National Populist Newsletter
April 1-7th
News:
United States
Immigration
One of President Trump’s accomplishments on immigration while he was in the White House was gutting the refugee program that President Obama used to bring more than 100,000 people into the country every year, strategically planting them in swing states. During Trump’s time in office, the number of refugees coming to the U.S. was vastly reduced to just 18,000 a year. About a third of NGOs whose funding is tied to refugee resettlement closed their doors during Trump’s presidency. It has taken President Biden three years even to get the program up and going again; his team hopes to have 125,000 refugees being flown into the U.S. in 2024 alone. According to The New York Times, many fear they’ll be out of work again and unable to game the system if Trump becomes president again.
The number of non-citizens living in the U.S. who are either enrolled or eligible for Temporary Protective Status (TPS) has increased by a third since Biden took office. More than 1.2 million people from Afghanistan, Cameroon, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Haiti, Honduras, Myanmar, Nepal, Nicaragua, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Ukraine, Venezuela, and Yemen now qualify for TPS, up from around 800,000 under Trump. The biggest populations are from Venezuela, El Salvador, and Haiti. (Pew Research)
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds is expected to sign legislation making it a state crime to be in Iowa if a person has previously been denied admission to the U.S. or removed from the country, thus allowing state and local police to arrest and deport them. The legislation mirrors part of a Texas law currently blocked in court. Latino groups have warned the governor that illegal aliens could flee the state if it’s enacted. (Border Report)
Fox News’ Bill Melugin reported that the Biden White House has yet to remove any of the razorwire the state government has put up on the Texas-Mexico border despite the Supreme Court ruling they had the authority to do so. New government data shows that Eagle Pass, Texas, where the wire was erected, is now one of the most secure parts of the border. Arizona and California, with their Democrat governors in charge, are some of the least secure.
An illegal alien from Mexico was arrested in Chicago for murdering and nearly decapitating his wife in front of their children. He just crossed the border a few weeks ago. (Fox 32)
A Romanian national named Marius Oprea, who illegally entered the country, was sentenced to six years in prison for leading a scheme that stole benefits from low-income families. (The Justice Department)
Mexico has massively increased the number of immigration officers in Juarez to keep migrants away from the U.S. border in El Paso. This came after Secretary Blinken asked the Mexican government to do more to manage the crisis. (Bill Melugin)
An Obama-appointed judge dismissed the case against Gov. Ron DeSantis brought by attorneys representing illegal aliens that the Republican governor had flown to Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, in 2022. District Judge Allison Burroughs ruled Friday that illegal immigrants could sue the charter flight company Vertol Systems, which contracted with Florida to transport them in September 2022. But Burroughs dismissed other claims brought against DeSantis and state defendants, finding that the court lacked jurisdiction while leaving the possibility of future legal action open. (Daily Signal)