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Temporary Protected Status (TPS) is an immigration designation available to Haitians and foreign nationals from 15 other countries that allows them to live and work in the U.S. for up to 18 months, subject to extension or redesignation by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Many Haitians in Springfield are eligible to apply for TPS status and once approved for TPS they can immediately apply for a work permit. Immigrants who have the TPS designation or are applying for it may also apply for asylum, but face long waits for consideration of their asylum claims. Congress created TPS in 1990,...

Christopher Rufo reported: Donald Trump shocked audiences at this week’s presidential debate with the claim that foreign migrants were eating household pets in Springfield, Ohio, a small town currently reeling under the strain of an unprecedented number of new arrivals, mostly from Haiti. “They’re eating the dogs,” Trump said. “They’re eating the cats.” Reactions on both sides were spirited. Conservative social media accounts created memes that portrayed Trump, dressed in camouflage, and toting heavy weapons, as the savior of innocent pets. There was even a viral TikTok trend, which chopped up Trump’s speech and set it to dance music. “They’re...

hile Donald Trump made baseless, dangerous claims that immigrants in Ohio were eating people’s pets in front of millions of viewers at Tuesday night’s presidential debate, Johnson Salomon, a Haitian man who moved to Springfield in 2020, was watching cartoons with his kids before putting them to bed. He got a text from a friend telling him to turn on the debate. When he saw the headlines about what the former president and Republican nominee in November’s election had said, he was in total shock. “This was a false claim. I couldn’t believe that such a high official could make...

Truth often sounds like fiction, especially when it does not fit the listener’s model of the world and what they believe to be in the realm of possibility. If you lived in Germany in 1933, you might hear news the new chancellor, Adolf Hitler, was arresting political opponents and putting them in a newly built prison. Unless you knew those people personally, you might dismiss the news as a conspiracy theory designed to hurt Hitler. Later, in November of 1938, when you heard the news of Jews being rounded up and sent to the same prison, you might dismiss it...

Former President Donald Trump, during Tuesday’s presidential debate, repeated a baseless and sensationalist claim about Haitian immigrants in Ohio eating dogs and other pets. "They're eating the dogs, the people that came in, they're eating the cats," Trump said during an answer to a question about immigration. "They're eating the pets of the people that live there, and this is what's happening in our country, and it's a shame." Trump's answer was among the most extraordinary of the first 30 minutes of the debate: a former U.S. president spreading an internet rumor — one labeled by some of his critics...

Border Patrol agents have recorded at least 10 million illegal immigrants who have flooded the country since President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris took office. But that figure doesn’t include the 2 million known “gotaways” and countless others who have evaded formal detection...In addition to this being a human crisis, it’s also an economic one. These illegal immigrants are not working enough.... The average immigrant in this category who has been in the country for two years... only worked 1,400 hours in 2022....at least half are likely living on taxpayer largesse.... Even before Medi-Cal coverage went into effect...

The County of San Luis Obispo Clerk-Recorder’s Office announced Friday that it has partnered with Cal Poly faculty and students to bring the Latino Voter Engagement Project to SLO county.

On August 29, Vice President Kamala Harris held her first sit-down interview since replacing President Joe Biden at the top of the Democratic Party ticket. The short interview with CNN’s Dana Bash was a heavily edited piece of political theater aimed at concealing the right-wing character of a future Harris-Walz administration and the scale of the domestic and global geo-political crisis. Despite months of global protests attended by millions of people, Harris made clear that Palestinians will continue to be slaughtered under her administration. Questioned by Bash, who falsely claimed Biden was trying to “end the war,” would Harris do...

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The federal government is processing U.S. citizenship applications at its fastest pace in decades, with thousands of immigrants becoming newly minted citizens every week, possibly helping sway the result of November’s election. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USIS) is taking an average of 4.9 months to process naturalization applications in the first nine months of the current fiscal year, a pace not seen since 2013 and 2014, according to a report from the New York Times. The under five-month average processing time is a far cry from that pace set just three years ago, when it took roughly 11.5...

According to a report by the New York Times, the Biden regime is fast tracking the naturalization of migrants in America as part of a plan that consists of “reshaping the electorate, merely months before a pivotal election, per an observer that was quoted in the article. “The federal government is processing citizenship requests at the fastest clip in a decade, moving rapidly through a backlog that built up during the Trump administration and the coronavirus pandemic,” the New York Times highlighted. One Honduran woman cited in this article was amazed at the fact that immigration authorities were able to...

Immigrants from Venezuela remain at the center of persistent controversy in Aurora, with four city lawmakers on Thursday offering commentary and narratives about gang members, flash-mobs and national immigration policy. City officials notified residents that they must vacate their condemned apartments in the north-Aurora complex by next Tuesday, a moved that some city lawmakers, without evidence or details, say is the result of Venezuelan gang activity. Lawmakers commented on other recent Venezuelan immigrant controversies as well.

The King has spoken of how he has been "greatly encouraged by the many examples of community spirit that had countered the aggression and criminality from a few" - as he reflected on the recent violent disorder seen across the country. On Friday evening, the monarch held a phone audience with the prime minister and leading police chiefs after the palace confirmed earlier in the week that he has been receiving daily updates on the situation. A Buckingham Palace spokesperson said the King spoke to Sir Keir Starmer, along with holding a joint call with the chair of the National...

Judge Guy Kearl KC sums up the crimes committed by Jordan Plain, the laws he broke, sentencing him to 8 months in prison "You joined with a pro EDL group chanting and gesticulating in the direction of a counter protest demonstrating against racism" "Your actions were captured on CCTV.. Climbing on a barrier.. Making monkey noises and gestures towards the counter protesters.. You said they looked like monkeys.. You rubbed your lips and shouted rubber lips.. You were standing alongside and others making similar comments" "You then got down from the barrier and imitated the way Muslim people pray, in...

As a part of the federal response to the COVID-19 pandemic, then-President Trump issued an executive order instituting a freeze on all new visas and preventing new immigrants from entering the United States. In the early part of the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly in April and May of 2020, the unemployment rate in the United States was extremely high. The executive order, issued in April 2020, was designed to prevent immigrants from taking jobs from native-born workers. The FRED graph above shows the relative change in the levels of foreign-born employment and native-born employment. Both series are indexed to January 2020,...

EU expats are returning to the continent as "everything in Britain is collapsing", says a Polish national still living here. Tomasz Orynski, a Polish freelance journalist who left Britain less than two years ago after a 17-year stay, shared a conversation on X (formerly Twitter) this week with a friend still residing in Glasgow. His friend revealed plans to move back to Poland soon and said some had already gone back to the EU, citing various reasons - from the cost of living crisis to healthcare access issues. The friend claimed to be "the only person in her work who...

The report was issued by House Judiciary Committee Republicans.. Nearly 100 illegal immigrants on the terror watch list have been released into the United States during the Biden administration, while Border Patrol agents have encountered migrants on the watch list from dozens of different countries... "Under the Biden-Harris Administration, of the more than 250 illegal aliens on the terrorist watchlist who were encountered by Border Patrol at the southwest border between fiscal years 2021 and 2023, DHS has released into American communities at least 99, with at least 34 others in DHS custody but not yet removed from the United...

An Irish citizen has been moved out of his home by gardaí after receiving death threats from far-right agitators, the Irish Mail on Sunday has learned. Last week, a video was filmed outside Andre Buchanan’s apartment, featuring a bullet and the sound of a gun. This week, Mr Buchanan – a musician who moved to Ireland from Jamaica when he was just nine years old – received a bomb threat on his car. He also featured in a video posted to TikTok by a man who gave his new location away and told his followers he needs to be ‘removed’....

The world’s richest man stunned Democrats when, only hours after the assassination attempt on President Trump at his Butler, PA rally, he announced that he was endorsing Trump in his re-election bid. ... Elon Musk has claimed that the 2024 presidential election would likely be the last to be decided by US citizens, blaming an “influx” of illegal immigrants being allowed to vote. The South African-born billionaire’s comments on his social media platform, X, came in response to news that Republicans in the House of Representatives passed a bill requiring citizenship status to be added to the ten-yearly census, despite...

The growing undocumented immigrant population in the U.S. will lower the deficit by nearly a trillion dollars over the next decade, according to a study by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). CBO’s projections are based on the net sum of economic activity generated, taxes paid and benefits allotted to the immigrant groups included in the study. The nonpartisan agency estimates a net population increase of 8.7 million such immigrants between 2021 and 2026, averaging an increase of 1.7 million people per year above the pre-2020 average annual net immigration of 200,000. CBO based its projections on the economic effects that...