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As the crisis along the southwest border deepens, Democrats have come up with a new spin: it’s all Donald Trump’s fault.Over the weekend, Democratic Rep. Veronica Escobar, whose district includes El Paso, Texas, told CNN the rapid surge in illegal immigration since President Joe Biden took office “is not something that happened as a result of Joe Biden becoming president,” and that the increases date back almost a year, “during the Trump administration.”In an interview with ABC News, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said something similar: the Biden administration inherited “a broken system at the border, and they are working to...

BERLIN (AP) – Two German state election defeats have put the spotlight on chances of a government without Chancellor Angela Merkel’s bloc after September’s national vote. A possible contender to succeed her said Monday that the center-right needs to raise its game to keep the country’s top job. Final results showed that Merkel´s Christian Democratic Union was handily defeated in Sunday´s elections by two popular incumbent state governors: the Green party´s Winfried Kretschmann in Baden-Wuerttemberg and the center-left Social Democrats´ Malu Dreyer in Rhineland-Palatinate.

Border crisis? The Democrats, with a helping hand from CNN, have the perfect solution: open the borders! Presto-change-o: crisis gone! On today's New Day, co-host John Berman parroted the Democratic line that the border crisis is: "All the more reason to pass comprehensive immigration reform." Berman also fretted over the "roadblocks" [read, Republicans] such reform will face. Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley is pressing Vanita Gupta, the nominee for the number three position at the Justice Department, over millions of dollars in stock holdings she has in a chemical company that makes a key ingredient that Mexican drug cartels use to make heroin. Gupta holds between $11 million and $55 million in shares of Avantor, a Pennsylvania-based chemical company, according to financial disclosures she has filed with the Office of Government Ethics. Gupta’s father, Raj Gupta, serves as chairman of the board of Avantor. Gupta is the wealthiest political nominee that President Joe Biden has picked while in...

At present time, the United States' southern border is wide open. Unaccompanied alien children, single alien men and intact alien families are all pouring over en masse. Anecdotal horror stories abound: On Thursday, for instance, U.S. Customs and Border Protection tweeted: "Within 24 hours, Laredo North Station Border Patrol agents apprehended 111 individuals during 3 separate human smuggling attempts involving commercial trailers." This is a legitimate crisis, notwithstanding self-serving presidential obfuscation to the contrary. And it is a legitimate crisis entirely of the Democratic Party's own making. As this column has previously noted, CBP data evinced as early as last...

The Border Patrol union chief said Thursday on "America's Newsroom" that in 24 years of service, he has never seen a daily migrant surge like the one underway. The president of the National Border Patrol Council, which represents roughly 20,000 Border Patrol agents, said the public should be "very concerned" and asserted that if the increase continues, the Border Patrol will apprehend more people in 2021 than in any previous year in its history. BRANDON JUDD: "I’m going on 24 years as a Border Patrol agent and I can tell you that I’ve never seen a day-to-day, week-over-week increase like...

Critical race theory (CRT) is a divisive, discriminatory ideology that judges people on the basis of their skin color. It has penetrated our society—it's in federal agencies' and federal contractors' "bias training," in school curricula and many corporations' "diversity training." Few are willing to speak out against it for fear of being labeled racists or white supremacists. Asian Americans, however, have emerged as a powerful voice against this pernicious ideology. The Chinese American Citizens Alliance of Greater New York (CACAGNY) delivered the most vigorous rejection of CRT yet, calling it "a hateful, divisive, manipulative fraud." CACAGNY is one of the...

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said Thursday on ABC’s “The View” that President Joe Biden “inherited” a mess on the U.S.-Mexico border from former President Donald Trump. Co-host Meghan McCain asked, “You were a vocal critic of Trump’s immigration policy of separating the children from their families at the border. You called it cruel and inhumane, and quote, ‘So unlike the America we have known.’ It happened under Obama, and kids are still being detained under President Biden, and his Press Secretary Jen Psaki admitted they have to get their act together with their border policy. Why haven’t you...

Click here to read the full articleMEXICO CITY (Reuters) — Mexico’s gov­ern­ment is wor­ried the new U.S. administration’s asy­lum poli­cies are stok­ing ille­gal immi­gra­tion and cre­at­ing busi­ness for orga­nized crime, accord­ing to offi­cials and inter­nal assess­ments seen by Reuters.Ever since Pres­i­dent Joe Biden won the White House vow­ing to undo the hard­line approach of his pre­de­ces­sor Don­ald Trump, Mex­i­co has both looked for­ward to an end to migra­tion bur­dens imposed by Trump, and braced for a new influx of people.Deten­tions on the U.S bor­der have surged since Biden took office on Jan. 20. Mex­i­co has urged Wash­ing­ton to help stem...

Arizona and Montana have filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration for implementing new rules making it more difficult for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to arrest and deport illegal immigrants. The lawsuit is an amendment to one filed in February which originally addressed President Biden’s 100-day moratorium on deportations. The states contend that the administration’s policies would have devastating consequences. “Meth trafficked into Montana by Mexican drug cartels has wracked our state,” Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen said. “The problem will only be made worse if the Biden administration continues to allow criminals to stay in the country.”

Charlotte, NC — In just under 2 months, President Joe Biden has overturned nearly all the good things going in our country involving immigration. Before he took office, there was a clear pathway to legal citizenship, stronger protections at the border, and clear rules that were being enforced. Now, he has pretty much thrown out the welcome mat for any illegal that is willing to come across the US border. It is one thing that US citizens see these events taking place because we all knew it would happen. We knew that Biden and his radical agenda would mean that...

Recently-inaugurated President Joseph R. Biden is presiding over an increase in illegal entries, inspired by his campaign promises and policy adjustments, which encourage Latin Americans (and others) to make a run for the border. Texas Governor Greg Abbott has responded with a Texas operation meant to counter the problem. Now Texas is launching Operation Lone Star.

Trump’s warning of a "spiraling tsunami" is right on the mark. President Biden is creating an unprecedented man-made disaster at the U.S.-Mexico border – not merely a “challenge” as Biden officials like to call it. Biden has rolled out the welcome mat to illegal aliens as well as to would-be asylum-seekers with dubious claims. His reckless policies like catch and release, reversal of the Trump administration’s “Remain in Mexico” program, and his open arms extended to unaccompanied illegal alien minors are huge magnets. Biden is enticing hordes of illegal aliens to make the journey to what they view as their...

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas under President Biden reportedly asked for volunteers to aid with an “overwhelming” number of migrants at the border, a crisis he said days ago did not exist. According to Fox News, Mayorkas sent an email to staff seeking help with the border crisis. ... “Please consider joining the Volunteer Force to again provide needed humanitarian support along the Southwest Border and relief for our CBP colleagues,” he requests. ... Last Monday, Biden’s DHS Secretary Mayorkas was asked by reporters if there is a crisis developing at the southern border, to which he...

Hey, about that border “crisis”… – Where the “crisis” at the border is concerned, you are currently being brainwashed by the corrupt news media to believe that it is all just some sort of organic thing, a “crisis” that built naturally and without the active promotion of Democrat activists and the Biden/Harris administration. This is, of course, a completely false narrative, but you are expected to accept it and parrot it, and if you refuse to do that then you will be screamed down by your liberal friends as some sort of cold and heartless monster. Because that’s all those...

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. warned on "Hannity" Tuesday that President Biden's immigration policies could have major national security implications, suggesting that a porous southern border might serve as a "great way for terrorists to come into our country." Graham blamed Biden's rollback of Trump's "Remain in Mexico" policy for the recent surge of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico frontier. "Word is out that the Trump policies are being replaced by the Biden administration [policy] that if you get one foot in America, you are never going to leave," Graham said. "People will be coming ... by the hundreds of thousands by...

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Monday the government is studying what to do about growers of opium poppies who have been hit by competition from synthetic opioids, suggesting that some sort of legalization scheme might be possible. Asked about legalizing marijuana production — a bill for which is now before Congress — López Obrador said the question also involves opium poppies grown illegally in some parts of Mexico to make heroin. “As far as commercializing marijuana and opium poppies, the decision has been made to undertake a thorough study of these crops,” López Obrador said.

Detroit would not be the first city to have its sanctuary status come under scrutiny due to the actions of a criminal illegal migrant. Authorities sometimes respond by hiding migration status.To reverse former President Donald Trump’s immigration policies, President Biden is working with Democrats in Congress on “sweeping immigration legislation” that includes an eight-year path to citizenship for an claimed estimate of 11 million illegal immigrants. Such drastic reform must be supported by facts, which are hotly debated, and even purposely withheld.Democrats’ sunny population estimation falls in line with the Pew Research Center’s assessment that 10.5 million illegal immigrants resided...

President Joe Biden on Thursday ended US support for Saudi Arabia's devastating war in Yemen and dramatically increased the welcome to refugees, ushering in a major reset in American foreign policy. In his first major speech on foreign affairs as president, Biden also froze former president Donald Trump's plans to redeploy troops from Germany and vowed a tough approach against what he described as a rising authoritarian threat from China and Russia.

According to a report from Politico, three sources close to Trump told them that McCarthy may be in for a public reprimand. For his part, McCarthy praised Trump in his own CPAC speech, saying that “it was the forgotten man and woman that Donald Trump listened to the voice of that no one else would listen to.” However, Politico reports that “he’s stewing anew over KEVIN MCCARTHY. It’s become so frequent that his advisers think the House minority leader may be in for a public reprimand. That’s even after the powwow at Mar-a-Lago where McCarthy tried to patch things up...