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Biden Taps ‘Sanctuary City’ Supporter To Oversee ICE Prosecutions

Move comes as Biden administration faces an influx of illegal immigrants in Del Rio, Tex.

LA JOYA, TEXAS - APRIL 10: A U.S. Border Patrol agent takes the names of Central American immigrants near the U.S.-Mexico border on April 10, 2021 in La Joya, Texas. A surge of immigrants crossing into the United States, including record numbers of children, continues along the southern border. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

Joseph Simonson • September 22, 2021 1:25 pm

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The Biden administration is tapping a left-wing attorney who has publicly endorsed sanctuary laws for illegal aliens to serve as Immigration and Customs Enforcement's top prosecutor, according to an internal memo obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

ICE announced the hiring of Kerry Doyle, a longtime partner at the Boston-based law firm Graves & Doyle, as the agency's new principal legal adviser, a role that oversees 25 field locations and 1,250 attorneys. The office serves as ICE’s representative in all removal proceedings and litigates cases against illegal aliens and terrorists. 

"Throughout her legal practice in Boston, Ms. Doyle worked closely with the Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition and Massachusetts Law Reform Institute providing technical assistance and public testimony and various immigration-related policy issues before the state legislature and Boston City Council," the ICE memo reads. 

A spokesman for ICE did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Doyle's appointment comes as the Biden administration faces an influx of Haitian refugees, who are overrunning the border city of Del Rio, Texas. After reversing a bevy of Trump-era immigration rules, an uptick in illegal migration across the Southern border has strained resources and presented a political problem for the president, who repudiated Trump's hardline approach to policing the border but risks political blowback from an influx of illegal residents. 

Doyle's LinkedIn profile spotlights her work as co-counsel in a case that pushed for — and won — a temporary restraining order against then-president Donald Trump’s 2017 travel ban. The attorney also spoke in favor of a Massachusetts bill called the "Safe Communities Act" in early 2020 arguing that ICE was "out of control." . The measure would have applied sanctuary city laws nationwide and sharply limited the state’s cooperation with the federal government on the deportation of illegal immigrants.

"The Safe Communities Act limits state cooperation … [with ICE]: don’t ask about immigration status; don’t pay for sheriffs to act as ICE agents; tell people their rights," a description of the bill by the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts reads. In June, Doyle told a local news outlet that the state must pass the bill, saying state Democrats should not trust "the Biden administration’s more supportive tone as an excuse not to do what our state needs to do."

Doyle, who did not respond to a request for comment, has also helped represent illegal aliens convicted of crimes in the past. In March, she filed a petition with ACLU Massachusetts to release two criminal aliens with medical conditions, citing the COVID-19 pandemic. Doyle’s name has since been scrubbed from her previous law firm’s website.

One of President Joe Biden’s first executive orders in office was to suspend arrests, deportations, and investigations of most criminal aliens for 100 days. Deportations under Biden have hit a record low. U.S. immigration judges ordered just 25,000 deportations by the end of August, compared to 152,000 in August 2020. The total number of cases completed by immigration courts are at a 28-year low, even as Border Patrol apprehensions hit a 21-year high. 

Doyle will succeed John Trasviña, who assumed the role in January. 

Poll: Biden Job Approval Underwater in 38 States

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JACOB BLISS

22 Sep 20210

2:03

President Joe Biden’s sliding job approval numbers are underwater in 38 states, according to the CIVIQS rolling job approval average.

Thirty-eight states show the president with a higher disapproval rate than approval according to the poll’s rolling average. This is compared to only 12 states that show the president with a higher approval rating.

Overall, the eight-month rolling average of the president’s job approval is now at 51 percent disapproval compared to only 41 percent approval, with eight people expressing no opinion. Biden’s net approval is at negative ten percent.

Broken down by age groups; 18-34, 35-49, 50-64, and 65-plus, all have a negative opinion of Biden as well.

The CIVIQS rolling job approval average had 103,689 responses from January 20 to September 20.

At the seven-month mark of the poll, Biden’s job approval was underwater in 37 states, with 12 states with a higher approval and one state polled at an even tie with 46 percent, Colorado. Overall, Biden had 50 percent disapproval and 43 percent approval at the time.

Biden’s poll numbers continue to have a downward trend since his botched Afghanistan withdrawal, killing 13 U.S servicemembers from a suicide bomber and leaving an unknown number of Americans, Afghan allies, and vulnerable Afghans trying to evacuate.

Some reports claimed there could have been up to one thousand more still needing to evacuate at the time.

Recently, the Republicans slammed the Democrats and Biden for passing a government funding bill after caving to the radical-left and removing the funding for Israel’s Iron Dome after multiple Democrats threatened to vote against the bill. The White House suggested that Biden approved of defunding the Iron Dome.

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Existing Home Sales Fall as Bidenflation Pushes First Time Buyers Out of Market

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JOHN CARNEY

22 Sep 20210

4:05

Sales of previously owned homes in the U.S. fell in August as prices climbed to record highs and first-time purchases plunged, the National Association of Realtors said Wednesday.

Total existing-home sales dropped 2.0 percent from July to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.88 million in August. That was slightly below the consensus forecast. Sales fell 1.5 percent from a year ago.

“Sales slipped a bit in August as prices rose nationwide,” said Lawrence Yun, NAR’s chief economist. “Although there was a decline in home purchases, potential buyers are out and about searching, but much more measured about their financial limits, and simply waiting for more inventory.”

The median price of an existing home sold in August rose to $356,700, an increase of 14.9 percent from August of 2020. Compared with a month earlier, however, prices actually declined nine-tenths of a point. Real estate professionals emphasize annual gains over month-to-month comparisons because the latter can be volatile, skewed by the mix of homes being sold in a given month, and subject to seasonality.

The median price of single-family homes was 15.6 percent above the year-ago level. Condos and coops were up 10.8 percent annually. Median prices are not seasonally adjusted. Both were below the July level.

The market for high-priced homes is growing rapidly, while the market for low-priced homes has contracted. Sales of homes valued at one million dollars or more were up 40.1 percent from a year ago and sales of homes priced between $750,000 and $1 million were up 40.3 percent. Each of those segments accounted for six percent of overall sales. Sales of homes priced in the $500,000 to $750,000 range were up 31.1 percent. These made up 16 percent of the market.

Sales were up just 7.5 percent in the $250,000 to $500,000 range, the largest part of the existing home market with 43 percent of all sales. Sales were down 20.3 percent for homes priced between $100,000 and $250,000, the second-largest market segment 25 percent, and down 23.9 percent in the much smaller market—just four percent of all sales—for less expensive homes.

Although President Joe Biden has made expanding homeownership a prominent goal of his administration, his policies so far have failed. First-time buyers accounted for 29 percent of sales in August, down from 30 percent in July and 33 percent in August 2020.  Prior to 2006, first-time buyers typically made up around 40 percent of the market. Following the bursting of the housing bubble, first-time home buyers have averaged around one-third of the market, so the August figure is below average. The NAR’s research indicates that last year’s average was 31 percent.

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“Securing a home is still a major challenge for many prospective buyers,” said Yun. “A number of potential buyers have merely paused their search, but their desire and need for a home remain.”

Homes are selling quickly. Properties typically remained on the market for 17 days in August, unchanged from July and down from 22 days in August 2020. Eighty-seven percent of homes sold in August 2021 were on the market for less than a month.

Sales of single-family homes fell 1.9 percent in August, on a seasonally adjusted basis. Not seasonally adjusted, sales fell 1.2 percent. Existing condominium and co-op sales were recorded at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 690,000 units in August, down 2.8 percent monthly but up 9.5 percent from a year ago.

 

Fed Forecasts Higher Unemployment, Worse Inflation, Lower Growth

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JOHN CARNEY

22 Sep 20210

1:42

The economy looks significantly worse now than it did three months ago.

Federal Reserve officials downgraded their expectations for the economy, lowering their forecasts for growth and raising forecasts for unemployment and inflation, according to materials released Wednesday at the conclusion of the Fed’s two-day monetary policy meeting.

The new projections show the median expectation is for the economy to grow at an inflation-adjusted 5.9 percent this year, down from an expectation for seven percent growth at the June meeting.

Consistent with the view of slower growth, Fed officials also see unemployment higher than they did earlier this summer. The median forecast for the unemployment rate at the end of the year is 4.8 percent, compared with 4.5 percent in June.

Less growth and higher unemployment, however, are not expected to bring down inflation. Quite the opposite. The median forecast for inflation this year rose to 4.2 percent from 3.4 percent. Core inflation, which excludes food and fuel prices, is now expected to come in at 3.7 percent, up from three percent.

Both core and headline inflation are expected to be slightly higher next year, as well, and then to settle in at 2.1 percent in 2024.

GDP growth for 2023 was revised higher, indicating that Fed officials think supply chain disruptions will push growth off into the future rather than create a permanent drag. The expectations for unemployment beyond next year were unchanged.