Tag Archives: immigration

Employers Beg For Help: We Need 9 Million Workers

Bloomberg News reports: “I can’t have a conversation with any business owner that doesn’t revolve around the fact that they simply cannot find the skilled workforce they need,” says Jay Timmons, chief executive officer of the National Association of Manufacturers. Some 9 million positions are open across the economy, equal to 1.4 vacancies for every unemployed worker. The worst-affected industries …

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Georgia GOP Bill Allows Arrests Of “Suspected Illegals”

ABC News reports: Georgia House Republicans are backing a bill that would require every eligible police and sheriff’s department to help identify undocumented immigrants, arrest them and detain them for deportation. The House voted 97-74 on Thursday for House Bill 1105 after police accused a Venezuelan man of beating a nursing student to death on the University of Georgia campus. …

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Judge Blocks TX Law Allowing Police To Arrest Migrants

The Texas Tribune reports: A federal judge in Austin on Thursday halted a new state law that would allow Texas police to arrest people suspected of crossing the Texas-Mexico border illegally. The law, Senate Bill 4, was scheduled to take effect Tuesday. U.S. District Judge David Ezra issued a preliminary injunction that will keep it from being enforced while a …

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Haley: Republicans Sacrifice Security To Appease Trump

“First of all, everybody’s tired of a do-nothing Congress. I mean, can they do anything? Because we’ve seen nothing out of Republicans or Democrats. They have an inability to get anything done. The second thing is you can’t have Trump sitting there saying, don’t do anything until the election. We have a completely open border. “America is acting like it’s …

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Fox Host: Republicans Want Border Crisis To Continue Through November So They Can Say “Biden Broke It”

Media Matters has the transcript: STEVE DOOCY (HOST): Because the Republicans are running on it and Joe Biden’s numbers are so underwater on it, the Republicans want this through November so they can say, “Joe Biden broke it.” But then the Democrats, now, if the Republicans don’t go for it, are going to be able to say, “Hey, we had …

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Pro-Trump Border Patrol Union Endorses Border Bill

“The Border Act of 2024 will codify into law authorities that U.S. Border Patrol agents never had in the past. This will allow us to remove single adults expeditiously and without a lengthy judicial review, which historically has required the release of these individuals into the interior of the U.S. “This alone will drop illegal border crossings nationwide and will …

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Senate Releases Long-Awaited Bipartisan Border Bill

NBC News reports: Senators released the long-awaited text of a bipartisan agreement to impose tougher immigration and asylum laws Sunday, as Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer eyes votes on the package this week. The $118 billion package includes a series of provisions aimed at reducing record high crossings at the southern border and tightening an asylum system that has been …

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Lankford Falsely Claims 9/11 Hijackers Were “Illegals”

Breitbart pounces: The Republican who helped draft the Senate’s pending pro-migration border bill, Sen. James Lankford (R-OK), is getting roasted online for a tweet that blamed the 9/11 atrocity on illegal immigrants. “All of the 9/11 attackers were present in the US illegally,” said the February 2 tweet from his office. “We shouldn’t wait until the next horrific terror attack …

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Texas Gov Has Spent $124 Million To Ship Migrants

Austin’s NBC affiliate reports: Texas has spent more than $124 million sending buses of migrants to sanctuary cities, according to records obtained by Nexstar. According to documents Nexstar obtained, Texas has paid $124,603,616.19 to bus more than 100,000 migrants from the state’s border communities to Washington D.C., New York City, Chicago, Philadelphia, Denver and Los Angeles as of Jan. 10. …

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LIVE VIDEO: Johnson Delivers Speech On Border Deal

NewsNation reports: House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-LA, is expected to deliver remarks on a proposed border deal from the House floor. It will be his first floor remarks since he was elected. The proposal is the work of a bipartisan group of Senators, in an effort to reach a compromise that would include changes to border policy and enforcement in …

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Lankford: GOP Hates Border Deal Since It Helps Biden

“It’s definitely not going to let a bunch of people in. It’s focused on actually turning people around on it. It is interesting, Republicans four months ago would not give funding for Ukraine, for Israel and for our southern border because we demanded changes in policy. “So we actually locked arms together and said, ‘We’re not going to give you …

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Abbott: I’m Going To Keep Adding More Razor Wire

Bloomberg News reports: Texas Governor Greg Abbott vowed to add more razor wire along the border with Mexico to crack down on illegal immigration, saying the state has the constitutional right to defend itself and accusing President Joe Biden of not doing enough to enforce the law. “We are adding more razor wire as we speak right now to make …

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Dem Rep: Biden Should Nationalize TX National Guard

The San Antonio Current reports: U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-San Antonio, called on the Biden administration to nationalize the Texas National Guard if Gov. Greg Abbott won’t follow a Monday U.S. Supreme Court ruling that lets federal agents cut razor wire the state installed to deter border crossings. “Governor Abbott is using the Texas National Guard to obstruct and create …

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Texas Gov Declares Feds Have “Broken The Compact” With States On “Constitutional Right To Self-Defense”

Via press release from Texas Gov. Greg Abbott: The federal government has broken the compact between the United States and the States. The Executive Branch of the United States has a constitutional duty to enforce federal laws protecting States, including immigration laws on the books right now. President Biden has refused to enforce those laws and has even violated them. …

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Abbott Blasts Razor Wire Ruling: “This Is Not Over”

The Messenger reports: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, R, on Monday responded to the Supreme Court ruling the federal government had the authority to remove razor wire installed by the state at the southern border, saying “This is not over.” “I will continue to defend Texas’ constitutional authority to secure the border and prevent the Biden Admin from destroying our property,” …

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Texas Defies Federal Order On Border Patrol Access

NBC News reports: Texas is refusing to comply with a cease-and-desist letter from the Biden administration over actions by the state that have impeded U.S. Border Patrol agents from accessing part of the border with Mexico. In a letter to the Department of Homeland Security, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton rejected the Biden administration’s request for the state to “cease …

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GOP Rep Claims “Illegals Coming Across The Border” Get “A Cardboard Number” Registering Them To Vote

“I will tell you. You know why that’s important? Y’all know these illegals coming across the border? I have been there twice. You know when they’re doing? They get a cardboard with a number. What they are doing is registering to vote. You have to win by a big enough margin that you can counteract all the illegals.” – GOP …

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Texas State Troopers “Physically Barred” Border Patrol Agents Trying To Rescue Drowning Migrant Children

The Texas Tribune reports: A woman and two children drowned trying to cross the Rio Grande, near the Eagle Pass park that Texas troopers have taken control over, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Customs and Border Protection confirmed on Saturday. State officers and National Guard members have been denying federal Border Patrol agents entry to the 47-acre …

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Texas Gov: We’d Shoot People Crossing The Border But Then The Biden Admin Would “Charge Us With Murder”

The Houston Chronicle reports: Gov. Greg Abbott says Texas is doing everything to stop border crossings short of shooting migrants because the Biden administration would “charge us with murder.” “We are deploying every tool and strategy that we possibly can,” the governor said in an interview with conservative commentator Dana Loesch. “The only thing that we’re not doing is we’re …

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Texas Gov Dumps 400 Migrants On NYC Suburbs

Via press release from the New Jersey city of Secaucus: Yesterday morning the Secaucus Police Department and town officials received word from the Hudson County Executives’ Office that several buses transporting migrants in route for New York had arrived at the train station at Secaucus Junction. The first bus arrived the morning of December 30th. From what we understand after …

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