National Populist Newsletter

June 5th-12th

News:

United States

• Immigration

In New York City, there’s an ongoing court case over whether New York City can extend voting rights in local elections to certain noncitizens entered a Staten Island courtroom on Tuesday, six months after Local Law 11 took effect in January, according to Gothamist. The Council passed the measure in December that would allow those who have resided in the city for more than 30 days and are authorized to live and work here to register to vote in local elections. That could activate more than 800,000 New Yorkers to vote starting next year, when they would first be able to cast a ballot in a city election. Many Republicans in the city believe they can win the court case because the state constitution explicitly says citizens when talking about voting.

A coalition of multinational corporations and the United States Chamber of Commerce is begging President Joe Biden’s administration to loosen rules for foreign H-1B visa workers in order to pack the labor market with more foreign workers, according to Breitbart News. In a letter to Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, the corporate coalition requests the administration allow the spouses and children of foreign H-1B visa workers to take jobs in the U.S. labor market.

The Republican Study Committee, led by Rep. Jim Banks of Indiana, has introduced a new proposal that would create an immigration plan to secure the American border, curb illegal immigration, and reform America’s legal immigration system to boost wages and grow the middle class, according to a report from Breitbart News. In addition, the RSC mentioned that its border proposal has introduced “dozens, if not hundreds, of bills to fix America’s immigration system and to fix the crisis at the southern border.” Among the chief focus of the proposals includes reforming asylum laws, which is now the main driver of migrants into the southern US, create a public charge rule to deny non-citizens of welfare, ending birthright citizenship, and ending certain immigrant visa categories though they did not endorsing reducing overall immigration numbers. Ultimately the GOP needs to get behind an overall immigration reduction from about 1.2 million to 400,000 annually.