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Biden’s ‘Parole in Place’ Plan Is a Solution in Search of a Problem
The lack of a ‘limiting principle’ would allow parole to swallow all the other immigration rules
 
By Andrew R. Arthur on April 30, 2024

As I recently explained, the Biden administration appears to be planning to expand on its other “parole” programs to grant de facto amnesty to approximately 1.1 million illegal aliens who are married to U.S. citizens. If that happens, those sympathetic couples in “mixed status” families will be just the beginning, but it should be noted that nearly all of those alien spouses already have a remedy to their plight. In other words, this plan is a solution in search of a problem, albeit one that will make future enforcement efforts next to impossible, but more importantly, it would expand DHS’s limited parole authority so wide that it will quickly swallow all the other rules governing aliens in the INA.

Parole, and Ice Cream. Under section 235 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), aliens seeking admission to the United States (including illegal entrants) must prove they have a visa or other document that permit their admission, and that they are otherwise admissible.

In section 212(d)(5)(A) of the INA, however, Congress gave the executive branch (originally the attorney general, now the DHS secretary) the authority to allow inadmissible aliens to enter the United States for given reasons (like emergency medical treatment) or for specific periods of time.

Parole doesn’t make those aliens any less removable, and in fact the parole statute requires DHS to take parolees back into custody and treat them like all other aliens seeking admission at ports of entry once their periods of parole have expired.

https://cis.org/Arthur/Bidens-Parole-Place-Plan-Solution-Search-Problem

Nicaragua Sees Nearly $1 Billion in Remittances from the U.S. in 3 Months



by CHRISTIAN K. CARUZO 29 Apr 2024

The communist dictatorship of Nicaragua saw a growth of nearly 12 percent in the amount of remittance money emigrants sent to the country during the first quarter of 2024, mainly driven by remittances sent from the United States, according to a report published by the Nicaraguan newspaper La Prensa on Sunday.

According to statistics from the Central Bank of Nicaragua (BCN), remittances sent to the country during the first three months of 2024 totaled $1.14 billion, marking an 11.8-percent increase from 2023’s $1.02 billion in the same time period.

Of the $1.14 billion received in the first quarter of 2024, the report states, $930.7 million came from the United States, representing a staggering 81.6 percent of the total. The increase, according to BCN, means Nicaragua remains the Central American country with the most growth in remittances received.

Since 2023, Nicaragua has experienced a dramatic upsurge in the amount of remittance funding received by locals from Nicaraguan citizens abroad who have either fled or been banished from the communist regime.

Dictator Daniel Ortega turned remittances into a crucial funding resource for the economically-ailing regime.
 

https://www.breitbart.com/latin-amer...-u-s-3-months/

Legal Insurrection by  Mary Chastain Tuesday, April 30, 2024

“Had Plaintiff known that Columbia would not provide an in-person educational free of harassment, Plaintiff would not have chosen to enroll at or pay tuition to Columbia.”

A Columbia University Jewish student identified as C.S. filed a class action lawsuit against the school, claiming it has done nothing to provide a safe environment.

“Plaintiff C.S. brings this lawsuit to hold Columbia accountable for failing to provide a safe educational environment for its students,” according to the lawsuit. “Plaintiff also seeks an emergency injunction, through a motion filed contemporaneously with this complaint, requiring Columbia to enforce its Statement of Ethical Conduct and Administrative Code of Conduct to provide safe and secure access to education free from harassment and discrimination so that Plaintiff and the Class members can safely complete the semester in person with the rest of the student body.”

The anti-Israel…people…have been contaminating Columbia’s campus for over a week.

C.S. provides evidence that the so-called peaceful protesters have targeted and harassed Jewish students:

    Since its formation, the encampment has been the center of round the-clock harassment of Jewish students, who have been punched, shoved, spat upon, blocked from attending classes and moving freely about campus, and targeted by pro-terrorist hate speech–– both verbal and in written form on massive banners and signs––with statements such as: “Death to the Jews”; “Long live Hamas”; “Globalize the Intifada”; “there is only one solution, Intifada revolution” (invoking Hitler’s “final solution” of killing all Jews); “Hamas we love you. We support your rockets too”; “Red, black, green, and white, we support Hamas’ fight”; “It is right to rebel, Al-Qassam, give them hell”; and “go back to Poland” (a not too-veiled reference to the concentration camps where Jews were mass murdered during the Holocaust).

I know you guys are smart, but just as a reminder, “Intifada” refers to attacks against Israelis from 1987 to 1993 and 2000 to 2005.

Al-Qassam is Hamas’s military wing.

The lawsuit states that people have harassed and intimidated C.S. on campus since October 7. Everything escalated after the encampment began on April 18.

C.S. calls out Columbia’s quick retreat from its DEI commitment by allowing these people to target and degrade Jews:

More: https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/04/jewish-student-files-lawsuit-against-columbia-for-failing-to-maintain-a-safe-learning-environment/

Texas Scorecard by  Adam Cahn   | April 29, 2024

Austin’s light rail program could be ‘toast’ due to an allegedly unconstitutional financing proposal.

Austin’s controversial light rail program, approved by voters in 2020, could be null and void due to an allegedly unconstitutional financing proposal.

According to press reports, during a court hearing, proponents of the transit scheme found themselves unable to defend the project’s ability to borrow money. Absent this authority, it is unlikely to continue.

At issue is the convoluted structure of the measure presented to voters in 2020. Designed to evade state limits on debt and borrowing (which seemed like a money laundering arrangement), the measure created a so-called “governmental corporation” called the Austin Transit Partnership. According to the 2020 proposal, the Austin Transit Partnership was supposed to be funded by a one-time increase to the city’s maintenance and operations property tax.

However, proponents of the project lowballed the cost estimate. Combined with Biden’s inflation, this has led to a situation where the Austin Transit Partnership now needs to borrow substantial sums.

Unfortunately for proponents, state law prohibits using maintenance and operations property tax dollars to pay debt for so-called ‘governmental corporations.’ While a second component of the property tax—interest and sinking—could be used to pay debt, that’s not what was approved in 2020.

More: https://texasscorecard.com/local/austin-light-rail-plan-on-ice-following-disastrous-court-hearing/