Report
Remaking the U.S. Refugee Resettlement Program
The Biden administration’s changes and expansions
By Nayla Rush, July 30, 2024
Excerpt: On World Refugee Day 2024 (June 20), the Biden administration released a fact sheet, celebrating the “rebuilding and strengthening” of the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP) on its watch. Due to its efforts, the administration expects “more than 100,000 refugees” to be brought into U.S. communities by the end of Fiscal Year 2024 (September 30), the highest refugee admissions in three decades. So far in FY 2024 (October 1, 2023 through June 30, 2024), 68,291 refugees were resettled. Some highlights of the Biden administration’s “rebuilding and strengthening” of USRAP . . .
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Commentary
Dems aren’t even hiding it — Kamala Harris promises mass amnesty and more illegal immigration
By Andrew R. Arthur
New York Post, July 30, 2024
Excerpt: Sen. Elizabeth Warren appeared on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday and called for “comprehensive immigration reform” — including a “pathway to citizenship”, i.e., amnesty, for 11 million illegal immigrants. She then said the quiet part out loud, admitting that a President Kamala Harris “will work with Congress to get that done.
Secure the Mexican Border by Using Section 212(f)
By Philip Linderman
The American Conservative, July 30, 2024
Excerpt: Under President Lopez Obrador, the Mexicans have been masters of realpolitik, manipulating the hapless Biden administration, while also sometimes rescuing it politically by slowing the embarrassing numbers of migrants moving north. Trump must retake the initiative.
Yes, Kamala Harris Ran Biden’s Utterly Disastrous Efforts To Increase Mass Migration
By Todd Bensman
The Federalist, July 30, 2024
Excerpt: Whether you can call her “border czar” or just the person in charge of the administration’s main policy approach to the border, Harris must still answer for her contribution to the worst border crisis in American history that she aided and abetted in office.
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Podcast
A ‘Fiscal Time Bomb’: Mass Immigration, Parole, and Welfare
Host: Mark Krikorian
Guests: Jessica Vaughan, Director of Policy Studies at the Center for Immigration Studies
George Fishman, Senior Legal Fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies
Parsing Immigration Policy, Episode 165
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Featured Posts
Jordanians in Quantico Truck-Ramming Finally Identified
By Todd Bensman
Excerpt: The Biden/Harris administration refused to divulge the names of the two Jordanians against five written congressional inquiries, a sixth by Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, and most recently a subpoena by the Republican-led House Homeland Security Committee of DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
Kamala Harris and the Feckless ‘Root Causes’ Plan to Secure the Border
By Andrew Arthur
Excerpt: The administration plainly knows that refusing to detain migrants in lieu of a root causes strategy won’t secure the border. Kamala Harris’s feigned efforts to stem corruption in Honduras prove root causes are intractable. Either the vice president naively bought into this scheme or she was complicit in the White House’s open-borders strategy. Neither is a good look.
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The Latest Biden/Harris ‘Lawful Pathways’ Scheme: Declare Latin American Migrants to Be ‘Refugees’
By Todd Bensman
Excerpt: Almost sight unseen and scarcely noticed by the American public, the Biden/Harris administration’s DHS has super-charged yet another “Lawful Pathways” program to admit tens of thousands of people from Latin America who they claim would otherwise have crossed the border illegally.
Texas’s Border Buoy Barrier Can Remain – For Now
By Andrew R. Arthur
Excerpt: The Fifth Circuit this week issued a decision allowing the 1,000-foot floating barrier in the Rio Grande installed by the state of Texas to remain pending further litigation. But a number of perilous legal shoals that the state, the administration, and the courts will have to navigate lie ahead.
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