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United States
Immigration
President Biden announced a new executive order shielding noncitizen spouses of Americans from deportation. The new policy would allow noncitizens who have been in the country for at least ten years and are married to a U.S. citizen and their children to apply for permanent residence without leaving the country. As many as 500,000 people are expected to be affected. He also unveiled “new measures to clarify and speed up work visas to help [foreign] people — including [DACA amnesty recipients] — that have graduated from U.S. colleges and universities [and] landed jobs in the high-demand, high-skill professions.” (NBC News)
According to Fox News’ Bill Melugin, President Biden’s controversial CBP One App and mass parole flight programs have brought nearly 1.1 million aliens into the U.S. Over 636,000 migrants have used the CBP One app at ports of entry, and over 462,000 were flown in directly.
The population of illegal aliens living in the U.S. awaiting deportation hearings has risen to 7.4 million people, more than two years of U.S. births. This is up from 3.26 million in 2020. (Breitbart News)
Former President Trump announced that he believed every foreign national attending college, both two- and four-year programs, deserves green cards. He made a similar remark in 2016 and 2020. His campaign spent the day trying to clarify and retract it. (Breitbart News)
The Seattle Police Department announced that they are accepting illegal aliens enrolled in the DACA program. (Fox News)
According to The New York Post, the Mexican drug cartel offering VIP “travel agency” packages worth as much as $15,000 to help illegal immigrants sneak into the United States via a stream of underground tunnels. The so-called VIP smuggling has become so lucrative that the cartels are now focusing roughly 70% of their criminal activity on getting migrants across the US-Mexico border — instead of their usual drug trafficking.
Economy
A new interactive report by the Economic Policy Institute calculated how much low-skilled workers must make to survive in most metro areas across the U.S. The study found that single adults must make at least $25 an hour to meet basic expenses in the top 15 major metro areas. The most affordable are Charlotte ($24.48), Pheonix ($24.78), and Miami ($24.97), while the most expensive are San Francisco ($35.98), Boston ($34), and New York ($33.58).