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President BidenJoe BidenNoem touts South Dakota coronavirus response, knocks lockdowns in CPAC speech On The Trail: Cuomo and Newsom a story of two embattled governors Biden celebrates vaccine approval but warns 'current improvement could reverse' MORE last week introduced his administrations major immigration bill, after issuing an executive order on Feb. 2 to address the root causes of migration from Central America to the United States and, during his campaign, pledging to spendat least $4 billion to reduce endemic corruption, violence and poverty in the region.

While the concept of increasing foreign aid to assist struggling countries may sound good on paper, it is highly ineffective especially in the Northern Triangle countries of Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.

Throwing billions of dollars at these countries will not reduce illegal migration to the United States. The money likely will be abused by corrupt government officials, and the investment does not address the pull factors that incentivize illegal immigration at our southern border.

Foreign aid packages have not reduced or controlled migration from the Northern Triangle countries in recent years. In response to the 2014 humanitarian and border crisis, largely fueled by migrating families from these three countries, the United States introduced the Alliance for Prosperity initiative that committed an initial $750 million to these countries to help alleviate poor economic conditions and violence.

But this aid package did little to deter illegal immigration. In fiscal year 2014, then seen as one of the worst border crises on record, immigration authorities apprehended roughly 237,000 migrants from these countries. But in FY 2019, prior to COVID-19 travel and border restrictions, around 623,000 migrants were apprehended a more than 160 percent increase in just five years.

This increase is in line with the numerous migrant caravans that have increased in frequency from 2018 and that come in record sizes. If U.S. aid were working as intended, border agents would be apprehending fewer people. Instead, the opposite is occurring.

The Northern Triangle countries are burdened by generations of corrupt and inept governments that neglect the needs and interests of their people and loot the countries treasuries for their own gain. They cannot be trusted with large sums of aid.

In a recently declassified corruption report, the State Department accused more than 50 current or former senior officials of engaging or facilitating corruption in the Northern Triangle countries.

In Guatemala, former president Jimmy Morales prevented a United Nations-backed anti-corruption investigation into his government and was accused of widespread crimes. He then questionably received immunity while his administration officials were prosecuted.

Similarly, Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernndez was recently charged for taking bribes from drug traffickers and, according to U.S. prosecutors, had the countrys armed forces protect a cocaine laboratory and shipments to the United States.

These incidents reveal that there is little trust in these leaders. Rewarding them with billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars in aid likely will not help their impoverished citizens.

Biden believes that addressing the root causes of migration in Central America will solve the nations illegal migration problem. But what he should be addressing are his own policies that encourage migrants to come to our border.

In just over a month, Biden has undermined the nations border security by suspending the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) program and halting all border wall construction. To impoverished Central Americans, these actions indicate the border is open and anyone is invited to come over.

Once migrants cross into the country illegally, they likely wont be removed; Biden has halted immigration enforcement in the interior of the country. He also declared his intention to freeze deportations for at least 100 days and to eliminate private immigration detention centers. It is unclear whether these initiatives will be fully implemented, but the message itself is likely encouraging migrants to come to America.

To top it all off, the Biden administration introduced mass-amnesty legislation that would grant more than 11 million illegal aliens in our country a pathway to U.S. citizenship. Rewarding those who knowingly broke our federal and immigration laws will serve as a significant pull factor to other migrants from the region.

Rather than address our nations poverty and crime which he was elected to do Biden appears content to shell out billions of dollars to Central American countries with little return to show for it. Working with these governments to address serious problems in their countries is a worthy idea, but they require sincere efforts from their own leaders. The United States cannot be forever held hostage to corrupt, incompetent regimes that mishandle their countrys problems.

It would be wise for the Biden administration to accept this reality and reassess its foreign aid and immigration policies.

Matthew Tragesser is press secretary at the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) in Washington. He previously worked in the Wisconsin State Senate and for a Wisconsin political nonprofit. Follow him on Twitter @MatthewTrag and @FAIRImmigration.

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The biggest driver of illegal immigration in the United States is economic opportunity. The ease with which aliens without work authorization can procure a job in this country is an attractive magnet to come to the U.S., either unlawfully across the border or with permission and overstaying a visa. Illegal aliens are rational people who respond to incentives. They have rationally calculated that the expense of paying a cartel or coyote to be smuggled across the border or the fees to obtain a tourist visa and plane ticket are miniscule compared to the financial benefits of U.S. wages, regardless of the job.

The economic harm of illegal aliens in the workforce is obvious. Lower skilled Americans, including minorities and young people, either lose their jobs, cannot obtain a job, or have their wages suppressed. Unscrupulous employers who intentionally hire illegal aliens obtain an unfair advantage against their competitors by reducing their payroll expenses, resulting in enlarged profits or additional capital to invest in the company to make its products more appealing to American customers unaware of these nefarious hiring practices.

But it doesn't have to be this way. In fact, much of the economic harm of illegal immigration can be cured for free. The U.S. government already has an online system that employers can use to instantaneously confirm the employment eligibility of their employees. The system is called E-Verify and it is free to use and over 98 percent accurate. E-Verify is far more efficient and effective than the current paper-based Form I-9 process that effectively requires human resources employees to function as document integrity bouncers. What is your confidence level in being able to identify if the driver's license presented by an employee is legitimate or a forgery? HR professionals are well versed in many areas, but they are not experts in validating identity documents, nor should they be. Ensuring the integrity of the workforce should be the job of the government whose databases are best positioned to know with certainty whether or not a particular employee is authorized to work.

While E-Verify usage has increased in recent years, the majority of private employers still do not use it. That could change soon if Congress is serious about improving the wages of Americans. Earlier today, Sens. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), Mitt Romney (R-Utah), Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Susan Collins (R-Maine), and Rob Portman (R-Ohio) introduced the Higher Wages for American Workers Act, a bill that would phase in mandatory E-Verify while gradually increasing the federal minimum wage. Specifically, the bill provides an 18-month phase in of mandatory E-Verify to give small businesses additional time to comply, increases civil and criminal penalties on employers that hire illegal aliens, requires employees at least 18 years old to produce a photo ID that the employer would match against any photos contained in the E-Verify system, and provides $100 million annually for E-Verify to ensure it is not impacted by a government shutdown. At the same time, over a several-year period the bill would increase the federal minimum wage (with a lower amount for small businesses for the first five years) to $10 an hour. Starting six years after implementation, the federal minimum wage is indexed to inflation.

The economic harm of illegal aliens in the workforce is not a new problem, but its effects have been exacerbated by the Covid-19 shutdowns. Getting Americans back to work for fair wages should be the top priority of Congress and the Biden administration. As the fact sheet the senators released ahead of the bill states, "Mandatory E-Verify would preserve American jobs for legal workers and remove incentives for increased illegal immigration." Combined with the federal minimum wage increase, "Both policies work in tandem to create tighter labor markets and put upward pressure on wages." In the press release that accompanied the introduction of the bill, Sen. Cotton emphasized the clear benefits of the bill:

American workers today compete against millions of illegal immigrants for too few jobs with wages that are too low that's unfair. Ending the black market for illegal labor will open up jobs for Americans. Raising the minimum wage will allow Americans filling those jobs to better support their families. Our bill does both.

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Have you ever noticed thatnobody in Washington can agree on a number? You would think that people with functioning calculators could come to similar math- based conclusions once in a while, but not in D.C. Try getting a consensus on unemployment projections or consumer confidence levels frommembers of Congress. You can't even get a straight answer on how many troops will be occupying the Capitol three months from now, and that's something they directly control.

With all of that in mind, it's pretty amazing to watch virtually everyone in Washington, Republican and Democrat, repeat precisely the same number when discussingone of the most critical problems that we face. That number is 11 million. That number, they tell us, is exactly how many foreign nationals currently live here illegally.

It's almost like a script now. People have different views on what we ought to do about illegal immigrants, but nobody questions how many there are. There are 11 million, period.

A month before last year's presidential election, Joe Biden promised: "Within 100 days, I'm going to send to the United States Congress a pathway to citizenship for over 11 million undocumented people, and all of those so-called Dreamers, those DACA kids, they're going to be immediately certified again to be able to stay in this country and put on a path to citizenship."

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Joe Biden is in the White House now. His party controls everything, so he can make good on that promise and he plans to do so. In fact, it's one of the very first things he's doing. How's it going to affect you?

First of all, it's kind of a big deal. All but seven U.S. states have fewer than 11 million people living in them. We're not just talking aboutWyoming and South Dakota, but states likeVirginia, Georgia, Michigan, New Jersey, Massachusetts and so on.What will this cost?It's kind of hard to know the real answer, but if you're trying to put the math together, be sure to factor in the free health care.

It doesn'ttake an economist to know that giving free "health care" to11 million new people could easily capsize theU.S. economy. As Milton Friedman once wisely noted, you can have a welfare state or you can have open borders, but you cannot have both. However, we're getting both. We may, in fact, be getting a great deal more than that.

We all assume that 11 million is the real number of illegal aliens in this country, but is it? No, it's not. In fact, it's a totally fake numberwhich people endlessly repeat eitherbecause they are badly informed or dishonest. They've been repeating that number formore than 15 years.

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In 2005, the Pew Research Center announced that "the undocumented population has reached nearly 11 million." The weird thing is that 12 years later, Pew had roughly the same estimate. That should have been a tell that the number itself was fraudulent.

In 2018, the Department of Homeland Security, which exists to track numbers like these, played along with it and put the number of illegal aliens in the U.S. at somewhere around 12 million. Yeah, right. In April 2019, then-DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen admitted on "Tucker Carlson Tonight" that "we do not know" exactly how many people are living in this country illegally.

So what's going on here? Here's what we found:Pretty much everybody who talks about immigration is using the Census Bureau's annual American Community Survey to estimate how many illegal immigrants live in this country. The Census Bureau tallies up the number of foreign-born people they've identified who live in this country, then estimate or subtract the number of foreign-born people known to be in the U.S. legally. Bingo, 11 million.

The problem is this method of calculation is bound to be wrong. Many illegal immigrants don't respond to census takers. Why would they say they're here illegally? Robert Groves, the former director of the Census Bureau, summed up the reality this way: "There isno magic bullet that anyone has discovered to count this population [illegal immigrants]. This is really very difficult to estimate."

Now, many of the studies projectingthat only 11 million illegal immigrants live here, have, in fact, acknowledged that the census is not perfect. Yet strangely, they assumed that it was pretty close to perfect. Specifically, they operated on the assumption that only about 10%of illegal immigrants weren't being captured by census takers. Put another way, their models assumed that 90%of the people living in this country illegally were willing to cooperate with census takers.

Now, that seems like a ridiculous assumption, but there's a reason. Ann Coulter explains that reason in her book "Adios America," which even now is one of the few serious explorations of this topic. It turns out that researchers have been relying on a 2001studyfunded by the University of California. That survey asked829 people born in Mexico and living in Los Angeleswhether they responded to census interviews. The majority of them said yes.

Here's the amazing thing. Nearly 40%of those households refused to answer the survey at all. In other words, all the assumptions that there are 11 million illegal immigrants in this country are based on a separate assumption: That 90%of illegal immigrants are willing to cooperate with the Census Bureau. That assumption, in turn, is based on a survey showing nearly half of all illegal immigrants refused to fill out the survey. This is bad math at the very least.

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In 2018, researchers at Yale and MIT decided to update the methodology using "operational data" such as deportations, visa overstays, demographic data, death rates, immigration rates, etc. They combined them and used a mathematical model to establish a range of estimates.

How many people live here illegally? Here's what they found: "After running 1,000,000 simulations of the model, the researchers' 95%probability range is 16 million to 29 million,with 22.1 millionas the mean."

In other words, the estimates that we've been relying on for decadescould possibly --in fact, may likely -- be off by more than 18 million people. There could easily be 30 million (or more) illegal immigrants living in this country. That's more people thanlive in the entire state of Texas.

So how would amnesty for that many people affect our "democracy"? In effect, it would end our democracy. People who have lived here all of their lives, paid taxes, followed the rules, been good citizens, would find their votes diluted to the point of irrelevance. (It would mean an instantaneous end to African-American political power, for one thing.) It would also ensure permanent rule by the Democratic Party, which is the point of it.

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By the way, back in 2005, Bear Stearns, one of the most prominent victims of the 2008 financial collapse, estimated the total illegal immigrant population to be as high as 20 million. Here was their top-line finding in that study:

"Our research has identified significant evidence that the census estimates of undocumented immigrants may be capturing as little as half of the total undocumented population. This gross undercounting is a serious accounting issue which could ultimately lead to government policy errors in the future."

"Government policy errors"likegiving amnesty to 11 million who are actually 30 million? Yeah, that could qualify.

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The Bear Stearns study did not rely on census data. Instead, they looked at bank transfers, remittances from the U.S. to Mexico. They wanted to capture the number of payments from illegal aliens living here to their families back home. Here's what they found:

"The rate of increase in remittances far exceeds the increases in Mexicans residing in the U.S. and their wage growth. Between 1995 and 2003, the official tally of Mexicans has climbed 56% and median weekly wage income has increased by 10%. Yet total remittances jumped 199%"

There was no obvious explanation for this disparity, apart from a lot more illegal immigration than the authorities were acknowledging.

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Theresearchers at Bear Stearns looked at other indicators, tooFor example, they analyzed data on school enrollment and housing permit applications for multiple dwellings. In one instance, they found that some towns in New Jersey reported a 5-6% growth in population size. At thesame time, requests for housing permits were increasing by 600%.

"In major immigrant gateway cities," the study found, "the influx of immigrants has led to overcrowded dwellings and a housing boom unexplained by official population growth."

That was all 16 years ago, and in 2021, the party in charge is still assuring us that the number of illegal immigrants in this country has somehow declined by up to 10 million people.How insulting is that to even to float that idea? Consider everything that has happened since 2006: The amnesty for the so-called "Dreamers," the promises of mass amnesty, the endless caravans.

The 11 million number is, above all, a lie; one of the more obvious lies ever told. We're not social scientists, and it took about an hour for us to find this out.

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Joe Biden knows this. In the summer of 2019, he more or less admitted the point of amnesty: To import as many new Democratic voters as possible.

BIDEN: We could afford to take, in a heartbeat, another two million people. The idea that a country of 330 million people cannot absorb people who are in desperate need and who are justifiably fleeing oppression is absolutely bizarre, absolutely bizarre. I would also move to increase the total number of immigrants able to come to the United States.

Of course, they won'ttell you the total number. They want you to believe it's 11 million, always and forever. By the time you figure out they're lying to you, it'll be too late to do anything about it, obviously.

This article is adapted from Tucker Carlson's opening commentary on the Feb. 24, 2021 edition of "Tucker Carlson Tonight."

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Days after President Biden took office, the Bureau of Land Management put a scenic landscape of a winding river at the top of its website, which during the previous administration had featured a photograph of a huge wall of coal.

At the Department of Homeland Security, the phrase illegal alien is being replaced with noncitizen. The Interior Department now makes sure that mentions of its stakeholders include Tribal people (with a capital T as preferred by Native Americans, it said). The most unpopular two words in the Trump lexicon climate change are once again appearing on government websites and in documents; officials at the Environmental Protection Agency have even begun using the hashtag #climatecrisis on Twitter.

And across the government, L.G.B.T.Q. references are popping up everywhere. Visitors to the White House website are now asked whether they want to provide their pronouns when they fill out a contact form: she/her, he/him or they/them.

It is all part of a concerted effort by the Biden administration to rebrand the government after four years of President Donald J. Trump, in part by stripping away the language and imagery that represented his anti-immigration, anti-science and anti-gay rights policies and replacing them with words and pictures that are more inclusive and better match the current presidents sensibilities.

Biden is trying to reclaim the vision of America that was there during the Obama administration, a vision that was much more diverse, much more religiously tolerant, much more tolerant of different kinds of gender dispositions and gender presentations, said Norma Mendoza-Denton, a professor of anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and an author of Language in the Trump Era: Scandals and Emergencies.

Ms. Mendoza-Denton said Mr. Trump sought to remake reality through language during a tumultuous tenure.

Now, officials in Mr. Bidens administration are using Mr. Trumps own tactics to erase the words his predecessor used and return to ones that had been banished.

The president has been clear to all of us words matter, tone matters and civility matters, said Jen Psaki, the White House press secretary. And bringing the country together, getting back our seat at the global table means turning the page from the actions but also the divisive and far too often xenophobic language of the last administration.

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A healthcare worker receives a dose of the Moderna vaccine in San Diego, Calif., December 22, 2020.(Bing Guan/Reuters)

President Biden said Friday that illegal immigrants in the U.S. should be able to receive the COVID-19 vaccine without fear of being targeted by U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

I want to make sure they are able to get vaccinated and so theyre protected from COVID without the ICE or anyone interfering, Biden said in an interview with Univision during a visit to a vaccination site in Texas. They should . . . not be arrested for showing for being able to get a vaccination.

The Department of Homeland Security announced earlier this month that ICE would not conduct enforcement activities at or near vaccination sites.

It is a moral and public health imperative to ensure that all individuals residing in the United States have access to the vaccine, the agency said in a statement then. DHS is committed to ensuring that every individual who needs a vaccine can get one, regardless of their immigration status.

The Biden administration has focused on creating equity in its vaccine distribution plans, working to target underserved communities as well as illegal immigrants.

We do feel, as an administration, that ensuring that all people in the United States, undocumented immigrants as well, of course, should receive access to a vaccine because that one is morally right but also ensures that people in the country are also safe, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said last month.

Republican lawmakers in January sought to add a stipulation to Bidens $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief plan that would havemoved undocumented immigrants to the back of the line for vaccinations.

No vaccines for illegal immigrants jumping to the head of the line to get vaccines, Representative Jeff Duncan (R., S.C.), the amendments sponsor, said when introducing the amendment. Theyve done it once, by jumping to the head of the line to enter this country, and theyll do it again.

However, Democrats have argued that illegal immigrants hold jobs as essential workers across the country and withholding the shots from a swath of public-facing workers would not help slow the spread of the virus.

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