According to the office of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, more than 70 dead-of-night flights have landed in Jacksonville, moving illegal aliens from the border to the state since summer. Public safety czar Larry Keefe stated: "On average, there's 36 passengers on each of these flights."
According to reporting by the Washington Examiner, over 283,000 illegal aliens have been released into the United States interior after being caught crossing the border so far this year. The number comes from unreleased Border Patrol data shared by Democratic Representative Henry Cuellar.
Late last week, Representative Matt Rosendale (MT) led forty-four other Representatives who signed a letter sent to DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas urging him to immediately rescind several of his orders which all but completely abolish U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s and weaken their ability to effectively enforce America’s immigration laws; jeopardizing national security and public safety, say the Representatives.
Once again, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi planned a vote on the Democrats' $1.75 trillion budget reconciliation amnesty bill on Friday only to rescind the vote hours later. However, the threat of Congress passing what could become the largest illegal alien amnesty in U.S. history is still very much alive.
According to a report by the Congressional Budget Office, Democrats’ hope to include a complete “pathway to citizenship,” also known as amnesty, in the Budget Reconciliation bill would cost the Federal government more than $500 billion over the next few decades.
The economic conditions brought about by the pandemic give us a glimpse of what a landscape even marginally tilted toward workers might look like: more flexibility, better working conditions, higher wages, and last but not least: the dignity that goes hand in hand with meaningful work. The immigration framework drafted by the House for the budget reconciliation bill would short-circuit that progress.
A recent analysis of the Census Bureau’s monthly Current Population Survey conducted by the Center for Immigration Studies shows that the total foreign-born population increased by 1.6 million from September 2020 to September 2021. The total foreign-born population fell for much of 2020 but rebounded immensely during recent months.
Readers weigh in on an article in The New York Times that claimed erroneously that COVID-19 and natural disasters are driving the recent record surge in illegal immigration.