News and Views: August 13, 2025

Overall Foreign-Born Population Down 2.2 Million January to July: Illegal population estimated to have fallen 1.6 million this year  While employers may be unhappy with a decline in illegal immigrant workers, reducing the supply of labor is likely to be very helpful to less-educated U.S.-born and legal-immigrant workers, whose wages may rise as a result. Further, a tighter labor market and higher wages may help to draw back into jobs the near-record number of working-age American men without a college degree not in the labor force. Policymakers will need to consider these positive effects of reducing illegal immigration as they respond to pressure from employers to reverse the decline.

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Malifornia: Californians Are Escaping the State in Massive Numbers  California’s exodus surges as residents, businesses, and families flee high costs, crime, and radical policies—sending nearly 700,000 people packing in a single year.

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The American Academy Of Pediatrics: Mining Children For Profit  The loss of trust in the medical profession since 2020 is fortunately removing the misconception that AAP-like medical societies were primarily altruistic, dedicated to the welfare of others rather than their members. The recent publication of AAP priorities, developed by its membership, should reinforce this loss of trust and so, despite its unusual callousness of approach, serve ultimately to strengthen public health by exposing more clearly the motivations of those profiting from rising illness.

   The AAP’s first stated priority is to remove parents from any authority when it comes to decisions on whether to inject their children with various substances produced commercially by its sponsors  Image

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When Narcan Isn’t Enough: The Rise of Frankenstein Opioids    Nitazene isn’t a distant threat that our brains imagine, on an island far away. It’s here now, moving through our streets in counterfeit pills, heroin, benzodiazepines, and even cannabis products; more often than not, they didn't know. Some variants are 4,300 times more potent than morphine, and danger grows daily. Screenshot

Fatal 'Laughing Gas' Poisonings Skyrocket As Recreational Use Spreads  The colorless, odorless gas is used recreationally as a euphoric and hallucinogenic drug.

   The same drug used as anesthesia in dentists’ offices is now easily purchased by teenagers at corner stores and inhaled for a quick high—and it’s proving increasingly deadly.

   “On the streets, the slang term for nitrous oxide is ‘whippits,’...

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