News:
United States
Immigration
Thousands of illegal aliens are expected to take advantage of a new law in Massachusetts that allows illegal aliens to obtain driver’s licenses. WBUR reported that between 45,000 and 85,000 illegals will get licenses in the next three years.
Breitbart News reported that a 24-year-old illegal alien from Honduras protected by sanctuary city laws in Fairfax, Virginia, was finally arrested after breaking into a home and attempting to kidnap a four-year-old girl.
At least four Republican members of the Georgia State House have co-sponsored a bill to give illegal aliens enrolled in DACA in-state college tuition rates. Breitbart News reported that there are 15,000 DACA recipients in the state.
Education
The Supreme Court’s decision to overturn affirmative action in the Harvard case has effectively made it illegal to make race-based admissions at colleges around the country. In his opinion, Roberts wrote that Hispanic and black students’ edge over Asian and white students in admissions in the name of diversity violated the equal protection clause of the Constitution’s 14th Amendment. (The New York Times)
“The Harvard and UNC admissions programs cannot be reconciled with the guarantees of the Equal Protection Clause. Both programs lack sufficiently focused and measurable objectives warranting the use of race, unavoidably negatively employ race, involve racial stereotyping, and lack meaningful endpoints. We have never permitted admissions programs to work that way, and we will not do so today.”
The New York Times reported that this decision might find its way into the hiring practices of large corporations that also discriminate for the sake of diversity.
While it may get there while the conservatives have a majority in the court, Republican state legislatures across the country should be working to make that the law of the land. Race-based and sex-based admissions, government contracts, and hiring practices are still legal in most parts of the country, especially with loopholes easily available. Closing those loopholes so the government and private corporations cannot discriminate against whites and Asians should be the main priority of any national-populist candidate or politician.
The Miami Herald reported that the Miami-Dade school board is exploring how to craft a classical education curriculum for all public schools in the district. The curriculum, which emphasizes a return to core virtues and subjects like math, science, civics, and classical texts, strongly emphasizes the “centrality of the Western tradition.” The left is already screaming that this is a racist and white supremacist. It’s worth pointing out that my Super PAC, the 1776 Project, helped flip this school board.
A whistleblower teacher from Baltimore revealed that 77 percent of the students at Patterson High School, one of the largest high schools in Baltimore with a 61 percent graduation rate and a nearly $12 million budget, could only read at an elementary school level. (Fox Baltimore)
Congress
House Republicans are stripping the House Office of Diversity and Inclusion of its funding, according to Roll Call. This office is designed to attract a diverse staff, but like most things, it’s only on race. Not family income, education, or ideology.
Demographics
Bloomberg News reported that since the COVID pandemic and the aggressive lockdowns in blue states, more than $100 billion of wealth has migrated to the Southeast, while the Northeast has lost more than $60 billion. It’s possibly the greatest wealth transfer in American history.
Homeless Crisis
New York City has surpassed over 100,000 people for the first time. The New York Times reported that most of NYC’s homeless population are migrants who came to the US from south of the border. It’s important to put into context that there are more homeless people in New York City than residents of New York State’s capital Albany.
Los Angeles isn’t that far behind, with a homeless population surpassing more than 75,000 people, an increase of nine percent over the last year, The New York Times. There were a little more than 50,000 just five years ago.