National Populist Newsletter

November 17th-24th

United States

• Immigration

President Trump announced via Truth Social that he plans to declare a national emergency and use the military to assist in his plans to deport illegal immigrants. The military could be used to help transport, house, and apprehend illegal aliens while also increasing surveillance at the southern border and carrying out deportation flights. (The New York Times)

Denver’s Democrat Mayor Mike Johnston has threatened to deploy police and civilians across the county, staging a “Tiananmen Square moment” to stop federal agents from deporting illegal immigrants throughout the city. Denver has been one of the hardest hit cities by Biden’s illegal immigration crisis, having to issue hiring freezes and $45 million in spending cuts over the last four years to pay for the rising number of illegal aliens living in the city. (The New York Post)

The Los Angeles City Council unanimously approved a new sanctuary city law, preventing city employees and resources from being involved in federal immigration enforcement. Under the law, city employees and city property may not be used to “investigate, cite, arrest, hold, transfer or detain any person” for the purpose of immigration enforcement. An exception is made for law enforcement investigating serious offenses. Of course, this doesn’t stop federal law enforcement from operating in the city and won’t thwart any effort to deport criminal aliens. (The Los Angeles Times)

The Department of Homeland Security is launching an ICE Portal app in December. It will allow migrants to skip their in-person check-ins at an ICE office and instead check in with immigration officials via a phone or computer app. Allowing them to skip an in-person ICE check-in makes things a little more difficult for the incoming Trump administration to locate migrants in the U.S. (The New York Post)

Ahead of Trump’s inauguration, a record-breaking 1,478,623 migrants have asylum cases pending.

• Crime

Illinois State Rep. La Shawn Ford is calling for a change in the city’s red-light cameras after it was revealed that majority-black neighborhoods in Chicago’s South Side have 2.5 times the number of tickets as areas in mostly white, Hispanic, and Asian precincts. Data analyzed by the Illinois Policy Institute of the 614,498 tickets that were issued across the city—accounting for $61.4 million in fines through September—show red-light cameras on the South Side issued an average of 9,132 tickets or 5,521 more than each North Side camera. (CWB Chicago)