Thousands of primarily Central American migrants who traveled to Mexico with the intent of making it to the United States have instead chosen to return home in 2019, according to local media.

Since Jan. 1, roughly 11,600 migrants who got to Mexico asked the government’s National Institute of Migration (INM) and the United Nations migration agency to help them get back home.

The numbers are notable as the Trump administration periodically plays up threats posed by Central American migrants coming through Mexico. President Donald Trump and supporters contend the would-be U.S. residents are a public safety and health hazard, while critics blast Trump administration detention and deterrence policies. Read Full Story at the Washington Examiner

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Why are taxpayers still supporting Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider?

Early last September, the Republican Study Committee (RSC) polled its members — more than 150 of the most conservative congressmen in the House of Representatives — and asked them to list their priorities for a bill to fund the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education. According to a copy of the poll obtained by National Review, their top priority, by far, was removing funding from Planned Parenthood, the largest abortion provider in the United States.

Trying to defund Planned Parenthood is perhaps the promise Republican politicians have made most consistently to their voters over the last decade, and for good reason: The group performed 332,757 abortions last fiscal year alone, more than one-third of the estimated number of annual abortions in the U.S. But despite Republicans controlling the White House, the Senate, and the House for the preceding two years, the last Congress ended with President Donald Trump signing a spending bill that continued funding Planned Parenthood to the tune of about $500 million.

Shortly after that RSC poll was conducted, House Speaker Paul Ryan met with GOP caucus leaders to discuss the draft appropriations bill. Read Full story at National Review

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A new national survey testing the popularity of a center-left independent presidential bid, like that of former Starbucks chief Howard Schultz, would rob enough votes from the Democratic nominee to help President Donald Trump win a second term.

For every Republican who defected to the third party candidate, five Democrats would switch.

And in the end, according to the latest poll from the Wason Center for Public Policy at Christopher Newport University, it could result in Trump taking 34 percent of the 2020 vote, the Democrat 32 percent, and the independent 16 percent. Read Full Story at the Washington Examiner

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