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Blackburn questions Veterans Affairs over illegal immigrant use of agency resources
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Blackburn questions Veterans Affairs over illegal immigrant use of agency resources

By Julia Johnson, Washington Examiner | SOURCE: THE GAZETTE EXCLUSIVE — Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) sent a letter Wednesday to the Department of Veterans Affairs pressing the agency on its use of resources for the healthcare of illegal immigrants. Veterans Affairs has an agreement with Immigration and Customs Enforcement in which it processes medical claims on the agency's behalf, but the VA emphasizes it does not provide illegal immigrants healthcare. ICE covers the cost of those claims. The letter, addressed to Secretary Denis McDonough, expresses skepticism at that statement, asking if the agency checks citizenship status before approving veteran healthcare benefits and whether the Biden administration has given any directive on medical care for t...
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Understanding the Constitution: How States May Respond to Illegal Immigration—Part III
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Understanding the Constitution: How States May Respond to Illegal Immigration—Part III

By Rob Natelson | SOURCE: INDEPENDENCE INSTITUTE This essay first appeared in the Jan. 10, 2024 Epoch Times. Part I and Part II in this series explained that: The Constitution grants the federal government the exclusive power to wage offensive war; but the states as well as the federal government may wage defensive war; the states may wage defensive war against insurrectionists and against actual or threatened invasions—including invasions by those international criminal gangs the Founders called “enemies of the human race;” and the historical record shows that the mass illegal immigration at the Southern border is an “Invasion” as the Constitution uses that word. A Not-So-Hypothetical Situation As part of our research into state war ...
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New immigrants pose ‘difficult dilemma’ as Denver Health sees 700% increase in patients
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New immigrants pose ‘difficult dilemma’ as Denver Health sees 700% increase in patients

By Nicole C. Brambila | SOURCE: DENVER GAZETTE Denver Health — the city’s hospital safety net — has seen a 700% increase across its health system in patients from South and Central America over the past 14 months. The rise in patients coincides with — and health officials attribute to — the unprecedented numbers of immigrants, who have crossed America's border illegally, coming to Denver. The lion share of these new patients are from Venezuela. “Overall, these patients don’t have medical insurance,” said Dr. Taylor McCormick, associate director of Pediatrics Emergency Medicine at Denver Health. “Denver Health is eating the cost for many of these visits.” Denver Health does not track — nor does it ask — the immigration status of its patients. READ FULL ARTICLE ON GAZETTE.C...
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Understanding the Constitution: How States May Respond to Illegal Immigration—Part II
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Understanding the Constitution: How States May Respond to Illegal Immigration—Part II

By Rob Natelson | SOURCE: INDEPENDENCE INSTITUTE This essay first appeared in the Jan. 9, 2024 Epoch Times. Part I of this series showed that under the Constitution, an “invasion” triggers powers and obligations for both federal and state governments. It also showed that mass unauthorized immigration at the Southern border meets the constitutional definition of an “invasion.” This Part II explains federal and state responsibility in the face of invasion. Further, this Part introduces the topic of trans-national criminal gangs, and how states may respond to them. All the installments in this series are based on a research article I co-wrote with legal scholar Andrew T. Hyman (pdf). READ FULL ARTICLE ON INDEPENDENCEINSTITUTE.COM
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Weekly Roundup: Abuse of Taxpayers in Jeffco, Migrant Crisis, Tax Relief in Dougco, the Polis Agenda
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Weekly Roundup: Abuse of Taxpayers in Jeffco, Migrant Crisis, Tax Relief in Dougco, the Polis Agenda

BY BRANDON WARK | SOURCE: FREE STATE COLORADO Howdy Colorado! I hope you are staying warm this week! Every week I take a look at news stories, articles and headlines around Colorado. Let’s see what’s in the news this week: Links to Articles: Husband of Rep. Brittany Pettersen lands hefty Jefferson County consulting gig; questions swirl around bid process: https://pagetwo.completecolorado.com/2024/01/15/husband-of-rep-brittany-pettersen-lands-hefty-jefferson-county-consulting-gig-questions-swirl-around-process/ Douglas County commissioners approve millions in tax relief checks as steep property tax bills come due: https://www.denver7.com/news/local-news/douglas-county-commissioners-approve-millions-in-tax-relief-checks-as-steep-property-tax-bills-come-due ...
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Denver City councilmembers ‘desperate’ amid homelessness, immigration crises
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Denver City councilmembers ‘desperate’ amid homelessness, immigration crises

By Luige Del Puerto | SOURCE: COLORADO POLITICS Denver Mayor Mike Johnston plans to travel to Washington, D.C. this week — his second in as many months — to press White House and federal officials for a concrete solution to the illegal immigration crisis that's threatening to consume hundreds of millions of dollars of the city's budget.  Denver’s mayor earlier said if the current influx of immigrants persists, the city could be spending $180 million this year. In the past year, the city burned through $38 million to accommodate the more than 37,000 immigrants who illegally crossed America's southern border and arrived in Denver.  Worried about how to pay for the immigrants' food and shelter, Johnston asked the city's agency heads to evaluate their budgets and come u...
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Costs for Assisting Denver’s Overwhelming Indigent Migrants Could Reach $500 per Household, Report Reveals
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Costs for Assisting Denver’s Overwhelming Indigent Migrants Could Reach $500 per Household, Report Reveals

SOURCE: THELOBBY-CO.COM The financial burden to house, feed, and care for the thousands of indigent migrants arriving in Denver could amount to $500 per Denver household, according to a report from the Common Sense Institute. The report from the think tank highlights the growing apprehension regarding the city's ability to provide essential services for the influx of migrants. "If the Denver mayor's recent spending projections of $180 million hold true, the city will have exhausted a significant amount of its general funding by the end of 2024," the report states. "To date, spending has been covered by a combination of federal, state, and city funds, but it remains unclear how the projected 2024 amount will be financed." Furthermore, Denver's expenditures fail to fully ac...
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Denver City Council to consider banning homeless camp sweeps in frigid weather
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Denver City Council to consider banning homeless camp sweeps in frigid weather

By Noah Festenstein | SOURCE: The Denver Gazette Denver buying the $88.5 million Denver Post building and a ban on sweeps of homeless encampments while temperatures are below 32 degrees top the agenda for the Denver City Council meeting on Tuesday. City offices are closed on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, delaying the council’s weekly Monday meeting.  Two of the items likely to be most talked about were tabled at the past two meetings. Council members two weeks ago voted to postpone the purchase of the Denver Post building, citing a need for more information about the purchase plan. The city is considering buying the building for $88.5 million. Denver needs more courtroom space by 2030, according to a 2020 courts master plan. READ FULL ARTICLE ON DENVERGAZETTE.COM
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How States May Respond to Illegal Immigration
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How States May Respond to Illegal Immigration

By Rob Natelson, SOURCE: Independence Institute This essay was first published in the Jan. 8, 2024 Epoch Times. As unauthorized foreigners continue to flood across the Southern border, state officials continue to cast about for solutions. In normal times, the federal government would remedy the problem. But these are not normal times: The administration of President Joe Biden actually seems to be aiding the influx. State officials are hampered by a Supreme Court doctrine called “implied federal preemption.” The courts use this doctrine to void some state laws as contradicting federal statutes, even when the federal statutes do not explicitly override them. For example, the Arizona legislature adopted four measures to address illegal immigration. They were consist...
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Suspect in DUI death of Colo mother and son was deported four times
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coloradopeakpolitics.com, State

Suspect in DUI death of Colo mother and son was deported four times

SOURCE: Colorado Peak Politics As sanctuary cities plot to get billions more in taxpayer dollars to support illegal immigrants and expand services to migrants with questionable asylum claims, we are tragically reminded of the consequences of embracing lawless borders. Jose Guadalupe Menjivar-Alas of El Salvador was deported four times before he got drunk and crashed into a vehicle killing a Broomfield mother and her 16-year-old son just before Christmas, The Daily Caller reported this week. PeakNation™ will recall that Menjivar-Alas was arrested and chargedwith homicide, DUI, and being a habitual traffic offender in the deaths of 47-year-old Melissa Powell and son Riordan. Now we learn he was last deported in 2015. His most recent alcohol-related incident in Boulder County ...
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