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Unauthorized immigrant population soared to an all-time high under Biden, new report shows
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A new report by the Pew Research Center shows that the unauthorized immigrant population in the U.S. soared to an all-time high of 14 million in 2023 in the middle of the Biden administration.
Released this week, the study shows that the unauthorized immigrant population reached an «all-time high» of 14 million in 2023 after two consecutive years of record growth in 2021 and 2022.
According to Pew, the number of unauthorized immigrants present in the country increased from 10.2 million in 2020 to 10.5 million in 2021 and 11.8 million in 2022.
Pew said the increase of 3.5 million unauthorized immigrants in two years is the biggest on record.
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Asylum-seeking migrants wait in line to receive donated food at a makeshift camp while awaiting processing by the U.S. Border Patrol Nov. 30, 2023, in Jacumba Hot Springs, Calif. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)
The next highest number of unauthorized immigrants recorded in a year was in 2007, with 12.2 million.
Further, Pew reported that though 2023 is the most recent year with comprehensive data available, preliminary data indicate continued growth in 2024 and a decrease in 2025, coinciding with the end of former President Joe Biden’s term and the beginning of President Donald Trump’s second term.
Pew posits that the decline in unauthorized immigrants could be as many as 1 million, which it attributes in part to increased deportations and reduced protections under the Trump administration. Nonetheless, the center said that the unauthorized immigrant population likely remains above 2023 levels.
The study defines an unauthorized immigrant as an immigrant who is not a naturalized citizen, lawful permanent resident, refugee, asylee, temporary legal resident or former unauthorized immigrants granted legal residence under the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act.
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Migrants flee through a gap being repaired in the border wall in Lukeville, Ariz. (Fox News)
Of the 14 million total unauthorized immigrants, Pew said 6 million have some type of protection from deportation, while 8 million do not. Pew said those with some protection from deportation are aliens who are asylum applicants, have temporary immigration parole, are victims of crimes, have temporary protective status or are Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA) recipients or border releases.
Simon Hankinson, a senior research fellow at the Border and Immigration Center at the Heritage Foundation, commented on the study, saying it «shows the scope of the illegal immigration disaster President Biden created and which President Trump is now trying to clean up.»
«Biden’s massive abuse of immigration parole, release of aliens caught entering illegally at the border and shackling of enforcement ballooned the number of people living here illegally to record proportions,» he added.
Besides unauthorized immigrants, Hankinson said the percentage of foreign-born residents in the U.S. is the highest in the country’s history at nearly 16 percent. He posited that «without assimilation and integration,» these levels of immigration «are socially and fiscally unsustainable.»
DHS TO SCREEN IMMIGRATION APPLICANTS FOR ‘ANTI-AMERICAN IDEOLOGIES’
ICE and several other federal, state and local agencies launched a week-long immigration enforcement operation in the Houston, Texas, area, which resulted in the arrests of 646 illegal immigrants. (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement)
On the other end of the spectrum, Hankinson commented that the report shows «what can be achieved with the right policies.»
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«In only six months, they estimate that over a million ‘unauthorized immigrants’ left the U.S. The vast majority of these did so on their own,» he said. «As we see the hysterical press coverage of interior immigration enforcement, let’s remember that the simplest, easiest, hassle-free way to avoid detention and deportation is to never enter or remain here illegally. The second easiest is to go home.»
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El soporte del gobierno de México a dictaduras de crimen organizado no puede continuar impune
El gobierno de México ha pasado de la narrativa ideológica a la humanitaria para tratar de justificar el sostenido soporte, encubrimiento y defensa de las organizaciones delictivas que bajo mando de La Habana someten con terrorismo de Estado a los pueblos de Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua y Bolivia. Desde operar su política exterior, el rescate de prófugos con cobertura diplomática, hasta la contratación de personal esclavo y entregas de petróleo, el apoyo y complicidad del gobierno de México a la dictadura de Cuba y sus satélites son violaciones al derecho interno e internacional que no pueden continuar impunes.
Andrés Manuel López Obrador, AMLO, convirtió a México en un gobierno “paradictatorial”, esto es un “gobierno elegido en democracia que sirve a las dictaduras de crimen organizado, las sostiene, busca legitimarlas e incumple obligaciones internacionales, traicionando y perjudicando sus intereses nacionales”.
La presidencia de Sheinbaum es solo la continuación de este sometimiento porque los gobiernos paradictatoriales se originan cuando el socialismo del siglo XXI -sigla política de la dictadura cubana y su expansión- promueve, financia y hace llegar al poder a los que una vez al mando ponen el país al servicio de sus comandantes.
El iter criminis de México bajo los gobiernos de AMLO y Sheinbaum para sostener al crimen organizado en las Américas es notorio y notable. Apoyo incondicional y sostenido a la dictadura de Cuba con contratación de médicos esclavos, compra de piedras, envío de petróleo y discursos humanitarios para cubrir el sostenimiento de un grupo criminal que mata de hambre y tortura a su pueblo desde hace más de 66 años. No se trata de apoyo, es servidumbre, vergüenza para un país como México que tuvo una política exterior proclamando respeto a la no intervención y a los derechos humanos.
En 2025, el Centro Mexicanos contra la Corrupción y la Impunidad ha documentado “55 envíos de crudo y derivados entre mayo y agosto a la dictadura de Cuba” y los “cargamentos han sido valorados en tres mil millones de dólares” pese a la escasez de gasolina en el propio México. Este monto ¿cómo se registra en el manejo estatal mexicano? Cuanto menos se trata de malversación de recursos públicos, de desfalco o de una cadena de falsificaciones que disfrazan el sostenimiento del crimen organizado con la denominada “Gasolina Bienestar” y que la democracia de México tiene la necesidad y la obligación de aclarar.
En México, al año 2024, se reportaban 678 médicos cubanos contratados para el sector público y el Director del Instituto Mexicano de Seguridad Social después de reunirse con el dictador cubano Díaz-Canel realizó la contratación de 1.200 médicos esclavos más. La esclavitud consiste en el pago al régimen cubano por el trabajo de personas cuyas familias permanecen como rehenes, como ha reportado el informe de las Naciones Unidas y los precedentes en Brasil, Bolivia, Venezuela, Ecuador y decenas de países más.
El apoyo a la dictadura de Cuba es soporte al grupo de crimen organizado más antiguo de las Américas, al primer narcoestado de la región, al punto más importante de violación a los derechos humanos por medio de terrorismo de Estado y al centro de conspiración y desestabilización que agrede sostenidamente a las democracias. Lo demuestra el servilismo mexicano en el sostenimiento del grupo delictivo que somete al pueblo de Venezuela cuando AMLO recibió con honores presidenciales a Nicolás Maduro e ignoró la orden internacional con 25 millones de dólares -que hoy son 50 millones- por su captura. Lo ratifica la decisión de apoyar la usurpación de la soberanía popular falsificando el resultado de las elecciones de 2024 y el actual sostenimiento al cartel de los soles.
El gobierno mexicano se ha convertido en el operador títere de la dictadura de Cuba extrayendo de Bolivia a Evo Morales en 2019 cuando renunció por fraude y crímenes infraganti, librándolo de ser procesado, con igual protección a los miembros de su grupo criminal en su embajada en La Paz. Repitió la maniobra en Ecuador protegiendo al condenado Jorge Glas, promoviendo el incidente diplomático que llevó al gobierno ecuatoriano a retirar al prófugo de la embajada mexicana. Intentó cobijar al golpista Pedro Castillo de Perú y da a su esposa Lilia Paredes “10.000 dólares mensuales, guardaespaldas y choferes particulares” como lo reportó Infobae en 2 Mayo 2024.
La abierta participación en la “migración forzada” contra Estados Unidos y el “narcotráfico de cocaína y fentanilo” no es un dato menor, cuando alegando cuestiones de soberanía se puso el territorio mexicano como plataforma de agresión contra el socio del tratado de libre comercio que le ha dado crecimiento y desarrollo legal. El gobierno de México ha permitido y tolera hasta ahora la existencia de narcoestados en estados de su país a los que ha fortalecido con la elección de jueces.
Este apretado resumen prueba que el gobierno mexicano viola la Convención de las Naciones Unidas contra la delincuencia organizada trasnacional o Convención de Palermo, el tratado de libre Comercio con EEUU y Canadá, la Convención Americana sobre Derechos Humanos o Pacto de San José, la Carta de la OEA, la Carta Democrática Interamericana, y más.
*El autor de este artículo es abogado, politólogo y Director del Interamerican Institute for Democracy.
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Two IDF soldiers killed amid ‘severe’ ceasefire violation, ‘it’s not the last,’ analyst says
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Two Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers were killed by terror operatives in Rafah, southern Gaza, threatening the ceasefire with Hamas, Israeli military sources confirmed to Fox News Digital on Sunday.
The soldiers, Major Yaniv Kula, 26, a company commander in the 932nd Battalion of the Nahal Brigade, and Staff Sergeant Itay Yavetz, 21, a combat soldier in the same battalion, were both based in Modi’in-Maccabim-Reut.
According to the initial IDF investigation, a militant cell had emerged from a tunnel and fired at an excavation vehicle, killing the two soldiers. A reserve soldier was also severely wounded and evacuated to a hospital, per The Times of Israel.
According to Professor Kobi Michael, senior researcher at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) and the Misgav Institute, the attack showed the fragility of the ceasefire deal.
ISRAEL SAYS HAMAS VIOLATED CEASEFIRE WITH ‘MULTIPLE ATTACKS’ LEADING TO IDF RESPONSE
Major Yaniv Kula was killed by Palestinian terror operatives in IDF-controlled southern Gaza’s Rafah city on Oct. 19 (IDF)
«Today’s violation of the agreement was severe,» Michael said. «I assume that this is not going to be the last one,» he told Fox News Digital.
«Israel complies [with President Trump’s] plan and wants to continue with the realization of the plan,» he said.
«This agreement was violated since the first day by Hamas,» Michael added. «And it continued with their behavior with regard to the hostages, the dead hostages.»
«All the manipulation that they are doing plays on the nerves of Israeli society,» he continued, saying the terror group is «making themselves as if they are not able… to find the bodies where everybody knows that they can.»
STATE DEPARTMENT WARNS HAMAS MAY VIOLATE CEASEFIRE WITH ATTACK ON PALESTINIAN CIVILIANS
Staff Sergeant Itay Yavetz was killed by Palestinian terror operatives in IDF-controlled southern Gaza’s Rafah city on Oct. 19. (IDF)
Michael detailed how the first violation came immediately after the redeployment of the IDF along the so-called Yellow Line, «when Hamas first sent [civilian] children in order to provoke the IDF, in order to check if the IDF is aware enough and ready enough.»
«And then they sent militants of Hamas, and some of them were even killed along the yellow line,» he said.
«They continue reconstituting themselves and attacking the IDF by using the tunnels, using the shafts going out, because they now feel much freer, because the IDF left the populated area,» he explained.
Michael also cited Hamas’ «butchering» of civilians «because they suspect that they collaborated with Israel, or because they are afraid that these hamulas or clans might oppose them in the future… and weaken them.»
ISRAELI TROOPS ‘OPEN FIRE’ ON SUSPECTS WHO APPROACHED SOLDIERS IN NORTHERN GAZA
Terrorists in the central Gaza town of Deir al-Balah celebrate the ceasefire on Jan. 19, 2025. (TPS-IL)
In response to Sunday’s attack, the IDF launched air and ground strikes across southern Gaza.
«The IDF also struck and dismantled six kilometers of underground terrorist infrastructure, using over 120 munitions. The underground site was used by the terrorist organization to advance attacks against the State of Israel,» it said in a statement.
«The IDF will continue to respond firmly and will operate to eliminate any threat to the State of Israel,» it said.
Israel simultaneously announced a suspension of all humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip.
Michael warned that Hamas has no intention of dismantling itself and cooperating with the plan when it comes to demilitarizing the Gaza Strip and establishing a mechanism of alternative governance.
«Hamas is still using the tunnels, and intends to reconstruct the tunnels that were destroyed by Israel, because they intend to continue the war against Israel,» he said.
STATE DEPARTMENT WARNS HAMAS MAY VIOLATE CEASEFIRE WITH ATTACK ON PALESTINIAN CIVILIANS
Suspected terrorists in Gaza come out of hiding as ceasefire for hostages deal gets underway in Gaza’s Deir al-Balah area. (Majdi Fathi/TPS-IL)
He said that the militant organization has been rebuilding its ranks and reasserting control in the Strip.
«They immediately recruited [thousands] of people and deployed them and are butchering their own people,» Michael said.
«They do not intend to give up on their position and influence in the Gaza Strip. They do not accept the idea of dismantling themselves. And they do not accept the idea that a foreign force or board will govern the Gaza Strip,» he concluded.
The incident comes just days after a U.S.-brokered ceasefire, which took effect Oct. 10, temporarily halted the two-year war between Israel and Hamas.
Under the deal, hostages were released in exchange for Palestinian prisoners, and a ceasefire was declared.
Later on Sunday, the IDF announced the resumption of the ceasefire, following retaliatory strikes.
ISRAEL’S COVERT CAMPAIGN TARGETS HAMAS TERRORISTS BEHIND OCT 7 MASSACRE
IDF soldiers salute during a memorial ceremony marking two years since the Oct. 7 attack on Nahal Oz base. (IDF Spokesperson’s Unit)
«In accordance with the directive of the political echelon and following a series of significant strikes in response to Hamas’ violations, the IDF has begun the renewed enforcement of the ceasefire,» a statement read.
«The IDF will continue to uphold the ceasefire agreement and will respond firmly to any violation of it,» the military added.
In a statement, Israeli UN Ambassador Danny Danon said: «Earlier today, two IDF soldiers, Maj. Yaniv Kula and Staff Sgt. Itay Yavetz, were killed by Hamas terrorists in Rafah in what was a flagrant violation of the ceasefire agreement.»
«We mourn their loss and send our condolences to their families. Israel has abided by the terms of the ceasefire agreement, but we will make it clear to Hamas terrorists that the IDF will do whatever it takes to protect Israel’s security,» Danon added.
Michael, meanwhile, predicted delays in reopening the Rafah Crossing, a critical entry point for aid and movement.
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«I don’t think Rafah Crossing will open tomorrow,» he said. «It will take several days until it is opened,» he said.
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