National Populist Newsletter

October 13th-20th

United States

• Immigration

Immigrants from India are responsible for most border crossings to the United States from Canada. A report from NPR found that nearly 60 percent of the 20,000 encounters from our northern border have been Indian nationals.

DHS announced it will give Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to any Lebanese nationals in the U.S. as of yesterday. The TPS status will last for 18 months and allow recipients to apply to work. DHS says it will also allow "any individuals having no nationality who last habitually resided in Lebanon" to apply for TPS.

Todd Bensman, senior national security fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, said he is documenting the holding of approximately 300,000-400,000 migrants in the Mexican cities of Tapachula and Villahermosa who collectively have a goal of reaching the U.S. southern border. The holding of migrants south of Mexico, Bensman said, is part of a deal the Biden administration made with the Mexican government to decrease the number of border crossings to avoid negative press coverage leading up to the November 5 general election. (Tennessee Star)

• Economy

A Survey of Consumer Finances report found that millennials' net worth has increased dramatically. Adjusted for inflation, millennials now have a higher median net worth than previous generations. Owning a home helped millennials leapfrog ahead of other generations, but American millennials still lag behind peers in other countries regarding homeownership, including Poland, Norway, Italy, Ireland, and Great Britain. (The Washington Post)

• Education

The Wall Street Journal did a profile on 29-year-old Rhodes scholar Jamie Beaton, whose firm promises parents that their children will get into an Ivy League school if they take his four-to-six tutoring program that costs ranges from $30,000 to $200,000. It’s part of the exploding college consultant industry that has tripled over the last two decades, making it a nearly $3 billion industry. At Harvard, 23 percent of first-year students reported working with a private admissions counselor, up from 13 percent in 2017.

• Healthcare

A U.S. startup company is offering wealthy couples the opportunity to have their embryos screened for IQ. The company Heliospect charges couples $50,000 per 100 embryos. They claim their services can help produce children with more than six IQ points higher than the average. (The Guardian)

• Major Stories

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy signed a bill to hike home invasions to a first-degree crime, the most severe felony class. Those found guilty of home invasions now face 10 to 20 years in prison, a fine of up to $200,000 or both. (My Central Jersey)

Republican leaders in the House of Representatives, including Jim Jordan, Steve Scalise, and Speaker Mike Johnson, have publicly come out against the Kids Online Safety Act. This likely signals it will not make it to an entire floor vote. The bill had nearly unanimous support in the Senate, but critics, including the ACLU and Republicans like Sen. Rand Paul, said it was a Trojan Horse to greater censorship. (Punchbowl News)

Canada:

Pressure is mounting on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau from within his party to resign before the next election. The Liberal Party has lost a few by-elections in districts that were formerly considered safe seats, and polls have them down big time with every demographic ahead of the next general election. At least 20 Liberal MPs have signed a document calling him to step down after nine years in power. (CBC)