National Populist Newsletter
July 21st-28th
United States
Immigration
Illegal border crossings from Canada have spiked to over 16,000 annually, up from just 916 in 2021. Most aliens come from India, Mexico, Romania, Guatemala, Haiti, and Venezuela. The Biden Administration has practiced Catch and Release at our northern border, and most of these migrants are headed to New York City. (Fox 5 NY)
Illegal border crossings have dropped for the fifth consecutive month to 83,536 in June. While the Biden administration claims that the President’s executive action should be credited with the nosedive, it’s also true that many migrants are now simply being funneled through the ports of entry. (CBS News)
A pair of teens from Louisana were killed by an illegal alien drunk driver who hit their car in Lafourche Parish. Rylan Onacle and Taliyah Crochet were just 18 years old at the time of their death. (KATC)
Economy
39 percent of Americans they’re worried most or all of the time that they can’t afford to pay their bills, up from 28 percent in December 2021 during the height of the COVID lockdowns and about the same amount seen during the Great Recession, when it stood at 37 percent. (CNN)
The French aviation company Aura Aero announced plans to locate its first U.S. manufacturing plant in Florida, creating over 1,000 new jobs. (Florida Voice News)
Nearly 30 locations in southern Ohio were raided by Homeland Security, ICE, and IRS Criminal Investigations over allegations of financial crimes and labor exploitation. It’s believed that the company may have been using illegal labor practices, including hiring illegal aliens. (WHIO)
Millennials' low birthrate is expected to cause a massive drain on the economy. According to former White House economist Todd Buchholz, the shrinking birthrate in the US could drag down GDP by 1-2 percentage points each year. Over several decades, that's the equivalent of slashing the US growth rate by a third, he estimated, or wiping out the estimated productivity increases stemming from artificial intelligence. In the worst-case scenario, GDP growth could nosedive by 3-4 percentage points. (Business Insider)
Education
A study conducted by the NWEA, a testing company that works in more than 9,000 U.S. school systems, found that the test score gaps between today’s students and their pre-pandemic counterparts are growing wider, the group found, and are worse than “what we had previously deemed as the low point.” NWEA examined spring 2024 scores from about 7.7 million students from grades three to eight who took its MAP tests. It found the gaps between those results, compared with how students performed pre-pandemic, have widened in the years since the height of the pandemic in many grades. For instance, the gap with pre-covid results in sixth grade grew by 40 percent in math between fall 2023 and spring 2024; the gap in eighth-grade reading grew by 31 percent. The gaps are so large, for instance, that the average eighth-grader would need about nine months of additional schooling to catch up to pre-COVID levels in math and about the same extra time to catch up in reading. (The Washington Post)