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A man, who is part of a group of immigrants that had just arrived, flashes a thumbs up Wednesday Sept. 14, 2022, in Edgartown, Mass., on Martha's Vineyard. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday flew two planes of immigrants to Martha's Vineyard, escalating a tactic by Republican governors to draw attention to what they consider to be the Biden administration's failed border policies. (Ray Ewing/Vineyard Gazette via AP)

Sanctuary advocates cry foul when border crisis gets up close, personal

The campaign by red state governors to transport illegal immigrants to Democratic-led areas expanded dramatically this week with Texas dropping off busloads right outside Vice President Kamala Harris' official residence in Washington and Florida flying planeloads of Venezuelans to Martha's Vineyard, a playground for the country's liberal elite.

September 15, 2022
Immigrants gather with their belongings outside St. Andrews Episcopal Church, Wednesday Sept. 14, 2022, in Edgartown, Mass., on Martha's Vineyard. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday flew two planes of immigrants to Martha's Vineyard, escalating a tactic by Republican governors to draw attention to what they consider to be the Biden administration's failed border policies. (Ray Ewing/Vineyard Gazette via AP)

Florida ships illegal immigrants to Martha’s Vineyard

Florida shipped two planeloads of illegal immigrants to Martha's Vineyard, joining Texas and Arizona in trying to make deep blue territory feel the pain of the migration surge that's taken place under President Biden.

September 15, 2022
Migrants wait to be processed by Border Patrol agents near the end of a border wall Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2022, near Yuma, Arizona. The Border Patrol is seeing a dramatic shift in the type of migrants who come across the busiest places on the U.S.-Mexico. Migrants are now coming from more than 100 countries, and Mexicans are virtually absent. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

29% of border migrants failed to show up for check-ins: Audit

Nearly a third of illegal immigrants released during the early months of the Biden migrant surge last year failed to show up for required check-ins, according to a new inspector general's report that said Homeland Security is having a tough time tracking all the people it's setting free.

September 13, 2022
Then-Census Bureau Director nominee Robert Santos, testifies before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee, Thursday, July 15, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Santos, now the Census Bureau director, said Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2022, in an interview with The Associated Press that the statistical agency was starting its outreach efforts with hard-to-reach communities earlier, rather than just before the next count, which is in 2030. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Stimulus spending lifted Americans out of poverty: Census Bureau

The child tax credit helped push a key measure of poverty to its lowest level on record, according to new Census Bureau data Tuesday that signaled just how critical government assistance was to propping Americans up in the second year of the coronavirus pandemic.

September 13, 2022
Migrants share food as they load a bus to take them to a refugee center outside Union Station in Chicago, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022. Chicago officials say 75 immigrants have arrived in the city on buses from Texas, as part of an aggressive border policy by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. Mayor Lori Lightfoot's office confirmed that the migrants arrived Wednesday night and that the city has welcomed them and will make sure they receive shelter and food. (Anthony Vazquez /Chicago Sun-Times via AP)

Texas migrant busing crosses 10,000 mark

Texas has bused its 10,000th migrant to other regions of the U.S. as part of Gov. Greg Abbott's plan to share the pain of the border surge.

September 9, 2022