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Things are pretty dire in the illegal alien sanctuary Bay State. AsFAIRs 2023 report showed, 393,000 illegal aliens and their U.S.-born children live in Massachusetts, costing taxpayers $2.9 billion annually for health care, education, criminal justice, and general welfare. That does not account for an additional $850 million the Massachusetts Legislature is considering to cover unexpected and mounting expenses. Nor does it account for the recent addition of 4,000 indigent migrants living in overflowing state shelters. More are arriving each day, forcing a statewide scramble to locate additional safety-net sites. There are other costs as well, such as the introduction ofwaitlists for families at homelessshelters.

Its no surprise then that Governor Maura Healey decided it was high time for some clever public relations and crafty damage control in order to placate increasinglyirate voters, for whom immigration has risen to the top of their concerns (reflecting national trends). In a June 25, 2024press release Gov. Healey proudly declared she has sent members of her administration to the U.S. southern border, as record numbers of immigrant families continue to arrive in Boston and the states family shelter system is at capacity. The goal of the trip is to make connections with U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Joint Task Force-North, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and families to educate them about the lack of shelter availability inMassachusetts.

Its a polite and bureaucratic way to say dont come here, but Massachusetts votersand illegal aliensknow the words are meaningless without unilateral state action. After all, much like a battered spouse who seeks a restraining order against an abusive partner, but continues to invite them in while offering full-course meals, Governor Healeys contradictory behavior is not likely to dissuade illegal aliens from coming to her state not until sanctuary policies are reversed.

And theres plenty toreverse.

In July 2017, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court issued a ruling inLunn v. Commonwealth which effectively made the entire state a sanctuary. Local law enforcement officials no longer have the authority, under state law, to detain a person based solely on a request from federal immigrationauthorities.

And in July of 2023, Massachusetts sweetened the honeypot of benefits for illegal aliens even more with two sweeping bills. The Work and Family Mobility Act (WFMA) became effective, granting drivers licenses to all Massachusetts residents regardless of immigration status, while separately, legislators passed a bill allowing undocumented students to qualify for in-state tuition and state financial aid at Massachusetts (four-year) colleges. And if the Massachusetts Senate gets its way,illegal aliens will soon be offered tuition-free communitycollege.

But dont hold your breath that things are going to change anytime soon. Governor Healey adamantly refuses to reverse any of the underlying policies that incentivize massive migrant flows to the state. Her feeble border-trip message to illegal aliens, please, if you dont mind terribly, do try to avoid Massachusetts, offered nothing but empty words and diversionary optics designed to dupe voters into believing shes actually managing the migrant crisis. The state is, and will remain, one of the top destinations for illegal crossers given its smorgasbord ofbenefits.

Saying one thing and doing another is the height of insincerity. Shakespeare was spot on: Methinks the lady doth protest toomuch.

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President Biden on Tuesday granted far-reaching new protections for hundreds of thousands of immigrants who have been living in the United States illegally for years but are married to American citizens.

Under the new policy, some 500,000 undocumented spouses will be shielded from deportation and given a pathway to citizenship and the ability to work legally in the United States. It is one of the most expansive actions to protect immigrants since Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, was enacted 12 years ago to protect those who came to the United States as children.

These couples have been raising families, sending their kids to church and school, paying taxes, contributing to our country, Mr. Biden said at the White House, where he was joined by members of Congress and DACA recipients, known as Dreamers. Theyre living in the United States all this time with fear and uncertainty. We can fix that.

Mr. Biden also said he would make it easier for young immigrants, including Dreamers, to gain access to work visas, a significant move that could help them eventually get a green card. That would protect their legal status even if DACA, which is already tied up in litigation, disappears.

Were a much better and stronger nation because of Dreamers, Mr. Biden said, as he marked the anniversary of the Obama-era DACA program.

The new policy allows Mr. Biden to balance his recent crackdown on asylum with a sweeping pro-immigrant measure at a moment of political peril. With five months until the presidential election, Mr. Biden has been trying to curtail record numbers of illegal border crossings without alienating longtime supporters who have called for a more humane immigration system after the Trump years.

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Biden Gives Legal Protections to Undocumented Spouses of U.S. Citizens - The New York Times

Homeland Security reported roughly 241,000 encounters with unauthorized migrants in May, continuing this years trend of somewhat lower illegal immigration.

Nearly half of those encounters came at land crossings, airports and seaports, signaling the shift in illegal immigration as migrants move away from sneaking in across the southern border and instead take advantage of President Bidens so-called legal pathways for otherwise unauthorized migrants to get into the country.

After recording the worst month on record in December, the border has been less chaotic in 2024.

Agents at the southern border reported less than 118,000 arrests, down from nearly 250,000 in December.

But officers at the southern ports of entry set a new record with nearly 53,000 unauthorized migrants encountered.

The reasons for the improvement are heatedly debated.

Some analysts credit Mexico, which stepped up its enforcement of its own borders in late December.

Troy Miller, acting commissioner at Customs and Border Protection, took credit at his agency.

Our enforcement efforts are continuing to reduce southwest border encounters, he said. But the fact remains that our immigration system is not resourced for what we are seeing.

The 118,000 southern border arrests works out to nearly 4,000 a day still well above the 1,000 a day that was considered crisis level in the Obama administration.

And even as many numbers move in the right direction, May posted a reversal in the number of terrorism suspects detected. Agents at the southern border encountered 10 people whose identities matched the terrorism watchlist, up from five in April and six in March.

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Illegal immigration holds steady in May - Washington Times

Democrats are still looking for a political defense against the border chaos unleashed under President Biden.

The latest strategy involves Democrats praising Mr. Biden for his recent executive actions and contrasting them with Republicans in Congress who scuttled legislation the Dems claim could have improved the situation in a significant way.

On Wednesday, Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, a top Biden ally, looked to shift the publics attention away from the president and onto the longstanding failure and lack of courage of congressional Democrats and Republicans to find common ground on a solution.

This inaction that we continue to see to get any form of sensible immigration policy done is impacting all of us, because all of us in local jurisdictions deal with the consequences of this, Mr. Moore said Wednesday on Fox & Friends. I dont put blame on a singular political party.

The boiling concerns over border security once again landed on Mr. Moores doorstep after police in Harford County announced over the weekend they had charged a 23-year-old illegal immigrant who entered the country on Mr. Bidens watch with the rape and killing of Rachel Morin, a mother of five who was killed on a hiking trail in August.

The high-profile killings of Americans by illegal immigrants who entered the country after Mr. Biden took office are creating political problems for the presidents reelection campaign as well as Democrats across the country including in states far away from the U.S.-Mexico border.

In recent interviews, Mr. Moore has tried to diffuse the political bomb by pinning the blame on Mr. Trumps opposition to bipartisan immigration legislation that Republican Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma negotiated over months, only to see most GOP lawmakers line up against it because it would allow as many as 5,000 migrants to flood across the border daily.

Mr. Moore, however, turned elusive Wednesday after host Brian Kilmeade pointed out the legislation would not have prevented the illegal immigrant accused of killing Ms. Morin from entering the country in 2023.

In response, the governor derided both parties in Congress, saying their stalemate over immigration is allowing people in my state to become victims.

Mr. Trump and Republicans have been more direct, saying Mr. Bidens reckless policies have opened the door for illegal immigrants to rape, kidnap and kill Americans.

At a campaign rally in Wisconsin on Tuesday, Mr. Trump lamented the deaths of Laken Riley, a 22-year-old nursing student who was allegedly killed by an illegal immigrant while jogging at the University of Georgia, and Ms. Morin.

This monster should have never been allowed into our country, and if I was president he would never have been able to come in, Mr. Trump said of Ms. Morins accused killer, sparking chants of USA! USA! When I am elected we will begin removing these criminals these horrible people from our midst and we are going to do it immediately.

Mr. Trump said the contrast is clear: Joe Biden wants to be the president for illegal aliens, but I will be the president for law-abiding Americans.

Looking to dig himself out of a political hole, Mr. Biden recently released a proclamation seeking to curtail the number of asylum claims made at the U.S. border.

According to a YouGov/Economist survey released after Mr. Biden announced the move, the effort is not turning the tide: 64% disapprove of his handling of immigration and 29% approve.

Looking to stem the bleeding with his base, Mr. Biden this week announced a program that would make it easier for half a million illegal immigrants to receive green cards if theyve lived in the U.S. for years and are married to citizens.

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Democrats struggle to counter Trump-led criticism of Biden on illegal immigration - Washington Times

The Biden administration has let 2 million illegal immigrants speed through a system that is supposed to limit entry into the United States on a case-by-case basis, according to data from the Department of Homeland Security.

The so-called parole system, which offers Social Security numbers and worker permits, has spun through one illegal immigrant roughly every 28 seconds, according to an analysis of the new data conducted by the Center for Immigration Studies.

In the first nine months of FY 2023, DHS paroled in nearly 870,000 facially inadmissible aliens with no legal right to be here one roughly every 28 seconds. That brings total Biden paroles to about two million, all under a restrictive authority Congress decreed be used only on a case-by-case basis, said Andrew Arthur, a former federal immigration judge now with CIS.

The new data were in a just-released December report on parole requests by migrants. Parole is granted to inadmissible individuals by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. According to the report, Parole allows a noncitizen who may be inadmissible, to enter, re-enter, or remain in the United States for a temporary period and for a specific purpose.

The numbers reviewed by Arthur, however, show wholesale parole being granted to wide swaths of illegal immigrants and further feed concerns that the Biden administration is ignoring immigration laws to let in millions of migrants despite overwhelming opposition by U.S. citizens.

Since the report was pulled together, thousands more have passed in through the system. Immigration officials, for example, said last month, Through the end of April 2024, 434,800 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans arrived lawfully on commercial flights and were granted parole.

Parole is supposed to be a tight system according to congressional rules, but the administration has ignored that to let illegal immigrants pour in, the former immigration judge said.

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Whats more, in many cases, the parolees do not face the types of hardship back home that the pathway was designed for, he said.

Parolees are flying in from 77 different nations, including countries as diverse as Fiji and Iceland, Australia and Egypt, for benefits under the program. Those aliens arent seeking protection from hostile home governments; theyre trading up for better economic opportunities, which in the case of the Cuban and Haitian parolees includes a full panoply of social-welfare benefits like Medicaid and food stamps all of which you, the taxpayer, are providing, Arthur said in his report.

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Biden lets 2 million illegal immigrants skip through case-by-case turnstile - Washington Examiner