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Electric Car Batteries

What nation dominates the global supply chain for electric vehicle (EV) batteries?

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A 2025 report by the International Energy Agency states that the “battery supply chain” for EVs has become “increasingly geographically concentrated” in China, which was “responsible for 80% of global battery cell production in 2024.” The report also states that “China has also established a near monopoly on battery components production, supplying almost 85% of cathode active materials” and “over 90% of anode active material production.” China also dominates the global markets for battery raw materials by refining “almost 65%” of the world’s lithium, “three-quarters of all” cobalt, and “over 90%” of all graphite. Among the reasons for China’s dominance is that the mining and manufacturing of these products can create significant pollution, and China has relatively weak laws against pollution.

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Asylum Claims

PBS claims that the Trump administration has deported thousands of “immigrants who were living legally in the U.S.” while “waiting for rulings on asylum claims.”

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IN FACT, federal law requires that asylum seekers be expelled or detained while their applications are pending. The only exception to this is a temporary grant of parole, which does NOT confer legal status and must be revoked when its purposes have ended. Here are the specifics:

Federal law gives the Department of Homeland Security 3 options for processing asylum applicants:

Expel them: The law states that “if” an “asylum officer” finds “that an alien does not have a credible fear of persecution, the officer shall order the alien removed from the United States without further hearing or review.” It also states that if an alien arrives by land “from a foreign territory contiguous to the United States,” DHS “may return the alien to that territory pending a proceeding” for removal or asylum.
Detain them: The law states that “if” an “asylum officer” finds “that an alien has a credible fear of persecution,” the “alien shall be detained for further consideration of the application for asylum.”
Parole them: The law states that DHS may “temporarily” “parole” applicants for asylum into the country, but this “shall not be regarded as an admission of the alien,” and the alien must be taken into “custody” when DHS decides the “purposes” of the parole have ended.

As such, a federal appeals court explained in 2022 that grants of “parole” don’t confer “legal status” and create a “legal fiction” in which the “paroled alien is physically allowed to enter the country,” but the “legal status of the alien is the same as if he or she were still being held at the border waiting for his or her application for admission to be granted or denied.”

Despite the fact that the law allows for parole “only on a case-by-case basis for urgent humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit,” President Biden paroled millions of inadmissible aliens into the country.

By twisting that provision of the law, Biden welcomed hordes of illegal immigrants with meritless claims of asylum and gave them court dates up to 12 years into the future. This would allow them to settle in the U.S. and:

receive free medical care in emergency rooms and for childbirths.
have children who receive birthright citizenship and all of the welfare that comes along with that.
be effectively immune from deportation under the policies of future Democrat presidents, as they were under Obama and Biden.
become eligible for amnesty and full citizenship if the Democratic Party Platform is enacted.

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