What the media tell you about illegal-immigrant crime is plain wrong nypost.com/2022/10/19/wha… “the evidence that illegal immigrants have lower crime rates than people born in America and the idea that immigrants don’t report crimes for fear of ICE are likely wrong. And noncooperation with ICE endangers public safety and makes a mockery of our immigration laws.”

"An analysis of the Census Bureau’s monthly Current Population Survey (CPS) shows that the total foreign-born population (legal and illegal) in the U.S. hit 47 million in April of 2022 — a record high in American history." cis.org/Report/Foreign… via @CIS_org “The total foreign-born population (legal and illegal) increased by two million in the first 16 months of the Biden administration — January 2021 to April 2022 — twice as fast as the U.S.-born population grew.”

No illegal left behind: The reconciliation bill's amnesty plan removes or can waive almost all the reasons an alien could be barred from moving here legally -- "grounds of inadmissibility" -- from people already here illegally. cis.org/Law/Do-Any-Gro… Illegals seeking amnesty would be exempt from the following grounds of inadmissibility: health related, public charge, the alien will not harm the wages/working conditions of Americans, failure to attend removal proceedings, falsely claiming US cit'ship, previous deportation, etc

The roughly 110K Afghans who have already arrived in the US or are expected to come shortly is nearly equal to the entire population of Afghan immigrants in the country of 133K in 2019. cis.org/Report/Immigra… via @CIS_org Of people in households headed by Afghan immigrants, 51% live in/near poverty, nearly 2X of US-born. This partly due to the larger share with little education. Also, Afghan households have fewer workers relative to their large size, reflecting low rates of work among women.

Weapon of mass migration: "Last week, the dictator threatened to send masses of migrants to the EU, in retaliation for the bloc’s sanctions against Belarus." spectator.co.uk/article/lukash… "It is now directly helping migrants get into the EU & helping them cross the border into Lithuania. Most of the migrants are reportedly coming from Turkey, & others have been offered cheap flights to Minsk by ‘travel agencies’ in Baghdad and elsewhere, for that very purpose...."

I've Worked with Refugees for Decades. Europe's Afghan Crime Wave Is Mind-Boggling.
nationalinterest.org/feature/ive-wo… This is an appalling piece -- excerpts below, but you should read the whole thing. "But there was one development that had not been expected, and was not tolerable: the large and growing incidence of sexual assaults committed by refugees against local women. These were not of the cultural-misunderstanding-date-rape sort, but were vicious, no-preamble attacks"

Today is the sixth anniversary of the jihad attack in Nice, France. These are some of pictures I took the following day of the many flower arrangements people used to try to cover up the smears of bodily fluid on the pavement. france24.com/en/europe/2021…

Consistent with @ACUConservative's longstanding support for mass immigration, "immigration" or any version of the word is absent from @CPAC's agenda: cpac.conservative.org/agenda/ There is a panel on "The Looming Humanitarian Crisis at the Border" with:
Amb. Chris Landau, Fmr. U.S. Ambassador to Mexico
FL Lt. Gov. Jeanette Nunes
Eduardo Verastegui, Actor

It's moderated by Mercedes Schlapp -- just to make sure no restrictionist views sneak in.

The Hidden Cost of Undoing the Travel Ban lawfareblog.com/hidden-cost-un… Short version: Only Trump's obstinacy was able to overcome resistance from other countries, and parts of our own bureaucracy, to needed security improvements. "If the traveler’s home government makes it easy to obtain a fake identity, or if it refuses to tell the U.S. about travelers with criminal or terrorist ties, a border security system that depends on traveler data will fail."

In the first two years of the Trump administration (2017-19), growth in the immigrant population (legal & illegal) averaged only about 200,000 a year, in contrast to 650,000 a year from 2010 to 2017. cis.org/Report/Immigra… The slowdown in growth is entirely due to a decline in non-citizens in the country; the number of naturalized citizens continues to grow. This is probably an indication that some illegal immigrants left and/or fewer arrived, primarily from Mexico

The Mount Rushmore Election americanmind.org/essays/the-mou… "The coming presidential election is perhaps the most important since 1860 because what is at stake is not simply policy, but the 'soul,' 'way of life,' or, in classical terms, the 'regime' of the American nation." "The rhetoric employed by Biden&Harris is not the language of the give-&-take inherent in democratic politics, but the language of delegitimization. A political regime…that has been 'systematically racist' for 000s of years is, by all accounts, an illegitimate political regime"

Not sure there's really any practical way to do this, but the president's order does put Dems in the position of publicly supporting the counting of illegal aliens for purposes of apportioning House seats among the states. So if each House seats includes ~700K people, & you…

https://twitter.com/SenWarren/status/1285627661075742721

…include illegals in that tally, the vote of a citizen in Southern Calif., where there are lots of illegals, counts more than the vote of one in, say, southern Ohio. Excluding them arguably violates Art.1, sec. 2, but *including* them may violate Baker v. Carr one-man-one-vote.

"It might surprise contemporary Americans that for most of our history, what we call “culture war” debates...were often settled through democratic deliberation, rather than the kind of ruling SCOTUS just delivered on gay and transgender civil rights." nytimes.com/2020/06/20/opi… "All of those battles belong to a lost world. Today constitutional amendments have become unimaginable, Congress barely legislates, and the Supreme Court manages our social and cultural debates."

"If Tuberville wins…this and other parts of Tuberville’s past suddenly will be subjected to the full investigative force of the politicized, hard-left newsroom of the New York Times and by other left-wing news outlets." washex.am/30KnuQI They'll eat him alive "Tuberville, as a political neophyte, never has been fully vetted. Sessions, on the other hand, is an entirely known quantity; there’s nothing the media can do to him to move his political needle further downward if he earns the nomination to face incumbent Dem. Sen. Doug Jones"

A thoughtful & interesting long-ish opinion piece. Read the whole thing & see that the Left has become so radicalized on immigration that the NYT reporter who wrote it & the guy from La Raza are the voices of moderation & restraint.
nytimes.com/2020/03/05/sun… Some illuminating quotes:

"yet some progressives reject the notion that immigration needs to be defended at all. If natives don’t have to justify their existence, why should the foreign-born?"

For my sins, I read all 6K words of the SPLC's latest Two Minutes (Twenty Minutes?) Hate against Stephen Miller (written by @MichaelEHayden, based on e-mails provided by disgruntled former Breitbart employee @k_mcq). It was so explosive I almost fell asleep before finishing it. Some of the sillier parts:

"Miller also discussed diversity in apparently mocking tones as America's 'national religion' on Nov. 23, 2015."

Oh, no!

I like @costareports and he's a good reporter, but this piece is shameful: washingtonpost.com/politics/trump… In what sane universe is it newsworthy that Larry Kudlow invited longtime friend @peterbrimelow to his birthday party? Do you entertain only people whose politics you agree with? The idea that appearing in the same room as @peterbrimelow disqualifies you from polite society is pernicious & I'll have no part of it. Now, I've been criticizing his commitment to white identity politics (a fairer description than "white supremacy" or "white nationalism") since