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Open Borders Are Creating Bidenvilles of Homelessness
- Encounters with inadmissible aliens at the border have remained at more than 150,000 a month, often over 200,000. Of these, perhaps half are being released into the country, either under the charade of a “removal process” under U.S. immigration law or one of President Joe Biden’s many made-up parole-a-palooza programs.
- While Biden can abuse parole authority to let illegal immigrants in, and use Federal Emergency Management Agency grants to buy them bus and plane tickets, he can’t magically produce the money to house them all over the country out of thin air.
- Even without federal money for housing, cities and states can still pass some of the buck to national taxpayers through health programs. New York state’s Medicaid program will cost 10% more this year than last year—a whopping $108 billion—partly because the program will begin covering illegal immigrants over 65 in 2024.
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The Left’s Desperate Attempt to Deflect on Crime
- In recent weeks, the Biden administration and its allies in the corporate media have been attempting to deflect attention from America’s ongoing crime crisis.
- Crime rates have been rising in blue cities since 2016 because of progressive, pro-criminal, anti-police policies. And when you remove the progressive-run blue cities from the equation, states’ relative rankings on homicide change dramatically.
- Regular Americans, especially the minorities who often live the reality of high crime rates every day, don’t believe the liberal media’s lies. Indeed, they know whom to blame: blue-city prosecutors and, more specifically, George Soros-funded or -inspired prosecutors.
- 27 of the 30 cities with the highest murder rates are run by Democrats. And 14 of those cities — accountable for 68% of the homicides — have rogue district attorneys backed or inspired by Soros.
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Hot Weather Does Not Mean Climate Change
- Liberals point to summer heat as justification for their radical “green” policies that created an energy crisis with sky-high gas prices.
- As Heritage experts have explained, hotter temps in the summer are not proof of climate change, as Democrats often claim. But the Biden administration uses the so-called “climate crisis” to control Americans and attempt to destroy domestic energy production.
- Democrats’ war on American energy has created an unstable, inflated market with gas prices that are hurting hardworking families.
- As families across the country use the last few weeks of summer for travel and vacations, they're once again paying more at the pump—thanks to the Biden administration.
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