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The problems most visibly associated with mass immigration in the West, legal and illegal, can be addressed at their root if governments choose to act forcefully against them. Paris, which will host the Olympics in the summer of 2024, is now facing that situation head-on. Paris is now beginning a drive to push migrants out of the city ahead of the Olympics. The steps that the city and the French government are taking prior to the games show that states can deal with illegal immigration if they just choose to make it a priority or, more often, if their hand is finallyforced.

Paris is certainly in need of this action. The French capital is possibly the capital city in Europe worst impacted by mass illegal immigration. Many suburbs of Paris have become what the French police euphemistically call Zones Urbaines Sensibles (Sensitive Urban Zones), as migrant and migrant-descended gangs have made sections of the city into strongholds of crime and even terrorism. The French authorities even provide publicly available maps so that people can avoid these zones. Tourists rarely venture there. However, it is the impact mass immigration has on the favored spots for tourists, who will soon descend on Paris for the Olympics that has sparkedaction.

Tourist sites in Paris are now frequently haunted by often aggressive illegal alien vendors, mostly from Africa. These vendors have a reputation for physically harassing and abusing tourists who try to ignore their demands to buy overpriced and often unsafe souvenirs. The infamous friendship bracelet scammers, a gang of illegal African migrants who physically pounce on tourists at the Sacre-Coeur church, are among the most notorious and threatening, and tourist review websites of the Sacre-Coeur often mention the migrants and the levels of aggression they use. There have also been physical attacks on tourists and even rapes by migrants at the Eiffel Tower. The tower itself has been surrounded by a security wall as a precaution against terrorism, something else that mass migration has made an everyday threat inParis.

The city authorities are clearly worried. On the one hand, Paris has declared itself a sanctuary city that is reluctant to do anything about illegal migrants who commit crimes and illegally camp in the streets of the city of lights. On the other hand, it is rightfully concerned that visitors to the Olympics will notice these problems and never come back or discourage others. Olympic host cities often experience a post-Olympic tourist boom, and Paris hopes this will be the case for them, but negative experiences linked to migrants may impede that. Nobody likes to be physically manhandled or worry if they will be raped at a famous landmark, and the sight of large illegal encampments worthy of a Third-World shantytown is hardly a romantic memory. For the duration of the Olympics, the migrants will be moved on, but towns outside of Paris will be the places they end up in. The locals in these towns are unsurprisinglyupset.

The shifting of illegal aliens out of Paris for a few weeks will be a welcome respite for Parisians and tourists alike, but they most likely return once the Olympics are finished, and the social problems like crime, terrorism and public health concerns will return with them. The Potemkin strategy of temporarily moving migrants away to fool tourists into thinking Paris has no problem with illegal immigration is not a solution. France, like all advanced countries, must decide whether it is willing to continue this slide downwards, or whether it wishes to act decisively and reverse it forgood.

Many American cities now face the same problems, as New York, Chicago, and Denver among other places have all struggled with illegal migrant camps and the problems that surround uncontrolled illegal immigration. Whether it be the streets of Paris or the streets of the U.S., illegal immigration is a serious issue. Temporary solutions like moving migrants out of the way until they return, are not enough. More permanent solutions to secure our borders are needed. Citizens must demand that this be actedupon.

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I need you badly, Mr. Biden told Hispanic voters last month at Phoenix. Given the opportunity to reach them, he showed the Univision anchor, Enrique Acevedo, a bust of farm union organizer Cesar Chavez. The president discussed the impact of his activism and noted that his granddaughter, Julie Chavez Rodriguez, is his reelection campaign manager.

Mr. Biden told Univision he sympathized with those entering America because they have no alternatives. Chavez, a third-generation American and Navy veteran, took a harder line on those who broke the law one that demonstrates the folly of painting the entire Latino voting block as backing unlimited migration.

In an excerpt of a 1974 interview unearthed by Fish Films Footage World, Chavez explained his opposition to unvetted people entering the country. His reasoning echoed another famed labor leader, Samuel Gompers, who was one of the loudest voices for The Immigration Act of 1924 which capped entry at two percent of each foreign countrys population.

Illegal border crossers, Chavez said, were an emergency with an awful lot of illegals coming in by the hundreds, by the thousands. He lamented that some of the schools are 100 percent illegals, and the citizen is out of a job because of he wetback, a slur now considered offensive.

As Mr. Trump does today, Chavez blamed the federal government for the unbelievable influx that, he reckoned, harmed unions and depressed wages. Was it an uncomfortable position to be against the illegal immigrants because they are from Mexico, the unidentified interviewer asked.

Oh, yeah, sure, Chavez replied. But were speaking of the legal ones. You know, we dont want Mexico to export its poverty to us, and then we pay. He noted that a lot of the farmworkers he represented were of Mexican descent themselves.

Those members of the United Farm Workers, Chavez said, were very uptight and very, very worried and very mad about the illegals coming to break their strikes and take away their jobs, their livelihood and so forth. Members, like their leader, saw this question of illegals is as important as any of the other problems facing the union.

In a letter to the San Francisco Examiner in 1974, Chavez opposed deporting the undocumented, but welcomed them to be admitted as legal residents. But around this time, he launched the Illegals Campaign, spending $80,000 a week on 300 people to patrol the border. Accounts found some of the vigilantes beating and robbing migrants despite Chavezs embrace of nonviolence.

Last week, an Axios-Ipsos Latino Poll found that numbers of Hispanic voters are as nuanced as Chavezs. Some 64 percent supported giving a president the authority to shut down the border if there are too many migrants trying to enter. Asked which candidate is good on immigration, Mr. Trump led Mr. Biden 29 to 22 percent.

Forty-two percent backed Mr. Trumps signature issue, a barrier with Mexico, while 38 percent would send all undocumented immigrants back home. Overall, Mr. Biden was viewed more favorably, 41 to 32 percent, but the pathway to expanding that lead isnt a straight run through an open border policy.

Last months New York Times/Siena College poll found that Hispanic voters favor Mr. Trump over Mr. Biden 46 percent to 40 percent. Its a stark change from 2020, when the Democrat more than doubled the then-incumbent Republicans share, 66 percent to 32 percent.

The reversal has shocked the White House. It assumed that Mr. Trumps hard line against illegal immigration would make him radioactive to Americans of Hispanic descent, as if the same issues crime, housing, and competition for jobs dont impact them as they do other citizens.

Mr. Biden has won the endorsement of Chavezs family, but on the issue of illegal crossings, Mr. Trump can lay claim to a portion of the labor leaders legacy, too. Dont be surprised if his bust keeps its place of honor in the Oval Office whoever is in the Oval Office next year.

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During a speech in Green Bay, Wisconsin, former President Donald Trump pointed to a chart on apprehensions of people trying to enter the U.S. illegally at the southwest border.

See the arrow on the bottom? That was my last week in office, Trump said. That was the lowest number in history. But Trump was wrong on both points.

In fact, the arrow is pointing to apprehensions in April 2020, when apprehensions plummeted during the height of the pandemic. In his last months in office, apprehensions had more than quadrupled from that pandemic low and were higher than the month he took office.

Also, April 2020 was not the lowest point in history. The lowest since 2000 came in April 2017, shortly after Trump took office and before an ensuing spike.

As we have written, apprehensions at the southwest border, were 14.7% higher in Trumps final year in office compared with the last full year before he was sworn in.

During his speech in Green Bay on April 2, Trump claimed to have fixed the border when he was president.

When I came in, I built 571 miles of wall, we had 200 miles sitting there waiting to be erected, far more than I said I was going to build, Trump said.

Actually, a total of 458 miles of border wall system was built during the Trump administration, according to a Customs and Border Protection status report on Jan. 22, 2021. Most of that, 373 miles of it, was replacement for primary or secondary fencing that was dilapidated or outdated. In addition, 52 miles of new primary wall and 33 miles of secondary wall were built in locations where there were no barriers before. Including barriers that existed before Trump took office, there are now about 706 miles of barriers, covering about 36% of the total southwest border. That is far less than the 1,000-mile-long wall that Trump promised during the 2016 campaign.

Trump then had campaign aides put up a chart showing monthly border apprehensions going back to 2012. You can see the chart in the background of the C-SPAN video, but here it is:

See that low spot, Trump said, pointing to the red arrow at the bottom of the chart. This is illegal migrants coming into our country. See the arrow on the bottom? That was my last week in office. That was the lowest number in history.

Had President Joe Biden just left everything alone, he might have gone down as a decent president, at least on the border, Trump said. But on the border, look at that number, that number is so much lower than anything else. And then look at the right of that number. Thats what happened after I left.It was an invasion of our country.

Its an amazing chart actually, Trump said. Its a Border Patrol chart. But look at that low number, got it down to practically nothing.

Trump repeated the claim in an April 4 interview with Hugh Hewitt, saying, We had the safest border in history, and you saw that chart that was released a couple days ago where literally the day I left office, we had the lowest number in history.

The data in the chart itself are accurate, but the Trump campaign editorial notes are not.

The red arrow at the bottom purports to correspond to the point that Trump leaves office and to be the lowest illegal immigration in recorded history! But the arrow actually points to April 2020, when there were 16,182 apprehensions at the southwest border.

April 2020 was the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Throughout that month, the U.S. was under Trump administration guidelines recommending people stay at home and away from one another to slow the spread of the disease.

Any complete reading of what took place at the U.S.-Mexico border in 2020 would have to note the emergence of a global pandemic that dramatically chilled mobility of all forms in its early phase, Michelle Mittelstadt, director of communications for the Migration Policy Institute, told us via email. That is not a factor listed on the chart below, best I can tell.

The pandemic was responsible for a near-complete halt to all forms of global mobility in 2020, due to a combination of border restrictions imposed by countries around the world (we recorded more than 43,000 travel measures taken by countries between January and May 2020 alone, lockdowns, and the shutdown of aviation and other transportation routes), Mittelstadt said.

As the chart shows, after apprehensions reached a pandemic low in April 2020, they rose every month after that. By the actual end of Trumps presidency, apprehensions of immigrants attempting to cross illegally had risen to 71,141 in December 2020 and to 75,316 in January 2021, Trumps last month in office.

In recent speeches, Trump has claimed he fixed the border so completely during his presidency, that it was no longer a campaign issue in 2020.

I was saying the other day that in 2016, one of the biggest issues was the border, Trump said during a speech in Ohio on March 16. And I sort of won on the border, I guess, maybe. And we fixed the border. We fixed it so good that I couldnt even use it in 2020, even though we got millions and millions more votes in 2020, but we couldnt even talk about it. Id say, I want to talk about the border. Tell them what a good job. They said, Sir, you fixed it. Nobody cares.

In reality, apprehensions at the border in Trumps final two months in office were substantially higher than in President Barack Obamas last two months in office. (Apprehensions were 43,251 in December 2016 and 31,576 in January 2017, the last two months of the Obama presidency, compared with 71,141 and 75,316 in Trumps last two months.) Indeed, there were more than 69,000 apprehensions in each of the last four months of the Trump administration, from October 2020 through January 2021. But the highest number of apprehensions under Obama was 67,342 in March 2009.

And as we wrote in Trumps Final Numbers, illegal border crossings, as measured by apprehensions at the southwest border, were 14.7% higher in Trumps final year in office compared with the last full year of Obamas term.

Given that, had Obama fixed the border? Not according to Donald Trump in 2016. Then, he repeatedly called the border broken and made fixing it his primary campaign promise.

We have described the roller-coaster of illegal immigration during Trumps time in office. The number of apprehensions fluctuated wildly from a monthly low of 11,127 in April 2017 shortly after he took office to a high of 132,856 in May 2019.

The number of apprehensions peaked for Trump in mid-2019, and the year ended with the highest number of apprehensions since Fiscal Year 2007. In response to rising levels of apprehensions, Trump issued several policies to reduce immigration flows, including measures to restrict eligibility for asylum and return non-Mexican asylum seekers who cross the southwest border to Mexico while their claims work their way through immigration courts (the so-called Remain in Mexico program). Correspondingly, apprehensions dropped steadily through the second half of 2019 and into 2020.

And then, when the pandemic hit, apprehensions dropped even more dramatically in April and May 2020. In response to the pandemic, Trump put into place a series of policies aimed at blocking migration to the U.S., including one that allowed Border Patrol agents to quickly expel any illegal immigrants they stopped, without allowing them access to the asylum process. Nonetheless, apprehensions increased throughout the second half of 2020.

To be sure, illegal immigration soared after Biden took office, as the chart shows even without cherry-picking the pandemic low. According to our latest update to Bidens Numbers in late January, apprehensions for the 12 months ending in November were 296% higher than during Trumps last year in office.

We discussed some of the reasons for that dramatic increase, including not only high levels of migration around the world due to political and economic turmoil in other countries, but also the perception that Biden was more welcoming of migrants.

But illegal immigration was not down to practically nothing in the weeks or months before Trump left office. It was down to nearly nothing during the stay-at-home phase of the pandemic.

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Rep. Bruck: Whitmer admins dangerous policy offers housing subsidies to illegal immigrants

State Rep. Will Bruck today sounded the alarm about a dangerous policy put in place by the governor that is exacerbating the problems created by failing federal immigration policies.

The Newcomer Rental Subsidy Program offers benefits to people who enter the country illegally but later claim asylum after facing deportation. Various immigrant households can receive up to $500 a month in rental assistance for 12 months under the program. The criteria even allow individuals with a pending asylum application to receive support, including people who came into the United States illegally and then filed a defensive asylum application as a tactic in removal proceedings. Defensive claims comprised 97% of total asylum claims filed in fiscal year 2023, according to data from the U.S. Department of Justice.

Supporting illegal aliens with taxpayer dollars sends the wrong message that breaking the law is rewarded, said Bruck, R-Erie. Every dollar spent to incentivize illegal immigration is a disservice to those who immigrate lawfully and contribute to the prosperity of our state and our nation. Our tax dollars should be invested in opportunities that strengthen our communities, not programs that enable misuse of the system.

Last week, House Republicans sent a letter requesting data about benefit recipients, including how many defensive asylum seekers have received assistance. The letter also raised concerns about loopholes in the employment criteria that allow recipients to avoid the work requirements. Additionally, loopholes in the income criteria offer benefits to individuals earning more than the income caps if they reside in certain qualified census tracts, and applicants can avoid providing proof of income if theyre receiving cash payments, something that seems geared toward accommodating under-the-table work.

Identity verification requirements also contain concerning loopholes. An applicant must provide some form of photo ID, but the options include an alternate identification document and any government-issued identification document, even as some local governments, such as Kalamazoo County, issue IDs for illegal immigrants.

Bruck said bad actors with a pending asylum application could exploit the sweeping criteria in the subsidy program and divert funds from people in need, including refugees and other immigrants who came to the United States the right way.

Offering taxpayer-funded housing to those who exploit asylum laws undermines the integrity of our immigration system, disregarding the hardships faced by both law-abiding citizens and legitimate refugees who follow the proper immigration process, Bruck said.

Bruck said Whitmers program is contributing to the border security crisis perpetuated by the Biden administration. The crisis has reared its head in Michigan with two murders committed by illegal aliens in Kent County in the last year, including a brutal killing last month, and three illegal immigrants arrested in Shiawassee County this year for soliciting sex with minors.

The Newcomer Rental Subsidy program is administered by Whitmers Office of Global Michigan and the Michigan State Housing Development Authority. The agencies are using funds from the Housing and Community Development Fund (HCDF), which supports a variety of state housing programs. Last year, Democrats passed a controversial tax law along nearly party lines that will automatically deposit $50 million in tax revenues into the HCDF every year going forward.

After receiving the letter from House Republicans last week, Office of Global Michigan Director Poppy Sias-Hernandez replied that the office would provide answers by close of business on Monday, but lawmakers still have not received the promised response.

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By Joe Guzzardi Syndicated columnist

Weaponized immigration has come to America and is bringing low-skilled illegal aliens to the labor market. Since July 2018, the economy has created zero jobs for American-born workers.

Kelly Greenhill, a senior research scholar at MIT Center for International Studies and author of Weapons of Mass Migration: Forced Displacement, Coercion and Foreign Policy, wrote in her analysis that the U.S. has been a frequent weaponized immigration target dating back as long ago as President Dwight Eisenhowers administration and through George W. Bushs eight years in the early 21st century. Greenhill blamed Western governments Europe is also a migrant warfare target that dont understand how engineering the movement of foreign nationals across international borders exploits political divisions within the targeted countries. Unless policymakers confront the forces that enable weaponized migration it is unlikely to go away anytime soon, she concluded.

Since 1951, Greenhill has identified 81 worldwide cases, all of which achieved their weaponized immigration objectives. The targeted countries were disproportionately liberal democracies whose lax attitudes toward the threat determined the degree of success the subversive mission achieved. The Biden administration is a perfect fit for nations that want to implement weaponized migration to undermine the sovereign U.S. Not only has Biden demonstrated enthusiasm for the open border policy that he created and encouraged, but his administration has also promoted, at every turn, globalism at the expense of nationalism.

Nicaragua is a major weaponized immigration enabler. Motivated by his deep hatred of the U.S., President Daniel Ortega loosened visa requirements for Cubans in 2021, and then expanded his list to include Haiti, other Latin American countries and eventually several Asian and African nations that include Indians, Uzbekistanis, and nationals from Mauritania and Senegal. Travelers going through Nicaragua avoided the dangerous trek through the Darien Gap, and Ortega could not only subvert America, but he could also make big money at the same time. Nicaragua hired a private company to organize contracts with charter flight companies across Asia, Europe, and Africa. The flights pay landing fees, and travelers are assessed airport taxes that range from $100 to $200 per person. Transporting migrants from their home countries to Nicaragua is a multimillion-dollar business.

With weaponized migrants arriving at the U.S. border faster than officials could detain them, the Department of Homeland Security decided to process them into the U.S. rather than deport them. The strategy culminated in the May 2023 The Circumvention of Lawful Pathways Final Rule. The title summarizes the objective: for illegal immigrants, DHS created, without congressional approval, an entirely new set of administratively sanctioned methods of being processed into the U.S. DHS moved to expand safe and orderly pathways for migrants to lawfully enter the United States. Included are establishing country-specific and other available processes to seek parole for urgent humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit; expanding opportunities to enter for seasonal employment; putting in place a mechanism for migrants to schedule a time and place to arrive in a safe, orderly, and lawful manner at ports of entry via use of the CBP-One mobile app; and expanding refugee processing in the Western Hemisphere.

An earlier DHS document, the Los Angeles Declaration of Migration and Protection, which 21 countries endorsed in June 2022, resulted in the U.S. committing to resettle 20,000 so-called refugees from Central America during fiscal 2023 and 2024. In fiscal 2022, the federal government issued more than 19,000 H-2B visas to Guatemalans, Hondurans and Salvadorans, a 94% increase from the previous fiscal year. Not surprisingly the 21 endorsing countries were overwhelmingly potential migrant sending countries: Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Haiti, Honduras and other economically failing nations.

As part of making their case to impeach DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, the House Committee on Homeland Securitys Republicans identified more than a dozen parole programs which, they argue, Mayorkas illegally created to circumvent congressionally established immigration laws. Texas, Florida, and other states have sued over many of DHS programs that have allowed illegal border crossers to remain in the U.S., concurring with the committees chairman, U.S. Rep. Mark Green, R-Tenn., who led the impeachment charge.

Always a long shot in the Senate, the House has not yet sent impeachment articles to the upper chamber. Even though the Senate outcome is predetermined, enforcement-minded, patriotic Americans will be denied the cold comfort of a Mayorkas impeachment trial. Worse, the consequences of his brazen disregard for enforcement and protecting the homeland will continue to play out until January 2025, or until Mayorkas DHS releases about two million more illegal aliens into the interior, bringing the total to well over 10 million during his term as secretary.

Joe Guzzardi is an Institute for Sound Public Policy analyst who has been writing about immigration for more than 30 years.

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