National Populist Newsletter

March 19th-26th

News:

United States

• Immigration

The Biden Administration is demanding $305 million from Congress to spend on x-ray technology at the ports of entry to detect drugs and especially fentanyl, from coming through the ports of entry. According to The Wall Street Journal, the US hopes to have 126 x-ray scanners at the ports of entry by 2026. According to the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, this will grow its ability to perform nonintrusive scans to 70 percent of cargo vehicles and 40 percent of passenger vehicles. Historically, the US has only performed such scans on 17 percent of cargo vehicles and 2 percent of passenger vehicles, the office said.

Canada and the US have entered a ‘safe third country agreement’ that allows each country to turn back asylum seekers who cross the northern border without authorization. As part of the deal, Canada reportedly will accept 15,000 more migrants from this hemisphere thru legal pathways, The Los Angeles Times reported.

Fox News reported that the Biden Administration is scaling back the daily detention population of illegal immigrants and its use of "alternatives to detention" -- even as the Department of Homeland Security is dealing with a historic surge in illegal migration at the border. The reduction of detention comes as the administration is also significantly scaling back on its deportations, including illegal immigrants. The same document says it plans to deport just 29,393 illegal aliens in FY 2024, down from the 151,000 deported in FY 2020.