Plus: The New York Times Can’t Get Basic Facts Right on Election Reform
March 29 2021
Good morning from Washington, where Congress pads regular unemployment benefits with a “bonus” during the pandemic. The policy compromises care for a Ohio man and others who depend on home health aides, Kelsey Bolar reports in a powerful video. The New York Times mischaracterizes election reform, Hans von Spakovsky and Jessica Anderson write. On the podcast, an authority on border security highlights the role of organized crime. Plus: President Biden denies the reality of the migrant crisis, and your letters on amnesty. Seventy years ago today, a jury convicts political activists Julius and Ethel Rosenberg of conspiring to pass atomic secrets to the Soviets; the couple is executed two years later.
Ever since Congress allowed people to collect generous COVID-19 unemployment benefits instead of working, Patrick Driscoll says, the problems with his caregivers quitting or coming late have gotten worse.
According to Customs and Border Protection, migrant encounters along the southern border are up 28% since January and up 173% since this time last year.
Former federal prosecutor Josh Jones explains how gangs and other criminals in El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala lead illegal immigrants to the border and often exploit the migrants for their own profit....
Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors says the radical organization believes that “white supremacy is currently sanctioned by our systems and even by some of our elected officials.”