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To reverse former President Donald Trump’s immigration policies, President Biden is working with Democrats in Congress on “sweeping immigration legislation” that includes an eight-year path to citizenship for an claimed estimate of 11 million illegal immigrants. Such drastic reform must be supported by facts, which are hotly debated, and even purposely withheld.
Democrats’ sunny population estimation falls in line with the Pew Research Center’s assessment that 10.5 million illegal immigrants resided in the United States in 2017. The Federation for American Immigration Reform alternatively estimates that 14.45 million illegal immigrants reside in the United States as of 2020.
Much information about illegal immigrants is unknown, including their rate of additional criminality and overall cost burden for taxpayers, which FAIR assesses at $133.7 billion each year. While the Cato Institute estimates illegal immigrants are between 26 and 41 percent less likely to
Trump Tries to Defund the Police on His Way Out
He also wants to cut money for global COVID vaccination.
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President Trump wants Congress to cut funding to state and local law enforcement that he calls âunauthorized and poorly targeted.â
Ask any pundit or centrist Democrat what hurt Democrats most in 2020 and theyâll tell you it was calls from far-left types to âdefund the police.â Nobody in Congress or on the Biden campaign echoed it, but somehow this drove voters in droves away from Democrats, according to the theory.
Those voters might want to retreat back to the Democrats now, because, a week before he leaves office, Donald Trump has submitted a formal request to Congress to defund the police.