National Populist Newsletter

January 22nd-29th

News:

United States

• Immigration

Senators Lankford, Sinema, and Murphy have agreed on a bipartisan immigration bill. According to Axios, the agreement would force the government to automatically reject migrants and asylum seekers from crossing the border illegally once the daily average for border crossings surpasses 5,000 over a week or crossings surpass 8,500 on a single day (nearly 2 million per year which is higher than any given year under any other president aside from Biden). Yet even after that 5,000 number is reached, migrants could receive waivers for humanitarian reasons. The bill would also limit humanitarian parole, which has been wholly abused under both Obama and Biden’s presidencies. Yet the current law on parole states it can only be done on a “case-by-case basis.” If President Biden is already ignoring the law as written, he will likely ignore any changes as well. States have tried to take him to court on it, but the courts have refused to grant the states’s standing. The bill also increases work visas and reduces wait time for asylum seekers to get work permits, which is what Democrats like AOC and Schumer have been begging for. The number of asylum seekers living in blue cities is putting them on track to bankrupt those cities unless migrants can become a new base of taxpayers. Another key component of the bill is that Mexico would have to agree to the expulsion authority as it did during Remain in Mexico and Title 42, but no such agreement has been reached.

Minority Leader Mitch McConnell told fellow Senators that Republicans were bowing to Trump’s will and not going along with any bill that could fix the border issue because he wanted to run on it in 2024. Quite possibly one of the stupidest things you could utter out loud. Of course, the media jumped all over it, allowing them to say that Republicans owned this crisis, which is exactly what Biden wanted. Since then, McConnell has backtracked, but it’s already too late. Meanwhile, Speaker Johnson is holding firm that he will not consider any immigration proposals that do not include HR 2, which would bring asylum reform. (Politico)

The truth is that the President already has every executive authority necessary to stop the border crisis. The idea that the U.S. has lasted for longer than 200 years and a dozen wars before Congress decided to grant power to the executive branch to deter an invasion is ludicrous. Section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act allows any president to turn away any alien or class of aliens as he sees fit. President Biden needs no additional authority to stop what’s going on than Eisenhower did when he launched Operation Wetback. As I wrote earlier in the week, Congress granted more powers to the executive during the 1990s under Bill Clinton. The truth is Joe Biden is currently failing to enforce dozens of immigration laws per day. There’s absolutely no proof that he will change his mind regarding this agreement.

Amid the chaos at the border and the Senate deal, the White House quietly announced that Biden’s top migration adviser, Katie Tobin, was leaving her position. She was the advisor responsible for ending Title 42 and kowtowing to the Mexican President during a recent trip overseas. (NBC News)

The Supreme Court ruled in a 5-4 decision allowing federal officials to cut or remove parts of a concertina-wire barrier along the Mexican border that Texas erected to keep migrants from crossing into the state. Every Republican governor in the country except Phil Scott from Vermont released a statement of solidarity with Abbott, who responded to the SCOTUS ruling by putting up new barbed wire. (News Nation)

National Border Patrol tweeted that they would not arrest any Texas National Guardsman for following lawful orders like putting up barbed wire.

While his state was being invaded and federal officers were cutting barbed wire, Gov. Abbott was in India meeting with the Minister of Commerce & Trade, Piyush Goyal, to discuss economic development in his state. Goyal is one of the loudest advocates for the U.S. to increase the number of work visas to import foreign Indian labor. Despite the misperceptions of immigration, Indians and not people from Latin America comprise the largest share of international home buyers in Central Texas. The Texas Economic Development Corporation sponsored the trip, which promotes mass immigration. (Axios)

CBP announced late on Friday evening that 302,034 migrants had been encountered at our southern border in December, the highest amount ever recorded. During that same period, 19 people on the FBI terror watchlist were arrested trying to cross the border. That brings the total number of terrorists caught at our southern border up to 50 for fiscal year 2024 (which started in October).

DHS announced it was extending Temporary Protection Status for 6,000 Syrians who already have TPS and allowing 2,000 more to obtain deportation protections/work permits. (USCIS)

Ten retired FBI directors and experts in counterintelligence sent a letter to congressional leaders warning that President Joe Biden’s border policies have facilitated a “soft invasion” into the U.S. of military-age men coming from terror-linked regions, China and Russia. (NBC News)

• Economy

Over 75 tech companies, including Google, Amazon, TikTok, Ebay, and Meta, have slashed over 21,000 jobs in the last few weeks, adding to the 260,000 workers they laid off last year. According to NPR, most of these firings are corrections due to over-hiring during the pandemic.