National Populist Newsletter
November 19th-26th
News:
United States
Immigration
The Biden Administration plans to deploy a team of U.S. immigration officials to Panama to help local authorities screen and deport migrants traveling through the country. They plan to help train Panamanian personnel with the skills to reject people with obvious fraud cases before they go to the U.S. border. The number of migrants traveling through Panama’s Darién Gap has increased from 22,102 in 2019 to 458,228 in 2023. This is not going to work. (CBS News)
Feng Jiang, a suspected human trafficker wanted in Oklahoma, was finally arrested in New York City. Authorities learned he had been using a fake ID to thwart authorities for over two decades. He was initially sentenced to be deported back in 2001. (Fox News)
ICE arrested a Brazilian child rapist in Martha’s Vineyard. He escaped imprisonment in Brazil and made it to the United States over the last few months illegally. (Boston Herald)
Massachusetts has become so overrun with migrants that the government plans to house them in unused conference rooms of the State Transportation Building in Boston. (WBUR)
Race
Several non-profits, including Do No Harm, Californians for Equal Rights Foundation, and the American Civil Rights Project, have filed lawsuits against San Francisco over its Abundant Birth Project. The program gives $1,000 a month to pregnant black and Pacific Islander women, which is discriminatory both by the California State Constitution and the U.S. Constitution. (The19thNews)
Ohio State is conducting a state probe of Janice Gassam Ascre, a DEI officer who wrote a piece in Forbes called “3 Ways to Decenter Whiteness in York Workplace” after Sen. JD Vance tweeted he was outraged by the column. (The New York Post)
The Department of Defense has requested $114.7 million to fund its annual “diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility" programs in fiscal year 2024. This is the most significant amount ever requested for DEIA initiatives, nearly twice as much as in 2022. (Fox News)
The Iowa Board of Regents has instructed the state's three public universities to eliminate all staff positions focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion that are unnecessary for the schools' accreditation or to comply with state or federal law. This makes Iowa the third state after Texas and Florida to ban DEI. (Des Moines Register)