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Biden admin faces mounting pressure to dismantle migrant parole program amid ‘stress’ on small towns

Biden admin faces mounting pressure to dismantle migrant parole program amid ‘stress’ on small towns

FIRST ON FOX: Pressure is growing on the Biden administration to shut down its migrant travel program for four nationalities, as Republicans say migrants from those countries have caused “stress and burdens” on communities throughout the U.S. Twenty-seven lawmakers, led by Reps. Guy Reschenthaler, R-Pa., and Chip Roy, R-Texas, have written to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas calling for the end to what they say is an “unlawful” parole process for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans (CHNV). The program allows up to 30,000 nationals each month to enter the U.S. via humanitarian parole from those four countries after receiving advance travel authorization. More than half a million nationals have entered as part of the program, which is part of the effort to expand “lawful pathways” by the administration. However, the lawmakers note communities across the U.S. that have reported intense strain due to an influx of migrants from those countries, particularly Haiti. HAITIAN MIGRANTS OVERWHELMING SMALL INDIANA TOWN: ‘IT’S JUST OVERRUN’ “While the United States faces an unprecedented crisis, created by the Biden-Harris Administration, at our southern border, nearly 530,000 inadmissible aliens have entered the U.S. through the CHNV program since January 2023 alone. This decision has placed significant financial stress and burdens on communities across the United States, including Charleroi, Pennsylvania; Springfield, Ohio; and Logansport, Indiana,” they write. Fox spoke to residents in Charleroi, some of whom say they have seen significant pressure due to Haitian migration, including on schools and other services. In Logansport, residents have said they have been “overrun” as the population has grown by 20-30% since 2021, mostly from Haitians.  Meanwhile, the Biden administration has extended Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitians and Venezuelans in the U.S., meaning many arrivals are protected from deportation and can receive work permits. The lawmakers say that, according to 25 governors, the administration has “failed to communicate arrival times, duration of residency, legal status, and locations of CHNV parolees while also creating ‘considerable confusion and alarm among local officials and the general public.’” SWING STATE OFFICIAL WARNS VILLAGE STRUGGLING WITH FINANCIAL LOSSES AFTER INFLUX OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS  They also note that the Biden administration paused issuing authorizations briefly after fraud was found among sponsor applications in the program. Recently, the Biden administration said it would not be renewing paroles for arrivals but would still be accepting new applications. “We call on the administration to end the unlawful, fraud-filled CHNV program and curtail TPS and other immigration relief provided to aliens paroled through CHNV. Without doing so, the Biden-Harris Administration’s immigration policies will continue to place significant burdens on communities across our nation,” they say. The DHS said it “responds to congressional correspondence directly via official channels, and the Department will continue to respond to congressional oversight.”  HAITIAN MIGRATION ROILS TOWN IN KEY BATTLEGROUND STATE WITH SIGNS OF PRO-TRUMP SUPPORT ON THE RISE Meanwhile, officials have stressed that CHNV processes are a “safe and orderly way” to reach the U.S. and have been linked to a 99% drop in encounters between ports of entry at the border from those nationalities. They have stressed that migrants are responsible for their own travel and that DHS does not select their final destination, although they are vetted by multiple databases and not allowed in if they do not pass that process. The agency says it is “working with communities on their unique situations, and developing new efficiencies that speed up the work authorization process and providing on-the-ground immigration services to migrants who are eligible to apply for a work permit but have not yet done so.” Officials have also noted that more than $650 million has been allocated to support communities receiving migrants throughout the U.S. by DHS. The letter comes as migration and related border security has become a top issue in the election. Former President Donald Trump has promised to shut down parole programs if allowed into office. This week, Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., introduced legislation that would limit the number of parolees to 1,000 a year and curtail the use of TPS. Vice President Kamala Harris has pledged to sign a border security bill if elected while also renewing her calls for a more sweeping piece of legislation that includes a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants — including TPS recipients.

Huge majority of Americans are ‘anxious and frustrated’ about upcoming election, poll finds

Huge majority of Americans are ‘anxious and frustrated’ about upcoming election, poll finds

The vast majority of Americans report being “anxious and frustrated” rather than “excited” regarding the upcoming election, according to a Thursday poll from the Associated Press. The poll found that 7 in 10 Americans reported feeling frustrated about the election, while just under a third say they are excited. The AP-NORC poll comes as the presidential race between former President Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris remains neck-and-neck. The poll found that Democrats in particular are feeling more anxious than usual. Roughly 8 in 10 Democrats said they have negative feelings about the upcoming election, compared to just 7 in 10 in the last election. Independents are the most even keeled, however, with roughly half of the group saying they are anxious and the other half saying they are excited. FOX NEWS POLL: MORE HARRIS THAN TRUMP SUPPORTERS THINK VOTERS WILL BE COUNTED ACCURATELY & WILL ACCEPT OUTCOME The poll of 1,233 adults was conducted Oct. 24-29, 2024, using a sample drawn from NORC’s probability-based AmeriSpeak Panel, which is designed to be representative of the U.S. population. The margin of sampling error is plus or minus 3.6 percentage points. HARRIS, TRUMP, MAKE FINAL PITCHES TO VOTERS IN HIGH STAKES BATTLEGROUND The presidential race remains virtually tied both nationally and in the swing states as the nation sits just five days from Election Day. North Carolina likely voters put Trump slightly ahead of Harris in a new Fox News survey released Wednesday. That’s unchanged since September. Trump leads Harris 49%-47% among likely voters, while third-party candidates receive 4%. In the two-way contest, his edge narrows to 1 point — a useful indicator as pre-election surveys often overstate support for third-party candidates. HARRIS LAYS OUT HER CLOSING ARGUMENT AGAINST TRUMP WITH THE WHITE HOUSE AS A BACKDROP Meanwhile, in Pennsylvania, both candidates are tied at 48% support with an expanded ballot, according to the Wednesday poll. With third-party candidates removed, Trump is up by 1 point (50% to 49% Harris). The vice president on Wednesday, speaking in front of a large crowd at the Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex and Expo Center, urged her supporters to “get this done.” Harris made multiple stops Sunday in Philadelphia, the state’s largest city. Trump held a campaign event Tuesday in Delaware County, in suburban Philadelphia, before holding a rally in Allentown. “I don’t like to speak too early, but you have to get out and vote because we … we want a big, beautiful number. We’re leading in every single swing state. Because, normally Republicans, they like to vote at the end no matter what you say, they like to vote at the end,” Trump said from the Allentown rally.  The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Former NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo referred to DOJ for prosecution by House subcommittee: report

Former NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo referred to DOJ for prosecution by House subcommittee: report

A Republican-led House subcommittee on Wednesday referred former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to the Justice Department after he was accused of lying to Congress about a report on his involvement in nursing home deaths during the coronavirus pandemic. Leader of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, Rep. Brad Wenstrup, R-Ohio, signed the referral that accuses Cuomo of engaging in a “conscious, calculated effort” to avoid responsibility for how nursing home deaths were accounted for in early 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic began. The referral letter claims that Cuomo, who held a behind-closed-doors meeting with the subcommittee, didn’t review a State Health Department report that blamed him for those deaths, according to a new report by the New York Times. FEDERAL JUDGE DISMISSES NURSING HOME COVID DEATH CASE AGAINST FORMER NEW YORK GOV. ANDREW CUOMO Despite Cuomo reportedly reviewing the reports from his state’s health department and writing parts of early drafts in emails, the former governor says he doesn’t recollect such a thing. “This taxpayer-funded farce is an illegal use of Congress’s investigative authority,” said Richard Azzopardi, a spokesperson for Cuomo. “The governor said he didn’t recall because he didn’t recall. The committee lied in their referral just as they have been lying to the public and the press.” This comes as Cuomo has surfaced as a top name for next year’s New York City mayoral contest. It’s unclear whether current Mayor Eric Adams will run again as he’s recently been indicted by a grand jury on five counts of bribery and corruption, which includes soliciting illegal foreign campaign donations. Cuomo resigned as governor in August 2021 amid sexual harassment allegations, which he still denies. ANDREW CUOMO WILL FINALLY FACE QUESTIONS OVER COVID DEATHS. WILL MY FAMILY AND OTHERS LEARN THE TRUTH? The criminal referral by the House subcommittee doesn’t carry water in the legal system and Congress doesn’t have the wherewithal to instruct the Justice Department on what they should do with it. There’s also no indication if the upcoming election will have any bearing on the subcommittee’s referral — regardless of who gains control of Congress or who wins the presidency. Cuomo’s memoir, “American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic,” has been under scrutiny the last few years and he was ordered to return $5 million on his payment advance for the piece after a state ethics board declared he used state resources to help pen it. That’s something Cuomo also denied and successfully sued the board for, claiming it was his right to due process. EX-NEW YORK GOV ANDREW CUOMO TO FACE HOUSE GOP COMMITTEE OVER COVID NURSING HOME DEATHS Cuomo has insisted that information and data regarding COVID deaths during the early stages was unreliable, and that his administration focused on more reliable numbers that people could trust, according to the Times. In Wenstrup’s letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland, he said Cuomo falsely said “he did not have any discussions about the July 6 report being peer reviewed” and “that he did not know whether the July 6 report was reviewed by persons outside” the State Department of Health. “Mr. Cuomo provided false statements to the select subcommittee in what appears to be a conscious, calculated effort to insulate himself from accountability,” Wenstrup wrote in the referral letter reviewed by the Times. “The Department of Justice should consider Mr. Cuomo’s prior allegedly wrongful conduct when evaluating whether to charge him for the false statements described.” Cuomo has accused the subcommittee of misusing government resources to “investigate a matter beyond its jurisdiction, apparently in service of a private lawsuit.”

Harris picks up endorsements from New Hampshire Republicans 6 days before election

Harris picks up endorsements from New Hampshire Republicans 6 days before election

Vice President Harris on Wednesday picked up endorsements from three longtime Republican leaders in New Hampshire who supported former President Trump’s rival Nikki Haley in the Republican primary. Former U.S. Senator Gordon Humphrey, former U.S. Congressman and former New Hampshire Supreme Court Justice Chuck Douglas and former New Hampshire Attorney General Thomas Rath condemned Trump as a divisive and unstable candidate in statements declaring their support for Harris. Her campaign said the endorsements reflect growing enthusiasm for the vice president among registered Republicans both in the Granite State and the rest of the nation. “I voted Republican for fifty years, but I’m voting against Donald Trump and I plead with all Republicans to do the same,” Humphrey said in a statement.  “As a father, a grandfather, a veteran, and a former United States Senator, I cannot vote for Trump. He’s dangerous to our democracy.”  Douglas said that Trump “believes in himself over service” and views the election “as the change to jail his political opponents.” Harris would be a “steady hand at the ship of state” in contrast to Trump’s “fragile mental state and anger,” according to the former lawmaker.  BIDEN CALLS FOR TRUMP TO BE ‘POLITICALLY’ LOCKED UP AT NEW HAMPSHIRE EVENT Rath likewise condemned Trump’s “campaign of division, anger, thinly veiled prejudice, and rejection of our core values as a nation.”  The Harris-Walz campaign welcomed their support and noted that hundreds of current and former Republicans across the country have backed Harris, including former GOP Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger.  IT’S A TIGHT RACE IN THE BATTLE TO SUCCEED POPULAR SWING STATE REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR In New Hampshire specifically, the campaign said there has been a 47% increase in registered Republican volunteers compared to 2022 and a 76% increase in the number of GOP voters who have told canvassers they plan to vote for Democrats next week.   “While Vice President Harris has made clear there is a home in her campaign for all Americans – including Republicans and independents – Donald Trump continues to double down on his extreme agenda,” the campaign said in a news release. NEW HAMPSHIRE MAKES PRIMARY PICKS FOR GOVERNOR AND HOUSE RACES Reached for comment, the Trump campaign noted that Haley is supporting his candidacy, along with former Democrats Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii.  “President Trump is building a historic and diverse movement to make America great again,” Trump national press secretary Karoline Leavitt said. “He’s been endorsed by many respected leaders from Nikki Haley to RFK Jr., and Tulsi Gabbard. We welcome anyone who wants to secure our border, restore law and order, and end inflation to join our team.” New Hampshire has been an important swing state in prior presidential elections, although Harris has held a consistent lead over Trump in public opinion polls this year. Fox News’ Power Rankings rate the state as “Likely D.”  Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more at our Fox News Digital election hub.

Jim Jordan says YouTube ‘censored’ Joe Rogan interview with Trump

Jim Jordan says YouTube ‘censored’ Joe Rogan interview with Trump

House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, is accusing YouTube of potentially repressing former President Trump’s interview with podcast host Joe Rogan. In a letter to Alphabet CEO Sundar Pitchai sent late Wednesday, Jordan said the tech giant’s subsidiary “appears to have censored the video of Joe Rogan’s recent interview with President Donald Trump.” “We write to seek an immediate briefing on (1) YouTube’s decision to censor Joe Rogan’s interview with President Trump; and (2) Google Search’s elevation of material critical of the interview,” Jordan wrote. TOP PUERTO RICAN OFFICIAL ENDORSES FORMER PRESIDENT AFTER COMIC’S RALLY SET RUFFLES FEATHERS The Ohio Republican cited a New York Post report that said people were having difficulty finding the three-hour interview on YouTube. “Recent news coverage reports that ‘search[es] on YouTube using the terms ‘Joe Rogan Trump’ or ‘Joe Rogan Donald Trump’ did not bring up Friday’s three-hour sit-down at the top of the list,’” the letter said The report claimed the full interview was also “absent” from YouTube’s trending videos page the following day. Jordan also said YouTube acknowledged “censorship” of the interview, referring to a statement posted to X earlier this week that read, “For some searches on Monday the original 3-hour interview didn’t appear prominently. Short excerpts uploaded by the Joe Rogan channel appeared, but we know it was frustrating for users looking to find the full video.” BIDEN CALLS TRUMP SUPPORTERS ‘GARBAGE’ DURING HARRIS CAMPAIGN EVENT AS VP PROMISES UNITY AT ELLIPSE RALLY “We’ve worked to resolve this and viewers will begin seeing the full podcast in more YouTube search results soon,” the statement said. Jordan wrote in his letter to Alphabet, “Americans deserve access to political speech, especially in the closing weeks before an election.” “Given the company’s recent history of censorship, including at the behest of the Biden-Harris Administration, YouTube’s censorship of former President Trump is particularly troubling,” he wrote. “Please arrange for this briefing as soon as possible, but no later than 10:00 am on November 14, 2024.” SLOTKIN SLAMS FELLOW DEM BIDEN FOR ‘GARBAGE’ GAFFE AMID HEATED SENATE BATTLE Republicans have accused Google of censoring speech in the past. Most recently, the attorney general of Missouri said he would investigate the company, though Google called the accusations “totally false” in a statement to Reuters. As of late Wednesday evening, Rogan’s interview with Trump has over 41 million views on YouTube. Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more at our Fox News Digital election hub.