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Will Mayorkas Offer Anything More Than Malarkey on Border Trip?

Jennifer G. Hickey — Wed, 11 Aug 2021 17:52:29 +0000

On Monday, a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) press release stated that Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas would travel to South Texas “to receive operational updates and engage with the DHS frontline workforce,” as well as meeting with “local officials and community leaders.” Few details have emerged since then, so what to expect from the secretary’s Thursday [...]

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Biden Swimming against the Tide (and Common Sense) on Conufucius Institutes

Jennifer G. Hickey — Wed, 19 May 2021 23:07:54 +0000

In recent years, the growing propaganda efforts by executed by China’s communist government have come under scrutiny by congressional committees, lawmakers, non-partisan organizations, and FAIR too. And Axios recently reported that China has increased by 500 percent its foreign spending in the United States. Now is the worst possible time to assist China in hiding [...]

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Crowdsourcing is No Answer to Chaos at the Border

Jennifer G. Hickey — Tue, 30 Mar 2021 17:48:50 +0000

Hours after President Biden claimed in his inaugural press conference that there is a “significant increase” in illegal immigration in the winter months “every year,” the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) sent a memo to all federal agencies seeking volunteers to assist with “urgent efforts” to care and house unaccompanied minors at the Southwest border. [...]

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Biden Administration Scrambling to Stem the Border Crisis

Jennifer G. Hickey — Tue, 16 Mar 2021 17:50:39 +0000

Department of Homeland Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has repeatedly denied there was a border crisis, but on Saturday, he announced via press release that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) would be leading a “government-wide effort” to address what he termed a “challenge.” Mayorkas can linguistically dance around the issue, but even he conceded the facts [...]

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Democrats’ PRO Act is the Ultimate Con Job on the American Worker

Jennifer G. Hickey — Fri, 05 Mar 2021 17:55:05 +0000

In mid-January, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer insisted that COVID-19 relief was “a top priority.” It should have been, given more than 19 million Americans were collecting unemployment at the beginning of February and 10 percent of the workforce was either sidelined or had entirely given up on finding a job. Not only has additional [...]

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DHS Secretary Spins a Historic Border Crisis Into a Mere Challenge

Jennifer G. Hickey — Wed, 03 Mar 2021 18:39:44 +0000

In January, 37,600 illegal aliens were encountered at the Southwest border by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers, which is nearly 119 percent increase from January 2020. That yearly spike also means CBP were averaging 1,000 encounters per day, which is a “relatively bad number” in words of Jeh Johnson, who served as Department of [...]

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