to give qualifying first-time home buyers a loan that covers up to 20% of a property’s purchase price that will not accumulate interest or have required monthly payments .... ..."Folks, the bipartisan border security bill is a win...

As migration hits record levels worldwide, a debate is building among economists over whether some industries are becoming too dependent on foreign labor. Many business owners say that bringing in low-skilled foreign workers has become essential, as local populations age and labor forces shrink. In rural Wisconsin, John Rosenow says it is impossible to find locals to work on his 1,000-acre dairy farm. He relies on 13 Mexican immigrants, up from eight to 10 a decade ago. That has enabled him to avoid making costly investments in robots that can help milk cows “We get really good people,” Rosenow says....

California Democrats once again prioritized illegal aliens over American citizens, this time by introducing a bill that would allow illegals to receive interest-free home loans. Democrat assembly member Joaquin Arambula (Fresno) last month introduced Assembly Bill 1840 that would extend a first-time homebuyer loan program to illegal aliens. “It’s that ambiguity for undocumented individuals, despite the fact that they’ve qualified under existing criteria, such as having a qualified mortgage, underscores the pressing need for us to introduce legislation,” Arambula said in an interview. “Homeownership has historically been the primary means of accumulating generational wealth in the United States,” he said....

It’s not even 4 a.m. and the line to get through security at McAllen International Airport is backing up on Tuesday morning. Among the travelers, asylum-seeking migrants hoping to get on flights by purchasing standby tickets. Ahead of the Transportation Security Administration’s checkpoint, Border Patrol agents screen the migrants by taking their photos and checking documents to ensure that none is trying to board flights illegally. -snip Joel Cavazos, 43, is a music distributor executive who lives in Los Angeles and the Rio Grande Valley. On Friday, he was trying to fly to L.A. with his partner and their 6-month-old...

In President Joe Biden’s America, illegal migrants get a five-star treatment while law-abiding U.S. citizens take a back seat. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-N.Y.) is trying to fast-track her plans of getting illegal aliens at the front of the line for government jobs. New York would be the first state in the nation to make it easier for asylum-seekers with work authorization to obtain government jobs. Hochul told Politico that she is “anxious to get this moving quickly.” The Democrat’s administration is easing requirements for such jobs as, English language proficiency, education qualifications, and certification for more than 4,000...

“You’re not safe in Joe Biden’s America.” — tagline of Trump campaign ad posted on social media Donald Trump’s presidential campaign moved quickly to tie the killing of a Georgia nursing student, allegedly by a Venezuelan migrant who entered the country illegally in 2022, to the surge of undocumented immigrants at the southern border under the Biden administration. His campaign posted a video that, with pounding music, combines news clips about the case with clips of Biden administration officials assuring people that the border was secure. It ends with the blunt message above. Never mind that violent crime rates, especially...

A 34-year-old Guatemalan previously convicted of indecent assault and battery on a minor under 14 was arrested by the Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) in Gloucester, Massachusetts. The man entered the U.S. illegally, and his removal is pending proceedings with a federal immigration judge. The Gloucester District Court released him despite ERO filing an immigration detainer and his convictions, which also include a separate assault and battery offense. The Gloucester District Court previously disregarded the ERO immigration detainer, allowing the Guatemalan’s release. Known as a sexual offender, he was arrested without incident at the Essex County House of Corrections, where...

Illegal border crossers in New York City continue to be afforded thousands of dollars monthly in free rent for apartments and hotel rooms as Big Apple citizens are forced to pay thousands a month for tiny apartments. One illegal from Venezuela, who moved from a Manhattan hotel — where she and her children had one room, a microwave, a mini-fridge, and a table and chair — into a spacious, two-bedroom apartment in the near eastern suburb, gushed about the program. “To come from where we have come from, and to be here,” she marveled to the paper. “For some people...

Members of the press and Athens residents packed into the Athens-Clarke County Police Department headquarters Wednesday to discuss public safety and immigration with Mayor Kelly Girtz. The news conference followed the killing of University of Georgia student Laken Riley by Jose Antonio Ibarra, an undocumented immigrant from Venezuela, on Feb. 22 and was quickly taken over by questions about Athens’ stance on immigration. Girtz emphasized Athens’ lowering crime rates over the last several years, and said that data shows there is no link between immigration and crime. “I caution against conflating immigration and crime, the data demonstrates that the two...

Former New York City Police Department Commissioner Ray Kelly, the department’s longest-serving commissioner, cautioned on Sunday that New York City’s quality of life “has really deteriorated.” Migrant crime is a major reason. Venezuela’s notorious Tren de Aragua gang and El Salvador’s feared MS-13 — what former FBI Assistant Director Chris Swecker calls “prison-spawned gangs” — are threatening to take over American cities. They bring “mindless knuckle-dragging violence,” warns Swecker. They’re the “most dangerous gangs on the planet.” Swecker speculates that countries are emptying their prisons deliberately. Gang leaders setting up crime rings in the U.S. “come out of the muck...

An illegal immigrant from El Salvador who faced deportation orders and had run-ins with the law has been charged with murdering a 2-year-old Maryland boy caught in a shootout while in a park with his teenage mom. Nilson Granados-Trejo, 25, was charged Monday with first- and second-degree murder, the fifth suspect busted for the Feb. 8 shooting that killed toddler Jeremy Poou-Caceres and injured his 17-year-old mom, cops said. The toddler was caught in the crossfire between two groups involved in a territorial dispute over drug dealing in Langley Park, according to charging documents obtained by the Washington Post

Kenner Police arrested a man accused of raping a juvenile and an armed robbery. Kenner PD say they began their investigation and were able to determine Angel Matias Castellanos-Orellana, 19, was the suspect in the rape of a 14-year-old girl. Castellanos-Orellana was arrested on Sunday, Feb. 25, after police responded to a call of an armed robbery in the 2600 block of Phoenix Street. The victim of the armed robbery was stabbed by Castellanos-Orellana and was transported to the local hospital, where they were in stable condition. Slidell PD say Castellanos-Orellana is an undocumented immigrant and is in the United...

Liberals have given us a legal basis to prosecute them for not ensuring our national security. Far from being struggling migrants searching for better life, tens of thousands of the illegal immigrants being released into the U.S. are security threats to the U.S. However, the Biden Administration sees these people as a way to turn red states blue in their pursuit of a one-party state with the Democrats as the one party. According to Customs and Border Protection documents obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation, CPB released more than 30,000 illegal immigrants who were flagged as security risks over...

A van nearly struck a school bus just before 2:40 p.m. on Route 7 in Pittstown on Tuesday, according to surveillance video provided by Upstate Auto Sales. The van then hit another vehicle before veering off the road and crashing into trees. The driver of the vehicle, 22-year-old Angel Fernando Pandiguana Pachar, was arrested and charged with reckless endangerment, reckless driving and various other vehicle and traffic violations, according to the Rensselaer County Sheriff's Office. According to the Rensselaer County Sheriff, the driver and a passenger were in the country illegally. "We recognize the heroic action of the bus driver,...