National Populist Newsletter
June 18th-25th
News:
United States
Immigration
The Supreme Court ruled in a 7-2 decision the federal law criminalizes encouraging or inducing illegal immigration, saying it does not unconstitutionally infringe on free speech rights. Justice Kagan ruled with the conservatives. (NBC News)
SCOTUS also ruled 8-to-1 that Texas and Louisiana didn’t have standing in their lawsuit against the federal government’s decision on prioritizing deportations. Breitbart News reported Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas says he will reinstate the agency’s so-called “sanctuary country” orders that shield most of the nation’s illegal aliens from arrest and deportation.
The New York Post reported that Mayor Adams spent about $50,000 flying migrants out of NYC from April 2022 to April 2023. He even flew some back to their country of origin.
Breitbart News reported that more than 60 percent of migrants and illegal aliens who have arrived in NYC since last spring live off local taxpayers in subsidized housing and shelters — including luxury hotels. Regarding hard numbers, taxpayers are paying $256 per day for about 50,000 illegal aliens and migrants.
Immigration advocates in Boston are outraged at the Biden Administration’s new immigration court program. In the two years since the program started, the expedited operation called the “Dedicated Docket” found that migrants who enrolled in the program are more likely to be ordered deported, less likely to be represented by an attorney, and less likely to prevail in an asylum case compared to those who are funneled into Boston’s regular immigration court. (The Boston Globe)
It’s been just over five months since the Biden Administration unveiled a mobile app that entices foreign nationals in Mexico who are pregnant, mentally ill, elderly, disabled, homeless, or crime victims to schedule an appointment with DHS officials at the border in the hopes of being released into American communities. Since its launch five months ago, more than 100,000 foreign nationals have been let into the United States. (Breitbart News)
The Los Angeles Times reported that the Biden Administration’s new process for handling asylum claims at the border has dramatically decreased the number of migrants who are allowed to apply for asylum. Under the new rules, people who cross through a third country on the way to the U.S. and fail to seek protections there are presumed ineligible for asylum. Only people who enter the U.S. without authorization are subject to this new restriction.
The number of single-adult migrants who can pass initial screenings at the border has dropped from 83% to 46% under the new policy, the Biden administration said in the court filing.
Education
The National Assessment of Educational Progress found math and reading performance of 13-year-olds in the United States has hit the lowest level in decades. Math scores hit their lowest levels since 1990, and reading levels are at their lowest since 2004. Students from all regions of the country and of all races and ethnicities lost ground in math. Reading was more split. Scores dropped for Black, multiracial, and White students. But Hispanic, Asian, American Indian, and Alaska Native students were described as “not measurably different.” (The Washington Post)
Black and Latino teachers are set to collect more than $1 billion from New York City after a decade-long lawsuit claiming the teacher exam was racially biased towards whites. Since 1996, 90 percent of white teachers have passed the exam compared to 62 percent of blacks and 55 percent of Hispanics. A pivotal 2012 court ruling found the teacher licensing test violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, partly because it didn’t relate to what teachers do in the classroom and wasn’t an indicator of better-performing teachers. (The Wall Street Journal) The test is colorblind, and the lawsuit did not mention Asian teachers passing the exam on purpose because its inclusion would destroy the narrative. Mediocrity is rewarded above meritocracy. Furthermore, this lawsuit is a massive loss to minority teachers who passed the test and missed out on collecting.
California banned race-based college admission over 20 years ago; since then, UC Berkeley has spent $500 million trying to bolster black enrollment. This year, just three percent of the incoming class is black. (Reuters)
Congress
A new pair of bipartisan bills cosponsored by Sens. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich) would limit China’s ability to purchase farmland in the U.S. and force the U.S. government to consider stripping some Chinese and foreign landowners of their real estate. NBC News reported that the bill would give the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States authority to consider agricultural and food security concerns in determining whether a land purchase is a national security threat. In addition to changing future purchases, the bill also calls for a review of all assets and leases from the last three years that exceed $5 million or 320 acres of land, and it would require CFIUS to consider retroactively stripping foreign entities of their real estate purchases.
California Rep. Michelle Steel and Illinois Rep. Brad Schneider introduced a bipartisan that aims to make the U.S. less reliant on the Chinese Communist Party by empowering the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) to negotiate trade agreements for medical goods and services with key allies and improve supply chains. Senators Carper and Tillis have cosponsored the Senate version of the bill. It’s kinda weak sauce, but it’s good that centrists in both the Democrat and Republican Party have realized the need to bring essential supplies away from China. (Daily Caller)
Demographics
For the first time since 1850, whites are no longer the largest demographic group in Texas. At some point in 2022, Latinos outnumbered whites, making up 40.2 percent of the population compared to 39.8 percent for whites. Since 2000, Hispanics have nearly doubled in population from 6.74 million to 12.07 million in 2022. During that same time, whites have increased from 10.99 million to 11.93 million. (Texas Tribune) Texas Republicans won 40 percent of the Hispanic vote in 2022 and 41 percent in 2020. Hispanics are voting for Republicans more than they did a generation ago, but the GOP still isn’t winning the majority like they are in Florida.
The Wall Street Journal found that black Americans are fleeing northern cities like Philadelphia, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Newark, and Milwaukee for southern cities like Atlanta, Jacksonville, Houston, Dallas, Raleigh, and Atlanta. This will have political ramifications because black voters are the most loyal Democrat voters. As they flee the Rust Belt and move to the Sun Belt, several states will become more competitive.
The New York Times reported that the median age had hit an all-time high of 38.9 years old. In 2000, the median age was 35. In 1980, it was 30. The oldest state is Maine (44.8 years old), and the youngest is Utah (31.9)
New Census data found that decades of mass legal and illegal immigration have “disproportionately” increased the share of low-income public school students in the United States. “In 2021, 21 percent of public school students from immigrant households lived in poverty, and they accounted for 29 percent of all students living below the poverty line,” the analysis from the Center for Immigration Studies found. (Breitbart News)