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The Case for a Merit-Based Immigration System The current system is not only economically counterproductive but incentivises people to become illegal immigrants. Jay Sophalkalyan

https://quillette.com/2024/08/23/why-we-needs-points-based-immigration/

As the 2024 US presidential election approaches, immigration continues to be one of the most divisive topics in the national conversation. Amid this debate, one disparity is frequently overlooked: the contrasting treatment of international students who have graduated from US universities versus undocumented immigrants. While international students must navigate a complex and highly selective process to secure their place in the country, many undocumented immigrants attempt to manipulate the asylum system, adding strain to an already overwhelmed infrastructure. This contrast underscores the shortcomings of the current immigration framework and highlights the urgent need for a points-based immigration system.  

Asylum Seekers and the Legal Limbo

The US has a moral obligation to assist asylum seekers and refugees. Following the Refugee Act of 1980, the country admitted 50,000 refugees annually from around the world—including some of my own aunts and uncles, who were fleeing the genocide in Cambodia. But the process was different back then. Asylum cases were reviewed while applicants were still overseas. Defectors, dissidents, and refugees from places like Cambodia and Vietnam were stationed in refugee camps and pre-vetted before being granted visas to enter the US.

Before the advent of rapid transit and instant communication, the idea that large numbers of asylum seekers would be able to arrive at land borders unannounced was almost unimaginable, but this changed in around 2014. The US Border Patrol officers, who had been trained to intercept single Mexican men crossing the border in search of work, now faced an influx of entire families from Central America, who arrived, promptly turned themselves in, and sought asylum. Some of those who were successful naturally shared tips on how to game the system on their social media accounts. The number of economic migrants entering under the guise of seeking asylum increased.

DHS Watchdog Says ICE Has Lost Track of as Many as 291,000 Unaccompanied Migrant Children By Debra Heine

https://amgreatness.com/2024/08/20/dhs-watchdog-says-ice-has-lost-track-of-as-many-as-291000-unaccompanied-migrant-children/

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has lost track of up to 291,000 unaccompanied minors over the last five years, according to a blistering new report released by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Inspector General.

The IG report, titled “Management Alert – ICE Cannot Monitor All Unaccompanied Migrant Children Released from DHS and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Custody,” confirmed that more than 32,000 unaccompanied migrant children [UCs] are no longer accounted for by ICE.

“During our ongoing audit to assess ICE’s ability to monitor the location and status of UCs who were released or transferred from the custody of the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), we learned ICE transferred more than 448,000 UCs to HHS from fiscal years 2019 to 2023,” the internal watchdog reported. “However, ICE was not able to account for the location of all UCs who were released by HHS and did not appear as scheduled in immigration court. ICE reported more than 32,000 UCs failed to appear for their immigration court hearings from FYs 2019 to 2023.”

Migrant children are counted as unaccounted for when their sponsors fail to appear at immigration court hearings after being released from government custody.

“Despite its responsibilities for overseeing UCs through the immigration process, we found ICE cannot always monitor the location and status of UCs once they were released from DHS and HHS custody,” the report states.

Coalition of 15 States Sues Biden-Harris Regime Over Plan to Force States to Provide Public Benefits to Illegals By Debra Heine

https://amgreatness.com/2024/08/15/coalition-of-15-states-sue-biden-harris-regime-over-plan-to-force-states-to-provide-public-benefits-to-illegals/

A coalition of 15 states have filed suit against the Biden-Harris regime over its new rule that will require states to pay public benefits to illegal immigrants, including healthcare benefits.

The rule, which is set to go into effect on November 1, would force states “to expend limited resources on illegal immigrants,” said Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey in a press release Thursday.

“Not only is the Biden-Harris Administration responsible for bringing illegal aliens into Missouri, they are also giving illegal immigrants access to citizen benefits for free, encouraging them to remain here illegally on the taxpayers’ dime,” said Bailey. “The American people are already struggling to make ends meet in the current economy; their paychecks should fund their own healthcare, not the healthcare of those here illegally. I will continue to use every tool at my disposal to ensure that Missourians’ hard-earned dollars are not funding illegal immigration.”

In addition to Missouri, the attorneys general of Alabama, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Ohio, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee and Virginia have joined the lawsuit.

According to Bailey, “there are 77,000 to 104,000 illegal aliens currently residing in Missouri, costing taxpayers between approximately $342 million and $462 million per year.”

According to a report from the House Homeland Security Committee last November, the U.S. government was already spending $451 billion a year to house and care for “asylum seekers” nationwide.

How California’s Bar Stole $95M From Client Trust Accounts to Fund Open Borders Money stolen from your accounts might be funding pro-illegal advocacy. by Daniel Greenfield

https://www.frontpagemag.com/how-californias-bar-stole-95m-from-client-trust-accounts-to-fund-open-borders/

The Center for Gender & Refugee Studies has spent years battling on behalf of illegal alien invaders. Earlier, Freedom Center Investigates exposed how the lawfare group housed at a University of California law school provides full service open borders support.

“During Trump, my CGRS colleagues and I expended a tremendous amount of energy challenging the anti-immigrant policies that were issued on what seemed like an almost daily basis,” Karen Musalo, the CGRS founding director, boasted.

The Center also offers a database of “expert witnesses” willing to testify on behalf of the ‘refugee’ claims of border invaders. It urges licensed medical or mental health personnel to register to “support asylum seekers with forensic mental or physical evaluations.”

Who funds the CRGS open borders lawfare? Many of those who fund it don’t even know it.

CGRS is one of the radical leftist groups that benefits from interest seized from trust accounts controlled by lawyers and redistributed to some of the most extreme groups around.

Of Course Harris Was the Border Czar By Mark Krikorian

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/of-course-harris-was-the-border-czar/
If she wasn’t the border czar, what was she doing staging a perfunctory photo op at the border after months of resisting it?

As part of its promotion of Kamala Harris’s candidacy, the legacy media is working overtime to deny that President Biden named his vice president as “border czar.”

As NR’s Matthew Wilson noted, Axios has hilariously been trying to do cleanup on its repeated labeling of Harris as “border czar.” (The BBC described her that way as well.) Joining Axios in retailing the Harris-for-president talking points are Time, USA Today, the Wall Street Journal, CBS News, and no doubt many other tentacles of the media octopus.

But of course she was the border czar.

Czars in the non-Romanov sense have been around in some sense for a century or more, but the idea of a “czar” in charge of a specific policy issue really took off in the FDR administration during World War II, with a transportation czar, a shipping czar, even a synthetic-rubber czar.

Will Illegal Immigrants Decide The 2024 Presidential Election? I&I/TIPP Poll Terry Jones

https://issuesinsights.com/2024/07/17/will-illegal-immigrants-decide-the-2024-presidential-election-ii-tipp-poll/

While many disagree, a majority of Americans believe that illegal immigrant voting will be “common” around the nation in the 2024 presidential election and will likely affect the vote’s outcome, according to the most recent I&I/TIPP Poll.

The 1,244 Americans polled for the national online I&I/TIPP survey of voter opinion were asked: “How common do you think illegal immigrant voting will be in the November presidential elections?”

Of those responding, 52% said that they believed voting by those who immigrated to the U.S. illegally would be “common,” while just 38% thought such voting would either be “rare” (23%) or “none at all” (15%). Of the remaining, 11% said they “not sure.”

The poll of registered voters, taken from June 26-28, has a margin of error of +/-2.8 percentage points.

But the opinion was hardly uniform across the two main political parties, third parties and independents.

For instance, just 36% of Democrats thought that illegal immigrant voting would be common, while 51% said it wouldn’t. For Republicans, 73% described illegal immigrant voting as common, while just 20% said it would not be common. Independents divide 48% common and 39% not common.

US deports 116 Chinese migrants in first ‘large’ flight in 5 years Rebecca Santana

https://www.aol.com/news/us-deports-116-chinese-migrants-182831963.html

The Department of Homeland Security said Tuesday that it sent 116 Chinese migrants from the United States back home in the first “large charter flight” in five years.

The flight, which happened over the weekend, comes as Chinese immigration has become the subject of intense political debate in the upcoming U.S. presidential election.

“We will continue to enforce our immigration laws and remove individuals without a legal basis to remain in the United States,” Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said in a statement.

The department said it was working with China to “reduce and deter irregular migration and to disrupt illicit human smuggling through expanded law enforcement efforts.” It did not respond to questions about how long the migrants had been in the U.S.

In recent years, the United States has had a difficult time returning Chinese nationals who do not have the right to stay in America because China has resisted taking them back. Last year, the United States saw a drastic surge in the number of Chinese immigrants entering the country illegally from Mexico.

U.S. border officials arrested more than 37,000 Chinese nationals on the southern border in 2023, 10 times the number during the previous year.

Chinese migration has increasingly become a rallying cry for Republicans and former President Donald Trump who have raised suspicions about why Chinese migrants are coming to the U.S.

49 States Are Now Supplying ‘Non-Citizens’ With Voter Registration Forms.

https://thenationalpulse.com/2024/06/25/49-states-are-now-supplying-non-citizens-with-voter-registration-forms/

Illegal aliens and other “non-citizens” can receive voter registration forms without needing to show proof of citizenship in at least 49 states. They can use these forms to access welfare benefits and obtain driver’s licenses and mail-in ballots. Only Arizona has passed a law preventing this—but it applies only to state forms, not federal ones.

The National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) of 1993 mandates that states facilitate voter registration at the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) and welfare offices. These agencies must provide voter registration forms alongside application papers. Without a federal law requiring proof of citizenship for voter registration forms, migrants can simply claim to be U.S. citizens to register to vote, easily bypassing the official ban on non-citizens voting.

The House Administration Committee has approved the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act to combat this. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) also emphasizes the need for increased enforcement measures. However, with foreign aid and spending bills desired by the Democrat-controlled Senate and the White House already passed, the GOP has little chance of compelling them to pass new election integrity bills.

Open Borders Subject Women and Girls in the US to Rapes and Wanton Violence How the Left spawns femicidal terror. by Betsy McCaughey

https://www.frontpagemag.com/open-borders-subject-women-and-girls-in-the-us-to-rapes-and-wanton-violence/

The United Nations calls it “femicide,” the wanton assault, rape and murder of girls and women. It’s a cultural epidemic in Latin America.

Femicide is visible every step of the way from South America and the Northern Triangle countries to the Mexico-U.S. border. Rape trees, where women’s panties hang from branches, and rape tents, where girls and women are dragged by smugglers, dot the route. Do you think the rapes stop when illegals cross into the U.S.? No.

Now women are being victimized by migrants bringing femicide to your neighborhood. Where are the women’s rights groups? Silent. They couldn’t care less. It’s politically incorrect to criticize Latin American culture — even its tolerance for violence against females.

Last week in Queens, an Ecuadoran illegal, Christian Geovanny Inga-Landi, allegedly attacked a 13-year-old girl walking home from school, held her at knife-point and raped her, recording the assault for his own future pleasure as he proceeded.

Yet “Squad” member Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) laughed off news coverage of the crime as “fear-mongering.”

Inga-Landi has a history of abusing females, including beating his pregnant wife, according to police reports. He crossed the border illegally in 2021 and was ordered to leave the country by a New York City immigration judge in Feb. 2022.

Illegal Crossings Over Northern Border Have Surged by Over 1,000% Under Biden By Eric Lendrum

https://amgreatness.com/2024/06/25/illegal-crossings-over-northern-border-have-surged-by-over-1000-under-biden/

While the mass migration crisis has overwhelmingly taken place at the southern border between the United States and Mexico, there is a similar record-breaking surge across the northern border between the United States and Canada as well.

As reported by the Daily Caller, data from Customs and Border Protection (CBP) shows that fiscal year 2024 has currently seen 12,859 illegal aliens cross the northern border. This marks a far larger amount than the previous three fiscal years under Joe Biden. By comparison, there were just 916 northern border crossings in fiscal year 2021, followed by 2,238 in fiscal year 2022, and 10,021 in fiscal year 2023.

Thus, compared to the extremely low number in fiscal year 2021, the current totals for 2024 mark a staggering 1,303% increase from Biden’s first year.

In this report, illegal border crossings are defined as the number of encounters with illegal aliens that are reported by Border Patrol between any ports of entry. This does not include the number of illegals encountered at ports of entry who are deemed inadmissible.

When Biden first ran for president, he vowed to open the borders and support mass immigration, with the promise of free, taxpayer-funded benefits for illegals such as healthcare, education, and housing, with the eventual promise of amnesty for all illegals.