Just another horrific consequence of the previous administration immigration policies! Our once great Republic will continue to suffer the outcome.

 

Fed Reserve working paper suggests Biden illegal immigrant wave caused 30% of home price increases

Paper creates first ever calculation of how a wave of 7 million illegal immigrants from 2021 to 2024 affected local labor and housing markets.

By John Solomon justthenews.com 7-5-26

A new Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas working paper estimates the record surge in illegal immigration during the Biden administration boosted employment while causing 30% of home price increases and 20% of rent increases.

The paper combined immigration court records with government administrative data to create the first ever calculation of how a wave of 7 million illegal immigrants from 2021 through 2024 affected local labor and housing markets.

"From early 2021 to early 2024, the U.S. experienced an unprecedented boom in unauthorized immigration, followed by a rapid slowdown beginning in mid-2024. We provide the first systematic empirical assessment of the labor- and housing-market effects of this episode," the working paper said.

"The total weighted-mean increases in house prices and rents over this period were 22.4% and 22.6%, respectively. Putting these together, for the average MSA, UIWF can explain approximately 30% of the total increase in house prices and 20% of the total increase in rents," it added.

You can read the full paper here. 

The researchers said they found little evidence that homebuilding expanded enough to meet the added demand, essentially creating a demand shock in markets where supply was already constrained.

The authors cautioned that the study is a preliminary draft circulated for professional comment and does not necessarily reflect the views of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas or the Federal Reserve System.

 

A very interesting post of an article dealing with immigration, education, patriotism and common sense.

 

America used to handle mass immigration using patriotic education

 

Immigrant children in New York City saluting the flag, circa 1890.

Modern schools teach children, native born and immigrants, to hate their country, but during the last mass immigration, the opposite was true.

Andrea Widburg | July 4, 2026 www.americanthinker.com

From 1901 to 1910, legal immigration to the United States was so great—about 8.8 million people, almost all of whom were Eastern or Southern Europeans—that this influx equaled roughly 10.4% of the American population. Ironically, it was the Progressives of that era, the ones who gave birth to the idea of eugenics that so inspired Hitler, who were deeply worried about the tainting of America’s fine Anglo-Saxon bloodline.

Still, in a pre-computer age with a continuously expanding nation, America needed bodies for farms and factories, and so these immigrants were processed, at Ellis Island on the East Coast and Angel Island on the West Coast, for contagious diseases and anti-American ideas. If they passed, they were in.

The question, then, was how to assimilate all these new people. Today, of course, “assimilation” is a dirty word because, to the anti-assimilationists, America is a bad and dirty country. Sadly, because leftists slowly but steadily conquered America’s education system, from K through graduate school, anti-American ideas control education.

However, the opposite was true during the big immigration push more than a century ago. Assimilation was the name of the game, with the goal of turning new immigrants into people who loved the country that gave them freedom and at least the hope of leaving behind the grinding poverty of their old countries.

Americans weren’t stupid, and they knew, as Lenin knew, that the best thing to do is to catch ‘em while they're young. To that end, America’s education bent its will to teaching all children, whether born here or immigrants, about America’s values and why America was a special and precious place.

An easy way to see this in action is to review school “readers” from that era. Readers were targeted at grade levels from just-learning-how-to-read to high school and were primarily intended to improve students’ reading, writing, and (especially) elocution skills.

However, at every level, the essays chosen weren’t there solely for their literary quality. Instead, they were intended to give American children a shared moral, civic, literary, and historical canon that bound them together in values and patriotism. Importantly, they were not the sole lessons in history and civics. They were adjuncts. If students were going to memorize and recite essays, they should simultaneously have reinforced their higher moral and civic values.

Here’s just a sampling of what you might find in an old child’s reader, beginning in the 1880s, when mass immigration really began, through 1920, when it was slowing, and schools had the tail end of the great bulk of new immigrants. Try to imagine any of this being taught in today’s classrooms, whether public or private, or from kindergarten to graduate school.

While early readers were concerned with chickadees, bunnies, and helping mommy (kind of like the Dick and Jane books I still learned with), the readers for older children, especially in the later years, focused intensely on American history and values. This was open assimilation and universes away from modern education.

(Note: A reader’s number—“First” “Fourth,” etc.—doesn’t correspond to modern grade levels. Instead, the readers spanned roughly two-to-four-year periods: Primer and First were for K-1, Second was 2-3, Third was 4-5, and Sixth covered a four-year high school.)

Cyr’s Fourth Reader (© 1898, 1899)

In addition to passages from famed writers such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Dickens, Alfred Tennyson, George Eliot, Thackeray (writing about Pocahontas), etc., the reader has A Welcome to Lafayette, The National Flag (ours, of course), Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, and Washington’s Address to His Troops.

McGuffey’s Fifth Eclectic Reader (Revised) (© 1879, 1896, 1907, 1920)

This book establishes that American public schools firmly sought to mold children’s character: love of God, country, and family was intertwined with a manifest duty to convert that love into service.

The contents included such historical, moral, and patriotic essays as Respect for the Sabbath Rewarded, The Battle of Blenheim, King Charles II and William Penn, The Righteous Never Forsaken, The Relief of Lucknow, The Goodness of God, The Hour of Prayer, The Blue and the Gray, Make Way for Liberty, How Sleep the Brave, Supposed Speech of John Adams, No Excellence Without Labor, The Boston Massacre, Sowing and Reaping, Religion the only Basis of Society, The Character of a Happy Life, and The Bible the Best of Classics.

The Elson Readers: Book Five (© 1920)

This reader has an entire section dedicated to “Our Country and Its Flag.” The essays are The Land of Liberty, The Flag of Our Country, The Name of Old Glory, The Star-Spangled Banner, The Boyhood of Lincoln, and Washington with Braddock. In another part of the reader, students are exposed to Benjamin Franklin’s writings,

One whole section emphasizes service to others rather than our modern obsession with self-fulfillment and self-esteem. In those days, service to others was seen as a pathway to truly virtuous self-fulfillment and self-esteem.

The Elson Readers: Book Six (© 1920)

The preface to this one explains that, among other things, a good reader must include “patriotic literature, rich in ideals of home and country, loyalty and service, thrift, cooperation and citizenship—ideals of which American children gained a new conception during the World War, and which the school reading should perpetuate...”

In pursuit of these ideals, students would read One County, America, The Boston Tea Party, Hail, Columbia, The Flag, Washington and the American Army, as well as Stanzas on Freedom, Our Noble Defenders, True Citizens, and Go Forth to Serve.

The Elson Readers: Book Seven (© 1921-1925)

By this level, students read an entire section titled “Our Inheritance of Freedom.” In “Stories and Songs of Liberty,” they read about Leonidas, the Spartan (“come and take it”), Robert the Bruce, England and America in 1782, The Stamp Act, Warren’s Address at Bunker Hill, Liberty or Death, Washington’s Letters to His Wife and to Governor Clinton, Song of Marion’s Men, and Times that Try Men’s Souls.

They also learned about Early America, American Scenes and Legends, amusing American stories (e.g., Mark Twain), American Workers, and “Love of Country.” That last included essays that every American once knew: Old Ironsides, The American Flag, The Flag Goes By, The Flower of Liberty, Citizenship, The Character of Washington, The Twenty-Second of February, Abraham Lincoln, O Captain! My Captain!, and America’s Answer.

Long lists get tedious, so I’ll stop here. Suffice to say that, if you take a stroll down the memory lane of your great-grandparents, you will discover that their education tackled mass immigration by inculcating all children, whether American-born or not, with love for America and the Biblical tradition that underpins America’s approach to liberty and morality.

Today’s mass immigration would be less of a problem if our schools were still teaching that our country is a unique testament to individual liberty, faith, hard work, and service. If that were the case, we wouldn’t tolerate people like Zohran Mamdani, a recent immigrant who hates this country and who sits at Washington’s desk while he spouts that hatred, all while surrounded by glum new citizens (at least 20% of whom are Muslims) who are clearly just longing to tear it all down:

 

Important posts are generally long and very composed. This article from 'The Federalist' about following the Law is extremely important.

 

FCC Chair Vows To Crack Down On Anti-Conservative Media’s ‘Free Monopoly’

By: M.D. Kittle  July 02, 2026 thefederalist.com

The old, corrupt guard of broadcast media are being forced to come to terms with Equal Time. And it’s driving them insane. 

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr has a message for the biased corporate broadcast media: Their “free monopoly” without responsibility ride is over. 

As The FCC investigates Disney-owned ABC on alleged discriminatory practices and The View’s absurd claims that it’s a “bona fide news program,” the old, corrupt guard of broadcast media are being forced to come to terms with Equal Time. And it’s driving them insane. 

“The American people went through hoax after hoax after hoax, whether is was the Hunter Biden laptop, or ‘mostly peaceful’ protests, the list goes on and on,” Carr said this week on The Federalist Radio Hour podcast. “The legacy media has really done this to itself.”

“I think it’s good for them to want to correct course and earn a little trust back,” Carr said of the FCC’s renewed focus on the “statutory equal opportunities requirement” in the Communications Act of 1934. Equal Time, as the act’s Section 315 is commonly known, stipulates that a broadcast program that hosts a political candidate also must provide equal access to the office seeker’s opponent to appear on the show or in another commensurate capacity. 

The section was amended in 1959 when Congress passed limited exemptions to the equal time requirement for content deemed “bona fide” news — interviews, newscasts, and documentaries. The idea was to spur news coverage of political campaign activity in the early days of broadcast television. 

Congress gave the FCC discretion to determine the scope of each exemption, according to the agency’s guidance issued in January, putting broadcast stations on notice and sending shockwaves through the industry. 

‘A Thumb on the Scale’

As the guidance states, Congress’ inclusion of “bona fide” in the exemption categories reflects congressional concern that “broadcast stations would apply the exemptions too broadly in service of a political agenda and thereby frustrate the original purpose of the equal opportunities requirement to maximize broadcast coverage of political events.”

“The idea was pro-speech. It was about more debate, more discussion, more candidates, let’s empower people,” Carr said. “What Congress didn’t want was for broadcasters to put a thumb on the scale for one political candidate for one partisan political party.” 

Congress was right to be concerned. 

The “Big Three” over-the-air, broadcast TV networks have become the purveyors of the “vast wasteland” that then-FCC Chairman Newton Minnow warned Americans about in 1961. They also have long abused the public interest through biased, one-sided coverage of American politics. That bias has exploded in the Trump Age. 

Carr said that over the years the networks and the producers of their shows had “just assumed that the FCC had walked away from enforcing the line between bona fide news programs and those that aren’t, and that basically everything is treated as bona fide news.”

Everything including late-night talks shows like Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Late Night with Seth Meyers and the nonextant Late Show with Stephen Colbert that have been nothing more than Democratic Party public-relations operations badly masquerading as “comedy” for years. And The View, ABC’s daytime Trump Derangement Syndrome freakout. 

Chuck Todd Decries Violence Around Trump He Helped Create

The Media Research Center’s NewsBusters has long tracked the left-wing bias in the over-the-air broadcast networks. According to a recent NewsBusters’ report, 87 percent of Colbert’s political jokes had targeted conservatives since the media tracker began counting late-night jokes in 2023. “Likewise, since September 2022, more than 99 percent of his political guests have been liberals.”

The MRC recently filed a petition urging the FCC to reject the renewal of eight Disney-owned broadcast licenses, The New York Post first reported.

“We finally have an FCC willing to hold Disney and ABC accountable,” MRC President David Bozell said in a statement to the news outlet. “Broadcast licenses are a privilege, not an entitlement. In exchange for free use of the public airwaves, broadcasters agree to serve the public interest.”

‘Fairly Standard PR Campaign’

As the FCC investigates Disney, ABC and the entertainment company’s subsidiaries over potential violations of the Communications Act including allegations of discrimination, the agency has called for an early review of its broadcast stations’ licenses. 

The American Alliance for Equal Rights in a June 17 letter to Carr claims Disney and ABC have “engaged in racial discrimination” through DEI programs and initiatives. In one hiring campaign, Disney “requir[ed] that at least half of producers and writing staff come from underrepresented groups,” according to documents obtained by the nonprofit “dedicated to protecting Americans of every race from the poison of racial classifications.” AAER asserts that the evident focus was on race.

“Disney’s hiring discrimination reportedly extended to positions like composers, costume designers, editors, music supervisors, crew, and technical assistants,” the letter states. “Disney even launched a fund that provided financial support for aspiring ‘Underrepresented Directors,’ apparently limited to ‘women, AAPI (Asian American and Pacific Islander) Black, Indigenous/Native, Latinx, LGBTQIA+, disability-identifying, and religiously marginalized individuals.’”

The media conglomerate has launched an in-house PR campaign to urge viewers to defend Disney from what it considers a weaponized regulator. ABC has been running spots on The View and on other programs in local markets telling viewers that the agency “wants to control who is allowed to appear on the show.”

Carr said the media giant is running a “fairly standard PR strategy.” He told The Federalist that the agency isn’t trying to control content, it simply is interested in “applying the law that Congress passed, and that’s the bona fide news provision.” 

‘Massive Weaponization’

As of late Wednesday, the FCC had received more than 215,000 public comments about The View’s bona fide news position. Many of the commenters expressed outrage over the FCC’s investigation, asserting that it was politically motivated and pushed by President Donald Trump who ceaselessly sparred with the accomplice media. Much of it was standard Trump-hating fare.  “The government needs to stop bowing down to a dictator. All you will gain is having our great nation come for you when he’s not president anymore,” one commenter wrote. 

Carr said claims that the Trump administration is weaponizing the FCC are “interesting” in light of the actual weaponization that took place during Joe Biden’s presidency. He noted a petition filed by a leftwing group of activists urging the FCC not to renew the broadcast license of a Fox TV affiliate in Philadelphia because the group disagreed with the content on Fox News cable channel. 

“This FCC entertained it, put it up for comment, and effectively threatened to not renew that license throughout the entire 2024 election cycle. Nobody said a word about it,” Carr told The Federalist. 

Congressional Democrats have pressured cable companies to drop Fox News, OAN, and NewsMax from their channel lineups because they don’t like the messenger and the message. In some cases, the political pressure campaigns worked. 

“I guarantee you when Democrats get back into power at the FCC, whenever that is, they’re going to go back to what they did the last time and there’s going to be massive weaponization,” Carr said. “So my view is, when we have gavels we shouldn’t bury our heads in the sand and take our gavels and hide them under a bush. We should not weaponize it, but we should use it and appropriately apply the law and that’s what we’re trying to do.”

Listen to The Federalist Radio podcast with FCC Chairman Brendan Carr here.

A lot of good information in this post! Please take the time to read it.

 

'Second-class citizens': Angel Families describe two-tiered justice system for illegal immigrants

"Angel Families" refers to those who have lost loved ones to violent crimes committed by individuals who are in the United States unlawfully or have a history of illegal entry. Despite President Donald Trump's focus on illegal immigration in his second term, many families are still seeking justice for their loved ones.

By Ashe Short justthenews.com 7-2-26

President Donald Trump has made fighting illegal immigration the centerpiece of his second administration, but for too many families across the country, finding justice has been elusive.

Many illegal immigrants who have committed crimes have escaped justice under the Biden administration, while the families of the victims faced ineffective investigations, protracted legal cases, and, in some cases, saw the perpetrators receive light prison sentences.

“These people are shown so many privileges in this country and American citizens are really considered, in my opinion, second-class citizens when it comes to crimes committed against them by illegals,” says Mary Ann Mendoza, whose police officer son was killed in 2014 in a head-on collision by an illegal immigrant.

Families torn apart by illegal immigrants who were never caught

Mendoza, who founded Angel Families, spoke to Just the News about the Inman family, who were irreparably broken after a fishing trip in 2000 in which an illegal immigrant crashed into their car, killing 16-year-old Dustin and the family dog. Dustin’s mother, Kathy, was in a coma for weeks following the crash, and remained in a wheelchair until she died in 2021 from complications caused by the car accident. The Inman family says that Dustin’s father, Billy, was in the hospital so long he wasn’t able to attend his son’s funeral. He died of a heart attack in 2019, which Mendoza believes was caused by the stress he faced in the decades following the crash and death of his son.

The illegal immigrant who caused the crash, Gonzalo Harrell-Gonzalez, fled to Mexico after the crash but continued to cross between the U.S. and Mexico for several years without being arrested. He was indicted by a grand jury in January 2001 and was placed on ICE’s “Most Wanted” list before being removed during the Biden administration, as noted by the Center for Immigration Studies. He is still a fugitive.

The Inmans are not alone when it comes to a lack of justice. Joe Storie, 51, was killed on October 5, 2011, when Luis Alberto Rodriguez-Castro ran a flashing red light and hit Joe, his sister, and his wife. Joe’s sister and wife survived the crash but were critically injured. Rodriguez-Castro was also injured in the crash and taken to a nearby hospital, where he escaped from police supervision but was later recaptured. Even though Rodriguez-Castro was deemed a flight risk by the prosecution, a Georgia superior court judge granted him a bond reduction, and he was allowed to remain out of prison. He subsequently missed a court date and vanished. Rodriguez-Castro remains on ICE’s “Most Wanted” list.

Blake Zieto, 20, was killed in a 2006 head-on crash by Mexican national Jesus Maltos-Chacon, who fled and has remained a fugitive for the past 20 years. Maltos-Chacon’s name was removed from the ICE “Most Wanted” list under the Biden administration but re-added on April 27, 2026. He remains at large.

The high emotional cost to Angel Families in sanctuary states

Hailey King was just 18 years old when she was riding on the back of her friend’s scooter on November 7, 2016. According to a crash reconstructionist hired by her mother, King and her friend were hit by an illegal immigrant driving 71 miles per hour in a 35mph zone. Hailey ended up on the hood of Sergio Rodriguez-Larios’ truck, while her friend, David, was pinned underneath. David lost both of his legs in the accident and died a few years later. Hailey died at the scene.

Her mother, Kathy Hall, tells Just the News that the black box was never recovered from Rodriguez-Larios’ truck, and no autopsy was performed on Hailey. Rodriguez-Larios was initially charged with second-degree murder and faced 58 years in prison, but was allowed to plead guilty to manslaughter and received just 17 years – 10 years for killing Hailey, 5 for injuring David, and 2 for fleeing the scene of the crash.

Rodriguez-Larios was one-and-a-half years into his sentence when he first came up for parole. Now Hailey’s family has to go to a new parole hearing every other year to ensure he actually remains in prison for his crimes.

“There is no justice in that,” Kathy tells Just the News. “We have not been able to heal because we can’t stop reliving it.”

In a similar case, Patti Fox’s daughter Carissa was riding on the back of her friend’s motorcycle in 2025 when they were hit by an illegal immigrant who had run a stop sign and crossed three lanes of traffic. The illegal, Valeria De Los Angeles Bermudez Marcano, and the passengers in her car got out after the crash and quickly fled, abandoning the vehicle, according to Fox.

Carissa was flung into a concrete barrier, which “obliterated” the left hemisphere of her brain, Fox tells Just the News. The grieving mother also says that the driver of the motorcycle Carissa was on was given a breathalyzer test, but when Marcano turned herself in the next day, she refused to take a breathalyzer and was never tested. She was released within days without the district attorney's or victim’s advocate’s knowledge, Fox says. 

Fox also says she was told initially that the occupants of the other vehicle were U.S. citizens, but after months of not hearing about any advancements in the case, she learned that ICE was involved. 

Over many months, Marcano would receive seven continuances, have five charges reduced to one, and only be required to pay restitution to the driver of the motorcycle, not Carissa, who remains in a wheelchair, is non-verbal, and requires a feeding tube. During Marcano’s eighth arraignment, Fox says she brought Carissa to the court so that they could see her daughter’s condition. At that time, Marcano took a plea deal, which was not discussed with the victim’s families, according to Fox.

“I don’t think Americans realize how different the experiences are between citizens and when they’re charged versus illegal aliens and when they’re charged,” Fox says.

She also says that she and her husband had been in a car accident shortly before Carissa, but the U.S. citizen in that case had “the book thrown” at him. He received multiple charges and the case was resolved in a matter of weeks, unlike her daughter’s case with an illegal immigrant.

Fox realized that, in a sanctuary state like Colorado, Marcano likely wouldn’t see any serious prison time for her crime, so she says she reached out to the Trump administration’s hotline for families impacted by illegal immigrants and “within days,” Marcano was deported.

Chrishia Odette was 13 years old when she was hit by an illegal immigrant with outstanding warrants. Her father, Chris, tells Just the News that the only charge Ramiro Guevara received for killing his daughter was a ticket for driving without a license, for which he was already wanted. He reportedly spent a mere 35 minutes in jail and posted a cash bond. He remained free for years and became a fugitive from ICE.

"Court system like a revolving door" for illegal immigrants, Angel Mom says

“I grew up believing the justice system was meant to put killers behind bars. I served the country believing in law and justice,” Chris tells Just the News.

Lacey Marie Ferguson was fatally shot on August 24, 2003, outside a convenience store in Modesto, California, by an illegal immigrant gang member. Her case went cold but was reopened in 2014 following pressure from her mother, Boni Driskill. The suspect, David Aguilar, had been arrested around a dozen times prior to Lacey’s murder. He was convicted in 2018 and sentenced to 61 years to life, plus life, Boni tells Just the News.

“He went through the court system like a revolving door, being repetitive with another crime, another crime, another crime, and I found twelve times where they could have at any point, you know, saved my daughter’s life,” Boni tells Just the News. “And they failed to do it.” I understand something will fall through the cracks once, twice, maybe even three times, but 12 times is wanton disregard.”

Fentanyl poisonings part of border security but not investigated

Fentanyl and other synthetic opioids account for nearly 70% of all overdose deaths in the U.S., according to the National Center for Drug Abuse Statistics. The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) says that Mexico and China are the primary source countries trafficking fentanyl into the U.S., yet so many fentanyl deaths are not fully investigated.

Families of those who have died due to fentanyl poisoning are included in the Angel Families definition because it is a trafficked substance and thus part of border security.

Laura Woody lost her son Jimmy in 2021, telling Just the News that his death wasn’t investigated because her son was a drug addict. She found evidence that the coroner called her son “just a druggie,” and the people who sold him the substance were never found. “Having a substance use disorder does not void a person’s right to justice,” Laura says, adding that the judicial system treats drug addicts as “less than human.”

She says that a police report wasn’t even written for her son until a week after he was found dead when she asked for the report. She also says it was full of incorrect information that was written from memory, and questions why these deaths aren’t investigated to find the dealers and those above them responsible for trafficking fentanyl.

“Every death could have been prevented if the previous one had been investigated,” she tells Just the News.

Debbie Santini also lost her son to fentanyl, but says the circumstances surrounding his death are suspicious, yet police didn’t conduct a full investigation. Her son, Jesse, died on February 16, 2022, just five days after entering a recovery house. Even though there were 10 people in the house besides Jesse, only four were interviewed, and Jesse’s name was spelled incorrectly throughout the police report.

“They did not even care to spell my child’s name right,” Debbie tells Just the News.

Debbie dealt with rotating investigators and never found the answers to how her son died in a house full of people without any drugs around him. She also says her son was shy and wouldn’t have used drugs in such a crowded house, that he would have gone to his vehicle or another private place, yet her suspicions were never answered.

"Living with a permanent hole in our lives"

The men and women who make up the Angel Families have previously written to Congress seeking a border fence, more Border Patrol agents and deportations, detention expansion, and screening of unaccompanied minors for gang ties.

“Every single one of us is living with a permanent hole in our lives because an illegal immigrant, who never should have been in this country, was allowed to stay and take an innocent life,” the families wrote through the American Border Story, a conservative-leaning 501(c)(4) nonprofit that tells their stories. “These were preventable tragedies.”