National Populist Newsletter

July 2nd-9th

News:

United States

• Immigration

The U.S. citizenship test is being updated, according to The Associated Press. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services proposes that the new test adds a speaking section to assess English skills. An officer would show photos of common scenarios – like daily activities, weather, or food – and ask the applicant to describe the images verbally.

Breitbart News reported that Biden’s Department of Homeland Security allowed an illegal alien on the FBI’s “Terrorist Watch List” to board a domestic flight from California to Florida after releasing him into the United States. (Breitbart News)

The Biden Administration is allowing 1,450 migrants a day into the U.S. via the CBP One mobile application, which is a concierge service for unvetted illegal aliens, nearly a 50 percent increase in less than two months. (Fox News)

DHS announces the rollout of its family reunification parole program for nationals from Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. It requires them to have a family member with a green card/citizenship and have an I-130 form already approved. This parole program is likely to see a court challenge, but this move by the Biden Administration means the president gets to decide who and how many foreigners move to the U.S. instead of Congress.

• Education

The Wall Street Journal reported that since the Supreme Court decision on affirmative action, Missouri and Kentucky are eliminating race-based scholarships. Other states are expected to follow. The Washington Post reported that the University of North Carolina will give free tuition to in-state students whose families make less than $80,000 a year. WaPo noted that this may end up helping too many poor whites.

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro abandoned a bipartisan bill for private school vouchers in Pennsylvania’s state budget. Senate Republicans negotiated with Shapiro’s budget, but he promised Democrats he would betray his pledge by using a line item veto on the vouchers. (Spotlight PA)

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers signed a budget authorizing a school funding increase for the "2024-25" year but used his line-item veto to cross out the "20" and the hyphen, so now it's an annual school funding increase until 2425. (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)

The National Education Association recommended that teachers include the controversial book “Gender Queer” and “White Fragility” on their summer reading lists. “Gender Queer includes pornographic images for children, and white fragility is about race essentialism. (The New York Post)

• Economy

Semafor reported that the U.S. has enjoyed the fastest growth among any member of the G7, the club of major developed economies, since the start of the COVID crisis. The U.S. has also experienced the G7’s lowest inflation rate over the past 12 months when compared on an apples-to-apples basis. That holds true, even if you subtract food and energy prices from the picture, which spiked in Europe thanks to the war in Ukraine.

A report from Mackinac Center for Public Policy found that about 30 percent of California government workers have opted to leave whichever union they were a member of since 2018. The report estimates that 17.5 percent of all government workers nationwide have opted out of their union during the same period.

The Washington Post reported that the economy has produced some of the best economic growth for black workers. For the first time, Black Americans are just as likely to have a job as their white counterparts. Still, part of that reason is that labor force participation for white Americans has never recovered since the 2008 economic crash.