Late last Friday, the White House announced that it plans to exempt unaccompanied alien children (UAC) from the pandemic border ‘shutdown’ known as Title 42. The Biden Admin. stated that it revisited the issue and decided that when it comes to the possible spread of Covid19, alien children who show up without parents aren’t as much of a risk as other illegal border jumpers.
The number of illegal alien encounters rose in February after a slight decrease in January. According to DHS data, the rise was primarily due to single adult migrants, particularly from Mexico, who illegally crossed the border at their highest rate in many years.
Each year, the Global Footprint Network measures when "when humanity's demand for ecological resources and services in a given year exceeds what Earth can regenerate in that year." This is measured based on the needs and use of our global population, but the Global Footprint Network also breaks this down by country.
This year, Overshoot Day in the United States was March 13. Our population growth is straining our natural resources and threatening biodiversity. As long as our population continues to grow due to immigration, which can be attributed primarily to Congress's immigration policies, our environmental woes will only be further exacerbated.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement reported late last week that immigration arrests fell sharply to just 74,082 in FY21, deportations also fell 70% to just 59,011 in FY21.
According to Senator Krysten Sinema (D-Ariz.), President Biden has done "nothing" to stop the record-smashing flow of illegal aliens across the United States' southern border.
Early this morning, congressional leaders announced a new spending bill containing immigration provisions in line with what we've seen through the first year of Biden's presidency. The bill, comprised of 2,741 pages, is expected to be voted on in the house within hours of its release.
According to a recent report by Reuters, the number of Russians and Ukrainians traveling to Mexico, buying cars, and driving across the southern border into the United States to seek asylum is growing as the conflict in Eastern Europe shows no signs of slowing down.
Although President Biden didn't deploy the Ponzi-scheme rhetoric of the Washington Post in his State of the Union address, his immigration-expansion policies would push America further into overshoot.
Wages were stagnant in February from the previous month as inflation hit a 40-year high and is worsening. Meanwhile, some legislators see inflation as an opportunity to increase immigration to keep wages low.
According to Pres. Biden in last week's State of the Union address, "EVERYONE from labor unions to religious leaders to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce" supports his "immigration reform."
Apparently, African American voters aren't part of his "everyone."