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Since taking office three years ago, President Biden has taken every step necessary to make illegal immigration legal. In just his first 100 days, the President took 94 actions to open our border and weaken immigration law, including halting border wall construction, pausing deportations, and ending the successful Remain in Mexico policy. As a result, 9.2 million immigrants have entered our country illegally including countless cartel members, violent criminals, and suspected terrorists.

While President Biden continues to push his radical agenda, border states such as Texas are stepping up to do what the administration wont: secure our border and secure our communities. To see firsthand how Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and authorities in the Lone Star State are working to keep Americans safe, last week I visited Eagle Pass, Texasonce a hotspot for illegal entry that has seen a dramatic decrease in migrant encounters.

One of the biggest reasons for the decline: border barriers including buoys, shipping containers, and razor wire fences that Texas officials have placed in and along the Rio Grande river as part of the states Operation Lone Star campaign to deter migrants from illegally entering our country.

Texas Department of Public Safety officials and Border Patrol agents point to these barriers, more than anything else, as the driving force behind the states decreasing number of illegal entries: As the state has ramped up its efforts to put in place temporary barriers, illegal border crossings in Texas fell from 149,806 in December to 68,260 in Januarya 54% decrease. Instead, illegal immigrants are now traveling further west to other border states, such as California and Arizona, that have much weaker restrictions on illegal entry.

At the same time, Texas has deployed thousands of National Guardsmen to the border to help block illegal immigration, drug smuggling, and human trafficking. In total, Texas authorities have apprehended more than 500,000 illegal immigrants and intercepted 467 million lethal doses of fentanyl, among countless other illicit substances.

One thing is clear: Under Republican leadership, Texas is accomplishing so much to secure our border, protect families, and save American lives.

Yet, without support from the Biden administration, the state and its localities face a tremendous burden in defending their communities.

While in Eagle Pass, I heard from ranchers who have had their property destroyed, stolen, or broken into by illegal immigrants crossing into our country from Mexico. In one instance, two migrants broke into a ranchers home while his 16-year-old daughter was studying at home alone.

Texas law enforcement also warned about the ways cartels are using new technology to aid their smuggling operations, including by using Chinese-owned TikTok to recruit Americans into their human trafficking rings. At the same time, cartels are flying drones into the United States to scope out the location of border agents and redirect their smuggling routes.

More than anything else, authorities in Texas told me that they need more border wall construction, better technology, and additional agents to help combat this threat. But time and again, President Biden has refused to help them. Instead, his administration is suing Texas for placing barriers along the border to prevent illegal entries and for enacting a new state law that empowers local law enforcement to arrest illegal immigrants.

Make no mistake: President Biden is targeting Texas because Texans are standing up to his open border policy. And if the President refuses to support the communities on the front line of combating his border crisis, Congress must step up.

Thats why in the U.S. Senate I introduced the Creating Obstructions Necessary to Address Illegal and Nefarious Entry Rapidly (CONTAINER) Act, which would empower border states such as Texas to place temporary barriers on federal land to protect their communities. No state or locality should face lawsuits from the federal government for trying to secure our border and protect the sovereignty of the United States.

I also introduced the Clear Law Enforcement for Criminal Alien Removal (CLEAR) Act, which would reaffirm the authority of state and local governments to enforce federal immigration laws by apprehending, detaining, or transferring illegal immigrants to federal custody.

Among its important measures, this legislation would require the Department of Homeland Security to provide grants to state and local governments to help them enforce immigration law and construct detention facilities. It would also require DHS to take illegal aliens into custody within 48 hours after receiving a request from a state or locality and provide the Justice Department with essential information about illegal immigrants who have overstayed their period of stay.

After my visit to Eagle Pass, I know these pieces of legislation would do so much to support border states and communities that are forced to confront the consequences of President Bidens border crisis every single day. It is far past time Congress took action to help them.

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Michigan Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer slammed former President Donald Trump after he visited her state on Tuesday to address the murder of 25-year-old Ruby Garcia, who was allegedly killed by an illegal immigrant.

Whitmer appeared on CNN with host Kaitlan Collins Tuesday night to discuss a range of issues, including Trumps comments on illegal immigration. The former president spoke at a campaign event with law enforcement in Grand Rapids on Tuesday afternoon, where he warned that the ongoing border crisis under President Joe Biden has turned every state into a border state.

The former president was in Grand Rapids today, and he was capitalizing on a horrible tragedy that happened here, Whitmer said. There is a family that is grieving the loss of Ruby Garcia, and she was a real person with a real story. And its a horrible story that happened.

All of that being said, [Trump] came in to perpetrate the continued storyline that he had done everything to keep us safe, which is boloney, Whitmer continued. We know that under the Trump administration, he actually called me, the governor of Michigan, to ask that we send the National Guard to help with surveillance on the southern border, and we helped him out because he couldnt get it done.

The Michigan governor also blamed Trump for Congress failing to pass legislation containing certain border and immigration reforms, which Biden had requested be signed into law before he took further action to address the border.

Hes also the reason that the negotiation in Washington, D.C., didnt come to fruition. He torpedoed a deal that wouldve had the strongest border security in decades in this country that President Biden put on the table. He told Republicans to walk away and they did, Whitmer said.

Trump had branded the border legislation the Stupid Bill and said Republicans shouldnt vote for it unless we get EVERYTHING needed to shut down the INVASION of Millions & Millions of people, many from parts unknown, into our once great, but soon to be great again, Country! GOP leaders in the House opposed the bill, arguing that it fails in every policy area needed to secure our border and would actually incentivize more illegal immigration.

During his Tuesday speech in Michigan, Trump called Whitmer a terrible governor, who along with Biden, is stealing your money to give free housing to illegals and then asking you to quarter these people.

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Whitmer responded to Trumps criticism, telling Collins that those talking points dont matter a whole lot to people every day.

Michiganders are hardworking people. They want leaders who see what theyre struggling with and work to solve those problems, and thats exactly what I will continue to stay focused on, and I know thats what President Biden will continue to stay focused on, she added.

Republican leaders in Michigan have raised concerns about a new Michigan Newcomer Rental Subsidy Program established by the Whitmer administration that hands out up to $500 a month to refugees and migrants. The GOP lawmakers said the program could be helping people who entered the country illegally pay for housing in the state.

Gretchen Whitmers rent subsidy program makes handouts available to illegals who were caught in the country and then frantically claimed asylum to avoid deportation, Michigan House Republican Leader Matt Hall told The Daily Wire last week. The Whitmer administration must come clean about this dubious program to the taxpayers who are paying for it. Michiganders shouldnt have their dollars taken to reward those who broke our immigration laws.

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The Biden administrations program of secretly flying illegal immigrants directly from Latin America to U.S. cities dumps over 90% in hubs of two Southern states governed by the presidents harshest border critics, according to government data.

Some 347,959 migrants allowed into the secretive system fly directly to airports in Florida and Texas, with Florida receiving the vast majority at 325,995, according to an analysis of U.S. Customs and Border Protection numbers by the Center for Immigration Studies.

It is unclear how many of the immigrants fly on to other U.S. cities, though the government has said there are over 40 final destinations.

This early evidence suggests that a great many of these inadmissible alien passengers, probably a majority, initially land at international airports in Republican Gov. Ron DeSantiss Florida, said CIS, which reported that the program has let in 386,000 people since October 2022. In fact, Florida turns out to be the top landing and U.S. customs processing zone for this direct-flights parole-and-release program, tallying at nearly 326,000 of the initial arrivals from inception through February.

Investigator Todd Bensman said the program allows aspiring illegal border crossers from nine Latin American countries to buy an airline ticket to fly directly to the city of their choice, where they are processed and let go.

Begun in October 2022 for Venezuelans and expanded in January 2023 to Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Colombians, the program approves flight travel authorizations for aspiring illegal border-crossers still in other countries to instead arrange commercial airline passage for themselves over the southern border and then receive temporary but easily renewable humanitarian parole from CBP officers at the airport, Bensman said in his new report. One incentive to dissuade beneficiaries from illegal border crossings is that the parole program comes with eligibility for renewable work permits.

Bensman and CIS have been fighting with the administration for clearer data on where the illegal immigrants end up, but the Department of Homeland Security has refused to cough up the information, citing security concerns.

Bensman said state and local authorities should know what they are facing.

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Public knowledge of where these flights deliver migrants should matter to local, state, and national leaders in cities struggling with migrant influxes, who could use the information to financially plan for their care or petition the federal government to stop the flights, he said. The information may also hold implications for litigation by Texas, Florida, and other states that have sued to stop the parole programs on grounds that the administrations illegal abuse of the narrow statutory parole authority has directly harmed them.

The administration has refused to work with Texas or Florida on the surge of illegal immigrants entering the states. DeSantis and Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) have bused and flown some of the illegal immigrants to northern sanctuary cities governed by liberal mayors, including Chicago, Boston, and New York City.

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This weeks White House Report Card finds President Joe Biden inching back into contention for reelection, flush with a record $26 million fundraising haul made possible with the help of former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton.

But another number continues to provide a very high hurdle to boosting his low approval rating. And thats the record number of illegal immigrants he has welcomed into the country. According to the Center for Immigration Studies, there are now a record 51 million immigrants in the country, and a record 13 million are here illegally.

He also stirred anger among his foes by promising to pay for the estimated $1 billion rebuild of Baltimores Key Bridge, which collapsed when a foreign-owned container ship crashed into it Tuesday, and issued new and potentially unattainable emissions regulations on big rigs.

Conservative grader Jed Babbin gave the week an F, while highlighting the presidents latest snub of Israel and lack of recognition of murdered New York Police Department officer Jonathan Diller while in the city raising that $26 million.

Democratic pollster John Zogby graded the week a B, in large part because the president has scratched back to about even in election polls.

Jed Babbin

Grade: F

Some weeks are easier to grade than others, and this is one of them. We need only to compare President Joe Bidens and former President Donald Trumps Thursday. Biden went to a glitzy fundraiser in New York accompanied by former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton. Trump went to the wake of NYPD officer Jonathan Diller who was gunned down in the line of duty. The comparison doesnt benefit Old Joe.

Upon waking up to the Baltimore disaster Tuesday, Biden immediately and reflexively promised to pay the whole cost of repairing the Francis Scott Key Bridge. Its not the burden of the feds to pay. Its the obligation of the ships insurers and others. Biden just cant resist spending our tax dollars on everything that comes along.

There are a few other things to note this week. Bidens United Nations ambassador failed to veto a Security Council resolution that demanded an Israeli ceasefire in Gaza without connecting that obligation to a release of hostages. This caused Israeli Prime Minister BenjaminNetanyahu to call back the team he was sending to get clearance from Biden to go after Hamass last holdouts in the Gaza Strip city of Rafah. He has since changed his mind. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Air Force General Charles CQ Brown admitted that the U.S. was beginning to withhold military aid from Israel. Biden will do anything to appease his Muslim voters.

To top it off, pro-Hamas hecklers interrupted Bidens campaign speech in North Carolina on Wednesday. They demanded more healthcare in Gaza, and Biden agreed with them. Obamacare in the Gaza Strip?

While all that was going on, Mexican President Andrs Manuel Lpez Obrador demanded that unless Biden sends at least $20 billion a year to Latin America and grants immunity to illegal immigrants for work permits, that he would ensure the flow of illegal immigrants continued.

That flow has already reached an enormous level and shows no sign of slowing or stopping. Eight or nine million illegal immigrants have come in since Biden was inaugurated. Nobody really knows how many. Now, the Border Patrol says that over one million illegal immigrants have come in since FY2024 began six months ago. That will amount to more than two million in one fiscal year. And that doesnt count the gotaways who avoid the Border Patrol and the walk-aways who the Border Patrol doesnt bother to arrest before theyre released.

John Zogby

Grade: B

Even though President Joe Bidens job approval remains stuck at around 40%, and even lower on key issues, this was still a good week for him.

First, he continued to close the gap in the horse race against former President Donald Trump. In three polls this week Trumps average lead is only .4 points. Biden is gaining among independents.

Second, the Biden campaign has a huge fundraising margin over the Trump campaign, which widened with Wednesdays star-studded gala at Radio City Music Hall with Obama and Clinton.

Third, Democrats actually picked a seat in a special election for the Alabama House. The key issues were abortion rights and in vitro fertilization.

The president, however, is still not making any gains among younger and nonwhite voters and those seeking an Israeli ceasefire in Gaza. The big anti-Israel protest outside the Thursday fundraiser gave powerful testimony to that. But despite those problems, Biden is still in the game.

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Jed Babbin is a Washington Examiner contributor and former deputy undersecretary of defense in the administration of former President George H.W. Bush. Follow him on X @jedbabbin.

John Zogby is the founder of the Zogby Survey and senior partner at John Zogby Strategies. His podcast with son and managing partner and pollster Jeremy Zogby can be heard here. Their firm polls for independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Follow him on X @ZogbyStrategies.

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President Joe Biden holds a Laken Riley button as he delivers the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol, Thursday March 7, 2024. Andrew Harnik/AP hide caption

President Joe Biden holds a Laken Riley button as he delivers the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol, Thursday March 7, 2024.

A heated debate over immigration in Georgia made its way onto an even bigger stage this week: President Joe Biden's State of the Union.

As Biden addressed the southern border in his speech, Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene shouted from the chamber and pressed Biden to, "Say her name."

Greene was referring to Laken Riley, a 22 year-old nursing student found dead on the campus of the University of Georgia in Athens last month. A Venezuelan man who authorities say entered the U.S. illegally has been charged with her murder.

That revelation set off a firestorm among Georgia Republicans, who quickly sought to link the attack to the Biden Administration's immigration policies.

"All of Georgia and the entire country have been robbed by this inexcusable and avoidable murder," Republican Gov. Brian Kemp told an audience of business leaders in Athens not long after news of Riley's death made headlines. "Laken's death is the direct result of policies on the federal level and an unwillingness by this White House to secure the southern border."

The Biden administration has been calling on lawmakers to authorize additional funds to strengthen enforcement at the border, improve detention facilities and hire more border patrol agents and immigration judges. But so far the proposals haven't advanced in the divided Congress.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement says that the suspect in Riley's case, Jose Ibarra, was apprehended by border patrol agents in 2022 and was then released on parole. Ibarra had several run-ins with law enforcement in New York and Georgia prior to his arrest last month.

On Thursday night, Greene handed Biden a white button with Riley's name on it as he made his way through the House chamber to begin his address. Later, Greene interrupted the speech as the president chastised Republicans for blocking a bipartisan immigration bill.

"It's not about him or me," Biden said, referring to former President Donald Trump, who has made harsh rhetoric about illegal immigration a centerpiece of his reelection campaign and has said "immigrants are poisoning the blood of our country."

"It's about Laken Riley," Greene shouted.

Biden responded, saying Riley was "an innocent woman who was killed by an illegal," and went on to say, "To her parents I say my heart goes out to you, having lost children myself."

Republicans slammed Biden for appearing to mispronounce Riley's name as "Lincoln" in the off-the-cuff exchange. Some Democrats criticized the president for using "illegal" as a noun to describe a person, saying he was adopting rhetoric on the right that dehumanizes undocumented immigrants.

Earlier this week, Republicans in the U.S. House passed a bill called the Laken Riley Act, which among other things, would require ICE to detain undocumented people accused of committing theft-related crimes like shoplifting. The bill's sponsor, Georgia Republican Rep. Mike Collins, invited Riley's parents to attend the State of the Union as his guests, but he said that they declined.

But Georgia politicians and advocates had already been debating how to respond to Riley's death for weeks, as people in Athens and around the state grieved a student who was remembered by her pastor as a "gift to anyone who knew her."

Many top Georgia Republicans have deep ties to Athens and the University of Georgia and have targeted what they consider immigrant-friendly policies in the liberal college town.

"Fixing policy in the face of unspeakable tragedy is not politics," Athens Republican state Rep. Houston Gaines said in the Georgia House chamber last week. "It's doing the right thing to ensure something like this never occurs again."

Democrats warned Republicans of the consequences of politicizing a tragedy.

"It is easy and tempting during an election cycle to target minorities and immigrants in order to score political points," said state Rep. Pedro Marin, a Democrat and Georgia's longest-serving Latino lawmaker.

Research has shown that undocumented immigrants commit crimes at a lower rate than native-born U.S. citizens and legal immigrants across many felony offenses.

Republican lawmakers in Georgia are now pushing through several immigration-focused bills during the final month of the state's legislative session. One proposal would require municipalities coordinate with federal immigration enforcement agencies or risk losing state funding. Opponents of the bill also say it would allow law enforcement to arrest people they suspect of being undocumented, opening the door to racial profiling.

Another bill would allow private citizens to bring legal action against municipalities they say are not fully cooperating with federal immigration enforcement.

WABE's Emily Wu Pearson contributed to this report.

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