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A Jordanian national was arrested in Houston for planning an attack on Jewish Americans. Sohaib Abuayyash, an illegal alien who overstayed his non-immigrant visa and was allowed to stay so he could apply for asylum… from Jordan. (NY Post)
A report from ICE detailed that border patrol unknowingly released an African terrorism suspect into the U.S. after he was caught crossing illegally into Arizona on October 3rd. He was finally arrested in New York City on October 17th but was allowed to spend two weeks in the United States.
Bill Melugin reported that a 20-year-old Palestinian national named Sohaib Abuayyash was arrested in Houston. He was charged with possession of a firearm and was in “direct contact with people who share his radical mindset.” According to the Southern District of Texas, he was training with weapons to commit a terrorist attack. He entered the United States with a Palestinian passport in June 2019 and applied for asylum in January 2020. Under the Biden Administration, he was granted a work permit even though his asylum case had not been approved.
DHS announced that they’re planning on increasing the annual number of H-2B workers by 64,716. About 20,000 of these new visas will be offered to migrant workers from Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, and Honduras, and an additional 44,716 supplemental visas will be available to returning workers who received an H-2B visa or were otherwise granted H-2B status, during one of the last three fiscal years. This is a continued push to lower wages for Americans without a college degree. A study from 2022 found that Americans lost $1.8 billion in wages from the H-2B program over the last two decades.
Denver Mayor Mike Johnston has become the latest big city mayor to declare an emergency because too many migrants are moving to his city. The city’s migrant population has more than doubled since September, and the cost of illegal immigration now exceeds $2 million a week. Johnston is joining Democrat mayors from New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Houston in calling for federal aid to manage the crisis. They aren’t calling to secure the border. (Bloomberg News)
The largest migrant caravan in a year, an estimated 7,000 people are headed to the southern border. The New York Post reported that the caravan is comprised of migrants from Cuba, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, and Venezuela.