National Populist Newsletter

April 7-14th

News:

United States

• Immigration

The latest disclosures from the Department of Justice (DOJ) reveal that the number of alien respondents who failed to appear for removal proceedings is soaring — on track to exceed 170,000 in FY 2024, which would best last year’s record of nearly 160,000. (Center for Immigration Studies)

 An Afghan migrant named Mohammad Kharwin, who’s on the terrorist watchlist, spent nearly a year inside the U.S. after he was apprehended and released by Border Patrol agents last year. Kharwin was arrested in February and then released last month again by an immigration judge who was not told he was a national security threat. He is free to travel within the United States until his immigration court hearing in 2025. (NBC News)

A robbery turned homicide in Houston, Texas, turned out to be an elaborate scheme to commit immigration fraud gone wrong. 22-year-old Rasshauud Scott was staging a robbery that two victims were in on when Jesus Vargas, a bystander, shot and killed him. The two victims were involved in the robbery so that they could file for U-Visas. According to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, a U-Visa is granted to victims of certain crimes. (Fox 26)

Pennsylvania State Reps. Joe Hamm (R) and Donna Scheuren (R) have proposed a bill to protect homeowners from squatters. “Homeowner Protection and Squatter Eviction Act” goes a step further by requiring law enforcement to notify ICE if the squatter is an illegal alien. (Sun Gazette)

• Education

Teachers are reported to have lower levels of satisfaction in their jobs than the average American worker, and nearly 50 percent say students at their school has poor academic and behavior. A super majority, 80 percent, say schools have gotten worse over the last five years and 57 percent believe a major reason are the long lasting effects of the COVID shutdowns. (Pew Research)

• DEI

Conservatives are targeting the National Institutes of Health's Faculty Institutional Recruitment for Sustainable Transformation, which has paid universities $241 million to hire biomedical researchers in a drive for 'inclusive excellence.' NAS fellow John Sailer says the scheme promotes scientists who pay lip service to DEI rather than those who are the best at computational biology, genetics, neurobiology, and other research areas. (Daily Mail)

Hospitals are integrating race into their procurement policies, balancing the cost and quality of life-saving services against the demographics of the firm providing them. One of the most extreme examples comes from Tarrant County, Texas, where the public hospital system, JPS Health, evaluates bids for contracts on a 100-point scale that gives more weight to "diversity and inclusion" (15 points) than to the reputation of a vendor's goods and services (10 points) when assessing providers of transcatheter heart valves—devices used to counteract cardiac failure and keep blood flowing throughout the body. (Washington Free Beacon)