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Tillis, Colleagues Demand Answers on Biden Administration’s Mass Amnesty for Illegal Immigrants – Thom Tillis

WASHINGTON, D.C.Senator Thom Tillis and his colleagues recently sent a letter to U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and Attorney General Merrick Garland questioning the Administrations dismissal of asylum cases and highlighting the erosive effect of these policies on the U.S. legal immigration system.

We write to you today regarding recent reports of the Biden administration's purported mass amnesty for illegal aliens. According to a recent article published by the New York Post on June 2, 2024, the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) detailed the dismissal of over 350,000 removal cases since 2022 under the guise of prosecutorial discretion,the senators wrote.

President Bidens recent executive order uses 212(f) and 215(a) of theImmigration and Nationality Actto purportedly shut down the southern border if illegal crossings surge to a daily average of 2,500 over 7 days. This action is too little, too late, and its numerous exceptions make clear that the Administration is more interested in creating the appearance of an orderly border than stopping illegal crossings. It is also an implicit admission of the administrations failure to manage the border crisis effectively from the outset,the senators continued.

This Administrations approach has consistently downplayed the severity of the border crisis, initially denying its existence, then reluctantly acknowledging it, and now attempting to address it through inadequate measures. The repeated failures in border management under your leadership have led to an unprecedented backlog of 3.5 million asylum cases, posing a substantial burden on our immigration system and increasing the risk of criminal activities by illegal aliens,the senators concluded.

Text of the full letter is availableHERE.

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San Francisco Unified School District provides training to staff that labels "perfectionism" and "individualism" as … – Parents…

Parents Defending Education submitted a public records request to the San Francisco Unified School District seeking any materials provided or shown to staff during training regarding students who are immigrants or in the United States illegally. The district provided PDE with hundreds of pages of documents. One document that PDE received was titled Characteristics of White Supremacy Culture. The document has a list of perceived characteristics of white supremacy, including perfectionism, sense of urgency, worship of the written word, individualism, and objectivity.

PDE also received a document titled Newcomer RTI Support Services Planning Guide. One point in this document is to explicitly protect illegal aliens: Adherence to & Promotion of Sanctuary City Ordinance. The document also states that staff should have training in Cultural Competency & Humility and Immigrant Youth & Police Contact. Another point is Recognizing specific challenges of newcomers. This includes immigration status and court appointments. This document also includes a list of resources for illegal students.

PDE additionally received a presentation titled Understanding & Supporting the Newcomer Journey. This presentation starts with a Land Acknowledgment and promotes racial equity and anti-racism. The presentation features videos that appear to promote illegal immigration, such as Children on the Run in Central America and The Life of an Unaccompanied Minor in L.A.

Another presentation is titled Building Sanctuary. This presentation starts with a Land Acknowledgment that states no one is illegal on stolen land. A focus of this presentation is Racial Equity Framing and states that immigration is a black issue. The presentation promotes that California is a sanctuary state and that the district is a sanctuary school district. This presentation tells staff how to handle U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

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Is That REALLY a Homeless Shelter for Needy Americans orIllegal Alien Housing? | FAIRUS.org – Federation for American Immigration Reform

Promoting open border and amnesty policies is increasingly tricky business for the left. After all, illegal immigration is a major issue for most voters, a concern thats apparently deepening as shown by a new CBS News poll revealing that 62 percent of Americans support, in principle, a new government program to deport all undocumented immigrants living in the U.S.illegally.

Mindful of mounting public resistance and hoping to soften it, mass immigration advocates long ago modified their tactics by conflating legal and illegal immigration, and euphemizing the term illegal alien with an assortment of mushy alternatives undocumented immigrant, undocumented worker, and more recently, New American. Now, a new sleight-of-hand is emerging in the form of local ordinances that permit private groups to create shelters for homeless people when in fact, they are designed to become overflow shelters for illegal aliens further displacing legitimately needyAmericans.

Its deceptive and offensive. According to a U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) report, 650,000 Americans were experiencing homelessness on a single night in January 2023, a 12 percent increase from 2022. HUD also reports nearly 40,000 veterans are living on the streets, a 7.4 percent increase from 2022 to 2023. Substance abuse, escalating home prices and soaring mortgage rates, inflation, and a shortage of housing are contributing factors. Hundreds of thousands of Americans need a helping hand to turn their lives around. Short-term and affordable housing might offer that opportunity, but they cant find it; down-and-out Americans are foreclosed by migrants dominating occupancy at taxpayer-supported shelters and housingunits.

Not surprisingly, most of those municipalities have sanctuary policies, ironically peddled as compassionate when originally put in place, but which now displace Americancitizens.

Westbrook, Maine, is one such example. The city resides within Cumberland Countyheartily endorsing its sanctuary policiesand lays adjacent to the City of Portland which has become the migrant hub of Northern New England. As a result, Westbrook is suffering collateral impact from its neighboring city, and from its own illegal alien welcoming policies. Its recent solution to large numbers of loitering migrants has been to pass an ordinance that allows private groups to create homeless shelters in empty buildings, offices, churches, and single family homes that can operate a shelter as long as they dont exceed 12 people.

What could possibly gowrong?

The recent City Council debate over the ordinance was a farce, sugar-coated with hoorays for community spirit and welcoming neighborhoods, while lacking of any substantive discussion of the citys illegal alien sanctuary policies that have created a migrant housing shortage. Jennie Franceschi, Westbrooks director of planning and code enforcement, glossed over concerns about existing zoning requirements, property values, and public safety issues inherent in creating ad hoc migrant shelters by explaining just how simple everything will be under the new ordinance: A church that has a room that they utilize for the purposes of baked bean suppers or educational or social needs could then take that room and make it into a shelter if the needs of the community necessitatedit.

While the City Council avoided mentioning the word migrants in their push to justify more shelters, a few local residents did recognize the elephant in the room. Westbrook resident Martin Malia, sent an email that was read during the hearing expressing concern that the new ordinance would attract more migrants, and criticized the measure for the potential tax burden it could impose on property owners in the city. I do not believe the homeless shelter proposal is beneficial to the property taxpayers and residents of the city of Westbrook. Last year, the property taxpayers were burdened with an 8.8 percent tax increase. He added the current proposal would result in a cumulative hike property taxes of 11.4percent.

Mr. Malia knows something local leaders know, but wont widely acknowledge: 90 to 95 percent of those applying for general welfare assistanceincluding housingin Westbrook aremigrants.

Dubious that anyone but illegal aliens will occupy the new shelters, Malia continued while offering a perfect description of how sanctuary policies incentivize endless flows of migrants. Word will soon spread that resources are available in Westbrook. Then the calls for shelter expansion will ensue to meet thedemand.

Westbrook citizens can count onthat.

Despite lack of transparency, the new semantics are clear: For mass immigration advocates, homelessness and efforts to address it really mean accommodating and expanding illegal immigration, hiding that agenda, and tossing aside the needs of destituteAmericans.

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Congress Examines the Tangible and Intangible Costs of Illegal Immigration to American Schoolchildren | FAIRUS.org – Federation for American…

FAIR Take | June2024

The issue of mass illegal immigration has risen to the top of Americans list of concerns, and for good reason: It impacts every aspect of life in this country. One of those areas that often falls under the radar is the impact it is having on Americanschoolchildren.

Last week, the House Committee on Education and the Workforce held a hearing to examine both the tangible costs of mass illegal immigration on American schools and the intangible but no less important impact it is having on the quality of the education. Wreaking havoc, was the succinct and disturbing conclusion of Rep. Aaron Bean (R-Fla.), who chairs the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary and SecondaryEducation.

Rep. Bean estimates that about 500,000 school-age children have entered the United States illegally since President Biden took office and, presumably, are in classrooms all across the country. But shockingly, even the U.S. Department of Education cannot provide a firm number. Under questioning at another hearing in early May, Secretary Miguel Cardona could not provide concrete numbers.Nor would Cardona say whether there is a point at which the Biden administration would agree that the numbers exceed our educational systems ability to manage theinflux.

Under a 1982 Supreme Court ruling, Plyler v. Doe, local schools are obligated to provide illegal alien children with a taxpayer-funded K-12 education. The cost is staggering. According to a 2022 FAIR report, the price tag for educating children of illegal aliens was $70.8 billion a year. The report examined data from 2020, which pre-dated the unprecedented surge of illegal immigration that began when President Biden took office in 2021. Based on Rep. Beans estimate of 500,000 new illegal aliens in U.S. public schools and the average per-child cost in a U.S. public school, the recent influx has added at least $9.7 billion in new costs totaxpayers.

The committee heard from educators from all across the United States, all of whom reported that their school systems cannot provide the resources necessary to meet the needs of the illegal alien children, much less those of their American classmates. School officials told the committee that they cannot even prepare for the new burdens that are being heaped upon them, as newly arriving illegal aliens often show up overnight. Predictably, educators from sanctuary jurisdictions complained about lack of federal funding, but money alone cannot magically produce new teachers, administrators and service providers, proficient in dozens of languages, to meet the needs of kids showing up from all across theglobe.

Nowhere in the country is the impact being felt more acutely than in New York City, where the per-student cost for the school year just ending was about $38,000. The city had to accommodate 21,000 new migrant students when the school year began last September (a figure that continues to grow as new illegal aliens show up), adding about $800 million to thetab.

The recent congressional hearings focused not only on how much the influx of illegal alien students is costing American schools, but also on the impact it is having on the education of their classmates. For a variety of reasons, American students are lagging behind our economic competitors in educational attainment. In 2022, only 36 percent of American fourth-graders and 26 percent of eighth-graders were considered proficient in math. For reading comprehension proficiency the figures were 33 percent and 31 percent,respectively.

The problems of American education go much deeper than immigration, but the massive influx of illegal alien students who arrive with special educational needs can only exacerbate the situation. The impact of unchecked illegal immigration on our schools may not have the same headline-grabbing effect as crime or threats to national security, but in the long-term it could play an outsized role in determining whether we remain a prosperous and competitivenation.

When, as Rep. Bean asked, Does there come a numberthat you would say, we just cant take any more, its causing our kids to suffer? our Secretary of Education and other administration officials should have an answer. They dont, of course, which is why so many Americans are so deeplyconcerned.

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Multiple illegal immigrants wanted for murder arrested in 2-week-span in Houston – Fox News

In just a two-week span, fugitive operations officers from the federal Office of Enforcement and Removal Operations in Houston and the ERO Waco office successfully apprehended five illegal immigrants who are currently wanted for murder or homicide in the United States or abroad.

According to a press release from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), agents were able to arrest a Honduran wanted in Mexico for "multiple murders," a Honduran wanted in Charlotte, NC for homicide, and three Mexican nationals wanted for murders in Mexico.

Following the string of arrests, ERO Houston Field Office Director Bret A. Bradford commended officers for all that they do to enforce the nations immigration laws and enhance public safety.

ARRESTS OF EIGHT ISIS-TIED MIGRANTS SHOULD BE WAKE-UP CALL FOR BIDEN ON BORDER CRISIS, SENATOR SAYS

House Bill 370 would require sheriffs in North Carolina to fulfill ICE detainer requests, which can be used to hold criminal suspects up to 48 hours. These holdings currently aren't mandatory. (AP Photo)

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS ARE OFFERED AN ARRAY OF TAXPAYER FUNDED BENEFITS, ENTICING MORE TO COME: 'PULL FACTOR'

ERO Houston Assistant Field Office Director John D. Linscott echoed similar sentiments and credited their success to the professionalism and pride that they take in executing their mission.

AUTHORITIES NAB 8 SUSPECTED TERRORISTS WITH TIES TO ISIS IN MULTI-CITY STING OPERATION

"The professionalism of the officers from ERO Houstons fugitive operations teams is showcased in these arrests," said Linscott. "The quick response to locate, arrest and remove these threats from the community exhibits the pride and importance that these men and women take in their job every day."

These latest arrests come amid heightened concerns surrounding border security after eight Tajikistan nationals with suspected ties to ISIS were arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in conjunction with the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force in three major cities.

MIGRANTS CONTINUE TO STREAM INTO BOSTON AIRPORT AS MORE THAN 100 SLEEP ON THE FLOOR

Illegal immigrants seek entry to the U.S. at the southern border in Eagle Pass, Texas. (Fox News)

All eight Tajikistan nationals crossed the U.S. southern border illegally, and according to a federal source familiar with the sting, no derogatory information was initially flagged with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) or with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) during processing.

This all comes as FBI Director Christopher Wray told a Senate Appropriations subcommittee last week that there is an increasing concern of a potential coordinated attack in the U.S., similar to the Islamic State in Khorasan Province (ISIS-K) attack in March at aconcert hall in Russia.

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Wray told members of the subcommittee that when he met with them last year, he walked them through how the U.S. was already in a heightened threat environment, and since then, threats from foreign terrorists have risen to another level.

Fox News' Bill Melugin and Greg Wehner contributed to this report.

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