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President Biden announced he’s sending New York City more than $100 million in federal aid to deal with the migrant crisis. This is part of the aid package that Congress allocated last summer but held up in paperwork. Under existing rules, only 10 percent of the total aid earmarked for the city can cover costs related to housing migrants in hotels. FEMA is expected to bump that figure up to 15 percent. It’s important to note that the $100 million will cover just five percent of the total cost of housing these migrants. (Breitbart News)
Cory B. Alvarez, a 26-year-old Haitian national, was arrested for raping a 15-year-old disabled Haitian girl in the taxpayer-funded hotel they were both living in. Fox News reported that he entered the U.S. via a controversial parole program that allows up to 30,000 migrants a month to fly into the country. So Joe Biden is literally flying rapists into the United States.
Douglas County plans to launch a legal challenge to recent state laws that bar local law enforcement in Colorado from closely cooperating with federal immigration officials on the detention and incarceration of immigrants. Leaders in the Republican-leaning county proposed an ordinance aimed at preventing the busing of migrants to its communities as their response to the ongoing crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border. More than 40,000 migrants have arrived in Denver, causing the city to undergo spending cuts and creating fears in suburban communities about how they will absorb that many migrants. (The Denver Post)
Gov. DeSantis signed three new bills to combat illegal immigration:
HR 1589, increasing the fines for driving without a license.
SB 1036, increasing penalties for a crime committed by an alien previously deported.
HB 1451 prevents counties from accepting ID cards administered to illegal aliens by other jurisdictions.
Gov. DeSantis also sent additional troops and support to stop the flow of Haitians from reaching the shores of Florida. NBC Miami reported that within the past couple of weeks, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officers stopped the vessel near Sebastian Inlet, which was carrying 25 people from Haiti.
There’s a measles outbreak at a migrant shelter in Chicago. At least four migrants have come down with the disease in the last week, with the number of cases hitting 45 nationwide. The government has mandated 900 vaccinations in that shelter to try to slow the infection rate in the shelter that houses nearly 2,000 people. (News Nation)
Westmoreland County County prison board unanimously approved a new policy that formalized standard operating procedures related to undocumented immigrants held at the jail. Officials at the Hempfield lockup have been and will continue to comply with federal rules of immigration and customs enforcement, said Common Pleas Judge Harry Smail, a prison board member. (TribLive)
Sheriff Jamie Scardina in Marin County, California, announced that he would continue his discretionary cooperation with federal immigration law enforcement despite pushback from the county supervisors and community members. (Pacific Sun)