Just a few days ago, one of many “refugees” brought to the US by the Biden administration killed two West Virginia National Guard members in Washington, DC. Meanwhile, a major think tank is busy scheming to send more migrants directly into specially targeted communities across the nation.
On November 20, the Niskanen Center published a paper titled Mapping America’s Immigration Needs: A County-Level Model for Matching Migrants to Local Economies. The policy study is centered around a so-called “Migration Match Index” intended to identify ideal locales able to take in hordes of foreign “newcomers.”
It’s another sign of just how far removed the Swamp is from the rest of the country. As Americans buckle under the weight of soaring costs and job and housing crises, credentialed DC career professionals remain fixated on bringing ever-growing numbers of foreign migrants into their hometowns in the hallowed name of “economic growth.”
Crunching the ‘Quantitative Factors’ as Americans Suffer
“The Migration Match Index is a county-level model designed to identify where migration can maximize mutual benefit,” the paper states. “Using 16 indicators – including labor demand, housing availability, cost of living, demographics, and migration patterns – from all 3,144 counties and county-equivalents in the country, the MMI evaluates which communities are both in need of workers and capable of supporting newcomers.”
The results: “Using four key quantitative factors – job availability, housing, cost of living, and demographics – the baseline model identified 484 counties across 44 states that currently fit the bill.”
Amazingly, Niskanen acknowledges the pressing problems already burdening American communities.
“The availability of affordable housing is a critical indicator for the integration and retention of newcomers to any locality. Unfortunately, housing shortages are a nationwide problem in the US,” the study admits. “Around the US, the cost of housing is also a major issue, with home prices reaching a record high in 2024, and the home price index 47 percent higher than in 2020. Rental costs, too, are up 26 percent since 2020 and continue to rise in 60 percent of markets.”
Niskanen also concedes that mass migration is not simply a mathematical problem solved on an Excel chart in Washington.
“There are obvious, immeasurable social, cultural, and political variables at play that affect whether migration will be welcomed by a given population, as well as whether migrants will elect to resettle in a certain area,” the paper states.
Nevertheless, it remains undaunted about the exciting possibilities for its new match-making theoreticals, especially in one key area.
How to Instantly Bring Unvetted Migrants Into America
“On the humanitarian side, with up-to-date data at the ready, policymakers could quickly develop a resettlement plan for individuals arriving in the US after a crisis, an influx of asylum seekers at the border, or a new structure for the US Refugee Admissions Program,” the study asserts.
If this jargon sounds familiar, that’s because the Biden administration leaned on it relentlessly to rapidly import hundreds of thousands of wholly unvetted migrants from danger spots around the globe on “humanitarian” grounds. Cuba, Haiti, Venezuela, and, yes, Afghanistan became harvest grounds for a political establishment determined to keep an already overburdened pipleline of massive immigration flowing into American communities.
It is vital to understand that Joe Biden and the staffers that ran his administration did not work alone in crafting this surge. In the wake of the National Guard tragedy, the timeline on Afghanistan “refugee” efforts stands out as startling and should be grounds for federal investigation under the Trump administration.
On August 30, 2021, the US pulled out of Afghanistan. Two weeks later, a multi-layered, deeply connected organization dedicated to helping migrants was unveiled seemingly out of thin air and ready to work hand-in-glove with the Biden administration to resettle Afghani nationals into the US as quickly as possible.
“The State Department is partnering with Welcome.US, a non-profit, non-partisan initiative of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors (RPA), to galvanize additional private sector support and resources for arriving Afghans and harness the goodwill of the American people, building on our country’s cherished tradition of private philanthropy contributing to the public good,” Biden Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced September 16.
“Welcome.US launched Tuesday, September 14 with more than 250 NGOs, businesses, and leaders of diverse faiths, politics, and backgrounds as part of its fast-growing coalition, with President and Mrs. Obama, President and Mrs. Bush, and President and Secretary Clinton as honorary co-chairs.”
How about that? It was all set to go on a grand scale. These are the people who brought dangerous individuals like National Guard shooter Rahmanullah Lakanwal into the US.
The Niskanen Center is listed as one of the NGOs working with Welcome.US over the years. As soon as the last US soldier left Kabul, Niskanen was calling for a gigantic resettlement effort of Afghanis into America.
“[T]he [Biden] administration should no longer delay launching a private sponsorship program for Afghan evacuees. The idea is simple: neighbors, friends, family members, classmates, teammates, congregations, or social clubs join together, raise money, create a plan, partner with a local nonprofit, and take the lead in resettling an Afghan family,” the think tank wrote on Sept. 2, 2021. Twelve days later, Welcome.US was launched.
“With 50,000 Afghan refugees on their way to the US, waiting until 2022 to launch private sponsorship is no longer an option,” the center warned. It knew what was in the cards. By February 2022, just five months after the Afghanistan withdrawal, more than 75,000 Afghan nationals had been hastily ushered into the US by the Biden administration.
It wasn’t enough for Niskanen. In 2024, the think tank argued that more needed to be done to secure the permanence of this mass relocation program. It painted the proper vetting of these foreign nationals as unnecessary red tape in the face of a “humanitarian” crisis.
“[S]ome Afghans were evacuated in 2021 and brought to the US through the Biden administration’s use of humanitarian parole,” Niskanen wrote. “This immigration provision allows the President to act quickly in times of extraordinary need to get people to safety.”
“A proposed bill that would effectively end the President’s authority to use humanitarian parole would have particularly disastrous consequences,” the article continued. “Humanitarian parole protects vulnerable people from imminent danger when typical refugee processing would take far too long.”
How many more dead young National Guard members will it take before the American people become fully aware of the scale of the great betrayal of their nation by an entrenched, comfortable, credentialed establishment elite?
