Texas | November 16, 2021
Longtime Texas Democrat defects to GOP
Texas | November 16, 2021
A longtime Democratic lawmaker from South Texas switched parties Monday, giving Republicans another boost in their aggressive attempts to make inroads with voters along the U.S.-Mexico border.
State Rep. Ryan Guillen has been one of the most conservative Democrats in the Texas House of Representatives since 2002. His switch to the GOP comes after his rural border district was redrawn to heavily favor Republicans under new maps signed in October by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott. Guillen said his values no longer aligned with Democrats, who criticized him for switching rather than staying in the party and fighting for his seat… (Excerpts from The Washington Times)
Virginia | November 12, 2021
Douglas Wilder warns Dems of voter backlash from $450K payouts to illegal immigrants
Virginia | November 12, 2021
Former Virginia Gov. L. Douglas Wilder said Democrats will pay a price at the ballot box next year if they start cutting taxpayer-funded checks to migrants.
Mr. Wilder, the nation’s first Black governor, said the Biden administration’s plan for payoffs, if successful, will dent the party’s image in the eyes of voters who feel left behind despite playing by the rules.
“When you are saying to the American people you are going to spend countless billions of dollars for people illegally here and those who have been here struggling to climb up the ladder for years have not been given a chance then that is going to be a problem,” Mr. Wilder said in an interview Thursday with The Washington Times… (Excerpts from the Washington Times)
District of Columbia | November 11, 2021
Feds ponder how much to pay illegal immigrants in compensation
District of Columbia | November 11, 2021
Members of Congress who die in office customarily have a year’s salary, currently $174,000, as a payout to their survivors.
Families of U.S. service members who die on active duty get a $100,000 death gratuity.
Japanese Americans, forced out of their homes and into internment camps for more than two years during World War II, collected $20,000 payments four decades later. That’s worth about $46,000 in today’s dollars… (Excerpts from the Washington Times)
Florida | November 6, 2021
Florida gov says Biden admin has landed dozens of secret flights carrying illegal migrants into the state
Florida | November 6, 2021
The office of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis says that more than 70 night-time flights moving migrants from the border landed in Jacksonville since the summer — amid concerns about the effects of the border crisis on states across the country.
“Over 70 air charter flights [on] jetliner airliners coming from the southwest border have landed at Jacksonville International Airport,” Larry Keefe, DeSantis’s public safety czar, told The Washington Examiner.
“On average, there’s 36 passengers on each of these flights. And that has been going on over the course of the summer through September,” he said… (Excerpts from Fox News)
District of Columbia | November 5, 2021
White House: Illegal Immigrants Could Get Government Payouts
District of Columbia | November 5, 2021
Illegal immigrants who were separated from family members by U.S. border agents could get money from the government in a potential lawsuit settlement, the White House said Thursday. Directly rebutting President Joe Biden’s comments a day prior, White House principal deputy press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters the reported payments could happen. “If it saves taxpayer dollars and puts the disastrous history of the previous administration’s use of zero tolerance and family separation behind us, the president is perfectly comfortable with the Department of Justice settling with the individuals and families who are currently in litigation with the U.S. government,” she said during a briefing in Washington…. (Excerpts from the Epoch Times)
District of Columbia | November 5, 2021
Border Patrol released 283,000 migrants into US over past year, 95,000 untracked
District of Columbia | November 5, 2021
More than 283,000 migrants who illegally crossed the border from Mexico this past year were let into the United States, despite the Biden administration’s claims that it was immediately turning away adults and families, the Washington Examiner has learned.
The extremely high number of releases at the southern border, based on unreleased Border Patrol data shared with the Washington Examiner by Rep. Henry Cuellar, means that one-in-six of the 1.66 million people who walked across between land ports of entry were let go directly by the Border Patrol between Oct. 1, 2020, and Sept. 30.
The releases in question are separate from instances in which hundreds of thousands of other migrants were also released into the U.S. by other government entities, including the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Refugee Resettlement and Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement.“The Mexican president and the Guatemalan president are saying that the [Biden] administration has given the impression of open borders,” said Cuellar, a Democrat whose district sits on the Texas-Mexico border. “You can imagine what’s the word on the street over there, and that’s why we keep getting people coming in.” Border Patrol agents are so overwhelmed with the volume of illegal immigrants showing up this year that they started releasing migrants out of the back doors of their stations without providing them legal documents that mandate they appear before an immigration judge about their unlawful entry or asylum claim… (Excerpt from the Washington Examiner)