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Letting People ‘Self-Identify’ Gender on Government Documents Poses National Security and Fraud Risks: The BorderLine

Letting People ‘Self-Identify’ Gender on Government Documents Poses National Security and Fraud Risks: The BorderLine

The social media site Twitter now “identifies” as “X.” A different kind of “X” now marks the spot where radical gender ideology has...

18.01.2025 3

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Nations May Soon Follow Trump’s Example to Manage Immigration Problems: The BorderLine

Nations May Soon Follow Trump’s Example to Manage Immigration Problems: The BorderLine

The Anglosphere is too attractive for its own good. Great Britain, and its largest progeny—the USA and Canada—face the same problem: We attract...

10.01.2025 20

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Is DEI Worth Saving?

Is anything worth saving from the State Department’s new but vast diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility apparatus? Executive summary: No....

26.12.2024 3

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5 Lies Biden Used to Break the Border—and How Trump Can Fix It

Over the past four years, President Joe Biden conducted an experiment: What happens if you open the U.S. border to nearly all who seek entry? ...

21.12.2024 4

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Biden’s Border Legacy Is More Crime, Strained Cities: The BorderLine

Joseph R. Biden (reminder: still the president of the United States) will leave office in a month, leaving behind a legacy of achievements and...

20.12.2024 2

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5 lies Biden used to break the border … and how Trump can fix it

Fox News' Madeleine Rivera reports on Trump's picks to lead CBP, ICE as well as his selections for China ambassador and AI/crypto czar. Over the...

16.12.2024 100

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Holding Foreign Student Protesters Accountable: The BorderLine

Is there any behavior by a foreign student here on a visa that’s so bad that he should be deported? Apparently under Joe Biden, the answer was no....

13.12.2024 3

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Biden’s Illegal Immigration Phone App Could Allow Millions of Gazans Into US: The BorderLine

Imagine seeing this on tomorrow’s front page: Biden Announces New ‘Give It to Gaza‘ Parole Program: 1,000 Palestinians per Week to Fly in...

07.12.2024 4

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5 Reasons DC Shouldn’t Be a State

Many Democrats dream of ways to ensure they never lose power again. This is why they want to eliminate the Electoral College, pack the Supreme...

06.12.2024 2

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Sanctuary Cities—A Dangerous Game We All Lose: The BorderLine

All across America, people are feeling the effects of four years of mass immigration parole programs and the release at the border of millions of...

27.11.2024 2

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How Trump Reverses the Destruction Biden’s Pro-Illegal Immigration Ideologues Wrought: The BorderLine

President-elect Donald Trump is now picking his cabinet and appointing key executive officers. Nowhere will these picks be more important than in...

22.11.2024 5

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The Truth About Immigration the Left Chooses to Ignore: The BorderLine

Conservatives know that when the American Left wants us to “have a conversation” about an issue, it means they get to talk incessantly until we...

15.11.2024 3

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Federal Court Rejects Biden’s ‘Parole in Place’ for Illegal Aliens

Two days after the election, a federal court in Texas ruled against President Joe Biden’s latest unauthorized scheme to subvert immigration law:...

12.11.2024 7

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The Mass Hysteria Over Deportation: The BorderLine

There were 959 carjackings in Washington, D.C., last year—up from 148 in 2018. Shoplifting is so bad that stores in some neighborhoods have...

09.11.2024 9

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What Would Harris and Trump Do Differently on Immigration?—The BorderLine

This is the last BorderLine column before the election. I am often asked what would change on border and immigration policy under a Kamala Harris or...

02.11.2024 3

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Deportation: Where There’s a Will, There’s a Way—The BorderLine

In the United States today, there are over 660,000 illegal aliens with pending criminal charges for crimes other than just crossing the border...

25.10.2024 1

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What I Saw in Springfield, Ohio—The Challenges Residents Face From the Haitian Immigration Surge: The BorderLine

Last week, I went to Springfield, Ohio, to see for myself this town that has symbolized the raging debate about mass illegal migration, which...

11.10.2024 10

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FEMA Money Is for Disaster-Stricken Americans, Not Those Here Illegally

Editor’s note: This commentary originally was published in September 2023. Federal spending is hard enough to keep track of at the best of times,...

05.10.2024 200

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‘The BorderLine’ Anniversary Column: Revisiting Biden’s Border by the Numbers One Year Later

Welcome to the 52nd edition of “The BorderLine”! For the past year, every week, I have tried to capture the unprecedented nature of the...

04.10.2024 1

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Harris Supports Reviving Border Bill Codifying Illegal Immigration Crisis Into Law: The BorderLine

Back in February, the Senate voted down a supposedly “bipartisan” and “compromise” border bill co-sponsored by Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla.,...

28.09.2024 3

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The Stunning Costs of Biden-Harris’ ‘America-Last’ Border Policies—Part 2: The BorderLine

Last week, I looked at the effects of the Biden-Harris administration’s border policy on crime and jobs. This week, I want to look at its...

20.09.2024 2

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Matt Walsh Exposes ‘Anti-Racist’ Grift Industry in Film ‘Am I a Racist?’

Conservative commentator Matt Walsh’s movie “Am I Racist” is a hybrid of mockumentary in the tradition of “Spinal Tap” and his signature...

17.09.2024 3

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What Does an ‘America-Last’ Border Policy Look Like? Let Us Count the Ways—Part 1: The BorderLine

To sum up the Biden-Harris administration’s border policies in a phrase, I’d say “America Last.” Over nearly four years, we have seen the...

14.09.2024 10

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Biden-Harris Admin Restarts Fraud-Riddled Illegal Immigrant ‘Parole’ Program: The BorderLine

In the run-up to November’s election, Vice President Kamala Harris is attempting to rewrite history and absolve herself of her administration’s...

05.09.2024 1

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Despite Tough Talk, Biden-Harris Admin Rolls Out Red Carpet for Illegal Alien Gangs: The BorderLine

Nothing illustrates the grave price of the Biden-Harris administration’s immigration policy like the preventable crimes that occur with dismaying...

30.08.2024 2

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Is Biden’s New Parole Plan Keeping Families Together or Just Another Immigration Scam?: The BorderLine

In June, I wrote about “parole-in-place” for alien spouses when the Biden administration first announced this latest in its series of gimmicks...

23.08.2024 2

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How Ruling Elites Continue to Stifle Debate Over Immigration Policy: The BorderLine

All repressive and authoritarian regimes, from Caracas to Pyongyang, suppress speech. Rulers like Russia’s Vladimir Putin or China’s Xi Jinping...

17.08.2024 4

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The ‘Community’ Leftists Want to Make Safe? Not Yours: The BorderLine

En route to a recent vacation to New England, I stopped in my old hometown of Princeton, N.J., for coffee and picked up a copy of the Town Topics,...

08.08.2024 2

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A Successful US Immigration Policy Would Send Venezuelans Home to Rebuild: The BorderLine

In July, the Biden-Harris administration extended and “redesignated” something called Temporary Protected Status for Somalis who are present in...

02.08.2024 10

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State Department Says Not Adopting DEI Is A ‘National Security Threat’

Twenty-five years ago, I went to India as a newly minted Foreign Service officer. After three months of Hindi language training, I was interviewing...

25.07.2024 40

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The Hard Facts on the Chart Trump Turned Toward When He Was Shot: The BorderLine

Everyone my parents’ age remembers where they were when President John F. Kennedy was shot. Their parents remember where they were when imperial...

19.07.2024 10

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How Noncitizens Get to Vote in US Elections and How to Stop It: The BorderLine

Most countries allow only their own citizens to vote in national elections and require voters to prove their eligibility to vote through photo...

12.07.2024 2

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Simon Hankinson