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Like most Americans, I have been deeply concerned about and focused on the millions of illegal immigrants President Biden is allowing to walk into our country.

So, I was stunned when articles began to surface that Mr. Bidens illegal immigration program was also secretly flying illegal immigrants across the border to American communities.

I immediately began to wonder what Mr. Bidens clandestine flight program was costing taxpayers.

The Center for Immigration Studies has filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit to find out the details. However, U.S. Customs and Border Protection is simply refusing to disclose whom they have been flying in, where they have been going, whether they have been vetted for criminal or terrorist relationships, or anything else.

Apparently 320,000 illegal immigrants were secretly flown into 42 American airports last year. Which airports, how many went to each airport, where they went after they landed none of this has been made available to the American people who are paying for the program.

Apparently, Mr. Bidens airborne illegal immigrants come from nine countries: Cuba, Haiti, Venezuela, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Colombia, and Ecuador.

Note that Venezuela is home to a significant number of violent gangs. Venezuelan illegal immigrants recently assaulted New York City policemen. A Venezuelan illegal immigrant has been charged with killing Laken Riley at the University of Georgia.

A Venezuelan immigrant has been arrested for assaulting a 14-year-old in Virginia. It is hard to understand why Mr. Bidens illegal immigration program would favor Venezuela given the violence some of its immigrants commit against American citizens.

Supposedly, these special immigrants have been paying for their own airfare. But we cant see the manifests. We dont know how much they paid. We dont know what it cost to simply process 320,000 people. We have no information how many have ended up on welfare rolls or how many have committed crimes. The secret Biden illegal immigration program simply says trust us.

Meanwhile, the costs of Mr. Bidens larger illegal immigration efforts are crushing city and state budgets. Just listen to the mayors of New York, Chicago, Boston, and elsewhere. Youll get a sense of how much illegal immigrants are now directly costing Americans. Look at the overflow in doctors offices and hospitals as illegal immigrants stress the system. Look at the rising crime rate and the costs to victims and taxpayers.

With all this going wrong, Mr. Biden is running a secret government, with secret programs. He is running up human and financial costs among Americans and threatening to fatally undermine the entire American system.

As a former acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Mark Morgan, told the National Desks Jan Jeffcoat:

Its unconscionable but this is the shell game weve been talking about. This is what theyve done, this administration. Theyve made a deal with migrants from all over the world. They said, if you were framed from illegally entering along the southern border in between the ports of entry, what well do is well let you fill out a couple of lines of paperwork online and well let you fly into 43 different airports in the United States who will process and release you. So, its absolutely to cover up bad political optics.

Elon Musk joined in the outcry against the flood of illegal immigrants. He argued on X that the groundwork is being laid for something far worse than 9/11. Mr. Musk went on to assert that it is just a matter of time before America faces another terrorist attack of that magnitude.

This administration is both importing voters and creating a national security threat from unvetted illegal immigrants. This is why groups on the far-left fight so hard to stop voter ID requirements, under the absurd guise of protecting the right to vote, Mr. Musk concluded.

Until I learned of the scale of Mr. Bidens secret program, I thought the open border policy was just a matter of weird leftwing ideology. Now, Im convinced the sheer intensity of trying to bring illegal immigrants into the United States requires serious scrutiny. Musks concerns (and many others) should be thoroughly examined and protected against by anyone who is concerned about election integrity.

Though 36 states have laws requiring voters to show some form of identification at the polls, 14 states including New York, California, and Washington, D.C. dont require any form of documentation to vote.

Of course, we are supposed to trust the Democrats in charge of those places that millions of illegal immigrants will not vote (even if we do not know who they are or have any method of determining their eligibility).

This may be the Democrats final resource if Mr. Biden simply proves unelectable among legal Americans.

It is something we must take seriously and if necessary, work to prevent.

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Heads Up: Your Tax Dollars Are Being Used To Fly in Biden's Illegal Immigrants - The New York Sun

The brief closure of the Darien Gap a perilous 66-mile jungle journey linking South American and Central America in February 2024 temporarily halted one of the Western Hemispheres busiest migration routes. It also highlighted its importance to a small but growing group of people that depend on that pass to make it to the U.S.: Chinese migrants.

While a record 2.5 million migrants were detained at the United States southwestern land border in 2023, only about 37,000 were from China.

Im a scholar of migration and China. What I find most remarkable in these figures is the speed with which the number of Chinese migrants is growing. Nearly 10 times as many Chinese migrants crossed the southern border in 2023 as in 2022. In December 2023 alone, U.S. Border Patrol officials reported encounters with about 6,000 Chinese migrants, in contrast to the 900 they reported a year earlier in December 2022.

The dramatic uptick is the result of a confluence of factors that range from a slowing Chinese economy and tightening political control by President Xi Jinping to the easy access to online information on Chinese social media about how to make the trip.

Journalists reporting from the border have generalized that Chinese migrants come largely from the self-employed middle class. They are not rich enough to use education or work opportunities as a means of entry, but they can afford to fly across the world.

According to a report from Reuters, in many cases those attempting to make the crossing are small-business owners who saw irreparable damage to their primary or sole source of income due to Chinas zero COVID policies. The migrants are women, men and, in some cases, children accompanying parents from all over China.

Chinese nationals have long made the journey to the United States seeking economic opportunity or political freedom. Based on recent media interviews with migrants coming by way of South America and the U.S.s southern border, the increase in numbers seems driven by two factors.

First, the most common path for immigration for Chinese nationals is through a student visa or H1-B visa for skilled workers. But travel restrictions during the early months of the pandemic temporarily stalled migration from China. Immigrant visas are out of reach for many Chinese nationals without family or vocation-based preferences, and tourist visas require a personal interview with a U.S. consulate to gauge the likelihood of the traveler returning to China.

Second, with the legal routes for immigration difficult to follow, social media accounts have outlined alternatives for Chinese who feel an urgent need to emigrate. Accounts on Douyin, the TikTok clone available in mainland China, document locations open for visa-free travel by Chinese passport holders. On TikTok itself, migrants could find information on where to cross the border, as well as information about transportation and smugglers, commonly known as snakeheads, who are experienced with bringing migrants on the journey north.

With virtual private networks, immigrants can also gather information from U.S. apps such as X, YouTube, Facebook and other sites that are otherwise blocked by Chinese censors.

Inspired by social media posts that both offer practical guides and celebrate the journey, thousands of Chinese migrants have been flying to Ecuador, which allows visa-free travel for Chinese citizens, and then making their way over land to the U.S.-Mexican border.

This journey involves trekking through the Darien Gap, which despite its notoriety as a dangerous crossing has become an increasingly common route for migrants from Venezuela, Colombia and all over the world.

In addition to information about crossing the Darien Gap, these social media posts highlight the best places to cross the border. This has led to a large share of Chinese asylum seekers following the same path to Mexicos Baja California to cross the border near San Diego.

The rapid increase in numbers and the ease of accessing information via social media on their smartphones are new innovations. But there is a longer history of Chinese migration to the U.S. over the southern border and at the hands of smugglers.

From 1882 to 1943, the United States banned all immigration by male Chinese laborers and most Chinese women. A combination of economic competition and racist concerns about Chinese culture and assimilability ensured that the Chinese would be the first ethnic group to enter the United States illegally.

With legal options for arrival eliminated, some Chinese migrants took advantage of the relative ease of movement between the U.S. and Mexico during those years. While some migrants adopted Mexican names and spoke enough Spanish to pass as migrant workers, others used borrowed identities or paperwork from Chinese people with a right of entry, like U.S.-born citizens. Similarly to what we are seeing today, it was middle- and working-class Chinese who more frequently turned to illegal means. Those with money and education were able to circumvent the law by arriving as students or members of the merchant class, both exceptions to the exclusion law.

Though these Chinese exclusion laws officially ended in 1943, restrictions on migration from Asia continued until Congress revised U.S. immigration law in the Hart-Celler Act in 1965. New priorities for immigrant visas that stressed vocational skills as well as family reunification, alongside then Chinese leader Deng Xiaopings policies of reform and opening, helped many Chinese migrants make their way legally to the U.S. in the 1980s and 1990s.

Even after the restrictive immigration laws ended, Chinese migrants without the education or family connections often needed for U.S. visas continued to take dangerous routes with the help of snakeheads.

One notorious incident occurred in 1993, when a ship called the Golden Venture ran aground near New York, resulting in the drowning deaths of 10 Chinese migrants and the arrest and conviction of the snakeheads attempting to smuggle hundreds of Chinese migrants into the United States.

Though there is plenty of precedent for Chinese migrants arriving without documentation, Chinese asylum seekers have better odds of success than many of the other migrants making the dangerous journey north.

An estimated 55% of Chinese asylum seekers are successful in making their claims, often citing political oppression and lack of religious freedom in China as motivations. By contrast, only 29% of Venezuelans seeking asylum in the U.S. have their claim granted, and the number is even lower for Colombians, at 19%.

The new halt on the migratory highway from the south has affected thousands of new migrants seeking refuge in the U.S. But the mix of push factors from their home country and encouragement on social media means that Chinese migrants will continue to seek routes to America.

And with both migration and the perceived threat from China likely to be features of the upcoming U.S. election, there is a risk that increased Chinese migration could become politicized, leaning further into existing tensions between Washington and Beijing.

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Chinese migration to US is nothing new but the reasons for recent surge at Southern border are - The Conversation

WASHINGTON Hours before President Joe Bidens State of the Union address, the U.S. House Thursday passed the Laken Riley Act, named after a Georgia college student whose murder has been blamed by conservatives on White House immigration policies.

On the 251-170 vote, 37 Democrats voted with Republicans who pushed for the legislation.

Riley, a 22-year-old nursing student at Augusta University, was reported missing by her roommate when she did not return home after a run on the campus of the University of Georgia at Athens. Local police found her body and shortly afterward arrested a 26-year-old man from Venezuela for her murder an immigrant who had been previously arrested in Georgia on a shoplifting charge.

According to U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, 26-year-old Jose Ibarra allegedly entered the country illegally in 2022.

The nine-page messaging bill, H.R. 7511, is not likely to advance in the Senate, where Democrats hold a slim majority.

It would require the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to detain immigrants charged with local theft, burglary or shoplifting. It would also grant states the authority to bring civil lawsuits against the federal government for failure to enforce immigration law, House Rules Chair Tom Cole of Oklahoma said during a markup of the bill Tuesday.

Together these authorities will ensure that what happened to Laken Riley wont happen to anyone else in the future, Cole, a Republican, said.

Republicans timed debate and approval of the legislation to come the same day that Biden, who will face former President Donald Trump in November in a reelection campaign already heavily focused on immigration, will speak to the nation.

Following Rileys death, the Georgia state legislature is moving a bill that would penalize law enforcement agencies that do not notify U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, of an arrest if an undocumented immigrant is in custody and found to be in the U.S. without authorization.

U.S. Rep. Mike Collins, a Georgia Republican who represents the Athens district, wrote on X that he invited Rileys parents to the State of the Union as his guests, but they have chosen to stay home as they grieve the loss of their daughter.

Therefore, the seat reserved for my guest will remain vacant to honor Laken and all American victims of illegal alien crime, he said.

During debate on the U.S. House floor Thursday, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, Rep. Jerry Nadler of New York, accused Republicans of exploiting her death, and demonizing immigrants.

Republicans like North Carolinas Dan Bishop argued that the bill was necessary, so there are no other victims of the Biden border crisis.

Allowing this criminal to freely roam our communities is absolutely unacceptable, Georgia GOP Rep. Rick Allen said on the House floor Thursday.

Maryland Democratic Rep. Glenn Ivey argued that the U.S. Supreme Court already ruled last year that the Biden administration has the authority to determine its deportation policy.

DHS cannot detain everybody, so the executive branch, not the states, have to make choices, Ivey said. This bill would not give DHS the resources to change that.

House GOP Majority Leader Steve Scalise of Louisiana said during a Wednesday GOP press conference that Republicans planned to vote on the bill ahead of the State of the Union to criticize the Biden administration for its handling of immigration at the southern border.

A crisis that has had a devastating impact on families like Laken Rileys, Scalise said.

Democrats decried the bill and accused Republicans of politicizing a young womans murder.

Rep. Jim McGovern of Massachusetts, the top Democrat on the House Rules Committee, said what happened to Riley was a tragedy and that his own daughter is 22, the same age Riley was when she was killed in late February.

I am appalled that we have people in Congress and in this committee who are using such a horrible crime to score political points, McGovern said. Were here because you want to try to campaign off this horrible tragedy.

House Republicans have clashed repeatedly with the White House over immigration, such as passing on a party line H.R. 2, a bill that would reinstate Trump-era immigration policies, and walking away from a bipartisan deal in the Senate to give the president executive action at the southern border.

Most recently, House Republicans voted to impeach U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas in early February.

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A grandmother and her granddaughter killed in Ozonna, Texas by a car driven by human smugglers. An illegal alien dead after the car he was smuggled in crashed at 110 mph. Eight more illegal aliens dead as their smuggler raced to outrun cops at 100 mph. These are just some of the tragedies that have been caused by what law enforcement refer to asbailouts.

A bailout is a term used by law enforcement to describe a high-speed car escape by people transporting illegal aliens in vehicles. As U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents are overrun processing surges of illegal aliens at the border, their personnel are stretched thin and this encourages smugglers to try and simply outrun CBP officers. The bailout drivers have a callous disregard for safety, as was the case in one bailout where a car with a two-year-old migrant as a passenger was pursued in Hidalgo County, Texas, where the driver lost control during a chase with law enforcement at 90mph.

Border communities have borne the brunt of the current administrations relaxed attitude to border controls. In some border communities, such as Brackettville, Texas, boulders are placed near the school buildings to protect children from bailout crashes. The school had previously seen migrants in bailouts attempting to flee into the school building itself. Nearby is the town of Uvalde, which has also seen a massive surge in bailouts. Mayor Don McLaughlin told reporters that bailouts have grown in frequency to the point that the city sees multiple bailout chases per day. Uvalde is located on roads directly leading to some of the busiest border crossing areas, such as Del Rio and EaglePass.

The bailouts are not just killing and injuring people while creating a near-constant hazard on our streets. They are also impacting other areas of law enforcement. As law enforcement works hard to deal with this new threat and repeat bailout alerts, it can understandably lead to sense of fatigue, frustration, and demoralization. In July 2022, a Texas House Investigative Committee report suggested that police in border communities were experiencing a general desensitization towards crime and security caused by multiple daily bailouts. Law enforcement personnel do a difficult job, made all the more difficult by the refusal of the current administration to properly enforce bordercontrols.

The danger of bailouts is now spreading beyond border communities. Illegal aliens generally head for cities where they aim to work illegally rather than staying long-term in border communities. In Lytle, Texas, Police Chief Richard Priest noted that officers were dealing with up to five bailouts per week. Whats strange is were 132 miles from the border. I never considered us a border community he told reporters. Lytle lays just outside San Antonio, a city many illegal aliens head to, which may explain the uptick in bailouts. Sadly, more communities, border and interior, will feel the impact of reckless driving by either illegal aliens or those who smugglethem.

Thanks to the current administrations policies, Americas borders are essentially open. Illegal aliens will continue to take advantage of that, and these bailouts will continue to place everyone atrisk.

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High Speed Chases: How Illegal Alien Bailouts Threaten American Communities | FAIRUS.org - Federation for American Immigration Reform

Arlington County, Virginia, is known for being welcoming. Just across from Washington, D.C., the county is home to many national monuments and tourist attractions and is routinely rated as one of Americas best places to live (as well as one of the most expensive). Unfortunately, that rating seems to have gone to the County Boards head. The Arlington County Board is re-evaluating the possibility of extending taxpayer-funded housing grants to illegal aliens, in defiance of both state law and the wishes of its own citizens who would foot thebill.

Arlington County currently offers housing grants to some low-income renter households, paying a significant portion of their monthly rent with taxpayer funds. Arlington County has historically restricted these grants only to U.S. citizens and lawfully present individuals, as required by Virginia law. The criteria the County sets out are already overly permissive, because as FAIR explains in the introduction of our latest population study some categories of lawfully present individuals, like those with Temporary Protected Status or DACA, are in fact illegal aliens. Restricting aid to lawfully present foreigners isnt enough for radical activist groups like the Legal Aid Justice Center (LAJC), though. They are now working with the County Attorneys Office to make every illegal alien in this expensive county eligible for housinggrants.

Even the Countys own study on the program shows what a burden paying illegal aliens rent would be. This study notes that only 40 percent of survey respondents, by far the lowest support of any proposal in the study, supported expanding housing grants to any illegal alien living in Arlington County. Adding just 50 new illegal alien families to the program would cost a whopping $421,800 per year according to the study, in addition to more money for existing mixed-status families i.e., households with a mix of illegal aliens and U.S.-born citizens. Arlington residents know that a handout of over $8,400 a year in taxpayer funds per illegal alien household, and the additional costs they impose, are a recipe for attracting social issues and fiscal burdens even if their County Board does not seem to share theirconcerns.

The workarounds to Virginia law that open-borders activists have proposed are also far-fetched. These activists claim that publicly funded need-based grants are not public assistance and therefore usual Virginia restrictions do not apply. Their other proposal is even more telling. The activist group unsurprisingly states that the County should simply give the program funding and administration to a nonprofit like the group itself. FAIR has covered extensively federal funding being handed out to NGOs that support illegal aliens, and this playbook is also repeating itself in counties like Arlington across the country with local taxpayerfunds.

Ironically, the high cost of living in Arlington County is one of the few things insulating this sanctuary county from the worst consequences of illegal immigration in other jurisdictions. Free housing for illegal aliens in New York City and Massachusetts has been a complete disaster for American citizens stuck with massive bills and out-of-control migrant crime. Arlington residents, and all American citizens, deserve better than their money being spent on making life easier for immigrationlawbreakers.

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One of America's Best Places to Live Considering Handouts for Illegals, Despite Resident Opposition | FAIRUS.org - Federation for American Immigration...