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Over in Virginia, a middle school part of Fairfax County Public Schools tried so hard to be actively anti-racist that they’ve literally become racists. 
According to a letter sent to parents regarding college prep courses, black and Hispanic students were encouraged to apply, but Asian and white students were clearly excluded.
“Do you have an 8th grader who WANTS to go to college?” said the letter sent out last week. “Do they fall into one or more of these categories?” They asked before listing “Black or African American” and “Hispanic students, of one or more race,” in addition to students who would be the first in their families to attend college, those with disabilities, English learners, and those living under the poverty line.
“If you do, PLEASE APPLY for Fairfax County’s Partnership Program,” they asked. “A typical CCP student represents a traditionally underrepresented population in higher education.”

Fairfax County Public Schools excludes Asian American students from a college prep program. @GlennSMiller uncovered the letter from Cooper Middle School and we exposed it at @FairfaxTimes. Thank you @DailyMail for sharing the story of the new racism of “equity.” https://t.co/T2wOv0qAFj
— Asra Nomani (@AsraNomani) March 8, 2023

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Need Not Apply
According to Asra Nomani at the Fairfax Times in a tweet, “In the 20th century, Asian Exclusion Act denied Asians equal opportunities. Now, [Fairfax Country Public Schools] promotes a college prep program with race-based admissions, excluding Asians + whites. A judge already ruled FCPS violated US Constitution in new anti-Asian admissions.”
She also added that “The perks also include monetary rewards: ‘A summer experiential learning opportunity (you actually visit a college and stay on their campus!).”
“This program excludes children based on race, and it seems to be in direct violation of the school district’s own anti-discrimination policy,” said Glenn Miller, an FCPS parent and local attorney.
According to The Daily Wire, Asians comprised “19% of the 181,447 students, school district data tabulated in February revealed; the 666,263 white students comprise 37% of the total student population.”

Woke Virginia school bans white and Asians from college prep https://t.co/zi0tRlLwBI via @MailOnline
— Bo Snerdley (@BoSnerdley) March 8, 2023

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FCPS Promotes Critical Race Theory
Speaking of FCPS’ anti-discrimination policy, let’s take a look at part of it: 
“No applicant or employee on the basis of, of race, sex, color, age, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, genetic information, pregnancy status, childbirth or related medical conditions, marital status, veteran status, and disability shall be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under, any education program or activity, as required by law…”
Doesn’t sound like they’ve read it recently because now in order to promote ‘equality’, they’ve actually embraced discriminatory practices. 
Good job FCPS, you played yourself.
This whole situation isn’t something that popped up overnight though. In 2021, FCPS sent a PowerPoint to teachers walking them through how to push controversial Critical Race Theory practices into their own classrooms.
Topics of the presentation included ways for teachers to introduce to students “culturally relevant pedagogy,” “institutional/systemic racism,” “anti-racism education,” and “anti-hate education.”
The PowerPoint stated “In adopting this approach, CRT scholars attempt to understand how victims of systemic racism are affected by cultural perceptions of race and how they are able to represent themselves to counter prejudice.”

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By Reilly Stephens for RealClearWire
The last time your phone asked you to allow this or that app access to your location data, you may have had some trepidation about how much Apple or Google know about you. You may have worried about what might come of that, or read about China’s use of the data to track anti-lockdown protesters. What you probably didn’t realize is Google has already searched your data on behalf of the federal government to see if you were involved with January 6th.
But last month, the federal district court in DC issued an opinion in the case of  one of the many defendants who stands accused of sacking the Capitol in the wake of the 2020 election.
And with it, Judge Rudolph Contreras became the first federal district judge to approve a “Geofence” warrant, endorsing a recent police innovation: searching the cell phone history of every American to check who happened to be in the area of some potential crime.
The “Geofence” in this context refers to cell phone location data collected by Google from users of its Android operating system, as well as iPhone users who use apps such as Google Maps. Location tracking can be turned off, but most users allow it for the convenience of getting directions, tracking their daily jog, or finding the nearest Chipotle. The Government’s warrant demanded location history for every Google account holder within a range of longitude and latitude roughly corresponding to the Capitol building on the afternoon of January 6, 2021, along with similar data from that morning and evening (to filter out Hill staff and security guards).
It’s not clear this information was even needed: This defendant was apprehended within the building that day, carrying knives and pepper spray, and features on various security cameras — his whereabouts are not in question. Many of his coreligionists were considerate enough to live stream their antics themselves. While tracking down every participant in what was dubbed the Beer Belly Putsch is impractical, prosecutors have not lacked for defendants, or for evidence against them. But the government nonetheless decided to resort to a level of mass surveillance without precedent in history or criminal law.
This is only the second federal district judge to rule on such a warrant, and the first, in the Eastern District of Virginia, found it “invalid for lack of particularized probable cause” (though that judge declined to suppress the evidence on the basis of other Fourth Amendment loopholes created by the Supreme Court).
That particular requirement comes from the Fourth Amendment itself, which calls for every warrant to “particularly describ[e] the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.” This means that, for instance, the warrant issued last year for former President Trump’s Florida residence did not simply say “search the house,” but detailed specific rooms to be searched for specific things (boxes of documents). The cops can’t — or at least are not supposed to — dump out your underwear drawer based on a tip that you’re hiding cocaine in your basement.
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It’s difficult to imagine how a Geofence warrant could ever be particularized in the sense the Fourth Amendment is supposed to require. Traditionally, the government would identify a list of suspects, and then ask the phone company for records specific to them. Geofencing reverses the order of operations: Now the government demands the data of everyone, and only decides which of us is guilty or innocent after invading the privacy of both. In order to find the phones within the Geofence, Google must search their entire repository — if you have a google account, you were searched alongside the perpetrators. It’s difficult to distinguish this approach from the practice that inspired the Fourth Amendment in the first place: the English “general warrants,” which allowed customs officers broad latitude to search any home they liked for smuggled goods.
One might cut Judge Contreras some slack on the basis that the existing Fourth Amendment law he is obliged to apply comes from the era of pay phones and radio transmitters. Traditional doctrine turns on a citizen’s “expectation of privacy,” and holds that there is little such expectation in one’s public movements. This struck a perhaps reasonable balance between privacy and the needs of law enforcement in an era where, if the police wanted to track you, they had to dedicate scarce manpower to maintaining a tail — resource constraints typically restricted surveillance to those reasonably under suspicion.
Over the past decade, the Supreme Court has attempted to grapple with how to apply these principles to modern technology. In Riley v. California, the Court held that unlike pockets and purses, the police cannot automatically search the smartphone of anyone they arrest. The opinion turned on the sheer breadth of material available on our personal devices: one might keep a bit of personal information in one’s purse or wallet, but nothing like what’s a few clicks away on any iPhone: texts, emails, calendars, intimate photos, bank accounts, how many calories the owner has eaten that day and which friends they’ve paid money to in recent weeks for which reasons. The Court held that this new reality required new rules for law enforcement.
A few years later, in Carpenter v. United States, the Supreme Court addressed the use of Cell Site Location Information, the phone company’s record of which cell towers you phone connects to. This data provides a rough approximation of your whereabouts, but without the precision of Google’s location data — a given cell tower narrows your location down to a couple blocks, whereas Google’s estimated margin of error averages closer to 100 meters. The Supreme Court said that Cell Site data requires a warrant, a break from existing law which held one could not expect privacy in one’s public whereabouts. And the cops in Carpenter had identified a specific phone belonging to their suspect and match its locations to a string of robberies — they hadn’t asked Verizon to track every phone in Michigan and Ohio.
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One need not have sympathy for the QAnon shamans and oath-breakers to judge that this sort of digital dragnet empowers law enforcement in new and often frightening ways. The Fourth Amendment protects the rights of the accused in criminal prosecutions, and denying those protections to the guilty will ultimately harm the innocent. Police could demand location data for every phone brought to a BlackLivesMatter rally, or an NRA convention; they could identify every woman who visits an abortion clinic, or attends the March for Life.
Federal criminal law has metastasized to the point where the average person probably commits multiple federal crimes on the average day — which of us is prosecuted depends mostly on the priorities and caprice of law enforcement. If you want a vision of the future, imagine your phone ratting you out to the cops, forever.
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By Casey Harper (The Center Square)
U.S. Health and Human Services has proposed a controversial rule change that would roll back Trump-era conscience protections for healthcare workers.
Congress already has laws on the books to “protect the rights of individuals, entities, and health care entities to refuse to perform, assist in the performance of, or undergo certain health care services or research activities to which they may object for religious, moral, ethical, or other reasons.”
How HHS interprets and enforces that law, though, is up for debate.
The Trump administration rolled out a new HHS rule in 2019 to strengthen those protections and the enforcement of them.
Now the Biden administration is trying to roll back those changes. Biden’s HHS published the rule change in January, and public comment closed Monday.
HHS cited arguments by various critics of the rule, saying the 2019 rule would hinder “patients’ ability to access” abortions and said it was “overly expansive and incongruous with medical professionalism, among other concerns.”
Critics have pushed back, saying the Biden administration’s changes will expand abortion, make the law more vague, put more power in the hands of HHS, and lead to discrimination against Americans.
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On Monday, 26 members of Congress submitted a comment on the rule in a joint letter, saying the Biden administration’s proposed change “leaves gaps in the investigation and enforcement process, and ignores the balance Congress struck when it provided unqualified rights of conscience.”
“Instead of supporting proposed legislation like the Conscience Protection Act to allow victims of discrimination to also have their day in court, HHS is blocking possible legal remedy for victims of discrimination by dropping enforcement actions and clear mechanisms for investigation and enforcement, and making it harder for any further discrimination claims to be filed, investigated, and remedied,” the lawmakers wrote.
Conscience protections have been in the spotlight in recent years since COVID vaccine mandates left many workers, those in the healthcare industry in particular, forced to take the vaccine or risk losing their job.
With the overturning of Roe v. Wade, the abortion debate has also heightened the tension on the issue as healthcare workers unwilling to perform abortions have faced obstacles.
“The Proposed Rule claims that ‘our health care systems must effectively deliver services – including safe, legal abortions – to all who need them in order to protect patients’ health and dignity,’” the lawmakers wrote. “Leaving aside that the current Administration has focused immense attention on promoting and paying for abortion, including at times, in violation of federal and state law, such a claim will only lead to further diminution of conscience rights provided by Congress.”
“It is unfortunate, but not surprising, that in the wake of the decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, HHS has still prioritized abortion access over nearly anything else, including following and enforcing the law,” they added. 
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The lawmakers called on HHS to strengthen, not weaken, its enforcement of conscience violations.
“The lack of enforcement is evidenced not only by the failure to investigate and prosecute conscience violations by HHS in the last several years, but also the decision by HHS to walk back enforcement actions initiated by the previous administration, as detailed below,” the comment said.
Critics said the rule change could leave countless Americans open to discrimination with little legal remedy.
“Without strong conscience protections, health care professionals across America risk discrimination for holding to their religious convictions,” said Justin Butterfield, Deputy General Counsel for the First Liberty Institute, which also officially commented on the rule. “The proposed HHS rules would eviscerate current protections that uphold the rights of healthcare professionals and the ethical integrity of the medical profession.”
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I am a veteran of the last forever war. My husband and I deployed to Afghanistan, lost friends in Afghanistan, and feel the moral injury of how we left that country and those we were charged to help and protect.
As we watched Afghans falling to their deaths from our military aircraft, terrorists my husband guarded released by the Taliban from prison, and our fellow Afghan partners hung for their partnership with us, our hearts broke. Fast forward, and you’d think it never happened. Instead, the news is filled with calls for more aid to Ukraine, possible military intervention at our southern border, and escalating threats from China.
As usual, our country has moved on, forgotten, or just given up on finding answers to why and how our government botched this war and the withdrawal up so severely without any real consequences. However, one person is still raising red flags and has a pessimistic view of our prospects in Ukraine.

SIGAR released a new report on the collapse of the ANDSF. Here are some excerpts:
The single most important factor in the ANDSF collapse in 2021 was the decision by U.S. presidents to withdraw military & contractors, while Afghan forces remained unable to sustain themselves.
— Habib Khan (@HabibKhanT) February 27, 2023

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A Damning Report
The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) report was recently published, and it had some damning assessments of how our government managed or, should I say, mismanaged the 20-year war in Afghanistan. Placing blame on all the administrations that had a role in the war, from President George Bush on the report takes you on quite a sobering 20-year journey of negligence and poor preparation and execution.
But the report spent a considerable amount of time on the withdrawal itself, stating that its “abrupt and uncoordinated” execution by the Biden administration sealed the fate of the Afghan people. Moreover, the report explains, “The character of the withdrawal left many Afghans with the impression that the U.S. was simply handing Afghanistan over to a Taliban government-in-waiting.”
Many of us that spent time in Afghanistan were involved not just in the counterterrorism mission but the alleged reconstruction mission. Essentially this mission was built on the false idea that we could rebuild Afghanistan in our own image, creating a valuable American-based democratic ally in an area not known for its embracement of American ideals.
Sound familiar? It should; it’s been our playbook for decades despite being unsuccessful 100% of the time.
On the Afghanistan reconstruction efforts, the report details the challenges the military faced as we were “tasked with balancing competing requirements” and “no one country or agency had ownership of the ANDSF (Afghan National Defense and Security Forces) development mission.” And therein lies the truth about the inevitability of the fall of the Afghan government to the Taliban.

Truth-In-Transcription Dep’t. Interesting translation of what John Sopko, Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction @SIGARHQ, told the Defense Writers Group last week, where I spent decades grilling Pentagon officials.https://t.co/veP1MmV571 pic.twitter.com/528IkvmVcy
— Mark Thompson (@MarkThompson_DC) March 6, 2023

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Experts at Failure
The lead inspector of the SIGAR report had some harsh words this week for our government and the institutions that continue to perpetuate failure after failure. John Sopko said, “I’m not super optimistic that we are going to learn our lessons…learning lessons is not in our DNA in the United States, unfortunately.”
Mr. Sopko describes how our government and military knew that this was an endeavor doomed to fail from the jump, “Early on, we realized that we were building things in Afghanistan that the Afghans didn’t need, didn’t want, didn’t even know they were getting and couldn’t sustain.” But this isn’t the first time Mr. Sopko has spoken out about the massive issues surrounding our campaign in Afghanistan.
Two years ago, Mr. Sopko stated after another SIGAR report had been released, “We basically forced our Generals, forced our military, forced our ambassadors, forced the USAID to try to show success in short timelines which they themselves knew were never going to work.” While our Department of Defense and the civilian leaders who run our government repetitively fail at foreign policy and military engagements, they are experts at obfuscating those failures into faux successes.
As Sopko went on to explain how the DOD would adjust their internal assessment markers to hide their failures, “Every time we went in, the U.S. military changed the goalposts and made it easier to show success, and then finally, when they couldn’t even do that, they classified the assessment tool.”
“They knew how bad the Afghan military was, and if you had a clearance, you could find out,” he said “but the average American wouldn’t know how bad it was.”
Not until the fall of Afghanistan was on every television, that is.

NPR’s Noel King 2021 interview transcript with John Sopko, the special inspector general for Afghanistan Reconstruction, whose report revealed corruption and a lack of oversight were factors in the collapse.https://t.co/IMZmvi0pxb pic.twitter.com/MdB3Adj1B7
— Kelly Gitahi (@KellyGitahi) March 6, 2023

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Does Anybody Care?
Other than the data and subsequent revelations in the report, the most appalling aspect is how little the rest of the government cares about this report.
Sopko explained that “this report, with its companion report, is the only official U.S. government report that’s public… on the 20 years spent in Afghanistan.”
Think about that; this is the only official report from our government on this war and the withdrawal. Sopko points out, “You would think the Department of Defense or Department of State or USAID or the National Security Council would have come out with something official on the 20 years there.” 
But that would require those bureaucratic mechanisms to care. For them to care, they would need the fear of accountability, and since our government has proven time and time again that accountability is merely a tag word versus an actual action, why would they? The SIGAR report highlighted that $7 billion worth of military equipment was left under Taliban control after we left.
You’ll hear how all the aircraft and weapons were destroyed so the Taliban couldn’t use them, which is hard to believe in and of itself. However, you won’t hear about the biometric data tools that we left behind that are still operable.
Why do these matter? Because the Taliban is using these tools for hunting, imprisoning, and executing the Afghans who fought with the United States.
If I were the DOD or National Security Council, I wouldn’t want to release too much information or dig too deep either.

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Dark Destiny
As Sopko alludes to, is it our destiny that we make the same mistakes over and over again? Unfortunately, all signs point to yes. 
On our engagement with Ukraine, Mr. Sopko is careful to point out that it isn’t the exact same situation as our engagement with Afghanistan. However, we could learn plenty of lessons from Afghanistan and apply them to Ukraine.
Mr. Sopko stated that, “We have to make certain we go into Ukraine and listen to the Ukrainians on what they need, what they want, what they can sustain.” I would add it’s important to make sure that what is being requested is in good faith and not for the betterment of Ukrainian politicians known for corruption.
The SIGAR report wraps up the rub with aid to Ukraine, stating, “There is an understandable desire amid a crisis to focus on getting money out the door and to worry about oversight later,” this desire is one we gave into time and time again in Afghanistan and, before that, Iraq.
“Given the ongoing conflict and the unprecedented volume of weapons being transferred to Ukraine, the risk that some equipment ends up on the black market or in the wrong hands is likely unavoidable.”
So the question remains, are we trying to avoid it, or do we even care?

Glad to see hearings kick off today #Afghanistan https://t.co/B9gUzk1pjl
— heather nauert (@HeatherNauert) March 8, 2023

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By Bethany Blankley (The Center Square)
Over 205,000 foreign nationals were apprehended or reported as gotaways after illegally entering the southwest border in February, according to preliminary data obtained by The Center Square from a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agent. The agent provided the information on condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation; it only includes Border Patrol data and excludes Office of Field Operations data.
“Gotaways” refers to those known and reported to illegally enter the U.S. primarily between ports of entry, who intentionally evade capture by law enforcement and don’t return to Mexico. 
In February, gotaways totaled at least 67,576, with the greatest numbers reported in the Tucson Sector of Arizona and El Paso Sector, which includes all of New Mexico and two west Texas counties. Apprehensions and gotaways combined totaled at least 205,032 last month.
In January, gotaways totaled nearly 60,000, with the greatest numbers reported in the El Paso and Del Rio sectors of Texas. Apprehensions and gotaways combined totaled at least 215,998 in January, according to the data.  
Since President Biden’s been in office, monthly apprehensions of illegal foreign nationals surpassed a minimum of 150,000 for 23 consecutive months, with some months, including gotaways, like last November and December, totaling over 300,000 each.
According to preliminary Border Patrol data obtained by The Center Square, Texas continues to bear the brunt of illegal entries. But since late last year, cartel operations have driven crossings and illegal entries farther west, law enforcement officials have explained, backed by reported data. In February, the El Paso Sector had the most reported apprehensions and the Tucson Sector had the most reported gotaways. The Del Rio and RGV sectors, which have historically had the highest traffic, ranked third and fifth highest for traffic.  
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As of March 6, the preliminary data for February by sector includes:
Big Bend Sector
Apprehensions- 1,283
Turnbacks- 42
Gotaways Border Zone (known/recorded)- 944
Unclassifiable Detection- 0
Gotaways Interior Zone- 146
No Violations- 19
Deceased- 0
Outstanding- 14
Del Rio Sector
Apprehensions- 23,978
Turnbacks- 211
Gotaways Border Zone (known/recorded)- 11,648
Unclassifiable Detection- 65
Gotaways Interior Zone- 3,369
No Violations- 159
Deceased- 2
Outstanding- 52
El Centro Sector
Apprehensions- 4,554
Turnbacks- 272
Gotaways Border Zone (known/recorded)- 286
Unclassifiable Detection- 0
Gotaways Interior Zone- 11
No Violations- 1
Deceased- 0
Outstanding- 0
El Paso Sector
Apprehensions- 34,384
Turnbacks- 5,693
Gotaways Border Zone (known/recorded)- 16,837
Unclassifiable Detection- 36
Gotaways Interior Zone- 342
No Violations- 81
Deceased- 1
Outstanding- 22
Laredo Sector
Apprehensions- 4,345
Turnbacks- 2,370
Gotaways Border Zone (known/recorded)- 1,411
Unclassifiable Detection- 8
Gotaways Interior Zone- 558
No Violations- 176
Deceased- 5
Outstanding- 0
RGV Sector
Apprehensions- 15,632
Turnbacks- 2,785
Gotaways Border Zone (known/recorded)- 1,818
Unclassifiable Detection- 46
Gotaways Interior Zone- 954
No Violations- 91
Deceased- 6
Outstanding- 2
San Diego Sector
Apprehensions- 17,614
Turnbacks- 256
Gotaways Border Zone (known/recorded)- 5,271
Unclassifiable Detection- 4
Gotaways Interior Zone- 4,293
No Violations- 20
Deceased- 2
Outstanding- 7
Tucson Sector
Apprehensions- 25,371
Turnbacks- 638
Gotaways Border Zone (known/recorded)- 14,194
Unclassifiable Detection- 64
Gotaways Interior Zone- 4,409
No Violations- 241
Deceased- 3
Outstanding- 6
Yuma Sector
Apprehensions- 10,925
Turnbacks- 143
Gotaways Border Zone (known/recorded)- 956
Unclassifiable Detection- 0
Gotaways Interior Zone- 139
No Violations- 26
Deceased- 0
Outstanding- 0
Apprehensions refer to those who illegally entered the U.S. and surrendered or were caught by BP agents. Turnbacks refer to those who illegally entered but returned to Mexico.
Gotaways are reported two ways to show how many evade capture as they make their way north. The data reflects those identified illegally entering the country at the U.S.-Mexico border and farther north into the interior of the U.S. despite the best efforts of BP agents and local law enforcement officers attempting to apprehend them.
Unclassifiable detection (previously “unresolved detection”) isn’t part of the 6 U.S. Code, which classifies how encounters are to be reported. This, and the now-deleted category of “no arrests,” were used as a way to lower the number of gotaways being reported, the BP agent explains.
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The previously deleted category of “no arrests” meant someone “was detected in a non-border zone and their presence didn’t affect Got-Away statistics,” according to the official internal tracking system definition used by agents to record data. “Unclassifiable detection” means the same thing, but the officers, for a range of reasons, couldn’t determine citizenship.
No-violations are “deemed to have committed no infraction and don’t affect Got-Away statistics,” according to the tracking system definition. The categories of no-violations, no arrests and unclassifiable detection should be categorized as got-aways, the BP officer said, assuming all non-arrests were of non-citizens. However, each sector also uses unclassified detection differently, the officer added, so how the numbers are categorized isn’t uniform.
If the categories of unclassified detection and no-violations were included with the gotaway numbers, the total number of gotaways for February would be closer to 68,613.
However, these numbers still don’t represent the real picture, those in law enforcement have explained to The Center Square, because they don’t include unknown and unrecorded gotaways. Not all gotaways are recorded because the agents and law enforcement officers on the ground don’t identify them all, meaning the number of those illegally entering the U.S. is expected to be much greater than is reported.
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