Immigration

Published in El Heraldo de Mexico (Mexico) on 2 October 2023 by Gerardo Rodríguez Translated from Spanish by Hannah Bowditch. Edited by Helaine Schweitzer. Posted on October 5, 2023. Paradoxically, the best legal strategy he has is to win the presidential election and, most likely, pardon himself. Donald Trump is currently leading among Republican voters in the race for the...

To political science professor Elisa Chelle, who specializes in the United States, Joe Biden’s advanced age may not be a detriment to the Democratic Party in 2024, particularly because of Donald Trump’s legal woes. “I don’t know about you, but I’m going to go to bed.” With these words, President Joe Biden suddenly ended his press conference in Hanoi, Vietnam,...

Lalocracio/iStock/Getty Images Plus Even while Democratic politicians in deeply blue areas express their frustration with the migrant crisis and the toll it’s taking on public resources, Joe Biden is pushing ahead with plans to not only continue the massive migrant flow, but aggravate it by admitting more refugees from poor regions of the world. As The Associated Press reports, the...

AP Images Since before the GOP presidential primary season even began, many establishment donors were already in a mode of “anyone but Trump.” But some appear ready to throw in the towel, as their hopes for a viable alternative are all but dashed. As seen in a recent Politico piece, several players involved in the world of big money Republican...

Ron Paul Former President Donald Trump infuriated many anti-abortion voters last week when he refused to commit to national abortion restrictions and seemed to blame them for Republican losses in the 2022 mid-term elections. Trump even criticized the six-week abortion ban signed by Florida Governor (and fellow Republican candidate) Ron DeSantis. So, not only is Trump balking at national restrictions...

Twitter/X Hundreds of illegal immigrants wait under a bridge in Eagle Pass, Texas. When Texas Governor Greg Abbott learned that more than 4,000 illegals crossed the U.S. border at Eagle Pass, Texas (population 28,000), in just two days, he reiterated his claim that the crisis inundating the southern border is an “invasion.” On Thursday he posted on X: I officially...

AP Images Kathy Hochul City and state leaders in New York are wading into harsh measures to combat the rising migrant crisis, which has become both a focal point and a breaking point for the Empire State’s politics. In an about-face for Democrats in the state, Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul has now thrown her support behind New York City Mayor...

John Whitehead “There were relatively few secret police, and most were just processing the information coming in. I had found a shocking fact. It wasn’t the secret police who were doing this wide-scale surveillance and hiding on every street corner. It was the ordinary German people who were informing on their neighbors.”—Professor Robert Gellately, author of Backing Hitler Are you...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection Now that the word is out that America is receiving illegal aliens with arms wide open, mass migration has become a genie that refuses to be put back in the bottle. Border Patrol agents in San Diego, California, are now following in the footsteps of their counterparts in Tucson, Arizona, releasing hundreds of illegal border...

Shaan Hurley/flickr Is America past the breaking point in the migrant crisis? One Border Patrol sector in Arizona is in a state of upheaval, with agents receiving the go-ahead to allow migrants out onto the streets in the face of overcrowded detainment facilities filled to capacity. According to Fox News, the Tucson sector has experienced 2,000 illegal border crossings per...

John Whitehead We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. — Abraham Lincoln Those who gave us the Constitution and the Bill of Rights believed that the government exists at the behest of its citizens. It is there to protect, defend...

facebook Shivanthi Sathanandan A defund-the-police Democratic leader in Minnesota found out this week why defunding the police isn’t a very bright idea. Four gun-wielding thugs beat up and carjacked Shivanthi Sathanandan, second vice chairwoman of DFL, the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, in front of her kids. The angry victim railed against the criminals on Facebook and thanked the police. In 2020,...

rawpixel New York City Mayor Eric Adams has thrown in the towel and lost hope, as his “sanctuary city” can no longer endure the effects of the massive influx of illegal aliens that he declares will destroy the city. Adams made his dire prediction at a town hall meeting on Wednesday, according to Fox News, stating:   “Let me tell you...

AP Images Giorgia Meloni Italian local daily Il Giornale reported on August 31 that Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni would enforce the Cutro decree, with new rules to decrease the flow of illegal immigration, enable migrant returns, and prevent Italy from being the busiest port for migrants from all around the globe.  “I decided to fully implement the Cutro decree on...

MivPiv/iStock/Getty Images Plus Democratic politicians may be on the verge of realizing that the migration hawks were right all along, as they find themselves forced to employ and advocate policies seemingly more in line with Republicans as they deal with the realities of the migrant crisis. This is the case in Massachusetts, where Democratic Gov. Maura Healey has mobilized the...

The situation is dire for the Latino community given the choice it has among 10 potential Republican Party presidential candidates vying for the Republican Party nomination ahead of the 2024 U.S. presidential election. Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis lead the group, and it is likely that it will be one of the two that wins over party sympathizers. The bad...

AP Images Kathy Hochul New York Democrats are at last learning that the realities of an open border and mass migration are very different from the utopian platitudes they’ve been parroting for years. While much of the tense dialogue in the New York migrant crisis has been between city and state officials against the federal government, now city and state...

thedailydoom.com Two stories in today’s news combine to illustrate how bankrupt American thinking is. One is a story about how Americans cannot stop living from paycheck to paycheck because real wages (i.e., adjusted for inflation) for 90% of America have only risen 15% since 1979. Yet, the truth is worse than the story tells: Once you adjust the adjustment for real inflation (i.e., what inflation would have...

NoaLyckholm44/Wikimedia Commons The office of Texas Governor Greg Abbott released an update Friday on Operation Lone Star (OLS), a multi-agency, ongoing effort to secure the border with Mexico and combat the smuggling of people and drugs into Texas.  Since the launch of OLS in March of 2021, the combined effort of Texas National Guard soldiers and Texas Department of Public...

ffikretow/iStock/Getty Images Plus Singaporean Deputy Prime Minister Lawrence Wong cautioned against the possibility of disaster for the global economy with implications way beyond the United States and China, criticizing America for trying to restrict China’s development. Addressing his audience at an event marking the 100th birthday of the late Singaporean independence leader Lee Kuan Yew, Wong stated that when it...