The ongoing border crisis, which President Biden declared as merely seasonal last spring, has persisted longer and been far worse than we have seen in decades. Given that it has lasted longer and seen far larger numbers than any of his predecessors, it cannot be fairly described as the latest iteration of a long-term problem.
Earlier this week, Border Patrol officers in the Del Rio Sector of the border apprehended more than 250 aliens crossing the Rio Grande in a single group. According to Customs and Border Protection sources, the group was made up predominantly of Venezuelans and Cubans.
A Maryland seafood company has settled with the Federal Government after news came out that the company hired 89 illegal aliens. As part of the settlement, the company owner, Jamie Harrington III, was sentenced to a single year of probation, given a $15,000 fine, and made to promise to use E-Verify on new hires.
According to reporting by The Washington Times, over the last three months of Fiscal Year 2021, immigration judges issued deportation directives in less than a third of cases they reviewed - a shocking demonstration of President Biden’s lax approach to dealing with aliens released after illegally crossing the southern border.
American Business Immigration Coalition's top onion magnate, Shay Myers complains about labor shortages while automated options exist.
Displaced black farmworkers in the Mississippi Delta file a federal lawsuit against Pitts Farm Partnership (PFP) claiming “that the new foreign workers were illegally paid at higher rates than local Black workers."
Only 33% of West Virginia's Democratic "likely voters " say they prefer the 10-year amnesty for up to 8 million illegal immigrants in the budget reconciliation bill, according to new polling by Rasmussen Reports. The overwhelming opposition to that amnesty from Senator Manchin's own party should be a bright red light for West Virginia's Democratic senator to stop a bill with that amnesty from passing through the Senate.
The book is especially relevant as the Senate prepares to consider the House-passed Budget Reconciliation bill that includes the largest amnesty in U.S. history. The book makes it clear that flooding the job market with millions of additional foreign workers will only create more inequality and push many African Americans further down the lower rungs of the jobs ladders.
More than 164,000 aliens were encountered during the month of October after illegally crossing the southern border according to US Customs and Border Protection; this total is more than double the number of aliens apprehended in October 2020.