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These 8 Graphics Explain How Bad the Illegal Immigration Crisis Really Is

Monday, July 1, 2019 - 9:30am
The Daily Signal

Jul 01, 2019

 

Good morning from Washington. Tired of liberal denial about the border crisis? Kelsey Bolar has the hard numbers on just how bad – and unprecedented – the border situation is. President Trump has been a vocal advocate of cutting red tape from the beginning of his term. Fred Lucas covers a new White House report that looks at what slashing regulations has done for Americans’ wallets. On this day in 1847, the first stamps were released: a five cent one with an image of Ben Franklin, and a ten cent one featuring George Washington.

 

 

 

Analysis

These 8 Graphics Explain How Bad the Illegal Immigration Crisis Really Is

President Obama’s homeland security secretary, Jeh Johnson, used to say it was a “bad day” when 1,000 illegal immigrants were caught. One day this year, over 4,000 were caught.

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Commentary

LGBT Activists Could Be to Blame for Falling LGBT Acceptance

The number of Americans 18 to 34 who are comfortable with LGBT people in various situations slipped from 53% in 2017 down to 45% in 2018. And the 53% figure is down from 63% in 2016.

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News

Big Media Is Plotting to Take Down Trump. What Can You Do?

"There are more people with pet chickens in America than view CNN ... It now reaches two-tenths of 1% of the American people. It's collapsed," says Brent Bozell of Media Research Center.

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Trump Deregulation Will Boost Household Income by $3,100, Report Finds

“The ongoing introduction of costly regulations had previously been subtracting an additional 0.2 percent per year from real incomes," the White House report states.

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Commentary

‘Prosper Africa’ Promises Long-Overdue Change in US Approach to Continent

China, the U.S.’ primary strategic competitor, recognizes Africa’s importance and has spent the past two decades building extraordinary influence on the continent.

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Commentary

The Injustice of Canceling Student Debt

Why should kids who weighed the economic tradeoffs, and went to reasonably priced colleges, or community colleges, bankroll the careers of socialists who do not?

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Commentary

Cartoon: A Lack of Common Census

Here's the latest from Michael Ramirez, The Daily Signal's cartoonist.

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