National Populist Newsletter

December 26th - January 1st

News:

United States

• Immigration

ICE has released a report showing the agency removed 72,177 illegal immigrants during Fiscal Year 2022. This is a slight uptick from last year when the numbers dropped to 59,011 due to COVID. Still, this is far below the Trump-era level when it was 185,884 in FY 2020 and 267,258 in FY 2019. (Fox News)

The Texas National Guard has installed more than two miles of barricades along the Texas-Mexico border. While this should reduce the number of “gotaways” who avoid detection coming across the border undetected, it will not stop migrants from declaring themselves refugees to border patrol. That policy can only change with the presidency. (CNN)  

Joe Biden’s open border policy has created an economic boom in Mexico for lawyers, fixers, and middlemen who prey on migrants to help get them to the US. WRAL News reported said these fixers have found an incredibly profitable business, charging desperate migrants seeking legal papers, transit permits, and visas thousands of dollars to get through Mexico safely.  

The New York Times reported that over two percent of Cuba’s population have left the island over the last year to get to the US. While the nation has been poor since Castro’s revolution decades ago, COVID has worsened its despair and led to a mass exodus from the island. As a result, large portions of the country have become depopulated, much like Puerto Rico, which lost 11 percent of its nation’s population over the last decade. Make no mistake however, migrants aren’t coming simply because their countries are poor. They’ve always been poor. They’re coming because Biden is letting them in.

Another country seeing more than two percent of its population heading to the US over the last year is Nicaragua. The New York Times reported that the waves of migration from the tiny Central American country are unprecedented, with more than 180,000 coming in the last year alone. The number of Nicaraguans heading to the US border is 34 times larger than just five years ago.