National Populist Newsletter
June 26th - July 3rd
News:
United States
Immigration
A tractor-trailer that ended up in San Antonio with more than 50 dead or dying migrants passed through a federal immigration checkpoint inside the United States without being inspected, a top Mexican official said on Wednesday. A spokeswoman for Homeland Security Investigations declined to comment on how the tractor-trailer, which had Texas plates, smoothly passed through a federal checkpoint in Encinal, Texas, about 40 miles from the border. (The New York Times) Senators Durbin and Graham have held multiple conversations about how they could use this moment to have some form of immigration reform, the same way the mass shootings were used to bring gun control. Speaking to several people in the GOP Senate leadership, they highly doubt anything they bring forth will gain traffic with either the progressives or a significant amount of Republicans.
Meanwhile, dash cam video provided by DPS shows a migrant being struck and killed by a car on a highway in Brooks County during a human smuggling arrest earlier this month. The incident, which occurred on June 10 but video of which has now just been released, shows troopers pulling over the vehicle. As troopers take the smuggler into custody, several illegal immigrants bail. While a number flee into a nearby field, one instead runs into the highway -- and into the path of an approaching vehicle. The smuggler was charged with human smuggling causing death. (Fox News)
The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that the Biden administration may rescind a Trump-era immigration program that forces certain asylum seekers arriving at the southwestern border to await approval in Mexico. Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for the majority in the 5-to-4 ruling, said an immigration law gave the president discretion to return migrants arriving by land to the country from which they came. (New York Times) This ruling makes sense as far as policy goes, though they may have a serious legal reasoning opposed to the procedure. This is why ‘Remain in Mexico” needs to be passed legislatively instead of just executive orders.
A New York judge on Monday ruled that a New York City law granting noncitizens the right to vote, which was passed by the City Council and intended to take effect in 2023, violates the state's constitution. After New York City Mayor Eric Adams allowed the law to take effect in January, more than 800,000 permanent legal residents and green card holders became eligible to vote in local elections. State Supreme Court Justice Ralph Porzio struck down the law, saying New York City exceeded the authority granted to it by the New York State Constitution. (Axios) The New York State Constitution explicitily says only citizens can vote.
The Biden administration will propose issuing 300,000 temporary work visas to Mexicans and Central Americans to ease migration challenges in both countries, Mexico’s minister of the Interior says. Interior Minister Adan Augusto Lopez said the proposal will be announced when Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador visits Washington, D.C., next month. (Border Report)
Midterms
A political shift is beginning to take hold across the U.S. as tens of thousands of suburban swing voters who helped fuel the Democratic Party’s gains in recent years are becoming Republicans. More than 1 million voters across 43 states have switched to the Republican Party over the last year, according to voter registration data analyzed by The Associated Press. Over the last year, far more people are switching to the GOP across suburban counties from Denver to Atlanta and Pittsburgh and Cleveland. Republicans also gained ground in counties around medium-size cities such as Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; Raleigh, North Carolina; Augusta, Georgia; and Des Moines, Iowa. The state of New Jersey has seen an interesting change with Republicans gaining over 100,000 new voters since the end of 2020, while Democrats have lost 26,000 voters.