National Populist Newsletter
Sept 4th-11th
News:
United States
Immigration
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) lacked "critical data to properly screen, vet and inspect" Afghan evacuees after the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan in August 2021, according to a report issued by the department's watchdog and obtained by CBS News. The 34-page report by the DHS Office of the Inspector General (OIG) concluded that the department granted parole, or temporary legal permission to enter and stay in the U.S. to Afghan evacuees who "were not fully vetted" following the massive airlift by the U.S. during the chaotic last days of the withdrawal of U.S. forces. The report also said that "U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) did not always have critical data to properly screen, vet, or inspect the evacuees”. The U.S. has granted parole to about 72,550 of the more than 79,000 Afghan evacuees who arrived in the country between July 2021 and January 2022, according to DHS data.
The OIG report marks the latest flashpoint of concern over the mass parole of Afghans into the U.S. over the last year. A Pentagon inspector general report in February revealed that at least 50 evacuees were brought to the U.S. whose information indicated "potentially serious security concerns" and that officials were unable to locate dozens with derogatory information. Last month, Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., revealed that a whistleblower had said that 324 individuals had entered with derogatory information. FBI Director Christopher Wray said that "there are a number of individuals through our joint-terrorism task forces that we are actively trying to investigate as a result." (Fox News) At least 400 of the Afghan refugees have been listed as potential terror threats and two were deported because they had significant links to ISIS. (Breitbart News)
Washington, DC, Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) has declared an emergency in the region as nearly 11,000 border crossers have arrived on buses from Texas and Arizona — a fraction of the number of illegal aliens who arrive in American border towns every few days. Bowser said the emergency will allow the city to allocate about $10 million in American taxpayer money to put towards aiding and resettling arriving border crossers. (Breitbart News)
U.S. immigration authorities project that they will use up all the extra available employment-based green cards for the fiscal year ending this month, in a change of pattern from when the government left thousands unused in previous years. Typically, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the agency that processes green cards and other immigration applications, hands out about 140,000 employment-based green cards each year. (The Wall Street Journal)
A piece by Axios gives insight on American efforts to crack down on human smuggling operations coming from Guatemala. US services have been in coordination with the Guatemalan national police.
Sen. Roger Marshall (Republican-Kansas), who’s always been a squish on immigration, told reporter Pablo Manriquez that “legal immigration is going to be part of that solution” to a “huge labor problem in Kansas.” He said, “As long as Democrats give us $25 billion to finish the wall, I think that everything would be on the table.” This news obviously drove me crazy and I immediately reached out to two US Republican Senators, one who’s more of an immigration hawk said, “Marshall was showing such progress before this” and the other said, “there aren’t the votes for any type of grand bargain.” Ironically, I polled the issue of immigration in Kansas back in 2019. According to poll conducted by the Trafalgar Group, 51 percent of Kansas voters wanted at least a 50 percent reduction to legal immigration while just 15 percent wanted to increase legal immigration.
