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Despite Migrant Surge, ICE Deportations Fall To Record Low Under Biden Admin...KAYLEE GREENLEE REPORTER May 05, 2021

Despite Migrant Surge, ICE Deportations Fall To Record Low Under Biden Admin

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials performed a record low number of deportations in April despite illegal border crossings occurring at a 20-year high, according to the agency.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials deported 2,962 immigrants in April, a 20% decline from March, an agency spokesperson told the Daily Caller News Foundation Wednesday. The April numbers mark the first time the agency has deported less than 3,000 individuals in one month since the beginning of ICE’s records, The Washington Post first reported.

President Joe Biden restricted ICE officials’ enforcement capabilities while top officials are working on agency reform including focusing on immigrants with criminal histories who threaten public safety or national security, the Post reported.

“U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has concentrated its limited law enforcement resources on threats to national security, border security, and public safety. This has allowed ICE to focus on the quality of enforcement actions and how they further the security and safety of our communities rather than the simple quantity of arrests and removals,” an ICE spokesperson told the DCNF.

Biden’s 100-day pause on most deportations combined with new enforcement priorities caused interior arrests by agency officials to decline, according to the Post. (RELATED: ACLU Asks Biden Admin To Shut Down ICE Detention Facilities)

“This administration has de-emphasized the likelihood that people would get arrested if they aren’t a threat to public safety or recently crossed the border, so they are not going to have strong removal numbers,” former Acting ICE Director Ronald Vitiello said, according to the Post.

“That’s part of a signal being sent — that immigration enforcement isn’t a priority for this team,” Vitiello said, the Post reported. “The odds of being arrested just for being in the country illegally were always extremely low, and now they’ve basically ruled it out by policy.”

ICE officials deported around 37,000 immigrants in the last seven months and the agency is expected to report less than 55,000 total deportations in 2021, the first time ICE will have deported fewer than 100,000 people in recorded history, according to the Post. Deportations declined after former President Donald Trump instated a public health order allowing Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials to rapidly expel illegal migrants citing the COVID-19 pandemic.

CBP officials encountered over 172,000 migrants in March including nearly 19,000 unaccompanied minors, according to the agency. There are around 11 million undocumented immigrants including 1.2 million with court orders to leave the country reside in the U.S., the Post reported.

The Biden administration left the public health order, Title 42, in place and officials have used it to expel around 700,000 illegal migrants in the last 13 months, the Post reported. The procedure is not considered an official deportation or “removal” and is not recorded as one.

Since Biden took office, ICE officials have arrested around 2,500 individuals a month whereas officials made around 6,000 monthly arrests near the end of the Trump administration, the Post reported.

Editor’s note: This story has been updated to reflect comment from Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

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US Fertility Rates Continue To Plummet As Millennials Face Financial Concerns, Marry Later...MARY MARGARET OLOHAN SOCIAL ISSUES REPORTER May 05, 2021

US Fertility Rates Continue To Plummet As Millennials Face Financial Concerns, Marry Later

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MARY MARGARET OLOHANSOCIAL ISSUES REPORTER

May 05, 202110:52 AM ET

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United States fertility rates are at their lowest in over four decades, data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics shows.

The provisional number of births in the United States in 2020 is down 4% from 2019, CDC data showed. Women in the United States gave birth to approximately 3.61 million babies in 2020, compared to about 3.75 million births in 2019.

The United States total fertility rate fell to 1.64, the lowest rate since the government began tracking such data in the 1930s, according to the Wall Street Journal. (RELATED: States Introduced Over 500 Pro-Life Bills In 2021 In ‘Pro-Life Surge’)

“This is the sixth consecutive year that the number of births has declined after an increase in 2014, down an average of 2% per year, and the lowest number of births since 1979,” the CDC noted in its report.

The decrease in births is likely impacted by the coronavirus pandemic, which emerged in March 2020, as well as economic concerns, the WSJ reported.

“The fact that you had this coincide with the time the pandemic hit is certainly cause for suspicion,” federal statistician and demographer Dr. Hamilton told the WSJ, noting that it is too soon to understand the pandemic’s exact impact on fertility.

Social and economic shifts are likely driving fertility rates down, demographers told the WSJ, since U.S. births peaked in 2007 and then began dropping during that year’s recession. (RELATED: Biden Admin Reverses Trump’s Ban On Using Aborted Fetal Tissue For Taxpayer-Funded Research)

“It’s not just COVID,” University of New Hampshire senior demographer Kenneth Johnson told the WSJ. “It’s the fact that the birthrates never recovered from the Great Recession. I’ve been waiting for years to see a big jump in fertility to women in their 30s and it hasn’t happened.”

Female millennials are now the majority of women who are having children, and researchers suggested to the WSJ that their lowered fertility rates may be attributed to the fact that millennial women are getting higher levels of education, marrying later in life, and are not as financially secure at younger ages as other generations were.

“It’s a big social change in the U.S.,” Alison Gemmill, a demographer at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health studying fertility told the New York Times. “A gradual shift of family formation to later ages.”

Canadians Are Flying South To Cut The Line For American COVID-19 Vaccines...DYLAN HOUSMAN GENERAL ASSIGNMENT & ANALYSIS REPORTER May 05, 2021

Canadians Are Flying South To Cut The Line For American COVID-19 Vaccines

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May 05, 20219:13 PM ET

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America’s neighbors to the north are crossing the closed Canada-U.S. border to take American COVID-19 vaccines.

Vaccine demand is declining in the U.S., where roughly 60% of adults have received at least one shot and more than 107 million are fully vaccinated. Those numbers have inspired more and more Canadians to cross the border for a shot in the USA, rather than wait months to get one in Canada, according to Reuters.

Even though about one-third of Canadians have received at least one dose of a vaccine, only three percent have been fully inoculated. That’s because Canadians are waiting up to four months between doses, compared to the three to four weeks Americans have waited between shots of Moderna or Pfizer’s vaccine. (RELATED: Shh — The Media Doesn’t Seem To Want You To Know COVID-19 Cases Are Plummeting Nationally)

“Just sitting at home in Ontario isn’t going to change anything,” 37-year-old Jimmy Simmons told Reuters. The Toronto-based businessman flew to New York to meet business clients and received his first of two doses while he was there.

Simmons had to fly because crossing the border over land is still prohibited to non-essential traffic. He is one of many Canadians who have now reportedly gotten free vaccine doses in the U.S., meaning that Americans are, in effect, subsidizing their neighbor’s vaccination campaign. (RELATED: Biden Admin To Send 2.5 Million Doses Of AstraZeneca Vaccine To Mexico, Canada)

Update: We’ve delivered 16.8 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to the provinces and territories. This week, we’re receiving 2 million doses from Pfizer alone – and on top of that, by tomorrow morning, a million doses of Moderna’s vaccine will be on the ground in Canada.
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Andrew D’Amours, 31, of Quebec City told Reuters he flew to Dallas and got the one-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine on April 10. He said that others from the Great White North have inquired about the process, indicating that the trip is becoming more popular. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said all Canadians will be able to be fully vaccinated by the end of September.

Canada requires a 14-day quarantine for everyone entering the country and is still discouraging foreign travel. Still, some Canadians say it’s worth it to fly south for a shot, and some truck drivers are getting jabs during their cross-border hauls, Reuters reports.

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