National Populist Newsletter
December 3rd-10th
News:
United States
Immigration
It was another record-breaking week for the border. CBP reported that more than 12,000 people were apprehended in a single day, the highest number ever recorded. The Arizona sector has seen an exceptionally high uptick in migration over the last week. CBS News reported that most of the migrants are African, Middle Eastern, and Asian men coming from Guinea, Mauritania, Morocco, Senegal, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Syria. Nearly all the migrants are economic refugees and have no legal claim to asylum but told reporters they believe they’ll be released into the United States thanks to Joe Biden’s weak immigration policies.
Fox News reported that the Biden Administration informed elected officials that 5,000 illegal immigrants are currently being released into the U.S. each day at the border. That doesn’t include CBP One or gotaways, which account for hundreds of thousands of more migrants annually.
A George W. Bush-appointed federal Judge, Dana Sabraw, ruled that the federal government is prohibited from separating families at the border for purposes of deterring immigration. Sabraw said the separation of children at the border “represents one of the most shameful chapters in the history of our country.” (NBC News)
New York City Mayor Eric Adams visited Washington, D.C., to meet with officials about the migrant crisis. President Biden refused to see him, and he called the entire thing a waste of time, insisting that “help is not on the way.” (The New York Post)
Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman said “organized gangs” are burglarizing New Yorkers to pay back the Mexican drug cartel for smuggling them across the border. (Breitbart News)
Congress
The Senate is taking up the annual National Defense Authorization Act this week. Some key provisions include expanding the military budget by three percent to $886 billion. Some positive parts of the bill include a prohibition of batteries made in China by 2027, but the bill also calls for a massive expansion of the surveillance state. Tucked on page 2,353, the bill extends the domestic surveillance authority that allows law enforcement to spy on Americans without a warrant for another four months. The bill also strips a lot of conservative politicians’ demands over the issues of abortion and DEI. The NDAA also prohibits a president from withdrawing from NATO without Congressional approval, a provision made in case Trump is re-elected next November. (The Washington Post)
Senate Democrats voted against funding for Ukraine, Tawain, and Israel because of a Republican provision in the bill that includes border security measures. While Biden said he’s willing to make concessions on the border, the Republicans are demanding Senate Democrats pass H.R. 2, which already passed the House and includes a provision to change our asylum process. Even hawkish Senators like Lindsey Graham and Mitt Romney have said they will not pass more Ukraine funding without a change to our immigration system and more border funding. Sens. Lankford and Tillis said that they’ll put the screws on Congressional Republicans to pass any compromise the Senate thinks up. Yet while Democrats and some Republican Senators are kicking and screaming that they will not give in to Republicans’ demands, Congressional insiders believe that no deal will be reached by December 15th when the House leaves for their winter vacation. A source on the Hill told me that the plan was devised by Rep. Mike Garcia (R-Cali.), who has been a stalwart on border security despite representing a deep blue district in Los Angeles. It’s now up to a question of whether Democrats care more about Ukraine’s border than they hate our own. (NBC News)
Congressional Democrats Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.) and Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) introduced The End Hedge Fund Control of American Homes Act of 2023, which would ban requiring hedge funds to sell off their stock of single-family homes over the next ten years and would then implement an outright ban. (Truthout)