National Populist Newsletter
September 29th - October 6th
United States
Immigration
The Biden Administration announced it would not extend legal status for 530,000 aliens flown to the U.S. under the CHNV program. Roughly 214,000 Haitians, 117,000 Venezuelans, 111,000 Cubans, and 96,000 Nicaraguans have come to the U.S. so far under the policy, and they would either be forced to obtain legal status under a different policy or return to their home country. While the policy change is supposed to calm Americans who feel that the Biden/Harris Administration has been too weak on immigration, it’s a bit of a smokescreen. Haitians and Venezuelans who arrived before June 4th, 2024 (almost all of them) qualify for Temporary Protected Status, and Cubans can obtain a green card through a Cold War-era immigration law. Despite the headlines coming out of the White House, nearly none of these people will be deported. (CBS News)
U.S. District Court Judge Trevor McFadden, a Trump appointee, said the Biden administration “repeatedly flouted long-standing environmental law” in its “haste to reverse its predecessor’s border policies,” namely stopping construction of the border wall, which led ranchers Steven Smith and Gail Getzwille to suffer environmental damage. (Newsweek)
An MS-13 gang member and convicted murderer was allowed to attend two different public high schools in Maryland. Walter Martinez, who entered the country as a minor in March 2022, was allowed to attend two Maryland schools after he killed 20-year-old Kayla Hamilton in Harford County. He was taken into custody for the murder and was considered the prime suspect, but ICE refused to detain him because he was a minor who had not been formally charged with a crime. Instead of being arrested and deported, he was sent to live in a group home, and the schools were not informed by law enforcement of his gang affiliation or being a suspected murderer. (The Baltimore Sun)
Education
Schools like the Harrisburg University of Science and Technology are making millions of dollars annually by offering degrees double as work visas for foreign students thanks to a little-known loophole in the law. Several dozen universities are exploiting a federal on-the-job-training rule; people from India, China, and elsewhere can work full-time while completing most classes online and showing up in person only a few times a year. A record 24,000 foreign graduate students were enrolled in schools offering this program, and the schools made over $240 million per year. Now, many of these schools primarily cater to foreign students. (Bloomberg News)
Economy
The International Longshoremen’s Association agreed to suspend their strike until January 15th after agreeing to a 62 percent increase throughout a new six-year contract. This means that the minimum wage has increased from $39 an hour to $63, but it did not conclude how much automation can take place at the ports and future retirement packages. The fight over automation will be the number one issue most unions will be striking over during the next few years. (The New York Times)
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the U.S. economy grew by 254,000 jobs during September, but a record-breaking amount came from seasonal jobs. According to Bloomberg News, last month’s so-called seasonal factor was the largest for any September in records back to 2002.
Breitbart News’ John Carney said, “Without seasonal adjustments, private sector employment dropped by a hefty 458,000 in September. But add those adjustments, and voilà—suddenly, we’re talking about a 223,000 gain. So, seasonal adjustments added 681,000 jobs, the third largest ever September adjustment after 2019 and 2020.”
Healthcare
The number of medical experts, from psychiatrists to pediatricians, dealing with cannabis dependency and its side effects, from paranoia to psychosis, is increasing across the country. About 18 million Americans suffer from cannabis use disorder from addiction to the drug. More than 4.5 million people between the ages of 18-25 use the drug either daily or almost every day, and 81 percent of those users meet the criteria for the disorder. (The New York Times)
Weight loss drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy have caused the obesity rate in the United States to decline for the first time in four decades. A whopping six percent of Americans are currently using drugs, and the nation’s obesity rate has fallen by two percent between 2020 and 2023. (The Financial Times)
Major Stories
Former New York Governor David Paterson and his 20-year-old stepson were attacked by a trio of young suspects, along with two adults who appeared to be black and Hispanic. The young men were trying to jump onto a fire escape after the ex-governor told them to knock it off; he was hit in the head while his stepson sustained facial injuries. Paterson’s stepson is the son of Curtis Sliwa, the past and future candidate for mayor of New York City and founder of the Guardian Angels, an anti-crime group. New York’s laws on cash bail mean that even if the five people were discovered and arrested, they’d likely be back on the street the same day. (The New York Times)
According to Maryland Matters, the state of Maryland State Police has agreed to $2.75 million to 48 women and Black applicants who were turned down for trooper jobs after they failed recruiting tests later deemed discriminatory. A probe by the state found that the police “engaged in a pattern or practice of unintentional discrimination against African-American and female applicants” for entry-level trooper jobs through the use of written and physical tests that disproportionately disqualified those applicants. The rejected recruits were applying to police recruiting classes from 2017 to today. Here are some examples of the questions on the test that they found discriminatory:
