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| | What’s more, she said, the target population is small and can already gain access to naturalization. | | What’s more, she said, the target population is small and can already gain access to naturalization. |
| | “If a disabled immigrant is not competent to fulfill the requirements for naturalization, they still are able to live here as permanent residents, and it would not create problems for them; no one is sending them back to their home country. There is no penalty for not naturalizing, so there is no humanitarian reason not to have high standards,” said Vaughan.</font></blockquote></ref> All you have to do is to just "say" you have some mental issue. | | “If a disabled immigrant is not competent to fulfill the requirements for naturalization, they still are able to live here as permanent residents, and it would not create problems for them; no one is sending them back to their home country. There is no penalty for not naturalizing, so there is no humanitarian reason not to have high standards,” said Vaughan.</font></blockquote></ref> All you have to do is to just "say" you have some mental issue. |
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| | + | Per CBP, (report released in Oct 2022), 20 known or suspected terrorists arrested at the southern border in September, bringing the total terror watchlist arrests at the border for the fiscal year 2022 to 98. |
| | + | <ref>Bill Melugin and Landon Mion, [https://www.foxnews.com/us/southern-border-migrant-encounters-surpass-record-227k-september September migrant encounters hit record high, 20 suspected terrorists arrested], ''Fox News'', October 22, 2022.<blockquote>The number of migrant encounters at the U.S. southern border climbed to a record more than 227,000 during the month of September and more than 2.3 million for fiscal year 2022... |
| | + | The number of migrant encounters at the U.S. southern border climbed to a record more than 227,000 during the month of September and more than 2.3 million for fiscal year 2022, according to data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection. |
| | + | CBP uploaded the border numbers on Friday night in what was the highest number of encounters during the month of September in Department of Homeland Security history. |
| | + | CBP’s numbers also show that there were 20 known or suspected terrorists arrested at the southern border in September, bringing the total terror watchlist arrests at the border for the fiscal year 2022 to 98. The number of terror watchlist arrests at the border for the last five years combined was 26. |
| | + | September’s migrant encounter number was a significant increase from the same month in recent years. In September 2021, there were 192,001 migrant encounters. Border agents encountered 57,674 migrants in September 2020 and 52,546 in September 2019….</blockquote></ref> |
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