This Issue: Illegal border crossings outpacing last year in first four months of FY2022

Fri, Feb. 18^th

Border encounters in January along the Southwest border were close to double the number from a year ago, indicating that the ongoing border crisis is not slowing down any time soon.

In fact, border encounters over the first four months of FY2022 are more than twice the number of encounters over the same period in FY2021 -- a year in which the Southwest border experienced the highest number of illegal crossings in decades.

The Department of Homeland Security has yet to release official statistics for January, but the month's apprehension numbers were included in court documents.

The documents also revealed that DHS released into U.S. communities 62,573 individuals even though they were deemed to be inadmissible. At that rate, the Biden Administration is on pace to release close to 1 million new illegal aliens into American communities over the fiscal year.

Meanwhile, the Administration issued new guidance this week for Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers establishing new barriers for interior enforcement. Under the new policy, it'll be more difficult for ICE officers to arrest illegal aliens unless they have a judicial warrant for the alien's arrest.

Interior removals of illegal aliens were down 70% in FY2021 compared to the year before.

TRUMP 'PUBLIC CHARGE' RULE RESCINDED

The Department of Homeland Security also announced this week, that it was rolling back the Trump-era Public Charge rule that made it more difficult for individuals who were likely to become a burden on U.S. taxpayers to receive a green card.

The Public Charge rule created under former Pres. Trump required U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to consider non-cash taxpayer-funded services when determining whether a green card applicant would become a public charge. The change modernized the public charge determination process that had been in effect since the Clinton Administration. Over the years, many taxpayer-funded public benefits have shifted from cash to non-cash, prompting the Trump Administration to make the change.

DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said the Biden Administration will only consider cash benefits in making public charge determinations, making it easier for new immigrants who are likely to receive SNAP (food stamps), health care subsidies, and more to receive a green card.

CONGRESS AVERTS GOV'T SHUTDOWN

Congress will be on recess next week for the President's Day holiday. Just before adjourning, lawmakers averted a government shutdown by passing another continuing resolution (CR), funding the government until mid-March. The CR included no change to immigration policies.

We're still on high alert for an omnibus spending bill, which could have a significant impact on guest worker programs and enforcement. The new deadline to pass a spending bill is March 11.

CHRIS Chmielenski
NumbersUSA Deputy Director

Fox News: Director of Government Relations Rosemary Jenks commented on new legislation, introduced by Rep. Pat Fallon (R-Texas), that would end the visa lottery and close asylum loopholes.

The bill was praised by immigration hawk groups Numbers USA and the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), which praised the bill for tackling "a deeply-flawed legal immigration program, the most overlooked method of illegal entry, and humanitarian loopholes that drive the border crisis."

Reuters: Chris commented on how the immigration issue is playing ahead of the Texas Congressional primaries.

Nonetheless, NumbersUSA, a hawkish advocacy group that pushes for lower levels of immigration, said it had received more responses than usual to an election-year survey it conducts among candidates to rate them on their hardline immigration stances - suggesting candidates are eager to establish their Trump-esque credentials.

"A couple years ago it used to be, 'Legal immigration good, illegal immigration bad.' That used to be the Republican mantra," said Deputy Director Chris Chmielenski. "You're starting to see less of that."

Real Clear Investigations: Rosemary commented on DHS' secret flights of illegal border crossers into the interior of the country.

"This is all being done under the cover of darkness and no one really knows what is happening," said Rosemary Jenks, director of government relations at NumbersUSA, a group that favors immigration limits. "Plus, there's so much confusion over who has custody over which groups."

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During Black History Month, share with friends, family, and your social media lists this part of the story that most Americans of all races have never heard.

Our 5-minute video comes out of NumbersUSA's new book -- BACK OF THE HIRING LINE -- which details how those "labor economics" have always made mass immigration a devastating force against all struggling Americans.

The problem today is that too many Americans -- and most politicians -- aren't aware of the economic lesson about immigration that Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. DuBois, Booker T. Washington, Marcus Garvey, A. Philip Randolph, Barbara Jordan, and so many other Black leaders saw repeated throughout the history of immigration surges recounted in BACK OF THE HIRING LINE.

San Jose Company Execs. Accused of H-1B Visa Fraud by Federal Prosecutors

Thu, Feb. 17^th

According to allegations made by federal prosecutors, two tech executives in San Jose, California, imported foreign H-1B visa workers to hold American jobs they were not legally authorized to have in the United States.

Readers Remind Post Editorial Board About Overpopulation

Chris Johnson

Thu, Feb. 17^th

The Washington Post readers comprehensively disagree with the editorial board's overall conclusion that the U.S. must greatly increase immigration numbers (and births) to accelerate U.S. population growth.

Nothing humane about open borders advocates' support for child abuse and neglect

Christy Shaw

Tue, Feb. 15^th

Minors are being trafficked across the border by violent cartels who are making enormous profits due to policies implemented by DHS Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas. Abuse, assault, and neglect of children are commonplace. And there is a long list of NGOs who are facilitating all of this while claiming they are only there to "help."

Biden's DHS Issues New Orders Further Crippling ICE Agents' Ability to Do Their Job

Tue, Feb. 15^th

President Biden's officials within the DHS are expected to issue a new memorandum that is likely to further debilitate Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents ability to arrest and deport illegal aliens in the U.S.

Biden Talks Limited Resources But Only for Enforcement

Jared Culver

Tue, Feb. 15^th

Per a scoop from Axios, the Biden Administration is launching an expansion of their attempt to release seemingly every illegal immigrant they encounter. This time they are expanding "Alternatives to detention (ATD)" with the aim of having most aliens released and on some "stricter" form of monitoring like a version of house arrest. But what isn't really asked by Axios, and most media, is how resources are so limited that DHS cannot be expected to do their statutory duty, but yet has seemingly limitless resources to release, monitor, and manage hundreds of thousands of aliens released into the United States.