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- Many Americans think of the surge in southern border crossings and the threat from China as two completely different issues. They shouldn’t.
- U.S. Customs and Border Protection recently revealed that at least 22,000 Chinese nationals have attempted to cross our southern border unlawfully since Oct. 1
- President Biden has made it easy for illegal aliens of any nationality to unlawfully enter our country without penalty. Early on in his presidency, he signed executive orders to reverse virtually every Trump administration border security measure.
- The Biden administration must take the threat of illegal Chinese crossings at the southern border more seriously. It must reinstate Trump administration border initiatives that created the most secure border in American history.
- Continued inaction from the Biden administration will only further jeopardize U.S. national security.
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- Federal employees are free to explore social theory on their own time. On our dime, they should get on with their real job.
- As reported in the Daily Wire, the department spent a whopping $77 million on DEIA programs last year for its staffing shop, the Bureau of Global Talent Management.
- Government employees are required to take a variety of training courses to advance in their careers. Even five years ago, most of these were about doing your job better — courses on leadership, management, and other skills. But in the “woke” era, employees are also subjected to ideological sessions such as those mentioned above.
- Taxpayer-funded institutions should not pay for courses and speakers whose premises are contentious and whose efforts won’t measurably improve the workforce.
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- Many drivers of two-wheeled motorized vehicles are breaking the law in the nation’s capital and don’t appear to be facing any consequences for doing so.
- Individuals, many of whom entered the country illegally, are acquiring and driving motorbikes to do food deliveries in the District of Columbia, but many of the bikes do not have legal license plates, indicating they aren’t properly registered or insured.
- The Daily Signal launched an investigation to determine whether the drivers of the motor bikes have the legal requirements to operate the motorized bikes, and whether D.C. police are striving to eliminate the operation of vehicles that are not registered in the city.
- Over a week’s time, The Daily Signal spoke with about a dozen motorized bike owners and a D.C. shop selling the bikes.
- The investigation determined that illegal aliens are acquiring motorized bikes through a number of sources and that D.C. police do not appear to be enforcing registration laws.
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