The Washington Post once again proved why its journalists know as much about good economics as they do about “austere religious scholar(s)” by arguing President Donald Trump’s illegal immigration crackdown would somehow cause inflation to skyrocket. Just try unraveling that oxymoron. Post writers Andrew Ackerman and Lauren Kaori Gurley bemoaned in a June 15, 2025, pro-illegal immigrant advocacy screed that “U.S. could lose more immigrants than it gains for [the] first time in 50 years.” The propagandists railed against Trump for daring to finally do something about America’s illegal immigration crisis, stoking fear among readers that “[n]et migration could turn negative, some economists warn, weighing on economic growth and fueling inflation.” This is coming from the same rag that treated the Bidenomics disaster that instigated the 40-year high inflation crisis in the first place as some kind of stroke of genius. Somebody make it make sense, please. Ackerman and Gurley warned that border control would hurt the economy:  A net outflow of migrants could stoke inflation, a risk economists already expect from Trump’s tariff policies. It also could renew the type of labor shortages the country experienced during the pandemic. Longer term, it could even have implications for fiscal policy, with fewer immigrants paying taxes and supporting entitlement programs such as Social Security, said one of the economists, Wendy Edelberg. Of course, Ackerman and Gurley didn’t bother mentioning the word “illegal,” and only used the term “undocumented” once. Telling, isn’t it?  Of course, nowhere did the writers even mention the already extraordinary economic cost that the approximately 13.7 million unauthorized people in the U.S. as of February 2025 already posed to America’s economic health. As Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) Director of Research Steven Camarota stated during a House Budget Committee hearing in January 2024, “While illegal immigrants often receive other services for their U.S.-born children, even when we estimate the net fiscal impact of just the illegal immigrants themselves, excluding their U.S.-born children, we still find they create a lifetime net fiscal drain of $68,000 on average (taxes paid minus benefits received).”  In fact, Camarota further estimated that the taxes that undocumented immigrants do pay the federal government get canceled out by their consumption of public services. Another analysis by the Manhattan Institute found that the “the border crisis is expected to cost $1.15 trillion over the lifetime of the new immigrants who entered the country unlawfully, overstayed a visa, or were paroled.” But did any of that matter to Ackerman and Gurley? Nope. Instead, the writers were adamant about pushing their out-of-context agitprop that “[a]ny lasting immigration slowdown could limit economic growth, because fewer workers leads to a weaker economic output.” In other words, don’t do anything about illegal immigration because the economy needs it!  It's the same kind of common sense butchering that occurred when Post columnist Catherine Rampell put out a nutty piece in 2022 declaring that then-President Joe Biden should let more illegal immigrants come over the border to — *checks notes*— solve the inflation crisis. No, you didn't misread that.  But like Rampell, Ackerman and Gurley behaved like they were completely oblivious to the catastrophic economic consequences of unchecked illegal immigration. Even the graphic they used as the featured photo for their propaganda was just peak cringe.   (Illustration by José L. Soto/The Washington Post; iStock) The Federation for American Immigration Reform pointed out in a study that “[a]t the start of 2023, the net cost of illegal immigration for the United States – at the federal, state, and local levels – was at least $150.7 billion.” This dwarfs the nearly $90 billion that illegal immigrants reportedly paid in taxes that year. Here’s our professional advice to The Post: deport Ackerman and Gurley’s pathetic excuse of a spin job straight into the paper shredder. 

The Supreme Court’s landmark ruling limiting nationwide injunctions has been hailed as a massive win for common sense after 40 such orders — 62% against Donald Trump.And no one’s happier about it than the president himself.“It took the court system out of the presidency to a large extent. The courts were almost like being the president, and you can’t have it. It was such a big decision. This is one of the biggest decisions, where you would have a local federal judge who was radical left determining the policy for the whole nation,” Trump said in an interview on Fox News, adding, “And now they can’t do that.”“There’s been a weird reading of what an injunction is able to do that we’ve been witness to for the first Trump administration and now the beginning of the second where a lawyer can represent all people, not just the plaintiff, not just the aggrieved,” Blaze Media D.C. correspondent Christopher Bedford tells Blaze TV hosts Jill Savage and Matthew Peterson on “Blaze News: The Mandate.”“We had a judge in Hawaii who was deciding what federal immigration policy was,” he continues. “And that is, thankfully, over.”“Of course, there will be more tactics that are used, but that is a really essential one,” he adds, noting that one of his favorite things about the ruling was Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s baseless dissent.“Ketanji Brown Jackson — the judge who wrote the dissenting opinion for the Democrats, the one who wore a voodoo necklace to the State of the Union, just an interesting character all around — basically cited legal law that didn’t exist,” Bedford explains.“[She] tried to say that this is a dictatorship. Just sounded much more like a Democratic activist who hadn’t actually done all of the necessary research or the readings,” he adds.Want more from 'Blaze News: The Mandate'?To enjoy more provocative opinions, expert analysis, and breaking stories you won’t see anywhere else, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

A 21-year-old man that was shot and killed in Washington, D.C., was identified as a congressional intern that had just begun working for a Republican House representative.D.C. Metropolitan Police said they responded to sounds of gunshots at about 10:30 p.m. on Monday evening on 7th Street near Mount Vernon Square.'I will remember his kind heart and how he always greeted anyone who entered our office with a cheerful smile.'They found an unconscious man, an unconscious woman, and a 16-year-old boy with gunshot wounds. The man was transported to a hospital, where he later died from his injuries.He was identified as Eric Tarpinian-Jachym, an intern who had recently joined the office of Republican Rep. Ron Estes of Kansas.Police said they did not believe the intern was the intended victim in the shooting.“I will remember his kind heart and how he always greeted anyone who entered our office with a cheerful smile,” reads a statement from Estes on Wednesday. “We are grateful to Eric for his service to Kansas’ 4th District and the country.”Police said they had recovered a vehicle that was allegedly used in the shooting.RELATED: Woman used severed thumb of 'sugar daddy' to steal his money after his murder, DC police say “The preliminary investigation indicates that multiple suspects exited a vehicle at the intersection of 7th and M Street, Northwest, and began firing at a group," police said.Tarpinian-Jachym was from Granby, Massachusetts, and had begun working in Estes' office in June.The other victims in the shooting were also hospitalized. No arrests have been made in the incident, and police are investigating surveillance cameras in the area.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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