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President Joe Biden claims he needs new legislation to secure our borders. Hes claimed he lacks the authority to address the surge weve seen since he took office. This is false. President Biden has the same tools President Trump did when President Trump brought illegal border crossings to a 45-year low. In reality, Bidens own policy decisions created the catastrophe at our southern border. His policies have enabled mass migration of illegal immigrants. The Biden administration is abusing the parole and asylum process, which encourages people to come here illegally.

Under the Immigration and Nationality Act, the president has the authority to parole foreigners into this country. Parole is supposed to only be granted on a case-by-case basis for urgent humanitarian need or significant public benefit. President Obama and President Trump paroled an average of 5,600 people per year. Yet the Biden administration has abused parole to let 1.2 million foreign nationals into this country last year. Thats not a case-by-case basis. Thats a policy choice to admit entire classes of people. This clear abuse of authority must stop.

The Biden administration has also abused the asylum system. Since October 2022, the Biden Administration has promoted the use of an expanded CBP One cell phone app for asylum seekers. Through the expanded app, foreign nationals from Cuba, Venezuela, Haiti, or Nicaragua can request permission to fly to the United States while they wait for an asylum hearing. They also request temporary humanitarian release inside our country. This includes foreign nationals who would otherwise be ineligible for admission. Once approved by CBP, they are allowed to board flights to one of 43 U.S. airports. There, they are inspected and released into our country on parole. This parole allows for two-year periods of legal status, during which they are eligible for work authorization.

The Center for Immigration Studies released a report showing that 320,000 foreign nationals landed at the 43 U.S. airports last year. Thats more than the population of Lincoln, Nebraska. Venezuelans are the largest group, representing 79,990 of the 320,000 people. This use of the CBP One app circumvents our normal legal immigration process. This is unacceptable.

Nebraskans have legitimate questions in response to this report. Which airports are included in the 43 airports receiving illegal immigrants? How many illegal immigrants are arriving in Nebraska? The Biden administration refuses to give Nebraskans the answers they deserve.

President Bidens failed policies have created the national security, humanitarian, and drug catastrophe were seeing. Under President Biden, every state is now a border state. Every town is a border town. Instead of changing course, his policies continue to make the problem worse. President Biden doesnt need new laws. His policies are the problem. Congress must act if he will not reverse course. Thats why Im fighting to pass legislation to force him to do his job.

I introduced the Ensure Uniform Border Inspection Practices Act to improve enforcement at our border. I support a comprehensive package of solutions to secure the border. This includes reinstating the Remain in Mexico policy, building the border wall, and ending asylum loopholes. Im supporting legislation to hire more Border Patrol agents. Im backing bills to bring accountability to drug cartels and bring accountability to the sanctuary cities that enable more illegal immigration. Im also working to end catch and release and stop President Bidens abuse of parole.

I will continue to work with my colleagues on new ways to reverse President Bidens open borders policies. I wont stop until our border is secured and Bidens abuse of parole is ended.

My team and I are here to serve you. Contact us anytime by phone at 202-224-4224 or on my website at http://www.ricketts.senate.gov/contact.

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Former Senate President Chuck Morse (R-Salem) and former U.S. Senator Kelly Ayotte at a Manchester fundraiser in 2021.

Chuck Morse is warning Republican primary voters about Amnesty Ayotte and the former U.S. senators record on immigration.

Kelly Ayotte says Morses attack is just to distract from the fact the former state Senate president killed a ban on sanctuary cities in 2022, while Ayotte has never supported amnesty and never will.

Meanwhile, Granite State GOP insiders worry that a divisive primary could put Republican control of the corner office at risk in November, which is shaping up to be a tough environment for the party.

Joyce and Cinde are holding joint press conferences, and Chuck and Kelly are at the convention attacking each other, one GOP insider complained to NHJournal.

Democrats Joyce Craig and Cinde Warmington, both of whom are seeking the governors nomination, participated in a Democratic event together on Thursday, attacking Donald Trump and the GOP over the issue of abortion. Thus far, former Manchester Mayor Craig and Executive Councilor Warmington have largely avoided on-the-record attacks against each other, though they have been shopping opposition research attacks to the press.

The Chuck Morse campaign has created the Amnesty Ayotte website.

Ayotte and Morse, however, have taken their fight public.

The Morse campaign has launched an Amnesty Ayotte website, claiming the former senator talks like a conservative but votes like a liberal. In particular, Morse is pointing out Ayottes support for comprehensive immigration legislation in 2013 that included a path to citizenshipcommonly referred to as amnestyfor millions of illegal aliens.

And the Ayotte campaign has released a Chuck Morse: Not Ready for Prime Time YouTube video featuring audio of Morse on Drew Clines WFEA radio show. Cline asked Morse about a sanctuary city ban that passed the House and came before the state Senate in 2022 when he was still Senate president. Morse dismissed the bill as not ready for prime time.

A bill banning sanctuary cities is currently in the process of being passed by the state Senate over unified Democratic opposition.

Granite State Republicans were reluctant to talk to NHJournal on the record about the two campaigns going negative on immigration. But on background, there was a clear division of opinions. Some argued that campaigns involve conflict and its inevitable that the two candidates will tussle. Others bemoaned the attacks, saying they amp up pre-existing fears that, with Trump at the top of the ticket, November is already going to be tough for the New Hampshire GOP. Negative campaigning makes holding onto the governors office even harder.

That divide was on stark display Saturday when Morse and Ayotte addressed the GOPs biennial convention in Concord. Morse used his time to call out Ayottes record on amnesty, and his campaign handed out baseball-card-style campaign literature with the name of an illegal immigrant convicted of a stabbing death committed after Ayottes vote for the comprehensive immigration deal.

Some Republican attendees were less than thrilled.

The chairman [Chris Ager] delivers a message about working together and beating Democrats, and then Chuck goes on stage and attacks Kelly, one attendee told NHJournal. It didnt go over very well.

John Corbett, spokesperson for the Ayotte campaign, agreed.

On a day when Gov. Sununu and Chairman Ager called for a united front against the Democrats, Chuck Morse selfishly decided that he would launch false and desperate attacks against Kelly Ayotte. Just like his campaign, these lies fell flat. Unlike Chuck, Kelly is focused on winning up and down the ticket in November so that we can keep our great state safe, prosperous, and free.

But a Morse supporter who was in the crowd told NHJournal, Chuck did great!

Several legislators in the Trump wing of the party told NHJournal they appreciated Morses willingness to fight, particularly on the immigration issue. A lot of us remember 2016 and why she lost then, one state representative said, referring to third-party and independent candidates who appealed to disgruntled Republicans unhappy with Ayottes handling of abortion and the Trump candidacy.

The Morse campaign is showing no signs of backing down.

Putting aside for a moment that Kelly Ayotte took a shot at Chuck Morse with her disingenuous video the night before, if she cant take a 100 percent fact-based argument about her abysmal record in Washington, then how is she going to hold up against the tactics of New Hampshires Democrat Party? asked Morse campaign manager Maya Harvey. While Kelly has been focused on her career advancement, Chuck has helping electing down ballot Republicans for decades.

Still, say Ayotte supporters, shes leading in fundraising, and they believe she has the broad-based appeal in the party to win the nomination.

And theres a potential upside for the GOP: Fighting over getting tough on immigration enforcement keeps a winning issue for Republicans front and center for the votersvoters who overwhelmingly trust Trump and Republicans on the issue more than Democrats. It also highlights the stance of Craig and Warmington, who both oppose a ban on sanctuary cities in New Hampshire.

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Tennessee Governor Bill Lee has signed a bill requiring law enforcement agencies to communicate with federal immigration authorities if they discover people are in the the country illegally. The measure takes effect July 1st. Proponents argue that Tennessee law enforcement should assist more in immigration enforcement, immigrant advocates warned that the bill is broad and confusing and could embolden rogue officers to target immigrant families. A legislative fiscal analysis of the bill says most, if not all, law enforcement agencies already communicate with the federal government regarding an individuals immigration status, citing information from the Tennessee police and sheriffs associations.

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House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., speaks as former President Donald Trump listens during a news conference Friday at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla. Wilfredo Lee/AP hide caption

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., speaks as former President Donald Trump listens during a news conference Friday at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla.

Former President Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., appeared together Friday to tout legislation aimed at stopping something that is already illegal in America: noncitizens voting in federal elections.

Johnson gave a broad overview of a bill House Republicans will soon introduce that would implement new citizenship documentation requirements for people to register to vote, which experts have said would make voting harder for many eligible voters like naturalized citizens and young voters.

"We cannot wait for widespread fraud to occur," he said at a news conference at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort. "Especially when the threat of fraud is growing with every single illegal immigrant that crosses that [southern U.S.] border."

The myth that immigrants are exerting undue influence on American elections has been floating around U.S. politics for more than 100 years.

Individual states began banning noncitizens from voting more than a century ago, and Congress passed a law in 1996 that explicitly banned the practice in all federal elections.

Numerous studies have also confirmed that it almost never happens, but as more conservative voters say immigration is a key issue for them, it's become clearer that election misinformation in 2024 will center on the topic as well.

Last month, NPR acquired a two-page memo being circulated by conservative attorney Cleta Mitchell, a former adviser to Trump, that pushed a number of false narratives around noncitizens voting. The document focused mostly on the implementation of a 1993 law that made registering to vote easier, and Johnson mentioned the law in his remarks Friday as well.

They both have also pushed the unfounded idea that the Biden administration is allowing migrants to cross the southern border for political gain.

"We believe one of the reasons for this open border ... is because they want to turn these people into voters," Johnson said, without providing any evidence.

Election officials verify citizenship in different ways in different states, but federal law requires voters to provide a unique identification number when they register to vote and because that is usually either a driver's license or Social Security number, election officials can usually work with those agencies to verify citizenship status.

"Most applicants use their [driver's license] to register," Tammy Patrick, a former local election official in Arizona who is now the CEO of the nonprofit Election Center, wrote in an email. "This number often serves as the validation of citizenship since most DMVs retain citizenship status in their databases."

Experts say introducing legislation, however, is a way for lawmakers to indicate to voters this issue is something to be concerned about, even as there's never been evidence to support the idea noncitizens are voting at anything other than miniscule numbers.

Since 2020, nine states have enacted new laws aiming to identify and remove noncitizens from their voter rolls, and legislation is currently active in 16 states, according to the Voting Rights Lab.

"Perception is 9/10 of reality," Ron Hayduk, an expert on noncitizen voting at San Francisco State University, said in an interview with NPR earlier this year. "Putting the solution on the table suggests there was a problem. And I think that's part of the point. [These laws] create a solution to a problem that doesn't exist."

Georgia's Republican secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, had his office perform a citizenship audit in 2022 that found fewer than 2,000 suspected noncitizens registering to vote in the state over the prior 25 years. None were actually able to cast a ballot.

"Noncitizens are not voting in Georgia," Raffensperger said in a recent interview with NPR, though he did laud Johnson and Trump's remarks Friday.

And a recent study in Arizona (first reported by The Washington Post) found that less than 1% of noncitizens attempt to register to vote, and even in those cases, the vast majority are thought to be mistakes.

Adding confusion to the issue, however, is the fact that a few local jurisdictions have moved to allow noncitizens to vote in local elections. San Francisco, for instance, allows resident noncitizen parents and guardians to vote in school board elections, and some cities in Maryland and Vermont allow noncitizens to vote in municipal elections.

Election officials in those jurisdictions implement practices to make sure those voters don't cast ballots in races they aren't supposed to.

But Hayduk says even in places where noncitizens can legally vote, they often don't. People he's interviewed about their experience in these places don't want to risk their status in the U.S. just to cast a single ballot further proof, in his eyes, that this isn't an actual problem.

"Time and time again in the interviews we did, we heard from immigrants who said they were super excited about this new law to allow them to vote, and it felt like it affirmed their voices. ... But, you know, put themselves at risk? Not worth it," Hayduk said. "So clearly, they're not going to do that for a federal election where there's an explicit law passed in 1996 that would impose very serious felony crimes ... and that would certainly lead to their detention and deportation."

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Homeland Security reported a slight drop in illegal immigrants trying to sneak in across the southern border in March, suggesting the department may have turned a corner in the border chaos thats reigned since the start of the Biden administration.

The numbers are still higher than any month under Presidents Obama or Trump, but compared to the worst days of Mr. Bidens tenure, they are substantially better.

The Border Patrol reported catching 137,480 illegal immigrants in March, compared to nearly 250,000 in December, the worst month on record.

Overall, Customs and Border Protection tallied 246,432 unauthorized entries, including more than 107,000 of those coming at airports and other official border crossings.

Those numbers have surged as migrants take advantage of Mr. Bidens parole programs that allow unauthorized migrants into the U.S. despite lacking a legal visa for entry. The administration says the parole programs have taken pressure off the Border Patrol by shaping the flow of illegal immigrants, channeling them to ports of entry where they can be handled.

CBP Commissioner Troy Miller sounded cautiously optimistic about the overall numbers.

Encounters at our southern border are lower right now, but we remain prepared for changes, continually managing operations to respond to ever-shifting transnational criminal activities and migration patterns, he said.

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