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January Southern Border Encounters Increased by 321 Percent from Trump’s Final Full Year

Matthew Tragesser — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 19:17:58 +0000

In January 2022, migrant encounters at the southern border increased by 321 percent from the same time during President Trump’s final full year, according to preliminary data found in a court filing. Immigration authorities reportedly encountered 153,941 migrants at the southern border in January 2022, which is about four times larger than the 36,585 the [...]

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Arizona Legally Defines Border Crisis as ‘Invasion.’ This Means It Can Use Constitutional Powers to Defend Itself

Matthew Tragesser — Tue, 08 Feb 2022 23:47:02 +0000

In response to the Biden administration eviscerating the nation’s border security and immigration enforcement apparatus, Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich released a legal opinion yesterday that defined the Biden Border Crisis as an ‘invasion.’ This classification can allow states to use enumerated powers granted by the U.S. Constitution to defend itself from hostile actors. Transnational [...]

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Biden Admin Slow-Walks “Remain in Mexico” Policy

Matthew Tragesser — Wed, 26 Jan 2022 18:59:44 +0000

A federal court order directed the Biden administration to reimplement the “Remain in Mexico” program in December, but the administration is slow-walking its reimplementation. Also referred to as the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), the Trump-era program required asylum seekers to remain in Northern Mexico while they awaited their court hearing in the U.S. Its intention was to [...]

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British Terrorist Situation in Texas Underscores Failures of Current Intelligence and Immigration Systems

Matthew Tragesser — Wed, 19 Jan 2022 18:30:37 +0000

This past weekend, Malik Faisal Akram, a 44-year-old British national, took four people hostage at a Texas synagogue before he was killed by an FBI Hostage Rescue Team. Akram was allowed entry to the United States despite having an extensive criminal record that neither U.S. intelligence nor British intelligence agencies flagged. The situation underscores several [...]

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Citing COVID, Senate Democrats Recklessly Demand Amnesty for Millions of Central Americans

Matthew Tragesser — Tue, 11 Jan 2022 20:41:09 +0000

Senate Democrats are demanding the Biden administration grant and extend Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to at least 2 million illegal aliens from Central America. Created in 1990, TPS provides temporary protection to illegal aliens in the United States unable to return to their home countries due to exigent circumstances such as armed conflict or natural [...]

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Immigration in 2022. What Should We Expect Under Biden?

Matthew Tragesser — Mon, 03 Jan 2022 19:20:00 +0000

President Biden and his administration effectively dismantled the nation’s immigration apparatus in just one year. Southern border arrests rose to levels never seen before. Deportations and arrests of those unlawfully present in the country fell to historic lows. Policies that kept the southern border secured and helped remove those here unlawfully were stripped almost immediately [...]

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